Abstract Art Award Winner

Chapter 245 Next Year's Variety Shows?
Maybe another time.

Although they can't appear together on CCTV's stage, they can still do it on another satellite TV channel's New Year's Eve gala.

Or the Spring Festival Gala on those satellite TV channels.

"I'll contact them later. If they're available, would you like to come with me?"

"Go ahead, and it would be best to arrange a song and dance performance for the two of us, I'll sing and you dance."

"You'd really like to have me as your backup dancer, wouldn't you?"

Zhou Le shrugged: "Then you can sing and I can dance, but my specialty is pole dancing, which I guess isn't very elegant."

"Oh right, I almost forgot you can pole dance. I've seen some behind-the-scenes footage online before, but I've never seen you perform it live."

"What? You're getting interested?"

"Something at least?"

"But you don't have any steel pipes at home."

"I am not?"

Zhou Le then casually demonstrated a short segment, which made Nazha exclaim that she couldn't stand it.

Finally, they had another competition between the dance students.

The next day, Zhou Le had another match after getting up, and then he left Nazha's house.

The crew of "The Captain" has already gathered at the hotel in Beijing. It's too early now, and Zhou Le doesn't want to go there so soon.

Just as I was thinking about who to sit down with and have lunch with, Lu Han called.

"Le'er, are you in Beijing? Is something wrong right now?"

"I'm fine right now, Brother Lu, what's wrong?"

“I’m not busy. Isn’t Xiaotong going to promote ‘The Captain’ this afternoon? You should go too, right? Why don’t you come sit here for a bit? I’ll take you both there later.”

"also."

"Then I'll send you my location."

After glancing at the navigation, Zhou Le casually put on some music in the car.

"Let's go, let's set off! How strong is the black coffee?"

Zhou Le almost burst out laughing when he heard that voice.

This is also one of Deng Chao's signature songs. To this day, Zhou Le can only remember two songs sung by Deng Chao, and this is one of them.

Another song is "How Lonely It Is to Be Invincible".

It really feels like Deng Chao is anything but serious unless he's making a serious film.

When they arrived at Lu Han's house, Guan Xiaotong was also there.

"Did you drive here? Was there a traffic jam?"

"Fortunately, there haven't been many cars these past few days, and I just happened to miss the morning rush hour."

"That's alright. Come to think of it, I should have asked you to dinner a long time ago, but every time I hear from you, it's about work, so I've been too embarrassed to ask. It's just that your promotional activities have come together this time."

"Sigh, I've been really busy lately, but if you're planning to get together, you should have messaged me. I'll definitely make time for it."

"Okay, do you have time tomorrow?"

Zhou Le shook his head and said seriously, "No, I have to go back to Jiangmen tomorrow."

"Look, I want to spend this money but I can't." At this moment, Guan Xiaotong asked, "Is there anything fun to do in Jiangmen? If so, we can go and have a look around."

"There's definitely something for you to do. If you really come, I'll personally be your guide. What do you think, Brother Lu and Sister-in-law?"

Guan Xiaotong blushed slightly upon hearing the word "sister-in-law".

"Never mind, I have a variety show to do in a while, and Lu Ge also has work. Let's get together when we have more time."

However, they didn't have time tomorrow, but they could get together at noon. After sitting at home and drinking tea for a while, they went to a restaurant outside the community at noon.

During the meal, Lu Han mentioned that her contract with Running Man would expire next year.

Recently, he, Deng Chao, and Chen He have been planning to start their own variety show. They haven't decided on a name yet, and the number of participants hasn't been finalized, but when the three of them discussed it privately, they felt they could bring Zhou Le on board.

"You're making your own variety shows? What kind?"

"It's a lifestyle shoot, like traveling, trying local delicacies, chatting with everyone, and not putting too much pressure on each other. You can shoot for two or three days at a time."

"It sounds pretty good."

Zhou Le thought about it and realized that he still preferred the lifestyle type of variety shows, mainly because they were more relaxed.

"Then I'll take that as a yes. I'll add you to our group first, and we can have a video call tonight when it's convenient for us."

"Row."

Zhou Le likes to hang out with interesting people, and Deng Chao, Chen He, and Lu Han are all considered interesting people.

"We'll need to invite some guests later, but this is still in the planning stage. We'll need to find someone to make a proposal and then see which platform is suitable to put it on."

"I won't concern myself with these things. I'll just show up when the time comes. But is there a fee for the appearance?"

"Of course. Although we produce the variety show ourselves, we will definitely need to find sponsors from outside. We will charge them according to market prices."

"That's fine."

After dinner, Lu Han called two makeup artists to do makeup for Zhou Le and Guan Xiaotong, and then took them to the hotel.

They need to meet up with the film crew here first, and then go to the cinema together when it's time.

"Zhou Le, when we're here, we'll focus on promoting your new pilot's license. Do you have any other points you feel are easy to promote?"

Although "The Captain" was made in cooperation with the Civil Aviation Administration and based on the real-life prototype, they still had to acknowledge Zhou Le's authority in terms of publicity.

Some movies have a lot of hype surrounding their promotions, but even after several months, they don't generate as much buzz as Zhou Le casually does with a few things.

Numerous past cases have proven that Zhou Le is a born propaganda machine.

"We'll play some games then, add some interesting elements, and elevate the experience at the end."

"Okay, I'll have my staff talk to them again and see if we can add a game segment."

"However, director, I have another small suggestion: make the game segment more interesting, but it should also fit our tone. If it's not interesting, it's fine not to add it. Anyway, this kind of subject matter is sure to be a hit."

After chatting for a while, Zhou Le looked at Li Qin and said, "Sister Qin, I think you can start preparing to upgrade your status now. This movie will gross at least 3 billion yuan, and you will be a top female artist who has earned 3 billion yuan in box office revenue. When 'Joy of Life' is broadcast again, you will be firmly in the top spot."

Li Qin smiled faintly: "What? I'm still far from being a top star, and my position in the drama is also relatively low. If we're really looking for top stars, we'll have to look to Sister Yuan Quan."

"Haha, Sister Yuan Quan is indeed true. Speaking of which, Sister Yuan Quan was my idol when I was a child."

Yuan Quan raised her hand and slapped Zhou Le: "Come on, as far as I know, you must have said this to at least a hundred people. Were you this idle when you were a kid? You just watched TV all day long, and everyone was your idol?"

"Sister Quan, you're mistaken. When I was a child, my favorite thing was studying. Of course, being good at studying always gave me some privileges at home, and I never missed any of the TV shows or movies I was allowed to watch."

At this point, Zhang Hanyu interjected, "I haven't missed any of the movies I should have seen, but what about those kinds of films?"

(End of this chapter)