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Chapter 454 Li Youbing

The biggest expectation of the Spring Festival, "Modern Times", has hit the street. Since the holidays have passed, the box office has collapsed, and it has fallen off a cliff. It is estimated that there is little hope of breaking [-] million.

When word of mouth forms a certain scale, it can really affect the life and death of a movie, no matter whether the movie is good or bad.

For a funny movie that could pass, the audience's expectations were too high, so there were criticisms almost everywhere, and in the end it didn't meet the expected box office.

However, if Xu Zheng hadn't starred, this film would not have won more than 8 million box office during the 7000-day holiday.

For the producer and distributor Zhuying Group, this film with a production cost of less than 2000 million is actually considered a success.

Among the other films in the same period, "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" has a box office of more than 1.5 million, and the box office is slowly moving towards [-] million.

"The Strongest Happy Event" is also close to 1.5 million, and "Fantastic Heroes" exceeds 5000 million
During the Spring Festival, there is also the Hollywood superhero movie "The Green Hornet" invested by Columbia, with a box office of more than 1.5 million.

This movie was originally filmed by ABC TV station, and Li Xiaolong became popular in North America because of the role of Kato in the TV series version of "The Green Hornet".

This time Jay Chou relayed Li Xiaolong, the North American box office was 3400 million US dollars in the first weekend, the total box office was nearly 9000 million, and the global box office was [-] million US dollars. Compared with the production cost of [-] million US dollars, Columbia still made a lot of money.

Of course, the evaluation of this film is very poor, whether it is in North America or China.

But after all, it is a global box office of 2.5 million U.S. dollars. The real data, or the number two male, is definitely a big qualification, enough to brag about for a while.

In addition, the domestic box office of "Carrying Love to the End" starring Xu Jinglei exceeded [-] million.

In addition, the box office of "New Shaolin Temple" has successfully exceeded [-] million. So far, Sidan Shuangbing has all starred in movies with a box office of over [-] million.

In the span of ten years, they are still active at the top level of domestic actresses. Perhaps there is an element of luck, but it is also enough to show their strength.

Tang An found time to go to the premiere, and asked Xu Jinglei to play a role, a leader of the space agency. She didn't have many roles, so she regarded it as a cameo.

This film is basically Liu Ye's one-man show, and there are basically not many characters who have a part in it.

In addition, there is also the role of the director of the space agency. Tang An asked Changying Group to contact Li Youbing.

Dongfang Shenlong Pictures, a subsidiary of Poly Culture, is a joint venture between Poly Culture and Changying Film Factory, and it has also been called a little bit.

Li Youbing was an actor in Changying Studio back then. With this relationship, it is easier to talk about. After all, he is also a top TV drama actor in China, and the price of a single episode is more than 20.

Although TV drama actors are not as good as movie actors, but at the level of Li Youbing and Chen Baoguo, there is no distinction between film and television dramas.

What's more, he was specially recruited by the General Political Department and the Bayi Factory because he successfully played the role of an army commander who fought the flood with the soldiers wholeheartedly in "The Stormy Sea".

Civilian officers, civilian level 2, equivalent to the rank of major general, second only to generals of special civilian cadres and lieutenant generals of level 1 civilian cadres.

This time, under the introduction of a director of Changying Group, Tang An came to visit Li Youbing's house.

No matter what, etiquette should be done.

"Hello, Teacher Li."

"Hello, Director Tang."

Li Youbing smiled and asked Tang An to sit down, and his wife Shi Lan also poured a cup of tea.

Tang An thanked him, and directly explained the purpose of coming with a few words of pleasantries, and took out a script and character outline and handed it over.

"Mr. Li, this time I'm here to invite you to play the role of the director of the space agency in my new movie "The Martian."

"I have admired Director Tang's movie for a long time, but why did you think of asking me to play this role?" Li Youbing asked curiously after receiving the script.

"Mr. Li, please read the script first, and I will speak slowly."

"Then let me take a look first, Director Tang, please wait a moment."

Li Youbing's attitude towards Tang An is not bad, after all, it was introduced by Changying Group, and Tang An is now a top domestic director.

It's not that he hasn't heard of Tang An's new movie, judging from the title "The Martian", he can guess it pretty well.

Li Youbing read it slowly, and it took more than half an hour to finish a script. The plot did not differ much from the guesswork.

The director of the space agency he himself plays is a leader who arranges and implements the plan to rescue astronauts on the earth. The characters are not complicated and there are not many scenes.

Tang An waited for him to finish reading, took a sip from his teacup, and then introduced.

"Mr. Li, you have watched this character too. There are not many scenes, but this character is also very important in the film. Our astronauts are like rootless duckweed, floating in outer space and alien planets, and you, the director The image of the company must be stable and trustworthy, and bring a sense of security to the astronauts floating in outer space."

Li Youbing nodded approvingly, holding the script in his hand, and listened to Tang An's continuation.

"Astronauts are trapped on Mars, the entire space agency is worried, the common people are worried, and the audience is also worried, and your role is to reassure them. In terms of appearance, I don't think there are many people who are more suitable than Mr. Li. .”

"Of course, the most important thing is the scene in the middle. The monitors accidentally discovered that the astronauts did not die. The space agency needed to rescue them. However, given the conditions at the time, there was little hope. Although you only had a few lines, but in the performance The whole space agency has to have confidence in the rescue operation."

"There is also the national rescue operation press conference. People all over the country are watching you, waiting for you to rescue the aerospace hero. The speech at the press conference must reassure people and have confidence in the rescue operation. The voice must be authentic. Contagion."

Tang An took a sip of water, observed Li Youbing's expression, and felt that he should be more confident.

Li Youbing also spoke at this time, and he asked, "Based on that, Lao Chen is more suitable for this role."

Tang An naturally knew that he was talking about Chen Baoguo, and said with a smile, "Mr. Li, you have more passion than Mr. Chen. Aerospace is an adventurous career, and I need your passion."

Among the actors of the older generation, Li Youbing is also the most suitable for this role. He must be mature and stable, with a trustworthy appearance, passion and contagious speech.

After the role of Li Youbing was settled, there were basically no important roles left, and then Tang An continued to work on the storyboard script.

Occasionally look at the exterior photos sent back by Zhao Jun, the production of props and interior scenes.

The preparations for "Looking for the Dragon" and "Detective Chinatown" have basically been completed. The former was filmed at the Huairou film and television base.

The latter was supported by the Thai government, and there were almost no problems with the location, and the venue fee was waived.

(End of this chapter)