Become famous another day.

Without waiting for D19 company to respond, Variety Show had already obtained and released the news.

"D19 has already started negotiations with Lu Yanhe regarding the sequel to The Mist."

As soon as the news broke, this matter became a hot search on many social platforms.

Now the global box office of "The Mist" is approaching 200 million US dollars.

For a horror movie, this is a very good box office result.

In addition to his extremely high popularity, Lu Yanhe also truly gathered a group of fans around the world because of this movie, and they began to express their love for him loudly.

"Friends" has become a regular in Maxine's top three TV series in the world in terms of viewership in recent times.

A TV series and a movie have pushed Lu Yanhe's popularity to the peak in recent times.

Lanson convenience stores around the world have all posted Lu Yanhe's endorsement pictures in their store windows.

During the week of filming the last two episodes of "Friends", everyone got together, and there was a sense of reluctance whether reading the script or filming.

This feeling of reluctance was actually quite strange - it was not the first time they had been together and separated, nor were they not going to stop filming afterwards, but everyone felt reluctant to part.

Even Lu Yanhe is like this.

He thought about it and felt that the reason why he felt so reluctant was because the creative atmosphere of the "Friends" crew was the most special and best creative atmosphere he had ever encountered.

We read the script and rehearsed for several days to polish a script that was only 40 minutes in total, and then shot it on Thursday and Friday, which took several weeks.

No domestic crew does this.

It's impossible and unrealistic.

Only a sitcom with an episode length of 20 minutes dares and can do this.

But the benefits of shooting this way are obvious.

In the words of the audience, in this drama, these people are like good friends who spend every day together. The subtle sense of familiarity between people is completely different from the texture in many dramas. They are like living in front of the camera.

A sitcom about friendship gives the audience this feeling. In fact, just like many variety shows, after watching season after season, you get familiar with them, as familiar as a friend around you. To a certain extent, you feel close to him and want to laugh when you see him. He just says one or two words, and you can understand the meaning of his words in seconds, or the intention behind his eyes or micro-expressions.

In this drama, everyone made sufficient preparations before filming, and gave themselves to the role during the actual filming. Or, in other words, in this drama, everyone actually integrated a part of their true self into the role they played. If those serious dramas require actors to completely abandon themselves, then in sitcoms, actors use their own personality to shape the character's personality to a large extent.

Of course, this is also why many actors who came out of sitcoms are not well received by the audience when they later act in other dramas.

But then again, in a film and television environment like China, actors who come from sitcoms actually have a very broad future development path.

Because China's film and television environment is large enough and tolerant enough, once an actor has fame and fans, they can actually continue to try and make mistakes frequently. Even if they can no longer act in mainstream dramas ten or twenty years later, they can still act in online movies and low-cost dramas.

Actors from Chinese sitcoms actually have more development options than those in Hollywood.

But this is also now.

As the domestic film and television environment becomes more orderly and the barriers between them become higher and higher, it may be difficult for actors from sitcoms to achieve a qualitative leap.

Unless she is as famous as Jennifer Aniston - but, in essence, she has not gotten rid of the sweet girl and silly girl type, and still has not made it into the "acting school" or "Oscar" circle.
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On the day of wrapping up on Friday, Lu Yanhe was filled with emotion.

He said: "Except for Friends, it is hard to find another crew that allows us to rehearse, polish and familiarize ourselves with the show for three days, and then shoot for two days. The two months of shooting have made me feel very fulfilled, and I feel very at ease in every scene. I can say that this is the most comfortable drama I have ever acted in."

When he said this, everyone applauded and cheered.

With the reunion of "Friends", no matter what everyone in the crew thinks in their hearts, on the surface, no one will deny Lu Yanhe's authoritative position in "Friends".

It is also because of Lu Yanhe that everyone has a stable job that can last for many years.

The creators of "Friends" are not the only ones making money; everyone else also earns several times the market salary of their respective positions.

Now the average viewership of "Friends" episodes has steadily exceeded 3, and generous bonuses will be given out in the future.

Who wouldn't be happy?
At the wrap-up party, everyone drank happily.

Lu Yanhe also drank a little with everyone, but not too much.

He had to rush back to Ziyuan Bridge in the evening.

Bai Jingnian and his team mentioned the upcoming film "Men and Women Living Together".

When Yin Xincheng heard this, he immediately asked, "Can I act?"

"Our show has a small budget and we can't afford your salary. We're going to find a newcomer." Hu Siwei said with a smile, "We can't even afford the salaries of famous actors."

Yin Xincheng couldn't possibly say that he would reduce his salary at this time - it wasn't up to him to decide. The agency had the final say on the salary. If he reduced his salary to act in this drama, the company would suffer. Which agency would be willing to do that?

Actors who are truly able to film at a friendly price are those who have a certain say and can bring enough income to the company from other aspects to keep them shut up.

"Come and make a guest appearance when the time comes." Bai Jingnian said.

Everyone nodded and said it was no problem.

As they chatted and laughed, Yin Xincheng suddenly picked up the small pot in front of him and said sincerely, "Everyone, during the filming of this play, I caused trouble to everyone because of my personal affairs. I am very sorry. I solemnly apologize to you all here again."

After he said that, he drank the whole pot.

"Don't drink so much!" Hu Siwei almost jumped up and snatched the wine jug from Yin Xincheng's hand. "Okay, take it easy, stop drinking, sit down and rest for a while. Everyone understands your situation at that time, so don't keep it in your heart. Just don't disappear suddenly in the future, just tell me if you have anything to say."

Yin Xincheng's tears started to flow, shocking everyone.

Bai Jin stood up, walked over, held his shoulders, and said in a gentle tone, "It's okay now."

Yan Liang also stood up to comfort Yin Xincheng.

Seeing that Yin Xincheng had been surrounded by several people, Lu Yanhe did not stand up to comfort him.

Lu Yanhe had actually let go of the incident with Yin Xincheng - he was certainly dissatisfied at the time, but after that time, because the incident did not lead to serious consequences, the dissatisfaction also passed.

The most important thing was Yin Xincheng's subsequent performance. After that, he never caused any trouble again. From his performance on the scene, it can be seen that he regretted the bad influence he caused that time, and he was very dedicated afterwards. Whether it was rehearsal or filming, Lu Yanhe never arrived when Yin Xincheng was not there.

After the wrap party, Lu Yanhe said goodbye to everyone and prepared to go back.

Zhan Yun suddenly came to see him.

"Yan He, is it convenient now? There is something I want to tell you."

Lu Yanhe was a little surprised and nodded.

Zhan Yun: "We were filming before, and I didn't want this to affect our filming, so I thought I would tell you after we finished filming. I didn't expect you to be so anxious and leave tonight."

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "Because I have something to do early tomorrow morning, I have to rush back tonight."

Zhan Yun nodded.

"My contract with my current agency is about to end." Zhan Yun said, looking around to make sure no one was around, and lowered her voice. "My agent and I don't plan to renew our contract with this company. We want to leave, and are currently contacting several agencies. Your agent, Chen Ziyan, has opened a high-end agency service company, and I would like to ask you to help me make some connections."

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized that it was because of this matter.

"Okay." Lu Yanhe nodded. "Then tell me when you return to Yuming and I'll make the arrangements."

"Thank you." Zhan Yun smiled and nodded, "But the fact that I don't plan to renew the contract has not been made public yet, so please keep it a secret for me."

"I know." Lu Yanhe agreed.

At this time, Zhan Yun looked at Lu Yanhe with some surprise and curiosity, and asked, "Aren't you curious about why I want to terminate my contract with my current agency?"

Lu Yanhe said, "Since you didn't ask, I won't ask. From my own personal experience, every artist has some problems with their management company, just like marriage, some can survive with some twists and turns, but some can't be repaired anymore and have to separate."

Zhan Yun's eyes widened in surprise and she said, "Your metaphor is so accurate. No wonder you write scripts so quickly. You just speak so fast."

"After you finished filming "Friends", do you have any plans for future films?" Lu Yanhe asked.

Zhan Yun said: "Before the filming of "30 Days" starts, I will take a break first. I am too tired during this period. And after the filming is finished, I have not completed many of the work I took before, so I may not be able to rest immediately. I have to pay off my debts first. "Friends" is too popular - in fact, it is because of this that I have an irreconcilable conflict with my current company. Can you believe it? They almost asked me to go to a live broadcast room to promote a problematic product. Fortunately, I found out in advance, otherwise I would have been in trouble."

Lu Yanhe was a little surprised.

"what?"

"Yeah." Zhan Yun nodded. "I'm not exaggerating at all. If you search for that product online, you'll see that many people are criticizing it. It's a skincare product. Many people say that their faces got rotten after applying it. They even attached photos."

"Why are they doing this?" Lu Yanhe didn't understand and was very surprised. "In your current situation, you can definitely take on some normal business and not make that kind of dirty money, right? I'm not saying that you can make that dirty money if you don't have it. What I mean is, since you can make money normally and safely, why do they have to settle for second best?"

"Who knows? Maybe someone behind the product made some asshole deal with a senior executive of the company." Zhan Yun complained very unhappily. "In short, I will definitely not renew my contract with this company. Otherwise, who knows when they will screw me over."

Lu Yanhe nodded, "It's really unkind of your company to do such a thing."

"Okay, that's it." Zhan Yun said, "I'm done."

Lu Yanhe: "Then I'll go first."

"Ah."
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After Lu Yanhe told Chen Ziyan about Zhan Yun's affairs, Chen Ziyan was quite surprised.

"Zhan Yun is interested in our company? She is very popular now, and there should be many agencies that want to compete for her. Why would she be interested in us? We are not a big company, and we mainly provide service projects. We almost never have artists who sign full agency contracts."

Chen Ziyan's agency is more like a value-added service agency.

They don't provide basic services, only value-added services - such as formulating a comeback plan for you, which is what they do most now.

The reason for this positioning is that when Chen Ziyan first started working for this agency, she was limited by the resources at hand and the situation of the entire industry. If she were to work for an artist like a traditional agency, she could basically only sign newcomers and not big names.

In the artist management business, you can’t make as much money signing a big star as signing a hundred newcomers.

Currently, the only artist who has signed a complete agency contract with Shihuo is He Jiang, who plays Lu Xiucai in "Wulin Waijiao".

That was a recent graduate that Lu Yanhe discovered from the acting school.

Popular actors like Zhan Yun would hardly consider an agency like Shihuo. For a popular first-line star like Zhan Yun, the company needs to assign her a complete team to take care of her affairs, and a few people are not enough. From the logistics staff consisting of assistants and drivers, to the technical team consisting of makeup and costumes, there must also be specialized legal affairs, public relations, publicity, etc.

For a first-line star, just to support his own team, it may be exaggerated to say that the cost is tens of millions a year.

The team is more than just the few people who follow them all year round.

Shihuo's current company strength is actually unable to provide such a complete service content for an artist. It is actually more like an intermediary to help some artists contact some resources that they cannot contact themselves. Or to help some outdated artists and provide an opportunity to become popular again.

Just like this time's "The Birth of the Actors", the company Shihuo was very deeply involved.

Among the actors who participated in the acting PK on this show, several were found and recommended by Shihuo.

Zhan Yun took the initiative to contact them, and this action itself made Chen Ziyan fall into deep thought.

Does Shihuo need to adjust its business scope based on the current basis?
In just a few seconds, Chen Ziyan had figured it out.

Zhan Yun's current popularity and popularity have made her one of the most popular actors in China. If you want to talk about status, it may be true that she cannot be compared with those movie queens and big stars, but no matter what activities, Zhan Yun will definitely be invited as a guest. Her popularity and popularity are second to none in China.

Even Wen Minglan, who was personally taken care of by Chen Ziyan, was not as good as her.

Moreover, Zhan Yun has an agent with whom she has worked for a long time, and they will come together. It can be imagined that Zhan Yun must have brought a team with her, and at most there will be a few gaps that need to be filled by them.

Zhan Yun didn't need Shihuo to provide her with many basic services. She only needed Shihuo to provide her with resources in a few key areas, such as scripts, business, public relations and publicity.

Coincidentally, this is what Shihuo is best at now.
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Lu Yanhe’s contract with Star Entertainment is about to expire.

So, after the filming of "Friends" was completed and during the break in the rehearsal for the Spring Festival Gala, he and Chen Ziyan went to Star Entertainment's company together.

After not having been here for a long time, Lu Yanhe walked into the gate again and attracted a lot of people's attention as soon as he showed his face.

When Lu Yanhe was still in Fengzhi, he often came to the company because he needed to practice singing and dancing. Later, Lu Yanhe became an actor, especially after he followed Chen Ziyan, he rarely appeared in the company.

The news that Lu Yanhe had come to the company quickly spread throughout the company's group chats, big and small.

As a result, the company's public area was filled with several times more people than usual, carrying documents and walking around. They all hoped to have a chance to meet Lu Yanhe in person. This was especially true for those who had just joined Xingyu and had never met Lu Yanhe.

This time, the person who met with Lu Yanhe was not Vice President Ma Zhongquan, but Executive President Hong Qi.

Soon after Lu Yanhe joined the company, someone told him that although Hong Qi was the company's president, he was not actually the actual controller of the company. There was a second-generation behind Xingyu, who founded the company to make his girlfriend happy. But after so many years, no one knew who this second-generation was, and who this girlfriend was.

Lu Yanhe had very few experiences dealing with Hong Qi, and the few times they had met, it was only a single encounter.

Hong Qi was quite enthusiastic towards him, even though Lu Yanhe would not renew his contract with Star Entertainment in the future.

With Lu Yanhe's limited understanding of Hong Qi, Lu Yanhe felt that Hong Qi was actually a rather magical existence. Although he was the executive president of Xingyu, he did not seem to care about the specific affairs of the company, and almost all the power was handed over to several vice presidents - if he wanted, those powers could be taken back to his own hands.

However, it is not true to say that he has lost control of Star Entertainment. Whether it is some signs presented by Chen Ziyan or the attitude expressed by Vice President Ma, they all clearly point to one point: Star Entertainment has never been out of Hong Qi's control.

"Although the contract has ended, we can still continue to cooperate in the future," said Hong Qi.

Lu Yanhe knew that Hong Qi was also a shareholder of Shihuo Company.

He nodded.

Hong Qi: "When you were working for Ma Zhongquan and Zhou Ping'an, you suffered a lot of grievances. Zi Yan told me all of this. Fortunately, you met Zi Yan later. I have actually been following your progress step by step over the years. I think Ma Zhongquan and Zhou Ping'an must be regretting it now."

As he said this, he curled up the corners of his mouth and smiled.

This is what I said...

Lu Yanhe always felt that Hong Qi was also enjoying the misfortune of others.

"However, the two of them have indeed made a lot of contributions to Star Entertainment." Hong Qi said, "Moreover, because Star Entertainment's future development focus is to be an idol artist company, actors and singers will have their own studios, and they will no longer be managed by the company. Each studio will have long-term cooperation with Shihuo."

Lu Yanhe was a little surprised.

"Is this... going to be a partner of Xingyu in the future?"

Chen Ziyan: "When I was about to start Shihuo, Hong Qi told me about his plan. In the future, Star Entertainment will set up another agency specifically for actors and singers. Star Entertainment will gradually transform and create an industry chain for idol artist agency, from artist packaging to involvement in related industries, all centered around idol artists."

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized.

It turned out to be the case.

Star Entertainment has always said that it wants to build the top idol artist agency in the country. Now it seems that it no longer just wants to be an "agency" company.

It wants to create an industrial chain for idol artists.

This is a huge project. No wonder Star Entertainment wants to break it up and remove the agents of actors and singers.

Hong Qi said to Lu Yanhe: "Yanhe, I wonder if you are interested."

"What?" Lu Yanhe was stunned.

Hong Qi said: "If we set up another agency specifically for Xingyu that does not include idol artists, would you be interested? Would you be a partner of our company?"

"Can an agency... still have partners?"

Lu Yanhe's understanding of the word partner came from legal dramas.

Only law firms have partners.

Because the profession of lawyer is special and every lawyer has his own clients, law firms must use partners to keep these lawyers with client resources in their own law firms.

But does an agency need a partner? At least in China, Lu Yanhe rarely sees such a thing. Lu Yanhe looked at Chen Ziyan with some doubts, but saw that Chen Ziyan was also looking at Hong Qi with doubts.

Chen Ziyan said: "Hong Qi, you never told me this before."

"I just saw Yan He and this came to my mind," Hong Qi said. "Yan He has his own film and television production company and has such a strong influence in the industry. Do you mind?"

Chen Ziyan: "It's not a question of whether I mind or not. You should have told me in advance instead of doing it by surprise."

Hong Qi: "I told you, I just did it on impulse."

He had a determined smile on his face.

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "Mr. Hong, you just came up with this idea on impulse. I also need to consider this matter. I will discuss it with Sister Zi Yan after I go back. Since this matter is not the focus of our discussion today, let's get back to business."

Hong Qi looked at Lu Yanhe in surprise, as if he had not expected that Lu Yanhe would "support" Chen Ziyan in this way. It was obvious that -

He would definitely not refute Chen Ziyan's attitude on the spot.

Since Chen Ziyan expressed "dissatisfaction", he would not take the opportunity, even if it was a very tempting benefit.
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Lu Yanhe came to Star Entertainment today to have a "breakup negotiation" before terminating the contract.

During the contract period, Lu Yanhe needs to clarify a lot of his work and income distribution with Star Entertainment, to avoid any sudden trouble when they are about to break up.

Both parties had legal and financial personnel on site to compare various agreements, calculate accounts, and communicate.

Since they were not required to participate in specific matters, they just sat aside and chatted.

When Lu Yanhe was chatting, he said, "Let's get back to business," which actually meant one thing: let's end this topic here and not discuss it today.
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Chen Ziyan also looked at Lu Yanhe with some surprise.

Unconsciously, Lu Yanhe actually began to have the ability and sensitivity to stand in front of her at critical moments and help her turn the situation around.

Hong Qi picked up the cup and took a sip of tea.

"Boss Hong, now that the company has just signed Liu Zhiyin, are you going to build her up to be the top star?" Lu Yanhe asked.

He still cares about Liu Zhiyin.

"She's done." Hong Qi shook his head. "She wasted too much time in Korea before. After returning to China, she still hasn't made any breakthroughs in the past few years. Although she's very popular now, she's almost 30 years old. She hasn't reached her peak at this age. Her future is only going downhill."

When Lu Yanhe heard Hong Qi's judgment, his heart sank.

"You should actually change the track of Fu Li, who Zhou Ping'an signed, and let her become an idol artist." Chen Ziyan said, "Her basic conditions are the best I have seen in recent years. She wants to be an actress, but the company has Jiang Yuqian and Zhang Lan, who have always regarded her as a threat and suppressed her. Now Minglan has risen, and you have signed Meng Li. It will be even more difficult for Fu Li to stand out."

Hong Qi: "This is Zhou Ping'an's business, why should I care so much about him? Let them do what they want."

Lu Yanhe felt even more puzzled.

What is Hong Qi's attitude towards Star Entertainment, Ma Zhongquan and Zhou Pingan? -
"Lu Yanhe came to the company today."

As soon as Zhou Ping'an arrived at the company, he heard the news.

He frowned subconsciously.

Now, Lu Yanhe has become the worst stain on his resume - because everyone knows that it was his blindness that buried Lu Yanhe for several years.

Zhou Pingan nodded, went into his office, and asked, "Is Fuli in the company today?"

"Yes, she has acting class today."

"Tell her to come to my place after class."

"Ok."

Twenty minutes later, Fuli came over.

"Brother Ping'an." Fuli still had her usual pure smile on her face.

Ever since Zhou Ping'an found out that this woman had actually bullied her classmates in school, he could no longer look directly at the seemingly pure smile on her face.

"You auditioned for "The Birth of an Actor" before, but didn't make it. Lu Yanhe came to the company today."

"Ah." Fuli had actually heard about it a long time ago, but she still subconsciously pretended to be surprised as if she had just heard about it.

Zhou Pingan said: "He is a soft-hearted person. You can see if you can find an opportunity to fight for this show."

Fuli was stunned.

"Originally, the best way to deal with this matter is for you to get along well with Yan Liang and ask Yan Liang to recommend you, but since you don't have Yan Liang, you can only try your luck on your own."

Fuli bit her lip lightly and said, "Okay."

After he finished speaking, he remembered and added: "Thank you, Brother Ping An."

"Also, I got you a role in a play." Zhou Ping'an said, "It's an online drama, but you'll be the female lead."

Fu Li was stunned when he heard this.

Online...

Online movies have been around for many years, and there are many that have achieved good results with online box office sales of 40 to 50 million. However, for an actor, online movies are indeed too low-level. If one wants to develop better, he will not shoot online movies.

Fu Li didn't expect that Zhou Ping'an would actually get her a role in an online movie.

"Brother Ping An, is the net big?"

"After your incident, basically no crew is willing to use you." Zhou Pingan said, "You can't just stop filming forever."

Fu Li's eyes instantly turned red.

"Will I only be able to shoot online movies from now on?"

"Try it out with online dramas first. As long as your performance in online dramas is good and the feedback is okay, you can of course go back to acting in long dramas." Zhou Ping'an still tried to comfort him, "Just use this drama as a transition for now."

Fu Li reluctantly took the script Zhou Pingan handed over. (End of this chapter)