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The provocation from Fang Yanfeng was just an insignificant episode to Jiang Xing, and there was no need to care about it at all.

The film festival is still going on, and the highlight is still the final awards ceremony.

Participating in the award ceremony of the film festival every year, the seats are different every year.

This time, when Jiang Xing actually took his seat, he realized that his seat was very close to Lu Yunkai's, just in the adjacent two rows of front and back.

When the two of them discovered this, they were a little surprised.

This time, Jiang Xing was not the first to react. When Jiang Xing was still surprised by the seats of the two, Lu Yunkai who was sitting in the front row had already reacted, and quickly greeted: "Brother Jiang."

Jiang Xing and Lu Yunkai had a very good personal relationship, and everyone around them, or those in the circle who were well informed, knew about it.But to say how good it is, apart from Jiang Xing and Lu Yunkai's two managers, there are really not many people who can predict, at least they are calling Jiang Xing "" Brother Jiang" was quite surprised.

Jiang Xing was also quite surprised, but for some reason, while being surprised, he suddenly felt a feeling of "this should be so" or "naturally".

As a public figure who is always under the spotlight, no matter how cautious they are in their words and deeds, sometimes it is inevitable that they will be over-interpreted or distorted or other things. This is always very troublesome for celebrities. Jiang Xing I have also been troubled by this kind of thing, the difference from others is that he knew how to avoid it a long time ago and has been trying to avoid it as much as possible.

And Lu Yunkai——

Jiang Xing looked at the other person's face, and the candid greeting still rang in his ears.

So he couldn't help thinking that such a thing might not be a problem for Lu Yunkai.If you want to tell him those cares and worries, he will probably just give you a strange look, and then say——

"I know. So what, who cares?"

Some thoughts in his mind did not affect Jiang Xing's behavior.

Jiang Xing quickly picked up the conversation, and communicated with the other party in a calm and skillful manner.

The other people around who were secretly paying attention because of surprise saw this scene, and they were relieved, thinking that the relationship between these two people is quite good, and they were misled by the media before! ...

The proximity of the positions was just an accident. After a rough conversation, the two of them didn't say much. They sat down and waited for the opening of the final awards of the film festival.

At the Palm Film Festival abroad, "Sunset" was shortlisted for three nominations for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Screenplay, and won the Best Actor award at the end; now at the Golden Tiger Awards, "Sunset" was not only nominated for the above three awards, but also nominated for Best Film Award, Best Music Award, Best Photography Award and other awards. A savage crushing posture!

—Of course this is not surprising.

So when the awards ceremony ended and "Sunset" became the biggest winner at the Golden Tiger Film Festival, winning the Best Film and Best Director awards, everyone applauded as a matter of course.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you all." Yu Ke stood up from his seat with great satisfaction, and before he officially walked on the red carpet, he began to wave to the people around him with a smile on his face.When waving, he glanced triumphantly at Lu Yunkai—actually, he wanted to glance at Xu Zhongqi, but it was a pity that Xu Zhongqi didn't sit nearby, so he had no choice but to find Lu Yunkai, the other's favorite student.

However, it is still a bit difficult for the current Lu Yunkai to accurately GET Yu Kexin's provocation, so Lu Yunkai took a very flat look at Yu Kexin, and said congratulations just like everyone else. Without delaying Yu Kexin at all, he turned to face Jiang Xing, this time with a little smile on his face, and a little more sincerity in his tone of voice: "Congratulations, Brother Jiang, you are awesome!"

Jiang Xing was applauding Yu Kexin at this time. Amidst the massive applause, he heard Lu Yunkai's voice all at once. He followed the sound and looked over, his eyes stayed on Lu Yunkai, and quickly responded: " Thanks……"

In a short period of time, Lu Yunkai's smile had calmed down. Instead of talking to Jiang Xing, he turned around, sat back in his seat, turned his back to Jiang Xing and faced the rostrum, and continued to applaud one after another.

The award ceremony of the film festival is broadcast live by the media. This year's "Sunset" is the same as "The Widower" two years ago. Because it turned out to be too dazzling, it made the award ceremony lose a certain sense of fun and suspense. For example, This time, everyone knows that "Sunset" will be a big winner, so whether it is on the live broadcast or in the media reports after the film festival, everyone only sees the headline written by the media people in a natural tone: ""Sunset" returns China won the championship and became the biggest winner of this year's Golden Tiger Award", "Golden Tiger Award Film Festival ended, and as expected, "Sunset" won the championship", etc. This title seems to be less exciting than the "Sunset" director written in the lace tabloids Yu Kexin crushed the domestic film circle with his words at the awards ceremony: Is it self-confidence or conceit, calmness or arrogance? "It is eye-catching!

However, the Golden Tiger Awards ended, and the whirlwind brought by "Sunset" came to an end for the time being. Jiang Xing freed up time, and together with Chen Liang, began to prepare for the studio matters that he had communicated with before.

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Wang Junshan's recent feelings are quite complicated.

This complication mainly came from the news that Jiang Xing had obtained the best actor from abroad.

This is of course good news, which cheered up everyone in the company, but at the same time, as a company boss, he must think differently from the employees... or not the same; so When everyone was still immersed in the joy brought by the Palm Film Festival and the Golden Tiger Awards one after another, he heard Chen Liang ask him to talk to him about Jiang Xing's plan to go out alone to set up a studio. I breathed a sigh of relief, that "feeling that what should come has finally come".

To be honest, Jiang Xing has come all the way to this point, Wang Junshan himself doesn't believe how much Huihui has shown Jiang Xing, and Jiang Xing will stay to repay his kindness.

He is the boss of the company. As the boss of the company, he looks at problems more from the perspective of interests.

So when Chen Liang came to him to openly express Jiang Xing's thoughts and prepared to talk to him, he also quickly entered his role-he didn't keep Jiang Xing, which was unnecessary at this time; but he wished Everything will go well after Jiang Xing, which is just right at this time.

Then he mainly determined two things, one thing was: "What is your plan, should you stay or follow Jiang Xing?"

Chen Liang pondered for a while, and said, "Boss, I'm afraid I will follow Jiang Xing, you know..."

"I know, I know." Wang Junshan smiled, "If you want to earn a salary, you won't be able to earn it. You stayed with me before because you were angry with Wanbao; now you are leaving with Jiang Xing, hoping that Jiang Xing can realize it. Your own ambitions?"

Chen Liang paused for a moment, and then laughed: "That's right, think about it, someone will be able to tell me in the future, 'Look, he brought out that world-class actor and phenomenon-level king'... I, an ordinary person, have no way to refuse such an offer." lure."

Wang Junshan expressed his understanding, and then he asked the second more important thing: "In the future, if there is a suitable project from Huihuang, can we cooperate with Jiang Xing?"

That's how human feelings are. If you are the first grader, I have to be the fifteenth grader.

Logically speaking, Jiang Xing has a contract with Brilliance for a period of time now, but Wang Junshan does not talk about the contract, but let it go with a generous attitude. Then Chen Liang, as Jiang Xing's manager, will also replace him at this time. Jiang Xing expressed his opinion.What's more, in the previous cooperation between the two parties, although Brilliance did not give Jiang Xing much assistance in Jiang Xing's career, but in terms of getting along with each other, there was no conflict. Jiang Xing also needs to appreciate it. .

Chen Liang nodded and said: "As long as there is a suitable film, Jiang Xing will definitely consider his old club first and act in friendship."

What this means is that as long as the film is suitable, Jiang Xing will act in it with zero pay or only a modest pay.

Jiang Xing is currently on the rise, and he still seems to be very ambitious to move forward. It is normal to have requirements for the film, but it is also very interesting for his old club to be able to take the initiative to cut his own salary to act.Wang Junshan was also satisfied with this result, and while drinking tea with Chen Liang, he joked, "Oh, think about how you stayed with me for six years, and I only let you bring out one Jiang Xing. I don't know how to employ people anymore, if I had known that today would come so soon, even if you didn't want to, I would force you to fill in a few other artists."

Chen Liang chuckled and said nothing, just at this time his cell phone rang, so he justly did not answer Wang Junshan's complaint, picked up the phone and said "Hello".

An English sentence came directly from the phone, translated into Chinese, it was "Are you Mr. Jiang's manager, Mr. Chen?"

Chen Liang answered "yes", and a long series of words came from the phone. This time, it was more complicated to translate. In short, after Chen Liang finished listening, he immediately showed joy and turned to the phone. After the person at the other end confirmed it again and again, he stood up from the sofa abruptly!

Wang Junshan: "What's wrong?"

Chen Liang didn't answer right away. He took a few deep breaths while pinching the phone that had been hung up, and then said to Wang Junshan in a trembling voice: "It's news from abroad, it's a blockbuster series, I plan to ask Jiang Xing to play a supporting role, and said that the director will come to China in two days, I hope to get in touch with him in advance!"

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Jiang Xing quickly received the news from Chen Liang.

When facing Jiang Xing, Chen Liang made the news much more specific.

"It's a well-deserved commercial blockbuster abroad. It's a superhero series. Famous director, big production, killing the mass base of other films in seconds. World-class actor and actress are all there, a well-deserved star-studded gathering."

But at this time, Chen Liang was no longer excited to face Wang Junshan. On the contrary, his face was quite solemn: "The conditions are not bad, they are great. Because the conditions are so good, I don't think they are seriously thinking about it. I wanted you as a supporting role, but I was looking for a key to open the Eastern Market. If this is the case, your position and time in the film will be very worrying."

When saying these words, the two of them were already sitting in the car and preparing to meet with directors from abroad.

In recent years, due to the consideration of the oriental market, it is not uncommon for foreign super blockbusters to use oriental actors. Similarly, these actors play supporting roles that have no sense of existence and no objection in the film, and even die directly as soon as they appear, or participate in It is well known that the filming was completed but all the scenes were cut during the official screening.

Participating in foreign super blockbusters may be a temptation that no actor can refuse, but after the initial excitement, the above mentioned problems also need to be faced by these actors.

Jiang Xing nodded slightly to Chen Liang, indicating that he understood this point.

There was no more words along the way, and the car quickly arrived at the destination hotel.

But when they actually reached their destination, Jiang Xing and Chen Liang discovered that they were not the first and not the only ones who arrived here.

In the lobby of the hotel, there was also a colleague who was quite familiar with Jiang Xing and Chen Liang, and he was also a star who had been in the limelight recently and was quite popular.

When the two parties met each other, they were both startled for a moment, and then the star stood up from the sofa and called out, "Brother Jiang."

Jiang Xing smiled and nodded at the other party. He didn't exchange more greetings, and just sat with Chen Liang on another group of sofas not far away.

Chen Liang made a phone call first, then communicated with the American personnel upstairs in the hotel, and when he returned to Jiang Xing, his face was not particularly good-looking. He and Jiang Xing whispered: "The director is still resting, wait half a day About an hour. The purpose of his coming to China this time is really just to find an actor who can open the door to the country, and the one next to him is our competitor."

"Found it." Jiang Xing whispered.

Chen Liang paused, partly out of dissatisfaction, partly out of helplessness: "Compete, just compete. Who else are you afraid of in the same age except Lu Yunkai? It's not like there are no other people in the domestic circle. Why are you looking for an Internet celebrity? It's really high-end They were all pulled down."

Jiang Xing suddenly laughed out loud: "He won't come."

Chen Liang glanced at Jiang Xing, wanting to say that you also understand him, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say it.

Waiting for half an hour wasn't too long. As soon as the time was up, a blond assistant came down from above and invited both of them upstairs, but the rooms they entered were different. Jiang Xing and the director of the other party met After meeting, after the initial communication in English, Jiang Xing got the other party's idea of ​​joining the crew.

a supporting role.

The total scene is 3 minutes, and there is a complete appearance and ending shot.

It's much better than the character he guessed would die in three seconds, but it's far from the scene he expected.

For the former, he can directly refuse; for the latter, he can't talk about it, considering the director's current expectations of him.

While Jiang Xing was thinking, the foreign director was also secretly looking at the foreign actor.

In the eyes of foreign people, because the facial features of Asians are not so three-dimensional, they often cannot tell who is who. Jiang Xing's appearance does not break this convention.

But the top of any circle still speaks with strength, and the entertainment circle is naturally the same.

So after Jiang Xing won the International Best Actor Award, because of the need to open up the Eastern market, he paid attention to the Eastern show business circle, and was also one of the invited guests of the Palm Film Festival. The director who watched "Sunset" at the film festival immediately circled this name And asked his team to investigate the various works of this artist since his debut, and then make a proposal with the results and suggestions to him.

Then, the proposal came to his desk.He flipped through the recommended evaluation part, and was surprised to find that this oriental artist actually gave his team a relatively good evaluation, which strengthened the director's thinking and led to the present In fact, it is already considered a 3-minute scene that exceeds the norm.

Jiang Xing thought about it for about 5 minutes, but still couldn't come up with an answer.

He seemed unable to refuse or agree, so he could only tell the other party: "I understand what you mean, but I need some time to think about it, and I want to give you an answer in a few days."

This is a big deal, the director can understand the hesitation of the actor, because Jiang Xing can communicate in English, and his English level is not low, so he directly said to Jiang Xing: "We sincerely invite you to participate in the performance, you are young, If you have strength, I am optimistic about you. But our crew has no shortage of world-class actors with both strength and fame, and being able to participate in the crew is believed to be an improvement in all aspects of your popularity and strength, and I hope you will consider it carefully."

Although the scene and time given by the other party are much more awkward than this sentence, but considering the reality, there are 3 minutes of appearance and ending scene, which is really what the American director said "I have paid enough attention to you" .

Jiang Xing expressed his gratitude to the other party very sincerely, and then left with Chen Liang.

After they left, the American director met his assistant director next door, and he asked him, "How about the other side?"

"I agreed very happily. I agreed to the three-second scene where I died on the scene. I promised to cooperate with our publicity work unconditionally, and there is no requirement for remuneration." The assistant director said, "What about you?"

"Hmm - the newly promoted young actor doesn't seem very satisfied. Young people are always used to overestimating themselves when they achieve achievements. I can understand it." The American director said, "But if possible, I still hope to be able to talk about Become the contract of the little actor."

Another star who came today was 5 minutes earlier than Jiang Xing left.

Compared with domestic stars such as Jiang Xing and Lu Yunkai, he only returned to China after training abroad and making his debut.

Because they are all popular in Asia, and to some extent, "foreign monks like to chant scriptures", a star named He Junya has been mixed in the domestic entertainment circle after returning from abroad in recent years. The wind is booming, although he has not won any important awards, but he has already opened a studio and become the boss.

He is now in the nanny van, whispering to his agent.

Today's situation is obvious, the American film crew needs to find a supporting role in the new superhero series movie, and they prefer to choose between him and Jiang Xing.

It is impossible for He Junya to give up this kind of opportunity to go directly to the world's film holy land, but now the problem comes, no matter in terms of coffee position or popularity, he is not too good in this competition with Jiang Xing. obvious advantage.

"...This opportunity is so rare, we can't give it up." He Junya's agent also meant the same thing, and then he said, "Since the apparent strength is not as good as it is, we probably have to use a little extra effort."

"What extra work?" He Junya asked.

"Create public opinion." The agent said.

Then he further explained to He Junya: "Jiang Xing's status is not the same as yours at present. The US directly approached you with such an obvious difference. It is likely that they are preparing two contracts."

"What do you mean?" He Junya's expression suddenly became serious.If it is said that they are all characters who died in three seconds, although he had a clear attitude just now, he was not really worried, because a scene in a foreign blockbuster was very attractive to him, but he might not be so interested in Jiang Xing at the current stage. , so if the United States means the same to them, then Jiang Xing is actually very likely to take the initiative to refuse this role.

But what if the US side gives the two people different contracts?

For example, he is a character who dies in three seconds, and Jiang Xing is a character who takes more time, such as 1 minute, 2 minutes, and a character with a complete explanation?

Not to mention, judging from the current actual status of the two people, this is a very likely guess.

At this time, the agent was analyzing with He Junya: "Although I also hope that the contract is the same, it is basically impossible, because you are not just a domestic distinction, and one of them has already won a world-class award that everyone recognizes. It is equivalent to entering the sight of foreign directors...so a more reliable guess is that your contracts are different."

"But we know about this, but those fans don't know about it." The agent said shrewdly.

"Look, we in the industry think it's inappropriate for Jiang Xing to take on a role that dies in three seconds. If fans know about this, do you think that Jiang Xing will definitely not take on such a role? Lower your own status?"

He Junya pondered for a while, then frowned suddenly: "It's true that Jiang Xing took this role to lower his status, but I want to take this role..." What he didn't say was, if Jiang Xing didn't take this role, he took it, Isn't it subtle enough to show that you are picking up things that others don't want?Even if he got the role in the end, it would not have a positive effect on shaping his image and attracting fans!

"Of course we couldn't say that the character died in three seconds at the beginning!" The agent laughed, "We just need to let the wind say that Jiang Xing and you are fighting for the same role—is that true? Although the character's contract It’s not the same, but who would know about such a confidential event? We are the parties involved, and we are just speculating—our fans will spontaneously pick up Jiang Xing’s fans.”

"That's the first step we're going to take."

"When the fans start to fight, we can release the news through some hidden channels, saying that the duration of this character is 3 minutes - this kind of time has surpassed the time that domestic stars will get in foreign blockbusters. , the fans just scream."

"This is the second step we are going to take. During this period, the battle between the fans of the two sides must have reached a fever pitch. As long as there are people to guide the emergence of various comments, they will not be carefully screened by everyone. So at this time , we also sent some undercover agents at the same time, saying, "So what for 3 minutes, our brother Jiang doesn't bother to play such a meaningless role." To accept this scene, we must give the fans an explanation!"

"Will Jiang Xing pick it up or not? It's a dilemma, don't you think?" The manager finally smiled at He Junya.

He Junya understood!

He couldn't help but praise: "It's a great idea, let's do it!"

After all, the two felt that they had a tacit understanding, and they immediately looked at each other and smiled, showing sympathy for each other.