China Entertainment’s rescue plan is hard to come by

Chapter 736 Warner's Conditions and First Visit to Huabiao
Half a month.
The finishing work of special effects production will take at least a week.

Well, this is indispensable. It affects the quality of the finished film, and this time cannot be reduced.

The soundtrack is already ready, so just add it in and you just need to be tight with it.

As for dubbing, it is enough to make an English version first. Speed ​​up the process and it can be completed in three to five days.

The only problem is that the time is a bit tight for this editing!
After returning from the Huairou Film and Television Base, Sun Yi wrote and drew in the study.

Calculating how to complete "Gravity" within half a month.

But no matter how he calculated, it was still too late.

Today is August 8th, and there are only 13 days left until the end of the month. Excluding the journey, it is exactly half a month as President Jia mentioned.

Special effects for a week, 7 days.

5 days are given for dubbing and music.

Three days of editing?

No, no, it can’t be completed.

Unless you do it yourself and work non-stop.

Damn, it seems like this is the only way to do it!

Sun Yi scratched his hair, looking somewhat helpless.

Ever since Star Sky developed and everything was on track, he hasn't personally operated the post-production of a film for a long time.

Basically, I provide regular guidance and tell the company's editors my editing requirements, and then the editors are responsible for completing them.

You just need to check and accept the work periodically.

On the one hand, this is done to train the company's talents. After all, Sun Yi can't do everything by himself.

On the other hand, Sun Yi really doesn’t have the time.

But at the moment, it seems that there is really no other way except for him to take part in it himself.

When it comes to understanding and expressing movies, no one can do it 100% except him as the director.

What's more, he still has past footage to use as reference.

Sun Yi put down the pen in his hand and sighed softly.

Alas, I couldn't escape this tiring life after all!
Just as Sun Yi was sighing, Liu Yifei's voice came from the living room.

"Brother, are you busy?"

"No, what's wrong?"

"Then come over here and help me."

"coming."

Sun Yi stood up and went to Liu Yifei's practice room.

After the two of them had dinner in the evening, seeing that Sun Yi was busy with his own things, Liu Yifei went to practice martial arts on her own.

A few days ago, Sun Yi told her that she had fat on her legs. This made her feel uneasy and she secretly made up her mind to lose weight in her legs no matter what, so she started exercising on her own again.

At this moment, she had just finished a set of yoga slimming exercises, with beads of sweat still hanging on her forehead. Seeing Sun Yi coming in, she pointed to her right ankle and said softly:

"Help me press my legs down and stretch them."

Upon hearing this, Sun Yi sat down directly on the yoga mat and pressed down on Liu Yifei's smooth calves with both hands.

Seeing that Sun Yi had pinned both of her feet, Liu Yifei frowned, a hint of helplessness flashed in her eyes, and she uttered a coquettish sound.

"Right foot~"

"Oh, haha~"

Sun Yi smiled awkwardly and quickly put his hand on Liu Yifei's right ankle.

"Xixi, if you ask me, your figure is just right. There's no need to lose any more weight."

"Who said I was fat the other day?"

"Me? I didn't say that."

"That's not what you said about clam meat."

"Tsk, that's a compliment, saying you're round and chewy."

"Pooh!"

Liu Yifei's face turned slightly red, she spat lightly, then lay on her back, slowly raised her left leg against the yoga mat until it was level with her shoulder, then reached out to hook her foot, stretching the muscles on the inside of her thigh as much as possible.

From Sun Yi's perspective, Liu Yifei seemed to be doing the splits in front of him, with the splits lifted to the top of her head.

This posture is amazing, although Sun Yi also practiced dancing with his mother in the early years.

He can do stretching exercises, splits, and the like, and he had no problem doing the splits before, but he can't do it to the level where Liu Yifei's feet are almost touching her head.

It didn’t work then, and it doesn’t work now.

The eggs are easy to pull apart.
When he thought of this, Sun Yi couldn't control his gaze anymore.

Liu Yifei was wearing a black one-piece yoga suit. In this posture, her raised left leg was stretched straight, from the ankle, calf to the thigh, tightly stretched into a straight line.

The sensitive areas where the lines converge are even more vague, making people subconsciously think of impure things.

Liu Yifei had a tense face, and it was obvious that this posture was not very easy for her.

After 2 minutes, a layer of fine sweat beads had already appeared on my forehead.

"Whoo~"

She took a long breath, switched to her right leg, and persisted for another 2 minutes.

I repeated this for 3 sets before finally stopping completely.

He reached out and patted the spot beside him, motioning Sun Yi to come over.

Sun Yi chuckled, then lay down on the yoga mat, head touching that of Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei pulled his arm over to use as a pillow, then asked Sun Yi.

"What did Director Jia want to talk to you about today? When I came back, I saw you writing and calculating in the study, and you ignored me."

"Oh, he wants our film Gravity to be included in the Venice Film Festival next month."

"Venice Film Festival? That's a good thing!"

Liu Yifei turned sideways and looked at Sun Yi with shining eyes, but the next second, she thought of something and quickly rejected it:
"That's not right. Can the post-production of Gravity be completed?"

Even though Liu Yifei has been busy recording "The Voice of China", she is also very concerned about her own movie. She would check with Xiaoting every now and then about the basic progress.

Sun Yi smacked his lips and sighed softly.

"It can't be finished unless I do it myself."

"Ah~" Liu Yifei curled her lips, looking a little distressed, and then asked:
"But why did Director Jia insist on asking you to attend?"

"He was invited to be a judge at the Venice Film Festival this year. He told me that the application for the festival will close in half a month, but up to now, there is not a single Chinese-language film from the mainland among the films shortlisted for the main competition unit of the festival. The only one is from Hong Kong. It's really hard to justify and it feels a bit embarrassing."

"The Venice Film Festival has always been a blessed place for Chinese-language films, but this year's situation is a bit unreasonable."

"Oh, but why did he?"

Liu Yifei asked in a low voice, but did not say it directly, but Sun Yi understood what she meant.

In other words, why does Jia Zhangke care about this matter?

"Have you forgotten? He just became the rotating president of our Directors Association this year. His qualifications are not as good as those of the previous presidents Li and Huang. There is not even a Chinese-language film shortlisted for the annual European Big Three. It's a disgrace to him."

"Oh, yes, it is indeed a bit embarrassing."

"Yeah, so that's why he found me."

"Then how did he know that our film would definitely be shortlisted?"

Ah, what does that mean?? ! !

"Why do you look down on your husband's ability so much? He may not even be shortlisted?"

Sun Yi turned his head and raised his other hand.

Liu Yifei reacted very quickly, pursed her lips and quickly covered her buttocks.

"Wrong, wrong!"

Sun Yi chuckled. He was just pretending. He didn't expect the girl to react so strongly.

"I can't say whether I can win the award, but I have a good chance of being shortlisted." "Oh~"

Seeing that Sun Yi had no intention of spanking her, Liu Yifei finally put her mind at ease. Thinking of what Sun Yi said, that the chances of the movie being shortlisted were very high, she felt a little secretly happy again. She moved closer to Sun Yi and couldn't help but whispered,
"Brother, what do you think of my acting? Um, will there be any chance?"

Yo, you want to win a prize?

Sun Yi felt amused in his heart, but pretended to think about it on the surface. After thinking for a long time, he slowly spoke.

"Objectively speaking, Gravity is also a female-led movie in a sense. From my point of view, your performance is still very good. The probability of being nominated is very high. But as for whether you can win the award, no one can say for sure. It depends on who your opponent is."

Liu Yifei was delighted to hear Sun Yi affirm her performance.

Of course she knew that winning an award still depended on her opponent, but she was still a little excited.

Liu Yifei asked herself, in recent years, the best movie she performed in was "Gravity", and now she has the opportunity to participate in the Venice Film Festival, it is impossible for her to say that she is not a little excited.

Sun Yi saw through Liu Yifei's little thoughts, grinned, and then teased:
"Oh, forget it. There's no need to make myself so tired just for a film festival. I'd better not participate."

"No, President Jia has already told you, it won't be good to refuse~!"

"What can I do? I can't make myself suffer just for his face. Why, don't you feel sorry for me?"

"How can I not feel sad, but, but"

Liu Yifei was so anxious, but she was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

It was so painful to see hope just rising and then disappear in an instant.

Just when Liu Yifei was struggling with the issue, she saw Sun Yi's half-smile and half-smile on his face. She immediately understood what was going on and started to pout to Sun Yi.

"You're annoying, stop it."

"What am I doing making a fuss about? If I don't want to participate, then I won't participate."

"Oops~"

Liu Yifei was almost crying in anxiety. She pulled at Sun Yi's clothes, not knowing what to do.

Seeing that Sun Yi's mouth was getting wider and wider, he moved closer and kissed Sun Yi on the cheek. Then he looked at Sun Yi eagerly.

It seems to be saying, this is finally okay.

Unexpectedly, Sun Yi just licked the corner of his mouth, shook his head and said: "The time is indeed a bit tight."

Obviously still not satisfied.

Humph~ You’re still ungrateful after getting the advantage!
Liu Yifei was so angry at Sun Yi that her pretty face flushed. But in Sun Yi's eyes, she looked as beautiful as a peach blossom. He smiled more obviously, as if he had Liu Yifei in his arms.

Liu Yifei knew that Sun Yi was just teasing her, but she couldn't do anything about it. She gritted her teeth and gave it her all. She went straight into Sun Yi's arms, stretched out her arms to hook his neck, then took the initiative to stick out her tongue and started a passionate kiss.

For a while, she panted softly and her breasts rose and fell.

"Thank you for your hard work, husband~"

"Oh, that's the case. I'll try my best."

"You just know how to bully people!"

Originally, Sun Yi had planned to work overtime to make the movie and then participate in the Venice Film Festival.

But this guy managed to get a night of passion with this.

Now I finally have motivation.

In the next few days, Sun Yi immersed himself in Starry Sky Digital, urging the staff of the special effects department every day.

Even Guo Fan, who had already gone out to prepare for "The Martian", was pulled back by him.

The Venice Film Festival is usually held in the fall, and this year it will be held on September 9th.

According to this time, there is still one and a half months left.

But don’t forget, there is a submission deadline for the film festival. You can’t submit your work today before the award ceremony tomorrow.

Usually the deadline is one month in advance.

So, Sun Yi only has less than half a month left.

However, with his personal participation, the progress of the film was indeed accelerated a lot.

In just 6 days, the special effects of the entire film were completed.

Sun Yi locked himself in the editing room and started editing the film day and night.

The rough cut was completed in two days.

Two days later, when Sun Yi came out of the editing room with an untidy beard, the film was finally finished.

However, the time limit is still a little bit exceeded, so it will definitely not be allowed to be released, but there will be no problem for it to participate in the awards.

Director's Cut?
Immediately afterwards, the film began the work of dubbing and music.

At this time, Sun Yi was finally able to take a break.

Coincidentally, a reply also came from North America.

Following Sun Yi's instructions, John used his father's connections to investigate Warner's thoughts on the movie "Edge of Tomorrow".

It was exactly as Sun Yi had imagined.

Warner is very optimistic about this film and has already begun arranging screenwriters to adapt the script.

John also heard further news that Warner had already started selecting the director and the male and female protagonists.

This is not good news for Sun Yi.

But he still didn't want to give up. After thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of a solution that would satisfy both parties. He could only confront Warner face to face.

Sun Yi told John.

He officially started the negotiations with Warner.

Sun Yi has now come to terms with it.

If you can buy the adaptation rights, buy them without worrying about being ripped off.

Anyway, no matter how much money he spends, he is confident that he can earn it back.

Of course, the premise is that Warner is willing to sell.

If Warner insists on not selling, Sun Yi has another solution.

That is to cooperate with Warner and take the lead in this film through co-production.

Now, it depends on what decision Warner makes.

If Warner does not accept the cooperative filming method, Sun Yi will have to give up completely and study other projects.

However, in his opinion, the probability of this happening is very low.

Not to mention that the two companies already have a cooperative relationship, judging from Warner's previous attempts to win him over, they would definitely not refuse directly.

On this side, Sun Yi can only wait for news from Warner.

This incident also reminded him that he should invest more in copyright collection and should not just focus on the domestic market this time.

People from Asia, Europe, and North America should all consider this carefully.

Regardless of whether to shoot or not, at least the film and television copyright must be obtained first.

Time flies, and another week passed. "Gravity" was finally officially completed. Sun Yi quickly arranged for someone to send the film to the organizing committee of the Venice Film Festival.

Fortunately, everything was still in time. One day before Venice Film Festival stopped submitting films, "Gravity" officially participated in the preliminary selection of the main competition unit of the film festival.

On August 8, just when Sun Yi and Liu Yifei had dressed up carefully and were preparing to attend the 29th China Huabiao Awards.

He received an invitation to this year's Venice Film Festival.

It was all in Italian, which Sun Yi couldn't understand, and of course Liu Yifei couldn't understand either.

After asking someone to translate it, I learned that this was the certificate that the film was shortlisted for the main competition unit, and it also served as an invitation.

The matter of "Gravity" has come to an end.

Sun Yi brought Liu Yifei to the Beijing Exhibition Hall.

This year's Hua Xia Film Huabiao Awards will hold its award ceremony here.

Sun Yi was very low-key at the scene.

There's nothing we can do about it since this is the Huabiao Award.

There were more than 400 famous directors and actors attending the ceremony. This can be said to be the largest award ceremony in recent years.

Sun Yi and Liu Yifei were both nominated.
(End of this chapter)