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Chapter 665: Dark Mythology, the Romantic and Cheerful Grand Commander
the first two years.

Tencent made a dark westward journey game called "Douluo Dalu" based on the story of Journey to the West.

It is strange and gorgeous and became famous at the time.

It’s a pity that it was short-lived.

The game ends at the chapter of Lady Bones and ends in a bleak way.

The behind-the-scenes planning and production team of this game left Tencent and founded Game Science Company, abbreviated as Youke.

Teacher Liu has always been dreaming of having two flowers blooming.

Zhou Yutang has also always wanted to develop a film, television and game based on the mythology of the Celestial Empire.

Since the project of "The Return of the Great Sage" was launched, there have been plans for derivative peripherals and subsequent games.

It is not a money-making mobile game or web game related to Journey to the West.

It is a high-quality stand-alone game based on Journey to the West.

Domestic 3a is still a blue ocean market, and what Zhou Yutang has to do is to be the first to try it.

However, Star Games is still fully committed to promoting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and is seriously short of manpower.

This requires recruiting new troops, and Zhou Yutang has his eyes on the Youke team.

It was a few days before the meeting with the CEO of Youke, but I first met Mr. Wang from Guangxian in the Jiangdong Building.

As soon as they met, Lao Wang's eyes turned into lemon shapes, and his tone was full of envy:

"The Piano Tuner has already made 10 billion RMB, and this Monkey King: Hero is Back is even better, it has already made million RMB."

“One billion is a little hard.”

Zhou Yutang shook his head and laughed: "Mr. Wang, have you watched Monkey King?"

“I just watched it last night, it was incredible!”

As a professional in the film and television industry, Wang Changtian is naturally knowledgeable. He said with emotion: "At least 1 billion box office will be achieved. If the publicity and promotion in the later stage are good enough, it may even be higher."

What shocked Lao Wang was that domestic animated films have actually reached the level of being on par with Hollywood!

The quality of the movie "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" in terms of picture quality, sound effects, and story can all be described as excellent, even surprisingly high!

"It took the October team eight years of hard work to achieve today's results."

Zhou Yutang did not take credit for it and said modestly: "Of course I have to thank Director Guo as well."

"Director Guo?"

"Director Guo Xiaosi from next door."

Zhou Yutang teased, "If it weren't for him, the box office of Monkey King wouldn't be so high."

"Tiny Times 4" received terrible word of mouth. After accurately harvesting fans and a specific group of people, it quickly declined.

In just a few days, the screening schedule dropped from 40% to 25%, and there is no basic base of passers-by to speak of.

Most of the extra screenings were for The Monkey King.

"After hearing what you said, I think Zhang Zhao and Guo Xiaosi would burst into tears."

Wang Changtian pushed his glasses, probably thinking that Zhou Yutang's statement was interesting, and couldn't help but smile.

"Boss Wang, why do I hear you seem to be gloating over someone else's misfortune?"

"Really? Don't talk nonsense. Haha!"

Lao Wang tried very hard to hold back his laughter, but finally he couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Zhao was the CEO of Enlight Pictures back then. Later he was kicked out due to an internal power struggle and turned to work with boss Jia to start LeTV Pictures. Zhou Yutang was cleaning up the mess for him.

"Speaking of which, I have to thank you very much."

Wang Changtian was in a good mood: "If Gardenia Blossoms was put in the same period as The Monkey King, I'm afraid it would be beaten down."

When Guangguang officially announced that the release date of "Gardenia Blossoms" would be advanced to the beginning of the month, some experts in the film and television industry mocked Lao Wang for being crazy.

Now it seems that Zhou Yutang's eyes are indeed as sharp as a god.

Although Gardenia's reputation is not very good, with Chen Kaige's Taoist priest attracting attention, not many people pay attention to it.

Gardenia was originally aiming to make money, and now it has achieved its goal by getting rich quietly, while poet Chen’s Taoist priest is still going down the mountain.

Wang Changtian was very interested in animated films and asked a lot of questions about the behind-the-scenes of "The Return of the Great Sage".

In fact, long before Zhou Yutang, Light Media had already laid out its animation industry.

It also joined hands with Hangzhou's Xuan Ji Technology to make a Qin Dynasty IP movie "The Legend of Qin: Dragon Soars Ten Thousand Miles".

If it had been released during last year's summer vacation, the total box office would have been less than 60 million, which was obviously not enough to recoup the investment cost of 40 million.

But Lao Wang still has ambitions, and then Guangguang is preparing to produce the animated film "Big Fish and Begonia".

Now that he has seen the success of the movie "The Return of the Great Sage", Wang Changtian has become more determined to invest in animated films.

After talking about the recent film market for a while, the situation was almost the same, Zhou Yutang finally got to the point and said seriously:
"Mr. Wang, if there is a suitable animation project in the future, our two companies can work together."

"Together?"

There was a hint of surprise on Wang Changtian's face, but more of it was excitement.

He vaguely felt that Zhou Yutang wanted to cause trouble, and it must be a big one.

"I am also a shareholder of Guangxian."

Zhou Yutang smiled and poured a cup of tea for Lao Wang, and briefly revealed Jiangdong Entertainment's animation industry layout:

"In the next phase, the plans for Jiangdong's animated films have been finalized, including a sequel to Journey to the West and an animated film on Fengshen."

"Theme of Conferred Gods?"

"Yes."

Zhou Yutang had a faint smile on his face.

There is so much to explore in animated films based on Chinese mythology.

In addition to the Monkey King from Journey to the West, Nezha and Yang Jian are also very popular.

Jiangdong's future scheduled animation theme and the accompanying dark mythology theme game will be promoted simultaneously.

Even if Jiangdong Entertainment operates at full capacity, it would not be able to develop the industry enough.

Making animated films is different from making live-action films. The animation industry has a higher threshold, a longer cycle, and greater risks.

The "Monkey King: Hero is Back" team spent eight years to create this amazing sword.

In this case, it would be better to bring in allies to develop together and make the entire market bigger.

Previously, Huayi, Alibaba, LeTV and other companies had already approached Zhou Yutang and offered generous conditions to reach a strategic agreement.

But the above-mentioned people are basically focusing on the capital market.

What Zhou Yutang wants to do is the entertainment industry, where content is king.

So I chose Lao Wang of Guangguang.

In this ostentatious circle, Wang Changtian's down-to-earth and low-key style is quite to his liking.

Currently, the distribution of some of Jiangdong Entertainment’s films is still handled by Guangxian.

International star Zhang Ziyi is pregnant recently, but Wang Feng has no idea what’s wrong with him.

His studio posted an article on Weibo, with a rather arrogant tone: "If there is no Zhou Yutang in the mainland film and television industry, it will lose half of its territory. Similarly, if there is no Wang Feng in the domestic entertainment industry and there is no 'Peak Storm Coming' tour, the mainland music scene will lose half of its territory, which will be horrible!"

Then, the article also quoted the data report of "2015 China Live Music Industry Report", bluntly stating that Wang Feng is the leading figure in the domestic entertainment music industry.

As soon as this news came out, it instantly caused a sensation in half of the entertainment industry!

More of it is sarcasm,
"Zhou Yutang is at the peak of his career, with a net worth of hundreds of billions, and he didn't even mention half of the country. Are you, Wang Feng, worthy of being compared with the Grand Commander?"

"How many do you want?"

"Looking through Wang Feng's song lists over the years, we can find that most of the song titles are very similar to those of his good friend Zheng Jun."

"International Zhang has named him the 'Emperor of Music', so there's nothing wrong with him having half the country. I wish him the best."

"I am innocent as a pioneer in the gambling world, but I am affectionate as a stepmother in the movie world! Are you crazy about making the headlines?"

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The joke tellers on the Internet try their best to come up with ideas, most of which are ridicule and mockery.

Wang Feng did not show up. After all, he never cared whether he made the headlines or not.

But his studio quietly deleted the Weibo post and pretended nothing had happened.

It was fate that Wang Banbi was only on the hot search list but failed to make the headlines and was overshadowed by the godfather of R&B.

These days, apart from The Monkey King Tramples the Sky, the popularity has skyrocketed.

The hottest topic is the news that this Taiwanese singer has cheated on his wife.

Various large-scale WeChat chat records, bed photos, etc. are flying around, and his notoriety has given netizens a lot of topics to talk about.

The godfather of R&B was very patient and kept a low profile for several days before finally holding a press conference.

He also announced the chat records between him and his mistress at the meeting and made it into a PPT.

The PPT reproduced in detail the emotional experience between him and the mistress, divided into chapters such as time and place, interaction between the two, and falling in love, which was jaw-dropping.

In addition, he clarified some of the false accusations made by the mistress in the PPT, and repeatedly emphasized: "I only love my wife in this life."

Netizens were shocked. This was the first person in history to send a PPT to apologize for cheating.

"So PPT can be used in this way?"

Zhou Yutang read it several times in his office and was amazed: "It is well-reasoned and convincing."

By using PPT to explain, he turned the apology for cheating into a textbook for crisis public relations. Even Boss Jia, who is an expert in PPT, would have to admit defeat.

"Boss, almost everyone is here."

Ni Ni put the document in her hand on Zhou Yutang's desk. Seeing that her boss was still admiring the classic PPT, she was speechless.

I secretly complained in my heart, when the fish pond explodes, will I have to make a PPT for him too?
"Tell them to conference room 3."

Zhou Yutang signed a document quickly and stood up.

As the filming of Detective Chinatown is about to start, he has held several crew meetings in the company in the past few days.

After all, this movie was filmed in Tyrande, so some precautions have to be taken.

In addition, the main creative team of the crew can get into the shooting state more quickly after a little running-in in the early stage.

"Stay a while, little deer."

In the past, the Grand Commander always gave special treatment to beautiful women, but this time, for the first time ever, he gave special attention to Lu Han.

After all, among all the main creators, Lu Han’s acting skills may be the most difficult.

"The Piano Tuner has been released for three weeks and has grossed 8.75 million yuan, leading the summer season!"

"The latter of 'The Monkey King: Hero is Back' has broken the 100 million yuan box office on consecutive weekdays, rewriting the record of domestic animated films!"

The eyes of the film and television companies in the industry were filled with envy and jealousy, and all fell on Jiangdong Entertainment.

La Peikang also found it incredible when he saw the box office report compiled by the China Film Data Department. He murmured, "This is what he called double insurance. It's simply a bloodbath for the summer season!?"

These two movies, as two heroes, basically dominated the entire first half of the summer season.

Although the box office of Tiny Times 4 has already closed at 3.54 million, Zhang Zhao of LeTV Pictures raised the French flag in advance and publicly stated:

"The total box office of the Tiny Times series has exceeded 1.5 billion, which has achieved expectations. I watched The Monkey King: Hero is Back last night. This film is undoubtedly a benchmark for the contemporary Chinese animation industry. Congratulations, Mr. Zhou." "Congratulations, Yu Tang."

Yang Mi, the top star of "Tiny Times 4", has revealed her cards and directly booked the entire theater for "The Return of the Great Sage" by drawing lots on her Weibo. Guo Xiaosi has also given up resistance.

Journey to the West has always been a popular IP in China.

Ever since Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" became a huge hit, many movies on the theme of "Journey to the West" have been launched.

The box office success of "The Return of the Great Sage" has completely ignited the passion of domestic film and television companies.

It means that the current version of the wealth code has been found.

Tang Yan just joined the cast of "A Chinese Odyssey 3" and is ready to challenge the goddess Zhu Yin's role as Fairy Zixia.

Zhou Xingxing's Star Shine Company then jointly issued an announcement with several film and television companies in the industry.

"The sequel to Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, directed by Xu Ke and produced by Zhou Xingxing, has been successfully approved and entered the casting stage.

The film will be jointly produced by China Film Group, Shanghai Film Group, Huayi Film Group, Xinghui Film Group, Hengdian Film Group and other companies, and the total investment is expected to be no less than 5 million yuan! "

This piece of movie information was like a bombshell, exploding in the circle.

In less than half a day, it appeared on the Weibo hot search list and the entertainment headlines of major portals.

Zhou Xingxing's last movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" complemented Zhou Yutang's Spring Festival celebration and is still mentioned by many people.

"Didn't Zhou Xingxing and Hua Yi break up?"

Ni Ni also saw the news and asked her boss out of curiosity.

"In this circle, interests are the eternal theme."

Zhou Yutang smiled faintly.

Previously, over the 8000 million yuan for "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", Stephen Chow and Huayi went to court and the lawsuit lasted for a long time.

The court made a ruling some time ago that Zhou Xingxing lost the lawsuit against Huayi for unpaid debts because the case was not established due to the lack of signatures and seals from both parties, and all the claims were dismissed accordingly.

Even after the falling out, they were able to sit together and work together again. Zhou Yutang couldn't do it.

The director of Star Shine, the main controller of the project, has already released the news that he is planning to use the top young actor in the circle as the leading actor.

Many media outlets have focused their attention on Lu Han of Jiangdong Entertainment.

Apart from the great commander-in-chief who is a top star in the circle, the first person that comes to mind is naturally Xiaolu.

Lu Han's popularity at this stage was terrifying.

He is a loyal fan of the Premier League Manchester United. Last time he posted a Weibo congratulating Zhou Yutang on joining Liverpool and looking forward to the Red Devils derby. The number of comments below even broke the Guinness World Record.
"Xinghui Company has actually come into contact with Xiaolu."

Ni Ni chuckled and said, "I heard from Yang Tianzhen that apart from Zhou Xingxing's project, Lu Han has quite a few film contracts."

"LeEco's movie project of 'Grave Robbers' Chronicles', and Pony Ma bought a Class B copyright from our company, and plans to invite Yang Mi and Lu Han to star in it together."

"Da Mi Mi is partnered with Lu Han?"

Zhou Yutang was slightly stunned.

I'm about to join the group. I've been busy cultivating immortality recently, and I also have to manage my time to chat on the phone with Liu Shishi for a long time, so I haven't chatted much with Da Mimi.

Yang Mi has finished the promotion work for "Tiny Times 4" and will soon participate in the roadshow promotion for Dong Xiaopeng's "The Pancake Man".

Next month, there will be another movie called "City of Love" co-directed by young directors Dong Runnian, Han Yi, Fu Tianyu, Ji Jiatong and others.

In order to build up her network, Da Mimi reduced her salary and played the leading role in one of the units.

People outside say that Zhou Yutang is a model worker. Compared with Da Mimi, he is simply maintaining his health.

This summer, Yang Mi has three movies to be released, as well as a TV series project. Her work "The Thirteenth Lady" is no joke.

"It's the movie 'Blind Witness' directed by South Korean director Ahn Sang-hoon a few years ago."

"Not impressed."

"Kim Ha Neul won the Best Actress award for this movie."

Ni Ni glanced at Zhou Yutang and said slowly, "At that time, you and Lin Yuner were having an affair."

"It was the Blue Dragon Award."

After hearing her reminder, Zhou Yutang suddenly remembered.

At that time, he seemed to be living together with Yoona in South Korea.

That year, the Sino-Korean co-production "The Thieves" swept the film markets of both countries. He first won the Blue Dragon Award and then the Golden Horse Award, and for a while he was the talk of the town.

Because the genre was suitable and the role was hard to come by, Zhou Yutang asked Pei Yun to acquire the Chinese copyright for the film.

It is also a film project plan prepared for Liu Shishi.

After comparison, it was found that the script of the same type of "The Piano Tuner" was of higher quality, so the development of this film project was put aside.

Thanks to Zhou Yutang's early planning, Jiangdong Entertainment's film and television copyright library is full of treasures.

The company's internal copyright new business evaluation is divided into several levels: S, A, and B.

S is the highest level, A is in the middle, and B is the lowest.

The Chinese version of "Blind Witness" is not ranked high, so naturally it can only gather dust in Jiangdong Entertainment's film and television copyright library.

For Jiangdong Entertainment, it may be useless.

But for other film and television companies, it is also a rare high-quality project.

Zhou Yutang basically doesn't care about projects below Class A. Li Shuang took the initiative to transfer the copyright to Brother Dagou, which was considered to have recovered the operating costs and even made a profit.

Boss Jia of LeTV and Zhang Qiang, CEO of Alibaba Pictures, are most envious of Jiangdong's film and television copyright library.

The former spent huge sums of money to acquire "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", and is gearing up for a big move with both TV series and movies.

The latter even used big data analysis to lock on "Eternal Love" and launched a copyright negotiation tug-of-war that lasted nearly a month.

The people at Alibaba Pictures are quite cunning. Halfway through the conversation, they first contacted Aunt Liu and hinted that Liu Yifei will hopefully partner with Zhou Yutang to create the number one fantasy romance IP in China.

After drawing a bunch of cakes, Aunt Liu became interested and asked Liu Tianxian to sound out the situation.

Ali turned around and used Liu Yifei as a bargaining chip, hoping to speed up the negotiations with Jiang Dong.

"Being smart."

When it comes to interests, Zhou Yutang is very clear-headed: "If it's less than 80 million, don't even think about it."

The film and television copyright of "Eternal Love" is in the hands of Jiangdong Entertainment, but Jiangdong has too many high-quality film and television resources.

This project can only be put on the back-end queue.

At that time, the biggest possibility is to unite with powerful film and television companies in the industry to exchange resources and develop together.

It cost two million to acquire the copyright at that time.

Now that the film copyright is being sold alone, Zhou Yutang feels that the price of 80 million is normal.

It's just a little bit of money from Alibaba...

"The Return of the Great Sage" is almost far ahead of the rest and continues to widen the gap with "Tiny Times 4".

Movies like Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms also have a certain film market in Japan. This time, Zhou Yutang entrusted the distribution of the films to Toho Group in Japan.

The night before leaving for Tyrande, he had a video call with the head of Toho Group in Japan.

"Nei region box office first week 90 million yen?"

The Japanese supervision and dubbing lineup of the Neon version can also be described as luxurious.

The Japanese supervisor is Goro Miyazaki, the son of Hayao Miyazaki, the director of "On Poppy Hill" and "Tales from Earthsea".

As for the voice acting lineup, we also invited heavyweight voice actors such as Takehito Koyasu (Ryosuke Takahashi of "Initial D" and Shinsuke Takasugi of "Gintama").

We are leaving for Tyrande tomorrow, and Da Meiyuan is packing her suitcase.

Zhou Yutang withdrew his gaze from Da Meiyu's hip line, and his mind turned slightly. After converting the exchange rate, it would be about 5.4 million RMB.

This number is almost negligible considering the skyrocketing box office in China.

The main reason is the conservative scheduling of Toho Group. In that tiny country, there are only two or three hundred theaters showing the film.

There is nothing that can be done about this, after all, it is not a movie starring Zhou Yutang himself.

However, the word-of-mouth feedback in the Japanese area is quite good.

There has never been a Chinese animated film exported overseas before. Compared with the box office, "The Return of the Great Sage" obviously has other more far-reaching significance.

"Mr. Zhou, the feedback from the audience in Japan is very good. We will increase the number of screenings in the future."

"Oh, he seemed to have said a lot. What else did he say?"

Zhou Yutang touched his chin.

The translator in the video relayed with a strange expression: "The person in charge of Dongbao said that if there is a chance, you are welcome to come to Neon, and he will definitely entertain you wholeheartedly."

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Huang Xiaochu, who has been active in front of the audience with "Longing for Life", posted a photo of his daughter Duoduo on Weibo.
“I took Duoduo to the cinema last night to watch The Monkey King: Hero is Back. This is the best Chinese animated film, and it’s on par with Hollywood.

Duoduo was very moved after watching it. She came back full of energy and borrowed her mother's computer to sit on the bed and write a script, because she and a few good friends were going to rehearse a play together, a new version of Cinderella, and she was responsible for writing the script and starring in it. I thought she was just talking nonsense, but I didn't expect it to be serious. She had to show off a little bit!"

At that time, Huang Duoduo in "Where Are We Going, Dad" was also a girl familiar to the audience.

Now that she has grown up, the little girl sits on her bed, holding her computer and writing the script seriously. Judging from the content on the screen, the script is in English.

Zhou Yutang and Da Meiyuan were on their way to the airport when they opened WeChat and took a look.

Huang Sanshi also sent him a message of congratulations, which seemed like an attempt to get close to him.

He only found out from Zhang Ruojun that the recording of that episode of "A Longing for Life" almost went wrong.

At that time, Huang Sanshi was ready to transform into Chef Huang and show everyone in the Mushroom House his skills in stewing pork ribs with green beans.

A few minutes after it was put into the pot, he picked up a piece of beans and tasted it. Teacher He also tasted the saltiness and was ready to follow suit and praise it.

As expected, something unexpected happened.

Interesting fact: Ingesting uncooked beans by mistake may cause gastrointestinal poisoning, resulting in stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and may also be accompanied by symptoms such as dizziness, chest tightness, and palpitations.

That night, Huang Sanshi and Teacher He were taken to the hospital by the program crew due to food poisoning, vomiting and diarrhea.

Song Qian was picking vegetables while Zhang Ruojun was moving bricks and chopping firewood nearby, so they managed to escape the disaster.
"Sawadika."

When Ning Hao boarded Zhou Yutang's private plane, Da Meiyuan couldn't help laughing.

He was wearing a floral shirt and beach shorts. His big face couldn't be covered even by sunglasses, and the ostentatious gold necklace around his neck belonged to his true self.

Lin Liang and Chen Xi have already gone to Tyrande with the behind-the-scenes team of the crew.

Ning Hao was determined to experience the joy of flying on a private jet.

Zhou Yutang was a little helpless, so he took him along.

"You know what, it feels really good."

He was sitting in the large leather seat, enjoying the attentive service of the exclusive stewardess. He felt flattered and couldn't help but say to Zhou Yutang:
"Your life is too comfortable."

Netizens’ jokes about the Grand Admiral’s romantic life have been around for a long time, but only by being around him can one truly experience it, so netizens are still conservative.

The stewardess on the plane just now was at least a school beauty who majored in flight attendant.

Once she put on that uniform, her voice became sweet and her temperament became gentle, which was fascinating.

At this time, Zhou Yutang was accompanied by the charming Ni Ni and national goddess Gao Yuanyuan.

It is really enviable.

(End of this chapter)