What made everyone feel most speechless was that Su Yu didn't even go on stage for the final drawing of lots.
Well, it wouldn't have mattered if he had participated anyway, since only Germany, Italy, and the US were left for the regular season's home games.
And the next host country was drawn by the German songwriter Fischer.
The 17th episode of the Blue Star Concert ended its live broadcast, but news about the variety show on the internet didn't end.
Especially Su Yu's stage performance, which seemed like a marriage proposal, its popularity even spread abroad!
After all, Su Yu's popularity is now explosively high; even his normal stage performances are strong enough to be among the top searches in various countries.
And now? He's simply dominating all the hot topics unreasonably.
The gimmick of a genius musician almost proposing in public is truly enormous.
Entertainment gossip news, no matter which country it's in, is very popular, okay?
However, Su Yu's constant creation of major events and his dominance of hot searches are a bit too much for some people to bear.
Just like the American director Stewart, who is currently promoting his new movie, "demon slayer."
A big production with a budget of 65 million US dollars, how could Stewart not put his heart into promoting it?
If such a big production flops, his directing career will be over.
In the future, he shouldn't expect anyone to give him such a large investment to make a movie.
And the company responsible for the film's distribution this time is actually an old acquaintance of Tianxing Entertainment, Lionsgate Films.
Last time, Tianxing Entertainment wanted to acquire a Hollywood film and television company as a foothold to enter Hollywood.
However, Lionsgate Films truly lived up to its name, demanding an exorbitant price of 4 billion US dollars.
This led to a very unpleasant acquisition attempt for both parties last time.
Subsequently, "the truman show," a collaboration between Tianxing Entertainment, Disney, and MGM, became a huge success.
This made Lionsgate Films incredibly envious!
Because they felt that this movie was actually prepared for them by Tianxing Entertainment.
If Tianxing Entertainment had bitten the bullet and acquired them back then, this movie would have been produced by them.
Anyway, their thought process is simply bizarre!
At this time, they are intensely promoting the big production film "demon slayer," but no matter whether in North America or other countries, the popularity of their film has been completely suppressed by Su Yu.
This makes their several million US dollars in promotional expenses feel a bit like throwing money away.
Because netizens and audiences in various countries have too little discussion about their movie.
And the movie is set to be released globally on July 18th, which really makes the executives of Lionsgate Films a bit exasperated.
Lionsgate Films even feels that Su Yu is deliberately targeting them!
He is retaliating against them for not accepting Tianxing Entertainment's acquisition back then.
So they came up with a method that seemed to attract popularity and attention.
That is to let the director Stewart instigate a fight!
Their movie is a sci-fi, action, and thriller film, a genre that Su Yu has not touched.
Moreover, where in China is there any decent sci-fi movie?
They can completely use this point to instigate a fight and gain greater popularity!
So on the 28th, an interview video of director Stewart from "demon slayer" instigating a fight spread across the entire network with the promotion of Lionsgate Films.
In the first part of the video, the reporter asked Stewart in a feigned manner about his box office expectations for the new film and interesting anecdotes during the filming process.
But for some reason, as they talked, a reporter suddenly began to ask: "Director Stewart, the best-received film at the global box office at the beginning of the year was 'the truman show,' written by Su Yu. Do you have confidence in defeating him?"
Su Yu was actually just the screenwriter of this movie; logically speaking, if there was a target, it should have been Hao Ren, the director.
However, even though Hao Ren directed a classic film like "the truman show," his popularity in the Blue Star film industry still couldn't compare to Su Yu's.
Because at the Venice Film Festival, the awards went to Su Yu, the screenwriter, and Kerry, the male lead.
Hao Ren, the great director, had actually been labeled a commercial film director long ago because of "lost in thailand" and simply couldn't be "high-end."
Moreover, Hao Ren causing trouble wouldn't generate any popularity!
"I don't deny that 'the truman show' is a good movie; I even went to the cinema to watch it twice! Kerry's transformation and acting skills are truly incredibly amazing, adding so much to the film.
But my 'demon slayer' is a big-budget, big-production sci-fi action movie; the special effects alone are incomparable to Truman's, and our cast is even stronger and more in line with the tastes of Blue Star audiences. Therefore, for Chinese cinema, which is a sci-fi desert, they won't understand what a sci-fi blockbuster is!
Su Yu's screenwriting ability might be good, but until he writes a best-selling sci-fi script, please don't compare him to me! Chinese cinema has lost its sci-fi soil precisely because there are too many commercial film screenwriters and directors like Su Yu!
As for reputation and box office? 'Demon slayer' will definitely crush 'the truman show'! If you don't believe it, go to the cinema on July 18th and see for yourself! See what a real sci-fi movie is!"
The first half of Stewart's interview video had no problems; he even praised "the truman show."
But anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was praising the acting skills of Kerry, the Hollywood star!
It was not about Su Yu, the screenwriter, or Hao Ren, the director, at all.
He even seemed to attribute all the credit for the film's success to Kerry.
While belittling Su Yu and Hao Ren, he even subtly sowed discord between Kerry and them.
His malicious intent really needs no further explanation.
The latter part of the interview was outright disdain.
And words like "sci-fi desert" really hit a nerve with many Chinese audiences.
China indeed doesn't have any impressive sci-fi movies to date, and this cannot be refuted.
But to attribute such a reason to Su Yu? That's a bit far-fetched, isn't it?
However, no matter what, Stewart's move this time was truly successful.
At least the popularity generated by this interview directly surpassed Su Yu's "The Rest of My Life" on the 17th stage.
Su Yu only seemingly proposed; there was no concrete confirmation of the news.
But Stewart's was a truly blatant provocation and mockery!
This led to the attention of netizens in various countries being drawn to Stewart, and their interest and anticipation for "demon slayer" instantly intensified.
Even movie theaters in various countries, due to the hype of this promotion, gave Stewart more screening slots.
The Chinese cinema chains, of course, were no exception.
And Su Yu, who was once again targeted at the center of the incident? No news came out on the 28th.
However, at 3 PM on the 29th, which was Su Yu's 22nd birthday, a highly publicized press conference was held!