Huayu has been doing one good deed a day since 2001

Chapter 34 starts so exciting? [Please read on!]

On December 12, Li Wenyu didn't know that Ziyi, Yanzi and others were waiting in a group to book the entire theater, and he deeply criticized Pang Bing's acting skills.

After seeing Zhang Guorong off on her flight to Shanghai early in the morning, he returned to the hotel to prepare for interviews for the female lead role of the sound engineer and the role of a little girl around fifteen years old.

Li Wenyu offered contracts to Chen, Gao Yuanyuan and Hu Jing for the female lead who would have a simple love affair with the sound engineer and create a "long easter egg that would confuse the audience" at the end.

Today is the first preliminary test.

Then, one of the investors, the Xiang family, pushed Zhang Bozhi, another investor, Huayi, pushed Li Bingbing, and the largest investor, Brother Rong, did nothing.

The sound engineer has not been officially selected for the project yet, but the organizers have been decided, and it will be Zhang Guorong, Xiangjia China Star and Huayi working together.

Li Wenyu himself doesn't care. He is paid according to the director and screenwriter's salary of 350 million + 10% of the box office share in Hong Kong and Mainland China. It doesn't matter how he shoots the film.

I have to thank Zhang Guorong for being such a good mentor. After listening to the project, he set the rules first. Everyone has to help fight piracy starting from the first day of The Shallows' release.

Others who want to get on board can only accept it!

The reason for choosing China Star and Huayi is to have them take the lead and cooperate with China Film Group to deal with the mainland and Hong Kong Island cinema chains. The Shallows requires the most advanced anti-theft measures.

Without anti-theft measures, no matter how much viral publicity is done, the film will be finished in two or three weeks at most. The mainland's expected piracy revenue of over 5000 million can be reduced to million.

In terms of anti-theft, in addition to strict inspections of all cinemas across the country, we will also give millions of yuan in bonuses to the entire population, make some reporting hotlines public, and when ordinary people report where pirated discs are being sold, we will contact the authorities to investigate and arrest the offenders, and give the reporter a 10 yuan bonus, etc. We will make an example of them time and again and then publicize the information. These are all very important.

This is the operation of a whole large system.

When Li Wenyu returned to the hotel, Pang Bing was sitting on the sofa in the living room studying the information of Chen, Gao Yuanyuan and Hu Jing. The more he studied, the more he felt that there was no big problem, and he started to talk smooth talk when he saw Lao Li.

Ten minutes later, Pang Bing complained, "Hu Jing is okay, but which rich man is backing her? She has a powerful background like Yan Zi, and she's only ranked second in the mainland version of the most beautiful face. But I feel like she has the worst acting skills of the three, right?"

Li Wenyu shook his head. "Let's get to know each other. If she doesn't pass the initial screening, I'll choose between Azhi and Li Bingbing."

The tuner is the serious girlfriend of the male protagonist and the female lead, but she doesn't have many scenes and is far less outstanding than the female villain. She is just a passionate, cheerful, and normal young beauty.

When it comes to acting, both Ah Zhi and Lai Bingbing can do it, so it's normal for them to be beaten by Leung Ka Fai. This requires Brother Fai to be more restrained in his acting.

The next moment, Fat Bing walked back to the guest room with a smile and took out several file bags. "This is what Teacher Zhang asked someone to send. It's a little girl around 15 years old, a candidate for a minor supporting role."

He had just taken the file bag when Fat Bing's phone rang. When she saw it was Li Bingbing, she smiled and said, "I guess Sister Hua and Bingbing are here. I'll go pick them up."

Li Wenyu nodded and began to look through the file bag. Soon, the paper documents, photos and other things almost made him dizzy.

Among the hundreds of girls' profiles, the one that looked most familiar to him was 15-year-old Yang Mi.

As well as 14-year-old Liu Shishi, Reyizha, Zhang Jiani, and divorced Jing Tian.

Either they had a background as child stars or were from the Beijing Dance Academy. Li Wenyu took four files and walked to his assistant Xiao Hu's guest room and knocked on the door. When the door opened, he smiled and said, "Brother Hu, let's make an appointment for these four talents today for the first interview."

He didn't take out Jing Tian's file. She's 13 this year, so she's a bit too young. But she'll be 14 when filming officially starts? Big Tian Tian is famous...

Forget it, Little Blind Sister is far inferior to Little Yang Mi now.

Xiao Hu was the person who picked him up at the airport when he first went to Hong Kong Island, and he is still his personal Cantonese translator, including during the filming of The Shallows.

Even though the small behind-the-scenes team tried their best to find people who knew Mandarin, there were still 10 to 20 percent who did not understand and needed Xiao Hu to help convey their messages.

The tuner is in preparation, and Xiao Hu is also very proficient in Mandarin, so it is easy for him to contact by phone and do small things.

Xiao Hu smiled brightly, "Don't worry, Brother Yu, just leave it to me." It was hard not to smile. He used to be an inconspicuous person in Zhang Guorong's team, but now following Director Li, he is taking off.

After he returned to the guest room and stayed there for a few minutes, Wang Jinghua and Li Bingbing also came over. After a brief greeting, Li Bingbing kept thanking him and expressing her gratitude.

He also took the initiative to reveal that there were many celebrities in the circle who were planning to book out the entire theater of Shark Beach and criticize Pang Bing's acting skills in the cinema.

As for why Li Bingbing was so grateful...

Normally, if a starlet like her wants to make a name for herself in a major film, she basically has to fight her way through a group of old men like Director Feng and Mr. Wang.

When Huayi discussed this investment and the leading female role, they did not allow Huayi to conduct internal screening at all. Pang Bing sent a message through Wang Jinghua saying, "Let's choose Bingbing," and there were no other obstacles.

Can I get it without having to go through the levels continuously?
Li Xiaolu and others want to cry to death.

Fat Bing looked proud and boastful. "Tsk, after Brother Yu's training, I feel like I've been reborn. How could I be afraid of them? And criticize them? They'll be scared to death by my acting skills on Saturday."

Now it’s not just Pang Bing who suspects that she is also a player who was gifted by God.

She wasn't complaining that if people said her acting was not good enough, it would be all because of Lao Li who kept her busy three or five times a day, which left her no time to settle down and learn acting.

She spent more than ten days on the set of Miracle. During the filming, whenever she performed, she showed off her acting skills time and time again, which earned her endless praise from Andy Lau and Joey Wong.

She used Azhi as a negative example.

In her rivalry with Azhi, I spoke Mandarin and you spoke Cantonese, and no one could understand me.

But everything the opponent had to express was clearly written in the script, and Azhi was forced to reshoot many times. I heard that Azhi was so angry that he felt guilty!
Fat Bing put his arm around Thin Bing's shoulders and said earnestly, "Bingbing, you have to do your best and beat Azhi. I feel like the three beauties Brother Yu chose today are just a formality."

"Their acting skills are average, and they don't have the capital to support them. The probability of them being eliminated is very high. Your only opponent is Zhang Bozhi."

Li Bingbing thanked him again excitedly and said that she would give her all.

She didn't know why Pang Bing supported her so much. They hadn't been very friendly before. Who would still think about those things at this point? After all, she was the leading female role on the surface!
Fat Bing is also simple-minded. If Azhi comes to act... that woman must want to kiss Li Wenyu and send him warmth every day. But she is not as good as Thin Bing. Li Wenyu has no interest or thoughts about her.

As the two of them were chatting and laughing, Wang Jinghua changed the subject. "Bingbing, there are advertising resources out there that are trying to get you. Chanel, Dior, and others are offering you anywhere from 100 million to 300 million yuan a year. They want you to shoot commercials and get endorsements. What are your thoughts?"

"Many mainland advertisers and brands have approached us with money."

Fat Bing was instantly delighted and looked at Li Wenyu, who could only nod and say, "Ordinary endorsements are nothing, but you must ensure the quality, especially when it comes to food products. Don't take them lightly. If there's a food safety issue, the spokesperson will be criticized to death."

Fat Bing nodded repeatedly, "That's it, but Sister Hua, you should wait for The Shallows to be released and see how it performs at the box office. The higher the box office, the higher my price will be."

"These are the last two days before the eruption."

Amidst the chatting and laughing, Gao Yuanyuan, the first interviewee, arrived. Da Meiyuan still had medium-short hair and a little baby fat. As soon as she came in, she bowed slightly nervously and greeted.

Li Wenyu smiled and nodded. "Don't be nervous. I'll give you twenty minutes to prepare. Act it out. Your boyfriend and girlfriend have been in a cold war for more than ten days. Your boyfriend calls you and asks you to go to his house. You think they're reconciling."

"When you arrived, you found a strange woman wrapped in a bath towel in your boyfriend's house, and your boyfriend was also naked in bed."

Gao Yuanyuan, “???”

Was the beginning so exciting? Li Bingbing, who hadn't even read the script, was surprised.

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