Chapter 1247: Meeting the Love Rival (Extra)
The National Day Golden Week is coming again. "The Song of Gaixia" was released in China on October 1st, and it had landed in the main North American market the day before, and won an astonishing high box office of 80 million US dollars on the first day. Although it did not break the first-day box office champion record in North American film history, it definitely set a box office record for Chinese-language films in the North American market. It also far exceeded the first-day box office of 10 million US dollars of "Heads Up 5" which was released earlier.
"Terminator 5" was released half a month earlier than "The Song of Gaixia". This was intentional by Michael Films. Michael wanted to seize the market first, but he didn't expect the results to be a disastrous failure.
The box office of this movie was slightly higher on the first day of its premiere, but it became less and less every day thereafter. A week later, the single-day box office was less than 2 million US dollars, and on the day when "The Song of Gaixia" was released, it had dropped to 500,000 US dollars.
Michael can only pin his hopes on the Chinese mainland market. After all, the first four "Terminator" films have achieved impressive results in China, allowing him to earn profits that are no less than those in the domestic market.
However, this time, China refused to introduce "Terminator 5".
Only then did Michael realize what a stupid and wrong decision he had made. For the sake of a little profit and a self-righteous show of power, he offended Liu Lan, Yu Zhan, and even the entire Chinese film market.
Ji Qingqing still played the Asian female character in "Future Heroes 5" who died after appearing for a few minutes. She didn't want to do it anymore - Yu Zhan and Tao Zhiyao abided by the agreement, and after Ji Qiansong was arrested, they signed Ji Qingqing as an ordinary artist of Xinghe Film and Television, and generously gave her a lot of good resources. As a rich girl, she appeared on variety shows and participated in reality shows.
Unexpectedly, she became an instant hit. The audience knew how many bad things her father had done and were disgusted with her identity at first. But then they found that she was simple and unpretentious in the variety shows, and they felt that this girl seemed not bad.
The ratings of her reality show and the internet have been rising all the way. In less than half a year, she has accumulated a huge amount of traffic through variety shows, and her Weibo fans have jumped from over 200,000 to over 1 million!
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An actress with over 10 million followers can basically be considered a second-tier star, but Ji Qingqing has no representative works except for her jokes in variety shows. Tao Zhiyao persuaded her to go to the United States to film "Terminator 5" as per the contract and show her face in a Hollywood blockbuster. At least in the future she can have "a regular in Hollywood's Vanity Fair" and "an internationally renowned Chinese female star" written on her Baidu Encyclopedia.
As a result, Ji Qingqing's status among the artists of Xinghe Film and Television is also rising steadily. Although her fame is not as good as the number one sister Chu Yu, she is only slightly second to Lu Lu, who has accumulated a lot of popularity with "Youth Plan", and is probably comparable to Zhang Xinyi, who exposed her own scandal.
Then again, both she and Zhang Xinyi actually gained fans through scandals at the beginning.
Ji Qingqing was quite satisfied with her position in the company and got along well with other artists. She no longer relied on her status to show off and act bossy as she did in the past - because she knew very well that things were different now and she had to rely on Yu Zhan for a living.
Until I met Yang Huayue in the company,
At that time, she was about to go to Tao Zhiyao's office. When she walked to the door, she saw a woman with her back to her, talking to Tao Zhiyao. As if she felt her gaze, the woman suddenly turned around, and their eyes met.
Ji Qingqing recognized her at a glance, she was Yang Huayue!
Yang Huayue played the role of the second female lead in the drama "Youth Plan" from a bad student to a good student. Although Lu Lu, the leading actress, is more popular than Yang Huayue, she is young and her acting skills are inferior. With her outstanding performance, Yang Huayue won the Best Actress award this year, while Lu Lu was not even nominated.
Yang Huayue is already 27 years old. Winning the Best Actress award at this age is indeed a testament to her accumulated experience and hard work over the years in the industry.
Shortly after she won the Best Actress award, she terminated her contract with Huaguang Media - the normal contract expired and she did not renew it. It's not that Huaguang Media is bad. She thanked He Huaguang and He Lushen for their help on Weibo, but she still decided to sign back to Xinghe Films.
This piece of news remained on the hot search list for a long time. It’s not that she changed jobs. There is nothing wrong with jumping from one job to another. There are many stars in the entertainment industry who change jobs more frequently than her.
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