China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 775. Yang Shuxue's goddaughter, "Ne Zha" is released

Feiyu Entertainment has invested in several films this year, and each of them has a considerable investment, which is rare in today's entertainment industry.

It would be quite good for other film and television companies to produce one or two good movies every year. This is all because of Boss Cao, who has made the audience's vision too picky.

For the audience, if the movie is not good, they will not buy it.

However, among many film and television companies, Ali is very confident about the two films he invested in.

One of the films "The Ferryman" has already started filming, and another one is about to start filming.

June 24th, the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, is an auspicious day for signing contracts, receiving money, breaking ground, opening a business, consecrating a property, and praying for children.

Guo Xiaosi scheduled the opening ceremony of his new movie "Jade Dynasty" on this day.

Although this movie is based on the actors of "Tiny Times", Yang Mi is missing. Instead, Yang Ying is cast, and big names like Fan Erbing are invited to help out.

At the same time, there is also Chris Wu, who he thinks is very handsome and promising, as the male lead.

In order to shoot this movie, Guo Xiaosi spent a lot of money to build a studio in Jinling to better implement the 3D+light field matrix shooting technology.

Moreover, he kept promoting how good this technology was on the Internet, hoping to hype up the popularity of the movie first.

This is also a common tactic used in the entertainment industry, which is to arouse the audience's curiosity.

But this time, he failed.

"Is Boss Cao deliberately going against me? Is he dissatisfied with me for abandoning him?"

Guo Xiaosi was very sad when he saw the news about Feiyu's audition for "Red Ling" flooding Weibo, entertainment news, and Douyin.

What’s even more infuriating is that the fact that Boss Cao wrote a song for the movie actually became a hot topic on the day’s search list?
I'm just starting filming, you're just auditioning, and you only said you wrote a song, we don't know what song it is yet, is it so popular?
Netizens are still excitedly asking online, what are Boss Cao’s songs like?
But all we know now is that the name of the song is the same as the movie, also called "Chi Ling", and we know nothing else.

In addition to Guo Xiaosi, Ma Yun also couldn't understand why that thief Cao was so popular?
Therefore, Ali spent a lot of money to find many media reporters and promoted the start of filming of "Jade Dynasty" more vigorously.

But soon, another piece of news made all his efforts completely in vain.

That is, Feiyu Entertainment officially announced that Han Sanping, the former head of China Film, was hired by the company as an honorary art consultant.

This news is so explosive.

Han Sanping has been in charge of China Film Corporation for more than ten years. He once managed to get hundreds of big stars in the entertainment industry to volunteer to film the drama "Founding of a Republic" without spending a penny on it.

Even when Stephen Chow wanted to play a small role in the film, he was rejected.

Such a person is actually willing to be an honorary consultant for Feiyu Entertainment?
Even if it is just a figurehead, this will greatly enhance Feiyu's status in the entertainment industry in the future.

The boss is the richest man and has a lot of money.

He is also the vice chairman of the Film Association and has helped Chinese films win several Oscars.

Now that she has such a good relationship with Mr. Han Sanye, who in the entertainment industry dares to mess with her?
Compared with Ma Yun and Guo Xiaosi's depression, Brother Chen Kai was both unhappy and relieved.

What’s annoying is that Zhang Yimou is also going to make a movie about opera?
As a Qinqiang singer, can you shoot such elegant things?

Isn't this a challenge to me?

Fortunately, I have seen the situation clearly and decided to negotiate with Boss Cao, otherwise my artistic path would probably become narrower and narrower.

As for the song Cao Yu wrote for the new movie "Red Ling", he was also very curious about what kind of song it would be.

But no matter what, he hopes that his movie "Legend of the Demon Cat" will never compete with Feiyu's movie.

He wanted to send a signal to Boss Cao that I was ready to surrender.

Some are happy and some are sad, but many of Boss Cao’s fans and netizens are very excited.

On this day, everyone was not only concerned about the theme song that Cao Yu was going to write for the movie, but the second most searched topic was that Yin Zheng, who played Yuan Hua, was going to play Qing Yi.
The contrast is really huge.

Who would have thought that Yin Zheng, who was so coquettish in the song "Yi Jian Mei", could actually play the role of a Qing Yi?
This movie is so worth watching.

As for the fact that Han Sanping became Feiyu's consultant, only many entertainment companies paid attention to it. For ordinary netizens and viewers, it did not seem strange.

My father Cao is so awesome.

At this time, Cao Yu was relieved to see that "Jade Dynasty" had almost no popularity.

He doesn't want such a bad movie to pollute the minds of the audience.

On that day of the audition, the other supporting roles were handed over to Zhang Yimou, while Boss Cao took Wang Xiaochen to play golf.

The results were obtained the next day. Some were given to artists from other entertainment companies, and some were given to actors from Feiyu.

After the actors were confirmed and Boss Cao approved the investment, Zhang Yimou arranged actor training, built a filming location, and waited for the filming to start after the National Day.

It's almost July, and Boss Cao is not busy recently. He took advantage of the summer vacation to take Li Xiaoyu and her daughter, as well as Yang Shuxue, on a yacht to go on vacation abroad.

Yang Shuxue also liked Cao Yu's little girl named Yutong very much, and even adopted her as her goddaughter.

Although the two are more than 40 years apart in age, from Cao Yu's point of view, there is no problem in being the godmother of Cao Yu's daughter.

In early July, "Operation Mekong" was still in theaters.

With support from all sides, major cinema chains have given great priority to the film in scheduling screenings, and the film has earned 1.8 billion yuan in box office revenue in just over half a month.

As Despicable Me 3 is about to be released in China, Jurassic World is about to be taken off the screen.

This Hollywood movie starring Song Zue has grossed 1.7 billion yuan in just over a month of its release.

This is mainly the result of the impact of "Operation Mekong".

Although the film is still being shown in some countries around the world, it still grossed US$1.6 billion worldwide.

These movies have bombarded the Chinese film market one after another, and some netizens have even joked that this year's film season can be called the "Year of Cao Yu."

After all, the most popular movies this year are all related to Cao Yu.

But what the audience doesn’t know is that Cao Yu has not yet released his ultimate move this year.

On the island of Semporna, Cao Yu lay leisurely under a coconut tree on the snow-white beach, watching Yang Shuxue and his daughter playing in the water in the distance, with a smile on his face full of doting.

He likes children very much now. Now that he is rich, he also hopes to have more and more children.

"Hubby, Sister Shuxue is a good woman."

In fact, Li Xiaoyu had long realized that her man had some unknown relationship with the sister named Yang Shuxue, but she also felt that this sister was really good.

Over the years, this beautiful and wealthy woman has been silently helping Cao Yu without any requests.

Maybe this is true love.

"Yes, she is really nice. It is the honor of my life to know her."

Cao Yu also nodded in agreement: "If it weren't for her, maybe I would have been content with my modest wealth and might not have entered the entertainment industry."

According to Cao Yu's original idea, as long as he sold the domain name he registered, he would have money in his hands, invest in some houses, become a landlord, and then pick up girls and enjoy life. That would be enough.

I didn’t expect that after entering the entertainment industry, I would be unstoppable and have been in it until now.

Li Xiaoyu gently held Cao Yu's hand and said, "So, if it weren't for Sister Shu Xue, I wouldn't have known you, and we wouldn't have had a daughter."

"Who knows? It's hard to say about fate."

Cao Yu turned around and glanced at Li Xiaoyu, who was wearing a swimsuit and had a hot and curvy figure that was whiter than the sand on the beach. He smiled and said, "Even if you hadn't entered the entertainment industry, if I had met you, I might have pursued you. Who makes you so beautiful?"

"You may not be able to catch up with me then."

Li Xiaoyu smiled mischievously and spoke the truth.

If Cao Yu had not already had a certain status in the entertainment industry at that time and had not possessed some means, he would probably not have been able to escape the entanglement of that person.

As the two were chatting, their seven-year-old daughter Li Yutong ran over.

The little girl picked up a coconut and took a sip, then said with a smile, "Dad, let's go catch turtles tonight."

“You can’t catch the turtles here.”

Although Cao Yu has rented the island, sea turtles are protected animals and cannot be caught at will.

At this time, Yang Shuxue also came back: "Xiao Cao, if we can't catch them, can we not watch them? If you don't accompany Yutong tonight, I will accompany her to watch the turtles lay eggs."

"Don't spoil this little girl."

Although Cao Yu loves children, he is very strict with them.

"Godmother is still the best."

Li Yutong is now a smart little girl who can tell who to please.

Seeing Yang Shuxue speaking for him, he immediately whispered mysteriously into his godmother's ear.

Seeing his daughter's mysterious look, Cao Yu smiled and asked, "What bad idea are you brewing?"

"Not a bad idea."

After saying that, Li Yutong ran away embarrassedly.

"Sister Shuxue, what did she tell you? You don't want to catch a turtle and roast it?"

Cao Yu became curious and thought his daughter was playing a prank.

Yang Shuxue smiled and said, "She told me that she wanted to make a movie so that she could show it to her classmates, but she was afraid that you would be unhappy, so she asked me to tell you."

"filming?"

Cao Yu was delighted when he saw his daughter playing with sand on the beach.

Does your daughter need to make a movie?
Other stars need to exploit their children and try their best to get their children into the entertainment industry, but as the richest man in China, Cao, there is no need for him to do so.

Yang Shuxue explained: "Her classmates knew that you were the boss of a film company, and they all laughed at her for never being on TV."

"This girl, can she act?"

Cao Yu still disagreed. This little guy is so young and he wants to be on TV?
Li Xiaoyu interrupted, "Why can't my daughter act? She's usually like Little Jingdouzi, very good at acting, she must be very talented."

"I don't want her to enter the entertainment industry."

As soon as Cao Yu finished speaking, Yang Shuxue retorted, "Isn't that superficial? Children have hobbies, and it's okay for you to let them play with them. When they grow up, they can take over my job. My company will be left to my goddaughter, isn't that okay?"

Cao Yu was not only stunned by this, even Li Xiaoyu did not expect it. Yang Shuxue was the richest woman in China, so she really wanted to give the company to her goddaughter?

"Why are you looking at me? Yutong is so cute, I just like her, is that okay?"

Yang Shuxue said this, left Cao Yu behind, and went to play with the little girl again.

"Sister Shuxue, you've fallen in love with someone else."

Cao Yu smiled bitterly in his heart.

In fact, he knew in his heart that Yang Shuxue always felt regretful because she and he had not had a child.

Moreover, her biological daughter went to the United States with her ex-husband and became a fake foreigner. She likes her daughter so much. On the one hand, Li Yutong is indeed likable, and on the other hand, she can find a place to put her emotions.

Li Xiaoyu said softly at this time: "Sister Shuxue really likes Yutong, and she is right. It's okay to let our daughter make a cameo appearance in the movie."

“Guest appearance.”

Cao Yu looked at his daughter from afar, and a movie called "Life Events" came to his mind.

This is a movie that he watched several times and shed tears every time he watched it.

"Although Yutong has my genes, I don't know if she has the same explosive power in acting."

My daughter Li Yutong is very cute and usually very clever.

But the little girl holding the musket in "Life Events" can easily beat all the young handsome guys in the entertainment industry in terms of acting skills and the emotions expressed in the movie.

Is it okay for my own daughter?

Seeing Cao Yu was silent, Li Xiaoyu asked with a smile, "Honey, what movie are you thinking of letting Yutong guest star in?"

"I've been thinking about this. It just so happens that our company is going to shoot a movie called 'Red Ling', in which there is a little girl with more than ten minutes of scenes. I'll let Yutong play with it and see if she has acting talent."

"The child I give birth to will definitely be talented!"

Li Xiaoyu naturally had no objection to Cao Yu's idea.

As long as my daughter is happy.

In the summer season in July, in addition to Feiyu's Feiyu's movies, there are also "The Assassin", "The Sun Also Rises", "The Crossing", etc.

However, the producers of these films were worried that Despicable Me 3 and Operation Mekong would affect their performance, so they all scheduled their release dates for mid-to-late July.

However, the film that has been most heavily promoted during this period is the ambitious "Monster Hunt".

The animated film "Ne Zha" produced by Feiyu is scheduled to be released on July 31, while "Monster Hunt" will be released a week earlier on July 24.

This not only allows you to avoid two blockbuster movies, but even if "Ne Zha" is very popular, you can still grab some box office revenue in advance.

As a work by Rainsy Ng, The Crossing did not want to compete with Monster Hunt, but confidently set the release date on July 30, just one day earlier than Ne Zha.

The Minions series is now in its fourth installment, but the box office is still good.

It grossed nearly 800 million yuan in just one week after its release.

"The Assassin", which was released at about the same time, was visually beautiful, but because some people did not like its style, the box office was not very good, only a few million a day.

However, "The Sun Also Rises" took the lead among domestic films, even taking in over 100 million yuan in a single day on the weekend.

Anyway, the film market in July was calm.

However, Feiyu's films "The Love Master" and "The Eight Hundred" started shooting respectively, causing quite a stir.

In particular, someone posted a video of Clara Lee Sung-min dancing in front of a mirror on Douyin, which immediately made countless otakus in China know this Korean woman.

On the contrary, Huayi attaches great importance to the movie "Eight Hundred".

The film was originally scheduled to start shooting after the Chinese New Year. Later, in order to achieve the best filming effect, a 1:1 scale Sihang Warehouse was specially built and a new Suzhou River was dug.

Therefore, the start of filming was delayed until July.

In addition, Stephen Chow also announced that this year he will film the sequel of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" with Feiyu Entertainment.

These news have once again shaken the film industry.

Boss Cao, how many movies do you plan to shoot this year?

On July 21, "Operation Mekong" was taken off the screen after 35 days of release, and its final box office revenue exceeded 2.4 billion yuan.

Cao Yu played in Semporna for more than half a month. On July 20th, he planned to send Li Xiaoyu and Yang Shuxue back to Yanjing and go to Hong Kong himself.

Liu Yifei is going to give birth in August.

"Boss, you're finally back!"

Just as I arrived at the company and was about to handle some work, I saw Yang Chaoyue running towards me.

When Cao Yu saw this girl, he asked curiously, "Why are you here?"

When Yang Chaoyue saw her boss, she smiled and said, "I have finished filming The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. I have nothing to do, so I came to the company to learn."

"So fast?"

"The director said I had talent and was a good actor. In less than a month, I finished filming Yang Buhui's role."

Yang Chaoyue boasted: "Boss, do you think I'm awesome?"

"Amazing, awesome, really awesome."

Looking at Yang Chaoyue's face, Cao Yu felt inexplicably amused and said with a smile, "How many scenes does the adult Yang Buhui have? Only a dozen scenes, and you actually spent a month on it. That's really impressive."

"Boss, you're making fun of me!"

Yang Chaoyue and Cao Yu had been out to sea once and had become quite familiar with each other. Yang Chaoyue jumped to Cao Yu's side and said, "Boss, what should I do next? I don't plan to study in the third year of high school anymore. I want to sing and act in the company."

"Don't want to go to school?"

"Yes, we were divided into classes in our third year of high school. My grades were not good to begin with, so I was assigned to the worst class. It would be a waste of time to stay in school, and I would not be able to get into university."

"That's it."

Cao Yu also knew the girl's situation. Even if she took the college entrance examination, she could only get a junior college degree at best, which would be useless.

Her future is still in the entertainment industry, so she said, "As long as your father agrees, it's fine. Since you are here, just study your acting skills, practice singing and dancing, and we can think about the rest next year."

"I have to study again. I will be able to act soon. Filming is fun."

"Let's study for a year or two first."

Cao Yu tapped the girl and asked, "By the way, where did you make the money from playing Yang Buhui? How did you spend it?"

"I bought my dad a new phone, and I saved the rest."

"good."

Cao Yu nodded with satisfaction: "Go ahead, send me a message if you have anything."

After sending Yang Chaoyue away, Cao Yu dealt with some matters at Feiyu Group.

Just as I finished my work and was about to go home, Song Zu'e heard that the boss was back and ran over.

"Godfather, where have you been recently? You didn't even take me with you!"

"Take your big head ghost!"

Whenever he has a holiday, this girl comes to bother him, and Cao Yu has no way to deal with her.

Song Zu'e hugged his godfather's neck and begged, "Godfather, I am also an international actor. If there are any movies in the second half of the year, let me act in them. I will definitely be popular."

"It depends on your test scores."

Cao Yu announced the drama "Legend of Nine States" in the company, but he only mentioned the idea of ​​letting Song Zue play the leading female role to Liu Shishi and Guan Xiaotong.

Song Zu'e has been in school all the time and has no idea that a big pie will fall from the sky and fall on his head.

“My grades are pretty good.”

Song Zu'e just hung on Cao Yu like this: "Godfather, what good movies are there? Is it the "Nine States Legend"? "

"You are quite smart, but I still have to wait and see the audition results."

Cao Yu was afraid that the girl would be too proud, so he did not tell her his plan.

"I'm not afraid of auditions, and I've finished reading the original novel in the past half month, so I'm sure I can act well."

After Song Zue finished speaking, he asked, "There are many female characters in the book, which one do you want me to play?"

"Let me think about this."

"What else are you thinking about? My acting is so good, I must be the leading actress."

Song Zue kissed Cao Yu on the face with her cherry mouth, got off Cao Yu, and then gently blew on his back: "Okay, godfather?"

Cao Yu was so overwhelmed by the sweet and coquettish voice that he could only say, "Okay, as long as the audition goes well, the leading female role will be given to you."

"Godfather, I love you so much!"

Song Zu'e immediately kissed Cao Yu on the face again: "I'll go to your house tonight and play tennis with you!"

In the next few days, Cao Yu was busy with Feiyu Group's affairs.

On July 24, the movie "Monster Hunt", which had been promoted crazily for two months, was released.

Thanks to effective publicity, the film earned 170 million on the first day of its release, and more than 200 million on the second weekend.

This is the only movie this year that has nothing to do with Feiyu Entertainment and has a single-day box office of over 200 million.

Moreover, the movie has a good reputation online, especially the cute little monster, which is loved by many children. In just one week, the box office revenue was close to 1 billion.

Wu Yusen's film "The Crossing" released on July 30th was affected by "Monster Hunt" and only took in more than 9 million in its premiere.

Just when many people in the entertainment industry believed that this movie would likely become another hit domestic movie this summer, the release of "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World" brought the terrifying momentum of "Monster Hunt" to an abrupt halt!

(End of this chapter)