The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 541 Booting up

nine in the morning.

The crew members arrived at the scene early and arranged the pre-filming worship ceremony, setting out incense burners and various offerings, and covering the camera with red cloth, wishing good luck.

On the other side, Lu Yuan and Wen Muye finished their breakfast and drove to Che Kung Temple in Sha Tin with Liang Jiahui and others.

There is a unique ceremony when filming in Hong Kong, which is quite different from the customs in the mainland.

That is, before starting to film and worship the gods, they will first go to a nearby temple to pray for blessings, such as the "Jigong Temple", "Wenwu Temple", etc., burn a large plate of incense, draw lots, and then seek answers from the masters in the temple, in order to pray for safety and smoothness during the filming process.

Che Kung Temple is not large in scale and appears much more delicate and compact compared to temples in the mainland.

After returning from praying in the temple, on the way to the crew's worship site.

The group was in the same car. Han Jianv and Ke Lan sat side by side, listening to music through the same pair of headphones.

The Han family girl leaned her head on Ke Lan's shoulder and sighed softly: "Hong Kong has many more rules than the mainland."

This ceremony of entering the temple and burning incense is not only required when the crew officially starts filming, but also before starting filming every day, the crew has to arrange for staff to go and burn incense. And after the filming is finished, they have to go to fulfill their vows. It is very cumbersome.

"When in Rome, do as the Romans do." Ke Lan replied casually while playing with his phone and changing songs.

Liang Jiahui leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and rested. He opened his eyes after hearing this and explained with a smile: "In Hong Kong, the film and television industry is also seen as a side job. In the eyes of the older generation, this industry is not a serious profession, so we are used to worshipping gods and Buddhas before and after filming to pray for peace of mind."

The daughter of the Han family said "Oh", not knowing what she remembered, and was a little curious: "Brother Jiahui, you have been in the industry for so many years, have you ever encountered any strange things while filming on the crew?"

"Strange things? Like what?"

"That kind." She blinked her eyes meaningfully.

Liang Jiahui raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "That kind?"

"Yeah, that kind."

"Well." Liang Jiahui smacked his lips, raised his right hand and stroked his chin, with a hint of mystery in his tone, and said affirmatively: "It really happened a few times."

As soon as the words fell, everyone in the car became interested.

The Han girl straightened her back unconsciously, and Wen Muye also put down the script in his hand.

Lu Yuan was originally chatting with Liu Shishi on WeChat with his mobile phone in his pocket, or to be more precise, he was coaxing her.

The reason was that this girl typed a bunch of words, talking about what she saw and heard during the filming of "So Young", saying that the crew had a conflict with local citizens in Nanjing, and complained that Zhao Wei was very fierce and slapped Zheng Kai on the set
There were too many words, and he was too lazy to read them carefully. He simply replied with "Oh", "Yeah", "I see."

Liu Shishi heard similar answers several times in a row and realized that something was wrong. She became a little angry and whined that he was too perfunctory.

So he tried to argue, but she didn't listen. She shouted that she would forward the message to her mother and started to bring up old issues.

He had no choice but to carefully re-read the message she had just sent and continue to coax her, but to little avail.

Just when he was in a state of panic, he heard Liang Jiahui telling a supernatural story and left his girlfriend aside without hesitation.

Do whatever you want, if you have the guts, just follow the signal and fly over to bite me.

When Liang Jiahui saw that everyone was looking at him, a smile flashed in his eyes.

He cleared his throat and said slowly, "Let me tell you something I heard in my early years, about Wang Jing. It was probably in the 1990s. When he was filming Tricky Brains, he was frightened once.

It was quite strange. He had a poor appetite that day and didn't want to eat the crew meal, so he asked a behind-the-scenes staff member to help buy a bowl of barbecued pork rice.

After hearing the request, the staff member stood up with a smile, bought a lunch safely, and left without saying a word. Wang Jing sat in front of the camera, eating a lunch and reading a newspaper. Suddenly, his face turned pale and sweat appeared on his forehead.

It was very quiet in the car and the only sound they could hear was each other's breathing.

"hiss."

Suddenly, Kelan took a breath and looked to his side depressedly: "Don't pinch me."

"I'm scared." The Han girl hugged her arms tightly.

"You haven't told me what happened yet. Maybe he choked."

"Okay." "So." Liang Jiahui's smile widened, and he deliberately stretched out his voice to make it seem a little vague, and said, "The newspaper reported a traffic accident that happened at noon that day, and the victim looked exactly like that staff member."

"Hiss, Sister Lan, why are you tickling me?"

"My thigh is itchy." Kelan responded innocently.

Lu Yuan pushed away the head of his assistant Zheng Qian, who had leaned towards him at some point, and rolled his eyes.

What kind of newspaper can publish at such a speed? It is obvious that this is a trick played by Wang Jing to create a topic for hype.

He pondered for a moment, then slightly adapted the story, replaced the newspaper with a mobile phone message, and sent it to Liu Shishi.

Two minutes later, the guy put his phone in his pocket with an expressionless face.

It’s not a big deal, I just got blocked.

It’s good, it’s quiet now, no need to coax it, the whole world seems to have quieted down.

Zheng Qian didn't know why, and asked blankly: "Boss, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." The guy waved his hand nonchalantly.

"Then why are you suddenly looking so gloomy?"

"Did I?"

"Yes, obviously."

Back to the crew, put on makeup and finalize the look.

Li Zicheng's look was that of a gentleman, wearing a well-tailored suit, which stunned the makeup artist.

When I came out of the dressing room, there was already a circle of reporters surrounding the scene.

The long-tail effect brought about by the record-breaking box office of "Time Raiders" will not fade away in a short period of time.

The location and time of the start of filming have long been exposed by the media.

Reporters gathered in Mong Kok heard the news and moved out from a nearby high-rise building to capture every move of the crew.

Even if the crew released false information in advance, announced the start date of April 4, and strengthened security measures, they still couldn't stop them.

In order not to affect the filming, Lu Yuan simply opened the worship ceremony to the media, on the condition that the media left the scene immediately after the ceremony.

In addition, there were a large number of enthusiastic tourists coming to watch the event, many of whom came from Shenzhen.

Compared with the formality of reporters, they seemed much more casual.

They walked by the cordon set up by the crew in a swaggering manner, cracking melon seeds. Fortunately, everyone followed the rules and no one took out their cell phones.

"Crack."

"Lu Sheng, what are your expectations for the box office of this movie? Can it break the record of "Out of Time"?"

"Lu Sheng, when do you think domestic films will be able to break the 1 billion mark?"

"Lu Yuan, do you have the confidence to become the first actor in China to star in a movie with a box office of over 1 billion?"

"Liang Jiahui"

Briefly answered questions from media reporters.

Lu Yuan and Wen Muye led everyone to worship gods, distribute red envelopes, and speak on stage as investors.

Finally, Wen Muye, who was eager to try, suddenly lifted the red silk on the camera, waved his hand, and was in high spirits.

"I declare that the filming of New World has officially started!"

(End of this chapter)