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Chapter 374 Dongcheng Visual Effects Collapse Zhao Liying (Please subscribe!)
"Dongcheng Pictures: Welcome Ms. Shu Chang to join the Dongcheng Production Department."

"Dongcheng Pictures: Welcome Liu Haoran to join the Dongcheng Artist Management Department."

"Dongcheng Pictures: The cast/role list of director Chen Dong's new play "Detective Chinatown" is as follows - Wang Baoqiang plays Tang Ren, Liu Haoran plays Qin Feng, Dilireba plays A Xiang, Shen Teng plays Huang Landeng, Xiao Yang plays Kuntai, Zhang Zifeng plays Sinuo, Pan Yueming plays adoptive father Li, Jin Shijie plays Mr. Yan, Jiang Wen plays Bei Ge..."

When getting up early this morning, many netizens discovered that the official Dongcheng Pictures had posted three updates in a row, and they all rushed to the comment section to join in the fun.

"No, isn't Shu Chang an actor? How did he join the production department of Dongcheng Pictures? Is this a mistake?"

"It's the company's official website after all. It shouldn't make such a low-level mistake. It should be moved behind the scenes. And I heard that the producer has a very high status in the entertainment industry."

“Wow, doesn’t this mean that I won’t be able to see my Chang Chang act anymore?!”

"Being a producer doesn't affect her acting, it's just that she can't act as often as before. But then again, Shu Chang doesn't seem to have any outstanding works in the past two years, which is probably why she turned to behind the scenes this time."

"Who is Liu Haoran? Is he a newcomer? He just made his debut and he starred in Director Chen's movie, and he is one of the male protagonists. This is a great start."

"Haha, is it possible that after Bai Jue, there will be a second girl from the East?"

"Fuck, he's a man, and Liu Haoran is not a pure newcomer, he played Song Ge in "Beijing Love Story" released at the beginning of the year, and he has already made his debut."

"Anyway, looking at the photos online, he looks very young. Dongcheng Pictures really likes to sign new and fresh-looking people."

"Indeed, they signed a girl from the Shanghai Theatre Academy some time ago, and she seems to be on the list of actors for Director Chen's next film."

"Really? Dilireba, she's from Xinjiang... Shit, she got the leading female role!"

"I checked and found that this Dilireba has not made her debut yet, so she is the second genuine Dongfang girl after Bai Qiao."

"Brothers and sisters, I will go to her Weibo and follow her first, so that when she becomes popular, I will be her old fan."

"Let's go together. I can already foresee the day when a top female star will rise."

"..."

Chen Dong was also browsing the news online at this moment. He didn't expect that his company only posted three updates and it actually became one of the three hot searches.

I have to say, this generation of netizens is really awesome!

If the first trending search was not bought by the second season of "The Voice of China", Chen Dong estimated that his list of actors' trending search would still be ranked first.

Yes, the second season of The Voice is coming.

The announced mentor lineup is Zhang Huimei, Harlem, Wang Feng and Nayoung.

Among them, Harlem and Nayoung were retained from the previous season.

Zhang Huimei and Wang Feng replaced Liu Huan and Yang Kun.

The current "Voice of China" has not yet collapsed. It has a very good reputation online and is very popular, and is deeply sought after by many netizens.

But the upper limit of music variety shows is there, and they can never become national variety shows, so they need to buy hot searches.

In the afternoon, after Chen Dong came back from lunch, he did not go directly back to the office, but went to the post-editing room.

Looking at the entire domestic industry, his company's equipment is second to none. This is because companies that are more advanced than them do not have as complete equipment as theirs, and companies that are more complete than theirs do not have as advanced equipment as theirs.

However, Dongcheng Pictures' post-production and special effects businesses are not well-known in the industry.

This is not because Dongcheng Pictures only has equipment but lacks sufficient post-production talents, but because the special effects business was not popular in China before. Many domestic films did not use special effects, and those that did need special effects mostly trusted mature foreign special effects companies.

In addition, Chen Dong did not have a plan to develop external business, so he owned the best post-production equipment in the country but was unknown in the industry.

However, sometimes the boss being lazy doesn’t mean the employees like it too.

For example, at this moment, Chen Dong came to the post-production editing room to see the progress of Lu Yang's post-production of "Lost in Hong Kong".

Unexpectedly, during the conversation, the head of the editing team discussed with him the market changes and prospects of special effects production in China in the past two years.

Chen Dong was not a boss who didn't understand what was being said. Although the head of the editing team did not directly tell him that the company should also get involved in this market, he could tell that the editors in the post-production group, who could be classified as programmers, were no longer satisfied with just taking work from the company, and they also wanted to grab business from outside.

Of course the ultimate goal is to make more money, but to be honest, the harder they work, the more the boss earns.

So faced with the demands of these employees who are more motivated than him as the boss and want the company to grow bigger and stronger, what reason does Chen Dong have to refuse?

I could only be moved to tears and agree.

Since it is necessary to handle external business, the editing group can no longer be just a post-production group, but needs to be expanded into a department, just like the artist economic department. This will not only make it more presentable to the outside world, but also make performance appraisals more convenient and fairer.

Chen Dong is a man of action. After coming out of the editing room that afternoon, he went straight to the general manager's office to discuss this issue with Zhong Lifang.

The next day, the company held a mid- and senior-level meeting. At this meeting, Chen Dong personally announced that the post-production department was officially established and the post-production editing group was renamed Dongcheng Visual Effects.

The most important thing is that we have added the business of outsourcing special effects production.

This piece of news was officially released by Dongcheng Pictures. Although it did not cause as much discussion as the three pieces of news yesterday, it caused quite a stir in the industry, especially in the special effects production industry.

Coincidentally, the movie "Pacific Rim" co-produced by Warner and Legendary Pictures had so many special effects scenes and was in a hurry to find a special effects company to cooperate with.

Because Chinese special effects companies are more cost-effective, well, actually the prices are lower, so they turned their attention to China.

Just at this time, Chen Dong's Dongcheng Pictures announced the business of contracting special effects production, so a call from Hollywood came directly to Chen Dong's mobile phone.

Of course, before Chen Dong received this call, a vice president of Warner whom he knew had already spoken to him on the phone.

"Chen, I'm Guillermo del Toro, the director of Pacific Rim."

"Hello Director Toro, Mr. James has just introduced you to me."

"Yes, I got your phone number from Vice President James... I heard that your company can contract for post-production special effects, so I would like to learn more about it."

"certainly……"

Since Chen Dong was the boss, he actually didn't know much about the technology and charging methods of the visual effects department, so he just told them what he knew. When the assistant called the head of the visual effects department over, he asked him to introduce it to Toro in detail again.

Although the head of the visual effects department was not very eloquent, he spoke very useful information, and after chatting with the person on the other end of the phone for almost half an hour, he actually got the order.

This is the first order after the establishment of Dongcheng Visual Effects, and unexpectedly it is a big order from abroad.

As long as it is done well, it will be a free publicity business card, and subsequent orders will come in continuously. Last month, "Princess Agents", produced by Yu Zhen Studio and co-produced by Perfect World Pictures, Dongcheng Pictures, and Dongyang Huanyu, was exclusively broadcast on Mango TV, setting a record of 2.76% viewership and a peak viewership of 8.47%, firmly ranking first in TV drama ratings during the same period.

Zhao Liying's popularity also soared as a result.

But in the end, he never crossed the threshold of becoming a first-line star.

However, if Zhao Liying's conditions had been met two or three years ago, it would have been a sure thing.

The reason why you can’t get promoted now is because the threshold has been raised.

In fact, the logic here is very simple. If you regard the resources of the entertainment industry as a big cake, basically the more developed the society is, the clearer the ownership of each piece of cake will be.

If you suddenly want to get more, you will inevitably have to take away the cake in other people's hands. No one will agree to spit out what they have eaten. Therefore, promotion is becoming more and more difficult now, and it will even be more difficult in the future. This is the reason why Chen Dong is familiar with that some traffic stars are born every year in the future, but they will disappear after being popular for one or two years at most.

If you understand this principle, it will not be so difficult to understand why Huayi wanted to destroy Yin Xiaotian before.

Chen Dong didn't expect that Zhao Liying's failure to be promoted to the front line this time would make her emotionally broken.

Zhong Lifang came to Chen Dong now, hoping that he could come forward to enlighten the other party.

"Did something happen? As far as I know, Zhao Liying's mentality is not that fragile, right?"

"It seems to be because of Tang Yan... Never mind, I don't know the details, Director Chen, you should go and comfort her yourself."

"Where is she now?"

"It's in the company, in the meeting room of the artist management department."

"Okay, I'll go over with you and take a look."

Chen Dong quickly came to the artist management department and found that Zhao Liying did seem to have just cried.

He pulled out a tissue and handed it to her, asking, "What's going on? Do you mind talking to me?"

"Thank you, Director Chen." Zhao Liying took the tissue, thanked him, wiped her nose, and then glanced at other people in the room. Everyone who was swept by her eyes understood and quietly left the meeting room.

Chen Dong and she watched the others disappear at the door, then turned around and took the initiative to open the topic: "Have you been under too much pressure recently?"

Zhao Liying nodded, then shook her head. She didn't know why today, but the tears of grievance came suddenly and she couldn't control them at all.

"Yes... I'm sorry Director Chen, I don't know what happened, anyway, I just had a breakdown today."

"Is it like this today, or has it been like this recently?" Chen Dong frowned. He was a little worried about Zhao Liying's mental state.

"Today..."

Next, under Chen Dong's guidance, Zhao Liying slowly released all the pressure that had accumulated during this period.

After listening to her description, Chen Dong realized how serious the internal friction of this girl was.

Just now Zhong Lifang mentioned Tang Yan, and Chen Dong thought there was some conflict between them. It turned out that it was not a conflict, but Tang Yan had been stuck in the second line for all these years due to her acting problems, which made Zhao Liying worry that after failing to be promoted this time, she would follow in her footsteps.

Of course, if it were just that, Zhao Liying would not have collapsed. The real reason for her collapse was mainly because she attached too much importance to this promotion opportunity.

In the past six months, especially in the past month after the broadcast of "Princess Agents", she has put a lot of pressure on herself every day, so strictly speaking, Tang Yan's example actually only served as a fuse.

"Does it feel better now that you've said it?"

Seeing Zhao Liying nod, Chen Dong continued to say some words of guidance and comfort.

Of course, in the end, I still suggested that she see a psychologist, and also suggested that she take a rest for a while, or go out for a trip, go home to visit her parents, etc.

Zhao Liying’s situation today gave Chen Dong a wake-up call, so the company decided to hire a psychological counselor.

Fortunately, after a checkup, everyone else in the company was found to be healthy.

"What happened to Zhao Liying?"

When he got home, facing his wife's question, although Chen Dong was a little curious about her source of information, he answered without hesitation: "It's not a big problem, it's just that the psychological pressure is a bit great. I have been holding it in for a long time, which has caused me to have a bit of emotional breakdown."

"I think she is a gentle person with a strong heart. How could something like this happen?"

"People with this kind of personality are most likely to be consumed by internal friction," Chen Dong explained. "Because they usually like to keep their negative emotions to themselves and don't want to expose them to others. If they can digest them themselves, it's fine. But once they exceed the limit, it's easy for them to end up like Zhao Liying did today."

"Sometimes I really feel that you, my husband, are like a knowledgeable philosopher who knows everything, but I don't usually see you like reading." Liu Yifei looked puzzled.

Chen Dong smiled, took his wife into his arms, tasted the lipstick she had put on today on her red lips, and then answered her doubts: "Because your husband, I am a genius!"

"嘚丝~"

Although she said she didn't admit it, Liu Yifei had actually already admitted in her heart that her husband was a genius.

And he is an all-round genius.

Sometimes, it even feels like he can predict the future...

"By the way, husband, Dad asked us to come over for dinner this weekend. He wants to see his two grandchildren."

"Well, let's go then."

"You have time, right?"

"You have to squeeze out time even if you don't have it. Otherwise, how can I let you three go by yourselves? Then your father-in-law will definitely blame me as his son-in-law."

"Hehe, my dad is actually quite reasonable."

Chen Dong skipped the topic. He seemed to hear some crying, so he walked towards the sound and said, "It seems to be my daughter crying."

Liu Yifei had also heard it at this time and explained: "She should be awake. She has been sleeping for more than three hours."

When the two of them were about to reach the door of the room, a little adult rushed out in a hurry, bumped into Chen Dong's arms, and almost fell down.

Fortunately, Chen Dong was quick to support him. He took a closer look at the little adult and realized that who else could it be but his son?
Before Chen Dong could speak, the young boy with a red scarf tied around his neck said, "Mom and Dad, my sister is awake, and she pooped..."

(End of this chapter)