Actor without ambition

Chapter 314 The Best Cross-Strait Chinese Film

"Card!"

"I announce! "If You Are the One 2" is now officially finished!!!"

Feng Gangpao shouted loudly.

Hearing Feng Gangpao's voice, there was a burst of cheers from the crew.

Zhang Yuxuan and the others also let out a sigh of relief, and Shu Qi showed a smile after being relieved.

In fact, the crew didn't intend to reject Shu Qi on purpose, but most of them are from the mainland, only Shu Qi is from Xiangjiang, some differences in living customs, or diet, etc. It would make her feel uncomfortable.

This caused her to unconsciously have the illusion that she was isolated in the crew.

So now that the production team is finished, she can finally leave the production team and return to Xiangjiang, naturally she is relieved.

In fact, most of the crew, including Zhang Yuxuan, Ge You, and even Feng Gangpao, actually sensed that something was wrong with Shu Qi when he was on the crew, but not many people would say anything.

Like Zhang Yuxuan, Ge You and Feng Gangpao, it's enough to comfort Shu Qi occasionally.

Because with the rise of domestic films, more and more mainland actors are rising, just like Zhang Yuxuan.

Gradually, some Wanwan and Xiangjiang actors or stars have gradually become less important in the eyes of directors like Feng Gangpao.

That's right, gradually many directors are no longer superstitious about the actors and stars of Xiangjiang and Wanwan as before.

Especially after Zhang Yuxuan's rise.

After all, as long as Zhang Yuxuan is involved in a movie, the box office of the movie will skyrocket. This is not even what the actors and stars of Xiangjiang and Wanwan can do.

Many people even felt that in the mainland, even Li Lianjie and Kung Fu Dragon's movie box office appeal could not compare to Zhang Yuxuan.

It can be seen from the movies they acted in.

Although the box office of the movies they starred in is not low, compared to the movies played by Zhang Yuxuan, the box office is still a bit lower.

If it's just one movie, it's fine even if it's two movies, but there are more than two movies.

Therefore, many directors have even listed Zhang Yuxuan as the top choice, even above Kung Fu Dragon and Li Lianjie.

Of course, there are still some situations, such as trying to release a movie abroad or in North America. At this time, Kung Fu Dragon and Li Lianjie will be more popular than Zhang Yuxuan.

After all, Zhang Yuxuan's movie box office appeal is only at home, not abroad.

There are also some literary films, and they are more inclined to actors who have won many actor and actress awards, or have won international actor and actress awards.

In the final analysis, Zhang Yuxuan is only the movie's box office appeal, and Zhang Yuxuan is only the first choice for some commercial movies.

However, Zhang Yuxuan himself was very satisfied with this.

For the same two movies, one is a commercial film, and the other is a literary film that can win awards. Zhang Yuxuan will choose commercial films without hesitation. He himself does not like acting in that kind of literary films, especially for winning awards. The kind of literary film I went to.

Because of that kind of movie, Zhang Yuxuan will feel very hypocritical, the character setting will be very complicated, and the acting will be very troublesome, very strenuous, and requires full dedication.

When making that kind of movie, it's easy to get stuck, easily bewildered, or even suffer from mental illness.This is the main reason why Zhang Yuxuan is unwilling to act.

After all, Zhang Yuxuan is rich and powerful now, and he can get almost anything he wants.

Others have traveled here and worked so hard for so many years, why don't they enjoy themselves?Do you have to torture yourself in different ways and turn yourself into a psychopath?

……

"Do the math, I seem to have made several movies in the past half a year." Zhang Yuxuan counted with his fingers.

Hearing Zhang Yuxuan's words, Li Ling couldn't help rolling his eyes: "You were a guest star in "The Great Earthquake", you were a supporting role in "Let the Bullets Fly", and you were still the leading actor alongside Ge You in "If You Are the One 2". The only short-term drama with a main character is "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree."

"You can't just talk about movies. What about the variety show "Run, Brother"? It took me a lot of thought." Zhang Yuxuan gave an example.

"Anyway, you are not very busy making these movies, and you don't even have a movie."

"As I said, I hate acting the most. I don't want to act if I can. In fact, my schedule is still very tight." Zhang Yuxuan couldn't help but argue.

"But you are no longer alone. There are Zhang Yi, Shen Teng, Liu Yan, and Yang Mi under you—no, there is Wu Jing! Wu Jing seems to have almost gone to the army. It's been a year? Why haven't you come out yet? Didn't he say he would go there for three months? It's been so long, what's going on?" Li Ling suddenly thought of Wu Jing, and couldn't help frowning.

"Ahem, Wu Jing's situation is a bit special——"

"It's not a matter of being special or not. The key is that he signed a contract with our studio. After signing the contract, he didn't even take on the show and went directly to the army for training. This is evading responsibility." Li Ling said seriously.

"I allowed it, I allowed it. I allowed him to stay in the army for a while." Zhang Yuxuan said hastily.

As soon as Zhang Yuxuan finished speaking, Li Ling's eyes fixed on Zhang Yuxuan.

"Wu Jing's situation is a bit special. You see, Wu Jing has filmed martial arts dramas before, and also went to Xiangjiang to film kung fu movies. It can be said that he has appeared in many works, but in terms of popularity, he has never been able to rise. This is him. I haven’t found a direction that suits me. As for military movies, this is Wu Jing’s most suitable type, so he needs to train well in the army, strive to train himself to be a qualified soldier, and train the customs and habits of the army to his bones , so that when he comes out and makes a movie, he will be able to interpret a qualified soldier very well." Zhang Yuxuan explained very seriously.

"Do you think Wu Jing is suitable for acting in military movies? You know, there are no such movies in the current movie circle." Li Ling frowned.

"There are no such movies, but it doesn't mean that no one likes to watch them. Our domestic movie market is getting bigger and bigger, and the types of movies are becoming more and more diverse. Before that, our domestic movies, except Xiangjiang The movies are the kind of literary and artistic films made in China. It has only been a few years of work. You are watching our domestic movies, costume films, conspiracy films, comedy films, literary films, etc. There are all kinds of films, it It is enough to accommodate movies like the military." Zhang Yuxuan explained seriously.

Listening to what Zhang Yuxuan said, Li Ling nodded thoughtfully.

"Moreover, in the TV drama market, such themes are not uncommon, and even the ratings are not bad. Soldier Assault, My Commander, My Regiment, Bright Sword, etc., their ratings are very good. And I also listen to Said, someone is already preparing to shoot the TV series "I am a Special Forces" - well, by the way, you can ask the crew to see if Zhang Yi can be included in it, I think this TV series should be popular." Zhang Yuxuan said , suddenly thought of Zhang Yi, and said to Li Ling.

"Zhang Yi? Will he be willing to make a TV series?" Li Ling frowned.

At this time, TV drama actors all yearn to make movies and become a movie actor.After becoming a film actor, few people are willing to go back to filming TV series.

After Zhang Yi joined Zhang Yuxuan's studio, he has been making movies, and he has almost gained a foothold in the movie industry. Now that he is asked to go back to filming TV dramas, Li Ling is worried that Zhang Yi will have ideas.

"You go to find the script first, and then show the script to Zhang Yi. If Zhang Yi likes the script and wants to shoot it, let him shoot it. If not, then forget it. But based on what I know about Zhang Yi, as long as the script is enough Excellent, he shouldn't care whether it's a TV series or a movie." Zhang Yuxuan said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll inquire about the crew of "I Am a Special Forces." Li Ling nodded, ready to go to work.

As for Wu Jing's matter, Li Ling plans to let it go for the time being. She plans to wait for the TV series "I Am a Special Forces" to be filmed and see the ratings of the TV series. If the ratings are good, then it means that there is a market for military movies. , then Li Ling is no longer forcing Wu Jing.

If the ratings of this TV series are not good, then why should Li Ling ask Wu Jing to leave the army, let him get back to take up the drama, make movies or even make TV series, and let him spend the year of delay in going to the army , Make up all the money earned by the delay.

……

"Yuxuan, long time no see!" Huang Baiming said to Zhang Yuxuan with a smile.

"Director Huang, long time no see. Would you like tea or coffee?" Zhang Yuxuan welcomed Huang Baiming with a smile on his face.

"Tea is good, tea is good."

"Please wait a moment." Zhang Yuxuan asked the secretary to make tea directly, as for Zhang Yuxuan himself?He doesn't know this stuff.

The secretary made tea and left, while Huang Baiming and Zhang Yuxuan sat in the office.

"Yuxuan, actually, this time, I'm here to invite you." Huang Baiming said, placing a script in front of Zhang Yuxuan.

Zhang Yuxuan looked down, and there were four big characters "The Strongest Happy Things" written on the script.

"This is the sixth film in the Family's Happy Events series. As you know, Leslie Cheung, Zhou Xingxing, and Zhou Runfa have starred in the movie of Family's Happy Events. It can be said that this is definitely a very valuable big IP. There will definitely be many audiences looking forward to it, so I plan to invite you to act in this movie." Huang Baiming said with a smile.

"Well, I'm sorry, Director Huang, I may not have time, because I'm going to join the crew soon, so—" Zhang Yuxuan declined with embarrassment.

Zhang Yuxuan really didn't hesitate at all when he refused.

As for the films in the "Happy Family" series, indeed, the first few films are very good, and can even be said to be very good films.

But in this series, the further the film is made, the worse the movie will be.

Zhang Yuxuan can say without hesitation that Huang Baiming took out this kind of movie at this time, in fact, to make money, even if Zhang Yuxuan didn't open the script.

After hearing Zhang Yuxuan's words, Huang Baiming's smile froze for a moment: "Actually, we can adjust the time."

"Director Huang, I'm really sorry. I'm not saying that I don't want to adjust the time. The point is that my time has already been booked out. You know, many people are looking for me to make movies now. Even last year, some people I want to book my time for this year or even next year. So, I'm really embarrassed." Zhang Yuxuan pushed the script back without turning over the script.

In fact, refusing without opening the script and refusing after reading the content of the script are completely different meanings.

Not opening the script meant that Zhang Yuxuan didn't know if the script was good or bad, and he wasn't sure if it was a good script. Pushing it back like this showed that he really didn't have time, um, at least on the surface.

But if you turn over the script and refuse it after reading it, and then say that you don’t have time, it’s a bit nonsense. It’s clear that after you read the script, you didn’t like my script.

"Yuxuan, the last time "Night Questions 2" invited you, you refused. You must know that you were the protagonist in the first "Night Questions", but you declined, so that the movie "Night Questions 2" The box office is not ideal——" Huang Baiming's face was quite ugly.

Two months ago, "Night Question 2" was released.

At the beginning, because Zhang Yuxuan filmed "Night Question 1", this movie directly won more than 2 million or almost [-] million movie box office.

"Night Question 1" was an instant hit.At that time, Huang Baiming and the others were preparing to continue filming "Night Questions 2" and chase after the victory in order to win more movie box office and earn more money.

But Henry Zhang refused.

Although it seems that Zhang Yuxuan lost his good opinion of Xiangjiang because of the Hong Kong Film Awards, so he refused to act in "Night Question 2", but Zhang Yuxuan did not act in "Night Question 2" ".

Even though it is a series of movies, the main character has changed actors. This is undoubtedly a fatal injury to the series of movies.

Therefore, after "Night Questions 2" was released, even if the protagonist was replaced by Liang Chaowei to play Ye Wen.

But "Night Questions 2" is just that the box office of the movie in Xiangjiang is better than "Night Questions 1".

But in the mainland, the movie box office of "Night Question 2" is not even comparable to "Night Question 1".

The movie box office of "Night Question 1" is almost [-] million.

But the box office of the movie "Night Question 2" is 5000 million, which is almost [-] million less.

For other people's series of movies, the first one was good at the box office, and the second one would be even better. Ye asked about this series of movies, because Zhang Yuxuan refused to play the leading role, so the box office did not rise but fell.

You must know that when "Night Questions 1" was released in [-], the movie's highest box office at that time was just over [-] million.

And "Night Questions 2" was released in [-] years, and the highest box office of the current movie is almost [-] million.

The highest box office has doubled directly, and the current film market can be said to be much larger than it was two years ago.

But the movie market is getting bigger, and the upper limit of the movie box office is high. The movie box office of "Night Question 2" did not rise but fell, and there is a big problem here.

It can be said that anyone who participated in the movie "Night Question 2", whether it is an actor, producer or investor, they are very unhappy, even if this movie made a lot of money, But the difference between the box office of 01 million and the box office of 30 million is not [-]:[-].

No wonder they can be happy.

This time, Huang Baiming wanted to film "The Strongest Well-being", the reason why he invited Zhang Yuxuan again was because of Zhang Yuxuan's box office appeal.

Even though Huang Baiming has a lot of opinions on Zhang Yuxuan because of "Night Question 2", but in front of money, everything is not a problem.

It's a pity that Huang Baiming wanted to invite Zhang Yuxuan, but Zhang Yuxuan didn't want to talk to him at all, and he didn't even open the script. Huang Baiming was really angry in his heart.

"By the way, Yuxuan, at the Golden Image Awards, under my suggestion, there is another award. The Best Cross-Strait Chinese Film Award is a film award specially for our mainland films." Huang Baiming spoke sharply. Turn, said with a smile.

Hearing this, Zhang Yuxuan couldn't help but raise his eyes.

Of course, Zhang Yuxuan knew about this award, but Zhang Yuxuan didn't remember exactly which year it started.

But now, listening to Huang Baiming's words, it seems that because of Zhang Yuxuan, the Best Cross-Strait Chinese Film Award was created this year?
"I'm sorry, Director Huang, I haven't paid attention to the Academy Awards, so I don't know that there is such an award this year, but I don't care if there is one, anyway, I never thought that my film would win it. This kind of award." Zhang Yuxuan said with a smile, not taking the Academy Awards seriously at all.

Huang Baiming's smile became even uglier when he heard Zhang Yuxuan's words.Taking a deep breath, he tried to suppress the anger in his heart.

Huang Baiming is really, really upset right now, super upset.

Who is Huang Baiming?In Xiangjiang, he entered the entertainment circle in the 70s and 80s, and became popular in the entertainment circle in the 90s. In the [-]s, he has become one of the mainstays in the entertainment circle of Xiangjiang. Now he can almost be said to be the most authoritative in the entertainment circle of Xiangjiang. one of several people.

It can be said that, let alone in Xiangjiang, even in the mainland, most people have to greet him with a nice voice when they see him.

However, Zhang Yuxuan rejected him again and again, and even turned a blind eye to Huang Baiming's overtures.

The anger in Huang Baiming's heart can be imagined how intense it was burning.

At this time, Huang Baiming wished to tear Zhang Yuxuan's body into tens of thousands of pieces. He couldn't help but think about how to punish Zhang Yuxuan, how to make Zhang Yuxuan ugly, and make Zhang Yuxuan apologize.

However, Huang Baiming turned his mind around, only to find that he seemed to be a little powerless towards Zhang Yuxuan.

If Zhang Yuxuan was just an ordinary actor, even if he was an ordinary first-line actor, as one of the bigwigs in Xiangjiang entertainment industry, he could find a way to trip Zhang Yuxuan.

But Zhang Yuxuan is the top one, and besides being an actor, Zhang Yuxuan is also the boss of the film industry, and also controls investment companies, etc. More importantly, Zhang Yuxuan's business scope has nothing to do with Xiangjiang Yes, this made Huang Baiming feel numb.

After all, Huang Baiming just did well in Xiangjiang.

When he came to the mainland, his status was only average.If it is an ordinary person, he can still suppress it through his network.But Zhang Yuxuan's family is already considered a bigwig in the mainland entertainment industry, not inferior to his status in Xiangjiang, and may even be higher.

Don't say that he went to make things difficult for Zhang Yuxuan, on the contrary, if Zhang Yuxuan made things difficult for him, he would have no choice.

In the end, despite all the resentment in Huang Baiming's heart, he had no choice but to leave in despair.

(End of this chapter)