China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 768. Master Xing's New Script
On the calm sea, a luxury cruise ship is sailing southward against the wind and waves.

On the deck of the cruise ship, a little boy was playing with a bunch of small conches and having a lot of fun.

Cao Yu and Liu Yifei leaned on the recliners, looking at their son's happy face, with peace and happiness in their eyes.

Not far away, Liu Xiaoli, who was in her fifties, was leaning on the side of the boat with a glass of champagne, facing the sea breeze and enjoying the feeling of the breeze blowing across her body.

She was also rich, but it was her first time to sit on a big yacht, feel the breeze, and have her grandson around her knees.

Enjoying her life now, she admires her own vision in finding a good man for her daughter.

As for the man's somewhat romantic problems, she has completely ignored them and often advises her daughter to be magnanimous so that she can better capture a man's heart.

After all, there is no man who is not romantic.

As long as a man loves you and cares about you, what else do you need a bicycle for?

Now that she is old and has grandchildren, if her daughter gives birth to another granddaughter, Liu Xiaoli can laugh out loud just thinking about the two children surrounding their grandmother.

The future son-in-law's career is now getting bigger and bigger, and his twilight life can be said to be worry-free.

The only drawback is why the future son-in-law doesn’t let his daughter’s second child be born in the United States?

The United States is a free country.
After tasting a glass of champagne, Liu Xiaoli asked the waiter on the boat to take the glass away and sat down next to her daughter.

"Xiao Cao, you and Xixi really don't plan to give birth to your second child in the United States?"

Aunt Liu wanted to fight for it: "You have so many businesses in the United States, someone will have to be responsible in the future."

"Mom, what's so good about Inter Milan? Now even if Sissi wants to come back, she can't."

Cao Yu was eating cherries and strongly disagreed with Liu Xiaoli's opinion.

How come the white moonlight of the past has become so realistic now?

Liu Xiaoli said, "I'm the one who doesn't want her to come back. Everyone else wants to go out, but we finally got out. Why should we come back?"

Cao Yu smiled and said, "I think my motherland is still the best. I have no regrets about coming to China in this life."

"Brother Cao Yu, what you said is very good!"

When Liu Yifei heard what Cao Yu said, she praised her man and said to her mother, "It's all your fault. You made me become a U.S. citizen at that time."

"You girl"

Originally, Liu Xiaoli wanted to scold her daughter, saying that she was disloyal, but she thought that Cao Yu was no outsider now, and saying this would hurt feelings.

She thought for a moment and said, "I'm just worried about your assets in the United States. I heard that the taxes on foreigners in the United States are very high."

"I know."

Cao Yu naturally knew this, but I have already established a relationship with the King of Understanding, but the matter has not been finalized yet, so it is not convenient for me to say it out now.

Liu Xiaoli sighed, "Xixi is an American citizen. It would be better if she had an American child. Xiao Cao, you should think about it carefully. It's not too late to give birth in the United States now."

Cao Yu said firmly: "Mom, I have already thought about it. We will not go to the United States. We are all Chinese, and our children will also be Chinese in the future."

"I didn't expect that you are such a patriotic kid."

Seeing that her future son-in-law was adamant, Liu Xiaoli could only shake her head helplessly.

But I still feel a little regretful.

If he really has a grandson or granddaughter with American citizenship, then won’t all the assets of this wealthy prospective son-in-law in the United States belong to him in the future?

This girl Xixi used to be so well-behaved, but now she won’t speak up for herself.

It's true that she forgot her mother when she got a man.
Seeing that her mother was still struggling with this matter, Liu Yifei changed the subject: "Brother Cao Yu, I heard that Mimi has been practicing pole dancing recently, and it seems that she is going to shoot a movie."

"Yes, it's a pretty good movie."

Cao Yu pulled Liu Yifei's hand over and stroked it gently: "She is indeed very ambitious."

Liu Xiaoli finally found an excuse to talk about her daughter, and immediately said, "Xixi, look at how ambitious and hardworking Mimi is, and then look at you, you just stay at home playing with cats and dogs, how could I have given birth to a daughter like you."

"Haha, Mom, don't say that. It's actually quite good for Xixi to be like this."

Cao Yu was happy. It seemed that all parents in the world had tacitly reached a national unity. Even the once beautiful Aunt Liu liked to talk about other people's children.

Seeing her man defending her like this, Liu Yifei smiled sweetly and said, "I think this is great. I help Brother Cao Yu raise the child, which is better than anything else."

"Yes, yes, you are right, you have done a great job!"

Aunt Liu saw that her daughter's elbows kept bending outward and there was nothing she could do about it.

If the two had gotten married in the past, who knows what would have happened to this girl's elbow.

However, this kind of warm family scene is pretty good.

The yacht sailed down the coast and soon docked in Victoria Harbor.

Now, Cao Yu owns many other properties in Hong Kong, in addition to the villa he bought from Zhou Xingchi.

One of them was bought for Zhang Jingying some time ago.

After all, there are more women, and many of them will give birth here in the future.

It would be inconvenient if all these people lived together.

However, Liu Yifei still likes to be neighbors with Zhou Xingchi, mainly because she cleaned and decorated this place herself and it is considered her and Cao Yu’s small home.

As soon as Cao Yu's car drove into the house, he saw Zhou Xingchi wearing a hat outside shouting: "Cao, you're here!"

"Mr. Zhou, come in and sit down."

Cao Yu invited Zhou Xingchi in and asked, "What are you busy with recently?"

“I don’t know what to do.”

After Zhou Xingchi finished filming "The Mermaid", he earned hundreds of millions and won several awards. After that, he took a break for a while.
But Master Xing is a person who can't sit still. He took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Cao, do you have any good projects recently? Can you take care of them?"

"There are some scripts recently, but..."

Cao Yu has fleeced all of Zhou Xingchi's money, leaving only a few films like "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 2" and "The New King of Comedy". One is a bad movie, and the other has a lot of problems as well.

However, the company’s new script is not quite suitable for Stephen Chow’s style.

The main reason is that he wants a higher share than other directors. Even if he is given the job of filming "The Richest Man in Xihong City", it is estimated that he will not achieve the desired effect.

The market for nonsensical movies is somewhat declining nowadays, unless there is a particularly good script.

Furthermore, only Stephen Chow can bring out the soul of nonsense. Without him, there would be no nonsensical movies.

Cao Yu was thinking about these things when he heard Zhou Xingchi laugh and say, "Actually, I'm writing a script recently called "The New King of Comedy". Would you like to take a look, Mr. Cao?"

"Is Hong Kong such an evil place?"

Cao Yugang was still thinking about this movie, and now he actually heard the name of this movie, which was a bit strange.

Have you started writing the script so early? Isn't it still several years before the release?

"Then I'll take a sneak peek."

But Stephen Chow has already said that he has nothing to do anyway, so it doesn't matter if he reads the script.

"I'll get it now!"

Stephen Chow did not waste any time and quickly went home to give Cao Yu a script that he had written most of.

Boss Cao read it for a while and found that the current script was slightly different from the final plot of "The New King of Comedy", but the story was basically the same.

This film still tells the story of a small person's struggle in the entertainment industry, but the character himself is replaced by a woman.

However, compared to the original version of "The King of Comedy", there is some gap in plot design, but it is not particularly big.

Cao Yu had watched this movie in a cinema before. Perhaps because the actors were not as good-looking as in the first film, the audience was full of expectations. However, after watching it, he felt that it was different from what he had imagined, and the reputation and ratings were not high.

However, Cao Yu is now reading a script, and the feeling is completely different from watching a movie.

The story is full of respect for little people, and for this reason alone, Zhou Xingchi deserves respect.

There are not many down-to-earth works like this in the entertainment industry.

Such a film cannot be said to be a bad film. With some modifications, it might become a very good film.

Add a beautiful and famous female star as a foil, such as letting Sissi make a guest appearance.

After reading the script again carefully, Cao Yu said: "This script is not bad. If it is polished well, it should be a very good movie."

"Mr. Cao, we both started from humble beginnings and have worked our way up to where we are today. I knew you would like it."

Hearing Boss Cao's approval, Master Xing was quite happy, and then he conjured up another script: "Why don't you take a look at this script? I'm planning to make some money with this script."

Cao Yu thought there was nothing wrong with making money, so he took the script and found out that it was actually "The Demons Strike Back"

"Master Xing, the plot of this movie is too thin."

Cao Yu simply read this script which was made to make money, gave his own evaluation, and then asked directly: "Mr. Zhou, what is the purpose of this film?"

"There is no intention. I just wrote this film for fun. As long as it can make money, that's fine."

Zhou Xingchi also knew the problem with the script and gave a perfect answer. "Well, if this movie is just for making money, then it's still passable."

Cao Yu did not deny Zhou Xingchi's frank answer.

As long as you don't use Chris Wu, find some good-looking actors, and pile on the special effects, you can really make money.

But in the film, the poor acting skills of the four masters and apprentices directly made Yao Chen look like the best actress.

It can be seen how rotten the young meat is, even rottener than rotten eggs.

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He is not short of money now, and he does not need to raise money.

Even if this movie is to be made, the script must be revised, at least to prevent it from becoming a bad movie.

Zhou Xingchi heard that Boss Cao was mocking him, and said with a smile: "There is nothing wrong with making money, but since Mr. Cao said so, let me think about it again."

"In the first part, Conquering the Demons, we talked about love, and in the second part, we talked about the core of Journey to the West, the difficulties of obtaining the scriptures and the tempering of Sun Wukong's character. After all, he is a monkey in the heart."

“That makes sense.”

Zhou Xingchi thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Cao, do you have anything to do recently? How about we revise these two scripts together?"

"I'll be staying here for a while, so let's do this together."

Cao Yu glanced at Liu Yifei and felt that he had spent too little time with her recently, so he agreed to stay.

He is fully aware of the pros and cons of these two films, as well as the points that netizens originally complained about, and he just takes the essence and discards the dross.

Moreover, "Journey to the West" is a treasure movie. Many movies on this theme have been shot in the past two years.

From "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", "The Return of the Great Sage", "Havoc in Heaven" in previous years, to the current "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", as well as Gong Huang's "The Monkey King 2", and Zhao Liying's "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom", all are of this theme.

Therefore, Cao Yu didn't mind staying for this period of time to polish the script with Stephen Chow.

Liu Yifei was naturally happy about Cao Yu's decision, and she also hoped that Cao Yu would stay for a while longer.

For the next half month, apart from accompanying Liu Yifei to the hospital for check-ups, Boss Cao worked on two scripts with Zhou Xingchi.

"The Monkey King 2" had the biggest problem. At Cao Yu's suggestion, the script was changed to focus on conquering demons, resolving internal conflicts within the team, and the growth of Sun Wukong.

The three plots also became the White Bone Demon, the Kingdom of Women, and the True and False Monkey King.

There is still a secret at the end: who was the last one to obtain the scriptures? Was it the earliest Sun Wukong or the Six-Eared Macaque?

But Stephen Chow insisted on making the Queen of the Kingdom of Women somewhat similar to Miss Duan in the first film, so as to highlight Tang Monk's firm determination to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

Cao Yu thought about this idea and felt it was okay.

After all, watching Journey to the West is not just about seeing monkeys.

While Cao Yu was busy revising the script with Zhou Xingchi, other domestic entertainment companies also took a fancy to the subject matter of "Journey to the West".

More than a year ago, "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" failed at the box office and the producers were very dissatisfied.

They are planning to make another film called "Journey to the West: Part Two - The Monkey King Defeats the White Bone Demon" and have invited Gong Li to play the role of the White Bone Demon. Filming started at the beginning of the year.

Bona Film Group and Wanhe Tianyi are working together to shoot a comedy "Journey to the West: Unexpected", which has been very popular in the past two years.

He even worked with Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei before, and planned to shoot a "A Chinese Odyssey 3".

For the entire film industry, it seems that "Journey to the West" has become the code for box office and traffic.

Just in these few days, Marvel's Hollywood blockbuster "Avengers 3: Infinity War" was released in China.

In the eyes of Chinese people, although this movie is a Hollywood movie, it was also produced by Boss Cao's company. Therefore, on the first day of its release, it won 2.5 million yuan in the mainland box office.

In fact, this film has already earned nearly 1.5 billion US dollars overseas during this period of time.

Seeing such data, Brother Kai beat his chest and Ma Yun shed tears.

They didn't dare to think, is this movie going to be worth 2 billion US dollars?

In addition to this Hollywood movie, "Ghost Blows Out the Light" has already earned 1.6 billion yuan at the domestic box office.

At the same time, it also entered more than 20 foreign countries. Under the appeal of Boss Cao, it achieved a sales volume of more than 7 million US dollars on the first day.

In addition, judging from the public promotional video of "Operation Mekong", this film looks like another hit.

They felt that it was totally unfair to let Cao Yu make so much money.

"Boss Cao actually agreed to let Reba and Tian Yu star in Legend of the Demon Cat? Should I have a chance to talk to him?"

Brother Chen Kai heard these days that Reba agreed to audition, and he became interested.

Who made Douyin so popular nowadays?

In this case, "Cao Zei" can also become "Cao Boss".

After all, if he wants good box office and better publicity for his movie "Legend of the Demon Cat", he will have to rely on Douyin.

It's not worthwhile to continue to be at odds with Boss Cao.
Director Chen wavered in the face of interests.

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"Mr. Cao, you are worthy of being the best screenwriter at the Oscars. These two scripts are indeed much better after you revised them."

At the end of May, Zhou Xingchi looked at the revised script and praised it repeatedly.

"Mr. Zhou's idea is still the best."

Cao Yu also flattered each other and said with a smile: "Which one should we shoot first?"

"Why don't we shoot Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back first? What are your plans for the actors?"

In front of Boss Cao, the financial sponsor who made him a lot of money, Stephen Chow is always very humble.

"As for the actor"

If Feiyu Entertainment wants to pick an actress, they can find ones with all kinds of styles.

But it is not easy to find an actor who has acting skills, can play the role of Tang Monk, is very handsome, and has a talent for comedy.

Although Lu Han and Xiao Zhan are handsome, they are too immature. They are okay for acting in TV series, but it may be a bit difficult to make a movie, even if it is directed by Stephen Chow.

Tian Yu is suitable for playing Bajie, but he is also a bit of a chatterbox.
Cao Yu thought for a while, but there was no suitable candidate for the time being, so he said, "Start the project first, and then slowly audition when the time comes."

"Then I will start to form a crew. After a while, I will go to Yanjing to find you."

Stephen Chow was immediately motivated to work with Feiyu Entertainment again.

After finishing these scripts, Cao Yu also took time to visit the crew of "Kung Fu Yoga" and discussed life with his Indian lover Disha for a few days. He was preparing to return to Yanjing.

Liu Yifei still has more than two months to give birth, and she feels embarrassed to let Cao Yu stay here with her all the time.

At night, Cao Yu hugged Liu Yifei, who was pregnant, and said, "Xixi, you should rest here and take good care of your son. Call me when the baby is about to be born."

"Brother Cao Yu, don't worry, my mother will take care of me."

Although Liu Yifei was reluctant, she also understood that as a man, she still had important things to do.

Leaning in Cao Yu's arms, she said, "Please ask Mimi for me. Also, my Crystal Studio is dead in name only. Why don't you just quit? As for Zheng Shuang, if you think she has a problem, just fire her."

"Her."

Cao Yu almost forgot about his husband.

However, although that girl has only played a few small supporting roles recently, her performance is still pretty good. She actually stayed quite quietly in the Crystal Studio by herself.

He pondered for a while, then smiled and said, "I'll take care of this matter. Your task now is to give birth to our daughter safely."

"Ah."

Liu Yifei nodded.

They had already had a check-up at the hospital and knew that they were having a girl.

She then warned, "Brother Cao Yu, although I don't care about you much, you should still try not to mess around with other girls outside, okay?"

In front of his beloved woman, Cao Yu still nodded: "I know."

As for whether he could do it, he himself didn't dare to guarantee it.

However, as for the three steps of a scumbag man: "not taking the initiative, not refusing, and not taking responsibility", although he has achieved the first two points, he is responsible to every woman.

In this respect, he is much better than the irresponsible scumbag.

He would not be like Principal Wang, who would just dump the girl after hooking up with her. That would be a scumbag.

The next day, I said goodbye to Liu Yifei and took a yacht north to Ningbo, planning to visit a few film and television cities first.

The cast of "The Glory of Tang Dynasty" has been finalized recently and filming will start in early June.

This drama is a joint production of Feiyu and Toho. Toho President Noriaki Shimatani will also attend the opening ceremony, as he has to go.

Mainly, he also misses Xiao Tiantian.

Toho invested a full two thousand US dollars in this drama, so President Shimatani naturally wanted to see what kind of actors Feiyu had arranged this time.

(End of this chapter)