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Chapter 210 "Lotus Lantern"

After receiving Zhou Huimin's call, Qi Wei asked the driver to turn the car around.

After arriving at the hotel where she was staying in the capital, Qi Wei called her.

"I'm here, now in the hotel's underground parking lot."

"Well, don't run around, I'll ask my assistant to find you."

Compared with the pervasive paparazzi in the Hong Kong city, the paparazzi in the mainland at this time can be called law-abiding.

But it doesn't mean that popular stars like Qi Wei are not followed by paparazzi, everything should be careful.

Although Zhou Huimin really wanted to have a public relationship with Qi Wei, she still cared more about Qi Wei's reputation and career, and she was very considerate of Qi Wei.

After hanging up the phone and waiting for several minutes, her assistant arrived late.

Looking left and right, he brought Qi Wei to the hotel room where Zhou Huimin was.

Wearing sunglasses, a mask and a thermal hat, Zhou Huimin recognized Qi Wei even though he was dressed in disguise.

He showed a loving smile towards Qi Wei.

It's the same smile that the painter gave Li Fei when she saw Meng Yi in the movie "Mythology".

"It's quite warm inside." Qi Wei looked at her and said with a smile, the winter in the capital is still quite cold, especially in the past few days when it snows from time to time at night, and the outside world is covered with a layer of white.

"Well, I turned on the heating in the room." She replied softly, and she got up and walked to Qi Wei's side, just like a virtuous wife welcoming her husband who just came home, and helped Qi Wei take off his heavy coat.

"Are you still used to it in the capital?" Qi Wei asked with concern, and walked into the house with his arms around her.

"Still used to it." She nodded softly.

The winter in the Hong Kong city is not very cold. People from the Hong Kong city come to the mainland to spend the winter, and some people are not quite used to the cold winter in the mainland, but Zhou Huimin is different. She lived in Canada for a while before.

She looked into Qi Wei's eyes with a smile, and said seriously: "I plan to stay in the capital for a while, and return to Hong Kong during the Chinese New Year."

Although she really wanted to celebrate the New Year with Qi Wei, she was a filial daughter, and since she was in China, she definitely wanted to spend the New Year with her mother.

Besides, a big star like Qi Wei is usually very busy during Chinese New Year. Not only does he have to participate in the Spring Festival Gala, but he also has to attend some important business events.

So there is no need to be so clingy during the Spring Festival.

"There are still 20 days before the new year." Qi Wei couldn't help laughing, and then said: "I heard from Mr. Zheng that you came to Beijing this time to promote the new album, and only arranged for you two days of announcement activities."

It's late January now, and it's still in the promotion period for Zhou Huimin's new album.

Zhou Huimin's new album, because of the high-quality songs such as "Zhong Wuyan" and "Happy Street Stickers" that Qi Wei helped "create", the album sold immediately after its release. In less than a month, it has sold more than three platinum sales in Hong Kong.

We must know that the record industry has begun to decline due to rampant piracy, not to mention that Hong Kong City's performance in the entertainment industry has generally not been very good due to the impact of the financial crisis in the past two years.

Therefore, Zhou Huimin's new album's triple-platinum sales in the Hong Kong Super League is definitely a dazzling achievement that can be celebrated with champagne.

Zhou Huimin's new album sold very well in Hong Kong, and it also sold quite well in other places.

Especially in the mainland, because of Qi Wei's popularity bonus, it sold more than 60 copies in less than a month.

This also gave PolyGram a reason to help Zhou Huimin come to the mainland to Beijing to promote the new album.

However, Zhou Huimin's album is a Cantonese album, and the sales volume in the mainland is relatively average except for Guangdong Province.

It stands to reason that Zhou Huimin should focus more on Guangdong Province when he comes to the mainland to promote, and it doesn't really matter whether he comes to the capital or not.

Zhou Huimin came to Beijing for other reasons.

Zhou Huimin understood the meaning of Qi Wei's words. She touched her stomach and said, "You should understand why I have stayed in Beijing for so long this time?"

Well, it was still because of Qi Wei's failure to keep seeds in Hong Kong before.

"Won't this delay the promotion of your new album?" Qi Wei asked.

Zhou Huimin explained: "The capital city is the last stop, and my work will be over after the propaganda work here is over."

The increasingly rampant influence of piracy is getting bigger and bigger, which also makes the sales of genuine albums more weak, which also causes most singers to end their album promotion work earlier.

"It turned out to be like this." Qi Wei muttered softly.

The heating in the room was fully turned on, and Zhou Huimin was dressed very lightly. Qi Wei pulled her clothes up a little, bent over and put his ear against her stomach, as if listening.

"What are you doing?" Zhou Huimin couldn't help laughing.

"I'm surprised, I worked so hard, why didn't your stomach move at all, other things."

"What else?" Zhou Huimin asked.

Almost slipping the tongue, Qi Wei hurriedly asked: "Are you really not pregnant?"

Zhou Huimin shook her head, "I want to conceive too, but unfortunately I don't."

"It's really a pity." Hearing nothing, Qi Wei glanced at her flat stomach, asked a question, and pulled her clothes off again.

Smiling and comforting: "You don't have to worry, with my ability, there will always be what should be."

"Yeah." She nodded and snuggled into Qi Wei's arms.

Qi Wei stroked her hair as if wanting to pet a cat, and asked, "Did you stay in a hotel all the time after staying in the capital?"

"Where can I live if I don't live in a hotel? I don't have any other place to live in the capital."

"But I have it." Qi Wei looked around at the furnishings in the room and continued: "The environment of this hotel is quite good, but there are too many people, and it is troublesome to come here. It is more convenient to live with me. Do you like apartments, villas or others, I can arrange for you."

"Is there a courtyard house?" Zhou Huimin asked.

"Yes, yes, why do you want to live in a courtyard house?"

Qi Wei bought a lot of real estate in Beijing, and the courtyard house was naturally indispensable, and he also bought two sets.

But the two courtyard houses that Qi Wei bought didn’t have any toilets. To go to the toilet, you have to prepare a spittoon or go to the public toilet outside, which is actually quite inconvenient.

If you want to rebuild it, you need the approval of relevant departments, and it won't be possible for a while, so Qi Wei doesn't like living in a courtyard house.

There is another reason why Qi Wei doesn't like to live in a courtyard house, that is, there are many neighbors in the alley, and the privacy is not enough, it is too easy to cause a sensation.

Zhou Huimin replied with a smile: "I'm just curious. I remember that the princess lived in a courtyard house in Beijing. I read in the newspaper that she was carrying a spittoon to the public toilet to empty herself."

Based on Zhou Huimin's understanding of Qi Wei's romantic character, the rumors about Qi Wei having an affair with the princess in Hong Kong are probably true.

She deliberately found a topic to mention the princess, just to remind Princess Qiwei that she is a married woman.

No matter how white the lotus is, it is not easy for a woman to experience a lot, and she will inadvertently show her small thoughts.

"Why do you want to empty the spittoon for me too?" Qi Wei asked with a smile, hugging her even tighter, almost sticking to Zhi Zhi's body.

"Hmm." She looked at the handsome face close at hand and stroked it, then nodded shyly.

"Mr. Zhou, have you brought the tools I need to learn painting?"

"Right in my bedroom"

"Well, I want to learn to draw now."

"Then let's go to the bedroom."

Qi Wei kissed her on the cheek, picked her up as a princess, and carried her into the bedroom.

Qi Wei started a new round of respecting teachers
Zhou Huimin's sudden visit to Beijing did not disturb Qi Wei's life rhythm.

The next morning, Qi Wei went to Zhou Huimin's new album promotion site in Beijing to help promote, and in the afternoon, Qi Wei came to his film and television company to handle matters.

"This animated film is very good. I like it very much. I will make time to dub it." In his office, Qi Wei watched some clips of "Lotus Lantern" played on the TV, looked at the two people in front of him and nodded in agreement.

One of these two people is Qi Wei's old friend Jiang Wen, and the other is Chang Guangxi, the director of "Lotus Lantern" he brought over.

"Our production budget is very limited, and we can't afford your normal dubbing expenses," director Chang Guangxi said with some embarrassment.

"It doesn't matter, we are friends after meeting, I can give you a friendship price, even free dubbing like Brother Jiang, I am willing to contribute to the development of our animation." Qi Wei replied with a smile.

The development of domestic animation has a long history, but with the deepening of reform and opening up in recent years, the living standards, aesthetic habits and value orientation of the domestic people have all changed accordingly.

Afterwards, the introduction of a large number of cartoons from Japan and the United States opened the eyes of domestic audiences, but at the same time took away most of the domestic animation market.

As a result, the overall quality of domestic animation has not improved with the reform and opening up, and a large number of talents have begun to drain.

This is the case even for the Modu Art Film Studio, the most important base for domestic animation production.

At the same time, the higher authorities began to attach importance to animation production at the height of the cultural industry, trying to get domestic animation out of the predicament.

In addition to the great success of "The Lion King" and "Toy Story" imported from Hollywood Disney in the domestic film market in recent years, under the stimulation of this, Magic City Film Studio decided to take the 50th anniversary of the founding of the country as an opportunity to produce an animated feature film.

This "Lotus Lantern" was born.

How important is the above to this animated film?At this time, our top leader sent a letter to Shanghai Magic Film Studio and personally approved the production of "Lotus Lantern".

In this case, the producer of this animation film asked him for help, and Qi Wei would definitely be willing to help.

What's more, Qi Wei, who has the memory of later generations, knows the potential of animation very well.

Due to the domestic one-child policy, families will love and value their children more and more, and more and more children will go to the cinema to watch animated movies.

This is why after the film market is established, there will be at least one animated film in the Spring Festival every year, and the box office is not low.

At this time, Qi Wei is selling personal favors. Isn't it easy to recruit excellent animation talents from Shanghai Magic Film Studio?

Anyway, there is a serious drain of domestic animation talents at this time, and it is better to come to develop here than lose it elsewhere.

Seeing director Chang Guangxi still hesitated, Qi Wei took the initiative to ask: "Apart from dubbing, is there anything else I can help with?"

"The way we think about it, if you have the time, we want you to write songs for this movie, even one"

The success of the movie "Love in the Internet Age" has proved that Qi Wei's songs in the movie can attract Qi Wei's fans to enter the cinema and contribute to the box office.

In order to be sure that "The Lotus Lantern" will be released in the future and attract more audiences to the cinema, in addition to asking Qi Wei to dub the film, he also hopes that Qi Wei will compose songs for this animated film.

"No problem, I will write a song for "Lotus Lantern" as soon as possible."

Qi Wei looked at the director Chang Guangxi and asked again: "Is there anything else? Is this movie still short of funds?"

"The funds are sufficient. We hope that after the film is produced, your company can take over the distribution rights of the North."

At this time, the domestic film market was not yet unified, and it was still in a state of "fragmentation". The animation film produced by Shanghai Magic Film Studio was regarded as a southern film. If you want to get a good box office in the north, you must find a distributor in the north for distribution.

Otherwise, based on the virtue of theaters concealing the box office at this time, no one above restrains them, and they will definitely be unscrupulous.

At the same time, at this time, domestic filmmakers have begun to realize the importance of publicity and distribution for movies, and the investment in film publicity and distribution is getting higher and higher.

A film like "Lotus Lantern" is released in the north, and if it wants to get a good box office, it needs at least a few hundred publicity fees.

The animated film "Lotus Lantern" is another experimental film. Although the above attaches great importance to it, everyone does not know how much potential this film has.

Especially this year, the general environment of the film market is getting worse and worse, and it is very likely to lose money in publicity and distribution for this film.

So much so that the production team of "Lotus Lantern" found several publishers in the north, but none of them were willing to release it.

He could only focus on Qi Wei.

"Then will you sell the distribution rights of the North to me directly or take a share at the box office?" Qi Wei asked after thinking for a while.

"So you are willing to win the distribution rights of "Lotus Lantern"?"

Seeing Qi Wei nodded, director Chang Guangxi was immediately overjoyed, but he quickly restrained his emotions and replied: "If you sell the distribution rights directly to your company, how much is your company willing to pay?"

According to the box office share, if the movie is a big hit, there may be higher profits, but at the same time, you must accept the risk of failure.

Director Chang Guangxi has seen a lot of philistine film distributors. If the film box office fails, they will stop losses in time and will not invest in distribution resources.

The animation film "Lotus Lantern" is to prove the potential of domestic animation, not entirely for profit. If the distributors are willing to invest more publicity and distribution resources to ensure box office results, they are willing to sell the distribution rights at a slightly lower price.

"How much is the production cost of "Lotus Lantern"?" Qi Wei asked rhetorically.

Director Chang Guangxi replied: "Currently, the cost is almost 1000 million, and the production is almost finished. Including post-production costs, at least 200 million is needed."

Qi Wei nodded and replied, "That means the production cost of this movie is 1200 million."

Director Chang Guangxi nodded. He was afraid that Qi Wei would think the production cost was too high and he was unwilling to take over, so he explained: "This film has been produced for three years, so the cost is a little higher."

Qi Wei didn't respond right away, he thought for a while before saying: "Since you are willing to sell me the northern distribution rights of this movie, I can buy it, what do you think of the price of 300 million?"

(End of this chapter)