How did this star become more popular after his scandal?

Chapter 264 Can Jiang Yu do it?
As Director Hu's voice fell, the spotlight on the stage finally focused on Yang Zihan alone.

Yang Zihan was a little confused by the cheers and applause from the audience, as well as the congratulations from Lin Feifei and others around him.

Yang Zihan finally reacted when he saw Director Hu handing over the championship trophy and the Penguin's unique resource package contract from the staff.

You are the champion?!

"Zi Han, congratulations!"

Lin Feifei, Zhao Ying, and Huang Chen all surrounded Yang Zihan to congratulate him. Although they felt a little disappointed that they didn't win the championship, they were still very happy that Yang Zihan, their good friend, won the championship.

Yang Zihan was a little excited, she could feel her heart beating fast. Looking at teacher Jiang Yu who was looking at her with a smile on his face, Yang Zihan's eyes became moist.

"Thank you!"

She took the trophy and contract and signed them on the spot.

This isn't an agency contract, but rather a special package of benefits prepared by Penguin for the champion. The champion will then receive support from Penguin, such as publicity resources, variety shows, and film and television resources.

This is why everyone wants to win the championship. Besides the high prize money, the resource pack is the biggest temptation and reward. It can even be said that even the prize money is not as good as the penguin resource pack.

With this resource package, as a newcomer, you can avoid many detours in the entertainment industry. Maybe, riding on the popularity of the show and with the support of Penguin's resource package, you can soar to the sky.

Jiang Yu also walked onto the stage slowly. Yang Zihan's beautiful eyes were filled with tears of excitement as she looked at her mentor, her voice trembling slightly.

"Teacher Jiang Yu, I...I won the championship!"

Yang Zihan hadn't expected to win the championship. She thought her good friend Lin Feifei and the other students were also very capable. She had even thought that if she didn't win the championship, but was able to sign with Jiang Yu's company, her future career would still be good.

But in the end, the championship turned out to be his.

Jiang Yu smiled and said, "Very good, the championship is indeed ours."

Wu Tao and Liu Huayu were also standing by. When they heard Jiang Yu's words, they looked at each other helplessly.

Ugh!
There's no way around it. Jiang Yu's group is very strong and popular. The most important thing is that Jiang Yu wrote songs to support them. It's not unfair for them to lose.

The first season of "Star of Tomorrow" ended with a group photo, and Jiang Yu won.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night on the Internet. The hot searches on major social platforms are basically dominated by topics related to "Star of Tomorrow".

On the second day, Jiang Yu Company's Weibo account officially announced the news that Yang Zihan, Lin Feifei, Zhao Ying, and Huang Chen had joined the studio.

Although this news was announced a little late, and many people knew about it before, it still became a hot topic after it was announced.

Within a week of the finals, Jiang Yu used his own resources and connections to get Lin Feifei, Zhao Ying, and Huang Chen on some shows. As for Yang Zihan, he didn't need any help at all. With the resource package from Penguin, he didn't need to worry about anything.

Penguin also knew that Yang Zihan and the others were artists from Jiang Yu's company, so they were very considerate of them. Basically, when Yang Zihan and the others went on shows or participated in interviews, their treatment was better than that of newly debuted artists.

Relying on the residual heat of the show, the popularity accumulated by several people in the show, and the resources on Jiang Yu's side, the popularity of the four people has increased rapidly during this period.

Yang Zihan, in particular, saw her Weibo followers surge to five million within a month thanks to the resource package provided by Penguin. Lin Feifei, Zhao Ying, and Huang Chen all have around three to four million Weibo followers. Their status has also soared from 18th-tier artists to fourth- or fifth-tier celebrities.

Especially in April and April, Jiang Yu directly created individual albums for the four people. Of course, the four people did not release them together directly. In order to maximize the publicity effect and traffic, Jiang Yu said that he would release two albums a month, Yang Zihan and Zhao Ying in March, and Lin Feifei and Huang Chen in April.

As soon as this personal album was released, coupled with the four albums produced by Jiang Yu himself, it was an instant hit. The four of them immediately became the hottest new singers in the circle.

At the end of April, Jiang Yu's drama "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" was completed.

After filming for such a long time, wrapping up before May was still within Jiang Yu's expectations.

Now that filming is complete, all that's left is post-production and then submission for review. If all goes well, it should be online by the end of the year, and at the latest, early next year.

As for Jiang Yu's animation project, it was progressing well. The equipment was top-notch. Furthermore, the people from the big comic studio, along with the staff he had hired, were all very professional, so the project was progressing very quickly.

Judging from the progress, Jiang Yu feels that the first part will be available online in the second half of the year, after the summer vacation.

Each episode of the animation is 20 minutes long, and the equipment, funds, and staff are all complete. Jiang Yu thinks this speed is quite good.

Right now, in just two or three months, twenty episodes have already been produced. Jiang Yu even thinks that it will be online in the second half of the year, during the summer vacation, in July or August.

It has to be said that this type of anime isn't like those big-budget animated films that often take years to produce. Jiang Yu had a very complete script for "Super Beast Armor," with everything in place, and production went smoothly and quickly.

Jiang Yu returned to Zhonghai to rest for a few days, waiting for the May Day holiday.

Because during the May Day holiday, the movie "Detective Chinatown" directed by Chen, in which I starred and even participated in the adaptation of the script, is about to be released.

During this period, the pre-promotion has already begun.

Director Chen is a director who has made great achievements in the past two years. Many fans are still looking forward to his new work. Especially when the official announcement was just made, everyone was shocked after seeing the cast of the new movie.

"Oh my god! Did I see that right? Jiang Yu is actually going to star in Director Chen's new movie, and he's one of the male leads?!"

"It's true! Jiang Yu and Teacher Wang Qiang are both the leading male characters, the dual male protagonists!"

"No way, Jiang Yu is actually starring in a movie. Didn't he guest-star in Yang Xue's drama before? Now he's the leading actor?"

"Um... I saw his acting when he made a cameo appearance before, and it was okay. But this time he's directly playing the leading male role, and it's the leading male role in a big-screen movie. Can Jiang Yu hold up the box office?"

"I'm also worried about whether he can really hold his own. Apart from his cameo appearance as Yang Xue in the drama, his screen time only totaled ten minutes. He's suddenly taking on the leading role on the big screen. I'm really worried that Director Chen's film will suffer huge losses."

"Hehe, Director Chen's movies haven't flopped in the past two years. Besides, Jiang Yu is just one of the leading male characters. Teacher Wang Qiang is also the leading male character. If he can't do well, there's still Teacher Wang Qiang."

……

When many people first saw that Jiang Yu was one of the leads in Director Chen's new film, they were a little surprised and even doubted whether Jiang Yu could really carry the box office. After all, Jiang Yu had never played the leading male role in a TV series before. The only time people had seen Jiang Yu in a TV series was when he made a cameo appearance as the Master in Yang Xue's previous new drama.

But that was just a cameo, and even all the shots added up to only about ten minutes.

But even so, no one is optimistic about Jiang Yu, an artist who has never played the leading role and switched from being a singer to becoming an actor.

The most important thing is that Director Chen’s movie is not a TV series, but will be shown on the big screen and in theaters, and will make money at the box office.

There have been many examples of singers and artists, even popular stars, who switched careers to become actors and starred in movies, but the box office was a failure. And there are still many of them. After seeing that Jiang Yu is the male lead in Director Chen's new movie, everyone also had such concerns in their hearts.

Can Jiang Yu really carry the box office?
Although Director Chen's films in the past two years have not failed at the box office and have received good reviews, if this new film did not include Jiang Yu, people would definitely not have such doubts. However, when they saw that Jiang Yu was one of the male leads, everyone's hearts were a little shaken.

and……

Everyone later noticed that according to the information published online, one of the screenwriters of this movie was actually Jiang Yu.

This made everyone's heart tremble again.

"Hiss! Am I seeing things? One of the screenwriters for Director Chen's new movie is actually Jiang Yu?!"

"You're right, this is Jiang Yu, one of the screenwriters of this Chinatown Detective!"

"No, what on earth is Jiang Yu doing? He's switching careers to become an actor, and before that he wanted to do animation, and now he's even a movie screenwriter?"

"Um... to be honest, if Jiang Yu wasn't the screenwriter, I think Director Chen's movie would still be worth watching. Even if Jiang Yu was one of the male leads, I think it would still be good. The plot would definitely be exciting, and there would be powerful actors like Wang Qiang to support it. But when I saw that Jiang Yu was one of the screenwriters, I felt that Director Chen's movie might not be very good."

"Indeed, Jiang Yu being a screenwriter is no joke. You say he's a good songwriter, fine, and I admit he's a good actor, but I'm not very optimistic about him being a screenwriter."

"Really? Director Chen, is he deluded? Jiang Yu is popular and has traffic, so he's just letting him do what he wants. Or is he being manipulated by the capital?"

……

Many people originally thought that Jiang Yu's role as the leading man in a big-screen movie was not enough to support the box office. Now that they saw that Jiang Yu was one of the screenwriters of this movie, they suddenly felt that Director Chen's movie was not going to be good.

Jiang Yu is the screenwriter?

Haha, this is just a joke. A newcomer who has never had any screenwriting experience or works, and who switched from being a singer, is directly serving as the screenwriter and leading actor of a big-screen movie. This sounds like a joke.

If you, Jiang Yu, had experience as a screenwriter, or had any works online before, no one would probably think so.

But Jiang Yu is a newcomer.

All of a sudden, everyone is not very optimistic about Director Chen’s new movie.

Some even think that Director Chen was being coerced by capital this time. Seeing that Jiang Yu has a large traffic and high popularity, he was coerced?
Even many people in the industry laughed when they saw the news.

Jiang Yu as a screenwriter?
Haha, this is just a joke.

Jiang Yu's songwriting and acting skills are generally well-received. Whether he can carry the box office as the leading male role is another matter, but the screenwriter's role is crucial. It can even be said that a good film, with a good screenwriter and a good script, is essentially halfway to success.

But Jiang Yu is the screenwriter, although he is only one of them, but who knows how deeply Jiang Yu is involved in the script?

It is definitely difficult for a newcomer with no experience and no works to write a good script.

"Director Chen's movie, I'm afraid Jiang Yu has ruined it."

Many people in the industry have this idea in their minds: if Jiang Yu is the screenwriter, then the plot of this movie must be not very good. It can even be said that this movie has probably been ruined by the hands of the screenwriter Jiang Yu.

Everyone understands that Jiang Yu wants to switch careers and become an actor. It's also fine for you to make anime and write your own original anime scripts, since you're the one funding it yourself. But this movie is different; it involves many people and investors.

If it fails, it will be the end of it.

At this moment at Warner, Chu Shaoyang also saw this news.

I was stunned for a moment.

Jiang Yu is not only the leading actor, but also the screenwriter?
All of a sudden, Chu Shaoyang laughed.

"What were you thinking, letting this guy be the screenwriter?"

Chu Shaoyang also shook his head. He really didn’t know what Director Chen was thinking about Jiang Yu being the screenwriter.

He could understand Jiang Yu being the male lead, after all, he had previously guest-starred in Yang Xue's new drama and his acting was indeed decent. He was also very popular and had a lot of traffic, so many investors liked him.

But as a screenwriter, he really thinks Jiang Yu is not good enough.

"It seems that the May Day movie season will have one less competitor."

With the May Day holiday approaching, many movies will be released during this period. Twelve films have already been scheduled. Among them is a crime drama invested by Warner Bros., a collaboration with a Hong Kong film company. While crime dramas have declined in popularity with Hong Kong cinema over the past two years, they're still a bit better than they were at their peak.

This is also why Chu Shaoyang did not choose to release this movie during the summer. The competition during the summer is more intense, while the May Day period is not as fierce, and police and gangster films can make the most money at the box office.

When he saw that Director Chen's new film was also scheduled for the May Day holiday, he was a little worried that it would be overshadowed by Director Chen. After all, Director Chen's films in the past two years have been very popular and well-received.

But now, Chu Shaoyang has no such worries at all.

"Haha, Jiang Yu, ah Jiang Yu, why don't you just switch to acting? Why do you have to be a screenwriter? Tsk tsk..."

By then, Director Chen’s movie will probably be a failure.

(End of this chapter)