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

Chapter 942: "Detective Chinatown 2" breaks the record! "Lost in Hong Kong" completes casting!
In a blink of an eye, two days passed.

On the morning of the 23rd, the film and television industry became lively again, and it could even be said to be a sensation!
"The comedy film "Detective Chinatown 2", produced by Feiyue Films, directed by Wang Shiliang, and starring Wang Baoqiang, Zhang Ruoyun, and Xiao Yang, has been released for 25 days and has accumulated a total box office of 34.56 billion yuan."

“Warm congratulations to Detective Chinatown 2 for successfully breaking the 34.12 billion box office record of The Mermaid, which was released during the Spring Festival, and ranking No.1 in this year’s box office performance rankings!”

"The Film Bureau issued an announcement: The application for the extension of the key for the Chinese-language film "Detective Chinatown 2" has been approved, and the release time of the film will be extended to 9:29 am on September 12."

Looking around, the entire film and television industry was in an uproar at this moment!
Although many people have long anticipated that "Detective Chinatown 2" is likely to break the box office success of "The Mermaid".

But no one expected that the box office record set by "The Mermaid" in 60 days was broken by "Detective Chinatown 2" in 25 days!

And in the future, the film will be released for 35 days.

Even if the box office is only a few million a day, breaking 35 billion should not be a problem over time.

If we try harder, maybe we can even catch up with the 36.58 billion box office of "Operation Mekong"!

What’s even more enviable is that “Detective Chinatown 3” is a sequel movie, and the signal of the third part was already revealed at the end of the second part.

If the third film is released next year or the year after, coupled with the booming market, wouldn't there be a hope of reaching a box office of 40 billion?

When thinking of this, many people's eyes are almost red with envy!
……

Bona, in Yu Dong’s office.

This was the third time that Song Ge, Wu Ershan, Yu Dong and Jiang Zhiqiang had sat together for a meeting since the initial cooperation plan was finalized.

The second meeting was held after "Legend of the Gods" was forcibly removed from the shelves.

At that time, due to concerns about the theme of "Fengshen", Yu Dong once wanted to withdraw his investment, but was finally persuaded by Song Ge to stay.

However, in order to prevent himself from falling into the same trap again, Yu Dong still forced himself to reduce his quota from 25% to 15%.

Although Song Ge was a little disappointed, he still accepted his choice.

As for the extra 10%, he already has the right candidate. Now he just needs to find a suitable opportunity to invite the other party to join.

“作为首部破30亿票房的电影，《火星救援》拿到了32.69亿、随后又是《湄公河行动》的36.58亿，紧接着是《美人鱼》的34.12亿，直到现在《唐人街探案2》的34.56亿……

According to this rule, if nothing unexpected happens, the first movie with a box office of over 40 billion should be born soon.

This means that the market for the film and television industry is expanding and is already large enough to accommodate a movie with a box office of 40 billion!"

Song Ge first made a solemn analysis, and then expressed his thoughts and plans: "At the end of this month, I will arrange for someone to send the three scripts of the "Fengshen" series to the Film Bureau.

After the script is approved, we will immediately start to build momentum, such as promoting the huge investment of 10 billion, global role auditions, and the participation of professional special effects teams from Hollywood...

In my plan, the 40 billion box office mark may be broken by others, but 50 billion will definitely belong to the "Investiture of the Gods" trilogy, and can only belong to the "Investiture of the Gods" trilogy! "

Looking at the imposing Song Ge, Yu Dong couldn't help but sigh: "Boss Song is really confident enough."

"Haha, I am confident in the quality of the script. Mr. Yu can rest assured that a box office disaster similar to "Legend of the Gods" will never happen to these three movies."

"Mr. Song!" Yu Dong was a little angry and embarrassed.

"Hey, look at my mouth. Why do I bring up things that are not relevant to the topic? I apologize to Director Yu. I will host a banquet tonight. You must give me, Song, some face."

……

Today, the excitement in the film and television industry is not just about "Detective Chinatown 2".

When Chen Fei woke up in the morning, he saw news of the release of two new Hollywood blockbusters on Weibo, one of which was starred by an old acquaintance of his.

"The comedy, animation and adventure imported animated film Ice Age 5: Collision Course, jointly produced by Blue Sky Studios and th Century Fox, officially started to be screened in the mainland today.

On the first day of the film's release, 31.9% of the cinemas had scheduled screenings, an overall attendance rate of 18.6%, and an overall ticket price of 30.9 yuan.

"The action, thriller and suspense film Jason Bourne, co-produced by Universal Pictures and Perfect World and starring Oscar winner Matt Damon, officially started its public screening today.

On the first day of the film's release, 36% of the cinemas had scheduled screenings, an overall attendance rate of 18.3%, and an overall ticket price of 33.5 yuan.

Looking at the overall situation, these two films alone took up 67.9% of the theaters' screening schedules for the entire day, which is undoubtedly very bad news for other domestic films.

"Line Walker" is still barely holding up, but "Love O2O" is in a worse situation.

On the 23rd day, the latter's screening share was only 2.3%, and yesterday's daily new box office was only 435 million.

It's clear that the film's box office potential is running out.

And Yang Ying's mood today is particularly bad!
Of course, this is not because the box office and reputation of the movie she starred in collapsed, but because the TV version of "Love O2O" was launched yesterday.

When she woke up early in the morning, she saw many comments on the Internet that made her extremely angry!

"This may be the best TV adaptation I have ever seen, bar none! The plot is compact, and it doesn't have the vulgar plots of ordinary idol dramas. The actors' acting skills are also online throughout the whole process. Zheng Shuang even played the shy, pure, beautiful and beautiful image of Bei Weiwei in my mind. It's really great! The TV version is really much better than the movie version!"

"After comparing them, I realized that the TV version is the real story of 'Bei Weiwei' and 'Xiao Nai'. The movie version is simply unbearable to watch, especially Yang Ying's acting, which is really terrible!"

"Zheng Shuang is exactly the Bei Weiwei in my mind! Her every frown and smile is vivid and charming yet pure. There are so many things in the world, but you only need to smile slightly to make me fall in love... Yang Ying, get out of here."

"Luckily I didn't go to see the movie version, otherwise I would have been stained by Yang Ying's eyes."

"Everyone, please help vote for Goddess Weiwei. The selection of the four most beautiful actresses is in progress. I want Zheng Shuang to be number one!"

If these fans and netizens were merely praising the TV version of "Love O2O" for being better than the movie version, Yang Ying would not be too angry.

However, she really could not accept Zheng Shuang's fans' behavior of putting down the powerful and praising the weak.

She is just a small flower, why should she be compared with such a big flower?
What's even more ridiculous is that based on the high-quality style and plot of the TV series "Love O2O", plus the fact that Zheng Shuang's acting skills are much better than Yang Ying's, the former's votes for the current election for one of the four young actresses have skyrocketed!

This means that Zheng Shuang's popularity was gained by stepping on Yang Ying.

Thinking of this, Yang Ying could no longer suppress the anger in her heart!

She went straight to Huang Xiaoming and made a request: "You must help me with this matter. You must not let that little bitch step on me to get to the top. Why can she get so many good reviews, but I only receive abuse and criticism?"

Listening to Yang Ying's complaints, Huang Xiaoming calmly withdrew his gaze from her bulging belly.

"Don't get angry yet. It's not good for the child to be angry all the time. I will arrange for the PR team to help you deal with this matter. Try to read less of these news online in the future. Most of them are caused by marketing accounts, and 80% of them are fake..."

Although he said this, the leader himself still agrees with the comments online.

He knew very well what kind of strength his wife had.

With her acting skills, isn't it natural that she is beaten by Zheng Shuang? After all, she is a top student of Beijing Film Academy, but what about her?
However, it’s okay to think about this in your mind, but you must never say it out loud, otherwise you will be in big trouble!
"Just public relations is not enough. I want the media to market her acting skills as worse than mine and that she doesn't deserve to be one of the four little beauties..." Yang Ying continued to push her luck, not noticing that Huang Xiaoming's face had already turned ugly.

However, because she was pregnant, the leader seemed to have been given something to hold against her.

"I will try my best……"

"And the movie 'The Meg'?"

"Don't even think about it. I'm not that capable. Unless you can suppress Li Bingbing and Fan Bingbing in all aspects, as well as potential opponents Liu Yifei, Jing Tian, ​​and Shu Chang, there is absolutely no hope."

"All right……"

Yang Ying finally regained her sanity. She didn't think she could suppress so many people.

And if he really had that kind of ability, she felt that there was no way she would marry Huang Xiaoming.

……

The time came to the 24th, and early in the morning, the box office results of two Hollywood imported blockbusters were released.

虽然昨天是一周七天内市场行情最差的周二，但《谍影重重5》和《冰川世纪5：星际碰撞》还是分别以7461.7万和5527.4万的成绩拿下了单日票房排行榜的No.1和No.2。

I have to say, imported blockbusters are awesome!
On the other hand, domestic films are in a worse situation. Four films were directly withdrawn from theaters, and the box office of "The Dangerous City" and "Love O4O" both fell below 100 million. The daily new box office of "Line Walker" barely maintained above 1256 million.

Although "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" only has 322 million left, it is getting close to 10 billion at the box office. Its investor LeTV Pictures is tirelessly promoting the film in order to boost LeTV's stock price.

In addition, as August is coming to an end, many blockbuster films that will be released in September have also launched their promotional campaigns.

The most eye-catching films at the beginning of the month were the Hollywood imported blockbuster "Star Trek 3" and "The River Map" which won a major award in Berlin earlier this year.

In the middle of the month, two Hong Kong-funded Chinese-language films will be released, "A Chinese Odyssey Part Three" starring Han Geng, Tang Yan and Wu Jing, and "Soul Mate".

In comparison, the end of the month is more lively.

"Passing by Your World", "Jade Dynasty", "Aces Go Fighting", and the big-budget fantasy blockbuster "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Temple of Kunlun" produced by Feiyue Films.

Although these movies have not been released yet, they have received extremely high praise from the industry!

Especially "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Temple of Kunlun", which is regarded as the third blockbuster this year with the greatest possibility of breaking the 2 billion box office after "The Mermaid" and "Detective Chinatown 30"!

At around 9 o'clock in the morning, when Chen Fei just arrived at the company, he saw on Weibo that some media had taken photos at the airport that Boss Jia had returned from an overseas inspection.

When facing an interview with reporters, he even revealed that his son was born, and said that he would return to the company to give red envelopes to employees so that everyone can celebrate!
The market responded quickly.

As soon as the stock market opened, LeTV's share price began to rise, as if it had received "good news".

"Hey? This is really interesting. The boss's return to China and the boss's wife giving birth to a son can actually cause stock price fluctuations? How novel!"

However, although the stock price has shown a slight upward trend, it cannot change the current predicament it is facing.

Because the news has gone viral in the capital circle at this moment, LeTV's problem now is not just a broken capital chain.

In addition to financial fraud, Jia Huiji also seemed to have registered a large number of shell companies abroad, and then used these companies to continuously move funds to create the illusion of a surge in cash flow and profits.

Then, Jia Huiji used these data to start raising funds and then enriched himself...

Of course, this information is only known to the top capital circles. Ordinary people have no way of knowing it. As for those celebrity shareholders, they are all kept in the dark.

Chen Fei discussed this matter with Zhou Shouzi in private, and the two even made a bet.

According to Chen Fei's prediction, the China Securities Regulatory Commission will definitely not let LeTV go, and forced delisting will inevitably be its final outcome.

But in Zhou Shouzi's opinion, if LeTV, such a large company, suddenly stopped trading and delisted, it would cause many people to lose everything! Therefore, the state will definitely protect it.

As for the final result and who will win the bet, only time can tell.

Of course, since it is a bet, there must be stakes.

Chen Fei has already made an agreement with Zhou Shouzi that if he wins, Zhou Shouzi will have to help Xiaomi and operate it until it goes public.

But if Chen Fei loses, he will have to transfer 1% of ByteDance's shares to Zhou Shouzi.

……

As soon as he arrived at the office and sat down on the office chair, Chen Fei took out his mobile phone and made a call.

Because satellite phone signal transmission takes time, he waited patiently for a while.

A few dozen seconds later, the call was connected, and Bruce's deep voice came from the receiver: "Fei! Haha, don't worry, I'm floating on the sea right now. I promise you that the freighter will arrive at the dock before noon tomorrow."

"Okay, then I'll wait for your good news."

"Don't worry! I won't miss Crystal's birthday..."

After hanging up the phone, Fade Chen stood up and headed straight to the audition area downstairs.

Today is the final day for casting for "Lost in Hong Kong", and since Ning Hao has to attend a promotional program that was booked in advance in the morning, he can only call Chen Fei to the audition site.

After all, this is the first time that Wang Baoqiang has switched from an actor to a director, and he still lacks some experience, so he must have a professional to help him.

As he stepped out of the elevator, he immediately saw a group of people waiting outside the audition room.

Likewise, those people saw him.

And in the next second, everyone who came to audition today stood up at the same time and nodded to greet him.

"Director Chen, good morning."

"Director Chen, you're here."

"Director Chen..."

Accompanied by the greetings from the crowd, Fade Chen walked into the audition room.

Wang Baoqiang has already started auditioning and has confirmed a number of roles.

Chen Fei picked up the casting list on the table and took a look. He saw that the first page contained the final candidate for the second female lead "Du Juan".

When he saw the name "Tong Liya", he glanced at Wang Baoqiang who was sitting upright without saying a word, and just felt like laughing.

This guy really doesn't shy away from relatives when he promotes the most virtuous person. Right from the start, he made his girlfriend the second female lead.

Of course, Tong Liya is quite suitable for the role of "Yang Yi" in terms of temperament and appearance, which is recognized by both Chen Fei and Ning Hao.

The second one is the casting for the leading female role "Cai Bo".

When he saw the name "Jiang Qinqin", Chen Fei was slightly stunned and was indeed a little surprised.

But he was only surprised for a moment and quickly regained his composure.

Jiang Qinqin's acting skills are naturally unquestionable, but I never thought that she, who just won the Best Actress Award at the 7th UK International Chinese Film Festival for "A Spoon", would actually act in a comedy.

"Are you short of money? Or are you planning to change your style?"

As he was thinking, Wang Baoqiang's voice suddenly rang in his ears: "Director Chen, I really can't decide who should play the role of the male lead 'Xu Lai'. How about you give me some advice?"

"sure."

Chen Fei put down the casting list and came to the computer screen.

At this moment, the screen was playing a replay of the audition.

The first thing that catches your eye is the video replay of Xu Zheng’s performance.

Although Xu Zheng did not participate in the "囧 Series" and "Crazy Series" in this parallel world due to the influence of Chen Fei, he still successfully emerged in the film and television industry with TV series such as "The Third Man", "Brothers", "Li Wei as an Official", and "Hypnotist".

Now auditioning for "Lost in Hong Kong" may be the closest he has ever been to the "Lost in Hong Kong" series.

After watching his performance, at Chen Fei's suggestion, Wang Baoqiang clicked on the next person's audition playback.

The second one is Huang Bo, who is an old friend of the "囧 Series" and "Crazy Series". He also co-starred with Chen Fei in "Lost in Thailand".

After watching the audition playbacks of the two, Chen Fei didn't think too much and said bluntly: "I suggest Huang Bo. After all, he has been following the '囧 series' movies. In terms of audience acceptance, he is definitely better than Xu Zheng."

"it is good!"

Wang Baoqiang was not the type to procrastinate, so he immediately responded, "Then let's choose Huang Bo. He and I can act together, and maybe we can have a good chemistry."

"Well, it's up to you guys from now on."

Fade Chen nodded slightly, already beginning to feel a little excited.

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