As it concerned his own reputation and innocence, Cheng Baodong, who saw the news first, immediately contacted his team and tried to find a way to clarify the "rumor."
"Hurry up and contact the whistleblower and ask him how much he wants before he changes his statement." Cheng Baodong was extremely anxious. I wanted to smash my phone to pieces, but I had to keep refreshing the homepage of Feixun.com and major browsers.
No matter how criticized his character and temper are, Cheng Baodong is one of the country's leading commercial film directors, and the quality of the films he directed is very good. Especially in the past two years, he has shot three commercial films in succession, which have broken the 500 million yuan box office mark. While achieving great success in both word-of-mouth and box office, Cheng Baodong has also become a well-deserved leader in the Beijing circle. This is also the important reason why Beijing Film Academy thought of Cheng Baodong first when planning to shoot a big movie.
——It is not only because Cheng Baodong is one of the few commercial film directors in the mainland entertainment industry who can handle large-scale scenes of gun battles and explosions, but the most important reason is that Cheng Baodong graduated from Beijing Film Academy and is the only big director who can handle this kind of subject matter.
Most of the outside world has heard the saying "Beijing Film Academy produces actors, Yan Film Academy produces stars". In fact, there is another saying that is just as famous as this one: "Beijing Film Academy produces actors, Yan Film Academy produces directors." Of course, if we have to count it, we can also add that "the directors of Yanying like to use actors from Beijing Film Academy the most."
In just a few words, he highly summarized the training directions of the two major film and television academies, and also vividly portrayed the embarrassing situation of Beijing Film Academy in training directors. There was once a curious netizen who drew a chart online, which detailed the works and honors of directors from Yanying and Beijing Film Academy. The table of Yanying is very full, almost covering all the well-known directors, while the table of Beijing Film Academy has only two or three names. Apart from Cheng Baodong, the most famous director is another one who turned director after being an actor. The other directors started out as documentary filmmakers. It's the kind that even if it wins awards in the industry, the audience has never seen or even heard of it.
Under such circumstances, Cheng Baodong, the only surviving member, becomes extremely precious. This is also the important reason why the Beijing Film Academy insisted on their cooperation even though it knew that Cheng Baodong and Tao Mu did not get along.
However, the Beijing Film Academy did not expect that this cooperation, which had not even started and was just a discussion meeting before filming, would cause such a big stir.
The graduate of Beijing Film Academy, in the words of his fans, is "the only big director who has made it out of the circle", a leading figure in the Beijing circle of directors, and one of the most outstanding students in the directing department of Beijing Film Academy. He is about to accept the school's commission to direct a big movie prepared by Beijing Film Academy. He has been awarded many honors, but at a critical moment, it was revealed that he had colluded with the crew to defraud investors' money. If this news is confirmed, not only Cheng Baodong himself but also Beijing Film Academy will lose face.
Cheng Baodong comes from a wealthy family, and his character is naturally a bit arrogant and conceited, a sign of a child from a wealthy family. The great success in recent years has further fueled Cheng Baodong's arrogance. While he was enjoying great success, he also offended many people because of his temper and personality. Before, Cheng Baodong was in the limelight and no one paid any attention to him. Now that such a huge scandal has been exposed, there is never a shortage of "Chaoyang people" in the entertainment industry who are willing to take advantage of the situation.
So in the next few days, no one knew how many people took action at the same time, some bought internet trolls, some bought off media reporters, all of which contributed to Cheng Baodong's gossip career. There is also increasing solid evidence that Cheng Baodong and the crew defrauded investors.
Cheng Baodong’s public relations team truly felt the frustration of “pressing down the gourd to make the ladle float up”. I don’t know how many people my boss has offended to end up like this.
"It's Tao Mu! It must have been that little bastard who did it!"
With a "bang", the latest model of Apple mobile phone was smashed to the ground by its owner. Cheng Baodong gritted his teeth and said, "If he hadn't interfered, how could the matter have gotten so serious now?"
That's true. As soon as the incident happened, Cheng Baodong's team began to contact the whistleblower and also did public relations with major media outlets. I hope that the revelation can be suppressed as soon as possible. However, he first hit a wall with the whistleblower - the other party simply refused to see him. When it came to the final public relations with the media, everyone else agreed to give face for Cheng Baodong's sake. Only Feixun.com and Feixun Entertainment ignored the call from Cheng Baodong's team. Not only did they not help suppress the news, they even deliberately pushed the news to the top of the trending search list.
You should know that with the continuous development and growth of Feixun.com, Feixun Entertainment's influence on public opinion in the domestic entertainment industry has already surpassed those of the old media. Feixun.com and Feixun Entertainment added fuel to the fire. Although Cheng Baodong's team had tried their best, the scandal could not be suppressed and instead became bigger and bigger. It even attracted the attention of other investors and relevant departments.
"Even if we know that it was Tao Mu who did it, we can't care about it now. The chain of evidence revealed by the other party is too detailed--" Cheng Baodong's agent had just said a few words when the phone kept ringing. All the calls came from investors who had worked with Cheng Baodong. I knew without answering the call that the other party was definitely here to investigate the matter.
Cheng Baodong's agent didn't dare to answer the call, let alone hang up. I was so anxious for a moment that I had to persuade Cheng Baodong not to lose his temper at this critical moment, to humble himself and not let the situation get any worse.
"The only way now is for us to bow our heads first. Let Beijing Film Academy act as a middleman to help us talk to Tao Mu. After all, you are a big director promoted by Beijing Film Academy, and you are also the face of the Beijing Film Academy's directing department. If you get into trouble, it will not be good for Beijing Film Academy, and I believe they don't want you to really get into trouble-"
"You mean to ask me to humble myself to that little bastard?" Cheng Baodong raised his eyebrows in exasperation before his agent finished speaking. "Impossible! I, Cheng Baodong, despise those cruel and mercenary people the most in my life. Moreover, he provoked me first this time, why should I humble myself?"
Cheng Baodong was indignant. He is in his forties and yet he can still be so naive. Cheng Baodong's agent couldn't help but shake his head secretly. Who is the one who spoiled this guy?
Cheng Baodong didn't notice his agent's silent complaints, and continued to ask: "Have you found out who hired the other Internet trolls besides Tao Mu's Feixun.com and Feixun Entertainment to harm me?"
How dare you add insult to injury at this time. Cheng Baodong swore that once he survived this time, he would settle the scores with everyone. From now on, those people will have no chance to make his movie.
"And those who are willing to speak up for me at this time, write them down one by one." Cheng Baodong snorted: "I, Cheng Baodong, clearly distinguish between gratitude and resentment. I will not let those who want me dead go. I will not let those who stand on my side stand out for nothing."
"It's too early to say this now." Cheng Baodong's agent couldn't help but say, "If this matter can't be resolved immediately, I'm afraid we'll all be in trouble!"
You know, this is no ordinary scandal. When it comes to financial interests, even if they can appease the media and public opinion, previous investors will still hold them accountable.
After being reminded by his agent, Cheng Baodong also took it seriously. But compared to his agent's fear of being attacked, Cheng Baodong obviously didn't mind: "What I did is actually one of the unspoken rules in the industry. Everyone knows it. After all, filming is so hard, I just want everyone to earn some hard work money, and I didn't do anything too much. Those investors will make more money."
"If you really mind that much, don't cooperate with me in the future!"
There is no reason in this world to want a horse to run without giving it grass to eat. What's more, a horse cannot grow fat without grass at night. Compared with those Hong Kong directors who come to the mainland specifically to make money and list a budget of 6,000 yuan for a straw hat, Cheng Baodong feels that he is a saint. At least not so shameless!
"Even if it is an unspoken rule in the industry, it cannot be brought out openly." Cheng Baodong's agent felt a headache.
Cheng Baodong also frowned and urged his agent: "That's why I asked you to find a way to contact the whistleblower and make him change his story."
Cheng Baodong has been famous for many years and he is very careful about his reputation. Even if I don't take these revelations seriously, I don't want to be scolded by netizens. What's more, this is Tao Mu's conspiracy. Cheng Baodong didn't want to let people like Tao Mu laugh at him.
"Don't worry too much." Cheng Baodong paused for a moment and said, "At worst, I can go home and talk to my old man. Let him find a way to settle this matter."
Knowing Cheng Baodong's family background, the agent's frown relaxed slightly. Still added: "Having said that. But I think you should communicate with Tao Mu. Let's sit down and have a good chat. It will be good if any misunderstandings are resolved. After all, we will still work together in the future."
The agent looked at Cheng Baodong's face full of surprise, and said, "Don't forget that Xiaoheng Capital and the Li family are standing behind Tao Mu!"
Cheng Baodong's heart sank. I finally listened to my agent's words. He could look down on an orphan who crawled out of the crowd of extras in H Town, but he could not repeatedly offend the granddaughter-in-law of the Li family. After all, the power of the Li family is so great that even the Cheng family cannot surpass it.
Seeing that Cheng Baodong didn't agree but remained silent, the agent felt relieved and said, "Then I'll call Principal Liu first and ask him to come out and arrange a meeting."
Principal Liu is the principal of Beijing Film Academy and is also the leader of this big movie. Tao Mu is still a student of Jingying, so it is most appropriate for him to come forward.
Cheng Baodong hesitated for a moment and said, "Call Guo Yaning again. Ask him to come out and accompany us."
Even though Cheng Baodong is arrogant and conceited, he grew up in a compound and knows everything he should know. It's just that I didn't want to use it on Tao Mu before. Now that he was awakened by his agent's words, Cheng Baodong was willing to bow his head due to the influence of the Li family, so he had to make the situation smooth. He knew that Tao Mu and Guo Yaning had a very good personal relationship. Guo Yaning was also the "Eastern Girl" that he brought up. So he asked Guo Yaning to come out and accompany him, hoping that Tao Mu would let him go for Guo Yaning's sake.
The agent glanced at Cheng Baodong, who said unhappily, "Why are you looking at me? Since you have to be humble, just do it. You'll be embarrassed anyway, so why would I care how embarrassed I am?"
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