During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 453: It's not that I prefer chrysanthemums among all flowers, but when this flower blooms, there will be no more flowers
Just as Ning Hao said, when the people from the association found out from the General Administration that "Girl at the Bottom" had registered for the Golden Horse Awards and confirmed the media reports, they received calls for persuasion.

These gentlemen knew that they had a bad relationship with Wei Jin, so they asked the school to act as a middleman.

What’s more interesting is that the middleman happens to be Teacher Cao.

Because these gentlemen all knew that their tutor Tian Zhuangzhuang would definitely not help to pass on the message, and Dean Zhang, who had once been kind to Wei Jin, had already retired, and other teachers such as Jiang Wei, Zhang Jiandong, etc. were too lazy to get involved in this mess.

Only Mr. Cao, who maintains a good relationship with Jinji and has a pleasant cooperation with Shanhe Media, is qualified and willing to take this trip.

However, Teacher Cao is a straightforward person. He stated his position directly at the beginning, saying that he was just conveying a message and it did not represent his personal opinion.

"Okay, Mr. Cao, I'll give you face and listen first."

"Is that so? They also know that there is no room for maneuver in the matter of 'Girl at the Bottom'. However, '20 Again' meets the entry criteria for next year's Golden Rooster Awards, so they hope you can express your opinion."

"Hey, Mr. Cao, do you think 20 Again has a chance of winning an award?"

Wei Jin's words made Cao Baoping silent. He himself knew that the Golden Rooster award was not easy to win.

First consider the relationship, then the qualifications, and finally the quality of the film. This set of unspoken rules has stumped many big directors.

As for Cao Baoping himself, if he had not come from an academic background and had not naturally had good connections, it would not have been so easy for him to win the award.

What's more, due to the limitations of the subject matter of the movie itself, it is not easy for it to win an award, and the plans of those old guys are likely to fail.

"Okay, I've got your message across anyway, so don't blame me."

"Teacher Cao, you are too kind. Let's not talk about this. Has the casting for the movie been completed?"

"Well, it's basically settled. I'll come to your office in a couple of days to discuss the details. We also need to discuss the shooting plan and other things."

"it is good."

After his birthday, Jing Tian and Gao Ye, along with their assistants and the female bodyguards arranged by Wei Jin, traveled all the way from Shu to Tibet, then to Qinghai and headed to the Western Regions. After more than twenty days, they finally returned to the capital.

As soon as Wei Jin received the news, he rushed to Dongshan Villa.

In the living room, looking at Jing Tian whom he hadn't seen for a long time, Wei Jin hugged her in his arms, greedily breathing in the little girl's body fragrance.

Jing Tian didn't say anything either, just leaned quietly in Wei Jin's arms, feeling each other's body temperature.

After a long while, Wei Jin reached out and held the girl's pretty face, looked at it carefully, and felt a little distressed.

"Tiantian, I told you not to go to the Western Regions. Look at you, you're all tanned."

Fuguihua's skin was definitely the best among all the women in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Now it has become half a shade darker and her class has dropped a lot.

But Jing Tian didn't care much. She rubbed his stubble with her smooth forehead and said with a sweet smile:
"Brother, I'm fine. I just need to rest for half a month. Haven't you seen Gao Ye? He's almost a charcoal-haired guy, haha."

"Huh? Is it that exaggerated?"

"Really, you don't know, she is really stupid"

Jing Tian pulled Wei Jin to sit on the sofa and talked about what they saw and heard on the road. The latter would interject from time to time and act as a supporting role.

As they chatted, the two of them got closer and closer, and their breathing became heavier.

Looking at Jing Tian's slightly blushing face, Wei Jin lowered his head and took the initiative to kiss her.

"Well"

Tasting the beauty's red lips, Wei Jin became a little carried away.

The kiss lasted until both of them were almost out of breath. Jing Tian's pretty face turned red as blood. She pulled Wei Jin straight to the second floor.
A card game is going on on the big white bed.

Jing Tian had a pillow under her lower abdomen, her knees bent at 60 degrees, and her thighs slightly apart. This height was just right for today's card game.

At this moment, Jing Tian had slight sweat on both sides of her nose, and her delicate face showed an attractive blush. Her occasional frown indicated that she was thinking about tonight's card game, and she really saw no hope of winning.

Behind her, Wei Jin leaned his knees on the edge of the bed, his hands on her plump and elastic buttocks, playing cards again and again, and each time, it made her somewhat unable to resist.

Fortunately, Wei Jin also knew the principle of slow and steady wins the race, and did not dry up the pond to catch all the fish. When he realized that the delicate hand in his hand was a little tense, he decisively threw out the trump card, strongly declaring himself the winner of the game.

Jing Tian, ​​who lost the game, lay on the bed looking a little sad, which could be seen from her constantly twitching body.

After recovering from her shock, the girl followed the rules of the game and cleaned up after the game. Then she lay on Wei Jin's chest and enjoyed the last afterglow of the game.

After a long while, Jing Tian seemed to remember something and raised his head to look at Wei Jin's profile.

"Brother, I saw the promotional poster for "The Girl at the Bottom" at the airport. When will our promotion start?"

"It's just ground promotion at the moment. For online promotion, a trailer will be released in a while, and the main creative promotion will probably start in the middle of next month."

"Then, brother, do you think the box office will be higher than 20 Again?"

Looking at Jing Tian, ​​who was full of desire to win, Wei Jin touched her head.

"Silly, I'm not a god, how can I judge now? If you want better results, then you should promote it well when the time comes."

"Well, I will."

"By the way, Tiantian, you should know about the North American project, right?"

"Well, Uncle Lu told me."

Xingguang Canlan is one of Wanda's shareholders, so it was expected that Lu Zheng would get the first-hand information. However, it was really a pity that the little girl hadn't spoken a word for such a long time.

As soon as he thought of this, Wei Jin had the answer in his mind.

"Tiantian, I've already got the female lead role in this play. With your status, there will definitely be no problem. Are you willing to take on the role?"

"Well, brother, I listen to you."

Wei Jin looked at the girl's well-behaved appearance, a teasing expression appeared on his face, and his big hand slid down her beautiful buttocks to the middle.

"Tiantian, I want this little flower tonight."

Jing Tian bit her red lips and nodded gently, "Well, brother, I'll give it all to you"

As the saying goes: It’s not that I prefer chrysanthemums among all flowers, it’s that when this flower blooms, there are no other flowers left.
As the second weekend of August comes to an end, the film market can be described as a world of changing trends.

The recently released "Drug War" performed quite strongly, with a box office of 2880 million on the first day, successfully carrying the banner of Chinese-language films.

After three days of its first weekend, it grossed 8860 million, much more than the first week of "The Storm".

The media coverage was overwhelming.

"The classic Hong Kong-style police and gangster film "Drug War" has a box office of nearly 90 million in its first week, and it is strongly taking over the summer season!"

"Another masterpiece by director Benny Chan, who made 5 million yuan. Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Liu Qingyun and others have devoted themselves to presenting a feast of justice and evil, fate and choice, brotherhood and duty!"

The key is that "Drug War" has a good reputation online. Currently, 7000 people have given reviews on Impression.com, with a score as high as 8.2.

Everyone in the industry knows that this score is a bit high, mostly given by viewers who like this kind of movie, and as the number of viewers increases, the score will eventually drop. But in any case, with such a starting point, the final score should not be lower than 7.5 points.

This means that the film should have a stable box office before several Hollywood blockbusters are released.

According to the first week data and word of mouth, "Drug War" is absolutely sure to make 300 million yuan at the box office, and the chance of 400 million yuan is not small, and even 500 million yuan is not out of the question.

However, since "Drug War" was so popular, the other movies were affected to some extent, with "The Whisperer" being the first to be affected.

Before the release of "Drug War", its 7-day box office had reached 1.2 million, and the daily box office remained at around million.

But with the release of "Drug War", after three days, "The Whistleblower" only grossed 2000 million, and its single-day box office was almost halved.

Even the producers issued a press release saying that the pressure to recoup their investment was huge.

In comparison, "The Storm" was affected much less. After all, the movie has been released for more than three weeks and its box office potential is almost exhausted.

Currently, the box office of "Storm" has closed at 3.26 million, which has fallen below three million in a single day.

However, the reports from the Hong Kong media are very interesting. They do not think that the three are in competition, but rather regard them as one Hong Kong film and have shouted out very high-profile slogans.

"The glorious beginning of Hong Kong films, the three films "Storm", "The Whisperer" and "Drug War" dominated half of the mainland summer box office"

Although mainland filmmakers are unhappy, they have to admit that August is indeed the month of Hong Kong films.

Because there are several Hong Kong films waiting to be released, including "The Bullet Vanishes", "The Lion Roars 2", etc.

Currently, the only domestic film that can compete with this one is "Border Storm" produced by Xiao Ma.

However, affected by the Liuzi incident, the box office situation of this film is not optimistic even with the participation of powerful actors such as Sun Honglei and Ni Dahong.

"Junior brother, the masters are all being shady right now, scolding you for not knowing the current situation, hahahaha."

In the office, Ning Hao couldn't help but tease Wei Jin as soon as he saw him.

"He's almost buried, all he can do is talk, I don't even bother to pay attention to him"

Wei Jin was speechless when talking about this. Perhaps in the eyes of those gentlemen, a movie participating in the Golden Horse Awards and a movie participating in the Golden Rooster Awards was a win-win situation, but in his opinion, it was more like an order and charity.

Don’t you see how the Golden Rooster’s credibility has collapsed? Yet they still put on such a condescending attitude. Who are they showing this to?

"By the way, are you planning to start the machine this time?"

"Well, everyone has been gathered and is in the conference room, waiting for you to come over and say a few words."

Wei Jin thought about it and nodded, "Okay, I'll go meet everyone. By the way, how long do you expect the filming to take?"

"According to the plan, it will take about 2 months."

"Okay, you control the progress yourself."

In the middle of the question and answer, the two of them had already arrived at the conference room.

Wei Jin looked up and saw that all the main creators including Shu Chang and producer Chen Xi were there.

"Where are Xiao Ma's people? Zhong Lifang isn't going this time?"

"You don't know? Xiao Ma is busy acquiring Digital Domain recently. Zhong Lifang has been abroad for a while. Besides, they don't have a big share, so they didn't arrange for a supervisor this time."

"Oh? Is that so? Has it reached the final stage?"

Wei Jin really didn't know about this. Ever since the news of Xiao Ma's negotiations came out last year, he had sold all of his shares in Digital Domain.

After all, the technology, equipment and employees that need to be tapped have already been mostly tapped, and keeping the shares is just waiting for someone to take advantage of them.

As for holding shares and then extorting money from Xiao Ma? Wei Jin believed that he could not do such a thing, even though he had coveted Zhong Lifang for a long time.

"Well, it will probably only take one or two months."

Wei Jin nodded, ended the topic, and then looked at everyone in the conference room.

"The filming location this time is very far away and the conditions are quite difficult, but you can rest assured about the logistics. Shanhe Media will do its best. I will personally welcome you all when we return from the wrap-up."

Although it was a meaningless speech, it still drew applause from the audience. After all, many people knew that Wei Jin was the main recommender for this casting.

Without any delay, Ning Hao took the crew to the airport in the afternoon and headed to Qiannan.

"Director Ning Hao, actor Chen Jianbing and others, as well as a group of staff from Shanhe Media, rushed to Qiannan today. After two years, Ning Hao will be making a commercial film again!"

"It is estimated that the film "Nobody" will start shooting soon!"

At the same time, Wei Jin also received Cao Baoping in the office.

"Teacher Cao, you are really punctual. You said two days and it's two days. Haha."

After personally pouring a cup of tea for Cao Baoping, Wei Jin and he went to the sofa in the reception area and sat down.

"This has been going on for so long, we must hurry up. Here is the list, take a look first."

After responding with a smile, Cao Baoping handed over a piece of information. Wei Jin took it and looked at it, his eyes widened.

"Good fellow, Mr. Cao, you are a big cast, have they all agreed?"

It's no wonder Wei Jin was surprised, because Cao Baoping's previous films rarely used a strong cast, but this time the supporting roles are at worst second-tier actors, which is a luxury.

"Well, although it's just a supporting role, the project "Dear" is semi-charitable after all. Several actors are very willing to do it, and Director Zhang is also very supportive."

After listening to Cao Baoping's explanation, Wei Jin understood it after a little thought.

The entertainment industry is a place of fame and fortune. Star status represents fame, and social evaluation also represents fame. Participating in the "Dear" project is indeed helpful to them.

"That's good. The stronger the cast, the more help it will be for our film, and the more it will help those families."

Cao Baoping nodded, "Yes, that's also my consideration. This is the movie with the largest investment and the strongest cast that I have ever directed."

Wei Jin smiled slightly and added: "Teacher Cao, not only that, the box office will also be the highest."

"Okay, I'll borrow your good words then, hahaha."

Cao Baoping became a 300 million yuan director last year and was very famous in school. Unfortunately, the title of "the No. 1 Beijing Film Academy student" was taken away by Xue Xiaolu not long after. Therefore, he was very concerned about the box office.

"By the way, Wei Jin, I have already communicated with the actors' schedules in advance. I plan to start filming in two weeks. What do you think?"

"No problem, let's do as Mr. Cao thinks. We can hold a press conference in advance and announce the cast at that time."

After a little thought, Cao Baoping understood what Wei Jin meant and nodded.

"Okay, let's do it."

(End of this chapter)