novellhall Chapter 294 Chen Xun Can't Make It in Hollywood?
Chapter 294 Chen Xun Can't Make It in Hollywood?
Chapter 293 Chen Xun Can't Make It in Hollywood? (Happy New Year, Please Vote!)
Intelligence on the core resource pool of the Chinese-language film industry?
Chen Xun was taken aback when he saw the newly unlocked feature.
What did you give me?
Acting in a play has turned into intelligence work?
However, Chen Xun had no time to study it carefully at the moment.
The opening ceremony is not over yet.
After going through all the procedures for starting a film in the Chinese entertainment industry, the ceremony was finally completed.
Compared to the simple press conference process in Hollywood.
The opening ceremony in China is much more elaborate!
After going through the whole process, Chen Xun was exhausted.
The hustle and bustle of the opening ceremony gradually dissipated with the river breeze, and the setting sun on the riverbank dyed the river surface into a molten gold.
The main cast and crew had a simple meal to kick off filming.
Yang Chao ate a couple of bites of rice and then dragged the film crew to the dock to confirm the lighting and camera positions for the first scene to be filmed the next day before dark.
Xin Zhilei returned to her dormitory with the thick script, saying she needed to polish the opening three scenes again so as not to hold the crew back on the first day.
Chen Xun returned to his temporary dormitory at the riverside camp.
As soon as the door closed, several lines of text appeared:
[Unlock permanent access to the core resource pool of information in the Chinese film industry]
[Permission Function Description:]
This access grants access to a precise intelligence terminal for the Chinese film and television industry. It has no supernatural interference capabilities and its core value lies in breaking down industry information barriers and providing the host with highly credible and timely core industry intelligence.
Access rules:
We regularly update 3 pieces of previously unpublished core information about the Chinese film industry every Monday at midnight.
All intelligence comes from firsthand sources within the industry's core circles and is released to the public market in advance. The event matching accuracy rate is 100%. It is only used as a decision-making reference and does not interfere with the natural occurrence of real-world events.
Chen Xun's face lit up with joy.
[This week's intelligence has been updated, details are as follows:]
[Capital Trends: Alibaba Pictures will officially announce in March 2015 a strategic investment of HK$16 billion in Bona Film Group, becoming its second-largest shareholder. The two parties will subsequently jointly launch a plan for 10 Chinese-language co-productions, focusing on mainstream commercial films and international co-productions.]
[Project Insider: Enlight Media's domestic animated film "Big Fish & Begonia," which has been in preparation for six years, has completed production and is officially scheduled for release on July 8, 2016. The production team is currently initiating the selection process for voice actors. For the voice actor of the core male lead, Qiu, priority will be given to male actors with both domestic popularity and international influence. The final candidate has not yet been finalized.]
[Artist Risk: Top-tier artist Li Yifeng's team is in talks for the role of Zhang Xiaobo in the theatrical film "Mr. Six." This role is a key supporting male character in the film, but his team's demand for a lead role outside the main cast is seriously inconsistent with the production company's expectations, posing a risk of the collaboration falling through.]
After reading the three pieces of intelligence, Chen Xun already had a clear understanding of the situation.
Alibaba's investment in Bona Film Group signifies a major reshuffling of the capital landscape in the Chinese film industry over the next few years.
With Alibaba's financial backing, Bona Film Group's expansion into mainstream commercial films will accelerate significantly, providing an excellent window for it to enter the mainstream Chinese commercial film market.
The opportunity to do voice acting for "Big Fish & Begonia" was an unexpected bonus.
He remembered this animation from his previous life. Although it was controversial after its release, it still grossed over 5 million yuan at the box office!
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It became a milestone work in Chinese animation and has extremely high popularity among the people.
Voice acting for key characters is a win-win situation. It allows you to reach a wider audience in China with minimal time investment, avoid the cutthroat competition in the traffic-driven market, and build national goodwill through your work.
As for the last piece of risk intelligence, he only glanced at it before memorizing it.
2015 was the first year of the "traffic star" phenomenon, with the fan economy in the Chinese entertainment industry just beginning to take off and the commercial value of top-tier artists soaring.
However, the risks behind it are also ever-present.
This information will at least allow him to avoid potential pitfalls in future collaborations and prevent the project from being dragged down by the artist's negative public opinion.
Just as he was thinking about whether to let Rob contact Enlight Media in advance, his phone on the table started vibrating wildly.
The screen was filled with WeChat messages from Rob.
One after another.
The chat window is about to explode from being flooded.
"Bro! Check Weibo right now! The Chinese entertainment industry is in complete chaos!"
"The topic of our film 'Crosscurrent' starting production has been at the top of the trending search list for three days now, and has garnered over two billion views!"
"Several top-tier young male celebrities' fans have started to gang up on you, controlling comments and flooding your social media with negative hashtags. Now your supertopic and comment section are a complete mess!"
Chen Xun raised an eyebrow and opened Weibo.
as predicted.
The trending topic #ChenXunChangYangtze# still has the bright red "hot" mark next to it.
Clicking through, the first half of the page is filled with blessings forwarded by directors and media in the industry.
But if you scroll down, you'll see a deluge of hate comments.
2015 marked the beginning of the era of internet traffic in the Chinese entertainment industry.
Li Yifeng and Yang Yang, who became wildly popular after starring in "Swords of Legends," and Lu Han and Wu Yifan, who returned from South Korea—
These individuals wield top-tier influence, boasting massive and highly organized fan bases. The fan culture of controlling comments, comparing and contrasting, and engaging in online feuds is already taking shape.
The news that Chen Xun returned to China to film a movie not only shocked movie fans, but also threatened the interests of online traffic fans.
In their eyes, this international superstar who returned from Hollywood not only stole the spotlight from the domestic entertainment industry but also became their brother's biggest competitor, so naturally they had to crush him to death.
The top-rated negative comments were increasingly scathing: "Hilarious! He could only play minor Asian roles in Hollywood, and when he couldn't make it there, he came back to China to make money?"
"If you're so talented, why don't you win an Oscar for Best Actor?"
"Why pretend to be an art-house connoisseur when you're just making a niche, art-house film that nobody watches?"
"My brother's lead role in a commercial film grossed over a billion yuan. Will his film even break ten million?"
"Isn't he just someone who started out as an extra in Hengdian World Studios, went to Hollywood to get some experience, and now he dares to call himself an international superstar?"
"His looks and acting skills are miles ahead of my brother's, okay?"
"Asians are at the bottom of the food chain in Hollywood. They played a few supporting roles in popcorn movies and started to think they were something special. Only their domestic fans support them."
"Get back to Hollywood! The Chinese entertainment industry doesn't welcome foreign compradors like you who come back to fleece the public!"
Negative reviews kept coming, and I couldn't see the end even after flipping through more than ten pages.
Chen Xun swiped his finger across the screen, his face showing little anger, but rather a hint of helplessness.
He had imagined this scene when he was preparing to return to China to film.
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This is roughly the same experience he had when he first made a name for himself in Hollywood.
Although he is also Chinese, the xenophobia among fans in the Chinese entertainment industry is quite severe.
In particular, Chen Xun's previous films released in China outperformed other Chinese-language films, which had long made some people in the Chinese entertainment industry and investors displeased with him.
However, he had seen discrimination and attacks a hundred times more vicious than this in Hollywood.
In comparison, the divisive rhetoric used by fans of popular celebrities in the Chinese entertainment industry is simply not worth his attention.
They're nothing more than people who can't make it in the world and have to go back to China to make money, playing minor roles with a gilded resume, and there's not a single fresh angle to attack them.
He even had the leisure to scroll down and look at the comments that used his brother's billion-dollar box office to put him down, and couldn't help but chuckle.
In the Chinese entertainment industry in 2015, a box office of 1 billion RMB was already the ceiling that top-tier artists could boast about for a lifetime.
But they probably didn't calculate the exchange rate difference between the US dollar and the RMB.
He had no idea that every Hollywood commercial film he worked on had a global box office of at least a billion US dollars.
He didn't intend to personally get involved in the conflict, nor did he have Rob activate his public relations team.
In his view, arguing with fans in the fandom is pointless; his work and achievements are always the strongest foundation.
But he didn't move, and his fans couldn't sit still.
The first to take action were longtime fans who frequently use VPNs and frequent Western social circles.
They accompanied Chen Xun from the corpses of extras in Los Angeles all the way to the Oscars stage.
He knows better than anyone how he got through all this.
Seeing the trolls' distorted and malicious comments, they didn't need any organization; they just charged in with their actual achievements.
"Hilarious! Saying our Brother Xun can't make it in Hollywood? Look at the data before you speak, okay?"
"Green Lantern: The Rise of the Blue Dragon grossed $8.7 million worldwide, with Asia accounting for 35%. Its opening day box office in mainland China reached 1.8 million RMB, breaking records. Is this what you call a supporting role?"
"This film was able to be revived entirely thanks to Brother Xun's revised storyline featuring a Chinese-American protagonist and his acting!"
"The Hunger Games grossed $11.18 billion worldwide, and Xun Ge won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for it, becoming the first Chinese actor to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor! The haters tell me this is what you call 'not making it in the industry'?"
「《速度与激情5》全球10.01亿、《速激6》直接刷新系列天花板破12亿美元，环球直接给了200万美元税后奖金！」
"Your brother managed to get a separate bonus from each of the six major Hollywood studios?"
"Guardians of the Galaxy has surpassed $10 billion at the global box office. At the Marvel celebration party, Marvel's director, James Bond, personally stated that he is a box office lucky charm, directly crushing Warner Bros.' films released at the same time!"
A top fan in the supertopic worked overnight to create a long image titled "A Complete Guide to Chen Xun's Achievements".
Clear and well-organized, with accurate data!
The source is clearly indicated for each one!
It was a resounding slap in the face to the haters.
"While your brother is still fighting for top billing in the Chinese entertainment industry, he's already in Hollywood fighting for lead roles for Asian actors, rewriting scripts, and breaking down racial barriers!"
"While your brother was bragging about 1 billion RMB in box office revenue, his single film had already grossed over 10 billion RMB worldwide!"
"While your brother was still relying on variety shows to gain exposure, he was already standing on the Oscar stage, thanking his motherland in Chinese!"
"He's not unable to return to the domestic entertainment industry; he simply didn't bother getting involved before. Now that he's back, he's not here to make money, but to deliver a devastating blow."
A series of lengthy comments caused an uproar on Weibo.
First, fans forwarded it like crazy, and in less than an hour, the number of forwards exceeded 100,000, directly making it to the top of the trending searches.
The hashtag #ChenXunChangYangtze#, which was originally being controlled by trolls, was instantly overwhelmed by the actual achievements shown in the photos, and the top comments were full of fans explaining the facts and shocked comments from bystanders.
The casual observers, initially swayed by the trolls' rhetoric, only knew that Chen Xun was an actor who had returned from Hollywood, and had no idea how outrageous his achievements were. After seeing the long image, they were completely dumbfounded.
"Holy crap! I only knew he won an Oscar, I never imagined his box office was this outrageous, a cumulative 400 billion RMB! Who in the Chinese entertainment industry can compete with that?"
"Help! I actually believed what the haters said about him not being able to make it in Hollywood and coming back to China to make money. So, he was a box office draw that the six major studios were vying for in Hollywood, and coming back to make art films is just a way to experience life in a lower dimension?"
"Oscar Best Supporting Actor! The first Chinese actor! Even official media outlets have confirmed it! In the Chinese entertainment industry, this resume is simply phenomenal. How dare these haters claim it?"
"Hilarious! The haters are using their own brother's 1 billion yuan box office to criticize him, but his single film grossed over 6 billion yuan. Isn't that just trying to piggyback on someone else's success?"
"I loved Han Lee's character in '2 Broke Girls' so much, and it turns out he was the one who adapted the script and acted in it!! I can't believe I'm only finding out now!"
"From being an extra in Hengdian to the Oscars, and now returning to China to shoot art films on film, this life story is more exciting than a movie, isn't it?"
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