"Uncle, do you not want me to work with Beijing Enlight Pictures?" Zhang Tiancheng asked curiously.
Zhang Kailin hesitated for a second and said in a low voice, "If it's just a collaboration once or twice, that's fine. But deep cooperation? I don't think it's appropriate. I've heard that Beijing Enlight Pictures has been getting very cozy with Hong Kong's Media Asia recently. While Media Asia hasn't formed a deep partnership with the Taiwan circle, their relationship with them is far from ordinary. Take '"Initial D"'. Media Asia invested in it, publicly claiming a 150 million investment. Even with a split box office, it still must be around 70 to 80 million. With such a massive investment, casting Jay Chou—who had never acted in a movie before—as the male lead? That was definitely the Taiwan circle pulling strings behind the scenes. To cross over into acting for the very first time and land the male lead in a blockbuster, backed by a bunch of famous Hong Kong supporting actors... Without help from the Taiwan circle, Jay Chou could never have gotten such treatment. In the past, whenever pop stars crossed over into films, no matter how famous they were, they always started out in supporting roles—even Leslie Cheung did. From '"Initial D"', you can see that Media Asia and the Taiwan circle have a very unusual relationship. Now that Beijing Enlight Pictures is getting so close to Media Asia, who knows? Before you know it, with Media Asia acting as the bridge, Beijing Enlight Pic…
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