Time flies, and soon it’s the day when the crew of “Kung Fu Yoga” officially starts shooting.

Early in the morning, the field staff used the loudspeaker to announce the situation.

In fact, most of the crew members set their own alarm clocks. Director Tang Jili asked the set manager to notify them, just to remind them. For directors in Hong Kong circles, the opening ceremony is still more important.

After hearing the knock on the door, Lin Yuan woke up from his sleep. After washing, he picked up the charging mobile phone on the bedside table and opened the crew notification group to take a look.

Soon I saw my filming announcement in the group.

Time: June 4, 14:00.

Actors appearing in this scene: Jackie Chan, Lin Yuan, Disha Patani, Mu Qimia...

Plot: Randall (played by Sonu Sood) sent his men to capture Lee Jones (played by Lin Yuan), Keira (played by Amyra) and others. After some resistance, they were finally subdued and taken away by Randall's men.

, Jack (Jackie Chan) and Mita (Disha Patani) go to the rescue. [Note: Fighting scene]

Venue: Chittorgarh Fort.

With the support of India, the crew of "Kung Fu Yoga" obtained the right to shoot at Chittorgarh Fort for four days.

During these four days, tourists can only visit the scenic spots of Chittorgarh Fort in separate areas to prevent them from accidentally breaking into the crew and disturbing the filming of the crew.

And this fight scene is also the most important scene for the crew in Chittorgarh Fort. Today is the first day of shooting this scene, which shows how much director Tang Jili attaches great importance to this scene. It can also be seen that the crew

The filming time here is quite tight, and all important scenes must be filmed within these four days.

After reading the news, Lin Yuan also took out the script and reviewed the corresponding plots in the script, with the purpose of getting into the filming state quickly.

After briefly going through the plot twice, Lin Yuan took the elevator down to the hotel.

As soon as he arrived at the hotel lobby, Lin Yuan was directly stared at by Director Tang.

Director Tang stepped forward, grabbed Lin Yuan, and then shouted loudly to a large number of crew members surrounding him in the distance.

"Where's the makeup artist?"

"Two makeup artists will come and touch up Teacher Lin Yuan's makeup first!"

Touch up his makeup?

After hearing this, Lin Yuan looked at Director Tang in surprise and explained: "Director Tang, isn't this an afternoon show? Why are you putting on makeup now?"

Tang Jili patted Lin Yuan's chest, leaned in front of him and said in a low voice: "You and your brother will take two final makeup photos later. The producer has found two entertainment media in China to promote the launch of our movie."

They say it's to promote the movie's launch, but it's actually to warm up the movie.

Through long-term publicity, the audience can maintain a sense of anticipation for the film being filmed. This method of publicity is much more effective than overwhelming publicity one month before its release.

But logically speaking, this kind of promotion of makeup photos usually only promotes the star with the most popularity. For example, after the filming of the movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was confirmed to start, the one that received the most publicity in the media was not the lead actor Wen Zhang, but Zhou Xingchi

As for this director, as for the cast, they basically waited until the crew visited during filming before they were gradually revealed.

Director Tang Jili asked him to take makeup photos with Jackie Chan. It seemed that he wanted to raise the popularity of the movie at once.

Lin Yuan couldn't resist, so he had no choice but to agree.

After putting on makeup and putting on Indian-style clothes, Lin Yuan and Jackie Chan put on various funny poses according to Director Tang's requirements, and then quickly finished setting their makeup amidst the continuous "kacha" sounds.

Photo shooting.

Tang Jili looked at the photos taken by the photographer with satisfaction and nodded repeatedly.

The original intention of the investors was that it would be enough to take two makeup photos of Big Brother as publicity. After all, everyone watched this movie because of Jackie Chan. However, in Tang Jili's view, the movie script was limited by the premise of Sino-Indian co-production.

Understandably, the big brother alone cannot sustain this movie. If you want to make this movie a success, you can only rely on the performance of other actors.

But when he took a look at the cast list, Zhang Yixing... It was okay to let him sing and dance, but if he wanted him to rely on his acting skills to support the show, forget it. As for Mu Qimia and Disha Patta

Actresses like Ni are just for the audience's eyesight. I want to expect them to have some wonderful performances, at least they can't show them in this action movie.

After this, the only actor who can help the eldest brother share this role is Lin Yuan.

He asked Lin Yuan to take makeup photos with his eldest brother for promotion, in order to tell the audience in disguise that this movie is different from previous Jackie Chan-style action comedy movies. Lin Yuan also has a lot of roles as the starring role, so that everyone can shift their attention to Lin Yuan.

Yuan Yuan’s acting skills went up, and the audience was impressed by Lin Yuan’s performance.

After this small episode passed, the crew had basically arrived. Except for some crew members who went over to set up the scene in advance, the remaining crew members crowded into six vans and set off toward the filming location in a mighty manner.

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At the same time that the crew of "Kung Fu Yoga" was busy filming.

Li Lu and Gao Yalin have not had a moment of free time these two days.

If a TV series wants to be released, it usually goes through five processes, namely: project establishment, script writing, finding investment, determining the broadcast platform, and finally recovering the investment.

Among them, determining the broadcast platform is actually selling the TV series to major TV stations or major video websites.

The TV series "In the Name of the People" has entered the stage of determining the broadcast platform. From the completion of filming to the present, a total of three versions of samples have been cut. In the end, the crew selected the best version and presented it to major TV stations.

Talk about cooperation.

Due to the sensitive subject matter, director Li Lu originally planned to show the TV series on CCTV.

However, CCTV announced as early as 2009 that it would no longer purchase super-long dramas, which are TV series with more than 40 episodes. "In the Name of the People" has a total of 52 episodes, which naturally falls into the category of super-long dramas.

If you want to sell "In the Name of the People" to CCTV, you can only cut the original 52 episodes to 40 episodes, but if you do this, both the viewing experience and the return will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, director Li Lu had no choice but to set his sights on other local satellite TV stations.

Logically speaking, the TV series "In the Name of the People" not only stars Wu Gang, Hou Yong, Zhang Fengyi and other veteran actors, but also popular actors such as Lin Yuan and Lu Yi.

When you go to that TV station, everyone is rushing to get it.

But what’s the result?

We negotiated with several companies in succession, but the two parties could never agree on the price.

The investment and filming of the TV series "In the Name of the People" cost a total of 100 million. Director Li Lu and the producers did not think about how much money they would make from this TV series. The price was only about 150 million, which is equivalent to

Each investor can earn a hard-earned fee.

As a result, so far, the highest offer from local satellite TV is only 130 million.

There are three reasons why the price is so low. First, the subject matter of the TV series "In the Name of the People" is indeed sensitive. Maybe after they buy the screening rights, the TV series will not be released at all.

Secondly, the total amount of investment in this TV series has been spread in the industry for a long time. It is not a secret at all. Everyone knows that many investors withdrew their capital at the beginning. In the end, it was only with the 40 million invested by Lin Yuan's personal studio that the crew could officially start production.

Shooting, so for these satellite TV stations, they are not willing to spend too much more than the total investment to take this risk.

Of course, the most important point is that there have been no TV series with anti-corruption themes in recent years, and major TV stations are not sure whether the audience is willing to watch them.

If the audience is willing to pay, no matter how expensive this TV series is, major TV stations will be willing to spend money to get it.

After all, compared to the hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars per episode of TV series, their advertising fees are around tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands per second. If the ratings of the TV series are high enough, they can quickly pass the inserted advertisements.

Earn back the cost of purchasing the rights to screen the TV series.

But what if the TV series doesn’t become popular? Isn’t that a loss of blood? In this case, satellite TV stations naturally don’t dare to raise random prices.

As for Gao Yalin and others, seeing that they couldn't agree on the price with Zhejiang Satellite TV today, they returned to the hotel dejectedly.

This TV series had stumbling blocks at the beginning of filming. Now that the TV series has finally been filmed, it is now facing obstacles in selling the screening rights. This makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

Gao Yalin sighed and said in a deep voice: "Lao Li, why don't we go to the Mango Terrace tomorrow?"

"Mango station? Is that okay?"

Director Li Lu's tone was obviously a little hopeless, but this is understandable. Zhejiang Satellite TV and Mango Channel have focused on variety shows in recent years. Even Zhejiang Satellite TV did not give them a satisfactory offer. Mango Channel

Thinking about it over there, it's not much better.

Gao Yalin explained: "I know a leader of Mango Station. You can try to talk to him."

Seeing what Gao Yalin said, Li Lu agreed after thinking for a moment.

The two rested in the hotel for a day, and set out directly on the road to Mango Terrace the next day.

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Mango Terrace.

Deputy director Liu Xiangqun knew Gao Yalin's intention early on, and after warmly entertaining the two of them, he brought the topic back to business: "Old Gao, I will ask the leader of the discipline inspection team and the director of the film purchasing department to lead the team and organize the people

Let’s take a look at the samples first, and if the response is good, how about we talk about other things?”

Gao Yalin nodded directly and agreed: "Of course, no problem."

Even if he knew the deputy director of the TV station, he couldn't just let the TV station buy the screening rights of this drama, right?

After handing over the samples to the director of the film purchasing department, Gao Yalin and director Li Lu also began a long wait.

They didn't know whether the people organized by Mango Channel were satisfied with the works they shot.

After all, Mango Channel has always focused on the youth route, and has made batches of popular fried chicken popular. I don’t know if it will be favored by this kind of TV series where the main actors are basically veteran actors.

After nearly two hours of anxious waiting, the director of the film purchasing department returned to the office of deputy director Liu Xiangqun.

Liu Xiangqun looked at the director of the film purchasing department and asked straight to the point: "Xiao Li, the organizer has watched the TV series samples, how do you feel?"

The director of the film purchasing department looked a little excited on his face and reported happily: "Director Liu, I organized two groups of young people in Taiwan to watch the movie. They watched the samples of this TV series respectively. The feedback of the two groups of young people was very good.

It’s very good. After watching the first two episodes, everyone expressed their desire to continue watching!”

It can be heard from his excited tone how obviously this TV series shocked them.
To be continued...