It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 1150 What kind of film work can guarantee the box office performance to the greatest extent?
Liu Yifei was actually a little reluctant when Chen Fei named his son "Little Stone".

How can I call my baby Little Stone when he is so obedient and pretty?

How ugly is the stone? It is full of holes and bumps. It is not handsome at all and it is not pretty.

However, after listening to Chen Fei's explanation, she immediately had no objection.

"Stones represent being tempered by thousands of hammers and being indestructible. I hope our baby can be like this in the future, healthy and not defeated by any difficulties!"

As soon as these words came out, the slight reluctance in Liu Yifei's heart instantly dissipated.

"Little Stone, hehe, Little Stone is such a nice nickname. Come, Little Stone, let mommy feed you milk~"

At this time, Liu Yifei had already taken her baby home.

The advantage of natural childbirth is that you don’t need to use a surgeon, and you don’t have to wait for the incision to heal. You can go home and rest after staying in the hospital for a day or two.

This is also of great help to Miss Liu's quick recovery.

"Feed the baby first. I'll go see if the soup is ready."

After saying that, he tiptoed out of the bedroom and came to the living room.

In the kitchen, Liu Xiaoli and the confinement nanny were busy making various nourishing soups and foods for Liu Yifei.

Seeing him come in, Liu Xiaoli immediately asked, "Where's Xixi? Is she awake?"

"Well, I'm breastfeeding right now."

"I'll go and take a look." Handing the soup spoon to the confinement nanny, she hurried towards the bedroom.

There are many things that breastfeeding mothers need to pay attention to when feeding their babies. Liu Xiaoli happens to have a lot of experience in this area and can provide guidance.

"Ding-dong-"

The sudden ringing of the doorbell outside the door startled Chen Fei.

When he arrived at the door out of curiosity, he saw Zhu Yawen and Luo Jin standing at the door with Shen Jiani and Tang Yan.

He opened the door casually, made a "speak in a low voice" gesture to the four people, and then let them in.

"Where's the baby?"

As soon as she entered the door, Tang Yan couldn't wait to ask.

On the night Liu Yifei gave birth, she and Luo Jin were in Shanghai, so naturally they were unable to see the baby first.

The same was true for Zhu Yawen, who was still filming on the set at that time.

So, after finishing their work, several people hurriedly came to the door carrying the things.

Fade Chen pointed to the bedroom and said softly, "The baby just woke up, and Liu Yifei is feeding her."

"He's awake now? Let's go up and take a look."

Tang Yan took Shen Jiani's hand and went straight upstairs.

Men are naturally not allowed to watch scenes like breastfeeding.

Zhu Yawen and Luo Jin put down the gifts they brought and simply sat on the sofa in the living room, quietly waiting for the "summoning" signal from upstairs.

Chen Fei threw a bottle of drink to each of them, then sat down on the sofa with them.

"Has "The Glory of the Tang Dynasty" wrapped up?" He first looked at Zhu Yawen and asked curiously.

The filming of this drama took a long time, and it has been eight months now! Zhu Yawen hardly did any work in the first half of this year, and devoted all his time to the filming of this drama.

"Yeah, it's finished. All the work ended on July 7th. Look, I came here as soon as I got back."

Perhaps because he hadn't finished the play yet, Chen Fei could even observe Zhu Yawen's superior attitude in his every move after he played the emperor.

Look, he was sitting on the sofa with his legs slightly open, one hand resting on one knee, and his voice was full of ups and downs when he spoke.

"What about you? What are you busy with recently?" Chen Fei looked at Luo Jin again.

Luo Jin smiled and replied, "I just successfully auditioned for a play last month. In the second half of the year, I will partner with a post-90s actress Li Yitong to film a costume drama called "Crane Huating."

"This guy has been very productive this year. In the first half of the year, he starred in "The Icebreaker of True Love's Lies", and during the May Day holiday, he starred in the movie "Time Travelers" and the romantic drama "Return to the Past". Soon, he will star in the urban drama "The King Behind the Scenes" with Zhou Dongyu..."

Zhu Yawen talked about it incessantly as if he knew everything about the back of his hand, and there seemed to be a hint of envy in his words.

"I can't help it." Luo Jin spread his hands. "The wedding is coming up soon, and then we have to start raising a baby. All of this costs money. If I don't make more films and save some money now, it will be embarrassing if I can't take out the money when I need it in the future."

Zhu Yawen had no way to refute this.

After all, he is working so hard now, also for the children.

His little daughter was born last month, just one month earlier than Chen Fei's little Shitou.

The cost of a family with two children is extremely high, especially in a place like Yanjing. His house is a bit small, and he is thinking of moving to a bigger house...

Human desires are endless, and in order to satisfy them, they must be supported by money.

"So your schedule for the second half of the year is empty, right?"

Chen Fei's sudden words made Zhu Yawen slightly stunned.

After a moment, he nodded subconsciously and said, "Yes, it's empty."

"Then you should prepare yourself. It just so happens that the film "The Captain" adapted from the Sichuan Airlines incident is about to be launched. The role of "Second Captain Liang Dong" in the film is quite suitable for you. You can take over the role when the time comes."

"Oh! This is a great relationship!"

Zhu Yawen was immediately happy, his face was full of smiles.

He never expected that this time when he came to visit his baby, he would be lucky enough to get himself an opportunity to play the second male lead in a movie.

"Hey, you're so lucky." Luo Jin joked with a smile.

He wasn't too envious. After all, the movie "Time Raiders" which was released on May Day had already brought him enough generous rewards.

They stayed there until noon, when Liu Yifei finished her meal and wanted to take a nap, and Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin, Shen Jiani and Tang Yan said goodbye and left.

"Go out, you are not needed here, don't disturb me and Little Stone from resting."

Chen Fei was also kicked out by Liu Yifei.

Helplessly, he had to go to the study and take a nap.

Because his wife was giving birth, he had been in a very tense state these days, and only now did he finally feel a little relieved.

Of course, the process of checking out trending searches before lunch break cannot be changed.

As time enters July, the summer vacation season has officially begun!
The most popular movies promoted online recently are "Asura" and "Hidden Man" which will be released on July 7.

As for last month's movies such as "Jurassic World 2" and "Where the Bugs Live", they have all come to a halt and there is no news about them.

"Jurassic World 2" is doing well, the total box office has reached 16 billion.

But the movie "Moths Crossing the River" directed and acted by Xiao Shen Yang was quite miserable because of its poor quality and plot, and the fact that the leading actress was involved in certain separatist remarks, so the movie was removed from the shelves by theaters just after the box office revenue exceeded 1 million yuan.

As for later films like "Incredibles 2" and "Animal World", they failed to make any big waves.

Li Yifeng and Zhou Dongyu were quite unlucky. They finally starred in a movie with decent reputation, but in the face of hot searches such as "Fan Bingbing tax evasion" and "Huayi money laundering", their marketing failed to stir up any waves.

Even "Evil Does Not Suppress Justice" and "Asura" took a lot of effort to grab a lot of hot searches.

There is no other reason, it’s just because Cui Yongyuan is really crazy!

Every two or three days, when the popularity of topics such as Huayi's money laundering and financial fraud began to decline, he would immediately jump out and expose several new clues.

Then netizens will rush in and push the clues he exposed to the headlines of the hot search list.

Based on this, all the summer movies were helpless and depressed when it came to promotion.

After all, facing such a social event that has attracted nationwide attention, it is extremely difficult to grab hot searches and gain popularity!
Many people have even begun to pray, hoping that Huayi can be finished soon and get off the hot search list as soon as possible.

However, everything has two sides. Some people are praying that Huayi will be finished soon, and naturally there are also people praying that Huayi can survive this disaster as soon as possible.

For example, Zhou Xingchi, who is in the special effects material editing room of the movie "The Mermaid 2", is feeling very complicated at this moment.

The light from the computer screen reflected on his furrowed brows, highlighting a feeling of extreme sorrow.

After wrapping up the filming quietly in early July, he immediately returned to the capital with the materials for "The Mermaid 7" and began to work on post-production.

But we had only been working for a few days when the funding chain broke!
Huayi had clearly agreed to invest in post-production special effects and production funds in batches, but now it has been cut off without any reason, which made him extremely depressed.

But the key point is that he doesn't even have a point to make.

After all, as the largest investor in "The Mermaid 2", Huayi is in charge of the dynamics and flows of all funds.

Now, the company is in deep financial crisis due to a series of problems including suspected money laundering and tax evasion, and has no extra money to spend on post-production of "The Mermaid 2".

Therefore, there is no choice but to suspend the post-production work.

He had originally planned to release this movie during the Spring Festival, but now it seems that there is no hope.

Flipping through the headlines of an entertainment website, he couldn't help but sigh when he saw the headline "Huayi Brothers expects stock market losses of nearly 2018 billion in 200."

Apart from the fact that post-production work is difficult to proceed, the key issue now is that he also has his own investment in "The Mermaid 2"!
If there is no way to follow up in the later stages and the movie cannot be released, he might not be able to get back the money he invested.

Thinking of this, he became more and more annoyed, so he simply called his old friend Xu Ke, wanting to hear if he had any solutions to the problem or any good suggestions?
The two agreed to meet in a teahouse in Yanjing.

By the time Zhou Xingchi arrived at the teahouse and entered the private room, Xu Ke had already ordered two cups of seasonal Longjing tea.

"Come, have a drink first to cool down."

Zhou Xingchi didn't hesitate to hear that. He picked up the teacup and gulped down the whole cup of tea.

However, the anger and depression in his heart did not diminish in the slightest because of a cup of tea.

Putting down the teacup, he took out his phone, pointed at the online news and negative information about Huayi, and said with a wry smile: "Look, this company seems to be completely ruined, and I can't even do special effects anymore.

The special effects company has been urging me to pay them. If I don’t transfer the money quickly, they will stop rendering underwater shots… They already owed me a share of the profits when we were filming Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, and now even The Mermaid 2 is going to fail because of their influence!”

Hearing this, Xu Ke took a sip of tea and shook his head helplessly, saying, "Hua Yi may have a hard time getting through this crisis. From what I know, they have too many bad debts!
It’s fine if the higher-ups don’t investigate, but if they start to conduct an in-depth investigation, I’m afraid they will bleed heavily, and even if they bleed heavily, they may not be able to escape this disaster…”

Speaking of this, Xu Ke was even quite grateful.

Fortunately, when filming "Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings", he did not listen to Wang Zhonglei and did not take any box office share, but chose to take the director's salary.

Otherwise, he might not get a penny now!
There is no problem for this movie to be released in theaters, but the trouble now is that because the company has major financial problems, all marketing activities for the film have been stopped.

Without enough money and resources invested, the film would not have enough exposure.

Without sufficient exposure, how could it possibly compete with "The Richest Man in Xihong City" which was released at the same time?
"I don't know what to do now. If Huayi is really finished, will "The Mermaid 2" also be finished with it?"

Looking at Zhou Xingchi who looked worried, Xu Ke rolled his eyes and suddenly made a bold suggestion: "In my opinion, your sequel movie will definitely be a big hit at the box office.

Now that Huayi has no money to invest in post-production, why don't you invest money yourself, take care of the post-production, and get more shares from Huayi, what do you think?"

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Xingchi's eyes suddenly lit up!
"This is a good idea." He muttered to himself, but then he couldn't help but frowned: "But, it will cost a lot of money to do the later stage. Where can I get so much money? Do I have to take out a loan?"

"You are so confused." Xu Ke pointed out again: "You are the director! At worst, you can make another movie, and when you make money, you can invest it in the post-production of "The Mermaid 2", right?"

"Okay! This is a good idea!"

Zhou Xingchi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he agreed with Xu Ke's suggestion.

His mind was already racing at this point.

Since it has been decided to make another movie to feed back to "The Mermaid 2", it is necessary to ensure that the box office performance of the new movie will not be bad.

Well, what kind of film work can guarantee the box office performance to the greatest extent?
The answer soon came to his mind.

It's a sequel!
At this moment, he suddenly remembered a bold idea he had in 2011.

He wants to present the old story again and give movie fans a brand new experience.

And now is undoubtedly the most appropriate time!
Xu Ke, who was sitting opposite him, watched his expression change constantly and couldn't help but feel curious: "Why? Do you have an idea?"

Zhou Xingchi nodded, picked up the teacup and drank it all, then slowly said: "Do you think that if I make the sequel to "The King of Comedy" "The New King of Comedy", will it be successful?"

After hearing this, Xu Ke was speechless for a moment, yet at the same time he could not hide his envy.

He had to admit that Zhou Xingchi had starred in so many classic works before!
It goes without saying that when the name "The New King of Comedy" comes out, it will inevitably cause a lot of noise and heated discussion in the outside world!
At the same time, while the two of them were chatting enthusiastically about "The New King of Comedy", Fan Luyuan and Yu Dong from Alibaba Pictures had set their sights on a new project.

The two were quite unwilling to miss out on the adaptation rights for the Sichuan Airlines incident.

So after returning from the Civil Aviation Administration, the two began to look for other "social hot events" with the intention of continuing to delve into "main theme movies."

As the old saying goes, where there is a will, there is a way!
With the joint efforts of both teams, they actually found a suitable project.

"7 oil explosion fire!"

When his subordinates placed the long reportage "The Deepest Water is Tears" in front of Fan Luyuan and Yu Dong, they were immediately shocked by the miracle in the world's fire fighting history!

Main-theme movies are the sublimation of the art of living, and one of the important characteristics of movies adapted from news events is their documentary nature.

Based on this, the two can assert that when this incident is adapted into a movie, it will definitely resonate with people from all walks of life and also reap good box office revenue.

Just like "Dying to Survive", the bigger the event, the greater the response it will cause.

The greater the response, the higher the box office results will naturally be.

So, after the two looked at each other, they said almost at the same time: "That's it! Let's do it!"

……

On July 7, the action and comedy film "Hidden Man", directed and starred by Jiang Wen, officially held its premiere in Yanjing.

Chen Fei naturally also received an invitation to the premiere.

However, he was busy registering his beloved son Xiao Shitou, and he also needed to get his first shot of vaccination, so he had to ask Su Guohai to make the trip for him.

"Chen Shaoting?"

Looking at the name of her baby son marked on the household registration book, Liu Yifei felt quite novel and kept muttering to herself.

Chen Fei said softly, "Shao means 'inheritance', and Ting means 'family, country and the world', which means being able to take on great responsibilities. If this were in ancient times, 'Little Stone' would be the eldest son of our family and would inherit the family business in the future!"

Miss Liu turned her head and asked curiously, "What do you plan to let him inherit? Become a director too?"

"It depends on his own preference."

Fade Chen shrugged, indicating that there was no problem on his side.

The road has already been paved for him, business empire or film and television giant, it's up to him to choose.

I don't know if the little stone in the cradle understood what Chen Fei said, but he clenched his little fists and suddenly waved them in the air, as if to say "Just watch me".

Chen Fei said in a very arrogant tone: "Look, my son has great ambitions! It seems like he follows me!"

"Huh, look at you, you're so cocky."

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes in a very beautiful way, looking quite "charming".

Chen Fei's hands uncontrollably rested on her waist, and then began to move upwards...

"Snapped--"

The crisp sound echoed in the bedroom. Liu Yifei withdrew her hand and glared at him unhappily: "You have been patient for ten months, why can't you bear it now?"

Chen Fei laughed and extended his hand again.

This time, Liu Yifei did not refuse. She just whispered as he pressed on her: "Be gentle, and remember to control yourself! I don't want to get pregnant with a second child before I'm out of confinement."

Chen Fei did not answer out loud, but just nodded in response.

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