Chapter 870

Some people think so.

Although the box office of *Ten Miles of Fragrance* looks like it can only end at the 400 million position, for the two leads, it is not a failure.

Because, although from the perspective of investment, this film is difficult to recover costs and cannot achieve profitability—even if you add those seven or eight broadcast rights, overseas distribution rights, etc., it cannot be achieved, after all, just the production cost and the Spring Festival slot publicity cost add up to more than 200 million.

However, the word-of-mouth of this film is rotten to this extent, it can be said that it will be ranked in the top ten tragedies in the future, it still can get 400 million box office under the drive of the two leads.

From this angle, the box office appeal of Lang Xia and Yan Lingyu is also proven in reverse.

In fact, it is really like this.

If it weren't for the excessive cost of *Ten Miles of Fragrance*, 400 million box office, no matter how you look at it, it wouldn't be a failure.

Zhou Ping'an is very good at seizing any opportunity to help his artists do publicity—

However, now Lang Xia has not reached his subordinates, so he will not spend this effort.

He Yingzi is disappointed because of Lang Xia's previous behavior, and even a bit discouraged, not falling into the trap in anger and disappointment is her last benevolence, of course, she will not help him operate these things again.

Instead, Yan Lingyu's brokerage company grabbed this opportunity with sharp eyes, bought water armies, made press releases, created momentum, and then, this 400 million box office appeal slowly fell on Yan Lingyu.

Yan Lingyu's record in film can be said to be very outstanding.

*Late Spring* is the heroine, box office 600 million.

*Those Years* is the heroine, box office 700 million.

*If Love Has Heaven's Will* is the first heroine, box office 1.2 billion.

*Ten Miles of Fragrance* is the equal billing heroine, box office 400 million.

The success of the first three films was actually not attributed to her. Although she is the biggest star of *If Love Has Heaven's Will*, everyone will regard *If Love Has Heaven's Will* as the success of topical marketing—just like the stage explosion of *Green Apple Paradise* back then, it mainly relied on hitting the memory of the era.

However, *Ten Miles of Fragrance* is a film that, except for the IP being very loud, has nothing. The fact that she and Lang Xia's fans fought to promote the growth of box office pre-sales happened in front of everyone. In this film, no one can say that the 400 million box office of this film has nothing to do with Yan Lingyu.

In fact, after *Chinese Paladin* and *Those Years*, the fighting power and popularity index of Lang Xia's fans are not at the same level as Yan Lingyu's.

It's just that male stars have been popular longer than female stars, and male stars' female fans have always been more than female stars', and their fighting power is crazier, which makes the two sides seem to be fighting back and forth.

One week after the film was released, such abnormal dividends were almost fully absorbed by Yan Lingyu. Lang Xia, except for maintaining the record that the film he starred in still broke 100 million at the box office, because no one helped operate topics and maintain exposure, was directly suppressed by Yan Lingyu's side.

He was very depressed and angry, but couldn't help it.

His team was all built by He Yingzi, except for his personal assistant, no one was really his person.

Like this kind of work, if He Yingzi doesn't nod, others' words don't count, including himself.

However, Lang Xia didn't realize that in this battle of the Spring Festival slot, *Ten Miles of Fragrance* lost so quickly, he didn't receive too negative influence as the lead, and was not regarded as a "box office poison" by the industry, which was already worth celebrating.

He Yingzi, after experiencing his "betrayal," didn't take this opportunity to fall into the trap, which was already worth celebrating.

In fact, until now, Lang Xia didn't know that before he sought another way, He Yingzi had already been helping him contact Chen Ziyan and Zhou Ping'an.

Such things, Chen Ziyan wouldn't tell him, and Zhou Ping'an wouldn't either.

Lu Yan He stayed in the *The Original Father* crew to film, and in a blink of an eye, it was the time for the Oscar awards ceremony to be held.

*Home Alone 4* won a great victory in the global market, and in less than a month of release, the box office exceeded 800 million US dollars, with 1 billion US dollars in sight—

The speed was so fast, the point is that the Chinese market exploded with an unexpected figure. As of now, *Home Alone 4* has achieved 1.9 billion box office in China, nearly 300 million US dollars in box office, far exceeding the box office achieved by the previous three parts in China.

Therefore, Huang Feng, Liu Teli, and Luo Weida were also invited to the Oscar awards ceremony to present the Best Visual Effects award.

Liu Bige, Wen Shengming, and Miao Yue attended together.

The Oscar is actually worth learning from by many awards ceremonies. For those films with good reviews every year, even if they are not nominated for the Oscars, they will invite the film's creators to attend the ceremony—

Although to some extent, it just wants to show a gesture. But for an industry, such a gesture is actually important. The Oscar wants to maintain its influence in the entire industry and its status as the top grand event of the film industry every year, and those who strive to create good films, even if they don't get nominations, also hope to be recognized, or rather, respected.

Back then, *The Grandmaster* was shortlisted for the Oscar Best International Feature Film top nine, missing the final nomination list, but got two technical awards—in this case, director Wong Kar-wai still attended by invitation. Last year's Oscars were the same; Chen Chong, who gave a very outstanding performance in *Didi* and was praised by many people in the early awards season as having hope of winning the Best Supporting Actress nomination, although she fell early, because of the praise of the media and the critical community, she was also invited to attend.

If you really want to make an award recognized by the entire industry, then you must not let it just spin around the group of people rushing for awards.

And Lu Yan He's refusal to attend this year's awards ceremony was regarded by many as dissatisfaction with the Oscars. This matter also made several people in the Academy contact him one after another, on the one hand, cordially inviting him to attend, and on the other hand, expressing appeasement in words. Lu Yan He's influence in the film industry today has reached a level that the Oscar organizing committee cannot ignore.

Lu Yan He only said he was filming and really couldn't spare time.

Anyway, it's enough to save face.

He couldn't publicly say that he really had any dissatisfaction with the Oscars—

He hadn't mixed to this level yet.

This year's Xitu'er International Film Festival is held after the Oscar awards ceremony.

Lu Yan He has confirmed he will go for two days.

The leave has already been asked for from the crew.

Huang Tianlin asked him, for the film *The Original Father*, which film festival is better to participate in?

Lu Yan He asked: "What do you think?" Huang: "My first choice is of course Xitu'er. Among the four major international film festivals, Xitu'er has the highest artistic and commercial nature, which is recognized. Xitu'er is also the film festival with the greatest influence on Europe and America, however, you have already won Best Actor at Xitu'er once, in such a short time, it might be difficult for you to win twice, but I think this film is very worth helping you win another Best Actor."

Lu Yan He didn't expect Huang Tianlin to consider this.

He said: "Actually, it doesn't matter."

"Hmm?" Huang Tianlin asked, "Are you no longer interested in winning awards?"

"How is that possible, I just think there is no need to worry about this point when choosing a film festival." Lu Yan He said, "For actors, no matter how many personal performance awards you win, it's not as good as having many classic films that leave a deep impression on the audience. Like you, I have high hopes for the film *The Original Father* because I think this film will be very good and will become a classic work no worse than *Tropical Rainy Season*."

Going to Xitu'er, if *The Original Father* can explode in word-of-mouth at Xitu'er, it will undoubtedly promote the film more than the other three film festivals.

Huang Tianlin nodded.

"Then I might leave this film for next year's Xitu'er."

Lu Yan He nodded.

Huang Tianlin asked: "The film *The Boat* you acted in will compete at Xitu'er this year, have you seen the finished film?"

"I haven't seen the finished film, just saw a bit of rough cut." Lu Yan He said, "But I know what this film wants to look like, it has a completely different style from *The Original Father*, you don't have to worry about the theme being similar, the focus and theme are completely different, although in the end, they both end with patricide."

Huang Tianlin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Lu Yan He say this.

"I was worried that the themes of these two films were too similar." Huang, "At that time, you didn't agree to take this play for so long, was it because the ending was a bit similar?"

"At that time, I considered this aspect, but actually it wasn't what you thought." Lu Yan He was shocked at that time, how could the scripts that came one after another be so close to his state at that time—

As if some kind of destiny.

That was where he was a bit tangled and hesitant.

"Are you going to Xitu'er?" Chen Siqi asked.

Lu Yan He said: "Go, but, I can only stay there for two days, the crew here can't walk away for too long."

Chen Siqi: "Hmm, if you go to Xitu'er, I will go together."

Since coming over on the first day of the New Year, Chen Siqi has been staying in Malaysia during this time, living with Lu Yan He.

So, Lu Yan He is also like this these days, basically as long as he finishes work, he will come back directly.

Chen Siqi's grandparents didn't live together, they found a local guide and are currently wandering around locally. Chen Siqi accompanied them for a few days and then came back first.

So, basically, Lu Yan He is not in the crew, and the two are stuck together. In this regard, Chen Siqi is still quite clear, if it weren't for occasional visits to the set, she generally wouldn't appear in Lu Yan He's work occasions for a long time, just like Lu Yan He often goes to the *Jump Up* editorial department, but he also rarely appears in their work occasions for a long time.

Lu Yan He has never been used to some actors joining the crew to film, and the whole family follows by their side. How to say, the state is different.

Yuan Zhihua, who played his father in *The Original Father*, is such an actor.

His wife is his agent—but not only his wife follows by his side, his mother also follows, responsible for his three meals a day. Yuan Zhihua doesn't eat the food provided by the crew, and his mother makes three meals a day and sends them to the crew.

Of course, this is someone else's private matter, and it didn't affect the filming or anything, Lu Yan He didn't say a word, although he didn't understand it in his heart.

Yuan Zhihua collaborated with Huang Tianlin in his first film. Indeed, the acting is also very good, a veteran actor who is very good at acting. When first contacting, Lu Yan He felt it was okay, an old senior, how to respect it.

Although not familiar, they could still collaborate happily in all aspects.

Until he found that once Yuan Zhihua finished acting, his wife would appear by his side like a ghost, no matter if you went to find him to play against each other, or just chat normally, his wife would stand there like a post, Lu Yan He suddenly felt... how to say, if people want to get closer and more familiar with each other, without one-on-one time, it is absolutely impossible to do.

So, later Lu Yan He basically didn't go to chat with Yuan Zhihua except for talking about the play. At most, when everyone sat together, they talked and laughed for a while.

The *The Original Father* crew doesn't have many actors. This is still a small play, and there are only a few characters who appear. However, even if it is a small role with only a few lines, Lu Yan He found that Huang Tianlin basically found actors he had collaborated with. Huang Tianlin seems to particularly like to continue collaborating with actors he has collaborated with.

Even Han Yu Jiang from *Tropical Rainy Season* came over to guest star as a shop owner's wife, just a few lines of dialogue. Although so, Han Yu Jiang still came happily.

Lu Yan He also spent a lot of time to get used to the name Han Yu Jiang. After all, the last two words are another person in China, and a person who is very incompatible with him. Fortunately, that person generally doesn't dare to fire cannons randomly now, because every cannon fired will hit back on her.

It is also because people are now the boss of Airu Tianshen Film and Television Company, finally no longer an individual household, and there are more and more things to consider when doing things and speaking.

After the Spring Festival, Huang Feng finally finished the promotion of *Home Alone 4*, and while the winter vacation hadn't ended, he came to Malaysia with his mother to meet Huang Tianlin and have a late reunion dinner.

Now this most popular child star in the world has grown up quite a bit compared to when Lu Yan He first met him.

Not as cute as when he was a child... Lu Yan He can only think about this in his heart.

Lu Yan He still likes this child Huang Feng very much.

He gave Huang Feng a big red envelope and urged him to study hard and learn well.

Taking advantage of the *Home Alone* series being finished, he can settle his mind well.

A little later, his mother came to find Lu Yan He and asked if there were any other arrangements for Huang Feng later?

His mother seemed to want him to continue acting.