Entertainment Reborn Rhapsody

Chapter 482: Adventure into the Unknown
Shanhe poured tea for the two of them, looked at the dejected Wang Baoqiang and said with a smile:

"Failure is failure. Why are you so depressed? This is not like your style, Wang Baoqiang!"

Huang Bo gloated and continued:
"Hehe... He just won the 'Golden Broom' award for Worst Director. The media and the audience are so mean. Our baby is really devastated!"

Wang Baoqiang glanced at his bad friend angrily, and asked Shanhe with a bitter face:

"Shanhe, is 'Laughing India' really that bad?"

"Well, it's really bad! Little Bear is the only one in our family who can enjoy watching it!"

"Haha... my son likes it too. Honey, you've got it wrong. You should go make a children's movie!"

"Are you done yet?"

Wang Baoqiang was so angry that he pointed at Huang Bo and started to yell at him.
"Don't gloat over your misfortune. When you were filming, you felt good about being different, but it's not much better than me. There were times when I laughed at you!"

"That can't be! Anyone can see that I have more artistic temperament than you!"

Huang Bo didn't care about Wang Baoqiang's anger.
"Besides, with your golden broom as my support, I have to be better than you anyway!"

"You have a shitty temperament. There is a mirror in the bathroom. Go and look at yourself. You can tell at a glance that you are a filthy and greasy man!"

"Boss, look, is this still the same honest and simple Wang Baobao?"

Huang Bo laughed and joked,
"The biggest reward for you, Wang Baoqiang, as a director is that you have become more vicious!"

Wang Baoqiang glared at Huang Bo unhappily, not wanting to pay attention to him, and continued to ask the smiling Shanhe:
"Shanhe, I've been in the entertainment industry for so many years, but the movies I make are still so bad. Don't I have the talent to be a director?"

"Well, talent is not as important as you think!"

Shanhe looked at the dejected Wang Baoqiang and replied,
"Do you think you have the talent to be an actor, Baoqiang? Your strength is to find the direction that suits you and then work hard with your feet on the ground. I can see that you want to imitate Stephen Chow, but this direction is not suitable for you. You need to bury your head and settle down for a few years, find the right direction and keep persisting. You will succeed. I support you!"

Huang Bo didn't continue joking after hearing this.

"Baby, the boss is right. We are not geniuses like the boss. Persistence is our only way. I support you. As long as you need me, I will do anything for you!"

Wang Baoqiang was silent for a while, then nodded and responded:

"I was indeed a little inflated in the past two years. I thought too highly of myself and took things for granted. Shanhe, you are right. When I first met you, I was just a lump of earth. How could I have so much vanity and resentment? I have decided that I will take over the Golden Broom Award myself. If I don't do well, I will accept the punishment and get up from where I fell!"

"well said!"

Shanhe gave Wang Baoqiang a thumbs up.

"This is the Wang Baoqiang I know, he's very tenacious!"

"Have the guts!"

Huang Bo also echoed and gave a thumbs up to Wang Baoqiang.

Shanhe turned around and looked at the smiling Huang Bo.
"Huang Bo, tell me, why did you follow Baoqiang to see me?"

"What else could he do!"

Wang Baoqiang untied the knot in his heart, and his tone became much more relaxed.
"He saw me being a director and got jealous, so he asked someone to make a script for you to take a look at!"

"What nonsense! I have been working on this script for seven or eight years!"

Huang Bo licked his cheek and said to Shanhe,

"Boss, don't listen to the country bumpkin's nonsense. My script is not a joke like his. It's much more profound. Please take a look at it!"

"Really? Where's the script?"

"Take it with you!"

Huang Bo quickly took out a bound manuscript from his bag and handed it to Shanhe.

"I haven't decided on a name for the script yet. Take a look at the content first. It tells the story of a group of people stranded on a desert island!"

Shanhe didn't say anything polite and started flipping through the script directly. After reading the first few pages, Shanhe knew the plot of the entire script. Wasn't it Huang Bo's directorial debut in his previous life, "A Good Show"?

Shanhe smiled and looked up at Huang Bo who was looking worried.
"Hiroko, you have a big heart. You want to make a utopian fable for your debut film. You have courage!"

"Ah! You'll know after reading these few pages. He is indeed the king of directors!"

Huang Bo's flattery comes out without thinking,

"Boss, what do you think?"

"I'll tell you after I finish watching it!"

After more than half an hour, Shanhe gave his own evaluation.
"The script is very good, the story is well-written and indeed very profound. It is a very experimental reality theme, but you don't intend to give up the commercial elements. There is too much to say, but the expression is not deep enough, and it feels a bit top-heavy!"

"Boss, you are the one who woke me up!"

Huang Bo thought for a moment, grinned and said shamelessly,

"Why don't you change it?"

"hehe…"

Shanhe was amused by Huang Bo.
"From what the script suggests, the film is going to be more commercial, right?"

"Yes, yes! You are my lifelong role model. A movie must first tell a good story. No matter how good it is, it is useless if no one watches it!"

"Have some shame!"

Wang Baoqiang said sarcastically,

"If you want to make money, just say so. You're the only one who wants to compete with Shanhe!"

"You know nothing. You're already a director, so who doesn't have some ambitions? Nowadays, every Chinese director takes the boss as a role model!"

"Haha... stop talking nonsense, okay!"

The two of them could make Shanhe laugh every minute. He smiled and nodded, "As long as it doesn't affect the plot, I can fix the edges for you. However, how the final movie will turn out depends on you. Execution is very important. No matter how good the script is, if you can't make it, no one can do anything about it!"

"understand!"

...

Looking at the backs of the two generals Heng and Ha as they left, Shanhe was filled with emotion. Wang Baoqiang and Huang Bo have both started to be directors. Time has unknowingly reached this stage, and his past moment of rebirth seems to be just around the corner!
Faced with an unknown fate, Shanhe, who has always been confident, is a little confused. Should I continue to move forward or stop and be a bystander?
Shanhe's mind was suddenly confused and frightened. Without the rebirth plug-in, could he still be so successful? If he failed, how should he face the public? Could he accept it as calmly as Wang Baoqiang?

The more Shanhe thought about it, the more confused he became, and the more scared he became. At this moment, a small figure staggered into Shanhe's arms and shouted softly:
"Dad, my brother is bad, he's fierce!"

Shanhe was awakened by his daughter's coquettish and complaining. When he saw his daughter's aggrieved look and big round eyes, all his messy thoughts disappeared.

He picked up his most precious little baby and kissed her pink face.
"Your brother still dares to be mean to you. Come on, Dad will take you to settle the score with him!"

Shanhe carried his daughter into his son's room and began to question the little bear who was lying on the table, not knowing what he was doing.
"Qiu Yanche, you can do it now. You have learned to bully your sister. You want to make trouble!"

"I don't!"

Hearing this, Little Bear turned around and glared at Shanhe, pointing at the picture on the table and responded loudly,

"She just messes up things. Look, she drew on my drawing homework!"

Shanhe poked his head out to look at Little Bear's picture book. There were two human-shaped figures in the middle, and various colors were smeared around them.

"What's the problem? Your sister draws well. You can tell by looking at the two of them holding hands!"

"Dad, I drew that!"

The little bear looked at the mountains and rivers with grief and anger.

"These things next to my sister's painting!"

"Ah, did you draw these two things?"

Shanhe has serious double standards in treating his children.

"What is this painting? It looks like neither a human nor a monster. Do you have the nerve to hand it in?"

"I drew a picture of you and your mother running together. My mother, Wonder Woman, is in the front. The teacher said that my drawing is good!"

"This is me and your mom?"

Shanhe smiled and teased his son,
"Then you have disfigured me and your mother. No wonder your sister can't stand it!"

Little Bear's face turned red with suffocation, and he retorted unconvincedly:

"You're talking nonsense! My ancestors all said that my paintings are more imaginative and much better than yours when you were a child!"

"Haha... you have a great imagination. You drew Wonder Woman as Godzilla vs. King Kong!"

"Ha ha…"

Hathaway stood at the door for some reason, and she covered her mouth and laughed because of Shanhe's sharp words towards his son!

When little Huihui saw her mother in her father's arms, she also clapped her hands and laughed.

The little bear looked at his two unreliable parents, his eyes red with grievance, and he began to summon the Dharma.

"Grandpa and grandma, great-grandpa and great-grandma, great-grandma and great-grandma, please come quickly. My dad and mom are partial to each other, and they are teaming up to bully me again!"

...

Soon, there were voices of complaint and consolation in the courtyard.

"You two are amazing, are there any parents like you who have nothing better to do than to stay at home and play with their children?"

"That's right, you two should go and do your own things. It's annoying to see you sitting here doing nothing!"

"Don't cry, baby bear. Grandma will draw another one for you. Don't listen to your father. He wasn't as smart as baby bear when he was a child!"

"Baby Huihui, come to Grandpa Grandpa. Grandpa Grandpa will tell you and your brother a story!"

...

The days passed slowly amidst all the laughter and scolding. At the end of May, Hathaway boarded the Flying Bear to Hollywood and began her global publicity tour. "Wonder Woman", which had been delayed for several years, was finally going to be released.

Perhaps because of the previous parent-child sports meeting video, "Wonder Woman" was released on the first day of June and showed amazing box office explosiveness!

It grossed 170 million U.S. dollars in North America in its first three days, and 800 million yuan in China in its first three days. It grossed nearly 500 million U.S. dollars in its first three days worldwide. The audience had a very good reputation, which shocked the world.

Thanks to her successful interpretation of "Wonder Woman" Diana Prince, Hathaway topped the list of global female star power and her commercial value reached its peak. Dior even offered her an endorsement fee of more than 50 million US dollars, which made Hollywood actresses jealous and curse, saying, "That's enough! You two have taken all the good things!"
What was unexpected was that Hathaway rejected all endorsement contracts outright and publicly stated that she would no longer accept commercial endorsements, which made people around the world sigh and lament!

Yes, how could Hathaway be short of money? Let alone 50 million, she probably wouldn't even care about 500 million. Her husband is already ranked in the top three in Forbes, and he earns a lot of money every year just from the copyrights of his works!

There are three super-rich people in the Qiu family. The "Geku" website owned by the younger sister-in-law Qiu Chuxi is the fastest-growing shopping website in China in recent years. It is reported that Hathaway holds a considerable proportion of the shares, and tens of millions are not worth it for her to sacrifice the happy time of entertaining her children!

In the following month, although the box office of "Wonder Woman" dropped significantly, it still broke through the billion US dollar box office threshold, reaching 1.13 billion US dollars, becoming the highest-grossing film in DC Comics!

Time Warner and DC Comics were extremely excited about this. The Shanhe couple were indeed lucky people. After so many years, the DC Comics Universe finally saw the dawn!
They immediately began preparations for the next "Wonder Woman" and made major changes to the planning of "Justice League". The role of "Wonder Woman" was greatly increased, making her one of the protagonists of "Justice League".

Hathaway's salary was significantly increased, reaching 30 million US dollars plus 15% of the global box office share!
"Wonder Woman" has just been released, and Ning Hao's "Fortress of Devil May Cry" has been filmed and produced for more than two years, and it has begun to be screened around the world.

"The Fortress" is completely different from the previous movie of the same name. It gained good reputation as soon as it was released. Needless to say, it is popular in China. The appeal of Ning Hao and Tang Xiaoyu is enough to sweep the country. Overseas, their popularity is not low either, especially in Asian countries. "Take Her Eyes" once touched countless fans.

Thanks to the unstinting publicity and distribution efforts of Chuhe Film and China Film Group, "Fortress of Devil City" has grossed over 4 billion RMB at the domestic box office and is about to break 900 million USD at the global box office, making it Ning Hao's highest box office hit!
With this film, Ning Hao has become one of the world's top commercial directors. Starring Tang Xiaoyu, Zeng Li has also reaped countless rewards, especially Tang Xiaoyu, who, with the "Detective Chinatown" series and this "Fortress of Devil City", has become a new generation superstar in the country and even the world, and has caught up with Liu Ye, who was pushed to the top by Shanhe!

After the successive successes of "Wonder Woman" and "Fortress of Devil May Cry", Shanhe finally couldn't sit still!
In September 2017, the script adaptation work for the first season of "The Three-Body Problem", with an estimated investment of 200 million US dollars, began. After being a stay-at-home dad for more than half a year, Shanhe resolutely embarked on his unknown adventure!

He needs to prove to himself that even without the rebirth plug-in, I can still move forward!

The screenwriter team of "The Three-Body Problem" is extremely luxurious. In addition to the elite screenwriter team of Chuhe Film and Television led by Shanhe himself, there is also the original author Liu Cixin, and a well-known American TV series screenwriter team hired from Hollywood. From the very beginning, Shanhe has been creating a blockbuster for global audiences.

As long as the first season of "The Three-Body Problem" is successful, the second and third seasons and so on will continue to be filmed. I believe that by then, the impact this TV series will bring to the Chinese film and television industry will not be less than that of a globally popular series of movies!
Shanhe is not sure of victory, but it has the confidence of success. Hollywood can produce a "Game of Thrones", and I have more than ten years of accumulated filming experience and horror influence as a foundation, so why can't I produce a "Three-Body Problem" that can rival it!
As long as there are American dramas in this world, there must be Chinese dramas!
(End of this chapter)