Chapter 83 Final Box Office and Celebration Banquet

March 28th, Beijing Hotel, banquet hall.

The hall was bustling with people at this moment, as today was the celebration banquet held by China Film Group and Pearl River Film Studio for "My Sassy Girl".

In the center of the hall, an ice sculpture with the Arabic numerals 51,320,000 engraved on it was shining brightly under the light.

This number is the final box office of the movie "My Sassy Girl".

As the three of them walked to the ice sculpture, the hall gradually became quiet.

Han Shanping was in the middle, Director Xie was on the left, and Liu Zhou was on the right. The three of them each picked up a small hammer and together they smashed the ice sculpture that represented the box office number.

With each blow from the three men, the ice sculpture immediately shattered to the ground, and warm applause broke out all around.

The focus of this celebration banquet was undoubtedly Liu Zhou among the three.

He is the director of this film and the creator of this box office.

Although this box office is the result of everyone's joint efforts, the outside world will not care about this and will only attribute all the credit to Liu Zhou.

This celebration banquet itself is also a social occasion within the circle, so after the ice-breaking ceremony, most people in the venue came over to greet Liu Zhou enthusiastically and handed him a business card.

Faced with their enthusiasm, Liu Zhou had to greet them with a smile. After a while, he felt his face was a little sore from smiling.

For the first time, Liu Zhou felt that he had truly entered the entertainment industry.

After dealing with these people, Liu Zhou finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But before he could take a sip of water, Liu Zhou suddenly heard a voice calling his name.

"Old Liu!"

Liu Zhou looked back and found that it was Liu Ye. He said unhappily:

"Are you sick? You called me so suddenly that I got scared."

"Not really. I used to shout even louder and you wouldn't be scared."

"Just see if I can scare you next time."

"Don't be surprised. I'm just a little excited to see you so awesome now. If I had known earlier, I would have made time to come and make a cameo appearance at your place."

At the beginning, Liu Zhou felt that there was a role that was more in line with Liu Ye's temperament, so he called him specifically to ask him to come over and make a cameo appearance, but he was filming at the time and had no time to come, so he missed it.

That character was the love-broken deserter in the original movie who kidnapped the male protagonist. After learning the deserter's story, the female protagonist recalled her sad memories. Then, after some moving and empathetic persuasion, the deserter laid down his weapon in tears.

Of course, there cannot be a deserter in this movie, so Liu Zhou changed him to a security guard who was hurt by love.

"There's nothing to regret. If there's anything important to do, we'll definitely take care of the important things first."

"Hey, Lao Liu, isn't it just the New Year? How come the gap between us has become so big?"

"Hey, Ye Zi, are you shocked?"

"What do you think? If a classmate you used to hang out with suddenly becomes a hot figure in the industry, do you think you would be shocked?"

"Don't think too much. No matter how I change, we are still friends. Our friendship will never change. Besides, you just haven't encountered a good opportunity yet."

“I don’t know if I’ll ever get an opportunity like this.”

"Don't worry, if you really remain unknown like this, I will make a movie specifically to promote you."

"Don't joke, I'm serious."

"You've known me for so long, and you've never seen me break my promise."

"With your words, I don't have to be so anxious. Anyway, you have my back. Haha." Liu Zhou also knew that Liu Ye was joking. Although he was laughing, he was also very ambitious.

"By the way, I haven't seen you for so long, what have you been doing recently?"

"What else can I do? Because of the movie 'That Mountain, That Man, That Dog', I got some attention and I received a few invitations in the past few months.

I signed a contract with an agent years ago, and she helped me get the invitation letter so that I could come here this time. Recently, it seems that she is going to bring her artists to join Hai Run, and the negotiations are currently underway. "

"Is your agent's name Chang Jihong?"

"You know her?"

"I don't know her, but I've heard of her. She's a good agent. You're lucky."

Chang Jihong is an agent who is no less capable than Wang Jinghua, but she is not as high-profile as her.

Liu Ye has been following Chang Jihong since she signed with her. Ten years later, Chang Jihong left Hairun and joined Xingmei, and Liu Ye has been following her too.

Later, Liu Ye was able to play the role of a teacher in "The Founding of a Party", and it was Xingmei who supported her.

"But she helped me take on a movie and I was quite hesitant. I didn't know whether I should take it or not."

"what movie?"

"A film directed by Hong Kong, about homosexuality."

It turns out to be "Lan Yu", no wonder it's so confusing.

"Think about it yourself. If the director is not too bad, this kind of subject matter will be more likely to win awards."

"Well, I'd better think about it carefully. After all, this subject matter is not well accepted by the mainstream."

Just when the two were chatting happily, Zeng Li and Zhang Ziyi came over together.

"Why did you two suddenly get together?"

"I met you over there just now. I saw you and Liu Ye chatting so enthusiastically, so I came over to see what you were talking about." Zeng Li said with a smile.

As the heroine of the movie, Zeng Li was also the focus tonight, and many people rushed to make friends with her.

As for Zhang Ziyi, she has already signed a contract with New Picture, so it is also different now. It is not difficult for her to attend this celebration party.

"What else can we talk about? Of course, we should talk about college life. In the blink of an eye, we are about to graduate. I still remember the first day Ye Zi and I reported to school."

"Yes, time flies. We used to be classmates and started from the same starting line, but now we are all different. Among the four of us, I am doing the worst." Liu Ye sighed.

"Liu Ye, stop being so sad. If you're like this, won't Tian Zheng and the others be sad and cry? Some of them have never acted in a movie before." Zhang Ziyi retorted mercilessly.

Actually, if you want to talk about depression, who can be more depressed than her?

She was originally the best student in the class. She made her debut as a "Mou Girl" and then worked with big directors and big stars in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Recently, she is negotiating with Big Brother Cheng to work on "Rush Hour 2". If she is lucky, she may even be able to break into Hollywood.

I thought I had been going smoothly all the way and would definitely be able to soar to the sky, but I didn't expect Zeng Li to appear halfway and overwhelm me.

She almost became an instant hit, so popular that I envied and even became jealous.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ziyi couldn't help but glance at Liu Zhou standing beside her. Why didn't she realize that this guy was so talented before?
At this time, Director Xie suddenly came over and called Liu Zhou over.

Liu Zhou took a look and saw that it was Han Shanping's group, the most core group in the entire hall. He said something to Liu Ye and the others and followed Director Xie.

Looking at Liu Zhou's back, Zhang Ziyi couldn't help but sigh that the classmate she used to play with can now chat and laugh with the bigwigs in the industry.

As Liu Ye watched Liu Zhou's leaving back and thought about the growing gap between them, he couldn't help but make up his mind. He hoped that the Hong Kong director would be more reliable and help him win an award.

(End of this chapter)