Full-time actor

Chapter 497 [62] A major event that changed the landscape of the mainland film industry!

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The dump truck was speeding at high speed and suddenly crashed into a domestically produced Shanghai Volkswagen Satana that was parked there.

Liu Yifei, covered in blood and makeup, climbed from the driver's seat to the front passenger seat, lay there, and began to take close-up photos of the aftermath of the car accident.

This is one of the few scenes where she plays the role of Chen Yu's wife.

She had been in the crew for more than half a month just for today's filming; however, Jiang Wen had taught her many acting skills. For example, for the car accident scene she was about to shoot, according to her own understanding, she would definitely lie there with her eyes closed.

The dead can no longer die!

However, sudden death caused by a high-speed collision, especially when facing such a collision, the person must have opened his eyes wide in shock. In such a situation, the orbicularis oculi muscle and the levator palpebrae superioris muscle are in a state of full force.

This results in the fact that, in many cases, people’s eyes are open at the moment of death in car accidents.

Subsequently, after brain death, the muscles lose control and the eyes close directly.

Although, if you just close your eyes and die while acting, some audiences won't say much, but details determine success or failure, and such a performance is certainly a very professional plus point.

"Ok!"

Ye Weixing made a gesture, and the staff then worked hard to drag Liu Yifei out of the car.

Seeing her covered in wounds, Chen Yu almost laughed like crazy and took out his camera to take pictures crazily; it was rare to see a fairy in such a miserable moment.

The key is that Liu Yifei was very cooperative and made funny faces and struck various poses. After the photoshoot, she even came over and watched with great interest.

I was also amused by my own hideous image.

"If I say this is Liu Yifei, I don't think any of your fans will believe it!"

Chen Yu was flipping through the photos, which showed all kinds of ugly convex poses.

"Who's afraid of who? We love and hate each other. From now on, I don't believe that you won't die..."

Liu Yifei was very satisfied with these "collected photos". She liked to take these kinds of quick and casual photos. However, after Chen Yu thought about it, he really felt differently: "Maybe, there are very few opportunities like this..."

"The male lead's death scene is rare in American dramas!"

"It's usually only the villains who have it!"

"Besides..."

Chen Yu handed her the camera: "The male protagonist is dead, and the movie directly showed him. Why are they waiting for you to take the photo?"

The two of them joked with each other as they came to the dressing room and started removing their makeup.

Chen Yu had to go to Media Asia in the afternoon, but before that, Liu Yifei took a flight to Paris at around 1 o'clock; Jiang Yilang and Sandrine went with them.

The rival scenes between Chen Yu and Jiang Yilang have all been filmed.

The rest are Chen Yu, other characters, and other people's parts. The whole drama will be wrapped up around early June; Chen Yu's schedule is scheduled until the end of May.

In June, "Initial D" will be released.

In July, Chen Yu estimated that "Mission Impossible 7" would start filming.

After Chen Yu sent the revised script to Richard, there has been no response. He is probably waiting for Tom Cruise's confirmation. Chen Yu is not in a hurry anyway. It has been shelved for 5 years, so there is no need to rush for one or two months.

After Liu Yifei removed her makeup, Liu Xiaoli and Sandrine were already waiting outside the set, packing their bags.

For the next month or so, Liu Yifei will be filming "Escape Plan" in France!
"Xiao Chen, you go ahead and do your work. Xixi and I are leaving!"

Liu Xiaoli was wearing sunglasses and was very fashionable when she greeted Chen Yu. However, Chen Yu sat on the chair unceremoniously and said to her with a smile, "Auntie, I'll take you guys off!"

"You kid!"

Liu Xiaoli didn't say anything and just patted him.

Liu Yifei on the side said, "Mom, he actually had other things to do this afternoon, so he just sent us there as a side job!"

"Isn't it for you?"

Liu Xiaoli glanced at Liu Yifei. Now her mother-in-law was completely on Chen Yu's side. Liu Yifei felt bored and made a face at Chen Yu.

Chen Yu made a smug look, causing Liu Yifei to roll her eyes.

This guy is becoming more and more arrogant.

When they arrived at the airport, Chen Yu just acted as a spectator while Jiang Wen was seeing off his ex-wife and daughter.

How do I describe this situation?

It's a bit like a rekindled love.

Over the past half month, the relationship between Jiang Wen and Jiang Yilang has progressed by leaps and bounds. The strategy Chen Yu formulated for him was correct; the relationship between father and daughter has been greatly eased, and Jiang Yilang also knows how difficult it is for his father to film.

And Sandrine, after being persuaded by Liu Xiaoli, realized her problem. She definitely had feelings for Jiang Wen.

What about Jiang Wen? Would a man resist a woman he once loved?
Chen Yu really didn't want to get involved in this guy's affairs, but Zhou Yun was still staying in the hotel? !

"Honey, do you think Director Jiang and Aunt Sandrine will remarry? I feel like they still have feelings for each other."

Liu Yifei, who seemed a little gossipy, suddenly asked.

The two people were fully armed, but they didn't cause any big sensation at the Hong Kong International Airport. It was just like a normal chat between friends, and there was no intimate behavior. If the paparazzi took the photo, they would at most write a gossip headline like "Chen Yu sees off girlfriend Liu Yifei at the airport."

It didn't make any big waves at all.

Because this kind of ambiguous news has been written about for eight hundred years, and as long as the two parties don't admit it, it's just a scandal.

After seeing too many scandals, I became numb.

This kind of news will feel fresh at first.

"What are you thinking about!"

Chen Yu looked at Sandrine and Jiang Wen who were hugging each other and saying goodbye. Sandrine seemed to be crying, but he said, "Love is different from marriage. If Lao Jiang is a normal person, he would not think about remarrying!"

"why?"

Liu Yifei didn’t understand. What’s wrong with two people in love and with a child getting remarried?
She was actually quite sensitive. After spending so many days with Jiang Yilang, she felt a bit of empathy.

"Because love can't be eaten!"

After Chen Yu finished speaking, he suddenly asked Liu Xiaoli beside him: "Auntie, did you think about remarrying Yifei's father back then?"

"Ah? I..."

Liu Xiaoli had obviously let go of this matter. She smiled and said, "No, I have never thought about remarrying!"

“Sometimes it’s hard to take care of Sissi, but I still grit my teeth and persevere!”

"Marriage is really different from love!"

Liu Xiaoli looked at Liu Yifei who seemed to understand, then looked at Chen Yu. Reason told her that Chen Yu's understanding of marriage was not at all like that of children of this age.

He is so calm.

Sometimes, Liu Xiaoli really doubted whether Chen Yu was married?

But at this age, this is obviously not realistic.

Young people who have just gotten married will not have such feelings. This is at least the experience of those who have been married for many years... So in the end she can only come to the conclusion that smart boys who have read a lot of books may mature precociously.

Maybe he has seen through the nature of marriage?

Just like Chen Yu.

This is also the reason why she felt at ease leaving Liu Yifei to Chen Yu.

At least, he was not with Sissi blindly because of the impulse of love.

"Then let's..."

Liu Yifei raised her head and looked at Chen Yu with a flickering look in her eyes. Chen Yu knew what she was going to say. He stared at her fully grown and charming face and said with certainty, "No!"

"Why are you so sure?"

"Because I am different from your father and Old Jiang, and you are different from your aunt, Sandrine!"

"Xixi, let's go, we're about to board the plane!"

Liu Xiaoli looked at Jiang Wen who was walking towards them. Sandrine's eyes were red and she stared at Jiang Wen's back reluctantly. Jiang Yilang also looked very pitiful.

"Remember to think of me!"

"Video me every day, don't forget!"

"..."

Liu Yifei made a fierce expression, waved to Chen Yu, and walked into the ticket checking passage reluctantly.

Seeing Jiang Yilang who was also reluctant to leave, she took her hand with concern and whispered something in her ear. Liu Xiaoli was also comforting Sandrine.

In the end, the four people disappeared from the sight of Chen Yu and Jiang Wen.

The two men's moods were obviously different.

"Let's go!"

Chen Yu put his arm around Jiang Wen's shoulder, and Jiang Wen held a cigarette, sniffing it under his nose.

"Why do you think Malegobi got married?"

Jiang Dachu started his argument again. "Don't talk to me about this. I'm coughing!"

Chen Yu coughed twice, and Jiang Wen looked puzzled: "Why are you coughing?"

“I’m allergic to marriage!”

"Fuck you..."

Jiang Wen kicked Chen Yu, knowing that he was talking nonsense, but he still said to himself: "Damn it, what kind of bullshit is this? I finally got to feel my daughter's love for a few days, and now it's gone again!"

"Grass!"

He raised his middle finger fiercely, looking very depressed.

"Okay, at least you've experienced it, and it can be considered as making up for it. Shouldn't you thank me, your brother?"

"Without my advice, would you have understood?"

"That's true!"

Jiang Wen chuckled and looked at Chen Yu sincerely: "I should really thank you, brother. Can you help me again? How can I make Yilang and I continue to be father and daughter?"

"It's very simple. When my drama becomes popular, someone will definitely ask Yilang to film a movie with her. You can just go and wait for her..."

Jiang Wen: “…”

"Haha, I'm just kidding. Isn't it up to you to do this?"

"If you want to see Yilang, who can stop you? I'm just afraid you don't want to go!"

"Ok!"

Jiang Wen thought about it and it was true, but he felt very uncomfortable about the sudden separation of father and daughter. In fact, he understood it after thinking about it for a while.

He doesn't have to be seen every day.

"You and her have already established a good father-daughter relationship. You can have a video call if you have nothing to do. Have you set up QQ yet?"

"Isn't it better than before when you were so distant with her?"

"..."

Along the way, Chen Yu analyzed the situation with Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen finally understood the significance of spending more than half a month with Jiang Yilang. If it weren't for this more than half a month of companionship, there would always be this knot between him and Jiang Yilang, and they would always be unfamiliar with each other, and he might even hate him.

However, the situation is much better now. Jiang Yilang is also a smart girl. She can understand some of her father's difficulties. So even if the father and daughter do not meet, daily videos and occasional visits can play a good role in maintaining the relationship.

This would be much less harmful to the child than if Sandrine took Jiang Yilang away directly.

Jiang Wen was indeed grateful to Chen Yu.

This time he really helped the father and daughter a lot.

"No, you're not that old yet, how do you know all these tricks?"

Jiang Wen was a little surprised, and suddenly reacted.

Is Chen Yu the father, or is he?

"My wife, I don't want Yilang to become the second Liu Yifei!"

"To be honest, when I was filming with Yilang, I thought of her as the ten-year-old Liu Yifei..."

"Especially the bullying scenes, it was exactly the same as what Yifei told me. She was bullied by a few Japanese and Korean girls in the United States. I can understand how the child felt at that time!"

Chen Yu said this, and gently patted the silent Jiang Wen's shoulder: "So, pay more attention to Yilang, especially her life and mental health; the ex-sister-in-law can give her material protection, but in society, she can't reach it. This is the bullying that she must face without a father!"

"Especially, she goes to school in the West, where discrimination is so common!"

"Fuck, so I should arrange a bodyguard for her?"

Jiang Wen suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter. It was obviously something that a rough man like him could not have imagined.

"Well, a female bodyguard, the kind that she can't know about!"

"When she grows up, she will definitely be grateful to you!"

"This is also a manifestation of fatherly love..."

As Chen Yu was speaking, they had already arrived and he had to get off at Media Asia.

"Okay, I'll host you tonight, let's get together, I have a flight tomorrow morning!"

Jiang Wen shouted loudly in the car. Chen Yu stretched out his hand and made an OK gesture, but walked into the office building of Causeway Bay Plaza in front of him without looking back.

Media Asia’s headquarters is on the 24th floor.

Liu Weiqiang and Chen Yu had an appointment, so as soon as they arrived on the 24th floor, Lin Jianle's familiar voice rang out.

"Brother Yu, I've been waiting for you!"

Lin Jianle had just sent a message to Chen Yu and knew the time of his arrival.

"Lin Shao!"

Chen Yu hugged him, but saw a few people standing nearby.

Wang Zhonglei, and Feng Xiaogang.

"Boss Wang, Director Feng?"

Why are these two people here?

"Haha, Brother Yu is surprised?"

Wang Zhonglei still had his usual smile. Chen Yu pursed his lips and greeted him, but on the surface he remained calm: "It's really unexpected!"

Although Chen Yu knew that Media Asia and Huayi had a good relationship in the future, he did not expect that the two companies...had cooperated so early?
Oh, Chen Yu forgot.

In the previous life, the movie "A World Without Thieves" was filmed together by these two families.

Andy Lau is now the leading artist of Media Asia.

However, the cooperation between the two companies can actually be traced back to 2003, when "Infernal Affairs 2 and 3" were filmed two years ago. Liu Jialing, Hu Jun and Chen Daomin from Huayi all had quite a few roles in it.

Of course, the reason why Media Asia gave Huayi a small piece of such a well-known cake is very simple.

In 03, Hong Kong and the central government signed the "Arrangement on Establishing Closer Economic and Trade Relations between Mainland China and Hong Kong and Macao". Since then, Hong Kong films were no longer included in the import quota. A number of Hong Kong filmmakers saw no hope in the murky film market and decided to try their luck in the mainland.

Media Asia is the first Hong Kong film and television company to come to the mainland. Relying on the most popular brand of "Infernal Affairs", it found the two most famous film and television companies in the country at that time to cooperate with.

One is the company that later produced commercial blockbusters such as "Changjin Lake" and "Operation Mekong" - Bona, and the other is Huayi.

Of course, there are reasons why we chose these two companies.

Huayi is currently the largest film and television company in mainland China, also engaged in brokerage and music businesses; while Bona is the first private distributor in mainland China.

Below China Film Group is Bona Film Group.

This sentence has been widely circulated in the circle for a long time; Bona founder Yu Dong graduated from the Management Department of Beijing Film Academy, started working in Beijing Film Studio in 94, and worked in China Film Distribution for a year in 99, responsible for the distribution of domestic films!
This business is what he is in charge of.

He started the first private distribution company, Bona Film Group, and made an incredible contribution to the distribution of Chinese films.

Otherwise, he would not be able to obtain the private issuance license.

This contribution is what became notorious in later generations but attracted countless people’s hearts – the guaranteed profit share!
The guaranteed profit sharing at the beginning is actually a very good technique.

It was just played out in later generations.

The Chinese film industry has been developing at an accelerated pace since 02, which is not unrelated to the guaranteed profit sharing. Although Zhang Yimou's "Hero" also made a great contribution to the mainland film industry, another major event in 02 was the implementation of the guaranteed profit sharing.

In order to secure the distribution of the film "Legend of Tianmai", Yu Dong first proposed the "guaranteed profit-sharing" cooperation model in 02.

This method required advance payment of the film fee, and Yu Dong gritted his teeth and paid all his money.

In addition to the guarantee fee, plus the costs of copying, distribution, etc., the total investment was seven to eight million yuan.

Bona launched the first "National Zero Hour Action" in the country.

At midnight on the evening of July 7, "Legend of Tianmai" was released simultaneously in China and Asia. This was the first time that a co-production film was released simultaneously in both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Hong Kong, Macau and Southeast Asia, which effectively reduced the impact of piracy.

In the end, "Legend of Tianmai" earned nearly 3000 million yuan at the mainland box office, exceeding the 1700 million in Hong Kong, and the entire Hong Kong circle was shocked.

With the battle of "Tianmai", Yu Dong not only earned back the guarantee fee, distribution fee, commission and agency fee, but also shared the extra profits with his partners. In the case of a guaranteed minimum, he could also share the profits with the producer, which led to a number of film companies cooperating with Bona.

China Film Corporation was completely dumbfounded, but this kind of thing can only be done by private enterprises, and China Film Corporation certainly cannot do this.

Ultimately, this led to all Hong Kong and Taiwan blockbusters being distributed in mainland China through Bona, and Media Asia... of course, was no exception.

Many film companies saw this kind of operation method and followed suit, so that more and more distribution companies joined in later generations, all of which were related to this guaranteed profit sharing.

However, Wang Zhonglei and Feng Xiaogang's coming to Media Asia was quite beyond Chen Yu's expectations.

"Could it be that Wang Jinghua's matter...has been exposed?"

Chen Yu's heart skipped a beat, but he remained calm and followed the group to Media Asia's office.

He was originally watching "Initial D", but now, it seems like they want to discuss business with him?

Chen Yu didn't know what Lin Jianle and Wang Zhonglei were up to, but since they had invited him, Chen Yu might as well sit down and listen!

(End of this chapter)