The news Hua Ruzhen brought was just an interlude.
Lu Yanhe's focus is still on the company's two dramas.
Auditions for the show "Broke Girls" lasted about a week.
During this period, a total of five rounds of auditions were held.
Lu Yanhe participated in three of the rounds.
Finally, the roles of "Broke Sisters" were finalized.
Among them is Deng Xiaoyuan.
Deng Xiaoyuan was the one who got the role on the spot.
When she heard "Congratulations, you got this role" from Hu Siwei, she cried with joy on the spot.
Lu Yanhe likes the "realness" in her performance, the kind of state that does not rely on her own aura, but is presented with a dejected calmness that seems to have been tempered for thousands of times.
Of course, Lu Yanhe also has selfish motives. He had collaborated with Deng Xiaoyuan in "Legend of Sword and Fairy". He had seen Deng Xiaoyuan's live performance with his own eyes and knew that she was a reliable actress.
The other main character, the owner of the restaurant, was also successfully captured by the short man Bai Yunfei discovered by Hu Siwei.
Several main characters all received the same performance contract.
The two heroines both have contracts of 30,000 yuan per episode, and at the same time they have to sign a six-season performance contract at one go - of course, at Lu Yanhe's request, Linghe did not ask them to pay 30,000 yuan per episode. After signing a six-season performance contract, starting from the second season, the salary negotiations will be restarted, giving them room to increase the salary.
The other main actors are paid 10,000 yuan per episode.
For them, even such a remuneration price is a "high salary" that they cannot usually get.
Actors' pay is even more disparate than the top of the pyramid and the bottom of the pyramid.
After deciding on the actors, Linghe immediately announced the project officially.
Opened to the public for the first time.
Produced and supervised by Hu Siwei and Lu Yanhe provided script ideas, this is Linghe's fourth sitcom after "Friends", "Wulin Gaiden" and "Houseshare".
With the two previous films showing off, "Bankrupt Sisters" naturally attracted everyone's attention.
However, everyone was confused when they discovered that the leading actors in the drama "Broken Sisters" were all unknown actors.
Lu Yanhe often uses many unknown actors and newcomers to star in his projects. Everyone is used to it, but before this, every project must still have big stars.
Just like there are him and Chen Bige in "Love Letter", there are Jiang Yuqian and Liu Zefan in "Squid Game", and there is Jia Long in "People on the Road".
Unexpectedly, "Broken Sisters" doesn't have any A-list stars.
Some people badmouthed it and said: "Probably because the budget of "Bankrupt Sisters" was used to pay for Lu Yanhe's creative script."
Linghe is happy to let everyone talk about it, and to increase the popularity of the drama "Bankrupt Sisters", first to increase the attention.
Not long after, Linghe suddenly released another news related to "Bankrupt Sisters":
Recruit a rehearsal audience. Before the official filming of "Bankrupt Sisters" begins, a trial performance will be conducted in the form of a drama in a small theater. Audiences will be recruited to watch and provide opinions.
Another new way to play.
The reason is that everyone saved the script together. Although Lu Yanhe had also read it, Hu Siwei still wanted to use this method to see the audience's reaction in advance.
See whether the script and story are feasible, and whether the characters can stand up. Another thing is to allow the actors to rehearse in advance and grasp the status of the characters.
This requires spending some money upfront.
The actors need to spend three months in advance to coordinate rehearsals, script changes, auditions, and discussions. Based on their opinions, there will be another round, or even two rounds.
Of course, Linghe cannot let everyone work for free, so Linghe still provides everyone with a monthly subsidy of 10,000 yuan.
These actors are not famous actors, and their life pressure is not small. It cannot be said that "Bankrupt Sisters" is a big pie that can change their destiny, so let them continue to "dedicate" and "sacrifice" in the early stage.
And these main actors in "Broke Sisters" are very willing to do this. Their current mentality is as if they suddenly won the lottery, and everything in their lives has become how to make the lottery money actually pay out.
"Television Review" magazine published a special review article praising this phenomenon.
——Film and television dramas have been quick and easy for many years, but Lu Yanhe and his Linghe Film and Television took every crew to slow down, audition, rehearse, and script reading sessions. Even during the filming of "Friends" last year, it took one week and three days. Rehearsal, two days of shooting, two days of rest, to ensure that everyone is in the best shooting condition.
——Sometimes, when you spend hundreds of millions on a drama, you use the best creators to build the best team, and you want to make the best drama, but you don’t give it the most adequate support. time to make the most adequate preparations.
——Of course, we must also see that so far, there are only a handful of crews that can do this. Only Lu Yanhe's scenes can make those difficult agents and actors willingly cooperate with him and Linghe. The arrangement of the film and television allows them to do things that are simply impossible for them to do in other crews.
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"We just opened a play before. We originally wanted the actors to join the cast a week in advance, read the script, and rehearse. As a result, they asked them to pay them an extra three million, not including the extra money for him and his team. One week of food, clothing, accommodation and transportation.”
A producer from Songkai Film and Television talked about what he had just encountered during his live broadcast.
"Which of us doesn't want to do what Lu Yanhe and the others do? Who doesn't want to make this show better? I think you are really criticizing the wrong people when you criticize us producers. It's because we don't want to give them a better creative environment. ”
"How many actors like Lu Yanhe are there in the entertainment industry? He joins the cast of almost every drama in advance, and several of his dramas are overdue, but he has never asked the crew for a penny more in salary, and they are very considerate. Crew, how many actors do you think can do this? ”
"Why do you think he didn't use any of the stars in "Bankrupt Sisters"? To be honest, in the circle, everyone has reached a consensus that the actors in Lu Yanhe's circle are easier to work with, especially those who have worked with Lu Yanhe Those young actors lead by example and are infectious.”
"Whenever he goes to any crew, apart from his own food and accommodation, he never asks the crew to pay for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of anyone on his team. Just for this reason, so far, he is the only one in the entire entertainment industry who does this. Why do people do this? Can it have such industry influence? ”
"Of course, we can't say that the other actors who ask the crew to pay the bill are wrong. Things here are too complicated. It's unrealistic for you to let the actors join the crew without an assistant. Even Lu Yanhe, who is so arrogant, has to bring one. There is no way, professional Here’s the nature, what I’m talking about is that some actors are so disgusting that all the aunts and uncles want to take them with them and catch the crew.”
"Actually, I really hope that Lu Yanhe and his company will film more movies, bring out more actors who are easy to work with, and let those actors who are not worthy of their roles be eliminated."
"Really, I'm not exaggerating. Look at Wang Dashan who acted in "The Journey", Wang Jing who acted in "Late Spring", and Zhan Yun and Wen Minglan in "Friends". They are all recognized as good actors. The actors I work with all started the industry with Lu Yanhe, and they all learned how to be an actor from Lu Yanhe.”
"Some time ago, a friend approached Yin Xincheng about a film. As a result, when production was about to start, one of the investors ran away and withdrew the capital. Suddenly, the film might not be successful. Yin Xincheng had already collected half of the money. The film is paid, according to the contract, even at this time When the movie went bad, he didn't need to refund the money. He took the initiative to find my friend and asked if the salary was used to make up for the hole. If it was enough to continue filming, if it was not enough, he would refund half of the salary. Damn it. Do you dare to think? ”
"Why only half? Let me go, do you understand? Not to mention that he can only withdraw half, the other half is divided by the brokerage company, and he can't be the owner of his brokerage company. Even if he takes it all, he will only withdraw the money. Half of it, this is pretty awesome, okay? It's really Yin Xincheng's help in times of need that made this drama come alive. It means that he didn't get a penny of the salary. He just waits to share how much money the movie makes later. If he doesn't make money and loses, he will be in vain. Taken.”
"Do you know what Yin Xincheng said? He said that if he accepted the money with peace of mind at this time and didn't care about anything else, he would be embarrassed to see his friends from "Friends" if word got out about it."
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In the group chat of the creators of "Friends", Bai Jin took a slice of the live broadcast and sent it to the group, @永新城:
Is this true?
Yin Xincheng: It’s true.
Bai Jin: Are you so moral? !
Yin Xincheng: I think that big brother is so miserable. He mobilized the whole company to make that movie. It took almost a year to prepare. Everyone in the company was waiting for this movie to support their families. When he came to knock me When the schedule was scheduled, it took a lot of effort to meet me through my agent. After chatting, I I think his project is okay, and secondly, I think it’s really difficult for him. The industry has been in recession in the past few years. He had a drama before, and the actor had an accident. If he acts, the platform will agree to give him a pre-order payment, otherwise, his play will not be filmed from the beginning.
Lu Yanhe gave him three thumbs up in the group.
Bai Jin: Are you really afraid that you won’t have the face to see us?
Yin Xincheng: Otherwise, you have done so many things each and every one of you, I will be involved in this.
Bai Jin: What did we do?
Yin Xincheng: By the way, last month, didn't you follow CCTV's "Heart Project" team to go to impoverished mountainous areas for condolences?
Bai Jin: It’s a charity event. Can it involve you?
Yin Xincheng: Is this your fifth charity event this year? You are all so nice. If I don't show a better character, I feel like I'm not worthy of this small circle.
Yan Liang: You are so tough-talking. If you want to do something righteously, you have to blame us.
Zhan Yun: That’s right.
Yin Xincheng: Stop talking, stop talking.
Zhan Yun: @鲁艳河, when will "Bankrupt Sisters" be filmed? Do you need us to make a cameo?
Lu Yanhe: I have this idea, but I haven’t figured out how to make a cameo in the script.
Zhan Yun: What’s so difficult about this? Don’t they open a restaurant? Let's go to a restaurant and have a meal together as characters from "Friends."
Bai Jin: You can have this!
Lu Yanhe said with a smile: I will talk to the screenwriting team and see if we can come up with a good idea.
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Lu Yanhe was very grateful to Zhan Yun for taking the initiative to mention this matter in the group.
By the time "Friends" airs today, the leading actors in it have all become popular actors who can stand alone and achieve success alone.
Just like Yin Xincheng, the platform is willing to pay pre-orders for his dramas before they are aired.
It is conceivable that at this time, it is actually more difficult to find them to guest star in a new scene. Not every actor is as free as Lu Yanhe. He has the final say on which roles to take and which ones to guest star in.
They will definitely not charge money for guest appearances. If they do, Zhan Yun will not take the initiative to ask for money.
And they don't charge money, and the brokerage company has 100% objections, because the brokerage company can't earn a commission.
This requires them to work hard to find a brokerage company.
The more clearly he knew what was behind this, the harder it was for Lu Yanhe to talk to them and ask them to make a cameo.
Huang Kairen can do it, Chen Bige can do it, and Jiang Yuqian can do it, because he knows that they can make their own decisions.
But neither Yin Xincheng nor Zhan Yun can be their own masters.
Despite this, Zhan Yun still spoke.
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To be fair, Lu Yanhe really needs the creative team of "Friends" to make a guest appearance in "Broke Sisters".
The scene of the six characters from "Friends" merging together will definitely be a big hit, attracting millions or even tens of millions of people to watch the show "Broken Sisters" for this scene.
Before Lu Yanhe could even think of how to talk to them, Zhan Yun brought it up herself.
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At this moment, Bai Jin is also chatting with Zhan Yun privately:
Yan He didn't even look for us, why did you take the initiative to ask? What if people don’t need us to make guest appearances?
Zhan Yun: If he doesn’t need it, just tell him, but he may really need us to go. It’s just that person. You’ve known him for so long, and you still don’t know? He always doesn't want to cause us any trouble. If he really wants to speak, he doesn't know how much struggle he has to do in his heart.
Bai Jin: Ah, that's what you said. I don't understand. He obviously gave us the opportunity and made us famous, but he always seems to be afraid of trouble us and taking advantage of us.
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Zhan Yun: But just because he is such a person, I trust him.
Bai Jin: I don’t know how many seasons the show “Friends” can be filmed. I really hope it can continue to be filmed.
Zhan Yun: I hope that too. In fact, my agency wants me to quit the show.
Bai Jin: Huh?
Zhan Yun: Don't worry, I won't agree. If they dare to force me to quit "Friends", I will negotiate with them to terminate the contract.
Bai Jin: Why do they want you to quit "Friends"? Obviously this show is still so popular.
Zhan Yun: Because the filming of "Friends" takes up a lot of time. From December to February, I basically spend two or three months rehearsing and filming. At the same time, I may take on another drama, three or four. For ten episodes, the salary is two or three times that of "Friends."
Bai Jin: But which drama is more popular than "Friends"?
Zhan Yun: They think I'm already popular even if I don't act in "Friends".
Bai Jin:......
Zhan Yun: Well, that’s what small companies are like. I will definitely leave when my contract with this company expires. It’s really depressing. You can directly feel it from their attitude towards you. They really just treat you as a person. Tools for making money will not consider your long-term planning at all, nor will they consider what projects will be helpful to my entire career.
Bai Jin: You just want to make quick money, right?
Zhan Yun: They even wanted me to go live to deliver the goods, but I sternly refused.
Bai Jin: Are you going to the brand’s live broadcast room?
Zhan Yun: I run a live broadcast myself to deliver goods.
Bai Jin: ...Come on, you're not out of style. If they ask you to do this, aren't they afraid that your image will plummet and all the endorsements you have are gone?
Zhan Yun: They thought of it later, so they didn’t mention it.
Some of the big-name endorsements on Zhan Yun would definitely not want to see their endorsers suddenly become inferior.
Bai Jin: Have you ever considered where you will go after your contract here ends?
Zhan Yun: I didn’t think about it, and I was more inclined to open my own studio. However, Li Zhibai and Yan Liang did not choose to open a studio, but renewed their contracts. This made me a little confused. Is it not so good to open a studio by myself? easy.
Bai Jin: The prerequisite for opening your own studio is probably to have an agent like Chen Ziyan. Otherwise, no matter how popular you are, you have to work alone and you may not be able to survive.
Zhan Yun: Yes, sometimes when I see the accusations and criticisms that Lu Yanhe has suffered, I wonder, if I didn’t have a brokerage company - although they do a terrible job, without these, I probably wouldn’t be able to survive. .
Bai Jin: That’s not the case. The main thing is to open your own studio. You have to bear all the expenses yourself, including legal affairs, public relations, publicity, marketing, business docking... The operating costs are quite high, especially if you are working with top players in the industry. If you are a person, with your popularity and reputation, the costs in these aspects are not small every year.
Zhan Yun: How about we set up a brokerage company together in the future and stay together.
Bai Jin: Now that we are both on the rise, let’s forget it. Ten or twenty years from now, we can work together and have fewer conflicts.
Zhan Yun: You are still as direct as ever.
Bai Jin: I like this.
Zhan Yun: I like you like this too.
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If the casting of "Broken Sisters" was as smooth as a step-by-step process, then the casting of the two thieves in "Home Alone" was not smooth as the suitable candidates could not be found.
The actors that Lu Yanhe and the others thought were suitable were unable to participate due to schedule conflicts.
So much so that I have almost exhausted all the comedians in the circle, but I still haven’t found a suitable actor.
Chen Yin insisted that the movie must have a well-known actor who can be recognized by theater managers. Otherwise, no matter how good the movie is and how popular it is, the window period may end after only a few days of release because there is no film schedule.
Lu Yanhe understood why Chen Yin was so insistent.
The positioning of "Home Alone" and "Oops of the Sea" are different.
Although "Home Alone" is also a low-cost film, it is positioned as a commercial film, so their operating ideas should be those of commercial films.
The core of a commercial film is to have a selling point and a star.
It is true that the three protagonists of "Harry Potter" are all newcomers, but the other characters can be called a golden supporting cast. One of them is missing, and they are all famous actors in Europe and the United States.
Even the two actors from the original "Home Alone", Joe Pesci had already starred in "Goodfellas", and Daniel Stern had already had "Goodbye Yesterday". They were both already famous actors at the time, especially Director Chris Columbus was worried that he couldn't afford the latter at first. It was only because the producers relaxed on the budget that the two of them had a classic performance.
If "Home Alone" were based solely on the fact that the screenwriter was Lu Yanhe, this movie would definitely not be released quietly like an ordinary "Three Nos" movie, but it would definitely not be able to get enough film schedules like "Love Letter". It ensures that viewers who want to watch this movie will not increase their viewing costs and have to travel far to see a movie in a cinema.
Only with celebrities can we ensure that there are publicity points in the early stage and basic film arrangement.
There are only so many good domestic comedians with certain box office appeal.
"What if the scope is expanded to include non-comedians?" Hu Siwei asked, "Can the image be adjusted through makeup and other methods? Not only comedians can perform comedies, many cross-border comedy actors also have people in their comedy works. A performance of surprise.”
Of course.
Just like the actors who played the two thieves in the original version of "Home Alone", they were not actors who specialized in comedy, but the final effect was very good.
However, it is even more difficult to find actors based on this idea.
First, famous actors don't dare to take roles that are not their own.
Second, even if someone is willing to take it on, I don’t know what the effect of the performance will be.
Still have to audition.
But for a group of already famous actors, asking them to audition was not something that even Lu Yanhe could do easily.
However, the filming of the movie is about to start.
I only have time to shoot Wasps during the winter vacation.
Once the filming is not completed, you will have to wait for the next holiday.
Lu Yanhe bit the bullet, called many people, asked them to recommend actors, and then took the initiative to contact them, arrange to meet, talk about the script and roles, and then invite them to audition.
Because of this news, many people in the entertainment industry knew that Lu Yanhe had a movie and was constantly meeting actors, but could not find the right one.
Several actors with good acting skills and abilities came to recommend themselves to Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe was very confused and hesitant.
He didn't even easily invite others to audition for the movie, because in terms of the hard conditions, they were not satisfied. They were not famous enough to impress the theater managers, and they couldn't support the star aura of "Home Alone".
He doesn't want to waste other people's time.
However, let him really say to others, I'm sorry, because you are not popular enough or famous enough, so I can't give you this opportunity.
This is ridiculous. (End of chapter)