Lu Yanhe shook his head. "I can cook occasionally, but I won't make any fancy dishes. What if I need to cook for a movie in the future? I can't cut vegetables or flip a spoon and need a substitute."Chen Ziyan: "Well, you have a lot of skills now. You can sing, ride a horse, shoot arrows, and do some martial arts. That's great. An actor should have all kinds of skills so that he can play any role."
"When will the filming of "The Mist" start?" Lu Yanhe asked curiously.
"It may be February or March next year. I have already communicated with them. You will join the crew to shoot "Burning" in April next year, so this period will be avoided." Chen Ziyan said, "Fortunately, the shooting time of "The Mist" has not been confirmed yet, so it can be coordinated according to your schedule. However, I calculated that you may have a lot of shooting plans next year. The two movies "The Mist" and "Burning" will occupy your first half of the year. In the second half of the year, you will also have to shoot the second season of "The Seventeenth Floor", basically you will have no time to do anything else."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
"There is another question." Chen Ziyan said, "Your Love Letter will definitely not be released in time for Valentine's Day next year. However, you will be so busy next year that it is estimated that you will hardly have time to do its post-production. It is even a question whether this movie can be released next year."
Lu Yanhe once again sighed that time was really not enough.
He said: "For post-production, just do it whenever you can. I already have a clear idea of what the film should look like, which can save a lot of time."
Chen Ziyan nodded and said, "That's good."
Lu Yanhe: "Oh, by the way, I almost forgot, I have to make an appointment with Director Hou Jun."
"Ok?"
Chen Ziyan looked at him in surprise.
Hou Jun is the director of the show "Xiaoge Juzhonghui" and is also one of Lu Yanhe's early mentors.
Chen Ziyan didn't know why Lu Yanhe suddenly asked to meet him.
"I need to ask him to help with the music for Love Letter," Lu Yanhe said. "The music is very important for Love Letter. I have some ideas, but I don't know many people in the music industry, so I have to ask him to help me."
Chen Ziyan suddenly realized.
As a music variety show director, Hou Jun has extensive connections in the domestic music circle.
In the original version of "Love Letter", its soundtrack can be described as "god-level".
Many viewers even said that without this soundtrack, the movie might not have become a hit.
The reason why "Love Letter" is a classic is that it awakens memories of adolescence and secret love in every audience member's heart.
The soundtrack plays an important role in triggering this emotion.
Lu Yanhe doesn't know anything about musical instruments, so this kind of thing can only be done by professionals.
"By the way, let me tell you something." Chen Ziyan asked with a smile, "Do you still remember "Divine Picture"? "
"I remember, it seemed to be a play produced by Wen Xia Zhiyin, right? Didn't they invite Li Zhibai and Yan Liang to act in it at that time, but it fell through later."
"Yes, it has been restarted now." Chen Ziyan said, "They approached Li Zhibai and Yan Liang again, but Zhou Ping'an and Lin Suyang turned them down. They didn't want Li Zhibai and Yan Liang to play the roles anymore, so Wen Xia Zhiyin is looking for other actors now."
Lu Yanhe thought, since Chen Ziyan specifically told him about this, it could be that the actor Wen Xia Zhiyin wanted to find was someone with whom he had a close relationship?
Chen Ziyan said: "They want to find Huang Kairen to play the role."
"Ah?" Lu Yanhe asked, "Brother Kairen...he is already 32 years old. Isn't his age not suitable?"
Chen Ziyan: "If Huang Kairen is willing to play the role, Wen Xia Zhiyin will definitely modify the character setting for Huang Kairen."
"Uh." Lu Yanhe asked, "What does Brother Kairen think?"
"He didn't want to take the job, but his agent wanted him to. The two sides had a big conflict over this. Even I heard about it." Chen Ziyan finally said what she really wanted to say about this matter, "Huang Kairen and his agent should break up."
Lu Yanhe looked shocked.
"His agent can no longer keep up with his current momentum," said Chen Ziyan. "Before, Huang Kairen and Lian Xun had a big conflict over the film Rouge. Their relationship became very bad, and they kept having small conflicts afterwards. This time, The Divine Picture has once again intensified their conflict."
"Brother Kairen really doesn't need to act in the drama "Divine Picture" anymore. He finally succeeded in his transformation and became an actor who can carry serious dramas." Lu Yanhe said, "Even I can see this. Can his agent not see it?"
"But dramas like 'Divine Picture' make money. One drama can bring Huang Kairen more than 40 million yuan in salary, while those serious dramas can only provide Huang Kairen with less than a quarter of the salary." Chen Ziyan said, "Agents are not doing charity to guide actors, they also want to make money. Huang Kairen's salary for 'Rouge' was not high to begin with. No matter how good the reputation is, in the eyes of the agent, it has to be a good reputation that can be converted into income, otherwise it is useless."
"Didn't Brother Kairen gain some new business endorsements thanks to Rouge?"
"Of course there are several more." Chen Ziyan said, "But considering Huang Kairen's current status, if he doesn't accept endorsements from fast-moving consumer goods brands, the endorsement fees won't be very high, especially for some top luxury brands, which may not even have endorsement fees. Huang Kairen is now determined to go the high-end route. If he doesn't accept business from fast-moving consumer goods brands, then this aspect won't bring in much income. In fact, Huang Kairen's approach is correct and very far-sighted. After enduring these years, he has truly established his current status, from a traffic star to a powerful actor. He doesn't have to worry about income at all. Lian Xun may have lost his composure. Seeing that Huang Kairen's career is getting better and better, he may have a sense of crisis and feel that he will be kicked out by Huang Kairen at that time."
It's not just celebrities who lack a sense of security, their agents are the same.
Between young artists and their agents, it is definitely the latter who controls the former.
But between first-line artists and their agents, the agents are the weaker party.
Lu Yanhe asked: "Brother Kairen...will he really break up with Lian Xun?"
"In my opinion, yes."
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Chen Ziyan's judgment was so accurate that it was confirmed two days later.
A marketing account revealed that Huang Kairen and his agent had an irreconcilable conflict and were suspected to have broken up.
A stone stirred up a thousand waves.
Artists have conflicts with their management companies or agents, and even break up - this kind of news is not uncommon, but just like celebrities falling in love, getting married or getting divorced, it never tires of arousing the excitement of the general public.
After the breakup rumors between Huang Kairen and his agent Lian Xun were hotly discussed on the Internet for a long time, Huang Kairen and Lian Xun finally came out to respond to the matter.
The two of them did not accuse each other, but instead jointly issued a statement saying that they did have some conflicts in their future plans that needed to be resolved, and that it was not the case as rumored on the Internet, and asked everyone to give them some space to discuss and resolve these issues.
Both of them showed very decent attitudes, unlike the usual breakups between agents and artists, which are ugly and quarrelsome.
In fact, there was no deep hatred between Huang Kairen and Lian Xun.
"Since my debut, Lian Xun has been in charge of my management. Without him, I would never have achieved what I have today."
When Huang Kairen talked about this matter with Lu Yanhe on the phone, he was actually very grateful to Lian Xun.
Lu Yanhe asked: "Brother Kairen, why don't you have a good chat with Lian Xun?"
"If we could have settled it through a proper discussion, we would have settled it long ago." Huang Kairen pursed his lips helplessly, "He and I do have a big disagreement on the future development direction."
"That--"
"I will find a new agent to take charge of my affairs," said Huang Kairen.
Lu Yanhe: "Will Lian Xun accept it?"
"He didn't accept it at first, but after talking a few times, he gradually accepted it," said Huang Kairen.
After Lu Yanhe finished the phone call with Huang Kairen, he originally thought that Lian Xun was a pretty easy-going and honest person, and even if he and Huang Kairen wanted to break up because of their different opinions, they could do so in a friendly way.
But then Chen Ziyan told Lu Yanhe something that shocked him.
The reason why Huang Kairen and Lian Xun were able to break up amicably was because Huang Kairen gave Lian Xun 10 million as a breakup fee.
Hearing this number, Lu Yanhe was stunned.
When he thought that the two of them still had past feelings for each other and could part ways amicably even if they could not continue to be together, the huge breakup fee of 10 million directly shattered his beautiful imagination of human nature.
"Brother Kairen... this is a huge price to pay."
"Yes, Huang Kairen has made a lot of money over the years since his debut, but he also spent a lot. He gave away 10 million in one go, which probably made his wallet a lot thinner." Chen Ziyan said, "But fortunately this number has not been made public, otherwise, we don't know whether it was Huang Kairen who was scolded or Lian Xun who was scolded."
The former is criticized because there are always a group of people on the Internet who hate the rich, and the latter is criticized because of greed.
Regardless, this matter ends here.
On the surface, the two people parted ways amicably.
Who will take over as Huang Kairen's agent is also a hot topic in the industry.
Lu Yanhe also asked Chen Ziyan curiously: "Sister Ziyan, don't you consider snatching Brother Kairen to come to you?"
"He just broke up with Lian Xun, and his contract with the agency hasn't expired yet." Chen Ziyan said, "And it's impossible for me to sign an agreement with his agency and become his contracted agent."
In the area of celebrity management, generally speaking, the agent and the agency are one and the same. Celebrity artists usually sign contracts with the agency, not the agent. But this only applies to the most common cases. In fact, in many cases, the agent can also be an independent individual, who signs a separate entrustment agreement with the agency, and the agency entrusts him to act as the artist's agent. Sometimes, although a strong and resourceful agent's own contract is with a certain agency, the artist she is interested in signs a management agency contract with herself, not with the agency - this means that the artist is the agent's artist, not the artist of this agency.
Lu Yanhe: "I don't know who Kairen will find to be his agent, or if his agency will arrange one for him?"
"Probably not." Chen Ziyan shook her head. "Even if the agency arranges another one, the agent still represents the agency's intentions. It is impossible for him to consider Huang Kairen's work arrangements 100% from his perspective. With Huang Kairen's current status, he needs an agent who can help him to become a top-tier player in the future, and an agent who can form a community of interests with him 100%."
Lu Yanhe suddenly realized.
I learned another lesson from Sister Zi Yan.
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As the breakup between Huang Kairen and his agent came to an end, before the end of October, the Feihong Award, one of the three major domestic film awards, announced this year's nomination list.
At this time every year, the three major domestic film awards come out.
This time, "Rouge", "Glory Road", "The Angry Crows", "Nine Yins", "My Home I Haven't Returned To for a Long Time" and "Happy Time" became the major nominees.
These are all very talked-about movies this year.
Of course, there are also some highly talked-about movies that were unexpectedly not nominated for major awards, such as "Exploding Flower Needle" starring Li Yuefeng and Zhang Lan. Yu Jiang's "Flowers on the Stars" was not a direction to win awards even before it was released. In the Best Director category, Wang Zhong from "Rouge", Fu Kai from "Road to Glory", Erlang Xia (stage name) from "The Angry Crow", Ning Zhiyuan from "Nine Yins", and Yu Qin from "Happy Time".
There are both famous directors and young directors, and the competition is fierce.
Judging from the media's voices, everyone thinks that Wang Zhong and Yu Qin are in the first tier, Fu Kai and Ning Zhiyuan are in the second tier. It was quite unexpected that Erlang Xia, the director of the animated film "The Angry Crows", was nominated.
In the Best Screenplay category, Lu Yanhe from Rouge and Ning Zhiyuan from Nine Yins were nominated together with My Home I Haven't Returned To for a Long Time, My Heart Is Full of Thoughts, and The Seventh Floating Life. The most popular one is The Seventh Floating Life. When the movie was released, it was famous for its adaptation of the Qing Dynasty work The Sixth Floating Life, and received a lot of discussion and praise.
Actors.
For the Best Actor award, Huang Kairen was nominated for the three major domestic film awards for the first time with "Rouge". In addition, there are Zhou Yuning from the martial arts film "Nine Yins" and Zhang Ding from the literary romance film "You Who Came From the River". The three of them will compete with Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou from "Road to Glory" for the Best Actor award.
Best Actress: Although My Home is a suspense film, the phenomenal hit film she created alone directly sent her to a nomination. Ning Xiulian, who won the Best Actress at the Venice International Film Festival for Happy Hour, was also among them, as expected. Chen Bige, who won the Best Actress at the Jose Film Festival for Rouge, was also among them. The other two nominees were considered by the media to be just for the sake of numbers: Li Xiaoning, the heroine of the art film Hundred Phoenix, which has not been released yet, and Qin Sangwen, the goddess of art films who starred in You Who Came From the River. The latter two were considered to be "out if nominated."
The media all say that this year is the year of the explosion of Chinese-language films.
There are masterpieces such as "Rouge", "Path of Glory" and "Happy Days" that have won accolades at international film festivals, as well as box office hits of different genres such as "The Home I Haven't Returned To for a Long Time", "Nine Yins" and "The Angry Crows".
The competition is also extremely fierce.
The media felt that the most unfortunate person was Xu Yiren.
With Xu Yiren's performance in "My Home, I Haven't Returned for a Long Time" and the representative achievements of this one-woman show, if it were a normal year, she would definitely win a Best Actress trophy. But she happened to be in this year, with a Venice Film Festival Best Actress and a Jose Film Festival Best Actress, both of which were very strong.
As for the male protagonist, this year is a lucky year and the media are saying it is a fight between gods.
There is no need to talk about Shang Yongzhou and Lu Yanhe. The former is the current ceiling of acting skills for domestic male actors and a big award winner, while the latter's momentum in recent years has made him a well-deserved "first among the young generation". Now, relying on the movie "Road to Glory", he has received a lot of nominations for acting awards in the North American awards season.
Zhou Yuning in "Nine Yins" is also a dark horse in this summer's movie season. The swordsman he plays can be said to be the most successful martial arts character in recent years, and his tragic ending shocked a large number of audiences. This one role has made Zhou Yuning a first-line movie star - it is not enough to star in a box office hit movie, his role is popular enough, and his star is bright enough, so that he can become a big hit with the right time, place and people.
In addition to Zhou Yuning, Huang Kairen also changed everyone's impression of him with Rouge. He played the romantic and affectionate Twelve Young Master in Rouge. Although he was a typical drama guarantor, Huang Kairen's performance was able to compete with Chen Bige without losing, which was enough to show his success in this film. If there is a disadvantage, it is that Rouge is a movie with a strong female lead, and Huang Kairen's role is relatively small, unlike other nominees who have room to perform and rich characters.
Even Chen Ziyan said: "This year's Feihong Awards are really wonderful."
"Movie Jianghu" directly published an article saying: This is the most exciting Feihong Award in the past ten years.
By the way, this is also the first time Lu Yanhe has been nominated for the Best Actor award.
He was previously the Best Supporting Actor.
Chen Ziyan said: "It's a pity that movies like Lost on Journey are still not favored by awards."
"It's not aimed at awards. The box office results are already very good. We can't be too greedy."
Chen Ziyan looked at her phone and suddenly laughed.
"Now people are saying online that you are nominated for every award, and you always get two. Before, you got two acting awards, but now you get one acting award and one screenwriting award. Some people say that maybe after Love Letter is released, you will be Lu Santi, the director, screenwriter, and actor."
When Lu Yanhe heard this, he was a little amused.
"That's not so exaggerated." Lu Yanhe smiled, "I don't think I will be nominated for an acting award for my performance in Love Letter."
It can be said that the role was not difficult at all to perform.
In fact, the characters in "Love Letter" are basically not difficult to perform.
Including the role played by Chen Bige.
The reason why "Love Letter" is a classic is purely because it reaches the extreme in the track of youth, secret love, and nostalgia. It is not because of the pinnacle of performance of any actor. The reason why all the characters are moving is that they are driven by the story and the atmosphere of this movie.
Lu Yanhe thought about it and decided that if Love Letter really had a chance to win an award in the future, the Best Screenplay Award would probably be the most promising.
The day after the Feihong Award nomination list was announced, the Asian Television Festival awards ceremony was also held.
Lu Yanhe flew to Singapore again to attend the closing ceremony and award ceremony.
This time, he was attending the event to announce with TVN's Ms. Kim Yeon-sook that "Rouge" will be adapted into a Korean drama.
Lu Yanhe will also announce that "Rouge" will be adapted into a Chinese-language TV series.
As for his nominations, Lu Yanhe really didn't take them seriously - because just as they expected, he didn't win any awards.
The winner of this year's Asian Television Awards Best Actor was actually the Korean actor Kong Lingfan, who asked Lu Yanhe at the opening ceremony if he could make a guest appearance in the Korean drama version of "Friends".
He won the award for his role in the suspense drama "Death Note" which was popular in Asia last year. He cried with joy and was extremely excited when he received the award.
The Chinese media at the scene were very dissatisfied with the result that Lu Yanhe’s grains were not harvested.
To be honest, Chinese-language dramas did not have much influence overseas before. It was okay that they could not compete with Korean and Japanese dramas, but they had the support of streaming media and had a great influence. Even if they could not be broadcast normally in China, they still had millions or even tens of millions of viewers thanks to the widespread pirated resources.
However, among the dramas such as Friends, The Seventeenth Floor and River of Silence, which one of them did not achieve remarkable results? !
Lu Yanhe has even held fan meetings in Korea twice.
Who can say against their will that the influence of these dramas is not as great as those of Korean and Japanese dramas?
In everyone's mind, Lu Yanhe is their most awesome actor. He was sitting at the award ceremony with so many nominations, but he didn't win a single award?
What a joke!
However, when everyone was feeling indignant for Lu Yanhe, they saw that Lu Yanhe didn't take it to heart at all. After hearing that others had won awards, he was chatting and laughing with director Chen Lingling next to him, and didn't seem to care at all.
It was not until director Chen Lingling won the Best Director Award that Lu Yanhe stood up happily and applauded and celebrated for director Chen Lingling.
After the award ceremony, Lu Yanhe was surrounded by many media.
One of the questions he is asked most often is, "Is it going to affect your mood since I didn't get any harvest this time?"
Lu Yanhe originally wanted to modestly say that he couldn't win the award or something, and say something hypocritical, but when he saw that these media friends he was familiar with were actually genuinely indignant that he didn't win the award, he smiled and decided to play Versailles.
"It has no impact." Lu Yanhe said with a smile, "There have been too many nominations for various awards recently. I can't tell which one is which. If I win an award, I win it. If I don't, it doesn't matter. It feels like there are new nominations every day. With so many nominations, I should be able to win a few awards, haha."
He didn't say these words in a boastful way, nor did he say them in a smug tone. Instead, he said them in a frank manner, "It's all very calm, I'm just pretending to be cool." This made his words sound strange.
There's a feeling of "Fuck, this bitch got it!"
What Lu Yanhe was embarrassed to say was that this was not a top award, and he had never taken it seriously from the beginning. If he had not won an award at a top international film festival, or if he had missed out on the top three domestic awards, he might have been disappointed.
After the award ceremony, Kim Yeon-sook held a press conference before the media left.
This press conference will announce many of TVN’s subsequent project plans.
As one of the partners in the Korean drama version of "Rouge", Lu Yanhe appeared on the scene with a smile, causing excited cheers from the audience.
"I am very happy that as a screenwriter, my works can be adapted into new versions in different forms and languages in different countries and regions, so that more audiences can see them. This is a wonderful feeling." Lu Yanhe expressed his feelings, "I am looking forward to seeing the Korean versions of Friends and Rouge."
Some media raised their hands to indicate that they wanted to ask questions.
It's Chinese media.
Lu Yanhe nodded, indicating to the host that he was ready to answer questions.
The reporter from the Chinese media asked: "It is shocking that Rouge, a Chinese-language movie, has been adapted into a Korean drama. I would like to ask why you have not considered adapting Rouge into a Chinese-language drama?"
“It will also be adapted.”
Regarding this, Lu Yanhe had already informed Jin Yanshu in advance. Jin Yanshu did not object to Lu Yanhe mentioning the Chinese version at this media conference. On the contrary, she believed that if China and South Korea adapted the series at the same time, it would be more topical and would be of great benefit to the adaptation of Korean dramas.
Lu Yanhe said: "The Chinese version of Rouge will be adapted by Bingyuan Video."
The whole audience exclaimed.
A movie that was just released not long ago is now being adapted into two TV series.
This speed is almost unheard of.
Is "Rouge" so popular?
This is really unexpected. After all, Rouge is not a phenomenal movie. Although it sold well in China, it did not become a global hit.
TVN: Why did you suddenly want to adapt it into a Korean drama?
Many media immediately asked Kim Yeon-sook questions.
What everyone is most curious about is why they want to adapt "Rouge".
Lu Yanhe was still feeling quite nervous at this moment.
If Kim Yeon-sook overemphasizes the importance of women's awareness at this time, it may cause a lot of controversy online. After all, this topic is quite sensitive online. However, Kim Yeon-sook has been able to stand firm in the Korean drama circle for many years, so she still has this sensitivity.
As soon as she opened her mouth, she attributed her original intention of adapting "Rouge" to Lu Yanhe.
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