Entertainment: I really want to make progress

"Did you accept "Westward Journey 3"?"

Zhou Yutang originally thought that War Wolf playing Tang Monk was outrageous enough, until he received news from Tang Yan.

"How are you, Fairy Zixia?"

Tang Yan was quite happy: "Sister Ji said that this series has a good reputation and I have a lot of room to develop."

"Is the contract signed?"

"Uh-huh."

"Good luck to you then."

Zhou Yutang mourned for her in his heart for a few seconds.

To say that Tang Yan’s team’s vision in selecting scripts is as bad as ever.

First there was "Carat Lovers", and then there was "Westward Journey 3". They were too obsessed with the celebrity status and ignored the quality of the script.

Zhu Yin's Zixia Fairy, just like Wang Zuxian's Xiao Qian, are both classic characters in film history, and they have a filter effect in the hearts of fans.

No matter who plays the role, no matter how good the performance is, it may not be a good one.

However, now that the contract has been signed, Zhou Yutang did not pour cold water on her, but mainly encouraged her.

In addition to Tangtang's Zixia Fairy, Liu Zhenwei also found Han Gen to play Zhizunbao.

In addition, Mr. He’s Erlang Shen, Mok Wenwei’s Bai Jingjing, Snow Mastiff Zhang Chao from the talent show Good Man plays the Bull Demon King, and Wang Yibo, a boy band boy from Huale

He thought this lineup was over, but he didn't expect there would be a surprise.

When I went to Tsing Yi Beauty's house to spend the night, I overheard Zeng Li chatting with her best friend. When she mentioned this, Li's best friend Hu Jing actually played the role of Guanyin.

"They gave too much."

Hu Jing simply admitted that she could not resist the temptation of adding money.

"Sister Jing, your majestic Dato's wife, do you still value this little money?"

Zhou Yutang hugged the beauty in green and teased her, which immediately attracted Hu Jing's dissatisfied attack: "Lizi, Boss Zhou who is in charge of your family bullied me."

"I can't control him."

Zeng Li rolled her eyes at Zhou Yutang with a hint of embarrassment, reached out and patted his arm gently.

Another round of joking.

In order to speculate on the cold rice of "Westward Journey 3", Liu Zhenwei found the endorsement of LeTV Pictures, which is really not short of money.

Boss Jia completed Series B financing of 340 million yuan last year.

This year, we are going all out to promote LeTV Pictures to be independently listed, but another boss wants to suffocate him for his dream.

Boss Jia's brain is really useful. If he can't do high-quality products like Jiangdong Entertainment, then he will find another way to hype blockbuster movies and make sure that the entertainment industry sinks into the market.

After the "Little Times" series, it was followed by "Grand Traces" by Guo Xiaosi.

It doesn't matter if "The Taiping" sinks. There is also a Sino-US co-production of "The Great Wall" to guarantee the bottom line, and the "Westward Journey" series can also be used for emotional marketing.

For example, in "Tomb Robbers", which was just aired not long ago, Li Yifeng and Yang Yang partnered with Tang Yan.

The pilot episode was launched and hit 40 million views within one hour.

In the following 48 hours, there were 143 million views.

This data is a huge hit in the online broadcast.

However, the reputation and popularity of this drama are inversely proportional to each other.

Over 10,000 fans joined forces to give it a score of 2.8 when it first aired, and there was a lot of discussion on the Internet.

"Is this still a tomb robbing note? The cultural relics must be handed over to the state."

"Haha, be sure to hand over the cow head to the cultural relics protection center."

"Let's protect cultural relics together."

This drama is classified as a children's drama/comedy on rating websites, but this does not prevent the drama from becoming extremely popular.

While it's still airing, a second season has already been ordered.

Xu Ming, the boss of LeTV's TV drama department, who just transferred from Jiangdong, is finally proud.

This is the most influential project he has made in LeTV...

In June in Shanghai, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. When you look up, you can see short skirts and hot pants with big white legs.

At this Magic City Film Festival, Cao Baoping has brought two films, "Heart of the Burning Sun" and "The Tuner", Guo Fan has brought "Now You See Me 2", and October Culture has led "The Return of the Great Sage" in advance. Came over.

When Zhou Yutang arrived in Shanghai, Tian Ming came to pick him up. The two started chatting in the car: "Yu Tang, what does the MCN company you mentioned do?"

"Multi Channel Network, multi-channel network company."

“To put it simply, it provides content planning, production, and promotion for self-media content creators.”

Zhou Yutang explained: "Including all-round creative guidance and traffic support, forming a matrix, customized promotion, and realizing subsequent commercialization."

"In the future, we will mainly specialize in short and medium videos and social media platforms, not only domestic platforms such as Weibo and Bilibili, but also YouTube and Instagram, the short video of Douyin and the international version that Byte will soon launch."

Listening to the novel words popping out of Zhou Yutang's mouth, Tian Ming sometimes relaxed his eyebrows, sometimes pondered, and had some understanding.

When Zhou Yutang first mentioned this concept to him, he still didn't understand it.

Now that the company is booming, as long as it maintains its fundamentals, it will be the leader in domestic entertainment, so why bother with other things?

Reminiscent of the fact that Zhou Yutang spent a huge amount of money to buy Liverpool Football Club at a premium some time ago.

Tian Ming came to his senses.

Now it seems that Zhou Yutang wants to use football, the world's largest sport, to promote his international version of the short video platform.

"Yu Tang, are you really so optimistic about this short video platform?" Tian Ming couldn't help but ask.

"The key to the entertainment trend and global cultural export in the next ten years lies here."

Zhou Yutang took a bottle of water from the car refrigerator, leaving Tian Ming room to think.

At this time, Tian Ming was indescribably shocked. He suddenly remembered the old man's reputation for Zhou Yutang in his mind:

The pattern of vision is extraordinary, not something that can be found in a pond!

While he was still complacent about the company's rising market value and the prospect of reaching 100 billion, Zhou Yutang had quietly settled into the global industrial layout.

"Brother Ming, what do you think?" Zhou Yutang drank some water to moisten his throat.

"Awesome."

The simplest language also expressed Tian Ming's true thoughts at this time.

I chatted with Zhou Yutang all the way to the company and listened carefully. The more I listened, the more frightened I became.

Being able to support Mingjie in front of the stage, as a person with three generations of family carrying the ding, there is no doubt about Tian Ming's personal ability.

The concept of mcn is not difficult to understand, including the short video platform, but he is more interested in cultural output.

Money is not the most important thing to Tian Ming. This deployment, which is in line with the grand strategy of improving the country's soft power, can greatly increase his family's weight and voice.

That is what he values ​​more.

Gulinazha has participated in many variety shows owned by Mingjie Company.

I also served as a flying guest for many episodes of Extreme Challenge.

With the support of a few old men from the FHM, the clear, stupid and stupid beauty became popular for a time.

This was not the first time she came to the Mingjie Company headquarters building. She took her assistant to the elevator with ease.

"Wow, Naza is so beautiful."

"Can we take a photo?"

"certainly."

Although she looks cool and cool on the outside, Nazha actually has little resistance to rainbow farts.

I was in a good mood to see Zhou Yutang soon.

The female employees of Mingjie Company smiled brightly after complimenting her a few times, and graciously complied with their request for a group photo.

Facing the astonishing gazes of Mingjie employees all the way, Nazha walked into Zhou Yutang's exclusive office with her head held high and her long legs moving.

"elder brother."

Tian Ming was stunned when he heard the clip sound, which was sweeter than honey from Northern Xinjiang.

Nazha turned her eyes and saw Tian Ming, and quickly suppressed the urge to give Zhou Yutang a hug and kiss him at the same time.

"Mr. Tian?"

Naza shrank her head and smiled coquettishly.

Just when he was just looking at Zhou Yutang, he realized that Tian Ming had answered a phone call by the floor-to-ceiling window.

Tian Ming glanced at Zhou Yutang lightly, knowing something well, and smiled: "Nazha, congratulations to you, you have been nominated for Magnolia."

"Hey, I'm lucky, I didn't bother you guys, right?"

"No, no, I'll have a casual chat with Yu Tang."

When others were present, Nazha sat next to Zhou Yutang obediently, acting like a quiet beauty.

"Not everyone can make it in the entertainment industry. There is no threshold for becoming an Internet celebrity. Even if the entertainment industry is sinking into the market, the rise of live broadcasting is unstoppable. It will take a few years."

Listening to Zhou Yutang's talk, Tian Ming smiled and joked: "If you master all the upstream and downstream channels, you will be the coach of 800,000 Internet celebrities in the future."

"It's more than 800,000. If you're a self-media person in the future, you won't be able to stop it if you add a zero at the end."

Zhou Yutang laughed softly.

Just as we were talking about the recent take-off of the stock market, another call came in. It was Ren Zhonglun from Shanghai Film Group who made an appointment for dinner.

After Tian Ming finished dealing with it, he hung up the phone and said with a smile: "Dr. Ren, this is a drunkard who doesn't care about drinking. He asked me to set up a matchmaking relationship."

Although Mingjie Company is powerful, it mainly focuses on variety shows and music, and has a deep relationship with TV stations.

Film and television companies in Shanghai received news that Zhou Yutang had arrived in Shanghai, and wanted to make an appointment with him through Tian Ming.

"Who else is here?"

"Wu Heru, this old guy just wants to hear you praise him a few more times, otherwise he will feel uncomfortable all over."

"Pfft!"

Naza couldn't help but chuckle and quickly covered her mouth.

"That's too much, Brother Ming."

Zhou Yutang also found it funny.

In the past, in order to open up relationships with theaters, I often dealt with Wu Heru.

This is really a very capable and interesting old man.

Most governors are good at coaxing women, and they also have a special skill in coaxing old men. They coaxed Wu Heru 7 into a happy mood and made him his confidant.

Every time a Kodong movie is released, the Magic City United Cinemas, one of the top three theaters in the country, always has a full schedule.

As a result, many people in the industry are quite critical and secretly slander that Zhou Yutang is Wu Hehu's godson.

Now, the governor's status is different, so this argument is much less common.

Zhou Yutang's Jiangdong Jiahe Cinema Line is also making great efforts. It has taken root in Shenzhen City and is developing steadily, radiating north and south. It is now ranked among the top ten theater chains in China.

"Okay, let's talk about other things. Dong Ren's hotel has been booked."

"Brother, shall I go with you?"

Nazha touched Zhou Yutang's arm and asked in a low voice.

"Come on, let's get to know each other."

"Well, I listen to you." Naza said sweetly.

At today's dinner, in addition to Ren Zhonglun and Wu Heru, Zhou Yutang also met Zhao Fangfang, the boss of Cehua.

This is also a well-known strong woman in Shanghai circles, and her appearance is not comparable to that of Cai Yinong.

Cehua went public four years ago and caused a sensation. The year before last, it acquired Keton Media with a large sum of money, further strengthening its strength.

Cehua has also produced many high-quality dramas in the past two years. If Jiangdong is firmly the leader in the current domestic TV drama market, Cehua is the second best.

Moreover, as far as Zhou Yutang knows, Cehua also invested in a South Korean film and television company this year and is secretly planning overseas markets.

"Mr. Zhou, I'd like to toast you."

At the dinner, a young girl raised her wine glass towards Zhou Yutang and said politely, "I hope I can have the opportunity to learn more from Mr. Zhou in the future."

"I don't dare to study. We can communicate more when we have time."

Zhou Yutang was also very polite. He raised his glass and took a sip.

The dinner was over and everyone was happy. Zhou Yutang and Nazha went to the hotel suite. Nazha, who had been holding back for a long time, asked at this time:

"Brother, who is the woman who toasted you tonight?"

"That's Mr. Zhao's daughter."

If Zhou Yutang didn't say it, Nazha would probably think that this plain-looking woman with a bookish air was a teacher at a university.

In fact, this is the new CEO of Cehua Films, a subsidiary of Cehua Film Group, who is only four years older than Zhou Yutang this year.

"Is it a family marriage?"

Naza nodded suddenly, and suddenly looked at Zhou Yutang, suspiciously: "The way she looks at you is not right."

"Have you watched too many stupid TV dramas?"

Zhou Yutang gently tapped Naza's smooth forehead, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "How is it possible, I just met her for the first time."

"Many people fall in love at first sight. Guo Xiang fell in love with Yang Guo the first time they met."

Naza instantly turned into a drama queen, her shoulders twitched, and her mouth flattened: "Brother doesn't want me anymore, wuwuwu."

It's true, with her good acting skills, no wonder she was nominated for the Magnolia Popularity Award.

Zhou Yutang didn't indulge her, and picked up Naza's light body and pressed her on the sofa.

Pa! Pa! Pa!

After a few hits on her buttocks, Naza immediately became obedient.

There are still two days before the opening ceremony of the Magic City International Film Festival.

Zhou Yutang went to his own film exhibition area to take a look.

The movies "The Tuner", "The Burning Sun", "The Return of the Great Sage", and "Now You See Me 2" are all linked together, and the scene is spectacular.

In addition, Anle's "Monster Hunt", Er Dongsheng's "I'm a No. 1 Passerby", Wu Baige's "The Crossing: The Other Shore", and Hou Xiaoxian's "The Assassin Nie Yinniang".

This year's summer blockbusters are all here!

Just after chatting with Li Xiaoping of Guangguang in the exhibition area of ​​"Gardenia Blossoms", Chen Hong walked over and said with a smile: "Yutang, you came so early."

"I came here for something."

Zhou Yutang raised his eyebrows: "Producer Chen, how is Director Chen's movie going?"

"Brother Kai has been very busy recently."

Chen Hong smiled and said: "Go to the crew when you have time. Brother Kai has always wanted to talk to you."

"If there is a chance, I will."

To be honest, Zhou Yutang is quite interested in how Brother Chen Kai can make "The Great Wall".

Without chatting with Chen Hong for long, he came to take a look. With Li Shuang leading the team, it was foolproof.

Nazha was going to support a brand event today.

Zhou Yutang also had things to do.

After appearing at Mingjie Company, he had to go to Xingchen Games and the headquarters of Bilibili, as well as the MCN company that he was going to deploy next.

On the Xingchen Games side, the revenue of "Qingcheng" launched last year has dropped a lot compared to its peak period, but it is still popular.

The internal test data of Honor of Kings showed that it was not optimistic. The team reported that there were still some problems with the balance of the game.

Zhou Yutang did not expect a big hit after the launch.

Find problems, solve problems, the project positioning has promising prospects, and there is still room for improvement.

On Bilibili, this year there are two web dramas, "Wuxin the Monster Killer" and "Go Princess Go".

The cast of "Wuxin the Monster Killer" is far better than that of "Go Princess Go", so it is naturally the main push of Bilibili, and it is scheduled to start broadcasting at the beginning of next month. Currently, it is already doing multi-channel preheating publicity.

As for "Go Princess Go", it depends on the broadcasting schedule of another Jiangdong drama "Pretty Li Huizhen", which will be postponed to at least October.

In the evening, Zhou Yutang met Tian Zhuangzhuang at the hotel where he stayed.

Teacher Tian co-directed the drama "Yang Guifei" with Shi Qing and Zhang Yimou.

Lao Mouzi has been busy with this matter since "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils", and even put his new project aside.

Teacher Tian's mouth is Li Shaohong's Rong Hongda, sighing for her.

Back then, Rong Hongda was famous for its high-quality self-made dramas, almost comparable to Huayi, and was definitely a well-known film and television company in the circle.

It also has stars such as Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, and Yang Mi, and is strong in manpower and horses. Later, it also accepted Yang Yang, Jiang Mengjie, and other new generation of young actors and actresses, which can be regarded as promising in the future.

It's a pity that with the development of time, it has not been able to keep up with the times, and there are no more outstanding film and television works.

The result of losing the core competitiveness is that the factory belle Chen Kun, Zhou Gongzi, and Da Mimi all ran away one after another.

Last year, even Li Shaohong's confidant Yang Yang also ran away.

He also went to court with Rong Xingda because of the breach of contract for "Grave Robbers' Chronicles".

Now, even Jiang Mengjie, who played Lin Daiyu in the new version of "Dream of Red Mansions", also issued a statement to terminate the contract with Rong Xingda.

"Teacher Tian, ​​how about I think of a way?"

Seeing that Lao Tian was in a bad mood, Zhou Yutang asked with a smile.

It's not an exaggeration.

If he casually gave a few secondary film and television projects to Li Shaohong, Rong Xingda would be able to recover immediately and become a hot film and television company in the circle again.

"Don't worry about it."

Tian Zhuangzhuang frowned and shook his head, saying firmly: "It's their own way of doing things that is wrong. With such a small pattern, it won't be a big deal."

To say that Lao Tian has a sharp eye.

Rong Xing has reached its current situation, which is not unrelated to the way its helmsman does things.

Mr. Zhou's confiscation of the Audi car has become a laughing stock in the circle.

Lin Daiyu, who was just terminated from her contract this year, said she had never seen an employment agreement for performing arts activities. She was often hastily assigned acting jobs by the company when the crew was about to start filming and was unable to familiarize herself with the script.

It may be suspected of being a misfortune, but it is an indisputable fact that there was an incident involving Jiang Mengjie involving the boss Liu, and that Lungda did not have adequate public relations.

In fact, both Tangren and Xingxingda were in similar situations, but Cai Yinong's ability to win over people's hearts was much higher than that of Xingxingda's leader.

The first brother Hu Ge and the first sister Liu Shishi were eaten to death, and the key was to catch the big fish Zhou Yutang.

"Don't talk about this anymore, it's disappointing."

Tian Zhuangxing said nonchalantly: "This year's Magnolia is really outrageous."

Hearing what Lao Tian said, Zhou Yutang frowned.

Several of the company's dramas were shortlisted for Magnolia, but at the time he was on the crew rushing to make progress and didn't pay much attention.

Later, I indulged in the gentleness of my elder sister and younger sister, and was busy adjusting my status and company affairs, so I didn't pay much attention to it.

But unexpectedly, something happened to the magnolia this year.

Teacher Li Xuejian's "Hey, Old Man!" " received three nominations for Best TV Series, Best Director, and Best Actor.

However, what is surprising is that the actor nominated for Best Actor is Huang Sanshi, Li Xuejian's son in the play, rather than the generally recognized Li Xuejian.

This Magnolia male lead award can be awarded multiple times for one drama.

Supporting roles can also be over-reported. This is Magnolia's change this year, and the main and supporting roles are divided into categories.

It's not that Huang Sanshi's acting skills are not good. He is also a teacher at the film school. Even if he has lost his aura due to his intense involvement in variety shows in recent years, Huang Sanshi's acting skills are still good.

But he was in "Hey! The acting skills shown in the TV series "Old Man" are absolutely crushed by Li Xuejian in all aspects.

The industry was in an uproar. Even Mr. Li’s wife didn’t hold back and openly questioned: “How come our old man isn’t even nominated?”

This has also brought the Magic City TV Festival Magnolia Award, known as the professional award in the television field, to the forefront of public opinion.

As a result, the organizing committee just pretended not to see it.

"Magnolia is really messing around."

After understanding the reason, Zhou Yutang took out his mobile phone and prepared to make a call.

Tian Zhuangzhuang saw the clues and held down Zhou Yutang's arm with a serious expression: "Don't be impulsive."

"Teacher Tian, ​​I'm not impulsive."

Zhou Yutang explained calmly: "When I was doing that play, I didn't know about Teacher Li's situation."

Speaking of it, Zhou Yutang felt guilty.

Li Xuejian underwent chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer, which caused some damage to his ears.

At that time, when he joined the filming of "Chi Ling", he couldn't wear a hearing aid, so he just relied on reciting the actor's lines and watching the other actor's mouth movements, so he completed the whole performance.

During the filming, not only Zhou Yutang, but also Li Yao and others had questions about acting skills, and Li Xuejian answered them with absolute meticulousness and attentiveness.

Zhou Yutang's thoughts were all on the movie at the time, and the crew was working extremely intensively.

His physique is amazing and he can withstand it.

Several young and strong behind-the-scenes staff members on the crew couldn't bear it and were sent to the hospital.

But Teacher Li Xuejian gritted his teeth and persisted.

Later, Zhou Yutang learned from other channels that Teacher Li went back to rest for a long time before he recovered.

"Old Li, it's not easy."

Tian Zhuangzhuang also sighed: "What do you want to do?"

"Whether you win the award or not is another matter. Magnolia should give Teacher Li a nomination."

"It doesn't matter whether you win an award or not, what matters is respect."

“The Magic City TV Festival Organizing Committee stated that due to public scrutiny and enthusiastic opinions during the nomination period, the judges of the organizing committee voted for this and restarted the final evaluation process.

The judges, composed of industry authorities, scholars, critics, etc., conducted a re-evaluation based on the quality, artistic value, social influence and other factors of the works. After careful consideration, the organizing committee made changes to the previous selection and changed the " Li Xuejian, starring in "Hey, Old Man", has been nominated for the Best Actor at the 21st Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award! "

The next day, the Magic City TV Festival Organizing Committee issued a nomination change notice overnight, causing a huge stir in the entire industry.

Tian Zhuangzhuang took a long time to recover from the sudden announcement.

Overnight.

Behind this seemingly ordinary announcement, an unknown earthquake occurred in the entire Shanghai circle because of Zhou Yutang!

Now, he understands.

The beloved disciple who still needed to protect himself from the wind and rain.

What terrifying energy he holds in his hands.

"Brother, how are you?"

Nazha held up her skirt and spun gracefully in front of Zhou Yutang.

"This one won't work, it's too revealing."

Watching Nazha put on a champagne-colored halterneck deep V dress, it was extremely bold and extended from the neckline to the waist, showing off her proud career line.

Zhou Yutang sank into the leather sofa. After admiring it, he smiled and shook his head.

A sexy dress like this, with most of the ball exposed, can enhance your fun in private, but it would be inappropriate to wear it to an award ceremony.

With Nazha's current status as a celebrity, she is not one of those female celebrities who rely on their sexuality to achieve their status, so there is no need for this.

The entire styling team gathered around Naza and prepared several other haute couture dresses.

Finally, I ordered a white gauze dress from ES, which exuded a youthful and charming spirit.

Tonight, Nazha won the popularity award through Bei Weiwei, and she was not competing for Magnolia TV Queen. She really shouldn't show off, just show her good looks steadily.

Of course, the champagne-colored halter neck deep V dress has also been purchased.

The Grand Commander likes it very much.

It will be of great use in the future.