China Entertainment's My Artistic Career

Chapter 270 My youth is on stage

"What we are currently working on is "Battle of Changsha" by Wang Kai and Shu Chang, which is expected to be released in the second half of next year."

""The Sky of the Wind Dog" should be released in the first half of the year. Director Zhang said that the young actors are all good prospects."

He Hua followed Huang Lan's words and flipped through the pages, and soon saw the list of starring actors in "Wind Dog Boy", including Peng Yuchang, Xu Lu, Huang Jingyu, and Bai Jingting.
Well, Peng Yuchang was the one who decided on it, and the director found everything else himself.

For the character of Lao Gou, he really couldn't think of anyone in the industry now who is more suitable than Peng Yuchang. It's just that his current acting skills made He Hua a little worried. But now that Zhang Kaizhou said they are good, there must still be two. Take the brush.

He doesn't have much impression of Xu Lu, but looking at the photos, he does fit the image of the wealthy daughter of 'An Ran' in the TV series.

As for Huang Jingyu, He Hua has an impression. It seems that there are many military-themed and fire-fighting themes, and it can still make an impression on him. It's not a bad impression, which means the acting is okay.

His performance as Liu Wenqin was pretty good.

The last Bai Jingting, in "The Beginning", played with Maimai. He Huaman liked it. He played the role of Martin.

After a while of memories in his mind, he put the information aside.

Huang Lan met and continued: "The current rough arrangement is that "Yunnan Worm Valley" will be released next month, "The Age of Naked Marriage" will follow in December, and "Shanshan Is Coming" will be released in February."

"Okay, you can just arrange these."

"One more thing"

He Hua was multitasking, listening to the report and reading the documents in his hand, but Huang Lan suddenly stopped talking. He raised his head curiously and asked, "What's the matter? I have something to say."

Huang Lan composed herself and said, "Do you want to move the Ghost Blowing Lamp series?"

Hearing this, He Hua's thoughts were moved: "Have you talked to them about contract renewal? What did they say?"

They are not only the trio of actors in the Ghost Blowing Lantern series, but also include the two directors and the behind-the-scenes team of this series.

These people basically signed a three-film contract with Youhua. At that time, they wanted to see the market response, and generally a three-film contract is long enough.

I just didn’t expect that three years would go by so fast and this series would be so hot and popular.

It's okay to say that the team behind the scenes is relatively strong in this area. The company has so many dramas every day, the future is bright, and the remuneration is also top-notch in the industry, so those who are a little capable can squeeze in here.

If they don't want to do it anymore, the company can always find someone to take over.

But the starring + director of the series is not easy to deal with.

The importance of directors in film and television works is self-evident. Their visual decisions and plot interpretation directly affect the evaluation and reputation of the work.

Not only that, the director also plays a central role in the entire production process.

Therefore, changing directors has a great impact on TV series. Different directors will bring different feelings and styles to a series.

A good director will also bring some new ideas and ideas, making the audience look forward to the next work even more.

But for a series like Gui Chuu Deng, which has become the signature of Youhua Entertainment, stable output has always been the first choice of the producers. After all, its net income has increased from 8000 million at the beginning to 2.16 million now.

Yes, the third film "Yunnan Worm Valley" alone brought a profit of 2.16 million to the company.

Compare this year's most popular "The Legend of Zhen Huan". The total revenue of more than 70 episodes of the TV series is only more than 2 million, but it still has to deduct nearly [-] million in costs.

The profit of the 30-episode "Yunnan Worm Valley" is twice that. You can imagine how profitable this series is.

So He Hua's first thought is to stabilize the lineup.

"Sun Molong said he wanted to try more and didn't want to continue filming; Fei Zhenxiang opened a company and wanted to take over the production of the next trilogy."

"What does he want?"

Huang Lan looked unhappy: "He wants to participate in the investment, and as a director and producer, he can get a share of the profits."

He Hua was a little surprised. He really underestimated this person. He didn't expect him to have such ambitions.

He thought for a moment and then said: "We can talk about it. Give him a small opening in investment and share the profit." He was silent for a while and continued: "Sign up and bet, based on word of mouth and ratings, 5-10%, how much can you get?" It just depends on his ability.”

Although this proportion is small, based on the profit of the third film, it is 2000 to [-] million. How many directors can get such remuneration in the current market?

After saying that, He Hua saw that Huang Lan was reluctant and gave her a few words of explanation:
"It's understandable that everyone has their own ambitions. Besides, if he wants to earn more, he has to be more dedicated. The better the quality of the work, the better for us, right? Talents are rare."

Huang Lan's main dissatisfaction was that these two people were discovered and promoted by her own company. Forget about Sun Molong, Fei Zhenxiang had just learned to fly and he couldn't wait to compete with her for food, which made her very unhappy.

But now it can only be like this.

After talking about the director, there were three actors
"Jiang Chao's side just raised the salary, so there's no big problem. The only problem is the other two."

"Li Xue and Li Bingbing came out of Huayi and are now running their Hesong Media Company. They want to reach a deeper cooperative relationship with us, including but not limited to investment in production, advertising placement, brand business, etc. "

He Hua frowned. Li Xue is still capable. After Wang Jinghua left Huayi Brothers, she was once in charge of Huayi's brokerage business. Moreover, this person is different from Wang Jinghua. Her abilities are more comprehensive. , strong organizational and management capabilities.

In recent years, Li Bingbing has become famous internationally, which is largely due to Li Xue's help.

So when he heard the request from these two people, he wasn't really angry. He was just curious about what kind of bargaining chips they could bring to cooperate with him. Let alone starring in roles, Yuhua could win a Shirley Yang. Hold up another.

The worst case scenario is that this series will be sealed for two years before filming, and it will be too late for fans to be happy by then. Who will care whether the characters are changed or not.

"Talk to them first and see what they can come up with."

Finally, there is Pan Yueming. He Hua really didn't expect that a person who usually doesn't have much desire for money would be so aggressive that he would ask for 7000 million. Of course, this is the price of three movies.

The agent also said it nicely: "Added year by year, 2100 million in the first year, 2300 million in the second year, and 2600 million in the third year. A total of 7000 million, three movies, this number is nothing for this series."

He Hua frowned.

How to calculate this number, arithmetic sequence?Geometric sequence?It seems like neither.

First add 200, then add 300?

Also, does he know what this price means?Based on the lowest price of 2100 million, the episodes of the Ghost Blowing Lamp series are generally around 30 episodes, so one episode costs 70.

What actor can command this price nowadays? The price quoted for Yang Mi's TV series is only 45.

Pan Yueming, is he crazy?

"Ask him to come and talk to me." He Hua was very unhappy.

Huang Lan snorted disdainfully: "I haven't shown up recently. I've even declined promotional activities."

He Hua smiled bitterly, money and silk are really touching people's hearts. A person who was once so cheerful and straightforward has now become like this.

"Let's put it aside for now and wait until we're done with this."

Of course he was very busy before the movie was released. Even though "To Youth" was not his movie, he knew how much his girlfriend cared about the movie. In order not to make her angry and disappointed, He Hua still tried his best to show that he was interested in the movie. of attention.For example, when attending a movie screening in theaters, he used his reputation to assure the theater representatives that there would be absolutely no problems with the movie, and the publicity during the release period would keep up. It would never be worse than the current "Tai Chi 1". I hope everyone Can help arrange a lot of films.

Another example is the current premiere.

Liu Yifei, Su Lun, Wan Qian, Wang Kai and other main actors stood on the stage and interacted with the host.

The host suddenly CUE'd him: "Director He Hua, we know that Su Lun has always been your assistant director, and Yifei has been with you day and night. I don't know what expectations you have for our movie."

"Ahem!" He Hua took the microphone handed over by the staff, cleared his throat first, and then said with an embarrassed expression:

"I don't even know how to answer this question, mainly because I've already seen the movie."

There was a burst of laughter at the scene, and the host also realized that the question he asked was not quite right. He Hua was the producer, and of course he had watched the movie before it came out. What a ghost to look forward to.

Just as she was about to speak and round up the topic, she heard He Hua continue:

"But I can tell you from the perspective of someone who has experienced it: the movie was pretty good."

"Youth has love, misses, and regrets. Everyone can find resonance in the film."

The host quickly looked for an opportunity to save his career:
"Is your youth included in it?"

He Hua raised his head towards the stage: "My youth is on the stage."

Liu Yifei was also a little shy, her face slightly red.

"Oh oh oh" there were constant boos and screams at the scene because of He Hua, a piece of shit.

It has to be said that because of the break-up and reunion of celebrity couples in the past two years, the relationship between He Hua and Liu Yifei has been recognized and praised by many people.

During the four-year long love run, the two have always maintained a sweet relationship, and there have been few scandals about them, so everyone sincerely hopes that the two can get together.

Of course the host knew about the love between the two, and immediately ran to ask Liu Yifei: "What about your youth?"

Liu Yifei said seriously: "My character's youth was very unfortunate. She met a scumbag."

'Xu' The audience who wanted to continue listening to the gossip were disappointed and booed.

However, after such a commotion, the atmosphere at the scene became much more lively than before, and the young creatives on the stage gradually relaxed.
The next day, the scene where He Hua expressed his love through the air yesterday made headlines.

If his girlfriend hadn't run away early these days, he would definitely have asked her to reward him. He didn't care about his image so much.

The competition for National Day stalls starts with publicity.

The first ones to pinch were the two big flowers, Zhang Ziyi and Fan Bingbing.

This year's National Day release, Fan Bingbing will present two works at once, "Bronze Bird Terrace" and "Double Exposure". While cooperating with Hong Kong and Taiwan celebrities such as Zhou Runfa and Su Youpeng, he also roped in Feng Shaofeng, who has been favored by Huayi in the past two years. Huo Siyan et al.

And Zhang Ziyi only has one film, "Dangerous Liaisons". Although the promotion says that it has the strongest lineup in the three regions, whoever watches it will know.

Therefore, Fan Bingbing surpassed Zhang Ziyi in terms of popularity, not to mention that Zhang Ziyi has not had any decent works in recent years and has been resting on his laurels.

The sarcastic voices gradually gained the upper hand.

The media didn't take it too seriously to see the excitement, and kept making fun of it. The fans on both sides became more and more noisy and angry.

However, "Tai Chi 1" soon joined the war. Chen Guofu rarely boasted, and Wang Zhonglei also publicly stated that "Tai Chi" is a subversion and breakthrough of traditional kung fu movies. '

He Hua understood their behavior very well, after all, the investment was [-] million.

But where did the money go?He really didn't see it.

In the days leading up to its release, the promotion of "To Youth" has begun to take hold.

On the day it was released on September 9, the crew of "Youth" also went to the finals of "The Voice of China" to promote it.

Liu Yifei followed the returning Zheng Hong and sang "Someone like you" to wow the audience.

Then Chen Xiao, Wang Kai, Zhu Yilong, Dai Xu, and Bai Yu sang a song called "Lost Love Front Alliance", and the scene was also very happy.

The youthful content of "To Youth" was directly advertised in front of hundreds of millions of viewers.

Therefore, after the box office of 2700 million on the first day, the theater chain quickly increased the film schedule of "To Youth". 32% is not enough, 40% is only reasonable.

Of course, there are also reasons why "Tai Chi 1", "Dangerous Liaisons" and "Double Exposure" did not do well at the box office.

"Tai Chi 1" was released on September 9. It was released for four days and had a cumulative box office of 27 million. How can one say that 3000% of its film schedule was wasted?

"Dangerous Liaisons" was also released on the same day, in the same four days, with a box office of 2200 million.

The creative team of Bai Blind has been working hard to promote the movie these days:
The love between Zhang Ziyi and Xiao Sa has ups and downs; Zhang Baizhi takes her son to find her ex-husband Ting Feng.

"Double Exposure" was only released on the 29th and sold 1600 million in two days. There is also nothing to say.

Other movies are similar.

After looking around, the results of "To Youth" can give everyone some hope.

In addition, reviews of these movies have also come out.

There is a good saying: The reason why the red flower is eye-catching is that it is surrounded by large green leaves.

The highest state of looking at flowers is: "a little red among the green bushes".

In fact, Liu Yifei and Su Lun's version of "To Youth" is better than Zhao V's version. After all, the original novel is there, but when you put it together with the other four domestic movies released during the National Day holiday, it stands out. :
"There are laughter and tears, the characters are three-dimensional, and the overall level is good."

"After watching other movies, I come here to wash my eyes. It's a mediocre work, but I still have to give it a high score because the other movies are really bad."

"Excellent debut film, a passable commercial film."

The Douban score is 7.6, which makes it stand out among the works with scores of 5 and 6.

During the National Day, Liu Yifei and Su Lun each brought a group of actors to start a nationwide road show.

In the early morning of October 10th, the results of the movie came out:
It was released for 9 days, with a cumulative box office of 2.71 million.

The entire National Day market total was 5.28 million, and "To Youth" directly took up 50%.

The remaining 50% requires 5 parts, no, we also need to add "Taken 2" and two cartoons.

"Tai Chi 1" produced by Huayi is almost losing money. It has not exceeded 3 million yet, and its reputation is so bad that "Tai Chi [-]" was directly cancelled.

(End of this chapter)