Chinese entertainment industry in disarray? Hollywood goddess welcomes strict father!

"Brother Lin, are you serious?"

Li Dabai stared wide-eyed, her charming face filled with disbelief, and said, "Are you kidding us again?"

She has a very straightforward personality; she'll ask whatever's on her mind.

It's just that Lu Lin is usually too unserious. When filming, he often jokes around with the older woman who plays his mother.

This inevitably leads to a "boy who cried wolf" effect, making people hesitant to believe the truth!

"You can ask Scarlett Johansson and Elizabeth Olsen, it's true. I personally auditioned for both of them in Marvel movies..."

Lu Lin was both amused and exasperated. He pointed to Scarlett Johansson and Elizabeth Olsen beside him, then to Kevin Feige, who was also there that night, and said, "And Feige, why do you think this dignified head of Marvel would join my Qianqian Films?"

"Because I discovered him myself, and he's been working for me for over ten years!"

When questioned by the crowd, both Scarlett Johansson and Elizabeth Olsen shrugged in tacit agreement.

Even Kevin Feige, who was not far away, smiled and shrugged in agreement upon hearing this.

Now, no one could help but believe it. The way people looked at Lu Lin was beyond astonishment; it was pure astonishment!

They had originally planned to follow Lu Lin and break into Hollywood.

Now, however, he suddenly realizes that Lu Lin holds the key to Hollywood. What's the point of rushing in now?

As long as you cling to the powerful figures, you can stroll in with ease!

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Meanwhile, the live stream, which had already reached eight million viewers, was flooded with comments.

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[Generous! Gift! Crab! Special!!!!]

No wonder Marvel and DC goddesses were all sitting next to this China guy at the Oscars...

My God, the total box office revenue for the Marvel and DC series must be over a hundred billion dollars, right?

[Fuck, hundreds of billions of dollars is just from box office revenue; there's even more lucrative merchandise and the revenue from selling bundled packages!]

Aren't Chinese people supposed to be great at math? Tell me, how much money have Marvel and DC made for them?

So, Lu Da, that freak, made over 200 billion US dollars from creating Marvel and DC?!

[It shouldn't be that much, after all, theaters take more than half of the box office revenue!]

[However, rumors are circulating in China that Wanda Group is among the companies he controls, which has acquired and integrated physical cinema chains in major global markets...]

Wanda's global cinema chain is an old business; it was gradually spun off and sold off two years ago. It's said to have appreciated significantly, netting tens of billions of US dollars – a rare profitable business in recent years!

[Holy crap! That makes even more sense! Didn't Lu Da the freak just say it was Marvel/DC that was sold the year before last?!]

Are you Chinese people really socialist? You're even more capitalist than American capitalists, controlling everything from upstream to downstream and then selling the scraps to others...

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There is no shortage of talented people among the fans. They actually managed to connect Lu Lin's sale of Marvel and DC to his global dominance in physical cinemas.

However, it doesn't matter if it's related to anything, it's all sold out!

He no longer owns any cinemas, including physical cinema chains in China. The funds he has recovered and the huge profits he has made will be used on streaming platforms.

This is also one of the reasons why he always said that if "Shanghai Bund" does not do well at the box office, it should be released on streaming platforms as soon as possible. Even if "Shanghai Bund" becomes an epic box office bomb and can rake in box office revenue in the global theatrical market, the theaters will still take more than half of the revenue.

This is just awful!

No matter how high the box office of "Shanghai Bund" was, it was just a drop in the ocean for him, not as much as the money he made in global stock and futures trading five days a week.

But how can someone else take half of what should be your money?

Even if you have money, you shouldn't waste it like this!

Wouldn't it be better to use this money for charity and saving lives in China, and to recruit more disciples who have sworn to die for their cause?

Lu Lin now has over 170,000 sworn disciples. Once he breaks through the 200,000 threshold, he can gain Holy Value and skills again!

Ring ring—

Ring ring—

Ring ring—

As Lu Lin watched the live stream comments, his thoughts wandering and he felt bad about the money, a series of phone calls suddenly rang out in the small square.

Lu Lin looked away from his phone and towards the several places where the ringtones were coming from.

They are the heads of those suckers, Disney and Warner!

Several people simultaneously pulled out their constantly ringing cell phones to answer calls!

Lu Lin raised an eyebrow, then looked down at the comments in the live stream, feeling that his "delaying tactics" were probably going to fail.

He sold Marvel, DC, and several other IPs to a few suckers who took them over. Although these companies were ripped off afterward, they were not entirely hopeless.

Because several companies have always believed that as long as they get him, the Midas touch, to develop new films, even if the box office isn't as booming as before, there's still a good chance they can continue to make a profit!

However, some insightful viewers in the live stream have seen through his previous scheme to dominate the market, pointing out that he not only sold the cash-generating IP that could rake in box office revenue, but also his physical cinema assets worldwide.

That's terrible!

The few unsuspecting victims who were left holding the bag might not have known about this, but once they did, and considering his recent relentless promotion of the international version of Qianqian Films, they would naturally understand his intentions.

He has absolutely no desire to produce theatrical films anymore!

He has completely given up hope for the future of those IP series, or even for the future of theatrical films; otherwise, he wouldn't have sold off all his upstream and downstream businesses.

In other words, the suckers who took over the losses have realized that hoping to turn things around with Lu Lin's help is wishful thinking!

"Honey……"

As Lu Lin had predicted, the person in charge of co-producing "Shanghai Bund" for Disney came to find him after answering the phone, handing him the phone and saying, "Iger wants to say a few words to you!"

The so-called Iger is the president of the Disney Group, a true power tycoon in Hollywood, and also a powerful figure in the entire American business world.

When Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, Huang Xiaoming, and others heard that it was this Disney mogul who wanted to call Lu Lin, they all moved away from Lu Lin to make room for him to take the call.

A moment later, Lu Lin was left with only his three secretaries, led by the eldest princess, and Fan Dabing standing outside the live broadcast camera.

"Call me 'darling'?"

Lu Lin didn't rush to answer the phone. Instead, he looked at the Disney representative in front of him and asked curiously, "You don't seem to be Zoro, do you?"

The "Zorro" he was referring to was naturally the current head of Marvel at Disney, the old white woman who mistakenly drank his imported wine at the Oscars dinner, became his soulmate, and was even called a white sow by Fan Dabing.

The Disney executive in front of me is a still-attractive blonde mature woman, clearly not the same person!