Huayu is here for you

During this time, Ning Hao also sent over his script for "The Big Diamond," which hadn't been renamed yet. After pretending to read it for a while, Lin Yu had Xiao Ou transfer three million to him directly, accounting for forty percent. He felt he was losing a little money, but he didn't care about such a small amount.

After all, he's already a multi-millionaire, so a few hundred thousand or so doesn't even register in his eyes.

Moreover, before Lin Yu had even invested in Ning Hao for a few days, Ning Hao extended an invitation to him, roughly saying: "Since you're free anyway, why don't you come and take a look around? Maybe you can even increase the movie's exposure. You've already invested money, haven't you?"

So Lin Yu, who had been staying at home for a while, also felt a bit bored and went to the film set, which had been renamed "Crazy Stone".

On the day Lin Yu arrived, Ning Hao, Huang Bo, and Xu Zheng, whom they hadn't seen in a long time, happily treated Lin Yu to a drink.

Xu Zheng was clearly a bit drunk, and kept complaining to Lin Yu that he still couldn't get any roles, and even if he lowered his salary to participate, no one would want to work with him.

However, Lin Yu had paid some attention to this person and knew that what he said was a bit exaggerated. It wasn't that no one wanted to cast him in movies, but that he didn't like any of the scripts offered to him.

After all, Xu Zheng is now the male lead in movies with tens of millions in box office revenue. No roles? How could that be!

However, Lin Yu didn't call him out on it. He was just bragging while drinking! Just take what people say at drinking parties with a grain of salt.

On the second day, Lin Yu was also forced by Ning Hao to take on the role of producer, since his production team had too little capital and he needed to seize every opportunity to promote the project.

So Lin Yu, under the title of producer, temporarily stayed with the "Crazy Stone" crew, and also wanted to learn Ning Hao's filming techniques. Anyway, he was just idling around, so learning more was always a good thing.

The most pitiful character in this movie has to be Huang Bo. It's surprising that someone who's already gained some fame would still be so decisive when it comes to crawling through sewers. Clearly, his success isn't accidental. With that kind of relentless drive, you can't help but admire him.

But Huang Bo, who was off the set today, was one thing, but Lin Yu wanted to stay 800 meters away from him; the smell was just too overpowering.

Out of revenge, Huang Bo took advantage of Ning Hao's inattention and smeared mud directly on Ning Hao's face, causing the great director Ning to chase Huang Bo for two miles with a megaphone.

Watching the group playfully teasing each other after filming, Lin Yu remarked with a slight sigh, "The atmosphere is great."

After spending three or four days on the set of "Crazy Stone," Lin Yu bought a plane ticket and flew to North America to check on the post-production progress of "The Martian" and "Iron Man."

After arriving at the special effects company in Linyu, he also learned about the remaining production time of the two films. Iron Man was expected to be completed much earlier than The Martian.

Iron Man could be released early or late next year, while The Martian, which was filmed ahead of schedule, will have to wait until the end of the year. Perfect timing, one for the summer season and the other for the Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year season.

There weren't many competitors to watch in 2006. Films like *Cars*, *Ice Age 2*, *Curse of the Golden Flower*, *The Banquet*, *Rob-B-Hood*, *Dragon Tiger Gate*, *A Battle of Wits*, *Superman Returns*, *Mission: Impossible III*, and *X-Men 3* were all movies Lin Yu vaguely remembered. As for those movies whose names Lin Yu couldn't even recall, they were all minor productions.

Of these memorable films, the highest-grossing one was "Curse of the Golden Flower," after all, the combination of Zhang Yimou, Gong Li, Chow Yun-fat, and Jay Chou still generated a lot of buzz.

As for the upcoming film "The Banquet," Lin Yu doesn't want to say much. Ge You playing the emperor, I really don't know what Huayi Brothers and Feng Xiaogang were thinking. It's not that Ge You's acting is bad.

Just thinking about Ge You's ridiculously cheesy lines in the show makes Lin Yu shudder.

After a moment's thought, Lin Yu also set the release date for "Iron Man" for August 1st, 2006, three days after "Dragon Tiger Gate"—a clear attempt to take advantage of the latter. If the film's release date was changed, then Lin Yu could disregard his suggestion.

"The Martian" could be released in mid-January 2007, which is a little later than expected. However, "Curse of the Golden Flower" is expected to be released during the 2006 Lunar New Year season, and Lin Yu doesn't want to compete with it. Moreover, the market potential of the Lunar New Year season has not yet been fully explored. Therefore, Lin Yu is thinking of speeding up the release of the Lunar New Year season.

As for the movies that were released at that time, Lin Yu only recognized one, "Getting Home," and couldn't even remember the names of the others, so... he was a fan of them all!

With the expansion of the film market, domestic film companies are actively preparing their own film works. Bona, Huayi, Wanda, Starlight and other companies are investing in films by various directors one after another. Enlight Media is a bit more focused on variety shows. The most popular show in China right now is Super Girl. However, Lin Yu does not plan to get involved in variety shows for the time being.

Lin Yu is currently strolling aimlessly down a main street in North America.

During this time, I also managed to squeeze in a watch of "Batman Begins," which had already finished its theatrical run. I have to say, Nolan is truly a genius director; his Batman film was undeniably excellent, especially considering there's still the Dark Knight movie yet to be released, haha! Is it the most classic superhero movie? Unfortunately… it made Heath Ledger the "Ugly King"! Bale's Batman was completely overshadowed and utterly unremarkable.

Moreover, there are gradually being promotional news for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in North America. It is said that the release date is set for around November. Lin Yu is also very envious of this big IP. After all, it has a box office of more than seven billion US dollars. No one can remain indifferent to it.

Speaking of profitable movie series, Lin Yu has actually thought of one that hasn't been released yet but is already very profitable—the vampire... uh, the Twilight series.

Most people would agree that Twilight is a bad movie. But if you say it's bad, you'll probably get a lot of opposition.

Because a bad movie ≠ bad movie ≠ boring movie.

On the contrary, Twilight is absolutely brilliant. The main storyline is easy to summarize. Bella, an American high school girl, comes to live with her father in the gloomy and damp town of Forks, where she falls in love with her vampire classmate Edward, and they eventually get married.

The female protagonist, Bella, is beautiful and introverted. Although she is quite popular at her new school.

But Bella said: "Sorry, I want to be alone."