Chapter 481: Versailles Statement: Too Many Nominations

Lu Yan He shook his head, "Make something occasionally. I won't make any big dishes. What if I need to cook when filming in the future? I can't be looking for a hand double just to chop vegetables or stir-fry."

Chen Ziyan: "Hmm, you really have a lot of skills now. You can sing, ride horses, shoot arrows, and know a little martial arts. Very good. Actors must have eighteen kinds of martial arts so that they can play any role they encounter."

"When does the film 'The Mist' start filming?" Lu Yan He asked curiously.

"Probably February or March next year. I have already communicated with them. You have to join the crew to film 'Fenhuo' in April next year, so this schedule will be avoided." Chen Ziyan said, "Fortunately, the filming time for 'The Mist' has not been determined yet, so it can be coordinated according to your time. However, I calculated that your filming plan for next year might be quite full. The two films 'The Mist' and 'Fenhuo' occupy your first half of the year, and you have to film the second season of 'Seventeen Layers' in the second half of the year. Basically, there is no time to do anything else."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"There is another problem." Chen Ziyan said, "Your 'Love Letter' definitely won't catch up with the Valentine's Day schedule next year. However, you are so busy next year, it is estimated that it will be difficult to have time to do its post-production. Whether this film can be released next year is a question."

Lu Yan He sighed again that time was really not enough.

He said, "For post-production, let's do it in the cracks of time. I already have a very clear idea of what this film should look like, which can save a lot of effort."

Chen Ziyan nodded and said, "That's good."

Lu Yan He: "Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. I have to make an appointment to meet Director Hou Jun."

"Hmm?"

Chen Ziyan looked at him with some surprise.

Hou Jun is the director of the program "Xiaoge Juzhonghui" and can be considered one of Lu Yan He's early mentors.

Chen Ziyan didn't know why Lu Yan He suddenly said he wanted to make an appointment to meet him.

"For the soundtrack of 'Love Letter,' I need to ask him for help." Lu Yan He said, "The soundtrack is very important for 'Love Letter.' I have some ideas, but I don't know many people in the music circle, so I have to ask him to help me."

Chen Ziyan suddenly realized.

As a music variety director, Hou Jun's connections in the domestic music circle are unquestionable.

In the original version of "Love Letter," its film soundtrack is called "god-level."

Many viewers even said that without this soundtrack, the film might not be able to be sealed as a god.

The reason why "Love Letter" is classic is that it awakens the memories of adolescence and unrequited love in every viewer's heart.

This emotional trigger is inseparable from the soundtrack.

Lu Yan He doesn't understand those musical instruments at all. Such things can only be done by professionals.

"By the way, tell you something." Chen Ziyan asked with a smile, "Do you still remember 'Shentu'?"

"Remember, it seems to be a drama being made by Wenxia Zhiyin? Didn't they ask Li Zhibai and Yan Liang to act at that time, but it ended up failing later."

"Yes, it has been restarted now." Chen Ziyan said, "They went to find Li Zhibai and Yan Liang again, but Zhou Ping'an and Lin Suyang both pushed it away and didn't want Li Zhibai and Yan Liang to act anymore, so now Wenxia Zhiyin has started to find other actors."

Lu Yan He thought to himself, since Chen Ziyan specifically told him about this, it is estimated that the actor Wenxia Zhiyin wants to find is someone who is relatively close to him?

Chen Ziyan said, "They want to find Huang Kai to act."

"Ah?" Lu Yan He asked, "Brother Kai... he is already 32 years old. Is he not suitable in terms of age?"

Chen Ziyan: "If Huang Kai is willing to act, Wenxia Zhiyin will definitely modify the character settings for Huang Kai."

"Uh." Lu Yan He asked, "What about Brother Kai's thoughts?"

"He doesn't want to take it, but his agent hopes he takes it. Because of this, the conflict between the two sides is quite big, and even I have heard of it." Chen Ziyan finally said what she really wanted to say about this matter, "Huang Kai and his agent should be breaking up."

Lu Yan He showed a look of shock.

"His agent can no longer keep up with his current development momentum." Chen Ziyan said, "Before, regarding the appearance in the film 'Rouge', Huang Kai had a big conflict with Lian Xun, and the relationship between the two became very bad. Later, small conflicts continued. This time 'Shentu' once again intensified the conflict between them."

"Brother Kai really doesn't need to act in 'Shentu' anymore. He finally succeeded in transforming and became an actor who can carry serious dramas." Lu Yan He said, "Even I can see this, won't his agent see it?"

"But dramas like 'Shentu' make money. One drama can bring Huang Kai a salary of more than 40 million. Those serious dramas can't provide Huang Kai with less than a quarter of the salary." Chen Ziyan said, "An agent bringing an actor is not doing charity; they also have to make money. Huang Kai's salary for acting in 'Rouge' was not high originally. No matter how good the reputation is, in the eyes of the agent, it must be a good reputation that can be converted into income; otherwise, it is useless work."

"Didn't Brother Kai add some commercial endorsements because of 'Rouge'?"

"Of course, there are several more." Chen Ziyan said, "But given Huang Kai's current status, if he doesn't take endorsements for fast-moving consumer brands, the endorsement fee won't be very high, especially some top luxury endorsements, which might not even have endorsement fees. Huang Kai has now made up his mind to take the high-end route and not take commercial endorsements for fast-moving consumer brands, so this aspect cannot bring much income either. Actually, Huang Kai's approach is correct and very visionary. After surviving these few years and truly standing firm in his current status, changing from a traffic star to a powerful actor, he doesn't have to worry about income at all. Lian Xun might also be messing up his own pace. Seeing Huang Kai's career getting better and better, he might have a sense of crisis, feeling that he will be kicked away by Huang Kai at that time."

It is not only star artists who have no sense of security; agents are the same.

Between small artists and agents, the latter must be holding the former.

But between first-tier artists and agents, the agent is the weaker role.

Lu Yan He asked, "Then Brother Kai... will he really break up with Lian Xun?"

"In my judgment, yes."

Chen Ziyan's judgment was accurate and was confirmed two days later.

A marketing account exposed the news that Huang Kai and his agent had an irreconcilable conflict and were suspected of breaking up.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves.

Conflicts between artists and brokerage companies or agents, even to the point of breaking up—this kind of news is common, but just like star artists falling in love, getting married, or getting divorced, it tirelessly teases the excitement points of the vast number of melon-eating masses.

After the breakup rumors between Huang Kai and agent Lian Xun were hotly discussed on the Internet for half a day, Huang Kai and Lian Xun stood up to respond to this matter.

The two of them did not tear their faces and accuse each other, but jointly issued a statement, stating that they did indeed have some conflicts that needed to be resolved in the planning for the future, which was not the situation rumored on the Internet, and please give them some space to discuss and resolve these things.

Both of them gave a very decent posture, unlike the breakup of ordinary agents and artists, which was ugly and endless.

In fact, there was no deep hatred between Huang Kai and Lian Xun themselves.

"Since I debuted, Lian Xun has been responsible for my brokerage business. If it weren't for him, I would definitely not have achieved my current achievements."

In a phone call with Lu Yan He, Huang Kai talked about this matter and was actually full of gratitude to Lian Xun.

Lu Yan He asked, "Brother Kai, then why don't you have a good talk with Lian Xun?"

"If a good talk could solve it, it would have been solved long ago." Huang Kai pursed his lips helplessly, "He and I do have big differences in the direction of future development."

"Then—"

"I will find a new agent to be responsible for my affairs." Huang Kai said.

Lu Yan He: "Then does Lian Xun accept it?"

"He didn't accept it at first, but after talking a few times, he is slowly accepting it now." Huang Kai said.

After Lu Yan He finished this phone call with Huang Kai, he originally thought that Lian Xun was still a person who was easy to talk to and kind. Even if he had different ideas from Huang Kai and wanted to break up, he could break up friendly.

But then Chen Ziyan told Lu Yan He something that shocked him.

The reason why Huang Kai and Lian Xun could break up friendly was that Huang Kai gave Lian Xun a breakup fee of 10 million.

Hearing this number, Lu Yan He was stunned.

When he thought that the two still had past feelings and could break up friendly even if they couldn't continue to walk together, this huge breakup fee of 10 million directly shattered his beautiful imagination about human nature.

"Brother Kai... this paid a very high price."

"Yes, Huang Kai has earned a lot in the years since he debuted, but his expenses are also high. Giving out 10 million in one breath, it is estimated that his wallet has shrunk a lot." Chen Ziyan said, "But fortunately, this number was not made public; otherwise, I don't know if Huang Kai would be scolded or Lian Xun would be scolded."

The former is scolded because there is always a group of people on the Internet who hate the rich, and the latter is because of greed.

Regardless, this matter ends here.

On the surface, the two broke up friendly.

Who will take over as Huang Kai's agent is also of great concern in the industry.

Lu Yan He also curiously asked Chen Ziyan: "Sister Ziyan, don't you consider grabbing Brother Kai to your place?"

"He just broke up with Lian Xun; his contract with the brokerage company has not expired yet." Chen Ziyan said, "And I can't specifically sign an agreement with his brokerage company to become his signed agent."

In the field of star brokerage, in general, agents and brokerage companies are one. Star artists generally sign with brokerage companies, not agents. But this only applies to the most common situations. In fact, in many cases, agents can also be independent individuals, signing separate entrustment agreements with brokerage companies, and the brokerage company entrusts them to serve as the artist's agent. And sometimes, a strong, resourceful agent's own contract is hung in a brokerage company, but the artist she likes signs a brokerage agency contract with herself, not with the brokerage company—this means that this artist is the agent's artist, not the brokerage company's artist.

Lu Yan He: "I don't know who Brother Kai will find to be his agent, or will his brokerage company arrange another one for him?"

"The probability is not." Chen Ziyan shook her head, "If the brokerage company arranges another one, the agent still represents the brokerage company's intentions behind the scenes and cannot 100% stand from Huang Kai's perspective to consider his work arrangements. With Huang Kai's status today, he needs an agent who has the ability to help him impact the super first-tier in the future, and an agent who forms a 100% interest community with him."

Lu Yan He suddenly realized.

Another lesson from Sister Ziyan.

As the breakup event between Huang Kai and his agent came to an end, before October ended, the Feihong Award, one of the three major domestic film awards, announced this year's nomination list.

Every year at this time, it is the time for the three major domestic film awards to bubble up.

This time, "Rouge," "Road to Glory," "Angry Crow," "Nine Yin," "The Home I Haven't Returned to for a Long Time," and "Happy Hour" became the big nomination winners.

These are all films with very high topicality this year.

Of course, there are also films with high topicality that are cold, and did not get nominations for heavyweight awards, such as "Explosive Needle" starring Li Yuefeng and Zhang Lan. Yu Jiang's "Flowers on the Stars" was known not to be in the direction of winning awards before it was released.

Best Director unit, Wang Zhong of "Rouge," Fu Kai of "Road to Glory," Erlang Xia (stage name) of "Angry Crow," Ning Zhiyuan of "Nine Yin," and Yu Qin of "Happy Hour."

There are both famous directors and young directors, and the competition is fierce.

From the perspective of media calls, everyone thinks that the first echelon is Wang Zhong and Yu Qin, Fu Kai and Ning Zhiyuan are in the second echelon, and the director Erlang Xia of the animated film "Angry Crow" being nominated is already quite a surprise.

Best Screenplay unit, Lu Yan He of "Rouge," Ning Zhiyuan of "Nine Yin," nominated together with "The Home I Haven't Returned to for a Long Time," "Heavy Heart," and "The Seventh Record of Floating Life." The highest call is "The Seventh Record of Floating Life." When the film was released, this film became famous for its adaptation of the Qing Dynasty work "Six Records of Floating Life" and received a lot of discussion and praise.

In terms of actors.

Best Actor, Huang Kai won the nomination for the three major domestic film awards for the first time with "Rouge." In addition, Zhou Yuning of the martial arts film "Nine Yin" and Zhang Ding of the literary romance film "You Who Go Against the Current," the three of them will compete with Lu Yan He and Shang Yongzhou of "Road to Glory" for Best Actor.

Best Actress, although "The Home I Haven't Returned to for a Long Time" is a genre film in the suspense track, the title of the phenomenal big explosion film supported by one person directly sent her to get a nomination. Ning Xiulian, who won the Best Actress at the Venice International Film Festival with "Happy Hour," was also listed as expected. Chen Bige, who won the Best Actress at the Hexi Film Festival with "Rouge," was also the same. The other two entrants were considered by the media to have the suspicion of making up the number: Li Xiaoning, the heroine of the art film "Hundred Phoenix" which has not been publicly released yet, and Qin Sangwen, the literary goddess who starred in "You Who Go Against the Current." The latter two are seen as "nominated is out."

The media all say that this year is a year of explosion for Chinese films.

There are both masterpieces like "Rouge," "Road to Glory," and "Happy Hour" that returned with honors at international film festivals, and works like "The Home I Haven't Returned to for a Long Time," "Nine Yin," and "Angry Crow" that exploded at the box office and have different genres.

The competition is also exceptionally fierce.

The media feels that the most unfortunate is Xu Yiren.

With Xu Yiren's performance in "The Home I Haven't Returned to for a Long Time," and the representative achievements achieved by this big heroine solo play, if it were placed in an ordinary year, she would definitely be able to win a Best Actress trophy. But she happened to meet this year, a Venice Best Actress, a Hexi Best Actress, both are tough as hell.

And on the male lead side, this year is a big year, the media all say it is a fight between gods.

Shang Yongzhou and Lu Yan He don't need to say, the former is the current ceiling of acting skills for domestic male actors, a big winner of awards, the latter's momentum in recent years is the well-deserved "first person of the young generation," and now relying on the film "Road to Glory," he has also won a bunch of performance award nominations in the North American awards season.

Zhou Yuning of "Nine Yin" is also a big dark horse that emerged in the summer file this year. The swordsman he played can be said to be the most successful martial arts character in recent years, and because of his tragic ending, he shocked a large number of viewers. One character allowed Zhou Yuning to step into the ranks of first-line film young students—this is not enough to star in a film with a big box office explosion; his character must be explosive enough, and his own star power must be bright enough to be popular in the situation of right time, right place, and right people.

And besides Zhou Yuning, Huang Kai also changed everyone's impression of him because of "Rouge." His Twelve Young Master in "Rouge," who is romantic and deep, although it belongs to the typical type of play protecting people, Huang Kai's interpretation can compete with Chen Bige without falling behind, which is enough to show his success in this film. If you have to say the disadvantage, it is that "Rouge" is a big heroine film, Huang Kai's screen time is relatively small, not as expressive and rich in character as other nominees.

Even Chen Ziyan said: "This year's Feihong Award is really wonderful."

"Film Jianghu" directly published an article saying: This is the most worth-watching Feihong Award in the last ten years.

Come to think of it, this is also Lu Yan He's first nomination for Best Actor.

Before, it was Best Supporting Actor.

Chen Ziyan said: "It's a pity, films like 'Lost in Journey' are still not favored by awards."

"It wasn't aimed at awards in the first place. The box office results are already very good. We can't be too greedy."

Chen Ziyan looked at her phone and suddenly laughed.

"Now everyone on the Internet is saying that you are nominated for every award, and they are all two nominations. Before, it was two nominations for performance awards, now it is one nomination for performance awards, and one nomination for screenplay awards. Some people say that maybe after 'Love Letter' is released, you will be Lu Three Nominations, Director, Screenwriter, Performance Three Nominations Brother."

Lu Yan He heard such a statement and was also a bit dumbfounded.

"How can it be so exaggerated." Lu Yan He smiled, "My performance in 'Love Letter' should not be nominated for performance awards."

That character can be said to have no difficulty in acting at all.

In fact, those characters in "Love Letter" basically don't have much difficulty in acting.

Including the character played by Chen Bige.

The reason why "Love Letter" is classic is purely because it reached an extreme in the track of youth, unrequited love, and memory killing. It is not that any actor's performance is so peak. The reason why all characters are moving is that they are driven by this story and the atmosphere of this film.

Lu Yan He thought about it, if "Love Letter" really has hope of winning an award in the future, maybe the Best Screenplay Award is the most hopeful.

The day after the Feihong Award nomination list came out, the Asian Television Festival awards ceremony was also held.

Lu Yan He flew to Singapore again to attend the closing ceremony and awards ceremony.

This time, he was going to announce the news that "Rouge" will be adapted into a Korean drama with Ms. Jin Yanshu of TVN.

Lu Yan He will also announce at the same time that "Rouge" will be adapted into a Chinese drama.

As for his several nominations, Lu Yan He really didn't take any of them to heart—because as they expected, there was no award for him.

The winner of Best Actor at this Asian Television Festival turned out to be the Korean actor Kong Lingfan who asked Lu Yan He if he could guest star in the Korean version of "Friends" at the opening ceremony.

He won this award with the suspense drama "Death Wanted" which was popular in Asia last year. When receiving the award, he cried with joy and was very excited.

The Chinese media at the scene were very dissatisfied with the result of Lu Yan He getting nothing.

To tell the truth, Chinese dramas did not have much influence overseas before, and it was okay to lose to Korean dramas and Japanese dramas. People rely on streaming media, and their influence is big. Even if they cannot be broadcast normally in China, they also have millions or even tens of millions of viewers relying on pirated resources flying all over the sky.

However, "Friends," "Seventeen Layers," and "River of Silence," which of these dramas is not outstanding?!

Lu Yan He has even held fan meetings in Korea twice.

Who can say against their will that the influence of these dramas is not as good as those Korean dramas and Japanese dramas?

In everyone's heart, Lu Yan He is their most awesome actor. He sat at the awards ceremony with so many nominations, and there was not even one award for him?

What a joke!

However, when everyone felt indignant for Lu Yan He, they saw that Lu Yan He didn't take it to heart at all. After hearing others win awards, he was still chatting and laughing with Director Chen Lingling next to him, looking like he didn't care at all.

Until Director Chen Lingling won the Best Director Award, Lu Yan He stood up happily, applauding and celebrating for Director Chen Lingling.

After the awards ceremony, Lu Yan He was surrounded by many media.

The question he was asked most was "Coming here this time, getting nothing, will your mood be affected?"

Lu Yan He originally wanted to modestly say that it wouldn't be affected or something, saying some hypocritical words, but he saw these media friends he was familiar with, each of them was sincerely indignant for him not winning the award, he smiled and decided to Versailles a bit.

"No influence." Lu Yan He said with a smile, "Recently, there are too many nominations for various awards, and I am a bit confused about which is which. Winning an award is winning an award, and not winning an award is nothing. I feel that there are new nominations every day. With so many nominations, I can always win a few awards, haha."

He didn't say these words in a boastful way, nor did he have that self-satisfied tone. It was a kind of "light clouds and light wind, I am pretending to be forced" openness, which made these words sound strange—

There is a feeling of "Damn, let this B pretend to be!"

What Lu Yan He didn't have the nerve to say was that this was not a top award, and he didn't take it to heart from the beginning. If it were an international top film festival and he didn't win an award, or if he missed the three major domestic awards, he might be disappointed.

After the awards ceremony, while the media had not left, Jin Yanshu held a media conference.

This conference was to announce many follow-up project plans of TVN.

Lu Yan He, as a partner of the Korean drama version of "Rouge" in this project, appeared at the scene with a smile, causing excited cheers from the audience.

"Very happy, as a screenwriter, my screenwriting works can be adapted into new versions in different countries and regions through different forms and different languages, so that more viewers can see it. This is a wonderful feeling." Lu Yan He expressed his feelings about this, "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 was the Chinese media.

Lu Yan He nodded, indicating to the host that he could accept questions.

The reporter from this Chinese media asked: "As a Chinese film, 'Rouge' is adapted into a Korean drama. This news is very shocking. I really want to ask, why didn't you consider adapting 'Rouge' into a Chinese drama?"

"It will also be adapted."

Regarding this point, Lu Yan He had already greeted Jin Yanshu in advance. Jin Yanshu did not oppose Lu Yan He mentioning the Chinese version at this media conference. On the contrary, she believed that China and South Korea adapting dramas at the same time would have more topics, which would be of great benefit to the Korean drama adaptation.

Lu Yan He said: "The Chinese drama of 'Rouge' will be adapted by Bingyuan Video."

The whole audience exclaimed.

A film, which was released not long ago, is now going to be adapted into two dramas.

This speed is almost unheard of.

Is "Rouge" so popular?

This is really unexpected. After all, the film "Rouge," it can't be said to be very phenomenal. Although it sold very high at the box office in China, it didn't explode globally.

TVN, why did you suddenly want to adapt it into a Korean drama?

Many media immediately asked Jin Yanshu.

Everyone is most curious about why they want to adapt "Rouge."

Lu Yan He felt quite nervous at this moment.

If Jin Yanshu overemphasized the point of female consciousness at this time, it might cause a lot of criticism on the Internet. After all, this topic is quite sensitive on the Internet. However, Jin Yanshu has been able to stand in the Korean drama circle for many years, and this sensitivity is still there.

As soon as she opened her mouth, she placed her original intention of adapting "Rouge" on Lu Yan He.

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Recommend the old book "I Became a Scandal Heroine Overnight" again. ===== CHAPTER 482 =====