Chapter 29

"After resting for so long, prepared for several months, I think it's time."

Ning Hao had great confidence and confidence.

"Then I will ask the finance department to transfer the remaining half to you, and leave the rest to Senior Brother."

Lin Nan didn't drag it out and immediately asked the finance department to handle it.

Ning Hao left with satisfaction; he wanted to arrange the crew immediately and prepare to start work.

For *Crazy Stone*, Lin Nan was full of confidence. The producer, executive producer, and screenwriter were all Lin Nan's names.

By the time filming was completed next year, he would also try his best to promote it, and would not let this film be released silently like in the original time, relying on word of mouth to emerge in the second half.

Back at school, I heard that the enrollment plan for the 05 level had already come out. The whole school planned to recruit more than 680, 30 undergraduates in the acting department, 150 in higher vocational education, and the animation college actually accounted for 150.

Every year, the planned recruitment is not small, and the number of people who finally come in will always be a few more. In recent years, teachers still wanted to be better than to have too many, but reality always failed to fulfill wishes.

Wait two more years, still full every session, and still have to find ways to increase.

Art exam registration starts on February 16th. Lin Nan seems to be unable to hide from the three rounds, maybe even the second round can't be escaped.

Lin Nan was honored to be written into the enrollment brochure as an outstanding student, ranked last, while the ones in front were all glorious history. Zhang Yimou was listed in the director directory.

If you take the enrollment brochure of the Drama Academy here, you will find that there are more film emperors and film queens there.

The vigorous development of the film and television industry is destined. It can be seen from the expansion of enrollment this year. Those who are prophetic are always people in the circle.

Many actors enter the industry first and then take the art academy, which has an advantage. When interviewing, they have a resume. If they have cooperated with big figures and have representative works, or have already become famous, then admission is almost no big problem.

Lin Nan was on the brochure and was teased by classmates for a long time, but some classmates actually knew that he would participate in the review of the third round of the acting department, which was very strange. Shouldn't this be kept secret?

On the 9th, *A World Without Thieves* was publicly screened, with a first-day box office of 11 million. The media posted it early.

For this reason, Huayi's Little Wang Zong accepted an interview, and in his words was the hardship of the crew's creation and the outlook on the box office.

Feng Xiaogang's appeal, plus Andy Lau's gimmick, no one would question whether this film could make money, only thinking about how much to earn.

The first day was Sunday, and the box office of 11 million indicated that he would definitely break 100 million. In a while, maybe just a week, the hundred-million-yuan director club would add another person.

As expected, Lin Nan's *Returning to Youth* was pulled out for comparison, as if it could easily crush Lin Nan.

The first day was more than 1 million more than Lin Nan's, but on the second day, Monday, the box office of *A World Without Thieves* dropped by 20% instantly, coming to 9 million.

At this time, *Kung Fu* also started national promotion, and Huayi was under pressure.

Lin Nan's *Returning to Youth* production cost was 20 million, everyone could find out, but it didn't actually reach it, and the box office was over 110 million, making a big profit.

And the cost of *A World Without Thieves* was 30 million, the profit pressure was much greater, it couldn't be a big lineup, big fanfare for so long, not earning as much as *Returning to Youth*, wouldn't that be very face-slapping.

Feng Xiaogang accepted an interview, talking about his guest appearance in *Kung Fu*, and when he wanted to ask Zhou Xingchi to return the gift, he was refused.

The promotional effect was very good, but it didn't seem to help much with the box office growth.

Everyone doubted whether the box office of *A World Without Thieves* could exceed *Returning to Youth*, because according to the box office growth of the former, it was very close to the latter.

The difference in production cost of 10 million, even if the box office of *A World Without Thieves* was 10 million more than *Returning to Youth*, it could be considered a loss, not to mention looking like this, it might not necessarily have so much box office in the end.

No one doubted breaking 100 million, and it would definitely make money, but the grievance was absolute.

The promotion of *Kung Fu* came overwhelmingly, and it was about to be publicly screened, which was another heavy blow to *A World Without Thieves*. No one could ignore the existence of Zhou Xingchi.

Lin Nan stayed at school during this period, and it was the end of another semester. Teachers no longer required his exam scores.

Other students in the directing department were very serious, and some were already preparing for graduation plays.

Planning graduation plays a year and a half in advance let Lin Nan see what attitude is.

Many families with average conditions would tell their children to study hard, and sometimes look down on those art students, sports students.

But families who can really support art and sports students to the end must have good economic conditions.

In addition to the thesis, graduation works of directing department students also need to direct a film, which can be a short film, equivalent to the graduation design of other universities.

Quite a few found Lin Nan to help look at scripts, and Lin Nan didn't refuse.

*A World Without Thieves* barely climbed to the 100 million threshold, Huayi opened up promotion for this, and the third hundred-million-yuan box office director in the mainland was born.

Unlike newcomers like Lin Nan, Feng Xiaogang was already an old face of many years. This time, stepping over this step was to establish the status of a big director in a grand manner.

The promotion of Feng Xiaogang's status would also make Huayi even more powerful.

Up to this point, after the box office of *A World Without Thieves* increased for a period, the growth began to become slower and slower.

*Kung Fu* was released.

To talk about style, *Returning to Youth* and *A World Without Thieves* couldn't compare to *Kung Fu*.

Mainland, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore were released on the same day, and September and October had already been to the Toronto and Tokyo Film Festivals, and the release time in Southeast Asian countries had also been set.

The first-day mainland box office reached 10 million, and this was Thursday.

*A World Without Thieves* had been released for 14 days, and the box office that was already struggling to grow was completely trampled on the ground by *Kung Fu* on this day.

"It's probably hopeless." The theater chain kept raising the scheduling of *Kung Fu*, and *A World Without Thieves* was fixed at 120 million.

A few days ago, it was still news about *A World Without Thieves*, but in the past few days, it was replaced by *Kung Fu*, and the title of Comedy King was brushed again.

Lin Nan no longer paid attention to the box office. Whether *A World Without Thieves* had 4 million more box office than *Returning to Youth* was still released by the media. Huayi shouldn't be happy after seeing it.

Three times without loss, four times small profit, this is *A World Without Thieves*.

Haven't contacted Li Yang for a long time. "Brother Li, still in Germany? I have a film I want to take there, I invested in it myself, didn't find anyone else, okay, then please Brother Li."

To participate in the film festival, just register according to the normal process, but Li Yang has been working in the German film and television circle for many years and won the Silver Bear, definitely knowing some people.

Lin Nan's own registration and recommendation, the degree of attention must be different.

Li Yang didn't hesitate and agreed to help Lin Nan find someone, laughing and asking to take the film for him to see.

Ning Hao had already taken the crew to the shooting location, and the start of filming was in these few days.

The crew had no big wrists, and the start of filming didn't attract media attention.

Lin Nan thought about waiting until it was almost finished before promoting it. His name was still quite attractive to media attention now.

Lu Chuan's *Kekexili* box office was frustrated, but the film festival was proud.

At the Golden Horse Awards at the beginning of this month, *Kekexili* won the Best Film Award without any doubt. Lu Chuan on stage seemed to be holding his breath and delivered a long speech.

Lin Nan remembered a sentence he didn't know where he saw: The most honorable thing in Lu Chuan's life was that he filmed *Kekexili*.

This circle is "deep water and hot fire", there are not many people with upright values, and even fewer people who have always been upright. Hypocrites and true villains are countless.

Star Master's uncharacteristic visit promotion for *Kung Fu* really had a miraculous effect. The speed of box office growth in the early stage was almost double that of *Returning to Youth* and *A World Without Thieves*.

At the beginning of the year, Lin Nan was in the *Lotus Lantern* crew and often ran to the next door *Chinese Paladin* crew to stroll. At that time, Tang Ren planned to add a stroke of Lin Nan when marketing.

Surprisingly, Lin Nan became a hundred-million-yuan big director by virtue of *Returning to Youth*, and Tang Ren was even happier.

Now *Chinese Paladin* is talking about the first round, and the behind-the-scenes footage in hand has begun to be released. Lin Nan is listed, and there are quite a few clips.

Those who don't know would think he played Li Xiaoyao. Cai Yinong specially called to talk about this matter. For the sake of Zhao Linger, he didn't care.

Chatting with Liu Yifei in the evening, the shooting intensity of *Return of the Condor Heroes* is very high, and seven or eight out of ten of the Little Dragon Girl's scenes have fighting scenes.

"I enjoy the process of filming. Looking at myself on the machine screen, I am very satisfied and enjoy it." Liu Yifei said happily.

She was also very satisfied with Lin Nan's caring attitude. "I will probably wrap up next April, and then I will rest for a while. I will go to your company to play then. I haven't been there yet."

Looking at the message sent by Liu Yifei, Lin Nan replied: "Okay, but now you should go to rest. Staying up late will make girls old, although it may be slower for you."

"Hehe."

Replied two words in seconds.

Lin Nan smiled and whispered, "I don't just want to be a girlfriend..."

When I first entered freshman year, I saw her. At that time, she was still a little one, just like Bai Xiuzhu, cute and very lovely.

Lin Nan couldn't help but get closer. In her childhood, there were few friends, due to family reasons, and her mother protected her very well.

Slowly, Lin Nan got familiar with her and found that there were some violent factors under her quiet appearance. She practiced dance and martial arts!

Just like this, Lin Nan gradually abandoned his original intention. He didn't know how much he could experience the deep water and hot fire of this circle, because he seemed to have found that tree, as for that forest...

Chatting a few more words, it was still Lin Nan who ended the topic, just wanting her to rest early.

2004 is really going to pass, only three days left.

In view of Lin Nan's current box office record, many investors are contacting him, and those who don't have contact information actually ran directly to the company.

For those who found the company, most of them wanted to invest in films, but there were also those who wanted to buy shares.

Those who wanted to hold people, appropriately left a few contact information, and those who wanted to buy shares were directly refused.

Those who can contact Lin Nan by phone are all industry insiders. To say how many people Lin Nan took the initiative to give contact information to, it's really not many, but there are really many who got his phone number.

Emperor Motion Pictures has contacted Jiang Wen, Lin Nan has heard. But taking the initiative to contact Lin Nan made him not expect that Hong Kong films already have the appearance of setting sun.

Especially after the fake play and real fight in September this year, mainland actors who have been suppressed by Hong Kong and Taiwan artists for a long time began to have voices of resistance. The Hollywood Actors Guild called the victims, and for a time the scandal spread internationally.