Generally, it is difficult for actresses who look like good girls to become popular.

Gao Lu is like that.

The gentle and tenacious Wen Qiang in "The Unruly Princess", and the chic and neat Sister Chestnut in "The N Power of Home", are actresses with good looks and acting skills!

And then what?

has been in the circle for decades, and she is almost forty years old, and in the last "Ace vs. Ace", the editor still cut her picture with little left...

This is an actress who is not popular!

But she kept playing, and her life was comfortable...

Few people know that back then, she was the same as Tangtang, she was also an actress signed by Xu Li, and they all called Wang Jing Baba...

Well, back to "The Age of Fruit Marriage", Tracy is Tong Jiaqian's boss, a character with a strong desire to control...

"I thought you were going to let her play my cousin!"

“... That character isn't likable, and Sister Lu should like that kind of challenging role, right?"

Gao Lu smiled and didn't speak...

"What about Sun Xiaorao?"

"I originally wanted Jiao Erbao to come, but as a result, the investor stuffed an actress who looks quite pure, I think it's quite suitable, just let her try it!"

"Where are the two treasures?"

"Erbao has "Black Fox", don't worry..."

Lu Xiaoran and Tangtang directly discussed the casting of "The Age of Fruit Marriage", Xu Li and Gao Lu were a little embarrassed...

After about five minutes, Tangtang finally reacted: "Mama Li, don't you have something to find Xiaoran?"

Xu Li smiled and said, "... Xiaoran, what do you think of the Hong Kong entertainment industry?"

"It's declining day by day, and they can't pick up the green and yellow, so they can only count on a few scenes that are almost sixty, and once the mainland film industry is initially established, they will lose their biggest advantage!"

Of course, this is just Lu Xiaoran's polite words.

He knew that the reason why Xu Li asked this was nothing more than to introduce him to join the Hong Kong circle...

Deep down, I still admire the wave of Hong Kong filmmakers.

After a hundred years of accumulation, and with a still huge entertainment industry behind it, Hong Kong is still a major film city, and Hong Kong filmmakers will still have a place in Chinese-language films.

“... You... Are you so unoptimistic?"

"It's not that I'm not optimistic, but the reality is like this, you wait and see, the concept of Hong Kong movies will gradually disappear..."

......

Xu Li really wants to get through the relationship between Lu Xiaoran and the Hong Kong circle, and then she can operate from it...

But Lu Xiaoran has always insisted on the mainland team, and he can't do big productions, so let's hone them slowly from small productions.

Yang Qing's directorial contract was signed to Orange Images, and Xu Zheng is the same, in the future, more filmmakers will grow together with Orange Images.

Wait until that day, even if Lu Xiaoran's movie may fail at the box office, his position will not be shaken, because he will be the teacher of the new generation!

The husky said that it should be 11 or 12 years, Chinese films have been crushed by Hollywood, and Hollywood blockbusters account for eight of the top ten in the annual box office list!

What a bunch of experts say 'Chinese cinema is dying!'

Then a new batch of Chinese filmmakers stood up, "Thai Embarrassment", "33 Days of Broken Love", "Painted Skin II", these three films, not to mention how artistically they are, at least they have given Chinese films a shot in the arm at the box office!

When it comes to "Painted Skin II", we have to say "Painted Skin"...

The husky told Lu Xiaoran about this movie, and he also suggested that Lu Xiaoran must strive for...

How do you fight for it?

Chen Kun is a good buddy of Zhou Xun and a good buddy of Zhao Wei, the three of them are one!

In fact, the idea of "Painted Skin" was conceived by Ye Weixin and Zhen Bullet together, and they found mainland investors, originally wanting to make a film with a bit of humanistic color...

The so-called humanistic color is probably human and social...

That is, the meaning of losing money!

The mainland investor is not a fool, after studying it, he felt that the possibility of a big sale was very low, and he always disagreed, and then the film studio intervened, directly passed Ye Weixin, brought in Chen Jiashang, and chose Zhou Xun to play the fox demon, Zhou Xun recommended Chen Kun, and Chen Kun recommended Zhao Wei...

Lu Xiaoran?

Does it have anything to do with him?

Would you like to play the lizard demon?

Unwilling...

I don't want you to talk about, just be honest!

In fact, in the past two years, many movies Lu Xiaoran has been hot, such as "Assembly Number", "October Siege", "The Wind"...

You have hot eyes and an egg, not to mention anything else, "The Wind", Lu Xiaoran has gotten the copyright, do you think he wants to shoot?

Shoot a fart, Zhou Xun's salary is 3.2 million, Li Bingbing is 2.8 million, these two plus one piece is 6 million, and the other actors can't be any worse, the salary expenditure alone is more than 15 million...

And it's not something you can shoot if you have the money!

Other actors also have to choose directors!

Chen Guofu, the actor can adjust the schedule at will, and the salary can be given casually, you let Lu Xiaoran try it?

......

In late September, "Painted Skin" was released, breaking the first-day box office records of several domestic blockbusters such as "Assembly Number" and "Casting Names" with a first-day score of 15.2 million.

According to this trend, it is normal to break 200 million!

Inside the orange image, a bunch of people are both envious and a little puzzled...

Because the reputation of "Painted Skin" is not very good, and the scene is not particularly big, they are all industry insiders, and after estimating it, the production cost is at most 60 million!

Lu Xiaoran looked at the box office report in his hand and said with emotion: "When do you say we can play big productions?"

“... Don't think about it, big productions aren't something we can do!"

Well, Orange Images, except for a very few fans, in fact, the reputation of the outside world is not very loud.

The reason is very simple, if you haven't made a big production, you are not a big company!

Nowadays, this world is like this, being able to make blockbusters shows that you have the ability, and even the theater chain is three points high.

At the beginning, Lu Xiaoran and Zeng Guangxian reached a consensus on film investment: resolutely not to invest more than 30 million, at least in the past five years!

The so-called big production is nothing more than big directors, big stars, big investment, big scenes, big themes and so on.

It's easy to put these together, but it's still quite difficult to combine them into a complete mainstream commercial movie, at a domestic level.

Zeng Guangxian doesn't believe this, and Lu Xiaoran doesn't believe it either...

Zhang Jin also nodded rarely: "Actually, "Rescue Mr. Wu" is already a big production!"

“... Let's tell the truth myself, "Rescue Mr. Wu", I only spent less than 30 million, and Andy Lau only needed a salary of 8 million..."

"We can follow the blockbuster publicity!"

“... Yes. Lu Xiaoran nodded, and then said: "Next month's small-scale test screening, you must control it well, and don't let the source of the film flow out..."

"yes, got it!"

"Jingle bell..."

The office phone rang...

Lu Xiaoran casually connected: "Hey..."

"Hey, hello, I'm Fan Bingbing!"

“... Soldier... Sister Bingbing, you said..."

"It only takes one day, and we'll adjust the shooting plan... Well, don't worry, the script will be sent to you later... Well, thank you so much!"

"I wish you all the best in your work..."

Hanging up the phone, the corners of Lu Xiaoran's mouth couldn't stop rising.

"Is it Fan Bingbing?"

"Yes!"

"She promised to star?"

"Hmm!"

“... I immediately informed Xu Zheng and told him that he could start filming!"