If Ning Hao had not signed a contract with Yuan Yuan, it would have been the biggest achievement of the entire Asia Rising Star Guidance Program.

But it is a pity that Ning Hao signed a contract with Distance Media early and is no longer suitable to participate in this plan.

And Cheng Yuan would not let others interfere with Ning Hao in 2005.

"What's going on with his script for 'The Big Diamond'?"

It's still called "Big Diamond" now.

I heard this story from him last time I was drinking at Ning Hao's house. At that time, it was nothing, just an empty idea.

"I'm still writing the script, I only have an outline for now." Cheng Lingfeng knows the progress of "Big Diamond".

"How did you go to take the exam in the United States?"

"It's so expensive for Americans to do special effects!" Cheng Yu'an couldn't help but swear, "Our total budget is only 45 million, and they asked for 4 million US dollars! If they don't drop a penny, I'll give them a hammer."

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"If the United States can't do it, let's do it in China. It will only take more time." Cheng Lingfeng said, "By the way, when will "Clues of Time" be launched?"

"At the end of the month, all preparations should be done by then." It's already mid-April.

After two days of rest, Cheng Yu'an recuperated his body and flew to Hong Kong Island. He will stay in Hong Kong Island for the next half month until "Clues of Time" is launched.

I stayed on the set of "Mean Streets" and was paid to be a producer. I couldn't really refuse to come.

The Hong Kong crew is extremely efficient. From the time he handed over the script to Yinhuang, in just 20 days, Yinhuang has already found actors, set up a crew and started filming.

The protagonist is Wu Azu.

Wu Azu is tall enough, handsome enough, and has enough fans!

His acting skills are also passable, and the actions Wu Zhi designed for him fully integrate his personal characteristics and character characteristics.

What Cheng Yu'an didn't expect was that Yin Huang would still hand over such an important film to Liang Baijian, the same guy who messed up "Ghost 2" last year.

Cheng Yu'an didn't know him, but he still had to work on the same crew, so he was still polite to him.

"Yu'an, come here." Guo Fei called him softly.

Guo Fei has no filming this year, so we simply arranged for her to come to "Mean Streets" as a co-producer.

25% of the investment cannot be left alone.

Seeing that Guo Fei was hesitating a bit, Cheng Yu'an thought he had something unspeakable to find, so he followed him.

"What's wrong with Fei Jie?"

"There is something wrong with this crew." Guo Fei said.

"Filming in Hong Kong is different from us, just get used to it." Cheng Yu'an said with a smile.

"That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is that the director has a problem."

Seeing Guo Fei's serious expression, Cheng Yu'an began to realize that there might really be a problem and asked: "What did you find?"

"The accounts don't match up."

"How much difference?"

"If it was less than 3,200, I wouldn't care, but they went too far." It wasn't Guo Fei's first day with the crew, and he knew that there was a lot of chaos in it, but this time he seemed to have really touched a red line.

"What's wrong?"

"They reported false accounts to me. The crew had three cameras, each with a daily rent of 7,400 yuan. But I went to the rental shop and found that the rental price for the cameras used by the crew was 2,000 yuan. If you rent more, it would be cheaper! There are also props,"

Guo Fei, a girl, would curse when talking about this kind of thing, "Special size, a steel pipe used in gang fights, scrap iron that costs 20 cents a pound, they charge 50 yuan a piece, and a prop knife costs 50 yuan."

300 yuan. Pretend I have never filmed a movie!"

Guo Fei was almost pissed off on the set these days.

The staff in Hong Kong called her Producer Guo and Director Guo to her face, but they called her Bei Gu behind her back.

She is the representative of Distance Media on the crew and one of the producers. As a representative of the management, it is said that her treatment on the crew will not be worse than that of the director and leading actors, but the crew only arranged an ordinary standard room for her.

At first she thought that since Hong Kong movies were in decline and everyone had no money, it didn't matter if they tightened up.

But when she saw director Liang Baijian and starring Wu Azu entering and leaving the hotel's high-rise suite together, she couldn't restrain the grievance and anger in her heart.

Cheng Yu'an comforted her: "Don't worry, this matter is not over yet. Just bear with it for two days and do whatever you want in these two days. I will give you justice after two days."

In fact, this is an unspoken rule for the crew, and each link will take a little bit of it, including Cheng Yuan's own crew.

But as long as they don't go too far, Cheng Yu'an and Cheng Lingfeng generally don't care.

Don't play that kind of drama where "the movie loses money at the box office, but the director moves to a new villa".

The crew of "Mean Streets" obviously went too far. They reported prop purchase fees ten to a hundred times, and they also played double standards with representatives of mainland production companies.

Cheng Yu'an left the crew with full thoughts and came to an abandoned dock, where the first scene of "Clues of Time and Space" was placed.

It's the explosion scene at the beginning of the movie.

Lin Chaoxian was leading people to inspect the explosive devices. Seeing Cheng Yuan coming, Lin Chaoxian said: "Director Cheng, the scene is almost ready."

"The explosion scene must be absolutely foolproof."

"We tested it twice yesterday, and the results were good. We will definitely be able to adjust it to its best when shooting officially starts."

We don’t have that much money to really blow up a ship remotely. The ship at the scene was a borrowed scrap ship. The exterior was painted and then put into filming.

At that time, the explosion will have to rely on special effects, and then the long shot will be zoomed in, and then the "passenger" will jump down, and the explosion scene will be completed.

It sounds simple, but in fact it is very complicated to operate. You must not miss the hot spots and time!

The scene of the pier will be completed in a few days. After Cheng Yuan finished watching the pier, he went to the studio.

"Clues of Time" has many indoor scenes. Cheng Yu'an originally planned to move the indoor scenes back to the mainland for filming. Beijing Film Studio has the largest indoor studio in Asia.

However, later on, I couldn't stand the pressure from Hong Kong Island and wanted to keep all the production and shooting of "Clues of Time" on the island, so I finally rented a studio and started setting it up.

Cheng Yuan came here mainly to see the specially customized time machine.

This thing really cost money. The design was made by Cheng Yuan. It took nearly 2 months to make and debug this thing.

That is to say, the production of this machine started after Cheng Yuan proposed "Clues of Time and Space".

It was airlifted from Beijing just yesterday.

The whole machine is in the shape of a disc. When you open the round door, you will find a hollow inside with a retractable pull rod.

There are two transparent glass plates embedded on the pull rod. The glass plates can move freely on the pull rod and can also be attached together.

After being powered on, the whole machine will glow and even start to run in a serious way, making a buzzing sound.

Cheng Yu'an played with the machine on site for a while. The installation and debugging were in place and ready to start work at any time.

"Brother, do you think this layout is okay?" Han Yan has been following the set up of the studio.

Han Yan is working very hard now.

He is now a junior in college and has been working remotely for three years, working diligently as an assistant director for three years.

Cheng Yu'an made a promise to him and give him a big gift when he graduates next year.

As for the etiquette, Cheng Yu'an didn't say, and Han Yan was embarrassed to ask, but it should be related to the movie.
Chapter completed!