During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 276 Warner’s new cooperation opens a back door for actresses
Beijing, in a hotel.

"Boss, we haven't seen you for a few months. I miss you so much."

While talking, Hunter wanted to give Wei Jin a hug, but the latter rejected him mercilessly.

"Hunter, you really need to lose weight, otherwise you might not even be able to wait until my movie hits the Oscar for Best Picture."

"Boss, I thought you would be more reserved, but I didn't expect you to be as direct as Feng."

Wei Jin's face twitched when he heard this, knowing who he was talking about.

Feng Dapao deserves to be called the "little steel cannon".

Yesterday at the Shanghai Film Festival's "Film Industry Summit-Domestic Film and Hollywood Cooperation XJ Domain Forum", this guy directly scolded Harvey Weinstein in front of the Hollywood studios who left the venue early to catch a plane. Bloody nozzle.

He directly accused Harvey of being a "liar" and a "fraudster" who often quoted high prices to seize the North American distribution rights of Chinese-language films from a number of Hollywood distributors, but often only paid a small deposit in advance and waited for the film to be filmed or released. He will say he won't buy it or offer a very low price.

However, the best opportunity to sell the copyright had been missed at this time, and in the end it could only be taken away by Harvey at a very low price.

However, Feng Dapao felt comfortable scolding him, but Huayi was in dire straits. The movie "The Spy Who" they collaborated with Weinstein on was about to be released. In this stage, scolding a partner would be quite negative news.

Many movies such as "The Promise" and "The Banquet" have suffered from this disadvantage.

It is worth mentioning that there was also a film "Battle of Shama Town" released at the same time, also starring Sun Honglei. The audience laughed and said that Brother Huaqiang was beating himself.

They are "Guan Yunchang" with an investment of 1.5 million and "Martial Arts" with a production cost of 1.4 million.

In addition, after winning the share of "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate", China Film, Shanghai Film, Poly and other major theaters have cooperated tacitly and provided a good film schedule.

"Everything has been arranged. By the way, will Sally participate in the promotion this time?"

"Boss, calm down, what a big deal it is. As long as it doesn't affect the filming progress, why do you care so much about him? Besides, do you really think these two are high-quality projects?"

"That's not true. As long as it's your script, it's fine, but they hope it's a project with a bigger investment, like "Inception""

"By the way, boss, the share of "Inception" has been paid, there is nothing fishy, ​​but Warner has proposed the idea of ​​collaborating again."

"How can investors make money from Chen Kexin when he has so many criminal records? It's probably two blockbuster movies. We have to be prepared for "Ip Man 3" to be released first, otherwise we don't want to be dragged down."

After thinking for a while, Wei Jin had the answer.

The current filming has entered the final stage, and the scenes are mainly focused on Zhang Hanyu, Li Tianwang, Clara and Wang Ou.

This actor with dark skin and calm personality is very dedicated and refused to be a substitute and acted in person.

"Then start Pacific Rim"
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Zhen's career is very wild. She has really found a new path, and she has two movies in a row.

"By the way, Mr. Wei, are you really not going to attend the premiere of "Witness by All"?"

As expected, Huayi's stock price began to plummet that day, which was why Wei Jin looked so unhappy. After all, he had a large amount of Huayi stock in his hands.

Speaking of this, Wei Jin couldn't help complaining that if the second master were still alive, he would probably have to kill these people with a knife.

After withdrawing his thoughts, Wei Jin focused on the filming of "The Thief".

When Wei Jin heard this, he understood clearly. Warner had seen the benefits brought by previous cooperation and the huge market potential of the Asian market. However, there were many registered scripts. Which one was more suitable?

"It doesn't make sense. I have to push their progress."

Feng Dapao's scolding cost him at least tens of millions.

In the future, there will be more and more movies under the group's umbrella, and it is impossible for Wei Jin to attend all of them. In addition, the progress of "Thieves" is also good, and it will be completed in a week at most. He does not want to delay it.

"How do you like it? There is obviously a problem with the casting. Zhen Zhuan is just over 1.7 meters tall. Do you think he can play the role of Guan Yu?"

The last climax scene is Zhang Hanyu's action scene.

After hanging up the phone, Wei Jin started a new shooting task——
On June 6, "Witness" was released, with a first-time revenue of 18 million, which is a good result.

The former was initiated by Wanwan Capital and co-directed by the director and screenwriter of "Infernal Affairs" Zhuang Wenqiang and Mak Siu-fai; the latter was led by Xingmei and directed by Chen Kexin.

With all these blessings, it is normal for "Witness" to achieve this result.

Hunter did not dare to directly assign publicity tasks to the proprietress, so he could only seek answers from Wei Jin.

The film is scheduled to be released on July 7. This time, it is not possible to release it domestically at the same time. We can only wait and see whether it can be introduced in the form of imported films or approved films.

Wei Jin was not surprised by this. The production cost of this film was 4000 million, but 2000 million was invested in publicity and distribution. With such a concentration of resources, the early publicity of the film was overwhelming.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter if I'm here or not, Xuanfa has already done a good job."

"What? Mr. Wei, are you optimistic about it?"

As expected by Wei Jin, the boss called again.

Seeing that the atmosphere was awkward, even the president of IMAX had to stand up and smooth things over, saying that Harvey's reputation in Hollywood was also very bad, in order to protect the reputation of other Hollywood companies.

"Huh? What script did they fall in love with?"

On the phone, the boss thought about it for a while, agreed with Wei Jin's statement, and then mentioned another matter.

"Don't wait until her graduation ceremony is over, it's almost over."

"Okay, let's talk about business. How are you preparing for the promotion of "Now You See Me 2"?"

Even though Feng Dapao was not good at English, he was quite good at swearing, and he did it without taking a breath.

After "Super Body" ended, the little girl still has some fans in North America, not to mention that she has a lot of roles this time, so it is a bit unreasonable not to participate in the promotion.

"This guy is on the street. He's been attending cocktail parties these days. I really thought he was famous."

A long sequence of chasing and fighting scenes flowed smoothly and in one go.

"Ka, very good, this one passed."

Wei Jin stood up from the monitor and stretched.

"Everyone can take a rest. The action scene is completely finished."

Everyone at the scene understood what Wei Jin meant as soon as they heard it. The movie will be finished in just a few days.
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In the film market, "Witness" performed very well.

On the second day, the box office grossed 2400 million. On the third day, Father's Day, the box office soared to 2900 million.

In the three days of the first weekend, the movie's box office totaled 6700 million.

It basically declares that this movie with a medium production cost has become a movie again. Not only that, the movie's reputation is also very good. Many viewers came out of the theater with red eyes and turned around to recommend it to their relatives and friends. The online reviews were almost unanimously positive.

Ancestor Star: "Although Lin Tai is a bad person, his love for his daughter is really indescribable. The so-called father's love is like a mountain, it's nothing more than this."

The sushi-rolling otaku said: "I almost cried through the second half. I missed my dad."

Don't Want to Say Goodbye 0802: "From an objective point of view, the script is still slightly flawed, but the suspense, reversal, and montage shooting and editing techniques make an ordinary story have climaxes and touching hearts."

The media has already given predictions that there is almost no suspense for the movie's box office to exceed 200 million.

Sometimes the capital market is really unreasonable. In just two or three days, Jiahe's stock price has risen by more than 20%. It's really easy for investors to make money.
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After entering filming, Wei Jin's life was very regular.

Regardless of whether he communicated with the actress the night before, he would browse relevant industry information when he got up in the morning.

Early in the morning, Wei Jin saw information about the Shanghai Film Festival on the Internet.

No surprise, the Shanghai Film Festival still carried forward its tradition, and the biggest award was awarded to an unknown Italian literary film.

Even in order to add gold to the film festival, the Golden Goblet Award for Outstanding Contribution was specially awarded to a great French director.

It's a pity that people didn't like it at all and didn't even come to the scene. It was a hot face but a cold butt.

Seeing this news, Wei Jin was a little speechless. After all, this is the only international A-class film festival in China. It doesn't even have basic dignity. I'm afraid it will become less and less popular in the future.

What's even more ridiculous is that a novice film directed by Jiang Wenli directly won the Asian Film Award and the Best Film Award.

This is simply child's play. Wei Jin feels that he is too wise not to participate in the Shanghai Film Festival.

In the film market, several films released in July began to be promoted on a large scale, and the one that received the most attention was "Earthquake."

It is worth mentioning that Feng Dapao's cannon attack at the film festival a few days ago did have a great impact on Huayi.

After the stock price fell for two consecutive days, Huayi Brothers couldn't sit still and discussed a countermeasure with Feng Dapao.

It was announced that preparations for "If You Are the One 2" will begin this month, and information about the main creators was announced: Ge You, Shu Qi, Sun Honglei, and Yao Chen.
You must know that the profitability of "If You Are the One" is extremely impressive, and the sequel will most likely remain above the level. The capital market is quite realistic, and Huayi's stock price immediately turned around and rebounded.

Wei Jin is also looking forward to this. The priority investment rights for the two films that "Hurricane Rescue" won were used for this series.

Among all the movie news, Wei Jin saw "Tang Bohu 2" and couldn't help but think of Huang Xiaoming.

A few days ago, the leader of the cult was photographed having a night party with Yang Ying and feeding each other. This is now considered a stone hammer.

Wei Jin felt that with Huang Xiaoming's shrewdness, he might have to observe more before choosing to make it public.
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The crew of "Thieves", after nearly forty days of filming, has also ushered in the final scene.

Clara was wearing a swimsuit, and she and Wang Ou were chatting nonsensically by the outdoor swimming pool of the hotel.

One is sexy and hot, with a curvy front and back; the other has slender legs and a heroic appearance.

In another shot, Zhang Hanyu, dressed in disguise, became the final winner in the movie.

"Click."

Looking at the scene in the camera, Wei Jin nodded with satisfaction and then picked up the loudspeaker.

"I declare that "Thieves Alliance" is officially finished!"

"Great!"

The crew started cheering.

"Director Wei, is this ending going to lead to a second film?"

King Li Tian asked curiously, and the others also raised their ears to express concern.

Logically speaking, in this kind of crime movie, the villain must either die to atone for his sins or be caught and repent, which is in line with the values. However, the endings of Zhang Hanyu and Wang Ou's characters are somewhat blank, which makes them speculate that there will be a sequel.

"It's just a button. The specific situation depends on the results of this part. If it really needs to be operated, I don't know how long it will take."

When adapting the script, Wei Jin habitually made foreshadowing, but he did not have mature ideas for the subsequent plot. Maybe one day he would think of it and let the screenwriter department improve it.

"Haha, our movie will definitely not be bad at the box office. If there is a sequel, no matter when, I will wait for Director Wei to call him."

Zhang Hanyu and Wang Ou are most concerned about the sequel. After all, if there is one, there is a high probability that the protagonists will be them.

"Well, if I have the chance, I won't forget you."

There are many roles this time, and everyone's finishing time is inconsistent. Wei Jin does not plan to hold a wrapping party. While talking, he hugged the actors one by one.

The drama "Thieves" has attracted much attention since it was launched. Now that it has finished filming, the media is naturally rushing to report on it.

"'A League of Thieves' is wrapping up today."

"The shooting of Oscar-winning director Wei Jin's new film has been successfully completed."

"[Quick Gunslinger] Wei Jin is well-deserved, completing the group crime movie in 40 days."
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Although the filming task has ended, Wang Ou and Clara are still pestering the director to talk about the scene. After all, the opportunity is rare.

But Wang Ou didn't expect that this scene would be so difficult.

"Director, how about we shoot other scenes first?"

Wei Jin shook his head when he heard this and put down his slender thigh.

"Wang Ou, it's a good thing to improve your acting skills, but don't let your dancing skills fall behind. Look, how long has it been before you can't hold on any longer? Forget it, you adjust your condition, and I'll shoot Clara's scene first."

Wei Jin left Wang Ou's body and started filming Clara's scenes.

At this time, the Korean actor was ready and easily cooperated with the director, quite smoothly.

Wang Ou, who got a chance to breathe, quickly recovered his strength while also observing Clara's performance.

I saw that this Korean actor with a busty figure has really superb acting skills.

While he was imagining when he would reach such a state, the director's instructions sounded in Wang Ou's ears.

"If you have rested enough, help me get the things from the drawer. My Korean friend will return to China tomorrow, and I plan to find another way tonight."

Turning to look at Wang Ou, Wei Jin continued:

"You should also prepare. Don't be afraid. Sooner or later you will have to experience it. Once you clear this path, you will find that your acting skills will instantly rise to a new level."

This night, with the help of the director, the two actors broke through the bottleneck and felt the joy of another world.
(End of this chapter)