Full-time actor

Chapter 505 [70] The moment to verify the box office appeal!
"May I?"

Liu Yifei, with long flowing hair and wearing a newly bought LV long-sleeved shirt and floral knee-length skirt, stood under the fountain of the Palace of Versailles, smiling sweetly and comparing various poses with Chen Yu for photos.

Click!

Chen Yu, with a SLR camera hanging on his chest, instantly captured this touching scene.

Under the bright light and shadow, even the water droplets of the fountain appear exceptionally clear. Liu Yifei's brilliant smile is frozen there, like a girl walking out of a painting. Combined with the depth of field of the Versailles Palace background, she looks very bright.

In addition to this one, there is also a full-body photo with a blurred background and blurred surroundings leaving only the gorgeous figure. Liu Yifei is covering one eye with a leaf, which is very playful... Several different photos were taken at the same scenic spot, but with completely different styles.

That’s the wonder of photography.

In the past half month, Chen Yu and Liu Yifei have basically visited all the attractions in Paris, big and small; if it is a night scene, they will go out together during the day, and if it is daytime, they will go in the evening and at night.

However, just a week ago, Liu Yifei had already finished filming. As the leading actress, she actually did not have many parts.

Cheng Long is the highlight.

Therefore, there are traces of the two people's happy play in countless places in Paris.

There are group photos and photos of three people together, but more of them are displays of Chen Yu’s photography.

Liu Yifei became the most qualified beautiful model in his camera, and Liu Xiaoli was also there, taking photos with the mother and daughter.

“The pictures are getting better and better…”

"Reward you one!"

Liu Yifei was fiddling with the camera, and looking at the photos Chen Yu had just taken, she felt more and more satisfied.

She looked at her boyfriend appreciatively and kissed him on the cheek.

It was not the first time she knew that Chen Yu's photography skills were excellent, but it was obvious that he was getting better and better.

"From now on, I will appoint you as my personal photographer!"

Liu Yifei held Chen Yu's face and spoke lovingly.

Chen Yu smiled and said, "There is no problem with the royal photographer, but the strength..."

"It's still not enough, I need to practice more!"

Chen Yu felt more and more that photography was becoming more difficult, but he was getting closer and closer to his dream of becoming a director.

Ever since he started working as a martial arts director, the next project he tackled was photography; this doesn't mean that he wants to be a photographer, but he needs to understand the lighting, structure, and shooting techniques of photography.

You have to understand how to shoot and what kind of effect you want before you can communicate with the photographer and tell him/her.

Otherwise, how can you become a qualified director?

The ultimate destination of an actor's path is definitely to write and direct his own film, because only you know what you want to shoot.

Chen Yu has also been working hard towards this path.

The Grand Slam of Best Actor and the Grand Slam of Golden Globes, that is just the pinnacle of his career as an actor; not the pinnacle of Chen Yu’s life!

“Do you want to be a director?”

After looking at the photos, Liu Yifei hung the camera around Chen Yu's neck, put her arm around his arm, and asked subconsciously.

"Almost. I'm still learning. My goal for next year is to make a movie to test the waters..."

Chen Yu expressed his thoughts. Liu Yifei shrugged and brushed her hair behind her head: "The gap between us is getting bigger and bigger!"

"You stinky guy, every time I'm with you, I feel so useless!"

Although her relationship with Chen Yu over the past few years has made Liu Yifei less concerned about the disparity between the two, as Chen Yu's girlfriend, she still feels a strong sense of disappointment from time to time.

Moreover, as she tried harder, it didn't decrease at all, but instead got bigger and bigger.

This is a strong feeling of frustration.

You have clearly tried your best, but found that it was of no use. Fortunately, Chen Yu is his boyfriend. If it were a woman, Liu Yifei would have been devastated.

Although her current popularity in China has basically made her the number one female star of the younger generation, she is still completely incomparable to Chen Yu...

"Don't think like that!"

Chen Yu smiled, looked at her seriously and said, "If I'm not a director, how can I make you a world-class actress?"

"Depend on Lao Mouzi, Cheng Long and the others?"

Chen Yu secretly pinched Liu Yifei's chubby little face. Liu Yifei sniffed cutely and raised her head to reveal her delicate and perfect face. Her long eyelashes flickered and her long hair fell on both sides of her ears.

The beautiful eyes, which seemed so clear that they could cause ripples if thrown into a lake, stared at Chen Yu's eyes closely: "Do you... really think so?"

"What do you think?"

Chen Yu looked at the beautiful face in front of him and couldn't help but kiss her: "Besides me, who else would want you to shine so sincerely?"

"No one wants others to live better than themselves, except your husband and parents!"

"Do you understand? Little idiot!"

Chen Yu pinched her straight nose, and Liu Yifei hugged Chen Yu tighter, leaning against him and said, "Chen Yu, why... have you always been so nice to me?"

"Probably because—"

Chen Yu didn't say something cliché like "Because I'm your boyfriend".

"Maybe, because I have liked you for many, many years!"

"hold head high?"

The romantic atmosphere was instantly diluted by this sentence. Liu Yifei said in astonishment: "You have only liked me for... 4 years, maybe even less than 4 years!"

"There are not so many years..."

Liu Yifei secretly pinched Chen Yu and said in a naive way: "Start over, I'll give you a chance to reorganize your words!"

"You can rephrase it for me ten thousand times, but I will say the same thing!"

"..."

Liu Yifei didn't understand, because Chen Yu rarely lied to her, but this sentence was obviously a sweet talk to deceive little girls. She was not such a superficial person.

Do you think you can get away with saying something like this?
"This is not up to someone's standards. The love words you said to me back then were much higher in level than this!"

"Humph!"

Liu Yifei snorted, and Chen Yu smiled: "No one likes to hear the truth!"

Indeed... I have liked you for many, many years, but you just don’t know it at all.

"What? It's obviously fake!"

"You're not old at all, how do you know what I said is false?"

"Are you even counting the time in the future?"

"Why not?"

The two of them were arguing with each other and soon finished their tour of the Palace of Versailles. Liu Xiaoli had seen such quarrels between young couples so many times in the past few days that she was completely immune to them. She just went around on her own, prepared to be a light bulb.

This was their second time here. After visiting Paris, there wasn't really anywhere good to visit, so they could only visit the places they had thought were good before.

"Let's go back to the hotel. We have to go back home tomorrow!"

This time, Chen Yu had to go back with Liu Yifei and her daughter.

"Rush Hour" has finished filming, and Liu Yifei has to go back to shoot some commercials. There is no filming notice yet, so Chen Yu has to find some suitable films for her in the evening.

Through his email, Yang Lu sent him a lot of new scripts.

The films that New Film Project invested in last year have basically been completed, and a few of them have even had their release dates scheduled.

For example, "Ren Changxia", which was originally scheduled to be released on July 7st, has now been changed to August 1st.

Huo Jianqi is preparing to submit both parts of "The Village" to the Tokyo Film Festival, and "The Two of Us" is also being screened at the Tokyo Film Festival.

Many Chinese films are heading to this film festival this year, and many people have heard the news about the candidate for the chairman of the jury, which is Zhang Yimou.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Everyone in the industry knows that Zhang Yimou really likes to support domestic actors and directors; this is part of the Chinese people's inherent tendency to support others.

After dinner, Chen Yu returned to the hotel and turned on the computer alone.

Liu Yifei was practicing martial arts.

"Initial D's Asian premiere is held in the capital, just for show!"

"Pre-sale of Initial D has started, and the audience is buying tickets in an endless stream..."

……

"Oh?"

"Is pre-sale open?"

Chen Yu just opened the movie and clicked the browser link out of habit, but the few pieces of news that came into his sight made him click on them subconsciously.

Unexpectedly, several domestic theaters were so optimistic about it this time that they actually opened the pre-sale channel a week in advance; this is the kind of treatment only given to blockbuster movies.

Currently, several of the largest cinema chains in China, such as the number one Didu New Film Association, Shanghai United, China Film Group's Star Media, Shenzhen South Shinkansen, and Wanda, have all provided purchase windows for "Initial D".

In the news, it was obviously the one in Wangfujing under the Capital New Film Association. Chen Yu had been there many times and the queue was indeed very long.

A promotional poster of him driving AE86 was clearly hung above the door of the cinema.

"Depending on the situation, it should be selling well?"

Because it is the first day, Liu Weiqiang actually doesn’t know the national pre-sale situation. He will not know until tomorrow. Moreover, it is night now. The time difference between Paris and China is 6 hours. It is currently early morning in China.

Chen Yu didn't want to disturb others, so he casually read a few pieces of news and then opened his email.

We will almost know the first day’s pre-sale box office tomorrow, but Chen Yu feels that it is very popular because in addition to a few ticket strongholds such as the Imperial Capital and the Magic Capital, there are also pictures of people queuing up to buy tickets in second- and third-tier cities.

This shows that this kind of scene of people queuing to buy tickets is very common in cinemas across the country.

"It seems that our domestic box office appeal is still good!"

Chen Yu smiled and let out a long breath.

In fact, this is inseparable from marketing. It will not work just relying on Chen Yu’s popularity without publicity.

Whenever they see the release of Chen Yu's new film in newspapers and media, many fans who have seen his films, such as "House of Flying Daggers" and "Kung Fu", will go to the cinema and buy tickets to show their support.

Many, even groups of moviegoers who watch movies regularly.

These people are often users of Star Network. They mainly appreciate Chen Yu's acting skills and think that the movies he starred in should be good.

With this group of audiences, the movie’s reputation will be better and the box office will continue.

If the movie is not good, the box office will still be a Waterloo.

Fortunately, Chen Yu had seen the original film and he was very confident in "Initial D"; this time it was enough to see Media Asia's ambition for the film, and they had spent more than 2000 million on marketing, just to make one thing clear to everyone: Chen Yu's new film about racing was released.

He demonstrated his racing skills in one shot, and the promotional video was very exciting.

"I don't know if I can break Zhou Jielun's record of 3500 million in a week in my previous life!"

Chen Yu was not worried about the total box office, as his box office success in this life would definitely last longer than in his previous life. He just wanted to verify who had stronger box office appeal, him or Jay Chou in his previous life.

700 million in a single day is actually an impressive number.

Jay Chou was indeed a huge hit in China in 05. Even though Curse of the Golden Flower was such a bad movie, it still earned 2.9 million yuan. There was also Secret, which was just like Chen Yu's Narcotics, and it verified its box office appeal.

The film he wrote, directed and starred in took in 3670 million in mainland China, ranking seventh in the annual box office rankings. He was definitely the most popular actor in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even Japan and South Korea. Unfortunately, a series of bad films destroyed his box office appeal.

Although there is still a basic base, each one is indeed worse than the previous one.

Putting his thoughts aside, Chen Yu looked at the email message in front of him.

(End of this chapter)