During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 650 Professor Wei's First Lesson on Legal Education
In Beijing, at the Imperial Hotel, a celebration banquet for "The Unknown" is being held.

The film was released at the beginning of the month and finally grossed 12.32 billion yuan at the box office, making it the undisputed champion of the Spring Festival.

Among the other movies released at the same time, the highest-grossing "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" only had a box office of 8.03 million yuan; and "The Man from Macau" failed to break the 4 million mark, stopping at 3.81 million yuan.

As for "Ex-Files", with the various efforts of Huayi, it finally barely crossed the 1.01 million yuan mark and closed at million yuan.

It can be said that the three films released during the same period combined would barely be on par with "Nobody".

In other words, Ning Hao stepped on three competitors to top the 12 billion box office director club, and he can be said to be the most handsome guy in the audience tonight.

But Ning Hao still felt a little regretful, because when the movie was taken off the screen, the single-day box office was still six or seven million.

If it had been able to get an extension, it might have been able to break the comedy film record set by "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

"Brother, your words are too Versailles. Just say it in front of me. If you say it outside, you will get beaten."

Wei Jin raised his wine glass and clinked it with Ning Hao, smiling and joking.

As for the profit brought by the postponement, he actually didn't care about it at all.

Although there is no gambling agreement and he can only enjoy a 43% share, the profit belonging to the producer based on this part alone is close to 5 million.

Including patch ads and product placements, and after deducting publicity and production costs, the total revenue is at least over 4.5 million.

Compared with the production cost of 900 million, the net profit margin is as high as %, which is absolutely sky-high. What the hell do you want?
Didn’t you see that the new chairman of Xiaoma Pentium was about to have a brain orgasm on the spot?
This time, Xiao Ma won a 10% share and directly earned 4500 million. I'm afraid that a single project has never had such a high profit.

Of course, Wei Jin was also very happy. Shanhe Media held 80% of the shares and directly received more than million yuan.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have come here to show his support right after returning to China and without even adjusting to the jet lag.

"It's not Versailles, but it's a pity. It's not that far off, it's a pity."

"There's nothing to regret. The film market is getting better and better now. Maybe the release of "Lost in Thailand" will make it happen."

Hearing this, Ning Hao thought of the endless high box office nowadays, and nodded: "You are right, it makes me excited."

"It's good to be excited. I just don't have anything to do right now. I don't feel excited at all."

Wei Jin picked up the wine glass and took another sip, saying in a desolate tone: "Alas, it's lonely up there."

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The smile on Ning Hao's face gradually disappeared. You're asking me not to be so Versailles, but you're pretending to be something big?

But when I think of the world's top awards and box office records, Wei Jin has already achieved them, is worth hundreds of billions, and is surrounded by beautiful women and bad guys.
This guy is definitely a winner in life. There is no way to refute him. Damn it!
Just when Ning Hao felt that his fist was about to fall apart, Wang Baoqiang came over and started to congratulate him with his signature smile.

To be honest, Wei Jin doesn't admire many domestic actors, but Baoqiang is definitely one of them because he is such a good person.

Mingming was still in the crew of "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain", but for Ning Hao's celebration banquet, he took a day off and rushed back.

After chatting about the filming situation of the crew, Wang Baoqiang and Wei Jin talked about "Lost in Hong Kong".

Not surprisingly, Baoqiang, like Huang Bo, wanted to invest or receive film remuneration in exchange for a share of the box office revenue.

After all, the prospects of the "囧" series are obvious to all in the industry.

But the result was obvious, Xu Zheng decisively rejected it.

But compared to Huang Bo, Bao Qiang was relatively lucky as he was not criticized harshly, but they still failed to reach an agreement on the remuneration.

In this regard, Xu Guangtou was indeed a bit ruthless. He offered Baoqiang a salary that was based on the salary of Lost in Thailand without even increasing it. How could this be possible?!
However, Baoqiang himself is quite open-minded and does not have any negative emotions.

"Directors and actors choose each other. It doesn't matter if we can't reach an agreement. It won't affect anything. I have no other intention in discussing this with you, Mr. Wei, today.

I only acted in the first two movies, and I also expressed my support at the celebration party of Lost in Thailand that I would fully cooperate with the sequel. Now that I'm suddenly absent from the third movie, I figured I had to tell you."

After Baoqiang walked away, Ning Hao came over and sighed: "Baoqiang's character is really beyond reproach. It's a pity that the "囧" series has been torn apart."

The original "Lost on Journey" put Ning Hao into the billion-dollar directors club. Even though it wasn't his script, he definitely had feelings for it.

"There's nothing I can do. Money can make people happy. Guangtou Xu is ambitious and wants to get promoted by capital. He doesn't have enough chips, so he can only make up for it from other places.

But don't get involved in their affairs, just deal with them as you normally would."

"Hey, I know."

Perhaps there are more and more directors earning over 10 billion yuan, and the self-important Jiang Wen can no longer sit still.

The finished film of "One Step Away" has not yet been released, but he has already announced the release date of the film - it will go straight to the Lunar New Year holiday, in mid-December!
Even the publicity and promotion of the film had already begun. Wei Jin saw related posters of the film on the way to Beijing Film Academy.

On the poster, a pair of beautiful legs in red high heels rests on a black pistol.

Heroes and beauties, ruggedness and sexiness, full of tension and texture, it’s still Jiang Wen’s flavor.

Everyone in the industry can see that this is clearly an attempt to repeat the path of Let the Bullets Fly and to achieve a breakthrough or even surpass it at the box office.

However, Wei Jin only hopes that "One Step Away" will be sandwiched between "Charlotte's Troubles" and "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" and will not lose too badly.

That’s right, although “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy” is still being filmed, according to Xu Ke’s estimate, it will be completed around April.

Three to four months are reserved for the later stage, which will be just in time for this year's Lunar New Year holiday.

Since "Charlotte's Troubles" was already in the first half, "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" could only be put in the second half.

"I hope Jiang Wen can be stronger."

With emotion in his heart, Lao Zhu had already driven the car into the Beijing Film Academy campus.

After parking in the directing department's reserved parking space, without Wei Jin's instructions, Lao Zhu carried the box and followed him to Teacher Jiang's office.

In the box, of course, was an Oscar statuette, which had become Wei Jin's standard equipment every time he came to school.

By the way, there is also black wolfberry from Northern Xinjiang specially prepared for Lao Jiang!

As expected, when he saw Wei Jin, Lao Jiang held up the trophy carefully as if he were his beloved son.

That affectionate look made Wei Jin shudder. "Teacher Jiang, take your time. I'm going to class first. Remember to send it to the school exhibition room later."

The school's courses were scheduled around Valentine's Day, and considering that Wei Jin was going to participate in the Oscars, the school deliberately arranged it to be after the award ceremony.

This is also the reason why Wei Jin did not stay in North America for too long.

"Why are you panicking? I've never seen you so punctual in class. Oh, that's right. You didn't attend many classes. You only came into the classroom occasionally in the first half of your undergraduate studies. I haven't seen you for two or three years since then. During your graduate studies, you were even more elusive."

Facing Lao Jiang's sarcasm, Wei Jin was not at all inferior.

"Hey, Mr. Jiang, those teachers in the school who have never even conducted practical exercises are standing on the stage giving lectures. Do you think I can listen to them? I didn't laugh at them on the spot. They are all models of respecting teachers."

Wei Jin showed no mercy, but Lao Jiang had no words to refute.

Because this is extremely true. Academic teachers use a lot of professional terms and theories in class.

But when they really get started, they become dogmatic and panic-stricken.

Jiang Wei even felt that it was a good thing that Wei Jin did not attend the class, otherwise who knows what would have happened.

But as a school teacher, Jiang Wei still had to maintain his face, so he looked Wei Jin up and down and started to find fault with him.

"You came here empty-handed. Don't you need to prepare lessons? Do you know how many students are competing for your elective courses? The academic affairs system was even crashed. Is this how you take responsibility?"

"Hey, Mr. Jiang, this isn't a professional course, just chat about it. Do you really think we're here to learn something? Besides, everything is in my head."

Wei Jin retorted, then grasped the key point and frowned.

"Teacher Jiang, what is the situation with this school system? As far as I remember, there are only about a thousand or so students who can take classes in related majors at the undergraduate level?

What era is this? Can it crash with more than a thousand visits? If not, let my company do it. The school can just give me the cost price. "

Wei Jin thought he was thinking about the school, but unexpectedly Lao Jiang stabbed him on the spot.

"Don't get involved in this matter blindly. It's a very complicated matter."

After listening to Lao Jiang's instructions, Wei Jin was finally enlightened.

Especially for a science and engineering college, it would be fine if the network system was handed over to the relevant professor team.

Because even if these professors are suspected of using free labor and reaping benefits, they are professionals after all.

But Beijing Film Academy, an art school, actually does this? Isn't it clearly giving people the opportunity to outsource and manipulate the situation?
Tens of millions of dollars have been spent, but it is not certain whether millions of dollars can be put into practice.

I can only say that the school is really not short of money and is really willing to delegate power.

"Okay, I don't want to bother with this crap anymore, I'm going to class now."

Today's Beijing Film Academy is much more lively than ever before, because many students and teachers know that there is an elective course on Wei and Jin Dynasties in the morning.

However, Boss Wei himself was speechless, because his course only had 40 students per class, so a small classroom would be enough, but the school arranged a large tiered classroom for him.

The purpose is self-evident, of course, it is to provide convenience to students who want to attend classes for free and teachers who want to join in the fun.

When Wei Jin walked into the lecture hall from the main entrance, he saw that the lecture hall was indeed full, with at least three hundred people.

Looking around, there were a lot of people, mostly students, with a few young teachers.

And the moment Wei Jin entered the door, applause broke out like thunder.

It can be seen that all the students have excitement and excitement on their faces.

What a joke! It is rare in history to see a top director, the head of the No. 1 Chinese entertainment empire, and even a super-rich man coming to give lectures in person. If I’m not excited, I’d be sorry for the spot I got today!

"Quiet."

Glancing at the student list on the multimedia podium, Wei Jin felt a little emotional. The school really has a lot of little ideas.

Of the forty-person list, more than two-thirds are from the Academy of Performing Arts.

Wei Jin even suspected that the problems with the academic affairs system were not intentional by the school?!
Putting aside his complicated thoughts, Wei Jin began the class.

“First of all, thank you for your enthusiasm, but I still want to emphasize that this is an elective course, not a professional course.

I won’t talk about the things you can learn in professional courses. Maybe even if I did, you wouldn’t like to hear it, right?”

Wei Jin's opening remarks made many people laugh. Who the hell came here to learn something? Of course, they came here to make friends and build relationships.

“So what I want to talk about is mainly my views on this industry, as well as some suggestions and advice.

Everyone here, whether you are a screenwriting major, directing major, acting major, or even some students majoring in dubbing in higher vocational colleges.

I believe that everyone who entered the Beijing Film Academy came for the fame and fortune of the film and television industry. So let’s talk about this fame and fortune today!
In terms of profits, the film and television industry has been making money for a long time. Taking the Star Culture artists as an example, the one with the lowest income last year was no less than 10 million.

I am not showing off the company's resources. I just want to tell you that with the current booming film and television industry, you don't have to worry about not making money after graduation.

Even if you are not doing as well as your classmates and seniors, you will definitely earn more than those in most other industries, I can be sure of that.

So regarding the benefits, I have only one piece of advice: Don’t evade taxes, don’t circumvent taxes, and don’t evade taxes!”

Without giving everyone time to digest it, Wei Jin continued, “As for fame, there is no need to say more.

As far as I know, many students who apply for other majors do so not because they don’t want to be stars or actors, but because the competition in the acting department is too fierce!

So my second advice is: You can be ambitious, but don’t cross the line, you must have a bottom line!

Especially when you become famous, you must control yourself and never get involved in pornography, gambling, drugs or anything else that is illegal or disorderly! "

The huge lecture hall was eerily quiet, because no one had expected that Wei Jin's first lesson would be legal education!
But it was not inappropriate for Wei Jin to say this because he had the qualifications.

Moreover, the strict background checks that Star Culture has conducted on its contracted artists over the years have proven that Wei Jin really cares about these things.

"After talking about fame and fortune, I'd like to give you some advice. Well, there are quite a few students in the Live Performance Department, so let's talk about you. You may also know how our Beijing Film Academy Performance Department is regarded in the industry."

Ignoring the helpless expressions of some of the acting teachers in the audience, Wei Jin continued:

“Stars and actors are not absolutely opposite, and I don’t want to judge the superiority of the two, but there is one thing that is obvious: actors have a longer blooming period than stars.

Do you want to rely on your looks to enjoy a few years of youth, or retire after finding a rich man, or do you want to seize the opportunity to hone your acting skills and maintain long-term competitiveness? That depends on your personal choice."

Wei Jin spoke completely without a script and fluently on the stage.

I am not only speaking from the perspective of a teacher and professor, but also from the perspective of the industry's top directors and top capital.

So even though what he said was somewhat realistic and even negative, it left a deep impression on everyone present.

This really proves the saying: Even the farts of authority figures smell good.
(End of this chapter)