Run, Best Actor!

In the original timeline, the first "Tiny Times" film was released at the end of June 2013, raking in a whopping 4.84 million yuan at the box office.

Just over a month later, the second installment in the series, "Tiny Times 2: The Age of Green," was released.

Although the film's box office revenue shrank significantly due to the close release of the two films and the even more outrageous plot of the sequel, it still grossed 2.96 million yuan.

The two films grossed a total of 7.8 million yuan at the box office!

It shocked both inside and outside the industry.

Guo Jingming instantly became a box office hit director.

Yang Mi also regained her title as the box office queen overnight.

Because of the terrible reviews of his films, Guo Jingming and his two films won the Most Disappointing Director and Most Disappointing Film awards at the 5th China Film Golden Broom Awards, respectively.

However, that year, Jing Tian won the Most Disappointing Actress Award from Yang Mi with her "outstanding" performances in "Special Identity" and "Police Story 2013", preventing Yang Mi from "winning it again".

Sigh, last year, because "The Great Wudang" was so bad, Yang Mi won the Most Disappointing Actress Award at the 4th China Film Golden Broom Awards.

However, in the following two years, Yang Mi won the Golden Broom Award for Most Popular Actress for two consecutive years for her roles in "Tiny Times 3: The Golden Age", "Tiny Times 4: The End of the Soul", and "My Sunshine".

She became one of the few actresses in the industry to win the "Triple Crown" (Golden Award for Best Actress, Golden Horse Award, and Golden Bell Award).

Later, many haters used this incident to criticize her.

However, later on, Cheng Qingsong, the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Youth Film Handbook" and the organizer of the Golden Broom Awards, was embroiled in a scandal that was difficult to clear up, which also caused the credibility of the Golden Broom Awards to be seriously questioned by the public.

In reality, this is an award that bullies the weak and fears the strong.

It's said to be comparable to the Golden Raspberry Awards in the United States, but has it really achieved fairness and impartiality?

For example, at the 9th awards ceremony in early 2018, Bao Qiang's "Buddies in India" won three awards with a high number of votes: most disappointing film, most disappointing director, and most disappointing screenwriter.

It's worth mentioning that for the first time in nine years, a top-tier celebrity appeared at the "Golden Broom Awards," with Wang Baoqiang actually attending in person to accept the "Most Disappointing Director Award"!

"Actually, I feel quite honored to be standing here. I know the Golden Broom Award isn't a very prestigious award, as everyone knows, but it can spur you on to improve!"

Wang Baoqiang's sincerity and humility won applause from all the filmmakers present.

But does he really deserve this award?

Putting everything else aside, Sandra Ng's self-directed and self-acted film "111" is much worse than "Buddies in India"!

Looking at the Maoyan ratings alone, "Buddies in India" has a score of 7.4, while "Yao Yao Ling" only has a score of 6.9!

And then there's "The House That Never Dies 2," a sequel to a domestic thriller, which only has a 5.9 rating on Maoyan!

Even worse, there's "Legend of the Naga Pearls," a universally acknowledged terrible movie that even caused the production company to lose hundreds of millions. Why not choose that movie?

It's all because they think Baoqiang is easy to bully, and he's never been accepted by the mainstream of the domestic film industry!

However, none of the award organizers expected that Brother Baoqiang would be so honest as to personally come to the award ceremony to accept the prize, disregarding his pride.

They managed to turn a scandal into a good thing.

It was a very successful crisis management strategy.

If this happened to someone else, it would definitely be considered the work of a scheming guy.

But that's Baoqiang, the guy whose bedmate and agent can't dig up any dirt on him!

Therefore, the public believes that Brother Baoqiang came to the award ceremony in person because he loved movies and was willing to accept criticism.

The ultimate state of being open and unrestrained is being invincible!

This also proves that the Golden Broom Awards are actually a joke, and still a classic case of bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

Of course, both "Buddies in India" and the "Tiny Times" series are indeed quite bad, but in the industry, they don't reach the level of being the worst films of the year.

As the head of LeEco Pictures, Zhang Zhao is not someone that just anyone can contact.

But Liu Taile is no ordinary person either.

Putting aside other things, his industry friend Chen Zhixi has Zhang Zhao's contact information.

Therefore, Liu Taile easily made contact with Zhang Zhao.

Since Liu Taile was willing to spend money, Zhang Zhao agreed to all the conditions he proposed.

Guo Xiaosi's first instinct was correct; Liu Taile was indeed beyond his control.

Left with no other option, Liu Taile made three demands:

1. He wants priority investment rights in the latter two parts, with an investment amount of no less than 10%;

2. He wants to bring an assistant director to the set for training;

3. He needs to bring a screenwriter to work with him.

Liu Tai-le will act in and invest in all four parts of the "Tiny Times" series.

And it's blatantly obvious that he's going to change the plot!

However, as the producer with a 10% investment, his demands were not excessive.

The assistant director Liu Taile was to bring to the crew was a woman named Su Lun.

She is the female director who will direct "How Long Will I Love U" and "Life Swap".

He was originally supposed to work with Xu Zheng as the executive director of the movie "Lost in Hong Kong".

Because they are both Mongolians and currently both working in the Beijing film and television industry, Gong Ge'er introduced this person to Liu Taile first.

Liu Taile later learned that Su Lun had quite a rich resume.

Born in the 80s, he graduated from the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama. He worked in Feng Dagang's studio and was active in the music video and gay dating scene for many years. He has a unique and keen visual style and has directed the feature film "Farmhouse in a Villa". He is considered by the industry to be another promising Mongolian director who has switched from the gay dating scene to the film industry after 523.

Currently, Su Lun is in talks for a film, a light comedy food film called "Lipsticks Are Ready" produced by Yanjing Century Chinese Culture Communication Co., Ltd.

The other party invited her to direct.

However, the movie script is quite bad; it just tries to ride the "food craze" sparked by "A Bite of China" in the past two years.

The original timeline was a movie that only had a one-day run in theaters, something Su Lun himself didn't want to mention.

Now that he has the opportunity to join the cast of "Tiny Times", Su Lun immediately rejected Yanjing Century Chinese Literature and chose to work with Liu Taile from now on.

Industry insiders have assessed that, given the popularity of the original novel and Guo Jingming himself, the movie "Tiny Times" is unlikely to lose money; the only question is how much it will make.

Moreover, the film "Lipstick" had an investment of less than three million, while "Tiny Times" was a major project with an investment of over sixty million!

Anyone knows which one to choose!

The screenwriter's name is Li Xuan. He's not well-known in the industry, but he's actually quite talented.

I previously worked on a project with the renowned director Yang Yazhou.

However, due to a mistake, he was kicked out of the production crew.

Actually, it wasn't Li Xuan's fault; it was his mentor in the industry who made a mistake, and he was made to take the blame.

However, his teacher was kind enough not to completely ruin his job and even helped him find another job in the industry.

Otherwise, if a mistake is made on a big director's film crew, it would be a huge stain on one's reputation, and it wouldn't be surprising if one were subsequently blacklisted in the industry.

Gong Ge'er knew him before and knew that Liu Taile was building a team, so he introduced him.

To be honest, the fact that Gong Ge'er later became a well-known producer in the industry speaks volumes about his connections.

This guy really doesn't miss any opportunity to get to know anyone and is frantically expanding his network in the industry.

Anyway, you never know when you might need it!

This is something Liu Taile needs to learn from.

This really did Liu Taile a huge favor!

With Liu Tai-le signing actor and investment contracts, his own company, Jiale Media, officially became one of the producers of the first and second installments of "Tiny Times".

Liu Taile will also officially begin his film and television career.

However, his priority is to finish filming the short film "The Thinker in a Wheelchair".