After returning to the apartment, Lin Yuan immediately sorted out his upcoming itinerary.

Although there is a life assistant to help take care of these matters, he as the client must also be aware of it.

Otherwise, if the time in the announcement actually comes and we wait for the life assistant to remind us to make arrangements, we will obviously be unprepared.

After resting in the apartment for two days, the first thing to do was to shoot the last scene in the mental hospital in the movie "A Good Show".

Filming is no longer a challenge for Lin Yuan. He only needs to read the script before filming to ensure that there are no flaws in the plot. With the blessing of actor-level acting attributes, there is basically no need to worry about the performance.

When the movie "A Good Show" is completely finished, it will probably be mid-December.

For the film market, December has always been a very important time period. It is not that there are any movies released, but that movies scheduled for the Spring Festival are almost all promoted in December.

Movies during the Spring Festival are generally divided into two types. One is released before Christmas and spans the three holidays of Christmas, New Year's Day and Spring Festival. The representative one is "Party A and Party B" filmed by Director Feng in 1997, which cost 3300 yuan.

With a box office of 10,000 yuan, it won the Lunar New Year box office championship that year.

The success of "Party A and Party B" has officially opened the curtain on "New Year's Eve films" in mainland China. Directors have also seen a huge film market: the period before the Spring Festival is the time when audiences are most willing to go to the cinema.

Subsequently, there have been "No End", "A Sigh", "Big Shot", "Cell Phone", "A World Without Thieves", etc. In addition to having super high box office results, these movies also have a very important feature.

, that is, they all chose to be released during the Spring Festival.

As the movie market develops more and more rapidly, the competition for Spring Festival movies is becoming more and more fierce. This has led to some directors choosing to release movies around New Year's Day. The entire movie release time spans New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and Valentine's Day.

a holiday.

The main reason why I chose to release it on New Year's Day, in addition to avoiding some periods of fierce competition, is to focus on the film market in March and April. As we all know, there are no festivals in March and April, so the film market during this period is generally miserable.

, few movies will be released during this time.

But if a movie released on New Year's Day has a good reputation, the distributor will find a way to extend the release time. Although the movie market is sluggish in March and April, mosquito legs are still meat no matter how small they are. Plus there are no other movies to compete with them. Why?

What about enjoying it but not doing it?

Regardless of whether the movie "Mermaid" chooses to be released around Christmas or around New Year's Day, in short, when promoting the movie in December, this is definitely an ironclad fact.

As the star of "Mermaid", Lin Yuan is also the most popular actor in the entire movie. Even if the star doesn't mention it, Lin Yuan himself has to promote the movie well.

After all, the box office performance of this movie is crucial to him.

He is currently starring in four movies that have been released, namely "One Man's Martial Arts", "Heart of the Burning Sun", "Tang Detective" and "The Secret of the Dragon". The total box office of the four movies has just exceeded the 5 billion mark.

, the gap with Huang Bo’s cumulative box office is less than 700 million.

"Kung Fu Yoga" and the upcoming "A Good Show" are still too early to be released.

If the movie "Mermaid" can earn 1 billion at the box office, he will suddenly become the first actor to have a domestic box office of more than 6 billion, which also means that he has the strength to compete for the final 10 billion box office.

But if after the movie "Mermaid" is released, it still fails to surpass Huang Bo's cumulative box office, then Lin Yuan doesn't have to think about competing for tens of billions of box office. He might as well start "retirement" with two movies a year.

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After promoting the movie "Mermaid", he will have to guest star in Wang Baoqiang's "Havoc in Tianzhu", and then he will be in charge of the Beijing Film Academy training class before the Chinese New Year.

After Lin Yuan wrote down his upcoming itinerary on paper, he suddenly felt a headache.

Why is my upcoming itinerary so tight?

It was clear that he was still selecting movie scripts for filming in the first half of the year, but looking at it now, he didn't have enough time at all.

"Forget it, it's better not to think so much and take a good rest for two days."

Lin Yuan put the pen aside and lay down on the sofa to rest.

Judging from this schedule, I'm afraid it won't be easy for me to find time to rest in the future. If I don't take advantage of my free time to take a good rest now, I will definitely be very tired by then.

However, Lin Yuan hadn't rested for a few minutes when his cell phone rang under the sofa cushion.

He sat up, fumbled for a long time, and took out his mobile phone from the gap in the sofa.

"Xu Zheng"

Looking at the note on the caller ID, Lin Yuan couldn't help but groan in his heart: "Brother Zheng, why did you suddenly think of calling me?"

Just got through the phone.

He didn't have time to ask Xu Zheng if there was something wrong with him.

On the other end of the phone, Xu Zheng was heard scolding him: "Lin Yuan, did you lose the Golden Horse Award after you won it?"

Lin Yuan: "???"

He was about to ask what was going on when he heard Xu Zheng continue to question: "Now that you have won two Best Actors and are acting like a big name, you don't regard me as your brother anymore, right?"

At first, Lin Yuan thought Xu Zheng was joking with him.

But as soon as the second sentence came out, Xu Zheng still maintained such a serious tone, which made Lin Yuan a little confused. Is Xu Zheng serious?

So I took advantage of Xu Zheng's breathing time.

Lin Yuan hurriedly took advantage of the opportunity and asked politely: "Brother Zheng, what are you talking about? How dare I play a big role with you!"

Speaking of which, when he heard Xu Zheng's sullen criticism, he was also confused.

After winning the Golden Horse Award last time, I went back to Shanghai and had dinner with Xu Zheng.

At that time, the two of them were chatting and laughing, recommending good movies to each other. As a result, they went back to Yakushima to film for a month. They did nothing except filming. Why did Xu Zheng say that he didn't take him seriously?

Where are the brothers?

"You're still pretending, right?"

"If you tell me clearly now, I can still recognize you as my brother. If you wait until I tell you, we brothers will have nothing to do!"

After saying that, Xu Zheng said "hum", and even through the phone, one could still think of his angry expression.

After hearing this, Lin Yuan also quickly recalled recent events in his mind.

After thinking about it for a while, I still didn't understand why Xu Zheng was angry.

This couldn't be Xu Zheng joking with him, right?

The more Lin Yuan thought about it, the more he felt that this was a possibility. Even though Xu Zheng had shaved his head, he usually gave people a very serious impression.

But in fact, none of these actors who have made great achievements in comedies are usually humorous. If they are really angry, they will not come up and say such serious things to him. At most, they will be like Wang Baoqiang.

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan did not expose him, but used his trick: "Brother Zheng, I really don't know where I offended you. How about we go out for a meal and explain this matter clearly. I feel that there must be something involved.

Misunderstand."

Just after Lin Yuan said this, Xu Zheng's wanton laughter rang out from the other end of the phone.

"Lin Yuan, how are my acting skills? Are you scared?"

Lin Yuan did not explain what he had guessed. He followed Xu Zheng's words and said, "It's quite scary. I thought I offended you, brother Zheng."

Xu Zheng smiled at first, and then changed the subject: "But you are serious, you told Huang Bo about making a movie, but you didn't tell me, right? Why, do you think I can't help?"

Hearing this, Lin Yuan suddenly realized.

It turned out that the co-authorship was about this matter, and he thought Xu Zheng was doing it for something more serious.

The reason why I told Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang about making my own movie is not because they are both planning to make their own movie now, and I can also learn more experience from them when they were making movies.

As for Xu Zheng, although Xu Zheng has directed and acted in many movies, he can't just call and ask people about making movies. In addition to learning systematic knowledge in class, he can only learn by going to the scene and observing in person.

Lin Yuan quickly explained: "Brother Zheng, can you blame me? I haven't even said a word about making a movie yet. Now the investment has been decided. The script, actors, time... these things are all still there."

There is no precise number, and whether I can make a movie by myself in the future is a question."

He wasn't lying.

The vice president of Enlight Pictures just said that he would invest in him to make a movie and would try his best to help with scripts and other matters.

But you can’t just pick up a script and start filming, right?

After you choose a suitable script, you have to select actors based on the script. Finally, you have to prepare various matters for the crew, and you have to pay attention to whether you have a schedule when filming the movie...

Putting all these things together, Lin Yuan himself is not sure when he will be able to make a movie.

As Lin Yuan finished speaking.

Xu Zheng's voice rang on the other end of the phone: "That's all? Are you free now? Come to Fuyong Road, Songjiang District. I promise to give you a surprise!"

"Brother Zheng, what's the surprise?"

"There are so many questions. Is a surprise still a surprise? Come here quickly. I'll wait for you here."

With that said, Xu Zheng hung up the phone directly.

Lin Yuan glanced at the time, tidied up briefly, put on his hat and mask and went out.

...

Fuyong Road in Songjiang District is the address of Xu Zheng's personal studio, which was established a year later than Huang Bo's. However, their studios are quite close to each other and are both in the same district.

In less than half an hour, Lin Yuan arrived at Xu Zheng's personal studio.

It is similar to the layout of Huang Bo's personal studio, and obviously cannot be compared with those of regular large companies. After all, Xu Zheng himself usually spends less time in his personal studio, so naturally everything should be kept simple and can be tolerated.

After greeting Lin Yuan into the office, Xu Zheng shouted outside: "Xiao Li, make a new pot of tea for Teacher Lin Yuan. Don't go out and say we are searching."

Lin Yuan's appearance also followed up with a joke: "Brother Zheng, look at what you said, did you buy me a pot of tea? If you don't treat me to a nice meal tonight, I will say in future interviews that you didn't
To be continued...