Chapter 548 Attend or Not Attend (3rd Update!)

Things further fermented.

In the entertainment industry, everyone is concerned about the progress and related details of this matter.

Yan Liang is in a whirlpool because he is a nominee for this year's Blue Ribbon Award.

Several people came to ask Yan Liang if he would attend the award ceremony.

The Blue Ribbon Organizing Committee has also been confirming this matter with Yan Liang.

So far, Yan Liang's answer has always been: If everything goes well with the filming of "Friends", he will attend.

It was a normal reply, but in this context, it seemed to have other meanings.

Those at the Blue Ribbon Awards were worried that he might not come in the end and were hesitant.

And those who wanted to stop him from going to the awards ceremony also felt that he was hesitating.

Both sides are trying hard to win over him.

As a very popular and shining star among this year's nominees, Yan Liang is a card that both parties attach great importance to.

At this time, Zhou Pingan came again.

"Yan Liang, this time I am not trying to persuade you not to go to the Blue Ribbon Award Ceremony. I know that you have your own ideas now, and you don't believe that I want to do your best. I just want to tell you that someone from them has If you attend the Blue Ribbon Awards ceremony this year, it will not be as easy to get nominated in the future.”

Zhou Pingan took a deep breath.

"Let me make it clear to you first, lest you have doubts in your heart. I have no interest transactions with those people, and I have not received any benefits to agree to their persuasion." Zhou Pingan said firmly, "I must tell you Clearly, I am purely speaking from the perspective of an agent. Considering your career, if you go to the Blue Ribbon Award, it will not bring you anything. On the contrary, someone will blacklist you because of it. But if you don’t go to the Blue Ribbon Award, you will not only gain the favor of those people, but you will also gain the favor of those people. You can also get tangible benefits, including being nominated for the next Golden Tripod Award.”

"Brother Ping'an, I'm curious, are the awards for those actors with superb acting skills and long-standing fame in our entertainment industry all based on the operation?" Yan Liang also said, "I'm not trying to argue with you, I really want to You know what’s going on in our industry.”

Zhou Ping'an: "Most of them are definitely based on hard work, but you want to say that they won the award without any operation? It's basically impossible. The agency will do public relations, the agent will do public relations, and the crew and platform will also do public relations. You You should ask me, among those actors in our entertainment industry who have excellent acting skills and have been famous for a long time, how many of them have never worked on their own awards and honors? The answer is, pick one out of a hundred. "

Yan Liang: "I originally wanted to say that at least everyone's bottom line is different, but I also thought, in fact, I don't know what everyone's bottom line is. However, what they did exceeded my bottom line. If they want to threaten me in this way, I don’t dare to attend the Blue Ribbon Award Ceremony. To be honest, Brother Ping An, I don’t care if I don’t win the awards they can influence me.”

Zhou Pingan looked at Yan Liang and sighed.

"You think about it clearly, tell me when you think about it clearly." He said, "Let me tell you frankly, I don't even hope that your career will develop so fast, because I know that the faster your career develops, the more likely you are to develop." The sooner you leave me, let's just open the skylight and talk openly about this. . You are manipulated by them and excluded by them, making it harder and harder for you to win awards or even be nominated. I am actually happy to see it happen, but you have to know that it is not easy for you to get to where you are today. It’s not easy to go, you need the industry to recognize you, support you, and push you from behind.”

"To be honest, look at Lu Yanhe, why can he be so smooth and reach a top-tier position so quickly? Because he occupies a position where the entire industry must push him, recognize him, and lift him up. But let's tell the truth. , haven’t reached Lu Yanhe yet Of course you have hope at this step. "The Gold Rush" is doing very well overseas, and "Friends" is even more so. You have gained a certain number of fans overseas with these two dramas. You should actually understand that now It’s time for you to take the next step forward.”

Yan Liang smiled, "If I relied on their support to get to where I am now, if you tell me that, I really have nothing to say. However, Brother Ping'an, apart from Yan He, I have reached this point today. I have never relied on anyone, nor have I received any roles due to any connections or benefits. Now that I am making further progress, I need to rely on others? "

Zhou Pingan was choked by Yan Liang's words and could not recover for a long time.

Yan Liang: "Let them threaten me. If they can, they will prevent me from getting any nominations in the future."

At this moment, half of him was feeling angry, and the other half felt that he really didn't want to win the prize.

On the contrary, this time for the Blue Ribbon Award, even if he basically has no chance of winning the award, so what, his nomination was purely based on everyone's vote, and he attended with confidence.

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Lu Yanhe reunited with the crew of "The Mist" in Los Angeles.

"I watched "Friends" starring you. It is also being followed in the United States. I have seen articles discussing your show."

Lily Williams told Lu Yanhe as soon as they met.

Lu Yanhe: "Do you like it?"

"Anyway, I watched all the updates in one go, but it's very painful. This drama only updates two episodes a week." Lily Williams said incomprehensively, "It's not a streaming drama nowadays, it's usually one episode. "Sex, release all the episodes?"

"This drama is now broadcast on one of our Chinese TV stations, and it was only shown on Maxine." Lu Yanhe explained.

"That's too little." Lily Williams said seriously, "I always like to watch this kind of light-hearted drama. Many dramas nowadays are too heavy, with complicated character relationships, various secrets, past, reversals... Especially sometimes I don't want to think about anything, I just want to watch something relaxing to relieve stress."

Lu Yanhe nodded: "I know, this is actually one of the reasons why I like the "Friends" series."

"Series?" Lily Williams was a little surprised, "Is this still a series?"

"Don't you know?" Lu Yanhe said, "This is actually the fourth season of "Friends"?"

"It is the fourth season of "Friends"? Is it true? I know "Friends", but I haven't watched it." Lily Williams said, "I know it's also a drama starring you, but I heard that after you didn't play in the last two seasons, the reputation collapsed. I don't want to watch this kind of bad ending drama."

"It's true, but since you like "Friends", you can also watch the first season of "Friends." Lu Yanhe said, "The style has not changed at all, it has always been the same."

"Okay."

The two chatted enthusiastically.

Arne Bogut came over and said, "BOX has made a box office forecast for our movie."

"How is it?" Lily Williams asked expectantly.

"It is expected that the box office will be between 23 million and 27 million in the first three days of the weekend." Arne Bogut said, "The final box office is expected to be around 70 million."

Lily Williams was surprised when she heard this, "It seems that they are also very confident in our movie."

"Yes." Arne Bogut nodded, "The data of "The Mist" on the Internet has always been very good, and the number of views of the trailer has exceeded 50 million."

The production cost of "The Mist" plus the publicity cost is only 21 million US dollars in total. According to BOX's box office forecast, the cost can be recovered and profitable just by relying on the North American box office.

Adding the overseas box office and home entertainment income of this movie, this movie will obviously be successful. Moreover, because this movie was shot in Canada, according to local policies, this movie can also get a tax refund of millions of dollars.

For horror movies, box office is the first criterion.

Hearing that the early performance of "The Mist" was very good, Lu Yanhe was relieved.

This is his first English film, and he doesn't want this film to perform poorly or even lose money.

"I heard that you will be interviewed on CBN's morning news program tomorrow morning?" Lily Williams asked.

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Lily Williams immediately said: "Then you must be prepared. The host of their program seems to discriminate against you Asians."

"Huh?" Lu Yanhe was stunned.

"He has not publicly expressed discrimination, but we have heard about it privately." Lily Williams said, "If it is true, he may not be very polite to you tomorrow."

"It's okay." Lu Yanhe shrugged.

Maybe it is true that in the past few years, his response performance in various occasions can be described as particularly good, and Lu Yanhe is really not afraid of being difficult.

In a sense, he is so popular with the audience, and it is also due to the side of him that he shows in response to various occasions.

People always tend to like a smart, intelligent but not annoying person.

Some people are smart but annoying, not because they are too smart, but because they are not smart enough. High IQ and smart are definitely two different concepts.

They shot several posters together, had dinner together, and prepared for the premiere tomorrow afternoon. Then they dispersed early and went back to rest.

Especially Lu Yanhe, he has to get up early tomorrow morning.

He has to arrive at CBN at 6:30, put on makeup, and then go through the interview process, and go live at 7:45.

This means he has to wake up at 5:30 tomorrow morning.

Fortunately, now that Lu Yanhe comes to the United States, Wan Qingqing is responsible for all local communication matters, so they can worry less.

Lu Yanhe returned to the hotel and just arrived in the room, Chen Ziyan suddenly sent a message: Are you back? Have you seen the revelations on the Internet?

Lu Yanhe: What revelations? I just replied and didn't have time to check my phone.

Chen Ziyan sent a link, and Lu Yanhe opened it and found that it was a list.

Someone made a list with some names on it, all of which are controversial winners of the three major awards in recent years.

Not only TV series, but also movies.

The first one to bear the brunt is He Daren, who won the Feihong Award in the past two years from the favorites Liu Teli and Chen Pinhe, causing great controversy.

What Lu Yanhe didn't expect was that his name also appeared in the last line. The reason written in the list was: Lu Yanhe's award was actually not controversial. After all, his acting skills are already recognized as good, but in the same year, Shang Yongzhou, who starred in the same movie with him, obviously had a more difficult role and better completion, but was PKed by Lu Yanhe, which was strange.

Chen Ziyan: This list has caused quite a lot of discussion, and many people in it have been suspected of buying awards.

Lu Yanhe: This list put me on it. It feels like it's just a guess by the person who wrote this list.

Chen Ziyan: It's indeed a guess. People don't have any evidence. They just say that they just put in the people who have won the most controversial awards in recent years.

Lu Yanhe: I feel that the public debate caused by this incident is getting bigger and bigger. Now even something like this without evidence has started to make a lot of noise.

Chen Ziyan: Yes, if this trend continues, who knows if something will really come out.

Lu Yanhe: If the evidence of someone buying the award is exposed, the credibility of other awards will be cut in half.

Chen Ziyan: That's right, and the Blue Ribbon will directly become the most credible TV drama award in China from a three-way competition.

Lu Yanhe: Sister Ziyan, you don't... suspect that the person behind this is the Blue Ribbon Award, right?

Chen Ziyan: Why not?

Lu Yanhe: Well, it's an official award after all.

Chen Ziyan: Just wait and see. In any case, the Golden Tripod Award and the Red River Award will not watch their credibility being weakened like this. If such a dispute continues, the forces behind them will definitely take action, and the Blue Ribbon may not be so clean that it can withstand being exposed.

Lu Yanhe: I suddenly feel the excitement of "something big" you said. If the organizational forces behind the three awards really start to fight, the entertainment industry will really not be able to stay out of it.

Chen Ziyan: Yes, I shouldn't have come out with you this time. I should have stayed in China. I can be sure that there must be an undercurrent in the industry now, and the fight has already started.

Lu Yanhe: Indeed, at least both sides are frantically trying to win Yan Liang. One side hopes that Yan Liang will not attend the awards ceremony, while the other side hopes to invite Yan Liang and ask him to attend.

Chen Ziyan: Fortunately, when the Feihong Award invited you to be the award presenter, we had already declined. If it had been delayed to this time, I guess you would have been very anxious. Your failure to attend really saved you a lot of trouble.

The reason why Lu Yanhe declined at that time was because he was very busy at the end of January and the beginning of February. "Friends" was filming, "The Mist" was released and promoted, the Spring Festival Gala program was prepared, and "Love Letter" was premiered at the Jose-La-Señora Film Festival... too many things.

Lu Yanhe smiled.

Chen Ziyan: Go to bed early. You have to get up early tomorrow. There are several tough battles to fight.

Lu Yanhe hummed and said okay.

He picked up the interview outline and answer template that Wan Qingqing had prepared for him, read them over before going to bed, put on an eye mask and earplugs, and fell into a deep sleep. (End of this chapter)