Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 150 The crew celebrates the New Year (4/4)

This year's Spring Festival is on February 2nd. According to the shooting progress, it is definitely impossible to complete it!
"Love Through the Millennium", a 22-episode series - two episodes added.

No matter how much overtime we work, the shooting period will still take at least 60 to 70 days.

The official wrap date is set for February 2th...

In other words, most of the crew members, including the actors, cannot go home for the New Year.

Spring Festival...

Yang Siwei wanted to organize an event to let everyone have a relaxing and entertaining day...

Watching a movie is a good choice, especially the popularity of "Let the Bullets Fly", which has driven the hot film market.

But not all movies are "Let the Bullets Fly"!
In my opinion, "Let the Bullets Fly" can be said to be the best Chinese-language film of the 21st century so far!

Huang Silang was defeated, and his brothers took Huang Silang to Pudong again by train, leaving Zhang Muzhi alone riding a horse on the train tracks.

When they were poor, everyone hated Huang Silang, but once they became rich, everyone wanted to be Huang Silang.

Huang Silang is like this, as are Zhang Muzhi's brothers, and the master. Eating hot pot together, singing songs, and hugging beautiful women, this is life!
The ideals that were so ambitious back then have long since vanished...

Looking out from the perilous tower, I sigh, how many, past and present, have ever understood this feeling? The schemes of the gods and demons, mistaken for the southern and northern boundaries of heaven. A river stretches across, hills stretching on three sides, creating a scene of struggle for supremacy. What happened to the Six Dynasties, that they were merely the product of private schemes?

Only the sun rises as usual!
In addition, the second one is "Kung Fu", followed by "Yi Yi", "Infernal Affairs" and so on...

However, Yang Siwei didn’t quite understand, and many viewers didn’t know either, that the money spent on publicity for "New Shaolin Temple" was no less than that for "Let the Bullets Fly"!
The scale of distribution is also simultaneous in several Southeast Asian countries.

The reputation is terrible!
"It embodies all the shortcomings of Chinese films: empty talk, hypocritical preaching, vulgar plots, affectation, and meaningless camera work. It's a complete mess!"

"The writers are completely treating the audience like idiots! The plot is a complete idiocy..."

Then... it recorded a decline that was like a landslide - it barely exceeded 1.02 million ( million) in the first four days of the first week, and it began to plummet on the first day of the second week, which was simply terrible.

You have to know that normally the total box office of a commercial film is ≈ the box office of the first weekend × 3...

"The New Shaolin Temple" had a total box office of just over 200 million yuan in the absence of any Hollywood blockbusters during the same period!
1.05 million in the first weekend, and the total box office is only million?
This drop is comparable to that of "Tiny Times".

——"Tiny Times" grossed 1.48 million yuan in its first week and a total of 4.84 million yuan!
Anyway, after "Shaolin Temple", Chen Musheng returned to Hong Kong and was silent for two years before filming "Drug War", which was considered a comeback.

Uh, Shen Yan hung up the phone, and was about to find a restaurant to eat with Shi Shi when he received a call from Ji Xiang...

"Praising 'Shaolin Temple' on Weibo? I won't do it. I just saw that movie and it was terrible..."

"Liu Dehua agreed to guest star..." Shen Yan was a little embarrassed: "Then I can't lie... Who asked for it?"

Ji Xiang on the other end of the phone said: "It's not a request, it's... my own idea..."

Shen Yan was speechless: "That's a good idea, don't think about it next time!"

"...Okay, let's stop talking then... Oh, by the way, I signed a contract with Yang Mi for five movies... The total salary is 300 million, and I gave her half!"

Shen Yan was surprised: "Five? Which five?"

Ji Xiang answered casually: "Let's see if we have a suitable movie..."

"What if not?"

Ji Xiang on the other end of the phone said as a matter of course: "If not, just resell the contract... Didn't you say she would become a big star?"

"... "

Is this okay for riding on a horse?

Shen Yan was speechless...

I always feel a little sorry for Yang Mi...

……

On January 1, the crew of "Love Through the Millennium" resumed filming as usual.

But Shen Yan was quite nervous and made several NGs, which was rare!

The director team was not angry at all, but took the initiative to comfort a few words...

In addition to concern, there is also a hint of gloating in the words!
Uh, Shishi’s parents came to the crew to celebrate the New Year with Shishi... For this family of three, getting together is celebrating the New Year!
Then, I came to the crew to observe Shi Shi acting...

It's quite embarrassing, because the modern drama "Love Through the Millennium" has various kissing scenes, which require Gong Ming and Lin Xiangxiang to be as close as a real couple!

Under normal circumstances, Shen Yan would be very good at acting in this kind of role...

But to act this out in front of Shishi's parents...

It’s a bit difficult for him!
The key is that Shi Shi is also a little embarrassed...

Fortunately, in the afternoon, Shishi drove her parents back to the hotel...

Actually, Shi Shi's parents vaguely knew about her relationship with Shen Yan...

They are all experienced people, and Shishi's attitude towards him...

Still able to make a judgment!

Shi Shi’s mother knew Shen Yan. When the TV series “Tianya Zhinu” was being filmed, Shen Yan often went there to eat for free!
She quite likes Shen Yan: he is handsome, talented, and now he is quite rich... and his family background is quite simple...

In one sentence: I have a car and a house, but both parents are dead!

Of course, the death of both parents was a joke, but it was almost the same. After Shen Yan became famous, he didn't see them come to visit...

When Shen Yan spoke to his second uncle and grandparents, he did not tell them about their situation.

It’s good, I don’t have any thoughts of becoming a vampire!

Uh, back to the Shishi family...

Shen Yan was a little nervous when he met Shi Shi's father for the first time - to put himself in her shoes, Shi Shi is an only child...

As a father, no man can meet his standards. After all, the cabbages he worked so hard to grow were eaten by a pig. You can tell how that feels just by experiencing it!
But Shen Yan is really good, he knows everything, opera, storytelling, chess, and he can even recite a section of Xihe drum Dou E...

Liu Shishi's grandfather is Liu Tianli, a Xihe drum artist...

Anyway, the two of them had a pleasant chat, but when Shen Yan left, he found that his shirt was wet...

Still nervous!

……

Even if you stay on the crew, you can feel the upcoming Spring Festival!

but…

Once the crew started working, it was like everyone was on a high-speed train. The whole team worked together and cooperated efficiently, looking forward to reaching the destination as soon as possible.

It's impossible to have a holiday just because of the Spring Festival...

Even on the Spring Festival, everyone will continue shooting as usual.

It's just that we will finish work early.

The same goes for "Love Through the Millennium", and the filming ended at three o'clock in the afternoon.

In the evening, the whole group will have a New Year’s Eve dinner together and spend the holiday together.

Yang Siwei found Shen Yan to discuss whether to record a video...

"Why are you recording a video?"

Yang Siwei said as a matter of course: "Aren't you going to perform on stage? I'll go ask those video websites if they want the exclusive copyright!"

Shen Yan was speechless: "Damn, isn't this a private dinner? Can this thing be bought?"

"What if... the crew already has a photographer, so we can edit it out later and cut Shishi's parents out..." After a pause, Yang Siwei explained, "Zhang Chaoyang live-streamed Zhou Libo's wedding on Sohu Weibo, which brought in a huge amount of traffic... Our party should also attract traffic!"

Shen Yan scratched his head: "You can do whatever you want, but you must edit it!"

"Don't worry, I will make all the arrangements!"

(End of this chapter)