Lin Yuan finally decided to produce an album for each member of the Yu Dynasty.
Of course, not immediately.
It needs to be planned gradually.
Even Xia Fan’s album can’t be made right away.
Lin Yuan needs to carefully consider which works suit the other’s singing style.
And in the next few days.
As Lin Yuan imagined.
The first film adapted from the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone," saw its box office soar with high popularity!
The movie-watching frenzy was almost identical to Xian Yu’s previous "Kung Fu Hustle"!
This is the power of IP!
The box office revenue contributed by countless global Harry Potter fans alone was already considerable!
Not to mention the low viewing threshold—
The movie is equally friendly to audiences who haven’t read the novel.
There was absolutely no situation where people who hadn’t read the novel couldn’t understand the plot.
Starlight Entertainment officially began filming "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," with the script also created by Xian Yu.
Because in the Harry Potter series, the protagonist grows a year older in each installment, Lin Yuan liked to pursue a sense of realism in the story, so filming would also try to align with the age growth of the young actors in the movie.
The director of the first Harry Potter movie was Du An.
In the early days, Du An was lured by Starlight Entertainment with a heavy investment from Qi Continent and was once a staunch supporter of the director-core system.
Until Lin Yuan collaborated with Du An to shoot "Life of Pi."
That was the first time in Du An’s life that he put aside the power and air of a core director, filming according to Xian Yu’s ideas and concepts.
The result was great success for that movie.
Perhaps it was that success that shook Du An.
When news spread that the company was going to film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone," he volunteered to be the director.
Even though he knew that taking on this film meant he would have to continue listening to Xian Yu’s direction.
It proved that Du An’s choice was correct:
His second collaboration with Xian Yu achieved immense success again!
This finally led Du An to complete a certain transformation in mindset!
In fact, whether it was the director-core or screenwriter-core system, the screenwriter and director, no matter their differences, ultimately hoped for a better presentation of the film.
If that’s the case, why stick to the formality?
Whose idea is better, just use that idea.
Xian Yu’s idea was better than his own, so why not listen to Xian Yu?
Moreover, Xian Yu isn’t forceful in character.
In the film shooting process, if the other party feels their own idea is better, they will humbly accept the suggestion.
As the number two in the crew, he has quite a role to play.
However, some loyal fans of the director-core system in the film industry criticized Du An’s "betrayal," saying privately:
"He’s now just a tool for Xian Yu!"
"That Yi Chenggong from Starlight, too; ’Kung Fu Hustle’ was entirely filmed according to Xian Yu’s ideas."
"Where’s the director’s creativity?"
"The most knowledgeable about the technology are us directors!"
Du An said he doesn’t care!
Isn’t it pleasant to easily win by following Xian Yu?
To continue easily winning, he has taken on directing "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," aiming to continue his efforts and even planning to single-handedly take on the filming of the entire series!
Because the Harry Potter film series is a gold mine!
Even though most credit for the success of the film belongs to Xian Yu, no one will forget the contribution made by Du An!
There is another critical reason why Du An is content:
Starlight has now officially expanded its film business.
Aside from Du An and Yi Chenggong, who has been with Xian Yu from the early days, the company’s film division has attracted a considerable number of decent directors and screenwriters, with new films being produced now and then, and the achievements so far have been quite good.
That’s certainly the case.
As a mature entertainment company, no matter how much Starlight relies on Xian Yu, it couldn’t possibly put the entire burden of its film business development solely on Xian Yu.
Moreover, with the current merging of the continents on Blue Star.
The fierce internal competition among the major continents and the intense competition within a big company like Starlight.
Du An worried that if he didn’t cling to Xian Yu’s strong backing, he might really be swept away by the other strong directors within the company.
After all, he’s the 108th-ranked director on the Blue Star film chart.
If he doesn’t grab onto Xian Yu’s films, he’s afraid even breaking into the top hundred would be difficult.
In many places invisible to Lin Yuan, he has quietly changed countless people’s destinies.
Du An is just one among many.
The presence of Lin Yuan has even influenced certain configurations within the capital circle.
The ones most affected by Lin Yuan were none other than Blog and Tribe, these two well-known Blue Star social platforms.
The former was positively affected;
The latter was entirely negative.
We mustn’t forget how powerful Tribe was in the early days.
Before the Blue Star continental merger, Tribe once became the social platform with the most users worldwide, attracting stars from all major merged continents to join in!
At that time, as a large social platform, Blog was completely overpowered by Tribe!
Who would have thought that at the peak of Tribe’s popularity, the famous "Shadow Event" would erupt!
The media named that conflict the "Shadow Event."
The new head of the Tribe Comics department, Ling Kong, attempted to forcibly interfere with Shadow’s comic creation, leading to a complete fallout between the two parties.
Shadow, who had collaborated with Tribe for a long time, left in anger!
Immediately afterward.
Xian Yu and Chu Kuang also followed Shadow, leaving to join the blog platform, which was Tribe’s biggest competitor at the time.
It was this upheaval that made all parties truly realize how good the personal relationship between Xian Yu, Chu Kuang, and Shadow was—so good that they would give up years of collaboration with the largest social platform on Blue Star for each other!
Also because Xian Yu was the Crown Prince of Starlight.
Xian Yu’s departure from Tribe directly led to Starlight’s artists flocking to Tribe’s embrace.
Tribe was so angry that they cut off ties with Starlight directly!
The events that followed continually proved how many blunders Tribe made at that time.
Starlight’s business grew rapidly, completely tied with The Trio, and the company developed better and better, even constantly benefiting the blog platform, forming an unbreakable alliance between the two.
Tribe officially embarked on a downward path, with its users continuously dwindling, and by today, its former glory is gone.
Specifically, on this day of December 6th, Blue Star’s relevant departments released market research statistics on social platform traffic.
The relevant departments ranked the traffic and influence of major social platforms on Blue Star.
Third place: Facebook
Fourth place: Special Push
Eighth place: Swishare
The eight major platforms on the list correspond to the eight continents.
For example, the first-place Geek is currently the largest social platform in the Middle State, with a name that sounds like "instantly," originating from instant communication and developing to its current scale, having the most stars and the highest overall ranking, hence after the merger, users rapidly grew to the largest globally;
Special Push is from Han Continent;
Blog is from Qi Continent;
Facebook is from Yan Continent;
Tribe is from Qin Continent.
But now it’s the era of the Blue Star grand merger. After the cultural wall was opened, social platforms targeted all eight continents, no longer focusing on which continent each platform was based in; they are all targeting the global market.
After the ranking of social platforms was released.
Blog’s ranking surprised many people.
"So, unknowingly, Blog has become so strong? In my impression, when Blog just merged in the early days, its user activity was always overshadowed by Tribe, but now the global user count is already second only to Blog!"
"I’m using Geek recently."
"Even I, a Middle State person, started using Blog, mainly because of Shadow God. Shadow God didn’t join any platform other than Blog, unlike other stars who have accounts on many platforms and interact with fans."
"The Three Bros are all . Other platforms simply cannot get them. Fans who want to know their latest news either wait for netizens to capture and repost or obediently download Blog to follow them."
"Hahaha, the case is solved!"
"Blog is as popular as it is today, I dare not say that it’s all thanks to the Three Bros, but they definitely deserve a lot of credit. Countless fans from various continents specially downloaded Blog to follow them."
"The Three Bros are from Qin Continent. Generally, stars from various continents mainly use their continent’s platforms, since their biggest fan base is in that continent. So, logically, the Three Bros should be in Tribe of Qin Continent, right?"
"It used to be that way (comical)"
"Used to? What do you mean by that?"
"The continents that joined later might not understand the situation. Interested friends can search on the internet for the [Shadow Event]."
"Is this scoop reliable?"
The year when The Three Bros left Tribe for Blog, Han Continent had just recently joined the merger.
The netizens from the three continents that joined later were not particularly clear about the situation.
At the prompting of the netizens from the earlier continents.
The netizens from Zhao Continent, Wei Continent, and Middle State immediately went to search for news about the "Shadow Event."
The internet has a memory.
The "Shadow Event" that broke out back then once caused tremendous waves across the Five Continents, and even now, there are still discussions about it.
Shadow’s rise to fame in the art world has made many people recall the events of those years.
The ins and outs of the Shadow Event are recorded in detail.
With such a search, netizens from the later three continents suddenly laughed until they rolled on the ground!
Turns out Shadow God was actually kicked out by Tribe back then?
And the then far more popular Chu Kuang and Xian Yu, who were considered to be at the peak of their fame across the Five United Continents, decisively broke with Tribe to stand up for Shadow, joining the very Blog they are now on!?
These three big shots!
So damn awe-inspiring!
Although the Shadow Event is an old scoop among the Five Continents, the netizens from the three continents that joined later heard about it for the first time and feasted heartily in the scoop field—
This scoop is reliable!
ps: Transition Chapters are so difficult; will continue writing.