msmithbooks Chapter 155 Good News
Chapter 155 Good News
Looking at the little fox with its mouth full of oil and burping without any regard for its image, Gu Heng was speechless.
Damn it, what happened to the career-driven, strong woman I was promised?
Where's the hard-working Yang Mi we were promised? This is totally not the right style!
Why does it feel like I've ruined this ambitious fox?
For the next few days, Gu Heng simply took a short break and stayed in the courtyard to keep her company.
As it turned out, this girl really got hooked, playing games all day and all night!
Don't get me wrong, I meant playing video games.
It's only because Gu Heng is young and has a solid foundation in martial arts from a young age that he could keep up with Yang Mi's vigorous energy. Someone with a slightly weaker physique would really not be able to keep up with her.
This girl was so badly beaten by Gu Heng that she was still not satisfied. She clung to his leg and insisted on playing another game with him. She wouldn't go to sleep until she won.
Remember, I'm still talking about games here!
……
Time flies in the entertainment industry, and in the blink of an eye, the fierce battle of the Lunar New Year film season has come to an end.
The movie "If You Are the One" has officially finished its run.
It's quite interesting, really. Because of the addition of Gu Heng, a reborn variable, the domestic movie theater market was completely heated up, and the box office of "If You Are the One" also rose accordingly, eventually settling at 3.9 million yuan!
It's a little higher than the original timeline.
Vision Entertainment initially managed to snatch a 20% share from Wang Zhongjun without any investment, and this move directly netted them over 30 million yuan in cash!
Gu Heng looked at the numbers on the financial statement and smiled so hard his back teeth were almost showing.
However, while some are happy, others are sad.
According to gossip from insiders at Huayi, Feng Dapao's face turned green in his office.
He was just a fraction of ten million short of entering the four-hundred-million-dollar director club and standing on equal footing with Gu Heng.
The result was that it got stuck in this limbo, which made Comrade Dapao so angry that he smashed the expensive teacup in his hand to pieces on the spot.
Gu Heng was overjoyed upon hearing the news and immediately offered to commission a solid wood cup to be sent to Director Feng.
It doesn't mean anything else, it's just durable!
Before this underhanded trick could be implemented, Su Qing stopped him with a dark expression.
Su Qing rolled her eyes dramatically and retorted without hesitation, "Boss, you're always complaining that Yang Mi hasn't grown up, but I don't think your own twisted sense of humor is any more mature than hers!"
Meanwhile, Vision received another piece of good news.
After being stalled by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for half a day, Ning Hao, following Gu Heng's instructions, reluctantly added some positive energy scenes of "humanity's brilliance," and the revised version finally passed the censorship smoothly!
It's only because Han Sanping was there to hold things together; otherwise, if it were a director without connections, this film would have been locked up in a dark room for several more years.
Upon receiving the film's seal, Gu Heng immediately instructed Su Qing to pack up the film and send it to the Cannes Film Festival.
……
Time flew by, and it was time for the premiere of "American Dreams in China".
With the Chinese New Year just around the corner, the production companies decided to move the premiere up by three days.
This time, it's a joint production by five industry giants, they're incredibly wealthy, and the lineup of invitees is truly grand!
Most of Beijing's entertainment industry colleagues, media, film critics, and various capital tycoons all came to join in the fun.
Everyone wants to see if Gu Heng, the youngest director in China with a budget of 400 million, can create another legend by breaking away from the mainstream theme and making a period-themed entrepreneurial biopic.
At the premiere, Han Sanping sat in the center of the first row, beaming with excitement, even more so than Gu Heng.
Old Han now completely regards Gu Heng as his own nephew.
His confidence in Gu Heng was even greater than Gu Heng's own!
He would praise the film to everyone he met, saying how amazing it was and how brilliant the script was, making Gu Heng, who was listening nearby, want to cover his face in embarrassment.
Because there are many production companies, each company naturally employs a large number of artists, each with unique skills and multiple talents.
So before the movie started, they put on a bunch of fancy celebrity performances to warm things up, including singing and dancing shows.
The most outrageous thing is that Deng Chao and Tong Dawei, along with Huang Xiaoming, actually insisted on going on stage together to create a spectacle, and they actually sang an English song together!
Gu Heng sat below, rubbing his forehead as he listened.
This was really greedy; we should have saved it for the Spring Festival Gala.
Fortunately, after a period of noise, the lights in the screening room finally went out.
The movie has officially begun.
The big screen lights up, and the opening scene is a very sophisticated long take.
Cheng Dongqing, Meng Xiaojun, and Wang Yang, dressed in suits and exuding confidence, walked up the steps of a courthouse in the United States, ready to confront the infringement lawsuit filed by "New Dream" English School.
That air of authority was truly impressive!
The scene then shifts to a faded, vintage filter, instantly transporting the story back to Yenching University in 1980.
How should this movie be rated?
The protagonist is a poor boy who is unsophisticated and extremely insecure.
Then he experienced a series of unfortunate events, was ruthlessly expelled from school, and then his beloved girlfriend broke up with him and wanted to go abroad...
A series of setbacks pushed his emotions to rock bottom.
What followed was a brotherhood pact, with the three of them joining forces to embark on a crazy road to success, making a fortune, building a business, and trampling those who once looked down on them underfoot.
In the final climax, they stormed across the ocean and, with fluent English and absolute power, slapped those arrogant Americans across the face!
It's packed with all the elements of a fast-paced, satisfying story.
This kind of underdog triumph and slap capitalism in the face might be criticized as cliché by netizens a decade or two later, but at this critical juncture in 09, ordinary people found it genuinely novel and satisfying!
As the movie ended, the credits slowly rolled.
The audience was still deeply immersed in the thrilling moments, and the theater remained quiet for several seconds.
Then, a burst of enthusiastic applause erupted.
During the audience discussion, many film critics directly stated:
"Director Gu is awesome! This film is amazing!"
"It was so exciting! It almost brought tears to my eyes, even though I'm a grown man!"
"A starting price of 300 million! I said it, not even Jesus could stop me!"
None of these people are the same.
Gu Heng wore a perfectly modest smile, waving in greeting while inwardly complaining:
Holy crap, these bastards must have been hired, right? Their flattery is so stiff and over-the-top!
but……
It sounds great, I love listening to it!
If you can talk, then talk more!