Chapter 770: Senior Brother Lin, I'm Poor! Busy on Top of Busy on Top of Busy

From the moment Gu Yongqiang lost control of Youku last October, and Alibaba officially started the privatization process and let him "temporarily act" as chairman, the countdown had already begun.

What countdown? The countdown to the founder being swept out the door and becoming a homeless dog!

After Youku successfully delisted in April, Alibaba had been looking for a reason to make trouble, until Gu Yongqiang explicitly refused to let Youku drive traffic for e-commerce...

The result was that Alibaba forcibly completed a thorough blood transfusion of Youku through a high-level meeting, completely kicking Gu Yongqiang, the founder and temporary helmsman of Youku, out of the game.

"The news I got is that the resolution came out on the spot at the meeting, but when it will be made public to the outside world is unknown. Maybe they will clean up the situation at Youku first before announcing it."

Wang Wei and Gu Yongqiang could be considered two people who "cherished each other"; one was the founder of Tudou, the other was the founder of Youku.

At this moment, when he spoke of Gu Yongqiang's "encounter," his tone inevitably carried some sighs. Hmm, same people, different fates!

If it weren't for Lin Nan back then, he should have been doing other things by now; and Tudou, either sold or swallowed, in any case, would never have continued to operate in the hands of him, the founder.

"You go notify the four companies—Enlight, Wanda, Tencent, and Weibo. It's best to set the time during the National Day holiday; I will be very busy after the holiday." Lin Nan didn't continue to chat about Youku, but went straight to the point.

"Then the 4th, what does Lin Dao think?" Wang Wei asked, knowing that Lin Nan's film was about to start promotion. The mainstream film valued and supported by the Ministry of Public Security truly couldn't be neglected.

"That works, it can be considered the core first three days of the National Day holiday, no 'overtime'."

Lin Nan said with a smile and hung up the phone. After putting down his phone, he turned his head and saw Zhu Yawen and Luo Jin looking at him with fiery eyes, making him feel a bit uncomfortable.

"What are you two doing?"

"That, Lin Dao, is Tudou going to IPO?" Zhu Yawen smiled with a cheeky face, looking like a scoundrel.

"I heard it too!" Luo Jin echoed with a smile. His skin was ultimately not as thick as Zhu Yawen's, but he was also a cunning guy, waiting for Old Zhu to charge into battle.

At this moment, how could Lin Nan not see the little thoughts of these two? He didn't respond, but tidied up the storyboard drafts, then stood up and walked toward Liu Yifei and the others.

Han Jia was "proud." She resisted unwillingly time and time again, but undoubtedly, she was easily suppressed by Miss Liu, who had practiced dance and was "martial arts proficient."

Shu Chang was cheering, Tang Yan was watching the fun, and both of them were recording with their phones... even the cats and dogs were "accompanying" on the side, as if they were shouting "come on."

"Chang-chang, your little treasury can be prepared in advance." Lin Nan walked up and called Shu Chang.

"Ah?" Shu Chang, who was laughing vigorously, was still a bit confused, looking at Lin Nan, not reacting to what he was saying.

"On the 4th of next month, the time for Tudou's IPO will be set."

Hearing this, Shu Chang's eyes instantly lit up. Because Lin Nan and Liu Yifei had given her a promise that she could subscribe to Tudou's unissued original shares before listing!

"Hmm hmm hmm, I will be ready at all times." Shu Chang nodded excitedly. With this, everyone else on the lawn was stunned; to be precise, they were no longer calm.

Liu Yifei sat cross-legged on the blanket like that, looking at Lin Nan with a slightly proud expression, and even raised her eyebrows to give him a look... Lin Dao understood!

But before he could speak, Han Jia's voice "exploded" in his ear: "Senior Brother Lin, I'm poor!"

Good fellow, this reaction speed, Lin Nan and Liu Yifei were both stunned. Does your family's "Vulture" know you look like this money-grubber?

A morning passed, and the debate about film reviews for *L. O. R. D* seemed to have already started arguing on the internet.

Produced by LeEco with huge investment, directed by Guo Jingming, starring a group of "top traffic" stars like Fan Bingbing, Wu Yifan, Chen Weiting, Wang Yuan, Yang Mi... the first domestic live-action motion capture CG blockbuster...

Under a series of gimmicks hyped to the sky, what was presented was a truly "rotten to the core" fantasy blockbuster!

The massive fan base couldn't withstand the overwhelming negative reviews and scolding online. The most critical thing is that all "fans" are basically brainless and have a limited vocabulary; when it comes to serious confrontation, they are completely no match for normal audiences!

"Saying it's an animated film doesn't look like an animated film, saying it's a live-action film is even more outrageous! This image quality, this picture, is really at the level of a garbage online game, rough to the point of being indescribable..."

"How did they have the face to say they were benchmarking the *Lord of the Rings* series before? *L. O. R. D* is completely a collection of Guo Jingming's consistent fake, big, and empty creative concepts!"

"The scale is big, the theme is big, but it's completely impossible to empathize; the plot is empty, the lines are blank, the overall is flashy but without substance; the CG texture is inferior, the character images are blurred, it's a total fraud..."

"And all-star prosperous beauty? Every character that appears in the movie takes half a day to identify who it is... Fan Bingbing has been CGed into a ghost!"

"All characters have stiff expressions, eyes without any luster, like dead people with no change in expression; they are all standard expressions like mud sculptures and wood carvings, stiff and even weird..."

"Do you understand what *L. O. R. D* is, scolding as soon as you open your mouth? This is already Xiao Si's greatest sincerity, and Fan-fan has put in huge efforts for the role..."

"Support the first domestic CG blockbuster! Support Fan-ye, Fan-fan, Wang Yuan... Please give the actors a little more tolerance, domestic films can only progress like this!"

"Is this just a movie? This is youth, this is memory, two movie tickets to support..."

Wang Changtian slapped his thigh and laughed endlessly, saying *I Belonged to You* was stable, leaving Lin Nan quite speechless.

But Old Wang wasn't wrong; *I Belonged to You* should indeed have no opponents in the National Day slot and even the entire month of October.

Look, in just one morning, the reputation of *L. O. R. D* completely rotted. This film is bound not to go far and can only rely on those "fans" to support the box office.

"Why, not happy? You should be laughing now. You know LeEco is counting on *L. O. R. D* and *The Great Wall* to save its life. And the result? The first shot misfired! Hahaha, it's killing me."

Seeing that Lin Nan had no intention of participating at all, Wang Changtian had a bit of an opinion.

"He makes rotten movies, what's surprising about that? As for LeEco, the ending is already doomed, no matter how much they struggle, it's at most delaying the time of death."

Lin Nan spread his hands and said indifferently. If it weren't for Wang Changtian inviting him for tea, and he happened to have something to tell the latter, he should be out shopping with Liu Yifei and her group now.

"That's true, I don't know how far the process at the CSRC has gone? I'm looking forward to seeing the 'handling' result of LeEco. Eh right, what were you going to say just now?"

Wang Changtian finally remembered the matter that was interrupted as soon as Lin Nan entered the door.

Lin Nan glanced at the other party and said lightly:

"At the end of November or early December at the latest, I will launch a film, hmm, directed by me. This film won't bring Enlight and Wanda along, telling you in advance."

"Hi, I thought it was some big deal. Are there few films your company produces and eats alone?" Wang Changtian was delighted upon hearing this, and gave a very disgusted roll of his eyes.

"This film isn't my company eating alone, there are quite a few producers."

"What? Lin Dao, you can't do this! You are..." Wang Changtian stared with wide eyes and pointed at Lin Nan, speechless for a moment, quite like identifying a "Chen Shimei"!

Lin Nan shook his head with a smile and interrupted the other party: "It's Han Jia's script. In order for this film script to pass review, Han Dong has taken out a lifetime of connections, favors, and achievements."

"Shanghai Film Group even found connections in Shanghai to attack the health system and the capital circle in the pharmaceutical field; West Film Group followed Han Dong to run through the film, Central Propaganda, and judicial systems..."

"Chairman Wang, you tell me, if Enlight and Wanda just joined in so simply and easily, is it appropriate?"

Lin Nan finished speaking, and a solemn expression appeared on Wang Changtian's face: "It seems to be a blockbuster with a realistic theme."

"That's right, with this scale and difficulty of attack, Enlight and Wanda can neither contribute nor stand on the stage... If they just sit at the table like this, it's indeed hard not to let Chairman Ren and Han Dong have opinions, haha."

"However, for another sci-fi blockbuster, Enlight and Wanda can join. Prepare in advance!"

Looking at Wang Changtian's approving but "heartbroken" look, Lin Nan threw out the *The Wandering Earth* project again with a smile.

Sure enough, Old Wang was like he had been injected with chicken blood instantly, becoming excited again, "Good good, sci-fi blockbuster is good, I'll wait, I'll take as many shares as there are..."

September turned the page silently, and October welcomed the first day of National Day.

Early in the morning, following the official release of the film *The Adventurers*, directed by Wong Jing and starring Andy Lau, Huang Xiaoming, Wong Cho-lam, Hu Ran, and others, the daily box office of the other two National Day films also appeared on the hot search list together.

Yesterday was the second day of *I Belonged to You*'s release. Although the screening rate was cut from 46% to 27%, the daily box office only dropped by 10 million, from 74.1 million to 64.4 million.

This box office result was already top-notch, enough to show that the attendance rate of this film had nearly doubled!

And the first-day box office of *L. O. R. D* indeed did not disgrace its name as a "big IP" and "traffic film," winning 58.72 million.

I heard that the fan groups online have already "mobilized," after all, the leads are all top traffic stars.

If these people could really all walk into the cinema to support at least one ticket, then the total box office could definitely easily break 1 billion, break 2 billion, or even compete with the record of *The Mermaid*!

But is it possible? Completely impossible!

Because the vast majority of traffic star fans are always powerful and energetic when talking, but if you really let them contribute to the box office? That's simply a big joke.

On the first day of National Day, Lin Nan originally wanted to sleep until noon, but was woken up by Tom's phone call.

To be precise, the phone woke up Liu Yifei, and then Lin Dao was also "called" awake by Producer Liu with a kick.

"Speak."

"Lin, this afternoon Warner notified me that all the pre-production work for *Pacific Rim 2* will be completed before late October, and the entire project team will charter a plane to China at the end of October;"

"It is expected that by mid-November at the latest, it can officially start filming at Oriental Movie Metropolis... including the engineers and technical personnel you sent over before, they will all return with the crew this time..."

Before Tom finished speaking, Lin Nan was already completely awake with a jolt.

*Pacific Rim 2* finally saw the dawn of starting filming, but these few months are truly busy on top of busy on top of busy, it's truly a rhythm that is going to work him to death!

Because after the entire *Pacific Rim 2* project team arrives in the country, he will definitely have to show his face; maybe he will have to visit the set from time to time, after all, it's a film project he started.

"I know. After it gets light over there, hurry up and send work emails to the agents with Warner. Have all the actors adjust unnecessary announcements as soon as possible and prepare to join the crew in a month."

"Okay, Lin. Say hello to Crystal for me, I'll hang up first, I'm attending a Disney party."

Lin Nan didn't say much and hung up directly. Looking at Liu Yifei beside him, she had already gotten out of the quilt "full of energy."

"What are you doing?"

"Notifying Reba, she only has one month of vacation left." Miss Liu shook her phone with a smile, the call had already been dialed, truly like a big sister taking care of a little sister!

Lin Nan nodded knowingly, "Okay, I'll go notify West Film Group, Enlight, and Wanda too. Tom calling me should also mean this, asking me to say hello."

Walking out of the room, Lin Dao suddenly thought of Jing Tian. Hmm, tell her too.

Outside, a large number of media reporters and paparazzi went to squat at Huayi, because today was the first day of *Youth*'s public casting.

As a "big director" who had just won the Best Picture award at an A-list film festival, and with *Youth* obviously being a film that fits the path of winning awards, countless actors in the industry were naturally drooling.

Look, not even 11:00 AM, half of the entire Weibo hot search list was dominated by information about *Youth*'s audition at Huayi, and they were all in the top positions...

Compared to before, today's Feng Xiaogang obviously had more of a "big director" posture, and his posture was fully grasped, after all, it was the first film after winning a big award.

At the audition scene, the assistant ran in low-key and whispered to Wang Zhonglei, who was watching the audition:

"President Wang, the request for us to do film promotion at Central China Normal University was not agreed to... saying that if everyone goes, especially Fan Bingbing... it might cause a large number of people to crowd, becoming a large-scale gathering... there are safety hazards..."

"Hmm?"

Wang Zhonglei frowned. Being rejected by that side was completely beyond his and Feng Xiaogang's expectations.

A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he instantly had an idea, then ordered in a low voice: "You have the promotion team tell them like this..."

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