The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 305 Invitation

The night is like ink, and the neon lights are dazzling.

Pushing open the door, Wu Lang turned around and took out a stack of documents from the passenger seat.

When he went up the steps, he stretched out his hand to pull out his hair, looked at the two strands of hair in his palm, and sighed helplessly.

I'm really tired these days.

As Lu Yuan's manager, his artist was crowned Feitian Shidi, which was beyond his expectation.

Before the award ceremony, he also imagined what it would be like if he really won the award this time.

But he still underestimated the potential influence of the flying trophy, and also underestimated the shock to the market caused by Lu Yuan being crowned a double star at the age of 25.

Recently, Lu Yuan has given up all interviews and is hiding in Hengdian filming, but he can't do that.

In addition to having to deal with various incoming scripts, endorsements, and business cooperation, he is also starting to re-plan Lu Yuan's subsequent development route.

Yes, he thinks it's time for Lu Yuan to venture into the big screen, no longer as a supporting actor like before, but as the male lead or second actor.

But TV dramas will not give up. The small screen should be Lu Yuan's private territory. He can attack when he advances and defend when he retreats.

When he revealed the news in a cryptic manner, invitations to the big screen came flooding in.

But the quality of the scripts varies, there are not many high-quality scripts, and he despises bad scripts.

In fact, it is easy to understand that small screen appeal and big screen box office appeal are two different things. A magic bullet for ratings does not mean it can also guarantee a box office.

TV actors have high nationality, but many cross-border TV stars’ movies tend to have mediocre box office.

Because popularity, a nihilistic thing on the Internet, is difficult to translate into box office.

You need to spend real money to buy movie tickets, but you don't need to spend money on TV series. You can watch whoever you want with just a click of the remote control.

People who are really willing to spend money to watch movies are not spending money to buy idols to appear, but to gain spiritual pleasure and satisfy themselves.

At present, many film directors are waiting to see if Lu Yuan can hold up the show. Once he can hold up the box office, it will mean that he has a firm foothold on the big screen and will no longer be short of film appointments.

Therefore, Wu Lang was particularly cautious when choosing his first script. He did not want Lu Yuan to wear the hat of box office poison.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Boss, open the door."

"coming."

Lu Yuan was on the phone with Liu Shishi at the moment.

Wu Lang glanced at it, curled his lips, put a pile of documents on the table, and divided them into two piles.

"Now, there are movie invitations on the left and TV series on the right."

Before sitting down and taking a breath, a script was handed to him. He looked at the name, "Eternal Number".

"Is this the anti-Japanese drama that director Xu Jizhou said?"

Lu Yuan took the phone away from his ear and stayed far away. Liu Shishi screamed at him from the opposite side.

"Well, take a look, it's not bad."

Wu Lang looked at the book and suddenly felt a pain in his balls. He was skeptical about Lu Yuan's vision in selecting dramas.

The anti-war dramas currently on the market are all the same.

The leader is wise and powerful, Zhuge is reincarnated, strategizing, and winning thousands of miles, but the soldiers are all suffering and enmity, and they are willing to sacrifice their lives.

As for the little devil, he is dull-witted and his IQ is sometimes high and sometimes low. Every time he gets stupid and sneaks into the trap set by us.

Even though he thought so, he still read the script honestly.

After an unknown amount of time, he rubbed his eyes and pulled out his hair. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his hands were empty.

Quite unexpectedly, the quality of the script was unexpectedly good. The general content is a tragic story about a militia captain leading a ragtag group of people to establish an unnumbered county brigade to fight against the Japanese invaders in enemy-occupied areas.

The male protagonist is a man who talks nonsense and boasts, begs for nothing, and doesn't take the ordinary path.

There are many tricks, deceiving the puppet troops, fighting the Japanese, pretending to enter the city, crying to the sky, playing tricks on the Japanese, and running in columns to ask for supplies.

Under his blind command, the cannon fodder brigade did not follow the conventional path and relied solely on robbing resources, guns, people, and money.

It is such a cannon fodder team, but it can repeatedly resolve the enemy's attacks.

Of course, the ending is not a happy one. Everyone sacrifices, which is extremely heroic.

Wu Lang closed the script and said jokingly: "Boss, you have a good eye for choosing dramas now."

Lu Yuan rolled his eyes at him, held his phone and apologized softly, and finally gave him a kiss on the phone.

Then he hung up the phone, waved the script in his hand, and said, "You have a bad taste. You send me any script."

Wu Lang glanced at it and said with a smile: "Director Chen's box office performance in the past two years is indeed not impressive enough, but..."

"Stop!" Lu Yuan waved his hand to interrupt.

Objectively speaking, several of Director Chen's early works were actually pretty good, such as "Yellow Earth", "Military Parade" and "King of Children".

But since the unprecedented success of "Farewell My Concubine", which pushed it to the highest honor in film, everything has changed.

Tasting the sweetness of a commercial blockbuster for the first time, Director Chen assembled the original cast and spent huge sums of money to make another film, "The Wind and the Moon", but unexpectedly, both box office and reputation failed.

The subsequent films received rave reviews, and the appearance of "The Promise" shattered the reputation he had accumulated in his early years.

This year's Chinese quintessence film "Mei Lanfang" shot by Director Chen, although it has a good reputation and schedule, it has never been able to gain the trust of the audience.

The final box office stayed at 1.2 million, which was far from the target of 2 million.

"You called Director Chen tomorrow morning and said that the schedule couldn't be arranged. I'm really sorry."

Lu Yuan threw the "Orphan of Zhao" script aside, thought about it, and said, "Forget it, I'll do it myself."

Although I am not optimistic about director Chen Kaijun, his influence in the industry cannot be underestimated and his face must be taken into consideration.

Turning his attention to the pile of TV drama invitations, he rubbed his temples.

He also has "Snow Leopard" to be filmed by the end of the year, and "Indelible Number" in the middle of next year.

For him now, he would rather spend a few years producing a high-quality film than make several bad films a year.

Since his debut, he has not filmed many movies every year. Sometimes he is quite curious about how those actors who star in four or five movies a year and shoot magazines, appear on TV shows, and record commercials do it.

Wu Lang stood up, found a copy of the movie script from the pile, and said, "Boss, take a look at this."

Lu Yuan took it and flipped through the outline of the script, his eyebrows gradually frowning.

"What the hell is this? Just refuse it."

"I originally wanted to refuse, but the lead actress in this drama is your junior sister from Nortel, and the producer gave me a salary of 800 million."

Lu Yuan was still thinking about which junior sister he was, and his hands paused when he heard the pay. Even if he is now a double star and goes to the big screen, the pay will still be greatly reduced.

The reason why "Before Dawn" paid more than [-] million is because "Insidious" showed its terrifying ability to attract money.

For "Snow Leopard" and "No." his salary would not have been that high.

Currently on the big screen, Andy Lau's salary is 1200 million, Tony Leung is 1000 million, and the highest salary among the younger generation in mainland China is undoubtedly Chen Kun, who is around 400 million.

What 800 million means is self-evident.

Look at the script again - "Warring States".

(End of this chapter)