Chapter 144: Before the Hong Kong Circle had time to go north, it folded first.
Wu Yuan didn't ask too much about the specific preparations for "Fated I Love You".
After he determined the leading actor and director, he handed over the follow-up contact and negotiation to Li Jichang and a financial officer of the company.
The two will form a partner and negotiate with these actors and directors about specific remuneration packages.
TV drama actors in this year, although their salaries have skyrocketed, they are still very low compared with the price of tens of millions of dramas in later generations.
Even if it is Lu Yi, a top student in the mainland, he will get 30-500,000 yuan for filming a TV series, and a newcomer like Jinsha can get away with tens of thousands of yuan.
Don't talk about them, Liu Yifei recently negotiated "The Condor Heroes", and the salary is only 10,000 yuan per episode, and this is still the price she raised after "Your Name" has become popular.
Originally, her salary should be the same as Huang Xiaoming, and it was only 8,000 yuan per episode.
Yes, under the influence of Wu Yuan, a butterfly, when the bearded man was preparing to shoot "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" this time, he no longer slipped fans, and announced the candidates for the hero and heroine early.
The main thing is that the bearded man really doesn't dare to snub Liu Yifei now.
What kind of coffee position is Liu Yifei now?
The second highest domestic box office actress!
In terms of box office results alone, her box office results are second only to the international chapter!
Even Gong Huang did not do as well as her at the box office.
No way, who called "Your Name" is a big hit in Asia.
In addition to the international chapter of "Rush Hour 2", Liu Yifei's box office results can be said to be the best mainland actress.
That is, she has no achievements now, and there is no movie that matches her identity to make
Otherwise, she would not have been able to play "The Condor Heroes".
She is now facing the same embarrassing situation as the international chapter, a movie directly sent to the peak of box office results, and then found that her coffee position was directly disconnected.
It is impossible for other directors' film works to achieve such box office results, and if you participate in it, you feel that you are losing money.
If you don't act, there will be no drama again.
The choice of the international chapter is to find a way to break into Hollywood, to pick up the movies that come to the dock, and Huaxia will not accept unless it is a play by a top director from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Liu Yifei is younger than she is in a more embarrassing situation.
The drama "The Condor Heroes" is still because it was already talked about before the release of "The Name of Ling", and the bearded man has always said that Liu Yifei is the most suitable actor for Xiaolongnu in his heart, and Mr. Jin Yong also recognized it after seeing her photos.
Considering that the national popularity of this kind of Jin Yong drama is very high, Liu Xiaoli took over the drama for her daughter.
However, she also made up her mind, after "The Condor Heroes", Liu Yifei will never make TV series again, and will focus on the film market in the future.
But 17-year-old Liu Yifei can receive a movie script.
There are only a few blockbusters by big domestic directors in a year
The man Liu Xiaoli relied on was not able to fight for any movies from top directors for Liu Yifei.
The new films of directors like Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Wong Kar-wai all have their own set of actors.
Zhang Yimou's "Ambush on All Sides" will be released this summer, and the heroine is still an international chapter.
Wong Kar-wai's "2046" is also on this summer, the heroines are Gong Huang and Wang Jingwen, and even the supporting actresses are International Chapter and Carland Lau!
Chen Kaige has spread the news of preparing a new movie, and I heard that it is still a blockbuster with an investment of more than 100 million.
Liu Xiaoli also wants to compete for her daughter for a new film directed by Kaige, but other actresses need to use Hong Kong Island and Japanese and Korean actors.
Because the new film directed by Kaige is jointly funded by South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and China Film, the actors are evenly selected.
There can only be one mainland actress, and this quota is obviously reserved for Chen Hong, and there is no place for Liu Yifei in this movie.
And Director Feng's New Year movie "No Thieves in the World" actors have long been selected.
Looking around, Liu Xiaoli found that although her girl became the second-highest box office actress in the mainland, there was no good movie to make at all
"The Condor Heroes" is already the most suitable choice.
So after going around in circles, Liu Yifei finally became a little dragon girl.
This can make the bearded man happy, where is there any heart to hype up the fans, and the news of the fixed angle was quickly announced, which caused a heated discussion on the Internet.
The main reason is that everyone is praising the heroine for choosing well and scolding the actor for choosing badly.
The first Yuan girl who was praised by Wu Yuan came to play the little dragon girl, and the masses of the people had no opinion.
Regardless of how popular she is, let's just say that her appearance is extremely suitable.
But Huang Xiaoming, the son of heaven, came to play Yang Guo, and everyone couldn't accept it.
What kind of coffee position do you Huang Xiaoming, what kind of coffee position does Liu Yifei have, how can these two people be paired together to act in a TV series?
However, after arguing for a long time, netizens found that they really didn't match Liu Yifei's TV series actor at this stage
This Yang Guo, no matter who plays it, seems to have to be scolded.
It's really Liu Yifei's identity as a "Yuan girl" is too scary.
The first film he acted in had a box office of 1.8 billion yuan in Asia, and this number continues to grow
Wu Yuan used two newcomer mainland actors to prove that it is not only movies starring Hong Kong and Taiwan stars that can be a big hit.
Although "Hero" was also a big hit, the leading actors of this movie are all superstars on Hong Kong Island, and only the international chapter is a mainland actor.
Although the big hit of this movie has stimulated the mainland film market, it has also made many mainland film practitioners think that if they want to make blockbusters and blockbuster movies, they must use superstars from Hong Kong Island as the starring roles.
So there is "No Thieves in the World" starring Andy.
Even Zhang Yimou himself is also seeking stability, the main actors of "Ambush on All Sides" are still mainly Hong Kong Island actors, and mainland actors still only have international chapters.
But Wu Yuan used a "Your Name" to prove that mainland actors can also carry the box office.
This is critical!
You must know that the saying that "only by using Hong Kong Island actors as starring in movies can it be a big hit" actually took shape in 2005-2006.
"Hero" got off to a good start, but because this work was an isolated case, in 2003-2004, the Chinese film industry still didn't believe in it.
By the end of 2004, the top ten box office in the mainland were released, and everyone found that the top ten Chinese movies, whether it was "No Thieves in the World" or "Ambush on All Sides" or "Kung Fu" and "New Police Story", were all starring Hong Kong Island actors!
This made the mainland investors really believe that only by using Hong Kong Island actors as the starring roles can the movie be a big hit.
No way, in 2004, many movies starring mainland actors were also released, such as Zhou Xun and Chen Kun, which made several films, but the box office was very poor.
The market has proved that only movies starring Hong Kong Island actors are big sellers, so capital is naturally more inclined to use Hong Kong Island actors.
Since then, the era of the mainland-funded Hong Kong group has begun, and a large number of Hong Kong Island directors and actors have gone north to make money.
In particular, Chen Kaige's "Wuji" has added another wave of fierce fire to this wave.
How miserable it was sprayed when "Wuji" was released, nine out of ten people were scolded badly, and they couldn't understand the scolding.
However, the box office of this movie was 170 million, and countless fans walked into the cinema to watch this movie in the eyes of those Hong Kong Island stars.
What does this mean?
It shows that even if it is a bad movie made with Hong Kong Island actors, it will not lose money!
The market has given such feedback, so do investors need to hesitate?
All the mainland actors stand aside for me, from the director to the crew to the actors, you must use the whole Hong Kong team!
Until "Painted Skin", mainland actors had to be grandsons of Taiwan Island actors in the field of TV dramas, and Hong Kong Island actors had to be grandsons in the film field.
On various occasions, countless so-called bigwigs in the circle on Hong Kong Island and Taiwan Island have openly ridiculed the mainland actors and crew members for not being able to get on the stage, and can only play some marginal roles.
In their mouths, the international chapter can only play a maid who picks up the grape skin.
In the face of these ridicules, mainland actors have no other way than to break their teeth and swallow them in their mouths.
Wu Yuan actually doesn't think that Hong Kong Island actors acting in the north are not good, and it is true that many actors on Hong Kong Island are better and more dedicated than mainland actors.
But this kind of Hong Kong Island actor is really a minority, only a few people such as Andy, Cheng Long, and Gu Zai.
Most of the Hong Kong Island actors who go north to make money are eating mainland food, and they have to smash the mainland's pot, ridiculing mainland actors for not being able to get on the stage, and they have an attitude that Hong Kong Island actors must be superior.
I don't know how many Hong Kong Island actors, after acting in the mainland, returned to Hong Kong Island to belittle the mainland in various ways, saying that the mainland is not good and that is not good, disgusted with the backwardness of the mainland, and disgusted with the gap in the aesthetic level of mainland movie fans, which vividly reflects the duplicity.
If you dislike mainland movie fans and mainland life, then don't come!
While eating the food of mainland movie fans, you still look down on the mainland film industry, mainland actors, and even mainland audiences, and feel that mainland audiences even watch bad movies with relish, and their aesthetic level lags behind Hong Kong Island for 20 years.
complacently believes that although the movies he made in the mainland are bad movies on Hong Kong Island, they are more than enough for mainland fans to watch, and even improve the aesthetics of mainland fans.
Fooling people to the extreme.
Then this is really shameless.
It's different now.
The emergence of Wu Yuan has changed the ecology of the mainland film industry.
He has been using mainland actors since "The Night the Comet Comed".
And the movies he made, one better than the other, had a high box office.
"Your Name" proves that the entire mainland cast of actors, even brand-new actors, can also make movies that are popular in Asia.
Wu Yuan told mainland filmmakers with facts.
As long as your script is well done and the director shoots well, the actors are definitely not the focus of determining whether a movie can be profitable!
Although it can't be said that it will change Lu Zi's yearning for Hong Kong Island superstars, the appearance of Wu Yuan can at least make the waist of mainland actors harder, and he can also bring out a group of mainland actors to compete with Hong Kong and Taiwan actors!
Everything he is doing now is to accelerate the growth of the mainland film and television industry.
Layout in the field of TV dramas to snipe Taiwan capital and actors, prepare for the filming of "Your Name" and "Painted Skin", further activate the mainland film market, and arouse the self-confidence of mainland actors.
In the past few months since the release of "Your Name", the State Administration has received as many as a dozen mainland film project applications.
These films are all newly invested by mainland capital, the director is a mainland director, and the actors are also as far as possible from the mainland and half from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and one of the male and female protagonists must be a mainland actor, and the other must choose a Hong Kong Island actor.
With Wu Yuan, the king of Chinese commercial films, Zhuyu in front, it has given many mainland filmmakers confidence and made them boldly use mainland actors.
The development of the mainland film industry in this world is at least three years faster than Wu Yuan's dream!
The market also has greater confidence in the mainland film industry, and the new capital is twice as much as he dreamed!
It can be said that Wu Yuan is now the beacon of mainland commercial films.
In this case, Liu Yifei, the first generation of Yuan girl, is really at a loss when she draws her sword and looks around.
There is no actor at all, especially a TV drama actor who can be worthy of her.
After netizens quarreled on the Internet, they had to pinch their noses and admit that Huang Xiaoming's Yang Guo was already very suitable, and they began to look forward to this version of "The Condor Heroes".
Similarly, not only Liu Yifei is now facing the problem of a serious inconsistency between his coffee position and his own strength, but also Hu Ge, the actor of "Your Name".
Tang Ren received a lot of invitations to Hu Ge to appear in movies, but most of them were movies with an investment of one or two thousand to thirty or fifty million yuan.
In the past, Cai Yinong was crazy, and it was already very good for his own actors to act in movies.
But now Hugo is Mr. Box Office 1.8 billion.
The next movie he will act in must at least be a big production with an investment of more than 50 million, right?
But this kind of large-scale production is all a turnip and a pit.
Just like Zhou Dongyu couldn't get up or down after performing "Hawthorn Tree", Hu Ge was also put on the shelf, and he felt that the small movie was out of grade, and the big production didn't look for him.
As a result, he didn't have a suitable movie to make, so he could only wait.
Fortunately, he still has a "Fairy Sword" to be broadcast, so he doesn't have to worry about work in a short time, and he also has a lot of promotional activities and advertising endorsements in Japan.
can only say that the results of "Your Name" are too good, and it is also a happy trouble for the actors, and it is really confusing to be suddenly mentioned to a position that does not belong to them.
Well, limited to actors.
For Wu Yuan, a director, there is only happiness and no worries.
He has no shortage of films.
After finishing the matter of "Fated I Love You", Wu Yuan went back to school to take classes seriously for a month, learned a lot of shooting techniques of literary films from Professor Xie, and even tried it hands-on, and the semester of 2004 was about to end.
In June, the summer vacation is approaching.
Wu Yuan's doctoral studies can also come to an end for the time being.
But he couldn't rest, but immediately started the preparation of the movie "Love".
On the side of "Painted Skin", China Film and Light and Shadow Times have been following up, the intention contracts of the leading actors have been signed, and Wu Yuan is also contacting the special effects company of Laiwu to schedule the schedule.
According to the speed of preparation, "Painted Skin" is initially scheduled to start shooting from September to October, and strive to be completed before March next year.
There is no way, Wu Yuan received a message from Disney, Jerry and Depp have already negotiated, and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" has also begun preliminary preparations, doing various props, scenery, and special effects in the early stage.
It is expected that in March 2005, "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" will start shooting in Los Angeles, and Wu Yuan must rush to the United States before that.
Wu Yuan ushered in the busiest period of his career so far.
From July to September this summer, he must complete the filming of the literary film "Love", and then join the group "Painted Skin 1", and "Painted Skin 1" will be completed before March next year, and then go to the United States to shoot "Pirates of the Caribbean 2".
It is expected that from July this year to September next year, Wu Yuan will not have any easy days to work all year round!
This is a great challenge, although Wu Yuan is bitter, but he also has a little momentum in his heart, and he wants to try his limit!
On June 28, 2004, Wu Yuan came to Mr. You Benchang's home with the script of "Love" and invited him to play the leading role in this movie.
Teacher You Benchang was better than Wu Yuan imagined, and after meeting, he not only warmly entertained him, but also took the play without the slightest hesitation after reading the script.
"I have heard the name of Director Wu for a long time, I specially bought the disc and watched it several times, and it is a very good movie."
Teacher You Benchang, who was wearing glasses, took Wu Yuan's hand and said very sincerely: "This "Love" is very well written, I like it very much. ”
"Even if I don't want to be paid, I'm willing to act!"
Wu Yuan smiled happily.
If Mr. You Benchang can agree to star, then there will be no more preparatory problems for "Love".
Teacher Wu Yanshu and Wu Yuan are old acquaintances, and he made a phone call, and Teacher Wu Yanshu agreed to act without even reading the script.
As for the last important role in this movie, the middle-aged daughter of the old couple of the hero and heroine, Wu Yuan also found an excellent actress with superb acting skills.
The actress's surname is Gong, her single name is a sharp character, and she is nicknamed Gonghuang.
(End of chapter)