Huayu is here for you

Well… a Golden Lion and a Volpi Cup, that's enough for the media to write about.

"Congratulations to Section Chief Jia on winning the Golden Lion, and to Lin Yu on winning Best Actor."

"Another director in China has emerged who can produce an international Best Actor."

"Linyu won a great start in its first three battles."

"Lin Yu—an internationally renowned director, does anyone have any objections?"

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Han Sanping: "I really didn't expect this kid to be able to make this kind of film. I need to contact the publicity team for this movie."

Huayi: "Lin Yu is really quite versatile! We need to find an opportunity to discuss with him about getting him to buy some Huayi stock."

Lu Zheng: "We need to hold on tight to this big tree and keep in touch with it whenever we have time."

Beijing Film Academy: "Lin Yu! Putting everything else aside, in short: he's from our school."

Jiang Wen: "Hehe...the successor is here."

Chen Kaige: "Junior brother, you did a good job."

Huang Bo: "What about me?"

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With the barrage of headlines across the country, the name Lin Yu has finally come into the view of ordinary people in China.

After all, the patriotism of the Chinese people is ingrained in their bones. The various high-grossing movies that Lin Yu used to make had nothing to do with ordinary people, since they don't watch movies. If they want to watch something, they watch it on TV broadcast by Princess Six.

But this time is different. Lin Yu has brought glory to China, albeit only a little. But now, besides Jiang Wen, he's the first director to bring back the Venice Film Festival Best Actor award. How can we not sing his praises?

The only one who was a little disappointed was Huang Bo. He was initially very excited after winning an international Best Actor award, but after looking through various reports, there was little to no discussion about him compared to the reports about Lin Yu.

"Boss, this is ridiculous! Why is it all about you in the reports? I'm the one who won Best Actor! Am I really that invisible?" Huang Bo, back at Starlight, complained to Lin Yu while holding a laptop.

"Huh? What did you say?" Lin Yu, who was chatting with Miss Liu, didn't hear what Huang Bo said at all.

Seeing his boss's lovestruck expression, Huang Bo knew he must be chatting with Liu Yifei.

"Sigh! The boss is both our strength and our weakness!"

After sighing, Huang Bo silently walked out of Lin Yu's office.

Lin Yu had no time to pay attention to Huang Bo right now. After looking at the nearly 15 million US dollars that had appeared in the company's account, he started chatting with Miss Liu. And Miss Liu was praising him non-stop, so he had to listen carefully.

While Ms. Liu was in Venice, she followed the Golden Lion Awards closely during her free time. It's safe to say that Ms. Liu was among the first to leave a comment praising Linyu.

"Senior, congratulations on making a movie star."

Lin Yu listened to Miss Liu's words and couldn't help but feel a little sour:

Unfortunately, Ms. Liu's talent in acting is rather underwhelming; saying it's mediocre at best but not exceptional at all would be an understatement.

"It's alright, but I'm not really good at making award-winning films."

Lin Yu knew about Miss Liu's pursuit of art, and he couldn't let her go astray; making commercial films would be fine.

"Tch! Hypocritical! And you're not good at making art films? There are only two Venice Film Festival Best Actor winners in China right now. If you're not good at it, how did Huang Bo win the Best Actor award?" Miss Liu said unhappily.

Lin Yu was taken aback, thinking: You can keep praising me, why are you going off-topic? The question you've given me is a bit difficult. Can I say I don't know the answer?

"Uh... what a surprise! I didn't expect to win an award either. Oh, by the way, how's your reading of the script for 'The Witch' going?" Lin Yu quickly changed the subject.

Miss Liu could tell that Lin Yu still didn't think much of her acting skills, but she wasn't going to force it any further. She knew her senior brother's character; if he really didn't want to film, no amount of coaxing would work!

"It's alright, I've basically covered everything I need to know. I even wrote a character analysis, do you want to see it?"

"Wow! There's even a character autobiography? Okay, send it to me quickly. I'll give it a look!"

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After talking with Ms. Liu, Lin Yu stayed at the company diligently for the day.

Han Sanping had been urging him to hand over the publicity and distribution of "Buried Alive" to China Film Group. China Film Group was about to undergo a leadership change, and Han Sanping was also a little anxious, thinking about achieving more results, since most of the big films he had invested in had failed.

Zhang Weiping is again not letting anyone else interfere with Zhang Yimou's new film "Curse of the Golden Flower". Zhang Yimou feels that Zhang Weiping is getting a bit arrogant now. He thinks that "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers" were well received abroad and he wants to monopolize Zhang Yimou's achievements this time.

Huayi Brothers' "The Banquet" was also a collaboration with Universal Music Group in Hong Kong, and China Film Group didn't get involved.

Fortunately, I didn't get involved, otherwise I would have had to pay out again.

Looking at the box office trends and film reviews, Han Sanping felt a surge of relief, thankful that he hadn't insisted on joining them.

Another movie currently showing is "Rob-B-Hood," which is also not produced by China Film Group. The box office looks good, but it can only rely on overseas releases to break even. Fortunately, Jackie Chan is in the movie, so there's no worry about it not selling.

His biggest hope now is Lin Yu's film "The Martian," but Lin Yu intends to release it during the 07 Spring Festival, so there's no use in him being anxious.

Moreover, he doesn't have many good cards to play right now, and Lin Yu is one of them, and it's a card with the power of both the King and Queen.

This year, domestic films have been almost completely dominated by foreign films, and Lin Yu has also contributed to the international film industry.

However, Iron Man was distributed by China Film Group and directed by Lin Yu, a Chinese director, so it can only be considered a semi-foreign film. But apart from Iron Man, other foreign films are also going on a killing spree. Those mutants, Superman, Garfield, Autobots and the like are just annoying to watch.

"Lin Yu, Lin Yu! You can't be so leisurely. You need to make more movies, at least to increase the proportion of domestic films in the box office. We can't let imported films always account for so much of the revenue!" Han Sanping sighed.

If Lin Yu heard Han Sanping's exclamation, he would definitely grab him by the collar and ask: Am I not productive enough? What more do you want from me? Do you have to learn from Zhang Yimou, huh? Organizing the Olympics while making movies, and still producing so many films! I really don't know where he gets so much energy.

As for Ms. Liu, she has already released her album in China, and the response has been good. However, the clothes she wore when she participated in the program to promote it made Lin Yu a little scared, and he wished he could rush on stage and pull Ms. Liu down.

"The Return of the Condor Heroes" was incredibly popular, airing twice after its first run, and the ratings were still quite high. "Chinese Paladin" was also officially rebroadcast on satellite TV, and the response was quite good. It can be said that Ms. Liu has now reached the peak of her life.