The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 387 We gave you what you wanted, and you should continue to do what we want
Co-producing films with Hollywood film companies is a huge temptation for many production companies.

Tong Gang was also considering the development of domestic film and television, looking to see if there were any opportunities for Chinese film and television companies to go overseas.

"Yes, I have."

"Oh?" Tong Gang's smile blossomed, "Then..."

"Isn't Chenguang Entertainment a Chinese company?"

"Cough cough cough" Tong Gang drank a mouthful of soup which went down his trachea and he started coughing violently.

But there is nothing wrong with what Zhang Chen said.

However, it seems that the opportunity that Han Sanping asked him to find is going to be ruined.

But Tong Gang didn't care. China Film Group was China Film Group and he was himself.

"So when can we see the movie directed by our genius director?" Tong Gang calmed down and asked Zhang Chen with a smile.

"The script is already finished, and I will go to the United States to select actors after the Chinese New Year."

"Does the actor need any help?"

They said they were helping, but actually they just wanted to see if there was any chance for Chinese actors to appear in Hollywood movies.

There is only one Jackie Chan in China, which is still too few.

Although Zhang Ziyi had this tendency some time ago, a movie was released in the Sakura Country some time ago. After the news spread back to China, it caused a lot of negative public opinion.

If I remember correctly, the person who narrated "Memoirs of a Geisha" was a UP host from CGT.

"I still need to go to the United States for an interview for the leading role, but I have given one of the supporting roles to Sissi."

"Liu Yifei?"

"Correct!"

Tong Gang clicked his tongue. This opportunity that outsiders would beg for, the chance to perform in Hollywood that all Chinese actors dreamed of, was taken away by a girl who was less than 20 years old?

That is Disney among the Hollywood giants and currently the second largest film studio in the world.

The production cost of this movie must be at least tens of millions of dollars, right?
If it is a big production, the production cost plus the publicity and promotion expenses may be over 100 million dollars!

Nowadays, domestic films, even "The Promise", only claim to have a production cost of 3000 million US dollars.

That already includes the cost of building the city. It’s hard to say how much was actually spent on the film.

"It seems like you're planning to make her the top female star in the country?"

"The number one female star in the country?" Zhang Chen curled his lips. "It's that girl who can't stand it. I've helped her save enough money for the rest of her life, but she's still making trouble."

"What you said is meaningless. How old is she? She has to think about retirement?" Tong Gang glanced at Zhang Chen unhappily. "Besides, you have made so much money, aren't you going to make a movie?"

"Then I will announce my retirement next year and find a place to live in the mountains and old forests to retire?"

"No!" Tong Gang slammed the table with a huge reaction.

The noise really scared the group of Chenguang employees around them. They all looked at Zhang Chen and Tong Gang with some concern.

Some people are still struggling with whether to help the boss if the two people fight.

If someone else dared to jump up and down in front of their boss, a large group of people would probably have rushed over.

Fortunately, Tong Gang's identity successfully avoided this embarrassing situation.

"Look, it's not that I don't want to." Zhang Chen sighed, poking the rice bowl with the chopsticks in his hand, and said with some disinterest, "It's that I want to stop, and many people don't want me to stop."

After listening to this, Tong Gang also fell silent.

What is Zhang Chen’s identity?
Now I don’t know how many people are waiting for him to win face for them.

Currently, the two Chinese people who are well-known internationally are Zhang Chen and Cheng Long.

Further down are Jet Li, Gong Li and others.

But Zhang Chen is completely ahead by a huge margin, not only because Zhang Chen entered the American entertainment industry earlier than Cheng Long, but also because while the two were in the United States, all the attention of the Western world was focused on Zhang Chen, while ignoring Cheng Long, who is also a Chinese.

After all, both of them are Chinese, so it was normal for Zhang Chen's upward momentum to attract the attention of most people.

This has led to Zhang Chen becoming a business card for China. When other countries talk about China, they may not be able to name important figures, but they will definitely mention the name "Leon Zhang".

There is no way, the music is just too widely spread.

Coupled with world tours, World Cup performances, and the third-best album sales in the world, as well as a series of identities such as being a shareholder of three listed companies in the past few days, Zhang Chen has become what he is today.

It can be said that Zhang Chen’s every move can touch the hearts of many people in China.

Just like the Golden Rooster Awards incident some time ago.

Overseas, just because of Zhang Chen's identity, Disney's stock has surged by 16%. According to the market value, that is an increase of nearly billion US dollars.

I don’t know how many listed companies are now trying to get Zhang Chen to work in their company.

Zhang Chen's name represents money, fame, and also represents the brand and will of a group.

So if Zhang Chen wants to retire, there will definitely be many people who oppose it.

Among them, there were people whom Zhang Chen simply could not refuse.

Now, there is a force pushing Zhang Chen forward, and Zhang Chen has no chance to refuse.

All he can do is follow his own ideas and move in the direction he wants.

This is one of the reasons why some people could tolerate Zhang Chen’s misbehavior in the Golden Rooster Awards incident.

Some people also knew that this was a test by Zhang Chen.

The meaning is very clear, either kick him out and find someone to replace him, or do as he wants.

The results are obvious.

Zhang Chen, irreplaceable.

What's more, it is even more rare that Zhang Chen did not make any principled mistakes.

Many people don’t dare to gamble. They don’t dare to gamble whether the next person with the same ability as Zhang Chen will follow the rules like him.

So, Zhang Chen cannot retreat.

Since I can't retreat, I can only go the way Zhang Chen likes.

This is the consensus of most people after the two events of Baidu and Golden Rooster this year.

After reaching a consensus, Zhang Chen no longer had the chance to withdraw.

We gave you what you wanted, so now you have to do what you should do.

Including but not limited to continuing to shine on the world stage, continuously improving reputation, and enhancing the value of personal image.

This is the meaning of Tong Gang’s “no”.

"Do your best. Don't you enjoy being the center of attention?" Tong Gang smiled and said softly.

But it was more like comforting Zhang Chen than laughing.

"Haha." Zhang Chen also smiled helplessly, "I guess so."

At the beginning, he really enjoyed the feeling of standing on the stage and being the center of attention.

But when he went from being active on the stage to being passive, the feeling changed and he no longer simply enjoyed the stage.

"It's a rare opportunity to talk to you for so long today." Tong Gang had finished his meal and started to clean up the dishes. "Didn't we promise you? Don't complain about this and that like a nagging woman. It's meaningless."

"I'll make it clear first." Zhang Chen also lowered his head to clean up the dishes, and at the same time reminded Tong Gang, "When the time comes, just don't scare you with what I do."

"Then I hope it's a surprise, not a shock." Tong Gang then asked, "Do you have any ideas?" "Ask from above?"

"Ah."

"A little bit." Zhang Chen nodded and admitted, "But it's not mature yet. We'll talk about it when the time comes."

"It's good to have an idea." Tong Gang dumped the kitchen waste into the trash can, put the dishes and chopsticks into a plastic box beside him, turned around and said to Zhang Chen, "Then I'll go back and report to my superiors."

Zhang Chen did the same thing. He said goodbye to Tong Gang and said, "Take care."

Tong Gang turned around and waved his hand.

Zhang Chen watched Tong Gang leave, stood there in a daze for a while, and then left the cafeteria under the gaze of the employees.

When people are busy, time always passes quickly.

On the first day of 2006, a major event happened in the entertainment industry.

This morning, Qi Qin announced a heartbreaking news through a press conference in the hospital.

At yesterday's Yanjing concert, his drummer accidentally fell off the stage during the performance and unfortunately died after being sent to the hospital.

The drummer is also a famous Taiwanese folk musician and has won the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Music.

It is a pity that he had such an accident at the age of 37.

The entertainment industry has lost another musical talent.

At the same time, people in the Chinese entertainment industry, as if they had discussed it beforehand, delivered news one after another to the people of the country.

On January 1, Gigi Leung and Ekin Cheng announced their breakup through their respective agents.

It has been seven years since the two started their affair in 99.

The "seven-year itch" was mentioned again.

They were initially rumored to have a third party involved, and when they finally broke up, they did not receive blessings from netizens.

"In fact, GIGI and EKIN are so outdated that they are just scumbags. Calling them second-tier stars is flattering them. If it weren't for the breakup, someone's new work wouldn't be qualified to make the headlines."

“Maybe there is no right or wrong in matters of the heart.

But seven years ago, when GIGI faced the media as a winner and when Maggie Shiu was healing alone, she should have thought about this day and that she would be responsible for her actions back then.

"I used to think I would feel relieved when I heard such news, but now I feel like it doesn't matter. I don't like either of them. So what does it have to do with me?"

Regardless of how the two got together in the first place, and regardless of their current fame, their breakup has indeed made netizens pay attention to these two stars again.

On one side, there was a breakup, while on the other side, there were rumors of a scandal.

On January 1, Xie Tingfeng and Zhang Baizhi, who were frequently photographed together, were believed to be together.

When Zhang Baizhi intervened in the "Feng Fei Love" relationship, the princess slapped both of them in the face with Zhang Chen's song "Dignity", and the two have never appeared in the same frame in public since then.

However, on the set of "The Promise" this time, paparazzi took many intimate photos of the two, which led to speculation from the outside world that the two were back together.

I just didn't expect that "The Promise" would be so bad, but it led to their relationship.

Like Leung Wing-kei and Ekin Cheng, these two also received "greetings" from netizens after the official announcement.

"In the beginning, he interfered with Feifei's relationship, and now he is shamelessly getting together with her."

"I guess, I guess, maybe the two of them did something because of the movie The Promise? And then the woman did something, and then this happened?"

"What's this and that? Aren't they just a couple on the set? Could it be that they really won the bid?"

"Ha, guess what I saw? Our 'Jade Girl' was flirting with Xie, and was also photographed with a foreign boyfriend. It is said that the two are in a relationship!"

"Your circle is so chaotic, you really know how to have fun!"

The news at the beginning of 06 started with these two pairs of "lovers" and began to roll forward.

When the time came to January 1th, the Golden Globe Awards ceremony was successfully completed.

What surprised the Chinese people was that this time, works by two Chinese directors won awards.

Zhang Chen's "Love" won the "Best Feature Film Award" and "Best Actor Award" respectively.

Ang Lee won the Best Director Award for Brokeback Mountain, which was released last December.

But what is even more surprising is that Zhang Chen himself did not go to the Golden Globe Awards ceremony at all, but the organizing committee still gave the award to Zhang Chen who was not present.

This led to speculation that the Oscars might want to use this flattering approach to compensate for the discrimination Zhang Chen suffered by the host at the Oscars.

After all, the Golden Globe Awards, which is regarded as one of the indicators of the Oscars, gave two major awards, so the chances of winning at the Oscars were greatly increased.

Many reporters also went to the Chenguang Group to ask Zhang Chen whether he would participate in this year's Oscars.

But they were all told that Zhang Chen was busy with other important matters and was not convenient to show up.

In response to this, netizens responded:

"Tsk! It's just the Spring Festival Gala, as if no one can guess it."

"That's it!"

"So what song will Zhang Chen sing this year?"

For the annual fixed programs, the discussion about "what new songs will Zhang Chen bring this year" has completely surpassed "what skits will there be in the Spring Festival Gala".

As the Spring Festival Gala that has accompanied many people growing up, Zhang Chen has brought a new song to everyone on the Spring Festival Gala for so many years in a row, and it has also become a New Year's expectation for many of them who have grown up now.

When many Chinese people were not paying attention, the Nikkei index began to plummet, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange announced the early end of trading in the afternoon. This was the second time in its 56 years that the exchange had taken such emergency measures.

Most people will not be affected by this.

But many people who have been paying attention to the world's financial markets have already begun to take action.

This includes capital initiated by Zhang Chen, introduced by Disney, and led by BlackRock and Vanguard, which began to build positions in preparation for the stock market in the near future.

However, this matter was done in an extremely covert manner and ordinary people did not notice it at all.

What people see more is news from the cultural and sports circles.

On January 1, the NBA welcomed a "new god".

Kobe Bryant scored 81 points in the Lakers' game against the Raptors.

This is Kobe's highest score in his career so far and the second highest score in a single game in the NBA.

As the largest audience group in the NBA, Chinese fans, in addition to watching Yao Ming's Rockets team, pay the most attention to Kobe's Lakers team.

After Kobe accomplished this feat, the pride of Lakers fans was self-evident.

However, things happening in the sports circle also caused reactions from basketball fans.

More ordinary people are paying attention to movies and TV series.

On January 1, "Huo Yuanjia" and the long-delayed "A World Without Thieves" were released at the same time, bringing everyone a new year film and television feast for the Year of the Dog before New Year's Eve.

When the box office of the two movies both exceeded 2000 million two days later, the 2006 Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dog will also start on time at o'clock in the evening.

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