Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 530 has been withdrawn from the schedule!

Li Qiutang and several leaders from the Northern Cinema Circuit were having a late-night snack.

The competition is about to intensify, and Li Qiutang hopes they can secure their screen time.

But everyone in the cinema industry is shrewd. They've already drunk your wine, accepted your gifts, and made your promises, but they can turn around and use market forces to cut your screenings.

Of course, the movie theaters in the fall did the same thing.

Just as they were talking, a manager at the table glanced down at his phone and suddenly said, "Everyone, look at the business group chat, something's happened."

Everyone took out their phones. Li Qiutang was puzzled, so she leaned over to look at the phone next to her and asked, "What happened?"

The man knew that an official announcement would be made soon regarding what was happening, and he didn't hide it from Li Qiutang: "The release of 'Mr. Six' has been delayed."

"Huh?!" Li Qiutang was genuinely surprised.

"Why was the release delayed? What happened to them?" Although they were competitors, Li Qiutang also wanted to know the reason.

Li Qiutang also wished for "Mr. Six" to die, but it couldn't die because of him, otherwise Autumn Pictures, which was in a period of silence, would be considered to have violated the principle of silence.

"The reason for the review is that the bureau requires Huayi to resubmit the application."

That's alright, Li Qiutang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the bureau wanted to reopen the case and it wasn't Qiu Tian's fault, that was good.

It's 9:40 PM on the 23rd, only 140 minutes before the release of "Mr. Six". Being asked to resubmit the film for review at this time is a devastating blow to Huayi Brothers.

"Could it be you guys who did it?" someone suspected Li Qiutang.

Li Qiutang was both annoyed and amused: "How much power do I have to get the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to reject Huayi Brothers' Lunar New Year blockbuster? The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television isn't my family's property. You think too highly of me."

No one could finish the meal. After a few words, everyone dispersed, and tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.

Twenty minutes later, Huayi Brothers officially announced that the film "Mr. Six" had been withdrawn from the Lunar New Year film season "due to censorship reasons," and the release date would be announced later.

Then, in the middle of the night, Feng Xiaogang, the lead actor of "Mr. Six", posted a Weibo post angrily criticizing the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. He is not afraid of this kind of thing, and it is not the first time he has done it.

"They don't respect the hard work of creators. They demand that we change things without any reason or suggestions for revision."

"We demand an explanation for wielding a big stick and wantonly destroying other people's work!"

"I've been fighting against censorship since I started acting. Now that I'm this age, I thought I'd be at peace with myself, but no, I will continue to fight against unfair practices to the very end!"

It's understandable that Feng Xiaogang broke down in anger. He had just won the Best Actor award, taking his career to the next level, and the film's rejection made him even more agitated and angry than the director, Guan Hu.

The withdrawal of "Mr. Six" from the release schedule has caused a huge uproar both online and offline.

Even those in the industry were stunned.

"Mr. Six" won Feng Xiaogang the Best Actor award at the Golden Horse Awards last month, so why was it pulled from theaters just before its release? It shouldn't have happened.

"Who did it?"

Who's blocking your way?

"Who has the power to kill this film?" I was filled with questions.

Fans were also very excited. Feng Xiaogang has quite a few fans, not to mention the fans of Li Yifeng and Wu Yifan.

I really wish I could just storm the General Administration.

While saying this might be like rubbing salt into someone's wounds, Qiu Tian and Guang Xian are happy about the withdrawal of "Mr. Six" from the release schedule.

Because the screenings vacated by "Mr. Six" were basically taken up by "Mojin: The Lost Legend" and "Devil and Angel," it also freed up market space for "Detective Chinatown," which was mainly controlled in the fall.

"Mojin: The Lost Legend" earned 8900 million yuan the day before, but its box office revenue declined on Thursday to 1.22 million yuan because it took some of the screenings from "Mr. Six".

However, "Devil and Angel" performed even stronger, grossing 1.5 million yuan on its opening day and taking the top spot at the daily box office from "Mojin: The Lost Legend".

Throughout the day, neither Huayi Brothers nor Guan Hu, the director of "Mr. Six," made any statement regarding the film's withdrawal from theaters, but Feng Xiaogang remained a trending topic on social media.

While he vehemently criticized the censorship process, he also revealed some inside stories about the rejection of applications:
"Yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m., director Guan Hu told me that the censorship department had asked the main creators to discuss the film, and that there might be unexpected issues, so I should be prepared. ... Starting in the evening, we kept trying and explaining, hoping to release it as scheduled, but in the end, the result was still to re-edit and re-review it."

However, on the same day, some online experts solemnly analyzed the reasons for the emergency withdrawal of "Mr. Six":

"I saw the preview screening, and the movie was great, but after watching it, I had a bad feeling that the creative team was too audacious. At the time, I didn't think much of it, thinking I was just being overly anxious, but now that the movie has been withdrawn from theaters, I think my initial impression might have been correct. Wu Yifan plays a mysterious second-generation official who drives a Ferrari in 'Mr. Six,' while Li Yifeng plays Feng Xiaogang's son, who scratches Wu Yifan's Ferrari and even takes advantage of the man's girlfriend. If I'm not mistaken, the problem lies with Wu Yifan's character. Anyone who's interested can search for major Ferrari-related events in Beijing in recent years, especially the years before 'Mr. Six' was written, and they'll understand why it was withdrawn from theaters. I can only say that this movie's demise is entirely deserved."

This statement is actually a conspiracy theory to some extent, and as we all know, conspiracy theories have always been very popular.

If "Mr. Six" becomes a big hit, it may not have a positive impact on Huayi Brothers' stock price. However, the fact that such a highly anticipated film was inexplicably canceled would be extremely detrimental to the listed company's stock price.

Huayi opened lower on the 24th and closed at 20.45 yuan. On Friday the 25th, it continued to fall, closing at 15.35 yuan, losing billions of yuan in two days.

Meanwhile, "Mojin: The Lost Legend" and "Devil and Angel" are so delicious they're practically dripping with oil.

"Mojin: The Lost Legend" still earned 1.2 million on Friday, lagging behind "Devil and Angel" with 1.4 million.

It must be acknowledged that Deng Xiaoping's administration has had a strong appeal in the past two years.

However, instead of a box office boom weekend, "The Villain Angel" actually declined!

On Saturday, "The Villain Angels" earned 1.2 million, while "Mojin: The Lost Legend" earned a record-breaking 1.67 million that day, reclaiming the top spot for the week.

That day, Li Qiutang was in Xidu. As the saying goes, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," and shameless Li Qiutang said in Xidu that he should just apply to Jilin University of Arts.

"When I was taking the entrance exams, I only knew about Beijing Film Academy, Central Academy of Drama, and Shanghai Theatre Academy. I didn't know that there was a Jilin Arts University in Northeast China. If I had known, I would have applied to Jilin Arts University. It would have been much easier to go home that way."

In Harbin, he said that when he was a child, he wrote an essay about his dream of building robots and applying to Harbin Institute of Technology: "But later my interest shifted to film. Otherwise, if I had persisted, I might be an engineer now."

They were just trying to get close to me; nobody took it seriously.

After concluding her activities in Harbin in the afternoon, Li Qiutang flew directly back to Beijing, and then from Beijing to Hong Kong.

Because the company is going public tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)