China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 176 Casting and Entering the Lunar New Year Stage
8 month 9 number.

Lu Yuan and Ning Hao met for the last time and confirmed the cast of "Cohabitation in Time and Space".

In this movie, the biggest star is of course Lu Yuan, whose personal salary is as high as 800 million.

This is the result after reducing the salary.

If based on market pricing, his salary would start at a minimum of 1000 million.

Although Lu Yuan has never made a movie, he is the Chinese King + the International King.

It's worth the price.

Because the male protagonist's salary was too expensive, the cost of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" also skyrocketed to 3800 million.

Except for Lu Yuan, the total salary of other actors and extras is only around 300 million.

The heroine Zeng Li's salary was only 40.

This is also a pricing that is in line with the market. If a TV star appears in a movie, the salary will be lower.

If we only focus on this movie, she plays a heroine with an international king, let alone 40 yuan, even if it is zero salary or even a discount, there will be a lot of big and small flowers vying for it.

Aside from the male and female protagonists, other characters have very few roles.

The role of classmate Gu Xiaojiao was given to Liu Yan of Enlight Media, the husband of the female classmate was given to Guo Jingfei, and the role of the doctor was given to Xu Zheng.

The role of store manager is the same as in the original work, given to Tao Hong.

The role of the male protagonist Lu Ming's boss is played by Deng Chao.

Strictly speaking, Deng Chao, Liu Yan, Xu Zheng, and Guo Jingfei are all related households.

In July last year, Deng Chao signed a contract with Huayi Brothers and officially entered the big screen.

However, Deng Chao was not too popular at this time.

The sequel to "Young Bao Qingtian" starring him has a very average reputation. The only role that is relatively out of the circle is the supporting role of Zhao Erdou in "Assembly Number".

Among the four major and minor beings, no such person has been found so far.

Today, the recognized new four major students are Huang Xiaomin, Tong David, Yin Xiaotian, and Nie Yuan.

Deng Chaoneng joined the team because Huayi Brothers is also an investor in "Cohabitation in Time and Space", and Liu Yan's situation is similar.

The main investor of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" is Star Media, which holds 80% of the investment share, and the remaining 20.00% is equally divided between Huayi Brothers, Enlight Media, Hurray Century, and Wangda.

Each investment is 190 million, accounting for 5%.

The main purpose of recruiting Huayi Brothers and Enlight Media was to borrow distribution channels. Huayi Brothers has rich distribution experience and has good relations with theaters.

The entertainment programs under Enlight Media are important exposure channels.

As for Wanda, Lu Yuan values ​​​​Wanda's theater chains.

Wanda entered the movie theater chain very early. As early as 04, Wanda began to expand into the movie market. As of now, Wanda Cinemas are located in 22 cities across the country and have built 29 theaters.

The total number of screens exceeds 200, and the box office output accounts for 11% of the mainland movie box office market.

As Star Media’s first shot into the big screen.

"Cohabitation in Time and Space" can only succeed, not fail!

Therefore, Lu Yuan first attracted China Film Distribution, and then Wanda, Huayi, and Enlight Investment.

With the protection of these parties, when the movie is released, the film scheduling rate will definitely not be bad.

what?
You ask Hurray?

It's purely a make-up.

Just think of it as Boss Lu repaying Hurray.

After all, Hurray has had a tough time in the past two years.

The revenue from ringback tones is decreasing day by day, and the full-scale entry into the digital music field has achieved little success.

It's all bad news.

Hurray's bold move into wireless music was indeed very bold, but he only saw the popularity of iTunes and ignored the domestic market environment.

Domestic copyright awareness is relatively weak. If you want to learn from iTunes' experience, the final result will be to imitate others.After confirming the actors' schedule and shooting schedule, Xingchen Media immediately started preparing for tomorrow's launch conference.

The filming schedule for "Cohabitation in Time and Space" was very tight.

According to the plan, the film is scheduled to be released during the Lunar New Year.

The Lunar New Year stall first originated in Xiangjiang. The period from the end of November to the beginning of March of the following year is defined as the Lunar New Year stall.

The first Lunar New Year film in China was "Red Zone" starring Cheng Long in 1995, and the first Lunar New Year film in mainland China was "Party A and Party B" produced by Feng Pengtong.

After that, more and more movies were released during the Lunar New Year.

This year’s Lunar New Year festival is also packed with blockbusters.

On November 11, "The Witness" directed by Lin Chaoxian and starring Xie Tingfeng, Zha Zhahui, and Zhang Jingchu kicked off the Lunar New Year season.

On the same day, "Peach Blossom Luck" starring Ge You, Duan Yihong and Xiao Songjia faced off against "The Witness".

November 11, Lin Jiaxin, Deng Chao, Huang Xiaomin, Fan Wei, Huang Sanshi - "Love Call Transfer 26".

In early December, the movie "Mei Lanfang" directed by Chen Kaige and starring Li Min, Zhang Ziyi, and Sun Honglei followed closely behind.

December 12th, directed by Xu Ke, starring Zhou Xun and Gui Lunmei - "Women Are Not Bad".

December 12th, Donnie Yen - "Ip Man".

On December 12th, directed by Feng Tongtong, Ge You, Shu Qi, Xu Ruoxuan - "If You Are the One".

December 12th, directed by Zhuang Wenqiang and Mak Zhaohui, Zheng Xiuwen and Chen Yixun - "The Search".

January 2009, 1, "Red Cliff Part 7".

January 1th, directed by Ning Hao and starring Huang Bo - "Crazy Racing".

January 1nd, Gu Tianle and Wu Junru - "Happy Events at Home 22".

January 1, "Dragon Playing with Phoenix" - Liu Dehua and Shu Qi.

Each and every one of these movies is deceptive just by looking at their names. They are either famous directors, big-name stars, or both.

But Boss Lu has a God’s perspective.

He is cheating.

Among many movies, just avoid "Red Cliff Part [-]", "If You Are the One", "Ip Man", "Crazy Race" and "Mei Lanfang".

Avoiding these five movies is not because Lu Yuan is worried about not being able to compete with them, but because there is no need to compete head-on.

In a real confrontation, even if you win, you will still injure your enemy by one thousand and yourself by eight hundred.

Filmmaking is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships.

Behind "Red Cliff Part [-]" stands China Film Group.

"If You Are the One" is followed by Huayi.

The director of "Crazy Racing" and the director of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" are the same person.

If he had to choose an opponent, Lu Yuan would choose Master Ye and Zhang Ziyi.

Choosing them was not because Boss Lu only picked weak persimmons, but he was simply not familiar with them.

If all goes well, Lu Yuan will choose to release it in early December and compete with Chen Kaige's "Mei Lanfang".

of course.

If you can't keep up with the schedule due to shooting and review issues, then try "The Search" at the end of December.

Among Hong Kong movies, Killing It's prestige is not a loss of reputation.

If the December schedule cannot be made, Lu Yuan can only tearfully choose the Spring Festival schedule, let "Crazy Racing" run for a week or ten days, and then compete with Liu Tianwang on the same stage.

Running for ten days first is already Boss Lu's limit.

If it really affects the box office of "Racing" by then, the worst possible outcome is to take Ning Hao under the banner and let him make a few more movies to make up for it.

(End of this chapter)