The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 287: Go on a show? Yes, but the scene has to be big enough
"Your Excellency is very good."

Zhang Chen praised him against his will.

As for Prince Fang, how can I praise him more?

I can only praise him casually for Cheng Long's sake.

There is a question that he has been holding in his mind for a long time, but he doesn't dare to really ask it, and this question will probably always bother him.

So what is the relationship between these two guys, Jaycee Chan and Zhang Mo?
Why do they look so similar?

"Then do you think it's possible for my son to play a role in your company's TV series?"

Cheng Long is here to pay his respects.

If artists from Hong Kong want to develop in the mainland, they really have to go through Chenguang Entertainment first.

Although the current entertainment industry in mainland China is not yet dominated by Chenguang Entertainment alone.

But no one really dares to go against Chenguang Entertainment.

Rumors that had been circulating before said that Zhang Chen didn't like Hong Kong actors and singers very much.

Cheng Long is not afraid of this, and he does not believe that Zhang Chen will ban him.

But he is who he is, and his son is different.

Whether Chenguang Entertainment, or Zhang Chen, will give him face and allow Jaycee Chan to develop in the mainland, we have to first see the opinion of Zhang Chen, the "uncrowned king" of the mainland entertainment industry.

This title was spread by the Hong Kong media not long ago.

Although there is no formal media coverage, it has become a secret consensus across both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau.

Even though he had sought help from an old man in Shanhaiguan during his concert, now the entire inland port has changed and he has to keep up with the times and not go to the wrong place.

"Our company has already arranged all the TV series and movies for this year, but we don't have any specific plans for next year."

"Then is Zhang Chen interested in investing in my movie next year?"

"What's the movie called?"

Cheng Long does have quite a few good movies.

But there are also a lot of bad movies.

"In "Baby Project", I want Gao Yuanyuan from your company to play a role."

"can."

Zhang Chen smiled and nodded.

This movie.
I really don’t make much money and the reviews are just so-so.

But since it's a role offered to the company's artists, then the investment has been made. Even though the movie won't make much money, at least it won't lose money.

"How about taking a look at the script first?"

"It's okay. I believe in Big Brother's movies."

It sounds good, but the fact is that Zhang Chen already knew the information about this movie.

It doesn’t matter whether you watch it or not.

"Haha, I've also been thinking about changing my career in the past two years. After all, I'm getting older and I'm a little powerless to shoot some dangerous action movies."

Cheng Long sat dejectedly on the chair, looking a little bleak.

How high-spirited he was when he went to Hollywood.

But this year he can clearly feel that he can no longer get good films in Hollywood.

If he were to take on projects with lower investment amounts, his salary, which had already been raised to 2000 million US dollars, would not allow him to do so.

"Transformation?" Zhang Chen was interested. "How about becoming a singer?"

"No, no, no, I just think I should reduce the number of dangerous action movies I shoot." Cheng Long patted his no longer strong arms, "After all, I'm over 50."

"That's right." Zhang Chen lowered his head and thought for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Cheng Long seriously, "Our company is going to launch an actor variety show next year, are you interested, big brother?"

"Like the Singer competition?"

Cheng Long was a little resistant.

Although he said that he wanted to transform, he was deeply resistant to being put on the stage with a group of actors and being criticized by others.

No matter what, he is currently the most famous actor among the Chinese people.

If the person in front of him was not Zhang Chen, he would have started scolding him.

Who dares to judge him?
“It’s a competition, but it’s not for you to participate in.”

"The same mentor as in The Voice?"

Cheng Long thought of the variety show last year.

"Almost. This is the task assigned to me by the bureau. I'm having a headache."

Zhang Chen rubbed his temples. He really had a headache.

He is so busy that he has no time to rest, but there are still a lot of things waiting for him.

He felt that once he stepped into the film and television industry, it was like stepping into a quagmire, and there was not a single moment of leisure.

"Then..." Cheng Long looked at Jaycee Chan beside him.

Zhang Chen also followed his gaze and saw Jaycee Chan, who looked very surprised: "Let's talk about it later."

Let’s trick Cheng Long into coming first. As for Jaycee Chan, just find a reason to reject him when the time comes.

If a program wants to have good ratings, it still needs to have some topics.

Just like Zhang Guorong in last year's "The Voice of China" and Jay Chou in the current "Singer".

If there is a celebrity that everyone knows, then everyone's focus of discussion will also be on this celebrity.

If they are all a group of newbies, or a group of little-known celebrities, and everyone doesn't know each other, they don't even know what to talk about. Where will the topics come from?
A few more weeks passed, and Chenguang Entertainment continued to output topics about "Singer" on Weibo.

However, they did not dare to blatantly stir up national sentiment, and they consciously controlled some extreme remarks.

In the following episodes, Jay Chou seemed to have opened his Ren and Du meridians.

He wrote one song after another with different styles: "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Huo Yuanjia", "Fireworks Cool Down Easily"

These three original songs have a strong Sino-Chinese flavor, which makes the Chinese audience excited.

But
The public jury, from all over the world, simply couldn't understand the lyrics.

So even though Jay Chou managed to get back a lot of points in singing with his stage choreography and his ranking also improved, he was still a little short of the top.

The rankings for the next three issues were four, three, and three respectively.

The top two spots are still firmly held by Whitney Houston, Avril Lavigne and Ayumi Hamasaki.

After all, Jay Chou still suffers from his poor vocal conditions.

He has caught up with innovation, lyrics, composition, and stage performance, but the objective factor of his vocal condition still makes him suffer a lot on competition stages like "Singer".

Except for Jay Chou, Teresa Teng and Yao Beina have been eliminated.

The replacements were Alan Tam and Richie Jen.

Among these two, one is a veteran and powerful singer who once competed with Zhang Guorong.

The other is a phenomenal singer who became popular all over the country in the past two years.

However, except for the fact that Tam Wing-lam briefly won the third place in the previous episode, she hovered between fourth and fifth place in the following two episodes.

Brother Xiao Qi was even worse off, ranking seventh or eighth for two consecutive periods.

Did Chenguang Entertainment invite other singers? In fact, the invitation letters were sent out over and over again.

However, many singers declined the invitation from Morning Light Entertainment for various reasons.

The reason is that the Grammy singers are too strong.

They are worried that they won't get a better result if they play.

Chenguang Entertainment is not like other entertainment companies that would give backdoors to Chinese singers.

There is no such thing as a guaranteed contract.

This really made them feel uneasy.

The entire Chinese internet is now filled with wailing. Even the Olympic Games, which has already started for a month, have not received as much attention as the ratings of "Singer".

"Zhang Chen, why don't you let Jie Lun win the championship in the last round? Otherwise, it will be hard to explain."

The show will soon begin recording its final episode.

Although this program brought Capital TV a higher viewership than the Olympic Games broadcast by Spoon Channel.

But there is also a lot of internal pressure in their station.

Now some high-ranking leaders have asked them to award the final "King of Singers" title to a Chinese singer.

Whether it's Jay Chou, Alan Tam or Richie Jen, we can't let foreigners always suppress Chinese singers.

"Whether he can win the championship depends on his own ability."

"But I can't report this to my superiors. What a mess the Internet is in right now."

"Explain, explain what?"

"The Olympic athletes in Athens were trying to win our respect, but we ended up losing face in our own backyard. It's said that culture and sports are inseparable, and the situation of Singer is urgent now."

The director of Capital TV was also helpless.

If it was a production team from another company, he wouldn't have to come over in person to discuss it.

Just notify the production team directly.

But facing Zhang Chen, you really can't use force.

You can only present facts and reason with him.

This also made the director feel very frustrated.

He was really blinded by the ratings and snatched the show from Tomato Channel.

Not only did they spend 8000 million for the broadcasting rights, but they also invited a great ancestor.

In the production of the program, apart from some human resources work, other planning, scheduling, shooting, backstage control and other aspects are entirely decided by the Chenguang Entertainment team.

This directly led to Capital Television having no control over this program at all.

"Let me see what people are saying online first."

Zhang Chen took the computer next to him and opened Weibo skillfully.

What caught my eye was an entry that was so red it looked black:
[Singer silences the Chinese music scene]

There were many comments with this term:
"It's been seven issues, do you know how I've been spending this month?!"

"Just once, even just once, can we get a Chinese singer to the top?"

"Didn't Han Hong say before that he wanted to participate? Why is there no movement now?"

"In addition to her, many singers have publicly expressed their willingness to participate in the show. Even the official account of Spoon Station has tagged several talented singers. Why are these singers silent?"

"I don't care who wins. I think these foreign singers are really strong and they sing really well."

"I think Chenguang Entertainment is very honest in what they do. They say they won't do anything shady. The rankings are pretty close to what I expected."

"These people in the European and American music scene have made all the singers in the Chinese music scene know what top singing skills are. Not just anyone can be a singer."

"That's right. Now everyone really wants to try their hand at the music industry, but the key is that they don't have the talent and rely entirely on audio editing to keep up. Once the live broadcast begins, the truth is revealed."

"Don't you see the musical literacy of these people? The songs were all written by others, and they were only responsible for singing. No, that's not right! They were only responsible for recording! If they were asked to sing live, many of them would sound like a car accident scene."

"Among the mainland's music scene, only Zhang Chen can be compared with them, right?"

"Yeah, where's Zhang Chen!?"

Zhang Chen slowly browsed through the comments online, and took the time to check the background of his Weibo, and found that countless netizens had tagged him, asking him to speak out and say a few words, and it would be best if he could directly participate in the competition.

"When the public jury was selected, they did not take into account my participation in the competition, so many of the jury members are my fans. If I participate in the competition, it will not be fair to the current contestants."

Zhang Chen closed the computer and explained to the director.

"Then you have to think of a solution. I'm under a lot of pressure here and I can't stand it any longer."

Zhang Chen sighed as he looked at the director who was almost sweating.

He just wanted to make some money and had no intention of taking part in the competition himself.

On the 19th of this month, the stock of Google-A, which he had been dreaming of, was listed.

From the opening price of $85 per share, it had risen to over $100 by the closing.

Zhang Chen owns a total of 5000 million shares, which means that this batch of shares is currently worth 50 billion US dollars.

Based on the initial investment of 3000 million US dollars, Zhang Chen received a 167-fold return on investment.

And now Morning Glory Music has also started the process of going public.

Apple's stock price has also reached $40 per share. Zhang Chen has a total of 1.5 million shares, which means another $60 billion in assets. Judging from the upward trend of Apple's stock price this year, it is estimated that by the end of this year, Zhang Chen's assets in Apple will surge to around $100 billion.

And Pixar's stock is worth around $65 billion.

If fixed assets are not counted and Zhang Chen's wealth is calculated based on the stocks he holds, his current assets have reached approximately US$180 billion.

If we include his properties, land and other properties in various places, the figure would be around 220 billion US dollars.

At present, no one has dug deep into Zhang Chen’s assets.

He himself does not openly control any listed company, so as long as no one digs deeper into his situation, his assets will not be known to the public.

But if we do a deeper investigation and compare Zhang Chen's assets with those of the world's richest people, then as of 2004, his wealth would rank among the top five in the world!

But when you have too much money, it's easy to get lazy, and now he feels like lying down.

However, thinking about the phone call his elder made to him a month ago, he thought about it and turned on the computer again.

This time, he didn't read the comments of netizens, but planned to post an update himself.

Weibo:

@张晨: @张国容@王妃@刘焕@罗大佑, come!
Facebook:

@Lyon: @Michael Jackson @Madonna @Celine Dion @Will Smith, come to China!
If you want to play, play big.

What's the point of comparing yourself with those half-famous people on "Singer"?

If he wants to go up, it would be interesting if he were accompanied by some people worthy of his status.

Once these two updates were released, the world was shocked!

"What's going on!!!???"

"Is The Voice going to record its second season?"

"Could it be?!"

　"Singer" is coming to an end, let's have a big competition among the world's top singers, hahahaha

　　
　
(End of this chapter)