Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 235: Lifting the Ban and Running Away

02 The female squad leader Wang Jia from Biaoben won the Best Supporting Actress Award at this year’s Hundred Flowers Awards, although it was a double yolk egg, shared with Xu Qing.

But winning the award is a recognition and an honor. If I remember correctly, this is the first domestic mainstream film award that 02 Biaoben has won.

Liu Yifei sent her blessings to the class monitor on Weibo. After Wang Jia returned to Yanjing, several of her classmates in Beijing had a dinner together to celebrate Wang Jia's success.

Last year's "The Whistleblower" was nominated for this year's Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Huayi is really talented in nominating Huang Xiaoming as the leading actor) and Best Supporting Actor.

In the end, out of the four nominations, Su Youpeng won the Best Supporting Actor award.

"If You Are the One" actually won the Best Director award. What kind of skills did this film demonstrate about the director?

On the last day of October, Queen Wang’s third concert in Yanjing was held, and Li Qiutang and Liu Yifei came.

Many celebrities in the circle came to watch the first two shows, which attracted many reporters. Li Qiutang specially picked tickets for the third day.

The third concert in Yanjing happened to be the 100th solo concert of Queen Wang’s career, which is of great commemorative significance.

The opening song was "I Only Want to Keep the Promise to You", followed by "Red Beans", "Passenger" and "You Are in My Heart".

The queen still maintained her own cool style, just singing, not interacting with the audience, and at most saying thank you.

Liu Yifei succeeded in chasing her idol and stomped her feet excitedly on the spot.

Even though she only sings "Red Bean" with her left hand and "Liunian" with her right hand in KTV, she can sing almost all of Wang Diva's songs.

Every time Queen Wang sang a line on the stage, she would sing along in the audience and join the chorus, without missing a single song!
She is a true fan.

The queen sang 105 songs in 23 minutes.

"If someone doesn't know, they would think you were holding a concert." Liu Yifei sang along all night, her cheeks flushed with excitement and her voice became hoarse.

Liu Yifei took the thermos cup handed over by her boyfriend and shook her head, as if she was still immersed in the atmosphere of the concert just now: "This is my first time to watch my idol's concert. I am so excited."

"How about I find someone to take you backstage to meet your idol?"

But Liu Yifei refused: "It's fine to just watch my idol from afar. I'll be satisfied if I can come to listen to one of her concerts."

I didn't expect that she could see things so clearly.

The two followed the crowd out. Li Qiutang drove Liu Yifei home. Liu Xiaoli knew that the two were going to a concert tonight.

Li Qiutang's cell phone rang.

"Xixi, help me get it."

Liu Yifei, who was sitting in the passenger seat, took out a cell phone from his pocket.

“No notes.”

"Hands-free." Due to Li Qiutang's work, many people did not have time to take notes.

"Hello."

"Hello, are you Director Li Qiutang?"

"Yes, I am. Who are you?"

"I'm a reporter from Fox News, my last name is Zhou."

Why did the financial reporter contact him?

"Ah, hello, what's going on? I'm driving now, so it's inconvenient for me to answer your call. Please keep it short."

"Okay, actually I don't have anything to talk to you about. It's just that tomorrow, November 11st, which is Monday, the original shares of Huayi Brothers will be released. Will you choose to sell them to cash out?"

Li Qiutang really didn't remember this. It was listed on October 10 last year, so it's been a year now.

Li Qiutang said, "You said that I didn't know the ban would be lifted tomorrow." "Then will you sell it?"

"Not for the time being. I am optimistic about the development of Huayi Company. I will choose to hold on to it for a while and not rush to sell it."

"Okay, thank you for your answer, sorry to bother you, bye."

Li Qiutang has an assistant but no agent. The other party may not be able to contact her assistant, and she doesn't know how he got her phone number.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Yifei asked Li Qiutang: "How many Huayi shares did you buy?"

“220万股，现在应该是440万股了，年初的时候华艺每10股送10股还派了3块钱，我就变成440万股了。”李秋棠是华艺所有明星股东里持股量仅次于冯晓刚的。

Liu Yifei had already started to settle accounts with Li Qiutang, and even used her mobile phone to search for Huayi's closing price on Friday.

"These stocks are worth 1 million!" Liu Yifei had seen money before, but never so much. "How can you be so awesome!"

Li Qiutang started to act cool: "It's not that great. I bought it when he asked me to, and then I just left it there. It went up on its own, it has nothing to do with me."

This is the case with all the stocks Li Qiutang bought. He would just forget about them after buying them and hold on to them for three, five, or even ten years. He believed he could make money.

He doesn't have that much time and energy to pay attention to the stock market.

Liu Yifei laughed and said, "I told you you were fat and you gasped."

The next day, the news of the lifting of the ban on Huayi shares dominated the headlines. Even entertainment reporters were very concerned about these celebrity shareholders, especially Li Bingbing and Huang Xiaoming. The former's contract with Huayi expired and he did not renew it, so he opened his own studio. The latter's contract was also about to expire and most likely would not be renewed. With the two of them leaving, the media was very concerned about the whereabouts of their stocks, but both of them said they would not sell them for the time being.

Li Qiutang, the star shareholder second only to Feng Xiaogang, said through his assistant: "I am optimistic about the development of Huayi and will not sell in the short term."

On the 1st, Huayi Brothers Supervisory Board Chairman Tan Zhi sold 70 shares through his wife who held the shares on his behalf. He sold another 37.53 shares on the second day, 148 million shares on the third day, and another 5 million shares on the 100th.

The stocks in my hands are like the plague god. I am selling them desperately for fear that I will sell them too slowly.

The cumulative cash raised in five days exceeded 100 million yuan.

It can be said that they are selling goods madly.

However, Huayi does not think that such a sell-off is enough to cause panic, and believes that this is a personal financial management choice given by shareholders and will not have any impact on the company's business and stock price trends.

Wang Zhonglei still emphasized that Huayi should focus on making good film products.

Also on the first Saturday of November, Michael Lynn came to China with Focus Features CEO James Shams.

Both of them came to China at the same time and had to complete their work before touring.

The two went to the Autumn Pictures office building and found Li Qiutang.

"Who are these two foreigners?"

"I don't know. I can't tell the faces of foreigners apart."

There are very few foreigners visiting Autumn Pictures.

The three of them chatted for a long time in Li Qiutang's office, during which time they called in the deputy manager of the production management department. After talking for more than ten minutes, the four of them left together.

Li Qiutang took the two foreigners to the screening room of China Film and showed them the current sample of "In Time".

Michael Lynn brought James Schamus to oversee "In Time". Focus Features is an independent film studio under Universal. Although it was established not long ago, it has rich experience in winning awards.

James Schamus is Li An's partner in Hollywood. Starting from "Pushing Hands", James Schamus has been behind all of Li An's films.

He has a very keen eye for movies. He knew what In Time was trying to say after watching it for half an hour.

This kind of movie could not be produced in the United States, but James is a Hollywood filmmaker and a Hollywood art film producer.

Simply put, he has a bit of rebellious nature.

Although he had only watched half an hour, James had already decided to buy the movie!
(End of this chapter)