China Entertainment 1997

[Cao Xuan (Chris Tsao), a Chinese pop singer, film and television actor, and entrepreneur, was born on November 13, 1975 in Zao City, Shandong Province. He graduated from Zao City No. 9 Middle School and is currently studying for the EMBA at Beijing University.

National first-class actor, director of the All-China Youth Federation, director of the Chinese Musicians Association, vice chairman of the Beijing Musicians Association, member of the China Film and Television Artists Association, the 15th National Top Ten Outstanding Youth in 2005...]

In the "Painted Skin" crew lounge, Cao Xuan was playing with his computer, browsing the Baidu Encyclopedia that was just launched in April this year, looking at his own information on it, with a happy face.

"In just a short time, Baidu has added [national first-class actor]. It's so low-key."

Mr. Zhou and the Empress of the East Palace both rolled their eyes. Ever since he won the award, Cao Xuan has never stopped talking about "National First-Class Actor" and shows off every day.

Damimi, who just came to the "Painted Skin" crew from the "Wang Zhaojun" crew not long ago, doesn't understand Cao Xuan's psychology. He is the king of the world, so what if he is a first-class actor in the country.

Cao Xuan laughed at her young age. In fact, the national first-class actors are not particularly powerful. Many national first-class actors are not even known to the outside world. The symbol of honor is more meaningful.

But then again, it is not particularly difficult to select a national first-class actor in an institutional unit, but in the entertainment industry, it is extremely difficult to get this honor.

At least among the non-establishment actors born in the 1970s, the number of actors who can be rated as first-class actors can be counted on both hands.

Not only is it an official certification, but it is also an improvement in his qualifications and status in the entertainment industry. In the future, he can really be called Teacher Cao Xuan on many official occasions.

I have nothing but myself, so naturally I am happy!

Don't look at Cao Xuan who is killing everyone in the singing world. Showing off his qualifications and achievements in China is simply bullying, but in the field of actors, his achievements are not to the point of crushing all others.

He has three Best Actors of Golden Rooster, Hundred Blossoms and Golden Image. Mr. Zhou also has three Best Actors of Golden Image, Hundred Flowers and Paris. Hu Jing is also the double Best Actress of Baihua and Tokyo.

The awards are not a big advantage, and the box office and ratings are boring. Now that we have a national first-class actor, we have to show off.

Hu Jing was too lazy to pay attention to Cao Xuan's bad taste and just kept talking to Damimi.

In mid-March, after two years of preparation and filming, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" by Zhang Dabeard was finally piloted on several local stations in Zhejiang Province. It was not until late April that it officially began to be broadcast on three satellite TV stations in Beijing, Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province.

Then it got completely out of control!

Although Yang Guo, played by Huang Xiaoming, has many flaws and is not as good as the version of Principal Gu that countless people love, to be honest, there are some bright spots.

Through this drama, Huang Xiaoming became famous and became one of the most popular niches nowadays.

It is said that Huayi had contacted him before and asked him to play a supporting role in "The Night Banquet". Now it has stepped up its efforts and used Huayi's first brother as a bait to sign Huang Xiaoming and join hands with Fanxing's Hu Ge, Yan Kuan and others. contend.

However, Huang Xiaoming is actually more interested in signing a contract with Fanxing. Previously, he was on the set of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and tried out through various channels.

Unfortunately, the feedback he received was not ideal. With his acting skills, Hu Ge, Qiao Zhenyu, Yan Kuan and even Duan Long can all perform. Fanxing doesn't care about signing another homogeneous male artist.

With no choice but to do so, Huang Xiaoming could only do the next best thing and start contacting Huayi.

As a result, as soon as the two parties made some progress, the crew of "New Shanghai Beach" that he had previously negotiated with his agent changed roles. Huang Xiaoming's Xu Wenqiang was taken over by Yan Kuan, a star artist.

One thing to say is that Fanxing did not target Huang Xiaoming deliberately this time, but just hit him in a wrong way.

Fanxing had been in contact with the crew of "New Shanghai Beach" before, and Guolan even participated in the investment, but there were differences due to roles.

Fanxing wanted to package the male and female protagonists in one go, but the producer did not agree. It is said that they had already negotiated with Sun Niangniang before.

The negotiations between the two parties reached a stalemate. At this time, Huang Xiaoming took the initiative to contact the crew of "New Shanghai Beach". The film crew definitely could not keep delaying, so they talked with Huang.

Seeing this, Fanxing knew that nothing could be done, so he took the initiative to give in. The female protagonist did not want her anymore, and the male protagonist returned to Yan Kuan.

The film crew originally liked Yan Kuan, and the two parties immediately reached an agreement, and Huang Xiaoming was sadly kicked out.

Huang Xiaoming therefore thought that he was being used by Fanxing as a chicken to scare the monkeys, so he used his connections to admit his mistake to Cao Xuan, and almost broke off with Huayi.

When Cao Xuan learned about this, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't know about it at all. This kind of trivial matter for company artists to take on roles could not be brought to him at all. Cao Xuan asked specifically, but no one deliberately targeted Huang Xiaoming.

Situations like this "robbery for roles" are completely normal in the entertainment industry. For some popular roles, it is not just the actors themselves who want to fight for them, but also the connections and resources behind them.

That's why artists will desperately join big companies or find backers. Only in this way will they not be the one kicked out.

It’s no wonder that Huang Xiaoming is overthinking. In the past, he was not particularly popular, and his attempts to sign a contract with Fanxing were rejected. But now that "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has become popular, and his net worth is different, he thought Fanxing would change.

After all, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is a TV series produced by Fanxingzhu. In a sense, he was "supported" by Fanxing. However, he joined Huayi just after he became famous. From his fantasy perspective, he is a bit "ungrateful". mean.

But I didn't expect that he overestimated his own weight, and Fanxing didn't take him particularly seriously.

Not to mention him, Mr. Zhou also hinted that he wanted to sign Fanxing, but Cao Xuan declined. Huang Xiaoming, who had just emerged from the industry, was not as popular as he thought.

Hu Ge and Yan Kuan, who became popular through idol dramas, are not much worse than him now...

Moreover, the person who made the biggest profit from the show "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is actually not Huang Xiaoming, but the Little Dragon Girl Liu Tianxian.

How popular is this little girl now? Let's put it this way, she came to the set of "Myth" to play Lu Su and directly brought more than 200 fans from the support group to surround the set to cheer for her idol.

The extras from other crews also went to the "Myth" crew when they had nothing to do, hoping to witness the beauty of Little Dragon Girl.

Because of this incident, the crew of "Myth" had to spend an extra amount of money and double the security force, so that they could barely delay the filming of the crew.

What kind of concept is this? It’s almost time to increase the security force by 1/3 when Cao Xuan returns to the crew of "Painted Skin".

Cao Xuan: I didn’t expect it. It seemed like I was bragging about Liu Tianxian, but actually I was bragging about me...

But there is a saying, when Cao Xuan first came back, he was the world's top pop king + the newly minted Best Actor at the Academy Awards, and his popularity could melt people.

Liu Tianxian can barely convert 1/3 of Cao Xuan's peak popularity, which is also very scary.

It is no exaggeration to say that Cao Xuan is a little suspicious that Mr. Zhou and Hu Jing are not as good as Liu Tianxian now. They may be famous and influential, but their popularity may not be comparable.

After all, one of the two is now on the big screen, and the other has begun to transition behind the scenes. They are no longer the popular little flowers they were back then.

Compared with Liu Tianxian, who is gaining popularity and is at the top of his game, he is more or less suspected of being "outdated".

Even Hu Jing is like this, let alone Da Mimi.

Two lovable characters, Guo Furong in "Wulin Gaiden" and Guo Xiang in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", also formed a certain linkage, which made her famous.

Even though they have just finished their freshman year, they are already among the most famous students at Nortel. To the outside world, they are still young talents with potential, and their popularity is higher than that of many ordinary second-tier artists.

But it's a pity that people will die when comparing with others, and goods will be thrown away when comparing goods.

Compared with Liu Tianxian, Damimi, whose development was originally quite impressive, was a bit underwhelming. The East Palace Party was completely suppressed by the West Palace Party.

These past few nights while playing video games, the smile on Empress Xigong's face couldn't be suppressed and started to brighten as soon as she saw Hu Jing. Hu Jing was so angry that she took out her anger on Cao Xuan every night.

So, with nothing to do, the Empress of the East Palace thought about coming up with a good script for Damimi. If she didn't steam the steamed buns to win her reputation, she would never make Zeng so proud.

Mr. Zhou was also making suggestions. She and Zeng Li also knew each other, but were not very close. Comparing the two, she was definitely on Hu Jing's side.

"Either it's ancient costumes, or it's modern idol dramas."

"It's hard to get a costume script, so why don't we film a Jin Yong drama, but it has been filmed in the past two years, and there is also "The Deer and the Cauldron". How can we let Mimi play Princess Jianning?"

"It's still an idol drama. Isn't it popular now? I see that the Taiwanese idol drama actors and actresses on the Internet have a lot of fans. Isn't your company's Yan Kuan also a popular idol drama?"

"I also think idol dramas are okay. Mimi is young and suitable."

The three women discussed it, and even the makeup artist got involved, analyzing the current idol drama market.

The sound was so noisy that Cao Xuan moved his computer to a corner before his ears quieted down a bit.

He no longer browses Baidu Encyclopedia, but instead reads the newly released Mtime.com.

The last time he saw Douban, he thought of making a similar rating information recommendation platform.

I originally wanted to find Wang Xing of Meituan.com to do it, but it turned out that he was stubborn and wanted to start his own business, and he looked down on Time.com, a film and television resource company.

However, due to the sponsor's face, he recommended a classmate to Cao Xuan, a doctor from Shuimu University who had extensive Internet work and management experience abroad and had just returned from Silicon Valley.

Cao Xuan chatted with the former Internet executive named Dai Xinping, and asked executives to check the information. He also asked executives from Box and Penguin to test each other's capabilities, and received good feedback.

Boss Cao is not an authoritative person. He has always believed that for a successful person, personal ability and character are important, but platform and fortune are equally important.

Cao Xuan himself is the most typical example, and he has directly and indirectly helped some people achieve success.

For example, Jiang Yue, Chen Guowei, Gu Miaomiao, etc., Cao Xuan had never heard of their names in the original time and space.

Now, one of them is China's number one agent, one is the head of an Internet gaming giant, and the other is the most popular mainland female singer of the new generation.

Cao Xuan likes to find those unfamous big guys, hoping to take a shortcut and satisfy his personal evil taste. However, if the conditions are right, he doesn't mind finding some rough jade and turning stones into gold.

Dai Xinping is the "new stone" that Cao Xuan found. If Time.com becomes bigger, he will also have a top spot in the Internet Hall of Fame in the future.

If Dai Xinping works harder, Cao Xuan won't mind supporting him to start his own business, and create ugly groups, "Are you full," people's comments, etc., maybe nothing will happen to Wang Xing.

As we all know, Boss Cao is famous for being petty!

Dai Xinping took Cao Xuan's funds and settled in Fanxing Building, and then immediately prepared the Time Network, gathering many elite soldiers and generals, and it only took half a year to figure out the general structure of the Time Network.

There is a saying that during the preparation period, Time.com inevitably borrowed part of Douban's structure.

However, this is also a very common operation in the Internet industry, and companies do not copy each other.

Some time ago, the Penguin blog was plagiarized one by one by Sina, and a Sina blog was restored almost intact, and Xiao Ma directly blackmailed it.

It was copied on his head. I wonder how many eyes Lord Ma has!

As a result, they exported to Sina's major projects and copied almost all of Sina's valuable projects. Although it may not necessarily cause trouble to Sina, it definitely disgusted Sina's senior executives.

Brother Xiao Ma is good at copying, and King Cao is an expert at harvesting wool. If not to say that the two brothers have a good relationship, they are like each other...

Moreover, Cao Xuan will not only copy existing Douban, but also copy future Douban. At present, Douban has just been established and its functions are very incomplete.

So Cao Xuan told Dai Xinping all his ideas for later generations and let him use them to his fullest. Based on the original foundation of Douban, it is better to be better than someone who is good at it.

Dai Xinping lived up to expectations and refined it for several months before officially launching Time.com in April this year.

In fact, at the beginning, Douban was focused on making friends, recommending, and sharing. It was more like a discussion and evaluation forum for fans.

Although Time.com also has social attributes, it regards public ratings as its main selling point, saying that film, music, and book reviews are not the private property of elites, and the people should also have their own voices.

Movies, TV shows, books, and music can all be rated with five stars, half a star is 1 point, and a full score is 10 points.

Each user can only rate a single work once and can modify it, but there are some restrictions.

At the same time, we will strictly enforce bad behaviors such as high scores and malicious low scores by trolls, so as to ensure the fairness and fairness of the scores as much as possible.

Cao Xuan called on a group of celebrities to blog to attract traffic to Time.com. On the day it was launched, the number of registered accounts exceeded 200,000. A month later, the number of registered accounts exceeded 2 million, with daily active users around 100,000.

Film and television music discussion sections such as Douban, Tianya, Tieba and even blogs suffered heavy losses.

There is no way. The advantages of Time.com are too great. The huge material library allows people to find nearly 90% of the movies, TV shows, books, and music on the market here.

Among them, music and books can be read and listened to directly on Time.com, but many of them are genuine and require some money.

Regarding movies and TV series, the information is detailed, and there are also some behind-the-scenes and actor materials. The authenticity and detail are far beyond the information collected spontaneously by many movie fans, and it is more systematic.

Even Time.com has reached an agreement with more than 40 TV stations, and the TV series pages are specially marked with eye-catching marks indicating when they will be broadcast on which TV stations.

If a user wants to watch a drama, he can follow the prompts to go to the TV station to find it. More TV stations will be added in the future.

As for online video resources, you can actually link them and introduce them, but they are all pirated and are prone to disputes, and there is no need. If netizens really want to watch them, they can just search online.

In addition, data such as movie box office, TV ratings, music album sales, book sales, and important award records including audio and video books are also systematically ranked.

Most of these data are taken from authoritative sources, are relatively accurate, and can be used as a reference for many people.

Of course, the outside world has no way of knowing whether there is any selfish intention of a certain king surnamed Cao who is crazily killing music-related charts...

Moreover, the above data is updated in real time. For example, movie box office, Mtime.com has reached data sharing with the theaters through Fanxing Cinemas.

Not only can you view the total box office data, but you can also view the day's real-time box office, ranking, film schedule rate, attendance rate, etc.

On this point alone, it is impossible to sell Douban now. In the future, entertainment reporters will have to go to Mtime.com to check before writing data reports on various parties.

Future Huayu writers don’t know how much they need to thank Cao Xuan. Because of this Time Network, they can save much time and energy in researching information.

Of course, these data are just for the masses to look at. Apart from fans, not many people really care about it. The real core of Time.com is community communication and ratings based on the huge material library.

In the two months since Time.com was launched, many media reporters have been looking for fun on it, which has brought a lot of exposure to the website.

And the so-called fun is those bad movies rated by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.

As I said before, in the past, whether a movie, TV show, book, or music was bad or not was mostly judged by film and music critics. With the development of the Internet, grassroots voices have their own voices, but these voices are not systematic.

For example, "The Promise", everyone knows that it is a bad movie, but no one has a real idea of ​​how bad it is.

But this time, Time.com gave the answer.

297,000 people participated in the rating. Among them, one-star and two-star ratings were the most, and five-star ratings were the least. The final total rating was——

3.4 points!

Time.com will only calculate the comprehensive score after 1,000 people have rated it. If there are a large number of trolls trying to get high scores or maliciously trying to get low scores, the system will detect it and will not publish it until the website administrator evaluates it before deciding whether to publish it or not. .

Even if the problem is not major and they choose to publish it, but the managers feel that there are still some problems, they will make a special note after the score, such as [data fluctuations vary, the score may be inaccurate, refer to it with caution].

The same is true for "The Promise". The management once thought that someone was maliciously cheating on the score, but after checking it several times, they found that it might be the real score.

There is a saying that "The Promise" is bad, but it may not be this bad. At least there are definitely worse movies than it. This rating is very subjective.

No way, who made "The Promise" catch up with it? It happened to be the most recent and most influential bad movie after the launch of the Time Network.

Coupled with the steamed buns and Shangri-La incident, Director Chen lost a lot of points and even stood on the opposite side of netizens. The first thing many "Time Network" users went to was the page of "The Promise", and they felt comfortable after giving it one star. Leave convinced.

There was even a special meeting held within Mtime.com and the discussion lasted for three hours.

It was finally decided to announce the score of "The Promise", but it was specifically noted that "the score is highly subjective" without adding the suffixes "may be untrue" and "reference with caution".

It’s really damaging to my family...

In this way, "The Promise" became the lowest-rated movie among hundreds of movies rated by Time.com.

Cao Xuan even prepared his legal team for a time to receive the court summons from Da Dao Chen, but he didn't know if the other party was afraid that he would let Liu Yan go, so he gave up in the end.

Of course, it may also be because Director Chen's "Farewell My Concubine" scored 9.7 points and is currently the highest-rated movie on Time.com. It just scratched the itch of Director Chen and chose to stop filming.

One person has dominated both the highest-rated and lowest-rated movies on Time.com.

From the beginning, Director Chen has become the C position of Time Network, and even Cao Xuan, Lao Mouzi and others have to avoid his edge.

Director Chen aside, several of Cao Xuan's films have pretty good ratings.

"When Men Are in Love" 8.5 points

"Xiu Chun Dao" 8.1 points

"Xiu Chun Knife 2" 8.0 points

The highest score is "New World", with a score of 9.3, which is on par with the first part of "Infernal Affairs" and ranks among the top 30 in the overall list.

Although Mtime.com intends to crack down on the promotion of foreign films and the disparagement of Chinese films, the situation is far from ideal.

In addition to the so-called literary youth and public intellectuals, it is also partly due to the "inferiority" of many people. In this international environment, it is difficult to think rationally.

At the same time, I have to admit that many foreign classic films are indeed excellent and have the qualification to receive high ratings.

Moreover, grading is inherently subjective. For the sake of fairness, Time.com cannot do it in person, so it can only try its best to guide and restrict it.

At least it won't let Time.com become a "cesspit" like Douban in future generations...

In addition to movies, most of the TV series starring Cao Xuan also achieved good results. Although they did not reach the top 50 in the overall list, they all achieved good high scores.

"Water Margin" 9.0 points

"Young Bao Qingtian" 8.5 points

"Swordsman" 9.0 points

"Golden Pink Family" 8.8 points

"Eternal Dragon Sword" 8.8 points

But to say that Cao Xuan’s real focus is on music, where he kills people on a daily basis.

"Bright Stars" scored 9.8 points, ranking first among Chinese albums

"Chinese Style" scored 9.7 points, ranking second among Chinese albums

"Starry Stars" scored 9.7 points, ranking third among Chinese albums

Let's put it this way, Cao Xuan's six Chinese albums have all reached the top ten of the overall list, and the number of Chinese songs with scores of 9 or above is almost double digits.

The European and American charts did not show off, with three English albums taking the top three, with Michael Jackson and The Beatles ranking behind him.

There is no way, this is Cao Xuan's home stadium, and it comes with the support of fans. If you recruit all the fans from the European and American music circles in China, there won't be enough fans for Cao Xuan.

Not to mention this group of European and American music fans, almost half of them are fans of Cao Xuan, and they are still die-hard fans.

Similarly, Cao Xuan on the Chinese list also occupies the spotlight of many fans and superstar filters, which is difficult to avoid.

Not only him, but top singers such as Xiao Zhou and Wang also have similar bonuses, and their data are even better than those of old singers.

Because there are too many elements in film and television, it is impossible to simply summarize a certain person's work, which is relatively objective.

However, music and books are basically tied to a certain singer or author, so fans are more subjective, and the fairness and value of the ratings will inevitably be greatly discounted.

Cao Xuan walked around the Time Network and tried all the functions. Some features are satisfactory, while others feel that they need to be improved.

He took screenshots and recorded them, and later chatted with Dai Xinping to see if he could improve further.

After closing the computer, Hu Jing and the others hadn't finished talking, so they pulled Cao Xuan over to ask.

Boss Cao crossed his legs and looked at Da Mimi. It is said that Liu Rui took her to South Korea after the new year. The overall face shape is much softer and more beautiful than before.

Da Mi Mi is inherently more cheerful and lively, suitable for those characters who are cute, smart or carefree. His strong heart is also more suitable for ordinary chicks in movies and TV shows, and his role is relatively wide.

For her, idol dramas are indeed a good way to go, and he happens to have a copy of a hit idol drama in his hand.

Fan Xiaopang can't play, Liu Tianxian is not suitable, Damimi can really give it a try...

I broke my promise, I'm a little late and haven't made up for it, I'll make sure tomorrow