Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 442 Filming Completed!
However, the success of "Fleet of Time" led the media to categorize Shu Chang as one of the more noteworthy actresses born in 85, alongside Yang Mi (1986), Tang Yan (1983), and Liu Shishi (1987).

Without Liu Yifei, her achievements are too outstanding, and it wouldn't look good if she came over—perhaps fans would prefer to include Liu Yifei, but when the media talks about the post-85 actresses, they tacitly exclude Liu Yifei.

"Fleet of Time" grossed 2 million yuan in its opening weekend, once again making autumn a hot topic.

How come this company's film predictions are so accurate!
Following that, another film starring Zhou Xun, "My Early Menopausal Girlfriend," was released.

"My Early Menopausal Girlfriend" needs no further explanation. Zhou Xun's appearance in two such surprising films within half a month has finally reminded the outside world of a hard-to-accept reality: traditional leading actresses approaching 4 are running out of roles.

The legend of the "Four Dan and Two Bing" still circulates in the entertainment industry, and they can still sit in the front row of the party and enjoy the treatment of seniors, but they really have run out of roles to play.

They are not featured in any of the currently popular youth films.

Of course, they still control the resources for big-budget commercial films, but how many of these films can they make in a year?

With four leading actresses and two supporting actresses, totaling six people, excluding the talented Xu Da who has retired from acting, how many films a year can the Chinese film industry release that perfectly suit the other five? Even if there are films suitable for actresses in their thirties and forties, can the five leading actresses guarantee they'll outsell others? Will the production company necessarily hire them?
Therefore, both Zhao Yanzi and Fan Bingbing chose to move down to the television drama market. Zhao Yanzi finished filming "Tiger Mom Cat Dad", and Fan Bingbing's "The Empress of China" will be broadcast in a few days.

So it's no wonder that top actresses are fighting over resources, because they are just too precious.

The Lunar New Year film season is lively not only because there are many movies being shown, but also because there is a lot of gossip in the entertainment industry!
Over the weekend, several entertainment gossip accounts on Weibo suddenly released several messages:
"Li Qiutang's 'Mirage,' which he's been working on for almost three years, has finally been launched. It's worth mentioning that the two actors have been following this film ever since it was officially announced at Cannes. But things are different now. After such a long wait, more and more actors in the industry know about this film. Just wait and see, this film will be a huge success."

"The fact that two of the leader's films flopped during the Lunar New Year season won't have a big impact on him personally. The good relationships he has cultivated in the industry over the years mean he won't have to worry about finding roles for the time being. He's someone whose emotions are easily affected by public opinion, and he secretly reads the audience's comments about him. He basically knows what the audience is saying about him, whether it's about his acting or his taste in girlfriends."

"Fairy Sister's team is currently looking for scripts for art films. Fairy Sister is desperately short of awards right now, but the art film circle is not something she can just break into. Third-rate directors want to ride on Fairy Sister's popularity, but Fairy Sister doesn't care. She wants to be in the films of big directors. But they have their own circles, and even her big director husband's intervention is not enough."

Some of these three pieces of news are true, and some are false. The truth is that "Mirage" has indeed been registered with the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, but this is because the previous registration information expired, and some details were modified, so the company resubmitted the application. The film has not yet officially started preparations.

Xiao Ming's is true.

The third point is false. Liu Yifei's team is indeed still collecting scripts, but they are not specifically requesting art films. However, Liu Yifei does want recognition from authoritative awards, and she would be happy even if she was only nominated.

But entertainment gossip is a mix of truth and falsehood; the audience is only there to enjoy the gossip, and who cares about the facts or the truth?

Let alone the audience, even people in the industry can't tell the truth from the falsehoods in these rumors.

In the fall, senior executives are now receiving an average of more than a dozen phone calls a day, mostly inquiring about "Mirage".

What can we say about autumn? We can't just tell the truth and say that we're only updating the filing information and don't plan to film for the time being.

We can only try to fool them.

Li Qiutang, who was filming in Toronto, also received many inquiries asking if he would film "Mirage" after finishing "Mojin: The Lost Legend". Li Qiutang was completely confused, as he was unaware that the company had re-registered "Mirage".

Zhang Ziyi: "When will filming wrap up? Let's get together when we get back."

Li Bingbing: How was it filming in Canada?

Fan Bingbing: "How are the wedding preparations going? I've already prepared the red envelope." She'd come up to him with these kinds of casual, inquiries, whether she had something to say or not.

Today we're filming Shirley Yang's entrance scene in New York, where she drives in at breakneck speed. Li Qiutang is using a typical genre film technique: first, film the speeding wheels, then add a huge sound effect, and finally have Shirley Yang do a beautiful drift and stop right in front of Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan.

So cool and beautiful!
This scene definitely requires professional stunt performers; Liu Yifei can't drift.

But Liu Yifei's urge to drive kicked in, and she insisted on trying it herself.

"Anyone can step on the gas in a straight line, but you need to teach me how to drift twice. If that doesn't work, then we'll have you do stunts."

"You think you can learn it after just two tries? You just want to drive!" Li Qiutang still let her go with the stunt performers to practice twice; he didn't expect Liu Yifei to film this scene herself.

While Liu Yifei went to driving lessons, Li Qiutang communicated with the staff about filming: "It's the last two scenes, everyone hang in there."

According to the weather forecast, Toronto will experience a blizzard in three days, which will continue until Christmas. If the filming of these scenes cannot be completed in three days, the entire crew will have to wait until after New Year's Day, which will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more for nothing.

Liu Yifei needed to speed up from the main road, drift into the street where Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan were, drive in a straight line for a while, drift into the alley, pick up the two of them, quickly reverse out, and then accelerate away.

Half an hour later, Li Qiutang gave Liu Yifei no more time and announced the start of filming.

However, Liu Yifei asked Li Qiutang to let her try it twice before filming the actual scene, and Li Qiutang agreed.

A staff member laughed and said, "Yifei is really unwilling to admit defeat."

Liu Yifei said, "It's about saving face."

Everyone laughed.

Li Qiutang said, "Go quickly."

Liu Yifei drove away.

Liu Yifei really wanted to do two cool drifts herself, but half an hour was really not enough!

She tried several times but couldn't complete it. Once she almost crashed into the wall. In the end, Li Qiutang ordered her to get out of the car and have a stuntman complete the drifting action. Liu Yifei only filmed the scenes of stepping on the gas pedal in a straight line.

Two days later, with Li Qiutang's cry of "Filming wrapped up" from a corner of an alley, the "Mojin: The Lost Legend" crew completed filming all the scenes in Toronto. From the beginning of July to the beginning of December, a period of 5 months, the entire film "Mojin: The Lost Legend" was completed.

This was the longest film Li Qiutang had ever shot. Amid cheers and applause, Li Qiutang presented three bouquets of flowers to Liu Ye, Chen Minghao, and Liu Yifei, and hugged each of them.

Finally, under a distinctively Chinese red banner that read "Congratulations on the successful completion of filming of 'Mojin: The Lost Legend' and its box office success," the Toronto team of over 200 people took a group photo, concluding their 20-day collaboration.

(End of this chapter)