Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 303 Legendary Pictures
If Wu Chao had signed a contract with Wu Jing one or two years in advance, it might have been a bit troublesome.

Because before last year, Wu Jing had signed a contract with an agent and a company.

In his early years, around late 95, Wu Jing began to develop in Hong Kong.

The first agent I signed had little influence.

Around the beginning of the new century, Huang Bohao of Gold Medal Typhoon valued his influence in TV series such as Tai Chi Master and his identity as a professional martial arts athlete, and signed a contract with him.

Wu Jing's later well-known films, "SPL" and "True Colors of a Man", were both films that Wong Pak-ko helped him to contact.

However, Wong Pak-ko is indeed a relatively famous agent in Hong Kong.

But his abilities are mainly reflected in the music field.

After all, he is the Hong Kong regional president of Gold Typhoon Records.

When it comes to movies, his connections and influence are much worse.

So, at the end of last year, Wu Jing and Huang Bohao broke up peacefully.

This is actually why Wu Jing rarely appeared on the big screen after 08 in his previous life, and only became popular again in "I Am a Special Forces Soldier".

This is how the entertainment industry is. Without a company to support you and without big bosses to back you up, it doesn't matter if you are particularly famous. At worst you can just go it alone.

But for an actor like Wu Jing, who is neither as good as the best nor as good as the worst, it will be very difficult for him to succeed without the support of a big company.

For this reason, when Wu Jing received Wu Chao's invitation, he chose to join Wu Chao's company without much hesitation.

"Brother Jing, don't worry, come to me, you don't have to worry about not having any roles to play.

Besides, you don’t have to worry about the possibility of Sha Po Lang appearing.”

After agreeing on Wu Jing's joining, Wu Chao smiled and made a promise to Wu Jing.

Wu Zhuo has invested 50 million yuan in this film and television company, he is not here for fun.

He wants to become bigger and stronger.

If you want to become bigger and stronger, in addition to the actor yourself, you must have a few other actors who can carry the show.

In Wu Zhuo's mind, Wu Jing can be considered one of them.

So, he was willing to give him some protection.

In fact, if Wu Jing can be as successful as in his previous life in the future, Wu Chao even plans to give him a certain amount of shares.

"Um, do you know about Sha Po Lang?"

Wu Jing looked surprised.

"My record agency in mainland China and Hong Kong is Gold Typhoon, you know, this is a very simple thing."

There have been rumors in the past that Wu Jing and Donnie Yen were not on good terms. The most mentioned thing was that during the filming of "SPL", Wu Jing had several sticks broken.

However, there is more to the inside story of the drama "SPL" than just that.

Didn’t Wu Chao’s incident with Donnie Yen cause a lot of controversy before?

So, sometimes when you meet some people who are fond of him, you will inevitably talk about Donnie Yen.

During this period, Wu Chao discussed this matter with Huang Bogao.

According to Huang Bogao, the movie "SPL" was actually filmed to promote Wu Jing.

In order to promote Wu Jing, he personally participated in the investment of this film.

As a result, after many twists and turns, the characters in the script were finalized, but they were told that Wu Jing would play a killer and would have almost no lines.

Wu Jing, a kung fu boy who has always been portrayed as a positive character, had the following reaction upon hearing the news: "Villain? How do I play him?"

Wong Pak-ko was also very upset and angry about this matter. Director Wilson Yip said that it was already a good thing to be able to give Wu Jing this role.

At that time, Wong Pak-ko did not fully understand the routines and rules of film production, and had never made a kung fu film. Coupled with the pressure from some other people in the circle, he finally had no choice but to accept this fact.

He had no choice but to comfort Wu Jing: "Have you ever seen Terminator? Terminator only has one line, 'I'll be back!' This role doesn't require you to act, you just need to fight!"

It was this sentence that created Wu Jing's classic image of a villain who is ruthless and taciturn.

As for why Wu Jing failed to become the protagonist at that time.

This depends on different people’s opinions!

"I believe you!"

After all, the two had been in contact for a while on the set of "Painted Skin" and their relationship was pretty good.

After hearing Wu Zhuo's promise, Wu Jing nodded directly. ...

In late March, the crew of "Painted Skin" officially resumed filming, and all the actors rushed back to Ningxia for filming.

On the first day of leaving BJ, Wu Zhuo completed the registration procedures for his film and television company.

Wu Chao named the company Legend Pictures Co., Ltd.

I hope that this company will become a legendary company in the Chinese film industry in the future.

It sounds a bit rustic, but it's easy to remember.

Of course, although the company has been established, it will obviously take some time before the company's first project is launched.

At present, the company has only set up a framework.

Wu Zhuo serves as president and Zheng Jianfeng serves as vice president.

In addition, Wu Zhuo invited his cousin who had worked as an accountant in Fujian for several years to serve as the company's accounting department manager.

Then, everyone else needs to be called back.

Wu Zhuo handed these matters over to Zheng Jianfeng.

Wu Chao was not worried that Zheng Jianfeng would not be able to handle this aspect.

You know, in the future, Zheng Jianfeng will continue to serve as the vice president of Wanda Pictures.

Not to mention the future, Zheng Jianfeng, who had achieved a certain position in companies such as Media Asia and Asia Television, was also very good at this aspect...

"Breaking news! Wu Zhuo invests hundreds of millions of dollars to establish a film and television company"

"After Jay Chou set up his own entertainment company to shoot movies, Wu Zhuo was not to be outdone and invested hundreds of millions of dollars to set up his own company."

"A model of grassroots rise: in two years, Wu Chao rose from penniless to the helmsman of the entertainment industry"

I have to say that the media's attention to Wu Chao is really too high.

Wu Chao's establishment of a film and television company was done quietly but also without any fanfare.

After all, the company had just been established, and if it wanted to promote itself, it had to get its first project approved.

But even such a relatively confidential matter was dug up by the media in less than two days.

Then, the news quickly spread across both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau.

It wasn’t actually a big deal for Wu Chao to set up a company.

Nowadays, there are too many people like Wu Zhuo who set up companies as actors and singers.

But it is worth noting that Wu Zhuo's investment is huge.

Fifty million is actually not considered an investment at this time.

These days, a movie in mainland China is considered a success if its box office reaches 30 or 40 million.

Wu Zhuo spent 50 million at the first try, which was definitely a big deal.

This money may not be enough to make a big production like "Red Cliff".

But a slightly medium-sized one is still fine.

And, as we all know, making movies is never a matter for just one company.

Shooting a movie on your own is not something you can do for long.

First of all, eating alone is likely to arouse jealousy.

Another aspect is the issue of risk.

Apart from anything else, even the three giants of the future, Wanda, Alibaba and Tencent, would not dare to shoot movies on their own, but would instead bring others along to share the risk.

"Red Cliff" is said to have an investment of 7500 million US dollars, about 6 million RMB, and this was not invested independently by a single company.

Instead, three or four large companies and no less than five or six small companies jointly share the risk.

When you spread it out, there’s actually not much.

So, for the current film industry, 50 million is actually a considerable amount of money.

Two or three films can be made with a medium budget.

If you make a small production worth a few million, you can lose money on eight, nine or ten films.

(End of this chapter)