Chapter 545: Once a Year

May Day just started and just passed.

The news of Liu Yifei's collaboration with Disney is still being hotly discussed in the circle!

The news of the completion of "Partners" has just been released!

"Special Identity", "Iron Man 3", "Provence", and several mainland films are still in fierce competition!
The casting of "The Crossing" has just created a whirlwind in the circle.

The predecessor of the Hong Kong Film Awards, the Hong Kong International Film Festival Asian Film Awards has come to an end.

Although the Best Picture Award was given to Lou Ye's "Floating City Mystery", there were also some unexpected problems.

The reason is that although the film festival is held in Hong Kong Island, most of the guests in the audience are from the mainland, and most of the booth fees are earned from the mainland.

But even so, the award ceremony was criticized by mainland artists and netizens throughout the whole process.

Netizens suddenly discovered that the entire live broadcast of the film festival had no Chinese subtitles.

My goodness, how is this different from watching an art film from Japan? There are no Chinese subtitles and everyone can only hear the “Ahhh” sound effects.

All the staff and hosts of the Hong Kong Island organizer spoke English, and not a single word of Chinese could be seen or heard.

As the saying goes: Pick up the bowl to eat, put down the chopsticks to curse.

As soon as they arrived at that group of people, they stopped pretending. There are still a large number of Hong Kong and Taiwan celebrities making a living in the mainland, but they put on an air of showing off and clearly looked down on the mainland entertainment industry.

This has caused a lot of anger among mainland filmmakers and a large number of mainland netizens.

"Is it a question of whether they can understand or not? I think they have a problem with their mentality."

“As one of the three major film festivals in Asia, the Tokyo International Film Festival will definitely have Japanese, and the Busan Film Festival will definitely not be without Korean.”

"But when it comes to the Hong Kong International Film Festival, there is no Chinese at the awards ceremony held in our own country? Haha."

"I suggest that the relevant departments conduct a strict investigation on those who do not even want the culture of their own country."

The comments and indignation of netizens pushed the organizers to the forefront.

Although people in the mainland are outraged, the media and netizens in Hong Kong directly mocked the mainlanders for being uneducated and unable to understand English?
In this way, the two circles quarreled back and forth.

However, the Hong Kong International Film Festival did not make any specific response, and acted in a very arrogant manner, saying "you can do whatever you want".

Now, mainland filmmakers can no longer sit still.

Han Sanping, Yu Dong and others were so angry that they wanted to curse. If the contracts for the films "The Crossing" and "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" had not already been signed, they really wanted to replace all the Hong Kong actors.

But before the big guys had their turn to speak, Director Chen Jiashang of Guangguang spoke first.

After Deng Chao finished filming "Partners", Guangguang was preparing for "The Four 2".

"Some people really think they are superior and are used to bullying others..."

Afterwards, many directors in the circle started to speak up, and were almost cursing out loud.

Jia Zhangke: "Times have changed, but some people don't want to actively adapt, but continue to mess around. If they continue to do this, I'm afraid their butts will be crooked..."

Lou Ye: “I am very happy that the film won the award, but winning under such circumstances makes me feel sick.”

Ning Hao: "If you are so stubborn, why don't you just come to the mainland to develop your career? You can make money from the mainland audience while making sarcastic remarks, haha..."

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The entertainment industry is actually a corner of society. It is not difficult to see the outlook of the entire society from some phenomena in the entertainment industry. Not only did Hong Kong actors look down on mainland actors in the past, but even now many Hong Kong actors still have an indelible sense of superiority in their hearts.

Even the people of Hong Kong Island believe that people from the mainland have no quality, and some even claim that the economic decline of Hong Kong Island is caused by the return.

However, they ignore the reasons why they themselves do not seek innovation and do not know how to adapt, and vent their anger on the mainlanders who have always supported Hong Kong behind the scenes. This contradiction cannot be reversed in a short period of time and can only be changed through the education of the next generation.

As directors and filmmakers speak out one after another, people in Hong Kong will naturally not swallow their anger.

The group of filmmakers led by Wen Jun continued to talk about the same old things, believing that they should follow the previous model, with the mainland providing funds and Hong Kong providing directors and actors.

Afterwards, Hong Kong actors, led by Wong Jing and Shu Qi, spoke out in support.

When Gu Wei saw the news, he couldn't help but shake his head. The conflicts between the two sides had been getting bigger and bigger over the years. If something like this didn't happen every year, he would feel uncomfortable all over.

"Let them make a scene. If they want to make a scene, then add fuel to the fire. It would be best if both sides completely break up."

In the tide of market economy, everything is moving towards capital. Whoever has higher utilization value can get more profits and enjoy higher treatment.

This is an inevitable phenomenon in the development of commodity economy and is true in all walks of life, not to mention the entertainment industry where you only see new people laughing and rarely hear the old ones crying.

Capital will lean towards whoever can help it make money.

From the 80s to 2010, the market appeal of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars was significantly better than that of mainland actors. The phenomenon of unequal pay for equal work was everywhere in the mainland. As a result, Hong Kong and Taiwan stars had a strong sense of superiority, which would be revealed unconsciously from time to time. At some point, it would become a time bomb, triggering conflicts between the two groups.

In that case, let's detonate this bomb and see how the person over there gets shattered to pieces.

Thinking of this, Gu Wei suddenly felt a little worried. He was not worried that the fight would get too big and not end well, but he was worried that the opponent would become a coward again after he could not win.

………In the outside world, the media reported that Huayi Company will invite the famous director Gu Changwei in the industry to serve as the film's chief producer.

Regardless of whether this statement is true or not, it now seems that this is the result.

At the beginning, Chen Guofu's contract had not yet expired, but he was poached by Gu Wei. At that time, Huayi even issued a message to express its congratulations.

However, after several films suffered losses in a row, Wang Da and Wang Xiao felt that they needed to find a professional, so Gu Changwei was naturally targeted.

Afterwards, just as the media had speculated, Gu Changwei joined Huayi Company in a high-profile manner, and the two Wangs held a welcome reception for him.

at the same time.

News about a TV series attracted the attention of the entire film and television industry, and almost all young actors were staring at it eagerly.

When talking about fantasy dramas, what do the actors in the circle think of?
There is no doubt that the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" series, adapted from the game, is the first thing that comes to most netizens' minds.

Whether it is Hu Ge's "Li Xiaoyao" or Liu Yifei's "Zhao Linger", they are both beautiful memories that cannot be erased for a generation.

The same is true for "The Legend of Sword and Fairy III" and "Xuan-Yuan Sword", which brought out Yang Mi, Liu Shishi, Tang Yan, Jiang Jinfu, Nazha and others.

Now, another fantasy drama adapted from a game has been launched, and the scale of investment far exceeds that of Tangren Film and Television's "Legend of Sword and Fairy" series and "Xuan-Yuan Sword".

There is no actor who is not tempted, and netizens and celebrity fans are even more excited, hoping that their favorite actors can participate.

But this kind of thinking is really too much.

No matter which film and television company it is, whether it is a TV series or a movie, the priority and consideration will naturally be their own artists.

At this stage, everyone has a consensus that fantasy dramas do seem to be very popular.

The film's investors, Guangguang and Huanrui, have received many calls privately...

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"Liya, this TV series is good, are you interested?"

In the 18th Culture Company, Wang Jinghua called Tong Liya over and the two talked face to face.

Considering that Tong Liya is already the heroine of a movie with a box office of 600 million yuan, Wang Jinghua also discussed the matter with her.

"Sister Hua, let me think about it and see if the company has any projects launched recently." Tong Liya said tactfully.

Hearing this, Wang Jinghua didn't say much. After all, it was indeed a bit of a loss of face for a movie star to act in a TV series.

The film and television industry has been in an uproar because of this TV series, and many people in the industry are keeping a close eye on it.

On the other hand, Yang Mi didn't have such concerns.

Zeng Jia started taking action before the TV series even started.

Compared with the original time and space, the current Yang Mi lacks several big-budget movies. Although she is still one of the four little beauties, her status in the circle is not very high.

"Mimi, Huanrui is the main controlling party, Guangguang is involved in the investment, and CCTV's International Television Corporation and the game copyright holder are also co-producing it." Zeng Jia blurted out all the information he had heard.

"Well, do we have a good chance?"

Yang Mi couldn't wait to ask, after finishing the cooperation with Guangguang on "The Four", the relationship between the two parties could only be described as average.

Plus, after Xingmei left, they could still take care of this matter on their own.

“Huanrui wants to promote its own artist as the leading male role, and wants to find a female lead with sufficient status and popularity to lead the drama.” Zeng Jia continued.

"With his high status and popularity, there are many suitable people." Yang Mi asked uncertainly.

But Zeng Jia shook her head and analyzed the situation for her.

"First of all, those big stars will definitely not participate. Secondly, among the four young actresses, Jing Tian, ​​Yang Ying and others have poor acting skills, and the producers probably won't consider them.

As for Tong Liya, although her acting skills and status are good enough, "Seattle" just grossed 600 million yuan. It would not sound good to say that she is going to come back to act in a TV series.

The remaining Su Chang, Wang Luodan and others don’t have enough time, Tang Yangang got into trouble, and I don’t think Huanrui will consider Liu Shishi from Tangren…”

Don’t mention it, don’t mention it, after Zeng Jia’s analysis, Yang Mi suddenly felt that she had a great chance.

"Then seize the time to contact the other party, and it would be best if we can win the heroine." Yang Mi said.

Although Huanrui has officially announced that the casting for "Gu Jian Qi Tan" has begun, everyone with a discerning eye knows that at most some supporting roles will be released, and there is no need to think about the male and female protagonists.

But even so, actors in the circle are still flocking to it, because everyone knows that in the fantasy dramas adapted from games, even the supporting roles have their own characteristics and their parts will not be bad.

"Yeah, that's what I think. Even if the pay is reduced, I'll get the role first." Zeng Jia said in a serious tone.

Yang Mi also nodded. She had a feeling that she might be able to reach a higher level with this TV series...

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(End of this chapter)