This director needs to apologize

Chapter 225 What virtue is there?

The day after the preview of "Jinling", Xu Xu's new film also started to be screened in Shanghai. Chen Yiming and Yulu Junzhan also attended, catching up with Xu Xu and blowing a few rainbow farts at the same time.

After checking in for two movies and standing on stage, Chen Yiming finally felt at peace.

The box office trend in December is indeed a battle between two heroes. The two movies alternately lead each other, one with 12 million and the other with 7.1 million, with Sun Wangquan winning a small victory.

However, when it comes to expanding to the Asian market, it is obvious that Xuancheng, who was born in Hong Kong, has more box office appeal. Especially in the small market, Xuancheng is unparalleled.

Generally speaking, the two families were in a one-to-one draw.

Chen Yiming also ushered in the end of 2011 while staying at home.

To sum up the third year of his time travel, it seemed that he was standing still and doing nothing.

The first quarter of the year was busy with the awards season. Not long after I took a break, I started working on "Mulan". I was busy until the end of the year and only finished filming two scenes. The efficiency was so low that I couldn't see it.

The production work other than directing is also progressing very slowly. Xiangrui's "Love Letter" is still missing a character, and only one successor director has arrived. The planned multiple projects will not be implemented until the year after next year.

But when the income exploded last time, there was a lot of seriousness.

After more than a year, the various profits from "1951" were finally credited to Chen Yiming's account, and he began to live a life of financial freedom.

"1951" brought a net profit of more than 1 million to Platinum Jue. Excluding the company's operating costs and the expenses of setting up a secondary studio, Chen Yiming received tens of millions of dividends as the second shareholder.

He immediately paid off the loan from Da Zhuang, paid off his mortgage in advance, and gave his parents a million in pocket money. Then he found that he had no place to spend money.

On the one hand, he is busy. The film has entered the second preparation period. There are too many matters that require Chen Yiming to follow up personally. He reads endless materials and emails every day. His biggest interest is to wake up naturally when sleeping.

On the other hand, he really had nowhere to spend money. He didn’t have enough money for big things like buying a house, and he didn’t need small things. He could be reimbursed for food, drink, toilet, movement, sitting and sleeping.

Chen Yiming spent the New Year's Day holiday in Shanghai in 2012, and Platinum Jue Company held its first annual meeting in advance.

Ma Yunteng made a special trip back from the Tangcheng construction site to personally host the annual meeting. Xiaomei, Lao Niu, Lao Jia and other veterans, Wang Wei and other three new directors who joined the company, Gu Yuehe from "Holiday", many directors from "1951" All the main creative staff, as well as Yu Nan and Thirteen Taibao from "Mulan" were invited to participate.

As a first-class pastry chef, Da Zhuang drew up a grand blueprint for the future of Platinum Jue to the whole company. He boasted about it three years ago, five years ago, and five years ago, which deceived many employees into a daze.

Chen Yiming disclosed for the first time the batch processing plan for medium-investment genre films. The first project is the newly formed "Love Letter".

After more than a month of field research, Xiangrui finally compiled the script and storyboards. After the plot was established, the casting was naturally targeted, and the cast was quickly finalized.

Liu Dongjun was chosen as the male protagonist because his image and temperament fit the most.

He is tall and thin, and he is not particularly handsome. As long as he is slightly covered by makeup, he looks ordinary.

In addition, he is now a senior in high school, so he has no need to experience life before joining the group.

The heroine surprised Chen Yiming. She turned out to be An Xixi, who had a "crew internship" agreement with him before.

It's quite a coincidence that this happened. After turning on the camera, Chen Yiming was so focused on filming that he completely forgot about his promise to An Meizi.

He forgot, but the girl didn't.

The filming progress of "Mulan" is actually very transparent. The paparazzi in the team revealed it clearly. Xiao An saw on the Internet that filming had started but he did not receive any notification from Chen Yiming, so naturally he had some opinions.

One day in mid-December, An Xixi made a special trip to the Magic City and went to Bojue Company to "discuss an explanation" with Chen Yiming.

As a result, Chen Yiming was not in the company that day. He now works from home most of the time. He rarely goes to Bojue unless he has meetings. Of course, An Meizi can't stop him.

However, An Meizi did not block Chen Yiming, but was caught by director Fu Ruixiang who borrowed Bo Jue's office for auditions. Chen Yiming's evaluation of An Meizi is "Flower Fairy". Xiangrui, a director who has been in Hollywood, has an even more precise grasp of An Xixi's temperament.

Such a top-notch vase still has its own fairy spirit. If it is not used as a moonlight in a youth movie, wouldn't it be a waste of natural resources?

So Xiangrui volunteered to receive him, and took Chen Yiming, a "scumbag" who didn't mean what he said, as a target, and successfully got closer to An Xixi.

Then Xiangrui presented a youth film script "written by Director Chen himself", which successfully aroused An Meizi's curiosity, and naturally invited the latter to join the "Love Letter" crew as an "internship".

After all, "Mulan" will not continue filming until the second quarter of next year, while "Love Letter" will start filming much earlier.

An Xixi, the little white rabbit, boarded Fu Ruixiang's pirate ship. Later, Chen Yiming didn't know exactly what Xiangrui was. Anyway, by the time Chen Yiming met An Meizi again at the Platinum Jue annual meeting, the latter had already accepted the "Love Letter" 》The heroine.

Chen Yiming had to admit that this was an unparalleled casting choice, a perfect fit made in heaven.

An Xixi is 24 years old this year and has an invincible youthful temperament. It feels right to wear a school uniform and play a high school student.

The heroine in the movie is a quiet image who has spent time quietly, and is mainly responsible for being beautiful and independent in the world.

In other words, An Xixi doesn't need to have great acting skills, just a so-so passable one.

Just looking at the casting of Liu Dongjun and An Xixi, Chen Yiming felt that "Love Letter" was already half successful.

For the other two relatively important roles, one is the hero's bad friend and the groom in the opening scene. Xiangrui directly chose Ye Zuxin, Liu Dongjun's backup.

Standing next to Liu Dongjun, one is a tall man with a long face and the other is a short man with a baby face. They match well.

The other one is the second female lead, the younger sister of the second male lead, who is the source of the wrong love letter.

The actress finally selected was also the number one spare she saved during the audition for the heroine, Miao Xiaotong, who just graduated from the Imperial Academy of Drama this year.

This is a girl with a round face who is pure and perfect. Standing together with the powerful An Xixi, her girlish attributes soar to the ceiling.

It can only be said that God's will is such that Miao Meizi has a supporting role face.

At the annual meeting that day, there were hundreds of people in Wuyang.

Unknowingly, Bojue, a second-tier company, has gathered a small group of hardcore film and television creative personnel through the director Chen Yiming.

The behind-the-scenes team mainly comes from the Magic Film Studio and the Bayi Film Studio, while the actors are marginalized people from the General Political Department and the Magic Circle.

It can be said that in the past two years or so, Chen Yiming has picked up all kinds of scraps from the periphery of the mainstream film industry and made a roundabout way to the sky. With only the existing team, Bojue Mahuhu can call itself a faction.

This change is nothing to the entire Chinese film industry, but as far as the Magic City is concerned, it is a world-changing leap.

Not to mention others, Guy Yuehe, a newcomer to the magic circle, Lei Jiasheng, a newcomer to the magic circle, and the magic drama students in "1951" and "Mulan" are all the beneficiaries of Chen Yiming's time travel.

It is no exaggeration to say that if it were not for Chen Yiming, all of these people would have been involved in the TV drama industry for several years. If they were lucky enough to get ahead, they could hope to make movies.

Lin Xiao, Mr. Wang, and Lu Ping, the backbone of the Phantom Factory, are either trapped in the establishment and have no idea, or they have retired early or left their jobs to work. They will definitely not have the comfortable life they have now.

In fact, the more sensitive media in the entertainment industry have also noticed this. Although Bojue's annual meeting is not open to the public, there are still reporters waiting outside the annual meeting venue for the whole process, and a detailed inventory article is published the next day.

The title is very UC, "Shocked! The stars of Platinum Jue Annual Meeting are bright, and the power has become a blockbuster"

Forget about praising Ma Yunteng and Chen Yiming, in order to exaggerate the influence of Platinum Jue, famous actors such as Duan Yining, Hou Yong, Shi Lei, and Wu Jun were actually classified into the Platinum Jue family!

After reading this, Chen Yiming couldn't help but admire the imagination of the media reporters. How could I be so virtuous?

(End of this chapter)