Chapter 110 The premiere is on again

"Ever since Zhou Xun terminated her contract with Li Xiaowan, a well-known mainland agent, her affiliation has been a concern for everyone."

"Yesterday, Venice Film Festival winner Zhou Xun held a grand press conference in Beijing and signed a high-profile contract with Rongchen Pictures."

"As one of the country's leading actresses, Zhou Xun's every move is closely watched."

"Previously, regarding the rumors that Rongchen Pictures had hollowed out Rong Xingda, Zhou Xun repeatedly clarified at the press conference that these were completely nonsense. It was just that her contract expired and she voluntarily chose Rongchen Pictures."

Early in the morning, the news that Zhou Xun had signed a contract with Rongchen Pictures quickly made headlines in the entertainment sections of major websites.

"Bang!" Another crystal glass in Wang Zhonglei's office broke.

"You ungrateful bastard! You are all ungrateful bastards who can never be tamed!" Wang Zhonglei roared, and it was unknown who he was scolding besides Zhou Xun.

Li Yu, who was standing in front of him, found it funny. It was rare to see Mr. Wang swearing like this irrationally.

In fact, she felt that this could not be blamed on Zhou Xun.

When "Night Banquet" approached Zhou Xun, it was originally because of the fame of Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun and the gimmick of competing on the same stage.

Zhou Xun never gave in, so she knew that Zhou Xun was definitely on Rongchen Pictures' side.

After all, the titles of Venice Film Festival Best Actress and Chanel Ambassador were all given to her by Director Li.

However, Mr. Wang still hoped to use his reputation to protect Rongchen Pictures, but he didn't expect that Director Li didn't care at all.

Li Yu must be happy that Zhou Xun signed with Rongchen Pictures. At least her sister has one less strong competitor.

But he couldn't show it on his face.

Wang Zhonglei was breathing heavily and his face was ashen.

They lost a movie called "Night Banquet" and tried their best but failed to recruit Zhou Xun, and finally ended up making things difficult for Rongchen Pictures!
How could he not be angry.

What made him even more angry was another person who he considered an ungrateful person, Wang Jingyan.

Orange Sky recently launched something called Orange Sky Stars New Year Celebration.

More than 30 artists under its banner have gathered in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Henan.

A huge amount of money is spent to create a New Year picture of orange sky and stars.

We seem to be the number one brokerage company in mainland China!
It's a blatant slap in the face of Huayi, because most of the artists in it were previously from Huayi!
He felt annoyed when he saw the huge heart-shaped New Year picture of orange stars on the Internet!

"Let's wait and see!" Wang Zhonglei said bitterly.

Li Yu came out of Wang Zhonglei's office and drove away from the company with the two sisters Li Qiaoqiao.

Li Qiaoqiao was naturally happy that Zhou Xun didn't come.

"Cod, Mr. Wang is very angry, right?"

"How can I not be angry? First, Sister Hua took a group photo of celebrities at Chengtian for the New Year, and then Zhou Xun signed a high-profile contract with Rongchen Pictures. Either of these can drive Mr. Wang crazy!"

"But this has nothing to do with us. We just need to do what we should do."

"We can't interfere in the tussle between Mr. Wang, Sister Hua, and Director Li, and we can't afford to offend anyone!"

Li Qiaoqiao smiled as she drove, "Of course I know this. Sister Hua is a benefactor, and Director Li is a noble man. We two sisters will not do anything that would make us lose face."

Kang Honglei was very quick in casting.

Originally, Wang Baoqiang was a little reluctant to play the role of Xu Sanduo.

The company’s reputation was strong, so Wang Baoqiang finally nodded.

With the finalized casting list, Kang Honglei came to Li Chen's office and asked Li Chen to go through it.

Li Chen took a glance and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

I remembered that in his previous life, Zhang Yi once wrote a self-recommendation letter of more than 3,000 words to Kang Honglei for the role of Xu Sanduo. It was so tearful.

But everything is fate, Xu Sanduo is still Wang Baoqiang.

At the end, Li Chen felt a little disgusted when he saw the guardian of the Backstabbing Sect who liked to give stones to others for no reason.

"Director Kang, please find someone else to play the role of Wu Zhe."

Although Li Chen spoke in a questioning tone, the firmness in his voice was unquestionable.

Kang Honglei was stunned: "Who does Director Li want to replace?"

"Zhu Yawen, he will also be an artist of our company in the future." Li Chen said.

Kang Honglei's expression relaxed and he said with a smile, "No problem, Director Li."

"I was planning to ask you if you had anyone to recommend, but then I realized that the company didn't have any male artists, so I didn't ask."

"Don't worry, Director Kang, I won't just randomly assign someone else to play Wu Zhe. If you've met Zhu Yawen himself, you'll know that there's absolutely no problem with him playing the role of Wu Zhe!"

Yang Mi's "Wang Zhaojun" has been completed.

As soon as the filming was finished, I couldn't wait to return from the crew.

I returned to Jinxiu Mingzuan excitedly and finally met the new member Zhou Xun in Li Chen’s office.

"Sister Xun, it's great that you're here." Yang Mi said with a sweet smile.

With Zhou Xun's arrival, there was finally a big shot standing ahead of him.

So that no one would always look at her and say that she was ungrateful.

"Why is that so great, Mimi? I took the bullet for you, didn't I?"

Zhou Xun had a stern face and teased Yang Mi deliberately.

Yang Mi was suddenly stuck and said awkwardly, "No way, Sister Xun."

It was Yang Siwei who stood up from the sofa and said with a smile, "Sister Xun, please stop teasing Mimi."

"That's right, Brother Xun, don't bully my junior sister. Hello, Mimi, I'm Zhu Yawen, you can just call me Brother Yawen."

Zhu Yawen also stood up and said familiarly. Yang Mi glanced at Tang Yan beside her and stretched out her hand and said, "Brother Yawen."

Tang Yan held Yang Mi's arm and said with a smile: "Just call him Little Pig, everyone calls him that, Yifei calls him that too!"

"Xiao Tang! Can you please save some face for me in front of my schoolmate?"

Everyone laughed and didn't give Zhu Yawen any face at all.

Li Chen saw that everyone was present, so he stood up and said with a smile, "Okay, everyone is here, and everyone knows each other. I will host a banquet at home tomorrow, and everyone can bring their families to attend."

"Brother Xun, bring your guy along as well."

"No problem. I haven't been to Director Li's house yet. I'm going to eat Director Li out of money tomorrow!"

"Sister Xun, I'm afraid you're dying of satiated pain, and the boss didn't react at all."

"Family? What should I do if Mimi and I don't have any family?"

"Who said I have no family? Siwei is my family. Don't take me with you, Xiao Zhu!" Yang Mi said with a smile while hugging Yang Siwei.

"Okay, let's go. It's almost time. Xu Zheng will call to urge us soon." Li Chen said with a smile.

Today's CPPCC auditorium is also full of shining stars, especially the artists from Orange Sky.

Liu Jialing, who guest-starred as the goddess in "Lost in Thailand", and most of the artists from Orange Sky came to show their support under the leadership of Wang Jingqian.

The heartthrob, Mei Ting, Xia Yu, Hu Jun, Zuo Xiaoqing, Tong Dawei and so on.

Wang Zhonglei and Shuang Bing from Huayi also came together.

When he saw Li Chen and Zhou Xun, Wang Zhonglei greeted them with a smile and congratulated them.

This was quite surprising to Li Chen. He must have cursed him in his heart.

Yang Siwei brought his three new men to meet the big guys.

After a round, Yang Mi whispered, "Thinking, I can't tell, Mr. Wang from Huayi doesn't seem to care at all about Sister Xun's refusal to sign Huayi."

"Nonsense, if you can see that, how can I still mess around?"

"I don't think I saw Director Kai Ge today." Zhu Yawen said.

"Director Chen is so miserable."

"That's right. If it were me, I wouldn't be in the mood to attend other people's premieres in the short term."

The premiere started on time at 6 pm.

The host of Guangguang came on stage and began to interact with the creative staff.

Sitting at Li Chen's table were Han Sanping, Wang Changtian, Lao Mouzi, Yu Dong, Feng Xiaogang, Wang Zhonglei and Lu Tailang.

Li Chen glanced at Wang Changtian. Wang Changtian knew what Li Chen meant and glanced towards Han Sanping.

Li Chen understood that Han Saping wanted to be a peacemaker and forced Lu Taro to come to this table.

Li Chen didn't take Lu Tailang seriously, and Lu Tailang also had a gloomy face, as if someone had treated him badly.

"I haven't had the chance to congratulate Director Li on the box office success of Painted Skin." Yu Dong's chubby smiling face doesn't give people any sense of warmth.

"Mr. Yu, you're too polite. Once Director Feng's The Banquet and Director Zhang's Curse of the Golden Flower are released, I'm afraid my title as the box office champion will be in jeopardy."

"As long as the audience is satisfied, I'll be happy." Zhang Yimou said with a smile.

"Director Zhang is right. The box office is like a flashy woman. Only those of us who are experts know what's going on inside."

The little steel cannon is still as vulgar as ever.

"That's right! The art of film is to let these flashy things like box office be buried!" Jitaro added.

Li Chen really felt as disgusting as if he had eaten a fly.

"Director Lu, I don't agree with what you said. Box office and film art are not contradictory. Without box office, no one will watch your movie, and your art is nothing but false self-admiration!"

The big guys at the same table all knew about the feud between these two, but they didn’t expect that they would have a quarrel again today!

"Okay, film art is important, but box office is also indispensable. Without the soil of box office, what can you use to develop art?"

Han Sanping seemed to have given both of them a slap on the wrist, but his words were still on Li Chen's side.

Jitaro's face became even gloomier.

The premiere began soon. "Lost in Thailand" was full of jokes, and the media, fans and guests at the scene spent nearly two hours in laughter.

Especially the guest appearance of Liu Yifei in the film and the guest appearance of goddess Liu Jialing at the end of the film are even more eye-catching.

Xu Zheng kept a very humble attitude, entertaining guests and toasting at every round table, like a groom.

No one failed to give face to Xu Zheng today. Everyone was optimistic that Xu Zheng would become another member of the billion-dollar directors club.

When it came to Li Chen's table, only Lu Tailang messed up the situation.

Xu Zheng was a sensible man. Just by looking at Lu Tailang's expression, he guessed that he must have had another unpleasant experience with Director Li.

But he is the protagonist today and cannot offend Jitaro.

"Director Xu, please make fewer comedies. Don't lose sight of your original intention as a filmmaker just for the sake of box office!"

Lu Tailang raised his glass arrogantly, treating Xu Zheng like a primary school student.

The scene was extremely awkward. Li Chen felt very unlucky. He really couldn't understand why Han Sanping valued Lu Taro so much.

Xu Zheng laughed: "Director Lu, I hope you can always be like today and not take the box office to heart!"

Li Chen was also very happy. Xu Zheng was really a smart man.

"Director Xu said it well. Director Wang, Director Han, let's raise our glasses to Director Lu's words together."

Han Sanping glared at Li Chen, but Li Chen pretended not to see anything.

Jitaro's face turned green like Watermelon Taro!
(End of this chapter)