Universal is the oldest group among the eight, second only to Paramount.

It's true that when he was playing movies, others didn't know what movies were.

Cheng Yu'an readily accepted the olive branch offered by Universal. The road to independent production was difficult. First, Cheng Yu'an did not have enough funds to support the independent operation of a Hollywood film company. Second, he did not have that many connections in Hollywood.

But Cheng Yuan did not sell himself to Universal, he just signed a cooperative development contract with Universal.

The first movie was "Pride and Prejudice". A major film company invested 20 million US dollars, and the other part of the investment was given to Universal. The distribution and peripheral development, including future public relations, were also packaged to Universal.

After staying in the United States for half a month, dealing with some corporate and personal investment issues, Cheng Lingfeng called him back to the country and said something good had happened.

Du Amei approached Cheng Lingfeng.

Many people may be unfamiliar with this name, but she also has another identity: the wife of Mark Muller, an old friend of Chinese cinema, and the film selector for the main competition unit of the Venice International Film Festival.

Mark Muller is a complete China expert. He went to China to study in the 1970s, and he can even sing model operas.

Mark Muller is the first person to promote domestic films internationally and has introduced many excellent domestic films to the international market.

Influenced by her husband, Du Amé has a great fondness for domestic films and is keen on discovering young directors.

Cheng Yu'an, as the most popular young director in China in the past two years, naturally attracted her attention.

She has watched Cheng Yu'an's three movies. To be honest, the quality of "Sniper Phone Booth", "The Notebook" and "Butterfly" is certainly good, but it is still far behind Venice.

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world and is known as the father of film festivals.

These three films are far from enough to be shortlisted, but "The Light Within" is good.

Accompanied by Cheng Lingfeng, Du Amei watched the edited clips of "The Warmth Contains Light".

She likes it very much!

Then he asked to see Cheng Yu'an.

Cheng Yu'an returned to the company, and Du Amei was in Cheng Lingfeng's office.

"Hello, Director Cheng." Du Amei speaks Chinese very well.

Cheng Yuan greeted in French: "Should I call you Marie, or Ms. Du?"

Du Amei smiled and said: "The name Du Amei was given to me by Director Xie Jin. I like this name. You can call me Amei."

Cheng Yuan switched to Chinese: "Amei, welcome to Remote Media."

The three of them got down to business, and Du Amei said: "I watched "The Light Within". It's a great movie. I hope Director Cheng can take me to Venice."

"Of course." Cheng Yu'an nodded. "The Light Within" originally wanted to take the route of competing for awards. Needless to say, it has the gold content of the three major European films. Regardless of whether it can win the award or not, it is a rare thing to be able to participate in it.

Du Amei continued: "It is indeed a pity that Director Cheng missed out on the Best New Director. The situation in China is too complicated."

Du Amei was talking about the Golden Rooster Award.

"It's all over now," Cheng Yu'an said with a smile, "As long as the audience likes it, what does it matter whether you win or not?"

Cheng Yu'an said it in a high-sounding way, but in fact everyone knew that he was dissatisfied with the Golden Rooster Award.

As a director in two generations, last year's Golden Rooster Award was his best opportunity. If he lost to Xu Cairen like this, I wouldn't believe it if he didn't feel emotional.

He is not that generous and also desires recognition from authoritative awards.

The 40 million box office lifted the sedan chair for Xu Cairen, and the whole company held their breath.

That’s why “The Warmth Contains Light” was created.

"Mark will be the chairman of the Venice International Film Festival starting from this year. He will be very happy to see you." Duame said.

"Mark is a good friend of our Chinese film industry. I will definitely thank him in person when I get to Venice."

"certainly."

The criteria for selecting films at the Venice International Film Festival are very metaphysical, and there are many speculations from the outside world, but Duame's criteria for selecting films are very clear: "As long as I like it."

That's how willful it is.

The three of them discussed some details in the office, and Du Amé was ready to leave: "I will take "Warm and Contained Light" to Venice. We will see you in Venice in September."

"Thank you." Cheng Lingfeng sent Du Amei away.

After coming back, Cheng Lingfeng couldn't hide her excitement: "Wei! Ni! Si!"

"Okay, okay." Cheng Yu'an was also very excited, but one of them had to stay calm.

"Not to mention winning awards, our movie is worth taking a trip to Venice."

It's true, just by going to Venice, Cheng Lingfeng can mobilize the media to build momentum remotely.

By then, the reputation of remote areas will surely reach a new level.

The post-production work on "The Warmth and the Inner Light" is almost done, and all the work will probably be completed by June.

"How is the casting for "The Best in the World" going?" Cheng Yu'an asked.

"We have finalized a few roles, take a look." Cheng Lingfeng gave the casting list to Cheng Yu'an.

Only two of the Four Secret Agents of Heaven, Earth, Xuanhuang and Huang were finalized: Duan Tianya will be played by Yan Kuan, and Cheng Shifei will be played by Wu Yue.

Yan Kuan is one of the four beauties in the world.

Emotional intelligence in ten lifetimes can be exchanged for beauty in one lifetime.

This guy is really good-looking, and his career has reached its peak in the past few years, but then it started to decline in the next few years.

"The purpose of filming is to make money." That's true, but you can't say it so nakedly.

When it’s time to talk about artistic ideals, we still have to talk about it, even if we have to deal with it a little bit.

What's more, when Tianya selected the four beauties, the other three were very humble, saying that appearance was not important and that they wanted to be strong, and thanked netizens for their love.

Fortunately for him, he directly withdrew from the Four Beauties selection and even criticized netizens.

I really can't understand this operation.

After Yan Kuan got married, his fans lost their followers drastically. Generally speaking, this phenomenon is very common.

But he went too far. He knew that fans didn't like it, but he still showed affection every day. Fans didn't like to see it, and he still confronted them.

But Yan Kuan is currently both popular and capable, so giving him the role of Duan Tianya is a win-win situation.

Cheng Yu'an never expected that Wu Yue would become right and wrong.

Cheng Yu'an's impression of him still remains that of a Kung Fu actor.

I didn’t rely on comedy roles like Cheng Shi Fei.

"This role is relatively difficult to find," Cheng Lingfeng said frankly. "There are too few young actors in China who can play comedies. Wu Yue took the initiative to find us the role of Cheng Shifei. He has a heart for comedy. He tried out two scenes, and with his

His movement skills and performance in all aspects were good, so I signed him.”

Cheng Yu'an remembered that Wu Yue would also play Cai Shugen in "Underground Traffic Station". His performance was good, and Wu Yue's image, especially when he smiled, was very funny.

"Now that I've signed it, let him act."

"We are still looking for the four secret agents, and we are also looking for other supporting characters. We originally wanted to find Huang Shengyi, Yagyu Yuki, but she didn't pick up."

"You're too big-hearted, why are you looking for her?"

The original time and space Huang Shengyi took the role of Yukihime Yagyu purely for the sake of the Hong Kong industry.

This film was originally a project of Fatty Wang. After Wong Sheng-yi signed the role of Xinghui, it was only after it was sold well in Hong Kong that she agreed to play a supporting role like Yagyu Yukihime.

Nowadays, a mainland team wants to hire the female lead in Zhou Xingxing's "Kung Fu" for a supporting role with only a few episodes. It's strange that they will agree.

The same goes for Gao Yuanyuan's Yagyu Piaoxu. Both of them took the two Yagyu sisters in order to break into the Hong Kong industry.

"Sister Liu Sheng, let's look for it again." Cheng Yu'an didn't think of a suitable candidate for a while, "Wan Sanqian, I have a good candidate here."

"who?"

"Shen Xiaohai."

The original version of Tang Zhenye's Wan Sanqian was too ugly and greasy, and his temperament was not as good as that of the extremely wealthy Wan Sanqian.

The prototype of Wan Sanqian is undoubtedly Shen Wansan, so we need to hire an actor with outstanding temperament to be worthy of Shangguan Haitang.

"Prince Ning in "Little Clueless"?"

"Yes, that's him."

Shen Xiaohai's costumes are very beautiful, and he is very noble. He even outshone the protagonist in "The Little Clueless".

"I'm thinking of this one role for now, and I'll look for the others later. I have something to go out for."

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to meet someone. The movie for next year's Lunar New Year movie hasn't been released yet."

"Are you filming?"
Chapter completed!