Chapter 9: Expectant and apprehensive
After a short three-day holiday, the "Matrix" crew reassembled in the studio, and after a day or two, the entire crew quickly returned to normal working conditions.
It's just that the three-day vacation is not enough for the dozen or so foreign actors who are still waiting for filming to rush back to the United States, so most of them chose to rest in the apartments arranged by the crew, or go to the nearest place to travel and relax with the Chinese crew members who are familiar with each other.
Among them, under the deliberate friendship, Zhou Baoshan obviously has a lot of friends.
In the end, when the time entered late October, this group of more than a dozen American actors who stayed until the last ended the filming of their scenes and began to leave the crew one after another and return to the United States.
A few days later, all the scenes of "The Matrix" were finally filmed, and Li Qian officially announced that "The Matrix" was completed.
The crew was jubilant.
That night, in a villa specially used by Li Qian to entertain important guests and have a party, "The Matrix" held a grand finale banquet.
Even Elizabeth secretly drank several glasses of champagne and beer, and her face was flushed.
And the "approachable" new generation of kung fu superstar Zhou Baoshan was undoubtedly drunk by a group of people from the crew - Li Qian has been observing him for the past six months and has been touched a lot.
This guy has a very low background, and his starting point is even lower, although he was lucky enough to get the role of Huang Feihong later, and he has since begun to ascend to the sky, but I have to say that some of the little shrewdness brought by his grassroots background, and the very atmospheric and very global style he showed did make him more and more open.
Whether it is within or outside of Minghu culture, everyone's reputation and evaluation of him are quite good.
On the other hand, the first generation of Minghu culture, Zhu Qiang, who became popular by playing Xu Xian, is actually not bad at being a man and doing things, and he is also very smart, but his personality is obviously more introverted, and he also likes to do things more seriously, after becoming famous, first, Minghu culture did not come up with follow-up resources to continue to praise him, and secondly, he himself also prefers to take on some literary and artistic roles, so he has come and gone, and now a few years have passed, his popularity, influence, and his connections and reputation in the circle have actually continued to decline.
On the other hand, Zhou Zhiyu, this guy is also a more serious master, after "My Savage Girlfriend" became popular, he did not take the opportunity to go up, but plunged into the drama again, which is about one play every year, there are movies and TV series, and he has not been able to continue to be popular, but when it comes to him in the circle, everyone thinks that his coffee position and forced style have not fallen.
The three of them not only represent the three stages since the beginning of film and television production of Minghu Culture, but also basically represent the three different styles of the actor group.
Some people are from the grassroots, seize the opportunity and don't let go, climb all the way up, don't care about the inside, show on the outside, always be the best side of themselves, some people are reserved and introverted, but they are tactful and shrewd in doing things, so even if he is not the one who stands on the front line, everyone still attaches great importance to him, and there are other people who are more introverted and more self-conscious, so it is easier to get into the tip of the horns and can't get out.
At the end of the finale banquet, even He Yingyu, who no one dared to pour wine, drank so much that her face was red, and she hiccuped, and everyone went completely crazy.
Li Qian had no choice but to tell He Yingyu's assistant to take good care of her, and at the same time repeatedly explained to the drivers and security guards of a group of companies guarding the villa that everyone must be sent home safely.
As for himself, he chose to leave the venue early, and took out Xia Mengxiao, who was bouncing around in the field, and let her take her in his own car, ready to drive her back to the hotel.
Elizabeth looked very unhappy, and reluctantly waved goodbye to He Yingyu and them.
When he got into the car, he also complained to Li Qian.
Li Qian just laughed and didn't bother to pay attention to her.
When she got out of the car at the door of the hotel, the doorman came to open the door of the Rolls-Royce, Li Qian also got out of the car, and told her at the door of the hotel, "It's almost now, it's November soon, I talked to your parents on the phone two days ago, and promised them that I would send you back to the UK in a few days." So, the filming is also over, pack your luggage, and tomorrow you can ask the driver to drive you to say goodbye to your good friends, and then, the plane the day after tomorrow, back to the UK, OK?"
Elizabeth was not pleased, and pouted.
Li Qian reached out and stroked her hair, and said with a smile: "Okay! By Christmas, you can come and play for two days." Then, you can finish your studies well, and when you graduate from college in the future, you can come and continue to help me if you want!"
Elizabeth tilted her head to look at him.
Li Qian noticed that her expression was different, so he spread his hands and asked, "What's wrong?"
Elizabeth shook her head, shrugged her shoulders, and turned to enter the hotel.
Li Qian was a little stunned and puzzled.
But in the end, seeing her enter the hotel lobby and run to the elevator, of course Li Qian wouldn't catch up and ask her what's wrong, and he didn't care too much about the little girl's thoughts.
So he got back to the car and said, "Let's go, go home." ”
The driver asked, "Which home are you going back to?"
Li Qian thought for a while and said, "Go to Mr. Qi." ”
Qi Jie also went to the finale banquet just now, drank a lot of wine, and left early. Before leaving, it seemed that he was overwhelmed by alcohol.
It should be a good opportunity.
So, the driver, who kept Li Qian's road map in mind, immediately drove straight to Qi Jie's home.
But halfway through the car, Li Qian remembered the previous times Qi Jie had rejected him, and couldn't help but rub his brows in distress, and finally said: "Forget it, turn around, go back to the sheepfold alley, go see my son!"
The driver didn't dare to say anything, just said yes, and then found an intersection to turn around.
When he returned to the sheepfold alley, it was almost eleven o'clock, Li Qian forgot to call in advance, and then called Zhou Yan's assistant to wake up the little girl and open the door for himself.
Li Shesheng had already fallen asleep.
The little face was flushed, and he slept heavily, looking like he was sleeping hard.
Zhou Yan got up with her clothes on, and also came here, and when she saw that Li Qian didn't turn on the light, she sat in front of her son's small bed, looked at him without blinking, and didn't come over, standing at the door, leaning on the door frame, looking at the two of them.
Li Qian sat there for seven or eight minutes before he raised his head.
The black light was blinding, he smiled at Zhou Yan, reached out to help his son pull the small quilt again, and then got up lightly and walked over, hugged Zhou Yan's waist, went out together, and carefully closed the door.
Zhou Yan said: "You don't need to close the door, at twelve o'clock, he must have been awakened by his first bubble of urine, and he must have peed on the bed, and he will come over to change his bed." But before that, he was generally not woken up. ”
Li Qian laughed at first, and then became a little depressed.
The reason why I walked halfway and turned back was not because I felt that I would not be able to enter the door, let alone that I would be kicked out by Qi Jie, but the key was that I suddenly remembered my own pair of children.
Now Liao Liao is basically not in the country all year round, and Wang Jinglu is pregnant with a child, so he will definitely spend more time with Wang Jinglu, plus he is busy with work, after a month, in addition to often changing places to sleep at night, it is really rare to have time to accompany his children.
Because every time they come back, they are already asleep.
The next morning, before they woke up, Li Qian had already gotten up early and left.
Only in the middle of the night, when I am occasionally awakened, I will also get up and watch Zhou Yan or He Runqing change the children's diapers and mattresses, and hug them at that time.
And although they are sleepy-eyed, they still know that it is Dad, so they will stretch out their little hands, hold your clothes tightly, and sometimes tell their mother the next day, saying that they dreamed of Dad's at night.
Every time he heard them talk about this, Li Qian would feel a little sad.
Zhou Yan stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the face, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Qian smiled and shook his head.
Zhou Yan looked at him and asked, "It's finished?"
Li Qian nodded, "It's finished." ”
"Have you eaten the finale?"
Li Qian nodded again.
After a while, he smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "I won't be going anywhere tomorrow!" ”
Zhou Yan smiled, stretched out her hand and touched his face.
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The next day, Li Qian, who was relaxed, really spent a whole day with his children, and he didn't go anywhere, even Xiao Li Cha's diapers were changed by him.
Of course, for him, such time is only one day.
The next day, he'll have to get back to work.
The matter of "The Matrix" can be put aside for the time being, but "Gourd Baby" has been completely completed, and he is anxious to watch it again and make the final adjustments.
Treating this matter, Li Qian was extremely serious.
Because this version of "Hulu Baby", and the version of the cartoon "Hulu Brothers" in his impression, in addition to retaining a certain degree of similarity in appearance, the character settings are basically the same, the whole story has been completely changed - the original story setting is too young, if you want to shoot according to the original story, it can only be made into TV animation, even if it is barely processed into movie animation, it can only make some children interested, but it cannot achieve the level of "family carnival".
And if an animated movie can't make young parents like to watch it, so that they only yawn when they watch movies with their children, then the box office will definitely not look good - in the end, the people who pay for movie tickets are still the parents of their children after all.
Therefore, this version of "Hulu Baby" of Minghu Animation is certainly based on the setting of "Hulu Brothers", but the whole movie and the whole story are already completely original.
And has lost the object that can be imitated and referenced, for such a work, whether it can be done well, whether it can open a door for domestic animated films, in fact, Li Qian is not too sure in his heart.
Of course, the more this is the case, the more serious it must be.
This animation has been done for about a year and a half, and the entire production cost, even if you throw aside the technical upgrades that belong to recycling, are already as high as more than 80 million!
In other words, it is more expensive than any live-action film or TV series produced by Minghu Culture so far - counting future publicity and distribution, its expenditure before entering the cinema is steadily more than 100 million!
Such a film is extremely stressful for Minghu Animation, which is producing for the first time.
Because once you don't get it right, the market can't be hot, and you will definitely lose money!
Of course, every time Li Qian held a meeting before this, he would repeatedly emphasize that he should not be afraid of losing money!
But here's the problem, if this animated film can't become popular, if it loses money at the box office, then how can it open a door for domestic animated films?
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Beginning on October 29, Li Qian completely threw away "The Matrix", which had completed the filming stage, and threw himself on Minghu Animation.
The story was originally created by Li Qian, and then after everyone's collective efforts and repeated discussions, the picture took nearly 20 months, frame by frame.
Watch it again, watch it again, watch it again.
Li Qian's heart was expectant and apprehensive.
But in the end, the next morning, he decided that there would be no more changes to this version.
When the news came out, there was jubilation inside Minghu Animation.
This means that their investment in the past year or so, the first work since the official establishment of the company, has officially announced the completion of the production stage.
The staff shall be entitled to leave and the bonus shall be paid.
At the same time, its entire publicity and distribution plan was once again brought out for discussion.
If it is to be released, there is nothing to say in China, director Li Qian's works, with an investment of more than 100 million, the first domestic animated film, a new interpretation of ink animation that has amazed the world, etc., etc., the film and television distribution department of Minghu Culture has a variety of publicity and distribution plans.
If Li Qian can come forward to hug his little prince and little princess at that time, then the topic will be even higher.
Moreover, because Li Qian and Minghu Culture have sold so many movies in the past, and almost never have a bad box office record, so although they will hesitate to make animated films, various theaters in China will still buy it - who made this Li Qian's work!
Even, even the schedule can be picked and thinned by Minghu culture!
As long as Li Qian fancies which schedule, then no problem, I can make way for you to make way for the schedules originally planned for other films, reduce the schedule of other films, and increase the weight for you!
But the problem is that Li Qian wants to arrange for the film to be released simultaneously around the world during Christmas, which will be a little difficult to achieve in North America.
Because Oriental Dream Film Company in the United States does not have the ability to distribute a movie on a large scale in North America for the time being, and according to John Deiss's suggestion, the best at distributing this family carnival genre, especially this kind of animated film, is obviously Disney.
And on the contrary, in this year's Christmas file, Disney has its own animated movie to be released!
At this time, they are obviously reluctant to arrange for another animated film with almost the same audience orientation to be released to grab the box office.
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