This celebrity is overly enthusiastic!

Chapter 80 The film crew is my home

Chen Kai's brother came to visit the set, but left without staying overnight.

Zhang Yimou's "Hero" started filming in July this year, which must have been stimulated by the popularity of the martial arts animated film "Kung Fu Panda" overseas.

Chen Kai's brother was also greatly stimulated and wanted to quickly produce his own martial arts blockbuster. China Film Group and other investors were very much looking forward to his project.

Pre-production preparation is no easy task; it involves scriptwriting, concept design, team building, location scouting, and much more—it's incredibly complex.

He will be extremely busy for some time to come and for some time to come.

Sigh, Brother Chen is really something, he doesn't cherish his family at all.

As the executive producer, Chen Yuan regarded the "Legend of Seven Swords" crew as a big family, and caring for his family members was naturally his duty.

That night, he personally escorted his sister, who couldn't hold her liquor, back to the hotel. She must have tripped and fallen onto the bed as she entered.

Chen Kai's brother knew that Chen Yuan had ulterior motives for confronting the media, but most other media outlets failed to see through his scheme and unanimously believed that he was just arrogant due to his early success.

Just as the media continued to vent their anger at him, a particularly explosive and extreme event promptly diverted their attention from Chen Yuan.

It was Zhao Yanzi again. At the end of December, while participating in the sixth anniversary performance of Mango Economic TV, she was pushed down in public and splashed with feces by a man pretending to be a backup dancer!

The reason for this is that her subsequent apology after the flag-wearing incident was extremely perfunctory, and she shifted all the blame to other staff members.

This attitude angered a large number of people, so someone gave her a hard time in public!
Zhao Yanzi's performance costume was white at the time, and when it was splashed all over her head and face, she broke down and cried on the spot!

It was incredibly newsworthy; almost instantly, the "feces-throwing incident" spread throughout the country and even to overseas regions like Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Her popularity with the public and her commercial value plummeted as a result.

Jin Suo, who was once a little maid, is now being touted as a super beauty like a 'national flower,' and she can't keep up with advertising contracts.
The once wildly popular "Princess Pearl" has now fallen into a state of utter disgrace, which is truly lamentable.

Of course, this was all her own doing, and she used a living example to demonstrate to everyone in the entertainment industry what it means to not cross the red line.
-
Although Chen Yuan's "Kung Fu Panda" greatly boosted national confidence this year, the domestic film market still looks sluggish.

Unfortunately, television dramas have a huge impact, coupled with rampant piracy. Most domestically produced films are dramas, so watching them in a theater is not much different from watching them on DVD at home.

These days, very few people choose to spend money at the cinema.

It's no wonder that some talented directors in China are going to great lengths to distribute their films overseas.

Aside from Feng Xiaogang's consistent performance and "Big Shot's Funeral" doing well at the box office, none of the other domestic films released during the Lunar New Year season managed to break the 10 million yuan mark, which is truly pitiful.

Chen Yuan couldn't afford to think about such distant matters right now; Zhangjiajie had snow, and it was incredibly beautiful, especially the rime ice, which was truly a sight to behold.

He had to work overtime to finish filming his scenes in Hengdian, taking advantage of the local snow season to rush the filming of the snow mountain scenes.

This includes plot points such as Lei Lingyun tormenting Ma San Niang to heal her wounds, Zhu Wujie setting an ambush to cause an avalanche, and the main characters being trapped in an ice cave with their fates unknown.

A person's name, like a tree's shadow, spreads far and wide as willow catkins drift in the wind. The local government of Zhangjiajie warmly welcomed the "Legend of Seven Swords" film crew to shoot there, offering subsidies no less generous than those provided in Sichuan.

This area has been developing tourism resources since the 90s, so there's plenty of support for filming here, making it much more convenient than in Sichuan. The current "Legend of Seven Swords" crew is working together very smoothly and can operate two separate sets simultaneously to film different storylines.

If Chen Yuan, the core member and lead actor of the production team, can stay with the crew, then with a little more effort, all the actual filming can be completed before the end of the year.

But that's impossible. Not to mention that he has to attend several important conferences in China to discuss the domestic film industry, he also has to go to the United States in early February to attend the Annie Awards ceremony.

However, Chen Yuan arranged the filming schedule by shooting large group scenes first, and then scheduling his own or a few group scenes later, allowing some actors with fewer scenes to finish filming ahead of time.

After all, it's not appropriate to keep occupying someone else's schedule.

Before the Lunar New Year, the production team of "Seven Swords Legend" had already reduced its size by more than half.

It wasn't a complete breakup. As usual, many key members and outstanding behind-the-scenes personnel were recruited by Chen Yuan into the Yuan Universe.

On February 1st, Chen Yuan and the rest of the "Kung Fu Panda" cast and crew traveled to the United States to win the 2th Annie Awards.
He won four Annie Awards: Best Animated Feature, Best Director, Best Storyboard, and Best Animation Effects.

To be honest, Chen Yuan, that shameless plagiarist, didn't feel much about it; he even thought the Annie Award was somewhat discriminatory against him.
Given the quality of "Kung Fu Panda," it could have swept all the awards, but giving it only four is really stingy.

But Director Chang cried his eyes out at the Annie Awards ceremony, and the main creators who had worked on the project all night long also shed tears.

The domestic media naturally buzzed with reports, and the public was given a lesson on the Annie Awards, which they had never heard of before. They didn't need to know how prestigious they were; they just needed to know that they were the Oscars of the animation industry.

Sitting on the plane, the four trophies were passed around and touched by the team members, while Chen Yuan sat alone by the window, closing his eyes and pretending to doze off.

Damn it, relying on the influence of one's work to collect audience satisfaction and obtain the ultimate reward is too difficult!

After much scheming and leveraging various trending topics, Kung Fu Panda created the perfect conditions for a grand prize, culminating in its winning of four prestigious Annie Awards and widespread publicity.

He'll need to create something on par with "Kung Fu Panda" to get an SS-level reward in the future.
Even if Chen Yuan invited the original cast to star in the film and recreated the S-level award-winning "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" with pixel-perfect accuracy, he wouldn't have any confidence that it would reach the same level of influence as "Kung Fu Panda"!

Damn it, it seems the main way to get SS-level rewards from now on will be by completing the system's achievement tasks.

But the difficulty is getting higher and higher: things like getting the company listed on the main board, creating a vibrant cinematic universe, and establishing a popular subculture worldwide.
The road ahead is indeed long!

Let's not think about that too much for now, let's just go for the lottery! Lotteries make me happy!

[System: Congratulations, host, you have obtained the S-level anime "Cyberpunk: Edgewalker" + the S-level expansion "Cyberpunk 2077" full walkthrough video materials]

Ah? ? ?
Damn, SS-level can actually be S+S?
Feeling like he'd been tricked by the system, Chen Yuan almost cursed at it, but seeing the two S-level rewards he'd received, he immediately calmed down.

A complete video walkthrough of Cyberpunk 2077, a AAA title that flopped upon release.

And then there's Trigger's anime *Cyberpunk: Edgewalker*, which rescued it and led countless players back to Arasaka Tower to repeatedly and relentlessly thrash the boss Adam's Hammer.

Wow, these two rewards are quite special. What should we do?

(End of this chapter)