Huayu: From an ordinary person to a happy director

Chapter 93: "Sword Rain" Released

In the villa, Shi Lei and Gao Yuanyuan had a crazy night. When they got up to eat the next day, they ran into Zhang Yuqi who was still in the villa.

Zhang Yuqi seemed normal on the surface, but he was secretly attacking Shi Lei.

"Cough cough." Shi Lei coughed more heavily. Why didn't little sister Yuqi stop?

If there were two people, he wouldn't mind a pedicure, but now there are three!

He didn't believe that two people who met for the first time would work together.

Just when Zhang Yuqi's foot was about to reach the critical point, Shi Lei stood up and said, "I have something to do in the company, so I'll leave first."

After saying that, he left without waiting for the two to reply.

Gao Yuanyuan stared at Shi Lei who suddenly left, and was stunned for a moment. Then he remembered Shi Lei's cough before, and suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhang Yuqi: "What did you do to the boss?"

Zhang Yuqi spread his hands and said, "I didn't do anything!"

"No, you must have done something?" His sixth sense told him that Zhang Yuqi must have done something she didn't know about, which was why Shi Lei left suddenly.

Zhang Yuqi leaned close to Gao Yuanyuan's ear and said in a unique voice: "Guess~~"

Gao Yuanyuan narrowed his eyes and stared at Zhang Yuqi.

Zhang Yuqi showed no sign of weakness and also glared at Gao Yuanyuan.

The smell of gunpowder began to spread in the restaurant...

Shi Lei walked into the office and immediately said to Liu Yan: "Start the "A World Without Thieves" project immediately."

"

Andy Lau plays Wang Bo, a habitual thief.

Liu Tao plays Wang Bo’s wife Wang Li.

Wang Jinsong plays Uncle Li, the leader of the theft gang.

Gao Yuanyuan plays Xiaoye, a beautiful girl in the theft gang.

Wang Baoqiang plays Sha Gen.

Wan Qian plays a policewoman.

Jin Dong plays a male police officer.

Feng Yuanzheng plays the thin robber.

Fan Wei plays the fat robber.

The rest will be cast externally.

The film investment is 3000 million. You find a few abandoned train carriages and a section of vacant railway. If you can't find any, lay a fake one, or rent one.

"

This film was easier to shoot than "Sword Rain" because there aren't many big action sequences. The battle between the blades looks cool, but it was actually mainly accomplished through editing, which made it easier than the fighting scenes in "Sword Rain".

"A World Without Thieves" was not difficult at all for Shi Lei.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Liu Yan responded, and then said, "Boss, this is the publicity plan drawn up by the Propaganda Department, take a look."

Shi Lei picked it up and took a look. He found that the publicity plan was very old-fashioned, including paper media, variety shows on major TV stations, promotional trailers on major portals, and various posters.

This is the best way of promotion now. Promotion will not take off until the emergence of smartphones, and that is when the advertising costs will skyrocket.

Fortunately, Fetion's users are increasing rapidly.

"We need to urge the artists in the company to share their lives on Feixun Space more often, post photos, talk about interesting things on the set, etc., and manage their fans. Fans will be their potential box office in the future."

"Okay, boss. I will supervise them personally." Liu Yan vaguely felt that fans were very important.

In the next few days, Shi Lei worked in the company while going back to comfort the two people whose injuries had not yet fully recovered. However, from the first day they met, the two began to quarrel with each other. At the beginning, they were still restrained and did it very secretly, but in the end, they no longer concealed it.

Seeing that the situation was getting more serious, Shi Lei took the lead and spent an entire night to make Zhang Yuqi completely obedient. Near the early morning, he rushed into Gao Yuanyuan's room and made Gao Yuanyuan scream at the top of her lungs.

His fitness was not in vain. He used three moves, upper, hand and lower, and the two women had no choice but to beg for mercy.

……

As time went by, the premiere of "Sword Rain" arrived as scheduled.

Just like last time, the company held a grand premiere.

This time, more people in the circle and more media were invited, which can be described as grand and spectacular.

On the afternoon of July 05, 7, Shi Lei led the main creators to receive guests at the entrance of the cinema. He mainly received directors of the same level as him in the circle, as well as some older directors with higher seniority.

Most people were in a good mood and just exchanged a few polite words with Shi Lei before going in.

But there are also those who don't like him.

Shi Lei has achieved great success in North America, and I wonder how many people are jealous of him.

Even if most people are jealous, they only dare to suppress it in their hearts and dare not show it. Shi Lei won the Oscar for Best Picture. Although this award is given to the producer, those who understand know that Shi Lei suffered a loss because of his Chinese identity.

Even though the Best Picture award is given to producers, it does not hinder Shi Lei's improvement in status. Shi Lei is already someone they look up to.

If you are only one level higher, everyone will be envious, jealous and hate you. If you are several levels higher, everyone will just envy you.

But there are still a few directors in China who have the same status as Shi Lei.

“Director Shi, my movie ‘The Promise’ will also hold its premiere in the second half of the year. You’d better come and attend the premiere! I hope you can give a professional evaluation.” Director Yinshi said with a smile.

"My videos must be very professional." Shi Lei said against his conscience.

To be honest, apart from the bigger scenes, "The Promise" is not comparable to "Sword Rain" in any other way.

In order to fall in love, a country is suffering from cholera, and he wants to start a spray.

He decided to let "Crazy Stone" compete with "The Promise" to earn tens of millions at the box office.

Han Sanpin would stop the showing of "Sword Rain", but he can't stop the showing of a comedy!

However, it cannot be made too obvious. It should be released two weeks after The Promise.

Several famous commercial film directors, including Zhang Yimou, Xu Ke and Feng Dapao, arrived one after another. The three of them did not say anything out of line and were all very polite.

Next are Hollywood stars like Jet Li.

Jet Li held Shi Lei's hand and said, "Director Shi, I want to work with you on an action movie in North America!"

He still can't get over The Matrix: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Ultimately, Chou Zhaolong did not make big waves in Hollywood. The only action movie he starred in was a trial film. However, there were many films that invited Chou Zhaolong to play villains or second male lead roles, so Chou Zhaolong had no problem making a living in Hollywood.

This year, Shi Lei's "Million Dollar Baby" grossed $1.4 million in North America and over $ million worldwide. It also won the Oscar for Best Picture and a Best Actress.

He was envious and wanted to work with Shi Lei. Whether it was box office success or awards, it would help him gain higher status and pay.

Shi Lei pretended to be in deep thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, the next two films are indeed Hollywood movies, but both of them have been arranged, and there is no role suitable for you."

It’s not that I don’t want to work with Jet Li, but Jet Li is too expensive.

He went to North America to make money, and his first choice of films were low-budget, high-grossing films. Jet Li's films had mediocre box office performance, and few of them grossed over 100 million yuan worldwide.

Hollywood likes Jet Li because the DVD sales of Jet Li's films are very good, starting from tens of millions, and several DVDs have sales of over 100 million.

If he dares to invite Jet Li, Hollywood companies will intervene and invest.

(End of this chapter)