Showbiz: This Film Crew Is Loaded

After making a film that earned only 20,000 at the box office, third-rate director Ye Chen was blacklisted by all the major film companies. Then he unexpectedly awakened the Tycoon Film Crew System, which provided funding as long as he kept making films.

“To film The Richest Man in Xicheng, here's a billion in funding. Invite the real Buffett to lunch, have Wang Lihong, Lin Junjie, and Zhou Jielun hold a concert at home, get Real Madrid to play a friendly match, and invest in routers and the Alxa Iceberg Project.”

“To film Joker, here's two billion in funding. For realism, build a hospital and blow it up. It'll shock the entire internet!”

“To film Fast & Furious, here's five billion in funding. Wreck supercars worth tens of millions. If one isn't enough, wreck ten; if ten aren't enough, wreck a hundred. What? There's no road to race on? Then throw money at it and buy a highway for filming.”

Audience: “Now that's what you call burning through the budget! This reckless tycoon director has my support.”

Film extra: “I can't imagine that even someone like me, a background extra, could...

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