The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 320 opens one hour earlier, just for Zhang Chen to walk the red carpet

“Whether you are Chinese or not, the place will be cleared when Leon comes later.”

The reporter looked the lady in black up and down and gave her a somewhat disdainful reminder.

Whenever Zhang Chen attends any award ceremony now, having the red carpet cleared is a basic treatment.

The Oscars had invited him to sing a song at the Oscars many times, and this invitation lasted for eight years.

For eight years, Zhang Chen refused Oscar performance opportunities for various reasons.

So this time when he came to the Oscars, he received attention from all aspects of the Oscars.

There are only a handful of stars in the world who can enjoy this treatment.

Therefore, in the opinion of this reporter, it was simply wishful thinking for this familiar-looking Chinese female star to want to hang out with the world-famous star Zhang Chen on the red carpet.

"Ziyi, what are you still doing here? They say Zhang Chen is coming, let's go."

Zhao Xiaoding, who came over from not far away, came to Zhang Ziyi and urged her to leave quickly.

Today, the crew of "House of Flying Daggers" is not an important role in this Oscar event full of big names. After all, they only received a nomination for "Best Cinematography".

Among this group of people, apart from Zhang Yimou who can still talk to Zhang Chen, only Liu Dehua can say a few words to him. However, because of the incident with Chef Xie, the two have not been in touch for a long time.

In addition, on this occasion today, the people at the Oscars don't think that the crew of "House of Flying Daggers" can take advantage of Zhang Chen, an international superstar.

"I'm coming!"

"Leon is here!"

"Give it!"

When a convoy of luxury cars drove into the red carpet area outside the Kodak Theater, everyone at the scene became agitated.

The Lyon they have been waiting for is here!

Different from the excited reporters, the crew members of "House of Flying Daggers", especially Zhang Ziyi, looked unwilling.

In the end, he could only enter the theater door amid the pushing and shoving of reporters and the constant urging of staff, looking back every few steps.

On the other side, all the reporters were blocked by security and gathered around a luxurious extended version of Rolls-Royce.

All the reporters held their cameras nervously, waiting for the moment when the car door would open and the moment when Zhang Chen, the world superstar, would step onto the red carpet of the Oscars for the first time.

click
The car door opened, and out came a bare-calf foot wearing black high heels.

???

As soon as the shutter buttons of the cameras in the hands of all the reporters at the scene were pressed, after a moment of silence, the flashes started flashing rapidly again.

Big news?!

The first public girlfriend of a world pop superstar?

All the reporters became excited.

When the unknown "world pop star girlfriend" completely emerged from the car
Many reporters at the scene couldn't help but spit.

"It's all in vain." Someone muttered

"I thought it was who it was."

"It turned out to be Assistant Xue."

However, no one dared to speak loudly. This assistant was said to be proficient in many mainstream languages and several unpopular languages. If she heard the reporters' complaints, who knows what might happen.

After getting out of the car, Xue Yining looked around first. When she saw that the security situation was better, she bent down and said something to the car.

Then, Zhang Chen, whom everyone had been waiting for for a long time, finally came out of the car.

The clothes Zhang Chen wore today were different from those he usually wore when attending the Grammys. He usually wore a black suit with a bow tie when attending the Grammys. There was nothing he could do about it because that was the dress code of the Grammys and there was no need for him to be different.

Having reporters take pictures of him is something that women also yearn for. He himself has no pursuit of being on the news pages of magazines, so he wears clothes as simply as possible.

But he came to Oscar today with some thoughts in mind.

As early as last year's Chinese New Year, Zhang Chen opened a Hanfu factory in Zhejiang Province with funds.

Now, after a year of development, we have designed a number of clothes that are in line with current modern styles and contain Chinese elements.

For example, the suit Zhang Chen is wearing now combines the characteristics of Zhongshan suit and Tang suit. It has a white base color, a coat decorated with gold bamboo patterns, and a simple white round collar lining.

The lower body is also wearing white trousers, but under the illumination of the flash, some dark gold lines appear from time to time on the pockets and trouser legs.

Finally, the shoes on your feet.

The shoes were a pair of simple handmade leather shoes.

The overall style is retro and modern, simple and noble.

The journalists at the scene had already been pressing the shutter rapidly, and when they saw Zhang Chen's outfit, they pressed the shutter even faster. The lights that had originally flickered together had now completely merged into one, lighting up the sky that was about to darken.

"Leon, look here!"

"Leon, can you do a few moves?"

"Lyon."

Following the flash of lights came the anxious and surprised voices of the reporters.

They kept asking Zhang Chen to look more into their camera.

This time, Zhang Chen also cooperated with them and kept turning around, posing in various poses that he had practiced at home for half a month, allowing reporters to take pictures of him.

He walked along and the reporters took pictures along the way.

This section of the red carpet was not long, but it took Zhang Chen half an hour to walk from one end of the red carpet to the other.

During this period, no star was allowed to walk on the red carpet, including all the main creative members of "The Pursuit of Happyness". This half hour was the greatest courtesy of the Oscars to Zhang Chen, an international superstar who came to the Oscars for the first time.

Finally, surrounded by a crowd of media reporters and amid the continuous screams of thousands of spectators at the scene, Zhang Chen finally arrived at the outside host position.

"Leon, this is your first time attending the Oscars. How do you feel it's different from the Grammys?" The host Billy Bush enthusiastically handed Zhang Chen a microphone.

"No need." Zhang Chen glanced at everyone present, "Maybe the familiar faces have been replaced by a group of new friends?"

“I heard that many singers mentioned your name at the Grammy Awards two days ago. Did Leon hear about it?”

“I said I was quitting the Grammys, so there wasn’t much attention paid to it.”

Billy Bush didn't know what questions to ask here.

But it will never be wrong to ask Zhang Chen something about the music industry, because many people got to know Zhang Chen, the world superstar, through his songs.

Now he dares to say that as long as there is internet access in the world, there must be someone who has heard Zhang Chen’s songs.

From eighty-year-old men and women to babies who have just learned to speak, no matter what country you are from, there is always a song you like among the songs sung or written by Zhang Chen.

This is Zhang Chen's biggest invisible achievement since his debut - fame. In the 2004 Forbes celebrity list, Zhang Chen topped the list, leaving Tiger Woods, who was second, and Mel Gibson, who was third, far behind.

Because this ranking brings together important indicators of the personal wealth and influence of all Hollywood stars, sports celebrities, and socialites around the world.

Just like the Chinese version, this year's newly released list of Chinese celebrities:

1. Zhang Chen, singer and actor, RMB 800 million (000)

2. Yao Ming, athlete: 15 (million yuan)
3. Zhang Ziyi, actor 3 (million yuan)
4. Liu Xiang, athlete 2 million (million yuan)
5. Princess, singer 2 (million yuan)
6. Zhang Yimou, director 1 million (million yuan)
7. Zhou Xun, actor 1 (million yuan)
8. Sun Nan, singer 1 million (million yuan)
9. Fan Bingbing, actor 1 (million yuan)
10. Li Bingbing, actor 1 (million yuan)
This is because Zhang Chen has many companies under his name and none of them are listed. We can only roughly calculate Zhang Chen's income in 04 through the increase in song downloads on music platforms such as Morning Music and his income from the program "Singer".

No one can accurately calculate how much money Zhang Chen made last year, including himself.

If you want to find out the truth, you need a dedicated accounting team to conduct long-term calculations to come up with an accurate but not real-time number.

Whether it is from the wealth income in 04 or the performance of "Singer" at the World Pop Music Exchange Conference, it is enough to make Zhang Chen distance himself from all other stars in the world.

Defining Zhang Chen as a celebrity now is already a dimensionality reduction attack on the celebrity group.

Such a wealthy, famous and influential celebrity boss, for the first time came to the Oscars to compete for the biggest award, "Best Picture".

Therefore, in terms of the level of attention received, this year's Oscars is the highest in history.

The high level of attention Zhang Chen receives means rising ratings, which means the influence of the Oscars is expanding, and it also means that the broadcasting fees and advertising fees for the Oscars will continue to rise in the future.

For Zhang Chen, Oscar wants to use him to increase its influence, so he naturally wants to use Oscar and the stars who come here to increase the popularity of his own "brand".

The custom-made modern Hanfu he wore today is the new model of "Hua", a brand under "Chenguang Clothing" this year.

Nowadays, many clothes are mainly Western suits and evening gowns, so it is difficult to design women's clothing. However, because the boss is the big boss Zhang Chen, the designer has invested a lot of energy in designing this modern Hanfu.

“Okay, thank you Leon for chatting with me outside for so long, I won’t delay everyone inside from seeing you.”

Billy Bush interviewed Zhang Chen outside for a full ten minutes, and this was also because of Zhang Chen's outfit today.

Under Zhang Chen's guidance, the topic of their conversation also turned to Chinese culture.

Billy Bush satisfied his star-chasing desire and the organizer's request to let Zhang Chen appear more often.

Zhang Chen also fulfilled his dream of promoting Chinese culture in front of the world's media.

This wave is a win-win situation for Zhang Chen and Oscar.

After staying in front of the autograph wall for a few minutes to take photos with the media, Zhang Chen finally entered the theater under the gaze of many reporters who were still eager to see more and audience members who looked reluctant to leave.

As soon as he entered the Kodak Theater, Zhang Chen was greeted by the main creators of "The Pursuit of Happyness".

"Leon, you're so slow. We've been waiting for you inside for almost an hour." Will Smith punched Zhang Chen lightly in the chest as soon as they met.

"I was wondering why this year's Oscars notified us to arrive an hour earlier than last year. It turns out it's all because of you, Leon." Quentin smiled enthusiastically.

Today is a big day for him.

"The Pursuit of Happyness" was nominated for three awards today. As the director of this film, he is naturally favored by many Hollywood actresses.

As early as a month ago at a party, many female stars offered themselves to him, which greatly satisfied his vanity.

"Where's the Harry Potter crew?"

Zhang Chen looked around, wanting to see Rowling and others who had arrived here before him.

In fact, the main reason was not Rowling. The most important thing was that in this year's "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", there was the role of Qiu Zhang, and Liu Yifei was also lucky enough to "sneak" into the Oscars.

These are the only two Chinese actresses to enter the Oscars this year.

"Look, isn't it here?" Will Smith winked and looked towards the distance.

Zhang Chen looked over there and saw Liu Yifei, who exuded a girlish aura from the inside out but was tall and mature, walking towards him with her skirt lifted.

Today, Liu Yifei is also dressed in a white fishtail dress, with a simple sapphire pendant made by a well-known master around her neck, which is low-key and noble.

"Who gave you the dress?" Zhang Chen frowned as he looked at Liu Yifei's exposed shoulders. "You don't know you're cold."

As Zhang Chen spoke, he unbuttoned his coat, took it off and put it on Liu Yifei.

"Sister Hong matched it for me." Liu Yifei happily turned around in front of Zhang Chen, "Does it look good?"

"Ugly." Zhang Chen curled his lips. It exposed so much, and he didn't know which designer designed it. If it was his own employee, he would have opened it right away.

"Me!" Liu Yifei was about to raise her hand to hit Zhang Chen, who couldn't speak, but seeing so many people around, she took the opportunity to put her raised hand into Zhang Chen's arm and said, "There are so many people here, I'll save some face for you."

She usually jokes with Zhang Chen, but she does it according to the occasion.

They both understand the fun of it, but to outsiders, they would think that she is an uncultured girl.

When you go out, you still have to pay more attention to the impact.

If you have any problem, go home and solve it.

"Where are Joanne and the others?"

"Let me take you there. Several of our crews have been arranged together."

"How many?" Zhang Chen raised his eyebrows. How could there be so many?

Including his own "The Pursuit of Happyness" and the investor of the well-known "Harry Potter" film series, there should be no crew on the scene today that has anything to do with him, right?

"The Oscar organizers also arranged for House of Flying Daggers and The Incredibles to come."

"House of Flying Daggers?" Zhang Chen stopped and turned to look at Liu Yifei.

"The Incredibles" is still okay, after all, he used half of Pixar Animation's shares. The huge sales of this animated film have made many people look at his investment vision with admiration.

From the huge success of the Harry Potter series to the huge sales of Pixar animated films, Zhang Chen's two Hollywood investments have made a lot of money and both were world box office champions in a certain period of time.

But House of Flying Daggers.
Are you here to commit fraud?

"It seems that Zhang Ziyi and the organizer proposed it?" Liu Yifei tapped her chin and recalled the topic everyone had just talked about. "The organizer also felt that we were all from the same country, so they did us a favor."

"A favor?" Zhang Chen chuckled.

I muttered to myself, wondering if I was flattering someone so much that I ended up hitting the horse's leg without even realizing it.

He doesn't have a good impression of Zhang Ziyi.

However, this person didn't seem to have done anything to displease him so far, so he wanted to see what this person had to say to him today.

If there was nothing going on, he wouldn't have sat next to me.

"Let's go."

　I was obsessed with a TV series last night until 9 o'clock this morning. Today's update has been finished. Sorry, sorry!
　　In addition, I also recommend everyone to watch "Please, She in My Body" by Penguin Video, it's great! Highly recommended

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