Chapter 1029 Chapter 104 Concubine
Simply speaking of the quality of the movie "Autumn Fairy Tale", Lu Lingxi is of course confident. From the script, to shooting, to performance, and to the final appearance that will be presented in the later stage, she is confident.
But she really didn't have any confidence in how high the box office of this movie could get.
Although she is already one of the most famous female directors in China with the role of "Thirteenth Aunt", "Carry Love to the End" and "Daming Palace Ci", even though "Autumn Fairy Tale" has Li Qian and Qin Jingjing A pair of movie kings and actresses joined, in fact, she already had enough guarantees for her to have a certain confidence.
But for the first time directing a film, coupled with the worry and anxiety of the post-editing for a month, she is at the time when she has the most confidence. Let's set an example for those people!" All these words were said to cheer her up, but after the meal was over, Li Qian found that she seemed to be even more anxious some.
This is also impossible.
A common problem for new directors—not to mention new directors, veteran drivers can't escape this hurdle.
In fact, for many directors, they are already worried about whether their next movie will be popular before the movie is finished!
It's like when a starting author is about to finish writing a book, do you think he won't worry about the grades of the next book? He's so worried about shit!
Only by succeeding again and again can we thoroughly cultivate that kind of self-confidence and confidence.
Just like San Shao and Tomato, they no longer have to worry about whether they will hit the street or not.
In fact, during "Legend of the New White Snake" and "My Sassy Girlfriend", even though he had the confidence of another time and space that had been successful and glorious in his heart, Li Qian was still worried, so he kept improving Just do it, and then slowly get better.
When "Once Upon a Time" became a big hit, and when "Red Sorghum" not only won awards but also sold well, he began to really gain confidence as a director, even if it was just a director whose main direction was "copying and recreating". Up to now, even if he spends 500 million yuan to make a movie, he has not given up.
Lu Lingxi, on the other hand, lacks similar success.
In this regard, Li Qian did not forcefully comfort him. After eating and chatting for a while, he drove Lu Lingxi back to her new home and told her not to forget to attend the "Crazy Stone" event the day after tomorrow. Premiere, then drive home.
It's already twenty-eight years old, as Lu Lingxi said, he does have a lot of people to accompany him.
Fortunately, my lord, there is Wang Jinglu, a well-known royal family there, although it is still inevitable that everyone wants to be on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but Li Qian accompanied Wang Jinglu, no one can say anything, Among the few women around him, none of them would pull down their faces and do something excessive.
But not children.
They are all growing up slowly, and they can remember many things that happened now.
The Spring Festival is the most important reunion festival for Chinese people. Children must be together, accompanied by their fathers, to spend New Year's Eve and usher in the first day of the new year.
This is the atmosphere of home that Chinese people value most.
So this year, on New Year's Eve, He Runqing took Li Cha and Zhou Mo took Li Shesheng to live in the big house of Li Qian and Wang Jinglu. Xie Bing also came and looked at Li Shesheng and the others eagerly. There are three little brothers and sisters, they are so greedy, after teasing this one, teasing that one.
Instead, Wang Jingxue insisted not to stay here and went back to her parents.
On New Year's Eve, in Li Qian's small family, there will be only one Liao Liao who will continue to stay in the United States to prepare for her next concert that will take three months to travel all over North America.
Li Qian once asked Qi Jie what she meant, but in the end she was determined not to come, so she simply left on the 27th afternoon of the New Year's Eve and went back to Jinan Mansion to accompany her parents.
Cheng Suping was also unwilling to come.
She didn't use the excuse of going to the Spring Festival Gala or anything like that, but simply said that she had no name or distinction anyway, so what did she do in the past! —and she doesn't want fame either.
On the contrary, Jiang Yiyi muttered a few words, which probably meant that she wanted to come over to Li Qian's house to eat a bowl of dumplings after attending the Spring Festival Gala, counting it as a holiday.
Li Qian refused instead.
She is shaking very much now, and she has a temperament that loves to show off and pretend. She bought the big villa at home a long time ago, and this year even brought her parents to Shuntian Mansion. She is in Shuntian Mansion now, but she is not the pitiful "homeless" one she described in the past.
Of course, Li Qian had called ahead of time to ask his parents to come and celebrate the New Year together.
The old couple really wanted their grandchildren, but on the phone, the mother hesitated for a long time, and in the end it was the father who answered the phone, unable to explain it——Li Qian felt that the old couple probably felt that their home was too messy, There are several daughters-in-law, and they are really a bit big-headed, and they don't want to get involved in Li Qian's nonsense.
In fact, it is indeed a bit big.
Whether it's Wang Jinglu, Zhou Mo, He Runqing, or Xie Bing, none of them are prone to trouble. Even if it's not the New Year's Eve, when they get together, peace is still peace, but if you want to say that they are really as close as sisters, It is not easy for everyone to have a reunion year together.
Fortunately, Wang Jinglu is very popular, and even though she is a big woman, everyone calls her sister when she sees her, He Runqing is good at dancing, Xie Bing is cute and cute, even Zhou Mo is not used to being with so many people, but she always It's better to show Li Qian and Wang Jing a little face, and everyone knows that she is like that usually, and no one cares about anything - the most important thing is that Li Shesheng and Li Cha are already talking and making trouble. With these two children around, the atmosphere in the house is always lively and jubilant.
Therefore, Li Qian's first "wife and concubine meeting" in the history of this small family was relatively successful.
Everyone ate New Year's Eve dinner, drank wine, watched the Spring Festival Gala to tease their children, and celebrated New Year's Eve.
This year's Huaxia TV Spring Festival Gala's song programs, Minghu culture almost occupied half of the sky - the music department has continued to make efforts under the auspices of Xie Mingyuan in recent years, not only the position of the old singers has become more and more stable, and they have gradually become kings and queens A large number of new singers who made their debut through self-discovery or talent shows are also becoming the backbone of the current domestic music scene.
Of course, without real top-level powers like Li Qian, Liao Liao, Zhou Mo, Rose Power, etc., Zhou Ye, as the leading brother of Minghu Culture in the music field, still seems to lack a little weight, and he is a little bit overwhelmed. This year's Spring Festival Gala just contacted Li Qian in various ways, trying to get him on the Spring Festival Gala again, and contacted him three or four times, but Li Qian still refused after deliberation.
As we all know, the Spring Festival Gala is the best stage to promote newcomers. Every year, newcomers become famous through the Spring Festival Gala. What Li Qian lacks most now is fame. If he appeared on the stage, he would definitely attract a lot of attention. Firstly, he himself is not rare, and secondly, he will block the newcomer's road to fame, so why bother!
The youngest kid went to bed early, and after nine o'clock, Li Shesheng and Li Cha were too sleepy to keep their eyes open, and were coaxed to sleep by their respective mothers.
Then, several people were drinking and chatting without saying a word. They actually saw the New Year's bell ringing at the Spring Festival Gala in one breath, and then they went back to their rooms.
There was still a bit of embarrassment, but it was not as serious as Li Qian thought before.
He thought to himself: This is a good start!
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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, on February 6, 2005, "Crazy Stone" officially landed in major theaters across the country.
That morning, many invited guests rushed to Minghu Studios in Shuntian Prefecture—many of them couldn't hide their dark circles even with makeup on.
Originally, Minghu Culture didn't really like holding premieres. But with the success of "Big Wrist", now Feng Bicheng, as one of the most important famous directors in China, has already made it necessary for Minghu Culture to hold a special premiere ceremony for him.
Qi Jie didn't come, but Li Qian came to the platform in person.
A large number of directors, actors, and singers under Minghu Culture, as long as they are in Shuntianfu, come to the platform to congratulate. Feng Bicheng's father, Feng Yumin, is a leading figure in the domestic TV drama circle, and his network is even far stronger than that of Li Qian. It also needs to be wider - except for a very few people who don't have a lot to do with Li Qian and Minghu culture, basically everyone in this circle who is famous and free has come.
The photos of Li Qian and Feng Bicheng talking together at the scene were also specially arranged to take a lot of photos-although Minghu Culture has been trying its best to suppress the news, as early as during and after the release of "Big Name", there were some bad negative things about Feng Bicheng. News has always existed, and the most attacked and criticized one is undoubtedly that he had previously attacked Li Qian behind the scenes with Li Qian's great support.
And this time, the photo was requested by the publicity department in advance.
With these photos, all the "rumors" can naturally be self-defeating.
Of course, when Li Qian gave the script of "Crazy Stone" to Feng Bicheng, this matter has already been revealed. When he talked to Feng Bicheng, he didn't have to lie at all.
Earlier, when "Crazy Stone" was about to wrap up, he even went to Chongqing Mansion specially to support Feng Bicheng and congratulate Feng Bicheng. The relationship is now relatively harmonious.
Moreover, even Qi Jie now has to admit that among the directors under Minghu Culture, Feng Bicheng's loyalty and sense of conversion to the company and Li Qian is probably the strongest.
Even Han Shunzhang may not be able to compare.
In recent years, Feng Bicheng, even with the popularity of "Big Whistleblower", is still extremely low-key, even so low-key that he is not like himself at all.
This time with the release of the new film, he is as low-key as ever. When he was interviewed by the reporter, he was asked about the box office. He said modestly, "making a comedy is for everyone to enjoy watching the pictures. As long as I don't lose money, I can continue to shoot. , anyway, please support me more, don’t ask for too much, just keep your capital!”
And when the reporters asked why he chose to schedule the movie on the first day of the new year, a time when "almost no one would go to the movies", he smiled and said: "That's not the case. At that time, our company's opening film "My Sassy Girlfriend" was scheduled for a few days after the Spring Festival. In those years, the box office was quite good. Lord Qian had confidence in me and asked me which day I would like to decide on. I said any day would be fine, but Lord Qian said, then let’s just make it during the Spring Festival! I said yes!”
"Spring Festival stalls?"
"That's right! Spring Festival stalls! New Year's Day, the first day of the new year!"
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In the current time and space, even until now, there have been precedents such as "My Sassy Girl" that hit the box office during the Spring Festival, but the concept of "Spring Festival stalls" still does not exist at all.
The wave of commercialization of movies has been promoted for more than ten years. The concept of commercial movies and commercial blockbusters has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. With the gradual integration with the global film market, especially with Hollywood, many European and American films, especially North American films The concept of the market has gradually been imported, and until now, it has become some fixed concepts in the Chinese film market.
For example, the summer schedule, such as the Valentine's Day schedule, and so on.
Of course, the difference in cultural background and the difference in people's living customs make there are huge differences between China and the United States. Therefore, if there is importation, there will naturally be local origin.
The United States has an Independence Day holiday, but China does not, and it is not a time period, but China has a Mid-Autumn festival.
Americans celebrate Christmas, and it is extremely important. It is an important time for audiences to watch movies. Therefore, the schedule of Christmas and New Year’s Day in the United States is a very important reserve for family-friendly movies. But when you come to China, New Year’s Day is just a starting point. Well, since Zhao Meicheng, China has created the so-called "Lunar New Year stalls", which is to catch up around New Year's Day and before the Spring Festival in one breath.
The Spring Festival is a festival unique to China. But over the years, the concept of Spring Festival, for Chinese people, has the greatest meaning of two words - go home.
During this period of time, the film market often does not have much market to speak of.
The Spring Festival stalls are not even a concept.
Sometimes, the Spring Festival falls in February, which coincides with Valentine's Day to a certain extent, so it can be forced to be a little hotter, but it is limited, and it might make Valentine's Day even less popular.
The market affects the film, and the film affects the market.
It is precisely because the Chinese people have many habits in the past that fewer people watch movies during the Spring Festival, so distribution companies will not release good movies during this time, and conversely, there are no good movies that arouse people to watch. The idea of a movie made the box office market colder during this period.
However, Li Qian firmly believes that with the development of modern society and the continuous economic growth, people not only have money, but also the way of celebrating the Spring Festival and consumption concepts are also greatly changing.
So, if you want to have a good time during the Chinese New Year, then try the water of "Spring Festival file" with a comedy first!
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Wishing everyone an early New Year in advance, I wish everyone a happy new year and all the best!
For the next three days, one day before the year before and two days after the year, there will be grave sweeping, ancestor worship, reunion, and drinking. I can’t guarantee that there will be an update, but maybe there will be an update. In short, please be considerate of the ineffectiveness of the update!
From the third day of the Lunar New Year, it should be possible to ensure that there will be updates.