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Director Kang naturally understood Zhang Yang's words. His brows furrowed even deeper. He picked up his wine glass and took a sip of wine and said, "Forget it, let's not talk about it anymore. The filming of "The Founding of an Army" will start on August 1st." , Come and support me when the time comes." He said another thing.

"Who directed and who starred?" Zhang Yang asked.

"Directed by Liu Weiqiang, starring Liu Ye, Liu Haoran..."

Director Kang named a bunch of names, and Zhang Yang immediately retreated and asked, "Why doesn't Huang Jianxin come to be the director?"

As for Liu Weiqiang's resume, it would be amazing if he could do "The Founding of an Army" well, but he is not as good as Huang Jianxin.

Director Kang didn't say anything. Thinking about it, when the first part of the trilogy came out, the entire entertainment industry was in a stir. When the second part came out, doubts were everywhere. Can he still direct the third part?
Can Zhang Yang, who even Huang Jianxin is hiding from, join in the fun?

He came here specifically to talk to Zhang Yang about these two things, but he failed to do either of them. Everything really went wrong.

Tonight's banquet ended like this. Kang Dong and Hua Yi were disappointed, while Xingmei and Wanda returned home having achieved their goals.

The filming of "The Meg" officially started on the 23rd. This part was shot in a studio, not an underwater production center.
It tells the story that during a deep-sea rescue a few years ago, Statham drove away in the rescue capsule out of overall considerations, leaving half of the American soldiers in the submarine to receive lunch.

This plot ended one day, and the next day was Liu Yifei's scene. The heroine in the original plot was like a lunatic and had no common sense. She drove a submarine and turned on a searchlight in the deep sea, but she immediately attracted a giant octopus.

Of course Zhang Yang had to change it, and changed it to not turning on the lights. As a result, he was unlucky and encountered a big octopus.

This big octopus was made directly from special effects. In reality, Wia was used to control the submarine prop driven by Liu Yifei to shake in the underwater production center, as if it was entangled by the octopus.

Zhang Yang looked at the footage shot underwater by the studio team on the monitor. He was indeed someone who had been practicing for a month, not bad!
The plot here also needs to show the wisdom of the heroine, so after accidentally discovering that an octopus is coming to entangle her, Liu Yifei has to drive a submarine to entangle it. In the final battle of wits and courage, the big octopus is too fierce and still entangles Liu Yifei. submarine.

With Zhang Yang changing the script like this, Liu Yifei's scene would take a long time to shoot, and the special effects would cost a lot more, but it was worth it to reflect the heroine's wisdom and bravery.

Before the submarine went down, Zhang Yang told Liu Yifei: "If you feel any discomfort underwater, please tell me immediately and I will pull the machine up immediately."

"There's an oxygen bottle inside, so why are you afraid?" Liu Yifei said nonchalantly. She looked very cool in black clothes today. After saying that, she immediately walked into the machine. She was not afraid at all.

Zhang Yang looked at her back and shook his head.

"Director Zhang, you don't know that Sissi is not afraid of anything new. Instead, she really likes to try things. She used to dare to touch any animal on the set." Shu Chang explained from the side.

"Really? I only heard that she was very courageous when riding a horse, but I didn't expect such things." Zhang Yang was slightly surprised after hearing this.

The scene with the giant octopus took three days to shoot and it ended with it being swallowed by a shark. The huge shark prop is really difficult to operate underwater, but this is the first time the shark has officially appeared in the movie, so we have to be extra careful.

The seven-meter-long prop suddenly hit Liu Yifei's submarine under the drag of Wia. Even without special effects, Zhang Yang enjoyed watching it behind the monitor.

Next, Statham also drove the submarine to rescue people. Zhang Yang changed the script again. After Statham lured away the megalodon, Liu Yifei did not take the opportunity to return to the shore. Instead, he drove the submarine to rescue people.

The submarine's space was limited, so she only rescued one person. Statham had to rescue the remaining people, but he only saved half of them.

After returning to the shore, the heroine did not confront the hero without thinking. Instead, she helped treat the injured colleague.

However, the conflict cannot be ignored, so Zhang Yang arranged this plot with an American actor. After all, it was the Americans who originally had the biggest objection to Statham.

The American soldiers he failed to save five years ago had no reason for the heroine to be excited.

Next came the trivial plot arrangements. In the blink of an eye, time came to the 27th. On this morning, Meibo announced that they had accepted Zhang Yang’s exclusive financing.

However, the specific amount has not been announced. After all, they are not a listed company. Industry insiders were surprised when they heard about the specific situation. How did Zhang Yang negotiate such a low valuation?

But before everyone could discuss the news, Maojing Company announced the successful completion of its independent spin-off and the introduction of new investors for a strategic reorganization. Fiber Optic Media became an important shareholder of Maoyan.

Fiber Optics is a listed company, and they must explain everything in this transaction clearly.

Everyone soon learned that Fiber Optic had exchanged 6% of its shares and 24 billion in cash for 60% of Maojing’s shares, thus achieving control of this online movie distribution platform.

In this way, optical fiber has completed its embrace of the Internet in an unexpected way. Their company's current comprehensive film distribution capabilities can be said to be the first in the industry.

And the most injured person here is Ahri. They spent money to strategically invest in fiber optics, and as a result they became direct competitors with fiber optics. Do they want fiber optics to do well? Or do you want to do well? This is a difficult question!
The movie "The Meg" happened to be filming an office scene that day, and everyone also saw this series of news during the break.

So a group of staff members secretly glanced at Zhang Yang from time to time during the discussion. It was because his past investment performance was so impressive.

Even Shu Chang, who was resting with Liu Yifei, looked like he was having fun.

"Sissi, your family's money is as countless as the lions in Marco Polo Bridge." Shu Chang teased Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes at Shu Chang and said: "501."

"What?" Shu Chang didn't react for a moment.

"The 501 lions in Marco Polo Bridge have been counted long ago." Liu Yifei complained expressionlessly. She felt that besides being too beautiful, she had another problem: her family was too rich.

The next day, the entire world's entertainment gossip belonged to Depp. After he announced his divorce on the 26th, his wife Amber sued him for domestic violence on the 28th.

Oh my god, the pirate captain turned out to be a domestic violence man. This is shattering.

At this time, no one would have thought that the photos of Amber's bruises around her eyes were her own makeup.

She has developed a new makeup line called Domestic Violence Makeup! This sister is really talented.

Time flies by in June, and "Skyscraper" is finally released, with a final box office revenue of 12.5 billion. This time, they actively contacted Zhang Yang to hold a celebration banquet, but Zhang Yang is currently unavailable for this celebration banquet. It needs to be postponed for more than a month. This day begins with the journey of filming the carnage of the first megalodon.

This time, Zhang Yang had a conscience and gave Statham the task of setting up the locator. Otherwise, he would be a pure tool man protagonist in this movie.

At the end of the day's shooting, Liu Yifei returned to the hotel and after dinner, she couldn't wait to go back to her room to do some errands.

She wanted to video chat with her child. Today was Children's Day. In the past ten days, she had only video chatted with her child twice. What made her a little disappointed was that Zhang Hongyi didn't seem to miss her very much. Instead, he was playing with her mother at home. Very happy.

Zhang Yang sat silently next to Liu Yifei and watched her connect the video.

Pictures of Liu’s mother and Zhang Hongyi appeared on the phone.

After Liu Yifei exchanged greetings with her mother, she asked, "What did you bring Yiyi to play with today?"

"Go to the amusement park to watch other people play, go home to swim and play games..." Liu's mother talked a lot.

When Zhang Hongyi saw Liu Yifei on the phone in front of him, he stretched his hand towards the phone. It was obvious that he wanted to touch his mother, but naturally he couldn't.

"Yiyi, do you miss your mother?" Liu Yifei looked at her son and asked.

"I want to." The little guy said carelessly. His little hands were still playing with the phone screen, blocking a lot of the screen.

Liu Yifei felt relieved when she saw the little one having fun. After chatting with her mother for a while, she was about to hang up the video. She looked at Zhang Yang beside her and asked again: "Do you miss your dad?"

"I don't want to." Zhang Hongyi said decisively. If it weren't for Liu Yifei's presence, he wouldn't even think about her mother. What would two people who would beat him have to think about.

Liu Yifei burst into laughter after hearing this. Zhang Yang looked at Zhang Hongyi's expression and moved closer to Liu Yifei, showing his face in her mobile phone camera.

Zhang Hongyi looked at Zhang Yang's profile picture on the phone, and retreated into Liu's mother's arms, and stopped tapping the phone screen.

"Yes, I miss my dad." The little guy said to the phone screen in the arms of Mother Liu.

As soon as Zhang Hongyi's words came out, the three of them laughed. The little guy knew how to assess the situation very well.

"Then how about I go back to accompany you?" Zhang Yang teased his son and said.

"Okay." Zhang Hongyi said okay, but he was a little confused. He didn't want his father to accompany him at all, unless there was no one else to accompany him.

After the video call ended, Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei felt much more relaxed.

Time has come to the third day, and the Huabiao Awards announced the shortlist today. 28 films including "New Journey", "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" and "One Hundred Regiments" were nominated.

"New Journey" was nominated for best director in addition to best feature film. This time, only two films were nominated for best director, and one was Xu Ke's "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom."

The Huabiao Award is the official award in the film industry. Basically, if you are nominated, you have a high chance of winning. He initiated the award to be more generous than the Golden Rooster. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is wholesale.

The announcement of the film list for this year's Huabiao Awards still caused a bit of trouble. Because it has been so long, many people miss it. After all, it is also an award and there are a lot of bonuses.

It has been three years since the last one.

Zhang Yang had known the news for a long time, so he seemed very calm about the people who came to congratulate him.

Shu Chang came over to congratulate Zhang Yang and then returned to Liu Yifei and sighed to her: "I feel that these awards will not cause any waves for Zhang Yang."

Liu Yifei smiled slightly and did not explain too much. If Shu Chang knew that Director Zhang had told Zhang Yang about this a long time ago, he would not have such emotion.

The filming of the movie also reached a climax. Liu Yifei went into the water to inject poison into the shark, and Zhang Yang continued to change the plot. After she went into the water in a shark-proof cage that was unbreakable by the megalodon, she was bitten into the mouth by the shark and was about to be eaten alive.

This time she is not in a coma and needs to be saved by the hero.

Instead, he broke out of the shark-proof cage at the critical moment. Of course, it was Statham who had to deal with her.

This scene is Liu Yifei's biggest underwater scene so far.

After Liu Yifei took the oxygen bottle into the water, she first used Wia to control the anti-shark cage to fly around.

Only when the anti-shark cage is swallowed into the mouth will the megalodon props be used.

As soon as Zhang Yang started shooting, the shooting officially started. After the cage flew around for a while, Zhang Yang frowned and said: "Stop."

After he finished speaking, he walked over to the employees who were controlling Wia.

"What are you afraid of?" Zhang Yang asked.

Several employees looked at Zhang Yang and smiled awkwardly without saying a word.

"You set the speed of the anti-shark cage so slowly, which shows how powerful the megalodon is." Zhang Yang said solemnly.

"Boss, if you use too much force, you may break the oxygen bottle." an employee reminded.

(End of this chapter)