Huayu has been doing one good deed a day since 2001

Chapter 114 Is it expensive to go to college here?
A few days later, on August 8, Turn Left, Turn Right, starring Dong Li, had already grossed over HK$14 million in Hong Kong Island.

After seven weeks of screening in mainland China, Kung Fu has accumulated a box office of 2.75 million yuan, and its screening rate has begun to decline.

Cell Phone, Turn Left Turn Right, The Transformers 1: Age of Ultron, Marriage Story and other films were released one after another, bombarding the summer season with their last remaining momentum.

When Li Wenyu arrived at Shiguang Media early in the morning, he saw Yang Mi, Liu Shishi and several other young girls gathered in a public office area, occasionally glancing at the reception room not far away.

Then a few little girls gathered together to chat.

When someone noticed Lao Li's arrival, they hurriedly stood up and greeted him.

Old Li simply waved his hand and walked towards the reception room.

This is also when he received a call from Winona Ryder. The other party had already arrived in Beijing but was not there to promote "Marriage Story".

The story of the award-winning film itself is not very attractive.

Lao Li never considered how much money Marriage Story made, being nominated for the Best Director Oscar was totally worth it.

In addition to Winona, there were also her assistant and 17-year-old Megan Fox in the reception room. Although her skin color was not very fair and she looked very mixed-race, she was also very charming.

Want to upgrade the world's most beautiful face and sign someone for Time Media? It's difficult to go from Scarlett Johansson to Jessica and Eva Green.

Those people have been around for quite some time and have already signed contracts with companies.

Megan, who just graduated from high school and is about to enter the modeling industry and work as an extra on film and television crews, has it relatively easy.

You mean Amber? Forget it.

No matter how Amber looks, this girl is too deep and even Musk can't control her.

Li Wenyu greeted Winona with a smile, then looked at Megan Fox. "Megan, I specifically asked Winona to bring you to China this time because my media group wants to sign you and train you to become a superstar."

"It's a simple 5+5 priority contract. My company has already cultivated a group of young actresses. I hope you can seriously consider it."

"It's no big deal if the cooperation fails. We'll cover your airfare and travel expenses."

Megan looked at Winona, who smiled enthusiastically, "Meghan, I won the Hollywood Oscar for Best Actress for my Marriage Story."

"If Li hadn't mentioned my name and asked Columbia to talk to my agent, I definitely wouldn't have had the luck this year."

"For newcomers, Li is the ultimate mentor. He not only makes award-winning films, but is also very strong in box office operations."

"Besides that, Li is the founder of a unicorn company valued at US$7 million. I think it would be hard to find a young person as outstanding as him, not only in China but also in the United States."

If you try to deceive someone without an introduction from an acquaintance, they will definitely be wary.

But Winona, who has been in the industry for many years and even won the Best Actress trophy, is the best witness.

This is just like in 01, when Li Wenyu asked Zhang Guorong to call Huayi and ask Pang Bing to audition for The Shallows.

Same nature!
Megan Fox swallowed hard and smiled nervously, "I'm under 18 and may need a guardian's signature."

"But how did you know me?"

When she looked at Winona again, Winona was also confused.

At first, Li Wenyu called her to ask for help, saying that Shi Guang wanted to sign a new person and knew the other person's name, address and general current situation.

Li Wenyu didn't say anything more, asking Winona to help find someone to endorse his credit and expedite the application for a visa to come to China for an interview.

Old Li smiled and said, "Megan, do you know about the previous two Asian Internet beauty pageants? We are planning to hold the World's Most Beautiful Face pageant this year."

"I found your photo on your Weibo and thought you were suitable, so I contacted you."

"If our films want to enter the European and American markets, we need more European and American faces and newcomers. This is the same as Hollywood wanting to enter the mainland Chinese market."

"As long as we have a pleasant cooperation, I will strive to have you listed in the top ten of the 2003 World's Most Beautiful Faces pageant, and make you as famous as the top ten Asian beauties before you."

He used top-notch hacking techniques to find Megan's, but he didn't hack too much.

The other party has now opened a Weibo account outside the Great Firewall, which contains photos and short videos.

Nokia 3650 now supports 11-second short video shooting!
Megan was so shocked that she fainted for a few seconds.

Winona exclaimed, "The most beautiful face in Asia has been upgraded to the world? Li, you are really ambitious. I don't know much about the Internet."

"But this should drive further expansion of your platform in Europe and the US, right? What if the US requires your off-site version to be headquartered and have its servers located in Los Angeles or New York?"

Li Wenyu was amused. Sister Winona also understood this?
Once the US makes such a request, he will not care about the US market at all and will just lose it.

This will definitely affect Weibo's overall valuation, but he only needs to maintain the market and users of the off-site version in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and attract ordinary Chinese students and overseas Chinese groups.

Moving the headquarters and servers would be a real death trap.

That's equivalent to putting your neck under the other party's guillotine and waiting to be hit again and again.

The first step is the server, and the second step is to change Weibo's major shareholder from Samsung or IDG Lao Xiong to Judas, and then trick him into doing this and that.

If he doesn't do it, then we can only wait and sell it.

Li Wenyu laughed and said, "That's a bit far-fetched, but if I move to the US, my assets will at most turn $700 million into $1 billion. If I don't move, I'll just earn less."

"It won't affect my work and life in Asia, nor will it prevent me from producing new film and television works. Shall we go to the office to discuss it?"

Winona nodded, "Sure, Li, why don't you move? I've also been addicted to online entertainment recently. I'm used to interacting with Omi fans and friends in the circle on Weibo."

"A friend told me that there are seven or eight platforms in the US that have copied your platform, and none of them are nearly as competitive as yours. So, someone has been lobbying me for a long time. If you just follow their lead, Weibo will be able to develop safely in our country."

"Or you'll be restricted."

Several people walked out together, and Lao Li asked his secretary to come and make coffee in advance.

Megan Fox exclaimed quietly, "Weibo is going to be banned? No way, I'm having a lot of fun with many classmates and friends, and I think this platform is super cool."

"Li, can I call you that? Are you really an entrepreneurial genius like Bill Gates? You've built a super company with a market value of $7 million at such a young age?"

"so cool!"

Li Wenyu was at a loss for words. Why did he feel like a weird old man trying to trick a little girl? But it was all for the sake of promoting the movie.

To upgrade the beauty pageant.

Push Megan, who meets the aesthetic standards of European and American audiences, and then let the "Extreme Job" crew reshoot a scene, for example, Megan is a tourist from the United States to Hong Kong Island.

The tour guide took me to a fried chicken restaurant for a meal.

Then when selling in Europe and America, they can also use the gimmick of her being the most beautiful face in the world to promote her.

This hot North American girl who is already over 17 years old only needs hackers and red hackers to take a look, create votes out of thin air, and give her a few more sets of beautiful pictures.

This attracted many times more netizens than when Zuckerberg first started Facebook and used ordinary school beauty pageants.

Copy Megan's most beautiful pose in Transformers 1.

This girl can amaze the world with her face and figure!

Even with the most beautiful women and the most impressive fairies and goblins in the classic Journey to the West, countless people only remember Monkey King. However, even in classic blockbusters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Bumblebee, countless fans still remember Megan Fox.

This comparison is also very direct.

…………

after a while.

Lao Li talked a lot with Winona and Megan in the office, and asked them to sign a confidentiality agreement.

He then took out two scripts and said with a smile, "This is the next collaboration between Time Media and Columbia. We plan to help Ms. Gong Li win the Oscar for Best Actress."

"Originally in this drama, Gong Li's character, in order to escape the life of the lowest class in society, dropped out of school and got married without hesitation when she was pursued by a middle-aged wealthy man in her senior year."

"She didn't even ask for her diploma, and the rich man who married her had a son from his previous wife. The heroine has been trying hard to be a qualified stepmother."

"Our negotiations went smoothly. The son of the wealthy man's ex-wife can also be changed to a daughter. You, Megan, will be allowed to try out the role."

"This is the sincerity of our Time Media signing you!"

"This can also be written into the contract. As long as your acting skills meet the standards, the role is yours."

It’s better to give a real result than to talk big.

Gong Li prepared for the film "Blue Jasmine Story" for several months. The heroine played a stepmother, and the son was just a supporting role, not even the fifth male lead.

It also serves a purpose, highlighting the heroine's various mischiefs and unreliability.

So if your son or daughter really wants to change it, they can do so. It will only take a few minutes of appearance.

As for the second female lead in Blue Jasmine, who received a bunch of Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress? That's the heroine's sister.

She is a non-blood-related sister who was adopted by foster parents like the heroine.

The heroine dreams of changing her social class by getting married and achieving class transition. If she fails once, she will try again. The supporting female character tries hard to integrate into the lower class society and live a good life.

The supporting actress and the leading actress are the largest mirror comparison group.

That requires a mother who is not much older than Gong Li, a divorced single mother in the United States with children.

Can be Chinese or white woman.

In the original version, both sisters were adopted!
Winona exclaimed in surprise, "Another Oscar-winning script? Lee, your talent is terrifying! Sooner or later, I'll see you step onto the Oscar stage and receive the Best Director and Best Picture trophies."

Megan Fox took a deep breath, looked around, and then looked at Lao Li. "Director Li, the heroine married a wealthy man and dropped out of school. Did she pay back her student loans?"

The office fell silent for more than ten seconds after hearing these words.

Old Li shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "The wealthy man the heroine married was a financial fraudster. He ran a company on Wall Street and committed fraud. When he was caught, he committed suicide to apologize."

“So one person’s student loan isn’t a big problem.”

"I almost forgot, you're also old enough to go to college."

Megan took a sip of coffee and nodded, "Yes, my parents divorced a long time ago, and my sister and I lived with my mom and stepfather. After graduating from high school, we were not eligible to go to college. The student loan was too expensive."

"Which Chinese university did you graduate from? I'm curious how you could have founded a $7 million company right out of college."

"Is college expensive here? How many years does it take to repay the loan?"

Li Wenyu is a little messy.

For a moment he didn't know how to answer.

Winona was no longer in a hurry to follow the script. "Yeah, Li, can we go to your alma mater? The last time we came here was for an Oscar."

"I spent a whole month studying hard in the hotel and didn't even explore the city."

After a moment of silence, he nodded and said, "That's easy. I'll arrange for someone to take you shopping and have a look around."

"As for my university, my undergraduate tuition was only a few hundred dollars a year, and I didn't have any student loans, so it wasn't difficult to work part-time to support myself."

Megan spit out coffee on the spot. Tuition is several hundred dollars a year? ? What kind of international joke is this?
With tuition fees of a few hundred dollars a year, can we cultivate a super entrepreneur like Li Wenyu who is endorsed by Oscar-winning actress Winona, and an Oscar-nominated for Best Director?
But Li Wenyu was indeed from the class of 1999, and money was worth a lot more back then than it is now.

After she hurriedly stood up and apologized, she simply cleaned up and whispered to Winona, "Director Li is really only 22 years old, only five years older than me?"

“Also, how is it possible that college tuition here is so ridiculously cheap??”

Winona shrugged. "How should I know?"

…………

A few days later, at Beijing Film Academy campus.

Li Wenyu chatted with his old classmate Sui Lan and the head of the acting department in his office for a while, then smiled and shook hands with him. "Head, old classmate, we have the first American starlet of Shi Guang, and now we leave her to you."

"I hope you can also let her experience the wonderful campus life."

Meghan just graduated from high school and is visiting a Chinese campus? Li Wenyu arranged for her to become a student in the 03 acting class of the Beijing Film Academy.

You said she was only 17? Liu Yifei was admitted at 15.

For example, Yu Bo, Zhang Songwen, etc., were admitted in their 20s. Zhang Songwen entered the vocational class, while Yu Bo entered the undergraduate class of acting at the age of 23.

Sui Lan, who graduated this summer like Li Wenyu from the class of 99, stayed on at the school as a teacher.

The department head glanced at Megan behind Li Wenyu with emotion and said with a smile, "Mr. Li, an outstanding entrepreneur like you, and the talents recommended by you, will definitely be well cultivated by our acting department."

"Maybe she'll get a role in a Hollywood Oscar-worthy blockbuster movie after school starts?"

Today is August 8st, and the start of school for the 21 undergraduate class is not far away.

Megan Fox's mother even flew over to sign the contract, with the witness and help of lawyer Winona, and it was also a template for 5+5 to have priority signing rights.

The female role reserved for her in "Blue Jasmine" was written into the contract.

As for school? When Megan's mother heard that she could sign a contract with Time, she could borrow money from Time to go to university, to attend one of the best art colleges in China, and the loan interest rate was much lower than that of the Bank of China.

Is there such a good thing?
There is no need to hide too much at this point. Besides, as for the Blue Jasmine cake, Shi Guang had already signed a contract with Columbia and Gong Li.

Li Wenyu nodded. "That's basically it. In addition to the on-campus training, we'll also have a performance teacher give her one-on-one guidance. We also hope you can be flexible regarding the military training."

Department Head, “…”

You are such a big entrepreneur, so awesome that you are ranked third on the Forbes Rich List in mainland China!

You're talking to me about military training? Never mind. Lao Li isn't from the acting department, so even if the department head wants to tease me more, he's too embarrassed to say anything.

Sui Lan sighed with emotion, "In the 03 Acting Department, besides a promising young actor named Wang Kai, there's also Zhang Jiani from your Shi Guang class who's pretty good. As for Hua Dan roles, I really have to look at Megan, who you recommended, Old Li."

"She's just not suitable for acting in our mainland blockbusters, right?"

Old Li, “…”

(End of this chapter)