Chapter 68 2004
"The first snow in 2002 came later than usual..."
"I said you can't change the song!" Cheng Yu'an scolded Qin Ranqiu.
Daolang was born this year and became extremely popular!
"What should I change? I think it sounds pretty good." Qin Ranqiu started playing from the beginning again.
“It sounds so good that I can’t bear to listen to it eight hundred times a day!”
I don’t know where Qin Ranqiu got the CD. He plays the single "The First Snow in 2002" all day long. He has been playing it for more than a week, and every day he says "It's your red lips that stick to everything about me."
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It wouldn't matter if he was the only one doing this. The problem was that seven out of ten male crew members were listening to Dao Lang.
Girls are listening to "Thirty-six Strategies of Love".
Can you imagine how Cheng Yu'an feels these days.
The left ear is "No. 2 bus parked on the eighth floor", and the right ear is "Who said beautiful girls have no brains and only know how to love beauty and giggle".
"If you have a neurasthenia one day, I will drag you to death together." Cheng Yu'an scolded Qin Ranqiu.
Since the last time I had a late-night drinking conversation with Qin Ranqiu, this guy seems to have changed into a new person, full of energy and energetic in working on the set.
I don’t know if his friend’s matter has been resolved.
Time came to early April, and news came from the Magic City that "The Eraser in My Brain" was finished!
Cheng Yu'an flew to Shanghai to attend the closing banquet of "Eraser".
After all, he still has the title of producer.
"Director Guan, congratulations on finishing the shoot, congratulations on finishing the shoot!" Cheng Yu'an congratulated Guan Jingpeng.
"Thanks to Director Cheng's script, and the excellent staff at Director Cheng's company, we were able to finish the project so quickly," Guan Jingpeng said.
"In the later stage, I still have to work hard to guide."
"It should."
The two had a drink.
Surprisingly, Cheng Yu'an saw Brother Hu at the closing party of "The Eraser in My Brain".
"Hello, Director Cheng." Brother Hu took the initiative to greet Cheng Yu'an.
"Why aren't you here on the set of "Sword and Fairy"?" Cheng Yu'an asked.
"I played a guest role in "Eraser", the beggar who borrowed a lighter at the train station." Brother Hu said.
"How's it going? Are you still used to it?" Cheng Yu'an patted Brother Hu's shoulder maturely.
"It's okay! I quite like the atmosphere of the crew."
"Yu'an." Yang Xue came over to say hello.
Guan Jingpeng saw Yang Xue coming over and praised him: "Director Cheng, you have chosen an actor well. Ah Xue's eyes are so dramatic."
Yang Xue said: "Director Guan deserves the award."
Yangxue, a grade 99 acting major, is Cheng Yuan's junior sister, but she is 4 years older than him, and the two have been in contact with each other since they were in school.
"What else will you do next?" Cheng Yu'an asked Yang Xue.
"There is a movie called "Dragon Ball of the Demon World" being filmed in Hebei Province. I am playing a supporting role and I will fly there tomorrow."
Cheng Yu'an remembers that Yang Xue will film "Little Fish and Flowers" this year. It's already April, hasn't Yang Xue got the role of Jiang Yuyan yet?
Could it be that he was slapped away by his own butterfly?
We’ll see about it later, but even if Jiang Yuyan is gone, giving Yang Xue a heroine in a movie is enough compensation.
After eating the closing banquet of "Eraser", Cheng Yu'an rushed back to Northeast China the next afternoon to continue filming "Warmth and Light".
Most of the movie has been shot, and some of the actors have finished filming and left the crew.
There were only two big news worthy of reporting in the entertainment industry in April.
The first is that Feng Xiaogang's "A World Without Thieves" has finally started filming in Lanzhou; the second news is also coincidental, on the third day after "A World Without Thieves" was launched, Cheng Yu'an's "The Light Within" was completed in Northeast China.
Cheng Yuan and his party returned to Beijing in a low-key manner, not even holding a press conference.
The drama "The Warmth Contains Light" has not received much attention. If it were not for the fact that the director is Cheng Yu'an and the heroine is Mr. Zhou, not many reporters would be willing to come to the icy and snowy Northeast.
This drama has clearly stated that it is a literary and artistic film that is intended to compete for awards.
Since "Hero", the market has paid more attention to large-scale commercial films and paid much less attention to artistic films.
Didn't you see that "The Promise" directed by Chen Kaige, which has been waiting for two years, started shooting last month?
Looking at the lineup, the photography is by Bao Dexi of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the action design is by Lin Di'an, the action designer of "The Matrix" and "Spider-Man", and stars from China, Japan and South Korea are joining the cast.
A palace was built in Hengdian!
Zhang Baiyi’s clothes cost RMB 300,000!
Chinese version of "Lord of the Rings"!
Full of gimmicks.
"The Promise" is still being filmed here, but outsiders are already speculating about the box office of "The Promise".
Some said 100 million, some said 200 million, and some directly said 300 million to break the box office record of "Hero" with 250 million.
Cheng Lingfeng was very greedy after reading the news in the newspaper, and said to Cheng Yu'an: "Let's make a blockbuster too! The kind of blockbuster that invests 78 to 100 million and has a box office of 30 to 400 million."
"Is it because you didn't wake up or you think too highly of me?" Cheng Yu'an said with a smile.
"Let's not talk about whether our company can handle such a big production. As a director, who do you think will invest such a large amount of money in me? Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are both veteran directors for decades. They can attract
With investments of tens of millions and hundreds of millions, do you think I can do it too?"
Cheng Yuan is very confident about his current position in the market.
An investment of 20 to 30 million is fine, but once the cost exceeds 50 million, the word "Cheng Yu'an" will not be so useful.
I still need to make a few more films to build up a brand name for myself and Yuan Yuan, so that I can win the trust of investors.
Only then can we talk about making a blockbuster movie.
"What you said makes sense. We still need to make our Yuanyuan brand bigger and stronger." That's what Cheng Lingfeng said, knowing that Yuanyuan's current scale cannot make blockbusters.
"How is "Super Girl" going?" Cheng Yu'an is particularly interested in this project. Once this thing is completed, it will become the company's cash cow.
"We have already reached an agreement with Beijing Satellite TV and Haidie Music. Auditions will begin in various places on May Day. The finals will be held before the start of school in September."
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Domestic schedules in April are very slow, and one that is worth watching is Wu Yusen's "Memory Crack".
The leading actor is Ben Affleck, who will later star in the famous "Escape from Tehran", "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" and "Gone Girl".
However, the response to this film was mediocre, and Wu Yusen felt a bit unmotivated after being put on a pedestal.
"Memory Crack" actually lets go!
How he loves pigeons!
If Cheng Yuan remembers correctly, "Memory Crack" was Wu Yusen's last film in Hollywood.
He reached the top with "Face/Off" and "Mission: Impossible 2", and almost killed MGM after screwing up "Windtalker", leaving him with almost no films to film in Hollywood.
This "Memory Crack" is a project of Paramount. The other party was interested in his performance in "Face" and "Mission: Impossible 2" and gave him the film.
As a result, the film performed poorly in North America, with only 53 million US dollars, and he announced his retirement in Hollywood in advance.
In the end, I had no choice but to return to the Chinese-speaking market to retire in despair.
Cheng Yu'an went to the cinema to watch "Memory Crack" and thought it was just average. It was definitely not a bad movie, but it was just a passable popcorn movie.
Chapter completed!