The Oscars have given the global film industry a bad start.

In fact, it’s not exactly Oscar’s fault.

Several important film awards have shown this preference in the past two years: they like sick characters.

Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett both won Best Actor and Best Actress for playing patients.

That's why Liu Yifei wanted to play "Get Out! Mr. Tumor".

That's why Anne Hathaway decided to take on "The Fault in Our Stars" last year.

Cheng Yu'an approached her to make up for this movie.

After all, the young lady pried off someone else's "Interstellar".

"The Fault in Our Stars" is a typical American family film, with the added gimmick of "fighting the disease" and the fan base of the original novel.

The film grossed US$26.1 million on its first day of release, becoming the day's champion, and firmly secured the weekly top spot with a box office of 48.2 million in the first three days.

Become a touch of fresh color in the roaring summer season of special effects in North America.

The reason why this year’s North American summer season is said to be “special effects roaring” is because basically all of the films released are special effects blockbusters:

"Edge of Tomorrow", "Maleficent", "X-Men: Days of Future Past", "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", etc.

Among them, the performance of "Edge of Tomorrow" jointly created by Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt can be called "violent death" - the North American box office failed to exceed 30 million US dollars in the three days of its first weekend, not to mention that it could not beat "The Star".

Youth love movies like "The Fault" have not even been able to do this even with "Maleficent" which has been released for two weeks.

Although the film performed well overseas, its poor local performance is bound to have a negative impact on the two leading actors.

On the other hand, Anne Hathaway was happy.

Let me ask a question, is Anne Hathaway considered an American actress?

She is extremely beautiful, but many American viewers, especially the middle-aged and older viewers who have the right to speak in society, hate her. However, she is very popular among young viewers.

After "The Dark Knight Rises", her performance in movies was not very good, she didn't make any money at the box office, and she didn't win any awards.

However, fortunately, she and Cheng Yu'an met early, and she and Liu Yifei are also good friends - when Liu Yifei comes to Los Angeles, she will basically look for Anne Hathaway.

"The Fault in Our Stars" is certainly not a mainstream commercial film in North America, but it was able to win the championship for a week during the summer season when it was surrounded by strong enemies. This performance really surprised the creators.

Therefore, Annie turned around and agreed to Cheng Lingfeng's invitation and decided to take on the heroine role in the movie "The Intern" and collaborate with Robert De Niro.

According to the company, the heroine of this movie was originally planned to be played by a Chinese girl. Cheng Lingfeng wanted to make the movie a satire on racial discrimination in the United States. However, due to various reasons, this plan was rejected and she had to retreat.

Second, make it a regular chick flick.

In fact, Anne wanted to star in another film produced by the company, which looked much more mainstream. It was a doomsday disaster film with the straightforward name of "Collapse".

But there was no suitable role for her in "The Fall". To play the mother, Anne was too young, but to play the daughter, she was too old and her face was not young enough.

In the end, I could only play a role as a workplace queen like "The Intern".

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On the other side of the ocean, in China, Tudou Video has faced its most significant test so far: the Hong Kong stock market listing!

Since being invested by Remote Technology Strategic Investment, Tudou has suspended its U.S. stock listing plan, and after two years of integration and development, it chose to be listed on the Hong Kong stock market.

So far, the entire Yuanyuan company and Cheng Yu'an personally hold more than 80% of Tudou shares, and Yuanyuan Technology has obtained sole control of Tudou.

The capital market needs to tell stories, and as CEO of Tudou, Wang Wei’s skills in telling stories are no worse than Boss Jia’s.

But what Wang Wei boasts about is that he and Tudou are really doing it step by step.

Take Super Web Drama, for example. Since the beginning of the year, the two dark series "Soul Ferry" and "Dark One" have caused a craze in watching dramas on the Internet. Although it has not reached the level of a big hit, it has also opened a very new window for Super Web Drama.

Good head.

The two dramas attracted more than 2 million new registered users to Tudou, and nearly 600,000 new and old users across the site chose to recharge VIP to watch these two dramas.

In terms of female-oriented sweet pet dramas and idol dramas, Tudou did not achieve decent results this year, but fortunately it has an advantage in terms of quantity.

Not very tasty, but filling in large portion.

Tudou now has 1.7 million paying users across the site, leading other competitors in the market.

But Tudou’s most popular original drama series in the past two years is not a super online drama.

Instead, they are the short series "Unexpectedly" and "Report to the Boss" produced by Wanhetianyi, as well as the "One Hundred Thousand Cold Jokes" series of cartoons produced by Youyaoqi.

"Unexpectedly" is even known as "the number one drama on the Internet".

"We have decided to bring "Unexpectedly" and "One Hundred Thousand Cold Jokes" to the big screen." Wang Wei announced the news at the exchange. "The animated film "One Hundred Thousand Cold Jokes" will be released on Sunday this year.

It will be released soon, and the filming of the big movie "Never Expected" is about to begin and is expected to be released next year."

The potatoes were on the market, but Cheng Yu'an didn't come. "The Legend of the White Fox" was about to finish filming at the Western Cinema in one week, so it was transferred to Bashang Grassland. He really couldn't leave.

Representatives Zhong Lifang and Chen Zhixi were sent remotely to attend the bell-ringing ceremony for the potato launch.

On Tudou's side are the three founding veterans: Wang Wei, Zhao Liang and Li Yongjin, as well as Tudou's creator representative Yi Xiaoxing and the director of "One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes" Lu Hengyu.

The reason why creator representatives are selected to ring the bell is to show the outside world that Tudou Video respects creators.

As mentioned before, Tudou Video should be one of the earliest video websites for personal creation in the world.

Even after Tudou was hired remotely, it has always adhered to the concept of respecting creation and has been supporting and stimulating original content.

Tudou even established a Tudou image specifically for this purpose, investing money and manpower every year to help creators.

Tudou is backed by remote control and can be said to be the website with the best content creation environment on the entire network.

We have the most professional screenwriters, producers and distributors to protect the creators remotely.

Wang Wei and his entrepreneurial brothers stood on the exchange. Tudou Video was launched in 2005. After nearly 10 years of hard work, they wanted to give up at one point, but they finally survived.

Today, we finally have the moment we have been dreaming of.

Previously, the market's valuation of Tudou exceeded 50 billion. Although it exceeded Youku, it was still not the highest valued video website. The highest valuation of Boss Jia's LeTV was over 80 billion.

It’s boss Jia’s fault. If you want to make content, just make content. If you have to make hardware, just make hardware. You still want to do content binding.

It immediately offended both theater chains and television stations.

Cheng Yu'an should treat these two as his grandsons.

Tudou’s listing this time is priced at RMB 2 billion and is expected to raise 2 billion yuan.
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