"Musi did not renew her contract with us, so she went to find Ji Miao."
The agent told Zhan Yun.
Zhan Yun was a little surprised when she heard this, but she was not too angry.
"It was Ji Miao's endorsement brand before. Later, after the endorsement period ended, it was said that because Ji Miao had been following the movie route and his national popularity was not high enough. After finding us, why did he find it again now?"
"Last year, the movie "Fake Death" has a very high box office, which has greatly increased her popularity and popularity. This time, another movie was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Jose Film Festival. Perhaps because she is optimistic about her further improvement in the future, she has found it again."
Zhan Yun nodded.
"Okay." She said, "I don't really want to endorse this brand."
Agent: "Among the younger generation of young actresses, you are firmly in the first echelon. It turns out that Ji Miao is purely maintaining her status as a movie star. In fact, in terms of popularity and popularity, they are far inferior to you. "Fake Death" still brought her a tangible improvement."
"We just need to be ourselves," said Zhan Yun.
"Of course." The agent smiled and said, "No matter how anxious others are, you don't have to worry about it. With the series "Friends" in hand, you don't have to worry about these things at all. However, Lu Yanhe told you, how many seasons of Friends are going to be made?"
"I didn't say it."
"I hope I can shoot more seasons."
Except for "Friends", other film and television dramas starring Zhan Yun have a relatively average reputation, and there is no other drama that can reach this level.
This actually affects Zhan Yun’s pay.
Because as long as she doesn't act in "Friends", her attention will be much smaller.
Of course, this does not affect her performance in other aspects. The blessing of the character Li Lili to her makes her very popular in fashion, business, etc. But the audience seemed to be willing to accept her as Li Lili and didn't really want to see her play other roles.
Zhan Yun doesn't know how many seasons of "Friends" will be filmed. She still hopes that besides "Friends", there will be other representative works. She does not want to be as successful as "Friends", and at least it can be recognized by the audience.
Zhan Yun asked: "Have you sent me some good scripts recently?"
The agent shook his head.
"All are very average."
Zhan Yun: "What if I don't watch the pay?"
"It's not a matter of pay, but the books sent here are very single-type, and they are all characters that look particularly similar to Li Lili," said the agent.
Zhan Yun heard this and said, "Then show me all the scripts that are still acceptable."
The agent asked: "Are all?"
"Yeah."
The agent wants to speak but stops.
Since Zhan Yun and Yang Zhoujin broke up, Zhan Yun has changed a lot, even if she is with Yin Xincheng later, she is still the case.
In the past, Zhan Yun was not so concerned about her career.
At least she wouldn't take the initiative to ask the agent for the script.
This is also related to Zhan Yun's popularity too early. She had a lot of things early, and everyone around her held her, and she had nothing to lack.
The agent did not expect that a breakup with Yang Zhoujin made this little girl who had always been not very concerned about her career suddenly have some fighting spirit.
She went downstairs with her agent.
"Xiaoyun!" the agent suddenly reminded.
Zhan Yun noticed her reminder and looked at her eyes. Yang Zhoujin, who had not appeared for a long time, was actually downstairs, holding a motorcycle helmet in his hand, and was joking with the girl at the front desk.
As if he had noticed the movements of Zhan Yun and the others, Yang Zhoujin looked up.
Zhan Yun looked at him expressionlessly, and her heart was actually a little confused. She has not yet cultivated a big heart that can be as if nothing happened when facing Yang Zhoujin.
The agent asked: "Do you need me to call a bodyguard?"
Zhan Yun thought for a while and said, "Call me, who knows why he will go crazy again after a while."
"Zhan Yun, I haven't seen each other for so many days, let's talk!" Yang Zhoujin said loudly.
Zhan Yun was about to speak when suddenly she noticed someone was holding a cell phone next to her, as if she was secretly taking pictures.
She pointed it out and asked, "Are you bringing people to shoot?"
Yang Zhoujin looked at the person who was secretly photographing in surprise, and actually strode over, waved his hand and knocked the cell phone in the other party to the ground.
"Who the hell allowed you to take pictures?" Yang Zhoujin's face looked very ugly.
Zhan Yun and his agent continued to move down.
"Why did he know that I'm here?" Zhan Yun asked.
She had a business shooting at this company today, and her itinerary was not made public.
The agent said: "It is not difficult to find out your whereabouts with his energy."
The bodyguards came over, and four people picked up Zhan Yun at the stairs.
The person whose phone was knocked off dared not speak out.
Yang Zhoujin turned around and looked at Zhan Yun.
"How is it?"
Zhan Yun looked at him silently for a while and said, "You should know that what you did before is quite a bastard, right?"
"I admit that I am a bastard, but I never feel it." Yang Zhoujin walked to Zhan Yun.
The bodyguard stood in front of Zhan Yun.
Yang Zhoujin smiled and raised his chin, "Are you so guarded against me now?"
"Who knows why you are going crazy again?" Zhan Yun said, "I don't know what you want to talk to me, but I don't want to talk to you. I also hope it has nothing to do with you in the future. Please don't come to me again in the future."
Yang Zhoujin was stunned for a moment and nodded.
"Okay, I heard you say that in person, okay." He turned around and left, without any nostalgia.
Such a decisive speed made Zhan Yun inexplicably stunned and unexpectedly.
The agent asked in surprise: "He's leaving now?"
Zhan Yun nodded and was stunned for a long time, "It seems to be."
"I didn't understand."
"I don't understand either." Zhan Yun said.
At the same time, she also breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of her heart. I don’t know what to say, Zhan Yun was really a little worried just now, and Yang Zhoujin would continue to go crazy because of her refusal.
The agent seemed to hear the voice in her heart, saying, "Fortunately you broke up with him, otherwise, seriously, Xiaoyun, you are no match for him at all."
After hearing this, Zhan Yun did not point out whether the word "opponent" was used incorrectly.
When the two of them are together, they are lovers, not opponents.
Perhaps, subconsciously, her agents didn't feel that they were in a close position. The moment she knew him, she was just his prey, played with or abandoned by him.
At this moment, Zhan Yun really felt a little hurt in her self-esteem.
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After setting off for the Jose Film Festival, Chen Ziyan told Lu Yanhe: "I'm very curious now whether Yang Zhouli will go to Jose."
"Shouldn't he go to organize Shijin Night?" Lu Yanhe asked, "If he doesn't go, what should I do about this event?"
Now that the industry basically knows, I really made up my mind to enter the entertainment industry, including movies.
The "Night of Real Care" held at the Jose Film Festival was a huge investment just to gain a reputation.
Although Lu Yanhe has not agreed to attend, many celebrity artists have already confirmed to participate in the event that night, including Shang Yongzhou and Jiang Yuqian.
Chen Ziyan has been reluctant to let go just to leave room and watch the wind direction more.
Sure enough, Yang Zhoujin appeared again.
As soon as he appeared, Yang Zhouli "disappeared".
Very strange.
Although Yang Zhoujin is now ridiculed by the entire Internet, calling him a violent criminal and being shameless, he is like a peacock with a screen open. No matter who scolds it, it shows itself with energy and does not restrain itself at all.
Basically, live broadcasts a day.
Every time I broadcast live, I would scold Yang Zhouli for saying something, such as being very scheming, old fox, ruthless, very good at cheating people, etc.
After a few broadcasts, people started to talk about it in the barrage.
If one person has such a great hatred for another person, and even willing to let himself be scolded, it must be expressed, which means that the other person must have a problem.
Some media emerged, insinuating that Yang Zhouli wanted to fight for power and take away the business from Yang Zhoujin's hands.
With many different opinions, Chen Ziyan suddenly received news before the opening of the Jose Film Festival.
"This time, the person who represented Shi Jin going to the Jose Film Festival became Yang Zhoujin." Chen Ziyan said to Lu Yanhe with a dark face, "It's really a ghost."
When Lu Yanhe heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, and at the same time he was surprised.
"Where is Yang Zhouli?"
"I don't know." Chen Ziyan shook her head, "No one knows. It's strange that Yang Zhouli disappeared after Yang Zhoujin claimed that he beat Yang Zhouli on the live broadcast."
Lu Yanhe: "Their family is quite strange. It's just like there can only be one person outside at the same time. Before, Yang Zhoujin disappeared, and Yang Zhouli was very active outside. Now Yang Zhoujin is jumping up and down, and Yang Zhouli is gone."
"Who can tell the internal struggles in other people's family clearly? We are just watching." Chen Ziyan said, "Fortunately, I didn't agree to go to Shijin Night before. Since Yang Zhoujin represented Shijin Group, we will definitely not go."
"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, "It's okay to deal with Yang Zhouli. If you deal with Yang Zhoujin, it will really make my eyes dark."
"Shijin's stock price has been falling. I don't know why Shijin made Yang Zhoujin jump out." Chen Ziyan was also confused.
"No matter how much you can make trouble for the most, someone must follow you and wipe your butt." Lu Yanhe complained.
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This time I went to Jose, Lu Yanhe only needed to go three days before the closing ceremony.
Because the global premiere of "The Burning" is three days before the closing ceremony begins.
This all-star fantasy blockbuster is finally going to meet everyone.
Lu Yanhe is looking forward to seeing this movie.
Because several people have told him that the special effects of this movie are indeed done well.
Long Yan spent a lot of money on this movie.
However, this also means that the box office pressure of this movie is relatively high. According to the current production cost and the estimated promotion and distribution cost, the box office of this movie must reach one billion before it can recover the cost at the theater box office.
After all, the derivative income of Chinese-language movies is still relatively average. Even if the TV broadcasting rights, streaming media copyrights and overseas distribution, including some subsequent copyright income, the total amount of these will bring to Longyan, under normal circumstances, it is difficult to exceed 100 million yuan.
These are not issues that Lu Yanhe needs to worry about.
Longyan itself is a professional big-name businessman. If he didn't understand the accounts in these aspects, he would have gone bankrupt long ago.
In fact, everyone's expectations for "Burning Fire" are quite high. The blockbusters, starring two actors, Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou, and an all-star lineup. In addition, a traditional and powerful company like Longyan, the box office of one billion yuan is just guaranteed in everyone's mind.
However, those who are truly engaged in the film industry cannot let go of their hearts until the first day of the box office. It is impossible to let go. The film market is so risky. Even if the series sequel is not bought, the box office will decline very quickly once the audience does not buy it.
This time, Longyan is coming to Jose for a global premiere and selling films, in order to recover some profits in advance and reduce the pressure.
After all, there are still many people who pay for the golden signboard of "Lu Yanhe" in the international market.
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As for such an all-star Chinese blockbuster, even if it is just a film in the screening unit, the Jose Film Festival also gave the movie the largest screening theater and gave a grand premiere.
After Lu Yanhe arrived in Jose, he still went to the magazine "Jose Movie" first.
Basically every time he comes here, he will meet Evan Gardi, the magazine's executive editor.
Especially this time, he came with a mission and personally brought an invitation letter to invite him to attend next month's Jumping International Film Critics Film Festival.
He came to support him last time.
Evan Gardi had already agreed to attend this time. This time, Lu Yanhe came to send an invitation letter, which was just a form, a "show" to be posted on two people's social media. For Evan Gardi, as the editor-in-chief of "Jose Film", it is very normal for him to attend some famous international film festivals. Not attending is not normal. However, it is extremely rare to "send previews" in advance to stand up for it.
Lu Yanhe's relationship with the media circles and critics around the world has always puzzled many people.
Why?
If Lu Yanhe is a filmmaker they are willing to make friends with, what before?
Why did the media and critics seem to favor him when he first became famous? Starting from "Three Mountains", have you sang hymns?
An actor is often more likely to be praised when he first appears, and everyone still has a tolerant mentality. However, such praise is often difficult to sustain because people will become more and more picky, especially for increasingly familiar faces.
However, Lu Yanhe broke this rule.
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Despite this, before the release of the movie "Burning", Chen Ziyan was actually a little worried about whether the movie would have a cold reputation at the Jose Film Festival.
The commercial film starring Lu Yanhe has never been screened at the film festival.
"Burning" is the first one.
Will the critics attract negative criticism because this movie is a commercial film?
Although Chen Ziyan also knows that in fact, the critics are not so jealous of commercial films and are highly praised for art films. Generally speaking, everyone treats them separately and will not treat commercial films with the standards of treating art films.
No one is stupid enough to find the subtle and complex aspects of human nature from commercial films.
However, commercial films are also divided into popcorn movies and expressive commercial films.
If it was a popcorn movie, everyone would definitely squirt without mercy.
Lu Yanhe was not worried that the theme and theme of "The Burning of Fire" itself would not be welcomed. The play itself is a very classic theme narrative, one is revenge and the other is father-killing. In human history and culture, these two themes themselves mean the resistance and struggle consciousness of human spiritual power.
Under this theme, the front and late transformations of the two characters, from hostility to joining hands, are advanced along the character logic and story logic under the theme. In particular, Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou's handling of these two characters both express their reasons for the role in a more restrained and implicit way, without a superficial direct interpretation, and can have a deeper understanding.
Lu Yanhe was not worried about these things, he was only worried whether everyone could accept the concept of "art".
Of course, Westerners have magic, and there is nothing they can't accept.
However, when Long Yan put "Burning" at the Jose Film Festival for screening, Lu Yanhe still admired their courage.
When the project was first launched, although the slogan was to make an international blockbuster, they were actually very clear about it. At that time, "The Fire" thought that it could break through the overseas box office results in several Asian countries.
However, two years later, the box office performance of Chinese-language films overseas has been getting better and better in the past two years. In addition, the films starring Lu Yanhe are very interested and willing to release them, which makes Long Yan have an idea about "The Burning of Fire" in Europe and the United States.
"The Burning" is screened at night.
The red carpet starts at 6:30 pm.
According to the official arrangement of the film festival, Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou went to the red carpet alone first to provide the media present with the opportunity to shoot separately, and then they walked with the crew again.
They are the biggest stars of the movie, and it is normal for the film festival to have this arrangement.
However, Lu Yanhe did not expect that Yang Zhoujin would also come to the premiere of their movie.
It was invited by Longyan.
Lu Yanhe saw him in the infield, and did not say hello or pay attention.
Longyan is too rubbish in this matter. He didn't believe what happened in their live broadcast room before, and Long Yan didn't know. Even if they wanted to invite Yang Zhoujin over for commercial reasons, they should at least say hello to him in advance, but there was no hello.
This time, Chen Ziyan did not come together. Lu Yanhe thought about it and said nothing. However, when Huang Tai was preparing to come over to say hello to him, he noticed by his eyes, turned around and walked towards the other side.
Maxine's Zhong Benshuo is here today.
Zhong Benshuo has been watching this movie, and he is quite sure to win it.
After all, Maxine itself is the largest streaming media in Asia. Since its inception, this movie has been widely reported in film media in various Asian countries. With Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou starring, and with many Chinese movie stars participating, such an all-star lineup is appealing even in Japan, South Korea, India and Thailand.
There are many such precedents.
There are several such so-called star-studded blockbusters in South Korea every year. Despite the differences in theater box office performance, none of them achieved good playback results on streaming media.
Therefore, Zhong Benshuo attaches great importance to it and wants to win this movie.
Zhong Benshuo was very surprised, and Lu Yanhe would come to find him on his own initiative.
"Yan He, you are too diligent, and another movie is about to meet us." Zhong Benshuo said enthusiastically, "I really want to shoot a documentary of yours to record your year and see how much you can do in a year."
Lu Yanhe chuckled softly.
"If you want to make this documentary, it's not impossible to have a good shooting plan." Lu Yanhe said, "You are here today, are you planning to get the exclusive copyright of streaming media?"
Zhong Benshuo said: "Of course, I am your loyal fan. I have participated in the bidding fiercely in every play of yours."
"Thank you, it seems that my rising pay is due to you." Lu Yanhe smiled.
Zhong Benshuo: "But we have handed you so many scripts, and you won't act."
"It's not very suitable. I'm certainly willing to act if there is a suitable book." Lu Yanhe said with a smile, "Then you always show me some book that others don't want, and of course I don't like it."
Zhong Benshuo was "shocked" and immediately said, "How is it possible? The notebook we gave you are the first choice actors, how could it be looked down upon by others?"
"Then why didn't you come to me for the "Past" and "Burning Portrait" you did last year?" Lu Yanhe asked directly.
"The Past" and "The Burning Portrait" are both films produced and launched by Maxine last year. One is starring a Korean actor and an Asian American actor. It was shortlisted for the four major international film festivals and is also the annual list of film media.
Zhong Benshuo said helplessly: "These two movies are projects dominated by the director. We, Maxine, are only responsible for providing funds, and they find the actors themselves."
Lu Yanhe: "I believe what you said, but you saw it, what kind of movie I am willing to act in."
Zhong Benshuo: “…”
Zhong Benshuo found Lu Yanhe's book, which is basically based on dramas and movies, but they are also action or comedy calculated by streaming users' preferences. Simply put, it is a new generation of "popcorn" movies.
Of course Lu Yanhe won’t answer.
Lu Yanhe clicked until he smiled at Zhong Benshuo, "But I'm really too busy to do the next one or two years. I really don't have time to act on your project. Let's wait for the next two years."
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The screening room of "Burning" is very large.
Many people come to watch this video. The same thing is said, although this is a commercial blockbuster, Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou co-starring is enough to attract all the filmmakers to find out.
After the lively greetings, the movie begins.
...
Soon, Lu Yanhe was shocked.
What is a fantasy blockbuster?
When he was filming on the spot, he never expected that the movie world presented on the screen would be like this.
Majestic and grand.
Especially for the construction of the world of magicians, Lu Yanhe thought of the two movie series "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter", which made a new worldview structure.
However, this movie did not introduce it in a panoramic way, but instead brought it up little by little with the movement of the characters.
Lu Yanhe's focus on this movie is all about worldview and special effects.
Lu Yanhe was amazed in many places. It has a typical Chinese aesthetic, and it is not only limited to the architectural beauty of "pavilions and towers", but also includes the use of each technique.
During the live shooting, Lu Yanhe had no idea what the technique he had produced looked like, it was all based on imagination.
Now, on the screen, each special effect is different. In Lu Yanhe's view, it is actually just one word to describe it: shock.
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"This movie must be watched in the cinema." Lu Yanhe posted on Weibo immediately, and his excitement and excitement were beyond words, saying, "This is my first time watching the film "Burning Fire", it completely exceeded my imagination when I was filming!"
At the scene, there was warm applause.
Many people's eyes were filled with wonder.
Lu Yanhe looked at Shang Yongzhou.
Shang Yongzhou also looked at him.
They all saw an emotion called "relieving" in each other's eyes.
The more top actors are, the more afraid they are to participate in the shooting of such blockbusters. It is not just a matter of artistic pursuit and aesthetics, but this kind of film is actually particularly difficult to imagine.
When I got a script of "Love Letter", I basically imagine what the movie would look like.
But to be honest, the script of a movie like "Burning" is about fifteen minutes, and there are only a few lines of words on the script.
What do you think?
Therefore, it really takes some courage and determination to take on this kind of film.
They first took on this film because the company Longyan was reliable, and the other was because Wan Renhai was a mature and famous director who had made such a big production. But this did not make them feel that they could be relieved by ten thousand hearts.
After all, even with this configuration, many bad movies have been made.
In the history of Chinese film, there are too many such bad movies.
What made Lu Yanhe so excited was because Wan Renhai still did not forget the original intention of telling a story when he had achieved this level of film special effects.
Many blockbusters pursue scenes, visions, and special effects, but forget that the story is the foundation of everything.
Even Wanrenhai retained the scene in which Lu Yanhe left in the end, and retained the look of Wannian.
Lu Yanhe breathed a sigh of relief.
As an actor, he feels that his true drama in this movie is actually this look.
To some extent, other plays are just "process plays" to him, even if they are "serious scenes" of emotional outbursts.
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After the premiere, Longyan also held a special post-screening cocktail party.
Various media, film critics, producers, film vendors, etc. were all invited.
Of course, this occasion is mainly the role of "public relations".
What Lu Yanhe is most concerned about is everyone's evaluation of this movie.
"This is a very great movie." Some people would describe it in such an exaggerated tone.
Some people may also say: "This is indeed a very good movie, but I still prefer a movie like "The Road of Glory". Your collaboration with Shang Yongzhou again should not be included in such a special effects blockbuster. Although both of you have tried their best, in fact, the protagonist of this movie is a variety of gorgeous special effects scenes."
Lu Yanhe listened carefully.
Lu Yanhe is actually quite acceptable to these.
What Lu Yanhe is a little unacceptable is that some people think that the movie "Burning" has the shadow of classic Western fantasy blockbusters.
shadow.
This word is used very well. It means that the person who spoke can't find evidence that "Burning Fire" is similar to other movies - or directly plagiarism, but just use this word to vaguely refer to something.
Lu Yanhe said to his face: "Is that so? This movie is actually derived from Eastern sorcerers in Chinese traditional culture. What makes you feel like there are shadows of other movies?"
The other party is a British film media reporter.
He said: "This kind of system of technique is actually very similar to magic."
"That's really different." Lu Yanhe said, "The records of various countries and nations have content about supernatural powers. If you understand it a little, you should know that the basis of the technique is not magic, but a logical system that we have unique, such as yin and yang, such as the five elements, wood produces fire, fire produces earth, earth produces metal, metal produces water, and water produces wood. These things should not be available in magic, right?"
The British reporter was exported by Lu Yanhe and smiled embarrassedly, "I just said it's very similar."
"It is true that there are similarities because they are all supernatural forces, but they are not shadows." Lu Yanhe didn't mind at all that he seemed a little stubborn at this moment.
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Over there, Zhong Benshuo has offered to pay $15 million to win the distribution rights of the movie "Burning Fire" except mainland China.
However, Longyan did not let go.
If it is a streaming copyright, they may also consider whether to have a global distribution right except mainland China? What if they are a great injustice? With the current situation of this movie, the box office of theaters in Asia alone is more than this number.
Zhong Benshuo is not in a hurry. As for the quote, I just quote a price and you cut a price, there will be a return or a return.
He had already dealt with Long Yan many times and was very familiar with the other party's routines.
In fact, Midoriya is here too.
Midoriya is willing to offer a price of $5 million to buy the distribution rights of the movie except mainland China.
This is different from the exclusive copyright of streaming media. The latter is a one-time deal, and the former will also enjoy box office revenue.
The issuance rights of $5 million are not low. However, Longyan is not a small company either. They know better that compared to this price figure, the key is to publish "Burning Fire" at what scale.
If Green Valley does not plan to be released globally in the end, but instead directly takes the leasing process, Longyan will not have that much profit.
Longyan hopes that Green Valley can promise that the movie will be released in North America for at least two weeks in 800 theaters, and that, in other countries, will also be released on a large scale.
Midoriya has some doubts about this. (This chapter ends)