Chapter 256 Premiere [Part ]
February 2th, 14am, backstage at Haidian Cinema.
Xu Kun sat in front of the dressing table, letting the makeup artist dress him up while listening to the staff confirm the final process.
"…After going to the bathroom at 7:, there is a -minute makeup touch-up session."
"The warm-up singer is Dao Lang. After half an hour of media interaction, you and Dao Lang will sing "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" together..."
"and many more!"
When Xu Kun heard this, he frowned and said, "Hasn't this paragraph been changed?"
"changed?"
"I changed it to a duet between me and Baoqiang. Can I catch up with Daolang's level? Baoqiang and I will sing together. He will be responsible for the off-tune and I will be responsible for connecting the words. It's equally good and there is even a comedic effect."
The staff sent by Huayi hurriedly wrote this down in a notebook, and apologized to Xu Kun repeatedly, saying that they had not done their job well.
"It's okay, just keep talking."
"Next is your turn... and Brother Baoqiang will draw prizes on the spot and give out gifts to lucky audience members. Considering that most of the real audience members are your fans, we have also prepared another song, "Farewell My Concubine."
Xu Kun was quite confident about this song. The low difficulty was one thing, but the main reason was that he earned two houses from "Conquer" and "Farewell My Concubine", and he still remembers these two songs vividly.
"Next, Sister Shishi will go on stage to sing "Invisible Wings", and then..."
As soon as the staff member said this, a large group of people rushed in from outside, led by Wang Zhongjun, Wang Zhonglei, Ge You, and Feng Xiaogang.
Following behind were Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing, Ren Yan...
Anyway, almost all the remaining stars of Huayi are here, except for Huo Siyan, Qin Lan and Xiong Naijin - the three of them arrived early in the morning and are currently accompanying Liu Shishi in the actresses' dressing room.
Although Liu Shishi only contributed one photo and one shot in the entire movie, she is still the undisputed heroine of the film.
However, when Xu Kun saw this scene, he immediately wanted to stand up and greet them.
"Don't move, don't move!"
Wang Zhongjun took two steps forward, held him down, and said with a smile: "Today you are the main character, we are all your family, there is no need for so many etiquette - you should save this energy for dealing with outsiders later."
It is said that once a person becomes famous, all the people around him are good people - let’s not talk about the plotting behind the scenes, but at least they are all good people in front of you.
In the past, Xu Kun always dealt with Wang Zhonglei, but now he is not afraid to face Wang Zhongjun directly.
He first greeted Ge You and Feng Xiaogang, and then started chatting and laughing with everyone.
The noise here was so loud that it could be heard in the women's dressing room next door, so Xiong Naijin volunteered to come over to investigate. As a result, he peeked through the door frame and saw Brother Kun sitting and the two Wangs standing, chatting happily.
Mr. Wang, who usually has the final say in Huayi, was full of auspicious words at this time, and there was no feeling of a superior treating an inferior, or an elder treating a junior.
This shocked Xiong Naijin greatly. When he went back and told Huo Siyan and Qin Lan about it, they both felt the same way, but their subsequent thoughts were completely opposite.
Huo Siyan was thinking, 'A real man should be like this'.
Qin Lan was thinking, 'Brother Kun is really amazing.'
At this time, Song Xinxin, Yang Lixin and He Bing also arrived, and brought Pu Cunxi and Liang Pangpang, who became famous for his role in Detective Di Renjie.
With so many people, the dressing room was a little full, and it also delayed Xu Kun's makeup, so Ge You, as the elder, led everyone to the conference room.
Fan Bingbing deliberately lagged behind for two steps. After everyone left, she stepped forward, patted Xu Kun on the shoulder and said, "Director Xu, have you read the script I sent you?"
“I saw it. I saw it.”
Xu Kun perfunctorily said, "Although I've been extremely busy lately, I will definitely take time out to read the script you gave me, Sister Bingbing."
"So what do you think of the script? Do you want to take it?"
"This one……"
Xu Kun actually didn't want to take the role. After all, the drama was a bit similar to the original "Qinghong". The movie was called "Apple" and the heroine was also called Apple.
To put it bluntly, the main role is played by the heroine, and the foot massage parlor owner played by Xu Kun is not even the male lead, but the second male lead - of course, he would not want to play the male lead, because the second male lead can at least have intimate scenes with Fan Bingbing, but if he were the male lead, he would have to have a passionate quarrel with the foot massage parlor owner's wife.
So he perfunctorily said: "The script is definitely a good one, but I'm just worried that I won't be able to act well, and these days..." "I'm not that anxious."
Fan Bingbing interrupted Xu Kun and said, "At first, we wanted to cast Liang Jiahui in this movie, but he was drunk driving and hit a bus at the end of last year. This time he also hit the bus driver. He has just been sentenced to three years of probation. Originally, the director wanted to wait until the incident was over before filming. It was me who finally convinced the director to give you the role!"
Liang Jiahui may have a grudge against buses. In 02, he drove drunk and hit a bus and a private car. In 05, he drove drunk again and hit a bus. He also beat the bus driver and was eventually sentenced to two months in prison and three years of probation.
It is because the environment in the entertainment industry has been relatively relaxed in recent years, otherwise he and the short and thick-haired guy would have been judged as bad artists long ago.
But when Xu Kun heard Fan Bingbing bring up Liang Jiahui, he was just about to back off and admit that he was no match for Liang Jiahui, but Fan Bingbing patted him on the shoulder three times again and said with a smile, "Don't worry, wait until your movie is a big hit, then we can sit down and discuss cooperation in detail."
Having said that, he left on his own.
After Fan Bingbing left, Xu Kun raised his hand and touched his earlobe. While the makeup artist and staff were not looking, Fan Bingbing raised her little finger and tickled his earlobe several times.
Combined with the three taps on the shoulder...
Could it be that she was hinting at me to go through the back door at three o'clock in the morning?
But thinking about it more carefully, her hint might require her to agree to film "Apple" first before it can be fulfilled.
Is it worth it?
"Brother Kun~"
At this time, Shen Teng nodded and came over very servilely: "If you are not busy, let's go over the interview process first?"
Shen Teng was both excited and nervous to be the host of the premiere this time.
The main reason is that the process is too tight. The premiere will be held in the morning and the film will be released nationwide in the afternoon.
This is mainly to prevent piracy, which is rampant nowadays. If it premiered first and then released nationwide a few days later like in later generations, the entrance of the cinema would probably be full of people selling discs, and the Internet would be full of links.
"Just tell me from the beginning. I'd like to see if there's anything I need to modify."
Xu Kun calmed down his somewhat restless heart. He could get women at any time. The most important thing at the moment was the premiere of "Lost on Journey".
"Then please listen to my opening remarks first. Ahem, um, ahem - ah ~ distinguished guests, in this..."
Shen Teng had just started to make a big statement when Bao Qiang, wearing a Shamatte look, suddenly ran in and said, "Brother Kun, it's snowing outside!"
"good sign!"
Shen Teng immediately changed his words and gave a thumbs up exaggeratedly: "Auspicious snow means a good harvest, which means our movie will definitely be a hit!"
Xu Kun thought for a moment and asked Baoqiang: "Are there many fans outside?"
"A lot, at least thousands of people. I heard that some people started lining up at midnight yesterday!"
It's not even seven o'clock yet, and there will definitely be a lot of people gathering by eight or nine o'clock. There are only 300 tickets for ordinary audiences for the premiere, and the remaining 500-plus tickets are all given to people with connections and the media.
This means that most people have to stand outside in the cold all morning and can’t enter the theater to watch the movie until 12:30.
It's snowing again now...
"Baoqiang, go talk to Brother Chen and have him send people to nearby stores to buy down vests, cotton vests, cloth vests, buy as many as you can, and then make a simple statistics when you come back and distribute them to the fans outside."
Baoqiang agreed and turned away.
Not long after, Chen Xuebin brought Baoqiang back and asked, "We have invested so much money, should we hire someone to take a photo for publicity?"
"No need!"
Xu Kun waved his hand and said, "It's not the same as before. There's no need for the media to film such things. Someone with ulterior motives will post the news online. News uploaded spontaneously by fans is better than us deliberately filming it for publicity."
Hearing him say this, Chen Xuebin nodded and said with emotion: "It is indeed different. The E-era that they talked about on TV is really coming this time."
After the incident of sponsoring students in the fifth grade of Chuwu, Chen Xuebin even complained that Xu Kun had wasted a good opportunity for publicity.
Who knew that the more they suppressed the publicity, the faster the news spread on the Internet, touching all the "Kun lovers" and even Xu Kun's popularity on the Internet improved a lot.
(End of this chapter)
