Chapter 93 Schedule and Targeting

In the last shot, Jinghua, who has regained his sight, returns to his shop and watches the guide dog Mingzhe gave him barking at the door.

When she learned that a lame man had come into the store and bought her potted plant and took away her little turtle, she immediately realized that the man who had just been knocked down by her guide dog was Mingzhe.

Jinghua immediately rushed out to look for Mingzhe whom she had just missed.

But in the vast sea of ​​people, Jinghua could no longer see Mingzhe. She could not help but collapse to the ground and cried out in pain.

Liu Zhou watched Zeng Li in the camera unable to cry out because of the heartache. Her throat could only make hoarse noises. She covered her heart with her hands and tears kept flowing.

The other people in the crew watched Zeng Li's performance, and some sentimental people couldn't help but shed tears. The crew was silent except for Zeng Li's hoarse crying.

Liu Zhou took a deep breath and said:

"Click, it's done, the movie is finished!"

After hearing Liu Zhou's words, the sad atmosphere immediately disappeared and some people couldn't help but cheer.

But some people may not have gotten over the sadness they just felt, and even though the movie has been completed, they can't be happy.

Liu Zhou also noticed that Zeng Li's eyes were red and she stood silently by the side, knowing that she might have also been immersed in the role.

This shot took three days to shoot. Liu Zhou was not very satisfied with Zeng Li's performance until this time.

It is obvious that Zeng Li has put herself into the role of Jinghua.

Afterwards, Liu Zhou handed over the arrangements for the crew to Director Xie, and he came to Zeng Li's side.

Seeing Liu Zhou coming, Zeng Li immediately grabbed his hand.

"What's wrong? I won't run away!" Liu Zhou said softly while stroking Zeng Li's hair.

"Just now when we were filming, I was thinking about you suddenly disappearing. I couldn't find you no matter how hard I tried. Zhou Zhou, will you suddenly leave me one day?"

Zeng Li's voice was still a little hoarse, which made Liu Zhou feel a little distressed, and he said:

"Don't worry, I will never leave you."

After saying that, Liu Zhou hugged Zeng Li in his arms, and Zeng Li also hugged Liu Zhou tightly.

The two of them just hugged each other quietly.

After a while, Zeng Li's emotions finally calmed down. Seeing people coming and going nearby, she let go of Liu Zhou a little embarrassedly.

"Let's go back. It was so embarrassing just now." Zeng Li said in a low voice with a red face.

"There's nothing shameful about this. Everyone knows our relationship." Liu Zhou said with a smile.

However, despite saying this, he still talked to Director Xie and went back with Zeng Li first.

Because the filming was completed seven or eight days in advance and there was sufficient budget after paying for publicity, the wrap-up party was still arranged at the Baiyun Hotel in the evening.

After the last experience of getting drunk, Liu Zhou said he would not drink any of the toasts this time, and only drank one glass when everyone raised their glasses to celebrate.

Everyone knew that Liu Zhou couldn't drink, and since his current status was no longer the same as before, no one kept persuading him.

After the wrap party, Liu Zhou and Zeng Li came to her room.

I don’t know if she was still affected by today’s filming, but Zeng Li was particularly proactive tonight. She pulled Liu Zhou to exercise together and they did three complete fitness exercises.

After recovering from the shock, both of them were sweating profusely. They cleaned themselves up, took a shower together, and then changed the bed sheets. Then Liu Zhou hugged Zeng Li and slowly fell asleep.

The next day, Liu Zhou slept until he woke up naturally. Seeing Zeng Li's eyebrows twitching from time to time in his arms, he knew that Zeng Li was pretending to sleep.

If I wasn't afraid that my waist couldn't take it, I would definitely drag her to work out together.

"Don't pretend to be asleep. Everyone knows you're awake."

At this time, Zeng Li also opened her eyes and asked curiously:
"How did you know I was awake?"

"Usually when you fall asleep you'll put your legs on me, and your eyes are twitching. You can't even pretend."

"No wonder you knew."

Liu Zhou smelled the fragrance of Zeng Li's hair and said:
"Lizi, do you want to come to my house today? My mom can't stop talking about you."

"Okay, so what should I prepare?"

Zeng Li did not refuse this time. Liu Zhou's willingness to take her to meet his family showed that he valued her. Moreover, she had already made preparations before coming to Guangzhou.

Seeing Zeng Li agreed, Liu Zhou said happily:

"You don't need to bring anything, just go there."

Ever since she knew Liu Zhou had a girlfriend, if Liu Zhou hadn't stopped her out of fear that Zeng Li would be shy, my mother would have rushed to the crew long ago.

However, although he stopped his mother, she still asked Liu Zhou to bring his girlfriend home for her to see after filming the movie.

In the evening, when Liu Zhou took Zeng Li home, they did not come empty-handed.

At Zeng Li's strong request, the two bought a bunch of nutritional supplements and clothes, spending more than ten thousand yuan.

If Liu Zhou hadn't stopped her, Zeng Li would have continued buying.

When the two arrived home, Liu Zhou's entire family was there, and his grandfather had also been picked up.

Liu Zhou's mother's smile never stopped as she looked at Zeng Li's gentle and beautiful appearance.

She kept talking to Zeng Li, while she sent Liu Zhou and his father into the kitchen to cook dinner.

After having dinner together, Liu Zhou took Zeng Li to meet his parents.

Liu Zhou originally wanted to let Zeng Li sleep at home that night, but she refused and insisted on returning to the hotel.

There was no choice but Liu Zhou to send her back.

Before leaving, my mother pulled me aside and said:
"Zhou Zhou, Li Zi is a good child, but you have to treat her well. You are not a child anymore, so let me have a grandson as soon as possible."

Liu Zhou knew it would be like this. When he didn't have a girlfriend, she urged him to go on blind dates. After he had a girlfriend, she urged him to get married. After he got married, she urged him to have children.

"Mom, we are just starting our careers now and we don't plan to get married so soon, so how can we have children so soon?"

"Having a child won't affect your career. If you don't have time to take care of the child, I can help you."

"Okay mom, I'll discuss this with Li Zi then."

After dealing with his mother, Liu Zhou immediately took Zeng Li and left home.

In his previous life, Liu Zhou satisfied his mother in everything except that she kept urging him to get married.

Liu Zhou didn't meet the right person at first, and later he became playful and didn't want to get married anymore.

However, before Liu Zhou was reborn, he saw that his parents were already a little old, so he decided to calm down and go on a blind date and get married.

Although Liu Zhou decided in this life not to let his parents worry about his marriage anymore, he did not consider getting married so early.

Liu Zhou is only 22 years old this year and has just reached the legal age for marriage.

After taking Zeng Li to meet his parents, Liu Zhou and Zeng Li felt relieved.

Now that the filming is finished, Liu and Zhou are planning to take a few days off so they can spend some time together. But before they had even taken two days off, their agent Zeng Jia came over and said Zeng Li needed to go shoot a commercial for Wahaha.

After Zeng Li became popular because of "My Sassy Girl", she received advertising invitations from many businesses.

After Zeng Jia took over Zeng Li's agency work, he carefully selected several high-quality ones according to Liu Zhou's requirements, including Wahaha.

Originally, Wahaha wanted to invite both Zeng Li and Zhang Guorong, but because Zhang Guorong was already endorsing similar products in Hong Kong, they only invited Zeng Li.

Finally, in terms of male celebrities, Wahaha invited Wang Lihong, their longest-time spokesperson in history.

Wahaha is a relatively loyal company and generally will not change its spokesperson unless there is a problem.

So Liu Zhou very much agreed to Zeng Li endorsing Wahaha products. Although he was a little reluctant, he still let her follow Zeng Jia to Hangzhou.

After Zeng Li left, Liu Zhou did not rest, but instead devoted himself to the post-production work of the movie "Only You".

Liu Zhou found the same editor as last time and started the busy and tedious editing work again.

This time the two of them worked very well together and it took more than a week to complete the editing.

Then the work on music, subtitles, sound effects, etc. was also completed within two weeks.

When the final film came out, it was exactly the end of August.

Liu Zhou made two copies at the Pearl River Factory, and then went to Beijing with Director Xie to discuss the distribution with Han Shanping.

Han Shanping saw Liu Zhou and the others coming to his office, and immediately smiled and said:

"Is the movie finished?"

"It's done. Would you like to take a look first, Mr. Han?"

"Let's not watch it for now. I believe in your level. Let's discuss when the movie will be released."

"Han Chang, you are more knowledgeable about this. Which time slot is suitable?"

"In September, Feng Kuzi's film A Sigh will be released. Although it is an arty film, Feng Kuzi's reputation is there, so the box office won't be too bad.

In October, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will be released. It is also a blockbuster movie and has broken the box office record for foreign language films in the United States, so October is not a very suitable month.

There is currently only one low-budget comedy starring He Bing and Fan Wei in November, which does not conflict with your film. I think November is a good time to release it. "

After Han Shanping finished speaking, he and Director Xie both looked at Liu Zhou, obviously letting Liu Zhou make the decision.

"No problem, it will be released in November then."

Although Liu Zhou and Feng Kuzi had a bad relationship, there was no need for him to confront him head-on.

Feng Kuzi had previously made three comedy films, which, although they achieved high box office, were always criticized by mainstream filmmakers.

He created "A Sigh" to prove that he could also make art films.

However, although it is an art film, it also has a bit of comedy style, so the box office of this movie is not bad, it has won a box office of 30 million and ranked third on this year's box office list.

The second place on the box office list is still "Never Ending" by Feng Kuzi. If it weren't for Liu Zhou's intrusion, this year would also be a very glorious year for Feng Kuzi.

As for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", it is the most popular movie in mainland China now.

At this time in the mainland, any movie or other thing or person that has achieved outstanding results overseas will be highly praised.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" earned more than 100 million US dollars in the United States, which is higher than the total box office of all movies in mainland China in a whole year.

When this news spread back to China, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was immediately hailed as a masterpiece before it was even released.

This not only stimulated a number of directors in the mainland, such as Zhang Yimou, who also planned to make a martial arts blockbuster, but also made the mainland audiences look forward to it.

What no one expected was that although "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a martial arts film, it is Western at its core and is a movie made completely for Westerners.

The pictures are indeed very beautiful, but the content and plot are indeed boring for mainland audiences.

Despite this, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" still grossed over 10 million yuan in the mainland.

This result is enough to make it into the top ten of the box office charts, so Liu Zhou felt that there was no need to release it at the same time as it.

November is just the right time for the release, which allows time for promotion.

"Okay, now that you've made up your mind, let's discuss the publicity plan first."

For this promotion, Liu Zhou decided to use the same promotional method as for "My Sassy Girl".

In addition to traditional publicity, it is mainly posted on the Internet, and the target group is still young men and women such as college students.

The three of them discussed for a day and finally decided on the publicity plan.

On the first day of September, the promotion of "Only You" has already begun.

Media under China Film Group, as well as some media familiar with Liu Zhou, all reported the news that Liu Zhou's new film will be released in November.

Although it was just this piece of news, "Only You" still caused some heated discussion.

This was a heated discussion caused by the large-scale promotion of "A Sigh" and the high popularity of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

From this we can see that the outside world is still very concerned about Liu Zhou's new movie.

This made Feng Kuzi, who had been on a promotional tour recently, quite unhappy. During an open interview with the media, he made sarcastic remarks about Liu Zhou.

This caused a stir in the media, and now there was news to write.

The next day, many media found Liu Zhou and asked him whether he had any conflicts with Feng Kuzi, but Liu Zhou remained silent and ignored these questions.

How could Liu Zhou not know what Feng Kuzi was planning? He was just using him to create hype.

He often did such things in later generations, so how could Liu Zhou possibly get what he wanted?

If Liu Zhou's movie was released at the same time as his, Liu Zhou would have a verbal confrontation with him and try to hype it up together.

His own movie will be released in November, and it will not benefit Liu Zhou at all to mess around with him now. Liu Zhou will not do such a thing.

Liu Zhou thought that if he didn't respond, the matter would be over.

But within two days, when Liu Zhou was resting in his yard, Director Xie came to him in a hurry.

As soon as he saw Liu Zhou, he said anxiously:
"Liu Zhou, Feng Kuzi's movie has been withdrawn from the schedule, and he has also moved the schedule of his movie to November."

"What's the matter?"

"I just got the news from the Korean studio that Feng Kuzi's A Sigh has been delayed to late November. Although it's not released at the same time as ours, it's still colliding with ours."

"Is this person a psychopath?!"

Director Xie sighed and said:
"I heard that Feng Kuzi wanted to release it at the same time as you, but the Korean studio disagreed, so they put it in late November, which is half a month later."

"Does Feng Kuzi, that idiot, think he has me beat? Let's have a good fight and see whose movie has higher box office."

Liu Zhou's temper also flared up a bit. He seemed to be afraid of Feng Kuzi's aggressive attitude.

If Han Shanping had not disagreed, Liu Zhou would have also wanted to release his movie on the same day as his to confront him head-on.

(End of this chapter)