Huayu Entertainment: Tianxian really wants to improve

Chapter 429 Alright, so you really had designs on me all along!
Silent all night.

The next morning, while it was still dark, Liu Yifei's washing up woke Gu Bei from his sleep. This was already quite late for an actor who needed to put on makeup.

"how do you feel?"

Liu Yifei, with her hairband in her mouth, smiled and asked Gu Bei, who was still lying down.

Have we switched locations?

Gu Bei felt a little like complaining.

However, upon closer reflection, the two people's positions were indeed reversed last night.

He replied with a somewhat strange expression, "It's not as hard to accept as I imagined, but it's still a little odd."

"Hahaha! You used to enjoy messing with me so much, now it's a little hard for you to accept it yourself, isn't it?"

Liu Yifei carefully curled her hair, a signature hairstyle from the movie, then sat down on the edge of the bed and patted Gu Bei's cheek. "Sweetie, wait here for me to get off work, okay?"

Are you flirting with me?
Last night is over!

Gu Bei grabbed Liu Yifei's wrist and, amidst her screams, dragged her back into the bed, then hugged her cheeks and kissed her passionately for a while.

"Hair, watch out for your hair!"

Liu Yifei said in a slightly panicked tone.

Her first thought was about the hair she would need for filming the movie.

"Still thinking about your hair?"

Gu Bei said somewhat displeased.

"Goose, goose, goose, goose!"

Liu Yifei let out a series of laughs.

She nestled in Gu Bei's arms, a smile on her face, and said, "Do you think you can let me go just because I'm thinking about other things?"

Who could resist her seductive tone?

Gu Bei's tone couldn't help but lower three degrees: "How many more minutes can we stay?"

"About half an hour."

Liu Yifei replied with a smile.

"That's it!"

Gu Bei was immediately discouraged.

This girl probably calculated the time well in advance, knowing that there wasn't enough time and that he couldn't do anything to her, which is why she acted so arrogantly today.

However, if Gu Bei were determined, he wouldn't mind making the crew wait for Liu Yifei for as long as he wanted.

Given Gu Bei and Liu Yifei's star power, the production team would incur costs due to their capriciousness, but these costs were already budgeted into the production budget. After all, Hollywood is full of stars with quirks.

Disrupting plans arbitrarily is not his style, and he dislikes doing such things due to his personality.

At last,
Gu Bei only held Liu Yifei tenderly for a few moments.

Liu Yifei also enjoyed the feeling of lying in Gu Bei's arms.

"By the way, did you already send out yesterday's photos?" Liu Yifei asked curiously.

"you saw it?"

Gu Bei picked up his phone and said, "Anyway, with entertainment newspapers having informants all over Hollywood, even if I don't post it, there will be corresponding revelations by today or tomorrow at the latest. I might as well grab the first wave of attention, so I posted the photos both domestically and internationally yesterday."

"I just saw this; someone asked me who actually won!"

Liu Yifei said with a smile.

"Of course I won! Last night I was able to sleep with such a sweet and soft Empress, didn't I win?"

Gu Bei's words earned him a roll of his eyes from Liu Yifei.
Subsequently,

Gu Bei opened Weibo.
The blog post he made yesterday consisted of two photos: one he took of Liu Yifei, and the other Liu Yifei took of him. Both of them were in a pose of drawing a bow and aiming at a target.

The only caption was "Guess who won?", which is why netizens kept asking Liu Yifei.

"Director Gu and Liu Yifei can also shoot arrows! Judging from their archery postures, Liu Yifei's posture is obviously more professional. Director Gu's posture and power generation are not as stable, but men's core strength is definitely stronger than women's, so it's hard to say."

To summarize this guy's statement, it was basically, "I've said a lot, but the conclusion is that I'm not sure either."

"If you ask me, it's a tie. Both of them probably missed the target, so it's definitely a tie, right?"

"If you have so little confidence in our Sissi, given how serious she is about movies, she would definitely have learned archery before filming The Hunger Games, so Sissi would definitely win!"

"You guys actually guessed! I just want to know who took these two photos. The difference in quality is too big. They made Xixi look so dashing, but they made Director Gu look... well, could it have been Xixi who took them?"

"It's quite possible. Director Gu's photo looks a lot like Sissi's photography style. It's like she just pulled something out of her pocket and snapped a picture."

Upon seeing this, Gu Bei couldn't help but smile: "It seems your photography skills are already widely known!"

Liu Yifei gritted her teeth in Gu Bei's arms. This generation of fans is really too difficult to manage. They even exposed her shortcomings in other people's Weibo posts. Besides, are her photos really that bad?

She couldn't help but ask, "Is it really that ugly?"

"It's alright, really!"

Looking at the exasperated Liu Yifei, Gu Bei smiled and said, "You're really good at capturing the right moment in a photo, which is quite good, because fleeting moments are the soul of a photograph."

However, in other places, it was too casual; composition, lighting, and other aspects were basically not considered.

"That's more like it!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Yifei narrowed her eyes with a sense of satisfaction.

Gu Bei's words are quite credible. After all, it's already good enough that Gu Bei doesn't deliberately say things to annoy her. For Gu Bei to give such an evaluation is already a positive sign.

Clearly, Liu Yifei was a little too optimistic.

Gu Bei continued, "Most importantly, your work is being compared to mine. Compared to my god-level photos, your work is simply not good enough."

Gu Bei was quite satisfied with the photo he took yesterday.

This photo is unsuitable for use as a poster or promotional image. The realistic colors are too muted and lack visual impact, which often puts it at a disadvantage in attracting viewers.

However, if used for character display,

This photo almost perfectly captures all the qualities of the female lead, Katniss.

"Gu! Bei!"

Liu Yifei realized she had been tricked again. Gu Bei had praised her for so long, but in the end, it was just to highlight that the photo he took was better.

However, Liu Yifei had to admit that Gu Bei had taken a really good picture of her, and she had secretly kept it to use as her phone wallpaper.

After playfully bickering for a while, the two continued to observe the public's reaction.

"You're all focused on the archery and photography skills of these two people, but no one seems as concerned as I am. Director Gu only finished filming 'Journey to Hangzhou' a few days ago, and he's already showing up on the set of 'The Hunger Games.' Isn't that a bit too impatient?"

"Coal, it's all about coal! Only you are still concerned. The real long-time fans have been waiting for the official announcement. I wonder if Weibo can hold up on that day and not crash like it did with the Oscars last time!"

"Actually, it makes sense. After all, Director Gu is the author of the original Hunger Games. The original author would go to... never mind, I can't make this up anymore!"

This is also part of their daily content on Weibo.

The two are already quite well-known in China.

But it still manages to attract a steady stream of new attention and new fans every day.

Not everyone is an expert in the entertainment industry. If Gu Bei had bumped into Liu Yifei in his previous life, he probably would have called her "Xu Hongdou" instead of "Liu Yifei."
So every time someone asks a similar question, and after being enlightened by a long-time fan, that fan becomes the one who enlightens the other person next time.

After scrolling through Weibo for a while,

Gu Bei opened Instagram again.

Although it first appeared at the beginning of the year as a filter camera tool, after acquiring millions of users in six months, Instagram has begun to transform into a photo-sharing platform.

Tools can't make you big money.
Only platforms can make big money.

Gu Bei glanced at the reactions of the North American users and found that the software had decent user engagement.

"OMG! What am I seeing? I actually found the author of the original Hunger Games here! I thought I was the only one who knew about this software!"

"This Katniss is quite the image I have in mind: a dark-haired and resilient young woman. She seems like the kind of older sister who would be willing to sacrifice for her younger sister. I love her so much!"

"I originally heard that she became Katniss because she was the owner of a film and television company, but now it seems that this is not true. At least she seems to be qualified now."

When Liu Yifei saw this, she let out a soft "Eh".

Because Gu Bei actually replied to the last person: "Let me clarify, this is not a rumor. After all, without her funding, this movie could not have been filmed. But from the very beginning, it was because of her that I was able to create the character of Katniss."

She looked up and asked curiously, "Is this real or fake?"

"real!"

Gu Bei said without hesitation.

"But we hadn't known each other for very long back then!"

Liu Yifei narrowed her eyes slightly, staring at Gu Bei with a probing look. "I remember seeing the manuscript of this book on Christmas Eve before Christmas. Well, so you really had your eye on me all along!"

"Of course! Who can resist Empress Qian's charm!"

Gu Bei pinched Liu Yifei's delicate nose and admitted it without hesitation.

When he wrote the book, he changed the main characters to Chinese-American girls because he himself was of Chinese descent.

However, after the adaptation rights for Star Trek suffered a setback in Hollywood,

He wrote the scripts for both The Hunger Games and Twilight simultaneously.
At that time, they were already intentionally or unintentionally trying to make Katniss resemble Liu Yifei, hoping that after Liu Yifei graduated from the Yale School of Performing Arts, she could be directly pushed into the role of the female lead in The Hunger Games.

Looking back now, it's very likely that I was already interested, just not as obviously as I was after the ski resort.

"You're so mean!"

Liu Yifei thought back to how she had been working so hard to hide her identity back then.

Meanwhile, she was still wondering what Gu Bei meant by bringing her a gift.
The anxieties of a young girl were really troubling her.
It has now been discovered that,

Gu Bei was proceeding cautiously, while pretending not to care about himself at all.

"Come on!"

Gu Bei kissed her cheek hard. "The result was good, wasn't it?"

"Hum~"

Liu Yifei broke free from Gu Bei's embrace: "I have to go to work!"

In the days that followed, Gu Bei stayed at the Hunger Games set, waiting for filming to wrap up.

Thanks to the success of Twilight and The Wrong Star.
Hollywood also started a trend of exploring fictional novels for young adults, but most of these works remained in the hands of producers and did not enter the studio development stage.
Of all the fictional novels for teenagers on the market,
The one considered most likely to become the next Twilight is...

It's Gu Bei's Hunger Games.
After all, Gu Bei, Liu Yifei, and Rose Pictures have experience in creating two successful cases: Twilight and The Wrong Star. Therefore, The Hunger Games has received a lot of attention since the project was first proposed.

The two pictures that Gu Bei posted on various social media platforms sparked a considerable discussion in North America. Major entertainment media outlets also sought permission from Rose Pictures before reprinting the news, which further amplified the level of discussion.

There was some controversy surrounding the casting for The Hunger Games.
However, Asian girls of a certain age, including those of Chinese descent who are familiar to the public, were completely excluded.
It seems that Liu Yifei is the only option left, but as the owner of Rose Pictures, she is bound to cause controversy.

However, after this news, the controversy subsided considerably, and Hunger Games fans seemed to have no objection to Liu Yifei becoming Katniss.

Less than a week after Gu Bei arrived at the film set, The Hunger Games wrapped up filming smoothly.

The rest of the crew dispersed.

Producer Joe and the director will take all the footage back to Los Angeles.

They began working on the post-production of The Hunger Games.

According to Rose Pictures and Summit Entertainment's initial release date for The Hunger Games, it will be in April next year, the same timeframe as The Fault in Our Stars. Post-production time is still a bit tight.

Gu Bei and Liu Yifei, after working hard for five months in the first half of the year, began their annual vacation.

This time, the vacation destination is the Arctic.

Traditionally, people come to the Arctic mainly to see the aurora borealis, so they often choose to come during the winter when the nights are longer.

But for Gu Bei and Liu Yifei, they didn't have much of a desire for the aurora. Instead, the hot weather at the end of August allowed them to see some different scenery of the Arctic Circle, in addition to the snow.

August is also the time when scientific expedition teams like to come to the Arctic the most, because the Arctic environment is not so harsh at this time.

After taking a full two-week vacation,

Gu Bei and Liu Yifei returned from the Arctic and came back to Venice, Europe.

This vacation was shorter than before because they were too busy with work and started their vacation late. Also, the promotional period for Gravity was about to begin in September, so they had to end their vacation early and get back into the global promotional rhythm for Gravity.

The first stop was naturally Venice, which Gu Bei was most familiar with.

He returned to Venice, not for the main competition, but merely to participate in the screenings, given that the Palazzo Cinema in Venice boasts the world's best 3D screening room.

(End of this chapter)