"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to the Saperstein Theatre and welcome to tonight's charity gala, an evening of love and hope. ”

On January 8, 2005, the night sky of Los Angeles was nothing special, and the Harvard-Westlake Middle School campus was filled with a clear and soft girl's voice through the sound equipment.

The audience was packed, almost all the junior high school students attended, and some teachers and parents, this was a fundraising party for the South Asian tsunami spontaneously organized by the junior high school student union, the middle school charity association, the Asia + American Culture Club and other clubs.

The young faces were all calm, looking at the girl in the white dress on the stage, she raised two thick eyebrows, held a wireless microphone, and was making an unscripted opening remarks.

She is the host and initiator of the party, the editor of the school newspaper "Spectrum", the president of the new club "Journalism Society", and the female president of the junior high school student union this academic year.

Lily Collins, a well-known figure and the ex-girlfriend of another school legend, Ye Wei.

......

On Saturday night, January 15, the live broadcast and unadvertised "Tsunami Relief Charity Performance" concert was broadcast simultaneously on 10 U.S. broadcast networks, including NBC, and co-filmed at seven locations in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, London, New York, and Los Angeles.

Clooney, Cage, Depp, DiCaprio, Eastwood, Freeman, Pitt, Willis, Tarantino...... Halle Berry, Godie Han, Kate Hudson, Natalie Portman, Meg Ryan, Naomi Watts, Swank, Zellweger, Zeta-Jones...... Magic Red, Madonna...... There are also two US presidents, Clinton and Bush.

Among them, there are very few young guests, Ramo Willis attended with his father, and of course, the prodigy Ye Wei, who is the only Asian youth idol in the United States, the light of the Asian American community, viy and another long-established Asian American guest, Lucy Liu (Lucy Liu), seem to represent something, although they are both Chinese, not South Asian.

So on the TV screen, he was given many shots, and the audience in front of the TV saw him sitting in the audience in a black casual suit in the NBC studio in Burbank, Los Angeles, with a faint look on his face, just like the other guests around.

In Toronto, despite the time difference, Nina was waiting in front of the TV on time, and when she saw the love of her heart, she couldn't help but smile, and she really couldn't grieve.

She remembered the perfect vacation not long ago, Paris, Rome, and Sofia, Bulgaria, she took Yunic to her hometown, and went to many attractions, playing, talking, **, leaving a good memory that will never be forgotten.

"Yunik, am I beautiful?" The day before her return, she wore a red and white apron ednoprestilchena, a traditional Bulgarian costume, embellished with flower embroidery, and a scarf and hat woven with coins and beads and flowers on her head.

"You're the most beautiful girl in the world!" he said, however, with a look of amazement on his face, and then ......

Thinking of those sweet lingerings, Nina chuckled, stupid, and torn her clothes.

After Sofia, I came back to North America and took a different flight. She returned to Toronto, where Wexford's winter break ended on Jan. 6, and he was back in Los Angeles for the time being, with work and charity activities to do. He came over last weekend, because the 9th was her 16th birthday, and that day created a lot of good things.

Nina thought, we are so happy, but there are so many people in the world who are suffering, we must donate money! Now we have a little savings, donate five hundred dollars.

I can't get it if I donate more, I spent a lot of money when I traveled, and I have to prepare a birthday gift for Yunik on the 19th of next month.

......

"We are here tonight, not because of anything good, we all know that last year, on December 26, local time, there was a terrible disaster in the Indian Ocean, a magnitude 9 earthquake caused a huge tsunami, many people died, many people lost their families, their homes, a qiē.

They have become displaced victims and they need everyone who can help them to lend a helping hand and work with them to rebuild their homes and overcome the disaster.

We're the ones who can lend a hand, and tonight, we're raising $500,000 to receive donations from students, but also from faculty and parents, all of which go to the Red Cross. The evening will feature singing, dancing and other artistic performances, and we sincerely hope that our love can comfort the souls of the deceased and bring hope to the living. Now, please observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims. ”

The clear girl's voice stopped, and there was silence in the theater, and many people closed their eyes and made prayer gestures.

Three minutes later, on stage, Lily said: "Next, I will sing a song, "Another-Day-In-Paradise" by my father Phil Collins, if everyone's hearts are touched, please don't just touch, please donate, thank you." ”

There was a round of applause from the audience, there was no whistle or shouting, everyone applauded politely, but there were actually not a few students who were excited, Lily Collins sang! That is really rare, it is estimated that Ye Wei has heard her sing in the whole school before today, and it is one of her father's most famous songs, "Another Day in Heaven".

The melancholy accompaniment resounded in the theater with the sound of drums, the beat of Qingyue, the tune that never went out of style.

Lily took two light steps, nodded slightly to the rhythm, looked at the people in the rows of seats in front of her, seemed to be thinking about something, and sang into the microphone:

She called out to a passerby in the street

Sir, can you help me?

It was cold and I was displaced

Can you tell me where I can go?

The man continued walking, without looking back

He pretended not to hear her

Began to whistle across the street

As if staying there would embarrass him

Oh, reconsider

Think of another day when you and I happened to meet in heaven

Oh, reconsider

On that other day, you and I happened to meet in heaven

......

After returning to Los Angeles from Europe, Ye Wei immediately devoted himself to busy work, of course, he was very reluctant to leave Nina's side, but he would not allow himself to indulge in beauty and delay things, he had to rest when he rested, and he had to work hard when he worked hard!

On his first day back in Los Angeles, he auditioned for the final selection of "Dewyan" and finalized the candidate.

The most competitive in the entire finalist list are four people, 17-year-old Michael Angrano, 19-year-old Paul Dano, 23-year-old Michael Pitt, and 27-year-old Jon Hyde. Four people, four different temperaments and different performance styles.

In terms of the age of "Dwyan", Angelano is the most suitable, but the real age is often the least important for casting, as long as it is like, and the audience can't see the actor's birth paper, Jon Hyde played a high school student in "The Big Napoleon" at the age of 25 as real and believable.

What Angrano wants, Ye Wei can't see it really, the other party seems to really want to reconcile and be friends. He's not a stingy person, and Angrano doesn't have anything to hate him, Michael, it's okay to reconcile with you, but not with your girlfriend, wait until you break up and be friends again.

Now there is only work! Angelano was the first to be eliminated, and it was precisely because he had doubts before, his temperament was sunny, healthy, and he could not see melancholy, so he was not suitable to play Dwyan.

Jon Hyde was then eliminated because, although he didn't resemble "Napoleon" with styling and makeup, he was more mature in appearance, and his acting style was more commercial comedy than black humor.

The funny thing about the story of "Little Sunshine Beauty" is not the characters themselves, but it is precisely because a group of people who don't seem funny do something that makes people cry and laugh, forming a contrast and contrast that is funny, and there is sadness and thinking in the laughter, so Jon Hyde was eliminated.

Paul Dano and Michael Pitt, both of whom have similar temperaments, both have melancholy and neurotic labels, but they are actually two kinds of subdivisions, Pete's melancholy is really melancholy, rock, decadent, gray, and there is almost no sunshine in him, even if he laughs, he is depressed.

Paul Dano is different, his melancholy exudes a silly air, as well as a bookish air, an introverted, communicative nerd, fake melancholy, like pretending to be garlic.

Ye Wei didn't need to think much about it, and he chose the winner, the most suitable of these people, Paul Dano.

A few days later, the official website of "Little Sunshine Beauty" announced the last member of the online lineup, flipping the card of "Dewyan", you can see a melancholy nerd: "I hate everyone!"

......

"You guys did it, you must have done it, how about the viy table?"

In Toronto, in the rhythmic gymnastics training hall, a group of tall girls surrounded Nina and chirped excitedly, gossiping about the topics they cared about most.

Nina looked angry with "annoyed to death by you" and stepped aside: "This is a secret, I won't tell you." The girls immediately shouted in disappointment, and followed her step by step, Alice teased: "Very bad? I can't believe that he looks so strong...... Liz also added: "It's not good, it's not good in this area, it's not good to be handsome, smart and humorous." ”

Knowing that this was a radical method, Nina was still excited, and she couldn't hear others say half a bad word about Yunik, so she yelled at them: "He's so powerful, I can't stand it anymore, so I'll say this." They all laughed and exclaimed, and Alice wondered, "Can you lend him to me for a day and a night?"

"No!" Nina gave her middle finger. Alice begged, "Shall we be together?" Nina laughed and scolded, "you!" Liz gossiped and asked, "What size is he?" Nina screamed as if she was going crazy, and then provoked a reprimand from the coach: "Girls, I can't see your streamers dancing!"

Nina waved the ribbon stick in her hand and ran over like a saved, jumped in the air, landed on the ground, stood on her right foot, leaned back with her left foot, leaned forward, and continued to dance the streamer.

Alice, Hailei and others also danced over, rehearsing team movements, and streamers fluttered one after another.

Sweat dripping from her forehead, but Nina smiled, the World Youth Championships are not far away, whenever you are tired from training, as long as you think about Yunic, you are full of energy!

......

"Exorcism Video" has found a distributor!

On January 13th, the matter was finally settled, and it may be an exaggeration to say "finally", because although it was rejected by publishers in the active market, Ye Wei, Grande, and Potter Cole were all angry, but the total time can really be called smooth, and there are still companies that know how to appreciate its quality.

It's not the zeitgeist, it's not Rogge Films, the former thinks "it's not a pseudo-documentary, it's a mess", and the latter thinks that "there is no market for pseudo-documentaries".

Lionsgate, on the other hand, thought it was unique, innovative, commercial enough, and literary and artistic enough to be praised by critics. They came up with a buyout plan, Lionsgate gave Cliff Films a million dollars, and "Exorcism Video" went to Lionsgate, all the rights.

It takes more than a month to make zuò+ sales, and you can earn 550,000, any ultra-low-cost exploitation film producer will be satisfied, but Ye Weizhi is not here, he is not in a hurry to ask for 550,000 now, and he is more confident that "Exorcism Video" has a lot to do, so he doesn't sell it, he wants a cooperative distributor, and it is a theater distribution.

In this way, there is a different way of saying it, Lionsgate's original plan was to buy it for disc distribution and distribute it in cooperative theaters? And there are a bunch of secrecy requirements, how about Yonick Guxiang, Terrence Malick, or Alan Smith (a pseudonym for the Directors Guild of America)?

And the most bizarre clause is that if a distributor wants to expand the release of a film, it needs to get the producer's consent, and can it not agree?

Lions thought about it for several days and wanted to have an interview with Gu You, but there were still only mysterious phone calls and Andrew Grande.

The two Grande conveyed Gu You's latest meaning, a clause that impressed Lionsgate, 6 months after the film's theatrical release, regardless of whether it was released on a large scale or not, Lionsgate was free to distribute the film in North America, a very favorable proportion figure for their share.

In fact, Lionsgate really doesn't worry about theatrical distribution, whether this film is qualified for release is the first thing to consider, the final result is to try it, invest a small amount of publicity funds, 100,200,000, build an official website to promote the virus on the Internet, and then screen it in two or three theaters for a week.

This money is regarded as the copyright fee of the North American disc of "Exorcism Video", and Lionsgate still earns money, which could only be obtained for 1 million, but now it can be obtained for 200,000 yuan, and they only need to meet the dream of the release of the cliff movie, why not? The quality of this film has aroused their sensitive sense of smell, and they are really reluctant to let go of the opportunity to have it released.

Lionsgate did not have any expectations, after the fiasco of last year's April Fool's Day schedule (the horror film "God's Gift" with a production fee of 25 million yuan only received 30.11 million global box office in the end), they do not plan to attack this schedule again this year, and only arrange a small-scale release of the comedy "Heartbreak Past" and the feature film "State-owned Property 2" to seize the box office outside of horror films, while horror films focus on the Halloween schedule, "Chainsaw 2".

Therefore, last year's "Heavenly Gift" was released on April 30, with 2,323 theaters opened.

This year's "Exorcism Video" is scheduled for April 22, and the number of theaters to open is tentatively set at 2, one each in Los Angeles and Toronto.

......

On January 14, DreamWorks released and announced that the world's much-anticipated "Little Sunshine Beauty" is finalized, and it will be released in North America on November 11 this year!

This caused an uproar in the entertainment media, and there was a lot of speculation about the release date of the LMS, 2005, or 2006, the beginning of the year, the middle of the year, or the end of the year.

In November 2005, on the eve of the awards season, who could say it didn't have ambition for those glittering trophies?

The week of November 11-17 will be a week full of grievances and hatreds, and let's see what films are scheduled for that week: Jumanji 2, which stars Kristen Stewart, whose scandal with Ye Wei is well known, and "Pride and Prejudice", whose producer and distributor are Focus Films, and LMS is also known for the projects that Focus Abandoned.

There are also "Money Don't Die" and "Jedi Dragon", two spoilers that cannot be ignored. And from the 18th to the 24th of the next week, another highly anticipated literary film "Walking with Songs" will be released, and the commercial masterpiece "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" will be released!

In the competition with these opponents, what box office schedule can "Little Sunshine Beauty" have in the first two weeks?

At the same time as announcing the finalization of LMS, DreamWorks Distribution also announced that the documentary about it and Ye Wei "VIY: Dream Chasing, Sunshine Little Beauty, and the Birth of a Prodigy" is finalized! It will premiere on the Science Fiction Channel on October 30.

For Ye Wei, this young genius who is considered to have not really proven himself and is considered incredible, has he completed a grand occasion that shocked the world, or is he praised and the worse he falls?

The media and the public are eagerly awaiting answers.

......

New Year's Day 2005, Rome, Italy, Palatine Hill, it is one of the seven hills of Rome in the center, from the top of the hill, you can see the Roman Forum and the Colosseum, as if you can see the enthusiastic spectators and gladiators fighting to the death.

The primitive tribes respected the storyteller, but if his story was not told well, they would kill him and eat it for dinner.

"Everyone, listen to !!"

A young couple is standing on the edge of a hill in an ancient ruins on the top of the mountain, looking out at the blue sky and the city of Rome, where ancient and modern buildings are combined.

Ye Wei felt the open-mindedness and ambition of his heart, and shouted out of the mountain: "I don't care if you are a man or a woman, whether you are sad or happy, listen!"

He opened his hands suddenly, raised his head, and shouted louder and louder: "My name is Ye Wei, my name is Gu You, "Little Sunshine Beauty" will be successful, "Exorcism Video" will be successful, and my documentary will also be successful, that is me!"

Nina next to her also opened her hands and shouted together: "Yes, this is him! Victory again and again, again and again!"

"Success and failure are not the most important thing, the most important thing is that I have to do it! From childhood to adulthood, from the beginning to the present, many people say that I can't do it, I can't do this and that, it, I've come so far, I will continue to walk!"

Ye Wei yelled loudly, his fighting spirit and passion were exploding, he kicked a few times, pointed to the sky with both hands, and shouted:

"This year, 2005, is my year! The whole world will know me, and they will, because I want to win the weekly box office, not a week, but two weeks, three weeks, and four weeks! I want to get an Oscar nomination, I want to be on the cover of Time magazine, I want the whole world to chant viy, I want to sue my mother: Mom, I have become a !!"

Nina looked at him, her eyes lit up, and suddenly her feet jumped and danced, "I want to win a medal at the World Junior Championships!"

"I still want to sue sù this girl! sue sù to the world!" Ye Wei shouted, "I have won her, I have won the whole world!"

Nina was stupid, smiled, and danced emotionally against his body, her willow waist swaying, her hair fluttering, "Life will be better because we will be better!"

......

She called out to a passerby in the street

He could see her crying

The soles of her feet were blistered and festering

She couldn't walk anymore, but she was still trying

Oh, reconsider

Think of another day when you and I happened to meet in heaven

Oh, reconsider

On that other day, you and I happened to meet in heaven

Think about it."

The singing voice with a faint sadness resounded through the theater, and everyone in the audience, whether it was students or parents, listened movingly, worthy of Phil Collins's daughter, and sang so well. The girl in the white dress on the stage had not finished singing, and some people were already applauding silently.

"Oh oh......" Lily murmured a few times with her eyes half-closed, and continued to sing with the churning mood in her heart and with the accompanying music: "

Oh God, is there no one here who can do more?

Oh God, you must sue me for something

You can recognize her by the wrinkles on her face

You can see her there

Probably wandering in every place

Because that's not where she stays

Oh, reconsider

Think of another day when you and I happened to meet in heaven

Oh, reconsider

One day, you and I happened to meet in heaven

Heaven...... Think about it

Heaven...... Think about it......"

When the accompaniment gradually faded away, the girl's singing gradually stopped, suddenly, the audience burst into warm applause, the audience stood up one after another, still no one whistled or cheered, all with the greatest applause to the singer, to sù this song, their hearts moved.

"Thank you. Lily nodded to the audience in several different directions, pursed her lips, smiled mildly, and said, "Please donate, thank you, I will donate $50,000 first, I hope to help people in need." ”

The applause of the crowd suddenly became even greater, and there were two abrupt student shouts, and more young people were about to cheer, Lily raised her hand to suppress it, and frowned and made a "You guys are so naughty, give me a serious look", sassy and playful, and she said loudly: "Thank you, next is the theatrical improvisation of the 'Broadway Kids' club, please." ”

With that, in the midst of applause, she turned and walked to the right side of the stage, and when she entered the side passage, the smile on her face dissipated, and her lowered eyes were misty.

Let's go.

At the same time as the LMS was finalized, DreamWorks released and announced that the documentary about it and Ye Wei "VIY: Dream Chasing, Sunshine Little Beauty, and the Birth of a Prodigy" was finalized! It will premiere on the Science Fiction Channel on October 30.

For Ye Wei, this young genius who is considered to have not really proven himself and is considered incredible, has he completed a grand occasion that shocked the world, or is he praised and the worse he falls?

The media and the public are eagerly awaiting answers.

......

New Year's Day 2005, Rome, Italy, Palatine Hill, it is one of the seven hills of Rome in the center, from the top of the hill, you can see the Roman Forum and the Colosseum, as if you can see the enthusiastic spectators and gladiators fighting to the death.

The primitive tribes respected the storyteller, but if his story was not told well, they would kill him and eat it for dinner.

"Everyone, listen to !!"

A young couple is standing on the edge of a hill in an ancient ruins on the top of the mountain, looking out at the blue sky and the city of Rome, where ancient and modern buildings are combined.

Ye Wei felt the open-mindedness and ambition of his heart, and shouted out of the mountain: "I don't care if you are a man or a woman, whether you are sad or happy, listen!"

He opened his hands suddenly, raised his head, and shouted louder and louder: "My name is Ye Wei, my name is Gu You, "Little Sunshine Beauty" will be successful, "Exorcism Video" will be successful, and my documentary will also be successful, that is me!"

Nina next to her also opened her hands and shouted together: "Yes, this is him! Victory again and again, again and again!"

"Success and failure are not the most important thing, the most important thing is that I have to do it! From childhood to adulthood, from the beginning to the present, many people say that I can't do it, I can't do this and that, it, I've come so far, I will continue to walk!"

Ye Wei yelled loudly, his fighting spirit and passion were exploding, he kicked a few times, pointed to the sky with both hands, and shouted:

"This year, 2005, is my year! The whole world will know me, and they will, because I want to win the weekly box office, not a week, but two weeks, three weeks, and four weeks! I want to get an Oscar nomination, I want to be on the cover of Time magazine, I want the whole world to chant viy, I want to sue my mother: Mom, I have become a !!"

Nina looked at him, her eyes lit up, and suddenly her feet jumped and danced, "I want to win a medal at the World Junior Championships!"

"I still want to sue sù this girl! sue sù to the world!" Ye Wei shouted, "I have won her, I have won the whole world!"

Nina was stupid, smiled, and danced emotionally against his body, her willow waist swaying, her hair fluttering, "Life will be better because we will be better!"

......

She called out to a passerby in the street

He could see her crying

The soles of her feet were blistered and festering

She couldn't walk anymore, but she was still trying

Oh, reconsider

Think of another day when you and I happened to meet in heaven

Oh, reconsider

On that other day, you and I happened to meet in heaven

Think about it."

The singing voice with a faint sadness resounded through the theater, and everyone in the audience, whether it was students or parents, listened movingly, worthy of Phil Collins's daughter, and sang so well. The girl in the white dress on the stage had not finished singing, and some people were already applauding silently.

"Oh oh......" Lily murmured a few times with her eyes half-closed, and continued to sing with the churning mood in her heart and with the accompanying music: "

Oh God, is there no one here who can do more?

Oh God, you must sue me for something

You can recognize her by the wrinkles on her face

You can see her there

Probably wandering in every place

Because that's not where she stays

Oh, reconsider

Think of another day when you and I happened to meet in heaven

Oh, reconsider

One day, you and I happened to meet in heaven

Heaven...... Think about it

Heaven...... Think about it......"

When the accompaniment gradually faded away, the girl's singing gradually stopped, suddenly, the audience burst into warm applause, the audience stood up one after another, still no one whistled or cheered, all with the greatest applause to the singer, to sù this song, their hearts moved.

"Thank you. Lily nodded to the audience in several different directions, pursed her lips, smiled mildly, and said, "Please donate, thank you, I will donate $50,000 first, I hope to help people in need." ”

The applause of the crowd suddenly became even greater, and there were two abrupt student shouts, and more young people were about to cheer, Lily raised her hand to suppress it, and frowned and made a "You guys are so naughty, give me a serious look", sassy and playful, and she said loudly: "Thank you, next is the theatrical improvisation of the 'Broadway Kids' club, please." ”

With that, in the midst of applause, she turned and walked to the right side of the stage, and when she entered the side passage, the smile on her face dissipated, and her lowered eyes were misty.

Let's go.