The battle for traffic in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 457 Work Arrangement
The award ceremony was quite interesting, as Xu Xing finally performed in "Old Town Road".

I'm gonna take my horse to the old town road, I'm gonna ride till I can't no more...

I will ride my horse along this road until I am exhausted...

They also prepared a celebratory cake session, and although the scene was chaotic at one point, it was also very interesting with so many people.

However, most of the time, the concert was the main focus.

We still listened to the "Spring Red Envelope" which was reproduced from the Spring Festival Gala stage as a small warm-up party before the official concert.

After that, the real music show began.

Zhou Jieqiong plays the pipa, Ouyang Nana plays the cello, and Cheng Xiao can play some simple guitar and piano in addition to dancing. However, because Xu Xing has to play the guitar, the piano was initially assigned to Zhang Ruonan who could play a few strokes. Cheng Xiao still danced with Li Yitong, who graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy.

Finally, Meng Ziyi...she can only dance a few times, and she only learned piano and cello when she was a child, so she can only be a host.

However, in order to avoid embarrassing her, I found a bass and hung it around her neck, and told her to follow the rhythm.

Originally, Meng Ziyi volunteered to play the drums. Before the mallet fell and made a sound, Xu Xing actually thought that maybe she could?

...Xu Xing was overthinking.

She said again that she wanted to be the lead singer, but Xu Xing told her that she was overthinking it.

There was indeed a lack of drums, so Xu Xing finally gave the guitar to Cheng Xiao and took on a cameo role himself.

Xu Xing's drum set is at least on the same level as Zhang Ruonan's piano and Cheng Xiao's guitar - an average amateur.

Meng Ziyi's bass is used to reduce the noise level.

Next is Zhou Jieqiong's pipa and Li Yitong's dance. They have practiced them for a long time, but they have been neglected since they became trainees and made their debut in movies. They can only be used occasionally to improve their character settings.

Of course, Zhou has made rapid rehabilitation in the past two years and has even found a new teacher to teach him. His level has improved steadily and is better than Li Yitong.

The most professional one is naturally Ouyang’s cello.

When playing Chinese and Western music together with Zhou before, Ouyang often inadvertently revealed his pride and contempt for Zhou:

I, Ouyang Xiaokui, am studying at Curtis College, and I have to compete with a woman like you who has never reached a professional level?

Then Xu Xing would pull over.

Only then did she restrain herself with a wronged look on her face.

Then the next time, Xu Xing would continue to punish her. She had even tried to deliberately show her superiority in order to enjoy Xu Xing's punishment, but when she found out that Xu Xing really didn't like it, she finally gave up.

The theme of this party is the same, joy and cooperation are the main thing, and ridicule and comparison are prohibited!
Except for Meng Ziyi who likes to be the center of attention.

She may think that Beth can't hear anything, so she "maliciously" makes a fool of herself from time to time to make herself noticed.

So after the concert went on for a while, she was sold out to be a backup dancer for Li Yitong.

The purpose is to perform all the songs that Xu Xing has sung since her debut.

Starting from the initial "It's a pity there is no if", songs like "Little Lucky" and "As Wish" written by Xu Xing for others are also on the performance list.

The plan was ambitious, but unfortunately the actual performance was full of problems.

Someone played the wrong note, and the anxious classmate Ouyang played the cello too loudly. Classmate Zhou immediately responded with a loud and clanging sound without any hesitation. Zhang Ruonan also hit a few accents to show his presence. Cheng Xiao strummed the strings randomly. Li Yitong and Meng Ziyi did not care that Xu Xing's drums were already beaten to pieces, and they continued to interfere with Xu Xing. Then the others became even more anxious, and then... at the most anxious moment, they completely ignored the division of labor and either gave up or took turns. Everyone was just fooling around!

They have a lot to do and have to change their performance costumes frequently.

Anyway, performing is really not easy. No song can be completed smoothly in one take. Each song has to go through countless times of polishing.

It feels like the whole world is filled with noise.

Hey!
It wasn't until late at night that things quieted down.

The world was quiet, and the concert was only less than one-fifth over.

There is still tomorrow.

Tomorrow... Teacher Yang somehow got the news and insisted that she could play the drums and would come to free Xu Xing so that Xu Xing could concentrate on being the lead singer.

Teacher Tong is not as popular as her.

However, Xu Xing did not hold concerts in the villa every day. This was just a small relaxation after the "long vacation". There were still many serious things to do.

Right now in the entertainment industry, most film crews have temporarily stopped working, variety show recordings have also stopped, and movie theaters are closed.

The TV series is still on air, and as a star, at this time, we must also have a sense of social responsibility.

In terms of charity, Xu Xing made the first donation before the New Year, and made two additional donations after the New Year. At the same time, several OEM factories under brand XX also cooperated with local departments and temporarily turned into mask production factories. All the masks produced were donated unconditionally.

This is what Xu Xing does as much as possible.

In other aspects, Xu Xing's anti-epidemic song "Your Answer" which he recorded in advance was also released the day after returning to Beijing.

Modified a few lyrics——

Mainly this paragraph, "Maybe I can only remain silent, my eyes moist, but I am unwilling to be a coward. I lower my head, look forward to the day, and accept all the ridicule."

After the revision, it reads, "But I don't want to remain silent. Moist eyes don't mean I'm weak. I raise my head, look forward to the day, and fight back against all the ridicule."

Plus the following: "Towards the wind, embrace the rainbow, bravely move forward. The light of dawn will pass through the darkness and break all fears. I can find the answer. Even if I have to go against the light, I can dispel the darkness, discard all the burdens, and no longer be alone."

The lyrics and melody are quite suitable overall.

Improvements have also been made to the arrangement, as well as Xu Xing's personal interpretation, especially the first line of the chorus, "The light of dawn will pass through the darkness", which is completely different from the feeling of the original singer's thick voice, giving a sense of vastness that cuts through the deep space.

When it was first released, "Your Answer" slightly disappointed netizens who had high expectations for it.

Because Xu Xing just made history by winning the Grammy Award for Best Chorus, bored netizens once again started talking about the Mount Rushmore of the Chinese music scene, with Xu Xing, Zhou Jie Lun, and Luo Dayou fighting each other.

Many people took out "Tomorrow Will Be Better" and looked forward to Xu Xing's song this time. Last year's "As Wish" boosted everyone's confidence.

But Xu Xing really couldn't copy anything better.

The fans are praising him loudly, but Xu Xing knows that he can’t actually compare himself to Luo Shen and Zhou Shen. He is just a big brush who uses money to increase the number of views in the era of streaming media.

However, overall, the inspiring and encouraging effect of the song "Your Answer" has been widely recognized.

For all of us who are constantly reminded by the news every day that the situation is getting more serious, what is needed now is not some elegant praise, but strength and confidence in the future. The title of "Your Answer" is to dispel everyone's confusion.

The answer is to move forward bravely, the darkness will always pass and the light will always come!

As a result, "Your Answer" has become one of the most popular songs at the moment. Not only is almost all official propaganda using this song to boost morale and praise medical staff, but its usage rate has also exploded on all short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou.

At the same time, many netizens also believe that Xu Xing posted such a song to fight back against international attacks and smears.

"Unwilling to be Silent", "Fight Back at Ridicule", and the song titles "Your Answer", "I Can Find the Answer" also refer to rumors circulating on the Internet that were actually made by the United States.

This is indeed Xu Xing’s purpose.

On Instagram and Twitter, Xu Xing's account once again became one of the windows to the outside world.

Xu Xing was sharing her "daily life" on it. Countless international black fans who hated China launched an attack on Xu Xing, but under the protection of the international stars, she was still very stable.

In addition to these things, how to adjust the temporarily interrupted work and proceed after the situation becomes clear also basically requires Xu Xing's participation in the discussion.

First of all, with "Detective Chinatown 3", the crew's investors and publicity and promotion personnel discussed whether to release the film in the summer or during the National Day holiday if theaters are open in the summer.

The final decision was that regardless of whether theaters are open in the summer, we will have to wait for next year’s Spring Festival to release the film.

"Lost in Russia", the biggest competitor of "Detective Chinatown 3" in this year's Spring Festival, has already sold the movie to Xigua Video to make up for its losses, risking the safety of theaters.

Affected by this impact this year, the number of projects in the film and television industry has been drastically reduced, and people have become more cautious about large projects. Even if they start shooting this year, they will basically not be released during next year's Spring Festival.

Therefore, from an optimistic point of view, "Detective Chinatown 3" will face weaker opponents than this year.

"Detective Chinatown 3" is worth waiting for a year.

The second is "Fanghua".

The feedback from Sunglasses was that he would still need at least two months, and he also stated that as long as the situation permitted, he could resume work as soon as possible.

According to internal information, film crews across the country will resume work as early as mid-to-late February if certain conditions are met.

There is about half a month left.

Among the main staff members of the "Fanhua" crew, those who have already left Hai City began to return and enter the designated hotel to meet the half-month quarantine period.

Therefore, Xu Xing will go to Hai City again in early February.

As for "Changjin Lake", their scheduled shooting schedule was completely disrupted, and a large number of staff members who had just moved into the Northeast shooting base were all evacuated before the New Year.

After talking with Bernard Yudong, I learned that they are considering moving the start time to after October in the second half of the year to shoot the snowy scenes in the movie on location.

So the question that follows is whether "Snow Swordsman" should start filming directly in the summer.

Wang Juan's script was finalized in January. He was supposed to submit it in December last year, but Xu Xing and Zheng Rong forced him to revise it for another month.

The previous life of "Snow Swordsman" did not only have the problem of "slow sword", the logic of some plots was also very stiff. There were also problems with the original work. Xu Xing did not want to replicate "Northern Liang Sun Xiaoguo", and the big Lei Chu Lushan also wanted to make drastic changes.

In the end, the changes were barely satisfactory.

Therefore, after internal discussions at Zhengrong, it was finally decided that "Snow Swordsman" would tentatively start filming in early June.

There were basically no major problems with the original male casting in the previous life, and Zhengrong himself could code it. With a large number of crews in the industry shutting down or even unfinishing their work this year, it is even easier to code such a large project when it starts.

Some of the main male characters can be discussed, let alone the old men. It’s mainly the pretty boys, the ones who have their own resources in the fortress circle.

Female characters, Xu Xing doesn't need to pretend anymore, just share it with everyone.

Meng Ziyi can continue to play the role of Hongshu, and Pei Nanwei has been reserved for Teacher Tong. Teacher Tong’s fans have been calling on her to play more costume dramas, and Xu Xing should also fulfill their wishes.

You can take a look at the rest and try your hand at acting.

In fact, Nangong Pushe Xu Xing still likes the original version played by Zhang Tianai very much.

Unfortunately, Ai Bao was a good girl. After sleeping with Xu Xing twice, she kept her distance from him. But she never stopped sending him greetings on WeChat.

In the end, if no suitable actor is found, Xu Xing could simply invite Ai Bao to perform.

The original role of Jiang Ni could never be played by Li Gengxi again, although she had always said that she wanted to find an opportunity to meet Xu Xing.

Therefore, after returning to Beijing, in addition to giving Sun Man the title of agent, he also added the title of producer.

The main purpose is to let her coordinate the performances of the female characters in "Snow".

The above are the work that Xu Xing will carry out in the future.

There is also the issue of scheduling Xu Xing’s existing inventory.

"Detective Chinatown 3" is confirmed to be released during the Spring Festival next year, and "Send You a Little Red Flower" can be scheduled to be released during the summer vacation or the National Day. Cinemas are about to resume work, and at this time, films are needed to boost the market. Xu Xing and Zheng Rong responded to the needs from above and are also fulfilling their industry responsibilities.

There is also "Bad Genius" written by Xu Xing, and "The Accidental Murderer 2: Karma", which was completed at the last minute before the New Year. All of them are tentatively scheduled to be released this year.

For the movie "Bad Genius", Xu Xing only expects the box office to be that of a youth film. It would be good if it can make a few hundred million. It would be a surprise if it can reach 10 billion.

Therefore, the box office performance will mainly depend on the two films "Little Red Flower" led by Xu Xing and "The Accidental Detective 2" led by Wang Baoqiang.

"The Accidental Murderer 2" and "Little Red Flower", one during the summer vacation and the other during the National Day holiday, we'll wait and see for details.

"Bad Genius" is confirmed to be released during the Double Holidays period, which coincides with the start of final exams in various schools, and it also serves to increase the popularity of the film.

Then there is Xu Xing’s TV series “Signal”.

"Signal" was actually produced last year, but in order to promote the movie "Detective Chinatown 3" at the end of the year, Xu Xing did not let his other suspense drama role come out to compete for Qin Feng's limelight. He has always told various platforms that he would discuss "Signal" after the new year.

We can talk about it now.

Penguin wants to monopolize global broadcasting, Netflix wants to monopolize overseas broadcasting, Kiwi wants to join the domestic broadcasting, and Youku is also interested in joining. The quotations of each platform are still under negotiation and coordination.

The preliminary plan is that it will definitely happen during the summer vacation.

Netflix has decided to release the already completed "Child's Play" after "The Signal" is launched, and it can then use Xu Xing to carry out a wave of publicity.

After all these things were discussed clearly, Xu Xing did not indulge in the villa which was filled with music and laughter every day, but resolutely went to Hai City to prepare to resume work on "Fang Hua".

(End of this chapter)