Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 674 Improving Life! (34)

After sharing his creative process, during the Q&A session, a man wearing glasses stood up and asked, "Brother Yan, what do you think about the online claims that your movies are release date killers?"

"What's the matter?"

Shen Yan scratched his head, looked at Han Yan, who explained in a low voice, "It's just that all the other movies released in the same period failed..."

Oh…

Is it because I'm too strong?

Shen Yan was somewhat speechless: "The Martian announced its release date for the Spring Festival three years in advance, and Life's Big Events also announced its release date of April 24th last August... We followed the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television's regulations completely. I think you should ask other movies..."

At this point, Shen Yan shrugged: "You can choose to withdraw your release date. Nobody's forcing you to release at the same time as me! People who say things like that are probably mentally challenged. Even if you were cured, they'd still be drooling!"

Qiao Shan chimed in, "Not only will they drool, they'll most likely wet the bed too!"

"Let me tell you something: the box office in the film market is always driven by the top blockbusters, and the discussion usually revolves around the top blockbusters... Generally speaking, unless a movie is particularly bad, so bad that it becomes unique and goes beyond its niche, it won't generate any discussion!"

"But 'The Left Ear' has also generated a lot of discussion!"

Shen Yan waved his hand: "Left Ear is an IP film, and IP films already have a fan base... Moreover, Enlight Media specifically hired Su Youpeng as the director. Everyone knows Su Youpeng..."

A girl stood up: "Have you seen 'The Left Ear'?"

Shen Yan shook his head, smiled, and replied, "Youth films... I've already experienced the pain once in 'Introduction to Architecture,' and I don't want to feel that pain again!"

"Is 'Introduction to Architecture' considered a form of adolescent angst?"

"Of course... the concept that the movie expresses is that love is never perfect," Shen Yan thought for a moment and then added, "Or it can be understood as 'love without material support is like a pile of sand, it doesn't even need the wind to blow it, it will scatter after a few steps'!"

The students in the audience burst into laughter…

This line is very famous; it comes from director Guo Jingming's "Tiny Times"!
"You watch 'Tiny Times' too?"

"...I glanced at it briefly..."

"So what's your opinion?"

"It was an interesting...movie." Shen Yan added, "It was only interesting...not a good movie!"

"Ha ha…"

……

After finishing their promotional activities at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, the film crew went to Hangzhou…

I'm heading back to Beijing tomorrow to wrap up the promotional activities!
Inside the car, Shen Yan was resting with his eyes closed in the back seat, Qiao Shan and Wan Qian were in similar positions, while Han Yan was scrolling through his phone…

"The Big Events of Life" was his first film to break the billion-yuan mark, and he remained in high spirits throughout...

Currently, only Lu Yang, Xu Zheng, Shen Yan, Yan Fei, and Peng Damo have achieved box office success of over 1 billion yuan in China…

He is the fifth person!
Oh, Yan Fei and Peng Damo are a team.

Han Yan can be considered a mainstay of mainland Chinese commercial films!

Of course, the success of "Life's Big Events" is largely due to the script and the actors, but... who cares? I'm the director, so I'm just basking in the glory!
Why doesn't Shen Yan find someone else to be the director?

I still believe in his abilities!

Recently, the trending topics on Weibo have been mostly about "us," with Fan Xiaopang and Li Chen announcing their relationship...

In Han Yan's view, this is a case of an honest person taking over (°°)...

Of course, no one expected that an honest person would also explode...

While I was scrolling through Weibo, a new trending topic suddenly appeared—Shen Yan cleared out all Huayi Brothers shares, netting a profit of 2.8 million yuan!
Ok?
Brother Yan has sold all his stocks?
She couldn't help but turn around and call out to Shen Yan, "Brother Yan, you're trending on social media!"

"...During the movie's promotion, which day didn't I trend on social media?"

"No, it's about stocks!"

"Stocks?" Shen Yan opened his eyes. "What happened?" "They said you sold all your Huayi shares!"

"Oh..." Shen Yan realized what was happening and nodded in acknowledgment, "That's how it is..."

When did you buy it?

"It was around the end of 12... I received a share of the profits and invested in three companies: Huayi Brothers, Enlight Media, and Huace Media. I sold all my Huace Media shares last month..."

"You really made three times your money?"

"I don't remember exactly," Shen Yan frowned, thought for a moment, and then answered, "When I bought it, Huayi's market value was probably less than 10 billion. I checked yesterday, and it seems to be over 70 billion... I bought nearly 50 million..."

"Is it true that it says 'net profit of 2.8 million'?"

"Where are there so many... that don't need to be taxed?"

"If you hold shares for more than a year, you don't need to pay personal income tax!"

"There's stamp duty there too..."

"Stamp duty?"

"0.1%..."

"...Many people are discussing this. Do you not think Huayi has a good chance of succeeding?"

Shen Yan's eyes widened: "I've never been optimistic about it, don't you know? Our company never cooperates with Huayi!"

Han Yan paused for a moment: "...But Huayi is currently the leading company in the mainland's cultural and entertainment sector...and they're also developing theme parks and cultural tourism real estate..."

"They don't even have many blockbuster movies, and they want to build a theme park? Don't you think that's ridiculous?" Shen Yan curled his lip. "Besides, a film company that doesn't focus on film production but instead gets involved in real estate development... that's putting the cart before the horse! How could I possibly have any faith in them?"

"…All right…"

"Let me see what they're talking about..." Shen Yan took out his phone, opened Weibo, and sure enough, this topic was trending...

Shen Yan's stock trading was all done in his own name – individuals are considered retail investors and do not pay income tax. If you use the name of an institution or company to trade stocks, you need to pay 25% income tax!

It's perfectly normal for someone to dig up Shen Yan's account!

Upon seeing this trending topic, Shen Yan replied, "Don't worry so much about my actions. I just felt the returns were good, so I chose to clear out my inventory... You can think of it as improving my life!"

Hmm, to improve life...

This is the reason Ma Yun used to sell Huayi Brothers shares!

Shen Yan can certainly use it too…

Then... naturally, the topic of Shen Yan preparing to abscond with the money came up...

However, this topic is clearly not going to generate any buzz—it's 2015, and the term isn't popular yet!

……

After finishing the promotional activities in Hangzhou, Shen Yan and his team returned to their hotel, and then the Weibo interview came...

Following this promotion, they asked Shen Yan about the "young heartthrob + big IP" model and his opinion.

"Investors and production companies have always been looking for a sure-fire business model, and the combination of young, popular actors and big-name intellectual property has emerged as a result..."

"Actually, if you study the American film market, you will find that the so-called 'young heartthrobs + big IP' is just the studio system that Americans have been playing with for ages since the last century. The so-called big IP is essentially just commercial dissemination... IP is not everything, just like not every superhero movie makes money!"

"What about the young, handsome men?"

"You underestimate the evolution of audience tastes. They might pay for a movie, but if the sequel is still bad, will they still pay for it?"

"Don't the fans support it?"

"Fans support... they don't need to buy movie tickets, there are many other ways, such as boosting data, buying his albums, and buying the products he endorses... knowing it's a bad movie and still buying it, those are extremely brainless fans, I don't believe there are many fans like that!"

(End of this chapter)