Huayu has been doing one good deed a day since 2001

Chapter 41: Second on the Box Office List for Two Years
For the next two days, Li Wenyu either stayed at home to create Interstellar or went out house-hunting with Pang Bing.

A two-entry courtyard house within the Second Ring Road has entered the transaction period, but it requires applying for renovation, which is a bit troublesome. Fortunately, he has quite a few friends.

Especially Jiang Wen, including Huayi, which invested in "The Piano Tuner" and wanted to make a fortune, these are all connections that can be utilized. The head of China Film Group even invited him to dinner twice in private.

He was praised for his significant contribution to the promotion of Chinese films abroad.

In addition to the complete courtyard house, this part of the house has been renovated and is ready for living.

He can also consider buying a house in the community within the Third Ring Road, as he can afford it now.

Li Wenyu and Fat Bing, who was wearing sunglasses, masks and a hat, had just walked out of the corridor of a residential building when their phones rang. He glanced at Wang Jinghua and said with a smile, "Sister Hua, are you recommending actors for Huayi again?"

He answered the call without waiting for Pang Bing's response after making a joke.

Wang Jinghua exchanged a few polite greetings and congratulations on the other end of the phone before getting to the point. "Director Li, I know you're busy, so I won't waste your time. I wanted to ask, have you cast 16-year-old Yang Mi as the supporting actress in your new movie?"

"Even if it's a minor supporting role, she's a talented candidate you chose, right? Are you planning to start a company and sign her?"

Li Wenyu was stunned for a few seconds. "She hasn't even graduated from high school yet. We can only ask her parents for signatures, right? To open a company..."

Half a month ago, he interviewed Da Meiyuan, Hu Jing and Li Bingbing for the first time. After Azhi and Hua Ge came, he also auditioned Azhi's role alone.

To be honest, Li Bingbing and Azhi's acting skills are now equally good, and he hasn't decided who to use yet, but a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl?
On December 12, he conducted his first preliminary audition with Yang Mi, Liu Shishi, Reyizha and Zhang Jiani.

They were given another week to prepare, so that they could find the performance state of "a girl who only has a father and a stepmother, and suddenly finds out that her father is dead too."

Li Wenyu wanted to choose Little Blind Sister in his heart.

Unfortunately, Shishi was too bad, so among the four candidates, only Xiao Yangmi was a little spiritual and had appeared in several works as a child star, so she was chosen.

He can give people some extra money... and he can take it back at any time.

Liu Shishi’s acting (19/100)!!

Oh my god, this is such a rip-off!
Forget it, she is only 15 years old. At the very least, she needs professional training for a few years until she reaches or points before he will consider raising funds.

I have to wait for the sound engineer to go to Hong Kong Island to start filming, and when the time comes, I have to help Yang Mi ask for leave to join the crew.

The girl in the original track was studying and working as a model at the same time, and was also signed to Rong Xinda in 2002.

Wang Jinghua made this call to see if she could sign Xiao Yangmi?
Li Wenyu continued with a smile, "I will open a company this year, but I'm not sure when it will open yet."

Now the structure of the tuner crew has been almost filled in, and the acting attributes are very strong.

Wang Jinghua immediately said, "Okay, Director Li, I'll train her for a while. I'm going to train her. Once you start your own company, I'll send her over to sign you. I'll also try to get Bingbing an 82% or 91% share of the box office at Huayi. She'll get 80% or 90%."

Li Wenyu was happy, "Thank you for your hard work, Sister Hua."

After hanging up the phone, he smiled and said, "It's settled. Choose between Azhi and Shoubing. Choose Shoubing. The biggest villain Jiang Wen, plus Liu Ye, Ding Haifeng, Xu Jinjiang, Wen Bixia, Liang Jiahui, Zhang Min, and Xu Guanjie, the lineup is pretty good."

He originally signed contracts with Xu Jinjiang, Ding Haifeng and Jiang Wu.

Jiang Wen snatched his brother's cake, but also pushed Jiang Wu to Director Lu to be the male lead. As for Xu Jinjiang and Lao Ding...

Li Wenyu asked Ding Haifeng to play an ordinary positive policeman in the police station and under Jiang Wen.

Wen Bixia plays the wife of the corrupt police officer Jiang Wen, and Xu Jinjiang puts on makeup and looks old to play the corrupt police chief and father-in-law!
There aren't too many shots, but there are still some highlights.

For example, a corrupt police officer was arrested for murdering a celebrity, clearing the scene and disposing of the body. The celebrity's young, actress-turned-wife, Zhang Min, also misled the public, creating a narrative that the murder had occurred in a remote suburban area. After all, the death of a major celebrity was a major news event, putting immense pressure on the police to solve the case.

The director's father-in-law was discussing with his daughter and son-in-law at home when he received a call from the neighbor across the street from the old star. On the day of his death, in addition to the tuner and the old star, a very strong man had entered the house across the street.

Wen Bixia, the wife of the corrupt policeman Jiang Wen, had her eyes light up and started to discuss, "Yes, she is so young and she married an old man, isn't it just for money?"
There must be a lover. Husband, you are investigating the case. It must be the lover who conspired to murder the old star and seize his property.

Once you solve the case, the whole city will pay close attention to it and you will definitely get a promotion and a raise.

The director's father-in-law also nodded and said, "This is very correct. Keep up the good work!"
The daily discussion scene of a family of three, and the on-the-spot reaction of Jiang Wen, the corrupt policeman who is eating... are also super black humor scenes.

He killed someone and abandoned the body. After the crime, he led the investigation. His wife and father-in-law urged him to solve the case quickly and arrest them so that he could get a promotion and a raise!

What if your wife finds out that the corrupt police officer is having an affair and angrily scolds you for eating 16 eggs a day just to serve that woman?
He cursed and shot at Jiang Wen who was using the toilet.

Jiang Wen squatted on the toilet tank, holding her body tightly and begging for mercy.

A group of veteran actors, newcomer Liu Ye plays the tuner who appears later in the film. He is a young man in the three organ trafficking groups. He is evil, but also a little weird...

The tuner, a normal person, pretended to be blind, but was exposed by Zhang Min, who blinded him directly. Later, when the tuner was escaping, he hit a telephone pole and fainted on the street.

Liu Ye and his mother took him away and sent him to a black market doctor's warehouse, intending to cut off his kidneys and sell them for money.

Both Dr. Hei and Liu Ye's character's mother wanted to remove both kidneys and then abandon the body. Liu Ye's character repeatedly objected and pleaded for mercy, asking for only one kidney to be removed...

Then the other party can still survive, thus creating a situation where the tuner can still survive.

He then blackmailed the corrupt police officer Jiang Wen and the actress and young wife Zhang Min together with the sound engineer.

Liao Qizhi was chosen to play the black market doctor, and He Qing was given the role of Liu Ye's mother. Li Wenyu's only request to He Qing was to gain 30 pounds.

He Qing, who is 38 years old this year, can play the role of a more rustic aunt after gaining some weight.

The sound engineer is now ready to start filming at any time.

But he is not in a hurry anymore. He can buy a house with the director's salary, so why should he be in a hurry?
Even if we shoot it quickly, we won't be able to catch up with the Spring Festival period. The best time after the Spring Festival is May Day, which is still very early. If we choose the summer vacation period, it will take even longer.

You can start the machine after the Spring Festival, or during the May Day holiday or summer vacation.

This year he has two best-selling books published and has a deal with NetEase, so his schedule is very wide.

Pang Bing is similar to him. If we start working on it after the Spring Festival, it will take a month or two to finish. It will take Zhou Xingchi a while.

At his words, Fat Bing also grabbed the phone and smiled sweetly, "No problem, I'll inform Li Bingbing of the good news right away. The female lead on the surface, she will be so excited this Spring Festival that she won't be able to eat or sleep well."

As long as it's not Azhi, it's good news for her.

It's no wonder that Pang Bing is so hostile to Azhi. No matter how Li Wenyu says he is not interested in her, he often flirts with Lao Li openly and tries to steal her, Fan Xiaopang's man.

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Time passed quickly. On January 2002, 1, when Li Wenyu took Pang Bing to Hong Kong Island to buy NetEase stocks, various subsequent results of Shark Beach came out.

内地第三周再次累积2000万票房，等于16天4300万，已经追平了大腕放映到2002年3月的战绩，名列2001年票房榜第二。

The cumulative box office in Hong Kong Island reached HK$4200 million, second only to Shaolin Soccer and exceeding the 4000 million of Slimming Men and Women, ranking second in the Hong Kong Island box office rankings in 2001.

(End of this chapter)