Huayu Entertainment: Who let him be the director!

“I still plan to take the post-production of “Beijing Meets Seattle” back to Beijing Film Academy.”

“It may take a little longer.”

Xue Xiaolu immediately came to the company to meet with Zhou Qing and discussed some relevant matters.

Zhou Qing was not surprised by this and did not raise any objections.

Just as he had thought before, it doesn't matter whether "Beijing Meets Seattle" is completed a few days earlier or later.

"It's fine as long as it's convenient for Teacher Xue."

Zhou Qing said to Xue Xiaolu with a smile.

Seeing that Zhou Qing did not interfere with his work as always, he gave him great autonomy.

While Xue Xiaolu was happy, she also felt more and more grateful to Zhou Qing.

It is really hard to find an employer who is so easy to talk to and respectful these days.

"By the way, Zhou Qing, does your company have any plans to sign artists?"

After the two sides chatted in a good atmosphere for a while, Xue Xiaolu suddenly asked Zhou Qing about this matter.

"It's hard to say. Let's see if there's anyone suitable. Why did Teacher Xue suddenly ask this?"

After Zhou Qing gave the answer, he asked the other party a question in return.

"Yang Rong asked me to ask, what do you think of her?"

Only then did Xue Xiaolu tell the truth.

After all, she is the heroine of "Beijing Meets Seattle". Naturally, she would not refuse such a small favor from Xue Xiaolu.

Yang Rong?

His entire career has been mediocre, and there is nothing particularly outstanding about him.

He is one of those ordinary types, a type that can be found in large numbers in the entertainment industry.

How could Zhou Qing sign?

"Yang Rong is quite good, but it doesn't seem to fit in with our company's current strategic plan."

Zhou Qing just found a random reason and rejected Yang Rong.

"Okay then, I'll tell her later and let her give up on this idea."

Xue Xiaolu didn't bother about it. She was just helping to pass the message, not coming to plead for mercy.

Whether Zhou Qing wants it or not, it will not affect the friendship between her and Zhou Qing.

"Director Zhou."

After Xue Xiaolu left, Zhou Qing met with Producer Zhang again.

We communicated about the preparations for "The Witch".

Now the preparations for "The Witch" have come to an end, with only some finishing touches left.

Even if you turn it on right away, there is no problem.

However, Zhou Qing is not in a hurry and will still proceed as planned, with the filming set to start in December.

After all, I have to be busy promoting "Source Code" in November. It's really busy and a bit overwhelming.

Wang Baoqiang also joined the group and started training, and the real kung fu he had learned in Shaolin Temple was fully demonstrated.

The martial arts instructor, Liu Yifei who was training with him, and some other supporting actors who had fighting scenes were all stunned by the scene.

No one expected that the honest and simple-minded Sha Gen and Niu Geng would be so skilled!

"Bao Qiang is really a hidden talent. Zhou Qing, you really found a treasure."

Liu Yifei sighed in front of Zhou Qing.

Liu Yifei has a general idea of ​​how Zhou Qing signed Wang Baoqiang.

She knew that Zhou Qing developed an appreciation for the other person after watching his performance in "Blind Well".

In the girl’s eyes, Zhou Qing certainly didn’t expect that Wang Baoqiang would have such extraordinary skills, right?
"This is just the beginning. You will see Baoqiang's abilities later."

Zhou Qing grinned mysteriously at the girl, his words full of confidence.

Now everyone generally believes that the best actor in Zhou Qing Film Industry is Huang Bo, followed by Zhu Yawen, and Wang Baoqiang is last.

The main reason is that Wang Baoqiang's roles have created a stereotype for everyone. After all, his famous works are almost all about fools.

Whether it's Sha Gen, Niu Geng or Xu Sanduo, they are all naive young men from the countryside.

It is true that there is not much acting skill shown.

Even if everyone thinks that Wang Baoqiang’s character is well portrayed, they subconsciously believe that this is just Wang Baoqiang’s true character performance.

But Zhou Qing, who was reborn, knew that Wang Baoqiang was actually a great actor.

His strength is no worse than Huang Bo's.

"Do you have to be so exaggerated? You're making Baoqiang look like a monk sweeping the floor."

Liu Yifei's curiosity was completely aroused.

She really wanted to see how good Wang Baoqiang's acting skills were!
On November 11, "The Twilight Saga 20" controlled by Crown Entertainment was released in North America and it is gaining great momentum.

No, it wouldn't even be an exaggeration to say it exploded.

In just three short days, it earned 1.4 million US dollars, and the global total box office reached 2.58 million US dollars.

More than double that of "Twilight 1"!

Even if it is not compared with "Twilight 1", but compared with other Hollywood movies, it is still very eye-catching.

You have to know that looking at the North American movies of 09, Downey's "Sherlock Holmes" only had a total North American box office of 1.4 million US dollars!
With just 1.4 million US dollars, it already ranks 09th in the 20 annual ranking!
In other words, the box office of "Twilight 2" in just three days is equivalent to the total box office of "Sherlock Holmes".

The box office of "Twilight 2" in three days ranked 20th in the annual box office rankings!

If this is not an explosion, then what is an explosion?

Zhou Qing was extremely happy when he got the specific data from Director Yang.

As the main controller, he really made a lot of money this time.

After all, the cost of "Twilight 2" is really not high, only 5000 million US dollars.

In just three days of release, the box office revenue almost tripled its cost.

Such a generous return on investment is extremely rare in the entire Hollywood film market, or even in the entire global film market.

Of course, in addition to the tangible benefits, some invisible benefits are beyond words.

For example, Crown Pictures’ position in Hollywood.

"Twilight 1" already made Crown Films a hit, and now with "Twilight 2", Crown Films' position will be even more solid!

In this way, it will be smoother and easier for me to operate other film projects in Hollywood in the future, such as "Life of Pi".

"The list of winners of the 46th Golden Horse Awards has been announced. Director Zhou Qing's Whiplash has won 8 out of 5 nominations, becoming the biggest winner."

"There are many highlights at this year's Golden Horse Awards. The Best Actor award went to Cannes Best Actor Zhou Qing, and Zhou Xun and Li Bingbing won the Best Actress contest."

"The highly popular Dai Liren lost to Director Zhou, and the Best Director Award went to Zhou Qing for Whiplash."

In addition to the box office success of "Twilight 2", Zhou Qing received a second piece of good news in late November.

"Whiplash," which won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, also reaped great rewards at this year's Golden Horse Awards.

He won five awards including Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing and Best Art Direction.

Among them, the Best Director Award, Best Actor Award and Best Supporting Actor Award are all important awards.

It can be said that Zhou Qing stole the limelight and made his presence felt.

As a director, he won the Best Director Award, an award that is extremely important to directors.

As an actor, Zhou Qing won the Best Actor award at the Golden Horse Awards after winning the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Golden Horse Award for Best Actor is also a very important award for Chinese entertainment actors. Many actors have been acting for their entire lives but still cannot win this award.

As a result, Director Zhou Qing won the Best Actor award for his first starring role in a movie.

How can one stay calm?

How many male actors are so envious and jealous that their anus is about to explode.

But no matter how envious, jealous and hateful people are, no one is very angry.

After all, everyone has witnessed Zhou Qing's acting skills in "Whiplash", and he definitely deserves the title of Best Actor.

So who is Feng Yuanzheng's best supporting actor?

The same is true.

The other party acted opposite Zhou Qing and portrayed the perverted music teacher vividly and lifelike.

He also gave superb and convincing acting skills.

Winning the Best Supporting Actor award was what everyone expected.

Feng Yuanzheng was very happy.

He actually started acting in 84, and now it's 09, which means he has been acting for a lifetime.

Looking back on his entire career, he only won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Golden Rooster Awards in 04.

Today, this Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor is still very important to Feng Yuanzheng.

Because Zhou Qing was busy promoting "Source Code" and missed the Golden Horse Awards, Feng Yuanzheng not only thanked Zhou Qing specifically when he received the award on the spot, but also called to thank him.

What about the other films produced by Zhou Qing Pictures?

As mentioned above, "The Whistleblower" helped Li Bingbing win the Best Actress award, and only this award.

But even so, "The Whistleblower" was worth the trip and was a great success.

You know, this is the movie queen!
"Li Mi's Conjecture" also won an award.

But it's just a small award like Best Original Music, nothing much to say.

But "Li Mi's Conjecture" has already won a Best Actress at the Golden Rooster Awards, which is not bad.

As for "The Labyrinth of the Heart", the situation is better than "Li Mi's Conjecture". It won the nominations for Best Screenplay and Best New Director.

Of course, the Best Original Screenplay has nothing to do with Lu Yang, after all, the screenwriter is Zhou Qing, not Lu Yang.

But the Best New Director award is truly an honor that belongs to Lu Yang.

Generally speaking, Zhou Qing's performance in this year's Golden Horse Awards is much better than that in the previous one.

It can be called a great harvest.

Not only did his own "Whiplash" become the biggest winner, but several of his other works also gained something.

In a nutshell, Zhou Qing is truly the most popular actor in this year's Golden Horse Awards!
But that was in the eyes of outsiders.

But for Zhou Qing himself, he didn't feel much about it.

After all, he has won so many honors from the three major awards, and it is really difficult for a few Golden Horse awards to move him.

On the contrary, Lu Yang was extremely excited.

The Golden Horse Award for Best New Director is definitely a huge honor for him.

"Congratulations, Director Lu, you won a big award for your debut film."

"Congratulations! Our company is about to have another great director."

Huang Bo, Zhu Yawen, Zhao Liying and others sent their blessings to Lu Yang.

Especially Wu Jing, who was also a contracted director, had a fiery look in his eyes and held Lu Yang's trophy tightly without letting go.

Wu Jing also wants this thing.

It’s just a pity that his movie “Wolf Fang” was a complete failure, and he is destined to never have this honor in this lifetime.

"It's just a Best Director Award. I'm still far behind Director Zhou."

Lu Yang remained very humble, and although he was very excited, he did not get carried away.

"Come on, you still want to compete with Director Zhou? He is not a normal person!"

Wu Jing put down the trophy he had been playing with for a long time and curled his lips.

Directors of Director Zhou’s level are unique in the entire history of Chinese entertainment.

Lu Yang actually took Director Zhou as a comparison object, which was really bold of him.

"By the way, Director Lu, when will you shoot "Hypnotist"? Do you think I can play the leading role?"

Huang Bo took the opportunity to cling to Lu Yang's thigh.

Although "Hypnotist" was a script written by Zhou Qing for Lu Yang, Huang Bo had also read it and liked it very much.

He felt there was nothing wrong with him playing a psychotherapist.

In addition, Lu Yang also confirmed his ability through "Heart Labyrinth", so Huang Bo became more and more active.

"I'm taking a break this year and not thinking about these things. I'll talk about them next year."

Lu Yang waved his hand.

I wasn't just trying to please Huang Bo, I really meant it.

However, when Huang Bo recommended himself, Lu Yang also subconsciously examined Huang Bo.

There is really no problem with him playing the leading actor in "Hypnotist"!
Of course, there is no problem with Zhu Yawen either. Perhaps among the male actors of Zhou Qing Film, only Wang Baoqiang is not suitable.

So is it Huang Bo or Zhu Yawen?
It’s really a bit confusing!

Forget it, I’ll think about it next year.

Lu Yang made this decision very happily.

Zhu Yawen looked at Huang Bo who was so enthusiastic, and just smiled and didn't say much.

There is absolutely no intention of competing with Huang Bo.

Anyway, Qingzi produces so many movies every year, so it is impossible for the artists under Qingzi to lack resources.

Then of course we shouldn't hurt the harmony.

There's really no need to fight for anything.

What's more, since Zhu Yawen signed with Zhou Qing Films a few years ago, how many leading male roles has Qingzi arranged for him?

Much more than Huang Bo!
Then you have to open up your mind even more, right?
"Director Zhou."

"Producer Zhang."

The producer came to report to Zhou Qing that all the preparatory work for "The Witch" has been completed.

The only remaining preparatory work is the training of Liu Yifei and other related actors.

"I see."

Zhou Qing nodded, indicating that he understood what was going on.

The training of Liu Yifei and the others did not require Zhou Qing to devote much energy.

He was now completely free to carry out the corresponding promotional work for "Source Code".

It's already the end of November and December is just a few days away. It's time to put the premiere of "Source Code" on the agenda.

With Zhou Qing's current level, and the fact that "Source Code" is a science fiction movie produced by Zhou Qing, he is competing with Master Zhang again.

Whether it is China Film or Fiber Optic Wanda, several producers have expressed that the premiere must be held in a grand manner.

We must not be weak in appearance. (End of this chapter)