Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 597 How did he do it?

Not long after the black Lincoln extended car drove out of Murdoch's manor, Li Chen received a call from Murdoch.

"Li, I believe we will meet again soon. If I remember correctly, you haven't been to Oscar yet."

Li Chen laughed: "That's right, I'm not Leon's little Leo, I don't have the habit of running with others."

"Hahahaha" Murdoch also laughed heartily.

After hanging up the phone, his son James stood respectfully by his side.

Murdoch is not only domineering towards his company's employees, but also strict towards his own children.

"(英) He didn't touch those girls?" Murdoch asked suddenly after putting down the phone.

"Indeed, I didn't touch any of them, Father." James was also a little surprised.

"It's not uncommon for young people to not be interested in women, at least he hasn't seen one."

"Some of the girls specially prepared for tonight have bodies as hot as those of Victoria's Secret supermodels."

"That damn Tim Smith got a bargain." James complained in his heart.

Mo Keduo smiled and said, "It's not easy. I couldn't do this when I was his age."

"Father, are you really going to help him?"

Murdoch glanced at his son, and said with some regret: "Remember, the best investment is in people."

"If you carefully check the trajectory of this man in the past decade, you will know why he was able to appear on Time magazine before the age of 30 and was valued by both Time Warner and Disney."

"If you have half of his ability, I will feel relieved to hand over the group to you."

Not many people know about the meeting between Li Chen and Mokedo.

But the meeting with Spiegel could not be hidden from anyone.

Li Chen did not go to Stanford, but planned to visit Snap's small workshop in Santa Monica first. Since he was in Los Angeles, there was no reason not to go and take a look.

When I arrived at Snap, it was called a company, but it was just a single-family house.

"Boss, this property belongs to the Spiegel family. His parents have always been generous to their children."

Li Chen nodded: "Let's go in and take a look."

Li Chen and his group, with bodyguards waiting at the door, Tim accompanied Li Chen into the Snap company.

At first glance, there were less than ten people in total.

One of them, like Li Chen, also has an Asian face.

The seven or eight people in the room stopped typing and looked at Li Chen and Tim, the two uninvited guests, curiously.

"(English) You must be Director Li Chen, right? I'm Bobby Murphy. I heard Spiegel mention you. I didn't expect you to come so soon." A young Asian man quickly stood up from his workstation, walked around the simple long shared desk, smiled and extended his hand to Li Chen.

Before coming here, Li Chen had read the information about Bobby Murphy, Spiegel's partner, who is of American and Filipino descent and a future billionaire born in the 90s.

"Do you know me?" Li Chen said with a smile.

"Of course. It's hard not to know you in Los Angeles and Hollywood. Please take a seat." Bobby Murphy smiled and moved Li Chen to a brown sofa nearby.

After the two chatted for a few sentences, Li Chen found out that Spiegel returned to Stanford in order to drop out of school.

Li Chen complained in his heart: "Sure enough, he is so willful. He will graduate in a few months."

Bobby Murphy's eyes flickered a little. The IT guy was still too naive, and Li Chen saw it at a glance.

"Murphy, are you feeling unwell?"

"Ah? No, no, no." Murphy said awkwardly.

In fact, he was not telling the truth. Snap was growing very fast and the server needed to be expanded. Brown, their previous partner, was going to sue them.

It can be said that Murphy and Spiegel are also experiencing the funding problems that all entrepreneurs will experience in the early stages of their business.

When Xiao Ma was just starting Penguin, he almost sold QQ to Zhang Chaoyang for 500,000 yuan.

The reason why Murphy's eyes flickered was that Spiegel regarded the man in front of him as a fat sheep.

A man who works in the film industry and has money, may be as willful as him. Since he came to him, he definitely didn't come to talk about love.

Murphy didn't tell the truth, and Li Chen didn't ask any further questions. He had done his homework before coming.

"Since Spiegel is not here, I plan to return home tomorrow."

"I'm very optimistic about your software. You can discuss it with Spiegel. If you are willing to accept investment, I can personally invest $50 first."

Bobby Murphy's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "Yes, yes, we do!"

Tim couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth, thinking to himself that Spiegel was really good at acting. He was almost unable to hold on, and yet he had his eyes on the top of his head and actually asked the boss to go to Stanford to see him?

Is it to witness his feat of dropping out of school?
Tim didn't understand Spiegel's logic. He heard that he had good grades at Stanford and would get his diploma in a few months.

Does he have a grudge against his diploma?

"Don't rush to reply, you should discuss it with Spiegel."

"Later, I will also look at Snap's daily user growth and revenue potential."

When Bobby Murphy saw that Spiegel was willing to invest $50 without asking any questions, he thought that Spiegel was right and that Spiegel was indeed a fat sheep.

But the professionalism with which Li Chen responded to this sentence made him realize that there must be a professional team behind this person.

Li Chen paused and smiled, "Of course, there is also the issue of your and Spiegel's control, as well as the development logic and strategy to deal with competitors. I personally and Han Tang Fund can consider continuing to make additional investments."

Li Chen stood up, straightened his collar, and shook hands with Murphy to say goodbye: "Spiegel has my contact information. When you've thought it over, call me."

"Finally, I am very optimistic about Snap. This is how startups get through the early stages. There is no shame in being short of money. Goodbye."

Murphy looked dazed: "Goodbye."

I thought to myself, "So he knows everything."

While Li Chen was still on the flight back to China, the news of his meeting with Bobby Murphy was leaked online.

"Leo went to the US to meet Snap founder Bobby Murphy"

"Leo steps onto the Internet again"

Sina Entertainment News

"Li Chen, who did not show up to receive the award at Weibo Night, was reported yesterday to be at a camera company called Snap in Santa Monica, Los Angeles."

"It is reported that Snap released a 'disappearing' app that is popular among American teenagers since July last year, which has attracted the attention of the industry."

Li Chen's series of mysterious operations made everyone in the circle feel like they were exploring a fog.

"Brother, I am increasingly confused by his recent actions. Why doesn't he worry about the Oscar public relations for "The Flowers of War" and instead goes to work for a small camera company?" Wang Zhonglei was truly keeping an eye on the whereabouts of his mortal enemy Li Chen all the time.

Wang Zhongjun frowned. "Didn't Qiao Qiao say he went to meet Murdoch? How come it's a camera company?"

"Brother, you think too highly of him. He may have some weight in our country, but who is Murdoch? To be frank, when Murdoch turned his hand to make the clouds, he was probably wearing open-crotch pants!"

“Zhonglei, your mentality is a little wrong. Li Chen is indeed our biggest competitor, but the more so, the more we should face up to his excellence. Otherwise, why is our Huayi always overshadowed by him!” Wang Zhonglei looked unhappy, lowered his eyelids and said nothing.

What his elder brother said was right. He was indeed a little abnormal because of the pressure from Li Chen.

"Zhonglei, if you want to defeat your opponent, you must at least be able to face up to his strength!" Wang Zhongjun patted his brother's shoulder.

Neither the big nor the small Wang could understand Li Chen's trajectory, and the celebrities in the circle were even more confused.

Li Chen met with Zhang Yimou on the second day after returning to China.

Lao Mouzi also bought a house in the Central Villa District, not far from Li Chen.

Li Chen called him and he arrived in less than half an hour.

"Have some tea, Director Zhang." After not seeing each other for half a month, Zhang Yimou looked depressed, and even the servant who served the tea looked at him twice.

His mother suddenly fell ill, and running back and forth between the hospital and the crew was very tiring for Zhang Yimou, especially since he is 61 years old this year.

"Director Zhang, if you really can't leave, I'll let Yang Siwei lead the team for the Golden Globe Awards. After all, family is more important."

"No, no need. My mother is under the care of Chen Ting. It's okay."

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"Well, in that case, you will leave on the 10th. If anyone at home needs help, just ask your wife to contact the company."

"Okay!" Lao Mouzi said straightforwardly, but after a moment, he hesitated again, as if he had something to say but stopped talking.

Li Chen smiled and said, "Director Zhang, we are family, just tell us what you want to say. There are only you and me here, no outsiders."

Lao Mouzi thought so too, and said with a sullen smile: "Li Chen, what do you think the chances of "The Flowers of War" winning the Golden Globe Award are?"

Li Chen thought Lao Mouzi was going to ask something! It turns out that Lao Mouzi is also a vulgar person.

Li Chen couldn't help but smile: "Director Zhang, I always thought you had reached the state of not being happy with things or sad with yourself, and awards are nothing to you. I didn't expect you to be obsessed with them."

Zhang Yimou laughed and said, "To be honest, I also thought I didn't care about these false reputations."

"But 'To Live', 'House of Flying Daggers', 'Hero' and 'Raise the Rock' lost four times at the Golden Globe Awards."

"I didn't have high hopes this time, but since you're the boss, I felt a little bit of luck."

Li Chen understood very well that no one could appreciate the temptation of fame and fortune unless they were in it themselves.

"Director Zhang, I can only say this: if we don't win the Golden Globe this time, we probably won't be able to win it in the future."

The double insurance of Warner and Murdoch will not work unless the Japanese become the master of the Americans.

Li Chen's words reassured Lao Mouzi, who stood up and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll go back and prepare, and leave on the 10th."

The box office of "The Flowers of War" has now exceeded 7.2 million yuan, leaving "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate" far behind with a box office of 4.9 million yuan.

"The Great Magician" starring Tony Leung, Liu Qingyun and Zhou Xun and "Reverse War" starring Xie Zhou and Zhou were also ready to be released, and the invitations to the premieres were sent directly to Yang Siwei.

Yu Dong even called Li Chen directly: "Director Li, are you back in Beijing?"

"Boss Yu, have you planted a spy around me?"

Yu Dong laughed: "Director Li is really good at joking. I just feel that after all, the opening ceremony of Zhizhen Painting Art will be held in a few days."

"Then Mr. Yu, don't forget to come and visit us."

"Of course, of course, Director Li, you must come to the premiere of The Great Magician. Liang Chaowei and Zhou Xun, one starred in The Unparalleled, and the other is from Rongchen Pictures. As the boss, you should come to show your support, right?"

Li Chen felt amused that Yu Dong was actually using favors to kidnap him.

These two films, the former was jointly produced by Yinghuang and Bona, and the latter was produced by Yinghuang and distributed by Huayi.

Ying Huang's plan to play both sides was a good one, but with the incident with Ge You, the future of "Reverse War" is uncertain.
"Boss Yu has said so much, how can I not go?"

"Hahaha, then I'll be waiting for Director Li on the 9th."

There is an actor in "The Great Magician" that Li Chen likes very much, and that's the one who plays Li Dakang. Just for that reason, he went to the show.

Just after hanging up the phone with Yu Dong, Miss Liu called.

As soon as New Year's Day was over, she started working, endorsing advertisements and participating in various activities.

You can see her on Weibo almost every day.

Li Chen once teased his wife: Whenever Miss Liu shows up, there will be a record on Weibo.
Liu Yifei had no way to refute this statement. Although Li Chen was no less famous than her, when he walked outside and wrapped himself up a little more tightly, almost no one could recognize him.

But she can't do that. Even if she only shows her eyes, passers-by can still accurately recognize her.

"Brother Xun called me just now and told me to take you to support The Great Magician. I said I couldn't take you. What do you think? Am I smart?"

"Yeah, your wit is rare in the sky and unparalleled on earth!" Li Chen said with a perfunctory smile.

At the premiere of "The Great Magician", Li Chen and Liu Yifei's joint appearance indeed attracted more attention than the premiere itself.

Only Ying Huang's sheep and Bernard's fish know the pain in their hearts.
Beijing Times

"Yesterday, the premiere of the movie "The Great Magician" was held in Beijing. Director Er Dongsheng and the all-star cast of leading actors including Liang Chaowei, Liu Qingyun, Zhou Xun, Yan Ni and Wu Gang appeared."

"Li Chen, who was in Santa Monica a few days ago, also showed up with his wife to support Zhou Xun. Li Chen changed his usual sharp-tongued style and said with a smile that the leading actors were all talented and it was worth it for the audience to go to the cinema."

"Zhou Xun even joked with Li Chen on the spot that he wanted to watch it a few times, and Li Chen responded generously, saying that he would just book the venue for the sake of their past friendship."

Sina Entertainment News

"As one of the nominees for the 69th Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, the crew of The Flowers of War is currently preparing for the ceremony in Los Angeles."

"At noon on January 1, Beijing time, Nini and Tong Dawei posted a photo of themselves and Zhang Yimou having dinner on Weibo. But because he had to walk the red carpet the next day, he didn't dare to eat as much as he wanted."

"Previously, a piece of news was spread online about "The Flowers of War" failing miserably at the North American box office and receiving negative reviews from foreign media." Sina Entertainment confirmed with Rongchen Pictures that the film has not yet been released on a large scale in North America, so it is impossible to talk about whether it did well at the box office."

"The attendance rate of the previous small-scale preview was quite high, and METACRITIC.COM, which collects reviews from many authoritative media, shows that the film's ratings in 10 mainstream media are above average."

Los Angeles

Even if Zhang Yimou turned a deaf ear to what was happening outside, he also learned that "The Flowers of War" had received bad reviews from foreign media.

But bad reviews come and go quickly.

Back at the hotel, Lao Mouzi sent the actors away and asked Yang Siwei privately: "The bad reviews have suddenly disappeared. Is it Li Chen's effort?"

Yang Siwei performed Tai Chi and said with a smile: "Director Zhang, why are you worrying about these things? Tomorrow you just need to show the style of us Chinese directors. The Golden Globe is just an appetizer, and the Oscar is our goal."

Yang Siwei did not deny it, and Zhang Yimou knew what was going on.

Lao Mouzi returned to his hotel room and was terrified when he thought about it.

He really didn't expect that Li Chen's influence could even affect the American media. How did he do it?
At the same time, Beijing.

The Zhizhen Painting Art Dream Factory was filled with joy early in the morning, with lights and decorations at the entrance, and it was bustling with people. A-list celebrities could be seen everywhere, and the media was like they were having an annual meeting.

Neatly arranged flower baskets are placed on both sides of the factory's main entrance.

On the flower basket are messages from friends inside and outside the circle of Li Chen and Liu Yifei.

A closer look reveals that most of the names are signed by big names: Cheng Long, Li Lianjie, Zhang Manyu, Liu Dehua, Liang Chaowei, Liu Jialing, Li Xuejian
The two Wangs, Wang Da and Wang Xiao, appeared at the scene with their noses not being noses and their eyes not being eyes, looking as if they had indulged in excessive sexual activity the night before.

(End of this chapter)