"Parkour Boy" has been nominated for three "Golden Dragon Awards", although the number is not much, but 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 of the crew, the "Best Movie Soundtrack" award is for the singer of the song, the nominee is the "Immortals" band, and the nomination for the "Best Editing" award is Mu Ying and an editor from the crew. Roughly calculated, this number is also more than double digits.

Three awards were nominated, but the number of people involved reached double digits, which is also a rare sight in the film industry. When the list of nominees came out, this point was also complained by some netizens.

It's still relatively common for the original soundtrack of the movie to be sung by a band, and there is nothing to say. But the action design has four signatures, which seems to be a bit much. In addition, the two directors Xiao Yao and Mu Ying also signed their names in 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 the shooting or the post-editing, the director should be involved, but under normal circumstances, in addition to the screenwriter, the director's name cannot be seen in the regular behind-the-scenes positions such as editing and action direction.

The content of the director and the action director is not the same, Xiao Yao is one of the parkour veteran team members, if there is a certain reason to add Xiao Yao to the action director, then Mu Ying's signature editing is even more speechless.

However, the power of signing is in the hands of the producer and the production team. Xiao Yao: If they really want to do this, others can't stop it. What's more, no one else knows what these people have done in film shooting and post-production, and to what extent. Now that the crew has signed it like this, netizens are also watching the novelty and excitement, complaining on the Internet, if you really want to talk about controversy or even condemnation and boycott of their practice, it is not enough to talk about it.

The "Golden Dragon Award" is an authoritative film award in China, and there will not be a situation where awards are only awarded to the stars in attendance. Traditionally, all nominees will be invited to attend the ceremony, but it is not mandatory for them to come, and someone else is allowed to collect the trophy on their behalf.

The action designers and editors in the band and crew of "Immortals" are all Americans, and Mu Ying is currently living in the United States. None of these people have won awards at foreign film festivals or award ceremonies, even if they are far away, but after knowing that the film was nominated and Xiao Yao relayed the invitation of the organizers, they all decided to come to Huaxia to participate in this year's "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony.

Mu Ying 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 wanted to go to the airport to pick up the plane.

Mu Ying, action director, editor, and band members, plus the assistants of the four band members, Mu Ying and his party can be described as a big group, and the goal is very obvious. Even so, when Mu Ying and the others came out of the passenger passage, Xiao Yao, who came to pick up the airport, still noticed at a glance that there was one more person in Mu Ying's group.

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

This girl who is more than Xiao Yao expected is naturally Zhou Jingyi, who met in the United States.

"Why did I come to Huaxia? This is the first thing you said when you saw me? Is this how you greeted me?" Zhou Jingyi clutched her chest and said with a sad expression, "It's so hurt!"

"Okay, my bad!" Xiao Yao changed his smile and opened his arms, "Welcome to Huaxia!"

"Is it okay?" Zhou Jingyi glanced behind Xiao Yao and asked with a smile.

"Huh?" Xiao Yao was stunned.

Zhou Jingyi didn't wait for Xiao Yao to answer, stretched out her arms and hugged Xiao Yao, and said with a smile: "It's a pleasure to meet you!"

"Okay! next!" Zhou Jingyi quickly let go of Xiao Yao and said to a brown-haired white girl beside her, "Sammy, it's your turn!"

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

"Jan, long time no see!" said Sarmien Smith as he walked up to Xiao Yao.

"Lao Mu, the girls are all rushing to Bayi, so you can only greet me!" Zhao Rui smiled and patted Mu Ying's shoulder.

Zhao Rui, Xiao Yao, and Sun Tingting are all close friends, and they also know more clearly about Xiao Yao and the two American girls. However, in his opinion, the two American girls are too far away from Xiao Yao, and they really don't pose any threat to Sun Tingting, and now Xiao Yao has proposed to Sun Tingting, and there is nothing to worry about and be nervous. Zhao Rui saw the performance of the two girls at this time, and it was more of a ridiculous mood.

Needless to say, Mu Ying, Zhou Jingyi and the two crew members have been filming with Zhao Rui and Xu Fei for more than two months, and they are already very familiar with them. Several members of the band met Zhao Rui a little earlier, and they had less contact with Xu Fei, but the band also came to visit the class during filming in the United States, and they also had some contact when they ran roadshows together, so they can be regarded as friends. After Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others also stepped forward to greet Mu Ying and his party one by one and express their welcome.

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

There were a lot of people in Mu Ying's party, and Xiao Yao and they also came to pick up several people, so they also drove a few cars when they came to pick up the airport.

For convenience, Xiao Yao drove a seven-seater SUV when he came to pick up the airport this time. In addition to Sun Tingting, there are five people who can sit. At the suggestion of Dean Smith, everyone decided that the four members of the band were in the same car as Zhou Jingyi, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting, and Mu Ying and the two members of the crew and the assistants who came with the band were handed over to Zhao Rui and Xu Fei to be in charge.

"Jin, I want to ask, did you come to Huaxia this time to participate in the "Golden Dragon" award ceremony like them?" On the way to the hotel, Xiao Yao, who was driving, couldn't help but ask Zhou Jingyi, "Mu Ying didn't tell me before that you would also come to the award ceremony." The day after tomorrow is the awards ceremony, and if you're going to attend, I can't guarantee that it will be arranged. ”

As the film crew nominated for the award, the main creators are eligible to attend the award ceremony. Zhou Jingyi is one of the leading actors in the movie, and even if she is not nominated for an award, she has no problem attending the awards ceremony. However, Mu Ying did not tell Xiao Yao that Zhou Jingyi was going to come to Huaxia to attend the Golden Dragon Award ceremony, and Xiao Yao did not help Zhou Jingyi sign up.

The star seats on the day of the award ceremony have already been arranged, and the temporary increase in the number of stars attending or the temporary absence will affect the previous organizer's arrangement of star seats.

In terms of personnel arrangements for attending the award ceremony, priority is given to those who have been nominated. There are a lot of nominees in their crew, and the number of places occupied has reached double digits, in order to avoid the number of people in the team is too large, Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan and others did not attend the "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony, and Xiao Yao can't make internal adjustments. If you want to adjust, you have to move someone else's position.

It is not uncommon for the stars attending the awards ceremony to change at short notice, and it is not unprecedented. But after all, there are only two days left before the award ceremony, if Zhou Jingyi really came to attend the award ceremony, it is absolutely impossible, but at least Xiao Yao is not sure in his heart.

"It doesn't matter, I didn't come to China this time, no, not just to attend the award ceremony. Zhou Jingyi said with a smile, "Some time ago, I received two job invitations from Huaxia, and this time I came here to talk about cooperation." If it goes well, I will stay in China for a while in the future. ”

"Talking about cooperation?" Xiao Yao said strangely, "Then why didn't your agent come along?"

"I talked about work a few days later, and I was free these days, and it happened that Mu Ying and Sammy were going to come to Huaxia to attend the award ceremony, so I left for Huaxia in advance and flew here on the same plane with them. Zhou Jingyi said, "My agent still has some things to deal with, and she will come to Huaxia to join me later!"

"Oh!" Xiao Yao nodded.

"Since I came to Huaxia, of course the award ceremony is the best to go, after all, walking 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 nominated, and I didn't have the opportunity to accept the award on stage, so it doesn't matter if I participate or not. I should have come to Huaxia for two days to familiarize myself with the environment in advance. The last time I came to attend the movie premiere, the schedule was too rushed, and I didn't have much fun in Huaxia. ”

"Listen to what you mean, I still want to participate in this award ceremony!" Sun Tingting, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned her head and smiled at Zhou Jingyi, "What if you can attend the award ceremony?

"That's okay," Zhou Jingyi said with a smile, "Huaxia is Yang's territory, and he will definitely be able to handle something." With him here, what's wrong with my agent?"

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

First, the production cost is only 8 million, which is definitely a low-budget movie in the United States. What's even more unreliable is that a quarter of the 8 million production costs come from online crowdfunding. Relying on crowdfunding to make a movie is, in the eyes of many people, a sign of lack of confidence.

Second, the investors are several young people from China and the United States, and none of them, except for Mu Ying, are over 30 years old. I don't have experience in investing in making movies, and I am friends with each other, and it seems that young people are playing around, which is also very unreliable at all.

Third, although Xiao Yao's popularity in the United States is not low, it is more because of several social cases and musical reasons. At that time, Xiao Yao's ability and potential in films, especially live-action feature films, had not yet been widely recognized by the American film and television industry. Even if Xiao Yao has made short films and animated films, his results are not bad, but after all, it is the first time to make a live-action movie, which makes people feel uncertain.

Fourth, Mu Ying is the most experienced among the main creative staff, and he is also a director whose name can be found in Hollywood, USA. But the films made by this Chinese director in the United States are only average. There is nothing bright about the box office and word of mouth. A group of young people with a young director who doesn't look very good, this lineup doesn't look very confident.

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

Judging from the production cost and lineup, this movie does not look like it can be successful.

After the kidnapping case, with Xiao Yao's topic in the United States at that time, it was no problem to play a cameo role in an American drama crew, or even ask him to do the original soundtrack, but if he went to the crew he invested and directed, the risk would be too great. So when Zhou Jingyi wanted to audition for Mu Ying's crew, Zhou Jingyi's agency actually didn't agree. It was Zhou Jingyi's own repeated insistence, and Zhou Jingyi didn't have any other work at that time, so the company and the broker reluctantly agreed.

The final result naturally proved the correctness of Zhou Jingyi's choice. After the movie was released, it did well at the box office around the world, and parkour became a hot topic of conversation. In addition to several parkour veteran teams, Zhou Jingyi, the only female actor in the starring team, can be said to be the one who has benefited the most.

After the release of that movie, Zhou Jingyi's global popularity has increased to a certain extent, but to say that the biggest increase in popularity is, of course, in China. This time, Zhou Jingyi was able to get two job offers from Huaxia, which is inseparable from the fact that she starred in the movie and greatly increased her popularity in Huaxia.

Although everyone is shouting against racial discrimination, we have to admit that this thing still exists. As a Chinese-American, Zhou Jingyi's development in the United States actually has certain limitations. And it is precisely because of Zhou Jingyi's Chinese identity that the brokerage company naturally considers her Chinese market.

This time after receiving a job invitation from Huaxia, the brokerage company wanted to take the opportunity to let Zhou Jingyi develop her market in Huaxia.

In fact, when she got the news that "Parkour Movie" was nominated for the Huaxia Film Awards, Zhou Jingyi's agency wanted Zhou Jingyi to go to Huaxia to attend the awards ceremony.

However, to the disappointment of Zhou Jingyi's agency, there was no Kimberly Zhou's name on the invitation list from Xiao Yao's side. Of course, the absence of a name on the list does not mean that Zhou Jingyi cannot go. If Zhou Jingyi asks for it, I believe that Mu Ying and Xiao Yao can also add her name.

The brokerage company wanted to contact Mu Ying and took the initiative to help Zhou Jingyi get a chance to go to Huaxia to attend the award ceremony, but after Zhou Jingyi saw the composition of the crew attending the award ceremony, especially when Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan and others were not on the list, Zhou Jingyi stopped the brokerage company, and even took the initiative to say not to go when Mu Ying asked.

Americans are quite 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.

However, a few days later, the agency received a job offer from Huaxia. Although these two job invitations had nothing to do with Xiao Yao, Zhou Jingyi still showed a willingness to go. The brokerage company originally wanted her to open up the Chinese market, so naturally she immediately contacted the other party and reached a preliminary cooperation intention.

At this time, Zhou Jingyi decided to go to Huaxia. Since he is going to Huaxia, the matter of the award ceremony was naturally brought up by the brokerage company again. If she can participate in a very authoritative award ceremony in Huaxia, it will undoubtedly be of great benefit to Zhou Jingyi to consolidate her popularity in Huaxia and to negotiate the cooperation between her two later jobs.

The brokerage company once again wanted to talk to Mu Ying and Xiao Yao about letting Zhou Jingyi participate in the Huaxia Awards Ceremony, but this time Zhou Jingyi stopped it. However, this time Zhou Jingyi did not say that she must not go to the award ceremony, but asked the brokerage company to leave it alone, and she went to Huaxia to talk to Xiao Yao herself.

Zhou Jingyi's agency can only be regarded as an ordinary medium-sized company in the United States, but it has a certain influence in the American film and television industry, but in terms of influence in China, it may not be comparable to Xiao Yao, the second generation of stars known as demons in China, so the agency agreed to let Zhou Jingyi deal with it herself. Zhou Jingyi wanted to go to Huaxia with Mu Ying and others a few days in advance, and asked the agent not to go with her, and to go when the award ceremony was over and she wanted to talk about work, and the brokerage company agreed.