Entertaining Children

"Parkour Boy" has been nominated for three "Golden Dragon Awards". Although the number is not many, there are many nominees involved.

There are four nominees for the "Best Action Design" award, namely Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and an action director of the crew. The "Best Original Soundtrack Song" award is for the singer of the song. The person is the "Immortals" band, and the nominee for the "Best Editing" award is Mu Yinghe, an editor of the crew. After a rough calculation, the number of people exceeded double digits.

Nominated for three awards, but the number of people involved has reached double digits, which is also a rare sight in the film industry. When the nomination list came out, this point was complained by some netizens.

It is quite common for the singer of the movie soundtrack to be a band, so there is nothing to say. But the action design has four signatures, which seems a bit much. In addition, the two directors, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying, signed the action design and editing respectively, which is also a very rare slot.

Generally speaking, the director is in charge of the filming of the crew. Whether it is the action design during filming or the editing in the later stage, the director should be involved in it. But in general, in addition to screenwriting, editing, action guidance and other regular behind-the-scenes positions I can't see the director's name.

The content of the director is different from that of the action director, and Xiao Yao is one of the veteran parkour team members. If there is a reason for adding Xiao Yao to the action director, then Mu Ying’s signed editing is even more speechless.

However, for things like signatures, the power lies with the producers and the production team. If Xiao Yao and the others really wanted to do this, no one else could stop them. What's more, what these people did in film shooting and post-production, and to what extent, no one else can know. Now that the film crew has signed it like this, netizens are also watching the novelty and making complaints about it on the Internet. If they really want to talk about controversy or even denounce and boycott their approach, it is still out of the question.

The "Golden Dragon Award" is an authoritative film award in China, and there will not be a situation where the award is only awarded to the attending stars. According to the usual practice, all the nominated people will be invited by the organizer to attend the award ceremony, but it is not mandatory to come, and other people are allowed to accept the trophy on their behalf.

The action designers and editors in the "Immortals" band and crew are all Americans, and Mu Ying is currently living in the United States. These people have not won awards at foreign film festivals or award ceremonies. Even though the distance is far away, after knowing that the film was nominated and Xiao Yao forwarded the invitation to the organizer, they all decided to come to China to participate in this year's film festival. "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony.

The itinerary planned by Muying and others was to come to Huaxia two days before the awards ceremony. On the day they arrived, Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and other "landlords" naturally had to go to the airport to pick them up.

Mu Ying, action director, editor, band members, plus the assistants of the four band members, Mu Ying and his party can be described as a huge group with very obvious goals. Even so, when Mu Ying and others came out of the passenger passage, Xiao Yao who came to pick up the plane still found an extra member of Mu Ying's group at a glance.

"Jin? Why did you come to China too?" After Mu Ying and others approached, Xiao Yao walked up to a black-haired Chinese girl and asked.

This girl, who was more than Xiao Yao expected, was naturally Zhou Jingyi whom she met in the United States.

"Why did I come to Huaxia? This is the first sentence you said when you saw me? Is that how you greeted me?" Zhou Jingyi clutched her chest and said with a sad expression, "It's so hurt!"

"Okay, my fault!" Xiao Yao put on a smiling face, opened his arms and said, "Welcome to Huaxia! Once again!"

"Is it okay?" Zhou Jingyi glanced behind Xiao Yao and asked with a smile.

"Huh?" Xiao Yao was taken aback.

Without waiting for Xiao Yao's answer, Zhou Jingyi stretched out her arms to hug Xiao Yao, and said with a smile, "Nice to meet you!"

"Okay! Next!" Zhou Jingyi quickly let go of Xiao Yao,

Said to a brunette white girl beside her, "Sammy, it's your turn!"

"Tiana! I'm glad we met again!" Zhou Jingyi said as she walked towards Sun Tingting behind Xiao Yao.

"Yan, long time no see!" Sammy Smith walked up to Xiao Yao and said.

"Old Mu, all the girls have gone to Bayi, you can only greet me!" Zhao Rui smiled and patted Mu Ying on the shoulder.

Zhao Rui, Xiao Yao, and Sun Tingting are all close friends, and they know more about Xiao Yao and the two American girls. However, in his opinion, the two American girls are too far away from Xiao Yao to pose any threat to Sun Tingting. Now that Xiao Yao has proposed to Sun Tingting, there is nothing to worry about or be nervous about. Seeing the performance of the two girls at this time, Zhao Rui was more in a teasing mood.

Needless to say, Mu Ying, Zhou Jingyi and the two crew members have been very familiar with Zhao Rui and Xu Fei after more than two months of filming together. Several members of the band knew Zhao Rui a little earlier, and had relatively little contact with Xu Fei, but the band also visited the set during filming in the United States, and they also had some contact during the road show together, so they can be regarded as friends. After Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others also stepped forward to greet Muying and his party one by one, expressing their welcome.

The airport lobby is not a place for chatting. After a brief greeting, the group left the airport lobby and drove to the hotel.

There are quite a few people in Muying's group, and several of Xiao Yao and the others came to pick up the plane, so when they came to pick up the plane, they also drove a few cars over.

For convenience, Xiao Yao drove a seven-seater SUV when he came to pick him up this time. In addition to Sun Tingting, five people can sit. At the suggestion of Dean Smith, everyone decided that the four members of the band, Zhou Jingyi, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting were in the same car, and the two members of Muying, the crew and the assistants who came with the band were handed over to Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. .

"Jin, I want to ask, did you come to Huaxia this time to participate in the "Golden Dragon" award ceremony like them?" On the way to the hotel, Xiao Yao, who was driving, couldn't help asking Zhou Jingyi, "Before Mu Ying didn't tell me that you would also come to the award ceremony. The day after tomorrow is the award ceremony, if you want to attend, I can't guarantee that it will be arranged."

As an award-nominated film crew, the main creators are all eligible to attend the awards ceremony. Zhou Jingyi is one of the leading actors in the movie. Even if she is not nominated for an award, there is no problem in attending the award ceremony. But before Muying didn't tell Xiao Yao that Zhou Jingyi was going to China to attend the Golden Dragon Awards Ceremony, Xiao Yao didn't help Zhou Jingyi sign up either.

The star seats on the day of the awards ceremony have already been arranged, and a temporary increase in the number of stars present or a temporary absence will affect the previous arrangement of the star seats by the organizer.

When it comes to the arrangement of personnel attending the awards ceremony, the nominees are given priority. There are quite a few nominations for their crew, and the number of places occupied has reached double digits. In order to prevent the team from being too large, Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan and others did not attend the "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony. No internal adjustments can be made. If you want to adjust, you have to move other people's positions.

It is not too uncommon for stars to attend an awards ceremony to change temporarily, and the temporary adjustment of seating arrangements is not without precedent. But after all, there are only two days left before the awards ceremony. If Zhou Jingyi really came to attend the awards ceremony, not to mention absolutely impossible, but at least Xiao Yao is not sure in his heart.

"It doesn't matter, I didn't come to Huaxia this time, no, I didn't come just to attend the awards ceremony." Zhou Jingyi smiled, "I received two job invitations from Huaxia some time ago, and I came here this time to talk about cooperation Yes. If it goes well, I will stay in Huaxia for a while in the future."

"Talking about cooperation?" Xiao Yao asked strangely, "Then why didn't your manager come together?"

"The business talk is in a few days. I'm free these few days. It just so happens that Muying and Sami are going to China to attend the awards ceremony, so I set off for China ahead of schedule and flew here with them on the same plane," Zhou Jingyi said. , "My agent still has some things to deal with, she will come to Huaxia to join me later!"

"Oh!" Xiao Yao nodded.

"Since we are in Huaxia, it is of course best to go to the awards ceremony. After all, walking the red carpet is also an opportunity to make a public appearance." Zhou Jingyi continued, "But if you can't, you don't have to worry about it. Anyway, I didn't get nominated, and It doesn’t matter if I don’t have the chance to receive the award on stage. I’ll treat it as if I’ve come to Huaxia for two days to get familiar with the environment in advance. The last time I came to participate in the movie premiere, the schedule was too rushed, and I didn’t have much fun in Huaxia. .”

"From your point of view, I still want to participate in this award ceremony!" Sun Tingting, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, turned her head and smiled at Zhou Jingyi, "What if you can participate in the award ceremony? The award ceremony is also a job, your manager Don't worry about letting you come alone?"

"That's okay," Zhou Jingyi said with a smile, "Huaxia is Yang's territory, so he can definitely handle anything. With him here, what worries my manager?"

In fact, Zhou Jingyi's agency was not very optimistic about the Parkour movie project between Xiao Yao and Mu Ying. This lack of optimism comes from several aspects.

First, the production cost is only 8 million, which is definitely a low-cost movie in the United States. What is even more unreliable is that a quarter of the eight million production cost came from online crowdfunding. Relying on crowdfunding to make a movie is a sign of lack of confidence in the eyes of many people.

Second, the investors are several young people from China and the United States. Except for Muying, none of them are over 30 years old. There is no experience in investing in film production, and they are friends with each other. It seems that young people are just playing around, which seems very unreliable.

Third, although Xiao Yao's popularity in the United States is not low, it is more due to several social cases and music reasons. At that time, Xiao Yao's ability and potential in movies, especially live-action feature films, had not been generally recognized by the American film and television industry. Even Xiao Yao has made short films and animated films, and his grades are not bad, but after all, it is the first time to make a live-action film, which makes people feel uncertain.

Fourth, Mu Ying is considered to be the most experienced director among the main creative staff, and is also a director whose name can be found in Hollywood, USA. However, the films made by this Chinese director in the United States are only average. Neither the box office nor word-of-mouth was outstanding. A group of young people paired with a young director who doesn't look very good, this lineup also makes people feel unconfident.

Although this movie has parkour as a big selling point, as a new sport, it is difficult to judge how many people will buy this movie. It's not that if there are more people playing parkour, parkour movies will definitely be a hit. There are so many sports fans and music fans in the world, but not every sports movie and music movie can achieve good results. It still depends on how the movie is made.

Judging from the production cost and lineup, this movie does not seem to be successful.

After the kidnapping case, with Xiao Yao’s popularity in the United States at that time, it would be no problem to play a guest role in a certain American drama crew, or even ask him to make the original soundtrack, but if he went to act in a crew he invested in and directed, the risk would be small. too big. So when Zhou Jingyi was going to audition for Mu Ying's crew, Zhou Jingyi's agency actually didn't agree. It was Zhou Jingyi's own insistence, and Zhou Jingyi didn't have any other jobs at that time, so the company and agent reluctantly agreed.

The final result naturally proved the correctness of Zhou Jingyi's choice. After the movie was released, it did well at the global box office, and parkour became a hot topic of discussion. In addition to several members of the Parkour veteran team, Zhou Jingyi, the only female actor in the starring team, can be said to have benefited the most.

After the movie was released, Zhou Jingyi's global popularity has increased to a certain extent, but the biggest increase in popularity is of course in China. Zhou Jingyi was able to get two job invitations from Huaxia this time, which was inseparable from the fact that she starred in that movie and her popularity in Huaxia increased greatly.

Although everyone is shouting against racial discrimination, it has to be admitted that it still exists. As a Chinese, Zhou Jingyi's development in the United States actually has certain limitations. And precisely because of Zhou Jingyi's Chinese identity, the brokerage company also naturally considered her Chinese market.

This time, upon receiving a job invitation from Huaxia, the agency wanted to take this opportunity to allow Zhou Jingyi to explore her market in Huaxia.

In fact, when they got the news that "Parkour Movie" had been nominated for the Huaxia Film Awards, Zhou Jingyi's agency wanted Zhou Jingyi to go to Huaxia to attend the awards ceremony.

However, to the disappointment of Zhou Jingyi's agency, Kimberly Zhou's name was not on the invitation list sent by Xiao Yao. Of course, the fact that there is no name on the list does not mean that Zhou Jingyi cannot go. If Zhou Jingyi asks for it, I believe Muying and Xiao Yao can also add her name.

The brokerage company wanted to contact Mu Ying and offered to help Zhou Jingyi get a chance to go to Huaxia to attend the awards ceremony, but Zhou Jingyi stopped when she saw the composition of the crew attending the awards ceremony, especially when Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan and others were not on the list. Even when Mu Ying asked, she refused to go to the brokerage company.

Americans are very realistic. Zhou Jingyi proved the correctness of her choice once, and naturally gained a greater right to speak. This time, the agency also did not force Zhou Jingyi.

But a few days later, the brokerage company received a job invitation from Huaxia. Although these two job invitations had nothing to do with Xiao Yao, Zhou Jingyi still showed her willingness to go. The brokerage company originally wanted her to explore the Chinese market, so naturally they contacted the other party immediately and reached a preliminary cooperation intention.

At this time, Zhou Jingyi was determined to go to Huaxia. Since he was going to Huaxia, the matter of the award ceremony was naturally brought up by the agency again. If she can participate in a very authoritative awards ceremony in Huaxia, it will undoubtedly be of great benefit to Zhou Jingyi's consolidation of her popularity in Huaxia and the cooperation and negotiation of her next two jobs.

The brokerage company wanted to talk to Mu Ying and Xiao Yao again about letting Zhou Jingyi participate in the Huaxia Awards Ceremony, but this time Zhou Jingyi still stopped. But this time Zhou Jingyi didn't say that she would definitely not go to the awards ceremony, but she asked the agency to leave it alone, and she went to Huaxia herself to talk to Xiao Yao.

Zhou Jingyi's brokerage company can only be regarded as an ordinary medium-sized company in the United States. It has a certain influence in the American film and television industry, but in terms of influence in China, it may not be comparable to that of Xiao Yao, who is known in China as The second-generation star of the evildoer, so the brokerage company agreed to let Zhou Jingyi handle it by herself. Zhou Jingyi wanted to go to Huaxia with Mu Ying and others a few days in advance, and asked her agent not to go with her. She would wait until the awards ceremony was over and when she wanted to talk about work. The agent company also agreed.