Chapter 175 Headline Battle
"Bad Genius" was released for a month and the final box office was 1.5 million in mainland China and 3200 million in Hong Kong Island.

The box office in various parts of Asia has achieved outstanding results.

Starting from December, "Bad Genius" began to be released in various countries in Europe and the United States.

Tang Yan and other leading actors followed the crew to Europe and the United States for promotion.

"So Young" has grossed over 7500 million in just one week after its release, and it is certain that it will gross over million.

However, the box office of "The Warring States" just exceeded 3000 million, which was destined to be a complete loss.

At this point, it is almost certain that the total box office in mainland China for the films released by Rongchen Pictures this year will exceed 1 billion.

The total box office of Chinese-language films in mainland China this year was only 24 billion as of November.

Rongchen Pictures alone accounted for 40% of the country's total box office.

If this data is not counted, people won’t think it’s a big deal.

But once the statistics came out, netizens were shocked.

"My goodness, Leo is so fierce, he alone carries half of the Chinese film industry!"

"Lost in Thailand" and "Those Years" earned 500 million yuan. Lei Luo worked his whole life to become a 500 million yuan detective!"

"Little Leo wrote two scripts, acted out a few scenes and pinned Lei Lao Hu to the ground!"

"From now on, I don't know about the Han Dynasty, let alone the Wei and Jin Dynasties!"

Every employee of Rongchen Pictures was in high spirits. When they met their boss Li Chen, their smiles came from the bottom of their hearts.

The higher the company's profits, the higher their bonuses.

The most depressed person is Yang Mi, even though "So Young" had high box office.

But compared with the two youth films "Those Years" and "Bad Genius".

The reputation of "So Young" pales in comparison.

She didn’t become an overnight sensation!

The netizens' talk about the tender beef and five-spice powder really made her feel depressed and vomit blood.

Li Chen had just sat down in the office when Yang Mi and Yang Siwei came in.

"Senior, does my face really look like tender beef?"

Li Chen suppressed his laughter and said, "Don't listen to the netizens' nonsense. In the next ten years or so, everyone in the entertainment industry will have cone-shaped faces. Face shapes like yours will be a rare species!"

Yang Mi muttered with a bitter face: "Rare species? Why does it sound so unpleasant!"

"Have confidence in yourself, Mimi. I envy you for your curvy figure and long legs, yet you are still not confident enough." Yang Siwei said unhappily.

Li Chen also laughed. Fortunately, Li Chen did not write the breast-touching scene into the script of "So Young".

With Da Mimi's figure, it would be impossible for her to get any smaller unless she bound her chest severely.

"What are you two doing here?"

Yang Siwei smiled and handed Li Chen an invitation.

Li Chen took it and looked at it: "Internet Festival?"

Yang Siwei nodded: "Director Cao specifically asked me to hand it over to you personally."

"He said if you don't come, he will call you personally."

"Also let me tell you, bring Yifei along, she is the winner of the Most Popular Award selected by Sina netizens."

Yang Mi sighed softly: "When can I get my first prize?"

Li Chen glanced at her and said with a smile: "Within three years, you will definitely win many awards."

"Stop complaining. Use this time to work on your acting skills with your teacher."

"Okay, I get it, you two can go out now."

Liu Yifei also received an invitation from Sina.

Liu Yifei called Li Chen immediately to tell him about this.

Ma Chucheng from Hong Kong Island also contacted Red Star House and invited her and Gu Tianle to play Liang Zhu, hoping that she would play Zhu Yingtai.

Li Chen laughed and said, "How can you be available next year? Why are you asking so much?"

"Then shall we go to the Internet Festival?"

"It depends. If I have time, I will go and support Cao Guowei. After all, this is the first grand event since he took over Sina."

While answering a call from Miss Liu, Li Chen was scanning the rankings online.

Mecca's "The Sound of Wind" finally began to be serialized in "People's Literature", and Li Chen immediately called Wu Bin.

Liu Lianzi has also completed the first part of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

Ning Hao led the "Ip Man" crew to start promotions across Asia, with the first stop being Hong Kong Island.

Since December, the headlines of portal websites have been basically dominated by "Curse of the Golden Flower".

Every day is different. Today is the day when "Curse of the Golden Flower" signed an agreement to avoid box office fraud and was questioned about its unfair terms.

Tomorrow is the day when the poster for Chow Yun-fat’s “Curse of the Golden Flower” will be revealed.

The day after tomorrow, Gong Li’s “Curse of the Golden Flower” poster will be revealed.

Then it is the turn of Zhou Jie Lun.

Then Liu Ye.

And so on, there are new tricks every day.

Liang Chaowei's "City of Pain", which was also released in December, was compressed without any space at all.

It was not until Rongchen Pictures released its film list that "Curse of the Golden Flower" regained the headlines that had dominated the week.

Sina Entertainment News

"Yesterday, Rongchen Pictures' publicity director Yang Siwei announced Rongchen Pictures' 2007 film schedule."

"'Draw the Bow, Dad', a tribute to the Olympics, is tentatively scheduled to be released on August 2008, 8."

"Father's Love Is Like a Mountain, a crime drama film, is expected to be released in the second half of 2007."

"Pietà, a restricted drama film, is expected to be released worldwide in the second half of 2007."

"The Sound of Wind, a mainstream drama, will be released after confirmation by relevant departments."

As soon as the single was released, it dominated the headlines of major portals.

"Counting Painted Skin 2, Ip Man, and Chinese Partners, there are at least six or seven more films in 07! Leo is really efficient."

"The Sound of Wind? The main theme? Is Leo trying to disgust the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards?"

"I'm really looking forward to what the main theme of this movie will be like. Let's see what Leo can come up with. If it's not good, I'll still criticize it!"

"I think 'The Pietà' is the film by Zhang Manyu. It's restricted? It won't be shown in mainland China?"

"The Olympic tribute film, the one about the goddess in closed training? Why was it not released until 08?"

Han Saping, who had just finished a phone call with Li Chen, was in an indescribable mood!
According to this film list, how many films can China Film invest in?
Apart from "The Sound of Wind", the other two films only got a small share at most. No wonder that guy agreed so readily that day!
It turns out there are not many films he can invest in!
Moreover, he was not optimistic about "The Whistleblower", and it would be the same no matter who was in charge of making main-theme movies.

Finally, we have to arrange the box office! There is a high probability that we will lose money!
Zhang Weiping was so angry that his teeth were itching. Li Chen was everywhere.

"Curse of the Golden Flower" is about to be released, please give me this!
But Li Chen's actions were not over yet, as a cross-industry financing news occupied the few remaining spaces in the entertainment section.

Sina Entertainment News

"Recently, the video sharing website Youku announced that it has completed a $1200 million financing."

"This investment was jointly participated by three institutions: Silicon Valley's oldest venture capital firm, Sureter Hill Ventures, one of the world's largest investment funds, Farallon Capital, and China's local Han Tang Fund."

Youku is the first micro-video user service platform in China.

The public beta version was released and put into operation in June this year.

In less than half a year, it has rapidly developed into China's leading video sharing website and the most active video interactive community.

When the news came out, most people in the entertainment industry were stunned.

(End of this chapter)