Actor: My Entertainment Era

After all, Zhang Yuanjun’s fan group doesn’t play the traffic fan circle game, and they are very quiet when they have nothing to do.

When there are situations, they mostly just stay in their own circle and play by themselves.

Fans are naturally happy that Zhang Yuanjun won the award.

"Second Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor, another history made!"

"Is Zhang Laosan going to win the three Chinese Film Awards again?"

"Impossible. Yuanjun won't make co-productions anymore. He will never win a second Academy Award."

"Congratulations to Zhang Yuanjun for winning his second Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor. He is the No. 1 Chinese Film Actor, well-deserved!"

Zhang Yuanjun did not appear in an interview with the film channel until the afternoon of the next day, responding to the award:
"It's really unexpected. Thank you to the judges for their recognition of me... I haven't received the trophy and certificate yet. They are still with director Gu Changwei."

In the interview, Zhang Yuanjun also clarified the name of the film "Swan Elegy": "It is called "Swan Elegy."

"It's a very romantic name." The host said, "Can you tell us a little bit about the story? I heard it's a science fiction movie, right?"

"Yes, it's a story about love and death, it's quite heavy."

"Another science fiction art film?"

"Ah."

"What is the current progress? Can you share it with our audience?"

"I'm still writing the script, but I'm also slowly looking for a team to do the early concept design and art design." That's all Zhang Yuanjun could say.

"… At the end of the show, I would like to congratulate Yuanjun again for winning the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor. I also look forward to your new film being released soon. Thank you Yuanjun for coming to our show."

"Thank you." He shook hands with the host and said goodbye, ending today's interview.

Whether or not he wins the award has no impact on Zhang Yuanjun now.

One more award will not affect his status and pay, and it will not increase any further.

He has won enough awards, what Zhang Yuanjun lacks now is box office results.

"Wolf Warrior 2" pushed the domestic film box office ceiling to 56 billion, and Zhang Yuanjun's current best result is "Mojin: The Lost Tomb" two years ago, with 19.6 billion.

Of course, this result is also very good. The subsequent low-budget "The Invisible Guest" made 8 million yuan, which also proved his appeal.

Don't be too greedy. You have won so many awards, and you still want a box office of 4 or 5 billion. That's really not giving people a chance to survive.

But there are always some people who don't like or can't stand Zhang Yuanjun and use his box office performance to make a fuss:

"Now is the era of commercial films. What's the point of winning 10,000 awards? If there is no box office success, no one will hire you."

However, Zhang Yuanjun is still one of the highest-paid actors in the Chinese film industry, and it's not just an empty offer. There are many people who are willing to pay his price.

Zhang Yuanjun himself doesn't care about this kind of voice. It's true, you want both awards and box office, but you can't have everything in the world.

His fans don't care even more. We are all young performing artists. What's the point of arguing over such trivial matters? Money is just a vulgar thing in our eyes.

Zhang Yuanjun received a call from Gong Ge'er, the producer of "The Wandering Earth", who said that he and another staff member would return to Beijing in two days to do some business and hoped to meet Zhang Yuanjun for dinner.

When Zhang Yuanjun received the call from Gong Ge'er, his eyelids twitched. It was never good news when the crew of "The Wandering Earth" contacted him.

He wanted to take advantage of the art, special effects and props manufacturing of "The Wandering Earth", and Guo Fan was determined to make money from him.

Zhang Yuanjun thought that since he had given all his salary for "Dying to Survive" to Guo Fan, it was enough, so he could feel at ease about making money from "The Wandering Earth".

You are short of money, so you can't just grab my sheep and plunder it! I didn't expect Gong Ge'er to come to me for dinner again.

Zhang Yuanjun anticipated that something bad was going to happen, but he still agreed to meet Gong Ge'er.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Yuanjun called his financial advisor and asked him how much cash he currently had available: "How much money can you take out in a month?"

The financial advisor replied: "One month is plenty of time. I can transfer 200 million or 300 million to you. Why, do you need the money?"

"It's okay, I'll just ask."

Two days later, Gong Ge'er and a staff member from Guo Fan's studio met Jiangnan in Changping to entertain Zhang Yuanjun.

What a brilliant smile!
During this period, Zhang Yuanjun often met and communicated with Gao Gao, the art director of "The Wandering Earth", and Ding Yanlai, the special effects director. I think Guo Fan knew about it, so when Zhang Yuanjun saw Gong Ge'er smiling so brightly, he felt that he had bad intentions.

"How are you doing in Qingdao?" Zhang Yuanjun poured tea for the two people opposite him. "I just came back and I'm quite busy. I don't have time to visit you."

"Everything went smoothly." Gong Geer said with a smile, "We expect to finish filming the scenes on the ground next week."

"It wasn't easy. We started filming at the end of May and it's almost October now. It took four months to wrap up," said Zhang Yuanjun.

"It's not the final shot," Gong Geer said with a smile, "it's the final shot of the ground scenes. There are still some space scenes to be filmed."

"The space scenes haven't been filmed yet?" Zhang Yuanjun was a little unresponsive. "Didn't Brother Jing finish filming?"

“No,” Gong Geer said, “Brother Jing went to promote Wolf Warrior 2 after finishing his scenes on the ground. His scenes in space will be shot after his legs get better. It’s not much and will be quick.”

The waitress brought the dishes one after another, and Zhang Yuanjun asked the two to eat first.

"Then you'll have to wait for a few months. The crew is very exhausted."

"It's not that bad," Gong Geer said. "It takes time to set up the space capsule, and it takes a lot of time to set up the props."

"That's good."

The three of them ate and chatted. When talking about "Swan Elegy" which was still in the script stage, Zhang Yuanjun was frank: "Your crew are all professionals, so I don't have to look for them one by one."

Zhang Yuanjun laughed and said, "This is a very old story. I am about to die, so I clone another me to accompany my wife and children. Then I want to let go but I can't. There is nothing new."

Gong Geer said: "The story has been written out, so there is definitely nothing new to say. The story of Avatar is nothing new no matter how hard you try. The key lies in the presentation and the performance of the actors.

"Often, this kind of clichéd story can highlight the actor's performance. Otherwise, why would the audience watch your movie?"

At the end of the meal, Gong Geer had already lit up a cigarette before he said, "In Qingdao, there is no problem in finishing the ground scenes, but we are still a little short of money for the space scenes later."

Sure enough, what was supposed to come came.

Zhang Yuanjun did not speak first, and listened to Gong Ge'er finish her words: "Lao Guo and I have been contributing money since the early stages of preparation, but now we really can't afford it anymore. Lao Guo's director's fee has not even warmed up yet, but he has already contributed again."

According to Gong Ge'er, the crew of "The Wandering Earth" was almost out of money, and he and Guo Fan were almost left to work as pawnbrokers.

Zhang Yuanjun couldn't bear it, so he asked, "How big is your gap?"

"If you can invest another 60 million, we can hold on."

"Sixty million." Zhang Yuanjun held the chopsticks in his hand, thought for a while, and said, "You guys go ahead and shoot the scenes on the ground first. I'll take a look at the footage after it's finished."

"Okay, no problem." Although he didn't get a definite answer, Gong Ge'er still thought it was a relatively positive result.

Zhang Yuanjun has already invested more than 2000 million yuan. There is no way he would let it go to waste. Saying that he was looking at the shooting materials was just an excuse.

Now when she returns to Qingdao, Gong Geer can report to Guo Fan. (End of this chapter)