Pokémon's Lord of Fear

Chapter 218: What to do if there are too many talented actors?
"Boss, The Village Corpse has already grossed over 500 million!" Zoroark said excitedly. Teng Shu didn't really care after hearing that. It was just 500 million, which was a normal number for his horror films. So far, none of the films shot by Teng Shu had a box office of less than 1 billion.

The title of billionaire director was given to Teng Shu early on.

However, horror films are ultimately limited by the subject matter, and it is difficult to achieve a very high box office. It is also very difficult to catch up with the highest box office in Pokémon's history.

Teng Shu has already thought of a solution. He plans to make a splash with "Pokémon Unite", the highest-grossing Pokémon movie in history, which grossed 4.5 billion League Coins, by making big-budget movies with other themes.

This is an autobiographical work of the Pokémon League, with a very large investment cost. Many champions and gym leaders of the time starred in it, and coupled with some events that happened at the time, it created the highest box office in the history of Pokémon world films. A box office of 4.5 billion is definitely a top work in this world.

Even if it is placed in the previous life, this number is not low. Many works in the previous life could not break 3 billion.

"How is the audition for the actors for the second season of Sherlock Holmes going?" Teng Shu put down the documents in his hand and asked Zoroark.

He is most concerned about this issue now. It has been seven days since the release of "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village". In these seven days, the box office has exceeded 500 million. The subsequent momentum has declined a bit, but breaking 1 billion is not a problem. Teng Shu also needs to start thinking about his next work.

"The competition is very fierce, boss. There are already a lot of auditions from big-name stars and movie stars from the Galar region alone. The champion Mr. Dante also wants to act." Zoroark felt a little scalp-tingling when he mentioned this.

After all, the Galar region is a very large area in the League, with a vast territory and a large population. Many big stars have appeared in this place, including a best actor and a best actress, both of whom are the highest-ranking stars in the entertainment industry.

As a result, the movie "Sherlock Holmes" attracted all these people.

"What about the auditions after the screening?" Teng Shu pinched his brows. He was mentally prepared for this situation. The title of the TV series with the highest ratings was extremely valuable. In addition, it was based on the Galar region, so the stars in the Galar region would definitely compete for it.

Thinking back to the popularity of Harry Potter, actors all over the UK dreamed of playing a role in the movie. They didn’t care how important a role was, as long as they could appear on screen.

The same is true of Sherlock Holmes now.

"There are still a lot. Our company has invited some respected seniors in the entertainment industry to accompany the auditions, but the number of auditioners after the screening is still as high as tens of thousands." Zoroark was a little helpless. It had been so busy recently that it didn't have much time to play games. Most of the time it was busy dealing with audition issues.

Everyone knows that Director Teng Shu is a director who only looks at acting skills and nothing else, so many actors who think they have decent acting skills have sent in audition requests, and after the screening, those who remain are all people with good acting skills and not much to fault.

Teng Shu couldn't help but roll his eyes.

What the devil is saying.

After the audition, there were still tens of thousands of people left? He used so many talented actors in a film of Sherlock Holmes? Unless all of them were asked to act as crowd actors, was that possible? In that case, the lunch money alone would have been quite a lot, although Teng Shu didn't care much about the cost.

After all, even before the second season of Sherlock Holmes officially started filming, it had already received a huge amount of sponsorship fees. Galar's Alliance Films even spent 500 million to allow Teng Shu to shoot the film to perfection, and also provided the largest and most luxurious train in Galar for Teng Shu to use as he pleases. It can be said that Teng Shu would not be able to spend all the money even if he signed all the best actors and actresses to play supporting roles.

It’s just that Teng Shu paid more attention to rationality when filming. For example, for Sherlock Holmes, there are age requirements for some roles. Some veteran actors have good acting skills, but if a woman in her forties is asked to play a young girl, she can’t act out that girlish feeling even with makeup.

"Screen again, screen strictly, and strive for excellence. Select for me the ones with the best acting skills and the most suitable character settings." Teng Shu had no choice but to continue screening and continue offending people.

Zoroark nodded and was about to go down to arrange the business, but was stopped by Teng Shu. Teng Shu felt that doing so seemed a bit bad. The screening team of Ghost Pictures was very strong, Dam was a typical actor, and there were also some old seniors invited.

It can be said that the acting skills of these survivors who were selected by these people are very good.

In other words, it is equivalent to these people being the city champions from various districts, but Teng Shu's requirements are higher. He wants the provincial champion. Although the city champion is very talented, he has just met the threshold requirements.

Genius is the threshold to enter this door.

But this seems a bit too cruel.

"Ask the planning department to come to my office." Teng Shu tapped the table with his fingers. He decided to do something big.

Those who can be screened out are definitely those with good acting skills, and there are certainly some who are buried among them. Teng Shu plans to use these people to organize a variety show and invite those well-known directors and veteran movie actors and actresses to come together to perform in a variety show.

It is similar to some related variety shows in the previous life, but Teng Shu’s show has no script, no back door, only a group of acting talents who have been screened in advance.

At that time, the judging panel will select the best actors from here, sign contracts with them, and become actors in the second season of Sherlock Holmes.

As for those who were not selected, it doesn’t matter. The big directors invited by Teng Shu this time will watch their performances. If there are any who like them, then they will not have to worry about their future acting careers.

Zoroark hurriedly called the planning department over, and Teng Shu briefly explained his opinion. Soon, the people in the planning department began to supplement the plan and called the legal department by the way.

After all, signing variety show contracts for so many actors is also a problem.

"Those who pass the preliminary selection and are willing to participate in the variety show will still be paid some compensation. If you do the math, the total compensation can reach 500 million." Teng Shu took out 500 million without hesitation as the pay for this variety show.

After all, he really has too much money and can't spend it all.

(End of this chapter)