China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 696 Anyone who has read the news over there

"What about the male lead? Is it Yang Yang? He performed quite well in the last "Hotel Del Luna".

He has been idle since finishing his last drama, and recently he planned to work on a TV series of his own.

Later, I persuaded him to give up, thinking that he should have time. "

Li Muge had a very good impression of Yang Yang.

In this life, he was not badly cheated by Yang Yang.

If he was cheated by Yang Yang again like in his previous life, he would probably avoid Yang Yang whenever he saw him in the future.

"If he hadn't played in Eternal Love, then he would have been a very good choice. Forget about the ones he has played.

He acted with Liu Yifei in that movie, and the performance turned out to be very awkward.”

Li Yu reminded him.

Li Muge was stunned for several seconds. He slapped his thigh and then thought of the movie "Eternal Love".

Yang Yang can basically pass up the existence of this movie.

Generally speaking, male and female actors who have played CP will avoid working together again.

Because if they partner up again to play a couple, the old fans will be very distracted.

This is the case even for good actors. Eternal Love is a serious flop, so they should not be paired again.

Otherwise, in the new drama, when the audience sees Yang Yang and Liu Yifei standing together, they will think of the famous scene of Yang Yang pulling noodles.

Li Yu thought for a moment and said to Li Muge, "Look for Chen Xiao. He used to work at Huayi, but later he ran off to join Yu Zheng."

Chen Xiao's acting skills are considered acceptable among male artists who rely on their looks to make a living.

He started out with costume dramas, and the quality of his works in recent years has been good.

It is a big joke to whitewash Lu Zhen's prototype and the beastly Gao Dynasty in "The Legend of Lu Zhen".

But if you ignore the dynasty and just look at the actors' performances, it's still acceptable.

After that, his performance in the television field was relatively stable and he starred in many good works.

By the way, I heard that he was quite unlucky when he first debuted, and was targeted by a big boss with peculiar hobbies.

In the end, he risked getting injured by jumping out of the car and running away, thus avoiding the ending of having his chrysanthemums all over the ground.

It is said that this incident caused him a serious psychological shock.

After jumping out of the car and running away, he hid for two months and no one could contact him, which also caused him to miss an important role in "Palace".

Otherwise, he might have become famous earlier.

Later, when the contract expired, he decisively ran away to Yu Zheng.

Yu Zheng has a very bad reputation, but he is quite interesting sometimes.

No matter how good a person is, he may be prejudiced against someone.

Even the worst person may be nice to someone.

Chen Xiao’s decision to join Yu Zheng was the right one. Although Yu Zheng had a terrible reputation, he was indeed a noble man to Chen Xiao.

Yu Zheng was very nice to Chen Xiao and arranged a lot of dramas for him as soon as he arrived. He might not necessarily play the male lead, but his exposure was increased.

Later, Chen Xiao became popular with Yu Zheng and entered a period of career growth.

There is another embarrassing point about Chen Xiao, he married Chen Yanxi.

Maybe he thought he was marrying Shen Jiayi, and he didn't know about the woman's scandals in Taiwan.

Li Yu didn't want to comment too much on other people's private lives.

He only knew that Chen Xiao was a low-key person, had some acting skills, and could play Gu Qianfan well, and that was enough.

In the previous life, Gu Qianfan was also played by Chen Xiao, and he played it very well. If there were correct answers to copy, Li Yu would of course give priority to copying the correct answers.

It doesn’t matter that Chen Xiao is not from Hualiu Company.

Now Hualiu Company no longer signs any artistes and is a very pure film company.

After the contracts of the artists who were previously signed by Hualiu Company expired, most of them set up their own studios.

Some people's studios are affiliated with Hualiu Company, which holds a certain proportion of shares. If Hualiu Company has works, they will be given priority, but the priority is not as high as before.

Signing a bunch of artists is not necessarily a good thing, as it is very troublesome to manage.

They will be unhappy if the company's resources are not prioritized towards them.

But in many cases, there are actually better candidates outside the company.

……

Li Yu stayed in China for a while to arrange the specific matters of "Mulan" and "Dream of Red Mansions".

As soon as Huana's notice arrived, Li Yu flew to the United States.

Barbie is about to start showing.

In North America and Europe, the promotion of "Barbie" has already begun, and many people know that the movie is about to be released.

in the country, the promotion of this movie is not strong.

Because Li Yu and Warna said that the main battlefield of this movie is overseas, and the target audience is white women under the age of 50.

There is not much of a market for Barbie dolls in China. When Barbie dolls were popular, China was still very poor and not many families could afford to buy them.

At that time, girls in China all played skipping rope and hide-and-seek.

It’s different abroad, especially in North America and Europe, where almost every white woman had one when she was a child.

The movie "Barbie" is immersive for them and belongs to their childhood memories.

After Li Yu met with the people from Hua Na, they exchanged pleasantries first. The other party began to test Li Yu: "After Barbie, it should be the turn of Aquaman 2, right? The fans of Aquaman are urging us to shoot. Every day we receive countless messages about Aquaman 2. Mr. Li, you know that we are a company that cares a lot about the audience's opinions."

Li Yu sneered at the other party's words.

If they cared about the audience's opinions, DC fans would not say that they are the biggest enemies of DC movies.

What they really care about is money. Seeing that "Aquaman" is a global hit, they want to make another fortune with "Aquaman 2".

Li Yu could naturally see what the other party was thinking. He replied perfunctorily, "Let's see how Barbie performs in the market after it's released."

He doesn't need to hide it anymore, he just doesn't want to shoot "Aquaman 2", whoever wants to shoot it can do it.

If "Barbie" really flopped, he would fulfill his promise to make "Aquaman 2".

If "Barbie" makes money, no one can do anything. He said he would not shoot the movie, so he won't shoot it.

By then, with two successful works in Hollywood, he can use his resume to make any major Hollywood film studio treat him as a guest of honor.

If Huana doesn't want to keep him, she will find another place to keep him. She has the confidence to speak so confidently.

The other party also saw Li Yu's perfunctory attitude, but they didn't have any good way to deal with Li Yu.

You can't give Li Yu a set of American-style Iai and force him to shoot "Aquaman 2" for them, right?

If Li Yu was a small American director, perhaps they could find someone to scare Li Yu.

Li Yu is a world-renowned director with too much influence. He can't do that, as it will easily make global news.

They can only hope that "Barbie" will not be well received in the market after its official release, and then suffer a small loss of 2 million. Then they can legitimately force Li Yu to shoot "Aquaman ".

They are probably the only company that hopes that their films will only make a small loss.

But will the movie "Barbie" really make a small loss as they hope? That remains to be seen.

(End of this chapter)