Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1203 Come to work in China

  "Parkour Boy" won three "Golden Dragon Awards" nominations. Although the number is not large, there are many nominees involved.

There are four nominees for the "Best Action Design" award, namely Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei, and an action director from the crew. The "Best Motion Picture Soundtrack" award is for the singer of the song. The person is the "Immortals" band, and the nominee for the "Best Editing" award is an editor of Mu Yinghe's crew. Rough calculations, this number also exceeds double digits.

  Three award nominations, but the number of people involved has reached double digits, which is also a rare sight in the movie circle. When the nomination list came out, this point was also complained by some netizens.

  It is a common phenomenon that the singer of the original soundtrack of a movie is a band, and there is nothing to say. But the action design has four signatures, which seems to be a lot. In addition, the two directors Xiao Yao and Mu Ying also signed in the action design and editing respectively, which is also a very rare slot.

Generally speaking, the director is in charge of the filming of the crew. Whether it is the action design during shooting or the later editing, the director should be involved in it. However, in general, in addition to the screenwriter, editing and action director are conventional behind-the-scenes positions. You can't see the director's name.

  The content of the director is not the same as the action director. Xiao Yao is also a member of the parkour veteran team. If there is a reason for adding Xiao Yao to the action director, then Muying's signature editing is even more speechless.

  However, the power of attribution is in the hands of the producer and the production team. Xiao Yao and the others really wanted to do this, and others couldn't stop it. What's more, what these people did in film shooting and post-production, and to what extent they did it, others would not know. Now that the crew has been so signed, netizens are also watching the novelty and spitting out on the Internet. I really want to talk about controversy or even denounce or boycott their actions.

  "Golden Dragon Award" is an authoritative movie award of China, and there will be no such situation that awards are only awarded to stars who are present. By convention, all nominees will be invited by the organizer to attend the awards ceremony, but it is not mandatory to come, and others are allowed to collect the trophy on their behalf.

  The action designers and editors in the "Immortals" band and crew are all Americans, and Mu Ying currently lives in the United States. None of these people have won awards at foreign film festivals or awards ceremonies. Even though they are far away, after knowing that the film was nominated, Xiao Yao relayed the invitation from the organizer, and they all decided to come to China to participate in this year’s event. "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony.

  Muying and others set the itinerary to come to China two days before the award ceremony. On the day they arrived, Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and other "landlords" naturally had to go to the airport to pick them up.

   Mu Ying, action director, editor, band members, and four band members' assistants, Mu Ying and his party are a huge group of people, and their goals are very obvious. Even so, when Mu Ying and others came out of the passenger passage, Xiao Yao, who came to pick up the plane, noticed at a glance that there was one more person in Mu Ying's group.

   "Jin? Why did you come to China?" After Mu Ying and others approached, Xiao Yao walked up to a black-haired Chinese girl and asked.

  This girl who is more than Xiaoyao expected is Zhou Jingyi who met in the United States.

   "Why did I come to China? This is the first sentence you saw me? Is that how you greeted me?" Zhou Jingyi said with a sad expression on her chest, "It's so hurt!"

   "Well, my fault!" Xiao Yao put on a smiling face, opened his arms and said, "Welcome to China! Again!"

   "Can you?" Zhou Jingyi glanced behind Xiao Yao and asked with a smile.

   "Huh?" Xiao Yao was taken aback.

   Zhou Jingyi didn’t wait for Xiao Yao’s answer, she stretched out her arms to hug Xiao Yao, and said with a smile: “It’s nice to meet you!”

   "Alright! Next!" Zhou Jingyi quickly let go of Xiao Yao, and said to a brunette white girl beside him, "Sami, it's your turn!"

   "Tiana! I'm glad we met again!" Zhou Jingyi walked towards Sun Tingting behind Xiao Yao.

   "Yang, long time no see!" Samien Smith walked up to Xiao Yao and said.

   "Old Mu, the girls are all rushing to Bayi, you can only say hello to me!" Zhao Rui smiled and patted Mu Ying on the shoulder.

  Zhao Rui, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting are close friends, and they know the affairs of Xiao Yao and the two American girls more clearly. However, in his opinion, the two American girls are too far away from Xiao Yao, which really poses no threat to Sun Tingting. Now that Xiao Yao has proposed to Sun Tingting, there is nothing to worry about and worry about. When Zhao Rui saw the performance of the two girls at this time, it was more of a ridiculous mood.

Needless to say, Mu Ying, Zhou Jingyi and the two crew members have been very familiar with the scenes that have been filmed with Zhao Rui and Xu Fei for more than two months. Several members of the band met Zhao Rui a little earlier and had less contact with Xu Fei, but the band also visited the class during filming in the United States, and had some contact during roadshows together, and they can be regarded as friends. After Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others also greeted Mu Ying and his party one by one, expressing welcome.

  The airport lobby is not a place to chat. After a brief greeting, the group left the airport lobby and took a bus to the hotel.

  Muying and his party were quite crowded, and Xiao Yao and others also came to pick up the plane, so when they came to pick up the plane, they also drove a few cars.

  For convenience, Xiao Yao drove a seven-seater SUV when he came to pick up the plane this time. In addition to Sun Tingting, five people can sit. Under Dean Smith’s proposal, it was decided that the four members of the band and Zhou Jingyi were in the same car with Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting. The two members of Mu Ying and the crew and the assistants who came with the band were handed over to Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. .

"Jin, I want to ask, did you come to China at this time to participate in the "Golden Dragon" award ceremony like them?" On the way to the hotel, Xiao Yao who drove could not help but ask Zhou Jingyi, "Before Mu Ying didn't tell me that you would also come to the awards ceremony. The day after tomorrow is the awards ceremony. If you want to attend, I cannot guarantee that it will be arranged."

  As the film crew nominated for the award, the chief creative staff are all qualified to attend the award ceremony. Zhou Jingyi is one of the leading actors in the movie. Even if an individual is not nominated for an award, there is no problem attending the award ceremony. However, Mu Ying didn't tell Xiao Yao that Zhou Jingyi was coming to China to attend the Golden Dragon Award ceremony, so Xiao Yao didn't help Zhou Jingyi sign up.

  The star seats on the day of the awards ceremony have already been arranged. A temporary increase in the number of stars or temporary absences will affect the previous arrangements of the organizers for star seats.

  In the arrangement of personnel attending the award ceremony, the nominees are given priority. There are a lot of nominations for their crew, and the number of places they occupy has reached double digits. To avoid too large a team, Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan and others did not attend the "Golden Dragon Award" awards ceremony. Xiao Yao wanted to do it. No internal adjustments can be made. If you want to adjust, you have to move other people's positions.

  It is not uncommon for the stars attending the awards ceremony to change temporarily, and the temporary adjustment of seating arrangements is not unprecedented. But after all, there are only two days left before the award ceremony. If Zhou Jingyi is really here to attend the award ceremony, not to mention it is absolutely impossible, but at least Xiao Yao is not sure in his heart.

"It's okay. I came to Huaxia this time, not for, no, not just to attend the awards ceremony." Zhou Jingyi smiled, "I received two job invitations from Huaxia some time ago. This time I came here to talk about cooperation. Yes. If it goes well, I will stay in China for a period of time in the future."

  "Talk about cooperation?" Xiao Yao asked strangely, "Why didn't your agent come together?"

"I talked about work only a few days later. In the past few days, I was free. It happened that Muying and Sami were coming to China for the awards ceremony. I set off to China for the awards ceremony ahead of time and flew with them on the same plane." Zhou Jingyi said. , "My agent still has some things to deal with, she will come to China to join me later!"

   "Oh!" Xiao Yao nodded.

"Since China has come to China, the awards ceremony is of course the best one can go to. After all, going to the red carpet is also an opportunity to make a public appearance." Zhou Jingyi continued, "But if you can't, you don't have to care. Anyway, I didn't get the nomination. It doesn’t matter if I don’t have a chance to go to the stage to receive the award. I’m here to play in China for two days and familiarize myself with the environment in advance. When I came to attend the movie premiere last time, the schedule was too rushed and I didn’t have much fun in China. ."

"Listen to you, I still want to participate in this awards ceremony!" Sun Tingting, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned her head and smiled at Zhou Jingyi, "What if you can participate in the awards ceremony? The awards ceremony is also a job, your agent Don't worry about letting you come alone?"

   "That's okay," Zhou Jingyi smiled, "China is in Yang's territory, and he can definitely handle something. With him, what can my agent worry about?"

  The parkour movie project of Xiao Yao and Mu Ying back then, Zhou Jingyi’s agency was actually not very optimistic. This disapproval comes from several sources.

  First, the production cost is only 8 million, which is definitely a low-cost movie in the United States. What makes people feel even more unreliable is that a quarter of the eight million production costs are from online crowdfunding. Relying on crowdfunding to make movies is a manifestation of lack of confidence in the eyes of many people.

  Second, the investors are a few young people from China and the United States. Except for Mu Ying, none of them is over 30 years old. There is no experience in investing in making movies, and they are all friends with each other. It seems that young people are playing around. This is also very unreliable.

  Third, although Xiao Yao’s popularity in the United States is not low, it is more due to several social cases and musical reasons. At that time, Xiao Yao's ability and potential in movies, especially feature-length live-action films, had not yet been generally recognized by the American film and television circles. Even if Xiao Yao has made short films and animated films, his results are not bad, but it is the first time he has made a live-action movie, which makes people feel unsure.

  Fourth, Mu Ying is considered to be the most experienced of the chief creative staff, and is also a director whose name can be found in Hollywood, USA. However, the films made by the Chinese director in the United States are only average. There is nothing glaring at the box office and word-of-mouth. A group of young people paired with a young director who doesn't look very good, and this lineup makes people less confident.

  Although this movie has such a big selling point as parkour, as a new sport, it is difficult to judge how many people will buy this kind of movie. It's not that there are many people who play parkour, and parkour movies are bound to sell well. There are so many sports fans and music fans in the world, but not every sports movie or music movie can achieve good results, you still have to see how the movie is made.

  From the perspective of production cost and lineup, this movie does not seem to be successful.

After the kidnapping case, based on Xiao Yao's topic in the United States at the time, he made a cameo role in a certain American drama crew, or even asked him to do the original soundtrack. But if he invests in and directs the drama crew, this risk is not bad. too big. So when Zhou Jingyi was going to audition for Muying's crew, Zhou Jingyi's agency actually disagreed. It was Zhou Jingyi's repeated insistence, and at that time Zhou Jingyi had no other job, the company and the agent reluctantly agreed.

  The final result naturally proved the correctness of Zhou Jingyi's choice. After the movie was released, the box office was good all over the world, and parkour became a hot topic of discussion. In addition to several members of the parkour veteran team, Zhou Jingyi, the only female actor in the starring team, can be said to be the one who has benefited the most.

  After the movie was released, Zhou Jingyi's global popularity has increased to a certain extent, but it is of course that China has the greatest increase in popularity. This time Zhou Jingyi was able to get two job offers from China, and she starred in that movie, which is closely related to the increase in China's popularity.

  Racial discrimination, although everyone is yelling against it, they have to admit that this thing still exists. As a Chinese descent, Zhou Jingyi's development in the United States actually has certain limitations. It is precisely because of Zhou Jingyi's Chinese identity that the brokerage company naturally considered her Chinese market.

  Received a job offer from Huaxia this time, the brokerage company wanted to take the opportunity to let Zhou Jingyi explore her market in Huaxia.

  In fact, when the news that "Parkour Movie" was nominated for the China Film Awards, Zhou Jingyi's agency wanted Zhou Jingyi to go to China to participate in the awards ceremony.

  However, what disappointed Zhou Jingyi’s agency is that there was no Kimberley Zhou’s name on the invitation list sent by Xiao Yao. Of course, the absence of a name on the list does not mean that Zhou Jingyi cannot go. If Zhou Jingyi requested it herself, I believe Mu Ying and Xiao Yao could also add her name.

The agency wanted to contact Mu Ying and offered to help Zhou Jingyi an opportunity to attend the awards ceremony in China. However, after Zhou Jingyi watched the composition of the crew attending the awards ceremony, especially when Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan and others were not on the list, Zhou Jingyi blocked Even when Mu Ying asked about the brokerage company, he could not say anything.

  Americans are very realistic. Zhou Jingyi proved the correctness of her choice once, and naturally gained a greater right to speak. This time, the brokerage company also did not force Zhou Jingyi.

  Only a few days later, the brokerage company received a job offer from Huaxia. Although neither of these two job invitations has anything to do with Xiao Yao, Zhou Jingyi still showed a willingness to go. The brokerage company originally wanted her to open up the China market, so naturally it immediately contacted the other party and reached a preliminary cooperation intention.

  At this time, Zhou Jingyi was determined to go to China. Since I was going to China, the award ceremony was naturally brought up by the brokerage company. If you can participate in a very authoritative awards ceremony of China, it will undoubtedly be of great benefit for Zhou Jingyi to consolidate her popularity in China, and for the cooperation and negotiation of her next two jobs.

  The brokerage company once again wanted to talk to Mu Ying and Xiao Yao about letting Zhou Jingyi participate in the China Award Ceremony. This time Zhou Jingyi stopped it. But this time Zhou Jingyi did not say that she must not go to the awards ceremony, but to let the brokerage company leave it alone. After she went to China, she asked Xiao Yao and said.

The brokerage company where Zhou Jingyi works can only be regarded as an average medium-sized company in the United States. It has a certain influence in the American film and television circle, but in terms of influence in China, it is not necessarily comparable to Xiao Yao, which is called in China. The second generation of enchanting stars, so the brokerage company agreed to let Zhou Jingyi handle it by herself. Zhou Jingyi had to go to China with Mu Ying and others a few days in advance, and asked the agent not to go with him. After the award ceremony was over, and the work was about to be discussed, the brokerage company also agreed.

  (End of this chapter)