Chapter 934 Looking Forward to but Apprehensive

After the short three-day vacation, the "Matrix" crew reunited in the film and television city. After a day or two, the entire crew quickly returned to normal working conditions.

However, a three-day vacation is not enough for the crew of more than a dozen foreign actors who are still waiting for filming to rush back to the United States. Therefore, most of them chose to rest in the apartment arranged by the crew, or to meet with familiar Chinese actors. Together with the crew members, go to the nearest travel to relax.

Among them, Zhou Baoshan obviously has a lot of friends under the deliberate friendship.

In the end, when the time entered late October, the group of a dozen or so American actors who had been stranded until the end finished filming their roles one after another, and began to leave the crew one after another and return to the United States.

And a few days later, all the scenes of "The Matrix" were finally filmed, and Li Qian officially announced that "The Matrix" was finished.

The crew was elated.

That night, in Li Qian's villa dedicated to entertaining important guests and having parties, "The Matrix" held a grand wrap-up banquet.

Even Elizabeth secretly drank several glasses of champagne and beer, flushed.

And the "approachable" new generation kung fu superstar Zhou Baoshan was undoubtedly intoxicated by the crew - Li Qian has been observing him for the past six months and has a lot of feelings.

This guy's family background is very low, and his starting point is even lower. Of course, he got lucky later and got the role of Huang Feihong, and he has been on his way to the sky since then. And the grand and cosmopolitan style he showed really made him more and more palatable.

Whether it is inside Minghu culture or outside Minghu culture, everyone's reputation and evaluation of him are quite good.

On the other hand, the first-generation Xiaosheng of Minghu Culture, Zhu Qiang, who became famous by playing Xu Xian, is actually not bad in life and things, and he is also very smart, but his personality is obviously more introverted, and he likes to be more serious in doing things. After becoming famous First, Minghu Culture did not come up with follow-up resources to continue to praise him, and second, he himself prefers to take on some literary and artistic roles, so he came and went. Over the past few years, his popularity, influence, and his In fact, his connections and reputation in the circle continued to decline.

Looking back at the other one, Zhou Zhiyu, this guy is also a serious master. After "My Sassy Girlfriend" became popular, he didn't take the opportunity to go up. Instead, he plunged into the drama again. There are many dramas, movies, and TV series, but they have not been able to continue to be popular, but when it comes to him in the circle, everyone thinks that his popularity and style have not lost.

The three of them not only represent the three stages since Minghu Culture started film and television production, but also basically represent the three different styles of the actor group.

Some people come from grassroots, seize the opportunity and never give up, climb all the way up, regardless of what is inside, what is displayed on the outside is always the best side of themselves, some people are reserved, but they are smooth and shrewd in doing things, so even if He is not the one who stands on the front line anymore, but everyone still attaches great importance to him, and there are others who are more introverted and self-centered, so it is easier to get into the horns and not get out.

At the end of the wrap-up banquet, even He Yingyu, who had no one dared to drink alcohol, blushed and hiccupped, and everyone went completely crazy.

Li Qian had no choice but to tell He Yingyu's assistant to take good care of her. At the same time, he repeatedly told the company's drivers and security guards in the villa that everyone must be sent home safely.

As for himself, he chose to leave the arena early, and brought out Xia Meng's little classmate who was bouncing around in the arena, let her sit in his own car, and prepared to drive her back to the hotel.

Elizabeth looked very displeased, and reluctantly waved goodbye to He Yingyu and the others.

When he got in the car, he kept complaining to Li Qian.

Li Qian just laughed and didn't bother to talk to her.

After getting off the car at the entrance of the hotel, the doorman came over and opened the door of the Rolls-Royce. Li Qian also got out of the car and told her at the entrance of the hotel, "It's almost here, it's almost November, I'm going to wait two days ago I talked to your parents on the phone and promised them that I will send you back to the UK in a few days. So, the filming is over, pack up your luggage, and let the driver drive you to meet your good friends tomorrow Farewell, and then, the plane the day after tomorrow, back to England, OK?"

Elizabeth's boss was not happy and pouted.

Li Qian reached out to touch her hair, and said with a smile, "Okay! You can come and play for two days until Christmas. After that, you should finish your studies well, and when you graduate from university, if If you want, you can come over and continue to help me! Okay?"

Elizabeth looked at him with her head on one side.

Li Qian noticed that there was something strange in her expression, so he spread his hands and asked, "What's wrong?"

Elizabeth shook her head, shrugged, turned and entered the hotel.

Li Qian was a little stunned and puzzled.

But in the end, seeing her enter the hotel lobby and run to the elevator with his own eyes, Li Qian certainly wouldn't chase after her and ask her what's wrong. He didn't have the heart to care too much about the little girl's worries.

So he returned to the car and said, "Let's go, go home."

The driver asked: "Which home?"

Li Qian thought for a while and said, "Go to President Qi."

Qi Jie also went to the green banquet just now, drank a lot of wine, and left early. Before leaving, he seemed to be incapable of drinking.

Should be a good chance.

So, the driver who kept Li Qian's road map in mind immediately drove straight to Qi Jie's house.

But halfway through the car, Li Qian remembered Qi Jie's rejection of him several times before, he couldn't help but rubbed his brows in distress, and finally said: "Forget it, turn around, go back to Yangquan Alley, and go see my son! "

The driver didn't dare to say anything, just agreed, and then turned around at an intersection and drove back.

When we got back to Yangjuan Hutong, it was almost eleven o'clock. Li Qian forgot to call in advance, so he would call Zhou Mo's assistant after he was cured, and wake up the little girl to open the door for him.

Li Shesheng fell asleep early.

The little face was flushed, and she was sound asleep, as if she was trying hard to sleep.

Zhou Mo put on her clothes and came here too. Seeing that Li Qian didn't turn on the light, she sat in front of her son's crib, looked at him without blinking, and stopped coming. She stood at the door, leaning against the On the door frame, looking at the two men.

Li Qian sat there for seven or eight minutes before raising his head.

Out of sight, he smiled at Momo Zhou, stretched out his hand to help his son pull the quilt again, then got up lightly and walked over, wrapped his arms around Momo Zhou's waist, and went out together, closing the door carefully.

Zhou Mo said: "There is no need to close the door. After twelve o'clock, he must be woken up by his first urination, and he must have urinated on the bed, and he has to come over to change his mattress. But before that, he usually can't wake up." he."

Li Qian laughed at first, and then became depressed.

The reason why he walked halfway and turned back was not because he felt that he would not be able to enter the door, nor did he feel that he would be kicked out by Qi Jie. The key point was that he suddenly thought of his two children.

Now Liao Liao is basically out of the country all year round, and Wang Jinglu is pregnant with a child, so he will definitely spend more time with Wang Jinglu, and he is busy with work. After a month, apart from often changing places to sleep at night, he is really happy. I rarely have time to spend with my children.

Because every time they come back, they are already asleep.

Before they woke up the next morning, Li Qian got up early and left.

Only in the middle of the night, when I was awakened occasionally, I would also get up, watch Zhou Mo or He Runqing change the diapers and mattresses of the children, and hug them at that time.

And although they are sleepy, they still know that it is Dad, so they will stretch out their little hands and hold your clothes tightly, and sometimes they will tell Mom the next day that they dreamed of Dad at night.

Every time I heard them talk about this, Li Qian felt a little sad.

Zhou Mo tiptoed and kissed him on the cheek, asking, "What's wrong?"

Li Qian smiled and shook his head.

Zhou Mo looked at him and asked, "Is it finished?"

Li Qian nodded, "It's done."

"Have you eaten the finale banquet?"

Li Qian nodded again.

After a while, he smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "I'm not going anywhere tomorrow! You should do your best to go, I'll bring the sound of shooting, and then I'll go and hug Chacha and play with them for a day."

Zhou Mo smiled and reached out to touch his face.

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The next day, the relaxed Li Qian spent the whole day with his sons and daughters without going anywhere. He even changed Xiao Licha's diaper by himself.

Of course, for him, such a time is only one day.

In the next day, he would have to start working again.

The matter of "The Matrix" can be put aside for the time being, but the production of "Gourd Baby" has been completely completed, and I am anxiously waiting for him to watch it again and make the final adjustments.

Li Qian treated this matter extremely seriously.

Because this version of "Calabash Baby" and the version of the cartoon "Calabash Brothers" in his impression retain a certain degree of similarity in appearance and character settings are basically the same, the whole story, It’s a complete change—the original story setting is too immature. If you want to follow the original story, you can only make it into a TV animation. Even if it is barely processed into a movie animation, you can only It can interest some children, but it can't achieve the level of "family carnival".

And an animated movie, if it can't make young parents like to watch it, and let them just yawn when they watch the movie with their children, then the box office will definitely not look good-in the end, it's worth paying for it. The person who buys the movie ticket is, after all, the parent of the child.

Therefore, it is true that this version of "Calabash Baby" by Minghu Animation borrowed from the setting of "Calabash Brothers", but the whole movie and the whole story are completely original.

But without objects to imitate and learn from, Li Qian is not very sure about whether such a work can be done well and whether it can open a door for domestic animation films.

Of course, the more this is the case, the more serious it is.

This animation has been in production for about a year and a half, and the entire production cost, even if the technical upgrades that can be recycled are put aside, has already reached more than 80 million!

In other words, it is more expensive than any live-action movie or TV series that Minghu Culture has produced so far - counting future promotion and distribution, its expenditure before entering the cinema is steadily more than 100 million!

Such a film is extremely stressful for Minghu Animation, which is producing it for the first time.

Because if it is not done well, the market will not be hot, and it will definitely lose money!

Of course, every time Li Qian held a meeting before this, he would emphasize again and again, don't be afraid of losing money!

But here lies the problem. If this animation film cannot become popular, and if the box office loses money, then why open a door for domestic animation films?

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Starting from October 29th, Li Qian completely abandoned "The Matrix", which had already completed the filming stage, and devoted himself to Minghu Animation.

The story was originally created by Li Qian, and after everyone brainstormed and discussed it again and again, it took nearly 20 months to process the picture carefully frame by frame.

Watch it again, watch it again, watch it again.

Li Qian's heart was filled with anticipation and anxiety.

But in the end, the next morning, he made a final decision that this version would not be changed.

When the news came out, there was joy inside Minghu Animation.

This means that they have invested more than a year in the past, and the first work since the company was officially established has officially announced that it has completed the production stage.

The staff should take vacations when they should take vacations, and those who should pay bonuses should pay bonuses.

At the same time, its entire publicity and distribution plan was brought up again for discussion.

If it is to be released, there is nothing to say in China. The work directed by Li Qian has an investment of over 100 million. Various publicity and distribution programs.

If Li Qian could show up with his little prince and princess in his arms at that time, the topic would become even more popular.

Moreover, because Li Qian and Minghu Culture have sold so many films one after another in the past, they have almost never had a bad box office record, so although they are hesitant about animated films, various domestic theaters will still buy them. ——Who told this to be Li Qian's work!

Even the schedule can be chosen by Minghu Culture at will!

As long as Li Qian is interested in which schedule, then no problem, I can make way for you with the schedule originally planned for other films, reduce the schedule of other films, and give you more money!

But the problem is that Li Qian wants to arrange for the film to be released globally simultaneously during the Christmas period. It will be a bit difficult to realize this in North America.

Because the Oriental Dream Film Company in the United States is temporarily unable to distribute a film on a large scale in North America, and according to John Days's suggestion, it is best at releasing this type of family carnival, especially this kind of animated film. It's Disney.

However, this year's Christmas file, Disney has its own animation movie to be released!

At this time, they are obviously unwilling to arrange the release of another animated film with almost the same audience orientation to grab the box office.

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