In the basement of an old building in Mingzhu City, at noon, the first rays of sunlight arrived here, and the prince moved his eyelids and wanted to sleep again, but after a few seconds, he still straightened up.

Because of the location of the room, he had to hurry up and open the curtains and windows to try to disperse the moisture in the room when there was sunlight.

This is the third year that he has come to Pearl City, after graduating from film school, he stayed in the city with his dream of directing, but unfortunately two years have passed, he still has achieved nothing, and he has made a work, but there is no theater at all to release a documentary, and the film company does not accept it, and the more than 200,000 yuan he invested in the original family was all lost.

He has been putting down the camera for three months now, because he needs to eat, but holding the camera does not help him survive except for the expense.

And the documentary about his life in Shanghai, which took him a year to shoot, has also been placed on the shelf, leaving a thick layer of dust.

"Bang Bang Bang !!"

Just as the prince was wondering where to find a job for a while, there was a knock on the basement door.

Wang Zimu put on his vest unhurriedly, and then went to open the door slowly, after all, he was disliked by thieves in this place, except for the landlord, the only ones who knew about it were his two college classmates.

And the day before yesterday, he only made up for three months' room fee, and he didn't think the landlord would come to disturb him so soon, most of them were his two classmates, and sure enough, after Wang Zimu opened the door, it was his good brother Li Yixian who was in the same dormitory when he was in college.

The film school that Wang Zimu went to is not the famous Pearl Film Academy in Mingzhu City, but the Shanghai Film Academy, which is just a secondary school.

So the brothers who have graduated are actually not very happy, and now in Mingzhu City, there is Wang Zimu, Li Yixian in front of him, and Xiaofei, a senior brother who is one year older than them.

However, even if the mix is unsatisfactory, Li Yixian is obviously stronger than Wang Zimu.

Li Yixian's home is in Mingzhu City, so he doesn't have to worry about where to live, so naturally he will have less of the burden of rent, coupled with the relationship between his parents, after graduation, Li Yixian entered an advertising design company as a director's assistant, earning four or five thousand yuan a month, barely enough for him to spend alone.

For Wang Zimu, Li Yixian not only admires his persistence, but also feels that this guy is sometimes too idealistic, but no matter what, after all, they are brothers who have been in college for four years, so sometimes Li Yixian will save some money to buy some daily necessities or instant noodles for Wang Zimu.

"What good things did you bring me again?" The first time he saw Li Yixian, Wang Zimu aimed at the position of his hands.

In fact, when Li Yixian brought him something at the beginning, Wang Zimu was still embarrassed to accept it, but gradually he became poorer and poorer, and his backbone became less and less, plus the relationship was indeed there, and the things that Li Yixian brought every time were not expensive, Wang Zimu also accepted this kindness calmly.

But this time, he didn't see the familiar instant noodles or vegetables and eggs, just a faint roll of newspaper.

"Don't ask, let me tell you. Li Yixian was panting, obviously running, which made Wang Zimu even more curious, what could make his always calm brother so anxious?

"You read this newspaper first. Li Yixian handed the newspaper in his hand to Wang Zimu, and then explained: "Huayi wants to hold a film award, I heard that the prize money is one million, Zimu, I think this is an opportunity for you, your documentary is very good, take it to the election, whether it is the honor or the one million bonus, it is very important to you." ”

"You have too much confidence in me. After a long time, Wang Zimu put down the newspaper and said with a wry smile.

This article really gave him a lot of shock, a million prize money is really a huge amount of money for him, but Huayi is not a fortune boy, he is a fledgling little director without any fame, even if he thinks he makes a good documentary, can he really win the award in the end?

"The awards ceremony held by a film company, even if it is Huayi, it is estimated that many of them are predetermined, forget it. Wang Zimu gave up the idea of stirring in his heart and replied.

"What, have you read the report carefully. Li Yixian was anxious, picked up the newspaper and found a paragraph and pointed it to Wang Zimu: "Take a closer look, it's not all written here, the film award held by Huayi will be voted by hundreds of the most professional judges in the industry, and the first batch of judges has been announced here." ”

Li Yixian pointed to several names in the jury list and said: "Chen Daoming, Hu Jun and Xia Yu, you shouldn't know what these three names represent, especially Chen Daoming, or the vice president of the jury, Huayi can even give important responsibilities to the artists of the eighteen cultures who have a deep hatred for themselves, isn't this enough to prove the fairness of this award ceremony?"

"Besides, what do you lose if you try, and people don't say what registration fee you want to pay, so you just signal, what if you really win?"

"Then try it?" As soon as he heard that there was no registration fee, Wang Zimu was tempted again.

"You have to try it, you get the film ready, and I'll let you know as soon as I know the news. Li Yixian knew that Wang Zimu didn't have a computer, and his mobile phone was also an old-fashioned mobile phone, so he put the heavy responsibility of notifying him on his shoulders.

After sending Li Yixian away, Wang Zimu returned to his basement and came to a bookshelf.

There are things on the bookshelf that are messy, there are game models, some movie peripherals, such as the small spinning top of "Inception", of course, the most are books, there are some professional books for directors, and some martial arts.

Wang Zimu tiptoed down a dusty box from the top of the summer vacation, looking at the gray dust on it, Wang Zimu subconsciously blew it, and coughed for a long time.

When he opened the box, it was empty, only two memory cards, which were the most precious things he had at the moment.

Holding the dirty box and looking at the memory cards in the box, Wang Zimu sat on the sofa stupidly for a long time before taking out the two memory cards.

And at this moment, the flame of hope was rekindled in his eyes.

Like Wang Zimu, many documentary directors or literary film directors across the country who are struggling to make ends meet were all excited when they knew that Huayi's upcoming film awards would have a prize of 1 million.

They can give up their interests in order to pursue art, but they can't skip meals, and Huayi gives such a generous bonus, which is like a charcoal in the snow for them, and many people have the intention of contacting Huayi to submit their own movies or documentaries, dreaming of their fame and fortune in the end.

On the contrary, the mainstream in the film industry is still waiting, they are not so short of money, although one million is more, but it is not enough for them to go crazy and have no hesitation, for a new film awards ceremony, and it is hosted by a private film company, everyone immediately questioned the fairness of this film award.

However, with the announcement of the review system, this kind of doubt also disappeared immediately.

For a while, the public relations department of Huayi was busy on the ground, and the phone was hot every day, because there were too many people who consulted, and in the eyes of insiders, the film award held by Huayi was a new cake, and everyone wanted to come and have a bite.

The Cultural Affairs Bureau also quickly gave Huayi a reply that they were very supportive and encouraging of this kind of film awards, as long as the whole process was in accordance with the national norms, then they naturally had no need to set up blocks, and even took the initiative to give Huayi some green channel care.

After Huayi replied to the Cultural Affairs Bureau, it also immediately announced the names of the film awards and the 17 award categories that had been prepared long ago on the official website.

"It turns out that the award ceremony is called the Star Glory Ceremony, and the trophy is called the Galaxy Award, does this mean that all the bright stars are in the bag? ”

"A million bonus, and every award is a million, doesn't this show Huayi's ambition?"

"The trophy is so beautiful, the little flower on it turned out to be 'forget-me-not', I heard that it was designed by Nie Wei himself, and sure enough, it is still a star who knows stars best, and the most rare thing for them is forget-me-not. ”

The Star Ceremony soon became the focus of heated discussions inside and outside the circle, especially with the announcement of the trophy, its shape and meaning were immediately liked by countless stars in the circle.

It has even led to the rise in sales of this small flower, and in many flower shops, the sales of forget-me-not even exceed that of roses.

The date for the award ceremony was also set a week later, in September for the second half of the year.

On the one hand, there will be a National Day file in October, and everyone's attention will be on those movies in the National Day file, which will distract many people from paying attention to the award ceremony.

On the other hand, it is also necessary to avoid the Golden Horse Awards in November, the most influential film award in Chinese at present, which is not something that a fledgling rookie film award like the Star Glory Festival can take away the glory, so Nie Wei and Wang Zhonglei unanimously finalized the time in September.

Then the company opened the registration channel, and as of January last year to July this year, all completed works, regardless of whether they are released or not, can sign up for the election.

Soon, Huayi Company received thousands of entries for works and countless actors, of course, some companies hinted at Huayi that if they wanted their company's artists to attend, they would try their best to tilt more into the awards.

However, this kind of greeting was ignored by Wang Zhonglei, he is the boss of Huayi, and the most important thing under his command is the big-name star, as long as Nie Wei is pulled over, he will not worry about no attention, as for the private operation of the film awards, Wang Zhonglei will definitely not do it, at least not now, he listened to Nie Wei's suggestion and felt that it was very reasonable, and he must establish a fair and just selection environment for the public and even insiders, so that the Star Festival can really embark on the highway of development.

To this end, Huayi even opened a public selection, when the Star Festival will cooperate with several magazines, not only will these magazines take photos and make articles for the stars or works that have entered the shortlist, but also come with a voting card, and every public who buys magazines can participate in online voting with the password on the voting card behind the magazine.

This vote is not even for self-entertainment, but can be used as a reference for the final award, for example, in the case of an unexpected tie for two works, these people's suggestions are the key to determining who can win the award.

The rule set by Nie Wei is that there are no 'double yolk eggs'.

He doesn't want to be like a certain gold award, which is only held once every two years, and then there are two actresses and two actors at a time, the organizer of this gold award is really not going to share the cake in Nie Wei's opinion.

You must know that no actor wants to win the actress and actor with another person, because this will make this honor not pure enough, and it always seems to be a head lower than other award-winning actresses who have won awards alone.

And only once every two years, this is equivalent to only one cake in two years, even if you make a double yolk egg, but the cake is actually still that one, far less than once a year, what awards have to choose the best one.

This is also the key to why a certain gold award is getting more and more finished, and from the system, it is destined to be eliminated.

Nie Wei naturally wouldn't let his Star Glory Ceremony make such a mistake.

Since you want to give honor, you must make the person who wins the honor the most dazzling existence in the audience, and there is no need for anyone to share the honor of the winner, the best is the only one, and there will be no second.

Wang Zhonglei is fully responsible for the affairs of the Star Festival, because Nie Wei is about to start filming "Interstellar".

The farm that Shu Chang bought has already planted fields of corn, and Nie Wei will shoot both indoor and outdoor content first, while the plot of the farm will be filmed until the corn grows taller.

For actors, they also need a familiar process, Nie Wei is ready to convene all the actors to train for at least half a month before filming, one is to cultivate tacit understanding, and the other is to reduce the sense of alienation.

After all, the plot that was filmed at the beginning is likely to be in the second half of the movie, and the look and tone of interaction between the characters require a sense of familiarity of reality to be substituted into the characters in order to perform better.

On May 1, Nie Wei once again packed his bags and prepared to leave for Hollywood, USA, and the actors selected by Nie Wei from all over the world also set off on the same day, and they will do a fourteen-day intensive training at Max Films before they will shoot officially.

When Nie Wei arrived in Los Angeles, Joseph had been training at Max Films for three days, but he was not alone, because he was accompanied by Keanu Revi.

When Keanu saw Nie Wei for the first time, his eyes bloomed with fiery light, and he leaned over with lightning speed, and shouted to Nie Wei in front of Joseph, "Master!!"