The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 346 Weekly Box Office Champion, Internet Banned
The movie "Love" was able to receive rave reviews from many viewers in Cannes, essentially because the movie was adapted by Zhang Chen.

This is a movie that conforms to Western values.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to say how high the evaluation you can get in China is.

However, many young people who watched the movie were moved by the love story between the two in the movie.

As for the older generation
"Zhang Chen, is this how you view love?"

"Yeah, what's the problem?"

Zhang Yimou looked at the young man Zhang Chen with a strange expression.

Could Zhang Chen have the heart to kill his own lover with his own hands?
Respect life, or respect the other person's choice?
Zhang Yimou shook his head. Without really facing that moment, he didn't know what choice he would make.

He believed that he was not the only one who had such an idea. Looking at the people of all ages who had fallen into silence at the scene, Zhang Yimou knew that Zhang Chen's movie was very successful.

At least it's good enough to win the Palme d'Or.

"Sure enough, I am getting old. For so many years, I was just one Palme d'Or away from the Grand Slam. I also hoped to win the second Palme d'Or for our country, but I didn't expect it."

"Director Yimou doesn't need these awards to prove himself anymore. Besides, you are now focusing on commercial films and helping Chinese-language films gain a foothold in the world. Don't go and make an art film just because of this little thing."

"Ok?"

Zhang Yimou was stunned. He had really wanted to direct an art film and compete with this young and fledgling director.

"Forget art films. I have to take care of the Olympics."

"How's the progress?"

"The proposals you submitted are exactly the same as my ideas. Now we just have to wait for them to send the actors I want so that we can rehearse." Zhang Yimou complained to Zhang Chen unhappily, "You are the artistic director of the Olympics after all. What's the point of not attending meetings?"

"I'm busy." Zhang Chen smiled awkwardly.

He has been busy lately and really has no time to go to the Olympic Games.

But then again, he told the team everything he could think of, and now even a complete performance team has not been assembled, and rehearsals are nowhere in sight.

So at this stage, they are all trivial matters, and Zhang Yimou alone is enough.

"Then no matter how busy you are today, you should at least treat these people you invited well, right?"

Zhang Yimou pointed at the crowd who were starting to gather around Zhang Chen again.

"Leon, is there an English version of this movie?"

Avril was the first to rush to Zhang Chen and asked for the English version.

"You can watch it in Maple Leaf Country. They will arrange an English version later."

The movie is in Chinese, and today is also the global release of the Chinese version.

However, for people from English-speaking countries, reading subtitles is too difficult.

Take Avril for example. With her poor Chinese level, she can only understand some simple daily communication. It is still a bit difficult for her to fully understand an art film.

The movies she watched since she was a child all had no subtitles, but today she watched nearly two hours of subtitles and could only glance at the pictures in a hurry, which was very uncomfortable.

However, even so, she could feel the ideas conveyed by the film from the subtitles and intermittent images.

"I have a concert in Southeast Asia recently. I'm not like Michael and his friends. My main market is North America."

Avril glared at Zhang Chen as she said this: "You tricked me into coming to China to develop my career, but you just dumped me in your country and left me there. I might as well develop my career in Maple Leaf Country. My fans in my country call me the 'Princess' of Maple Leaf Country."

"But she's not as domineering as the Asian queen, right?"

"Why would a girl like me be so 'domineering'?"

When Zhang Chen and Avril were communicating in English, many people who couldn't understand could only watch with a smile on their faces.

They don't understand, but that doesn't stop them from participating.

For example, Wang Baoqiang would nod in agreement every time Zhang Chen finished speaking.

The main focus is participation.

"After watching this movie, I was reminded of the incident between Bai Zeming and Li Sisi. Why is this company so disgusting?"

"Yeah, if my agent hadn't forbidden me to post on Weibo last month, I would have wanted to curse them in the face."

"No, after watching the movie I am even angrier. I must call on my fans to boycott Baidu."

"That's right. Baidu is the most unfriendly company to people like us. First, it exposed our home addresses, forcing many people to move. Then it exposed our private phone numbers, causing us to be harassed for a long time. A few days ago, it even dared to expose our ID photos. It's really lawless."

"That's right. Since they are so unfriendly to us entertainers, let's show them what we can do."

When Zhang Chen was chatting with some acquaintances, he heard many celebrities talking about Baidu.

A few days ago, with the eight major Hollywood record companies and the seven major world record companies taking the lead, and the domestic Morning Glory Group taking the lead, Zhang Chen "woke up" again.

The celebrities in this industry seemed to have found their backbone and began to plan to teach Baidu a lesson.

However, the direction of this force needs to be guided.

"Everyone!"

Zhang Chen stood at the front of the stage and clapped his hands. His loud voice was clearly heard by everyone.

"I've heard everyone's feedback just now. It seems that many people are disgusted by Baidu's behavior of exposing your privacy at will, right?"

"Correct!"

"That's right——"

At this moment, Zhang Chen's words could be said to have received a hundred responses, especially the young actors, who all seemed to be holding their breath.

Before, because Baidu is a big company and controls the public opinion platform, they really didn’t dare to say anything bad.

But with Zhang Chen as the "vanguard", these people seemed to have found their backbone.

"Zhang Chen, are you going to do something?"

The media at the scene finally found an opportunity to ask questions and rushed directly to the front of the stage, surrounding the small area.

Now, it's their time to shine.

Zhang Chen was also happy that these media came to help him spread the news here.

"The world has suffered from Baidu for a long time." Zhang Chen directly quoted this famous saying, "Record companies and film and television companies around the world have suffered heavy losses because of Baidu. Chinese celebrities have had their privacy leaked repeatedly because of Baidu, although they keep saying that this is the user's personal behavior and they can't do anything about it."

"This kind of talk is probably enough to fool a three-year-old child. We all know that they did it on purpose for their own benefit."

"Yes! That's right!" everyone echoed loudly.

"They did this in our country before, and now they went overseas and listed their shares, thinking they were an international company. As a result, these things they did gave those foreign companies a handle to hold against them, and they brought shame abroad, and brought great disgrace to our country."

"Damn Baidu!" "You must apologize!"

"Apologies are useless, compensation must be paid!"

Zhang Chen's words completely aroused the indignation of the star directors present.

The people who have been cheated the most by Baidu are public figures like them.

Addresses, private phone numbers, and ID cards were all leaked from Baidu Tieba. It is no exaggeration to say that they hate Baidu to the core.

"Then everyone should take action. Hollywood, the world's seven major record companies, our domestic film and television companies, and record companies, which pirated film and television and music resources, should jointly seek compensation from Baidu. You should also seek compensation for the losses you have suffered."

"it is good!"

"Fuck you!"

“I’ll post on Weibo right now!”

Zhang Chen looked at the group of celebrity artists below who seemed to be full of energy, and nodded with satisfaction.

Although the old hands have not expressed their opinions, it is enough to have young artists taking the lead.

Sometimes you don't need all of them, just a considerable amount to achieve your goal.

"Then let's take action."

After Zhang Chen finished speaking, he left the scene with his men, leaving behind the reporters who wanted to ask questions.

The global release of "Love" has set off a trend around the world.

First, it’s a film by the 21-year-old Palme d’Or winner, and many people want to see it.

After watching the movie, many people developed a strong dislike for China's Baidu company.

When this disgust was transformed into comments and posted on platforms such as Weibo and Facebook, it attracted a large number of curious people to watch the movie.

So this was like a snowball, pushing the second trend forward.

This trend is the movie-watching craze for "Love".

When people around you start eagerly sharing a movie with you, you become curious.

When many people around you start discussing a movie, you feel like you are out of place.

When you feel like you don't fit in and want to join the discussion, you buy movie tickets.

Although this is not absolute, even a small part of it has greatly boosted the box office of "Love".

In just one week, the box office of the art film "Love" increased wildly in an extremely unscientific upward trend.

On the first day of its release, the global box office was just over 100 million, much of which was contributed by Zhang Chen's fans.

On the second and third days, the global box office was 160 million and 180 million, which was normal because it was Saturday.

When many people in the film and television industry thought that there would be a decline on the fourth day, Monday, the box office of "Love" suddenly "soared".

It directly crossed the thresholds of 200 million, 300 million, and 400 million and reached 500 million!
In the following days, the box office soared wildly at an average rate of 400 million.

In the first week, "Love" topped the global weekly box office with a box office of 3150 million US dollars, surpassing "The Hurricane King"
The reason behind this is also very simple.

Well-known media outlets around the world are promoting this film.

The capital behind Hollywood controls many radio, television, newspaper and other media around the world.

When these forces suddenly unite to do something, people all over the world will know about it.

The reason why they suddenly united was naturally very simple: they saw the benefits.

These people are not fools. Baidu has been criticized to pieces in China. If they work harder, they can bring this emerging Internet company that has created stock price history in the United States from the cloud to the bottom of the valley.

If there is an opportunity, short arbitrage is also their goal.

Because there is such a huge force behind it, it is understandable that the box office of "Love" has achieved results that are not expected for such an art film.

Subsequently, a document suspected to be Baidu's future plans was posted on Facebook.

The above clearly states the original development plan of Baidu:

1. Launched an Internet encyclopedia in 06.

2. An interactive knowledge question and answer sharing platform was launched in the second half of 05.

3.
Someone noticed that many of Baidu's businesses in this report had already been completed in advance by Firefox.

What is the ultimate goal of Internet companies?
First-mover advantage!

Many people who are familiar with the history of the rise of major Internet companies know that only the first to try something new can firmly occupy a dominant position in a blank market, while latecomers can basically only eat dust.

Now, Baidu's development direction for the next five years has been completely blocked by Firefox, so where will be the company's future growth points?
Many retail shareholders of Baidu who understood this began to sell their shares, fearing that they would be stuck if they sold too late.

123 dollar
110 dollar
It directly triggered Nasdaq's individual stock circuit breaker mechanism.

Because when the trading price of a certain stock rises or falls by more than 5% within 10 minutes, the Nasdaq Stock Exchange will suspend trading of that stock.

If the price of the stock fails to return to the specified "price fluctuation range" within 15 seconds, that is, the increase or decrease does not exceed 5%, trading will be suspended for 5 minutes.

The purpose of Nasdaq's circuit breaker mechanism for individual stocks is to protect investors and the market from extreme volatility by suspending trading, preventing prices from falling or rising too quickly and avoiding vicious chain reactions.

Subsequently, Baidu's stock rose slightly by 1 point.

It is obvious that Baidu and the capital behind it have begun to make efforts to sweep up stocks on the market.

However, after the resumption of trading, Baidu's stock fell one point again.

This is still the case with shareholders behind the scenes supporting the stock.

Unfortunately, Nasdaq has a 180-day trading restriction on shareholders of listed companies.

Otherwise, these shareholders might join the selling wave.

They now have only one thought in their minds: they thought it was a piece of gold, but it turned out to be a pile of gold that has exhausted its potential.

Don't mention how much I regret it.

In the foreseeable future, once the freeze period is over, these shareholders will also sell their Baidu shares and leave the market.

Unless Baidu can find future business growth points and give shareholders hope.

Unfortunately, this hope will no longer exist.

On August 8, China Spoon Station announced a piece of news:
[Due to the fact that Baidu is suspected of violating the privacy of others, allowing pirated resources of others' works to spread on its platform, damaging the image of the country, and smearing important national figures, the relevant departments have entered Baidu's internal investigation and evidence collection. Now all the products of the company involved in the case are banned from the entire network. The specific punishment measures will be decided after further trial of the case.]

　The next chapter is the harvest time. This plot is indeed too long.
　　However, as a newbie author, I have to try to master this kind of plot. I am very grateful to all the readers who have followed me here!

　　
　
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