China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 652: Crazy Japanese Girl
"Damn, he really won the award!"

Looking at the unpleasant face on TV, Feng Xiaogang cursed: "Damn it, isn't it just that he's rich?"

"No matter how many awards you win, you are still a peasant upstart!"

Brother Chen Kai is also cursing. He has always looked down on Cao Yu. Although this movie "Life of Pi" has good box office in foreign countries, it is actually just using special effects to deceive people. Are you trying to show off that you have a special effects company?

It's just a way to attract attention.

At the Oscars, Li Shuangbing and Fan Erbing also looked a little stunned.

The reputation of the Oscar for Best Director is so high in China that it has surpassed Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. This 30-year-old man in front of me is really amazing.

Especially Fan Erbing, it feels like there is no one in the entertainment industry with thicker legs than Boss Cao. If she can hold on to these thick legs, who will she be afraid of in the entertainment industry in the future?

At this time, Cao Yu walked onto the stage and took the trophy from Julie with a smile.

Although this film was mainly directed by Li An, he just provided some suggestions and participated in the post-production, but after all, he is the nominal director of this film.

Winning the Grand Slam will only benefit myself, the women around me, and Feiyu Entertainment.

"Thank you to the organizing committee, thank you to the entire crew for their efforts in the play "Life of Pi", and especially thank you to director Li An. Without him, there would be no such an excellent film. Thank you."

As Cao Yu spoke, he bowed slightly towards Li An on the stage, expressing his gratitude with his actions.

As the assistant director, Li An almost completed the entire film, but the golden statuette for Best Director went to Cao Yu.

Even though we had agreed on it before, I couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable.

However, when Boss Cao thanked him and bowed to him, all the discomfort in his heart was relieved.

Anyway, his film "Brokeback Mountain" had already won the Best Director Award, and being able to make friends with Boss Cao might be helpful to his career development, so he was the first to applaud Cao Yu.

After the Best Director Award was presented, the only thing left was the final highlight, Best Picture.

Cao Yu remembers that the movie "Life of Pi" originally only won the Best Director award, while the Best Picture award went to "Argo", a film with some special colors.

However, this year's competitor, "The Artist," is just a romantic love film, so it's still unknown who will win.

On the big screen, nine films were played one by one.

Finally, the award presenter Tom Cruise opened the envelope and announced: "The winner of this year's Oscar for Best Picture is Life of Pi. Congratulations!"

"clap clap"

The smile on Li An's face became even wider. He never thought that he would have the opportunity to go on stage again.

"Congratulations!"

Cao Yu and Li An hugged each other and congratulated each other.

The producer of this film, Cao Yu, gave Li An his name just in the hope of this moment.

Of course, the happiest person was Bob, the boss of Universal.

Winning the Best Picture, "Life of Pi" is the biggest winner of this year's Oscars.

In recent years, Universal Pictures has won several major awards and has firmly established itself as the top of the six major Hollywood studios.

And all the credit goes to the Chinese man named Cao Yu.

After Li An received the award, this year's Oscars finally came to an end.

However, Cao Yu knew that he would come again next year because there was another movie "Gravity" waiting for him.

"Life of Pi" was a success this year, but without this movie at the Oscars next year, he is looking forward to what kind of performance "Gravity" can achieve.

On that day, major media outlets in China and South Korea reported on their front pages that Cao Yu had won the Best Director award.

"The sixth Golden Figure, Boss Cao is truly the hope of Chinese film and television!"

“Is this unprecedented and unparalleled?”

"Awesome! My husband is awesome! Blow it up!"

"When will Life of Pi be released in China? I've seen clips, it's so well shot, I can't wait."

……

Throughout the end of February, the internet was filled with the hot search terms Cao Yu, Oscar, and "Life of Pi", making him the brightest star who is not a star.

However, Cao Yu was very calm. After the Oscar awards ceremony, he flew to Japan for vacation.

After being busy for so long, you should finally enjoy yourself.

In China, "Under the Hawthorn Tree" was released on Valentine's Day.

With her pure and beautiful appearance and the superb acting skills she has accumulated in Feiyu Entertainment in recent years, Mao Xiaotong interprets the role of Jingqiu very well.

The leading actor, Zhu Yilong, had been studying acting in school and performed very well.

Through Zhang Yimou's lens, the two showed the audience a pure and passionate love story.

After the film was released, it earned more than 200 million yuan at the box office in less than two weeks. However, since Cao Yu won the Oscar, the box office of this film has soared again, finally breaking through 500 million yuan before it was taken off the screen.

Although the box office may not be high compared to other movies, it has a good reputation.

On March 9, the long-awaited movie "Life of Pi" by Chinese audiences was finally released, and the box office exceeded 100 million yuan on the first day.

Japan, the set of "The Great Explosion of Mount Fuji".

Nozomi Sasaki was mixed in the panicked crowd, looking terrified and running away in all directions.

What is being filmed now is the scenes in the city, showing the panic and helplessness of the people when Mount Fuji erupts.

"Crack!"

After the director finished shooting this scene, he shouted and asked everyone to start changing clothes. He came to Cao Yu and said respectfully, "Mr. Cao, please give me more guidance!"

"It's a pretty good shot. If more people fell down and got hurt in fear, and if the screams of fear were louder, the effect would be better."

Cao Yu casually pointed out some problems, and then asked, "How did Nozomi Sasaki perform?"

"very good."

The director took one look at Nozomi Sasaki and knew that this girl had hooked up with the Oscar-winning director and that he must not take advantage of her.

Cao Yu ignored the director and waved to Nozomi Sasaki.

"Mr. Cao, are you here to see me?"

Nozomi Sasaki knew that it was all thanks to Cao Yu that she could star in such a movie. The gratitude and admiration in her eyes were completely from the heart.

"I have nothing to do today, so I came to see you."

As soon as Cao Yu finished speaking, the director heard this and hurried over to say, "Mr. Cao, Nozomi Sasaki's scenes for today have been filmed."

"is it?"

Cao Yu thought that this director was quite discerning, and regardless of whether it was true or not, he said to Sasaki Nozomi, "Since you don't have any scenes this afternoon, come out and play with me."

"Okay."

Nozomi Sasaki was immediately overjoyed. She had several scenes to perform in the afternoon, but the director allowed her to give her a day off just to save Boss Cao's face.

However, before going out shopping, the two returned to the hotel first. As soon as they entered the door, Nozomi Sasaki fell limp in Cao Yu's arms and began to teach Cao Yu various familiar Japanese words.

During this period, the words Cao Yu heard the most were familiar words such as "Kemoqi", "Tiegai", "Geimuji" and "Yigu".

Although it is rather monotonous, he can now have simple conversations in Japanese.

Cao Yu was studying Japanese hard when the phone suddenly rang.

He picked up the phone and found that it was Wang Zhongjun calling, so he pressed the answer button.

"Boss Wang, what's the matter?"

"Brother Cao, it's too formal to call me Mr. Wang. Just call me by my name."

Wang Zhongjun deliberately complained, then asked, "When are you coming back? Is it time to cast for our movie "Personal Tailor"?"

As soon as he said this, Nozomi Sasaki, who had covered her mouth, couldn't help but shouted, "Oh, buy a disc."

Wang Zhongjun was very familiar with this voice and knew that Boss Cao was definitely not watching a porn movie.

He immediately changed his tone: "There's no rush, let's talk about it when you're done."

"I'll be back in a few days."

Actually, Cao Yu has been in Japan for more than ten days. He had originally planned to finish the script for the animated version of "Slam Dunk" in a couple of days before leaving, but now it seems that he has to be busy again.

After hanging up the phone and finishing learning Japanese, Nozomi Sasaki said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry."

"fine."

“Where do you want to play?”

"I heard that Shueisha's magazine SEVENTEEN is selecting models these days. Let's go over and take a look. Cao-jun is so handsome, maybe we can have a romantic encounter with him."

"You might as well go and have a look."

To be honest, Cao Yu has not seen how Japan selects models.

The two took a shower together, put on sunglasses, and headed to where Shueisha was located.

"There are so many people." When Cao Yu and Nozomi Sasaki came here, they felt like they had entered a country of girls. The streets around them were full of beautiful girls who wanted to be models, ranging from thirteen or fourteen years old to those in their twenties.

"Mr. Cao, how about it? If you like someone, you can go and chat with them. It will be easy with your charm."

Although there were some boys nearby who came to see the beauties, and Cao Yu was less than 1.8 meters tall, he was still a head taller than the others when standing in the crowd, giving the impression of being a crane standing out among a flock of chickens.

"I'm just here to watch the fun."

Although he hadn't had the feeling of picking up girls for a long time, Cao Yu shook his head.

However, ever since he came here, his cool look in sunglasses still attracted the attention of many girls.

"No wonder the girls sent by Toho and Toei are so obedient. It turns out they all want to become famous. This is exactly the same as in Korea and Korea. I just hope China doesn't learn these bad habits."

Cao Yu was hesitating whether to go in and take a look. Anyway, Shueisha and Toei have a cooperation, so he might as well go in and take a look at the model interview scene and learn something.

"Brother, hello."

At this moment, a pretty girl came up to Cao Yu and said, "You are so tall, can I get to know you?"

"I thought you were asking me if I could play basketball."

Cao Yu didn't expect that he was flirted with by a beautiful woman even though he didn't flirt with anyone else. He laughed secretly in his heart, glanced at the girl and asked, "Who are you?"

Although the girl in front of me is not very old, she has a good figure and good looks, and she looks somewhat familiar, but I just can't remember who she is.

Nozomi Sasaki, who was standing next to him, saw someone chatting up Cao Yu as soon as he arrived, and she giggled to herself.

The girl said: "My name is Hirose Suzu, I want to be friends with you."

"Hirose Suzu?"

I have heard of this name Cao Yu. She is said to be one of the top ten beauties born in the 90s in Japan.

"Ah."

Guangse Ling nodded, and found that Cao Yu's accent was not right, and asked curiously: "Are you Korean or Chinese?"

"I am Chinese." Cao Yu said with a smile: "Little girl, you are very beautiful, but you are too young. I can't be friends with you."

"I'm not young anymore. I'm already in middle school. You look very young too. You should be only a few years older than me. How about I buy you a drink?"

The girl didn't seem to want to give up. After all, there were very few men as tall and good-looking as Cao Yu in Japan, so he had an inexplicable attraction to young girls.

"Sorry, I have something else to do."

Cao Yu said this, called Nozomi Sasaki and prepared to leave.

There are already many Japanese girls around me, so I don’t want to have a drink with a girl like this. If I get recognized, it might end up on the news.

"Brother, wait a minute."

The girl actually chased after him for a few steps, and just happened to see half of Cao Yu's face from the side. She immediately screamed, "You are the Cao from China. The best director in Hollywood, Cao Yu!"

The girl excitedly shouted Cao Yu's name in the crowd.

"shush"

Cao Yu wanted to stop her, but it was too late. The girls waiting for interviews heard the words "Best Director" and surrounded Cao Yu.

"Mr. Cao, is this really you? Does your FNC company still need trainees?"

"Mr. Cao, this is my information. Do I have any hope of joining your FNC?"

"The Joy of Life you shot is really good."

“I like the scriptwriter’s “Your Name.”

"Mr. Cao, can you sign for me?"

"Mr. Cao, you are even more handsome than on TV! Can I be friends with you?"

"I admire you so much, I want your autograph too."

……

The women around started shouting at the same time, and some took out paper and pen, wanting Cao Yu to sign.

"gosh."

When Cao Yu was recognized, he wanted to squeeze in and play the piano, but he was surrounded so tightly that he could only sign a few autographs for those crazy girls.

Not far away, two bodyguards saw this situation and hurried over to help the boss.

Cao Yu was finally rescued from the crowd of women and sat in the car. He breathed a sigh of relief and sighed, "These girls are really crazy."

"It's because Cao Jun is too handsome. Which girl doesn't like handsome guys?"

Nozomi Sasaki said, and actually handed some information to Cao Yu: "This is the information I just collected for you. I picked out the most beautiful girls."

"Are you still in the mood to collect information?"

Although Cao Yu said this, he still took the materials and started looking through them.

The profile not only contains the girls’ basic information, but also their daily photos. Sure enough, they are all pretty good.

"Hirose Suzu, you want to debut at the young age of fifteen."

"Mei Nagano, 14 years old, has already acted in several dramas. She's a child star."

"Kanna Hashimoto, 14 years old, also a child star"

After reading them, Cao Yu felt that Nozomi Sasaki had a good vision. He had heard of these three and they did have great potential. It would be a good idea to let them become trainees at FNC.

As for the remaining few, Cao Yu thought they were very ordinary and looked down upon them.

After returning to the hotel, Cao Yu sent the three personal information to FNC, asking them to contact the three girls and sign them to FNC.

The next day, he returned to his own courtyard in Kyoto.

As soon as he entered the door, Kasumi Arimura, Nana Komatsu, as well as Takei Saki and Miyoshi Ayaka who were sent here some time ago helped Cao Yu take a bath and change clothes, and then served him to start writing the script for the power version of "Slam Dunk".

"Since there are so many beauties in Japan, why not invest in an FNC branch in Tokyo? With the help of Toei and Toho Avex, it should be possible to open it..."

After writing for a while, an idea suddenly flashed through his mind, so he picked up the phone and called Lee Soo Man.

He remembered that SM Entertainment had opened a branch in Yanjing and had exploited many young Chinese people. Now he might as well exploit the Japanese a little. That should be a good idea.

The next day he told his idea to Ai Hui, Dongbao and others, and the three companies immediately expressed their support.

It is definitely a good thing for them that people like Cao Yu can open a company in Japan and there will be more opportunities for cooperation in the future.

After the plan was finalized, other matters were naturally handed over to Lee Soo-man, who returned to China at the end of March.

During this period, two major events occurred in the Chinese entertainment industry.

The first thing is of course that "Life of Pi" has already earned 1.1 billion at the box office. Such a result is rare in March when the film market is not very hot. The main reason is that Cao Yu is too famous.

The second thing is that after Huayi’s movie “Tai Chi from Zero” was released during the Spring Festival, its popularity has not subsided until now.

However, this popularity is not because the movie is so good, but because it is so bad.

Not only is the plot fragmented, but what the audience criticized even more was the actor named Wu Yifan, whose lines and performance were truly appalling.

Audiences today are no longer fed too much garbage and have a certain level of appreciation. Although Kris Wu looks like a cow dung ball, most audiences simply don't buy it and directly criticized him online, saying that he is more like a piece of wood.

However, some crazy fans who had seen Kris Wu singing and dancing still jumped out to criticize the majority of the audience, making the movie still very popular and even earning 200 million at the box office.

Despite this, Huayi still suffered losses.

Wang Zhongjun was regretting his decision so much at this moment. He felt that Ma Yun had recommended Wu Yifan to him on purpose.

When Cao Yu returned to China, the first thing Wang Zhongjun did when he saw him was to suggest, "Brother Cao, that Wu Yifan seems to have jumped ship from FNC. Should we ban him?"

"Well, ban it."

Cao Yu also heard about these two things after returning to China, and nodded in agreement: "Tell everyone in the circle not to use this person anymore."

Although Cao Yu has a high reputation in the entertainment industry, he is not a relevant department after all. Wu Yifan has not made any mistakes at this time, so he certainly cannot be banned completely, but he still has the ability to prevent the entertainment industry from giving him resources.

"Okay, I'll arrange it in a moment. If this kid wants to act in a play in the future, he can only act in a play that Ali invests in himself."

Wang Zhongjun felt better when he saw Boss Cao agreed.

After that, he asked again: "When does the audition start?"

Cao Yu took out a list and handed it to Wang Zhongjun: "No need for auditions, just notify these people to come and talk."

In fact, the actors for the film "Personal Tailor" were already in his mind.

The four protagonists are Ge You, Song Qian, Zheng Kai and Li Xiaolu.

Other supporting actors such as Fan Wei, Li Chengru, and Song Dandan are all fine, and the cameo appearances of Cheng Long, Wang Baoqiang, and Guan Xiaotong are basically enough.

Wang Zhongjun naturally had no problem with such an arrangement, and was very grateful to Cao Yu for hiring Huayi artist Li Xiaolu.

Huayi still has its appeal, especially since this film is said to be a collaboration with Feiyu Entertainment, so there is naturally no problem with these actors.

Half a month later, the opening ceremony was held in Sanya. Cao Yu was looking at the shooting plan when Guan Xiaotong suddenly came to him.

"Mr. Cao, can I join Feiyu Entertainment?"

(End of this chapter)