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Chapter 143 Film Festival and Tangtang
In April, Gu Wei received an invitation to participate in the 4th Beijing International Film Festival.

Originally, Gu Wei didn't want to participate, because although "Embroidered Spring Knife" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Tiantan Award at the film festival, he himself was not shortlisted for any awards.

The Beijing International Film Festival didn't set up an award for best newcomer. His acting skills in "Xiu Chun Dao" could only be regarded as not bad, and he was not shortlisted for best actor.

But Brother Lu Yang called him and invited him to participate in the Beijing International Film Festival.

Now it's hard for him to refuse, after all Lu Yang has helped him a lot, and Lu Yang is very hopeful to win an award at this film festival, he wants Gu Wei to attend with him.

【Xiu Chun Dao】The two awards shortlisted are the Best Director Award and the Best Screenplay Award.

Coincidentally, both director and screenwriter are Lu Yang.

Since he couldn't refuse, Gu Wei had no choice but to take a few days off with the crew and fly back to the capital overnight.

The Beijing International Film Festival is directed by the National Film Bureau and hosted by China Central Radio and Television and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. It is an international film festival second only to the Shanghai Film Festival in China.

The Beijing Municipal Government attaches great importance to this film festival, which has been held for only 4 years, and tries to make it the most direct link between the film industry and consumers by promoting the public's understanding of film culture and film technology, inspiring visitors' love for films. bridge.

In addition to selecting awards, the most important thing for the entire film festival is to provide a platform for selling excellent films at home and abroad. The Beijing Municipal Government and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television are trying to imitate the models of the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival to create China's own international Film Festival.

After returning to the capital, Gu Wei first returned to the company to take time to deal with some affairs.

[Remaining Sins] The production crew has already started, and the director chose Shencheng as the filming location.

The producer Zhao Mingcheng rushed to Shencheng with the entire crew and all the actors.

Unlike [Prince Concubine] at that time, [Yu Sin] has received widespread attention from the industry as soon as it was launched.

Zhang Yishan itself has some traffic, plus Zhang Tianai, who is on fire at this time, and the team is also the filming team of "Prince Princess", all these make everyone look forward to this TV series that has just started.

The three major video platforms of Fujixun, Kiwi, and Youku, as well as the recent rapid development of LeTV Video, all called Gu Wei Company to ask about the shooting situation of "Yu Zui" and see if they can reach a cooperation with "Wei Mingxia" in advance protocol.

After all, the three major video platforms that were originally evenly matched, at the beginning of 2014, because of an online drama, Fujixun’s data took a big step forward, and the market share originally surpassed Youku from No.2 to No.1. .

These other two companies, including the up-and-coming LeEco, are all watching.

Although Tengxun Video has settled more than [-] million yuan for Gu Wei Company in the later period, but these are all earned from the membership fees and pre-roll advertisers that [Princess Concubine] drained.

It can be said that Teng Xun did not take any risks in the broadcast of "Prince Princess", and only enjoyed the benefits brought by the explosion of online dramas.

These are the envy of other video sites.

TV dramas can be said to be popular before they are broadcast.

Sun Zhonghuai, the boss of Fujixun Video, even called Gu Wei himself, hoping that the two companies can continue to cooperate.

"Mr. Sun, I am very grateful for your attention, it's not that I don't let go, the key is that the film hasn't been shot yet.

In this way, I also really want to maintain a long-term cooperative relationship with you. I can promise you that under the same conditions, I will definitely choose our Fujixun Video. "

"Okay, Mr. Gu, I feel relieved with your words, and look forward to our happy cooperation in the future."

Gu Wei hung up the phone, sat in the office, and was looking at the preparation proposal for the online drama [Yu Sin] brought to him by his assistant.

[Remaining Sin] is a two-season co-production, with 12 episodes in one season, and a total of 24 episodes.

The total investment is 3000 million RMB, which is 2000 million higher than the investment of the original space-time version 1000.

The main reason is that apart from one Zhang Yishan, the rest of the actors in the original time and space are some 18-line little transparent.

And now this edition has Tianai, the most popular online drama female advocate, and Li County, who is also well-known.

In addition to the greater cost of the actors, the production of the crew is also more sophisticated than the original version, so the budgetary expenditure is also more.

However, Gu Wei is not worried about [Yu Zui]'s profit at all. Taking advantage of [Prince Princess]'s reputation, [Yu Zui] shouted the slogan created by the original team of [Prince Princess], and attracted a large number of people during the preparation stage. sponsor.

After all, [Remaining Sin] is a modern drama, so it is convenient to place advertisements, and many products can be embedded in the drama, which is another big income for the crew.

Finally, through the careful selection of the crew, without affecting the smoothness of the plot, five manufacturers were selected, including Lay's Potato Chips, Rejoice, Uni-President Ice Tea, Master Kong Instant Noodles, and Mengniu Milk, and signed implant sponsorship contracts.

All the placement fees add up to 1500 million, and half of the cost has already been recovered before the filming of the TV series started.

For the company, this has minimized the risk of this TV series.

In fact, the profit-making method of placing advertisements is not uncommon in today's film and television dramas.

Just like the director Feng Xiaogang who fought with Gu Wei at the end of last year, as long as he is making a modern film, he must first rely on placing advertisements to recoup his capital, or even directly make a profit.

As for the movie after it is released, no matter how much the box office is, it will be profitable.

Of course, this premise is possible because his films are popular with everyone.

Advertisers are not fools either. Knowing that your movie or TV show is bound to be a hit, he is willing to invest money in advertising.

If it is a small production that is not well-known, there will be no advertisers to take care of it if you ask for it.

In the afternoon, Gu Wei made an appointment with Lu Yang and drove to the National Center for the Performing Arts accompanied by his team members.

Meet Lu Yang at the gate first.

This time at the Beijing International Film Festival, the crew of [Embroidered Spring Knife] is rather pitiful. There are only three people, Lu Yang, Gu Wei and Wang Qianyuan. There is still a big gap in reputation.

And Liu Yifei, who is the leading actress, also came to the film festival, but she couldn't be with Gu Wei and the others.

Liu Yifei also participated in the film festival with her own film [The Last War], but this film was not shortlisted for any awards, and she came here purely to promote it through the film festival to see if she could sell the copyright fee.

Speaking of "The Last War", some people may not know that this movie was later renamed "Legend of the White Phantom: Escape", and it is also a Sino-foreign joint venture movie.

The leading actors are Liu Yifei and Nicola Cage, but Cage is not worth much at this time, he is still taking bad movies in order to pay off his debts, no matter what movie he can act as long as he has enough money.

When Gu Wei arrived, he happened to see Liu Yifei walking the red carpet with her crew. There was no Cage, only the foreign director of the film and a few actors.

He waved at her from afar, but didn't have a chance to communicate.

"Gu Wei, you're finally here. This time, there are only three thousand dollars for the award show."

When Lu Yang saw Gu Wei, he greeted him kindly. It could be seen that Senior Brother Lu Yang was a little nervous. After all, there were two nominations, so he was quite interested in the awards of this film festival.

"Senior Brother Lu, Teacher Wang, let's go."

The three met and greeted each other, and before chatting for a while, the staff notified them to go on stage and walk the red carpet.

The three of them, Gu Wei, were all wearing black suits, without wasting much time on the red carpet, they strode into the venue.

"Gu Wei, this way~"

After entering the venue, Liu Yifei who had greeted Gu Wei just now called him.

Gu Wei talked to Lu Yang and walked over.

"Sister Yifei, we meet again, you are not very interesting, why don't you join our crew of [Xiu Chun Dao]?"

Liu Yifei was a little embarrassed.

"[The Last War] crew came here to sell the film, and they are not familiar with the place, so as a landlord, I have to help.

Don't we have you and director Lu Yang in our crew? "

Gu Wei looked at several other people who were standing not far from the [The Last War] crew.

"That foreigner is the director of this movie, right?"

He pouted in that direction and asked Liu Yifei in a low voice.

Liu Yifei glanced in the direction Gu Wei pointed.

"Yes, he is the director of this film, Nick Powell. Originally, the filming of this film was finished last year, and the director brought the film to the film festival to sell it."

"Tsk tsk~ I heard that Sister Yifei collaborated with the Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage in this movie. How does it feel to cooperate with the Oscar winner?"

Gu Wei asked curiously.

Liu Yifei recalled Nicolas Cage's performance during filming, and smiled reluctantly.

"It's okay, it's pretty good, you can try it if you have a chance."

Then she thought of Gu Wei's identity as the owner of the film company, and urged him to say it.

"Cage is very short of money now, as long as you are willing to spend money, he can also be in your movie."

Gu Wei smiled, "I don't need foreigners for the time being, let's talk~"

After chatting with Liu Yifei for a while, the opening ceremony of the film festival was about to begin. Gu Wei returned to his seat and sat with Lu Yang and Wang Qianyuan.

This year's Beijing Film Festival can be called a gathering of stars, and many big names in the entertainment industry that Gu Wei doesn't know have all participated.

The highest award of the film festival is called the "Temple of Heaven Award".The chairman of the jury for this year's "Temple of Heaven Awards" is great director John Woo, and members of the jury also include new-generation directors such as Ning Hao and Lu Chuan.

Big-name stars such as Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, Fan Bingbing, Xu Zheng also attended the film festival with their own films.

All of a sudden, the National Center for the Performing Arts was filled with stars.

Soon after the performances at the opening ceremony, we entered the awards ceremony.

The less important awards such as best photography and best music are awarded first.

Then there is the Best Supporting Actor and Actor, probably in order to highlight the international nature of the film festival, these two awards were awarded to Li Lai, the supporting actress in the Korean film [Suyuan], and Ai Lai, the supporting actor in the French film [The Promise of Love]. Len Rickman.

Immediately afterwards, the best actor was also awarded to a French actor Guillaume Gouy.

When everyone in the audience was discussing, the Best Actress was finally awarded to domestic actress Zhang Ziyi.

Her performance in "The Grandmaster" is indeed worthy of this heroine.

The Best Screenplay and Best Director awards will be announced next.

Lu Yang, who was sitting next to Gu Wei, became visibly nervous.

In the end, Lu Yang was disappointed, the best screenwriter was awarded to [Chinese Partner], and the best director was awarded to Wang Jia from [The Great Master].

The unharvested Lu Yang seemed quite disappointed, Gu Wei patted his arm to comfort him.

"Brother, don't be sad, our film is very good, nomination is also an honor, and the Beijing Film Festival didn't give us an award, we still have chances for other awards in the future."

After listening to Gu Wei's words, Lu Yang calmed down and returned to his normal state.

Just like what Gu Wei said, being nominated is also an honor, and he didn't get it this time. He has confidence in himself when he comes back with other works next time.

After accompanying Lu Yang to attend the awards ceremony that night, Gu Wei flew back to the Hengdian crew early the next morning.

The filming task of "Langya Bang" was very heavy, and he didn't ask for a long vacation with the crew.

After Gu Wei came back, he naturally integrated into the crew's shooting plan.

After another period of intense filming, the plot of the TV series has advanced to more than half.

Some actors have finished filming one after another, like "Lin Chen" played by Jin Dong, who had few roles in the first place, and left the group after filming.

Leave good contact information with Gu Wei, and everyone will meet for a dinner together in the capital.

"Xie Yu" played by Liu Yijun and "Yan Hou" played by Wang Jinsong, who is a latecomer, also went offline one after another because of the needs of the plot.

Today we are filming a scene where "Mei Changsu" and "Princess Nihuang" Changting meet each other.

It can be regarded as a climax scene of the hero and heroine in the play.

Inside the long pavilion, "Princess Nihuang" played by Tang Yan threw himself into the arms of "Mei Changsu" played by Gu Wei,
"I know it's you, I know you are my brother Lin Shu."

"Mei Changsu" was a little dazed and at a loss, paused for a while, and slowly embraced "Princess Nihuang" with one hand.

He raised his eyes and looked into the distance, his face was tangled and hesitant.

"Mei Changsu" restrained his emotions, opened his mouth a few times but didn't speak. After hesitating for a long time, he called out "Nihuang~".

When the word Nihuang came out, "Mei Changsu" admitted that he was Lin Shu.

Then "Nihuang" cried and said, "Brother Lin Shu, brother Lin Shu, don't leave me again," and threw herself heavily into "Mei Changsu"'s arms.

Different from the last time, this time "Mei Changsu" hugged "Nihuang" tightly, and put his face towards "Nihuang" actively. distance.

In this hug, "Mei Changsu" admitted his feelings for "Nihuang" and admitted that he has always loved her deeply.He said: "I should have taken care of you all the time, I thought I would have taken care of you all the time".

"Ka! Okay, this scene is over~"

"Huh~" After the director shouted, Gu Wei also let out a long sigh of relief.

The scene between him and Tang Yan was filmed almost ten times back and forth, and finally passed.

Tang Yan was still in her arms, with tears in her eyes, crying like pear blossoms with rain.

While controlling her emotions, she said to Gu Wei, "I'm sorry, Gu Wei, my poor performance caused you to repeat it with me."

In this scene, Tang Yan can't always enter the relationship.

After director Kong Sheng explained the tricks to her thoroughly, he no longer cared about her. If she didn't perform well, she would shoot it over and over again, and if she couldn't cry, she would figure out a way for herself.

Anyway, the production crew of Noon Sunshine would definitely not provide Tang Yan with eye drops.

In the end, with Gu Wei's help, she completed the performance by herself.

"It's okay, Sister Tangtang, look how well you performed the last time, I think your acting skills have improved a lot."

Listening to Gu Wei's gentle words, Tang Yan couldn't help but smile even though her eyes were still red, and then came out of Gu Wei's arms.

That night, Tang Yan came to Gu Wei's room as usual.

Today, she was wearing a thin white shirt and a blue miniskirt, revealing two long white and delicate legs.

A little powder was applied on the face, and the whole person showed a mature and lazy temperament.

Gu Wei opened the door and let Tang Yan in.

Tang Yan was not polite at all, and sat on the sofa with two long legs.

Gu Wei also sat down beside her, turned on the TV, and the two of them watched [Parents' Love] together.

Unknowingly, after an episode was finished, Tang Yan put her two big white legs on the sofa at some point, and leaned against Gu Wei's body.

Gu Wei didn't mind either, he naturally stretched out an arm from behind Tang Yan and put it on her waist.

The two people in this posture didn't say anything, and it felt so natural.

"Gu Wei, thank you.

In the crew of [Langya Bang], you really helped me a lot. "

Tang Yan spoke suddenly.

"Sister Tangtang, you don't have to be so polite to me all the time."

Gu Wei answered her softly.

At this time Tang Yan raised her head slightly, looking at Gu Wei with a pair of beautiful big eyes, her lips were slightly closed, looking very attractive.

She looked at Gu Wei's sharp face, high nose bridge, deep eyes, and thin lips, which were extremely sexy.

She swallowed unconsciously.

Gu Wei noticed her gaze and turned to look at her with some doubts in his eyes.

The eyes of the two people were facing each other, and the distance between their faces was very close, and each could feel the sound of the other's breathing.

Tang Yan couldn't hold it back anymore, she pushed her head forward, and kissed Gu Wei's lips lightly.

This kiss seemed to give Gu Wei a signal to start a war, he took advantage of the opportunity to throw Tang Yan to the side, and pressed the whole person on top.

Tang Yan decides when to start, but she can't decide when to end.

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