China Entertainment: I just want to give my child a home

Chapter 359 Your light smile, in my eyes, is the peaceful years (Please subscribe!)
The first-day box office of "The Grandmaster" was 3200 million, which is not as high as "Comet", but higher than many people expected.

But "Comet" not only achieved a first-day box office of over 5000 million in China, but also exploded at the overseas box office.

According to statistics, the overseas box office of "Comet" on the first day was 1123 million US dollars, with the highest revenue in North America, which was 800 million US dollars.

In Chen Dong's previous life, although this movie was a classic, it was not a box office hit when it was released.

The fact that the film has achieved such good box office results at the moment is certainly due to the improved quality of the film, but it is mainly due to the fact that "Comet" has just won two Oscars.

The Cannes Film Festival is in May and it is already March, and the registration channel is about to close. Chen Dong did not expect that at this time, the person in charge of the Cannes Film Festival in Asia would contact him and hope that he would also send "Comet" to participate in the competition.

In fact, there is an international rule that a film cannot, under normal circumstances, be registered for two or more international film festivals at the same time.

The reason why Chen Dong received the invitation is that the Academy Awards is just a film festival in the United States. It is just more famous, but it is not actually international in nature.

But Chen Dong refused. Not only was it because the movie had already been released and whether or not to participate was just a matter of reputation, but also because considering that his wife was about to give birth, he would be busy with the family and didn't want to worry about anything else.

Although Chen Dong refused, China sent quite a few films to Cannes this time.

There are Jia Zhangke's "A Touch of Sin", Du Qifeng's "Blind Detective", and Liu Yuwen's "Crossing the Line"...

Chinese films have been out of the Cannes Film Festival's main competition for several years in a row. Will there be hope this year? Even the domestic media don't have much confidence and actually threw this question to netizens.

Feng Xiaogang's new movie has been officially approved and is scheduled to start shooting in April. It is not "If You Are the One 4" as speculated by the media and netizens, but a new comedy script called "Private Tailor".

After Pony.com’s IPO plan failed at the end of last year, its IPO plan failed again at the beginning of this year.

If the company still fails to go public by the end of this year, it will be heavily in debt due to the bet agreement.

However, to make matters worse, Zhang Yimou, who just joined last year, and the artists and team he brought with him were poached by LeTV in less than a year.

Although Zhang Yimou refused to talk about the reason why he changed jobs so quickly, the all-pervasive media still dug out some explosive information from a resigned middle-level leader of Pentium.

According to this middle-level manager, Pony.com is a completely nepotistic family company. It is bad enough that a group of people who do not understand management occupy the top positions in the company, but they also like to engage in internal fighting and exclude dissidents.

Once this news leaked, together with Zhang Yimou's job-hopping, it pushed Pony.com to the forefront.

Although the chairman of Xiaoma Pentium, Brother Dagou, came out to clarify and took some measures to calm the public opinion.

However, industry insiders have seen through this farce that Pony.com is strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and this last chance for the other party to go public is likely to be in vain.

Lu Yang’s “Lost in Hong Kong” was also officially launched in March.

Many netizens discovered that Wang Baoqiang’s name was no longer on the list of leading actors, but was replaced by Bao Bei’er, a name that people had rarely heard of. They were very puzzled and could not accept it.

Even Wang Baoqiang himself was puzzled when he saw the result.

He didn't understand why he was replaced by Bao Bei'er. Even if the other party had a background, he should at least say hello to him, right?
Wang Baoqiang was angry and unhappy about this.

After much consideration, I decided to call and ask in person.

But Wang Baoqiang did not call Lu Yang.

Instead, they attacked Chen Dong.

This was the first time Wang Baoqiang called Chen Dong after he saved his phone number at the Golden Horse Awards more than ten years ago.

And even if he felt resentful about being replaced, he only dared to target other people. When facing Chen Dong, he still had a smile on his face even when they were talking through the phone.

Even if it was "accountability", it was said with a tone of grievance.

Chen Dong only had a vague understanding of the whole story. After all, apart from the two times when Lu Yang reported to him, he had not paid attention to the matter due to his busy work.

So Chen Dong didn't know whether Lu Yang had called Wang Baoqiang to communicate with him later...

But now it seems that there isn't.

So Chen Dong told Wang Baoqiang what he knew.

"Director Chen, are you telling the truth? My agent has never told me about this."

Chen Dong could understand Wang Baoqiang's questioning, but he had no interest in asking his agent to prove it to him, so after a few polite words, he hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Wang Baoqiang was still in the conflict between disbelief and reality. Just when he was about to go find his agent for a face-to-face confrontation.

The other party happened to come to the door with a gift.

"Baoqiang, what are you doing just standing there?"

Ma Rong glared at her dull husband, but when she turned to face his agent Song Jiji, her eyes were ambiguous.

"You guys chat, I'll go to the kitchen to wash some fruit."

Song Jiji watched Ma Rong walk into the kitchen with her legs twisted, and then she reluctantly looked away.

But when he looked at Wang Baoqiang, he found that there was a scrutiny in his eyes. He was immediately panicked and thought to himself, could it be that this good man discovered something?
Just when Song Jiji was about to break out in a cold sweat, Wang Baoqiang spoke up: "Song Jiji, are you hiding something from me?"

"No, no, what else could I hide from you?" Song Jiji answered guiltily. At the same time, he glanced towards the door several times and had already planned his escape route in his mind.

Wang Baoqiang naturally saw through Song Jiji's guilty conscience, and immediately confirmed in his heart the truthfulness of Director Chen's words.

But he really couldn't figure out why Song Jiji did this...

"Here's a hint for you. When Director Lu was contacting the actors for Lost in Hong Kong, did he contact you?"

Song Jiji's heart almost jumped out of her chest. She didn't expect that Wang Baoqiang was talking about this.

Suddenly, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

If it were just this matter, he would have already found the words in his mind.

So I wasn't panicked at all.

"So that's what happened. Yes, Director Lu did contact me to ask you to star in Lost in Hong Kong..."

Before Song Jiji could finish, Wang Baoqiang couldn't help but interrupt and asked, "Then why didn't you tell me?"

"Don't worry, let me explain to you."

Song Jiji wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, then slowly brought out the excuse he had prepared earlier.

"When Director Lu contacted me, I was going to tell you right away. But Director Li happened to hear about it, and then the two CEOs Wang heard about it. Soon after, I received a call from CEO Xiao, who asked me to reply to Director Lu directly and ask him to exchange your salary for the investment share of the film. I didn't expect that this condition angered the other party, and they didn't even give us room for negotiation. They just said they wanted to replace you... That's probably what happened."

After hearing the whole story, Wang Baoqiang didn't expect the matter to be so complicated and involve two Mr. Wangs.

However, it seems that this matter cannot be blamed entirely on the agent.

Wait, something is wrong...

"You didn't tell me afterwards?"

Song Jiji glanced at Ma Rong who had been standing by the side for a long time, then retracted his gaze and explained to Wang Baoqiang with an innocent face: "I contacted you that day, but it was my sister-in-law who answered the phone, so I told her. Didn't my sister-in-law tell you later?"

Wang Baoqiang also turned around to look at his wife, who was stunned for a moment, and then also cooperated with Song Jiji's acting and said: "Oh, I forgot about this later."

"Wife, how could you forget such a thing?" Wang Baoqiang complained to Ma Rong with some resentment.

But he believed her words without a doubt.

It was also because of this that he easily let go of the crisis of trust in his agent Song Jiji as soon as it began to show signs of happening.

However, Wang Baoqiang has not yet swallowed this anger.

He first called Lu Yang to apologize, then went to Huayi's headquarters and complained to Mr. Xiao Wang.

Because Wang Baoqiang's contract with Huayi is about to expire, the company has been urging him to renew it as soon as possible.

Before this, Wang Baoqiang was still hesitant about whether to stay or leave, but after this incident, he no longer trusted the company and became determined to leave.

……

Because Liu Yifei only had one month left before her due date, Chen Dong stayed with her most of the time, and the frequency of his visits to the company gradually increased from once every two or three days to once every four or five days, and even once a week.

Chen Dong came to the company today and happened to run into Lu Yang there. Thinking of Wang Baoqiang's incident, he asked him about it. "He called me last week to apologize, saying that it was his company that asked for his salary in exchange for investment shares. He also said that his agent called him and told him that his wife picked up the phone, but his wife forgot about it, so he was kept in the dark."

Lu Yang laughed at what he said, so he added, "Actually, I called him once last time, and his wife answered the phone as well, and then there was no follow-up. Using the same reason once can be considered a coincidence, but using it twice, who would believe it?"

In any case, in Lu Yang's eyes, Wang Baoqiang has been labeled as a double-faced person.

Chen Dong did not comment well on this matter. Perhaps this was a sad drama played by Wang Baoqiang that even he, the director, could not see through. Or perhaps, Wang Baoqiang was surrounded by a group of bad people, including his wife.

"Forget it, let's just leave it at that... Oh, by the way, who have you found to replace Wang Baoqiang now?"

"Bao Bei'er." Lu Yang said, "It was recommended by Director Wang."

"Which Mr. Wang?"

"Director Wang of Guangguang."

Chen Dong frowned, but didn't say much on this issue. He chatted with Lu Yang about other things, and then the two parted ways.

In the office, Chen Dong finished the work at hand, then turned on his computer and went online.

Jay Chou will hold a concert in the capital next week.

Hong Kong held an event to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Zhang Guorong's death.

Gu Tianle and Chen Qiaoen had been secretly dating for two years but ended up in a love triangle.

Bona is going to remake "The Return of the Condor Heroes" again, and the choice of the role of Little Dragon Girl has caused a huge discussion on the Internet.

Movies:

"Chinese Partners", invested by China Film Group, directed by Chen Kexin, and starring Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao and Dong Dawei, has begun promotion and will be released on May 5th.

In addition, Zhao Wei, who had almost disappeared from the entertainment industry because of offending Chen Dong, also returned.

But she is not returning as an actor, but as a director.

And, she brought her first work "To Our Youth That Will Soon Pass Away".

It has been so many years, so Chen Dong naturally has no interest in targeting a woman again.

What's more, Chen Dong also knew that Zhao Wei's return this time was just a flash in the pan...

Of course, if she dares to provoke me again, that’s another matter.

The last hot search on the Internet was related to Chen Dong. His movie "The Night the Comet Came" had a total box office of over 4 million yuan half a month after its release.

The box office potential of this movie is probably not much different from that of "Life of Pi" released previously by director Li An. As an art film, and a foreign language film at that, Chen Dong is already extremely satisfied with the box office results.

More importantly, the overseas box office of "Comet" is also not bad, having exceeded 8000 million US dollars. With half a month left in its release, it is almost certain to exceed 1 million US dollars in the end.

And because this movie won two Oscars, it can sell for a good price even if it's sold as a DVD.

So there is no need to sympathize with Leonardo. He gets a share of the box office and can make a lot of money.

……

When Liu Yifei was pregnant with her first child, she gave birth in the hospital.

This time when she was pregnant with her second child, Chen Dong directly spent money to invite doctors, nurses and equipment to her home.

"Hubby, please sing a song for me."

As Liu Yifei's due date got closer, she spent more and more time lying in bed. However, every day Chen Dong would stay by her bed and talk to her, so Liu Yifei's mood remained stable and she didn't feel bored.

However, even the closest couples may run out of topics to talk about every day.

That's why Liu Yifei wanted to hear Chen Dong sing a song for her.

By the way, it had been a long time since she heard this man sing specially for her.

The last time was the time before that, it was at her eighteenth birthday party, no, it was when I proposed to her.

Anyway, it’s been a long time.

Chen Dong did not refuse his daughter-in-law's request.

Asked: "What do you want to hear?"

"Anything is fine, as long as you sing it."

"Then wait a moment."

Chen Dong felt that singing a cappella was meaningless, so he went out to find a guitar.

Because it was afternoon, the sun outside was lazy and the breeze was not dry.

In such an environment, Chen Dong didn't want to sing songs that were too rock or passionate.

Moreover, his relationship with Liu Yifei is no longer at the age where singing "The Rest of Your Life" is suitable for couples to express their love.

After much thought, he decided to sing a song that tells a story.

"This song is a little sad, honey, you have to be prepared."

"Is it a new song?" Liu Yifei asked curiously.

Chen Dong shook his head: "It's Eason's song."

"Eason Chan?"

"Correct."

"Well, I'm ready, honey, you can start your concert."

Chen Dong nodded.

He stopped talking nonsense, and soon, a soothing and melodious guitar sound rang out in the room.

This prelude was very familiar to Liu Yifei, but her mind was empty at the moment. She did not think about it, nor did she want to think about it. She just wanted to enjoy the solo performance of this man for her.

"I came to your city"

"Walk the way you came"

“Imagine a life without me”

"How lonely are you"

"Take the photo you gave me"

"That familiar street"

“It’s just that your image is missing.”

"..."

The song is called "Long Time No See". Liu Yifei's eyes were wet before she even listened to two lines.

The lazy sunlight outside the window shone in through the glass window and sprinkled on the side face of Chen Dong who was singing attentively. This scene fell into Liu Yifei's eyes. Although there were still two lines of tears on her face, the corners of her mouth raised slightly, revealing a faint smile.

Chen Dong seemed to sense something and also looked up at his wife. In this glance, he saw a peaceful life, white moonlight and a cinnabar mole.

……

"Will you suddenly appear in the coffee shop on the corner?"

"I will greet you with a smile and a wave."

"Sit and chat with you"

(End of this chapter)