Huayu has been doing one good deed a day since 2001

Chapter 76 The First Mainland Director

At 7:23 in the morning on July , when Li Wenyu left a residential complex, it was already daybreak. The property security of this community was pretty good.

This is the house that Li Jiaxin asked her agent to arrange for several months before she decided to buy it and register it under the name of Ah Xin's mother.

It’s a first-hand house with fine decoration.

The price is not expensive. It was only 2002. Even if the property security was okay, Li Wenyu's fitness level of 200 points was like climbing over a wall and breaking into a house as easy as walking on flat ground.

More than 80 anti-tracking and anti-reconnaissance techniques...

He even complained a little while running in the morning. Ah Xin bought a big house, but it was not as convenient as living in a hotel before.

He is a good student who is eager to help others. It is too wasteful for him to show off all kinds of chivalrous skills just to help others warm their houses on a voluntary basis.

It was only after this summer that he became a senior in the screenwriting major at the Department of Literature at Beijing Film Academy.

While running, Li Wenyu's cell phone kept ringing with text message notifications one after another, like background music. This has been his normal behavior recently.

If it weren't for the basic etiquette of not disturbing others' rest, it would be difficult for him to have some peace and quiet on his phone in the middle of the night.

After running five kilometers in one breath and drinking a bottle of water from a roadside convenience store, Li Wenyu took out his cell phone and checked the text messages. It was a message celebrating that The Piano Tuner had broken the 2 million box office in China.

Then there are Gong Li, Chen Hong, Manyu, Liu Jialing, Zhou Huimin, etc. Congratulations, I want to see the script of Marriage Story.

Or have a meal or something.

In addition to these, there are invitations to the celebration party for the box office exceeding 2 million yuan sent by the Xiang family, the big and small Wangs of Huayi, including Li Bingbing, which will be held tonight.

During the Shark Tank period, the global trend was very strong, with hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

But this time, the tuner did not keep up with the other places except South Korea and Thailand to hold another event.

Overseas, South Korea has accumulated HK$8200 million in more than three weeks, and Thailand has accumulated HK$3300 million.

The island country has gradually accumulated to 3100 million Hong Kong dollars.

HK$1200 million in Malaysia and more than HK$900 million in Singapore.

This is equivalent to 1.67 million in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea.

This movie sold 4000 million in East Asia and Southeast Asia, so the studio still made a profit, but it wasn't as profitable as The Shallows.

The accumulated amount in the United States is now 1600 million US dollars, and in Europe it is 800 million US dollars. It is not a loss, but it is % to % less than the same period of Shark's Shock Wave.

China's total box office has exceeded 2 million, which means it has exceeded 4 million worldwide.

After Li Wenyu selectively replied to some of the messages, he was about to return to the hotel when his cell phone rang. It was Xiao Ma Ge.

He answered the call calmly, and from the other end came Xiao Ma Ge's professional laughter. "Director Li, congratulations! Congratulations to Director Li! This is a bolt from the blue."

"Last year, I saw you still planning a beauty pageant. Now, Director Li is a successful entrepreneur. Your Weibo account has 5500 million registered users, with nearly 200 million active users."

"Someone asked me to consult you. Do you want to raise funds? They want to invest in my Penguin South African newspaper business."

"If Director Li wants it, they can offer $1500 million for 30% of your Weibo account."

Li Wenyu laughed. "Is this valuing my Weibo account at 5000 million US dollars? That's too low. I'm too lazy to bargain. Just refuse it for me, Mr. Ma."

He is just waiting for financing.

In the early 00s, although platforms like Weibo had great voice and media attributes, their overall development prospects were only tens or hundreds of billions if they did not exert various intercepting forces.

This is not as valuable as the 04% stake I acquired from Penguin in 3.

There are many investors with a quick sense of smell.

More than a month after Weibo's public beta test, NetEase, Sohu, Penguin, etc. also launched similar new platforms, including the China Blog Network, which was also born ahead of schedule.

But due to the huge appeal of the celebrities, none of those made any waves.

At most, they wanted to do something shady and hack into the Weibo platform, but the team in the Time Weibo Security Department was given a lot of chicken blood by the option pool.

Which one is not playing with his life?

The Ministry of Security has also undergone a major expansion. If they hold on to these, unless Brother Xiao Ma and Brother Yang Zhu come to Beijing to pull out the network cables and grab the official seals, they will not be able to compete.

Really unplug the network cable? Do you think the Beijing officials are blind?
At this stage, Internet companies are still high-tech companies. After Shiguang Weibo grew bigger, Li Wenyu met with leaders who came to visit and inspect the Weibo building.

There are also some in the department.

This is truly a new platform for mainland innovation to lead the global network!
After a few simple jokes, he hung up the phone. …………

Time flies, and it is seven o'clock in the evening on the 23rd.

Outside the awning of a booked hotel building in Beijing.

Surrounded by various reporters and media, big stars and behind-the-scenes directors arrived one by one, got off the car and entered the hotel here, just like walking on the red carpet...

This caused a lot of crazy photo taking, and there was no shortage of people who wanted to show off more, and they really treated this section of the road as a red carpet.

This is the celebration party for "The Piano Tuner" which broke 2 million RMB in China box office.

When Li Wenyu and Pang Bing got out of the car and walked towards the awning of the building, they were photographed by the group of media reporters who were blocking the road on both sides.

I was also drowned out by all kinds of excited questions.

"Director Li, what do you think of being hailed as the number one director in mainland China?"

"Director Li, two of your films have grossed over 100 million yuan in mainland China, rivaling Hollywood blockbusters. You're hailed as the guardian of the Chinese film industry. What do you want to say most right now?"

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"Director Li, Director Chen Kaige said that when there are no tigers in the mountains, the monkeys will be king. What do you think?"

"Director Li, Director Chen said you only know some despicable tricks to deceive the audience and the box office. Your actual skills are not even as good as Lu Chuan. What do you think?"

"Director Li, Director Lu Chuan said thank you for Director Chen's compliments and that he will definitely prove himself as soon as possible. Does that sound like he's really better than you?"

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Li Wenyu, who was walking with Pang Bing with a smile on his face, was almost stunned.

He kept his expression unchanged and looked at Pang Bing. Pang Bing blinked helplessly. First came Shark Beach and then came the tuner.

No matter how low-key Lao Li is in his daily life, he is now almost a legend in various traditional media and on the Internet.

All kinds of praise and compliments, and honors were bestowed upon people in piles.

In 1998, the total box office in mainland China was 14 billion RMB, with Titanic making 3.6 million, Saving Private Ryan 8200 million, Strike Back 5100 million, and Home Alone 3 million.

Hollywood blockbusters easily took away more than 500 million.

Jackie Chan's Who Am I also earned 8000 million, a pure Hong Kong film.

So, the young director made a movie with a box office of 30 million, and he never won any awards, but he still quickly became one of the biggest directors in the mainland. This represents the confidence of the mainland film and television practitioners.

Li Wenyu is now in the process of becoming a deity in the mainland.

He is receiving endless honors among audiences, movie fans and ordinary practitioners.

This kind of deification will definitely easily attract the attention of the old predecessors...

Lao Chen fired at the media. Many people around Li Wenyu knew about it, but they didn't know how to tell him.

Li Wenyu's expression remained unchanged and his walking posture was not affected at all. This was not just because his acting skills were as high as 91.

As he walked forward, he smiled and nodded at the numerous media cameras. "Director Chen compared me to Lu Chuan. He thinks very highly of me."

"I don't deserve it. Senior Brother Lu's talent is unique. He and Director Chen's talent are on par with each other."

"I hope they will appreciate and appreciate each other, and that Senior Brother Lu will be the new Director Chen after the millennium."

Many journalists and media professionals were even more excited.

Zhang Guirong and Lao Wang, who had just received the news and hurried out to pick someone up, were a little dumbfounded.

Li Wenyu didn't give much reaction to the others. He took Pang Bing to the awning, greeted Brother Rong and went in.

Fat Bing suppressed a laugh and whispered as he entered, "Do you wish them a happy marriage?"

Li Wenyu shook his head, "I hope so."

Lu Chuan's film "Looking for the Gun" was finally released.

The box office was less than 3 RMB and it was widely criticized. Can this be used by Lao Chen as a benchmark to compete with Lao Li?
Then throw out the concept that Lu Chuan = Director Chen and tie them together, and everyone who watches Looking for the Gun will feel psychologically uncomfortable.

Jiang Wen's version of "Searching for the Gun" gets eight points, while Lu Chuan's version gets three points at most.

There are so many pirated resources on the Internet!
(End of this chapter)