Chapter 175: Hidden Rules Exposed

Liu Zhou has been the most popular person in the entertainment industry in the past two years.

But he is very low-key and rarely attends public events.

Generally, when he appears in front of the media, it is probably when he has a new movie about to be released.

He doesn't make movies very quickly, only one a year at most, so Liu Zhou rarely appears in public.

But Liu Zhou always manages to make big news.

For example, he acquired Golden Harvest, a long-established Hong Kong film and television company, at the end of last year. He is now an actor in the big production "Red Cliff". Another example is that I heard that several Hong Kong filmmakers were directly banned in Hong Kong some time ago.

These events aroused great interest in the media, but no one was able to interview Liu Zhou.

And at this media promotion conference for "Red Cliff", the much-talked-about figure Liu Zhou finally made an appearance.

This also attracted a large number of media, not only entertainment media, but even some financial media also arranged reporters to come.

When Liu Zhou first entered the venue, he didn't expect such a big scene.

He originally thought that Han Shanping and his team had only arranged a few simple media outlets. After all, "Red Cliff" had not yet reached the stage of large-scale publicity, and now all it needed to do was maintain a certain level of popularity.

Liu Zhou felt that he had been cheated by Han Shanping and his friends.

With so many media coming, the questions would definitely not be limited to the movie, but he was not prepared at all.

Sure enough, the reporters asked all kinds of questions, even about Liu Zhou's relationship issues.

Of course, everyone is mainly interested in two things: Liu Zhou's acquisition of Golden Harvest and his career as an actor.

As for the issue of banning artists in Hong Kong, it is not appropriate to bring it up in public.

Liu Zhou didn't expect that the media was still so enthusiastic about the acquisition of Golden Harvest almost half a year ago.

Thinking that he had never discussed this matter in front of the media in the mainland, Liu Zhou answered all questions about Jiahe seriously and patiently.

However, the main purpose of this media meeting is to promote "Red Cliff". After answering some other questions, the focus will be placed on the movie.

"Director Liu, may I ask why you changed your career to become an actor?"

"I'm not changing my career, it's just a try. Director Zhang Yimou thought I was quite suitable for the role of Zhou Yu, so he kept inviting me. I couldn't help being pestered by him, so I agreed to play the role."

"Director Liu, what do you think of your acting skills?"

"You should ask Director Zhang Yimou about this question. I have no say."

"Director Liu, when will the movie Red Cliff be released?"

When Liu Zhouyi heard this, he knew that this reporter was arranged, and replied:
“The film Red Cliff has such a grand scene and Director Zhang is very demanding, so the filming process was a bit slow.

So the first one will probably be released during the summer of next year, and the second one will be released during the Lunar New Year of next year."

"So Red Cliff is divided into two parts?"

"That's right. There are too many exciting plots in the entire Battle of Red Cliffs, so in order to fully present this famous battle in history, we divided it into two parts."

After answering a few questions about the movie, the media meeting is coming to an end.

But just as Liu Zhou was about to get up and leave, a reporter suddenly asked loudly:
"Director Liu, what do you think about the Zhang Yu incident?"

After hearing the reporter's question, the scene suddenly became quiet and Liu Zhou stopped preparing to stand up.

At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, three sensational news events occurred in the entertainment industry.

One is that Liu Zhou acquired and reorganized Golden Harvest Films, and the other is that Asian superstar Jay Chou and host Hou Pei-cheng officially announced their relationship.

Jay Chou's popularity was really at its peak at that time, not to mention that it was about his love life, so this incident caused a huge sensation.

In addition, this matter also involves another person, Cai Yilin. The original Double J romance was highly regarded by the outside world.

But now that the Double J relationship has officially ended, Jay Chou has been criticized a lot.

Later, most of Jay Chou’s black fans were converted from fans of Cai Yilin.

In addition to these two incidents, there was another sensational incident that happened in the mainland, which is the Zhang Yu incident mentioned by the reporter just now.

Maybe information dissemination was not very developed at that time, and most people don’t know about this now.

Zhang Yu is a minor actor, and his only notable performance is a small role in "Kangxi Dynasty".

But it was this little actor who publicly exposed the unspoken rules of the entertainment industry last year.

He revealed his own personal experience and said that if he wanted the role, he had to pay for it.

The reason why this incident has become so popular is mainly because it involves a famous director Huang Jianzhong, who is also the director of the CCTV version of "Swordsman".

Then this young actor was targeted, and a group of Huang's friends in the circle came out to support him.

Among them are Zhang Da Huzi, Yu Ming, Xu Qing and Liu Xiaoqin. Yu Ming is the director of "The Return of the Condor Heroes".

Later, Zhang Yu was forced into a corner by public opinion and produced even more sensational evidence: thirty videotapes and four guarantees.

But how could a small actor like Zhang Yu possibly fight against so many people? In the end, after the incident made a lot of noise for a while, nothing happened to them and she could only return to her hometown sadly.

And now, this matter is becoming a hot topic.

In fact, Liu Zhou didn't have to answer this question.

Although Liu Zhou sympathized with Zhang Yu, the unspoken rules were almost open to the public in the industry. Even Liu Zhou was a member of this interest group, but he really couldn't stand the way these people were eating.

It was not easy for him to confront her directly, so he could mention it in a subtle way.

“I’m not very clear about the specific circumstances of this incident, but every circle has some bad things and some bad people.

But I believe that such things and such people are only a minority.”

After saying that, Liu Zhou ignored the excited reporters below and just stood up and left.

Liu Zhou knew that what he had just said would definitely be interpreted by these reporters as support for Zhang Yu.

But Liu Zhou didn't care.

Damn, now that I’ve gotten to this point, can’t I even tell the truth?

After leaving China Film, Liu Zhou put all these things behind him and returned to Zhuozhou Film and Television City.

Just as Liu Zhou was concentrating on filming the "Red Cliff" crew, his words were indeed reprinted and interpreted by major media.

Most of the media are just there to watch the fun, no matter how big the event. They will appear wherever there is a hot spot.

After Zhang Yu's incident broke out, no one in the circle dared to stand up and speak for her. Instead, many well-known figures stood against her.

Although Liu Zhou did not openly support Zhang Yu, anyone with enough courage could see that Liu Zhou was speaking for her implicitly.

He was the first person to do this, not to mention he had his own traffic.

So after the media reported it, this matter began to ferment again.

No one else said anything, but Old Huang, the person involved, and Zhang Da Huzi, who had a bad temper, spoke again.

The former said that Zhang Yu was spreading rumors, while the latter publicly criticized Liu Zhou, saying that he was talking nonsense without knowing the truth of the matter and had no bottom line in order to promote the movie.

The media was indeed happy during this period.

There has been a lot of reporting surrounding Zhang Yu's case, and the public is particularly interested in things like unspoken rules.

However, as Liu Zhou continued to film and did not respond to any voices from the outside world, Lao Huang and others also began to suppress the heat of this matter, and the reports about the unspoken rules finally began to slowly die down.

But this time, because Liu Zhou mentioned it, the news spread much more widely.

For the first time, the public also intuitively realized that the entertainment industry is not as glamorous as it seems, but is also full of dirt and filth.

The chaos outside did not disturb Liu Zhou. After lighting the fire, he devoted himself to the filming of the movie.

It was already the end of June, and Liu Zhou had been in the crew for over a month and had been filming for a month.

Although Liu Zhou has never studied acting, he has been a director for many years and has some experience in acting.

After adapting for a few days, Liu Zhou's performance became better and better.

In mid-June, Zhang Yimou saw that Liu Zhou's performance was fine, so he safely handed over the filming of the drama group to Huang Jianxin.

At this time, Liu Zhou finally had the chance to play against Qin Hao.

Qin Hao played Zhuge Liang, who was strongly recommended by Liu Zhou.

When this result came out, it caused quite a stir in the outside world.

Qin Hao won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor for his role in "The Piano Tuner" and became very popular at the time.

But three years have passed, and Qin Hao has not produced any new works since then, so his popularity has inevitably declined.

Plus, he has never acted in a TV series, so he is not familiar to the public.

So when everyone learned that Qin Hao had quietly gotten the role of Zhuge Liang, they were a little bit unbelievable.

Later, some people in the circle also learned that Qin Hao has always been an artist under Liu Zhou and has been with Liu Zhou the longest.

Liu Zhou is the general producer and investor of this big production, so it makes sense that Qin Hao was able to get this role.

Although it is hard to accept, this is the reality of the entertainment industry.

The capital behind the scenes is the dominant force in the entertainment industry.

This incident also made some actors in the circle yearn for Golden Harvest even more.

However, after signing Fan Xiaopang and Huang Xiaoming, Golden Harvest's agency department did not take any further action, nor did they act as high-profile as Cheng Tian.

So even if someone wants to join Golden Harvest, there is no way for that.

Liu Zhou has never been very keen on signing people, but Zeng Jia felt that the company’s resources should not be wasted. In addition, Fan Xiaopang and Huang Xiaoming took the initiative to invest, so he signed the two of them.

Since signing these two hardworking artists, Zeng Jia now walks with a breeze and is no longer as idle as before.

In fact, Zeng Jia has quite a few artists under him, including Zeng Li, Zhang Tong, Qin Hao, Dong Xuan and Tang Wei.

But the first three people seem to be more easy-going and don’t fight or compete with each other. Although the last two people have been popular for a while, they did not receive enough subsequent resources and became somewhat lukewarm in the circle.

Even though Zeng Jia had plenty of energy, he didn't know where to use it.

Now that Fan Xiaopang and Huang Xiaoming have arrived, they have finally helped her find a way to vent her energy.

(End of this chapter)