Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 11 Missed
Liu Yifei and Jing Tian didn't know each other before. It was a coincidence that they came to Li Qiutang's place today, so they naturally started talking to each other.

Jing Tian has watched Liu Yifei's dramas. Although she is only one year younger than her, she still expresses her love for Liu Yifei like a little fan girl.

"Hey, hey, hey, aren't we here to watch a movie? Let's go chase some stars later." Li Qiutang put the disc into the DVD and prepared to leave.

"Don't you want to watch?" Liu Yifei said.

"I'm still reading? I'm about to vomit. I'm going to go in and write something. You guys can read it by yourselves. You can have snacks and drinks as you like. Call me when you're done." After saying that, Li Qiutang went in.

The two girls chatted while watching a movie. Jing Tian was mainly a fan of Liu Yifei. She kept saying:

“Is filming fun?”

"You played the role of Little Dragon Girl very beautifully, even prettier than Li Ruotong."

"Have you ever met Jin Yong? Is he very fierce?"

"Would it be awkward for you to play Ling'er and do those spellcasting moves?"

“I want to be an actor in the future.”

"I'm also planning to release a song. Brother Li helped me shoot the music video for my new song, which has two story lines, one in ancient times and the other in modern times."

"How did you get to know Brother Li?"

Liu Yifei chose to answer the last question: "He and I were classmates, in the same year but in different classes. There were too few people in their directing department, so he took acting classes with us. Over time, we became friends. When we were arranging homework, they often helped us in the directing class."

"Oh, I see." Jing Tian said, "Sister Yifei, is acting really difficult to learn? I'm afraid I can't learn it."

Liu Yifei said: "It's okay. Just follow the teacher, read more, learn more, and ask more questions. It's not difficult." She felt uncertain when she said this.

Liu Yifei actually didn't want to talk at this time. She stared at the screen and wanted to finish watching the movie.

Jing Tian also saw that Liu Yifei didn't want to chat now, so she shut up and focused on the movie.

"The Night the Comet Came" does not have cool special effects or grand scenes, but the tense and suspenseful rhythm and atmosphere are well created.

"Can a story be written this way?!" This was the common thought of the two after watching the movie.

Can eight people in one room take such a beautiful photo?!
“What exactly does decoherence mean?”

"The heroine killed herself in the end?"

"How did he come up with such a story?"

Liu Yifei said to Jing Tian: "It has always been said that the real trump card major of Beijing Film Academy is directing. Are all graduates of the directing class so talented?"

While the two were talking in low voices, Li Qiutang came out to get some water. Seeing that they had finished watching, she asked casually, "Have you finished? What do you think?"

"It's beautiful!" Jing Tian praised, "I didn't even understand it."

"What's so hard to understand about this?" Li Qiutang poured some water and dragged a chair over to sit across from them. "Is there anything wrong with this?"

Both of them shook their heads, but Liu Yifei insisted, "The downside is that they didn't ask me to act in it."

Li Qiutang chuckled. He and Liu Yifei were not that close yet, but he still said, "My play is full of young and middle-aged actors. The youngest, Lin Jiachuan, is 25 or 26 years old. You are too young."

"Then you have to look for me to film in the future." Liu Yifei was not at all awkward.

"And me, and me." Jing Tian climbed up with the pole.

"Then you have to wait. I haven't found a distributor for this film yet." Li Qiutang said with a smile.

After watching the movie, the two said goodbye. Jing Tian heard that Brother Li had made a feature film and came to see it specially, while Liu Yifei just came on the way as she had to go to the recording studio to record a song.

Li Qiutang sent the two of them out. Wow! They were waiting on the side of the road, each with a GMC. She was indeed a rich woman.

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The box office champion during the May Day holiday was actually an American film "Antarctic Adventure", also known as "Man is Worse than Dog", which took in 7 million in 2500 days and accounted for 53% of the market.

This shows how small the current film market is.

On the first day after the holiday, Zhang Zhao called Li Qiutang and told him regretfully: "I showed The Night the Comet Came to the company's top management for an internal screening, but they did not agree to release it."

"Why?!" Li Qiutang asked.

"They say that your film has no big director, no big stars, and no big scenes, and the audience will not buy it." Zhang Zhao had no choice. Although he was a veteran of Guangxian, there was Li Xiaoping under Wang Changtian who restrained him. Although he was the president of the film business, Li Xiaoping was the real boss of the Guangxian film and television department.

Li Qiutang said: "I can pay half of the distribution fee." Nowadays, the distribution fee for a low-budget movie is about 200 million yuan. Li Qiutang is willing to pay half of it. He can be said to be a rare "sucker".

"It's useless." Zhang Zhao spoke up for Li Qiutang at the internal meeting. "The company has never released a movie before. We want to make a good fight for our first work, or we want to release a well-known film. This is safer."

Zhang Zhao also revealed on the phone that Guangxian has taken a fancy to a Hong Kong film called "City of Pain", directed by Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jin Chengwu, Xu Jinglei and Shu Qi. It will start shooting next month and is expected to be released during the Lunar New Year holiday.

This is the lineup that the publisher wants to buy.

The reason for the rejection was also within Li Qiutang's expectations, because almost all distributors had rejected "The Night the Comet Came" for this reason before.

But such setbacks will not affect Li Qiutang's mentality, nor will he feel resentful towards those rejecting publishers.

He is prepared for a protracted war and will continue to look for distributors for his films.

While continuing to look for a distributor, Li Qiutang also screened "The Night the Comet Came" for many of his teachers and friends, hoping to get their comments.

The school already knew that Li Qiutang from the 02 directing class had made a feature film as his graduation project. The head of the directing department, Mr. Tian, and the director of Qingying Studio, Ms. Xie Xiaojing, said that he was extremely daring, but after watching the film, they still praised the film for its mature narrative and steady rhythm.

How else can you criticize?

The kid used the college's platform and paid for the filming with his own money, so why are you scolding him?
After learning that the film had not yet found a distributor, several teachers said they would help, but Li Qiutang did not place her hopes on them.

Teacher Tian and his colleagues don't have to worry about distribution for the films they make themselves because they have already become famous and have extensive connections in the circle. However, it is still a bit unrealistic to expect them to guarantee a student and persuade a distribution company.

However, the development of things was a little beyond Li Qiutang's imagination.

As more and more teachers and friends watched "The Night the Comet Came", this movie actually had a certain impact in the underground world of Yanjing.

"Have you heard that this year a student from the Film Academy paid for a feature film with his own money, a science fiction film!"

"I watched it. It talked about parallel universes. This student is really brave."

As "The Night the Comet Came" fermented in the underground film scene, more and more people Li Qiutang didn't know came to her hoping to get a glimpse of the real movie.

There were actually some independent salons that invited Li Qiutang to hold screenings. There was no money, but it could help her gain some fame.

Although Li Qiutang was an academic, he also had some understanding of underground independent films. He went to several screenings and the results were unexpectedly good.

However, these underground people are full of artistic germs, and some of them even criticized Li Qiutang for not making art films.

But things have been much better in the past two years. "Hero" opened the prelude to domestic commercial blockbusters. Now everyone from top to bottom is making commercial films, and there are fewer people criticizing commercial films than before.

Aren’t you worried about piracy when showing it this way?

Who has nothing better to do than steal a student's work!
　There is no such thing as licking the distributor. Even if you want to go to a film festival, you should still actively seek distribution before that.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)