The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 43 Where is Zhang Chen?
On October 10, the first season of "My Fair Princess" premiered in mainland China. On the first day, it achieved a viewership rating of over 28 percent, setting a new record for the highest viewership rating of domestic TV dramas since statistics were kept.

At the same time, Zhao Zhetian and a group of actors became famous overnight and became cultural idols thanks to this TV series.

It was also from this TV series that the mainland officially entered the era of idol superstars, and the people have since embarked on the same idol-chasing path as the audiences in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

As the only mainland production company of this drama, "Morning Light Entertainment" has successfully broken through the siege in the television circle and quickly became popular. During this period, Morning Light Entertainment also received many excellent scripts.

The TV series "The Twins" is also a project by Taiwan to open up the mainland TV series market. Seeing that Qiong Yao's TV series were very popular in the mainland, they also approached Chenguang Entertainment and wanted to cooperate in the development of this TV series.

Finally, this TV series was jointly funded and produced by "Zhenglong International Communication" and "Chenguang Entertainment", with Chenguang Entertainment holding a 30% stake and the copyright belonging to Zhenglong International.

At the same time, there is also good news for the big screen. Due to the impact of film reform, film studios now need to be responsible for their own profits and losses, and Beijing Film Studio, as an old film studio, has been losing money for many years.

This has resulted in many screenwriters and directors having to go out and look for investment.

Among them, Huang Jianzhong found Chen Guang Entertainment through Chen Daoming's relationship, hoping that Chen Guang Entertainment could finance the filming of a movie.

Because of his relationship with Chen Daoming, and after reading the script, as the current actual person in charge of Morning Light Entertainment, he felt that he could try to shoot the film even if it meant losing money, because the movie is called "My 1919".

This film also brought in the directors of the Xi'an Film Studio, the Beijing Film Studio and Han Sanping of the China Film Group, who were in the preparation stage, as producers.

In fact, it can be seen from this that Chenguang Entertainment only provided funds but could not interfere in any matters related to this movie.

However, this also paves the way for Chenguang Entertainment in the film and television industry in the future.

After hearing this, Zhang Chen agreed with his mother's point of view. Sometimes, making money is not the first priority.

Since then, Chenguang Entertainment, founded in 99, has finally achieved success in both movies and TV series.

There is the independently funded TV series "The Little Li Flying Dagger", the co-produced "The Twins", and the invested movie "My 1919".

Everything is moving in a positive direction.

Zhang Chen only pays attention to the company's recent situation from time to time. The most important thing on his hands at present is undoubtedly the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala and the production of a new album next year.

The song "Wanjiang" submitted by Zhang Chen has been reviewed by the Spring Festival Gala director team, and it has been basically confirmed that Zhang Chen will still appear on the stage of the 99 Spring Festival Gala.

So from October to January 99, in addition to his daily studies at school, Zhang Chen ran between the recording studio and CCTV.

It was not until January 1 that Zhang Chen turned on the TV to watch the 24 "Jade Solid Gold Awards Ceremony". This was also the last time in Zhang Chen's previous life that the Four Heavenly Kings appeared on the same stage.

I just don’t know if there will be news like “Leon Lai is dying” this time. However, Leon Lai directly announced in 99 that he would no longer participate in any award ceremony.

In this award ceremony, the Four Heavenly Kings, the Princess, and Leo Ku all won different numbers of awards. Eason Chan and A-Mei Zhang also began to emerge at this time.

As expected, Celine Dion asked the host Eric Tsang a question in a joking tone at the awards ceremony: "Where is Leon?"

Although this question did not receive a clear answer from the organizers at the awards ceremony.

But the media in Hong Kong has never been a pushover.

In particular, the 41st Grammy list was announced after the "Top Ten Golden Songs" awards ceremony, among which Zhang Chen received the following nominations:
Nominated for 6 categories including Album of the Year, Single of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocalist, and Best Pop Album.

However, Zhang Chen is not the singer with the most nominations. Hill is the most outstanding singer in the 41st Grammy Awards. She was nominated for eight awards, including Album of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocalist, New Artist of the Year, Best Female R&B Vocalist, Best R&B Song, Best R&B Album, Best Rap Singer, and Producer of the Year, which recognizes the strongest artist.

It can be said that all the limelight of this year's Grammy Awards was taken away by this black female singer.

After hearing the news, the Hong Kong media began to frantically criticize the "Jade Solid Gold Awards", saying that the awards had become a place for superstars to retire and that all the awards were given to singers of the older generation, ignoring the younger and more accomplished singers in the Chinese music scene.

These media also publicly suggested expanding the scope of the Hong Kong Golden Melody Awards, because Taiwan will expand the scope of the Golden Melody Awards this year to include the entire Chinese music scene. They also called on the Hong Kong Golden Melody Awards to learn from them.

Zhang Chen would also eat melons from time to time and watch the various media outlets debate each other. At the same time, the mainland also began to conduct research on the pop music scene, wanting to organize an influential music award.

Time soon came to early February. Zhang Chen accompanied his mother Sun Fangping to attend the establishment ceremony of "China Film Group". As the first private partner after its establishment, China Film also gave corresponding courtesies.

Zhang Chen also took this opportunity to meet Han Sanping, the future head of China Film Group Corporation, also known as "Zuoshan Diao".

"This is the young master, right? I heard that in a few days, you will represent our country to receive an international award?" Han Sanping recognized Zhang Chen the first time he saw him.

"It's all nonsense. Besides, he said that the competitors this year are very strong and he might not win any award. But he is very open-minded about it." Sun Fangping responded modestly.

"How can it be considered nonsense? It's great to be able to win glory for the country!" Han Sanping also had a smile on his face. Although he is only the deputy director and deputy general manager now, he is actually in charge of the film production sector, and many film productions will go through his hands.

Take "My 1919" for example. The reason for finding "Chenguang Entertainment" was to set an example in the field of private film production, just like the "Party A and Party B" he co-produced with Huayi last year, both of which were to support private enterprises to take root in the film and television industry.

"By the way, Zhang Chen, what are your plans for the future? Do you plan to take over your mother's job and enter the film and television industry?" Han Sanping asked a question that elders often use as a greeting during conversation.

　I haven't written anything in the past three days. What I'm releasing now are all my drafts. The main reason is that I want to collect everyone's opinions. I'm afraid that if I write too fast, I won't be able to correct some of the bad things you mentioned in time. The drafts will be about 50 chapters long, and the rest will refer to everyone's suggestions.

　　Finally, I ask you to vote and read the book. Now is the first round of recommendations, which is very important for a new book. Thank you all!

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