After the closing of the film festival, Lu Qiu and Li Yang returned to Beijing in triumph.

At this time, it was January 24, 1998, and there were still three days before the Spring Festival.

Li Yang stopped in the capital for a while, and then rushed back to SX's hometown for the New Year.

Lu Qiu is left, and he has to face the problem of whether to go home for the Spring Festival.

After thinking about it again, Lu Qiu called home and told his parents on the phone that he was busy with the release of new movies and that he couldn't go back for the Spring Festival.

The parents over there were obviously silent, and Lu Qiu hurriedly explained, saying that the movie won an award at Sundance and made millions, and now it must strike while the iron is hot and launch it in China, so as to maximize the benefits, and he also swore that he would send a large sum of money home within a month, and his parents should also improve the living environment.

This is indeed Lu Qiu's plan, he doesn't dare to face his current parents, he can only make up for it with money, for him, money is just a number.

I don't know if it was because they understood their son, or for some other reason, the parents over there accepted the fact that their son couldn't go home, told Lu Qiu to eat and drink well, and be careful not to get sick, so they hung up the phone.

Listening to the busy sound coming from the microphone, Lu Qiu couldn't say anything in his heart, relieved, or inexplicably lost, and so on.

He was silent in the phone booth for a moment, then shook his hands and dialed another phone number.

"Hello, who are you looking for?" said a familiar and kind voice through the earpiece.

Lu Qiu was a spirit, it was his mother, he wanted to call Mom, but he knew that it would only scare her.

"Auntie, is your son at home?" Lu Qiu asked with a trembling voice, wondering if he was still in this world.

"Son, are you mistaken, I only have one daughter, no son. ”

His mother's answer made Lu Qiu fall into an ice cellar.

The self in this world does not exist!

The parents turned out to have only one daughter!

"you, why are you still calling, hurry up and come over to stir-fry, if you don't come again, your daughter will fry all the dishes!"

"Dad, do you say that about your daughter, Mom, come and put out the fire!"

Two other voices also appeared on the phone, it was the father, and the daughter, Lu Qiu didn't know how to react when he heard it.

"Okay boy, you must have made the wrong call, I hung up. ”

Honk!

The mother on the other side hung up.

Lu Qiu stretched out his hand and wanted to fight again, but as if he was stopped by something, his hand hung in the air, and he didn't press it again.

The parents in this life dare not face it, and the parents in the previous life did not know that there was such a son, Lu Qiu, who had the confidence to control everything after being reborn, but was helpless in this matter.

Chinese New Year's Eve came so quickly, at night, outside the fire trees and silver flowers, firecrackers sounded, every household was lit up, and the atmosphere of reunion and festivity was even permeated in the air.

Lu Qiu is not a person who treats himself badly, he booked a high-end hotel that provides Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, ordered a table full of dishes, and planned to eat a big meal even if he was alone, but when it came time to go out, he changed his mind, and finally just took out a bag of quick-frozen dumplings that had been in the refrigerator for an unknown amount of time and cooked them to satisfy his hunger.

While watching the dumplings tumble in the hot water, someone suddenly knocked on the door.

Lu Qiu couldn't think of any acquaintance who would look for him at this time, maybe it was the landlord. He went to open the door weakly, and then saw two strange but extremely familiar faces, a man and a woman, suddenly appear in front of him. Lu Qiu was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears, threw himself out, hugged the middle-aged man and woman with a tired face, and shouted freely: "Dad, Mom! I want to kill you!"

Those two are Lu Qiu's parents in this life, Lu Qiao and Liang Qiao.

The arrival of Lu Qiao and Liang Qiao easily untied Lu Qiu's heart knot, and with such a pair of parents who loved him deeply, he had no reason to escape at all.

In this way, the first Spring Festival after Lu Qiu's rebirth was spent with his parents in his humble rental house.

Lu Qiu wanted to book the best room in a five-star hotel for his parents, and he told his parents that he was not short of money now, but that the money could only be transferred from abroad after the year, and there was no need to save so much.

But his parents insisted on living with him, and said that even if he had money, he couldn't spend it indiscriminately, and he had to save to marry a daughter-in-law.

In this regard, his parents were very insistent, and Lu Qiu could only reluctantly obey.

Live and save, and Lu Qiu will make his own decisions in other aspects. After the New Year, he took his parents to play, and watched and ate all the major attractions and delicacies of BJ, although it didn't cost much, but this period of time was the purest and purest period of time after he was reborn.

He didn't want anything, he just wanted to be happy with his parents and fulfill his filial piety, which was the thing he regretted the most in his previous life.

But his parents can't stay in BJ all the time, although Lu Qiu wants them to stay, he also has that ability, but his parents said to him: "The homeland is hard to leave, we are still young, and the old people in the family are still alive, and when they are all gone, we are also old, you just don't want us to be your oil bottle." ”

Lu Qiu understood this, so he had to reluctantly send his parents away.

When he returned to the rental house, he saw an envelope on the table, which contained 5,000 yuan and a note written by his father.

"Movie is a dream worth chasing, while your parents are young and support you, but don't force it, one day this dream can't be chased, if you want to give up, go home, we will always be waiting for you at home, son, we love you!"

Holding the note in his hand, Lu Qiu burst into tears in an instant.

Some misunderstandings are so touching.

After the Lantern Festival, Li Yang returned to Beijing from Xi'an, and Lu Qiu and he were busy with the domestic distribution of the Gate of Destiny.

The submission of the gate of fate for review was very smooth, after all, it is just a brain-burning sci-fi, not a sensitive and taboo subject, and before filming, Li Yang also completed all kinds of procedures such as shooting permits, and the beginning and end were clean, so it was very easy to pass the review.

And then there's the release.

Although there are many shady film distribution in later generations, there are also many relative channels, whether it is a large or small production and distribution company, or an advanced new media Internet distribution model, in short, aside from the development effect, there are still many choices.

But in '98, the choice was narrow.

At this time, the film distribution rights were not open to private companies, and it was not until 02 that the policy was officially introduced, and then BJ Bona got the distribution license and became the first private film distribution company in China. At this time, the right to distribute films was still in the hands of the major state-owned studios, of course, this was also after the issuance of Document No. 3 in 93.

At this time, the status of private capital in the film industry was still in the stage of 'having money to make films, but not having the right to sign them', and they had to buy the factory logo of the state-owned film producer in order to have the right to legally distribute it. For this reason, the two contacted several film studios, especially the Beijing Film Studio, which was close in front of them, and Li Yang contacted the director Han Sanye through Huang Jianxin's relationship. Han Sanye is a cheerful person, and Huang Jianxin's face as a classmate and old friend is also good, so he directly said hello and asked Lu Qiu to talk to the person in charge below.

Lu Qiu and the others thought it would go well, but they didn't expect that the king of Hades would be easy to see, the little ghost was difficult, and one broke the factory standard, and the two of them were stunned and didn't get it after four or five meals.

In the end, Li Yang was angry and angrily contacted other film studios, and after several encounters, he contacted Changchun Film Studio. Changying has been losing money for 6 consecutive years, and the working capital of a large factory with more than 3,000 people is only 30,000 yuan, but even so, Li Yang and Lu Qiu still spent a lot of time and cost to get those responsible and win the factory standard.

Such a process gave the two a very bad impression of the inefficient state-owned studio, so they did not consider it at all when it was released.

Fortunately, at this time, private distribution companies have emerged, such as BJ Huayi, BJ Forbidden City Pictures, BJ Jianji Film and Television Company, etc., all of which also have successful distribution experience.

Lu Qiu and Li Yang plan to look for collaborators in these private enterprises.

After all, in this environment, these companies can have distribution channels, or everyone has an amazing background, like Dong Ping, the boss of Huayi, who has a deep background in state-owned enterprises; So it's not much easier to deal with them than with those state-run studios.

However, after all, the interests of private companies come first, and negotiations with them are more about the proportion of issuance agency fees.

In this regard, all three companies have opened their mouths. While not bearing the cost of film publicity, Jianji Film and Television charges 15% of the box office as an agency fee. This is definitely the highest proportion of agency fees in the industry! And Huayi and the Forbidden City are even more ruthless, although they are responsible for the publicity and distribution costs, they have to charge 25% of the agency fees, which is much higher than the highest level in the industry!

Lu Qiu and Li Yang are also very helpless about this, who let one of the two of them be a director of the first brother and the other is an actor of the first brother, and it is still an independent film, for the distribution company, it is not to kill you.

In the end, Lu Qiu and Li Yang chose to build a foundation film and television, after all, the gate of fate is not lacking in publicity points, the Sundance Film Festival Jury Award, a domestic sci-fi turnaround, was also bought out by Weinstein Pictures for $1.25 million and entered the European and American markets. No matter what point it is around, the publicity effect will not be too bad, so the two choose to pay for the publicity and distribution by themselves, and Jianji Film and Television is responsible for the distribution.

After dealing with the release, it was already the end of February, and Li Yang dragged Lu Qiu to drink, not to celebrate, because the whole process was really not pleasant, and Li Yang complained about Lu Qiu.

"Jia Zhangke has won awards in Berlin, but I still have to fight back and forth with those bureaucrats and businessmen, which is really a waste of my life!"

It turned out that Li Yang was depressed that Jia Zhangke had just won the award at the Berlin Film Festival with Xiao Wu, although it was not an award, but after all, he became internationally famous, and it was not comparable to his Sundance award.

"Lao Li, you don't need to be envious, even if he wins more awards, he won't be able to release it in China, but it won't take long for our Gate of Destiny to meet the audience, and it's worth sacrificing some time for this. Lu Qiu comforted Li Yang, in fact, he also thought so, domestic films must be seen by the Chinese people on the big screen, otherwise where will the sense of accomplishment come from.

Li Yang also understood, but he was unwilling, "I just feel that I am no worse than Jia Zhangke, why should Berlin let him be shortlisted, where is the door of our destiny!"

Lu Qiu wants to say that there is still a difference, after all, the depth of the subject matter is not comparable, of course, Li Yang's ability is beyond doubt.

"Lao Li, don't worry, don't we also set up a company now, you continue to make the movie you want to make, Jia Zhangke's Xiaowu only spent 500,000 yuan in investment, and we now have several times the capital of him, I believe Lao Li, you will definitely be able to make a movie that conquers those foreigners, we don't want those insignificant awards, if you want to take it, you can take the golden bear and silver bear, this is relieved!" Lu Qiu encouraged Li Yang, because of the distribution, he and Li Yang set up a film company, Li Yang's original intention was to only have a minimum registered capital, but Lu Qiu still took out 2 million to account for 80% of the shares, Li Yang out of 500,000, accounting for 20% of the shares, and the new company was named Hill Pictures. Lu Qiu didn't intend to take care of it, and handed it over to Li Yang.

Li Yang was very moved, "The luckiest thing in my life is to meet you, brother, rest assured, I will not live up to your trust, and I will definitely do a good job in Hill Pictures!"

Lu Qiu also absolutely believes in Li Yang, not only in terms of his ability, but also in his character. In fact, when calculating the income of account sharing this time, Lu Qiu only needed to count seven million yuan, and the rest was given to Li Yang, which was a difference of 250,000 yuan. Lu Qiu felt that Li Yang had put in the most effort and deserved the money, but Li Yang insisted that he didn't want it, so he distributed it according to the proportion of capital contribution.

This principle and character alone make Lu Qiu not afraid of much trust.

Li Yang didn't take the 250,000 yuan after all, but Lu Qiu compensated him from other aspects. He hinted that Li Yang could make some films related to the mining disaster, so that he could pay attention to the news in this area.

This is naturally to guide Li Yang to shoot the blind well, but after all, the time is a few years earlier, and Lu Qiu is not sure what the result will be.

In short, the release of the Gate of Destiny was thrown to Hill Pictures and Li Yang, and Lu Qiu began to think about what he would do next, when he suddenly received a pager from Yuan Li asking him to meet.

Since last year's drunken disorder, Yuan Li has never contacted Lu Qiu again, feeling the rhythm of wanting to be friends, and now making an appointment to meet again, which makes Lu Qiu curious about what will happen to this girl.