In April, "Detective Chinatown 3" was finally taken off the screen, and its final box office was 2.402 billion, firmly occupying the first place in film history.

Wei Yang and Wang Baoqiang have also become the most popular male actors nowadays.

Wang Baoqiang's most successful films are "Lost in Thailand" and "Detective Chinatown", with a combined gross of 3.7 billion.

The box office of movies starring other actors is not that high. Some of them have exceeded 100 million, some have earned tens of millions, and some have even earned several million. When all the odds and ends are added up, it almost exceeds 4 billion.

Wei Yang's filmography column is rather shabby, with him starring in only three films, but all of them performed brilliantly, and the box office figures were very close to integers, making calculations very convenient.

"Fame and Fortune" grossed 505 million, "Time Raiders" grossed 803 million, plus "Detective Chinatown 3" grossed 2.402 billion, totaling over 3.7 billion.

However, their box office data are not the highest. The one who has accumulated the most box office in mainland China is Huang Bo.

"Lost in Thailand", "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "Lost in Thailand" are three movies with a box office of over 1 billion, making him the earliest "Mr. 3 billion box office". With the help of other movies, he will be the first "Mr. 4 billion box office".

Even Jackie Chan can't compare to him in this respect. His box office data in Hong Kong and even internationally is impeccable, but in the mainland film market, he still ranks behind Xu Zheng.

What is even more worth mentioning is the change of the top spot on the list of actresses with the highest cumulative box office in mainland China.

Before this, the female artist with the highest box office ranking was not the older generation Gong Huang, nor the triple-Award-winning actress Zhou Gongzi and international star Zhang Ziyi, nor was she Fan Xiaopang who has performed outstandingly in the past two years, but Da Mimi, whose movie reputation was poor.

That’s right, although the movies directed by Da Mimi have low ratings and many flaws, their box office is still strong.

The "Tiny Times" trilogy alone earned over 10 billion yuan. Although she played a supporting role in "Painted Skin 2", she was indeed the lead actress. "The Breakup Guru" is also one of the most popular comedies at the box office in recent years.

Plus, she is diligent enough and has made many movies. Although most of them are bad, the sum of her movies is still not a small number.

So, in the final count, "The Mi Mi" had a total box office of nearly 3 billion, and it ranked above Zhou Gongzi, Zhang Ziyi and others.

This is also a classic joke in the domestic entertainment industry! Now, the joke has been updated. Da Mimi was finally driven out, but she was replaced by Gao Yuanyuan, a well-known vase in the entertainment industry.

Gao Yuanyuan has previously starred in five movies with box office revenues exceeding 100 million yuan, two of which exceeded 200 million yuan, and the highest-grossing one was 228 million yuan. This figure is not bad, but it is not considered a top-notch figure among many popular artists.

But it was just one movie, "Detective Chinatown", that allowed her to achieve the box office revenue that could only be achieved with ten previous movies in one go, and she became the best in the industry as a vase.

Wei Yang didn't know what Mr. Zhou and Zhang Ziyi were thinking, but Fatty Fan couldn't stop being sarcastic when he called these days.

After working hard for more than ten years, the data on paper is not as good as that of a lucky vase. Who can stand this?

However, this is not without benefits for Wei Yang, as many first-line actresses have contacted Wei Yang to express their interest in his new movie.

He had this interest before, but it was still somewhat reserved, mainly because he understood that Wei Yang liked to use his own people. Although he wanted to have contact with them, he didn't want to be too active to avoid losing face.

But after "Detective Chinatown", he lost all his reserve. He just wanted to get the resources as long as he could lose face.

Even many female stars called Boss Wei personally, and dropped hints in their words.

Fan Xiaopang and Gao Yuanyuan are not the only big sisters who are sensible, lively and non-clingy!

Even Liu Tianxian's team couldn't help but come and contact her. Her film performance is a flaw. She has been made particularly miserable by the 85 flowers in the past two years. If she could get a high-quality movie, Liu Tianxian would rather endure some criticism and fight for it.

But unfortunately, her possibilities are very slim, and the three beauties of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" and Zhao Liying are guarding against her like they are guarding against something else.

If Wei Yang is interested in cooperating with her, several people can join forces to grab the role. The ownership of the resources can be discussed, but it must not belong to Liu Tianxian.

Wei Yang had no doubt about this, especially Liu Shishi. The two of them were sworn enemies. She would rather accept the three beauties of Fairy Sword in one bed than tolerate Wei Yang and Liu Tianxian getting close.

The turbulent outside world did not affect Wei Yang's mentality. He still had another movie, "Operation Mekong", on hand and was not in a hurry to produce the new movie.

Especially for the much anticipated "Detective Chinatown", Wei Yang plans to take it slow and shoot the second part next year, which will be released during the Spring Festival in early 2017.

It is important to strike while the iron is hot, but this movie has been overrated. Behind the hot box office and good reputation, there are also many controversies and doubts.

In this case, the sequel is bound to attract great attention and be looked at with a magnifying glass by all parties.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, as high attention leads to high box office, but it is not necessarily a good thing either.

When oil is cooking over a blazing fire, if even a few drops of water get in, the pot could easily explode.

Therefore, the most appropriate time is to cool down appropriately, avoid the waves and wind, and wait until the situation is relatively calm.

This is also the choice of many filmmakers who have become unexpectedly popular, including Xu Zheng, Wu Jing, and Jia Ling. They take a break and try again next year.

Wei Yang is already planning a new movie, which is expected to start shooting in the second half of the year. However, before filming the movie, Wei Yang plans to make a web drama.

This has been mentioned before. While the censorship of online dramas is not particularly strict now, Wei Yang intends to invest in online dramas to increase PPTV's traffic and market share.

At this stage, pure online dramas are considered low-level and not presentable for many actors.

Wei Yang's performance in a web drama is a break from the norm and also serves as a role model for other famous actors.

The entertainment industry is like this. As long as there is someone with a higher status than yourself who does something, other people will not be too shy about it. As more and more people do this, it becomes commonplace and even becomes a trend.

This is true for variety show reality shows, online dramas, and later live streaming sales.

When they heard that Wei Yang wanted to shoot a web drama, Blue Whale and PPTV were excited.

The latter were excited, while the former had different opinions, some supporting and some opposing.

Not to mention the opposition from Blue Whale, it cannot influence Wei Yang's decision anyway. The most supportive team for Boss Wei is the Blue Whale screenwriter team.

It can be seen that these people have been thinking about Wei Yang for a long time. There are nearly a dozen web drama scripts or outlines suitable for him.

The themes are varied, including horror and suspense, crime and murder, and the most outrageous one is even the BL theme.

The love, hate and vengeance between the cold master and the gentle disciple!

Wei Yang silently wrote down the script in his little notebook. It would have been fine if it was just a Danmei role, but they actually wanted him to play the passive and gentle apprentice. That was simply too much.

One is white and the other is black! The white one is in politics, the black one is in the underworld.

Wei Yang was very interested in both scripts and wanted to shoot them, especially the second one, which was about black. The director even went to a small county in the northeast to scout the scenery.

Then the relevant units came over to pay attention and immediately stopped it.

Online dramas are now more relaxed, but they are not without limits, especially when a drama is shot by a big name like Wei Yang. There is a lot of attention from the outside world, and the higher-ups will also be keeping an eye on it, so he can't do whatever he wants.

There is no need to think about Bai's script, it was rejected out of hand. Apart from anti-corruption and praise, this kind of cool personal struggle story has no chance of passing the review.

It's okay to be black, but it has to be drastically altered, which is equivalent to changing "Young and Dangerous" into "The Storm".

With this change, a lot of the meaning of the original script changed. Wei Yang went through the revised outline and felt that it would be better to just shoot "Kuangchuan", so he put the project on hold.

Also because of these two scripts, the higher-ups were afraid that Wei Yang would mess up, so they attached great importance to his online drama.

As a result, many topics became sensitive, so Wei Yang cut and deleted a lot of material and came up with a more "conservative" web drama.

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Day and Night

This work is regarded as a milestone in online dramas. It is of excellent quality and, more importantly, it was released at the right time. Once it was released, it refreshed everyone's stereotypes about online dramas at the time and greatly promoted the development of online dramas with themes such as crime, mystery, and suspense.

A large number of similar themes in later generations, including iQiyi's well-known Misty Theater, largely benefited from the dividends brought by "Day and Night Chase".

Pan Yueming, who plays the male lead in "Day and Night", also benefited from this drama and went from being an out-of-date old idol due to being wrongly accused to a popular first-line male star, and his popularity soared.

In terms of quality, "Day and Night" is a classic representative of online dramas, with a Douban score of 8.9.

In terms of performance, it once broke the record for the number of views of online dramas and can be said to be a phenomenal work.

In terms of subject matter, the scale is very well controlled. It is higher than a TV drama, but does not cross the line. It is just within the range acceptable to the relevant departments.

Wei Yang did some research and decided that this drama was indeed suitable for him to shoot. It could also become the first web drama of PPTV [Misty Theater]. As for the "magic adaptation of "Kuang Da"", he decided to wait and see before shooting.

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In March, PPTV announced that it would join forces with Blue Whale to produce a web drama with a crime and mystery theme and a surprising cast.

This news did not attract much attention at the time. These two companies have launched several online dramas in the past two years, so it was not a new topic. Not to mention that this kind of deliberate suspense was very unpopular, and some rebellious netizens refused to support it.

But in April, the crew of "Day and Night Chase", which had already officially launched the project and launched an official Weibo account, began to announce the cast.

The first poster is of a director. There are two in total. The first one is named Wu Bai. He is not famous and is just an unknown new director.

However, his resume in his previous life was pretty good. He directed "Psychological Crime", "The Antique Bureau", "Big Shot" and "Sweeping Dark Storm". He was a director who was very good at crime themes.

Another director is Wang Wei. He and Wu Bai are old acquaintances. He once worked as an editor for Wu Bai, who was the director at the time, in a micro-film.

Because of this, his fame is even less than Wubai's, but he has an advantage that only Wei Yang knows about.

In his previous life, Wang Wei was the director of "Day and Night Chase". He also directed "The Secret Greatness". Compared with crime suspense, he is better at creating characters.

The fate of the twins is also a key factor in the success of the drama "Day and Night Chase", which is one of the main reasons why Wei Yang chose Wang Wei as the director.

The posters of the two directors did not cause any stir and were released on Weibo within 24 hours.

The number of views is just about to exceed 10,000, but there are only a few hundred likes, and comments and reposts are all in single digits. This is probably because the crew bought the traffic.

The official blog, which had originally planned to release posters slowly, can no longer sit still. The publicity and promotion team also has KPIs, and if the data is too shabby, they will easily receive death stares from their leaders.

The official Weibo account quickly announced the second male lead, Zhou Xun, the captain of the criminal police detachment - Pan Yueming.

This was a general appointed by Boss Wei himself. It would be fine if he just robbed other people's resources, but this was Lao Pan's comeback. It was already difficult enough for him, and Boss Wei really couldn't lose his conscience.

So let him play the second male lead, at least to give him a helping hand first, and then see if there are any good resources to arrange another one to make up for it.

After all, Lao Pan was a big shot back then, and his poster did spark some discussion, but most people still felt regretful.

Back then, Pan Yueming was a well-known first-line actor. Alas, because he was married to a spendthrift woman, he has now fallen to the point of acting in web dramas. How miserable.

On the third day, when people saw that Guli Nazha was to play the leading female role Zhou Shutong, the internet went wild.

To be honest, originally this role did not have many scenes, and Wei Yang was planning to find a new actress. The contract had been sent to Coral Entertainment, but Guli Nazha heard the news from somewhere and fought hard to get the role.

It is said that she won the match against Rouba in the Scissors-Bag Competition, otherwise she would not be the only one competing for the role.

Although it feels like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, Guli Nazha is throwing a tantrum and insists on learning from Boss Wei, and even her management team has no objection, so it's settled.

But outsiders don’t know about these situations, especially Gulinazha’s fans. They were almost furious when they saw that such a top-tier star was actually acting in a web drama.

The official Weibo accounts of "Day and Night Chase" and Blue Whale were attacked one after another, and even Boss Wei's Weibo account was targeted.

In a word, Blue Whale is too bullying and must give our Naza an explanation.

In the end, no explanation was given, but instead the poster of "Day and Night Chase" released showing Wei Yang as the male lead of the web drama.

Nazha’s fans immediately fell silent and quickly deleted the Weibo post. The resentful voices disappeared, and the forum and fan groups were even more excited.

But other netizens and fan groups could not sit still, and the entire network was in an uproar.

Why is Wei Yang acting in a web drama?! Why let Gulinaza, a vase, play the female lead?!

(End of this chapter)