Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 360-Are you worthy?

"Mouse Gut Hero" is another "annual masterpiece" produced by Deyun Society, and was jokingly called an "ambitious masterpiece" by Guo Degang.

This project has been selecting locations in film and television bases and old streets and alleys in Shanghai and Ningbo since mid-September this year.

Tong Liya stayed with Duoduo at home for two days and waited for Chen Sicheng to come back to take over, then she would go to Shanghai to officially participate in the filming of the film.

The two directors of "Mouse Gut Heroes" are Mr. Shu Huan and Mr. Shao Dan. The former is a screenwriter and the latter is a photographer.

But the two of them have one thing in common, that is, their parents are well-known directors and screenwriters in the Chinese film and television industry, and even Mr. Li Xuejian has to respectfully call them Mr.

Unsurprisingly, the leading actor in the film is Comrade Yue Yunpeng.

What made people in the industry laugh out loud was that Yue Yunpeng was promoted by the crew as a role obtained through auditions. Perhaps the auditions of this crew were really just a formality.

Hollywood audition supervisors will not focus on acting skills, but on whether the artists or amateurs who participate in the audition can be trained and transformed by themselves.

Similar to Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, and Jiang Wen, in the early days, they chose supporting roles purely based on their eyes and feelings. As a result, the supporting characters were as popular as the male and female protagonists.

But now due to practical reasons, the Chinese film and television industry cannot choose people like that.

And in recent years, as a leading role, you must abide by your duty and not compete with the protagonists in acting and highlight yourself. After all, the current protagonists are all at the level of Dilraba.

Even Yang Zi can't catch 100% of the improvisations of her partner, so the current talk of acting according to the script is actually a disguised protection for the protagonist.

Chen Yu believes that his business ability is definitely better than that of Mr. Yue Yunpeng, but he does not dare to lie about the two Hollywood productions he participated in that were obtained through auditions.

In addition, the crews of "Knives Out" and "Ready for War" were not so low-intelligence and lacking in emotional intelligence to create mad hatred for Chen Yu and the crew themselves.

To be honest, if he really relied on auditions to win the chance, Chen Yu would not be able to perform anything, so he really admired the calmness of teacher Yue Yunpeng and the team behind him.

If Chen Yu had been so publicized by others, Emmanuel would have organized a team to refute the rumors. Perhaps Teacher Yue Yunpeng also thought about it, but maybe Mr. Guo Degang would not let him move.

All in all, Deyunshe's operations in the Chinese film industry have always been quite unconventional, and they often come up with some confusing and negative marketing cases that are a mixture of Chinese and foreign.

As for the reason why Tong Liya took this project, it was mainly due to the consideration of human relations, and the salary offered by Deyun Club was indeed enough to respect Tong Liya.

If this sister participated in "Love in Time and Space", which was financially tight and censorious, it was because she was deeply moved by the script.

Then she joined "Mouse Gut Heroes" without any hesitation, most likely because she wanted to enrich her own coffers.

Although Chen Sicheng has been acting like a model father and imitating her husband in recent months, Tong Liya has still not let down her guard against him, so there is nothing wrong with making a little more money.

Of course, this is a family matter between Tong Liya and Chen Sicheng, and maybe it’s because the plot setting and character portrayal of “Mouse Gut Heroes” have a lot to offer.

But asking Chen Yu to make a special appearance or make a friendly guest appearance is simply a fantasy. After all, neither he nor Dilraba has any connection or friendship with Deyun Club.

If you have to force a relationship, then you can only force it on Yang Mi.

Yang Mi can barely be considered an old fan of Deyunshe or Guo Degang.

Of course, the word "old fan" here needs to be put in quotation marks. After all, the reason why Yang Mi loves listening to Deyun Society may have nothing to do with cross talk.

Anyway, Dilraba doesn't like it and rarely listens to cross talk, even though her husband is a Tianjin native with a household registration in NK District.

Dilrabat loves to watch Teacher Zhao Benshan's skits, and the most annoying thing is that Chen Yu is laughing and having fun with "Stand-Com" because she doesn't know a single bit of Cantonese.

Of course, except for the curse words such as "Pu Jie" and "冚家业", Dilireba feels that learning Cantonese is more difficult than learning English. Yang Mi said that she is very relaxed about this.

Yang Mi's Cantonese is basically excellent except for some slight flaws in pronunciation. Of course, this has something to do with her husband being from Hong Kong.

Dilraba was able to pick up English quickly and became more and more proficient in the past few years because she often practiced with Chen Yu.

Dilraba's requirement for her baby is that she must master three languages, namely Chinese, English and her native Uyghur. As for Jinmen dialect, it is optional.

Chen Yu must have voted 100% against this, because until now he can only understand a little bit of Uyghur, and he has to trouble Dilraba to speak it slowly.

Every time Dilraba chats with Guli Nazha, Tong Liya, and Reyza, he can deeply understand what it means to be an outsider and be isolated.

In fact, Chen Yu's Jinmen dialect is most standard only when chatting with Mao Xiaotong and Song Zuer. If Chen Yu speaks it himself, it will always have a particularly obvious northeastern flavor.

In addition, Chen Yu's Jinmen dialect when scolding Guoan is also very authentic.

After all, Chen Yu’s mother, Cheng Shiru, was from Bu Kui.

Chen Yu was writing and drawing in the VIP lounge of the terminal waiting for Emmanuel to reply to his message. Chen Yu felt that his painting skills seemed to be better than Dilraba.

Because Dilraba was going to play the role of a gentle art teacher in "Teacher: Hello", she bought home a lot of oil paintings, sketching tools and paints. The results were all thrown in the corner after being fresh for two days, and now Chen Yu picked them up and occasionally drew Akado, Xiao Jianjian, Aiba Takano and Himura Battousai.

"Ding ding ding" the soft and rhythmic mobile phone rang, "The production team of "Mouse Gut Heroes" did send a letter inviting you to join the group as a guest star this morning."

Emanuel was talking about Central Time this morning.

Chen Yu said that he could find any excuse to reject the invitation. If Guo Degang or Yu Qian had greeted him and asked him to make a cameo, Chen Yu might have hesitated a little.

But who is the production team of "Mouse Gut Heroes" worthy of contacting him directly? It seems that Deyun Society is not sincere either.

Emmanuel also agreed with Chen Yu's views and approach. Although the wording of the letter was very gorgeous, it was obvious that he wanted to test Chen Yu, and he had the intention of using his empty hand to defeat the wolf.

After all, the normal practice is to attach a preliminary treatment package to a letter or email to facilitate contact between the two teams or to bargain with each other.

If Chen Yu had a personal relationship with Deyunshe, he could just send a letter and say something polite in it, or he could make a phone call in person.

"I really don't know how Deyunshe does things. Common sense mistakes like this are also made." Emmanuel directly tore the beautiful fax letter into small pieces.

Then Emmanuel asked Chen Yu if he would invest in the latest project of "Fifty Shades Freed" director James Frey.

The post-production process of "Fifty Shades Freed" has been 90% completed. Because Chen Yu invested enough money, the film was polished very carefully.

It can be said that except for the expenses of actors and staff, Mr. Frey spent all his money on key links, which is worthy of Chen Yu's 50 million US dollars.

Many films can already be judged as good or bad when they enter the latter production stage.

Although it is difficult to predict the box office of "Fifty Shades Freed" independently invested by Chen Yu, it definitely has the potential to be a dark horse in terms of reputation.

Because major theater chains in North America are very willing to sign film rental contracts with Emanuel, and the proposed box office distribution plan is relatively high among literary and artistic films.

"We have to choose based on the specific situation when to use the stepped-down system to divide accounts, and when to change to the stepped-down guarantee model to divide accounts." Emmanuel turned the pen.

If the current good situation continues, Chen Yu, as the independent producer of this film, will eventually get about 46% of the total box office.

This is definitely an enviable split ratio in the North American literary film market!

"Fifty Shades Darker", which was released by Universal Pictures earlier this year, only achieved a split ratio of nearly 54%.

Chen Yu had no objection to this and left the decision to Emmanuel. After all, this film also has a lot of hard work and busy work he put into it.

Moreover, thanks to various labor unions in the United States, such contracts cannot be manipulated randomly, so Chen Yu is not worried about his subordinates using his name for personal gain.

"Let's talk about the latest project of the stubborn old man Mr. James Frey." Chen Yu shook the empty soda bottle at the intellectual flight attendant.

Emmanuel opened the computer to retrieve the file.

Since the small-scale preview screening of "Fifty Shades Freed" received very good results, Mr. Frey has been included in the sights of top theaters again.

The director who successfully directed the first three seasons of "House of Cards" will return to the drama circle again, and Dingxing Theater hopes that he can take over the miniseries "Chernobyl".

In addition, Disney also sent him an invitation to join the luxurious directing team for the first season of "The Mandalorian".

"To thank you for your help, Mr. Frey uses his small privilege as a producer and director to proactively invite you to become a co-producer of these two high-quality dramas."

To be honest, the share he could give Chen Yu was very limited.

"Chernobyl" Chen Yu can invest between $3 million and $5 million;

"The Mandalorian" will cost up to $2 million.

This type of co-producer status is similar to honor. You can also be understood as a close friend or inner circle partner of a major manufacturer, which is a symbol of identity and status.

It doesn't have much practical significance, but it can raise the profile a bit, which is indirectly helpful to an active independent producer like Chen Yu.

Therefore, Chen Yu had no reason to hesitate and invested directly. By the way, he asked Emmanuel to go to the farm in Anderson County to pick out a bottle of whiskey as a gift for Mr. Frey.

"Oh, can I reward myself with a bottle of Belvedere Belvedere vodka as a reward?" Although Emmanuel rarely drinks alcohol, he has a particularly big mouth.

Belvedere Belvedere Vodka is a limited-edition luxury drink specially produced for the Cannes Film Festival in France and is basically not in the market.

In May 2015, the manufacturer gave Chen Yu three bottles, but Chen Qiwei didn't touch them because he didn't like drinking foreign wine.

"No problem, buddy, you can pack them up." Originally, he wanted to transfer these three bottles of vodka to his father-in-law, but the latter was less interested in foreign wine.

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