Huayu: When the director changed his major

Chapter 278 Hello, 2014
2013 12 Month 31 Day.

The backstage waiting room of the Yanjing TV New Year's Eve Gala.

Cheng Xi and Xin Yukun were chatting while watching Reba and Nazha on TV.

Xin Yukun’s wife has been working at Yanjing Television Station and was previously a staff director.

When Xin Yukun came to deliver food, his wife's colleagues often teased him, saying "Ang Lee is here."

Since Xin Yukun joined Zuibai Entertainment and directed the movie "The Vanishing Man" alone, it won awards and grossed 300 million yuan.

His wife was also promoted at the TV station.

When Xin Yukun came to deliver food again, someone finally called his name "Director Xin".

For men, this is a kind of dignity.

Of course, Cheng Xi’s reasons were also part of this. Yanjing TV Station was more familiar with him because of the purchase of “The Beginning”.

Now, as the deputy director of the movie "Detective Chinatown", Xin Yukun is on the rise.

He is considered to be the fastest runner among the eight people selected for the "Young Director Support Program".

Following closely behind are Wen Muye and Xin Shuang, who also made a name for themselves.

Now everyone knows that Xin Yukun is a favorite of Cheng Xi.

Many TV stations invited Reba to perform at this New Year's Eve party.

But Cheng Xi made the decision to come to Yanjing Television Station.

There's no other reason—it's just close.

I'm too lazy to run back and forth.

So when Xin Yukun and his wife knew that Cheng Xi was going to come to the TV station to wait for Ermei to get off work, they started chatting with the boss.

Of course, the deputy director of the TV station was also accompanying Cheng Xi.

"Reba and Nazha's dancing is really beautiful, especially the Chinese style."

"It's really beautiful, honey, when are you going to learn to dance?"

"I think you think Ren Ermei is beautiful!"

"Hahahahahahaha"

Seeing everyone praising Reba and Nazha's dance, Cheng Xi also smiled.

Because the ancient costume fantasy drama "Three Lives Three Worlds" is very popular, we invited the two beauties to dance together using the makeup from the drama.

It can be regarded as taking advantage of the popularity of the drama.

But you know what, Cheng Xi actually likes this dance.

Looking at Ermei's beautiful appearance, Cheng Xi felt a little proud.

This is an artist that I have personally cultivated step by step.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, Ermei's performance finally ended.

After opening the door of the waiting room, Reba hugged Cheng Xi without caring about others.

"Brother, what do you think of my dancing tonight?"

As she spoke, she posed in a few poses in her dance costume.

"Needless to say, it's so beautiful that I'm stunned!"

When Reba heard her brother say this, she stopped dancing and smiled happily.

"Of course, Nazha is beautiful too."

When Nazha heard Cheng Xi praising her, she also smiled sweetly at Cheng Xi.

After the two of them removed their makeup and changed their clothes, Cheng Xi began to say goodbye to the three of them.

"Director Lin, Yukun, sister-in-law, we are sorry for taking up your time tonight, so we won't bother you any longer."

"You should go back for New Year's Eve."

When the three heard Cheng Xi's words, they all smiled and said goodbye.

Cheng Xi’s status is different now, and he is greeted with smiles wherever he goes.

In the nanny car, Ermei, who had already taken off her dance costume, leaned back on the chair.

Suddenly, snowflakes began to fall outside the car and hit the windows.

Reba quickly rolled down the car window and stretched out her hand, and saw large, feather-like snowflakes falling on her hand.

Reba: "Brother, it's snowing! Why don't we not go back to the academy yet and find a place to celebrate the New Year?"

Nazha: “Yeah, yeah, maybe we can even build a snowman!”

Cheng Xi actually has no interest in spending the New Year's Eve with a group of people in a crazy way.

But if you are traveling with two beauties and enjoying the snow scenery at the same time, that would be very interesting.

"Where do you want to go?"

"The Place, I heard the countdown there is really impressive!"

"Where's Naza?"

"I also want to go to the World Trade Center and do some shopping!"

"Hahaha, no problem. Master Liu, let's turn and head to the World Trade Center!"

"Okay, boss!"

At 2013:23 PM on the last day of 59, Cheng Xi and the other two held hands and formed a circle.

Under the dreamy LED skylight of The Place, I looked up at the huge countdown.

All three wore hats, sunglasses, masks and scarves. It was so tight that Cheng Xi could hardly tell which of the two beauties was which.

When the countdown reached 10, Reba took off the masks for both Cheng Xi and herself.

The two of them were breathing out hot air.

Snowflakes were flying in the sky.

Amidst the huge cheers from all around, the two of them, like many other couples, kissed passionately.

Just when Nazha was feeling a little uncomfortable, Reba and Cheng Xi each stretched out a hand.

Only then did Nazha happily hold hands with both of them.

"543210!"

“Hello, 2014!”

After the New Year's Day period, the box office of the film market has continued to shrink.

After a month of release, the box office of "Personal Tailor" has become stagnant.

Millions of people jumping around every day.

The current total box office is just over 6 million.

You should know that Feng Kuazi's movie "Aftershock" released in 2010 had a box office of 6.5 million yuan.

And this year is already 2014.

The era of box office revenue is no longer just a few hundred million.

Although the film did not lose money in terms of cost, it failed to meet expectations and received good reviews.

The most important thing is that Feng Kuazi, the highest-grossing movie in Huayi, has half of its reputation ruined.

Not to mention Director Feng's "7 consecutive attacks on Weibo" which completely destroyed his accumulated popularity among the public.

I don’t know if his next movie will be good enough.

Cheng Xi's "Detective Chinatown" has already reached a total box office of 13 billion.

Both the company and China Film Group proposed extending the release date to February 2, which is two days after the Lantern Festival and also happens to be a weekend.

This way, the box office can continue to increase during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival.

Let's see if there is any hope of breaking the box office record of 15.78 billion yuan set by "Charlotte".

Currently, the top box office movie in China is "Charlotte".

The second place is "Detective Chinatown", which has not yet been released, with 13 billion.

The third place is "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" with 11.5 billion.

The fourth place is "Shameful Iron Fist" with 11.3 billion.

Fifth place and "Lost in Thailand" with 10.6 billion.

In total, only five movies in China broke the 1 billion box office, of which the first and second were directed by Cheng Xi, and three of the top five were produced by Zuibai Entertainment.

Everyone was suddenly shocked to realize that Zuibai Entertainment was now a guarantee of box office success.

This report card has made everyone forget who Feng Kuazi is.

Apart from the veteran director Stephen Chow, the world is now dominated by emerging directors.

And when netizens saw that the former director Feng could not even last two days in front of Cheng Xi.

Now is the time when we are most vulnerable.

They were also surprised.

In fact, many netizens have not been confident about whether Cheng Xi's new movie can compete with Feng Kuazi.

After all, he is a box office guarantee, while Cheng Xi has only directed two movies.

It is still unknown whether the high box office of "Charlotte" was due to luck.

But this time, Cheng Xi shocked everyone again with his work.

"Detective Chinatown" is very well-made and has an interesting story. It can be said that it really combines the three elements of comedy, suspense and action into one, presenting a good show!
This proves the sustainability of Cheng Xi's high box office.

In addition to the audience, Cheng Xi had a more profound impact on the hearts of people in the industry.

Angelababy: My husband, I didn't expect Cheng Xi's "Detective Chinatown" to be so successful. Oh, why didn't he choose me? I'm much better than Tang Yan. This woman is really not destined to become a big star! His vision is too poor. Unlike me, I have always thought Director Cheng was amazing!
Huang Xiaoming: Huayi's third consecutive loss was truly unexpected! My stocks have suffered too. Is this the beginning of a new era?

Tang Yan: I'm almost becoming a laughing stock in the industry. After I finish filming the two films promised by Huayi and the company, I'm going to resolve the contract issue, set up my own studio, and take control of the decision. It's just a pity, Ah Xiang was originally mine!

Li Xiaolu: I thought Feng Kuazi would help me fly this time, but I didn't expect that he would take me to get scolded. At the audition, I felt that the young director Cheng Xi was a talkative person with poor performance. I didn't expect that he would directly bring Huayi down. I have to get closer to him in the future.

Fan Binbin: Mu Guang, I didn’t make a wrong bet on Cheng Xi this time, did I?
Mu Guang: Indeed, Binbin, you have good vision and are decisive. Detective Chinatown has a chance to top the list in China. When that happens, our studio will have to carefully re-plan your film career!

Other companies have also begun looking for opportunities to cooperate with Zuibai Entertainment.

There are countless people who submit scripts and projects.

The staff of Zuibai Group also felt more confident when they went out to discuss cooperation.

The actors naturally followed Zuibai Entertainment's lead, with their announcement fees and film remuneration all increasing to a greater or lesser extent.

Of course, the person who benefited the most was Cheng Xi himself.

Today, the slogan "Zuibai Productions, Invincible" is not only used in short plays and TV series.

It is also the dream of many actors -

On the big screen!

To this day, everyone calls him "Director Cheng".

(End of this chapter)