It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 672: Going to the single movie? Huaxia Star has withdrawn from the market! The light boat has passed through thousands of mountains!

Since the company was founded, the two Wang brothers have been promoting Huayi as the No. 1 private film and television company in the industry!

When the company first went public, this statement was indeed agreed by many people.

But now, as Feiyue Films has been soaring and has produced a movie with a box office of over 20 billion, the two Wang brothers can no longer remain calm.

If Huayi doesn't quickly regain some of the popularity, half of its efforts over the years will be wasted.

It just so happened that Huayi would hold the "20th Anniversary of the Group's Establishment and Shareholders' Meeting" recently, so the two brothers conspired to make a big move!
Not long after the production team of "The Martian" announced that the premiere would be held at the Bird's Nest, Huayi's shareholders' meeting followed closely.

Because Chen Fei had sold all of his Huayi shares a long time ago, he was naturally not eligible to attend this shareholders' meeting.

However, it doesn’t really matter whether you attend or not, because the media on site have once again started syncing the relevant content of Huayi’s shareholders’ meeting on Weibo.

It can be seen from the released on-site photos and videos that this shareholders' meeting was extremely grand!
Not only were banners hung all over the hotel, but there were also hundreds of meters of red carpet and a variety of flower baskets laid out!

Without exception, all those who were able to step onto the red carpet were big names in the industry, producers, actors, etc. who had close cooperation with Huayi.

Chen Fei even saw Ma Yun in the photos taken at the scene released by the media.

Others such as Xu Ke, Gu Changwei, Li Bingbin, Zhang Guoli, Zhang Da Huzi, Feng Xiaogang and others were all present.

After paying attention for a few minutes, Fade Chen looked away.

He planned to wait until the conference was over before going online to see if the two brothers of the Wang family had come up with any new moves.

But before that, he had to go to the filming site of "Nirvana in Fire".

The crew will first shoot some scenes at Huairou Film and Television City in the capital, and then hold the opening ceremony here as well.

Although most of the media went to Huayi today, when Chen Fei arrived at the scene, he still saw quite a few media and reporters.

"Good morning, Director Chen!"

"Director Chen! Are you available for an interview?"

"Director Chen, what do you think of the negative information about Hu Ge and Liu Shishi that has been exposed online recently? Is it true that choosing them as the leading actors of Nirvana in Fire is to take advantage of the popularity of Chinese Paladin 3?"

This group of reporters is eager to create chaos in the world, and the questions they ask are very sharp.

Chen Fei actually didn't want to answer these questions, but as more and more people gathered around him, he simply responded:

"I unconditionally believe in the character of Hu Ge and Liu Shishi. I hope that all netizens and fans can be rational and correctly view the various rumors spread by some people on the Internet. I always believe that rumors will stop at the wise..."

After saying this, he quickly walked into the set under the protection of security guards.

The year-end bonuses of Feiyue Films' public relations department have all been deducted. The reason is very simple: they seemed too weak and insignificant when facing the public opinion attacks from all sides.

Previously, Weibo had been in control, but now Chen Fei deliberately asked Weibo to relax the restrictions, and the public relations department was suddenly confused!

Faced with the overwhelming number of internet trolls and public opinion, they are simply powerless to fight back!
The original PR manager had been fired by Chen Fei, so he specially spent a high price to poach one from Bona.

The new person in charge is quite capable. He has controlled a lot of rumors in recent days and ensured the reputation of the company's artists in a timely manner.

After the new PR manager passed the test, Chen Fei contacted Weibo specifically. The two parties are currently cooperating to control public opinion, and I believe it won’t be long before things return to normal.

As soon as he walked into the set, Hu Ge, Liu Shishi, Jiang Xuerou and others came to greet him.

Also coming along was mainland male director Li Yu.

He was once the photographer of "Crossing the Guandong" and is also the screenwriter of the new version of "Dream of Red Mansions". This time he was specially invited by Jiang Xueruo to shoot "Nirvana in Fire".

The contracted directors under Feiyue Film and Television have now officially entered the film industry and are all busy with their own business, so they can only find people from outside to shoot TV series.

And Li Yu is undoubtedly a good choice.

Jiang Xueruo, a professional producer and supervisor, will also be on site to help ensure the smooth progress of the filming.

"Mr. Chen, you are here."

"How's it going? Can we start?"

"Well, it's ok. Everything is ready."

After a brief greeting, Li Yu and Jiang Xueruo turned around and went to the crew to start preparing for the upcoming opening ceremony.

Chen Fei had a brief chat with Hu Ge and Liu Shishi.

“It’s no exaggeration to say that if this drama is well made, the benefit to you two will be no less than that of the Chinese Paladin series, so you must do a good job in filming it!
You don't need to pay attention to those voices from the outside world, they are just a bunch of trolls and haters leading the trend. I will let the public relations department handle it. Your task is just to make this drama well..."

With Chen Fei's patient guidance, the two people's tense hearts were relieved a lot.

The opening ceremony went smoothly and the crew announced the start of filming.

The media who were invited into the crew would definitely not ask random questions. Everyone talked about the crew and filming, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Under Li Yu's arrangement, the first scene of "Nirvana in Fire" officially kicked off in Huairou.

After staying at the shooting site for a while, Chen Fei said hello to Jiang Xueruo and left the crew early.

At this moment, Liu Shishi, who was filming at the scene, suddenly turned her head and watched Chen Fei get in the car and leave. The corners of her mouth opened and closed slightly, and she uttered a barely audible "thank you"!
If it weren't for Chen Fei, she would probably still be struggling in the quagmire of Tangren, unable to escape.

Even if she does not renew her contract with Tangren, in order to avoid Cai Yinong's various thundering tactics, she will probably choose to retire from the circle, or just find an old man with power or connections to marry.

But now everything is fine, and she feels great with the support of Feiyinghuang Agency!
Not only does the company atmosphere have a very good one, but there are also endless resources for her to choose from, and her agent will not force her to go out and accompany clients or sponsors.

This feels so good!
She even considered this place as her home!
……

There was another show to be recorded in the evening, so Chen Fei went straight home to change his clothes.

When he left home, Huayi's "20th Anniversary of the Group's Establishment and Shareholders' Meeting" had already concluded successfully.

When you open Weibo, you can clearly see a large amount of content about the conference on the homepage.

However, the most noteworthy sentence, which also topped the hot search list, was a sentence spoken by Wang Zhonglei:

【Get rid of the single development route of movies! 】

"Hey!"

Seeing these words, Fade Chen laughed out loud.

Sure enough, the cool move is late but it arrives!
Essentially, this route is indeed a great one, allowing Huayi to have multiple branches to expand into various industries and accumulate a lot of heritage...

But the most critical problem is that the "de-single-development route for movies" is extremely difficult to implement in practice. If it is not done well, the entire basic foundation will be ruined!
Chen Fei clicked on this trending search and saw a reprint of Wang Zhonglei's speech from the press conference.

"From today on, Huayi will no longer be an artist management business, but will switch to a model of cooperating with artists to open studios. So far, we have opened 76 studios, and our partners are all second-tier and above.

The profits from movies and TV series are very limited, and coupled with the rising costs of production and artist operations, artist management is no longer a good option.

In the future, Huayi will focus more on diversified channels such as theme parks, tourism, the Internet, finance, electronic products, and cultural towns, and open up more routes..."

To put it more intuitively, that "route" is actually equivalent to the "profit channel."

In short, Huayi’s shareholders’ meeting today is an announcement to the outside world: From now on, we will be involved in more businesses and make more money. Shareholders, come and buy our stocks!
I have to say, the effect is really good.

There was a lot of discussion online, and Huayi’s stock even hit a daily limit.

However, there are also many people who remain rational.

Back then, Huayi was listed as a film and television company, with so much official support and high expectations.

But now, Huayi has turned around and is heading for real estate, finance, and the Internet. Isn't this a slap in the face of the above?
It would be fine if it could be successful, but in Chen Fei's memory, Huayi seemed to have completely abandoned the film industry when it was taking the path of single-minded development!
In the end, they no longer wanted the basic foundation and have been learning from companies like Wanda, Alibaba, and Tencent, trying to combine the strengths of many companies into one.

But what's the final result?
"If I remember correctly, 20 years later, Huayi's stock price seemed to have fallen below 3 yuan, right?"

After muttering to himself, Fade Chen closed Weibo, found Zhou Shouzi's phone number, and called him directly.

"Pay attention to Huayi's stock trend in the next two days. Take this opportunity to sell all the stocks you bought from the secondary market."

"Okay, Mr. Chen."

Zhou Shouzi responded and went to make arrangements immediately.

……

The next day, Huayi's stock price once again hit a daily limit, and the "de-filming single-development route" became a hot topic on the entire Internet.

The news of the start of filming of "Nirvana in Fire" was also released, but due to the suppression of Huayi, it was unable to come to the fore for a while.

However, in a place like the entertainment industry, a big fish always jumps out from time to time and makes a big fuss!

Just when the two brothers of the Wang family were enjoying the attention of the public and the ever-increasing market value, a big news suddenly broke out in Hong Kong!

"Huaxia Star has been delisted!"

When the Hong Kong media first exposed this news, domestic stock investors and film and television industry practitioners suddenly discovered that China Star’s stock price had been falling since the box office failure of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch".

Until now, after experiencing countless limit downs, the day of forced delisting has finally arrived!
In just half a day, the news in the circle spread everywhere!
"All the film and television copyrights of Huaxiaxing have been sold off."

"According to well-known sources, the Xiang family encountered the biggest economic crisis in history and had to sell off a large number of assets in exchange for cash."

"According to US media reports, the IRS is suspected of issuing a sky-high fine to a film and television company in Asia..."

When a listed company is forced to delist, the chain reaction it brings about is extremely terrifying!

If investors' interests are harmed, the company's management will certainly not be spared.

"Some shareholders have gathered downstairs of the Huaxiaxing Company Building and put up banners demanding compensation for their losses..."

Chen Fei was extremely happy when he heard the news brought by Huo Qigang.

After working behind the scenes for so long, I finally got the final reward.

This time, Hua Xia Xing no longer has the capital to make a comeback. Apart from switching careers to run hotels and casinos, the two brothers Xiang Huaqiang can forget about continuing to work in the film and television industry.

This incident, which caused severe turmoil in the film and television and financial circles, did not affect the smooth operation of the crew.

The filming of "The Legend of White Ghost: The Desperate Escape" started very smoothly, but the investment share that originally belonged to Huaxiaxing was divided up by LeTV and Huayi.

As of now, the investors have changed to seven companies: Bona, LeTV, Huayi, Alibaba, Huang Xiaoming Studio, Max Media, and Yunnan Film Group.

In addition, Yang Caiyu, the newly signed artist of Chen Jingfei's company, also successfully joined the crew and became the second female lead after Yang Ying.

"What are you laughing at?"

On the sofa, Liu Yifei, who was nestling in Chen Fei's arms, looked at her smiling boyfriend curiously, her face full of confusion.

"I wonder if this movie will make several investors cry because of their losses."

After taking a look at the title of "Legend of White Ghost: Desperate Escape", Liu Yifei asked curiously, "Is this movie really that bad?"

Chen Fei nodded confidently: "Believe me, it's really bad. If this script was put in Hollywood, no one would even take a second look at it."

"Ok."

Liu Yifei didn't know what to say. After all, Hongxingwu had completely severed ties with Chen Jingfei.

She had also seen Yang Caiyu before, so she could only say that it was fate that played tricks on her...

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Several movies that will be released during the Spring Festival have already started holding their premieres one after another.

Because of the New Year's Eve in between, the movie premiere must be held a few days or even a week in advance.

The premiere date of "The Martian" has been confirmed, and it will be on January 1th.

During this period, in addition to promoting the film with other main creators, Chen Fei has been following up on matters related to the premiere.

He doesn't need to be responsible for the venue, organization, security, etc. The Film Bureau will coordinate with multiple departments and make unified arrangements.

What he needs to do now is to invite and select the guests.

Naturally, he didn't need to make any arrangements on the mainland side, as the relevant lists and invitation letters had already been finalized and were being delivered one by one in the past few days.

The most important thing now is overseas, that is, Hollywood!
According to Chen Fei's original idea, he was actually planning to send invitations only to those who had a cooperative relationship with Walt Disney Pictures.

But after communicating with Natasha, he felt that this was not enough to highlight the grandeur of holding the premiere at the Bird's Nest.

So after careful consideration, he simply expanded the scope of invitations to the six major Hollywood companies and even those independent production companies.

He didn't expect all the invited people to come, but it would be enough if some of them, or even a representative, could come.

This is also a unique way to show off one's connections and flex one's muscles.

It can not only have an impact on the domestic film and television industry, but also take this opportunity to publicize the development of the domestic film and television industry in recent years. It can be said to be the best of both worlds!
……

However, although Chen Fei's side was "beautiful", Zhang Yimou's side was a bit "miserable".

From being reported for having more children than allowed in 12 to accepting the penalty when filming of Coming Home started four months ago, Zhang Yimou's case has been embroiled in a dispute for two full years.

In short, Zhang Yimou, who is affectionately known as the "national master" by movie fans, has won two Golden Lions and a Golden Bear at the three major European film festivals and won numerous awards, but his annual salary is only a pitiful eight figures!
Even if we don't count the film remuneration, and only calculate the dividends from the film copyrights, it shouldn't be just this little!

You know, Zhang Yimou is the first person to lead domestic films onto the "commercialization path". If you calculate his salary and dividends over the years, it should be at least nine figures!

Now that the news has broken out, everyone has realized that the director's salary and dividends he received are probably not as much as what Guo Jingming earns.

All of a sudden, a large number of insults emerged on the Internet, and Zhang Weiping became the direct target of criticism!

"Damn, what a dark heart this is!"

"I really treat you as a brother, and you treat me as a tool?"

"Zhang Yimou is so pitiful. He has worked at New Picture for so many years, but he has been cheated for so long. Isn't this too miserable?"

"Zhang Weiping is such a vicious guy! No wonder he has no friends. If he continues like this, he will be ruined sooner or later!"

"Support Zhang Yimou's rights protection! We must get the money back!"

Watching the news online, Chen Fei inexplicably recalled the scenes when he was on the set of "Hero".

Thinking back to the past, he had caused a lot of trouble for Zhang Yimou.

"Alas, I am 64 years old now. I have been through a lot in my life. Now I can say that I have finally made it through the difficult times."

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