Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 341: If you really sue the underworld, you will really go to jail!
The birth of a great flower requires a lot of blood and sweat, and will encounter countless obstacles along the way.

The industry knows that whether Liu Yifei can become a big star depends on this year's most expensive co-production.

If Pacific Rim fails, it’s unclear when Liu Yifei’s next opportunity will come.

Some people are eagerly looking forward to Liu Yifei's upcoming performance, while others choose to take the initiative and want to kill Liu Yifei in advance.

It is not known whether the smear campaign against Liu Yifei before the release of her new film was an industry practice or organized by someone, but since July, negative information about Liu Yifei began to be spread on a large scale online.

What else could it be.

Godfather, kept man, poor acting skills, bringing money into the crew, not attending classes, etc.

"I think her acting is really bad, so contrived and disgusting."

"He relied on his godfather's resources to get to the top. I don't know why he has been popular for so long."

"I don't think she's pretty at all. There are many people around me who are prettier than her."

This year, they made a new move, saying that Liu Yifei had been playing Qiu Tian in recent years because her godfather was no longer capable and gave her to Zhang Zhao, the CEO of Qiu Tian Pictures. In fact, it was still the same path as Shou Ma.

He also posted many photos of Liu Yifei and Zhang Zhao in the same frame.

But some people also said: "Liu Yifei's current sponsor is not Zhang Zhao, but Li Qiutang. Li Qiutang is a contracted director of Autumn Pictures and even holds shares in Autumn Pictures. After "In Time", Li Qiutang brought Liu Yifei to Autumn Pictures. Liu Yifei wanted to get promoted and tie Li Qiutang to death, but Li Qiutang just wanted to play around. He is so young and there are many young girls throwing themselves at him. He doesn't want to hang on to this tree."

"Liu Yifei used to be a skinny horse raised by her godfather, but now she is a canary raised by Li Qiutang. She dares not go west when Li Qiutang tells her to go east. There were several dinner parties where Liu Yifei could only stand by and pour wine for others like a waitress. She dared not say a word when Li Qiutang scolded her in front of others. People in the circle regard Liu Yifei as a joke."

There are so many of these things.

It seems that spreading all this negative information before Pacific Rim is released will prevent audiences from entering the cinema.

Of course, Red Star House monitored these public opinions.

But it is very difficult to deal with. Liu Yifei is not an all-powerful evil force in the entertainment industry, and she cannot delete all the negative posts.

Liu Yifei is still the spokesperson for Weibo, but Xinlang can only handle a few influential marketing accounts.

But on this day, the official Weibo account of Red Star House released information that the culprit who photoshopped Liu Yifei's nude photos in December last year had been arrested.

Red Star House called the police immediately. After more than half a year of investigation and interrogation, the other party confessed to his crime.

The man said that he posted the photo online just out of curiosity and fun.

During the court hearing, the man apologized to Liu Yifei several times, saying that he had a weak legal awareness and had harmed others as well as himself. He expressed regret in court.

The court sentenced the rumormonger to one year in prison and a fine of 2 yuan.

In fact, most artists will not sue the underworld unless they have no other choice, because the cost of litigation is really too high, especially for celebrities.

90% of artists would choose to symbolically send a lawyer’s letter or announcement, and then let the matter go, and endure it silently.

But this time he met Li Qiutang, which was bad luck for him.

Li Qiutang thought that there was a company in the circle behind this matter, but unfortunately the investigation did not go in this direction. The other party also insisted that he did it alone, without any instructions or cooperation.

This is all that can be done.

It seems that Red Star House is releasing information from 7 months ago, but it does serve as a warning to others now.

Liu Yifei will really sue the gang, and if she is found out, she will really go to jail!
Many people were scared, and many bloggers voluntarily deleted the remarks that slandered Liu Yifei.

The domestic promotion and publicity of "Pacific Rim" is still proceeding as usual.

Billboards in subways and bus stations are a common practice. Autumn Pictures even spent a large sum of money to buy a large-screen advertisement for Liu Yifei in Taikoo Li Sanlitun.

A huge poster of "Pacific Rim" was also posted at the entrance of Shanghai's Grand Cinema, with Liu Yifei still the main character on the poster.

The value of these two advertisements is self-evident.

Liu Yifei finally couldn't stand Warner's inaction in publicity and promotion, so she returned to China with the mission of "promoting in China". She didn't even have time to adjust to the time difference, so the first stop for the domestic promotion of "Pacific Rim" was naturally Yanjing.

Liu Yifei knows how important "Pacific Rim" is to her. Although she is the only one in the entire publicity team, she still maintains high energy and output at work.

On the 8th, the domestic premiere of "Pacific Rim" was grandly held in the largest 600-person hall of Yaolai Cinema.

Although the director, the leading actor, and the executives from Warner and Legendary were not present, Autumn Pictures' Zhang Zhao and distribution general manager Xu Lin were both present, and Huayi's Wang Zhonglei also arrived to support the film.

More than 60 big names in the fields of film, television, animation and games were present at the event.

As for why she was alone in promoting the product, Liu Yifei couldn't tell the real reason. She only said that the pace of global promotion was different: "They were responsible for the overseas market, and I was responsible for the domestic market."

The host quickly asked her, "Does Yifei have confidence in promoting the domestic business on her own?"

Liu Yifei smiled and said, "I don't think I've reached the point where everyone doesn't want to watch it."

At the premiere, the CEOs of both companies said they would do their best to ensure the promotion and marketing of Pacific Rim in China.

And he appealed to the audience: "If you want to experience the most shocking and authentic visual effects, you must watch the 3D IMAX version."

After the premiere, the film had its first full-length preview in mainland China, showing a 2D regular version. But the overall effect was enough to surprise and cheer the audience.

After the screening, various stars praised the quality of the film.

At the same time, Li Qiutang met Boss Jia for the first time. He was still filming in Fujian Province.

Mr. Jia came to visit specially.

LeTV is extremely envious of Qiu's overseas business. To be more precise, it is envious of Li Qiutang's overseas business.

His LeTV and LeTV Pictures both desperately need Li Qiutang's overseas channels.

In Boss Jia's opinion, Li Qiutang owns two film companies at home and abroad, but he doesn't go to the capital market to tell stories, but instead just makes films, which is a waste of resources.

Mr. Jia is really rich now. LeTV Pictures is not as rich as it used to be, but LeTV.com is rich. Its market value is almost 300 billion, which makes it richer than all the video websites on the market today.

Boss Jia knew that Li Qiutang would not let go of the company, so the cooperation plan he proposed was to swap shares, or for Li Qiutang to serve part-time as senior vice president of LeTV Group and artistic director of LeTV Pictures.

"Isn't Director Zhang your art director?" Zhang Yimou announced at the end of May that he would join LeTV Pictures as art director.

"There can be more than one artistic director. Our company welcomes talents like Director Li and is eager to work with you."

Then, Mr. Jia began to tell his story about the Internet ecology.

Mr. Jia’s vision for the Internet ecosystem has already taken shape, and it actually sounds really impressive.

It can be said that the ecosystem he envisioned is the dream of all those working in film, television, and media.

But Boss Jia’s high-leverage approach is too dangerous. Each sector requires burning money like crazy. Once one sector fails to raise funds, investors’ confidence will collapse.

Boss Jia boasted to Li Qiutang about his TV hardware + content ecosystem, which is also Li Qiutang’s specialty and everyone can understand it.

LeTV sells TVs at a loss in order to quickly seize the market, and then uses a beautiful market share data to raise funds for hardware companies. After the hardware companies get the money, LeTV uses other means to withdraw the money.

Putting aside the God-like remarks that LeTV is bound to die, Li Qiutang knows how much the household TV power-on rate will drop in the future. It is true that it can make profits by paying for content, but with the impact of mobile Internet, it is too difficult to get viewers to pay on the TV side.

Therefore, Li Qiutang rejected Boss Jia's invitation for cooperation.

"I only know how to make movies. I don't really understand what Mr. Jia is talking about, such as ecosystem, hardware, and intelligence." Li Qiutang pretended to be confused. "Our company has just established Mubu Culture and is also exploring Internet entertainment. We can communicate more in the future."

Regarding LeEco's request to invest in Li Qiutang's film, Li Qiutang said: "I don't care much about this, the company helps me take care of it. How can a director negotiate money by himself, right? If Mr. Jia wants to cooperate in making a film, we certainly welcome it."

We can cooperate on investing in movies, but forget about the rest.

(End of this chapter)