Chapter 802 Chapter 102: The Great Enemy Is Coming!
April 27, 2002, at two thirty in the afternoon.
Shuntian Mansion, Minghu Cinemas.
The premiere ceremony of "The Gate of Life and Death" is being held here.
On the one hand, Hu Fei is very face-saving, "The Gate of Life and Death" will be the second film to hold its premiere ceremony in Minghu Film City, on the other hand, Hu Fei is also very cautious.
The investment is too big, even if Qin Wei is directing, even if there are so many popular movie stars joining the cast, he still appears cautious all the time——
One is that the scale of the ceremony is much bigger than that of "Once Upon a Time in China". In his words, "It's only so much money, as long as it can light the fire, it's worth it!", and the second is the premiere of "The Gate of Life and Death", which is a real Premiere in a sense - the movie doesn't officially open until April 29th!
He is really afraid that the box office will not look good, so he hopes that today's premiere ceremony can build up momentum first, and at the same time give the public opinion and word of mouth a little time to ferment, in order to ensure the results of the first week of release, it must be good!
Even, according to Yu Bojun, Hu Fei is ready to buy part of the box office! Although it was not stated clearly, there was already a little gossip among the cinema operators.
Compared with him, Li Qian is much more relaxed whether it is "My Sassy Girlfriend" or "Huang Feihong" - among the directors and film and television companies in China today, Li Qian is probably the most daring to use new actors to take the lead in commercial films director!
Using new actors means low cost, low cost, and much less box office pressure!
It's also a commercial movie, and it's also a martial arts movie. The "Gate of Life and Death" has a set of configurations, Qin Wei, his set of crew, plus Guo Yulong, He Yingyu, Ming Xiaojing, Fu Hongxue and other big names. From Xiaoka, almost everyone who appeared on the camera and screen is a familiar face. The director's salary, the crew's salary and the actor's salary alone are 30 million!
Thirty million, the overall investment in "Once Upon a Time" is less than 27 million!
This is the benefit of using a large number of new actors, while using internal teams as much as possible, and suppressing shooting costs!
Therefore, everyone also held the premiere. Li Qian was doing it here, and the screening had already started there. It seemed that he was not worried about the box office hitting the street at all, but Hu Fei had to be careful.
Of course, you can say it the other way around, it is not unreasonable that stars are expensive!
Qin Wei's director is very expensive, and he has to take a share of the box office, but as long as his name is on it, many audiences will directly label it as a "good movie", and Guo Yulong, He Yingyu and Fu Hongxue Individual starring roles, although the salary directly goes out to tens of millions, and Guo Yulong alone will cost 6.5 million, but no matter how bad the film is, the films starring the three of them may sell for a million dollars. A guarantee of 100 million!
As for "Huang Feihong", firstly, it depends on Li Qian's fame, and secondly, it is purely because of the quality of the movie! The foundation of this start is not as good as other people's "Gate of Life and Death"!
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Sitting in the luxury business car arranged by Huafei Film and Television, Li Qian and Cheng Suping were whispering something, Qin Jingjing in the back row touched Liao Min, and whispered: "Xiao Min, help me check again!"
Liao Min glanced at her, glanced forward again, helped her to pull the embroidery on the shoulders of the dress with disdain, and said, "Okay, it's already good! What are you doing!"
Qin Jingjing rolled her eyes and gave her a blank look.
The car stopped, and Li Qian got out of the car first.
As soon as the car stopped and opened the door, the noise outside had already come in, but when Li Qian got out of the car, the noise outside quickly increased by dozens of decibels!
The reporters and movie fans outside are clearly commotioning!
Li Qian stretched out his hand in a gentlemanly way, and asked Cheng Suying to get off the car with him——she had a similar view to Li Qian, and she didn't think that attending a premiere ceremony should be so solemn, so, despite following " After the hit and rebroadcast of "Full House", she has officially become a popular goddess of innocence, but when she appears in public, she still wears a very simple round-neck shirt and long skirt in ordinary attire.
The best thing is to apply a little serious makeup to make yourself more photogenic!
Compared with her, Qin Jingjing seemed a lot more serious.
In fact, she might not attach much importance to the premiere ceremony, but this is a rare opportunity. This is the first time that Li Qian will take her to a public event—"Red Sorghum" hasn't been cut yet, Liao Min became a little impatient, and realized that the opportunity was good, so she helped Qin Jingjing choose a luxurious evening dress by herself.
Although their premiere ceremony is in the afternoon!
Of course, before deciding to let Qin Jingjing dress up to attend, Liao Min would not have known that Qin Jingjing, who has never been stage-frightened by anyone, anything, or in any occasion, would unexpectedly start to have stage fright today out of nowhere!
Cheng Suping got out of the car, Li Qian stretched out his hand again, Qin Jingjing took his hand, and gracefully lifted the skirt of the dress and got out of the car!
It's not bad today, cloudy, so I won't be blinded by the sun.
Outside the car, there are huge crowds of people!
A row of two rows of security personnel held hands, firmly blocking the fans who tried to get closer.
Li Qian, with Cheng Suping on his left and Qin Jingjing on his right, stepped onto the red carpet—as for Liao Min behind him, he ignored him.
The scene immediately went crazy!
The sound of shutters, screams, and shouts covered the sky and the sun.
From the time when the secret marriage was exposed years ago, to the launch of "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty", and then to the release of "Huang Feihong" nine days ago, it successfully won a single-week box office of over 100 million in the first week of its release, and It also received quite strong word-of-mouth feedback, plus the first tour concert of the Four Great Beauties, which has recently started promotion...
In the past four months, Li Qian's topicality, popularity and influence have always been unmatched number one in the domestic entertainment industry!
Frankly speaking, if you can walk the red carpet with him once, you can follow him!
When contacting Minghu Culture before the ceremony, Hu Fei proposed to arrange a female companion for Li Qian, but Li Qian directly refused.
There are a lot of actresses on the side of Minghu Culture, not to mention the singers. On the side of actors, Feng Yumin wants to make his new drama popular, and asks the old Bai Bai Yujing to pass. He Yingyu is the heroine and wants to talk to Guo Yulong. Walking the show together, Liu Yan, Zhao Qing, and Jiang Yiyi are all filming "Princess Returning the Pearl Part 2" and can't come back. Lu Lingxi followed Zhou Baoshan to run the promotion of "Huang Feihong" in other places, let alone come back , but her sister, Cheng Suping, is very popular, and she is definitely suitable for taking it out, and there is also a Qin Jingjing who needs to be praised!
One left and one right, two beauties.
Followed by Liao Min with his head down, was ignored by everyone.
Many people shouted the names of Li Qian and Cheng Suping loudly. Of course, some also called "Song Hye Kyo". Cheng Suping smiled, raised her hand, and greeted the fans over there, which immediately aroused even louder cheers .
Both of Li Qian's hands were occupied, and he couldn't free his hands, so he just nodded to everyone.
And Qin Jingjing on the right seemed a little too nervous, her arms tightly hugging Li Qian's.
All the way past, approaching the media area, the reporters shouted loudly, "Master, stand up, stand up, give me a pose..."
The three had no choice but to take two steps and then stand.
Since he was acting, of course he had to do a full set. Anyway, while helping to promote "The Gate of Life and Death", he must also stimulate his popularity, especially the popularity of "Huang Feihong".
What's more, this is the premiere ceremony held in Minghu Film City, this boss must be done well!
Give yourself a platform for your business, don't feel tired!
However, after snapping photos for a while, the reporters couldn't bear it anymore.
"Master, what is your relationship with Miss Cheng Suping? With Miss Qin Jingjing? Are they your women?"
"Master, why are there only four concert tours, can you tell me which performers will be invited?"
"Humble and modest, look here! Once Upon a Time broke 100 million in the first week, but "The Gate of Life and Death" has a huge investment, do you feel pressure? You will soon face a head-to-head contest with "The Gate of Life and Death", do you think you will win or lose?" how?"
"Master, there are rumors that He Runqing is your woman and gave birth to a child for you. Is it true? Can you respond? Why has she almost never appeared in public for more than a year?"
"Master Jiao Bishop, there is news that Lake Culture has bought Changbaishan Animation Company. Are you planning to enter the animation industry? Can we talk about it?"
"Master, when will "Red Sorghum" be released?"
"Master, will you consider making a movie for Miss Cheng Suping, our Song Hye Kyo?"
"Master, there are rumors that Bai Yujing is your concubine, is it true?"
"Master..."
"..."
All kinds of questions, about movies, concerts, women, scandals... From a very long time ago, whenever Li Qian appeared in public, he was almost bound to be questioned by these various questions. Surrounded.
So... I have long adapted and become numb.
After finally walking through the red carpet, Qin Jingjing heaved a sigh of relief, while Cheng Suping looked relaxed.
Hu Fei came over, shook hands with Li Qian, Cheng Suping, and Qin Jingjing one by one, and even recognized Liao Min with a sharp eye, and stretched out his hand with a smile, "You are the legendary Liao Ermin, right?"
In this era of time and space, before the second became the "two", it was really just a ranking. Hu Fei was purely showing favor.
After all, although Liao Min is not well known to the public, within the entertainment industry, a bigwig like Hu Fei still knows her energy very well—at least from the outside world, she can sign Qin Jingjing, who has limited emotional intelligence. She is thorny, and she can roam around, taking advantage of the connections Li Qian and Liao Liao made, to take on plays for her everywhere. Last year, Li Qian used Qin Jingjing as the heroine to shoot a literary film, which shows her energy !
Liao Min shook hands with him calmly, with a neither humble nor overbearing attitude, "Mr. Hu, please take care of me!"
There will be a lot of guests today. Hu Fei and Qin Wei have been in the film and television industry for so many years, and they are not in vain. At this time, Li Qian and his group have only entered for a minute or two, and someone has already finished walking the red carpet. Li Qian wanted to take this opportunity to say goodbye and go in, but Hu Fei didn't intend to abandon him to receive the next group of guests. Instead, he waved his hand to signal a deputy beside him to receive them, and then raised his arms to wrap around Li Qian's shoulders , the two turned around halfway, with their backs to the girls and Hu Fei's subordinates, Hu Fei asked in a low voice: "I heard that you are going to make animation next? You even bought Jiangnan Animation?"
Li Qian smiled when he heard this, "Mr. Hu, you are really well-informed about the news! I just signed the contract for two days, and you received the news?"
Hu Fei patted Li Qian on the shoulder very dissatisfied, "Don't do this! Do you know how many people pay close attention to your movements? Besides, Mr. Qi can't even come to our premiere ceremony, you have to tell me her I'm going to Changsha Mansion to work on "Super Girl", I don't believe it, you don't need her to show up and watch you in person at your concert! So... Mr. Qi is in Songjiang Mansion, right?"
Li Qian chuckled and nodded.
The Ma family finally nodded and agreed to the acquisition, and they don't know whether they were moved by Li Qian's ideals, or Li Qian agreed without thinking about it and they continued to do their own things with the money from Minghu Culture. , The next day, Cao Zhan brought back the news that the other party agreed to start negotiating the price.
Of course, as long as the price can be negotiated, as long as the other party agrees to sell, for Li Qian, the deal is considered a deal--it was not in vain. He personally went to Songjiang Mansion and waited there. For days!
It's just that the next thing, the specific price, the details of the contract, etc., is not what Li Qian will pay attention to. Next, Qi Jie went south in person and brought a professional team there. After two full days of discussion, Qi Jie and Ma Aikui represented Minghu Culture and Jiangnan Animation respectively, and finally signed the acquisition contract.
In other words, Minghu Animation, which is registered and established based on Changbaishan Animation but has not yet been fully formed, has completely settled the general pattern and direction.
After the contract was signed, Li Qian heaved a sigh of relief and went back to Shuntian Mansion directly.
As for the remaining dry bones of Jiangnan Animation, is it worth the 16 million check Qi Jie wrote for them? Whether it's worth it or not, it's worth it!
At this time, Hu Fei expressed emotion, "My brother, you are so bold in doing things!"
Li Qian smiled, "Old Bai walked the red carpet with Brother Feng, and Xiaoyu also walked the red carpet with Master Qin and Lao Guo. Mr. Hu, how much boldness do you want?"
Hu Fei laughed.
Not to mention, Li Qian's two words were poking at his itchy flesh.
After years of spying, with one move, Feng Yumin was directly recruited to take charge of the TV drama department for him, and he successfully stepped out the other foot, and Qin Wei's hugely expensive "The Gate of Life and Death" is finally about to be released. The so-called happy moments in life are nothing more than that!
Hu Fei patted Li Qian's shoulder again, and said, "There are so many people today, so my brother won't drag you around to chat nonsense. I'll make a round later, let's have a good chat!"
"good!"
Li Qian nodded and was about to leave, but Hu Fei suddenly grabbed his arm, approached him, and asked in a low voice: "Chengzhang's mood is a little bit wrong recently, I'm too busy, I haven't freed up my hands yet, if he asks you for a drink, You help my brother and I advise him, but don't start poaching my corner!"
This time it was Li Qian's turn to laugh out loud.
Liu Chengzhang, of course he wants it, but he doesn't want to poach people at any cost!
What's more, although Hu Fei is still a businessman after all, after getting in touch with him, he found that he is not bad and can still communicate with him. In short, he is much better than Zhou Yanghua's big crocodile who always thinks about Yin people!
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"You two are really good, put so many of us aside, you two whisper."
After finally getting rid of Hu Fei, seeing him greet the next group of people with a smile on his face, everyone walked in together. At this time, Liao Min couldn't help complaining.
Cheng Suping just smiled and didn't care.
However, just now seemed to be just the beginning. Today's Li Qian seems to be doomed not to watch movies peacefully - before they entered the screening room, a figure flashed in front of them, and Du Yihua had already walked towards them.
"Young Master Qian, can we have a chat?" She said with a smile.
After finishing speaking, she looked at Cheng Suping, Qin Jingjing, and Liao Min, and said with a smile: "You two beauties, and Xiao Min, give me a few minutes!"
Liao Min immediately exploded, "What are two beauties and Xiao Min? Am I not a beauty?"
Du Yihua smiled, "Okay, okay, I was wrong, is it okay if I was wrong? Later sister treats you to dinner, and I will compensate you, okay?"
Good guy, this is the first time Li Qian knows that the relationship between Du Yihua and Liao Min seems to be very good!
Because Liao Min heard the words and immediately said: "Brother-in-law, let's go in first! We will wait for you inside!" While speaking, he went to the screening hall with Qin Jingjing on his shoulders.
When they left, Cheng Suping didn't hesitate, but turned to look at Li Qian, subconsciously straightened his collar, smiled, turned around and nodded to Du Yihua, and then walked towards the screening room.
However, this subconscious action of hers fell into Du Yihua's eyes, but this shrewd President Du couldn't help but subconsciously turned his head and stared at her back for a while.
Turning around, she said with a smile: "Young Master Qian, you are very lucky, you are already in your eyebrows!"
Li Qian smiled, "What does Mr. Du want to talk about?"
Du Yihua opened his exquisite Kun bag, and actually took out a portable cigar moisturizing bag set.
She also deliberately opened the moisturizing bag and showed it to Li Qian.
"Here, a limited edition EL produced by Cohiba in 1991 has been carefully preserved until today under the most suitable temperature and humidity environment. Experts say that after ten years of fermentation, it is now the best tasting when."
Having said that, she buttoned up the moisturizing bag, handed it over, and said with a smile: "Young Master Qian, for the sake of trying so hard to please you and the fact that I have spent a lot of effort to find these three cigars, let's chat Ten minutes, without delaying your return to watch "The Gate of Life and Death" and analyze the enemy's situation, okay?"