It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 848: Super fun “Oscar nomination ballot party”!
Here, Chen Fei and Liu Yifei had just landed in Los Angeles when they received a call from China.

"Mr. Chen, Alibaba sent an invitation to the Double Eleven Gala, inviting all of our company's executives to attend the ceremony, saying that they were participating in the grand event together..."

At the airport exit, Fade Chen rolled his eyes as he heard this.

It was just a crappy party, but he actually used words like "watch the ceremony" and "join in the fun". If you didn't know, you would think that Ma Yun was going to be a high-ranking official.

"Ignore these idiots and let them have fun. They are like crazy. They even want to show off their muscles in front of me? Are they crazy?"

"Ok."

On the other end of the phone, Su Guohai responded, and after hanging up, he immediately threw the invitation letter on the table into the trash can without any reluctance.

After leaving the airport, Chen Fei and Liu Yifei took two cars.

Miss Liu planned to go to the villa first to adjust to the jet lag, while Chen Fei thought he was in a very good mental state and planned to go to the company first to check the post-production progress of "Ready Player One".

After going all the way and arriving at Walton Pictures, Chen Fei came to the post-production side under the surprised gaze of a group of employees of the company.

As the department continues to expand, the post-production department alone now occupies two floors of Walton Pictures.

When he arrived at the post-production project team of "Ready Player One", Chen Fei met the project manager.

"Fei, long time no see."

A middle-aged white man with a round head came over and gave Chen Fei a gentle hug.

The rest of the people in the studio also turned around from their workstations and raised their hands to greet him.

After greeting everyone, Fade Chen asked directly, "How is it going? What stage is the progress of the later stage now? Is it going smoothly?"

"It's already 1/5 done, Fei. You know, this project is very difficult. We need to put in more effort than The Avengers."

"Well, I understand. Thank you for your hard work. After this project is over, everyone can receive 3 times the bonus!"

As the saying goes, money can move people's hearts.

Money is always the best source of motivation for working people.

As expected, after Chen Fei announced the good news, the members of the project team seemed to type much faster.

Then, Chen Fei announced another good news: "Starting tomorrow, I will also participate in the later stages of the project. I hope we can work together to successfully complete this project."

He is not a fool like Megan Ely, who would actually think of letting multiple producers participate in the post-production and editing of a movie, which would definitely ruin a movie!
At the same time, just as Chen Fei began to follow up on the post-production work of "Ready Player One", on the other side, in Annapurna Pictures, Megan Erie was listening to the reports from her subordinates.

"Boss, so far, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword has been screened at least nine times in advance, and the overall score given by fans at the screenings is A-, with positive reviews far outnumbering negative ones..."

Megan Erie, who was sitting in the office with her legs crossed, was in a good mood after hearing this.

She knew that her latest editing method would definitely be loved by movie fans, and this also indirectly proved that she is definitely a genius-level female president in the film investment circle!

However, the entire preview research team, including her, overlooked one point.

That is, the leading actor of "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" is Christian Bale!
Thanks to his previous roles in many Batman movies, Christian Bale has a large number of fans in North America, and he himself is also extremely popular.

Based on this, every preview ticket for "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" released to the public will be snapped up by Christian Bale's fans.

This also means that during the more than 10 preview screenings, almost all the people who attended were Christian Bale's die-hard fans.

Although there are passers-by fans, their number is very small, even negligible.

In this case, as fans of Christian Bale, how could they give a bad review after watching the movie starring their idol?

Thus, the “A-” grade, which is second only to the “A+” grade on-site score, was freshly released.

Megan Erie had no idea about the unspoken rules at all. As for the other people in the team, for the sake of bonuses, even if they discovered something abnormal, they would conceal it by default.

So, what was presented to her was nothing but good news!
"From today on, we will officially cancel the preview screening plan. We must prevent the finished film from being pirated by outsiders. We will wait until the day the film is officially released. We will surely become famous in one fell swoop!"

"Yes, Boss!"

Megan Erie was thinking about the movie being a big hit at the box office, while her subordinate was thinking about getting a huge bonus, so they both smiled at the same time.

"I will instruct the finance department to continue allocating funds. We need to increase our publicity efforts. Now there is less than a month left before the movie is released. This period is very critical..."

Megan Ellison has invested more than 2 million US dollars in the project "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" alone. Now with the post-production promotion, the number has soared to 3 million US dollars!
The sunk costs are frighteningly high!
But precisely because of the huge amount of wealth invested, Megan Erie is very confident in this project.

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens", jointly produced by Walton Pictures and Lucasfilm, will officially hit North American theaters on the 18th of next month.

She directly scheduled "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" for Christmas, just one week later than "Star Wars: The Force Awakens".

Her idea was to target the latter's box office, and she firmly believed that she could succeed.

And this will be the moment when Annapurna Pictures will make a name for itself in Hollywood!
……

For work like film post-production editing, once you start working on it, time often passes by quickly without you noticing.

When Chen Fei received Liu Yifei's call, he turned around to look at the time and found that it was already 10 o'clock in the evening!
"Will you come back to sleep tonight? I'm a little scared living alone in such a big house. Can you come back and sleep with me?"

When the beauty called him, Chen Fei naturally couldn't refuse her kindness.

And although he was in relatively good physical condition, he still needed to adjust to the jet lag, otherwise his mental state would definitely be affected.

Therefore, as soon as he hung up the phone, Fade Chen contacted the driver and asked him to take him back to the villa.

In the car, he was bored and browsed the domestic news, and when he saw the report on the headlines, he almost burst out laughing.

"Alibaba's Jack Ma warmly invited the Queen and Princess to sing together at the Double Eleven Gala, but was rejected..."

The comment section below is already buzzing with noise:
"Haha, the queen is awesome. She can actually maintain her self-esteem under Jack Ma's financial offensive. Awesome, really awesome!"

"Huh? What happened? Isn't Ma Yun known to be omnipotent? Why didn't he succeed this time?"

"What a bullshit queen! Isn't she just an actress? How dare she not give face to my father Ma? I think she doesn't want to be in this world anymore, right?"

"She's just a woman who sings out of tune. What kind of queen is she? It really makes me laugh to death."

"I bet that if I don't give Ali face, Faye Wong will definitely be in trouble..."

Netizens were talking about it, some supported Ma Yun, some recognized the princess, it was so lively with everyone talking back and forth!
But in Chen Fei's opinion, isn't it just that the price was not agreed upon? Otherwise, how could the princess refuse?
As far as he knew, the queen had a bad temper. If nothing unexpected happened, Jack Ma must have used his big mouth to try to get something for free, and was rejected.

……

After speeding all the way back to the villa, Chen Fei saw Liu Yifei, who had already taken a shower and looked fragrant, in the master bedroom.

"Hey, little beauty, here comes the big bad wolf!"

"Oh! Why are you so impatient? Go take a shower first. You stink."

Fade Chen took her out of the quilt without saying anything and said, "Come on, take a bath with me."

"But I just finished washing."

"You can help me wash it then."

Without waiting for Liu Yifei to refuse, Chen Fei carried her into the bathroom.

After a while, the mist and temperature in the air began to rise at the same time, and water splashed in the bathtub. The battle was extremely fierce!
The next morning, Chen Fei went to the company refreshed and continued to be busy with his post-production editing work.

Of course, Liu Yifei was not idle either. She started to adjust the subsequent training plan in the dance studio at home, and made a schedule for Chen Fei to practice dancing for 3 hours every night.

The price was that she promised Chen Fei that he could unlock a new job every week.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, as soon as Chen Fei arrived at the company, Natasha came to him and placed a huge cardboard box on his desk.

"Fei, this is the 88th Academy Awards nomination ballot sent to you by the Oscar organizers, as well as copies of some films."

"Oh? Have the nomination ballots for the 88th Academy Awards started to be mailed out?"

Chen Fei muttered to himself as he opened the carton and started looking through it.

Unfortunately, when he looked around, he didn't see any names he was familiar with among the copies.

“So, Walton Pictures has no films to submit for the Oscars this year, right?”

Natasha nodded slightly: "Yes, we have successfully won many awards last year with "The Revenant", so naturally we have no chance this year." Hearing this, Chen Fei suddenly felt bored.

"Since our company doesn't have any films participating in the selection this year, let's just find a name that catches our eye before the deadline."

As he spoke, he pushed the box aside and started to work on the task at hand.

He has no interest in following the lead of other judges and watching one movie after another. It would be better to use that time to do something more enjoyable.

"Ok, as you wish."

Natasha didn't bother him any further and just turned and left.

After being busy until nightfall, Fade Chen dragged his somewhat tired body towards Beverly Hills.

However, just as the Rolls-Royce drove into the gate of the villa, the phone rang suddenly.

As soon as Chen Fei pressed the answer button, he heard Leonardo's loud voice coming from the other end of the phone, accompanied by dynamic dance music and music: "Fei, are you coming to our Oscar nomination ballot party?"

Oscar nomination ballot party?

Fade Chen asked curiously, "What kind of party is this? Why have I never heard of it?"

"You'll know when you come over. I'm at Villa 3123 on the top of the mountain. It's only a 3-minute drive from you."

"Oh fine."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Fei went back to the villa and found Liu Yifei, and told her about Leonardo's invitation to the party.

"Oscar nomination voting party? What kind of party is this?" Liu Yifei was also quite curious about this.

Fade Chen suggested, "It's not far anyway, let's go over and take a look. If it's not fun, we can come back. How about that?"

"Okay, I'll go change my clothes then."

……

Ten minutes later, Fade Chen brought Liu Yifei to Leonardo's villa.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw many familiar faces!

Leo's good friends Matt Damon and Tobey Maguire were all at the party, as well as Matthew McConaughey, Kate Winslet, and his supermodel girlfriend.

Looking around, more than 20 people were gathering around the swimming pool, listening to music, drinking red wine, eating barbecue and chatting happily.

The arrival of Chen Fei and Liu Yifei was warmly welcomed by them.

"Fei! I'm so glad you can come to my party!"

As the host, Leonardo enthusiastically arranged seats for the two of them and served them red wine and barbecue.

After greeting the rest of the people at the scene, Chen Fei asked curiously, "Just now you said on the phone that the theme of tonight's party is 'Oscar Nomination Ballot', what does that mean?"

Hearing this, Leonardo and Tobey Maguire who was sitting next to him both showed a sly smile on their faces.

"Actually, it's really simple."

Leo stood up and clapped his hands. Soon, dart boards were taken out of the villa by several supermodels and placed in a straight line opposite the swimming pool.

At the same time, several supermodels came to the crowd with several cardboard boxes.

Leonardo personally opened the cardboard box, grabbed a handful of darts from it, and distributed them to several people on the scene who were eligible to vote for the Oscar nominations.

Then he began to explain the rules of the game:
"There are a total of 6 targets on the opposite side, from left to right they are the Best Picture target, the Best Director target, the Best Actor target, the Best Actress target, the Best Supporting Actor target and finally the Best Supporting Actress target.

Next, everyone can choose the appropriate target according to their voting rights and throw the dart in their hand.

Finally, as long as the dart hits the target, no matter what the result is, it will be written into the nomination ballot and mailed to the Oscars. "

Upon hearing this rule, Fade Chen's eyes suddenly lit up!
In the morning, he was still thinking that when the nomination voting deadline was approaching, he would just write down a few names that he liked and mail them out.

Unexpectedly, Leonardo organized such a "voting party" just in the evening.

The result is determined by darts, it all depends on luck, regardless of the process, and no public relations from the crew... Just thinking about it makes it fun!

“This game is good, I like it.”

Chen Fei stroked the dart in his hand and looked at the two target areas of Best Film and Best Director with interest.

The swimming pool is 4 meters wide, and it is not easy to hit the target from such a long distance, so this game is destined to last for a while.

It just so happens that you can eat meat and drink alcohol during the game.

This party is so much fun!
Chen Fei turned his head and glanced at Leonardo who was hugging his current supermodel girlfriend and whispering something to her. He felt that this guy had simply reached the pinnacle in terms of "playing".

Especially after winning the Oscar for Best Actor last year, he has become even more "cool", and the speed at which he changes girlfriends has gone from one every year to one every six months!

The goal that he had been looking forward to for half his life was finally achieved, and Leo's life can be said to be close to perfection.

He has been handsome, famous, rich, and a superstar. He has all the awards and honors. His life is simply amazing!

……

The dart game lasted until 11 o'clock, and Chen Fei selected the best film "Mad Max 4: Fury Road" and the best director Thomas McCarthy.

Liu Yifei's dart was stuck on Cate Blanchett's name. The movie "Carol" starring her was very popular in Europe and the United States this year, and she was naturally one of the nominees for Best Actress.

After returning to her villa, Liu Yifei still couldn't hide her excitement.

"This game is really fun. It would be great if we could hold more games."

Chen Fei smiled and patted her head: "The Oscars are only held once a year, how can you have so many opportunities to have fun like this?"

"A little bit!"

Liu Yifei stuck out her tongue, and her face, which was already red from drinking a lot of wine, became even redder.

Chen Fei was so moved that he took her hand and went straight to the bedroom.

It is said that people tend to have promiscuous sex after drinking, which actually makes sense, because alcohol will amplify some latent emotions inside the human body on a large scale, making it easy for people to lose their rationality.

Of course, this premise is that one still maintains normal rationality and the ability to control the body.

If you are extremely drunk, not only will you have sex while drunk, you may even be set up by someone and not even realize it.

Negative cases ps: Huang Haibo, Wang Quanan.

……

At the same time, just as time in Hollywood quickly reached the late night, it was just afternoon in China.

Ye Ning did not go to the company this afternoon. Instead, he walked into the Huayi Brothers Building alone and very low-key, and took the elevator to Wang Zhongjun's office.

The lawyers from both parties were already in place, so after entering the door, he quickly signed his name on the contract that had been prepared in advance.

At this point, he officially joined the Huayi family.

Wang Zhonglei, who had been waiting for a long time, walked up to Ye Ning with a smile and shook hands with him after seeing Ye Ning put down his pen.

“Welcome Mr. Ye to join Huayi. I hope we can make progress together and achieve great things together!”

At this moment, Wang Zhonglei smiled very happily.

With Ye Ning as a general, he believes that the development of Huayi Group's cinema chains will definitely be smooth sailing, and even surpassing Wanda Cinemas and Pan Asia Cinemas will not be a big problem!

And the most important thing is that with Ye Ning joining, the Wanda Cinemas management who had been working under him can be successfully poached to Huayi Cinemas.

By then, Wanda Cinema Line will inevitably decline unexpectedly, and then be severely pounced on and sucked blood by Huayi.

In this way, you can get the best of both worlds!

……

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