Chapter 141: Finale, Liu Xiaoli's Mess

The filming of "Buried" went very smoothly and quickly.

So much so that Lin Nan had a sense of unreality. Is it going to end?

He was busy filming "The Martian" for nearly three months.

When the whole crew looked at Lin Nan, waiting for him to speak, he woke up from his trance.

"Our movie is officially finished. Thank you all for your hard work in the past two weeks."

As Lin Nan finished speaking, the filming of "Buried", which had been filmed for more than two weeks, was completely over.

Ryan Reynolds was a little unnatural and walked towards Lin Nan.

"Director, thank you for giving me this opportunity. This movie is completely different from what I have filmed before. It is very special. I will always remember this period of time."

"Ryan, don't worry. After the post-production is finished in the next few days, I will send it to Berlin. If nothing unexpected happens, you need to go to Berlin with me in February."

"Thank you, Director. I am ready to take your call or email at any time."

Ryan Reynolds said happily, but his spirit still seemed a little sluggish.

"Ryan, to be on the safe side, I advise you to talk to a doctor again to make sure you don't have any mental health problems." Lin Nan reminded him.

"Thank you, I'll go."

In Lin Nan's opinion, this kind of play, if you don't get into the state, you can't shoot well, and if you get into the state too well, it will hurt the actors, which is very contradictory.

Ryan Reynolds may really not have anyone to ask him to shoot this kind of award-winning film, so he was too hard when shooting. Lin Nan just hoped that nothing would really go wrong.

Back at Crystal Pictures, Lin Nan saw Tom sitting in the boss chair, holding a magazine in his hand, with a naked Scarlett on the cover.

"Tom, you are very vulgar to watch this kind of thing during work hours."

Lin Nan joked mercilessly, and many employees laughed after hearing it.

"Lin, look how sexy she is, she is only 23 years old this year."

Tom, the old pervert, didn't look embarrassed at all, and handed the magazine to Lin Nan.

"Is this Vanity Fair?"

"Yes, she posed nude for the cover of Vanity Fair. Think about the previous Black Dahlia, where she played a bohemian woman..."

Lin Nan felt that Tom was becoming more and more vulgar, but he had to admit that Scarlett was really good at this age.

A few people were selected from the staff to edit the post-production of Buried Alive. The special effects of Mars were a big project, and there was no rush for one or two days.

It was just that Lin Nan, who was far away from home, would never have thought that someone could raise funds for him.

Jet Li set up a "First Fund", which has earned him a lot of fame. In addition to the angel fund of the princess and her husband, many domestic actors, stars and industry insiders have donated.

In forums and blogs, netizens and fans mentioned the famous people in the circle one by one, and Lin Nan was among them.

"Charity?" Tom said with interest.

"Why, what do you want to say?" Lin Nan asked.

"This kind of thing can be seen everywhere in Hollywood." Tom stopped there.

This is indeed a matter.

Lin Nan thought about it for a while and sent an email to Yue Jun.

Ask him to donate a sum of money in the name of Lin Nan and the company to the official western region education aid project.

And the donation should be made in an open and aboveboard manner.

Apart from anything else, donating this money at least makes Lin Nan feel more at ease than giving it to those two foundations.

Experience tells Lin Nan that you should leave your name behind when doing good things.

While watching the editing of "Buried Alive" and the post-production special effects of "The Martian", Lin Nan started to get busy again.

I also took the time to send a text message to Huang Bo to congratulate him. His "Big Movie Billions" is said to have a good box office, but the plot is a spoof of more than 20 domestic and foreign blockbusters in reality.

Among all the movies, the least eye-catching one is Jia Zhangke's "Still Life in Three Gorges", but it is also the most conspicuous.

After winning the Golden Lion, Zhang Weiping said that he had an improper transaction with the chairman of the jury, and a war of words also involved Zhang Yimou.

In Lin Nan's opinion, among all the directors of the fifth generation, Zhang Yimou is indeed the most versatile, and he can handle both art films and commercial films.

The box office of "Still Life" stopped at 2 million, which is the best box office of Jia Zhangke's movie so far.

As New Year's Day is approaching, rumors have leaked about the casting of the highly anticipated "Forbidden Kingdom".

Liu Yifei and Li Bingbing will become the leading actress and the second female lead in this 70 million US dollar production.

Domestic media instantly focused on these two people and Huayi, and fans and fans were crazy.

This is the biggest hot news at the end of 2006, which can be ranked on par with "The Curse of the Golden Flower" at the beginning of the year.

Huayi did not speak out, which instantly raised the credibility of this rumor.

Mixed in the cheers of fans and moviegoers, there was also a lot of negative news that suddenly emerged.

Liu Yifei was the first to bear the brunt of all the black spots on the Internet from her debut to the present, and none of them were missed, and they were all hyped up again.

Li Bingbing was no less sluggish, competing with the same group of actresses, and making all kinds of behind-the-scenes deals with bigwigs in the industry.

Liu Yifei called Lin Nan, and from the hoarse voice, something was obviously wrong.

The mother and daughter quarreled for a whole day.

"How could she do that? She didn't believe in me at all, but she agreed to sign with Huayi. She was too much..."

As she spoke, she sobbed.

"Stop crying, tell me what happened?"

"Huayi, Mr. Wang from Huayi told my mom that he could help me get the leading female role, on the condition that my financial contract was signed with Huayi, and Huayi would go..."

"At that time, I was still waiting for the last audition, and she agreed to the other party without telling me at all. She only told me yesterday..."

The sobbing became louder with sobbing.

"Huayi? Are you kidding me? I just talked about this with Lionsgate some time ago. Huayi has no right to decide on the leading female role, not even the right to make suggestions!"

After Lin Nan finished speaking, he reacted instantly, "How did your mother explain it to you?"

"She and I quarreled for a whole day. She said that she would get the role first. From what she said, she was thinking of holding it first. How could she do that..."

"Hey..."

After hearing this, Lin Nan couldn't understand what was going on.

At that time, I was too busy with "The Martian" and didn't think that Liu Xiaoli would do such a thing.

But when I think of Liu Xiaoli's personality and cognition, it's easy to understand that she could do such a thing.

Wang Zhonglei and Liu Xiaoli were a perfect match in this matter.

One wanted to play tricks on Liu Yifei and cheat her out of her financial contract.

The other only focused on the immediate benefits, regardless of the consequences, and was self-righteous.

"Lin Nan, what should we do now?"

Liu Yifei asked with sobs.

Hearing the girl's sobs, Lin Nan was also uncomfortable.

"Don't cry first, I'll take care of it. Give the phone to Auntie."

After several minutes, Lin Nan heard the voice. It seemed that the mother and daughter had a serious quarrel.

"Lin Nan." Liu Xiaoli's voice was also a little wrong.

Without waiting for the other party to speak again, Lin Nan said first: "Auntie, have you ever thought about what you will do if Huayi asks you to fulfill your promise and let Xixi sign the contract?"

"Repent? You think so, right? If so, all kinds of black hands and bans will follow.

Of course, with me here, bans are definitely impossible, but there will definitely be a lot of bad reviews and slander in the media and on the Internet."

"Finally, I want to tell you one thing, Wang Zhonglei is lying to you, Huayi has no say in the matter of the leading actress, even Jackie Chan and Jet Li were brought up by Hollywood investors, and the decision-making power is here..."

"How could it be?"

Liu Xiaoli exclaimed.

"Then, what should we do now?"

Liu Xiaoli and her daughter quarreled for a long time. From her daughter's words, she vaguely realized that she might have done something wrong. Now she heard Lin Nan say this, and she panicked even more.

"Go to Huayi, go to Wang Zhonglei and have a showdown, and talk it out, just as if there was no verbal promise..."

"Okay, okay."

The phone returned to Liu Yifei's hand again, and Lin Nan tried to make his voice sound gentle,

"Don't worry, I will take care of it. If you want to sign you, it can only be me."

"Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Nan fell asleep, and would deal with the cleaning up tomorrow.

...

Wang Zhonglei broke two vases, and the floor of the office was full of broken porcelain pieces.

It had just been two days since someone sent out the casting results as gossip, thinking that it would stir up the heat, and then Huayi would officially confirm it to attract public attention.

Who knew that this afternoon, Liu Xiaoli came with a cold face and exposed his empty-handed tricks.

Wang Zhonglei denied it again and again, but Liu Xiaoli insisted that Huayi did not have the right to cast the female lead, and he suspected that it was leaked by his own people.

It was not until the assistant reminded him that it might be the news leaked by other investors that Wang Zhonglei reacted and it might be the reason.

But how could Liu Xiaoli know about this kind of thing?

Wang Zhonglei thought about it for the whole afternoon, but he still couldn't figure it out.

"You don't know how to behave. Let's settle it after the movie is released..."

"Mr. Wang, the phone is on the line."

"Who is it?"

"Director Lin Nan."

A flash of inspiration flashed through Wang Zhonglei's mind, and he seemed to have guessed something.

"Is it him?!"

"Hello, Director Lin?"

Wang Zhonglei instantly changed from his previous anger to a gentle voice.

"Mr. Wang, let's not beat around the bush. I called to talk about Liu Yifei..."

Listening to Lin Nan's words, Wang Zhonglei's habitual smile slowly disappeared and became cold until he heard the last words.

"... This matter ends here. I have a movie later, and I can choose one of Huayi's artists as the first or second female lead..."

Wang Zhonglei smiled again, "These are all trivial matters. I had some problems communicating with Ms. Liu. But when will Director Lin's next movie be released?"

"It's really the nature of a businessman." Lin Nan cursed in his heart.

"It will be filmed in the middle of the year at the earliest. Anyway, it will definitely be filmed next year."

"Okay, I'm waiting for Director Lin's new play. Director Lin can choose any actress from Huayi. Haha, we are all friends..."

After hanging up the phone, Wang Zhonglei slowly sat down in the boss chair.

"Go tell Director Wang that this matter has never happened. I also got a female role in Lin Nan's next play."

"It's kept secret. Don't let those agents and artists know about it."

"Okay, Mr. Wang."

Wang Zhonglei sat there alone, thinking about the relationship between Lin Nan and Liu Yifei.

From classmates to "Journey to the Center of the Earth", and then to the matter between him and Liu Xiaoli.

"Boyfriend and girlfriend? Haha, young people are so naive..."

There are so many beautiful women in the circle. Wang Zhonglei doesn't believe that Lin Nan can resist the temptation.