Chapter 179 How is Yang Mi?
On September 27, the 23rd Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival opened grandly in Lanzhou, Gansu Province.
The most anticipated event of the film festival is of course the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards Ceremony held at the Gansu Grand Theater on the evening of the 29th.
As the two most professional and representative awards in mainland China, the Golden Rooster Awards and the Hundred Flowers Awards are presented at the annual film festival awards ceremony.
The Golden Rooster Awards are awarded by professional review in odd-numbered years, and the Hundred Flowers Awards are awarded by audience voting in even-numbered years.
This year is 2014, and the award ceremony will present the Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films.
The Hundred Flowers Awards is known as the popular film awards because its winners are determined by audience votes.
First, 100 key cinema managers under the China Film Distribution and Exhibition Association voted to select 10 candidate films from the 100 films with a box office of 5 million and a TV broadcast audience of 30 million.
Then, a final judging committee consisting of 101 audience judges will vote on the spot using voting machines to select the winners of each best award.
Unlike other film awards that focus on the artistic quality of a film, the Hundred Flowers Awards focuses mainly on its popularity with the audience.
At the opening ceremony on the 27th, Gu Wei and Lu Yang got out of the car together and walked the red carpet. They were both wearing black suits. After getting out of the car, they walked onto the long red carpet.
One of the highlights of this film festival is that tickets for the opening ceremony, celebrity red carpet show and award ceremony are free.
So there were a lot of audiences coming today. There was a real sea of people outside the fences on both sides of the red carpet. The number of people coming to see the stars was unimaginable.
As soon as Gu Wei and the other man stepped onto the red carpet, thunderous cheers were heard from all around them.
"Gu Wei~Gu Wei~Look here!!"
"Ah! It's Gu Wei, he's so handsome!!!"
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The two walked forward together, occasionally waving to the media and fans beside them.
Soon we arrived at the stage in front of the signature board.
"You're so popular now, you have so many fans!"
Along the way, Lu Yang was also shocked by the enthusiasm of Gu Wei's fans. When they arrived at the place, he couldn't help but say to Gu Wei.
"It's okay. The main reason is that there are too many young people here today. You know most of my fans are young."
Gu Wei had become accustomed to this kind of situation wherever he went and didn't care at all.
Originally, Gu Wei didn't want to come to this film festival. To be honest, although the Hundred Flowers Award is known as the "double award" of the Chinese film industry along with the Golden Rooster Award.
But in the eyes of industry insiders, the weight of Baihua is far less than that of Jinji.
A total of 34 people were nominated for all awards at the Hundred Flowers Awards this year, but only 12 of them showed up, and the remaining 22 were absent.
After receiving the notice, Gu Wei originally thought that his chances of winning the prize were slim, but the organizer hinted that he would gain something.
Lu Yang also received the same notice as him, and the two of them bumped into each other and came over together.
After the opening ceremony on the first day and the most important star red carpet show, Gu Wei and Lu Yang both returned to the hotel to rest.
"China Film Group has urged me several times to prepare for the second part of 'The Blade of the Assassin'."
In the hotel, Gu Wei and Lu Yang were eating and chatting.
"Brother, what are your plans?"
Gu Wei is not in a hurry at all for the sequel to "The Blade of the Assassin", because with his current fame and resources, "The Blade of the Assassin 2" is a bit useless to him.
Due to the limitations of the subject matter, the sequel to this movie will not be as popular at the box office as "Detective Chinatown".
Even with his current popularity, Gu Wei is estimated to have only earned an additional 200 to 300 million yuan over the original version.
Moreover, in terms of investment, Lu Yang now has his own film and television company, so he will definitely have a share in film investment. This is also tacitly agreed by Gu Wei and China Film.
Correspondingly, Gu Wei's shareholding will be reduced, and the cost of filming the movie will also increase, so the later profits will naturally not be too high.
Of course, having said so much, "Assassin Spring Blade 2" will definitely recover its costs, it's just a matter of how much profit it will make, so China Film has been urging Lu Yang.
Gu Wei's appetite was whetted by the profit of more than 200 million yuan from the movie "Detective Chinatown".
In fact, movies like "The Assassin 2" that will not lose money are good resources that are fought over by all film and television companies in the market.
"In the past year or so, I have completely finished writing the script. After such a long break, it's time to start the second part."
As he spoke, Lu Yang took out a notebook with a white cover from his bag and handed it to Gu Wei.
Gu Wei, who was eating, put down his chopsticks, picked up a napkin to wipe his mouth, and took it.
There were a few big words written on the cover of the script: [Embroidered Spring Blade II: Shura Battlefield].
Gu Wei flipped through it casually. He just took a quick look and found that the male and female protagonists and other main characters were no different from the original.
"When are you going to start filming?"
"Early next year, of course it depends on your schedule. You're so popular now, I'm afraid you won't have time. I have to give you a heads up a few months in advance."
Gu Wei thought about it.
"Maybe in February next year. I don't have any plans for now."
"Okay, then let's set it for February for now. These few months will be enough time for preparation."
Lu Yang was very straightforward. He knew that if his sequel wanted to be a big hit at the box office, he would have to rely on his junior brother.
Walking on the red carpet today, he saw how many fanatical fans Gu Wei had. Now, just guiding the fans into the theaters to watch the movie can increase the box office.
Gu Wei then flipped through the script and asked casually.
"Who is this new heroine 'Hokusai' going to look for, Senior Brother?
The Liu Yifei from the previous film is clearly no longer viable.”
"I haven't thought about this yet. What do you think?"
Apart from Gu Wei, the absolute protagonist, Lu Yang has not yet started to consider the actors for other roles.
"How about Yang Mi? The movie 'Gu Jian Qi Tan' that we collaborated on this year is a huge hit. When the movie comes out, it's a good time to hype up the news of our second collaboration."
Lu Yang was obviously tempted by Gu Wei's proposal.
"Yang Mi is very popular, but her acting skills are..."
"Although 'Hokusai' is the female lead, she doesn't have many scenes. The main characters of our movie are still the Jinyiwei. Yang Mi has been in the industry for many years, so she should have no problem playing this role well."
Gu Wei had already promised Yang Mi, so of course he had to speak for her.
"You have a point. Let's have Yang Mi come over to audition. As long as she's not too bad, we'll take her."
Gu Wei had already said so, so Lu Yang had to give him this face. Besides, he was also very envious of Yang Mi's current popularity.
Just like Gu Wei said, the movie they made together became very popular before it was even released.
On the 28th, the Hundred Flowers Awards held a ceremony to commend nominees.
In other words, everyone who is nominated for an award will receive a nomination trophy. No matter whether they win the grand prize or not, no one will go back empty-handed when they come to the film festival.
Gu Wei and Lu Yang went on stage to receive their awards with the other nominees present. Among the nominees, Gu Wei also saw Huang Xiaoming and Deng Chao.
I just said hello and didn't talk much, after all, I was still on the podium.
(End of this chapter)
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