Chapter 851: *Blossoms Shanghai*? Cyberbullying

In the morning, with the fresh release of the first-day box office of 16.97 million for the work *This Is Not What I Expected* produced by Peter Chan, *Ip Man 4*, *Shock Wave*, and *Battle of Memories* were also officially released.

Among them, *Ip Man 4* ranked first in the number of screenings, and its 31.6% screening rate shouldered the box office responsibility of domestic films in the May Day season.

However, compared to these latest movie information, the matter of *Mulan* was still undoubtedly firmly occupying the focus of the entire Chinese film and television industry, tugging at the hearts of all first-tier female stars.

But Disney's invitation and recommendation system had achieved the ultimate in low-key and confidentiality, making countless artists in the circle have the heart but no strength, wanting to vote but having no door, just like ants on a hot pot, anxious and spinning around.

"How many people in China are qualified to recommend actors to the Disney team? Besides the state-owned enterprises like China Film and Shanghai Film, they are those big international directors and people with connections in Hollywood.

However... well, it's right in front of us, isn't there one on the director's chair over there." Wu Jing talked and laughed with Zhang Ruoyun and others, laughing and joking.

On the other side, Director Lin naturally heard the laughter of the group, although he was chatting with Ma Te Damon about Hollywood.

Since the wrap-up of *Manchester by the Sea*, three full years had passed. Ma Te Damon was urging Lin Nan, hoping Lin Nan would take the time to open another English film; of course, the male lead would be him.

Regarding this matter, Lin Nan's attitude was to take one step at a time, follow fate, and look at his mood. After all, the environment in Hollywood is getting worse and worse, and he has no schedule and plan in the short term!

In addition, there was another situation that worried him, that is:

In the future, when he opens a foreign language film, some "human rights organizations" will inexplicably pop up, forcibly giving him "opinions"—a black actress must be the female lead.

Once this situation occurs, it is undoubtedly really disgusting!

Lin Nan brushed off Ma Te Damon a few words, and the latter went to touch up his makeup for the next scene.

And at this time, the topic of Zhang Ruoyun and the others had drifted away, drifting to Mount Babao.

Director Yang Jie's status in the domestic film and television circle is really not high.

The memorial service this morning, the entire film and television industry from the official to the association, to the industry circle, everyone who could go went, and even the Haizi sent a wreath, the specifications were simply frighteningly high.

"Director Lin, look at this film and television information that has just been exposed, Director Wong Kar-wai is actually going to film a TV series? It was also led by Shanghai, and the invitation was issued."

Lin Nan followed Wu Jing's voice and glanced at the film and television news on the latter's mobile phone page:

Led by the Shanghai government, strongly supported by Shanghai Film Studio, and CCTV will also participate... Wong Kar-wai took over the period drama *Blossoms Shanghai*!

Because this is a Mao Dun Literature Prize-winning work, and it also has the reputation of "one of the best Shanghais in history";

So Wong Kar-wai plans to spend two to two and a half years on script adaptation and polishing, that is, to complete the script before the end of 2019. And the casting work will also be carried out together, carefully screened.

"What the hell, the male lead has already been secretly determined to be Wu Yifan?" Lin Nan glanced at another line and asked in astonishment.

"Yes, it was publicly confirmed by his agent on Weibo. Wong Kar-wai's company side did not deny it, and other parties did not refute or clarify. It seems that it has indeed been secretly determined.

But then again, this kind of thing is really speechless, even big directors like Wong Kar-wai have started using traffic stars and little fresh meat as protagonists... this industry is really getting more and more rotten!"

Well, Lin Nan's thoughts were directly interrupted by Wu Jing's words, and the latter was giving eye drops to the little fresh meat again.

"Out of the crew, watch your words. Forgot about the time you were cyberbullied by EXO's fans when *Wolf Warrior* was doing promotion?"

"Didn't forget. But if it comes again, I will still say that sentence: is this a man or a woman? Haha..."

The time at the end of the month seems to pass faster?

On the 29th, with the fresh release of the first-day box office of 16.97 million for the work *This Is Not What I Expected* produced by Peter Chan, *Ip Man 4*, *Shock Wave*, and *Battle of Memories* were also officially released.

Among them, *Ip Man 4* ranked first in the number of screenings, and its 31.6% screening rate shouldered the box office responsibility of domestic films in the May Day season.

However, compared to these latest movie information, the matter of *Mulan* was still undoubtedly firmly occupying the focus of the entire Chinese film and television industry, tugging at the hearts of all first-tier female stars.

"I heard that South Korean actress Song Hye-kyo just landed at Shanghai Pudong Airport half an hour ago, and many entertainment reporters and paparazzi are following and squatting. Online is also spreading that her interview time is in the last few days."

Shu, the dog-headed military advisor, Chang, reported the situation outside to Liu Yifei with eager eyes. And the latter was completely indifferent, just "hmm" and continued running.

"Good guy, this calm mentality, it's worthy of you, Liu Qianqian. Tell me, if it's a fight, you can probably beat those female stars one by one?!"

Han Jia sat cross-legged on the wooden floor on the side, teasing while eating melon seeds. In front of her was an invitation, which was sent to her by Huang Xiaoming Studio before.

"What's the hurry, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." Finally, Miss Liu spoke, her tone unusually confident and resilient.

"Okay, Producer Liu is right. Let's talk about this thing, neither of you is going, then I won't go either, I originally planned to go to support."

"Lin Nan said at the beginning of last month, just send someone to bring a gift today, no need to be so troublesome. You can learn from me and Changchang, the gift arrives but the person doesn't."

Looking at the clock on the wall, Liu Yifei lowered the speed of the treadmill, changing from running to walking.

Afterwards, she said to Han Jia and the other unexpectedly: "My interview time is the 22nd of next month, you two just know it, remember to keep it secret."

"Hmm, don't worry, my mouth is very tight." Little Han nodded immediately to guarantee. However, responding to her were two pairs of distrustful eyes from Miss Liu and Watching Shu Chang.

"Isn't it said that two teams came?" Watching Shu Chang asked suspiciously.

"Only one team is interviewing actors, and it's the kind that is screened multiple times. The other is responsible for inviting directors, the procedure is completely different." Speaking of this, Liu Yifei paused, with some expectation in her eyes.

Seeing Watching Shu Chang and Han Jia had already widened their eyes, the two were a bit excited and incoherent, "Then... Senior Brother Lin (my brother) did he..."

"Hmm, yes, also among the invitees."

*Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace* wrapped up on the morning of the last day of April, and the news spread across the entire internet as soon as it was reported, and the heat increased sharply.

The reason was that the fan base of *Empresses in the Palace* was too huge and the results were too dazzling, so that *Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace*, this so-called sequel, perfectly undertook the market expectations of the former.

And in terms of the cast, the "sequel" is even better. So, naturally, the momentum is huge.

However, only a few people in the industry knew that the director of *Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace* seemed to have only less than half the authority in the crew; and the other more than half belonged to Zhou Xun!

"At 12:00 noon today, the comedy film *Never Say Die*, adapted from the second original stage play of the same name after *Goodbye Mr. Loser*, participated in investment by Red Star Pictures and produced by Happy Mahua, wrapped up successfully at the Han Wengong Temple in Chaozhou."

"Director Yan Fei stated in an interview with the media that the film will aim for the New Year season. When the post-production is completed and the finished film is submitted for review, the specific release date will be officially announced..."

Indeed, *Goodbye Mr. Loser* did capture a large number of movie fans and fans, and also had countless supporters.

So the "sequel" *Never Say Die* setting for the New Year season naturally dominated the Weibo trending searches.

A large number of netizens were teasing that big Director Chen's *Legend of the Demon Cat* had its first strong enemy; this New Year season is something to watch, destined to be a wonderful bloody storm!

First *Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace*, then *Never Say Die*... Today's Weibo can be described as extremely lively.

However, at 3:00 PM, a piece of movie information from Houston directly landed on the entertainment headlines of major portal websites and the top of the Weibo trending search list...

With its crushing momentum, it strongly swept all film and entertainment news online, including *Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace* and *Never Say Die*.

The fan base followed closely, and also slaughtered the film and entertainment section of the entire internet, which can be described as morbid and ridiculous!

"Around 21:00 on the 29th Houston time, which is 2:00 PM today domestic time, the 50th Houston International Film Festival closed successfully; 33 Chinese films were shortlisted for this film festival with record-breaking data, and completed their global premiere in North America..."

"It is reported that the sci-fi action film *Reset*, produced by Jackie Chan, won the Remi Award for Best Picture at the Houston International Film Festival; female lead Yang Mi appeared at the finale, won the Best Actress award, and became the first North American international film queen among domestic post-85 female actors..."

"Houston Film Queen Yang Mi updated Weibo abroad: I used to long for my movie works to be recognized, and now I finally achieved my dream, and it is still an international film festival... Grateful to the crew, thank you to all the family, fans, and friends who support me..."

The internet was divided into two factions, simply arguing crazy.

The fan base used the few to defeat the many, suppressing countless unorganized netizens and "black fans", shouting and scolding.

"It's really the first time I've seen such a big joke! Have any of you ever seen a proper film festival abroad, where the film festival name on the red carpet signature wall, five or six meters long, is written in Chinese?"

"Hahaha... that's right, the big characters '50th Houston International Film Festival' are written in big Chinese characters, and the very small English name is below a row of Chinese characters!"

"Is this f*cking a North American film festival? Thank you Yang Mi, she let me see the world! I just want to ask, have our soldiers liberated America?"

"Upstairs, that's not the soldiers liberating America, that's the *Reset* crew using 'US dollars' to liberate America, no, it's liberating the Houston International Film Festival, this wild chicken award!"

"A group of black fans and the fans of the lower family are just jealous of Yang Mi's achievements, smearing for the sake of smearing... Your masters can't get international awards, so they attack others, a group of cockroaches in the sewer..."

"Popularizing for you blind lion dogs:

The Houston International Film Festival was founded in 1961 and is one of the oldest independent film festivals in North America, and is known as the three major evaluation-based film festivals in North America together with the San Francisco International Film Festival and the New York International Film Festival!"

"The Yangtze River pushes the waves forward, that's what Yang Mi is, a young actor who walked out of the country with one movie. Can't she go to audition for *Mulan* after returning? If it succeeds, wouldn't it piss off a group of black fans and lower families?"

"Upstairs, let's be low-key, it's not good to piss off this group of fools, and it will cause a lawsuit..."

"No wonder there has been news about the Houston International Film Festival for the past month. I said, I have never heard of this film festival before. It turns out it's private customization, buying press releases for a month on and off! Is it going to use this award to market the movie next?"

"Look at how jealous and hateful you people are, are you about to be blown up by Yang Mi? Haha..."

The excitement and jokes on the internet continued from April to May, and were still fermenting, spreading, and sweeping.

Even *The Wandering Earth* crew couldn't help but tease during filming, feeling that the marketing of *Reset* was a bit too bottomless and brain-dead.

"Oh, that is indeed a very unclassy film festival, although its history is really very long."

Ma Te Damon popularized it to everyone seriously, and what responded to him was a burst of awkward laughter.

Everyone was awkward to the extreme, the joke of the mainland was lost to foreigners, and they were "taught" on the spot!

"Ma Te, don't chat anymore, prepare for your last scene. You can fly back to Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon."

Lin Nan broke this awkward atmosphere with a smile, Wu Jing reacted the fastest, "I'll go touch up my makeup!"

When Ma Te Damon reacted, Zhang Ruoyun and the others had already scattered like birds and beasts, "Lin, counting today, I have filmed for 5 days. This is not a cameo role at all, you have to compensate me."

"Ma Te, don't be so utilitarian. How about this, I promise you, if I open another foreign language film later, I will definitely consider you first, how about it?"

"OK, a word is not enough..."

"I told you, don't learn from Tom, you should find a proper teacher, haha..."

In the afternoon, a phone call from StarWu reached Liu Yifei, causing Miss Liu, who was shopping and in a good mood, to immediately turn cold.

Watching Shu Chang and Han Jia, who were wearing sunglasses on the side, were completely confused, not knowing what happened.

"Say it again?"

"... It's already a mess online right now, those 'bees' are unscrupulously besieging and cyberbullying Director Li Yang, including the *Blind Way* we invested in..." ===== CHAPTER 852 =====