Huayu is free to do as you like

Clara is busy in January, with three movies she stars in releasing this month.

The costume fantasy action film "Chang'an Conquers the Demon" on the 8th, "Big Red Envelope" on the 22nd, and "The Empathy Master" on the 29th.

Among them, [Chang'an Fu Yao] and [Big Red Envelope] are the female protagonists, and [Empathy Master] is the female supporting role.

Of course, all three movies are bad movies without exception.

But it doesn't matter. As a Korean female star, it is completely impossible for Clara to become famous in domestic entertainment. As long as she can make movies and make money, she will be satisfied.

After the broadcast of "Love Saint", she gained a certain degree of popularity in domestic entertainment, and the company helped her take on many similar roles.

Facts have proved that no matter how easy it is to cheat and make bad movies, it is always good for her to show her face more.

Moreover, domestic audiences don't care how well she performs as a foreigner, they are all here for her face and figure.

With this fame, Clara has made a lot of money in the past two years by digging holes under the arrangement of the company, which far exceeds her income in the Korean entertainment industry.

"I have been busy promoting the movie during this period. Although I am a little tired, I am very happy. The audience is very enthusiastic. It turns out that I have so many fans now.

Especially the male fans, they were very excited to see me

Can you go visit Oppa after you finish this busy period? I heard from my agent that Oppa is currently filming a very difficult movie."

After returning to the hotel after a busy day, Clara called her boss.

It can be said that her domestic entertainment has been going smoothly in the past two years. Now she is very happy that she left Korean entertainment and came to the Chinese entertainment industry.

Apart from anything else, her current income is more than ten times what she earned in Korean entertainment. Sometimes she wonders why she didn't come to China earlier.

She is also very satisfied with her current agency. Her boss is not only a real power figure in domestic entertainment, but he is also handsome and has a good figure. Compared with the fat and fat middle-aged men in Korean entertainment companies, it is a world of difference.

If the boss of the Korean agency had Gu Wei's looks and figure, how could she care about unspoken rules or anything like that.

After hanging up the phone, Clara walked to the full-length mirror, looked left and right, and dragged her proud bust with both hands.

“I seem to be a little fat these days and it’s time to exercise.

You must show your most beautiful side in front of the BOSS."

Clara is very smart, and she knows very well that her handsome boss is her biggest supporter in domestic entertainment.

Coming from a Korean entertainment background, she knows that a beautiful face and sexy figure are not valuable. Not to mention the natural ones, artificial ones can be mass-produced in Korea.

If she, a foreigner, wants to make money successfully in the Chinese entertainment industry, she also has to please her boss.

[Changjin Lake] crew.

Although it was already late at night, the filming location was still brightly lit and crowded.

Gu Wei was wearing a worn-out military-style cotton-padded jacket and sitting on a stool in the rest area.

I had just finished shooting a night scene and received a call from Clara during the break.

"Can you also speak Korean?"

Seeing Gu Wei hang up the phone, Wu Jing asked curiously.

"Of course~"

"Tsk tsk, you are really versatile. Even if you are not a star, you are definitely a good translator."

When filming "Wolf Warrior 2", they went to Africa to film together. Wu Jing knew that Gu Wei's English was also very good.

"Please, no one would leave a big star to work as a translator."

They had just finished filming a battle scene. At this moment, Gu Wei and Wu Jing were both in a mess, their faces were dirty, and their bodies were gray and white, made of dirt and prop snow.

But none of them dealt with it, because now it was just a break between shooting, and they would have to continue shooting in a while.

"I haven't heard that you have any Korean friends?"

“One of our company’s artists, Clara, is British-Korean.

[Love Saint] Have you seen it? That beautiful model inside”

After Gu Wei finished speaking, Wu Jing also remembered.

“I remember, the one with a very good figure and looking very sexy in red.

Is she an artist under your banner?

I just knew”

Gu Wei smiled: "It turns out not to be the case, but Clara didn't do very well in Korean entertainment. I signed her after filming [Love Saint], and now her work focus has shifted to China.

This month she will be starring in three movies released, give me a call to share the joy."

“Three movies in one month, that’s awesome~”

“Haha, two of them can be considered major online movies, one-day trips to theaters, and only one comedy produced by Enlight can be considered a serious theater movie.

By the way, I also helped her get a role in [The Wandering Earth 2], as one of the attackers of the villain's space elevator. Brother Jing, you will also have a scene together."

Wu Dingding nodded. He had received the script of "The Wandering Earth 2" very early and knew which character Gu Wei was talking about.

"[The Wandering Earth 2] should be able to start shooting in the second half of this year, right?"

"Yes, I have talked with Guo Fan before. The preliminary preparations are almost completed, and the crew is expected to start filming around October.

I estimate that I will be able to give you a letter in two months."

Although Gu Wei does not star in "The Wandering Earth 2", "Wei Ming Xia" is still the second largest investor after China Film Group.

Gu Wei is the producer of his own film.

The two were chatting when a staff member came over.

"Teacher Wu Jing, Teacher Gu Wei, the director shouted, we are about to shoot the next scene."

The two nodded, got up and walked out of the shed built by the crew.

“It feels like it’s getting colder at night”

When he went out, the cold wind hit him. Wu Jing shivered and tightened the tattered cotton clothes around him.

"It's probably around -20 degrees Celsius, haha, I feel okay"

Gu Wei rubbed his hands, and the breath from his mouth turned into a puff of white water vapor.

"Ask the staff to put some more clothes on you, don't catch a cold after not getting injured while filming the action scenes, Brother Jing, you're almost 50.

Sister Nan blamed me for not taking good care of you, I promised her to keep an eye on you during the filming"

Wu Jing was quite dissatisfied after hearing this.

"What's wrong with 50? I can fight 50, and I'm still young.

My firepower is not much worse than that of a young man in his early 20s. Don't listen to your sister Nan. Just deal with her with one sentence at the table.

Gu Wei shrugged and didn't persuade him anymore.

Good things don't work, bad things work. Wu Jing really caught a cold because of the scene that night.

Specifically, they shot the scene all night that day, and they fell asleep on the set in the second half of the night.

When he woke up, Gu Wei had a good physique and nothing happened. Wu Jing started to have a runny nose and sneeze, which were obvious symptoms of a cold.

"I told you to wear more clothes and keep warm, see~"

After Wu Jing caught a cold, Gu Wei laughed at him mercilessly.

"Ah, cut it!" Wu Jing sneezed and blew his nose with paper.

"Accident, purely accidental, I took medicine and drank more hot water, and it will be fine in two days."

His cold was indeed not serious and did not affect the filming of the crew.

"I have to ask for leave in two days."    "Promote the movie? ”

“Yes, the roadshow for [Detective Chinatown 3] started a long time ago, because I was filming [The Battle at Lake Changjin] and I didn’t participate.

Before the release, as the director and the lead actor, I have to go to a few shows.

I have to participate in the Spring Festival Gala on New Year’s Eve, and return to the crew on the first day of the new year to continue filming.”

“Then I’ll see you at CCTV in a few days, and I’ll take your plane back with you on the first day of the new year~

A-choo! ”

Wu Jing also had a program in this year's Spring Festival Gala. He performed martial arts with Zhen Zidan and many students from martial arts schools in [Heroes of Heaven and Earth].

"No problem"

The period between New Year's Day and Spring Festival is also the Lunar New Year period, but there is no movie with outstanding box office in this period this year.

The three movies that Clara participated in were all released in this period, and all three were bad movies. The highest-grossing [Big Red Envelope] was just over 200 million, and the other two were one-day tours in theaters.

In mid-January, two Taiwanese movies, [The King of Comedy] and [The Soul], were released.

[The Soul] is a suspense and crime-themed movie starring Zhang Zhen and Zhang Junning. It has a good reputation and the box office barely exceeded 100 million.

[The King of Comedy] was much worse. Even with Zhou Jielun's fame, the total box office did not exceed 10 million. .

Zhou Jielun is not the main actor of "The King's Avatar", but the producer of this movie, and he played a cameo role in it.

It is said that this movie was shot by Jielun to satisfy his wife's movie dream, and the heroine is naturally the king's wife Kun Ling.

Jielun made a lot of efforts to make "The King's Avatar" well, smashed dozens of racing cars and supercars, wore out thousands of tires, and also found many friends in the music and entertainment circles to come to help.

However, the story of the movie is too old-fashioned, all the plots are expected, the thrills of several racing scenes are not particularly good, and many plot developments seem like child's play.

The director Zhou Jielun found was a commercial and MV shooter with limited ability, which resulted in the visual effects of "The King's Avatar" being okay, but the plot is too weak .

The whole movie is like Zhou Jielun and his friends playing house. Even Jielun's fans would find it difficult to give it a high score.

There is another point that the audience has to complain about. As the heroine, Kun Ling is obviously very ambiguous with the hero in the plot, but at the climax of the movie, there is no intimate scene between the two, not even a kissing scene. At most, there is a slightly awkward hug and pat on the shoulder. It is obvious that Jay Chou can't bear to see his wife having intimate scenes with other people.

To be honest, if he doesn't even want his wife to shoot kissing scenes as an actor, why bother to make a love line? It's awkward to act and even more awkward for the audience to watch.

Gu Wei flew directly to Shanghai from the crew to join the crew of [Detective Chinatown 3] who were doing roadshows for publicity.

[Detective Chinatown 3] actually started from 12 The promotion and marketing activities started in January.

As early as before New Year's Day, the film company released the "Tokyo Trouble" version trailer and the "Tokyo Trouble" version poster.

In the more than one month from New Year's Day to the Spring Festival, the "All Members Gathered" version trailer, the "Qin Feng Goes to Jail" version plot trailer and the "Who is Q" version trailer were released one after another.

On January 29, the six films released during the Spring Festival started pre-sales simultaneously, and the first day pre-sale box office exceeded 100 million in 32 hours.

Among them, [Detective Chinatown 3] is undoubtedly the most anticipated by the audience, and it is also the one with the fastest pre-sale results.

After the pre-sale started, in 7 hours and 41 minutes, the pre-sale box office of [Detective Chinatown 3] exceeded 50 million, setting a record for "the fastest pre-sale box office of a domestic film to exceed 50 million".

"Director~"

"Baoqiang, you have worked hard these days! ”

After meeting up with the rest of the crew, Gu Wei greeted Wang Baoqiang first.

When he was away, Baoqiang was the center of publicity for [Detective Chinatown 3].

“Director, don’t be so polite. It’s all my job.” Wang Baoqiang smiled honestly.

In the third film, he also had a part of the investment share in the film, so the box office of [Detective Chinatown 3] also had the most direct interest relationship with him.

“How is the preparation for the new film you told me about before?”

“I’m still revising the script. I found several screenwriters, but I’m not very satisfied with the final script.”

Gu Wei thought about it.

"So, when you have nothing to do after a while, you can go to my company, and I will let the screenwriter department arrange several screenwriters to make targeted modifications according to your requirements until you are satisfied.

You don't have to doubt their professionalism and ability. Many scripts, including the [Tang Detective] series, are written by the screenwriters of my company."

"Great, director.

I have always believed that the script is the key to a movie. If the script is not done well, it will be difficult to carry out the subsequent preparations."

Gu Wei smiled and nodded.

"Have you thought of a name for this movie?"

"Because it is based on the real "Enbo Fighting Incident", I plan to call it [In the Octagonal Cage]."

After exchanging a few words with Bao Qiang, Gu Wei greeted the other people in the roadshow team.

In fact, the roadshow team of [Tang Detective 3] is not large.

Because there are many Japanese actors in the movie, it is not convenient for them to come, so the remaining domestic actors can be counted.

After staying in Shanghai for a day, the crew flew to Yuezhou, then went to Shenzhen, and finally returned to Beijing to prepare for the premiere ceremony.

After several days of roadshows and various online and offline promotional activities, the pre-sale box office of [Detective Chinatown 3] has grown rapidly.

With two days left before the Spring Festival, the pre-sale box office of [Detective Chinatown 3] officially exceeded 700 million.

[Hello, Li Huanying] ranked second with a pre-sale box office of 150 million, Lu Yang's [Assassination of Novelist] ranked third with 59.12 million, [The Order of the Samurai] ranked fourth with 38.41 million, [Boonie Bears: Wild Continent] ranked fifth with 33.54 million, and [New God List: Nezha] ranked sixth with 26.71 million.

As of February 10, the total pre-sale box office of all films released during the 2021 Spring Festival exceeded the 1 billion mark.

The premiere of [Detective Chinatown 3] held in Beijing was called "New Year's Family Dinner", which was actually a press conference with no purpose of publicity.

On the stage, the four leading actors Gu Wei, Wang Baoqiang, Xiao Yang, and Nazha all wore the same style of detective windbreakers, performed activities according to the host's arrangement, and answered questions from reporters on the scene.

"Excuse me, Mr. Gu Wei, what do you think is the biggest problem you face when filming [Detective Chinatown 3] in Japan this time?"

"It's definitely expensive. Filming in Tokyo is not much cheaper than when we were in New York. Moreover, many scenes in [Detective Chinatown 3] are large-scale. In order to shoot a scene at Shibuya Crossing, we specially rebuilt a Shibuya in nearby Tochigi Prefecture at a 1:1 ratio."

"Did you learn some Japanese during the filming in Tokyo?"

Gu Wei smiled and was about to speak, but Bao Qiang rushed to answer him.

"The director doesn't need to learn. The director's Japanese is super good. He can communicate with those Japanese actors without any obstacles. We are very envious watching him from the side."

After he said that, the audience in the audience heard a surprised "Oh".

"Mr. Gu Wei, can you show us a few sentences?"

Remember that after asking, Gu Wei said a few sentences in Japanese normally.

Although most people didn't understand, seeing his ease, everyone knew that Gu Wei really knew Japanese.

"In fact, I said before on the show that I have some talent in languages ​​and I know a lot of languages, Japanese is just one of them." Gu Wei explained with a smile.

"Did Mr. Baoqiang learn a few words?" The reporter turned his eyes to Wang Baoqiang again.

"After filming for such a long time, I have learned a few words."

After that, Baoqiang also began to show his Chinese Japanese.

"Smi Masai (excuse me), Moshi Moshi (phone greetings), Yama Dai (no)"

When he said "Ya Ma Dai", there was a burst of laughter at the scene.

Wang Baoqiang was a little confused and didn't know what everyone was laughing at.

Gu Wei tried to hold back his smile: "It's okay, your Japanese accent is too heavy, it's normal for everyone to laugh"