Chapter 510 Dominate Valentine's Day

Sina Entertainment News

"Xu lost to Leo and 'Time Traveler' dominated Valentine's Day."

"The movie "Time Traveler" written by Li Chen, directed by Xue Xiaolu, starring Deng Chao, Zhou Xun, Chen Daoming, Tang Yan, with guest appearances by Zhang Hanyun, Luo Jin and other stars, has grossed over 1 million yuan in three days since its release."

"On the first day alone, on the 14th, Time Traveler earned 4500 million, breaking the first-day and single-day box office records for romance films previously held by Xue Xiaolu's Those Years."

"It surpassed the 2850 million box office of "Love Like Me" which was released on the same day and became the champion of this year's Valentine's Day box office."

"Industry insiders predict that there is no doubt that The Time Traveler will win the Spring Festival box office championship."

"If the film can capture the bear in Berlin, it will not only break the record for romance films, but it may even become the box office champion in the first half of 2011."

Although Li Chen and Xue Xiaolu are in Berlin.

However, the domestic audience's praise for "Time Travelers" still greatly surprised the two.

There are almost exclusively positive reviews online, with the number of comments being seven or eight times higher than for previous romance films.

"For the ones we love the most, we don't say forever, we just say cherish. I almost cried to death in the cinema. Leo is really good at grasping people's hearts."

"I love the wedding in the pouring rain the most. You nervously asked me if I wanted a sunny wedding. No, no, we don't need to do it all over again. This one time in a lifetime is enough."

“I think the theme song “Just Once” by Yu Kewei is as good as “Because of Love” by Wang Fei.”

"Strangely enough, the superpower of traveling back in time ultimately teaches us to move forward without looking back."

"I thought it was a soft science fiction film, but at first I felt it was a comedy. Then I found it was a love story, and then I found it was a moral film. Finally, I found it was a bowl of chicken soup. It is undeniable that Leo's chicken soup is quite delicious."

Xue Xiaolu, Zhou Xun and several other main creators gathered in Li Chen's suite.

"I toast to you, Li Chen. Because of you, I have become the leading director of romance films in our country."

"Because of you, students all come to me, the teacher, to ask for roles!" Xue Xiaolu joked, holding up a glass of red wine.

She already had the outline of her fourth film in her mind, which was also a romance.

Zhou Xun, Tang Yan, Deng Chao and others all laughed out loud.

Li Chen smiled but didn't say anything.

Deng Chao and Tang Yan started to make a noise: "Teacher Xue, even though we are not students of the Film Academy, we still call you Teacher Xue. Don't forget us when you get a role."

"Brother Chao is right. Teacher Xue, you can't be partial to Mimi. Although she is a student of the Film Academy, she is not from your department." Tang Yan immediately added.

Compared to the producers of "Love Is War", the lead actor Xu Jinglei is quite calm.

I admit that I am just a vase in the movie.

When facing the media, she even admitted that she had also watched "The Time Traveler", saying that the reputation and box office of "Love Will Always Be" were inferior to "The Time Traveler", and she was convinced by Director Li.

For this reason, Xu Jinglei's straightforwardness has won him a large number of loyal fans.

The news broke that Jin Jiang's novel "Knowing" had just been serialized for three months and was signed by Rongchen Film.

The attention paid to the novel skyrocketed, becoming the most popular and clicked novel in the world.

Some fans and netizens have already guessed that the next costume drama of Liu Yifei that Li Chen mentioned before is "The Story of Minglan"!
Many fans followed Liu Yifei's Weibo, asking her if she would play Sheng Minglan.

Miss Liu had no choice but to admit it.

Hongxing Wu and Rongchen Pictures also released an announcement that Rongchen Pictures' next costume drama is indeed "Knowing or Not", and Liu Yifei has been confirmed as the female lead.

Many artists in the circle have contacted Liu Yifei and Rongchen Pictures through their connections, both male and female.

As far as we can see in “Knowing Your Destiny”, there are four sisters alone.

The male protagonist seems to be Qi Heng.
The huge popularity of "Empresses in the Palace" and "Knowing Your Destiny" triggered a series of chain reactions.

Millions of authors have their sights on Rongchen Pictures. Once they are signed by Rongchen Pictures, their bicycles will turn into motorcycles overnight.

Producers in the industry have also begun to scour the lists of major novel websites.

Hou Hongliang called Li Chen and said sourly: "You acted really quickly!"

"I watched the film 'Do You Know?' and both the writing style and the plot are indeed very suitable for adaptation into a TV series." "I just can't understand one thing, how can you see that it is a beautiful jade when it is still in the stone?"

Li Chen laughed: "Maybe I did too many good deeds in my previous life, so my luck is surprisingly good."

Hou Hongliang muttered, "What a damn luck. Let me tell you, the filming of Zhen Huan is about to be finished."

"Got it. Let's talk about it after I return home." Li Chen hung up the phone. It seemed that Hou Hongliang had set his sights on "The Story of Minglan" again. He just didn't know if the novels of hit dramas such as "The Disguiser" and "Nirvana in Fire" had been published yet.

Li Chen and others also found a huge poster of "The Grandmaster" on the streets of Berlin.

The King of Sunglasses also came to Berlin to sell films. I heard that he has already made deals with more than 20 European and American film producers, which is not much different from "Time Traveler".

Gehong CP also flew to Berlin on the 15th. The sale of "The Orphan of Zhao" was supported by the Berlin Film Festival: it was specially invited to be screened.

It seems that Ge Hong CP wants to clear up the injustice of "The Promise". At the press conference, Chen Hong took the initiative to talk about "The Promise" which was defeated in Berlin that year, and she felt very sorry for her husband.

At this time, Mr. Ge transformed into the man behind Chen Hong.

Watching his beloved wife clear his name in front of the media.

"The Promise was wrongly accused! Someone claimed that The Promise had an investment of 3 million yuan. How is that possible? I can even show you the contract."

"In fact, the total investment in The Promise was only 1.2 million, and only 800 million US dollars was used for special effects."

"You said, with 800 million US dollars, you can't hire a Hollywood technical team. We can only give it to Hong Kong Islanders to do it. In the end, it turned out like that, and we can't do anything about it."

Li Chen had to give a thumbs up to Chen Hong. It was right to put the blame on the Hong Kong special effects team.

Just that 800-cent special effect is worth million US dollars?
However, the couple still have to bear the responsibility of publicity and promotion.

At the beginning, "The Promise" claimed to have an investment of 3.4 million yuan, and the couple never came out to deny it.

It's all for the sake of hype. They don't mind calling it a "magical epic masterpiece" because it's too much of a title.

However, Chen Hong did endure much more than Chen Kaige after marrying him.

Not to mention that netizens stood up for Chen Kaige’s ex-boyfriend and called Chen Hong a mistress.

During the eight years that Chen Hong has been the producer of Chen Kaige's films, she has also borne a lot of infamy for Chen Kaige.

The most extreme statement is that Chen Kaige has lost his "spirituality" since he married Chen Hong. There are countless international jokes like this.

But everyone in the circle knows that Chen Hong was able to transform herself from a little woman in Qiong Yao dramas into the current "Sister Hong" in the circle!
It's all because of Mr. Ge, who is only focused on making movies like Happy Boy.

In addition to King of Sunglasses and Mr. Pigeon, Zhang Yimou's "The Hawthorn Tree" will compete for the "Crystal Bear" award in the New Generation category.

However, Zhang Yimou was more concerned about the progress of "The Flowers of War", and as for "Crystal Bear", it was fully handed over to Yang Siwei.

The premiere of "The Invisible Guest" has not yet begun.

A long queue of spectators had already formed outside the Film Palace on Potsdamer Platz.

Well-known movie stars and directors could be seen everywhere; Chen Kaige and his wife and King of Sunglasses also came to support Li Chen.

Venice Chairman Macor and Berlin Chairman Dieter both came to support Li Chen.

Li Chen and others went to see the premieres of "The Turin Horse" the day before yesterday and "The Farewell" yesterday.

It has to be said that the subject matter of the two plays does have a great advantage.

The subject matter is quite grand.

"A Separation" shows the struggles and lives of contemporary Iranians in terms of family and religion.

"The Turin Horse" tells the story of the life of a father and daughter and a horse over six days. Nietzsche went crazy after seeing the horse being whipped in Turin.

When today's program scores came out, as expected, 4 points was the full score.

"The Farewell" took the lead with 3.5 points, followed by "The Turin Horse" and "Time Traveler" with 3.5 and 3.3 points, and "Business Ultimatum" ranked fourth with 2.6 points.

"The Invisible Guest" premiered today. As a suspense masterpiece by double-gold director Li Chen, other competitors in the main competition naturally cannot be absent.

(End of this chapter)