Chapter 570: The Impact of Being Shortlisted, Company Listing

After looking through the Cannes nomination list countless times in his hand, Pei Kang dialed Zhou Yutang's private number:

"Yu Tang, how is the filming progress of your crew here?"

"It's okay, I encountered a small situation."

"If you need any help, just ask."

"Thank you for your concern, La Dong. The problem is not big and has been solved."

Zeng Li fell asleep watching TV in his arms. Zhou Yutang turned down the volume of the TV, changed his position to answer the phone, and started chatting with Pei Kang.

At the beginning of the shutdown, it took a little time to adjust the script.

There were no twists and turns after that, and the shooting went smoothly.

Just like the first season, it is still divided into two groups, A and B.

Director Kong Sheng led Li Muge and the Jiangdong elite team in charge of Group A, mainly focusing on the main shots such as Zhou Yutang.

Liang Shengquan and director Sun Hao were responsible for the secondary shots of Group B.

There is a basis for cooperation in the first season, and the cooperation is quite tacit.

But the specific shooting effects of the two groups ultimately depended on Zhou Yutang’s nod.

"That's good, how about the arrangements in Cannes?" La Pei Kang asked with a smile.

"It will definitely not end here in May. I will ask for leave then."

The filming cycle this time is not that tight. It is not expected to be completed until August. All the actors on the crew have to cooperate with Zhou Yutang's schedule.

As usual, Zhou Yutang's role was mentioned in the previous shooting, and he has at least two more movie projects next.

"The first time we met was in Cannes, and I am still leading the team this year."

La Pei Kang said with emotion: "First of all, I wish you can win the trophy."

"Haha, borrow Dong Jiyan."

Next, the two chatted about the movie schedule and some inside information.

There will be big moves from above, and strict content censorship will be carried out on American and British dramas.

This does not have much impact on Zhou Yutang. Although Station B has also acquired many American dramas, it focuses on a two-dimensional one, plus the content channels of Jiangdong's own film and television dramas.

On the contrary, Sohu, which has invested heavily in American TV series, may be hit by a knife.

The news of being shortlisted for Cannes was still brewing. Zhou Yutang was on the set and received a lot of phone calls and news.

Zhang Ruojun, Hu Ge, Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, Ning Hao and others congratulated one after another.

As the face of the film school, the news of being shortlisted for Cannes was quickly displayed on the home page of the school’s official website.

Nazha graduated this year with Xiaoxue and Liu Xing. She is busy with the graduation drama and has not yet joined the group.

But she doesn't get tired of chatting at all. According to her proud statement, the most talked about topic in the film school recently is Zhou Yutang.

Not only the film academy, but also the entire film and television industry are hotly discussing Zhou Yutang's nomination for Cannes.

Even Bob on the other side of the ocean made a special call: "Zhou, you always bring surprises to people. Congratulations on your Cannes nomination."

"Thanks, Bob."

Zhou Yutang is more concerned about another thing: "How was the conversation with Joaquin Phoenix?"

"Sauri, this guy is difficult to deal with."

Bob regretted: "He didn't want to take a role in a comic book movie adaptation. Marvel asked him to star in Doctor Strange in the Marvel Universe series, but he also refused. I'll think of another way."

Many people can do it by adding money.

But there are always a small number of people with artistic pursuits who don't accept this.

The script of "Joker" has not yet been completed, but Zhou Yutang already has his ideal clown, Joaquin Phoenix, who won the Venice Best Actor two years ago.

"Take your time and don't be in a hurry. This project won't start so quickly anyway."

Zhou Yutang shook his head and chuckled: "We are about to reach the harvest season, aren't we?"

"certainly!"

Bob laughed heartily: "The two of us have joined forces and have never failed. We will definitely have a place in this year's North American summer season."

Then, we discussed the promotion of several movies.

To coincide with the global release of Warner's "Godzilla" in May, "Purge 2" and "Superman" have been moved to the summer schedule.

There is also a "Fifty Shades of Grey" post-production in progress.

Just wait for James Wan's "Fast and Furious 7" to end, and immediately start the sequel to The Conjuring Universe.

Beautiful knives are very delicious, there is no reason not to make money.

The crew of "Celebrating More Than Years" stopped playing awkward games and went directly to the plot line of Baoyuelou.

According to the plot and setting of the original novel, although Fan Sizhe was a genius in business, he acted surly and unscrupulously because of his powerful background.

During Fan Xian's mission to Northern Qi.

He partnered with the third prince, who was his cousin, to open Baoyuelou, which is also the Fengyue Place business.

He used his power to clear the way and succeeded in doing well. In less than two or three months, he wiped out the entire industry in Kyoto.

During this period, many people died, and the innocence of many good women was ruined. Fan Sizhe knew what was going on, but didn't take it seriously. He was not clean himself, which broke Fan Xian's heart.

But the TV series version definitely can’t be shot like this.

Therefore, when the first season started, we had already discussed the character's personality, and it was determined that its comedy color would be enhanced.

The TV series version also has slight changes regarding the Baoyuelou incident.

Fan Sizhe was persuaded and coaxed into investing in Baoyue Tower, taking the blame.

The person in charge of Baoyue Tower, Ms. Yuan Meng, is the person of Li Hongcheng, the major shareholder of Prince Jing, but she is inextricably related to the second prince.

At this point, it gradually became clear.

The second prince behind the scenes is an old coin, and wants to draw Fan Xian into the game. The eldest princess Li Yunrui, who lives in a secluded palace, is also scheming.

Wang Xiaochen, who plays Yuan Meng, brought quite a surprise to Zhou Yutang.

On the surface, she looks like a beautiful and gentle courtesan, but in fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that she has a heart as fierce as a snake.

He forced the vegetable seller Lao Jintou's daughter into Baoyuelou and forced her to sell herself. Then she turned around and blackmailed the vegetable seller Lao Jintou and forced her to death.

Several chairs were placed in front of the director's monitor.

In the center, one is where director Kong Sheng is sitting, and the other is for Zhou Yutang.

The other directors of photography, assistant directors, and others were sitting on the edge, watching the images captured on the monitor and communicating.

The plot of Baoyue Tower is the highlight of the early stage.

"Director Kong and I have the same idea. There is no problem with this part. It's over."

Seeing Zhou Yutang nodding with satisfaction, Li Muge and others all breathed a sigh of relief.

He has a detached status in the crew, but except for script issues, he didn't talk about it or interfere too much in the filming.

Basically giving advice from the perspective of an actor and the audience.

As for the entire filming process, it was all discussed by the director team.

Sometimes actors have their own understanding and ideas about the role.

Occasionally, there are flashes of inspiration, which can add a lot to the whole drama.

Mr. Wang Jianguo, the actor of Lao Jin Tou, is also a well-known veteran actor in the circle, and his performance is very good.

It is a good interpretation of the sentence "The hemp rope is carefully cut at the thinnest point, and a father's love is like a mountain, don't belittle it." It also makes the character of Yuan Meng more three-dimensional.

The shooting went smoothly beyond expectations. During dinner, Zhou Yutang and Wang Xiaochen chatted a little more.

"Mr. Zhou, Shi Shi still remembers me?"

"Why don't you remember? I talked about you two days ago."

Zhou Yutang smiled: "In the version of "The Condor" played by Lao Hu and Lin Yichen, you played Mrs. Huang Yaoshi. At that time, I went to the crew to visit the class, but unfortunately I didn't meet her."

"It's a pity indeed."

Wang Xiaochen was a little surprised, and even more flattered: "I have very few roles, and they were already completed by then."

"Teacher Li Chuanying taught you your lines, right?"

"Well, Mr. Zhou, how do you know?"

Wang Xiaochen was stunned for a moment, and Zhou Yutang chuckled softly: "Teacher Li mentioned to me that your acting is pretty good."

Li Chuanying is a line teacher in the Department of Acting and Directing, and has taught Reba.

His lover Liu Wanling is even more powerful and is a professor in the Department of Acting.

A number of famous actors including Xu Zheng, Liao Fan, Yu Hewei, Li Binbin, Ren Quan, Lu Yi, Wang Jingchun, Hu Ge, etc. are all her disciples.

Zhou Yutang asked her to come out at that time and worked for Liu Shishi for several years, so that she now has a solid foundation in acting.

Both of them are specially appointed acting professors at Yamashita Academy.

Wang Xiaochen has some connection with the first sister, she is also senior sister Reba, but she was born in 1988, one year younger than Shi Shi.

Because of his outstanding talent, he entered theater at the age of 15 and was considered a man of the hour on campus.

But the most indispensable thing in the entertainment industry is beauties. After graduation, Wang Xiaochen has been playing supporting roles in various drama groups.

It was only in recent years that they began to gradually emerge, such as Jin Shanjiao in "The Miracle Doctor Xilaile" and Fang Yiyi in the recently popular "I Love My Boyfriend".

For her, the biggest cake is the role in "Qing Yu Nian 2".

When Wang Xiaochen received the notice that he had passed the audition, he almost suspected that he was dreaming and felt a little unbelievable.

I felt excited afterwards and received congratulatory messages from a circle of friends and classmates.

After being in the circle for so many years, Wang Xiaochen also knew how to deal with the world. When Zhou Yutang mentioned this, he came to his senses.

It seems that I can get this role. Teacher Li Chuanying helped me.

I immediately made up my mind to bring some gifts to express my gratitude later.

Late April.

The first listed company in the domestic social media field was born.

The closing price of the bib on Nasdaq on its first day soared to $20.24, an increase of more than 19%.

Based on the closing price on the first day, the overall market value exceeds US$4 billion.

The market performance is not as good as expected, but the U.S. stock market is sluggish, and even Twitter's stock price has plummeted. It is rare for a bib to have such a size.

For domestic entertainment, this is another behemoth.

When the news spread back to China, everyone in the film and television circles turned their attention.

Then some sharp-eyed fans discovered that Zhou Yutang's name was clearly on the prospectus, and he and Tian Ming held quite a lot of shares.

“I’m curious how much net worth Zhou Yutang is?”

"If he is so famous, he must have a net worth of one billion, right?"

"What the hell are you kidding me upstairs? I don't think about last year's "Charlotte" having such a high box office, and the Spring Festival release of "The Secret of the Dragon" box office exceeding 2 billion. How much could Zhou Yutang earn? And in order to improve his life at that time, he took action Huayi Shares made a lot of money.”

"It's so funny, Zhou Yutang is still improving his life, but is there still room for improvement?"

"Is there anyone who doesn't even know who the big boss behind Mingjie is?"

"Someone in the industry broke the news that Brother Dong had financial difficulties in the past few years and asked Zhou Yutang to invest a lot of money. Now Jingdong is about to be listed on the market, and its size is at least several times that of the bib."

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The Internet is extremely lively. In the past few years, Zhou Yutang has continuously occupied the top spot on the Forbes celebrity list.

In the past two years, he has gradually disappeared from the list, but the discussion about his net worth has never stopped.

Among the beauties around him, Zhou Yutang showed Liu Shishi some of her nakedness. She knew about it and admired her from the bottom of her heart.

Liu Yifei also asked several times, probably because Aunt Liu was curious.

Only Da Mimi was tirelessly seeking answers, forwarding seemingly plausible news on the Internet on WeChat every day.

Zhou Yutang just smiled and did not deny it, which made Da Mimi scratch her head. She knew that Jiangdong Entertainment's hit TV series could bring this man a very considerable cash flow.

Just last year's "Charlotte's Troubles", which was solely operated by Dongwu Film, had a profit that was equal to Huayi's annual profit, or even more.

Jiangdong Entertainment produces more than one TV series a year.

Da Mimi was very itchy.

In fact, after Zhou Yutang was promoted to capital and his net worth crossed the 10 billion threshold, it was really difficult to calculate the exact number of capital he controlled.

First of all, there are real estates in various places under his name. In addition to a few basic companies, Zhou Yutang has a part of the funds in his hands through a venture capital company managed by a professional team, and invests in shares of dozens of companies, some more and some less.

Including several companies in America, including Netflix.

There is still a very amazing cash flow in hand, and Zhou Yutang is determined to imitate a certain boss.

Of course not a song and dance troupe

Last year, the guy who waved money and promoted gold-dollar football created the miracle of Hengtai winning the AFC Champions League.

People in China are excited, and it seems that the golden age of Chinese football is coming.

Zhou Yutang also has the idea of ​​setting up a team for fun.

There is no interest in China.

He plans to directly spend money to acquire a team in the top five leagues.

It's just that this matter depends on the right time and place. The time is not right for the time being, so he asked a professional manager to keep an eye on it.

During this period, Zhou Yutang has always been the darling of the media.

But he himself is deaf to the circle's affairs and is only focused on filming Joy of Life.

In order to speed up the progress, Zhou Yutang declined the invitation of several groups of lobbyists sent by the Beijing International Film Festival, including Tian Zhuangzhuang's old lover Li Shaohong.

After all, Zhou Yutang is now a traffic guarantee.

The year before last, he was named the ticket king of the Hundred Flowers Awards and filmed a group of tourism promotional videos, which made the city of Shaoxing a little popular for a while.

This month, he attended the Academy Awards, which also brought a new high in ratings.

Zhou Yutang was busy replying to Tang Yan's message.

The Hundred Flowers Awards, scheduled for September, also announced the candidate list.

Zhang Ziyi was still nominated for Best Actress, and Now You See Me, Witness, and Charlotte's Troubles were all nominated.

The selection of the Hundred Flowers Awards is interesting. Among the 100 films with a box office of 5 million and a TV broadcast of 30 million people, 100 key theater managers under the China Film Distribution and Exhibition Association voted for 10 candidate films.

The final result was determined by the final review committee composed of audience judges.

"Yu Tang, do you think I have a chance?"

This is the first time that Tang Yan has been nominated for the Best Supporting Actress at the Hundred Flowers Awards. It is inevitable that she is a little excited and looking forward to it.

Among the four beauties of Fairy Sword, Liu Yifei won the Golden Horse Award, which was far ahead of the others.

Liu Shishi won the Magnolia Award for Best Actress and dominated the small screen. Her movie box office performance is also very good, and she has been nominated for three golds.

Yang Mi is popular to the end. Before winning the Golden Broom, she won the Hundred Flowers Best Supporting Actress with Searching.

Tang Yan starred in "Why Sheng Xiaomo" and "Eyewitness" last year, which is considered a late bloomer. She can't compare with the goddess and the first sister, but Tang Yan doesn't want to lose to Da Mimi.

"If there is no chance, you will take me to climb the mountain?"

"Hate it, don't joke, I'm serious, tell the truth."

The local girl in Shanghai started to act coquettishly, and her Wu dialect was really urgent and sweet.

Zhou Yutang smiled unconsciously: "I think you have a good chance."

"If you don't win the award, you have to compensate me."

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Zhou Yutang's expression twitched, and the whole person choked.

This Shanghai long-legged little coquettish girl has a deep routine. It turns out that she is waiting for herself here.