Chinese Entertainment 2017: Starting from the Top Writers

Chapter 747 Something is wrong, the biggest winner
#Quanqi Qingrang full lineup official announcement#
The fog rises in the deep night, hiding the past events; chasing the wind and the shadows breaks the mystery.

There are mysteries beneath the green soil, and tackling danger is like leveling a pile of chaos.

Original author: Nanxun@Lin Li
Director: Wei Shujun
Executive Producer: Xu Fei

Co-producers: Han Zijie, Chen Chao, Chen Duling
Leading role: @Dear-迪丽热巴@李宪
Starring: @万芃@毛小慧@陈泽远@胡一天@王一搏

Special starring: @张天艾

Produced by: @Nanxun Culture
Co-produced by: @Penguin Video
Broadcast platform: @Penguin Video
After years of changes, the secret is buried under the green soil.

Everyone hides their thoughts and goes into danger to uncover the mystery together.

#Xiaoqi Qingrang full lineup official announcement#
December 2th, Wednesday.

After three days of intensive auditions, Nanxun Culture officially announced the full cast of "Xiao Qi Qing Ran" at 10 am on the old time.

As soon as the news was released, it was reposted by Penguin Video, and all the leading actors also forwarded the news.

For a time, terms such as "The cast of "The Rise of Qingrang", "Li Xian", and "Zhang Tianai" have become hot searches, sparking enthusiastic discussions among a large number of netizens.

"The male lead has been decided to be Li Xian? The one who plays the River God? Is he worthy of Reba?"

"To be honest, Li Xian doesn't look that good looking, but he's quite manly, not the kind of pretty boy."

"Wan Peng and Mao Xiaohui both appeared in a new drama of Nanxun Culture after the show was released. It seems that they have a good relationship."

"This Wang Yibo? Isn't he an idol?"

"What does this special starring role of Zhang Tianai mean? Usually this kind of role means the character is quite important but the part is not that big."

"Don't worry about it. When has NTU ever let us down? Just look forward to it!"

"That's right! I look forward to Xiao Qi Qingrang! I look forward to Crazy Blade Nie Jiuluo!"

"On the top floor! Believe in Nanda! Anything produced by Nanxun must be top quality!"

……

Many people had not expected that Li Xian would defeat numerous competitors and become the leading actor in "Xiao Qi Qing Ran". After all, Li Xian was not very eye-catching at that time after his luck was snatched away by Lin Li in "Dear, Beloved". However, he unexpectedly won the leading role, which was quite surprising.

As for the other actors, although they also caused some discussion, their volume was undoubtedly much smaller than that of the male lead Li Xian.

Tian Xiwei and others who had personally experienced Weibo Night had a vague idea in their minds that Zhang Tianai's special starring role might be Lin Li's compensation to her.

For Du Hua, although he failed to get the second male lead, being able to cast Wang Yibo, who had little experience in film and television shooting, in a work of Nanxun Culture was an opportunity that many people envied.

Only one person noticed something was wrong.

Beijing Film Academy.

After finishing the acting class in the morning, Zhang Jingyi frowned as she looked at the cast list of Xiaoqi Qingrang displayed on her phone screen.

Wanwan and Xiaohui...how come they both happened to get the second and third female roles in Xiaoqi Qingrang at the same time?
Is it because they performed well, or because they worked with us during the Ignition, or is there some other reason?
Zhang Jingyi recalled the scene when she met the two of them at the last Weibo Night, and didn't find anything wrong.

Am I overthinking it?
Just a coincidence?

Zhang Jingyi vaguely felt that something seemed to be wrong, but she couldn't put her finger on it.

She decided to wait until she met Lin Li one day to ask what was going on. It didn't feel right to ask Wanwan and the other two directly.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jingyi put the matter aside for the time being.

"Jingyi, let's go to the cafeteria quickly, or my braised pork trotters will be gone!"

At this time, Su Xiaotong, who was beside Zhang Jingyi, grabbed her wrist and began to urge her, with an anxious look on her face.

"Xiaotong, didn't you say yesterday that you wanted to lose weight and control your diet?"

Zhang Jingyi looked at her, smiled softly and joked.

"I decided to lose weight after today's meal!"

Su Xiaotong turned to look at her and said with a firm expression.

"Well, I hope you can still remember what I just said tomorrow."

Zhang Jingyi smiled, with two shallow brackets on her lips, and her smile was extremely bright.

"Okay, let's go!"

Su Xiaotong was embarrassed by her smile and urged again.

"I know. Take your time. Don't be impatient."

Zhang Jingyi let her hold her arm and quickened her pace.

"If you don't hurry up, it will be gone!"

"Don't worry, few people in our school are so enthusiastic about this dish. After all, we are an art school."

"Jingyi, I think you are implying something to me!"

"Oops, you discovered me."

"You hate it!"

"Hehe~"

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As February draws to a close, the competition for the Spring Festival movie box office has finally come to a conclusion.

Although Lin Li had no new films released during the Spring Festival, he was jokingly called the biggest winner in the 2019 Spring Festival film market by netizens.

Why do you say that?
The 2019 Spring Festival box office war was extremely hot, the most in recent years, with various blockbusters gathering to shine, and several high-grossing blockbusters were born at the same time, which is a very rare phenomenon. Among them, the fastest box office harvest was the super science fiction blockbuster "The Wandering Earth" in which Lin Li participated in the investment. To date, the total box office has exceeded 40 billion, becoming the biggest winner of this year's Spring Festival!

As a result, Lin Li was given the title of "China's No. 1 Commercial Film Investor".

Before this, even though everyone believed in Lin Li very much, no one expected that her speech at the premiere of "The Wandering Earth" would come true. "The Wandering Earth" really did get a box office of over 45 billion yuan, and it was certain that it would get the key to postponement, and it is entirely possible that the box office will hit billion yuan!
Lin Li's investment vision has been talked about by many netizens and peers in the industry. He made a lot of money from this investment.

During the period before and after the Chinese New Year, "The Wandering Earth" became popular all over the country, firmly occupying the "C position" in the Spring Festival movie market, and was regarded by countless fans as a "milestone work of domestic science fiction films."

It is also hailed as a new era and benchmark work in the Chinese science fiction film era, which echoes what Lin Li said at the premiere.

Netizens have also summarized two important reasons for the success of "The Wandering Earth".

First of all, the subject matter chosen for "The Wandering Earth" is very reasonable. It not only sells feelings, but also sells scarcity.

As for "The Wandering Earth", as a work by Liu Cixin, it has already attracted a large number of fans invisibly. These fans have undoubtedly played a role in boosting the box office performance of "The Wandering Earth".

In response to this, many netizens joked that they are familiar with this routine. For example, the two films "A River of Sadness" and "Better Days" were so successful due to the same factors.

There is no doubt that the movies are excellent, but if these two movies were not supported by the popularity of Lin Li's original works and were not directed by Lin Li himself, they would definitely not have achieved such high box office.

Another thing is that Chinese science fiction has always had a different cultural core from European and American science fiction.

We are used to watching the European and American Hollywood science fiction films of "one man saves humanity", and we are also tired of the various vulgar plots of "no, for love, I can give up everything" where the male protagonist puts all of humanity in danger to save the female protagonist.

However, "The Wandering Earth", a Chinese science fiction film, brought a breath of fresh air.

In "The Wandering Earth", the audience saw an idea, an idea that unites all of humanity to "concentrate our efforts on great things."

We also saw a scene that everyone has been looking forward to: people from all countries and nationalities around the world, speaking different languages, with different skin colors and different beliefs, united together for the same goal of "keeping the earth and humanity alive."

Even the climax of the entire film does not take place in China, but in an island country far away in Southeast Asia.

There, engineers and rescue teams from all over the world spoke Indonesian, Japanese and Russian and worked together to create a miracle.

Although "The Wandering Earth" is a Chinese science fiction film, it does not highlight the status of China at all. It can be said that Liu Cixin even deliberately weakened the identity of the Chinese people, and instead wrote about the entire human race as a community with a shared future.

This is very different from some Hollywood science fiction movies.

Just like what director Guo Fan said at the premiere, "Hollywood blockbusters are about wandering on a spaceship, but we take our home, the Earth, with us to wander together."

With the popularity of "The Wandering Earth", Lin Li became the most discerning person in the film and television industry, Guo Fan also became a first-line famous director, and the other leading actors also benefited a lot.

Under such circumstances, there was one company that was ridiculed by netizens, and that was Wanda Pictures, which withdrew its investment halfway.

Wanda used the withdrawal money to invest in Wu Xiubo's "The Love Master 2", but "The Wandering Earth" made a comeback at the box office, but "The Love Master 2" was withdrawn from the schedule.

This wave of outrageous operations by Wanda Films was also criticized by netizens, who mocked it.

For this reason, Wanda Pictures even issued a special announcement denying that it had invested in "The Wandering Earth", but was badly slapped in the face.

As early as February 2, a Beijing News reporter contacted relevant personnel from Wanda Films, who said that this was fake news, claiming that "these two projects are so far apart, how could they be mixed together?"

When asked whether Wanda had participated in the film's investment before, the other party responded: "I think everyone has come into contact with it, but there is definitely no such thing as 'withdrawal of investment'."

This response was soon exposed. Some netizens took screenshots and found that Wanda’s official website had published a news article on June 17, 6 titled "Sci-fi masterpiece "The Wandering Earth" started filming in Qindao Film and Television Industrial Park."

The news clearly stated that "The Wandering Earth" was produced by Wanda Film and Television, China Film Group and Beijing Culture.

After this slap in the face, Wanda completely lost its temper and stopped responding. Many netizens also went to Wang Sicong's Weibo to ask about this matter, and it is said that he was very angry.

Lin Li couldn't help but smile when he saw the news, but he didn't think there was much of a problem with Wanda Pictures' decision.

After all, not everyone is a reborn person like him, and no one knows what kind of results a movie with huge investment like "The Wandering Earth" can achieve. It is normal to avoid risks.

After all, a movie like "The Good Doctor 2" with low investment and high returns is what a normal company would choose, but who would have thought that something bad would happen?
The world is unpredictable; it’s all about timing and fate.

Of course, in addition to Lin Li, the biggest winner of the Spring Festival, several other new box office kings were born, such as "Crazy Alien" starring Shen Teng and Huang Bo, with a box office of 22 billion yuan, and "Flying Life" directed by Han Han and starring Shen Teng, with a box office of 17 billion yuan.

"Crazy Alien" and "Speeding Life" can be said to be very powerful during the Spring Festival, and their ability to make money cannot be underestimated. Although they failed to win the box office championship like "The Wandering Earth", the two films combined, Shen Teng alone accounted for 39 billion, and the total box office of his acting career has exceeded 100 billion, which is remarkable.

Wu Jing initially relied on the hot box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" to become the No. 56 in the domestic box office history with a box office of billion. It can be said that he became famous in one battle and it is no exaggeration to say that he became a god in another battle.

With the popularity of "The Wandering Earth", Wu Jing really stood at the top of China's box office charts. In terms of box office alone, no one can compare with him in the past two years.

Just as netizens joked, it seems that the only one who can truly defeat Wu Jing is Wu Jing himself. How lonely Wu Di is!
However, for the industry, Lin Li, who invested in "The Wandering Earth" with foresight as early as 17, is undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary of the Spring Festival.

From "Dying to Survive" to "The Wandering Earth", Lin Li once again proved that he can not only create, but also direct and act, and has an eye for discovering good works.

At one point, many companies and investors in the industry began to think about it. Even if they couldn't participate in Nanxun Culture's project, they could try to ask Lin Li to help see if their project would work!
For a while, the invitations sent to Nanxun Culture increased like snowflakes.

However, Lin Li rejected many invitations and honestly enjoyed his last period of college life on campus.

His life became extremely simple. He attended classes, played ball, and wrote scripts. Every day, he traveled between the villa on the hillside, No. 8 Xiaoyun Road, and Wanliu Academy. Occasionally, when Xiaotian came over, he would live in No. Courtyard on the West Hill.

Moreover, Reba has often stayed in Beijing recently for martial arts training, and he sometimes lives with Reba. Tongtong and Sister Meng have also often stayed in Beijing recently to prepare for the upcoming filming of the new drama.

This situation continued until the end of March, when it began to change.

On the evening of March 3, after a month of silence, Lin Li's name once again topped the Weibo hot search list, attracting a large number of netizens to watch.

At the same time, executives from major video platforms, led by Penguin, and a number of film and television companies in the industry urgently convened an ad hoc meeting and began a heated discussion.

The focus of their topic is naturally Linli.

In particular, several video platforms need to re-evaluate their cooperation model with Nanxun Culture.

Because they suddenly realized that their platform didn't seem to be that important to Lin Li.

Perhaps, they should deal with Lin Li and Nanxun culture with a completely new attitude.

You need to be more proactive and humbler than before!
(End of this chapter)