China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 298 Investors withdraw their capital one after another and the Taiping Wheel sinks

What annoys Wu Baige the most is not Li Yu's comment that his "Tai Ping Wheel" is rubbish.

Because no matter how much he hates Li Yu, he has to admit Li Yu's talent.

Li Yu's "Guandu" used an investment several times smaller than his to rub his "Red Cliff" on the ground.

These are certain facts that cannot be denied by him.

Li Yu currently holds the box office record for domestic films.

Each of Li Yu's recent films has set new box office records for domestic films.

Li Yu is already qualified to criticize his movies.

But Li Yu put him and Director Bi side by side, implying that Director Bi's yesterday is his tomorrow. What does this mean?
He has never endured such an insult in his life!
He is one of the most successful directors in the golden age of Hong Kong's entertainment industry.

There are two Chinese directors who have proven themselves in Hollywood, and he is one of them.

These are achievements that no one can erase.

Where is Director Bi? A director who made his first movie and made the worst movie in China, no, the worst movie in the world.

How could Li Yu put him together with an insect like Director Bi?

What made Wu Baige even more angry was yet to come.

He closed his eyes and kept saying not to be angry, trying to stabilize his emotions as much as possible.

Needless to say, after a few minutes, Wu Baige really suppressed his anger.

After calming down, he even thought of looking at the problem from a new angle and laughed loudly.

The assistant was confused and asked: "Why is Director Wu laughing?"

Wu Baige continued to laugh: "I laugh at Li Yu for being such a street kid and having no plans, and Zhang Yingmou for being so smart and unworthy of being the number one director in the country.

Li Yu thought that just because he commented that "Tai Ping Wheel" was rubbish would affect the performance of "Tai Ping Wheel" after its release, it's really ridiculous.

He helped me become the number one trending topic on Weibo in mainland China. Not only did he not hurt me, but he actually helped me.

Because of his arrogant words, many people in mainland China must have paid attention to the movie "The Wheel".

These people are likely to become fans of "The Wheel". "

assistant:"……"

She wanted to tell Wu Baige that you think too much.

"Why don't you speak? Do you think what I said is wrong?"

Wu Baige, who felt good about himself, asked his assistant.

"Director Wu, why don't you just watch it yourself? These are the comments of mainland netizens."

The assistant didn't dare to read out those comments.

Wu Baige glanced at the assistant, took the tablet with his own hands and flipped through the comments in the comment area.

"Wu Baige went all the way from Hollywood to the streets and returned to China. He is still fighting the streets after returning to China. He has exhausted his talents and his "Tai Ping Wheel" is not worth looking forward to."

"The background of the story of "The Taiping Wheel" is modern times, right? Can a director like Wu Baige, who doesn't understand history at all, make a modern film well?"

"I remember when he asked the screenwriter to help him write the script for "Red Cliff", he said that he hoped the theme of the movie would be peace. I really can't imagine what kind of tricks Wu Baige would do in "The Wheel of Peace"."

"I believe in Li Yu's vision. Everyone was touting Director Bi's "Dream Showbiz" at the time, but only Li Yu told everyone that it was a super bad movie."

"Same as above, I believe in Li Yu's judgment. As a victim of "Red Cliff", I sincerely recommend that everyone do not buy tickets to watch "Taiwan Wheel" immediately after it is released. If you really want to watch it, you can wait and see and see the first batch of movies. The real evaluation of the audience must not be believed by those experts.”

Li Yu broke through the Emperor's New Clothes, and the influence he had accumulated through several masterpieces was reflected at this moment.

Most netizens are willing to believe Li Yu's words.

Voices that are not optimistic about "Taiping Wheel" dominate the mainstream.

Audiences who had hopes for Wu Baige took a wait-and-see attitude after reading Li Yu's comments and made up their minds not to be the first audience.

Wu Baige's mood that had just improved suddenly fell into an abyss.

how could be?

Why are those people in mainland China willing to believe Li Yu’s deception?

Don’t those people have their own opinions?

In Yuan Kong, after Wu Baige made "Red Cliff", his appeal in the mainland has been completely exhausted. The appearance of Li Yu caused Wu Baige's reputation to completely collapse in the mainland.

Li Yu's words alone would definitely not have such huge lethality.

There is an old saying that goes well, you have to be tough to make iron.

Because Wu Baige's "Red Cliff" was so rubbish, mainland audiences have lost trust in him.

In addition, Li Yu is one of the best screenwriters in the country.

Li Yu once again predicted that "Dream Showbiz" will have a successful record.

A variety of reasons layer upon layer have caused people to be unfavorable to "Taiping Wheel".

Wu Baige could already feel that the storm was coming.

As a veteran director, he knows all too well what terrible things will happen if a movie is generally not well-liked by the audience before filming has started.

Soon, his fears became reality.

The person in charge of an investment company in Taiwan called Wu Baige: "Director Wu, our company held a meeting to discuss it. We decided not to invest the 30 million yuan. Our company is willing to pay liquidated damages."

This is just the beginning.

"Director Wu, we plan to withdraw our investment."

"Director Wu..."

One morning, Wu Baige received seven or eight phone calls.

Without exception, it was all divestment.

Capital is very realistic. Capital will only add icing on the cake and will not provide help in times of need.

When the market is optimistic about you, capital can lift you to the sky.

When the market is not optimistic about you, you will be ruthlessly abandoned by capital.

Wu Baige is experiencing this at this time.

After "Red Cliff" hit the market, his status in Hong Kong Island and Taiwan Province was shaken a bit.

It took him a lot of effort and two years to pull out this 400 million investment.

To put it bluntly, many investors here have begun to distrust him.

The pessimistic attitude of most mainland netizens towards "The Taiping Wheel" became the straw that broke the camel's back.

Why would investors take the risk of losing money on a movie that no one likes?

Didn't Li Yu also go through this when he was planning to film "Guandu"?
Wu Baige said that all actors participating in "Guandu" will be on his blacklist.

At that time, Wu Baige had just returned to China and his influence was so great that even some well-known actors did not dare to accept the film contract of "Guandu".

Without good actors, most people are pessimistic about the future of "Guandu".

There were only three investors in the first part of "Guandu", Li Yu's own Hualiu Company, Da Tiantian's Starlight, and tens of millions helped by China Film Director Han.

The tens of millions that Director Han helped to raise were the result of Li Yu winning a grand prize in Cannes, otherwise China Film would not have invested.

Wu Baige’s wave of evil deeds will be punished!
The dilemma he had put Li Yu in had recurred on him.

Just now, the largest investor said that it would withdraw its capital, and the largest investment of 100 million was gone.

Wu Baige fainted on the spot when he learned the bad news and had already entered the hospital.

The paparazzi on Hong Kong Island are very awesome.

In the afternoon of that day, entertainment newspapers in Hong Kong published the news that Wu Baige was hospitalized.

Similarly, the news that investors of "Taiping Wheel" have withdrawn their capital has been reported by the media.

The combination of Wu Baige's hospitalization and investors' withdrawal of capital has aroused the imagination of the outside world.

"666666, Director Li's few words easily sunk Wu Baige's "The Wheel of Peace", and many investors withdrew their capital."

"The Taiping sank before it even set sail. Didn't Wu Baige say it was the Titanic of the East? It was indeed a joke."

"In the morning, everyone was still discussing whether to wait for the real reviews of the first batch of viewers of "The Wheel" before deciding whether to watch the movie. Well, the topic is over now."

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(End of this chapter)