I really don't want to be the top streamer anymore

Chapter 268 I'll teach you how to shoot

Xu Kong never thought that there would be a day when he would be fooled by Su Zhi.

However, it must be said that Su Zhi quietly asked others to leave work, which was obviously premeditated.

In other words, it was obvious that the other party had prepared for this office battle long ago.

Unfortunately, although he came prepared, he was still defeated by Xu Kong in the end.

This is the first time Xu Kong has come to Su Zhi's place in recent times.

Most of the time, I stay at Fengge’s headquarters.

Song Youyou and the others can basically be seen, except Su Zhi, for whom it is indeed not very convenient.

However, Su Zhi is not like Youyou, who wants to stick to Xu Kong every day.

Most of the time, Su Zhi would not take the initiative to contact Xu Kong.

Even though they hadn't seen each other for such a long time, Su Zhi would never say directly, "I miss you."

……

The meeting with Su Zhi was just a small episode before the release of "Sweet Honey".

As the time for the advance screening gets closer, the publicity and promotion of "Comrades: Almost a Love Story" is becoming increasingly large-scale.

Of course, perhaps because there are not many new movies released in April, which is a off-season for the film market, with Xu Kong's popularity and popularity, "Sweet Honey" has almost no so-called rivals.

But this is only in terms of publicity and promotion, there are still movies released at the same time.

For example, Peng Yu, who was originally a producer but now switched careers and started to be a director, will also have his new movie released in April.

It’s just that Peng Yu is well-known in the industry, but not many netizens know him in the public.

In addition, this film itself was a low-budget production with little investment in publicity and promotion, so it naturally seems to have little presence.

Even Xu Kong himself and Feng Ge didn't take it too seriously.

It’s just that the budget for publicity and promotion is not enough. As a senior producer, Peng Yu still has some ways of his own.

For example, he used his connections in the entertainment industry to get many well-known actors to help repost his Weibo posts for promotion.

It is worth mentioning that among them is an old acquaintance of Xu Kong.

The director of Shang Yuxin’s previous film is Chang Dachun.

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“This will be the best movie of April, or even this year!”

Chang Dachun reposted the Weibo post announcing the release date of Peng Yu’s new movie, and wrote this in the caption.

Speaking of which, after he had a quarrel with Xu Kong, he was obviously unprepared and fell into Xu Kong's trap.

Afterwards, almost all of his Weibo posts were filled with comments like "explosive gold coins" and "Old Deng".

In the end, I couldn't stand it anymore and closed the comment section of my Weibo.

Now that more than half a year has passed, Chang Dachun, with his flamboyant personality, naturally cannot sit still.

Peng Yu and he were quite familiar with each other, after all, he was also from Xincheng Pictures.

Helping with publicity is for sure.

But at the same time, while promoting, it was difficult for Chang Dachun not to sarcastically step on Xu Kong.

After all, there is no way he doesn’t know that Xu Kong’s new movie will be released in April.

The most crucial thing is that no matter the specific reasons for Xu Kong's project establishment, in the eyes of outsiders, it is inseparable from him.

If we were to name the person who least wants to see Xu Kong's first movie succeed, Chang Dachun's name would definitely be among them.

At the beginning, he had no choice but to blame the failure of his movie "Feng Hua" in both box office and reputation on the heroine Shang Yuxin.

Even if we don't mention the online war of words between him and Xu Kong, if this movie starring Shang Yuxin is also a period film, after it becomes a success, it will not only be ridiculed by the Internet, but even his peers will probably laugh at him.

……

What Chang Dachun didn't expect was that the number of comments suddenly started to increase not long after he posted this Weibo.

It had been so long since that incident happened, but when I saw the comments in the comment section, the memory of his death suddenly started to emerge, and my blood pressure instantly rose.

"Old Deng, why are you getting restless again?"

"Instead of being so sarcastic, why don't you just give me some gold coins and I'll help you scold Xu Kong."

"Old Deng, it's been so long, why haven't the gold coins exploded yet?"

Ever since Xu Kong coined the terms "Lao Deng" and "Bao Jin Bi", these two terms have become ubiquitous on the Internet and have become a very popular meme culture.

Chang Dachun was indeed one of the first users of Weibo.

In the past, whether I had anything to do or not, I also liked to talk about everything on Weibo.

I have also had arguments with some netizens, but I have hardly suffered any losses.

But unfortunately, ever since the confrontation with Xu Kong, he found that he, a well-known director, seemed to have suddenly become a clown-like character on the Internet.

Xu Kong's words "Old Deng who can't drop gold coins" have now become a label that he can't get rid of.

……

"I'm furious!"

Chang Dachun originally thought that he had gotten over the incident with Xu Kong.

He also began to open up the comment section of his own Weibo.

He had been able to look at the comments of netizens relatively calmly, but when the comment section was flooded with comments again, he was still a little upset.

If he hadn't taken his own image into consideration and his company had not intervened, he would probably have personally stepped out to fight with those netizens.

Of course, he also did not forget the culprit Xu Kong.

So in his opinion, the fact that Peng Yu's new movie and Xu Kong's new movie were released at the same time was a good opportunity to step on the other party.

But to be honest, he had seen Peng Yu's film called "Running Alpaca", and the other party wanted to make a low-budget black comedy.

But the effect of the finished film is indeed quite average.

He didn't think that Peng Yu's low-budget movie could compete with Xu Kong.

However, he also said a lot of things to add fuel to the fire.

Especially since it was said that Peng Yu's screening schedule was squeezed out by Xu Kong's "Comrades: Almost a Love Story", people hoped that Peng Yu would go and cause trouble for Xu Kong.

……

"Director Peng, should we clarify this a little bit?"

Peng Yu's agent couldn't help but speak at this time.

Although he is called an agent, in reality he is still an assistant-like role. Peng Yu makes most of the decisions by himself.

Because of a Weibo post by Chang Dachun, the corresponding topic has become a hot search.

It is nothing more than the so-called best movie in April. Everyone knows that Xu Kong's first movie will be released in April. Coupled with the previous verbal battle between Xu Kong and Chang Dachun, it is hard not to associate it with being sarcastic to Xu Kong.

But it was obvious that Chang Dachun had not discussed this matter with Peng Yu in advance.

Now their movie "Running Alpaca" has also been implicated, and some mocking netizens have begun to appear under the related promotional Weibo.

“Why do you want to clarify?”

Peng Yu replied calmly.

"What does Chang Dachun's words have to do with our movie?"

"and……"

"Go find some internet trolls and ask them to hype up this topic even more."

Peng Yu is indeed a senior producer.

When Chang Dachun asked him to take the initiative to collide with Xu Kong, he refused because he knew Xu Kong's current popularity. Even if he suffered a loss in the scheduling issue, it would be a shame if he rashly went to conflict with Xu Kong.

On the contrary, it will reduce the popularity and reputation of the movie.

In addition, the budget is insufficient to begin with, and if we are not careful, it is easy for public opinion to get out of control.

So I never chose that kind of promotional method.

But now, Chang Dachun is looking for trouble himself.

It is equivalent to the popularity that comes to his door for free. If he doesn't take advantage of it, he would really be doing a disservice to his professional ethics over the years.

More importantly, after riding on the popularity, it is equivalent to giving a big publicity to their own movie.

At the same time, when he saw that the situation was not right, he could directly blame Chang Dachun.

He pretended not to know about this matter at first. After all, those were Chang Dachun's own words, and had nothing to do with their film company or him as a director.

……

"Chang Dachun?"

Xu Kong heard Zhu Yu mention the hot searches of the past two days.

His expression became a little strange.

He didn't expect that after being played like that by him last time, the other party would dare to show up again.

"This 'Running Alpaca', I've never heard of the director's name..."

It’s true, in such an unpopular schedule, all other films released during the same period are low-budget productions, so "Sweet Honey" can be said to have no competitors.

So Xu Kong didn’t pay any attention to these things at all.

Now after hearing what Zhu Yu said, he found out after he went to find out a little.

"Peng Yu used to be a producer, and he was quite famous in the circle..."

Zhu Yu began to give Xu Kong a detailed introduction.

"Fanhe Group?"

Xu Kong fell into deep thought, still the capital behind Chang Dachun and Xincheng Pictures.

As we all know before, Fanhe is one of the largest and most well-funded investment companies in the country.

But only half a year had passed, and Fanhe had indeed grown at an alarmingly fast pace from being a new company in the entertainment industry.

Today, there is not only one Xincheng Pictures, but also several companies invested by Fanhe, covering all aspects of the entertainment industry, and almost all of them have strong development momentum.

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"Also, this matter originally did not attract much attention, but in a short period of time, it suddenly became one of the top three trending searches on Weibo today."

"It is very likely that this is a deliberate hype by the other side."

This was not a complicated operation, and Zhu Yu naturally saw it at the first moment.

Perhaps because of the conflict between Chang Dachun and Xu Kong, he subconsciously said such words.

But for this movie "Running Alpaca", the producer didn't seem to take any action, but they must have secretly fueled the flames.

After all, this is a good and risk-free promotional opportunity, so of course we can't miss it.

"But Peng Yu's film shouldn't pose much of a threat to us."

"It's a different genre, and it's clear that the investment is not big, and the budget for publicity is not high either. This time it's just to take advantage of the popularity."

Zhu Yu spoke out her own judgment.

The specific meaning of this statement is that although this matter is quite hot right now, you don't need to pay too much attention to it.

Although anyone would feel uncomfortable being used to gain popularity, the angrier you are, the more you will fulfill the other person's wishes by responding or giving other feedback.

"I see."

Xu Kong responded indifferently.

Even if Zhu Yu didn't mention it, Xu Kong actually wouldn't care too much about a low-budget movie released in the same period.

Even if the film is released during the summer vacation and its competitors are very strong at the same time, he will not spend too much energy on any publicity war with them.

For "Comrades: Almost a Love Story", the most important thing at the moment is not the domestic box office, but the overseas box office in several neighboring countries such as Korea.

This is what Xu Kong is most concerned about.

Even after the official release of "Sweet Honey", Xu Kong will still go to Korea in person to hold a premiere ceremony.

There's no way. The reference answers from the previous life are there, and I can't really ignore them at all.

Moreover, for Xu Kong, if he could earn money from the Korean audience, the sense of satisfaction would probably be greater.

If "Sweet Honey" is successful and has a certain foundation, we can consider officially starting to try to develop the kimchi market in the future.

……

Xu Kong might not care about Peng Yu's movie released at the same time, but he could never let go of the annoying Chang Dachun.

After all, the other person's annoying face is one thing.

Also, Xu Kong still remembers that the main reason why he decided to temporarily shoot the movie "Sweet Honey" was because he hoped to avenge and vent his anger for Shang Yuxin who had suffered a blow.

So right after he finished talking to Zhu Yu, and before he even left her office, Xu Kongxin sent out a new Weibo post.

I have to say, although it seems that Xu Kong’s Weibo is almost always updated.

But compared to when he was an idol in Fengqing Entertainment, he is almost completely out of business now.

Some ordinary idol stars have targets for how many selfies they must post in a week. Apart from that, they will also proactively post on Weibo to start managing their own personal image.

But if it comes to Xu Kong, Weibo will be filled with related reposts.

Or he is promoting his new movie or new song or something.

It is rare for people to express their opinions on their own initiative.

Most of the time, Weibo itself is operated by his studio.

But Xu Kong himself definitely still has control over the account.

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“@常大春, remember to watch my new movie “Comrades: Almost a Love Story”, it’s also a period piece, with the same female lead, I’ll teach you how to shoot it.”

As soon as the Weibo post was sent, Zhu Yu's cell phone rang.

As an agent, Xu Kong’s Weibo is naturally the only one that Zhu Yu pays special attention to.

"Xu Kong!"

After reading the Weibo post, Zhu Yu glared at Xu Kong angrily.

This guy just told me that he wouldn't take it to heart, but the next moment he posted on Weibo without my permission.

Of course, she was not angry about what Xu Kong posted, but mainly because the other party did not tell her or discuss it with her at all, and her agent was sitting right in front of her.

"never mind……"

Looking at Xu Kong's innocent eyes, Zhu Yu sighed helplessly.

Strictly speaking, Xu Kong and Feng Ge are indeed different from ordinary artists.

As an agent, I don't seem to have much decision-making power.

However, it is foreseeable that with the release of Xu Kong’s Weibo post, this public opinion will probably be completely detonated.

This guy really holds a grudge.

Zhu Yu began to feel some sympathy for poor Chang Dachun.

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(End of this chapter)