During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 154 The combination of assistants and the trip to South Korea

"Boss, you said they held such a big talent show and ended up changing the director. What did the investors think?"

Liu Yan browsed the news on the computer and asked with some confusion. She turned a blind eye to the big hand who was causing trouble. She was used to it.

The crew of Red Mansions, which has been in turmoil for many days, finally got the news that Hu Mei, the original director, was confirmed to no longer be the director of the new version of Red Mansions.

"Hu Mei is a bit ignorant of praise. She thinks that at this stage, her position is already stable and she can manipulate investors in turn. Naturally, she will not end well."

Wei Jin thought it was normal. Hu Mei's personality was too tough. She felt that the people selected from the audition did not meet the temperament, and the investors were not interested in it. She wanted to follow her own ideas. How could it be so simple?
  Since the director is disobedient, she needs to be replaced by another one. Her replacement should be Li Shaohong from Lingda. It is estimated that the investors will gradually arrange their own people to join the team. This is the normal operation in the entertainment industry. I can only say that Hu Mei has been wasted in these years. Mixed up.

"What about the selected artists? Haven't they all been trained for a long time? Isn't it too unfair?"

The previous casting call for the Red Mansion was very popular, requiring the selected artists to learn poetry, poetry, chess, calligraphy and painting, and develop a classical temperament. It has been a long time, but now that something like this has happened, I don’t know if it will work or not. , Liu Yan felt a little worthless.

"They are all amateurs, just give them any role. Do you see this kind of operation very rarely in the industry?"

Liu Yan heard this, thought for a moment, and nodded.

Wei Jin is telling the truth. Many talent shows have such a shady story. They rely on a group of people to attract attention first, and the audience frantically calls for their favorite contestants. In the end, they find that the selected ones are completely different.

"Stop watching the news, it's time to get down to business."

With this rare opportunity, Wei Jin wanted to inject more capital into Liu Yan to ensure that she had sufficient cash flow.

"Boss, I'm not your assistant now. You should go find Xiaobai, hehe."

Liu Yan also figured out Wei Jin's pulse, and the man liked this tune.

"I'm afraid that some people will hear the sound later and can't help but join in."

In the past few days, Wei and Jin have been cultivating the tacit understanding between the two women. The assistant army is gradually taking shape, but Liu Yan cannot be allowed to put aside his picks, stand up and pin him down:
  "Xiao Bai, come in quickly. Why did your sister Liu Yan bully you last night? It's time to take revenge."

Bai Bin, who was preparing breakfast in the kitchen, rushed to the battlefield after hearing this. He cooperated with Wei Jin and gave Liu Yan advice, looking like he was bitter and resentful.

Xiao Bai can't forget how the senior sister in front of him played a trick on him last night, and how she cooperated with Wei Jin so smoothly and seamlessly.

After a while, the sounds in the house intertwined into a beautiful song——
  After the morning exercise, Wei Jin also lay on the bed and read the news on his laptop.

"Twilight" has been released in North America, with a cumulative box office of 2.15 million. The current overseas box office is 1.93 million, and it has not yet been released in some areas.

Fan movies still lack stamina, and their reputation isn't very good, but it doesn't matter. The target groups themselves are different, so there's no need to try to please all audiences.

After five months of filming, "The King of Kung Fu" with an investment of US$3 million was finally completed. Cheng Long and Li Lianlian also left the crew and went to North America to promote "Rush Hour " and "Baywatch."

However, I think Cheng Long must be a little depressed. "Rush Hour 3" will definitely not be introduced into the country. The reason given by China Film is that there are too many imported films this year, and it is not very optimistic about the prospects of this movie.

Li Lianlian said in an interview:
  Please don't have too high expectations for "The King of Kung Fu". This is just an ordinary co-production movie. It is more about the desire of Director Minkoff, Cheng Long and I to work together once. We are both older. Now, the game is definitely not as exciting as when I was young.
  When Wei Jin saw the news, he couldn't help but sigh. The creative team still knows the quality of the movie very well, so directors who refuse to admit that their movies are garbage are either stupid or bad.
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  The post-production of "Bu Bu Jing Xin" has been completed. The company has organized a viewing party a few days ago. More than a dozen TV stations are competing for it. The final result is unexpected. Hui Province TV and Modu TV jointly won the first broadcast. Right, the price of a single episode is as high as 180 million.

This result made Mango TV a little unhappy. The previous cooperation with Modu TV was quite good. Why did they betray their allies this time?

In fact, the reason is very simple. In the past, Modu Channel’s ratings and market share were not high, so cooperating with Mango Channel is equivalent to a big deal, which is naturally beneficial.

Things are different now. The ratings of Modu Channel have increased, and they have already competed with Mango Channel. Naturally, they do not want the hit TV series to fall into the hands of the enemy again, so they chose to cooperate with Huizhou Channel, which has recently performed poorly in ratings.

Wei Jin didn't know about the intrigues of the TV station. He only knew that this drama was making a lot of money again. The production cost was only 2000 million, and there were 35 episodes in total. The first round of selling the drama earned as much as 6300 million, with a net profit of 4300 million. The second and third rounds followed. , and there are still tens of millions, which is simply a huge profit. Competition in the TV drama market this year is also very fierce. I don’t know if everyone has agreed to catch up with this year.

There was "Ming Dynasty 1566" at the beginning of the year. Although the movie's ratings were not high, its online reputation was explosive and it will still be a classic in ten years' time;

In the middle of the year, there was Zhao Baogang's "Struggle", which was obviously the misbehavior of a group of rich second-generation people and had to be called "Struggle", but the ratings were really high;
  At the end of June, Mango Channel also released "Another Dream", which was adapted from Aunt Wanwan's novel of the same name. Although the plot was outrageous, it was not popular with the audience and it has many fans in the market;

Next up is "Golden Wedding" starring Zhang Guoli and Jiang Wenli. The supporting actors are also talented. Wei Jin remembers that this TV series had a good reputation and ratings.

At the end of the year, there will be Gao Xixi's "New Shanghai Beach", Huang Xiaoming and Sun Li's green years. It is said that when they were on the set, Xiao Ming still wanted to chase Sun Li. It was Deng Chao who showed up in time to protect Huang Xiaoming, which interrupted Huang Xiaoming's thoughts. Wei Jin was also a little curious and planned to find time to ask the real owner.
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  On August 8, "Transformers" was officially released, with a box office of 10 million, equivalent to 3.15 million US dollars, which also made the global film industry really start to pay attention to the Chinese film market.

At the same time, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" was officially released, and theaters gave 45% of the film schedule. The inevitable film schedule of "Xiu Chun Knife" was reduced to 40%, but Wei Jin is not worried anymore.

Within 7 days of its release, the box office of "Xiu Chun Knife" reached 1.65 million. The box office trend has surpassed that of "Painted Skin". Many media speculated whether it will continue to set box office records.

But Wei Jin knew in his heart that the high box office was mainly due to the good film schedule. In addition, thanks to the expansion of theaters, the number of screens increased by at least 50% compared to "Painted Skin". Plus the emergence of competitors, if Without delaying the release, it will be difficult to break the record.

Sure enough, with the release of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", the competition between the two is very obvious, but "Harry Potter" is a fan movie after all, and its early advantage is too strong. In the three days of its first weekend, it took in 6400 million , while "Xiu Chun Knife" had a box office of 3300 million in the three days of the second weekend, and after 10 days of release, the cumulative box office was 1.98 million.

It is worth mentioning that seeing the box office trend of the two movies being so strong, "Heaven's Mouth", which was originally scheduled to be released on the 16th, was directly withdrawn. External promotion was a technical issue, but everyone in the industry knew that this was because they were scared.

Just when the domestic film market was filled with smoke, a piece of news from the other side of the ocean spread back to the country, causing a sensation.

"Hollywood Summit Entertainment recently announced a new film plan. It will cooperate with the famous director and screenwriter Wei Jin in the magic crime film "Now You See Me". Oscar-winning director Wei Jin will personally direct the film. The initial budget of the project is 7500 million US dollars. It is reported that it has The announced cast list includes”

The news on portals is too attractive to people in the industry. Companies in the industry are thinking about how to get a share of the US$7500 million Hollywood movie, and artists in the industry are eager to enter the international market.

For a time, everyone who had Wei Jin's phone number, whether it was an industry company or a celebrity artist, all called him in unison, but all of them said he was not in the service area.——
  South Korea, Incheon International Airport.

Wei Jin walked out of the VIP channel, followed by two bodyguards.

This trip to Korea is partly at the invitation of KBS. "My Star" is extremely popular in Korea and they are interested in buying "The Temptation of Going Home". On the other hand, CJ is preparing to remake "New World". , hoping to get guidance from Wei Jin.

The so-called taking money to do things, the other party was very sincere, and Wei Jin could not refuse.

In addition, it would take some time to prepare projects in North America, and some layouts in South Korea could also be started. Wei Jin agreed, and by the way, he could experience the aesthetics of Korean chaebols. He believed that this journey would not be lonely.

The most important thing is that his birthday is coming, and there are too many women around him, and they all want to celebrate his birthday. Unless everyone gets along harmoniously and sleeps together, otherwise he is really at his wits' end, so he simply goes out and hides. .

Without taking two steps forward, Wei Jin saw the receptionist holding a Chinese sign.

"Hello, Mr. Wei, I am Jin Zhixun from CJ Company. I will be in charge of your entire trip this time."

A middle-aged man, about forty years old, walked up quickly and bowed 90 degrees when he saw him, which opened Wei Jin's eyes.

"Hello, I'm busy."

Wei Jin speaks Korean. Now that he goes to a strange country, he can learn some local languages. Anyway, with his strong learning ability, it doesn't take much effort.

"Mr. Wei, I didn't expect that your Korean is so standard. It's really amazing."

Ignoring Jin Zhixun's rainbow fart, Wei Jin signaled that he could lead the way.

Under the warm reception of several staff members, Wei Jin boarded the commercial vehicle he had been waiting for for a long time and officially started his first trip to South Korea.
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