China Entertainment 1997

Cao Xuan returned to China in early March. At that time, "See You Again" had been dominating the Billboard singles chart for 5 weeks, and there was no sign of instability at all.

Not to mention the despair of singers at the same time, even Cao Xuan had given up.

In my heart, I no longer insist on five championships in one specialty, being the best, and not being defeated.

Cao Xuan, who returned to China, suddenly found himself free.

The promotion period for the new album has passed, and "Taken 3" will be released in the summer. He has no new movie projects at the moment, which gives him another free period.

It's said that he has free time, but Cao Xuan actually doesn't have time to wander around every day. It's just that his schedule is not so busy, but he is actually still preparing for his last album and next movie project.

At the beginning, Cao Xuan wanted to work on the "John Wick" series. Later, because he had to focus on music in the past two years, he temporarily stopped it.

As a brand new movie action series, it may even create a small film and television universe, so it cannot be launched in a hurry.

It's better to be steady. When Cao Xuan completely retires from the music scene and takes some time, he can devote his energy to it.

Cao Xuan is not worried that this series will be preempted by others. He has established the project early and has gathered relevant talents and is polishing and preparing it. The original crew had similar ideas, but they cannot take shape now.

This is why Cao Xuan dared to let it go, otherwise he would have to strike first.

After suspending "John Wick", Cao Xuan's future plans are to put aside Marvel movies and plan to see if there are any suitable Chinese-language film projects.

He doesn't pursue it deliberately. If it's suitable, he can pat it. If it's not inappropriate, he will just make a new album and watch the children or play when he has nothing to do.

As he approaches his forties, Cao Xuan feels that he is becoming less and less active in his work.

Well, it seems that he wasn't very active before, just for money and fame. Now that he has everything, his desire to work hard is even lower.

Cao Xuan has become a Buddhist, but Empress Donggong is now focused on her work.

In January this year, President Li Yan, who had worked for Fanxing for more than ten years, officially resigned and chose to leave Fanxing and return to his hometown to start a business.

Regarding this result, even though Cao Xuan was mentally prepared, he was still a little reluctant and sad.

Li Yan was the oldest among the early executives of Fanxing. He was already in his early forties when he came to Fanxing. Now, he is already in the age when he knows his destiny.

He had been divorced before joining Fanxing. His son worked and settled abroad. Now he seems to have grandchildren. Now Li Yan can be said to have no worries. His only thought is to provide for his parents until they die.

It is said that I am returning home to start a business, but in reality it is more like retiring, setting up a small company, and mainly spending time with my parents.

Li Yan has been with Fanxing for more than ten years. His presence is not as strong as that of other senior executives, but he is a good steward and glue. Fanxing has been able to develop steadily and rapidly over the years, and his contribution behind the scenes is not significant. Small.

After working together for more than ten years, Cao Xuan also got along well with him. His family members knew about his family affairs, and he was not actually a particularly easy-to-serve boss.

There were few major problems, but there were a lot of minor ones. Li Yan tolerated him for ten years, never complained once, and tried his best and fulfilled his responsibilities. Cao Xuan was still very grateful.

The night before Li Yan left the capital, Cao Xuan cooked the dishes himself at home and invited Li Yan to dinner. The two of them chatted until late at night, getting very drunk.

In the afternoon of the next day, Cao Xuan personally sent him to the airport and gave him a parting gift.

A villa in the Third Ring Road of Beijing, with an area of ​​about 400 square meters, is a single-family house. The current market price should be more than 25 million.

This was Cao Xuan's gratitude to Li Yan, thanking him for his dedication to Fanxing and his accommodation to himself over the years.

This gift is not small. Putting aside dividends and bonuses, Li Yan's salary in Fanxing for more than ten years may not be enough to buy this villa.

With this villa, whether he lives in it or sells it, Li Yan won't have to worry about his pension money for the rest of his life.

After Li Yan left, Hu Jing officially took office and became the second president of Fanxing and the nominal leader.

It is no exaggeration to say that as soon as this appointment came out, it caused an earthquake on the Internet.

It's okay inside Fanxing. The top management knows what's going on, and the middle management is more or less aware of the situation. Whether the bottom management talks about it or not doesn't matter to the overall situation.

In addition, Hu Jing herself has been a senior executive for many years and still has a certain prestige. After taking the position, she did not make any new officials to make a fuss. There was a new official named [Li Gui and Hu Sui]. Except for a very small adjustment, it was basically the same as before. So, it's still the same now.

The most important reason is still that sentence. Everyone knows who the core of Fanxing is. If Cao Xuan is still there, everyone's hearts will not be confused.

But in the outside world, this matter has a great influence.

After all, Fanxing is a leader in the entertainment industry, a group company with a market value of hundreds of billions, and it is very influential in the country. The change of president will definitely attract attention from the outside world, let alone the replacement of a big star like Hu Jing.

Although as one of the four great actresses, Hu Jing has produced very few works in recent years, and she can even be described as "outdated".

But after all, she was one of the top celebrities back then, and her popularity and celebrity status are still there. When taking stock of various female stars, she is still one that cannot be avoided.

The combination of the two successfully made this matter go out of the circle and caused a sensation in entertainment, finance, society and other fields.

Many people are extremely negative about this appointment, especially Zhihu, a Q\u0026A platform that received Cao Xuan's capital injection and was officially opened to the public this year. A large group of experts and elites analyzed the matter from various angles and madly backstabbed the boss lady. .

It is believed that this is the beginning of Cao Xuan's transformation of Fanxing into a family company, and it also indicates that Fanxing will soon turn from prosperity to decline.

Cao Xuan was directly criticized as a waste who was controlled by women, while Hu Jing became the bane of beauty like Daji and Yang Guifei.

Of course, some people who have carefully studied the responsibilities of Fanxing’s president and the division of labor at the top level believe that this appointment is not that serious. Under the current system, Hu Jing has no chance even if she wants to cause trouble. It is more like a compromise recognized by all parties. product.

This topic can also be said to be the first out-of-circle topic on Zhihu.com. It gained 1.6 million users in one wave and started to gain some fame.

Boss Cao has already registered a trumpet account and is starting to prepare to watch the big guys showing off.

However, apart from Zhihu and a few platforms and people who pay attention to finance and Fanxing itself, more people still care about Hu Jing.

President Fanxing, no matter how powerful he is, is indeed the nominal leader, the head of the Qianyi Group.

Hu Jing has grown from a star to a well-known strong woman, alongside Miss Yang of Country Garden, Mr. Dong of Gree, and Mrs. Du of Gome.

To be honest, there are only a handful of artists in the entertainment industry who can counterattack to this extent.

But Hu Jing thought it was nothing. The head of the Qianyi Group was nothing. At the beginning of this year, the restaurant where Cao Xuan often went to pay New Year greetings was at the top.

But Hu Jing didn't think anything of it, but it was different for outsiders.

In the past, some netizens who didn't know the truth said that Hu Jing was outdated and not worthy of the four major actresses. Now many people feel the same way, but it's not that Hu Jing is unworthy, but that the four major actresses are not worthy of Hu Jing.

Everyone is really not on the same level anymore, even the most popular Fan Xiaopang has to look up to him.

Many people joke that Hu Jing is the woman who switched jobs from CCTV6 and CCTV8 (movie and TV drama channels) to CCTV2 (financial channel).

But soon, some netizens saw Hu Jing in a high-end business forum.

President Hu spoke as a representative of the private entertainment industry and spoke eloquently in front of leaders and business tycoons.

Netizens who were just playing jokes at first really realized what level Hu Jing had reached now when they saw the participants in this forum.

The only doubt everyone has is whether Hu Jing, who has already served as president, will make film and television works in the future.

Hu Jing also explained on Weibo that she has no plans to stop acting. If she comes across a suitable work that she likes, she will still become an actress.

Of course, that's what they say, but with Hu Jing's current status and various conditions, there are very few works that can catch her eye and are easy to shoot. In the future, President Hu's output of works may be even lower.

While Hu Jing is busy taking care of the CEO job and getting on the right track as soon as possible and has no intention of doing anything else, Empress Xigong still insists on her Buddhist tradition.

Every day is a normal school life, the only fluctuation is that at the invitation of Fan Xiaopang, she went to "The Legend of Wu Mei Niang" to play the role of Empress Changsun in the flashbacks of Li Shimin and Li Zhi's memories.

There were only a few scenes in total, and they were easily handled. Zeng Li didn't ask for any money, but he introduced a few students to the crew.

So much so that when Hu Jing came home from get off work every day and saw the two idle people, she was so angry that she forced Cao Xuan to work as her secretary and sort out documents every day before she was satisfied.

Of course, this is just for show.

Boss Cao nodded and hunkered down, worked hard, and handed it over to his secretary. Hu Jing had no intention of actually using him. She had given her attitude and was not stubborn about finding out who was responsible for the document.

Empress Xigong also joined in the fun. She didn't need Boss Cao to prepare lessons for her, but watched Cao Li do his homework.

Cao Li, who will go to elementary school after the summer vacation, is now in the top class of kindergarten.

The knowledge taught in their school is better than that of ordinary kindergartens. Pinyin and arithmetic are no longer a problem, and they have even begun to learn multiplication and division and English teaching.

Moreover, starting from the second semester of the big class, the teacher assigns homework every day, preparing for a seamless connection with the first grade. Although it is not much, it is still homework.

As a result, Cao Li was forced to watch half an hour to an hour less cartoons every day, so he was particularly resistant to homework and had to be watched by someone.

The grandparents couldn't bear it. Hu Jing was busy during this period, and she was more accustomed to Cao Li. Usually it was the Queen of the West Palace who was the villain. Now that Cao Xuan came back, it was his turn to be the father.

Thinking about Goldfinger's busy career of watching children do homework, Cao Xuan was originally very stressed, and he even did some mental construction.

But after watching it a few times, he found that it was not as difficult as he thought.

The main reason is that little Cao Li is very smart, at least the difficulty of the homework is nothing to her. The main reason is that this little girl can't sit still, she just wants to watch TV and play on the computer, and is unwilling to do her homework, so someone must control her. Prevent her from cheating.

How should I put it, although it cannot reach the level of "a loving father and a filial daughter", they are still fighting wits and courage every day.

Cao Xuan strongly suspected that Empress Xigong asked him to look after the child not because she was jealous of Donggong, but because she wanted him to see how difficult his daughter was and how difficult it was for him.

Compared with his daughter's quirkiness, his son Cao Yang is actually more well-behaved.

Although he was just a little kid over two years old, Shi Chang had a cold face and said nothing, like a little adult.

Hu Jing and his sister Cao Li liked to bully him. Every time they made little Cao Yang very angry, they would laugh and cajole him.

Sometimes, Cao Xuan felt that the two children and the two mothers should be replaced. Cao Li's naughty and lively style was very much like Hu Jing's, while the calm and reserved Zeng Li was like Cao Yang's biological mother.

Although Cao Xuan had a very good relationship with Zeng Li, he also loved his son very much.

Not long ago, he started to cultivate his awareness of sports competition. He teased him with a football, one grabbed it, and the other passed.

In the presence of his two-year-old son, Cao Xuan is simply possessed by Maradona + Messi + Ronaldinho + Neymar, making the child cry with anxiety.

In fact, Cao Xuan had teased Cao Li like this two years earlier. From that day on, his daughter's football dream was shattered, and Cao Xuan was punished by the Empress of the West Palace.

However, Xiao Caoyang has a tougher personality. Although he cried a lot the first day, he still had to play with his father holding a ball the next day, and then he was rubbed again, making him cry anxiously, and then the cycle started again.

The scariest thing is that his mother Hu Jing didn't feel sorry for her son at all and stood by to watch the fun.

If it weren't for her poor football skills, she might have even taken off the field to tease him.

In the words of Empress Xigong, with such a biological father and mother, little Cao Yang didn’t know what evil he had done in his previous life...

………

Fanxing Building, Cao Xuan's office

Director Feng Xiaoning handed over the tentative list of main creators of "Dear" that he, the producer and others have decided.

"As for the heroine Li Hongqin, we tend to use strong actors. Mr. Zhou is the first choice. However, considering the salary, Yan Bingyan, Yin Zhao, and Qin Hailu are also within our consideration range."

"Zeng Li is here too?"

"Teacher Zeng's acting skills are obvious to all, but the image may not be suitable for rural women. Personally, I prefer Teacher Zeng to play the role of the second female lead, the ex-wife of the male protagonist."

Cao Xuan nodded. It's not that Zeng Li's temperament and appearance couldn't be played as a rural woman, but it would be a little awkward. If he were changed to a woman from a small town, it would be more suitable.

Speaking of this, Cao Xuan was a little unsure and looked at the photos of the prototype of the script.

"Director Feng, do you think I'm acting too?"

"To be honest, your appearance is indeed expected to be more handsome, but it is not out of character. The male protagonist is originally a small businessman working hard in the city. He is not particularly particular about appearance, but it is definitely not that glamorous. I guess you have to dress up. Ugly, you'd better gain weight."

"That's easy to say."

Cao Xuan understood. Even though he was nearly forty years old, he was well-maintained and had a good figure and temperament. He looked to be in his early thirties. Even if he was said to be twenty-six or seven, many people would believe him.

It's okay to play a domineering CEO or a business elite with this kind of image, but it won't work if he plays a down-and-out middle-aged man who has lost his child. Some changes must be made.

Cao Xuan personally likes the movie "Dear" and wants to star in it.

As I said before, Cao Xuan has lost much interest in commercial blockbusters in China and prefers movies that are more literary and artistic. "Hunting" is just the beginning, and he has set his sights on "Dear" again.

Cao Xuan got this script very early and originally planned to collaborate with Lao Mouzi.

However, Lao Mouzi first chose "Hunting", and later he wanted to film "Return", so Cao Xuan approached Feng Xiaoning.

Among the directors of Fanxing, apart from Lao Mouzi, the one who is able to shoot such realistic themes well is probably Director Feng, who is the best director.

Feng Xiaoning was also very interested in this book and quickly came up with a plan to select the main creator.

If nothing else, the male protagonist should be Cao Xuan. Since the Empress of the West Palace is suitable, Cao Xuan still hopes to play opposite his own wife.

As for the heroine Li Hongqin, many people are optimistic about Mr. Zhou, but her salary is a bit too high.

After all, "Dear" is a literary film with a limited budget. When Cao Xuan is already there, there is no need to find too many big names.

And within Stars, to be honest, no actor is suitable for this role.

Even if Fan Xiaopang is still around, her image conditions are actually not suitable for rural women.

Although her performance in "I Am Pan Jinlian" was good, it would be better to change to an actor with better basic conditions, and her salary is not low.

As for Damimi and Liu Tianxian, it is too difficult to expect them to play such roles, and their age is not appropriate.

Guo Zhenni and Yang Xue are in the same boat. They are the only two qualified to challenge this role. However, the former's age is not suitable. Although Yang Xue acted very well in the TV series, it is difficult to say that in the movie. This role is extremely complex and not everyone can take it. down.

Therefore, to be on the safe side, we prefer to use outsiders.

Cao Xuan personally prefers Yan Bingyan, whose performance in "Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart" is a classic, and her grasp of rural women is absolutely accurate. Qin Hailu can also do it, and can also play the role of Zeng and Qin in the 96th class of Chinese opera. .

The other characters are easy to talk about. Priority is given to the powerful ones, and there is a big shot with a heavy role, which is the role played by Zhang Ze in the original version.

Feng Xiaoning strongly recommended Huang Bo. He had worked with him on "Happy Family" and he admired Huang Bo very much and wanted to promote cooperation again.

Moreover, from a business perspective, Huang Bo is now red and purple.

In December last year, the box office of "Embarrassing in Thailand" exceeded 1.3 billion, setting a new record for Chinese-language films and ranking second on the mainland box office list.

As a result, another movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was released during the Spring Festival this year, which also took in a box office of 1.3 billion+, second only to "Journey to the West: Lost in Thailand".

Although Huang Bo was not the leading male protagonist in both movies, he stole the show and his popularity soared.

In March, another starring movie "The Cook, the Actor, the Scoundrel" was released. Although it is far inferior to the previous two movies, the box office is expected to exceed 300 million. For a movie with the main theme of the Anti-Japanese War, it is considered very good.

In less than half a year, the cumulative box office of the three films Huang Bo participated in approached 3 billion. The momentum was not much worse than that of Uncle Ge and Cao Xuan in the previous two years.

The box office data exploded, he was a Golden Rooster actor + a first-line artist, and with the huge platform of Stars, Huang Bo skyrocketed to the sky and became the representative of the Mesozoic generation of Chinese-language films in Mainland China.

To be honest, under his impact, Hu Ge's Fanxing No. 1 brother was already in danger.

That is to say, everyone is not taking the same path, and Huang Bo is not willing to fight, otherwise the result will be hard to say.

With Huang Bo's current momentum, it's hard to say that others can match him, but Cao Xuan is definitely an exception.

The only consideration was the salary, but considering that the salaries of Zeng Li and Yan Bingyan/Qin Hailu were not high, they could still free up part of the budget.

Both the male protagonist and the female lead took care of Cao Xuan's face. Feng Xiaoning insisted on Huang Bo, and Cao Xuan could not refute him and agreed to his request.

Huang Bo didn't refuse. Firstly, the script was good, and secondly, Cao Xuan was leading the film himself, so he was happy to help and support the show.

Huang Bo is indeed very down-to-earth in this regard. He never cares about his role or other roles. He was even willing to act in a TV series after the original time and space became popular.

In addition to returning favors, a large part of the reason is that he himself takes the route of strength, and his early commercial value is limited, so he doesn't care too much about the gains and losses of his position...