Caught in Affairs with Superstar

Chapter 903: Chapter 564: Immortal Bridge

”Behind the Scenes” was released in the United States.

The film, originally planned for a small-scale premiere, became a topic of conversation across the country due to Zhou Yun’s rise to fame, combined with the explosive reputation from the Los Angeles screening event, leading Paimon to arrange a large-scale release right away.

Zhou Yun wasn’t in the United States, so she didn’t feel much of the excitement.

However, Shi Luoqi and Xue Qin flew to the United States immediately after attending the Lingjun Award to support the publicity.

The opening day box office was reported, ”Behind the Scenes” achieved a box office of $2.13 million.

This achievement is considered very good for a Chinese-language film in recent years.

For Paimon, this was also an enormous surprise.

When they initially acquired the distribution rights for ”Behind the Scenes,” although it wasn’t at a bargain price, considering the costs of producing a movie themselves, the price was almost negligible.

The $2.13 million opening box office greatly surprised Paimon.

In reality, just looking at the numbers, in the context of a large-scale North American release, it’s not exactly a high box office result.

But since expectations for Chinese-language films in the U.S. box office were not high, against such modest expectations, this box office result appeared exceptionally impressive.

For Paimon, more importantly, after the premiere of ”Behind the Scenes,” the audience’s reviews of the film were quite positive.

Because the film carried the Cannes Film Festival label, many audience members thought it would be a European-style art film. To their surprise, they found it to be a film with an unpredictable storyline and a brisk narrative.

This kind of word-of-mouth left them hopeful about the film’s future box office performance.

In any case, ”Behind the Scenes” will definitely be a profitable film.

Paimon was very happy.

Along with their happiness, they also deepened their dissatisfaction.

Because Zhou Yun did not come to support the publicity.

If Zhou Yun were in the U.S. during this period, participating in a series of promotional activities, given Zhou Yun’s current level of attention in the U.S., box office results would be higher.

The reason Zhou Yun didn’t go to the U.S. is that she is about to join the filming of ”Deep Sea.”

Before that, she still had a lot of work stacked up before to finish.

This included shooting eight magazine covers.

Zhou Yun stayed in the photography studio for almost four days, finally completing all the shoots.

Besides that, Zhou Yun also has several endorsement brand new product ad shoots.

All these were past obligations.

After catching up with all these debts, Zhou Yun let out a long sigh.

”I’m so exhausted.” She lamented to Zhou Lan.

Zhou Yun rested at home for two days and was soon to join the team.

Before joining the team, the cast of ”Deep Sea” suddenly underwent a change.

One actor on Yuehai’s side was suddenly replaced by an actor named He Wenyun.

”Why suddenly change actors?” Zhou Yun asked Zhou Lan over the phone.

Changing actors at the last minute isn’t a good sign.

Generally, unless the original actor suddenly faces trouble and can’t make it, requiring a stand-in, actors are typically not switched.

Of course, there’s another scenario where someone forcibly takes a role, squeezing out the original actor.

Though this situation isn’t common, it still occurs from time to time.

There have even been instances where filming has started, and people still get replaced.

Zhou Lan said, ”I heard it was at the insistence of a high-level executive on Yuehai’s side, possibly He Wenyun has connections with that executive? It’s unclear, but this girl acted really well. Xu Jinbo showed me a trial video of hers, and compared to the previously cast actor, she’s better. I’ll send it to your email, want a look?”

”Sure.”

Zhou Yun downloaded the video from her email, watched it, and found it as Zhou Lan described.

The actress named He Wenyun performed outstandingly.

In the drama, this character is a ”villainous” type.

She’s absolutely wicked, feigning friendship with Zhou Yun and Yuk Chu initially, while secretly undermining them, hoping they don’t fare better than she does, and later, when Zhou Yun and Yuk Chu encounter various life difficulties, she not only refuses to help but even exacerbates their mishaps, snatching their resources for herself.

Such a role demands extraordinarily proficient acting to deliver a captivating performance.

Since the script doesn’t explore why this character is so malevolent and instead treats it as a given, an inherent trait, the actress must portray her purely and convincingly, making it seem as though this evil nature is innate.