Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 373 "Catch the Wind"

After the Oscars, Zhang Yuanjun will stay in the United States to prepare for the promotion of "Never Ending".

"Never Ending" is scheduled to premiere in New York on March 3th and will be released worldwide on the 8th US time.

Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei came to New Line Cinema's headquarters the next day to watch the finished film in advance.

"Never Ending" has four main investors, Zhang Yuanjun's Z Studio, the Nolans' Simpic, Leonardo's Appian Trail and Lionsgate Pictures.

Except for Lionsgate, the other three investors do not have the ability to distribute. Since "Never End" hired Emma Thomas as the producer, the distribution of the film was left to Warner, which looked down upon this 2000 million-dollar project. The film was shot with a low budget of US$[-], and "Never Ended" was handed over to its subsidiary New Line Cinema, which specializes in low-budget and independent films, to boost performance.

After watching the movie, Liu Yifei didn't seem to get the excitement of "Never Ending". She just felt that the movie was ordinary, even a bit dull.

Liu Yifei's feeling is right.

"Never Ending" is limited by cost and cannot develop action scenes, so it can only arrange for the protagonist to kill everyone in the financial market.

If the film were to change its direction and add a few more gunfight scenes for the protagonist, two more car chases and explosion scenes, and some cool special effects to make the scenes more exciting, it would be much better.

New Line's evaluation of "Never Ending" is that it is "a passable film" and "somewhat profitable", nothing more.

After all, the total investment in the film is only a little over 2000 million US dollars. If it is screened around the world and Warner sells the discs, the money will be made back.

Liu Yifei accompanied Zhang Yuanjun to record two small shows - the small-budget film promotion and distribution funds were not enough for big shows, and then she returned to China alone.

Before getting on the plane, Zhang Yuanjun said: "Yang Mi will come to you again, please think about how to tell Yang Mi."

"I know." Liu Yifei was not stupid, "When will you come back?"

"At the end of the month, no matter what, it will be completed within a week after the release." Zhang Yuanjun wants to travel to North America, but he has no global market, and the publicity funds are not enough to support him to travel around the world.

The two kissed goodbye and Liu Yifei returned to China.

Guangming now faces a choice.

Choose Yang Mi, Tang Yan, or someone else.

Yang Mi became famous at the beginning of the new year and became a hot topic. No one is more popular than her.

In terms of topicality, Guangming really likes her to play Qingqing.

Tang Yan is not as famous as Yang Mi, but she has Liu Yifei's recommendation.

Liu Yifei has made a lot of money for Guangxian, and Wang Changtian must also consider her opinions.

The news couldn't be hidden. Yang Mi soon learned that Tang Yan was also vying for the role of Qingqing, and she had established a relationship with Liu Yifei before she could.

Guangxian is still considering ruthless candidates.

After Liu Yifei returned to China, she was asked out by Yang Mi that night to "catch up" with her.

The two sat down at a Western restaurant. Liu Yifei ordered a steak and soup, while Yang Mi only ordered a vegetable and fruit salad.

Yang Mi smiled and said, "You still dare to eat this? I don't even dare to eat meat at night."

Liu Yifei didn't care: "I won't join the group for the next few months, so I can eat more."

"I really envy you," Yang Mi said. "You can still have such a long vacation. I almost forgot what it feels like to sleep in."

"Haha," Liu Yifei smiled, "Actually, I'm just lazy, and I envy you for being able to film so many scenes."

Liu Yifei can do two dramas a year at most, and Yang Mi will do at least 10 dramas and movies this year.

Yang Mi was not bothered by the drama at all. On the contrary, she was very proud that she was able to film so many films. However, she was still polite to Liu Yifei: "What's the use of me filming too many films? Even if I film 10 films in China, they can't compare to one of yours." Inception"."

This praise for Liu Yifei is very useful. "Inception" has indeed opened up a lot of opportunities for her domestically and internationally. Otherwise, "Pacific Rim" would not have found her.

Liu Yifei laughed at herself: "I also wanted to take on a few more movies last year, but after filming "Time Traveler" I didn't want to do it anymore." "How many movies did you have last year?"

"There are only two films. I finished filming "Space Traveler" in May and joined the production of "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" in October." Throughout last year, Liu Yifei worked for a little more than five months.

Yang Mi couldn't even imagine how anxious she would be if she didn't join the group for more than a month, but Liu Yifei actually dared to join the group after four or five months.

"What about this year?"

"There are two movies this year, both in the second half of the year." Liu Yifei answered truthfully. She didn't want to ask Yang Mi what dramas she had this year because she had a premonition that Yang Mi would talk about "Four Famous Catchers". She didn't want to talk about this drama, "One movie." A commercial film, an artistic film.”

"Is it the one called "Her"?" "Her" has been approved as a project by the General Administration and has received a filming permit.

"Yeah." Seeing that Yang Mi wanted to ask about the commercial film, Liu Yifei smiled and said, "The other film is still under confidentiality, and the film company won't let us know."

Yang Mi took the initiative to talk about her schedule: "I just finished filming "Northern Ireland" and will be filming a movie next month."

Yang Mi allowed herself to rest for half a month at most.

Liu Yifei saw that she couldn't escape, so she said: ""Palace" is so popular, you must be very busy later."

Yang Mi doesn't feel sleepy anymore when she says this: "I'm just busy, take advantage of the popularity now and shoot a few more movies."

She didn't mind saying this in front of Liu Yifei at all.

Liu Yifei pointedly said: "Are you too busy with too many dramas?"

Yang Mi knew that she was teasing herself. In fact, such things as drama are very common in the industry. It is common that actors who don't do drama are aliens. However, when it comes to drama, it is also a bad phenomenon. The superficial skills still have to be So Yang Mi passed the blame to the company: "The company arranged it, but I can't help it. Sometimes I want to take a good rest, but my agent keeps stuffing me with movies."

There was still bitterness and helplessness in his tone.

Liu Yifei has no experience of being pushed into movies by agents. She has not even signed a contract with a serious agency. The grassroots team of Red Star House used to pay her social security, but now her social security is in the theater, and Red Star House is completely useless.

Liu Yifei followed Yang Mi's words and said, "It would be good to film more movies."

The two of them were chatting while eating. Among the creators of Fairy Sword, Yang Mi knew not to mention Liu Shishi in front of Liu Yifei. Liu Yifei had a normal relationship with Brother Hu, so she could only talk about Tang Yan: "Do you know what Tang Yan is busy with recently? ?”

"I don't know." Liu Yifei pretended to be stupid, "She finished filming that "Invulnerable" thing. I haven't heard of any new dramas. She is probably taking a break."

Yang Mi had a suspicion in her mind and said, "I heard that Tangtang is talking about Guangxian's "Four Famous Catchers" recently. Do you know?"

"I don't know." Liu Yifei didn't answer Yang Mi's words at all. "I have been busy with "Love Traveler" during the Chinese New Year and did not pay attention to these news."

Yang Mi generously gave Liu Yifei advice: "You have such a good relationship with Guangxian, please help Tangtang, connect her with a few words."

Liu Yifei laughed and said: "We are just actors. How can we talk to other people's bosses? People may not listen to us even if we talk."

After observing Liu Yifei's reaction, Yang Mi smiled and said, "You two are not ordinary actors.

Liu Yifei frowned, and Yang Mi felt that Liu Yifei probably didn't like others talking about the two of them like this.

Yang Mi immediately changed the topic and continued to talk about Wuqing: "Qingqing is a very good role. I want to try it."

"Go ahead. The role hasn't been decided yet," Liu Yifei said.

"Forget it, Tang Yan is talking about me, forget it." Yang Mi gave up the role magnanimously.

It can be seen from Liu Yifei's performance as Yang Mi tonight that she does not want to waste too much time on "The Four Famous Catchers".

So she didn't plan to spend any time on Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei ate half a piece of steak and couldn't eat any more after a few mouthfuls of soup. The two broke up and went back to their respective homes.

(End of this chapter)