Throughout 2005, Li Qian's life seemed monotonous and stable.

Rarely, there are only some very "simple" things left in his life, making movies, accompanying his women and children, and taking one or two days a month to deal with the company's affairs - Film and Television City and Shuntianfu, two points and one line. Smooth and bland.

This lasted until the last month of 2005.

On December 22, 2005, in the studio exclusive to the crew of "Avatar" in Minghu Film and Television City in the southern suburbs of Shuntianfu, Li Qian held a loudspeaker and finally shouted out such a sentence loudly-

"Now, I announce that Avatar is officially ...... It's done!"

The audience boiled.

Although in the later stage, the filming progress of the crew has begun to exceed the fastest speed expected, which has greatly shortened the filming cycle, but even so, it is only half a month.

Filming officially started in mid-March, during which countless actors, including a large number of European and American actors, came and went, and filmed until the end of December - nine and a half months of shooting, which was really tiring!

Not to mention a few main actors from Hollywood, even a group of local crew members have a feeling that they can't stand it in the later stage.

Let's talk about a magical thing - since Li Qian met Fu Xuelong, this guy has never lost weight, every year every year he will be a little fatter than last year, every time he doesn't see him for two months, he gets a little fatter, I want to shoot "Red Sorghum" at the beginning, the crew is stationed in the countryside, lives in a small county town, and the living conditions are not very good, and that drama is the first time that Fu Fatzi is really in charge of the camera independently, he is very hard, very hard, and very attentive, but after the movie is finished, he is still fat. followed Zhao He to film "Huang Feihong's Man Should Be Self-Improvement", the crew filmed near Yangcheng for more than a month, Fu Fatzi complained that he couldn't stand the heat over there, and he couldn't stand the taste of local food, but it was so hot and unaccustomed to the food flavor, and when he came back from there, he was still fat.

But this time, "Avatar" was filmed for nine and a half months, and he lost eleven pounds.

The company knew in advance that the crew would be finished today, so Qi Jie, Cao Zhan, Zou Wenhuai and others rushed over, and Bai Yujing, who had already been out of drama for a long time, also rushed back, waiting to witness the completion of "Avatar".

When Li Qian announced the completion of the filming, everyone packed up their things and went to the restaurant inside the film and television city to have a finale dinner, Qi Jie boldly announced that all the crew members who participated in the filming would be paid an additional 10% of their salaries, and the salaries during filming and preparation would also be increased by 10%.

As soon as this big red envelope was sent out, the scene of the finale banquet was really boiling.

To tell the truth, the schedule of nine and a half months, although it is certainly not the longest, is already far beyond the filming time of ordinary crews - even if it is a few directors who like to grind slowly in domestic filming, after a movie is filmed, six months is not short, like Jin Han and a group of people nesting in northern Shaanxi, and the shooting on a cold day is more than five months, which is already a rare long cycle.

So, everyone is very tired, mainly psychologically.

This concept is basically the same as the principle that an author at a certain point writes a book for several years - no one likes to live a life that is the same every day, and the initial passion will be exhausted in the repetitive labor day after day.

So, what is the most relieving of fatigue, and what is the most able to gather people's hearts?

Red envelope!

Especially the big red envelope!

So, everyone at the finale banquet was staggering, but there was a smile on the corner of their mouths, and it seemed that even the hard work of the past nine and a half months had been smashed by a red envelope.

The next day, several American actors, who had really had enough of staying in China, politely rejected the suggestion of Minghu Culture to send someone to take them on a tour of China, and hurriedly flew back before Christmas in the West.

Li Qian rested at home for a day, returned to the company the next day, and began to arrange the post-production special effects and production of "Avatar" - this film adopts the method of filming and production, but 3D, motion capture, special effects rendering and other dimensions of work together, and each Li Qian is required to reach the world's top level, or even a little higher than the top level, so this progress is really not up.

"Avatar" was filmed for nine and a half months, and the post-production side has followed up for nine and a half months, and even, counting the time of many models involved in the production of the film in the early stage, the post-production side has been followed up for up to a year and a half, and next, they will continue to work for this movie for another year!

In the plan formulated in advance, Li Qian hopes that by the end of November 2006, the film will be able to completely complete all the post-production work, and then calmly lay out the global distribution.

Of course, a lot of work in post-production will be undertaken by a team of more than 200 people from the special effects department and the research institute, and Li Qian is only responsible for making requirements, checking, putting forward modification requirements, and finally confirming the qualification and acceptance.

His main work in the post-production is actually editing, and soundtrack.

But he had a whole year to do it, so the pressure wasn't too much.

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In January 2006, Minghu Culture held its own annual meeting in accordance with the practice of previous years.

It's still grand, but it seems to be clouded.

Zhou Baoshan didn't come.

Of course, the excuses are high-sounding. He is currently shooting a film in the south, the producer is Oriental Media Group, it is said that he has invested more than 100 million yuan, and the salary he is given is as high as 15 million plus box office share.

Many crews in China don't even have a holiday during the Spring Festival, let alone Christmas and New Year's Day or something, not to mention that you don't have anything to do when you go back, just go back to participate in a so-called company annual meeting?

Therefore, Zhou Baoshan, who came every year in previous years, did not come this year, saying that it was not good to ask for leave, as the leading actor, the entire crew that would be delayed as soon as he asked for leave stopped waiting for him.

But it doesn't matter.

It is no secret that Zhou Baoshan did not renew his contract, both inside and outside Minghu Culture, and everyone even began to openly talk about which company Zhou Baoshan would go to to the studio for his next stop.

However, there are almost as many people who are not as optimistic as there are those who are optimistic.

And even more.

Because she left Minghu Culture in 2004, Liu Yan, who seemed to be about to show her strengths, also attracted many emerging actors in Minghu Culture to start watching, but in the past 2005, she ushered in a slap!

The first investment of her personal studio, that is, 20 million investment in "The Great Wall", let alone making a profit, finally got her share after Huafei Film and Television got all the box office shares, only 5.74 million - I don't know who came out of it, anyway, as soon as this data came out, it quickly spread throughout the entertainment industry.

It is estimated that Liu Yan is so depressed that she can vomit blood!

Over the years, since she became popular because of Xiaoyanzi in "Princess Huanzhu", she has made 145 TV series in a few years, and she has also played soy sauce in several movies, and has received a lot of endorsements, of course, she must have earned a lot of money, but to tell the truth, she has only been popular for a few years? An actor who only earns money by getting paid and receiving advertising endorsements, no matter how high his income is, it is limited.

Overestimated, before jumping ship and leaving Minghu Culture, all the net worth she earned over the years was definitely less than 100 million, considering her own various expenses needs, including real estate, cars, etc., and then considering some basic expenses she needed to invest in opening a studio, after investing 20 million in "The Great Wall", it is estimated that the remaining funds in her own hands will not be too much.

And the Great Wall, which she had high hopes for, actually made her lose so badly!

Her TV series salary is top-notch in the current country, but even so, close to fifteen million, she has to shoot almost two or three TV series to earn it back!

If you don't consider the drama and how much you have to take a break between the two dramas, it will basically take more than a year to finish the filming of the three TV series.

However, according to Li Qian's later learning, I didn't know if Liu Yan felt that investment was more important, or that it was more important to seize the opportunity to cooperate with the great director Qin Wei and become his heroine, in short, in her opinion, the temporary salary of a film does not seem to be so important, at least not as important as the first two.

Therefore, she got the first two, but she only got two million in salary.

If the drama is popular, it's okay to say, the price can be raised at any time, as long as you have a blockbuster drama poking there, let alone Liu Yan, even if you are a newcomer, it is common for a drama to rise to 350,000 before it is popular, and it will rise to 35 million immediately after it becomes popular - but the problem is that "The Great Wall" pounced very badly.

The street hit of this drama almost directly blocked Liu Yan's movie road!

Don't say anything about the price increase, even if it is two million, no one will be brave enough to ask her to make a movie - of course, a cameo or a small supporting role is another matter.

Therefore, with her in the first instance, the hearts of Minghu Culture, which were originally a little restless in the first half of the year, suddenly settled down again.

The reason is actually quite simple.

The film industry is one of the world's most famous legal and lucrative industries, but there are losses when there are gains, and no matter whether they are Chinese or foreign, they lose more than they earn!

After getting used to Minghu culture, some people may have some illusions, thinking that you see, all the movies I make have made have made money, and they are all very profitable! So, why can't I also participate in it, from a simple actor who gets a salary, to a capital party?

But in fact, it's just a blind eye.

Jumping out of Minghu culture and looking out, whether it is the domestic film industry or Hollywood, there are more films that lose money - not just any company can make a popular one, nor can any person take one after another and become popular.

Because of this, great directors with more guaranteed quality will be so trusted and relied on by capital.

And Liu Yan has already taken the most reliable and high-end route that everyone can think of - the first step for her to jump out is to become the heroine of Qin Wei's movie and participate in the investment!

However, it turns out that these days, the big director is not reliable!

Looking at it, at present, in China, there seems to be only one Minghu culture that can be a red one, and it is so reliable that it is terrifying - in this case, it is still a fart! Honestly do your own business, strive to be more popular, and strive to be ordered by the boss as soon as possible, so that the company agrees to open a studio!

Because the individual studio affiliated with the company's name is allowed to participate in the film investment of up to 10%!

Like in the past 2005, the four studios under the company's name, Feng Yumin, Jin Han, Han Shunzhang and Bai Yujing, have all participated in the company's new dramas - at present, this is almost sure to make money!

Jinhan Studio participated in 5% of its new play "A Chinese Ghost Story", and Feng Yumin Studio participated in 10% of Feng Bicheng's new play "Crazy Racing".

Han Shunzhang and Bai Yujing's studios have also invested in TV series.

And well-informed people know that Han Shunzhang has been preparing his first film in the last months of 2005 after finishing the filming of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

It is said that in the next year, the film will be officially launched.

And for this movie, the company has recently signed several new actors - internal gossip, it is said that two of them are used as Zhou Baoshan's spare tires, as long as Zhou Baoshan's contract expires and is not renewed, one of them will take over the "Once Upon a Time" series left by Zhou Baoshan, and the second part of "The Matrix" that may start filming. And the other one is said to be the newcomer that Han Shunzhang is going to support.

The two of them have two things in common: first, they are handsome, and second, they have a certain kung fu foundation.

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In the past 2005, the development of Minghu culture has been on a step-by-step basis.

It still has the largest group of stars in the entire Chinese entertainment industry, no matter how big or small these people are, almost all of them leave Minghu culture and are automatically promoted by one level, or even two levels, and they are also the current backbone of the entire Chinese music scene, Chinese TV drama circle, and Chinese film circle, active on the big screen and small screen last year, and also active on various stages, variety shows and catwalks.

Compared with 2004, Minghu Culture's film and TV series produced last year have reduced production, but the quality and dominance ability still maintain a high level that almost no one in China can challenge.

And it is gratifying that in addition to its own director and production, Minghu Culture, as a simple distributor, has also gained a lot this year.

The key is that this year, Minghu Culture has successfully released a number of masterpieces by new directors, which has made a lot of profits, and has reached a good cooperative relationship with the new film forces that are rising in the past two years.

For example, "The True Story of Zhong Kui" in the first half of the year, such as "Happy Events in the Family", which suddenly became popular in the summer file, are among them.

What is more regrettable may be that although Minghu Culture has been working hard, the distribution rights of Lin Xianzhi, the director of "The True Story of Zhong Kui", were still snatched by Oriental Media Group.

This made Li Qian quite helpless - because Qi Jie said that the distribution department wanted to win the distribution rights of this movie, Li Qian also rushed back on purpose, invited Wei Ping, the general manager of Shuntian Satellite TV, to dinner, and asked him to call his daughter, but as a result, the girls couldn't live or die, so Lao Wei brought over a sentence, saying, "When will my box office surpass Uncle Li Qian, when will I meet him!"

What can Li Qian do with this?

While becoming an idol, being praised as a genius, and being admired by hundreds of millions of people, it is impossible to stand that there are some arrogant people who worship Li Qian to the ground, but at the same time subconsciously stand opposite him, vowing to be his enemy until he is defeated!

Li Qian is also very helpless!

Li Qian didn't want to do this either!

And what's even more helpless is that Wei Ping's name is Lin Xianzhi's illegitimate daughter, she is simply a ghost, she is a girl, it is said that she has just graduated from the Chinese Opera Directing Department for two or three years, and she filmed a low-cost "The True Story of Zhong Kui", with an inexplicable unrestrained temperament, and sold more than 30 million box office.

When it comes to the new movie, the investment of eight million is still a small cost. The key is that she is still a fast gunner, and she has completed five or six months of preparation and post-production of the tape.

After being packaged and promoted by Oriental Media Group, it was released on December 21, 2005, the day before the completion of "Avatar", but it won more than 37 million box office in the first week of release.

By the time the movie finally went offline in early February, it was already a year later, and the 8 million investment in the entire movie finally got a theater box office of more than 94 million.

And this girl is smart, her "The True Story of Zhong Kui" is a debut work, because it was given by her father, so of course the editing right is in her hands, and when she waits for the second work, she still insists on small-cost investment, and she only gets a director's salary of 300,000 yuan, but she has won a maximum of no more than 5% of the box office share, and the final cutting right that almost every director is extremely eager to get.

So, although the box office did not exceed 100 million in the end, she could only get 4% of the box office share in the end, but it was still as high as more than 3 million - much better and more than when she opened her mouth to ask for the director's salary!

Moreover, in the first and second parts, two in a row, she always held the right to final cutting in her hands, and successively achieved box office hits.

For a new director, that's all that matters!

I have to say that this girl is really extremely smart and talented.

Of course, for the time being, she is still a little weak.

At least it is still a little far from the goals of "challenging Li Qian" and even "defeating Li Qian".

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At the end of January 2006, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year.

One of the leading directors of Minghu Culture, Feng Bicheng, once again landed in theaters across the country with his new movie - with the previous big sales of "Big Shot" and "Crazy Stone", coupled with the fact that Minghu Culture has been promoting and hyping the concept of "Spring Festival Files" for a long time in advance, many audiences have been looking forward to this "Crazy Racing" for a long time.

In fact, the film did not disappoint everyone.

It's just as amazing as ever!

The box office was 211 million in the first week of release, and it was still as high as 147 million in the second week, which not only directly announced the success of "Crazy Racing" at the box office, but also completely promoted Liu Zhongxin, who was loved by the audience because of "Crazy Stone", to the position of "comedy star" and "super comedian".

Following the righteous and harmonious Zhou Zhiyu and the "simple but funny" Huang Ge, Minghu Culture has another golden sign in terms of actors!