Become famous another day.

"Mosi didn't renew the contract with us and went to find Ji Miao."

The agent told Zhan Yun.

Zhan Yun was a little surprised when he heard this, but he was not too angry.

"It was Ji Miao's endorsement brand before. After the endorsement period ended, they said that because Ji Miao had been pursuing the film route and his popularity among the public was not high enough, they found us. Why did they go back to us now?"

"Last year, the movie "Fake Death" had a high box office, which greatly increased her fame and popularity. This time, another movie was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Jose-La Film Festival. Maybe they are optimistic about her further improvement in the future, so they found her again."

Zhan Yun nodded.

“Okay,” she said, “I don’t really want to endorse this brand.”

Agent: "Among the young actresses, you are firmly in the first tier. Ji Miao used to maintain her status purely by pretending to be a movie star. In fact, in terms of fame and popularity, she is far inferior to you guys. "Fake Death" has brought her a real boost."

"We just need to do our best," said Zhan Yun.

"Of course." The agent said with a smile, "No matter how anxious others are, you don't have to worry. With the Friends series in hand, you don't have to worry about these things. But, has Lu Yanhe told you how many seasons Friends plans to have?"

"I didn't say it."

“Hopefully there will be more seasons.”

Apart from "Friends", the reputations of other TV series and movies starring Zhan Yun are relatively average, and there has not been another drama that can reach such a high level.

This actually has some impact on Zhan Yun’s pay.

Because as long as she doesn't act in "Friends", her attention and other aspects will be much less.

Of course, this does not affect her achievements in other areas. The role of Li Lili has blessed her and made her very popular in fashion, business, etc. However, the audience seems to only be willing to accept her playing Li Lili and does not want to see her play other roles.

Zhan Yun doesn’t know how many more seasons of "Friends" will be filmed. She still hopes that in addition to "Friends", she can have other representative works. She doesn’t ask for them to be as successful as "Friends", but at least they can be recognized by the audience.

Zhan Yun asked: "Have you received any good scripts recently?"

The agent shook his head.

“They are all very ordinary.”

Zhan Yun: "What if you don't care about the pay?"

"It's not a matter of pay, but the scripts that were sent over are all of a very simple type, and they all feature characters that are particularly similar to Li Lili," said the agent.

Upon hearing this, Zhan Yun said, "Then please show me all the scripts that are acceptable."

The agent asked, “All of them?”

"Ah."

The agent hesitated to speak.

Ever since Zhan Yun broke up with Yang Zhoujin, she has changed a lot, even after she got together with Yin Xincheng, she remained the same.

In the past, Zhan Yun was not so concerned about her career.

At least she won't ask her agent for scripts.

This is also related to the fact that Zhan Yun became famous too early. She had a lot of things early on. People around her praised her and she lacked nothing.

The agent also did not expect that a breakup with Yang Zhoujin would give this young girl, who had never paid much attention to her career, suddenly some fighting spirit.

She went downstairs with her agent.

"Xiao Yun!" the agent suddenly reminded.

Zhan Yun noticed her reminder and looked in the direction she was looking. Yang Zhoujin, who had not appeared for a long time, was actually downstairs, holding a motorcycle helmet in his hand and chatting and laughing with the girl at the front desk.

As if he noticed the movement of Zhan Yun and the others coming down, Yang Zhoujin looked over.

Zhan Yun looked at him expressionlessly, but she was actually a little confused. She had not yet cultivated a big heart that could be calm when facing Yang Zhoujin.

The agent asked, "Do you need me to call a bodyguard?"

Zhan Yun thought for a moment and said, "Go ahead and yell. Who knows what kind of crazy thing he'll do next."

"Zhan Yun, we haven't seen each other for so many days, let's chat!" Yang Zhoujin said loudly.

Zhan Yun was about to speak when she suddenly noticed that someone next to her was holding up a cell phone and seemed to be secretly filming.

She pointed it out directly and asked, "Did you bring people here specifically for the shoot?"

Yang Zhoujin looked at the person who was taking the photos with some surprise, then strode over and knocked the phone in the other person's hand to the ground with a wave of his hand.

"Who the hell allowed you to take pictures?" Yang Zhoujin's face looked very ugly.

Zhan Yun and her agent continued to walk down.

"Why does he know I'm here?" asked Zhan Yun.

She had a business photo shoot at this company today, but her schedule was not made public.

The agent said: "With his power, it is not difficult for him to find out your whereabouts."

The bodyguards came over, four of them, and met Zhan Yun at the stairs.

The person whose phone was knocked away dared not say anything.

Yang Zhoujin turned around and looked at Zhan Yun.

"How about it?"

Zhan Yun looked at him in silence for a while and said, "You should know that what you did before was pretty asshole, right?"

"I admit that I'm a bit of an asshole, but I never do things in vain." Yang Zhoujin walked up to Zhan Yun.

The bodyguard stood in front of Zhan Yun.

Yang Zhoujin smiled and raised his chin, "Are you so wary of me now?"

"Who knows what's wrong with you now?" Zhan Yun said, "I don't know what you want to talk to me about, but I don't want to talk to you. I also hope that I will have nothing to do with you in the future. Please don't come to me again."

Yang Zhoujin was stunned for a moment and nodded.

"Okay, it's enough for me to hear you say that in person." He turned and left without any reluctance at all.

Such a quick and decisive speed surprised Zhan Yun.

The agent asked in surprise: "He's leaving now?"

Zhan Yun nodded, confused for a long time, "It seems so."

"I don't understand."

"I don't understand either." said Zhan Yun.

At the same time, she also breathed a sigh of relief. I don't know how to say it, Zhan Yun was really a little worried that Yang Zhoujin would continue to go crazy because of her rejection.

As if the agent heard the voice in her heart, she said, "Luckily you broke up with him, otherwise, to be honest, Xiaoyun, you are no match for him."

Upon hearing this, Zhan Yun did not point out whether the word "opponent" was used incorrectly.

When two of them are together, they are lovers, not rivals.

Perhaps, subconsciously, her agent did not think that they were on equal footing. From the moment she met him, she was just his prey, to be toyed with or abandoned at will.

At this moment, Zhan Yun truly felt a little hurt in her self-esteem.
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After leaving for the Jose-Cebu International Film Festival, Chen Ziyan said to Lu Yanhe: "I am now very curious whether Yang Zhouli will go to Jose-Cebu International Film Festival again."

"Shouldn't he go to organize the Shijin Night?" Lu Yanhe asked, "If he doesn't go, what will happen to this event?"

Now basically everyone in the industry knows that Shi Jin has made up his mind to enter the entertainment industry, including movies.

The "Shijin Night" held at the Jose-La Roche Film Festival was a huge investment, just to make a name for itself.

Although Lu Yanhe has not yet agreed to attend, many celebrities have already confirmed that they will participate in the event that night, including Shang Yongzhou and Jiang Yuqian.

Chen Ziyan was reluctant to give in just to leave some room for maneuver and wait and see which way the wind would blow.

Sure enough, Yang Zhoujin appeared again.

As soon as he appeared, Yang Zhouli "disappeared".

Very strange.

Although Yang Zhoujin is now being mocked by the entire network, being called a habitual violent offender and a shameless person, he is like a peacock with its feathers spread out, no matter who scolds it, it will show itself off with great energy and without any restraint.

Basically, one live broadcast a day.

During every live broadcast, he would curse Yang Zhouli, saying that he was cunning, an old fox, cruel, very good at cheating people, etc.

After playing it a few times, people started talking about it in the barrage room.

If a person has such great hatred for another person that he is willing to express it even at the cost of being scolded, it means that there must be something wrong with the other person.

Some media outlets came out and insinuated that Yang Zhouli wanted to fight for power and take away the business from Yang Zhoujin.

While there were many different opinions, before the opening of the Jose-La-Jacques Film Festival, Chen Ziyan suddenly received news.

"This time, the person who represented Shi Jin to the Hexi Film Festival became Yang Zhoujin." Chen Ziyan said to Lu Yanhe with a dark face, "He really is haunting us."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yanhe was surprised and astonished.

"Where's Yang Zhouli?"

"I don't know." Chen Ziyan shook her head. "No one knows. It's very strange. After Yang Zhoujin announced in a live broadcast that he beat Yang Zhouli, Yang Zhouli disappeared."

Lu Yanhe: "This family is also very strange, it's like only one person can be outside at the same time. Before, Yang Zhoujin disappeared, so Yang Zhouli was very active outside. Now Yang Zhoujin is jumping around, and Yang Zhouli is gone."

"Who can tell what kind of internal struggles there are in other people's families? We are just bystanders." Chen Ziyan said, "Fortunately, we didn't agree to go to the Shijin Night before. Since Yang Zhoujin represented the Shijin Group, we definitely wouldn't go."

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, "It's okay to deal with Yang Zhouli, but if I deal with Yang Zhoujin, it would really make me blacken my eyes."

"Shijin's stock price has been falling. I don't know why Shijin would let Yang Zhoujin keep jumping around outside." Chen Ziyan was also confused.

"No matter how much trouble the most favored child in the family can cause, there will always be someone to clean up the mess behind him," Lu Yanhe complained.
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This time, those who want to go to Hexi and Lu Yanhe only need to go three days before the closing ceremony.

Because the world premiere of "Burning" was three days before the closing ceremony.

This fantasy blockbuster with an all-star cast is finally coming to you.

Lu Yanhe was actually looking forward to seeing what this movie would look like.

Because several people have told him that the special effects in this movie are really good.

Longyan invested a huge amount of money in this movie.

However, this also means that the box office pressure of this movie is relatively high. According to the current production cost, plus the estimated publicity and promotion cost, the box office of this movie must reach 1 billion in order to recover the cost in the theater box office.

After all, the current derivative income of Chinese-language films is still relatively average. Even if we take into account the TV broadcast rights, streaming copyrights and overseas distribution, including some subsequent copyright income, the total income brought to Longyan is unlikely to exceed 100 million yuan under normal circumstances.

These are not issues that Lu Yanhe needs to worry about.

Longyan is a professional in making blockbuster films. If it didn’t understand these aspects, it would have gone bankrupt long ago.

In fact, everyone's expectations for "Burning Fire" are quite high. It is a blockbuster movie, starring two movie emperors, Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou, and has an all-star lineup. Plus, it is a traditional and strong company like Longyan. In everyone's mind, a box office of 1 billion is just a guarantee.

However, those who are really engaged in the film industry cannot let go of their worries until the first day box office is released. It is impossible to let go of it. The film market is full of risks. Even if it is a sequel to a series, once the audience does not buy it, the box office will decline quickly.

This time, Longyan is coming to Hexi to hold the world premiere and sell the film, and also to recover some profits in advance to reduce the pressure.

After all, the golden signboard of "Lu Yanhe as the lead actor" is still popular in the international market.
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For such a Chinese blockbuster with an all-star cast, even if it was just a film in the screening unit, the Jose Antonio Film Festival gave the film the largest screening theater and held a grand premiere.

After Lu Yanhe arrived in Jose, he went to the magazine office of "Jose Film" as usual.

Almost every time he comes here, he meets with the magazine's executive editor, Evan Gardi.

Especially this time, he came with a mission, bringing an invitation letter in person, inviting him to attend the Jump Up International Film Critics Film Festival next month.

He came to support last time.

It was agreed long ago that Evan Gardi would attend the event. Lu Yanhe's invitation was just a formality, a "show" to be posted on their social media. For Evan Gardi, as the editor-in-chief of "Joseph Films", it is very normal for him to attend some famous international film festivals. It would be abnormal not to attend. However, it is very rare to "send a notice" in advance to support him.

Lu Yanhe's close relationship with the media and commentary circles around the world has always puzzled many people.

why?
If the current Lu Yanhe is the filmmaker they want to befriend, what about before?
Why did the media and critics seem to favor him when he first became famous? They sang praises for him starting with "Three Mountains"?
An actor is often more likely to be praised when he first appears, and everyone is still tolerant. However, such praise is often difficult to sustain, because everyone will become more and more picky, especially for increasingly familiar faces.

However, Lu Yanhe broke this rule.
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Despite this, before the release of the movie "Burning", Chen Ziyan was actually a little worried about whether the movie would receive a cold reception at the Netherlands-Spain Film Festival.

Commercial films starring Lu Yanhe have never been screened at film festivals.

"Burning Fire" is the first one.

Will the critics receive negative criticism because this movie is a commercial film?

Although Chen Ziyan also knows that, in fact, the critics are not so hostile to commercial films and praise art films. Generally speaking, people treat them separately and do not treat commercial films with the same standards as art films.

No one would be so stupid as to try to find the subtle and complex aspects of human nature in commercial films.

However, commercial films are also divided into popcorn movies and expressive commercial films.

If it were a popcorn movie, everyone would definitely criticize it mercilessly.

Lu Yanhe is not worried that the theme and subject of "Burning Fire" itself will not be well received. The play itself is a very classic theme narrative, one is revenge, and the other is patricide. In human history and culture, these two themes themselves represent the resistance and struggle consciousness of human spirit.

Under this theme, the transformation of the two characters from the beginning to the end, including from hostility to cooperation, is all carried out according to the character logic and story logic under the theme. In particular, Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou both handle these two characters in a more restrained and implicit way to express their reasons for the characters, with less superficial and direct interpretation, which can lead to a deeper understanding.

Lu Yanhe was not worried about these things. He was only worried about whether everyone could accept the concept of "ritual".

Of course, Westerners have magic, and there is nothing they cannot accept.

However, Lu Yanhe still admires Longyan’s courage in screening "Burning" at the Jose-La-Señora Film Festival.

When the project of "Burning Fire" was first launched, although the slogan was to make an international blockbuster, in fact they themselves were very clear that "Burning Fire" was only intended to break through the overseas box office results in several countries in Asia.

However, two years later, Chinese-language films have been performing better and better at the overseas box office in the past two years. In addition, international film producers are very interested in films starring Lu Yanhe and are willing to distribute them. This has given Long Yan ideas about "Burning Fire" in Europe and the United States.

The screening time of "Burning Fire" is in the evening.

The red carpet starts at 6:30 pm.

According to the official arrangement of the film festival, Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou first walked the red carpet separately, providing the media present with an opportunity to take pictures of them separately, and then they walked it again with the crew.

They are the biggest stars in the film, so it is normal for the film festival officials to make this arrangement.

However, Lu Yanhe did not expect that Yang Zhoujin would also come to the premiere of their movie.

I was invited by Longyan.

Lu Yanhe saw him in the backstage, but didn't say hello or pay any attention to him.

Long Yan did a terrible job in this matter. He didn't believe that Long Yan didn't know what happened in their live broadcast room before. Even if they wanted to invite Yang Zhoujin for business reasons, they should at least give him a heads up in advance, but they didn't even give him a heads up.

This time, Chen Ziyan did not come with him. Lu Yanhe thought about it and said nothing. However, when Mrs. Huang and Yang Zhoujin were about to come over to greet him, he noticed it out of the corner of his eye and turned around and walked to the other side.

Maxine's Zhong Benshuo is here today too.

Zhong Benshuo has been keeping an eye on this movie and is determined to get it.

After all, Maxine itself is the largest streaming media in Asia, and this film has been widely reported by film media in various Asian countries since the project was launched. Starring Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou, as well as many Chinese movie stars, this all-star lineup is appealing even in Japan, South Korea, India and Thailand.

There are many such precedents.

There are several such so-called star-studded blockbusters in South Korea every year. Although their box office performances vary, none of them can achieve good results on streaming media.

Therefore, Zhong Benshuo attached great importance to it and wanted to get this movie.

Zhong Benshuo was quite surprised that Lu Yanhe would come to him on his own initiative.

"Yanhe, you are so hardworking. Another movie is coming to us." Zhong Benshuo said enthusiastically, "I really want to shoot a documentary about you, recording your year, to see how much you can accomplish in a year."

Lu Yanhe smiled gently.

"If you want to make this documentary and have a good filming plan, it's not impossible." Lu Yanhe said, "Are you here today to get the exclusive rights to the streaming media?"

Zhong Benshuo said: "Of course, I am your loyal fan. I have actively bid for every drama of yours."

"Thank you. It seems that my ever-increasing salary is due to you." Lu Yanhe smiled.

Zhong Benshuo: "But we gave you so many scripts, and you didn't act in them."

"Not really suitable. Of course I'd be willing to act if there was a suitable script." Lu Yanhe said with a smile, "But you always give me scripts that others don't want, so of course I don't like them."

Zhong Benshuo was "shocked" and immediately said, "How is it possible? You were the first choice actor for the scripts we gave you, how could others look down on you?"

"Then why didn't you come to me for the projects you made last year, 'The Past' and 'Burning Portrait'?" Lu Yanhe asked directly.

Both "Past" and "Burning Portrait" were produced and released by Maxine last year. One starred a Korean actor and the other starred an Asian-American actor. They were shortlisted for the four major international film festivals and were also on the list of various film media in their annual reviews.

Zhong Benshuo said helplessly: "These two films are projects controlled by the directors. We at Maxine are only responsible for providing funds, and they find the actors themselves."

Lu Yanhe: "I believe what you said, but you saw what kind of movie I am willing to act in."

Zhong Benshuo: “…”

The scripts that Zhong Benshuo found from Lu Yanhe were basically TV series. There were also movies, but they were all action or comedies calculated based on the preferences of streaming media users. Simply put, they were a new generation of "popcorn" movies.

Of course Lu Yanhe wouldn't answer it.

Lu Yanhe stopped talking and smiled at Zhong Benshuo, "But I really won't be able to handle the next one or two years. I really don't have time to act in your project. I'll wait until I'm done with it in the next one or two years."
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The screening room for "Burning Fire" is very large.

Many people came to watch this film. Again, although this is a commercial blockbuster, the fact that Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou co-starred in the film was enough to attract all filmmakers to come and take a look.

After the lively greetings, the movie began.

……

Soon, Lu Yanhe was shocked.

What is a fantasy blockbuster.

When he was filming on the spot, he had no idea that the movie world presented on the screen would be like this.

Magnificent and grand.

Especially the construction of the wizard's world reminded Lu Yanhe of the two film series "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter". It has constructed a completely new worldview.

This movie does not give a panoramic introduction in any way, but instead develops little by little as the characters move.

Lu Yanhe's focus on this movie is all on the world view and special effects.

Lu Yanhe was amazed by many places. It has a typical Chinese aesthetic, and it is not limited to the beauty of buildings such as "pavilions and towers", but also includes the use of every technique.

During the on-site filming, Lu Yanhe had no idea what his technique would look like, it was all based on his imagination.

Now, it has been materialized on the screen, and every special effect is different. In Lu Yanhe's opinion, it can be described in one word: shocking.
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"This movie must be watched in the cinema." Lu Yanhe immediately posted on Weibo, his excitement and excitement were beyond words, saying: "This is the first time I have watched the finished film of "Burning Fire", it is completely beyond my imagination when it was filming!"

There was warm applause at the scene.

Many people's eyes were filled with amazement.

Lu Yanhe looked at Shang Yongzhou.

Shang Yongzhou also looked at him.

They all saw an emotion called "relief" in each other's eyes.

The more top-notch actors are, the more they are afraid of participating in the filming of such blockbusters. It's not just a matter of artistic pursuit and aesthetics, but this kind of film is actually very difficult to imagine.

When I got the script of "Love Letter", I had an idea of ​​what the movie would be like.

But for a movie like "Burning," to be honest, the fight scene at the end, which lasts almost fifteen minutes, only has a few lines in the script.

how to think?
Therefore, it really takes some courage and determination to take on this kind of film.

They took on this film because Longyan was a reliable company and Wanrenhai was a mature and famous director who had made such big productions. But this did not make them feel that they could rest assured.

After all, even with such a configuration, a lot of bad movies were made.

There are too many bad movies like this in the history of Chinese films.

What makes Lu Yanhe so excited is that even though Wanrenhai has achieved such a high level of special effects in the movie, he still hasn't forgotten the original intention of telling a good story.

Many blockbusters pursue scenes, visuals, and special effects, but forget that stories are the foundation of everything.

Wanrenhai even kept the scene where Lu Yanhe left at the end, and that look that could last a thousand years.

Lu Yanhe breathed a sigh of relief.

As an actor, he feels that the real highlight of his performance in this movie is actually this one look.

To some extent, other scenes are just “process scenes” for him, even the “important scenes” with emotional outbursts.
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After the premiere, Longyan also held a post-screening reception.

Various media, film critics, producers, film distributors, etc. were all invited.

Of course, the role of "public relations" is mainly played in this occasion.

What Lu Yanhe cares most about is everyone's evaluation of this movie.

"This is a very great movie." Some people would describe it in such an exaggerated tone.

Some people would say: "This is indeed a good movie, but I still prefer movies like "Road to Glory". Your cooperation with Shang Yongzhou again should not be put in such a special effects blockbuster. Although both of you tried your best, in fact, the protagonists of this movie are all kinds of gorgeous special effects scenes."

Lu Yanhe listened carefully.

Lu Yanhe could actually accept all of these.

What Lu Yanhe finds a little unacceptable is that some people think that the movie "Burning Fire" has the shadow of those classic Western fantasy blockbusters.

shadow.

This word is used very cleverly. It means that the person who said this can't find any evidence that "Burning" is similar to other movies - or directly plagiarizes them, but he still uses this word to vaguely refer to something.

Lu Yanhe said to him, "Really? This movie is actually derived from the oriental magicians in traditional Chinese culture. What aspects make you feel that it has shadows of those other movies?"

The other party is a British film media reporter.

He said: "This system of techniques is actually very similar to magic."

"That's really different." Lu Yanhe said, "In the records of various countries and nations, there are contents about supernatural powers. If you learn a little bit, you should know that the basis of the ritual is not magic, but a logical system that is unique to us, such as yin and yang, such as the five elements, wood produces fire, fire produces earth, earth produces gold, gold produces water, and water produces wood. These things should not exist in magic, right?"

The British reporter was scolded by Lu Yanhe and smiled awkwardly, "I just said they look very similar."

"It's true that they are similar because they are both supernatural powers, but they are not shadows." Lu Yanhe didn't mind at all that he seemed a little stubborn at the moment.
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Over there, Chung Ben-suk has offered $1500 million to acquire the distribution rights for the film "Burning" outside of mainland China.

However, Longyan did not give in.

If it is streaming rights, they might also consider getting global distribution rights outside of mainland China? Do they think they are the wronged? Given the current situation of this movie, the box office in Asian theaters alone is more than this number.

Zhong Benshuo was not in a hurry either. As for the quotation, isn't it just that I give a price and you bargain for it, it's a back and forth process.

He has dealt with Long Yan many times and is very familiar with the other party's routines.

In fact, Midoriya is here too.

Midoriya is willing to offer $5 million to buy the distribution rights of this film outside of mainland China.

This is different from the exclusive copyright of streaming media. The latter is a one-time deal, while the former will still enjoy box office revenue.

Five million dollars for the distribution rights is not low. However, Longyan is not a small company. They know better than the price figure what scale Midoriya plans to use to distribute "Burning Fire" is the key.

If Green Valley doesn’t plan to be released worldwide in the end, but instead goes directly to the rental route, then Longyan’s revenue will not be that much.

Longyan hopes that Lvgu can promise that the film will be shown in at least 800 theaters in North America for more than two weeks, and will also be released on a large scale in other countries.

Midoriya has some doubts about this. (End of this chapter)