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Chapter 529 Now! Immediately! Right now! Come to my office!

"To make your movie?"

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this.

He was puzzled as he looked at Han Sanping's expression which suddenly became extremely complicated.

"Didn't you just start shooting your movie?"

Han Sanping's face was gloomy, and he looked at Zhang Chen with some suspicion and resentment: "Yes, the project has only been going on for a few days, and the leading actor has publicly announced that he will stop acting."

"You suspect I'm the one behind this?" Zhang Chen finally understood, pointed at himself and asked, "Do you think I was the one who asked the lead actor to go on strike?"

Han Sanping didn't say anything, but just looked at the young man in front of him silently.

It was not until this time that he finally reacted.

I heard that during the filming of Zhang Yimou's "All About Gold", Zhang Chen visited the crew.

However, since Zhang Chen made his debut, he has never visited the crews of other directors except for his own crews.

So many people don’t know why Zhang Chen visited the sets of "Curse of the Golden Flower" everywhere.

However, Han Sanping had learned some gossip from various sources.

Zhang Weiping once complained to him that Zhang Yimou wanted to use Chow Yun-fat when deciding on the role.

However, Zhang Yimou believed that Zhang Chen would not allow movies with certain inappropriate Hong Kong stars as protagonists in Morningside Cinemas and rejected the film.

So it is certain that Zhang Chen is extremely disgusted with certain Hong Kong stars appearing as protagonists in mainland movies.

When China Film Group cooperated with Tiancheng Entertainment this time, Han Sanping did not think so much.

After all, as a project initiated by China Film Corporation, which is the official representative of the mainland, Zhang Chen would not go so far as to interfere with the progress of their project.

And at the moment, it seems that Chow Yun-fat himself has not shown any signs that anything is wrong.

It’s just that he didn’t stand up and make a public statement in a previous incident.

In the eyes of some people, as long as you don't openly stand on the opposite side, there is still room for discussion.

What Han Sanping didn't expect was that Zhang Chen actually came to their "Red Cliff" crew.

The key point is that three days ago, Chow Yun-fat suddenly publicly announced that he would stop playing the role of "Zhou Yu".

This caught Han Sanping and producer Zhang Jiazhen off guard.

Han Sanping also suddenly had a new understanding of the 73 harsh demands suddenly put forward by Chow Yun-fat and the outrageous salary request of 4000 million RMB, which was far beyond the market price.

In addition, Chow Yun-fat also requested that he be equipped with a private jet, exclusive RV and other requirements that far exceeded industry standards.

Han Sanping felt that he had found the answer to the unreasonableness of all this after seeing Zhang Chen's sudden visit today.

"Zhang Chen, tell me the truth." After thinking it over again and again, Han Sanping decided to speak openly, "Did you ask Chow Yun-fat to stop acting?"

"Me?" Zhang Chen was confused and pointed at himself to confirm, "Are you asking Chow Yun-fat to stop acting?"

"Yes!" Han Sanping answered confidently, "I really can't think of anyone who could make someone like Chow Yun-fat refuse a big project with an investment of hundreds of millions."

He did not say that it was the producers who fired Chow Yun-fat after he made nearly a hundred unreasonable demands and an outrageous salary of 4000 million.

In his opinion, these outrageous demands were aimed at boycotting the performance.

As for the reason for the strike, it was because Zhang Chen was behind it.

Then Chow Yun-fat made so many outrageous demands, causing the producers to fire him.

Han Sanping felt that his ideas were becoming clearer and clearer.

"Zhang Chen, do you know that this is the largest project of our China Film Group in recent years?" Han Sanping said indignantly, "The total investment of this film is expected to exceed 5000 million US dollars! It may continue to increase depending on the situation!"

He didn't notice the strange expression on Zhang Chen's face, and continued, "If something goes wrong with this movie, I don't know how many years it will take for China Film to make up for it with other projects!"

"If this movie loses money, I don't know how to explain it to the higher-ups!"

"I made this movie with all my heart, and I plan to make it a benchmark for Chinese-language films going overseas!"

"How could you be so inconsiderate of our feelings and directly threaten our leading actor!"

After Han Sanping finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Chen breathlessly.

Although the expression on that face was not too ferocious, the look that asked Zhang Chen to give an explanation still made Zhang Chen speechless.

"Boss Han, I still don't even know what you are talking about." Zhang Chen spread his hands and said innocently, "So far, I only know that Chow Yun-fat has stopped acting. As for the other information, I got it from what you just said."

"Didn't you ask Chow Yun-fat to stop acting?" The suspicion on Han Sanping's face did not disappear.

Zhang Chen stared at Han Sanping's face for a long time.

Seeing that the other person's expression remained the same, I suddenly lost interest in continuing the conversation.

He didn't know why he was too lazy to explain some people's misunderstanding of him.

"I wanted to talk to you about something, but now I feel it's unnecessary." Zhang Chen turned around and waved to Han Sanping and said goodbye. "I hope Mr. Han can shoulder the responsibility of the future of Chinese-language films."

"open"

Han Sanping looked at Zhang Chen who was already walking away, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

He felt something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on what it was.

He always felt that Zhang Chen's words just now had a great impact on him, but he couldn't guess what it was.

"What on earth was it?" Han Sanping tried hard to recall the content of the conversation.

Until he saw Tony Leung Chiu-wai, who had just joined the crew and was greeting the crew members not far away.

"Liang Chaowei Liang Chaowei?!"

Han Sanping's expression suddenly changed.

He suddenly reacted.

Isn’t Tony Leung Chiu-wai one of the latest batch of Hong Kong stars who followed Wong Jing to join Morning Glory Entertainment?
If Zhang Chen really wanted to kill them all, then if they replaced Chow Yun-fat with Tony Leung Chiu-wai, they would definitely be further attacked by Zhang Chen.

If Zhang Chen came here today to ask the crew to replace Liang Chaowei, then Han Sanping's guess was not wrong.

Although Liang Chaowei had hidden far away just now, he didn't believe that Zhang Chen had not seen it, or had not received any news.

Therefore, Zhang Chen definitely did not come here to ask the crew to replace Tony Leung Chiu-wai.

Then Zhang Chen is definitely not the mastermind behind Chow Yun-fat's strike.

In other words, all his guesses just now were wrong!

"Damn it!"

Han Sanping wanted to slap himself.

A person like Zhang Chen came to visit his crew, but he actually drove him away with a series of questions like a machine gun?
You should know that Zhang Chen is now an international celebrity.

Especially in the film and television industry, "La La Land" has won worldwide recognition.

Today's movie box office is making an impact on "Titanic", which has been shelved for ten years.

It has only been a month since the movie was released, and the box office has already exceeded 15 billion US dollars.

If nothing unexpected happens, it is only a matter of time before this movie exceeds $20 billion at the box office.

If Zhang Chen had cooperated with the "Red Cliff" crew to carry out some publicity at this critical juncture, it would definitely have made the film they invested in gain international attention in terms of promotion and marketing.

"Where is Zhang Chen?!"

Han Sanping grabbed a staff member who had just come in from outside and asked.

"Mr. Han?" The staff was frightened by the ferocious expression on Han Sanping's face.

"Let me ask you, where is Zhang Chen?"

"Zhang Chen? I just saw Zhang Chen got in the car and left the crew?"

"Where did he go?" "I don't know."

The staff felt that there was something wrong with Mr. Han in front of them.

Where is Mr. Han, who usually remains calm even when faced with a catastrophe?
Seeing that his leader was lost in thought, in order to avoid being caught as an example, he took advantage of Han Sanping's distraction and sneaked away.

"What on earth are you here for?"

Han Sanping racked his brains but couldn't figure out what Zhang Chen was here for today.

This problem also kept Han Sanping awake at night when he had to deal with the busy work of being a temporary replacement for Tony Leung Chiu-wai due to Chow Yun-fai's strike.

Until the new week arrives.

He saw two news reports.

[A singer named Ma was banned by Morning Light Music and all major music platforms for suspected fraud]

“It is understood that the songs in the album released by the singer this year were not recorded by him, and he is suspected of defrauding consumers.

According to the contract requirements, Morning Light Music has filed a tenfold compensation claim against the singer surnamed Ma.

And guarantee that the platform will severely crack down on such incidents in the future. "

When Han Sanping saw this news, for some reason he breathed a sigh of relief.

But at the same time, it also made him nervous.

Because Zhang Chen is still the same Zhang Chen.

He will definitely use ruthless measures against people he dislikes, especially those in his circle.

This was also the reason why he was so nervous.

Since Zhang Chen has not changed, why didn't he stop the "Red Cliff" crew from using Tony Leung Chiu-wai?
Why did Zhang Chen come to their crew that day?
With doubts, Han Sanping saw the second message.

"What?!" He was jolted up from his seat, and didn't feel any pain even though he hit the corner of the table.

He looked at the news in front of him tremblingly, feeling as if the sky was falling.

[Today, in order to cultivate the ability of international art appreciation at all levels in our country, Chenguang Group donated 100 billion yuan to multiple departments and primary, middle, high and universities in various regions.

Relevant units actively cooperate with major domestic cinema brands such as Dadi Cinema Line, Southern Cinema Line, and Wanda Cinema Line, and will conduct orderly movie viewing in the next month. 】

Han Sanping felt like the sky was falling when he looked at the department that appeared above.

Every department here is at the same level as their superior department.

The nearly ten million people behind this are not the key point, but what they represent.

Plus all the student population across the country.
More than 1.6 million people, to be exact, it should be around million people.

If we include the multiple departments just mentioned, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the scale is close to 2 million!

Such a huge crowd was dragged to watch a movie?!
Seeing that the donor is the Morning Glory Group, it goes without saying that the movie is definitely the recently popular "La La Land".

What is this for?
Public vote-rigging?

The Morning Glory Group has united so many groups representing various parties to go to the movies?
100 million! ?

Is Zhang Chen crazy?
Where does so much money come from?!
In the past, there were donations of hundreds of millions.

At most, it is the Bird's Nest, the main venue of the Olympic Games, which is about to be completed.

But it's only in the billions.

Now this 100 billion!
Where does Zhang Chen get the confidence to donate so much money?
This amount of money alone is more than 99.99% of Chinese companies can ever earn in their entire lifetime.

Zhang Chen donated it so casually?

Is it because of the response to the previous online controversy regarding the nationality of the movie "La La Land"?

Han Sanping didn’t understand, but netizens were actively expressing their opinions on the Internet.

"Has Zhang Chen finally gone mad?"

"You have so much money just to let everyone watch a movie?"

"Wouldn't it be better to donate so much money to areas where people can't afford food? Why do we have to let hundreds of millions of people watch his movies?"

"How much money does Zhang Chen have? He donated 100 billion just like that?!"

"This isn't the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that all departments agreed to this request?"

"How did Zhang Chen convince these people?"

"Are you stupid? Don't you understand? It's 100 billion."

"Then why not just buy the tickets from Tao Piao Piao? There's no need to donate them directly, right?"

"I'm afraid Zhang Chen is afraid that some producers will buy tickets directly from the platform to book out the entire theater in order to boost ticket sales in the future."

“So does this kind of donation to allow these people to go to the movies count as ticket fraud?”

"According to the trend, it was a foregone conclusion that the film would surpass Titanic. Why did Zhang Chen do something so controversial?"

"I don't understand Zhang Chen's train of thought. He spent such a large sum of money but still got nothing in return."

"I don't understand either, but I think there must be a deeper meaning behind Zhang Chen's move."

"Have you forgotten what we argued about online earlier this month?"

"You mean, the issue of film ownership?"

"Yes! Isn't Zhang Chen indirectly telling everyone that this movie is from China?"

"There's no need to use such extreme measures, right? Can't you just post a Weibo post? This statement is too extreme."

"Mortals like us cannot understand Zhang Chen's train of thought."

"Anyway, this 100 billion, when converted into US dollars, is 13 billion US dollars. Does that mean the total box office of La La Land has been locked in at 28 billion US dollars?"

"Wow! No one would have thought that the movie La La Land would reach number one on the box office charts in this way."

“But the gold content is too low.”

"Who says it's not true? There's always a feeling that it's a pity to throw it away because it's tasteless."

"If it can really attract a large number of fans to watch the movie, and everyone is willing to spend real money to make the box office surpass Titanic, then the value will be the highest."

Han Sanping looked at the comments on the Internet and felt a chill in his heart.

Of course, he also agrees with the comments of netizens online.

Although this movie can surpass the No. 1 box office in history, this method is definitely the stupidest.

but!

"Why is there no middle shadow!?"

It was not until this time that Han Sanping knew why Zhang Chen came to him last week.

Looking at the names of those cinema chains, he looked at them ten times but did not see "Star Cinema Chain" or other cinema chains controlled by China Film Group.

so.
"The last time Zhang Chen came, was he here to discuss the issue of 'booking the venue'?"

This time, Han Sanping didn't want to slap himself, but he really slapped himself hard.

"Fuck! How stupid!"

It was too late to regret now, because his phone rang.

Looking at the incoming call notification on the phone, his heart went cold.

"Tong Bureau?"

"Han Sanping! Now! Immediately! Come to my office right now!!!"

(End of this chapter)