After a series of disturbances in the second half of September, the entertainment industry has gradually become calmer.
Lu Yuan, the head-to-head brainwashing king who made everyone feel like they didn’t know what to say, took a rare break in the second half of the month. Under the attention of all the people in the circle, he gradually withdrew from the headlines in terms of popularity and news.
Top three positions.
This is a day worthy of setting off firecrackers to celebrate for everyone. After Lu Yuan's thing has stopped, there are countless people in the entertainment industry who are smiling and sharpening their knives, preparing to hit the headlines...
Chen Feng is also one of them.
His team helped him get an engagement news, just in time to make headlines while Lu Yuan was feeling depressed.
Then, when everything was ready and ready to seize the opportunity to dominate the headlines and hot searches, the Hollywood storm swept the entire Chinese entertainment industry in an instant.
Hollywood movies coming to China in September are actually very sluggish.
Basically, except for Xu Qifeng's movies, there is no other movie that can win. It happened to be Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, and his movie "From the Moon" was directly mixed with the honor of Best Picture and stole the limelight for a while.
September gave Xu Qifeng a sense of relief.
But October is completely different.
National Day, October 1st, has always been a hotly contested day for Hollywood and Chinese film makers.
And there is something particularly wrong with October this year!
Chen Feng thought that after Lu Yuan's popularity in the entertainment industry subsided, he would have a chance to compete for the top spot in the headlines.
But actually...
"Andorra is coming to shock with the new Hollywood film "The Deep"..."
"Hollywood's famous Chinese screenwriter, Ryan and the famous director Jackson Jr. bring "Tough Guys 2". The blood will always be there. Are you ready?"
"Hollywood box office dark horse "October 33rd" brings you a touch of coolness from the depths of your soul in the hot summer..."
"..."
Little Jackson, Andorra, Caesars...
The names of these famous Hollywood directors have all dominated the Chinese film industry. At the same time, these directors have countless fans in China. Taken together, the popularity is simply terrifying.
Tomato's various rankings have been completely dominated by Hollywood movies. If you look carefully, they are all Hollywood movies.
There are many domestic films, but there is only one "Bloodline 2" with an investment of hundreds of millions, directed by veteran domestic director Li Mingrui.
As for other directors, when they saw the Hollywood movies coming so fiercely, they were frightened and immediately changed the schedule to November.
Only Li Mingrui is convinced that October 1 is the Golden Week!
Netizens were very moved!
Everyone understands Li Mingrui's thoughts.
After all, his lifelong wish is for domestic films to rise and compete with Hollywood, and he has always been the first to fight.
"Blood 2" could have been released in September. If "Blood 2" was released in September, then Xu Qifeng would definitely not have anything to do with it. Director Li Mingrui would definitely be the one to dominate the screen.
but……
He abruptly changed the schedule to October 1st, stubbornly wanting to try out a Hollywood movie!
Although he is old, everyone can feel the passion in his heart.
"Lian Po is old, can he still make a living?"
He posted this message on Weibo.
There is really too much sadness hidden in this Weibo.
After people thought of director Li Mingrui's stubborn heart, they were immediately infected. They spontaneously left messages below to support Li Mingrui and hoped that "Blood 2" can reach new heights!
Within a few hours, Li Mingrui’s Weibo account ranked among the top ten most searched topics, ranking eighth...
The next day, Li Mingrui made headlines in the entertainment industry and gained a large number of fans.
The popularity of Lee Mingrui's "Bloodline 2" suddenly rivaled the popularity of Hollywood movies.
The limelight lasted forever.
After seeing this scene, the unfortunate Chen Feng silently suppressed his so-called engagement scandal.
Press conferences are no longer held, diamonds as big as pigeon eggs are no longer available, and all self-defeating news such as candid photos have been withdrawn...
He knew that it would be completely useless for him to spread this scandalous news. Not only was it useless, it would even be very likely to be submerged in the vast ocean of heat and be crushed to the point where not even a scrap was left.
These are all general trends.
Chen Feng felt that no matter how strong he was, he would never be able to withstand the general trend.
Chen Feng took a deep breath.
This moment...
He didn't know why he felt lonely.
Then……
He lit a cigarette and looked out the window.
The back looks quite desolate.
This cigarette is called "Honglan".
Don't ask why you smoke "red orchid"...
The cigarette Lu Yuan used to smoke was "Honglan".
After Chen Feng experienced all the ups and downs and helplessness in Toutiao, he suddenly became superstitious and couldn't guard against it.
simply……
Can't do it myself...
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The second half of September was nothing worth celebrating for Lu Yuan.
Everything is peaceful.
In addition to making movies, I also watch other people making movies live.
He was very busy.
"Dear Mr. Forrest, I suddenly feel that this "Photography Ghost" needs to be revised again. This is my revised version. Do you want to take a look?"
"..."
"Photography Ghost" Lu Yuan felt uncomfortable after revising it again.
He felt there was something missing, that it felt empty.
So driven by this hollow feeling, he contacted Forrest again and made corrections again...
What could Forrest say?
My boss has told me this, what else can he say?
So Forrest looked at the densely revised script like a poor child.
At that moment, he felt as if he had seen God.
Later, Lu Yuan felt that the name "Photography Ghost" was not very nice.
uncomfortable!
Some are not suitable for the situation.
then……
"Dear Mr. Forrest, regarding our new Hollywood movie, I suddenly have an immature proposal... I think the name is a bit awkward to pronounce, and when translated into Chinese, it smells like a bad movie..."
"???"
Honest Forrest was stunned.
In the end, under Lu Yuan's immature "suggestion", the script of "Photography Ghost" was not only changed beyond recognition, but even the name was changed to "Ghost Record".
Forrest no longer doubts life after reading the original scripts of "Ghost Chronicles" and "Photographer".
When these two scripts are compared, they suddenly become decidedly superior.
Even at this moment, he doubted whether he was completely unqualified to be a screenwriter.
Is this really a changed script?
This is a completely new script, okay?
Forrest took a breath.
Very fucked.
Apart from the same protagonist's name, what else is the same?
Of course, in addition to these, the investment in the film was suddenly reduced by half to US$100,000.
Forrest scratched his head.
If I had filmed it according to myself, this movie would not have enough money at all, but if I had filmed it according to "The Ghost Story"...
This is absolutely enough!
Not only is it enough, there is even leftover after the photo shoot.
The script of "Photography Ghost" was thrown away by Forrest without saying a word.
After all, there is a good script, so what’s the point of having such a bad script?
Forrest was severely beaten.
This is nothing to Forrest. What puzzles Forrest is that the screenwriter of the script of "The Ghost Story" does not belong to his boss, but to the name of eleven...
eleven?
What does this mean?
Does it have any special meaning?
Forrest was at a loss for a moment.
He couldn't understand.
He even felt that he was a poor man who had been eliminated by this world and had no talent at all.
After being at a loss, Forrest stupidly started to form the crew. After forming the crew, Forrest thought of his previous failure experience, and at the same time, he thought of the experience that gave birth to "The Ghost Story".
The surging confidence was completely disappeared...
I began to doubt whether I could be a qualified director again.
So every time I take a video, I will send a video to my boss...
"Record of Ghosts" is not "Westward Journey"
"Ghost Story" doesn't require the use of powerful special effects, nor does it require a lot of supporting actors or people, so it was shot very quickly.
On October 2nd, filming of "The Ghost Story" was completely completed.
For the rest of the post-processing, Forrest was basically busy, and Lu Yuan was not involved at all.
All he needs to do is watch the finished film, right?
After the filming was completed, Lu Yuan and Forrest calculated that the movie would be released on November 15th.
However, "Ghost Chronicles" may only be able to take advantage of the box office in the United States and Taiwan Province of China. After all, mainland China has relatively strict control in this regard. Lu Yuan does not think it is qualified.
Released.
Of course, everything is not absolute. Even if Lu Yuan was not qualified to screen, he still decided to try to contact the relevant departments.
He felt that he still had to give it a try.
…………………………
"Hello? Who is this?"
"Huh? Looking for Mr. Liu? Okay, please wait a moment. Who are you..."
"Lu Yuan? Which Lu Yuan..."
"Ah, it turns out to be Director Lu. Hello, Director Lu. Mr. Li is in a meeting. What do you want to see him for?"
"New movie review? Director Lu, our department has had a meeting about your movie before. Mr. Liu means that if the movie is not out of line, we can occasionally open a backdoor for you..."
"Is this movie a horror movie from Hollywood? Is there... any bloody and cruel scenes? No? It's fine if it doesn't..."
"Okay, Director Lu, please wait a moment, wait for about half an hour, and I will talk to Mr. Liu after he finishes the meeting. Director Lu, don't worry, our department knows that you have been preaching positive energy.
The appropriate ones will give you the green light."
"...
"No need to thank you. Really, you are now one of the most powerful screenwriters in our Chinese movies. In the past two years, Hollywood movies have become more and more arrogant. Putting aside other factors and speaking of personal factors, I am still your fan! I will try my best.