China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 442 The rising Jay Chou and the awkward "Seven Swords"

After taking over Wang Jinhua, Cao Xuan didn't openly confront Cheng Tian again, after all, he was already disabled, and if he insisted on forcing him to a corner, it would appear that Boss Cao was too cruel.

Although Boss Cao has always been so cruel, the key point is that Cheng Tian has already laid down.

Boss Wu cut off several projects, holding the funds in his hands, and obviously avoiding the limelight and not being tough with Fanxing. If Cao Xuan wanted to inflict serious damage, he would have to poach Chen Hao.

While heartthrobs are delicious, this thing is so immoral.

Young and Dangerous also pays attention to the fact that a misfortune is not as good as his wife and children. Before Chen Hao, it was Fan Xing who suppressed the entire Orange Sky. As the "first sister of Orange Sky", Chen Hao was naturally unable to escape the blow, which is reasonable.

But if Cao Xuan attacked Chen Hao in private, playing the trick of a high-ranking official, his reputation would be really bad.

Suppress other people's companies, poach other people's generals, and sleep with other people's women...

Although Cao Xuan's surname is Cao, he still rarely learns this kind of "heroic method" of his ancestors. After all, the bodyguard next to Cao Xuan is Zhu Jiang instead of Dian Wei.

Of course, just because it’s okay now doesn’t mean it’s over. Boss Cao still holds a grudge. Unless Boss Wu quits the domestic film and television industry, everyone will have the opportunity to continue playing in the future.

Boss Cao put it down "magnanimously", Huayi's Wang brothers were indeed dating Cheng Tian.

No way, after this incident, regardless of whether they agree with Cao Xuan's actions, at least there is a consensus that Fan Xing is not easy to mess with, and there is also a consensus that Huayi is unlucky.

If the Wang family brothers don't want to add another title of "Worthless", they have to make a gesture like Fanxing.

Therefore, the Wang brothers not only publicly bombarded Cheng Tian and other core executives and artists, but also contacted many tabloids to discredit Boss Wu and others, and collected some relevant evidence to sue Cheng Tian in court. Orange days are better.

Of course, Boss Wu is not easy to mess with.

He was hammered by Cao Xuan because his assets, connections, energy, and status were all completely suppressed by Cao Xuan.

But against Huayi, Boss Wu is still very calm. If he doesn't have enough capital, he doesn't dare to hollow out Huayi in one go. Although he has been severely injured by Cao Xuan now, he still has no power to fight back.

As a result, the two families fought openly and secretly, but Cao Xuan and Fanxing couldn't control them.

In addition to paying attention occasionally and giving Huayi an assist, more attention has been shifted to the upcoming summer vacation.

On June 6, Jay Chou's debut film "Initial D" was released 19 days ahead of the summer schedule.

This movie, adapted from a well-known Japanese manga, gathers actors such as Jay Chou, Teacher Chen, Jordan Chan, Shawn Yue and others.

Although many people are very popular among young audiences, the lineup is really not outstanding in the film industry. The main promotional point is mainly Xiao Zhou. Who makes him the second most popular king?

The outside world also pays a lot of attention to this movie, except for the popularity of Xiao Zhou and others.

More importantly, Cao Xuan switched from singing to film and television, and is now one of the hottest film actors.

And Xiao Zhou's current model is very similar to Cao Xuan's back then. He was born from grass roots, became famous at a young age, and has amazing creative talents.

This is actually an error in the media. Cao Xuan's first movie was the "Matrix" series, not "When Men Are in Love".

And Xiao Zhou also guest-starred in several movies in Hong Kong and Taiwan before, but "Initial D" is his first movie released nationwide as the leading actor, so the so-called "first work" in marketing is actually understandable.

When Cao Xuan's "When a Man is in Love" was released, it was also the first starring debut film. Although the word "starring" was added, it was actually a gimmick of "first work".

Regardless of whether it is praise or deprecation, the outside media always like to compare him with Cao Xuan, the reason is very simple, the sales volume is high.

The quality of "Initial D" is not bad, and it can even be said to be one of the few excellent racing film and television works in China.

Before the debut of Han Han, a car racing theme, many people mentioned racing movies, and the first thing that came to mind was this "Initial D". The stalk of Qiu Mingshan car god/old driver in it is still enduring after more than ten years .

This movie is also one of Xiao Zhou's best film and television works, and even many people think it is the best.

Objectively speaking, Jay Chou's acting skills are not outstanding, and it is a bit reluctant to use a standard evaluation. His talent in acting is not even as good as basketball.
But the reason why "Initial D" received a lot of praise is because the setting of Fujiwara Takumi in it is very consistent with him. He is slightly young in a restrained and dull way, but also has a bit of unyielding passion and secondary school.

In other words, Jay Chou's well-rated characters are basically inseparable from this range.

To put it even harder, Xiao Zhou plays the same role in every role, if it fits the character setting of the plot, it will be brilliant, if it doesn't, then it will be better.

This is not to black him, for example, the second prince in "The Golden Armor in the City", in terms of roles and settings, it is easy to perform well, but the third prince who was beaten to death by the old emperor with a belt is not there yet deep impression,

That is, Lao Mouzi, who is good at training amateur actors, reluctantly let Xiao Zhou complete his task. If he changed to a less capable director, the movie might crash.

Actor popularity + movie quality + comic IP, although the impact of the latter is a little smaller, the box office of "Initial D" is still booming.

It took more than 2000 million at the box office in the first week, and the trend has risen steadily since then. By the beginning of June, it had won nearly 6 million at the box office.

The box office of the movie released in 2005 is second only to "Star Wars Episode 7554: Revenge of the Sith" with 3 million.

At present, the box office of "Initial D" has seen a decline, and the chance of surpassing the opponent is slightly small, but it is not hopeless.

The final box office guess given by many theaters is between 6500 million and 7000 million. If it lasts long enough, there is a certain chance of breaking through 7000 million.

And this box office data is different from the 6300 million of "Initial D" in the original time and space.

But it’s normal, now that there is one of the top three movie theaters in the industry, and it has continuously integrated a lot of theater resources. The mainland film market is much bigger than the original time and space, and many of the original time and space’s box office data are likely to fluctuate. .

"Initial D" is the main movie in June this year, and it is also the debut of Xiao Zhou, Cao Xuan's younger brother.

If it weren't for Xiao Zhou's current popularity status being inferior to Cao Xuan's, and Yuan Shikong's performance in the music scene is not as strong, the box office is very likely to exceed 7000 million.

Of course, Cao Xuan's jewels in the film field are ahead of him, perfectly presenting the gorgeous transformation from the Chinese music scene to the golden rooster and hundred flowers actor.

It also made many people pay attention to "Initial D" and look forward to Jay Chou's development. The media's exposure to the film is definitely much more than that of the original time and space.

In general, Cao Xuan's butterfly effect has played a significant role, both positive and negative.

Fortunately, the schedule of "Initial D" was selected wisely, and it was not involved in the summer schedule, and it was not affected too much, but it was even a little bit brighter.

On July 7, Mr. Xu's martial arts masterpiece "Seven Swords" was released, and immediately received a large number of films.

"Initial D", which has a box office of 6500 million, is also coming to an end, and it is estimated that it can get about 7000 million when it is released.

For a low-cost racing movie, this box office is quite successful.

Not to mention that Xiangjiang also won a box office of 3800 million Hong Kong dollars. Coupled with other copyright operations, this film can almost be said to be Media Asia's most profitable work since the "Infernal Affairs" series.

According to common sense, it is time to launch a sequel while the iron is hot. After all, a large number of plots of the original manga of "Initial D" can be directly developed.

But for some reason, Media Asia has never made any relevant actions. I don’t know if it’s because of the copyright, or because the actors didn’t get it right, and this good IP was wasted.

To be honest, Cao Xuan would have wanted to take over and develop it if Media Asia didn't give it to him.

The box office of this film has accumulated nearly [-] million yuan at the beginning. If the follow-up filming is good, each film has the potential to be close to [-] million yuan, or even exceed [-] million yuan.

After Cao Xuan thought about it, he could only understand that Boss Lin had just inherited most of his father's inheritance in February this year, so he didn't care for such a small amount of money.

The success of "Initial D" also proves that Jay Chou's commercial value is very high.

You must know that Cao Xuan's "When Men Are in Love" was more than 5000 million, and Jay Chou was 2000 million taller than Cao Xuan.

Of course, that’s not how the box office is calculated. The overseas box office of "When a Man is in Love" was not low that year, with a cumulative total box office of 1.3 million. It was the annual champion of the global box office of Chinese films in 2003.

But no matter what, Xiao Zhou is indeed a favorite now.

Cao Xuan is on fire, but basically he only acts in starry movies, and outsiders rarely get the credit, so the market urgently needs an actor who can replace him. At present, Xiao Zhou is the best candidate.

Boss Zhang in the new screen wanted to get in touch with Jay Chou before, but Lao Mouzi insisted on making a literary film, which interrupted Boss Zhang's plan for a commercial blockbuster.

Now, Xiao Zhou has proved his charisma through "Initial D", Boss Zhang is getting more and more motivated, and he wants to pull Xiao Zhou into the next Lao Mouzi movie.

The relevant film and television capital of Taiwan Province also began to notice Xiao Zhou.

Compared with the mainland and Xiangjiang, they don't have many movie cards to play. Now that there is an extra week, it's a pity for the talents who didn't make a fuss.

Of course, apart from them, Cao Xuan also has his eyes on Xiao Zhou, but he knows that Jay Chou's film and television talent is not particularly willing, he can get it if he can, but he will not deliberately force it.

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July 7, Star City
After participating in the crew of "New World" in "Happy Camp", at the kind invitation of Mr. He, they went to a local Hunan restaurant for dinner.

After taking a photo with the boss and his wife, Cao Xuan tasted authentic Hunan dishes such as Fish Head with Chopped Peppers, Pepper Stir-Fried Pork, Mao’s Braised Pork, Zu’an series and other dishes.

Many people have the impression that Hunan cuisine is spicy. This is not wrong, but it is a bit biased. In fact, there are many authentic Hunan dishes that are not spicy.

For example, although Sichuan cuisine is famous for its spicy taste, there are still many famous dishes with other flavors, known as a hundred dishes and a hundred flavors.

But there is one thing to say, as a foreigner, and a native of Zaoshi with a salty and spicy taste, Cao Xuan personally prefers the most well-known spicy Hunan dishes.

Fresh, refreshing, fragrant and spicy!

His throat warmed up, and his forehead was sweaty, but there was a sense of comfort from the inside out, which made people's skin stretch out.

Hey, can this be said?

Cao Xuan loves to eat, but he doesn’t eat too much. His follow-up movie is going to be an action movie, so he has to maintain his body shape, and even his muscles need to be more refined and stylish. Gym extra training.

Everyone ate and chatted, Cao Xuan was still in a good mood, this time he came to "Happy Camp", only Mr. He hosted it, his ears were quiet, and the cooperation was very comfortable.

Xie Na and Li Weijia officially left "Happy Camp" in early July and chose to fly solo.

Speaking of it, "Happy Camp" has been full of turmoil in the past year. In the past two years, with the rise of a series of variety shows by Fanxing, Guangguang and other TV stations, it has had a strong impact on "Happy Camp".

In order to break out of the tight encirclement, "Happy Camp" began to be revised last year to de-star. Although there are still celebrity albums, more attempts are made to use ordinary amateurs as the protagonists.

Judging from the effect, this is undoubtedly a wave of bad chess.

The ratings of "Happy Camp" continued to decline. At the end of last year, the head sister Li Xiang even quit directly. The host team of He, Li and Xie also continued to criticize.

In the middle of this year, the program group of "Happy Camp" launched a show operation again, and made a host elimination system, and the three hosts and the audience voted to decide whether to stay or not.

An entertainment program pretends to be a reality show of the nature of a talent show. It can be seen that the program group has stopped being a human being for the ratings.

In the end, there were several episodes of water, and the three hosts contributed the pinnacle acting skills of their careers, crying bitterly, and finally Xie and Li left.

Although the official explanation of the program group is that the follow-up host's performance was not satisfactory, so the two were brought back.

But he left in July and returned in October. After several months of tossing, he still hosted the trio as usual, and the ratings of the program group skyrocketed.

The key point is that this matter is not very authentic. Cao Xuan remembers that the three people voted more than 100 million in total.

In the end, after the winner was decided, when everyone calmed down, the three of them got together again. Isn't this just playing tricks on the audience?

That is to say, Fanxing and Hunan TV have been in the honeymoon period for the past two years. In addition, he has a good personal relationship with Mr. He, and he has invited him many times. It is not good for Cao Xuan to refuse all the time. Otherwise, the promotion plan of "New World" is not "Happy Camp". "This ring.

"Cao Xuan, I have a merciless request."

"You said."

Halfway through the banquet, the atmosphere was quite good. Teacher He suddenly made a request to Cao Xuan. Cao Xuan was easy to talk to, and he knew this character, so it was definitely not an excessive request.

Sure enough, Teacher He's request was easy for Cao Xuan: "I have a classmate named Long Danni, who is the producer of "Super Girl". He knew you were coming to Star City before, and he wanted me to ask you for a video , Cheer up the contestants of "Super Girl"."

"No problem, do you have a camera? We'll come right here."

Cao Xuan has long been familiar with this kind of video recording, and he can solve the battle in half a minute. Teacher He put away the camera and said with a smile.

"I interviewed the contestants of "Super Girl". Many of them are your fans. They must be very happy to see this video."

"I think your audition momentum is not weak."

"It must be much better than last year. The number of registrations has doubled several times. This is also thanks to your "Star of Tomorrow" not running this year, otherwise it would be hard to say."

The second edition of "Super Girl" has just entered the competition area, and many contestants have just made their appearance. The popularity is not high, at least it is worse than last year's "Star of Tomorrow".

Cao Xuan was also very curious, and he took the head of the draft by himself, and created a top draft platform for "Tomorrow's Star".

Can this "Super Girl" be as popular as the original time and space, and can "Brother Chun" still stage the legend of becoming famous overnight.

However, regardless of whether "Super Girl" is popular or not, Cao Xuan can also see that the fire of this wave of drafts is overwhelmed. It will take two or three years at most, which is about the second and third seasons of "Tomorrow's Star". Tired of this draft mode.

At that time, you can try to launch "The Voice of China" and find another way to open a new draft mode.

As for "Tomorrow's Star", it will not be wasted. It will be suspended for a few years, and then a new season will be released. As long as the quality is guaranteed, there will still be fans to support it.

Again, "Tomorrow's Star" intends to create a new star in the music scene.

If the contestants from the previous seasons show up one after another and become the backbone of the music scene, then it will create an absolute advantage on this stage, which will be a great temptation for many new generation singers, and the audience will also feel that this stage has talents.

In this way, "Tomorrow's Star" is released every few years, which happens to be a harvest of newcomers, who will continue to contribute new strengths to the music scene.

In the end, it formed the absolute special status of "Tomorrow's Star", and even became the best show for newcomers in the Chinese music scene like the NBA draft.

Eating and drinking, and chatting about gossip about people in the circle.

Mr. He is an absolute expert in this area, and his network is too wide. Cao Xuan, a bigwig in the entertainment industry, may not have much information about him.

Fan Xiaopang and Da Mimi are the most active. Women are naturally keen on gossip: "Mr. He, Lin Zhiling was injured while shooting an advertisement in Lianshi, do you know?"

Teacher He, Cao Xuan and others all nodded. This news is quite lively right now.

Zhi Ling's sister was accidentally trampled by a horse and broke several ribs when she was filming an advertisement, which attracted a lot of media coverage.

However, Sister Zhiling really does not hold grudges, and later filmed "Red Cliff" and still has a special liking for the newborn pony.

The phrase "Mengmeng stands up" shocked the audience more than 83 Cao Jun...

"Someone photographed that Yan Chengxu from F4 went to see her in the hospital. Are they a couple?"

Fan Xiaopang asked more curiously, but Mr. He was not easy to explain clearly, so he nodded slightly, and the scene was very excited.

Although F4 has been a little out of date in the past two years, Yu Wei and the coffee position are still there. Hearing the love affair between this famous supermodel and a popular idol, this melon is delicious.

Cao Xuan's eyes moved slightly, he actually knew about this, but thinking back to the time when sister Zhiling waited on him fishing, got tips, and left various hints to call Barabara, he couldn't help feeling sorry for Yan Chengxu.

It's not about professional discrimination, but the modeling industry, especially in Hong Kong and Taiwan, is more complicated than the entertainment industry.

At least there are still some good girls in the entertainment industry who are clean and self-sufficient.

But the model circle, especially the models who are very close to the entertainment circle, it is hard to say after 2015, but before 2015, nine out of ten are not good.

Even a good woman can't help herself when she enters this circle.

Speaking of Yan Chengxu, I have to say that another member of F4, Zhou Yumin, had previously exposed his love affair with Big S because of a car accident.

However, the two of them did not publicly admit it, but Fan Xiaopang still got an accurate answer from Mr. He.

Both of them are actors of "Meteor Garden", the originator of the idol drama, and they are golden boys and girls in the eyes of many people.

Fan Xiaopang is well-informed, he just eats melons, and Da Mimi is still young, and has not fully seen the cruelty of reality, so he has a longing for the relationship between the two.

"Shancai and Huazelei finally got married. I liked them the most in junior high school, and now they are finally together."

Looking at the expectant and longing for Da Mimi, Cao Xuan had a strange expression on the side.

If he remembers correctly, the love affair between the big honey and honey, who is optimistic about blessings, seems to have broken up in less than three years.

Speaking of which, the quality of Big S's ex-boyfriend is still very high.

Zhou Yumin is handsome and gentle, handsome and gentle, and Wang Xiaofei is quite wealthy. Later, his business is struggling, but his foundation is still there.

So Cao Xuan couldn't figure out why Big S would choose an old, unhandsome, scandal-ridden, not-so-rich bald guy in the end.

Obsessed with idol plot can't come out?
Self-motivated in love?
Fangirl attribute explodes?
I'm still used to eating big fish and meat, and I want to change to Korean kimchi to relieve my greasy...

After a meal, Fan Xiaopang and Da Mimi were satisfied. Although Teacher He didn't say much, just nodding and shaking his head to prove the truth was already very satisfying.

The big men Cao Xuan and Liang Jiahui didn't care on the surface, but they were quite happy in their hearts.

They didn't seem to care at the party just now, but when Fan Xiaopang and the two pestered Teacher He to ask questions, they didn't stop them at all, and even deliberately lowered their voices and listened secretly.

After all, women love to gossip, and men also like to eat melons. Watching the excitement is a common human nature.

After eating, the time is still early. It is scheduled to leave Star City tomorrow morning, and there are still more than ten hours to spare.

Fan Xiaopang proposed to sing K, but the other seniors were not very interested. Cao Xuan had recorded the song for half a month before, and he didn't bother to move his mouth.

"Why don't you go to the movies? I haven't watched "Seven Swords" yet. How about Hong Lei's performance?"

He always made a final decision when speaking on the set. Fanxing hadn't opened a theater in Xingcheng yet, but Mr. He had a wide network of contacts, so he quickly contacted a movie theater for booking.

A group of people went to see Old Freak Xu's new work "Seven Swords" with great interest.

Speaking of which, Cao Xuan has watched the TV series "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains" and only watched the clips online, but he didn't watch the whole movie in its entirety.

At that time, he just watched the clips and felt that the filming was good, but he wondered why the reputation was not good.

After watching the whole movie, he will understand what's going on, the plot line is procrastinated and disorderly, the key is that the priority is not clear.

From the perspective of an ordinary audience, Cao Xuan saw the title of "Seven Swords", which seven swords he would definitely want to see, or the differences in the personalities of the seven weapons and the seven swordsmen and the stories behind them.

In a group portrait show like "The Avengers", you have to present the characteristics of each member, and then fight the big boss.

In the "Seven Swords" movie, it's not that Old Monster Xu didn't distinguish and shape, but it's not obvious. At least Cao Xuan didn't remember the seven swords after watching the movie. On the contrary, he was deeply impressed by several villains such as Fenghuo Liancheng.

In fact, Mr. Xu has great ambitions for this movie, and wants to make a trilogy like "Lord of the Rings".

The initial cut version was as long as 4 hours, and then deleted for 1 and a half hours. There are so many plots, resulting in incoherent plots and bugs everywhere.

Moreover, Mr. Xu has too much heart, and he is devoted to trilogy, all kinds of digging metaphors for the series, and even wants to suppress the climax and save it for later, but makes the first part nondescript. In many people's words, it is a large-scale drama. Series Trailer.

And the martial arts style is a bit too realistic. "Xiu Chun Knife" is also realistic, but it also retains a lot of beauty. "Seven Swords" is relatively poorly done.

Moreover, in the scene and character modeling, Mr. Xu deliberately wanted to create the bloody, wild, yellow sandy atmosphere outside the customs of "New Dragon Inn".

But the performance is a bit too much, but it doesn't have the classical sense of ancient martial arts.

Of course, it is not ruled out that Mr. Xu just wants this western style, but obviously, this style cannot impress Chinese audiences.

A typical film that is neither good nor bad, neither good nor bad, on a 100-point scale, Cao Xuan can only give "Seven Swords" 65 points...

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