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Chapter 141 Crazy Stone

"Can't you see such a beautiful beauty?" Yang Mi replied a text message to Wang Shu.

"Big beauty? Where is she? There's no one in front of me. Is there still a ghost?" Wang Shu continued to tease, pretending not to understand.

"A ghost will scare you to death!" Yang Mi replied angrily as she became more and more aware that Wang Shu did it on purpose.

Then he replied, "You just can't see such a big beauty from Kyodian School, right? Hmph!"

After Yang Mi entered the Beijing Film Academy, she was regarded as the "school beauty".

There are "school beauties" and there are "school beauties".

Another rich second generation named Hua Han is the "campus" of the Beijing Film Academy.

Yang Mi and him are boyfriend and girlfriend.

The two dated back and forth for about a year.

Later, when Jing Tian entered the Beijing Film Academy, Hua Han turned his attention to Jing Tian.

Yang Mi also broke up with Hua Han.

At the same time, all the teachers and students at Jingdian School knew that there was a licking dog named Ma Lianyu beside Yang Mi.

This one, if you have nothing to do, come close to Yang Mi and lick her hard.

In the end, hard work paid off, and after Yang Mi broke up with Hua Han, she succeeded in taking over.

"Jingdian school beauty? Are you talking about Liu Yifei?" Wang Shu deliberately said.

The school beauties of Jingdian are Liu Yifei in Grade 02, Zhang Jiani in Grade 03, Huang Miaohan in Grade 04, Yang Mi in Grade 05, and Zhang Meng in Grade 06.

When Yang Mi saw Wang Shu's reply, she felt uncomfortable instantly. She replied angrily: "Director Wang only has Liu Yifei in his eyes, right?"

"No, I don't pay much attention to Jingdian. I only know that Liu Yifei is Jingdian's school beauty. When I saw you talking about Jingdian's school beauty, who else could it be if it wasn't Liu Yifei?" Wang Shu continued to deliberately pretend to be confused.

"Liu Yifei is the school beauty of grade 02, I'm talking about the school beauty of grade 05!" Yang Mi replied indignantly.

"So there are classes for school beauties? I never went to college, so I don't know." Wang Shu replied to the message.

When Yang Mi saw the content in the text message, she felt even more sulky in her heart.

I felt uncomfortable and confused at the same time.

This text message made her not even know whether what Wang Shu said before was true or false.

Because, if Wang Shu didn't know this because he never went to college, then he might have subconsciously thought that the school beauty she mentioned was Liu Yifei.

"Did you misunderstand Director Wang?" Yang Mi couldn't help but mutter.

Then he replied to the message: "Liu Yifei is the school beauty of grade 02, and I am the school beauty of grade 05!"

Wang Shu felt happy when he saw Yang Mi's reply.

After all, there are only a few who can speak openly and openly about the flattery of classmates like Yang Mi.

She is worthy of being the girl who will be able to reach the top of her life by relying on a gambling agreement. Her psychological quality is extraordinary.

"So you are the school beauty of grade 05?" Wang Shu pretended to be surprised and remained silent about other things.

Yang Mi proudly replied to the text message: "So, Director Wang doesn't have any ideas?"

"Ideas? To you? Classmate Yang Mi, what do you mean?" Wang Shu replied to the text message pretending to be angry.

Seeing the text message Wang Shu replied, Yang Mi also found that the content she had sent before was ambiguous, and immediately replied: "I mean Director Wang has never thought of asking me to act?"

"Uh, so I'm looking for you to act in a show? I thought you were talking about other things. I was looking forward to it in vain." Wang Shu replied cheerfully.

"What are Director Wang looking forward to?" Yang Mi was also happy when she saw the text message Wang Shu replied, and then asked deliberately.

"What do you think?" Wang Shu asked.

Yang Mi looked at the text message Wang Shu replied and curled her lips slightly. She did not answer the question, but replied with a teasing content: "Don't you see, Director Wang? You are quite boring."

"Mensao? What Mensao? What are you talking about?" Wang Shu replied to the question without saying a word.

"Isn't it Director Wang?" Yang Mixin said, just pretend, and I will quietly watch you pretend at home.

"What's going on? I thought you were going to ask me who is more beautiful, the 02-level school beauty from Kyidian or the 05-level school beauty from KYEC, and I was expecting you to ask me and I would say the one from 02 is more beautiful."

"In the end, what are you talking about?"

Wang Shu replied speechlessly.

"." After Yang Mi read the message Wang Shu replied, even though she was just sending a text message, she blushed and felt ashamed. She quickly replied: "I'm sorry, Director Wang, I was replying to a classmate's text message just now. , I accidentally replied to the wrong one.”

"Reply to a classmate?" Wang Shu didn't care about the reason for Yang Mi's kick, but followed the joke and said, "He's a boyfriend, right? Otherwise, how could we talk about being boring?"

"No, no, I don't have a boyfriend." Yang Mi quickly replied to Wang Shu.

Wang Shu was stunned when he saw Yang Mi's text message and thought to himself, "Aren't you Hua Han's girlfriend?"

He saw through it but didn't say anything, and immediately replied: "So you don't have a boyfriend?"

"Well, I want to focus on my studies and career and not talk about boyfriends for the time being." Yang Mi replied, which in Wang Shu's eyes was nonsense.

"Aren't there any classmates chasing you in school?" Wang Shu replied happily.

"Yes, yes, but they are not my type." Yang Mi replied.

"Then what kind do you like?" Wang Shu asked next.

"This is a secret, I won't tell you." Yang Mi replied unceremoniously.

"Haha, don't fall in love and focus on your studies and career. It seems that you are a good girl?" Wang Shu teased.

"What does it mean that I seem to be a good girl? She is a good girl to begin with, okay?" Yang Mi replied unhappily.

The two of them chatted like this. When the chat was finally over, Yang Mi realized that she originally wanted to ask about Wang Shu's new role in the play, but in the end she didn't ask anything.

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  Suddenly unhappy.

As the days passed, "Time Traveler" was still filming non-stop.

Xu Huanhuan, Yang Mi, Jiang Xin, Shu Chang, as well as Zhou Xun, Ning Jing, Mei Ting, Qin Hailu, Yang Ruoxi and others, everyone who lived in the capital and was familiar with Wang Shu came to visit the class.

After all, the filming location of "Time Traveler" was in the capital, and they were very close to each other, so it was difficult for them to come to visit the studio because of their feelings.

During this period, the relationship between Wang Shu and Sun Li was always limited to the upper body.

Every time it came to the lower body stage, Sun Li pushed him away.

Wang Shu is a gentle and upright person, and he will never use force.

Sun Li felt warm in her heart when she felt Wang Shu's tenderness and respect for her, and the eyes she looked at him became more and more tender.

Wang Shu has now discovered that as long as he does not touch Sun Li's bottom line. Sun Li, I still...enjoy this.

In a blink of an eye, it’s September 6th.

The comedy movie "Crazy Stone" directed by Ning Hao and starring Guo Tao, Huang Bo, Xu Zheng and others held its premiere.

This film was originally called "Big Diamond" and Ning Hao started creating it in 2000.

As a new director, Ning Hao had the opportunity to make "Crazy Stone" into a film because he met Andy Lau.

In 2005, Andy Lau launched the "Asian Rising Star Director" project to select six directors across Asia and then provide money to support them in making movies.

However, he has never found a suitable mainland director.

At that time, the comedy film "Green Grass" written and directed by Ning Hao was released.

The cost of this movie is around 40W.

Ning Hao and his partner Lan Ruilong first raised 20 yuan, and because it was not enough, they recruited others to raise more than yuan.

Then, despite all the stumbling, it was successfully completed.

However, although the movie was made, it made little profit.

For Ning Hao at that time, it was really a big blow.

However, without this movie, he would not have received Andy Lau's investment.

Because after Andy Lau launched the "Rising Star Director" project, he never forgot to look for mainland directors.

Then, I happened to see the movie "Green Grass", and then my eyes lit up and I felt that there was a sense of humor in it that could stay in the hearts of the audience.

The discerning person believed that the new director named Ning Hao was talented, so he asked the staff around him to contact Ning Hao.

Ask Ning Hao if he has any commercial movie script. If so, he will vote for it.

Not only did someone come to invest, but the big boss of the investment was Liu Dehua. Ning Hao was naturally excited and happy.

Then, the script of "Big Diamond", also known as "Crazy Stone", was handed over to Andy Lau.

Andy Lau was very pleasantly surprised after reading the script. He thought "The Big Diamond" was a script that was both Hollywood-like and Hong Kong-style. He was also curious about the effect of the film being shot in the Mainland, and immediately decided to invest.

After evaluation by Liu Dehua's company team, the budget is around 300W.

For a movie, the cost of 300 million W is not high. As one of the "Four Heavenly Kings", Andy Lau can afford this money without any pressure at all.

He invested in the filming of Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" without saying a word.

With the investment, Ning Hao began to prepare for the filming of the movie. Before filming, he went to Yangcheng, Jiangcheng, and mountain cities to view the scenery, and finally decided on the mountain city as the filming location.

With a cost of 300 million, it is obviously impossible to invite well-known actors with high salaries to participate.

Huang Bo, Liu Hua and others were also found.

As for Xu Zheng, Ning Hao initially did not plan to invite him, but wanted to invite Xu Zheng's wife Xiao Tao to play the role of the actor's wife.

Xiao Tao Xin was unable to appear due to schedule reasons.

Xu Zheng is Xiao Tao Xin's husband, and he saw the script of "Crazy Stone" from Xiao Tao Xin.

Then he took the initiative to contact Ning Hao, hoping that he would play the leading role of Bao Shihong.

Ning Haoxin thought that there was such a good thing, so he was naturally very happy.

At this time, Xu Zheng was already quite famous. For him to play the leading role was not only a big gimmick, but also guaranteed the movie's box office.

At the very least, with Xu Zhengzai, it won't make people feel like a bad movie at first glance.

Xu Zheng debuted in 1994, and it took 2006 years until 12.

Not only has he starred in TV series with high ratings such as "Springs Are Beautiful", "Li Wei as an Official", "Man-Han Banquet" and other TV series with high ratings, but he also directed and starred in "Li Wei as an Official 2".

In June 2006, the costume comedy "Three Reveals of the Emperor" starring him is currently on the air.

Although they have not yet begun to exert their efforts in movies, they are really among the top batch in the field of TV series.

However, when the filming of "Crazy Stone" was approaching, Xu Zheng was unable to guarantee enough time to play the role of the male protagonist due to schedule reasons, so he had no choice but to give up.

Because Xu Zheng admired Ning Hao's script very much, he specially took a certain amount of time to play a supporting role with a small role - the big boss Feng Dong - for free.

Without Xu Zheng, Ning Hao was naturally quite disappointed.

Then he personally found Guo Tao and assembled the main creative lineup.

With a cost of 300 million, you can shoot "Crazy Stone".

This also shows from the side that the 1500W production cost of Wang Shu’s "Space Traveler" is on the high side.

However, Wang Shu and Ning Hao are different.

Ning Hao is still a new director. If he wants to direct a movie, he needs investment to get it off the ground.

Without any achievements, he must spend as little money as possible from investors to produce an excellent work to show his own value and make it easier to attract investment in the future.

Wang Shu has passed this stage and can expand the budget when investing together with other companies.

As long as it's not too outrageous, investors will acquiesce and won't say anything more.

For example, Han Sanping, as a veteran in the film and television industry, after reading the script of "Time Traveler", he naturally knew that unless he found an A-list star to star, the production cost of the entire drama would be around a few million.

Wang Shu gave a budget of 1500W, knowing that this number had probably doubled.

However, even if it doubles, for China Film Group's family business, it will only be 1500 million, which is not outrageous.

What's more, the person who wrote the script and directed it was Wang Shu, who won an award at this year's Cannes Film Festival and collaborated with China Film Group to produce a movie with an investment cost of only 2000 million and a box office of more than million.

For a director with such achievements, Han Sanping would not take this 1500 million W seriously.

In other words, there is no objection to the budget given by Wang Shu.

On the day of the premiere of "Crazy Stone", Han Sanping, deputy director of China Film Group and president of China Film Warner Hengdian, faced the camera and said: "We are very happy to cooperate with Hong Kong Film Arts and director Ning Hao on the film "Crazy Stone". The three of us produced it. We all have a common goal, which is to discover talented Chinese film directors, support their film works, and let more audiences know about them. Ning Hao is a very powerful among this group of Asian new star directors. We are very happy to I am delighted that "Crazy Stone" can become the first film marketed and distributed by our company."

The company mentioned here is not the company’s first marketed and distributed film, not China Film Group or China Film Distribution, but China Film Warner Hengdian Pictures Co., Ltd.

China Film Warner Hengdian Film and Television Co., Ltd. is the first Sino-foreign joint venture film and entertainment company in domestic history.

It is a joint venture between China Film Group, Warner Bros. Pictures of the United States, and Hengdian Group, the largest private enterprise in the domestic film and television industry.

China Film Group, Warner and Hengdian Group hold shares in a ratio of 4:3:3 respectively, covering three different forms of capital: foreign capital, state-owned capital and private capital.

Its main business includes investment, production, distribution and promotion of Chinese-language films and TV movies, and it brings together outstanding directors, actors and producers from around the world to create first-class film and television works.

In addition to being a vice director of China Film Group, Han Sanping also serves as the president of this company.

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