Chapter 1497
A Comeback
Yang Chen asked him to give an explanation for this matter.
After the other person said those words, Zhang Yuan couldn't hold back anymore.
"Hehehehe..."
What are you laughing at?
"It's nothing, I'm sorry," Zhang Yuan quickly said.
I'm a professional and I don't usually laugh unless I can't help it...
I listen carefully when other people say this, but you're talking to me about this?
You're one of the most flamboyant people in the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry.
He not only got married several times, but also found "girlfriends" after marriage.
This is something the old guy himself proudly said in his autobiography.
Because of his bad reputation, any female celebrity who gets close to him will be rumored to be having an affair.
It was just because Old Yang led her down the red carpet at the awards ceremony and they held hands briefly.
They actually met through family, had mutual friends, and collaborated on a film, but because of Old Yang's usual behavior, rumors started circulating.
Someone like you deserves an explanation.
Zhang Yuan found it hard not to laugh out loud.
It's like if Chenlong told him to be faithful in marriage, he would just laugh.
However, considering that Bai Bing is someone else's artist and the other party is their boss, they have to give her some face.
"Mr. Yang, what's going on?"
Why are you suddenly interested in this?
"When a girl is in a bad mood, it will affect her work."
"My assistant and agent already know," Old Yang said. "If I hadn't found out early, the paparazzi would have known in a few days."
"Well, to be honest, if the paparazzi find out and expose it, Bai Bing will benefit."
"After all, you're a big star."
"So I wanted to ask you, what are your specific plans?"
So that's what it means... Zhang Yuan understood.
It's not that I don't allow female celebrities to have contact with me, it's that I'm afraid it will affect both of our work.
I told you, what kind of brothel madam would persuade someone to reform?
"Okay, I'll talk to her about it."
"You don't need to worry."
He was also a little worried.
Because he is different from Old Yang.
Given Yang Chen's height and appearance, his looks when he was young were just so-so.
Most women who follow him are after his money and fame, and to get roles in movies.
Give me enough money and we'll break up; each of us gets what we need.
It's different for him. Those who follow him may not necessarily not want money and fame, but half of them are attracted to him as a person.
"Handle it well, it's nothing for young people to have fun." Old Yang was quite open-minded: "Just don't make a big fuss about it."
"There's one more thing, Jackie has a new movie, and it's quite expensive."
"If you're interested, we can talk."
Chenlong's new film...
Zhang Yuan considered it for a moment and then asked.
"What's the content... I know it's definitely an action movie, but what's the genre?"
“Tomb raiding has become a popular theme in China in recent years, and Jackie also created a treasure hunt theme.”
That gave him an idea.
This show should be the one called "Chinese Zodiac".
Calling it a tomb raiding movie isn't quite accurate; it's more like an action film with a treasure hunt theme, somewhat similar to Mission: Impossible or the later Fast & Furious franchise.
Because the film was originally intended to be called "Project Eagle 3".
This play is very important because it "extends the life" of Chenlong.
Before "CZ12", Chenlong's box office performance in mainland China had already begun to decline significantly, gradually falling behind the leading films.
The audience is getting a little tired of it.
However, after the film was released, it received both good box office and critical acclaim, proving that Chen Long is not old and his box office appeal is still strong.
Furthermore, this film has another notable characteristic: it performed extremely poorly at the North American box office.
It was the film with the worst overseas box office among all of Chen Long's films at the time.
This led Chenlong to realize that his works could no longer satisfy the tastes of both Eastern and Western audiences, so he adopted a more targeted distribution strategy.
Zhang Yuan recalls that the production cost was said to be 3 million yuan.
The publicity and promotion are often exaggerated, but the actual production cost should be over 100 million, because there are many overseas shooting parts.
The so-called 3 million should include marketing and promotion expenses, and most importantly, Chenlong's personal dividends.
Uncle Jackie Chan will earn at least hundreds of millions!
If you pack them all together like this, the cost will be higher.
Even if the box office reaches 8 million, the actual profit is not as much as imagined.
But it's still profitable, and the company's accounts will look very good.
"Okay, I'll contact him."
He put down his phone and thought for a moment.
That's also a large expense.
I contacted Bai Bing first.
Do you have time tonight?
"You're free?" the other person replied with some delight.
"I have a dinner party tonight, will you come with me?"
I sent the address to her, and she readily agreed.
"elder brother!"
As soon as he put down his phone, Guan Xiaotong opened the door to his dressing room and poked his head in.
"I already told you not to come into my room without permission, in case I'm changing clothes."
"Do you know what I just saw?" Guan Xiaotong completely ignored his words, because her mind was full of gossip.
"Brother, brother, listen to me."
"I was in the dressing room just now."
"Did you know that the two women's dressing rooms are next to each other? Have you ever been there?"
Zhang Yuan: ...
What was I planning to do in the women's dressing room?
"I was putting on makeup when I heard a loud bang."
"I quickly ran outside and heard the noise from next door, so I pressed my face against the door."
Zhang Yuan rubbed his temples. How could you say something like peeking through a crack in the door so casually?
"Then guess what I saw, guess, guess."
"what?"
"Someone inside threw a chair."
"Wow."
“I saw it clearly, Sister Xun swung a chair and it flew away.”
"what?"
"There was a bag on the chair, and it flew away along with it."
"Yo."
"Then guess whose bag it is?"
"Who?"
“It belongs to Princess Jing!” Miss Guan whispered in his ear.
"Go to hell..."
Zhang Yuan could only play the straight man for her and let her speak her mind; otherwise, she would get so excited that she wouldn't be able to stop.
"Really, I saw it."
"After Bao Fei left, that guy swept all of Xun Jie's cosmetics onto the ground with a wave of his hand."
"Brother, aren't you going to do anything about it?"
"Why should I care?"
"Aren't you amazing?" Guan Xiaotong said, putting her arm around his shoulder.
I'm really going all out just to watch the excitement.
I had already pressed it when I arrived.
But now the two of them can't be together anymore.
Because they discovered something.
At first, after Zhang Yuan started acting like a diva, the two of them calmed down for a while.
Actually, the idea of things calming down is one-sided.
Yiping was clever and gave the other person face, letting them have their way.
When one side makes concessions, the situation eases.
Everyone should just keep filming. At worst, we'll just sit there for a few hours during filming and then not see each other after work.
Xun was quite pleased with himself, thinking he had succeeded.
As expected, I am the female lead!
But he didn't even consider who the other party was. Xun Ge is shrewd to the end, but his shrewdness is all too obvious.
With limited intelligence, joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness are all expressed on the dumpling skin.
That's why many people say she's "pure," and that's precisely where her purity lies—she truly doesn't pretend.
Is it that she doesn't want to pretend?
It's not that the CPU doesn't support this feature.
But that one is different!
That's the kind of person who could get a driver to beat up her best friend, right there in the street in Beijing, and the other person was pregnant.
They were even able to snatch Wang Yu, one of the Four Young Masters, away from Chen Zihan.
After stealing the man, they didn't let Chen Zihan off the hook either, spreading her "private photos" everywhere.
Chen Zihan's intelligence was only slightly better than Zhou Xun's; they were not even in the same league.
Now, the one who appears to have stepped down has actually done so, but behind the scenes, he's resorting to the same tricks again.
It's still the Fourth Young Master, and it's still a private photo.
Under the influence of money, Xun Ge got together with Wang Shuo last year.
Then, the incident happened where Wang Shuo pulled out a gun and pointed it at Liu Tao's husband on Wangfujing Street.
Following his instructions, Liu Tao negotiated with the other party and signed a letter of understanding. In return, the other party agreed to extend the debt repayment period without interest and even rounded it down to zero.
But this is a big deal, since it involves places so close to the core, so it needs to be investigated.
If they don't even bother to check, it'll be hard to explain.
So after all that fuss, the blame was ultimately placed on the driver, the young master was given a suspended sentence, and then they used their connections to get him released on bail.
During the investigation, they took away the young master's computer and found a bunch of Xun Ge's "private photos" and "short videos" on it.
Somehow, several months have passed since then, the two have broken up, and the young master has been confined to his home.
Suddenly a bunch of photos of Zhou Xun appeared online.
Although it's been blurred out, it's definitely a scandal, and a major one at that.
Zhang Yuan heard about it, but was too lazy to look at the photos.
I've filmed several passionate scenes with Zhou Xun, so how could I not know what she looks like?
There's really nothing to see here; it's just so-so without the mosaic.
When celebrities encounter this kind of situation, their first instinct is usually to contact their company's public relations department.
Unlike Chen Zihan back then, Zhou Xun was no longer a freelancer who could run his own business without anyone interfering.
In addition, the production team also needs to manage and control risks.
But the result was that neither side cared!
Although Hua Yi got the role for her, Xun Ge has already decided not to renew the contract with her.
What's the situation with Yiping?
Her husband, Driver Huang, got involved with Alibaba Pictures, and Alibaba is a shareholder of Huayi Brothers.
At the company level, nobody cares about this at all.
Meanwhile, on the production team's side, Pang Hong, the king of hype, not only didn't care about this kind of news, but Zhang Yuan even suspected that he was secretly laughing behind Zhang Yuan's back.
I finally copied it!
Free publicity opportunities.
Zhou Xun plays a demon in the play, who is meant to seduce the male lead. So what if she has a scandalous affair in real life?
Moreover, this isn't the first time Zhou Xun has made the news because of relationship-related topics.
Therefore, the production team didn't care or do any public relations work.
Zhang Yuandu suspected that Pang Hong had played a role in spreading the rumors.
Xun Ge is furious!
That's why what just happened occurred.
Yiping arrived early and was getting her makeup done in the dressing room.
Women's makeup routines are complicated and involve a lot of things.
She took a chair and put her designer handbag on it.
Xun Ge felt that she was the female lead, even though she arrived late.
After sitting down, I noticed that one of my chairs had been taken away.
Actually, there were no numbers, and everyone used them interchangeably.
But she felt it was on her side.
Seeing the other person made him angry again.
She might not have realized it was the other party who posted the photos, but there are always some "brilliant" people in her team.
Adding fuel to the fire might only make them angrier.
Therefore, Zhang Yuan's requirement for his team is that they don't need to use their brains; he will do the thinking. They just need to be obedient and offer fewer opinions.
The chair was pulled away in an instant, and the bag on it flew off.
Guan Xiaotong peeked through the crack in the door and didn't see very clearly, but she was talking about throwing the chair away.
Xun Ge wasn't born with superhuman strength; with her thin arms, she might not even be able to swing them properly.
The man was furious when he saw his bag fall to the ground.
My Hermès!
It's a regular high-end Hermès bag, not a custom Birkin bag.
If he were here, he definitely wouldn't care. It's just a bag worth about 200,000 yuan. If it falls on the ground, it won't get dirty. He can just wipe it off.
But a bag is a woman's lifeline, and besides, Big Eyes wasn't exactly rolling in money at the moment.
Their combined salaries don't even equal Zhang Yuan's.
The important thing was that the two started arguing, and if someone hadn't stopped them, they might have actually started fighting.
People fight for their pride, and Buddhas accept a stick of incense!
Sometimes, you just can't hold your breath, and then something bad happens.
Sun Honglei and Xiao Shenyang can both get things done, let alone these two.
In addition, as mentioned before, the two of them discovered something.
The thing is, although Zhang Yuan gave them a hard time as soon as he arrived, deliberately trying to intimidate them.
However, during the subsequent filming, Zhang Yuan did not act like a diva and remained the same as before.
Their attitude towards the two of them remained unchanged; they were very polite and chatted and laughed together.
That's how we figured out the pattern.
Then I tried it with other people and found that the problem wasn't with the recruitment, but with the people.
Then I understood that as long as I don't provoke the Chinese, I will still be the world's overlord.
They were the same; they bossed around the staff, made all sorts of demands, and even used stunt doubles when they were tired.
As long as it doesn't affect Zhang Yuan himself, and he doesn't have to film in front of a stunt double, he won't care.
I don't have the time to be a mediator for you two all the time.
If I have this free time, I'll go work on 1818 Golden Eye.
As long as you can keep to yourself and the quality of your films doesn't suffer, you'll be fine.
Once they found this bottom line, things became much easier for the two of them; they weren't afraid to fight.
Besides, he can't interfere in this matter.
Who do I care about?
If you're helping Xun Ge, that person will definitely not admit to distributing the photos, and will think that the other party started it first and that they're taking sides.
If I help that person, Xun Ge will feel like he's taking sides, even though we've known each other for a long time.
Both of them felt they were taking sides and would end up getting the worst outcome...
Fuck you, do whatever you want.
Let 523 worry about it.
"Brother, aren't you going to do anything about it?"
"Aren't you the number one boss in the crew?" Guan Xiaotong said sincerely, but there was a hint of stirring up trouble in her tone.
"A true man knows what to do and what not to do." Zhang Yuan would never let himself get carried away.
"Personal grudges should be resolved by the individuals involved; don't meddle."
"This is boring, I'm leaving."
"I'll go listen again!" With those long strides, he dashed off in a flash.
Having a daughter like that would be quite a headache... Zhang Yuan patted his cheeks, pretending nothing had happened.
He was busy all night, and during the filming, the two of them didn't give him a hard time. They just went their separate ways as soon as they yelled "cut".
He pretended not to see it.
523 was a little disappointed and wanted him to come out again to keep things in check.
"I have something to do tonight, so I won't be able to have dinner with you," he said to Yang Mi when he had a moment to spare.
"What's up, a dinner party?"
"I'll go with you?" the man immediately replied.
"Don't you dislike dinner parties?"
But I like you.
Zhang Yuan was somewhat speechless.
"It's a rather complicated dinner party, and it's not suitable for you to show up," was all he could say.
"OK then."
Unexpectedly, Yang Mi readily agreed and then went to attend to his own business.
She wondered to herself who she had gone to meet.
Maybe some wildflowers will bloom again.
But it's okay, I've already taken over the "main mine".
Once things stabilize, you can gradually upgrade your level. (End of Chapter)