Huayu: From an ordinary person to a happy director

Chapter 114 Liu Yifei can make money
"This~~Zhao Liying has fewer roles. Are you using Zhao Liying to promote Liu Yifei?" Liu Yan's voice came from the phone.

"That's true. Believe me, as long as she handles it well, Liu Yifei's ability to make money is no worse than others." Shi Lei did not hide anything and told the truth.

In her previous life, Liu Yifei’s film career was not smooth because Liu Xiaoli found the wrong person.

"The Forbidden Kingdom" is an international blockbuster that did not perform well at the box office, but it also allowed Liu Yifei to appear on the international stage and became the first Asian actress to top the IMDB movie newcomer rankings.

Unfortunately, Liu Xiaoli broke up with Huayi and signed with WMA William Morris Agency.

Liu Xiaoli's original intention was to let WMA promote Liu Yifei to the country and to Hollywood.

Unfortunately, this goes against WMA's idea. Many Hollywood companies have turned their attention to China, including the famous Hollywood company CAA.

In order to compete with CAA, WMA also signed some stars in China, among whom the famous ones are Zhang Ziyi and Liu Yifei.

WMA did not recommend any international resources to Liu Yifei at all. All the resources given to Liu Yifei were domestic, and those were not mainland resources but resources from the Hong Kong circle.

What’s even worse is the costume themes in Hong Kong’s resources.

What the Hong Kong industry excels at are still police and gangster films and action films. The costume films they make have a feeling of gang fights and are not grand enough.

So most costume films fail.

Although Liu Yifei is said to be the leading actress in these costume films, she is actually a supporting actress. These costume films are all movies with male protagonists, and these box office failures actually have little to do with Liu Yifei.

But there is a habit in the film industry that when a movie loses money, it will be labeled as box office poison.

Even though Liu Yifei didn't get this title, she is already loved by fans.

In fact, Liu Yifei is not the only one who has chosen the wrong path. Yang Mi made the same choice in her previous life. She married an older man in order to enter the Hong Kong circle, but ended up being badly cheated.

There is no way out by going south to the Hong Kong circle, only by going north to the mainland can you have a chance. After all, the Hong Kong circle has come to an end and there are not enough resources to go around, so how can they give you a chance in the mainland?

It was after seeing the real Hong Kong world that Wu Jing resolutely returned to the mainland. In order to succeed, he even joined the army for two years and finally won a great victory.

Generally speaking, there is no future in going to Hong Kong, and staying in the mainland is the right way.

This is indeed the case. Liu Yifei returned to the mainland to shoot TV series and achieved great success again.

Liu Yifei’s status as the national girl in her early years was very high, and just one TV series made Liu Yifei stand out.

As a capitalist, he certainly would not let go of such an actress.

Liu Yan didn't know how popular Liu Yifei would be in the future, but she would look at her face. Liu Yifei's face was so beautiful, so she believed that Liu Yifei could make money.

"Boss, is Liu Yifei's training planning ability on par with Yang Mi's?"

"When did Yang Mi become a standard?" Shi Lei asked instead of answering.

"Because Yang Mi obtained the company's top resources, "Zhaojun Goes to the Frontier" and "Chinese Paladin III" were both big investments." Liu Yan explained seriously.

In fact, there are some reasons that she is not easy to say.

There are many women in the company who call Shi Lei "Brother Lei". Among them, Yang Mi and Huo Siyan are the most proactive. They often take the initiative to accompany Shi Lei.

Among them, Yang Mi’s resources are one level higher than Huo Siyan’s, and unknowingly Yang Mi has become a standard.

Shi Lei pondered for a moment and shook his head, "Nonsense, Dong Xuan, Liu Tao, Yang Mi, and Zhao Liying are all at the same level."

"Yes, you are the boss, and whatever you say goes... Then should Liu Yifei's resources be on par with Yang Mi's?"

Artist resources are not only provided by Shi Lei himself, the company will also provide some resources to artists, such as opportunities to appear on variety shows, roles obtained from other film and television companies...

The company also gave them the same level of resources as Shi Lei. Shi Lei said that the four of them were at the same level, and the company also gave them the same level of resources. Shi Lei did not hesitate and immediately nodded and said, "Yes, let's follow Yang Mi."

Liu Yifei has signed the contract and will not be able to escape the control of Taolin Film and Television within five years.

In addition to signing long-term contracts, the stars he values ​​also have to pay a huge penalty for breach of contract, and Liu Yifei's penalty is 100 million yuan.

Liu Yifei definitely cannot afford to pay 100 million RMB now.

One hundred million is certainly not reasonable, but Taolin Film and Television is a leading company in the entertainment industry and has a lot of resources. If an artist breaches the contract, even if they don't have to pay one hundred million, it will still cause many obstacles in the entertainment industry.

Liu Yan did not question Shi Lei's decision anymore and nodded in response: "Okay, I know what to do."

"But I want to remind you that I have no objection to you using Zhao Liying to promote Liu Yifei, but you'd better go and comfort Zhao Liying."

"Huh? What happened to Zhao Liying?" Shi Lei asked with some confusion.

Then he added: "Her task is to study and develop her acting skills!"

In her previous life, Zhao Liying’s acting skills were developed slowly by playing supporting roles. As a professional director, he knows that systematic learning is the best way to acquire mature acting skills.

It is better to have a professional teacher to teach you than to figure it out on your own.

Zhao Liying's performance in school did not disappoint him. The teacher gave her extremely high praise, saying that Zhao Liying was the most hardworking, diligent and serious student in the entire vocational high school class.

According to his plan, he intended to let Zhao Liying study drama for another two years after graduation.

In this way, he can get Zhao Liying, who has a solid foundation.

As for Yang Mi, forget it. She is a child star who can't stand loneliness. She took jobs right after entering high school and went to shoot commercials with Cheng Long. It's impossible for her to have the patience to learn acting skills from a girl like this.

Yang Mi is more interested in learning postures than learning acting skills.

"It's no use for you to explain to me. Brother Lei, you should go and explain it to Zhao Liying yourself!" Liu Yan was afraid that Shi Lei would not understand the situation, so he added, "The main problem is Chinese Paladin III. The heroine of Chinese Paladin III is not her, but Yang Mi. This hurts her a lot."

"Now that you've given the role of the adult Little Dragon Girl to Liu Yifei, she might think too much and think you've given up on her."

Shi Lei quickly explained: "She really thinks too much. I have no intention of giving up on her."

"Go and talk to her yourself!" Liu Yan reminded again.

"Okay, I'll tell her myself, and you can ask him to come over now."

As one of the most profitable female stars in the future, there is a problem with her thinking, and he must solve it in time.

Not to mention letting Zhao Liying work for a lifetime, at least let her make money for the company for ten years.

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Zhao Liying was still studying at the Beijing Film Academy. After receiving Liu Yan's call, she immediately took a taxi to the company's headquarters.

Then, under the guidance of Liu Yan, he walked into Shi Lei's office.

"Boss, Zhao Liying is here. I'll go out first. You guys chat slowly." Liu Yan had no intention of staying and being a light bulb.

"Okay, go and do your work!"

As soon as Liu Yan left Shi Lei's office, Zhao Liying's agent came up and asked in a low voice: "Sister Liu Yan, is it done?"

(End of this chapter)