162: Chapter 162 The Premiere is Here

After filming all of his individual scenes, Lin Chuyan began to say goodbye to everyone one by one.

The young actors had become familiar with each other, and the topic of Ruan Xingyu was naturally unavoidable, so they would try to ask him about it.

Lin Chuyan didn't hide anything and spoke about it generously.

So, when they parted ways at this moment, as Li Xinran, Wang Xiaoyi, and a few others said goodbye to him, a thousand words converged into one sentence: "Brother, waiting for your official announcement..."

Director Han Xiao was even more impressive, still talking about work at this moment: "Um, Xiao Yan, although 90% of our drama uses live sound, as for the Hong Kong businessman character, his accent... how should I put it? It really doesn't sound like Hong Kong-accented Mandarin, and I'm not very satisfied. How about you dub for him later? You're from Guangdong Province, so imitating a Hong Kong accent shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Although Lin Chuyan was from Guangdong Province, his Mandarin was quite standard. However, something like a Hong Kong accent is engraved in one's bones, so imitating it was a piece of cake: "No problem, just find me when it's time for post-production dubbing!"

"Good, I'll discuss the fees with your agent."

"No need, no need, it's just dubbing, a trivial matter."

"Are you sure?"

"Really, no need." Lin Chuyan smiled again, "Director, if you feel bad about it, just keep me in mind when you have a new project later..."

What fees? Dubbing requires fees? How come he didn't know that?

Such a good director, he must hug his thigh tightly!

"Hahaha, alright." Director Han didn't stand on ceremony with him either and agreed directly.

To be honest, if it were someone else, he definitely wouldn't choose to owe this favor just for the small cost of dubbing. But Lin Chuyan had good acting skills, was popular, and the young man was polite and sensible...

Then this isn't "owing a favor," this is called social exchange... Isn't that how the relationships between people and people slowly warm up?

Leaving Spring City in Yunnan Province, the three of them—Lin Chuyan and his team—returned directly to Beijing.

Lin Chuyan had originally wanted to just go back like that, but Xia Zhi made a suggestion: "Brother, why don't you use the VIP channel..."

"Why?"

"Brother, you are underestimating your own traffic a bit. I'm afraid there will be too many fans picking you up at the airport, and plus we didn't hire any security... it's very easy for something to happen." Xia Zhi added, "It's not that I'm saying the fans will do anything extreme, it's just that I'm worried about affecting passersby, which wouldn't be good."

Lin Chuyan thought about it. He was indeed quite popular offline last time, but that was in the Bilibili building, where close contact was understandable.

Would there be that many fans at the airport? He was a bit skeptical, but ultimately decided to follow good advice: "I'll listen to you."

"Okay, the airport provides paid VIP services, or we can just buy first-class tickets, either works, I'll go handle it."

Back in Beijing, "the hovering blade" had already been heavily promoted. Because the movie coincided with social hot-button issues, it actually didn't need much promotion—that was natural traffic.

As for the even bigger traffic, that was naturally Lin Chuyan.

Regarding this point, the production team was naturally smiling from ear to ear.

By the way, how much did it cost to have Lin Chuyan star in it? Producer Zhang Man, who had teased Lin Chuyan before, specially checked...

300,000.

Honestly, what can 300,000 do? Finding a few big accounts to advertise would cost this much now...

So cheap! Such a good deal!

The premiere of "the hovering blade" was scheduled for June 12, and the official release was June 15.

In other words, Lin Chuyan could still rest for a day, but tomorrow he would have to follow the team for a full day of promotion.

"So where is the premiere being held?"

Lin Chuyan asked while playing the Guitar in the rehearsal room.

Su He was quite bored in Beijing, so he simply came over to Lin Chuyan's office to hang out.

"Emperor Group."

"Which Emperor Group?"

Su He sat by the small bar: "Movie premieres are generally held in three places: Wanda CBD Cinema, Emperor Group Cinema, China Film Group International Cinema Party History Museum Branch..."

After thinking about it, he added: "Oh, and now there's also Universal Studios... Some foreign movies invested by Universal Pictures will premiere there."

"Then what time is it tomorrow?"

"Let's go together after lunch. We'll have to keep running through various screening halls from afternoon to evening."

"Alright, I'll rely on you to cover for me."

Su He rolled his eyes: "Don't, when the time comes, you walk alone, and I'll stay far away from you."

Lin Chuyan had a mischievous smile: "Don't be like that... What, are you really afraid of people shipping our CP?"

"I'd actually love that, I have to take this traffic, right?" Su He was also laughing, "You'd better pray for yourself tomorrow and be mentally prepared to be besieged. You escaped at the airport, but how will you run in the cinema? There will definitely be a bunch of fans waiting inside."

"Alright... won't the fans be stopped?"

"They will, but they can't stop the multiple screenings. This premiere isn't just one session. Many people stay inside after entering. Also, there is security on the first floor, but many stores are open, so anyone can just walk in. Besides, the premiere is a business in itself. Since you have traffic and fans, you will definitely be targeted by scalpers."

"Scalpers... can't stop them, right?"

Su He nodded: "Where there is a buyer, there is a seller. Since you appear on the scene, and fans can't get tickets to the premiere, then surely some people will be willing to spend money to buy from scalpers just to see you..."

"Fine... damn, how much can a movie ticket sell for..."

"That I don't know, probably around a thousand, I'm just guessing."

Lin Chuyan really couldn't imagine it. If it were him, he definitely wouldn't spend 1000 yuan just to see a certain artist after the screening, and this artist might only appear for about 10 minutes.

"As expected of a first-tier city, the people of Beijing are still rich."

"Not necessarily. Some fanatical fans flying in from other cities is also normal. That's the cost of the plane ticket plus the money to buy tickets from scalpers."

Alright, this time Lin Chuyan was completely unable to imagine it.

"It's better not to hold it at all..."

Su He couldn't help but roll his eyes again: "That's because you are in the movie. If it were someone else, the scalpers wouldn't even bother to come! A 50-yuan movie ticket wouldn't even sell for 80 yuan."

The next day at noon, Xia Zhi drove Lin Chuyan and Su Su to Emperor Group. When the two entered the parking lot, they took a few glances. Sure enough, the entrance to the cinema was already swarming with people, and they were basically all young women. In the middle, one could see quite a few scalpers wandering around, muttering to themselves.

Su He clicked his tongue in amazement as he watched, joking: "So many people, hmm, surely some of them are here to see me!"

Lin Chuyan was a bit curious: "What are these scalpers muttering about?"

Xia Zhi knew this: "Brother, they generally only have two phrases. Either 'Do you have tickets?' or 'Do you want tickets?'"

Lin Chuyan: "..."

They entered the parking lot, parked the car, and a few of them got into the elevator and went upstairs.

"There are a lot of fans upstairs. You can greet them, but don't stop walking." Wu Yue patted Lin Chuyan on the shoulder, "Xiao Yan, stand behind me and just follow me."

"Got it."

Lin Chuyan was actually quite calm. They were just fans, right? It wasn't like he hadn't been picked up at the airport before. He was alone at the time and handled it quite well, even taking a big group photo together.

"Don't worry, Brother Yue, let's go."

Lin Chuyan and Su Su were wearing the crew's merchandise T-shirts for "the hovering blade" today, which looked very plain and simple, but because of their different looks, the moment the elevator door opened, it always felt like only one artist had walked out...

Brother Yue, with his muscular build, was quite reassuring, but he seemed to have underestimated the craziness of Lin Chuyan's fans.

Everyone was talking, everyone was shouting, and nothing could be heard.

What met his eyes... hmm, they were all pretty and lightly dressed young women.

Lin Chuyan tried to distinguish what they were shouting, but unfortunately, after listening for a while, he only heard the three words "Lin Chuyan."

Some were holding up mobile phones to take pictures, and others were holding up support signs. Lin Chuyan glanced at them a few times, and there was actually a sign with the words "Official Announcement" written in huge letters...

That's too much, that's too much... Lin Chuyan silently gave a thumbs up in his heart.