Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1015 It's Not My Relationship

  ""Parkour Boy"? Parkour?" Upon hearing the name of the movie reported by Ye Jiaying, a reporter suddenly yelled, "I got it!"

  "What do you know?" other reporters next to him asked.

"Parkour! This is the movie Xiao Yao and the others are doing crowdfunding on the American crowdfunding website to make!" The reporter said, "This incident was spread from the United States to China, and it also brought out Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei are the veteran team of parkour YRF, Xiao Yao is the founder of parkour! At that time, there were many media reports in China, and there were a lot of discussions on the Internet!"

Xiao Yao and several people engaged in crowdfunding on American crowdfunding websites to make parkour movies, which led to the three being a team of parkour veterans. The fact that Xiao Yao was the founder of parkour was revealed by netizens and the media in March and April. It was reported that there was a wave of online discussions at the time.

But that was already a few months ago, and the news that came out was just crowdfunding, that is, the film is still in the preparation stage, and the filming time was not revealed. The media and netizens discussed it for a while. There is no sustained heat.

  These reporters squatting at the airport are entertainment gossip reporters, belonging to the category of paparazzi. They are familiar with the gossip and gossip of celebrities, but they are not so sensitive to news about celebrities' works.

Although they also knew about this news, it was a few months ago. Recently, most of Xiao Yao's news was related to the animated film he was showing, so they didn't have the first time when they saw Xiao Yao at the airport. Reminiscent of this live-action movie that was in preparation, it wasn't until Ye Jiaying mentioned the word parkour that some reporters thought of it.

"Yeah! I remember it too!" Another reporter suddenly said, "I remember that I had seen the official website of the movie at the time. The main creators written on it were Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting. In addition, there seems to be a Chinese director in the United States, no wonder they are going to the United States to shoot!"

   "In March and April, we were still looking for money from crowdfunding, so we will go to the United States to start shooting. They are efficient enough!" a reporter commented.

"Three months is actually not very fast! But in the past three months, Xiao Yao’s main energy should have been on the post-production, theater gear and publicity of the animated film. It’s very rare to prepare and start shooting within a month!” Another reporter said.

"The most important thing is that the animated movie is still in theaters. Xiao Yao doesn't even care about the subsequent movie box office. He just left China's affairs and went to the United States to make a new movie. This is a big heart!" The reporter sighed.

"At the box office of 1.1 billion, it must have already made money, so I don't want to care about it, right?" The reporter who spoke before said, "Furthermore, even if he doesn't leave, I haven't seen Xiao Yao any further promotion during the period after the movie was released. What a move!"

  Several reporters walked and talked, and walked outside the airport together. They were not going to continue squatting at the airport, planning to go back and report on Xiao Yao and others going to the United States to make parkour movies. With this news, their task today is even completed.

  In the afternoon, the news that Xiao Yao and other people went to the United States to film a movie appeared in some online entertainment media. As soon as the news came out, many media followed up and reprinted it.

  Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting all have brokerage companies. When preparing for this incident, Zhao Rui and others did not let the company know, but after the crowdfunding website was exposed a few months ago, their company naturally knew.

  The artists under the   invest their own money to make movies, using the company's resources, which is equivalent to creating resources by themselves. This is a good thing. The brokerage company is happy to see this kind of thing happen, and has provided some support accordingly. For example, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei both accepted a lot of media interviews after the incident was exposed, and their brokerage company did a lot of work in it.

This time a few of them set off for the United States. Their brokerage company originally wanted to unite to organize a strong guild for them and call the media to report on it, but Xiao Yao felt that he hadn’t even started the computer. The elements of the show are too serious, a bit too much. Moreover, they set off at noon on the second day of Zhao Rui's graduation ceremony, and the time was very tight. There was no time at all, and the brokerage company had no choice but to give up.

  Now that it was reported by gossip reporters crouching at the airport, and it was revealed by interviewing your parents, the brokerage companies of Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others don't mind to give a boost at this time.

  So for a while, news on the Internet about several people investing in movies and going to the United States to film in the United States is endless. A few months ago, the news and interviews about the three people who were expected to be parkour veterans were also turned up.

  In these news and interviews, both Zhao Rui and Xu Fei emphasized that the sport of parkour was actually invented by Xiao Yao. The idea of ​​making a movie was also first thought of by Xiao Yao, so Xiao Yao is naturally the core figure in this matter.

When these news reports came out a few months ago, everyone was quite surprised and pleasantly surprised that these people were actually the founders of a world-wide popular extreme sport. However, many people raised money to make movies. People are not very optimistic.

  These people are all young and famous actors, and they have experience in acting, but behind the scenes of making movies, they have little experience. Among these people, the most experienced behind-the-scenes is Xiao Yao, who only made a few MVs and a short film. So few people unite to invest in making movies? Can it succeed?

However, the money they make for the movie comes from crowdfunding on their own and on crowdfunding websites. Participating in crowdfunding is a resource, and the number of single transactions is not large. More importantly, it is crowdfunding on foreign websites. Netizens who participate in crowdfunding are foreigners. There are many people, but no one scolds them for cheating and cheating money, but many people think they are too trifling.

  But now the news is different when it comes out again. As a producer, producer, director, screenwriter, soundtrack and other behind-the-scenes animated film, Xiao Yao has won a box office of more than one billion, with a score of 8.5 points or more. Although animated films are different from live-action movies, Xiao Yao has been the director of short films and music videos, and he has also directed live-action performances. Once the hurdles of short films and feature films have been crossed, live-action films and animated films do not seem to be a big problem for Xiao Yao. Just as Xiao Yao was the evildoer, many people had a lot of expectations for this movie.

  Although there is no report of Xiao Yao in the media interviews about parkour movies, Xiao Yao is still the core character of the topic this time.

  Xiao Yao and others have just left for the United States, which means that this parkour movie has just started, and it is far from being released or even finished. However, Xiao Yao’s live-action movie will definitely not be seen in the near future, but his animated movie is currently in theaters. As a result, some viewers who were looking forward to the live-action movies of Xiao Yao and others couldn't help but go to the theater to play "Wali" again, and once again experienced the enjoyment of this movie directed and screenwriter Xiao Yao brought to them.

In addition, on the morning when Xiao Yao and others set off, the video of Xiao Yao performing at the Yandian Performing Department graduation meal was posted on the Internet, and was posted by Xiao Yao earlier and filmed with the graduates of Yandian. The static movie "Those Years" was circulated on the Internet together.

  Xiao Yao said yesterday that he would post static movies to photography websites, movie websites and video websites. So early this morning, Yandian graduates started searching on the Internet with the mentality of giving it a try. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yao finished all the later stages in one night and uploaded it to the Internet. A group of Yandian graduates immediately called Penghuanyou to start reposting it on various social software.

  The static film was sent by Xiao Yao, and it was reposted and spread by graduates of several majors from Yandian. The performance video of Sanhuofan was uploaded and distributed by the students of Yandian Performance Department.

There are graduates every year, and there are also graduates from the film and television school every year, but a junior student from the Shenxi Acting Department went to the graduation party of the Yandian Acting Department, but it is unique. A student from the Shenxi Acting Department is a junior. It is also unique that a group of graduates from Yandian have produced a work together on graduation day.

   These two things are very topical in themselves, but what is more noticeable is the specific content presented in these two things.

  Static movies are not particularly unusual. The professional name of static film is picture montage, which is actually a compulsory course for the lower grades of the film director major. There should be many people who can shoot this thing. Except for the "Li Qingzhao" that Xiao Yao shot for Tu Yiyuan back then, there are actually many static movie works on the Internet, but they are basically not well-known.

The static movie made by Xiao Yao and Yandian graduates this time is called "Those Years". It mainly talks about a boy who has a crush on a girl from a crush to a courage to confess to come together, and finally had to break up when he graduated. s story. In addition to telling the love between the two on campus, it also contains some parts of the friendship between the two and other students.

The story is not particularly novel, but during the graduation season, it is especially easy to resonate. Coupled with Xiao Yao's superb grasp of composition, light and shadow, and the professional assistance of Yandian students in terms of service, this The twenty-odd photos taken are not only beautiful, but also particularly infectious. After being reposted by a group of Yandian graduates, it was quickly reposted by a large number of ordinary netizens and became popular on the Internet.

  It was unexpected that Xiao Yao participated in the graduation meal of the Yandian Performance Department, but it was not surprising that he sang at the meal. For such a famous and talented singer to attend the party, it would be unexpected not to pull him up to sing a song. After being surprised at Xiao Yao's appearance at the graduation meal of Yandian Performance Department, many people naturally focused on the song Xiao Yao sang in the video.

  "Broken Up Embrace", a bitter love song that sounds like a lover’s breaking up, but it actually sounds like a parting feeling of the graduates. This song is not only very suitable for the graduation meal, but also aroused the resonance of many people this graduation season.

When uploading and publishing this video, the author also wrote a text introduction, explaining that the name of the song came from an explanation by Xiao Yao when Xu Jiahui went to find Xiao Yao and Zhao Ruiqiu for a hug, and emphasized that the song is Xiao Yao. Yao wrote it out for these graduates at the scene of the break-up meal.

Xiao Yao’s talent in music creation has long been well-known, but with the time of a meal, he can create a complete new song for the scene at the time without writing notes on paper and pen, and he can sing it directly on stage. Things surprised many netizens again.

  Although some netizens do not believe it, and even some Heizi disdainfully suggested that the practice of Yandian performance students kneeling and licking to praise the stars of the Shenxi performance department is too embarrassing, but most of the netizens still tend to believe that Xiao Yao has this ability.

  A touching and adaptable new song, or improvised live creation, is undoubtedly very topical. After this video was reposted by a group of students in the Yandian Performance Department, it was quickly reposted by netizens and became popular on the Internet.

  A static movie, a live performance video of a new song, and the report that Xiao Yao and others went to the United States to film a group in the afternoon, Xiao Yao once again became popular on China's Internet.

   Stimulated by these three things, on Monday and Tuesday of the third week of its release, the animated film "Wali" once again showed no significant drop in box office during the week, and remained at the same level as the previous weekend.

Although "Wali" was released and entered its third week, two more "blockbusters" were released this week, joining the box office battle of the summer film, but the current popularity of Xiao Yao on the Internet and the first two days of this week The performance of "Wali" at the box office, coupled with the strong high ratings of the movie on the rating website, many experts have analyzed and predicted that "Wali" is likely to win the box office championship again this week. Based on this momentum, Xiao Yao's first movie is likely to go to the box office of 2 billion.

  As for the hot discussion on Huaxia.com, Xiao Yao himself doesn’t know anything about it for the time being.

  The flight they took took off at noon. Not long after the plane took off and turned into a stable flight state, the flight attendants brought the passengers the lunch provided on the plane.

  After eating lunch, Zhao Rui, the hangover, and Xiao Yao, who stayed up all night, put down the tables and chairs, covered them with blankets, and fell asleep.

  This time everyone took a direct flight to Los Angeles, and there was no need to transfer in the middle. Zhao Rui and Xiao Yao slept for almost ten hours this night, and even missed the second meal. By the time they woke up, the plane had already reached the sky over the United States, and it was not long before landing.

Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui got up and washed their faces in the toilet of the plane, cleaned themselves up a bit, and then returned to their seats to sit for a short time. The announcement on the plane sounded and they were about to land. Passengers were asked to straighten their seat backs. , A reminder to fasten your seat belt.

  The plane landed safely, Xiao Yao and others took the luggage, and when they came out of the passenger passage, they saw Mu Ying who came to pick up the plane in person.

  Among the eight members of Xiao Yao and his party, Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, and Pei Minyi have all met Mu Ying. Although Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting have not met Mu Ying, they have contacted a lot through online video and they are relatively familiar. The real strangers are the assistants brought by the three of them and the two crew members brought by Mu Ying. Everyone gave a brief greeting, and Mu Ying took everyone to the parking lot.

  Mu Ying took everyone to the parking lot, took out the key and pressed it, then turned to Xiao Yao and said, "We drove three cars over, and the three of us are the drivers. You should assign which car to take!"

   "Shoo~" Seeing the three cars in front of him, Xiao Yao couldn't help but whistled, smiled and said to Mu Ying, "Old Mu, great!"

  There were three BMW Suvs parked in front of Xiao Yao and others. All three cars look brand new, look exactly the same, and they are all black, and they are very imposing when parked together. From the model point of view, Xiao Yao recognized that this is a new model of BMW this year.

  "This is not my big deal!" Mu Ying smiled, "This is not specially rented for you, this is the crew's car!"

   "The crew uses such a good car? Isn't it too extravagant?" Xiao Yao said, "Do we have such a sufficient budget?"

  There are no big-name star actors in this movie, but Xiao Yao may be the biggest. This is his own movie, and Xiao Yao is not the kind of extravagant person. He has already told Mu Ying that there is no need to talk about it.

   "Look at how stupid you are!" Mu Ying smiled, "This car does not cost money, it is sponsored by BMW for us to use!"

  "Sponsor?" Xiao Yao asked strangely.

"Yes!" Mu Ying nodded, "You said you don't accept investment from film companies and companies, but you didn't say you don't accept sponsorship and placement of advertisements. BMW is our sponsor, not an investor, and not a producer. If you don’t arrange people for our crew, you just advertise. As a placement advertisement, they will not only give money but also provide cars. I won’t refuse this kind of thing!”

   "Of course you can't refuse this kind of good thing!" Xiao Yao smiled and grabbed Mu Yingdao.

  "BMW is a big international brand!" Zhao Rui smiled and said with a thumbs up, "You can even get BMW advertisements and sponsorships, you can do it, Lao Mu!"

   "I didn't get this sponsorship," Mu Ying laughed. "It was the start of our crowdfunding. After the film's official website went online, there were reports in the media. The people at BMW took the initiative to find it after they learned the news!"

   "BMW took the initiative to send money, Mu Ge, your relationship with BMW is indeed a leverage!" Xu Fei smiled, "You deserve to be the director who helped BMW make the commercial film!"

  It is the first time that Xu Fei and Mu Ying face each other. They are not as familiar with Mu Ying as Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui, so they are called "Brother Mu" instead of "Old Mu".

"This is not my relationship alone," Mu Ying smiled. "BMW took a fancy to our movie and asked for sponsorship because of the relationship between me and Xiao Yao, maybe because Xiao Yao's relationship is a little bit more! Xiao Yao also visited BMW’s Munich headquarters, but I haven’t been! It’s just that the official movie website leaves me with my contact information, so BMW’s talent came to me.”

   "By the way, you also visited the BMW headquarters on Bayi. Why is your relationship with BMW so good?" Xu Fei asked Xiao Yao.

   "This is a long story. Let's get in the car and talk slowly." Xiao Yao said, "I take the old wooden car and listen to him on the way to talk about the preparations of the crew. How about you?"

   "We want to know too!" the other three said.

  For the last discussion, Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei, and Chen Xiaoting all squeezed into Mu Ying’s car, while Pei Minyi and the other three assistants were in two cars driven by crew members.

   "I knew I would only bring one person and drive two cars!" Mu Ying smiled helplessly.

  (End of this chapter)