Chapter 628 Spring Festival and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons"

Chapter 628 Spring Festival and Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

"Oh, what a mess."

"After all, it's the Spring Festival, so we have to take a holiday."

"We can't really continue filming during the Spring Festival just to catch up with the progress."

"You don't want to go home for the Spring Festival, but I still want to go home for the Spring Festival."

Wu Yuan sighed helplessly, and was relieved and moved by the crew members who actively said that they didn't need to take the Spring Festival holiday, or even triple their salary.

Beside him, Huang Bo lowered his head with a guilty look on his face, not knowing what to say.

The filming of "Dear" was delayed than expected.

Originally, according to the filming plan, the filming of this movie could be completed smoothly before the Spring Festival, that is, before the New Year's Eve.

But because "Lost in Thailand" was a big hit, Huang Bo took leave and skipped work, so the progress of this movie was inevitably delayed.

It is now the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, but "Dear" is expected to have about 15 days of scenes to shoot.

Obviously, this movie is impossible to be finished before the New Year.

Wu Yuan was mentally prepared. He announced that the crew would take a normal annual leave and resume work after the seventh day of the first lunar month.

However, the leading actors, creators and staff behind the scenes all said that it was not necessary to celebrate the Spring Festival. It was more important to finish shooting Director Wu's film first, so that everyone could overcome the difficulties of the Spring Festival holiday.

Wu Yuan was certainly not an evil capitalist. There was no need to really prevent these people who had been busy all year from even having an annual leave.

Now, all kinds of crew equipment in the era of light and shadow, from ordinary props to IMAX 3D cameras, are not rented, but all bought by the company itself.

So for him, the crew taking a holiday for more than ten days and then resuming work, the impact is not as great as when renting advanced equipment in the past.

After all, when renting equipment in the past, you had to rent it directly for an exact date, such as 45 days, 55 days, etc. You can't rent it for 30 days, then return it for more than ten days in the middle, and then rent it for more than ten days again.

The crew's cameras and other advanced equipment are much busier than directors like them. In many cases, the "schedule" for the next year is set a year in advance. It is not so easy to borrow and return them.

So at that time, if the crew exceeded the shooting period and the borrowed equipment expired, they had to pay several times more money to renew the lease for one more day of shooting. It was impossible for the crew to take a few days off and continue shooting after the expiration.

Even during the holidays, they had to pay the renewal fee!

Now it doesn't have to be like this. All the crew equipment Wu Yuan is using now is owned by Light and Shadow Times.

Moreover, as the boss of the company, he wants to shoot a movie. As early as the preparation period of the movie, these equipment were prepared for him, and they were considerate enough to give him a full six-month trial period.

That is, in the next six months, no matter whether Wu Yuan has used up these equipment or not, there will be no other film projects in the company that use these equipment. They will make other arrangements.

This is to ensure that in case Wu Yuan needs to reshoot or change the scene during the post-editing process after the shooting, there will be an embarrassing situation where there is no equipment and crew to use.

This is not groundless worry.

Sunglass King loves to do this kind of thing.

Sunglass King shoots a movie, sometimes it can take several years to shoot, and finish it seven or eight times.

Every time he feels dissatisfied after shooting, or feels that something is missing, and then he calls the actors to reshoot.

The most extreme time he reshoots seven or eight times. When a certain actress first joined the crew, she was still in her twenties, but she was in her thirties before she was completely finished.

He even doubted for a while whether this film would never be finished in this lifetime.

Considering that Wu Yuan is also a director who has made outstanding achievements in the field of art like Sunglass King, the middle-level leaders in charge of scheduling the crew's preparation work at Light and Shadow Times will naturally have concerns in this regard and help him prepare in advance.

So Wu Yuan really doesn't need such a dozen days of vacation, which is why there is the conversation at the beginning.

"Okay, it's decided. Our crew will disband on the spot, go back to their homes, and gather again on the seventh day of the first lunar month!"

Now the crew of "Dear" is no longer in Beijing, but has filmed all the way to Yunnan and Guizhou, where they will also shoot some scenes of abducted children.

In fact, most of the abducted children were bought to remote mountainous areas and poor areas. This is a very difficult thing to say.

Wu Yuan does not plan to spend the New Year in Yunnan and Guizhou. He has to go home to accompany his wife.

Liu Yifei has become a big salted fish since the filming of "Go Away! Tumor King" was completed. She just picks her feet at home every day and does not even read the new scripts handed to her.

He has to go home to educate this lazy wife.

Moreover, he also has a movie he wants to watch during the Spring Festival this year, and he plans to take his wife to watch it.

The next day, on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Wu Yuan took his assistant and boarded the flight back to Beijing with light luggage. On the way, he walked with the main staff of the crew.

Most of the contracted crews and employees of Light and Shadow Times are from Beijing.

Even if they are not from Beijing, they have settled in Beijing for many years.

After all, the company's headquarters is here.

However, none of the leading actors of "Dear" are from Beijing. Although they all have properties and places to stay in Beijing, they must go home for the New Year. There is no point in going back to Beijing.

In this way, Wu Yuan, along with the crew members, landed at Beijing International Airport in the evening.

Fortunately, Miss Liu, who was picking her feet at home, still knew to pick up her husband home.

In front of the reporters, the two did not hide their intimacy at all. They put on sunglasses, held hands, and left the airport amid the sound of countless reporters snapping photos.

"Director Wu and Yifei's relationship is really stable."

"It has been seven or eight years since they made it public, right?"

"It seems that this is the one."

"I thought Director Wu would be a playboy, young, rich and handsome, and in the entertainment industry, I didn't expect him to be so loyal."

"Indeed, the stability of Director Wu and Yifei's love is unbelievable."

The entertainment reporters who were still squatting at the airport in the cold winter couldn't help but discuss behind Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei.

There is no way. As the entertainment industry has grown bigger and bigger in the past two years, it has also become more and more smoky, with all kinds of cheating and PC scandals emerging one after another.

In this case, the stable relationship between Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei is very worth talking about. Now they have almost become a national couple.

Many people list this couple and Deng Chao's couple as model lovers and model couples in the entertainment industry, believing that as long as there are no problems with these two couples, there will still be true love in this world.

Wu Yuan didn't pay much attention to these topics on weekdays. After hearing these reporters chattering about this matter, he squeezed Liu Yifei's little hand and couldn't suppress his smile.

He didn't laugh until he got in the car and left the airport.

"Hahaha, model couple, I really didn't expect us to have such a title."

"Why, isn't this good?" Death stare appeared.

Wu Yuan immediately became serious and nodded vigorously: "Okay, of course, I am happy about this evaluation."

"By the way, Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was released in Hong Kong Island yesterday, right?"

"I heard that the word of mouth is very good. It will be released in the mainland in two days. Let's go and watch it together then."

"I owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket too!"

Wu Yuan, who used to burn pirated movie discs, owed Stephen Chow more than just a movie ticket!

The best-selling pirated discs he sold back then included "Stephen Chow Movie Collection"!

This is a super version that has all the movies released by Stephen Chow before the millennium burned into it. One disc is equivalent to more than ten discs!

It sold so well in Beijing back then, and it was popular in both the east and west cities!