Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 321 Emergencies
Liu Yifei didn't know that her good sister Shu Chang was also vying for "The Fault in Our Stars". Shu Chang found Han Yan for an audition through Qiu Tian's internal connections.

So when she learned that Han Yan did not choose her and gave the role to Shu Chang, Liu Yifei felt some indescribable emotions in her heart.

Of course she was happy for her good sister, and "The Fault in Our Stars" was really good.

On the other hand, she felt sorry for missing out on such a good movie, but why should she give it to anyone else, why Shu Chang?
No matter who it was, Liu Yifei wouldn't have had such wild thoughts.

As the producer of “The Fault in Our Stars”, Li Qiutang did not interfere with Han Yan’s casting, but Li Qiutang was the first to know about the casting even though she was far away in Chongqing.

"I'm just afraid that you'll think too much." Li Qiutang called back to comfort Liu Yifei.

"I'm not that petty. Why would I think too much?" When Liu Yifei heard the news, that thought just popped up in her mind, but she quickly put it out. "I'm so happy for her that she can act in such a good drama. When will the drama start filming?"

"Next March."

"I was wondering why Shu Chang posted news about cancer patients on WeChat Moments recently. It turns out she was doing homework."

"Just be assured that you are not imagining things. Shu Chang is quite suitable for this film. I think it is better to give it to her than to give it to you."

"You're deliberately trying to make me angry because I didn't get the role, right?" Liu Yifei couldn't stand it anymore.

"Okay, okay, it's a pity to miss this movie, but aren't you still trying to get Luc Besson in France? Maybe there's good news over there." Liu Yifei has had it too smooth in the past two years. The setback she suffered because of "The Fault in Our Stars" may not be a bad thing.

"How do you know there's good news?" Europa Films asked her to fly to France again in a week.

"Nonsense, how could I not know about the company's films?" Although the cooperation with Europa Films was not personally handled by Li Qiutang, he still understood the general situation.

"I don't know if I can get the role yet." Liu Yifei said, "I heard Angelina Jolie is also competing for this film."

"How are you worse than Angelina Jolie?" Li Qiutang felt extremely guilty when she said this, but she still had to praise her.

"Your praise is a bit too hypocritical." Liu Yifei laughed, she didn't believe it herself.

"In short, you should treat it with a normal attitude. It's best if you don't get the chance. It's a pity if you don't get the chance, but you still have opportunities in China." There are at least eighteen companies in China looking for her scripts.

The good thing about Liu Yifei is that she is open-minded and not petty.

Li Qiutang stayed in Chongqing for 10 days before leaving. At that time, the Lunar New Year box office had already entered a fierce stage.

The reputation and box office of "The Banquet" were extremely bad, and it was scolded by netizens as "the king's leftovers."

I thought Lu Chuan could make a comeback this time. The release date of "The Banquet" was delayed again and again, and the audience had high expectations. They thought that the reputation and box office of this movie would at least be the same. But Lu Chuan came up with such a thing.

The competing film "1942" has a very good reputation, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the best-received domestic film this year, but its box office performance is not strong.

2600 million on the first day is Feng Xiaogang's usual level, but the follow-up was not ideal. It exceeded 7 million in 2 days, but even now, the 11th, it has not yet exceeded 3 million, and the new additions are getting less and less.

The reason is very clear. A national tragedy like "1942" is not suitable for the Lunar New Year period. Family comedies should be shown during this period.

This is also an important reason why "The Banquet" flopped. Who wants to watch a dark political struggle during the Lunar New Year holiday?

This is also why Qiu Qiu insisted on putting the still newcomer Xu Shanzheng into the Lunar New Year schedule. Comedy is very suitable for this schedule.

Li Qiutang was scouting locations in Fujian Province, while Liu Yifei was resting in Yanjing, planning to fly to France next week.

It happened so suddenly!
Liu Yifei's large-scale photos suddenly appeared on a forum, and they were very dirty.

Once this post was published, it caused a huge backlash in the forum and among Liu Yifei's fan group.

Some people gloat over other people's misfortune, saying that Liu Yifei is no better than others and is also one of those who have gone along with the corrupt crowd.

The haters collectively climaxed and tried to take advantage of the situation to kill Liu Yifei.

Soon, Liu Yifei's fans found evidence that the photo was photoshopped, and released the original photo, saying, "All haters, just go to bed." But haters don't care about the truth. In their eyes, fans' self-evidence is a form of "self-promotion."

Which artist would use this kind of thing to hype himself up!

Liu Yifei's fans gradually lost control at this time and began to accuse the incident of being orchestrated by a rival actress and her company.

"YY Liu Yifei, riding on the popularity, clinging to the thighs, bundling marketing, these are all your methods. Now that you are famous, you want to make a break, so you use such despicable methods."

"No one else can think of it except her family. No matter how you analyze it, only her family has a big grudge and would do such a thing!"

The online public opinion quickly attracted the attention of the media and also quickly attracted the attention of Red Star House.

The Red Star House is different now than it used to be. Normally, the Red Star House wouldn't really care about reported gossips, but this matter is really big now.

Red Star House quickly issued a notice with the company seal, saying the photo was photoshopped maliciously, and angrily denounced the behavior as "despicable means, sinister intentions, and vicious purposes, which are really shocking."

While calling on netizens not to spread such false information, Red Star House said in an announcement that it had reported the matter to the police and contacted the legal team.

After the Red Star House announcement was issued, Tianya Forum deleted the original post and Xinlang Weibo began to control public opinion on the incident.

It took only two and a half days from the original post to the announcement from Red Star House. Liu Yifei didn’t even know that she had gotten into trouble online.

She has been busy with fitness these days, hoping to be in the best condition for Luc Besson's second round of audition.

She didn't know, but her personal assistant must have known, but the assistant didn't tell her.

The worst thing is that Li Qiutang, who was far away in Fujian Province, also knew about it and saw the photo.

Li Qiutang usually doesn't take minor quarrels seriously, but making up dirty rumors about his girlfriend and photoshopping nude photos of her is something no man can tolerate.

Li Qiutang called Red Star House and said, "Don't think that just posting a notice and deleting a post is the end of the matter. Check for me who posted it, who photoshopped the picture, whether it was an individual act or someone behind the scenes instigated it. Check it all out and follow the legal process if necessary.

"Is it because Yifei and I have such good tempers that anyone would come to step on us? Normally it would be fine, but now they photoshop this kind of picture to smear us! Have you called the police? We will cooperate with the Internet police to collect evidence and we must find out who is behind this.

"Does Yifei know about this? If she doesn't know, forget it. Don't tell her."

Before hanging up the phone, Li Qiutang was still cursing: "What do you think of other people's good temper? Give them face."

If the two of them usually bully men and women and commit crimes in the circle, they deserve to be framed. But how could Liu Yifei be framed like this when she only comes out once a month?

No matter it was an individual act or someone instructed him to do it, there must be some purpose behind doing this. What was the purpose this time?

"You're a director and a media person," Cao Ping also knew about this. "You feel a sense of pleasure in pulling people down from a high place. You just want that pleasure. You don't have to be responsible for what you say online, and it's hard to investigate. But you just keep talking nonsense."

"Another thing is that Yifei has developed too fast since In Time."

"Is that fast? Just two low-budget romance movies."

"If you think about actresses of her age, they can't get any roles even if they want to. In Time earned 6 million yuan, and both of her romance films were big hits. Yang Mi is famous enough, but she still has to sell her body to make movies.

"Resources are limited. If you take more, others will take less. Films like The Beauty Inside and 101 Architecture may not be popular with middle-aged actors, but young actresses will fight for them. Yang Mi saw that Shu Chang got the company's resources and relied on her good relationship with Yi Fei to ask me every few days if she could be used in a movie."

Li Qiutang understood this truth very well, but often times those involved are often confused.

"I'm not saying that this was definitely done by Yifei's rival actor, I'm just analyzing it this way."

"I know. Let's wait until we find out what's going on."

(End of this chapter)