China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 721 719. The reputation of "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" collapsed, and Li Yitong became popular

After attending the wrap-up party for "Parasite", Cao Yu set off back to China the next day.

In July, whether it is middle school or university, countless students will leave the school where they have stayed for several years and enter a new environment or enter society.

But everyone, to a greater or lesser extent, has a lifelong affection for their former classmates that is hard to give up.

It was also at this time that the movie "You Are the One Sitting Next to Me" produced by Feiyu was released.

The investment in this movie is not large, only less than 30 million, but after the promotion by Douyin some time ago, it has become quite popular.

Especially the lead actress Mao Xiaotong, her pure and beautiful appearance satisfies many people's fantasies about their former deskmate.

Although some netizens jokingly said that only good-looking people have youth, Mao Xiaotong, with his excellent acting skills, has done a good job of showing what a 17-year-old student should look like.

Under such circumstances, it is no surprise that other film and television companies chose to avoid Feiyu's small-investment film.

Although the investment in "You, My Deskmate" was small, it is still a work of Feiyu Entertainment. Everyone in the entertainment industry knows that when it comes to movies, it's best not to compete with Feiyu.

After the movie was released, it earned over 170 million in the first three days. It turned out to be another small-scale movie that made a lot of money.

While everyone is envious of the success of this movie, they are also wondering who in the entertainment industry can compete with Feiyu’s boss?
"You Are the One" will be released on July 18th, after all, we have to wait until the World Cup is over.

"The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" will be released on July 24, the same day as "See You Tomorrow", which was directed by Han Han, who was directing for the first time.

Originally, Brother Chen Kai wanted to set the release date in August, but who knew that Marvel's "Minions" would also be released in August.

He couldn't risk going against this Hollywood movie.

"Three hundred and twenty million"

On July 23, Brother Chen Kai felt increasingly unhappy when he looked at the data of "You Are the One Sitting Next to Me".

He felt that Feiyu's film was not very well made. It just used memories and emotions to deceive people, making many graduating students and audiences who wanted to find memories willing to go to the cinema.

"Cao Yu is just a clever guy. His movie has no artistry at all!"

Brother Chen Kai looked down on Cao Yu with disdain in his heart, but he was also worried that his movie would not sell as well as the other party.

This reminded him of the eagle's evaluation of Daolang.

When applied to movies, it means that although the box office is good, it lacks artistic quality.

Although he despises Cao Yu for playing the sentimental card, his own movie is about to be released tomorrow, so Chen Kai is inexplicably nervous, and there is also a little fear of being dominated by Cao Yu.

Amidst Chen Kai's anxiety, his long-planned comeback film "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" was finally released after being postponed for half a year.

Although Brother Chen Kai has been controversial after "The Promise", he is still the director of the classic movie "Farewell My Concubine" after all.

In addition, Director Chen’s previous film "Search" had very good reputation and quality, so some viewers still want to see what kind of work this famous director can present to everyone this time.

……

After Cao Yu returned to Yanjing, apart from work, he also spent his time comforting the girls he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Senior, I want to watch this movie "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain", can you accompany me?"

That evening, Jing Tian stuck to Cao Yu and wanted to go to the movies.

Cao Yu didn't want to watch this movie at all, so he asked, "Why don't you watch My Deskmate?"

"seen it already."

Jing Tian hugged Cao Yu's neck and said, "Senior, I haven't seen you for so long, just stay with me."

"Okay, don't blame me if I fall asleep while watching."

Faced with such a sweet and beautiful beauty acting like a spoiled child, Cao Yu didn't want to disappoint her, so he agreed: "I'll have someone bring a copy of this movie, and we'll go home and watch it."

"Don't bother with that. Just go to the cinema. It's more interesting."

"Okay, it's up to you."

Cao Yu had no choice but to take Jing Tian to his own exclusive VIP box at Huanyu Cinema.

The two of them were like a couple, sticking together, eating snacks while watching this action movie co-produced by China and Hollywood.

In fact, at the beginning of the movie, except for some unnecessary narration, the style is pretty good.

Li Xuejian, who plays the old Taoist priest, may not have many roles, but his few lines allow people to see his acting skills.

He Anxia, ​​played by Cheng Long's son, also performed well in terms of action and looked silly.

"It's July now. When will our Chaoyang people show their power?"

Cao Yu's eyes were on the movie, his hands were on Jing Tian, ​​but his heart was somewhere else.

He remembered that there would be a prison storm in the entertainment industry this year. Some time ago, actor Huang Haibo had been in jail, and an internet celebrity named Guo Meimei had also been in jail.

But he knew that this was just the beginning and the highlight was yet to come.

Jing Tian watched for a while and said, "Senior, this movie is well made."

"Haha, this is Director Chen's usual style. The first half of the movie is pretty good."

Cao Yu thought of his previous works "Mei Lanfang" and "The Orphan of Zhao". The first half of both films were okay, but the latter half was a mess.

Some people even doubt whether a movie was shot by two people.

"Sister Lin Zhiling is so beautiful."

When Lin Chiling, who played Fan Wei's wife, came out in a white lace dress, Jing Tian was a little envious.

"You're not bad either."

Cao Yu gently stroked Xiao Tiantian's slender waist and said with a smile: "You two can have a competition next time."

"Comparing what? I don't have a good figure like her, and my voice isn't as nice as hers."

"Maybe, we'll know after we compare."

"Compared? I'm not familiar with her...

When Jing Tian said this, he suddenly realized that this bad senior of his was also having an affair with Lin Chiling?
They don't seem to have had any contact before. When did it happen?

But when she saw Lin Chi-ling's tall and perfect figure, delicate face, and voice that could give men goose bumps in the movie, she felt that if the two knew each other, the bad senior would definitely not be able to control himself.

She immediately said coquettishly: "Senior? You are so bad."

"hey-hey…"

Cao Yu didn't expect Xiao Tiantian to see through him. Not only did he not feel guilty, he also smiled and said, "I really want to know, who of you two has a better figure."

"... "

Jing Tian was too embarrassed to agree, and looked at Lin Chiling in the movie, secretly comparing them.

As the movie goes on, the style of the movie becomes a little strange.

When the scene between Lin Chiling and Fan Wei's sex scene came up, Jing Tian suddenly laughed and asked, "Senior, are you jealous?"

Cao Yu didn’t know Lin Chiling before, so he didn’t have any feelings about her. But now when he saw this passionate sex scene, he felt a little uncomfortable.

But he still said stubbornly: "It's okay, that's how acting is."

"Then I will also perform passionate scenes in the future, are you willing?"

"you dare!"

Cao Yu glared: "My woman, you are not allowed to play this kind of play!"

“I can’t act!”

Jing Tian touched Cao Yu's cheek and said with a smile: "Senior, you are so cute when you are angry. You don't look like a rich man at all."

“What should a rich person look like?”

"That's like a domineering president."

"The domineering CEO is just pretending. Real rich people are not like that. Besides, we are all human beings. Why pretend to be like two and a half millionaire?"

Cao Yu said as he held Jing Tian in his arms.

He was a little excited when he heard Lin Chi-ling's voice in the movie just now.

"don't want."

"Who told you to say I'm cute?"

Soon, neither of them knew what the next movie was about.

Anyway, in the movie, after the death of the character played by Fan Wei, although there were many stars, the filming was messy and not good-looking at all, and it could be said to be inexplicable.

The next day, the box office results of "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" came out, and it actually achieved 110 million on the first day.

"That's great! Haha."

Brother Chen Kai laughed heartily after getting his results.

This result is enough to surpass the 70 million on the first day of "You Are the One Sitting Next to Me", and he is very satisfied with it.

He finally beat Feiyu once in the same period!
At this rate, the box office should be around 700 to 800 million before Minions is released, and it will definitely exceed 1 billion by the time it is released.

Chen Hong, who was standing by, saw her husband like this and didn't dare to say anything.

However, the next day, Brother Chen Kai simply couldn't laugh anymore.

Because the box office exceeded 100 million on the first day, it actually dropped directly to more than 40 million.

"what happened?"

Brother Chen Kai slammed the information on the table.

It was more than 100 million yesterday, how come it dropped so much the next day?

Is someone stealing my box office?

Who has such courage?

This time, Chen Hong didn't dare to hide it anymore, and whispered, "Darling, go and see what the audience thinks of the movie."

"evaluate?"

Brother Chen Kai quickly went to the computer and opened the audience's comments on "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain", and he was immediately disappointed.

It turned out that although the movie had a box office of over 100 million on the first day, its reputation had completely collapsed.

“Is this the second part of The Promise?”

"It is inscrutable but out of place, full of knowledge but not decent, straightforward and messy, and the audience booed despite the full house. From this film, the audience once again saw that Director Chen is a director without any spirit or talent. "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" is another useless movie!"

"I was never disappointed when I watched The Promise, but I was really disappointed this time."

"I felt like I spent 60 bucks and ate a pile of carved shit!" "I was embarrassed to tell my friends that I went to the theater to watch this movie, it was so embarrassing!"

"It's a mess. I was drowsy the whole time. What was they filming?"

"It's indeed the same director who made The Promise. He once again explains what it means to be extremely boring!"

"I only remember the sound of Lin Zhiling and Chef Fan in bed. I remember nothing else."

"I envy Fan Wei."

"A gun against a car? Director Chen, Newton is coming to find you."

"For this film, don't call it The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain. It should be called The Taoist Goes Down Brokeback Mountain."

……

Faced with a screen full of negative reviews, Brother Chen Kai was furious.

He really couldn't understand it. This audience was so difficult to lead.

How come you can't appreciate this movie which is so profound, full of content, and explains the great principles of life?

He still did not reflect on himself, but instead put the blame on the audience.

He even suspected that someone was deliberately trying to discredit him.

Not only are there negative reviews online, but on Douyin, some viewers even shared their own impressions of the show, which were still full of complaints.

Now, director Chen Kai hated Cao Yu again.

If it weren’t for your Douyin, would my box office be so bad?

Although Brother Chen Kai was unhappy, the reputation and box office of "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" continued to decline.

The third day's results were less than 30 million, which left Director Chen with nothing but frustration and rage.

Compared to "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain", Han Han, who was directing for the first time, increased his film "See You Tomorrow" from 60 million on the first day to 80 million on the second day, and even exceeded 100 million on the third day.

Although "See You Tomorrow" also has some problems, such as the story is very scattered.

But the story was told clearly, and the theme song "Ordinary Road" was also nice, which added a lot to the film.

Due to the low box office of "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain", the box office of "You Are the One" which has been released for more than a week has increased slightly.

However, for Cao Yu, all this was within expectations.

"You Are the One" was produced by Feiyu, and Feiyu also invested a little in "See You Tomorrow". This time, it can be said that it has completely won over Brother Chen Kai.

Hengdian.

Feng Xiaogang is watching Douyin.

"Director Chen, with a film like yours, you still wanted to challenge Cao Yu? Who gave you the courage?"

After seeing the negative reviews about "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain", he regretted having found Brother Chen Kai as an ally.

Now it seems that I trusted Brother Chen Kai too much.

"They just try to be mysterious and make it seem like it's profound, but in fact it's nothing!"

Feng Xiaogang browsed for a while, put his phone down, picked up the phone and called Xu Jing, hoping that this woman could star in his new movie "Mr. Six".

"Miss Xu, I'm Feng Xiaogang. I'm planning a movie. Are you interested?"

"Not interested in!"

As a result, Xu Jing didn't even ask the name and content of the movie and directly refused.

"Miss Xu, why don't you listen to the movie?"

"I'm not interested in any movie. I'm having dinner with Mr. Cao. Bye!"

"toot toot"

When Feng Xiaogang heard the "beep" sound on the phone, he felt as if it was a summer day in July, with countless snowflakes falling from the sky and singing ringing in his ears.

"Snowflakes are falling, the north wind is howling"

Yanjing.

"Bad brother, how did you know Feng Xiaogang might come to me?"

On the lawn in the backyard of the villa, Xu Jing ate skewers while looking at Cao Yu with seductive eyes.

Cao Yu took a sip of beer and said with a smile, "I heard that he is going to make a movie called "Old Cannon". It is said that the setting of the heroine is very similar to you, but there is a secret scene in it, and I don't want you to shoot it."

"You feel sorry for me? Then why didn't you come to see me after being gone for several months?"

Xu Jing took the beer that Cao Yu had just drunk, took a sip, and then licked the corner of his mouth.

"Busy."

"Busy picking up girls?"

Xu Jing seized Cao Yu's handle and said with a smile: "Tell the truth. Some time ago, someone saw you, Lin Zhiling, in Japan. Are you related?"

"Were seen? I don't even know, I just bumped into him."

"You bad brother, you can let the beautiful Lin go when you meet her? I don't believe it."

Xu Jing's watery eyes were almost thread-like at this moment. There was no blame at all, she was just acting coquettishly.

"Then I'll break one for you to see."

How could Cao Yu bear it when he saw her like this? He turned over and both of them rolled onto the lawn.

"Be careful someone sees us."

"No one is here tonight, so it's okay even if you scream."

"What a bad brother."

When the two returned to the room, sweating all over and preparing to take a shower, the martial arts drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" filmed by Feiyu last year had just begun on TV.

"I only want to help the world and have the world in my heart, but I bleed on the enemy's battlefield and kill them. Is this against the will of heaven? I regret that I can't sing a sad song. I am afraid that I can only live with my beliefs as time goes by, and wait for future generations to judge me."

Zhang Jie's passionate singing actually attracted Xu Jing.

"Good brother, the theme song of this movie is pretty good, very powerful. Did you write it?"

She stopped and looked at the TV, and found that the girl in white clothes in the opening credits was quite pretty, and looked a bit like what she imagined Huang Rong should look like.

"It's not written by me. I don't have time to write songs right now."

The theme song of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Heroic Loneliness", was not written by Cao Yu, but was created by someone commissioned by Cai Yinong.

"The movie looks good. It's actually up to episode 7. I discovered this TV show the other day."

Xu Jing said, pulling Cao Yu away: "Go take a shower quickly, and watch it with me after you finish."

This time the shower was very quick.

When the two returned to the room, the plot happened to show that Huang Rong changed into women's clothes and prepared to meet Guo Jing.

"Brother Huang, where are you?"

As Guo Jing, played by Hu Ge, shouted, the sound of water could be heard and a small boat floated over from the river.

Far away at the bow of the ship, stood a woman in white with long hair draped over her shoulders.

The girl had a golden ribbon tied in her hair, her skin was whiter than snow, she was extremely beautiful, and her appearance was absolutely gorgeous, like a fairy.

"Is this Li Yitong from the Seven Flowers? She is so beautiful?"

Xu Jing, who was sitting on the sofa, was amazed just by seeing the way Huang Rong appeared.

Cao Yu said proudly: "That's her. Do I have good taste?"

"Well, it's really good."

Xu Jing also had to admit that it was indeed very suitable for this girl to play Huang Rong.

But she immediately added: "How about you not having this girl?"

"In your mind, I want women when I see them?"

Cao Yu glared at Xu Jing and said, "I'm just her boss. I have nothing to do with her."

"He has changed his personality and is doing well."

Xu Jing smiled with satisfaction and said, "Sister will reward you with a set of eloquence tonight!"

“I want to try it now.”

"No, watch this drama first. I feel like this is a real martial arts film. It's really well made!"

Xu Jing, however, hugged a pillow in her arms, lying comfortably on the sofa, watching this rare martial arts drama.

In fact, the drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has been aired for three days.

The audience has always been looking forward to Feiyu's TV series, and sure enough, it did not disappoint the audience after it was aired.

In the snowy Niujia Village, the crew actually used real snow. This alone makes it more sincere than any other version.

Soon, the audience discovered that not only the scenes and costumes were carefully designed, but even the martial arts movements were so beautiful, with each move flowing smoothly, comparable to a martial arts movie.

While the audience was saying it was so exciting, the ratings quickly rose from 2% at the beginning to 3.1%.

When it came to the grassland scenes, An Yuexi's Hua Zheng made her appearance, and once again the audience exclaimed that Feiyu was awesome. How could such a beauty only play the role of Hua Zheng?

She has no problem playing Huang Rong.

But today, when Huang Rong in white really appeared, the audience was shocked.

This is the real Huang Rong!
beautiful!

No wonder An Yuexi could only play Hua Zheng, it turns out Huang Rong is more beautiful.

That night, the Feiyu version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" had a viewership rating of 5.9%, which is completely unimaginable in an era when 4G networks have become popular.

It’s because Boss Cao has such great influence.

If you want martial arts, there are martial arts; if you want a plot, it basically follows the original work; if you want to see beauties, among the three, Li Yitong, An Yuexi, and Liu Shishi, which one is not beautiful?
With all these things combined together, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" became a huge hit!
As the drama became popular, the audiences were happy, and Mango TV, which had obtained the broadcasting rights, was also happy.

But there was one person who couldn't be happy, and that was Ju Jingyi, who was also a member of Seven Flowers.

All of her teammates became famous, but she herself was still not very famous and could only play the minor supporting role of Cheng Ying in The Return of the Condor Heroes.

"There are more and more beautiful women in the company. I must take advantage of my boss's return this time to launch a general attack on him. Otherwise, what future do I have?"

Watching Li Yitong on TV and thinking of the handsome boss, Xiaoju clenched her fists tightly.
(End of this chapter)