"A World Without Thieves" will be released in a few days, so publicity and release are naturally indispensable.
He is quite busy and has no time to follow the crew on road shows in various places.
But you still have to attend the main press conference in the Imperial Capital.
After all, Director Feng even came to see him when he was "lying in the hospital".
Although this person also has his own little Jiujiu, he does not care about his heart in terms of his deeds.
Because if you talk about your heart, there are no good people in the entertainment industry.
A large conference room was rented at the press conference.
But even for a movie conference of the level of "A World Without Thieves", the venue rented was not as lavish as Bearded's usual hype.
What is the level of "A World Without Thieves"?
In terms of box office, this film ranked third of the year.
The two films ahead of him are "House of Flying Daggers" and "Kung Fu", which have much higher investments.
When it comes to actors, let’s leave Zhang Yuan aside.
Liu Dehua, Ge You, Wang Guan, Wang Baoqiang, Zhang Hanyu, Feng Yuanzheng.
Li Bingbing, Liu Ruoying, Xu Fan.
Among the actors in this film, there are a total of six movie stars and three movie queens.
This does not include the quasi-actor Fu Biao who "died young".
With this cast configuration, few films in later generations can get it together.
Even so, he is not as ostentatious as the bearded man, which shows his character.
“Brother!”
As soon as he opened the door to rest backstage, Wang Baoqiang trotted up.
"You haven't grown up at all." Zhang Yuan hooked his shoulder and walked to the sofa together.
At this moment, the room is full of acquaintances, and everyone is very comfortable.
"Zhang Yuan, how are you doing with the island nation?" Brother Hua smiled and stepped forward and asked.
He also learned about the White Dragon King from Lin Jianyue.
What cannot be seen clearly are the two futures, good and bad.
Brother Hua has even more reasons to believe that this hard-working and talented young man should have a better future.
"Very good, thank you Brother Hua for taking care of me."
"That's good..." Brother Hua started chatting with him.
Teacher Wang Quan, Zhang Hanyu, Liu Ruoying, and Xu Fan are all here.
That’s why Teacher Fu Biao didn’t come.
"Biaozi is still recuperating after the operation." After a while, Director Feng also joined in the chat.
"When the Film Association issued an announcement before, he also spoke for you."
"He also said that there will be opportunities to cooperate in the future. Although they are on the same crew this time, there will be no opposite roles. , a bit regretful.”
“But I told him, it’s nothing.”
“Next time I make a movie, I’ll just arrange one for you. It’s not a problem. Director Feng bared his teeth and said happily.
"Uh... yes, there are plenty of opportunities." After hearing what he said, Zhang Yuan looked embarrassed for a moment, but quickly hid it.
Hey, no chance.
Teacher Fu Biao has completed the operation now, and the effect seems to be good, and he has even started to arrange his work for next year.
But it will relapse within a few months, and then... there will be no more.
This is life.
But he couldn't say much.
After chatting for a while, Zhang Yuan turned his head when he saw Baoqiang wandering around him anxiously.
“Are you nervous again?”
“Don’t kowtow to reporters again soon.”
After Zhang Yuan finished speaking, everyone remembered the first day of filming. The scene where he knelt down to Brother Hua made everyone smile.
Baoqiang scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Brother, I'm a little nervous."
"But there are other things." He came forward.
“Several crews have contacted me now, wanting to film with me.” Bao Qiang said in a low voice.
"Oh." Zhang Yuan put his right hand on his shoulder with a smile on his face.
"Do you, Sister Cheng, know that these crews are contacting you?"
"I don't know, I haven't told him yet..."
Crunch!
Zhang Yuan's hand on his shoulder suddenly exerted force and pressed hard on several large acupoints on his shoulder.
"Ah!" Baoqiang immediately cried out in pain, but just as his voice was about to escape his throat, Zhang Yuan's other hand caught his neck.
After two or three seconds, he slowly let go.
Bao Qiang’s eyes were full of horror. He didn’t understand why Zhang Yuan suddenly attacked him.
“You have now signed a contract with my company.”
“How dare you go behind the company’s back, especially your sister Cheng, to contact the crew privately.”
“That’s up to me. In my eyes, it’s the same as wanting to rebel.”
"You haven't signed a contract with those crews yet, have you?" Zhang Yuan narrowed his eyes and stared at him closely.
Baoqiang quickly shook his head vigorously.
"I thought this was your first offender, and you probably didn't mean any harm, but you were used to being a gangster before."
Baoqiang nodded quickly to show that Zhang Yuan was right.
"So it won't happen again." He said and returned to his usual expression.
Wang Baoqiang felt as if the big brother who wanted to eat people just now was just his hallucination.
If there are no rules, there will be no rules. This kind of opening cannot be opened.
And he is the first employee of his own agency. If he is so casual and skips the company to deal with problems, how can he set an example for those who come after him.
If he does this, where will the manager Cheng Hao lose his face?
Companies are different from individuals. There must be a fixed process for doing things, and they cannot be overstepped casually.
That is to say, for the sake of maintaining a strong human nature, if he changes to another person, he can make the other person "die on the spot."
"Come on, what do you want from me?"
"No, no, it's okay..." Baoqiang was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak.
"Don't be such a coward. If you fart, hurry up. I'm busy." Zhang Yuan pulled him over and stroked his head randomly.
"I, I, I originally wanted you to help me figure out which drama I should take." Baoqiang said cautiously.
It seemed that his guess was correct. He didn't skip the company on purpose.
It’s just that I’ve gotten used to working alone for so many years.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have thought of letting myself be a consultant.
How could any Qing monarch approach the emperor to discuss offensive strategy.
"Okay, then tell me which crews are looking for you." Zhang Yuan calmly pulled him to sit down and spoke slowly.
Wang Baoqiang was very surprised.
No...
Didn’t Brother teach me a lesson just now?
Now you are willing to help me analyze the crew?
His thoughts are so difficult to guess!
Bao Qiang explained everything to his crew in detail, not daring to hide anything.
Everything from the salary to the size of the crew and the content of the script was discussed with him in detail.
"There are two movie crews and three TV drama crews, right?" Zhang Yuan thought about it.
Sigh in my heart.
Baoqiang is really born with good luck!
The first starring movie won the Golden Horse Award, and now with director Feng's blockbusters as a bonus, the scripts are naturally coming in endlessly.
After listening to this, Old God Zhang Yuan did not give an answer, but asked rhetorically.
"Which crew do you want to fall in love with?"
"The movie called "Midnight Soul Chaser" and the TV series called "The Bull Demon Comes to Earth"." Bao Qiang like He replied with his usual silly smile.
Zhang Yuan:……
You don’t have to watch these two movies. Just by the names, you can tell that they are low-budget bad movies.
“Why did you choose these two?” Zhang Yuan asked with a sideways glance.
“I like the scripts of these two plays.”
“Retelling.”
“I like this theme very much.”
"Tell the truth!"
"They paid too much..."
Zhang Yuan guessed it, it must be because of the remuneration.
This guy is anxious to make money.
This kind of small crew has no money to begin with. In order to attract attention, most of the money was raised and all of it was used as the lead actor's salary.
This creates a vicious cycle, with lower production budgets and worse finished films.
It is also very likely that because there is no TV station to buy it, the crew will eventually run away, and there is a high probability that the so-called high-priced film remuneration will not be received, or not fully paid.
Bao Qiang is still young. When he saw the "Flower World", he was fascinated, which is normal.
"You said that you can't accept these two movies."
"Ah..."
"Listen to me first."
"Let's talk about movies first."
"You have starred in two movies now, and one of them won you the Golden Horse Best Newcomer."
"And this is the work of Director Feng, a top domestic director." "So your image in the film industry is actually that of a talented grassroots, newcomer to acting."
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"Once you start acting in bad movies, you will destroy the image you have built up with great effort."
"So, in the subsequent movies, except for the ones I asked you to act in, if they are not movies by top directors, you I absolutely cannot accept it.”
Wang Baoqiang scratched his head, thinking that there were only a few great directors of Director Feng’s level in the country, and if they waited for them, they wouldn’t be able to make one for several years.
"Then the TV series."
"You don't have to watch anything else, just pick up this movie called "The Conspiracy"."
"Why? This drama has the least roles and the least pay!" Baoqiang was puzzled.
“You have to see through the phenomena to see the essence.” Zhang Yuan patted the back of his head.
“When accepting a film, you can’t just look at the script, but also the cast, production team, production company, and investors!”
“The original producer of this film is the Mai family, do you know?”
Wang Baoqiang shook his head.
Zhang Yuan became angry just looking at him and wanted to give him a set of Shaolin boxing to try.
Just look at the money, right?
"Mai Jia is a novelist, and most of his novels have sold the copyright, which means that his works have great market value."
"And this original work is still written by Mao Dun Literary Award-winning work.”
“With such an original work, the probability of overturning is relatively small.”
"Second, look at the main actors, Chen Shu, Gao Ming, and Liu Yunlong. They are all seniors and experts, and they have their own audience base."
"If you go to act, you can still take advantage of the popularity of these actors. ."
"Look at the production companies again."
"Sichuan TV Station, Sichuan Cable TV Company, Bayi Film Studio..."
"There are a few of them. , do you still have to worry about the film not being sold or being broadcast?”
"Not only can it be broadcast, but there is a high probability that it will be a star after the first broadcast!"
Zhang Yuan said to him earnestly: "When you act, you can't just look at the salary, but also look at the character after the film is broadcast. , what can this drama bring to you?"
"If the film cannot be broadcast, it will be a waste of time and popularity."
"Several dramas in a row. It can’t even be broadcast, maybe you can’t find this person!”
In the later Internet era, many companies that specialize in celebrity backing have emerged.
Why does this kind of company appear?
It’s not just to guard against big thunders like “Shuangzi” and “Wu Zhuan”!
After working hard for more than half a year, we invested tens of millions and hundreds of millions. Because of an actor, the film was directly banned from broadcasting. Anyone who encounters this must not curse!
There are some movies and a few investors who would grit their teeth and stomp their feet like "Monster Hunt" and ruthlessly remake it.
On the contrary, as long as an actor has one role that is remembered by the audience, then he is a star.
Teacher Six, Teacher Lu Shuming, Teacher Bao Guoan... Although they have played many other roles, it is enough for the audience to only remember the most famous one.
And if there are a few roles that can be remembered by the audience, they are big stars, the kind who can lie down and eat for a lifetime.
The typical one is Liu Qianqian, from Wang Yuyan to Zhao Ling'er to Xiao Longnu, these three are enough.
Before she was 18 years old, she had accomplished something that most actors would find difficult to accomplish in their lifetime.
Zhang Yuan decided for Baoqiang before he could figure it out.
"After the press conference is over in a while, you go to your sister Cheng Hao with the script and ask her to help you make arrangements and discuss the schedule and remuneration with the crew." Read the original work three times!"
"I know..." Baoqiang ran to the corner and struggled with the wall.
Actually, when Zhang Yuan and Bao Qiang were talking just now, the people next to them were all listening.
"His ideological level is indeed much better than that of his peers." After listening to his analysis of Baoqiang, Feng Xiaogang also felt that it made sense.
Li Bingbing, who was crossing her arms, looked at him with interest.
"No wonder Zhang Weijian can be made like that..."
She has collaborated with Zhang Weijian several times, including "Little Clueless" and "Young Zhang Sanfeng", and she knows that this man is very Not easy to do.
But now he had a bloody encounter in front of Zhang Yuan.
"Interesting, Xiao Wang seems to be very interested in him. I have to keep trying to avoid being dragged to that flirtatious fox."
Liu Ruoying came to Baoqiang.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
"My elder brother beat me." Baoqiang touched his shoulder, which still hurts.
"That's because he shouldn't have beaten you." Sister Milk Tea comforted him with a smile.
“Right.” Baoqiang felt that since he had found an organization, Sister Milk Tea would be the best one.
"If you do something like this, in our treasure island, you will usually be shot instead of beaten." Milk Tea smiled and patted his cheek.
Wang Baoqiang: ...
Liu Ruoying is not talking nonsense at all. In Baodao, especially Wu Dun, Yang Dengkui and other companies started from the underworld.
How dare you take the job behind my back and hide it from the company?
Then we are going to do some physical collisions.
"Your elder brother has been very gentle. He didn't do anything behind your back. It's good to kill the chicken and scare the monkey."
"It's great to help you analyze the plan."
Sister Milk Tea is gentle He patted his head: "He is so smart, you won't suffer any loss if you follow him."
"Oh..." Bao Qiang gradually calmed down when he saw Liu Ruoying saying this.
Thinking again that his elder brother really supported him, the resentment in his heart disappeared by nine points.
Liu Ruoying looked back at Zhang Yuan.
“The combination of kindness and power is very smooth.”
The press conference started after a long time.
After the actors spoke one by one, introducing their roles and their experiences on the set, it was time for reporters to ask questions.
What no one expected was that reporters "swarmed" towards Zhang Yuan, who was a supporting actor.
"Excuse me, what exactly happened between you and Mr. Zhang Weijian on the set of "Little Fish and Flowers"?"
"A press conference has been held on that set, and I personally will not answer any more." He calmly rejected the other party.
“So after working with Li Bingbing and Fan Bingbing respectively, which Bingbing do you think is better?”
Zhang Yuan:! ! !
Who hired this reporter!
Asking such a fatal question.
Why don’t you ask me who should I save first when they fall into the water?
Forget it about reporters, the key is still the booing.
"Yes, I want to ask you this question too." Li Bingbing picked up the phone, looked at him and said.
The stars of those days were very bold to speak out. This kind of thing will never happen in future generations.
Zhang Yuan rolled his eyes and asked: "Which one tastes better, sweet tofu or salty tofu?"
"Sweet."
"What does the reporter friend next door think? ?”
“I like salty food.”
“Then you two have a fight first,” Zhang Yuan replied with a smile.
"Anyway, it's just like the sweet and salty tofu nao. I personally like it very much, and I can't tell the difference."
"The same goes for the two Bingbing teachers."
"Next question! ”
After hearing this, Andy gave him an approving look.
“This guy reacts quickly enough and is very mature.”
"Know that you can't answer this kind of question according to the other person's rhythm."
In fact, there are generally only two solutions to this kind of problem.
Absolute sincerity, or directly overturning the other party's question.
Baoqiang is the former, and Zhang Yuan is the latter.
"Mr. Zhang Yuan, I would like to ask, do you think it is possible for the box office of "A World Without Thieves" to exceed that of "Heroes"?"
How about someone kill me?
What kind of death trap are these.
He thought for a while and then replied: "As far as I know, the cost of "Hero" is 30 million US dollars."
"And the cost of our film is 30 million yuan. .”
“The exchange rate of RMB to US dollar is now eight to one.”
"The box office of "Hero" is 260 million."
"According to this calculation, our box office only needs to reach 32.5 million to achieve the same cost-benefit ratio as "Hero"."
" I think a box office of just over 30 million shouldn’t be a problem for our crew.”
Feng Xiaogang lowered his head and laughed.
Actually, he is also afraid of this problem.
The record of 260 million box office is really stressful.
If you say you can surpass it, it will be ugly if you can’t.
I can’t talk about it, and I don’t seem confident, which may affect the box office.
This guy directly changed the concept and calculated it from the cost.
Small cost and high return are Feng Xiaogang’s specialty. From this perspective, he definitely cannot lose.
"Okay, okay, I will say the same thing in the future." Feng Xiaogang felt that Zhang Yuan had provided him with a new idea.
Zhang Yuan solved the sharp problems one after another, which made him very tired.
But those around me originally felt that the reporter’s attention was all on a junior, and it was a bit embarrassing.
But now that they heard these questions, they all began to feel lucky that Zhang Yuan, a popular "living target", was here.
Ordinary people can't handle it as perfectly as he does.
After the Q&A, everyone stood up and took a group photo in front of the large poster.
Brother Hua and the others noticed that Zhang Yuan consciously ran to the corner and pushed Mr. Fang in.
"I am much more popular now than before, and I still have seniors in my eyes, which is good."
Later, Feng Xiaogang personally pulled him to his side, and then he took a few more pictures.
After the press conference, he hurriedly said goodbye to these friends, and then hurried to the Imperial Capital Airport... (End of this chapter)