Chapter 524: Helpless Choice [Second Update]
Xu Ke, Zeng Zhiwei, and Huang Baiming were all very knowledgeable, and after a glass of wine, they called Teddy Robin to leave together, and no longer continued to disturb Lin Youlun, Zhou Yimin, and Li Ruoxun to eat.
After coming out of the private room, Xu Ke's face was not very good, he looked at Huang Baiming and Teddy Robin, and said angrily: "I was miserable by you two guys!" β
"It's hard to do it together." Huang Baiming said with a smile.
"I've said it all, the misunderstanding between me and Miss Li has been explained clearly, and you still pull me up?" Teddy Robin wasn't happy.
"If I hadn't come to you, would I have needed to come here?" Xu Ke pouted.
"Hey, you were the first to meet Mr. Lin today, how can I be blamed for this?" Teddy Robin said indignantly.
"Mr. Kelin didn't know that I was talking to ...... at that time" Xu Ke glanced at Huang Baiming and waved his hand, "Forget it, don't say it, just let me be unlucky." β
"Okay, I'll admit that I'm the culprit, and I'll go back and drink to make amends to you." Huang Baiming put his hand on Xu Ke's shoulder, "Then again, have you thought about what I told you last time?" β
"It's all been seen by that person, even if I don't want to, but that person must have decided in his heart that we are a gang, do you think I have any other choice?" Xu Ke shrugged helplessly, "It's okay on my side now, the key is what kind of attitude does Huanya have, and is it willing to continue to cooperate with me?" β
"You can rest assured about this, Mr. Lin personally told me that as long as you are willing, the opportunity to cooperate with Media Asia will always be reserved for you." Huang Baiming patted Xu Ke on the shoulder.
Teddy Robin, who fell behind the two, stabbed Zeng Zhiwei with his hand, "Who are they talking about Mr. Lin?" β
"Huan Ya Lin Jianyue. You think it's the one who just sat at the table with you? Zeng Zhiwei said. Seeing Teddy Robin, he still didn't get it. explained to him: "Huang Baiming is now helping Lin Jianyue film, in Lin Youlun's eyes, he is Lin Jianyue's person, and then Xu Ke was seen by Lin Youlun and Huang Baiming together, what do you think Lin Youlun thinks?" β
"Think Xu Ke and Huang Baiming are a gang?" Teddy Robin asked tentatively.
Zeng Zhiwei nodded.
"Then we are also with Huang Baiming, will Lin Youlun?" Teddy Robin was a little worried.
"Who is more famous now, you or Xu Ke?" Zeng Zhiwei asked.
Teddy Robin replied very directly: "It should be Xu Ke." β
"What about me?" Zeng Zhiwei then asked.
Teddy Robin hesitated, "Just talking about movies?" β
Zeng Zhiwei rolled his eyes, and his expression was just saying: Aren't you talking nonsense?
Teddy Robin thought about it seriously: "You used to be more famous, but in the past few years, you are not as good as Xu Ke." β
Zeng Zhiwei spread his hands. "Isn't this over, when the sky falls, there are tall people staring in front, and Xu Ke is attracting targets in front, will Lin Youlun still notice us?"
Although Teddy Robin felt that Zeng Zhiwei was a little unfriendly when he said this, he had to admit that he made a lot of sense.
"Why did Xu Ke choose Lin Jianyue? Can't he see that Lin Jianyue and Pan Disheng back then are the same kind of people, movies are not their main business, and they themselves have no research on movies, how can such a person be Lin Youlun's opponent? Teddy Robin still hasn't figured it out.
"Lin Youlun wants to make a movie, and he can have too many directors and actors to choose from. Xu Ke is powerful, but he is not unique on Lin Youlun's side. Believe it or not, as long as Lin Youlun is willing, he can find at least three to five people to replace Xu Ke, and he will not do worse than Xu Ke...... On the other hand, Lin Jianyue is very limited in the number of people he can use now, Xu Ke used to be the pillar that could support the faΓ§ade, so how would you choose? Zeng Zhiwei asked rhetorically.
"I still choose Lin Youlun, because the general trend is on his side." Teddy Robin's answer was beyond Zeng Zhiwei's expectations, "It is true that you can get attention to go to Lin Jianyue now, but what about in the future?" What happens if he recruits someone who is better than you, or if you don't satisfy him with the results of your films? β
At this time, Zeng Zhiwei was asked, and took two steps forward silently, then turned his head to look at Teddy Robin and said, "Okay, I admit that what you said makes sense, but Xu Ke will still choose to cooperate with Lin Jianyue, as for the reason?" Alas, don't forget who directed the movie that Miss Li you 'followed' before. β
Teddy Robin suddenly realized, and was just about to say the name, Zeng Zhiwei hurriedly stopped him, and at the same time glanced at Xu Ke, who was walking side by side with Huang Baiming in front.
Teddy Robin finally spoke, but instead of speaking, he gestured his lips.
Wu Yusen!
Two people who used to be best friends, but now they are strangers, and even when Wu Yusen helped Lin Youlun film, Xu Ke would rather choose to cooperate with Lin Jianyue than eat in the same bowl with Wu Yusen.
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The group of four returned to the private room and sat down, Huang Baiming and Xu Ke drank together, Zeng Zhiwei accompanied them, and Teddy Robin was left alone and felt very bored, so he turned on the TV.
"Godzilla, which was recently screened as the opening film of the Hong Kong International Film Festival, has caused a lot of discussion, not only because of its realistic special effects and high cost, but also because of whether the fictional mutant monster Godzilla in the film really exists...... Unfortunately, the screening of the film at the Hong Kong International Film Festival has ended, and the official release will not wait until after the film festival, and only a small part of the audience in Hong Kong has seen the film. β
As soon as the hostess of the TV show mentioned "Godzilla", Xu Ke, who was drinking, immediately raised her head and stared at the TV screen.
Huang Baiming and Zeng Zhiwei also put down their wine glasses and looked at them.
Teddy Robin found that everyone else was watching TV, and one was that the news disturbed their interest in drinking, so he quickly picked up the remote control and prepared to change the channel, but was stopped by Xu Ke.
Teddy Robin shrugged at Huang Baiming and Zeng Zhiwei, signaling that he didn't mean it, and then put down the remote control.
"'Godzilla' won't be available to the audience until after the Hong Kong International Film Festival is over, but overseas, the film has been officially released, so let's connect with journalists from Taiwan, Japan and the United States and ask them to tell us about the release of Godzilla over there."
The TV screen turned to show a video of an interview by a Taiwanese reporter.
"Now I am standing in front of a movie theater on Zhongxiao North Road in Taiwan, and you can see from behind me that there is a long queue in front of the ticket window, and these audiences are all buying tickets for the movie "Godzilla".
The camera pans behind the reporter who is reporting on the scene, and the audience queuing to buy tickets has extended from the entrance of the movie theater to the street on the side, and the reporter interviewed the owner of a food retail store next to the theater.
"Is this queuing for tickets just today?"
"Of course not, when the movie "Godzilla" was shown in the cinema, there was always a queue to buy tickets, and today it was still relatively small, and the people who were waiting to buy tickets for the first two days were already lined up at the bus stop over there. I've been running a shop next to a movie theater for more than 20 years, and this is the first time I've encountered this situation. β
"Have you ever come in to see this movie?"
"I bought a ticket, but I bought it for my son and his girlfriend, and they went to see it, and they all said that the movie was too shocking, and when there were fewer people for a while, I was going to buy tickets to go in and watch it."
"Do you think this queue for tickets will continue for a long time?"
"At least three or four days away, I heard that most movie theaters in Taiwan now only show this movie, and everyone should have seen this movie soon."
After finishing the interview with the shopkeeper, the reporter then reported such a set of numbers to the audience.
"According to sources, several major theaters in Taiwan have purchased copies of "Godzilla" separately in the hundreds of millions of Taiwan dollars, so it can be guessed that the sales revenue of "Godzilla" in Taiwan is at least more than 400 million Taiwan dollars, and the relevant Taiwanese theaters are optimistic that they can recover their costs through the release during this time, so it is estimated that the total box office of "Godzilla" in Taiwan may be between 6-700 million Taiwan dollars, and so far, the Taiwan department of the production company related to "Godzilla" has not responded to this data.
As soon as the camera turned, the picture returned to the live broadcast room.
"Everyone has also seen that the release of "Godzilla" in Taiwan is really shocking, and then what about Japan and the United States?"
The host and the guests had a brief discussion on the release of "Godzilla" in Taiwan, and then began to play videos of reporters interviewing in Japan and the United States.
"Hello everyone, I'm standing on a pier in Tokyo Bay, and then you can see that a lot of Japanese people are taking pictures here, and the reason is that the place I'm standing in is the place where Godzilla landed in Tokyo in the film, and the movie "Godzilla" was filmed here, and then the Japanese people who have seen this movie have come here."
After the reporter introduced the situation here, he interviewed a Japanese tourist who was taking pictures.
"Hello, have you seen the movie Godzilla?"
"Yes, we watched this movie together as a family, and it was very shocking and exciting, and then after watching the movie, my little daughter kept asking me, is all this true? So I brought her here with me and told her that it was just a movie and that Godzilla hadn't landed here. β
The reporter then interviewed several other Japanese people, and the answers were varied, but they were all related to the movie "Godzilla". (To be continued......)