Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

Chapter 326 Chapter Country.paparazzi.The play is over.

Since the first overseas location wasted a lot of time, the crew had to speed up the progress on the next two locations.Fortunately, according to the industrial process of the film, although the entire project time will be as long as three to five years, the shooting cycle is generally about three months.Generally speaking, the pre-production time for a film is the longest, ranging from one to two years to four or five years. Some directors even spend about ten years on pre-production.The pre-work of the film is from reviewing the script to approving the budget, and then to the determination of the director, actors and other crew members. This is where the risk of the entire film project is the greatest.

For example, the director surnamed Wu from the earth plane, he made the most classic gangster movie in the history of Chinese movies in Hong Kong. He also has a successful case in Hollywood, and has established his own style in the North American movie circle and has countless followers. .No matter what kind of review such a director has passed, there is no problem, but after MGM asked him to shoot "Wind Talker", the company that was originally on the verge of collapse completely slipped to the brink of bankruptcy.So the director surnamed Wu was abandoned by Hollywood and had to return to the Chinese film circle.And when he came back, he just happened to encounter the revival of mainland film capital, and when the entire mainland film circle was kneeling and licking the Hong Kong and Taiwan film circles, so he immediately got a budget for a war film with a theme of the Three Kingdoms.The theme of the Three Kingdoms is the best-selling IP in Asia, but he also killed the production company and distribution company.In the end, he used his fame to raise capital to shoot China's "Titanic", but the film continued to fail miserably.

Therefore, it can be said that although the film industry has a complete green light system for review, the risk of the film industry is still very large.That's why the major film production companies need to waste a lot of time on pre-work, in order to minimize the incidence of this terrible risk.Otherwise, based on the current production cost of movies, if a medium-sized movie hits the box office, basically a large-scale production company will enter a precarious state.Even Li Wei's studio didn't dare to mess around, because although Li Wei has money, it doesn't mean he is willing to waste it.Even if Li Wei doesn't shoot commercial films, he still hopes that his literary films can win awards, and then sell TV stations and video websites through the blessing of awards, and hope to make some profits through the DVD or BD market.

"Wild Speed" can be regarded as a large-scale production movie, so Li Wei spent about three months on location shooting and early interior shooting.Fortunately, the filming went smoothly, and the crew is already preparing to return to China from Eastern Europe.There is still about half a month left to make up some shots on the interior, and then the crew can be disbanded, and the film has entered the post-production process.The crew still returned to the East China Sea on a chartered flight, and Li Wei met Zhou Xiao after leaving the customs and left.After all, "Wild Speed" can be regarded as the most watched crew this year, and a bunch of entertainment journalists and paparazzi are squatting at the airport.Li Wei and Zhou Xiao took a newly bought SRV and left from the ordinary passage, but they got rid of most of the entertainment journalists and paparazzi.

It's a pity that there is always a gap in every secret, and Li Wei didn't expect that he would be targeted by another team of paparazzi.When they found out that Li Wei was driving a new car, they immediately realized that there was a problem, so they immediately followed.It turned out that Li Wei had returned to the community where he lived, and the leader immediately became discouraged.It's not that no one has ever stared at Li Wei's house, but almost all the paparazzi found that Li Wei is a family man once he breaks away from work.According to the observations of the paparazzi, Li Wei basically wakes up at six o'clock in the morning, then does morning exercises and eats breakfast, and then plays games at home; he starts to make lunch at eleven o'clock, and after the lunch break, he starts to deal with some work after two o'clock. Video games turned into playing computer games; I started to make dinner at 09 o’clock, then went out for a walk at 30 o’clock, and started working out at 09 o’clock until 30:[-] in the evening; Fall asleep around two o'clock.He is a good young man without any bad habits, and Li Wei can cook by himself, which made many paparazzi post it as gossip.Because the paparazzi exposed Li Wei's hobbies and skills, Li Wei occasionally started shooting food newspapers or publishing graphic recipes on his blog.

But the mysterious woman that the paparazzi were expecting never appeared, and as for the occasional delusional illegitimate child, there was no trace.But at this time, a new paparazzi suddenly asked: "Brother Zuo, do you think Li Wei has an abnormal relationship with Zhou Xiao? If two single men really want to play together, it shouldn't be to play ball." What? And they don't have a woman around them, and they don't go to that kind of hotel. How can they live in such a way? Don't tell me, both of them are "slow motion with left hand and right hand" to meet their physical needs! "

The words of the young paparazzi made the leader Zuo Ge suddenly realize something, that is, the paparazzi seem to have entered a blind spot.The private lives of Li Wei and Zhou Xiao were too clean. Not only did they not get involved in the entertainment industry, but they even had no relationship with any women in their private lives.Shouldn't a normal man have a girlfriend?Even if it is not made public, there will always be a few days when we need to meet each other to meet each other's emotional and physical needs, right?If there is no girlfriend, some men will seek solace in special service places such as hotels.Perhaps celebrities like Li Wei and Zhou Xiao dare not be so presumptuous, so going to bars, KTV and other nightclubs to hunt for beauty is something that should be done, right?Is it true that two normal, healthy men who are at the peak of their sexual activity are ascetic?Abandoning the above possibilities, and thinking of the intimate past when the two were often together, Brother Zuo suddenly remembered the gossip that had been circulated in the entertainment industry for a long time but had already become a joke, that Li Wei and Zhou Xiao were a "couple".

Thinking of this, Brother Zuo suddenly felt enlightened, and said tremblingly: "I suddenly feel that we have caught a big piece of news! No, I must persuade the boss to let us continue to follow. From now on, we will drink and eat in the circle. Meat, or instant noodles, let's see this time!"

"How is your business in North America going? This time I passed by Citigroup, but I really don't have time to meet you." Li Wei and Zhou Xiao returned to the single-family villa they bought.

This villa is located in a particularly inconspicuous place in the community, and it is at the end of the road, so the security guards and the security of the two are well arranged, and all problems can be solved as long as the intersection is blocked.But now the paparazzi have also begun to use high technology to keep pace with the times, which has given the stars a headache for a while.

Celebrities who have reached a certain level usually move from apartments to single-family villas. It’s not that celebrities have too much money and no place to spend, because single-family villas are better equipped with security measures.At the same time, some more thoughtful ancient rhyme single-family villas also have a large number of luxuriant trees. These trees not only provide shade for the villas, but also prevent paparazzi from taking pictures of themselves with long-focus lenses.

Even many celebrities (such as Li Wei) will follow the advice of security companies to buy equipment such as garbage compactors, paper shredders and smokeless incinerators to deal with some garbage.You know paparazzi rummaging through trash cans is a common occurrence, God knows what they will dig out of it.

Now Li Wei’s detached villas all use double-layer windows. In addition to heat insulation, the more important thing is to prevent paparazzi from using shock wave measuring instruments to monitor themselves; at least one layer of glass is one-way glass, so that the outside world can barely Can't see myself.Even so, Li Wei still gets used to closing the curtains in the bedroom and other places.The curtain not only prevents the passage of visible light, but also prevents detection by biothermal meters.

At the same time, with the use of drones, Li Wei has to purchase a set of anti-drone equipment.If someone flies the drone into the range of Li Wei's villa, the system will automatically lock the drone and launch a destructive device to destroy the drone.

And if Li Wei is willing, he can also activate the anti-camera system of the villa.Once any optical equipment is activated, it will be locked by this system. As long as Li Wei switches to the destroy mode, the memory of these photographic equipment will be burned by the sudden high temperature.It can be said that in order to prevent the paparazzi from invading his private life, Li Wei has already installed all the high-tech equipment.

And Li Wei's domestic service personnel and private security personnel were also specially recruited. The generous salary and benefits and the high price of betrayal made this group of people desperate to keep Li Wei a secret.This made Li Wei and Zhou Xiao spend most of their time in this villa when they got together.

"Everything is going well, and it's not the first time I've gone to North America." Zhou Xiao said with a smile, "It was really troublesome at the beginning. There were not enough people, and there were no reliable connections. Everything had to be done by myself. Wait. After gaining a firm foothold, I slowly recruited some good local talents to join, and everything went smoothly. My current idea is to develop a few core stores in North America for high-end Chinese cuisine. I found North American Several design companies hope that they can integrate Chinese traditional art and modern aesthetics, and at the same time, they must make citrus like high-end restaurants. Then they will create a few franchise stores in the middle and low end, sushi, Teppanyaki, Korean cuisine, Nanyang cuisine. Make one, I think hot pot can also make one. ——Hey, what are you going to do?"

"What are you talking about?" Li Wei asked while hugging Zhou Xiao, "We are all normal people, so of course we have to do some normal things!"

The next day, when Li Wei went to the studio to shoot the closing shots, he was refreshed, and he didn't have the feeling of anger during the location shooting.There are not many finishing shots left and shots that need to be re-shot. The two film crews on Li Wei's side started work at the same time, and it took only ten days to complete all the shooting work.After Li Wei announced that it was finished, the production crew naturally had a carnival.Immediately afterwards, Li Wei asked the co-producer to book a hotel for tonight's wrap-up banquet.In fact, there are wrap-up banquets in both Eastern and Western crews, but most of the Western crews have buffet parties, and actors who have graduated ahead of schedule will not come back.

But the human touch of the Oriental production crew is much stronger, and the finale banquet must be full of toasts, and no matter how big the stars are, they must hold a cup with everyone at the banquet.Especially directors and producers like Li Wei have to hold glasses at every table, so the assistant directors recruited around Li Wei are all able to drink, otherwise it will not be good if Li Wei and a few investment bosses are really poured down. It's easy to clean up.Li Wei is very generous in many aspects. The finale banquet is usually booked in a luxury hotel, and it is close to a million after one session.

And when I heard that Li Wei had a wrap-up banquet, many reporters would come to join in the fun.Li Wei usually arranges transportation expenses and buffet coupons for these reporters. The public relations expenses in this regard have always been sufficient, so the relationship between Li Wei and most of the reporters is very harmonious.Entertainment reporters all know that Boss Li's red envelopes are basically the biggest, and the buffet coupons given at the same time must be the most popular restaurant in Donghai at the moment.