The Crown Prince of Huayu!

Chapter 18 I come first

"It would be great if I could invite Liu Yifei to make a movie directed by me in the future."

After Liu Yifei left the show, Liu Chang still had more to say.

Han Jiadong glanced at him: "There will be a chance, as long as Liu Yifei continues to improve her acting skills."

When Liu Chang heard the first half of the sentence, he thought Han Jiadong was comforting him.

When I heard the second half of the sentence, I found something was wrong.

"I am not convinced by Zhang Yimou, but I will be convinced by you!"

He gave Han Jiadong a thumbs up: "In order to cooperate with Liu Yifei, everyone works hard to improve themselves. It's better for you to let Liu Yifei improve instead, haha!"

He thought Han Jiadong was joking, but Yang Mi on the other side knew that Han Jiadong was serious.

To be honest, Yang Mi was jealous when she saw Liu Yifei on stage just now.

Obviously he debuted earlier and is older, but now he is still just a transparent person who is not even above the 18th level.

Liu Yifei has become a popular little girl after just one year since her debut.

When she heard the first half of Han Jiadong's sentence just now, Yang Mi's heart skipped a beat.

When she heard the second half of the sentence, she finally felt like she had regained her place.

At least, I'm ahead of you...

After watching a few more shows, it was finally the turn of Han Jiadong's class to perform.

Sketch created by Han Jiadong: Innocence without shoes.

As soon as the performance started, the audience laughed non-stop.

Especially when Hao Jian was held by his ex-husband and chased around, the whole audience went crazy with joy.

By the time the skit was over, many people were laughing until their stomachs ached.

Yang Mi rubbed her belly and said, "Ouch! You're teasing me to death! Who came up with this? You're so talented!"

Liu Chang winked at her: "Here! Just your boyfriend!"

Yang Mi suddenly looked at Han Jiadong with a surprised look on her face.

She didn't feel anything when filming Shoplifters, but a sketch made her feel the talent of this mysterious young man.

In the end, despite some shortcomings in performance, thanks to the huge advantage of the script, Innocent No Shoes still won the special prize at the party.

Mid-January.

The shortlist for the Berlin Film Festival has been announced, and Shoplifters is among them.

However, due to being busy with exams, this news did not cause any waves in Nortel.

News reports also mainly focused on big stars like Ge You and Xu Qin, and director Han Jiadong only mentioned them with the word "mysterious".

Yang Mi excitedly called Han Jiadong, and was even more excited when she learned that she could take her to the film festival with him.

The major companies that invested in the film were stunned when they saw the news.

They were all mentally prepared for their money to be used to make shit, but now you tell me that the film was shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival, one of the top three in Europe?

Or is it the only seedling in the mainland this year? !

Han Jiadong ignored their reactions and flew straight to North America as soon as the exam was over.

"You've lost weight, thank you for your hard work."

airport.

Han Jiadong took Xu Qin's face and rubbed it carefully.

Xu Qin's eyes were full of love: "Then how are you going to compensate me?"

It is said that a breakup is better than a newlywed. The two of them had not seen each other for nearly half a year since their first interview. As soon as they arrived at the hotel, they were like thunder and lightning.

The enthusiastic and proactive Xu Qin also let Han Jiadong see her madness like a wolf and a tiger.

After the storm calmed down, the two of them hugged each other and talked about business.

"The price for the rights to "The Man Came From Earth" was too high, so I didn't buy it."

Xu Qin lay in Han Jiadong's arms, with a charming blush on her face.

Han Jiadong touched her hair: "Forget it."

In my previous life, I saw news reports that "The Man from Earth" made more than $100 million at the box office at a cost of less than $. Because it was so amazing, Han Jiadong looked through it in his spare time and found that this movie was not in the top in terms of box office in North America or worldwide.

I did read that this movie was not released, but was released on DVD.

The reports of more than 300 million box office sales only appeared one or seven years later.

It just so happened that a sequel to "The Man from Earth" was produced that year.

Obviously, the report of a box office of more than 300 million is just hype.

But the quality was indeed good, so Han Jiadong asked Xu Qin to try and ask about the price.

"The preliminary preparations for "Ghost Chronicles" and "Juno" have been completed. When will they start filming?" Xu Qin asked again.

"Have a day off today, let's take tomorrow!"

These two movies are the two script outlines that Han Jiadong passed to Xu Qin before.

Following Han Jiadong's instructions, Xu Qin found a screenwriter to perfect the script, and started preparations one or two months in advance.

Among them, The Ghost Story, like the hype news about this man from the earth, is also a representative of low cost and high return.

But it's true.

With a cost of just over 10,000, it earned nearly 200 million US dollars at the box office.

Ranked 32nd in the global box office rankings that year.

After making a fortune, the producers urgently launched a sequel the next year.

From this, we can also see that the box office statement that this man is from Earth must be fake.

Otherwise, if the movie is really so profitable, the producers will definitely not release a sequel after ten years.

The next day, Han Jiadong devoted himself to filming.

The company Xu Qin founded is indeed just a small workshop with some office facilities and employees, and not even filming equipment.

But it's okay.

The reason why Hollywood is called the center of world cinema is not just because of the Hollywood blockbusters that have taken the world by storm.

Here, there is the most complete and mature film supporting industry system in the world.

As long as you have money, filming equipment, filming locations, crew...

All can be done easily.

In the end, it only took about twenty days for both movies to be completed successfully.

Among them, "Ghost Story" took less than a week to complete during the break of filming Juno, including post-editing work. The shooting equipment was only a DV, and the total cost was less than 10,000 US dollars.

Juno is slightly more, but only a little over a million dollars.

The actors are all little-known actors.

For example, the most important male and female protagonists are still the two from the original film, but at this time they are still only 18th-tier young actors, and their age is even more suitable than that of the original film. It can be said to be high-quality and cheap.

Xu Qin also played a small cameo role in it, which can be regarded as fulfilling her Hollywood dream.

All the money for making the movie was provided by Xu Qin, which wiped out all the money she had worked hard to save over the years.

But she didn't complain.

If Han Jiadong wants it, she will give it to him.

A few days before filming ended.

"You really don't plan to attend the opening ceremony?"

Xu Qin looked at Han Jiadong with bright eyes.

The Berlin Film Festival is about to kick off on February 2th, but Han Jiadong, the core soul of "Shoplifters", does not plan to attend the opening ceremony.

You know, this is one of the most valuable film festivals in the world!
Many people want to try it out even if they haven't received an invitation.

Han Jiadong seemed very indifferent in front of this temptation.

"I don't plan to show my face in front of the media just yet. You go ahead. I'll join you after I finish my work here."

　Thanks to Zhao Lanu for the monthly pass!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)