China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 333 Entering the Ten Million Dollar Salary Club

After returning to Yanjing, Lu Yuan had two days of leisure, and then he had to start working intensively again.

"Now You See Me" is about to start filming!

Star Media Conference Room.

"boss."

"Brother Yuan."

"..."

After sitting down, Lu Yuan looked around.

"Is everyone here?"

"We're all here."

Lu Yang, who was sitting on the left, took the initiative to reply.

"Okay, let's start."

Today is the launch meeting for "Now You See Me". In addition to people from Star Media, there are also a few blond and blue-eyed foreigners sitting in the conference room.

"Boss, recently..."

Director Lu Yang gave a brief report on the preliminary preparations.

That's right.

The director of "The Band of Thieves" is Lu Yang. After the experience of "Cohabitation in Time and Space", "Source Code", and "Embroidered Spring Knife", Lu Yang finally ushered in his first major production directed by himself.

The production cost is more than 6000 million US dollars, which is more than 4 million yuan in RMB!

Of the more than 6000 million U.S. dollars, million U.S. dollars are Lu Yuan's personal salary. So far, "Source Code" has been released in Xiaobangzi, Little Days, Europe, Australia and other places.

The cumulative global box office has reached 3.98 million US dollars.

North American box office: $2.18 million.

Domestic box office: $7800 million

Combined box office in other regions: US$1.02 million

If you include subsequent DVD copyrights, TV broadcast rights, etc., the cumulative revenue of "Source Code" is about 4.3 million.

The publicity + shooting cost is less than 5000 million, and the global box office is 4 million.

"Source Code" made a lot of money!

As a male-led drama, most of the credit for its box office success falls on Lu Yuan.

As a result, his salary has also risen, from US$400 million during the "Source Code" period to US$ million.

To this, we have to add 5% of the box office share in North America.

The total salary of other actors is about the same as that of Lu Yuan. Even if it is more, it is only 4 to 500 million dollars more at most.

Most of the remaining 3-4000 million US dollars were invested in filming and publicity.

Among the creative team of "The Thieves", apart from Lu Yuan, the most eye-catching one is director Lu Yang.

At the age of thirty-two, he can direct a large-scale production with an investment of hundreds of millions. Apart from several famous international directors such as Lao Mouzi, which director would not envy him?

I cry with envy!

of course.

For such a large investment, Lu Yang cannot be the only director, and the opinions of other investors must also be considered.

Therefore, "The Band of Thieves" has another director.

French director Louis Leterrier, who directed "The Incredible Hulk", is also the director of "The Hulk".

Although the box office and reputation of "The Incredible Hulk" were not good, it was a large-scale production with an investment of over 100 million US dollars.

Louis Leterrier came forward to co-direct "The Thieves", and other investors reluctantly agreed to Lu Yang's decision to direct.

Today, the casting process for "The Thieves" is basically over.

Close up magician Daniel Lu——Lu Yuan

Escape artist Ella Yang - Damimi

FBI agent Rod——Mark Ruffalo (Hulk Bruce Banner)

Interpol member - French Rose Melanie Laurent (actress recommended by director Louis)

Thief Jack Wilder – Paul Walker (recommended by Universal Pictures)

Merritt, the master of hypnosis - Woody Harrelson (recommended by Universal Pictures)

Chinese magician JAY Zhou - Milk Tea Lun (the second villain)

JAY·Zhou’s female assistant——Mina (the third female lead in the second part)

In addition to the above people, there is also an ‘acquaintance’ in the production team.

Executive director - Guo Fan.

The shooting cycle of "The Band of Thieves" is about 3-4 months.

The reason why it takes so long is mainly because Lu Yuan has two concerts on May 5th and June 28th.

Performances + rehearsals must be scheduled for at least half a month.

The concert is also a promotional plan for the movie.

Throughout the world, no movie has ever linked concerts and movie shooting together. At present, the combination of movies + concerts is enough to attract attention. Therefore, even if it takes half a month longer, it is still worth it.

What's more, during Lu Yuan's absence for half a month, the crew did not completely stop production. As long as the filming plan is well planned, other scenes can be filmed during his absence.

After a few hours, the huddle will end.

Tomorrow, the crew will head to the Magic City to conduct preliminary location scouting work.

As a co-production, "The Band of Thieves" is necessary to shoot in mainland China.

Therefore, part of Daniel Lu's character was changed. He was a second-generation Chinese immigrant who became famous in North America. When he was recruited by Rhodes, he was touring in China.

The opening close-up magic was filmed at the famous attraction in the Magic City - the Bund.

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Waldorf Astoria on the Bund.

The first scene of "The Thieves" is an indoor scene.

Well.

Lu Yuan's passionate scene.

This is definitely not intentional!

The passionate opening scene is, on the one hand, catering to the movie-watching habits of North America. There is no marginal content at all, which is a bit dull.

On the other hand, it is also to highlight the romantic character of the protagonist Daniel Lu.

Starring opposite Lu Yuan is Re Yizha, an artist from Xingchen Media.

Statement again.

Re Yizha was not cast by Lu Yuan.

After all, the person who had sex with the male protagonist at the beginning was just a sidekick, and his screen time was less than one minute. Lu Yuan was not responsible for casting at this level.

Reyizha was chosen by Lu Yang.

Although this role is just a supporting role, it is still a big production with hundreds of millions of investment, and there is also an intimate scene with the boss.

Fertilizer does not flow into outsiders' fields.

Rather than open casting, it would be better to leave it to one’s own junior sister.

Then, Re Yizha was selected into the crew.

If it were an ordinary movie and a character who appeared for less than one minute had a sex scene, Re Yizha would definitely refuse without hesitation.

As an actor, although it is impossible to avoid intimate scenes, you cannot accept every role.

However, if it was a movie produced by his own company, the male protagonist would still be his own boss. Re Yizha took the role after thinking about it for a while.

Playing with the boss, it's hard to tell who suffers.

Anyway, she doesn't suffer.

"Pass!"

In the luxurious river view room, Lu Yang said the word "pass".

The passionate drama ended abruptly.

It's said to be a passionate scene, but in fact it's just about hugging and banging each other, nothing too sentimental.

At most, Lu Yuan sold meat once, and Re Yizha's upper body was wearing underwear.

In short, the passionate scenes in "The Band of Thieves" are suspected of selling the meat of others.

In fact, if Lu Yang's design was followed, there would be a lot more passionate scenes, at least on the verge of passing review.

It makes people's blood boil and makes them want to stop.

However, his proposal was rejected by Boss Lu without hesitation.

If Lu Yuan was single now, he probably wouldn't mind having a really big one.

But right now, it's clearly inappropriate.

Taking a step back, there is no need to add such a scene to "The Thieves".

It's enough to just give it a try and establish a character.

(End of this chapter)