Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 73 Copyright Finalized
Li Qiutang called Qin Lan. After all, they were friends, and he couldn't just watch Qin Lan get stuck in "Nanjing! Nanjing!"

The heroine Gao Yuanyuan has run away, why is she staying there!
Directors and producers are naturally concerned about the broken capital chain.

Li Qiutang advised her the same thing, but Qin Lan was reluctant to let such a play go to waste, and out of sympathy, she said she would help as much as she could.

Li Qiutang had no choice but to advise her: "If you feel something is wrong, run away."

Qin Lan said casually that everything was fine on the crew. She knew that Gao Yuanyuan had run away to film "Famous".

Today they were filming the scene where Su Mengdie was scolded and broken down by Lu Ziye on the stairs. Li Qiutang was not so confident in the 28-year-old Gao Yuanyuan's acting skills, so he planned to use three days to shoot this scene.

"Mengdie wants to leave too," Ying answered as she saw Gao Yuanyuan, who was wearing a cheongsam, coming down. "We can't stop her."

Gao Yuanyuan ignored him, so he continued, "You're going back to Hong Kong, right?"

Gao Yuanyuan stopped and turned her head to look at Yingda.

Li Qiutang was watching on the monitor. As soon as Gao Yuanyuan took the first step down, he wanted to stop the scene. Gao Yuanyuan's whole mood was not right and she was not immersed in the scene.

But he didn't stop immediately, he tried not to interrupt the flow of the performance.

"But I heard that within half a year, Xiang Jiang's new husband... I'm sorry, director." Ying Da was the first to make a mistake and forget the words.

"Cut." After Li Qiutang shouted "Cut", he left the director's room and headed for the set.

Usually, actors would stay in their original positions on the set, and Li Qiutang stood on the stairs and explained the scene to Gao Yuanyuan:
"Don't be too emotional. Keep it in check. Let's do the crying scene later." Li Qiutang said bluntly, "I'm worried that you won't be able to give me the effect I want in the crying scene later."

He also said: "If you were five, six or ten years older and had more experience, you would be perfect like Su Mengdie."

Gao Yuanyuan knew that she was not Su Mengdie’s first choice, not even the second choice, but what did it matter since the role was already in her hands.

"You should be a little dull and ruthless at first, but when Lu Ziye says you are trying to climb up the social ladder and you are trying to sell your face, you should let your emotions out. Keep your facial expression under control."

Gao Yuanyuan looked at her script while listening to the director explain to her: "Okay, I understand."

"Everyone else is fine. Just put on some makeup and let's do it again."

As a result, Gao Yuanyuan failed 5 takes, so Li Qiutang decided to shoot other people's scenes first: "You try to get the feeling and put your arm around my shoulder."

"Come on, Baoqiang, do your part. Get ready, record."

Ying replied with his own words: "You get beaten up in the face like a buttock by foreigners every day, aren't you afraid of losing face?"

Wang Baoqiang glanced at Yingda, raised a finger, and defended himself: "Although I was beaten, I played Japanese characters, so it's not a disgrace to the Chinese people."

The lyrics were well said, but Wang Baoqiang himself burst out laughing.

"This lyrics is so interesting to write." said Wang Baoqiang.

Li Qiutang also laughed, and after the joke, he still organized the crew to reshoot.

On the other hand, although it seemed to the outside world that there was a "conflict" between Li Qiutang and Huayi, Huayi still announced the news at the end of the month: "Director Li Qiutang's new film "No One" has passed the review and is scheduled to be released on April 4."

This year's schedule is particularly difficult.

The Olympics in August, Red Cliff Part 8 in July, and the Forbidden Kingdom on May Day at Huayi, after much selection, Defiant can only be scheduled for early April. The announcement of the release date for Defiant did not ease the outside world's speculation about the conflict between Li Qiutang and Huayi.

Wang Zhonglei also came out to explain: "Our cooperation with Director Li Qiutang is very good, and there is no contradiction as the outside world says."

But it is an indisputable fact that Li Qiutang and Huayi competed for "The Whisper of the Wind" at the same time. Wang Zhonglei is so smart. His explanation is: "This is done for insurance reasons. Whether Huayi obtains the copyright or director Li Qiutang obtains the copyright, we can successfully shoot this work."

That's what I have to say anyway.

However, Huayi initially promoted that "The Whistleblower" would be given to Feng Xiaogang, but later said it would be given to Chen Guofu, but it was definitely not Li Qiutang.

So Wang Zhonglei said this time: "The company still needs to study the candidates, and we also believe that Director Li Qiutang can do a good job." The attitude in front of the media must be made clear.

Huayi is in a bit of an awkward situation now. Li Qiutang has made it clear that he will not withdraw from the competition for "The Whistleblower", and Mai Jia has a very good impression of him and even went to Hengdian to see him.

To be honest, Wang Zhonglei thought of a trick. He thought about registering the movie title "The Sound of Wind" in advance, but doing so would completely offend Li Qiutang. Huayi and Li Qiutang really didn't have any deep hatred, so there was no need to use such a despicable trick.

But Wang Zhonglei was worried that Li Qiutang would not be able to handle a subject like "The Sound of Wind", so the two sides remained in a stalemate.

However, the copyright side does not give Huayi time to persist.

On the day of the beginning of spring, the reporter's report came out: "The copyright battle of "The Sound of Wind" has been settled, and the young director Li Qiutang has become the final winner!"

"Li Qiutang obtained the film and television copyright of The Sound of Wind. It was reported online that Li Qiutang had written a 10,000-word letter to Mai Jia, detailing his understanding of The Sound of Wind and the direction of the adaptation. Mai Jia said in an interview that he was moved by Li Qiutang's sincerity and had personally gone to Hengdian to talk with Li Qiutang. After selling the copyright, Mai Jia said that he believed in the power of young directors and that the copyright fee was not as exaggerated as the outside world said."

It’s really not that exaggerated. Li Qiutang only gave 130 million, and it was paid in installments.

In the past few days, many reporters came to Hengdian to interview the crew of "Famous", and Li Qiutang took the opportunity to open the set to the media and also accepted interviews.

"The film is almost finished, but the start of shooting took some time."

“I will start preparing for The Whistleblower right after I finish shooting Fame. I won’t feel tired because I’m still young and can handle it.”

"It's too early to say anything about 'No One's Back', but I am confident that it will achieve good results."

On the set, the actors were also accepting interviews from the visiting media.

"The director is sometimes fierce," Gao Yuanyuan complained about the director, "but sometimes he is very cute. I play an actress in the play, haha."

"This play is very interesting," Deng Chao said, "You must come and see it when the time comes." Deng Chao promoted it to reporters in advance.

"Our play has another name, called "The Birth of a Movie", and I am the director of this play." Liu Yiwei played a guessing game with the reporters.

I can only celebrate the New Year on the crew, but this is commonplace in the film and television industry. There are four or five other crews celebrating the New Year in Hengdian at the same time.

"Director, are we allowed to drink during the New Year?" The cast and crew were worried about this.

"Hello!" Li Qiutang waved his hand, "But we have agreed that we will start working on the second day of the Chinese New Year. If anyone dares to delay, don't blame me for not giving face on Chinese New Year's Day."

"Don't worry, I guarantee it won't delay the start of work."

When his parents learned that Li Qiutang was spending the New Year on the crew this year, they couldn't help but sigh and told him to eat well and dress well while he was there, and that was all.

(End of this chapter)