Who are you calling powerful?.

Chapter 707: Zhao Liying’s fate, the new generation of “star-making factory” in Chinese entertainment

In mid-January, Weibo Night and Penguin Star Awards were held successively.

Lu Han worked hard for several years and finally won the title of Weibo King this year thanks to his stable popularity.

This year's Weibo queen was surprisingly yet not surprisingly chosen as Dilraba Dilmurat.

Rouba has served as the queen of Weibo before, and the probability of winning the award for the second time is more difficult than for the new queen to ascend the throne.

Last year, Da Mimi won the Weibo Queen for the second time, which indeed set a precedent for Weibo Night. It also indirectly proved that this award is not a unique award and the overall annual performance must still be considered.

2018 is known as the "Year of Dilireba". Although it is a joke, Rouba did produce many excellent works last year, including many hits. She was popular from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and she blossomed in various fields such as variety shows, movies, TV series, business and fashion.

Although other actresses such as Liu Tianxian, Shuangzijie, Tang Yan, Wu Jinyan, Nazha, etc. have their own advantages, they are really not as good as Rouba overall.

Therefore, since Rouba has won an award before, it is reasonable for Weibo Night to support newcomers. She was the most popular last year, so there is not much controversy about her winning the award for the second time.

However, this made it seem like Rouba was a bit harsh on his own family before the Fanxing Ceremony, and Rouba's fans, who were already dissatisfied, went to Wei Yang's Weibo to speak up for Rouba.

Boss Wei has long been indifferent to this. As a capitalist, is he afraid of being scolded?

When he gets really angry after being scolded, he takes it back at Rouba. It's not the first time that Boss Wei has taken screenshots of being scolded to gain benefits.

The harder the fans pushed, the harder he pushed...

Rouba herself must be happy about being the queen of Weibo for the second time, which invisibly proves her status and popularity. If nothing else, business and fashion resources attach great importance to this.

One is the Golden Eagle Goddess, one is the second Weibo Queen, Rouba has been overwhelmed with endorsements, and has also been contacted by several luxury brands.

Among this group of 90s flowers, the first one to come into contact with high-end luxury endorsements was Nazha. As mentioned before, Nazha has always had great fashion resources. Even during those years when her development was difficult, she was still one of the actresses with the best fashion resources.

Rouba is a latecomer who has forced its way into the luxury goods market with its extremely high popularity and national recognition, and has been dominating the market.

At this stage, in terms of luxury endorsements and fashion resources, Rouba can be said to be number one among the 90s flowers, and even among the 85s flowers, few can compete with her.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Liu and Zhao are semi-retired and too wealthy to pay much attention to these tasks, while Da Mimi has been promoted to capital and her energy has gradually shifted from personal development to the company.

At present, the only ones who can truly compete with Dilraba Dilmurat are Liu Tianxian and Banda Mimi.

As for Tang Yan, she has never been a match for Dilraba Dilmurat since her rise.

Last year, the Queen of Weibo Night was snatched away by Da Mimi and her defense was broken. This year, she is probably mentally prepared and just lies down.

As I said, if you lose once, you get angry and ashamed; if you lose twice, you want to win back; if you lose three times, you are unwilling to accept it; if you lose four times, you become numb.

It’s just Weibo Queen. I won’t play with you guys anymore!
Tang Yan, who has already started trying her hand at being an agent, now wants to personally train an artist to top the Weibo Queen chart rather than winning awards herself. Perhaps her sense of accomplishment will be even greater at that time than it is now.

But Da Mimi always felt that Tang Yan was deceiving herself by thinking this way. What others got was what they got, so don’t you still get it?

However, her complaints were suppressed by Wei Yang and Liu Shishi in turn.

Don't tear down people when things are tough. Tang Yan has finally found a way to comfort herself and regain her confidence. Please don't stab her in the heart...

Compared to Weibo Night, Boss Wei is obviously more concerned about the Penguin Starlight Awards.

Faced with the pressure of the Starry Night Ceremony, he has always been curious about whether Penguin Video will choose to lie low and keep it to itself, or choose to fight hard.

The final choice of Penguin Video was both surprising and reasonable to him.

Between A and B, it chooses AB!

We don't dare to risk Penguin's reputation to compete with the Starry Festival, but we are unwilling to give up and just stay in our own circle.

Therefore, the Penguin Video Star Awards excluded the PPTV project, and the main finalists were all Penguin projects. At the same time, it also included many third-party projects, including Youku, iQiyi and other platforms.

This move is clever, but it created a weird mixture of things, dragged out, and had countless flaws. It would be better to be as straightforward as iQiyi's annual conference.

You may say this is a stupid move, but it can indeed block both ends. Publishing some sophistry articles to set the tone can also help cover up the truth.

No matter what, at least it will not bow down and admit defeat to PPTV like iQiyi does. Even if its face is swollen beyond recognition after being beaten, it will still stick its neck out and refuse to admit defeat.

“Your spirit is commendable!”

It’s true, putting aside his stance, Wei Yang more or less appreciates this kind of shameless operation.

Then they turn around and arrange people to create momentum and set the pace. After all, taking shortcuts is just taking shortcuts, and the drawbacks are still there. At this time, we have to seize the opportunity to hit the vital points, do our best to pull down and step on others, and use the Starlight Awards to set off the Starry Ceremony.

If this kind of pulling and stepping trick is played well, it can help the award become popular. Those who understand will understand the contrast with peers.

After Fanxing further consolidates and enhances its status and influence in online film and television awards, the next step will be to challenge... no, the goal is to be on par with the three major TV awards.

Since there are Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor, Magnolia Award for Best Actor, and Flying Award for Best Actor, why can't there be a Star Award for Best Actor in the future?

Well, the Starry Festival is mainly for online dramas and has nothing to do with television. This Starry TV King award seems a bit inappropriate.

Starry Net Emperor?

The starry drama emperor?

It always sounds a bit awkward, but I still feel that calling him "TV King" sounds better. Chinese is profound and you can always make a connection as long as you want to.

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This year's Spring Festival is in early February. Every time this time comes, Wei Yang always worries about where and with whom to spend the New Year.

He had hoped to discuss a harmonious solution, such as queuing up, one family per year, but the results were minimal.

The Spring Festival is so important, who doesn’t want to be reunited with family? If we have to queue up, we will only be able to reunite once every few years during the Spring Festival, which is unacceptable.

Boss Wei has also thought about taking the risk and gathering the whole family together at his parents' house during the Chinese New Year.

With the Spring Festival and his parents in charge, and his thoughts on tactics, the women did not dare to cause trouble. But later they felt that the risk was too great, and there was no point in being hypocritical and forcing themselves to spend the New Year together because of their own thoughts.

More importantly, the old Wei couple strongly opposed it, fearing that the Yunhua Mansion villa would be demolished by their daughters-in-law during the New Year. So until now, Wei Yang has not come up with any particularly appropriate and comprehensive solution, and can only take one step at a time.

It's all because of having a baby. Once you have a child, there are a lot of worries and troubles. Boss Wei thinks back to how carefree he was back then and feels more or less regretful.

Putting the worries aside for the time being, in late January, the crew started filming after the Spring Festival, and with Zhao Liying's repeated invitations.

Boss Wei finally found time to come to Blue Whale to attend the seminar on "Knowing Your Destiny" and met some of the actors.

As Blue Whale’s top project in 2019, Wei Yang and Zhao Liying personally starred in the work.

"Knowing Your Destiny" has received much attention and has been fully resourced in all aspects. It can be said to be one of the largest crews in the industry. Wei Yang was not in charge of casting, but he heard Zhao Liying mention that the crew's mailbox was almost filled with resumes.

There are many popular first-tier artists who have expressed their desire for roles, even supporting roles are negotiable, not to mention second- and third-tier artists, who are rushing to join the group like crazy.

It is said that hundreds of people signed up for the role of Zhao Liying's maid in the drama "Knowing Your Destiny" alone, including some well-known young actresses.

There are many actresses in the entertainment industry who became famous for playing maid roles!

Fan Xiaopang in "My Fair Princess" is the most classic example. Da Mimi also played Lin Xinru's maid in "Beauty's Rival in Palace".

Of course, this maid is a little special. She is already considered a major character and is the second or third female lead in the play.

Most of the maid roles do not have so many highlight scenes, or even their own love lines, so the possibility of becoming famous overnight is a bit low, but there is still hope for them to become familiar faces and gain some popularity.

For example, the maids in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" are doing pretty well, and the popular maids in "Story of the Ming Palace" and "Story of Yanxi Palace" are also doing well.

That day, Wei Yang was watching short videos and saw a costume clip in which an actress looked familiar. Many people in the comment section recognized her directly. In fact, she was the maid Qiaohui in "Startling by Each Step". Later, when he searched, he found out that she is now a well-known actress.

Therefore, for young actors, even a maid in a big drama like “Knowing” is very popular.

Because they will be seen by the audience and other crews, and maybe they will have a chance to change their fate.

Speaking of this, we have to mention Zhao Liying. She actually played a little maid in her early years. She was "accidentally" selected for "The Best of Us", and then met Wei Yang, and the gears of fate began to turn.

Compared with her previous life, Zhao Liying's experience in this time and space is not as inspiring, but she is full of luck and legendary.

A small supporting actor just played a supporting role, and then picked up a super potential stock, and then he can hold on to it forever. Even online novels don't dare to write like this.

Previously, Zhao Liying's career had been booming, and every one of her works was a big hit. Many fans said something like "continue Zhao's career luck."

Now she finally realizes that a bunch of fans and passers-by would go to her videos every day to ask for "love luck".

After all, other people's love luck is just love luck, but her love luck comes with wealth luck + career luck + fortune luck + all kinds of miscellaneous luck.

Many things are over once they are involved in metaphysics, and all kinds of twists and turns are allowed.

Boss Wei also saw a fortune-telling marketing account, which said that Zhao Liying had the fate of "a sparrow turning into a phoenix", which would bring good fortune to herself and others.

Quite a few people believed the comments from that marketing account. The most outrageous thing was that when Wei Yang asked around, he found out that there really was such a fate, and it mainly targeted those who married into wealthy families.

Boss Wei has reason to be suspicious. The entertainment industry, which has always been superstitious, probably has similar rumors. Zhao Liying's fate will be changed by being a maid, so being her maid will improve her fortune. If she can't become a phoenix, she can at least become a peacock or a white crane.

But metaphysics is just nonsense, and Zhao Liying's case is also an exception.

Young actors want to come to big crews to show their faces and brush up their resumes, while young stars have even more ideas. They say they want to play a maid, and they are eyeing the role of a personal handmaiden.

This type may not sound good, but they always follow the heroine and have more screen time than some main supporting roles. In fact, it has many benefits for young actresses, not to mention that there is also hope of being able to catch up with Zhao Liying.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhao Liying's short legs are now extremely "thick".

Even the popular young actresses are flocking to this role, but they are more famous, so they are not here to play the role of maids. They are more likely to compete for roles such as the Sheng sisters.

Wei Yang came to attend the seminar of "Knowing Your Destiny" and met some actors. In particular, he looked at the cast list and found that there were quite a few changes from the original version.

Although he did not pay attention to the casting of "Knowing Your Destiny", Wei Yang also recommended several actors.

In fact, they are just a few popular characters such as Old Lady Sheng, the heroine's father Hong Lang, the eldest lady, and Xiao Qin. The success of "Knowing" in the previous life is inseparable from their outstanding performances, and it would be a pity to replace them.

Boss Wei said it was a recommendation, but both Zhao Liying and the crew of "Knowing Your Destiny" took it as an order and strictly followed it.

Therefore, those popular characters are all the original cast from the previous life, and the rest of the characters can be replaced or not, Wei Yang doesn't care. If they feel they are not suitable during filming, it is not too late to change them then.

Of course, this is actually a big blow to the actors, so Wei Yang usually arranges them to other crews as compensation and comfort.

In fact, before this, Wei Yang realized that this version of "Knowing" would have a more luxurious cast with him and Zhao Liying.

Facts have proved that he was right. Although it cannot compare to the countless stars who made guest appearances in "Chi Le Chuan", it is also full of stars.

What made it even more fun was that he saw a lot of new players on the list who would shine in the future.

Zhou Yutong, who has been in the industry for a few years but is not very famous, fought for the role of a cousin of the Sheng family in "Knowing Your Destiny" purely for her face.

Wang Churan, as far as I can remember, has indeed just made her debut not too long ago. She has starred in two web dramas and played the wife of the second male lead, Young Master Qi Heng, in "Do You Know?"

Tian Xiwei just made her debut last year and starred in a drama. With her sweet and youthful image, she won the role of Zhao Liying's maid. But it is not yet confirmed whether she will play Xiaotao, who has the most scenes, or another maid Xiaodie.

Sun Qian, who has only been in the industry for a few years, also played a maid in "Knowing Your Destiny", but not Zhao Liying's.

Chen Yuqi, this role was probably inserted by Tang Yan. In order to promote someone, she really gave it her all. I don’t know how she bowed to Zhao Liying. She played a young lady from an official family with a considerable role.

The above are just the future new generation of young actresses. There are also some talented actresses who are currently dormant and have made a name for themselves, plus the already famous Bai Bing, Mao Xiaotong, Zhang Zixi, Wu Qian, Lan Xi and other well-known actresses.

There are dozens of familiar names and faces here and there. When they become famous one after another, I'm afraid that the marketing accounts will have to write thousands of words to list them.

If "Knowing" is popular enough and can even bring them some positive benefits, it may even be recorded in the history of Chinese film and television.

For example, dramas such as "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", "Soldier Assault" and "Wulin Waijia" have always been unforgettable to the public. In addition to their excellent quality, another important reason is that there are enough famous stars in them.

Judging from the current trend, "Do You Know" may really become a new generation of "star-making factory"...

(End of this chapter)