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Chapter 607 The Venice Film Festival is approaching
"Well, I'm a little tired. Today's negotiation has experienced a lot of twists and turns, but it's finally dealt with."

Seeing Liu Yufei's scrutinizing attitude, Zhou Xia's heart skipped a beat. After answering, he quickly changed the topic and asked, "Why are you still not resting so late? How are you preparing for the audition?"

"I'm worried about you, but this is exactly what I want to tell you." Liu Yufei had no time to wonder, and was quickly attracted by Zhou Xia's words.

Seeing this, Zhou Xia finally breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm fine, I'm used to it, but what do you want to say to me?"

"The director team has made arrangements. I'm going to audition tomorrow. I wanted you to check it out for me, but you seem to be very tired." Liu Yufei looked at Zhou Xia apologetically.

"I'm fine, you know, I've stayed up late for days without sleep, not to mention this. Come on, I'll help you do another show. I have work tomorrow, so I don't have time."

"Yeah." Liu Yufei nodded, and hurried over with the script.

Although Zhou Xia was indeed physically tired, Liu Yufei didn't suspect anything else, which made him feel a lot more relaxed, and started serious play with her.

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The next morning, at nine o'clock in the morning, Zhou Xia arrived at Industrial Light and Magic just like going to work, and continued to work on the movie with the special effects artists and technicians.

When it was time for lunch and break, Fei Ya called and told Zhou Xia to send someone to pick her up in the afternoon to visit the villa.

When Zhou Xia thought of this, his head suddenly became a little dizzy. The only way he could think of was to buy another villa.

I remember the last time I looked at a house, I looked at several of them, and finally chose the one closest to Xiahua Film and Television Branch, and he was also very satisfied with the other villas, so I simply bought it this time as an investment.

Zhou Xia had an idea, and hurriedly ordered Li Jingwen to take care of this matter.

The last time I bought a house, all the materials that should be prepared were fully prepared, this time it was simpler.

With another villa that Li Jingwen bought, after work in the afternoon, Zhou Xia took Sophia to visit, and finally managed to cope with it.

Since then, Zhou Xia has been busy with film post-production, and has time to meet Sophia in the evening.

And Liu Yufei passed the audition, signed the contract, stayed for a few days, and returned to China before Zhou Xia was free.

Later, after "Pacific Rim 2" and "The Expendables 3" were negotiated, Zhou Xia's specific schedule was also arranged.

"Pacific Rim" started shooting in mid-July, Zhou Xia's schedule is one month, "The Expendables 7" started shooting in September, Zhou Xia's schedule is 3 days.

Zhou Xia has been busy in the United States for more than a month, finishing the remaining post-production special effects production of "Legend of Sword and Sword 4", and directly joined the production team in mid-July to start filming "Pacific Rim".

His role in the movie has been upgraded from a minor role to an important supporting role, but the scenes are still not too many. If the filming is concentrated, the filming can be completed in less than ten days.

As the main investor, and the main actor specially invited by the crew for the mainland market, Zhou Xia could have asked the crew to arrange for him to focus on shooting, but he wanted to use this cooperation to learn from director Gilmour and the technical team of Hollywood science fiction movies. Filming and directing some scenes, so the schedule followed the crew, which only took a month.

In mid-August, Zhou Xia finished filming "Pacific Rim", and Liu Yufei still needed more than a month to finish filming, so he returned to China first.

As for going to Nas Vegas to play and register, Zhou Xia is so busy with work that she has not arranged time. Although Liu Yufei is not happy, she is not a messy person. Thinking that Zhou Xia will be in the United States next time to shoot "The Expendables 2" Sufficient, he thought to wait until then to talk, and then let Zhou Xia go.

After Zhou Xia returned to China, he first dealt with a bunch of company matters.

"Blind Certificate" starring Sisi participated in the Shanghai Film Festival and gained a lot. She won the Best Actress Award, and Xue Xiaolu also won the Best Director.

After participating in the film festival and winning the award, the film was officially released on June 6, and finally earned a box office of 20 million.

Compared with the cost of 800 million, it can be said to be a big harvest, and it was not in vain. Zhou Xiarang postponed the release for nearly a year, and the company did a lot of public relations.

After Sisi won the award, she also became the first female artist of Xiahua Film and Television to win the Best Actress in a category A film festival.

According to what Zhou Xia said in an interview with the media earlier, whoever can win the award and get professional recognition from Xia Hua Film and Television, that is the first sister Xia Hua.

From this point of view, Sisi is already one step ahead of others.

In addition to "Blind Evidence", Xia Hua Film and Television also has "The Breakup Master" released in the summer.

This drama is starring Deng Chao and Little Fox, and Zhang Zhao pays special attention to it, so the publicity is overwhelming.

Zhou Xia returned to the imperial capital just in time to miss the official release of the film, and also saved the embarrassment of promoting the film.

After all, she had said hello to Little Fox's work earlier. If Zhou Xia was in the imperial capital, it would be unreasonable not to attend the premiere and not give some support.

Now that the timing happened to be perfectly missed, Zhou Xia used a "Congratulations on the release" Weibo to even help the promotional page to be fooled.

The summer schedule is already catching up with the New Year's schedule. In addition to "The Breakup Master", Xia Hua also arranged for the movie version of "Star You" to be released in August.

These matters are arranged by the company's top management. Except for his own movies, Zhou Xia will only ask about the works of several major directors in the company, and the works he is optimistic about. The rest is done after reading the report and signing.

In addition to this point, previous audiences at the Venice Film Festival had to watch Zhou Xia's "Starting Line". Although Zhou Xiaren left the imperial capital, the post-production of his film has been arranged. Approved and reported to the film festival.

The specific situation is not yet known, after all, the jury has not yet determined.

但周夏却是知道情况的，今年是第70届威尼斯电影节，将会于8月28日至9月7日举办。

The chairman of the jury for the main competition unit is the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci. Many people may not know him, but he has some connections with China. His representative works "The Last Emperor" and "Dream of Paris" are many older Some people have seen it.

In addition, domestic director Jiang Wen will also be a member of the jury.

That should be it, if nothing else changes.

Zhou Xia remembered that Jiang Wen and his producer Ma Ke had mocked him because he refused to be a guest star in "Let the Bullets Fly". At that time, it was because of the hype of the movie. Lotter's Trouble" and didn't take it as a conflict between the two of them.

But now he is a little worried, he is not so magnanimous in climbing the other party, and he has no good way to do it.

Speaking of which, although Jiang Wen is only one of the judges, it can make it difficult for his film to be shortlisted.

After all, after he was selected, as a representative of Chinese films, he would mainly comment on domestic films. If he was not optimistic about Zhou Xia's "Starting Line", it would be basically useless.

Just like Lao Mouzi was the jury chairman of the main competition unit of the 2007th Venice Film Festival in 64, Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises" was shortlisted for the main competition unit.

At that time, Jiang Wen was interviewed by the media in China. He was very high-profile and confident, saying that he went to the countryside with Lao Mouzi (to shoot Red Sorghum) and went to the city for "Speaking Well" this time. In the end, it turned out to be a failure in Venice.

On the contrary, under the strong leadership of Lao Mouzi, Li Press's "Lust-Caution" won several awards.

It is said that Jiang Wen has had a knot in his heart since then, and outsiders don't know what happened, most of them are just hearsay.

(End of this chapter)