During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 199: The luxury lineup project is launched, Yang Mi has nothing to lose

On August 8, in the Sunward Media conference room, the sci-fi movie "Superbody" was about to hold a launch press conference.

This was the first time that Wei Jin held a film conference with great fanfare, and media reporters also cheered.

The conference room was already crowded with reporters. Some of these reporters were from Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. Of course, the majority were entertainment reporters from the mainland. Everyone was chatting in twos and threes.

In the center of the huge stage in the conference hall, there was a huge poster with two large golden characters "Super Body" written on it. Below the characters were four men and one woman, and five faint black silhouettes. It was impossible to tell who the actors were. But this did arouse everyone's curiosity.

In the lounge, Wei Jin smiled and chatted with Cui Minzhi and Abe Kan in Korean and Japanese. He had held a script reading meeting two days ago, and he was relatively familiar with these two.

Both of these two people's English is half-baked. Fortunately, Wei Jin has a strong learning ability. He has mastered Korean before and has also learned a lot of Japanese during this time. Simple communication is no problem at all.

The reason for choosing these two is mainly for the Japanese market and the Korean market.

Hiroshi Abe's status in Japan is equivalent to that of Liu Tianwang in China. It has been 25 years since his debut and he can be called a scandal insulator. He just got married to an outsider at the beginning of this year, but it still cannot change the fans' pursuit of him. He is extremely popular.

The same goes for Choi Min-sik. In 03, he won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his thriller "Oldboy" and won the Best Actor Award at the Daejong Award, Blue Dragon Award, and Baeksang Arts Awards. He has an extraordinary status in Korea. .

Except that the beginning of the story takes place in Japan, the rest of the story mainly unfolds in Xiangjiang, so in terms of supporting roles, Wei Jin chose Liang Jiahui, who is good at acting and cheap, to play the role of a policeman.

For the role of professor, Wei Jin chose an old acquaintance, Mr. Chen Baoguo, whom we had enjoyed working with before on "The Martian". In addition, his acting skills were indeed good and his temperament matched the role.

In addition, many supporting roles are also old faces, such as the gangster played by Sun Honglei.

This role didn't have many roles. When Chen Xi sent out the invitation, he was worried that he would be rejected. After all, Sun Honglei is now considered a first-line actor in China. But when Sun Honglei heard that it was Wei Jin's movie, he agreed without saying anything.

This movie is mainly spent on special effects. Shanhe Ink has already given a quotation of 2500 million. In addition, Wei Jin's 2000 million remuneration is converted into investment, and the production cost is only 3500 million. The actors' remuneration alone is close to million.

Among them, Choi Min-sik earned 150 million, and Hiroshi Abe had a smaller role and received a salary of 100 million. The income of artists mainly in Japan and South Korea is indeed not high, so this time it is considered a good salary.

Chen Baoguo's salary was 100 million, Liang Jiahui was 200 million, and Jing Tian was 300 million.

Since "Now You See Me", Jing Tian has been promoted to the ranks of first-line actresses. She may not be as good as Si Dan Shuang Bing, but she is only slightly inferior. This salary is not excessive.

What's more, she is the only heroine. Although the young girl has no idea about money or not, the entertainment industry must pay attention to these things. This represents a celebrity status and must not be underestimated.
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At two o'clock in the afternoon, the launch conference officially began.

Liu Yan, the female host of Shanhe Media, walked onto the stage in a decent dress:

"Dear guests and friends from the media, good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the media conference of the science fiction movie "Super Body". I am Liu Yan. Next, let us invite the directors and creators of "Super Body" "Come on"

Wei Jin took five people to the stage, which aroused exclamations from the media.

Mainland reporters were all familiar with Jing Tian, ​​Chen Baoguo and Liang Jiahui, but when they saw the tall and handsome Hiroshi Abe appearing, many acquaintances began to whisper. Unexpectedly, Wei Jin actually invited this popular Japanese star.

Choi Min-sik's appearance is much different, but many people recognize him. After all, "Oldboy" swept a large number of awards back then.

The reporters looked at the leading actors on the stage and probably understood the film's positioning. It focuses on the Asian market, and Europe and the United States may sell copyrights or jointly distribute it.

Soon it was time for reporters to ask questions. Everyone asked a lot of movie-related questions, and Wei Jin answered them one by one, until this reporter:

"Director Wei, why isn't this script made into a Hollywood movie?"

Many people pricked up their ears and were ready to hear what Wei Jin had to say. They were really puzzled. With Wei Jin's status in Hollywood, if he took the path of global distribution of English-language films, the box office would be higher. Why bother looking far away?

"Journalist, according to you, I should go to Hollywood to shoot "The Martian", and the cost will only be around US$5000 million."

How could Wei Jin not understand this truth, but at his position, some things must be done, not to mention that in a few years, Hollywood will not be easy to deal with. In the future, with the rise of Marvel, the world will be dominated by superheroes and independent IPs I can never break into Hollywood again.

"For a movie, from a profit perspective, Hollywood is indeed the best choice, but I am a Chinese director, and my movies are more for the Chinese people. All the big directors have gone to Hollywood to make movies, and the domestic film market is still there. Do we want to develop? When can Chinese-language films go abroad?"

Wei Jin's words silenced the reporters at the scene for a while, followed by warm applause. Regardless of whether Wei Jin was singing a high note or not, he was already doing it——

On the second day of the press conference, Wei Jin's speech appeared in major newspapers and portals.

Most netizens and media have very positive comments and express support and approval for Wei Jin's actions.

At present, all the top directors are eager to enter Hollywood, such as Lao Mouzi, Chen Shi, Zhou Xingxing, etc., but they cannot make blockbuster Hollywood movies and cannot enter the North American film circle.

But Wei Jin is different. He has already proven himself in Hollywood. Whether it is horror films, suspense films, or magic crime films, he has achieved outstanding results. As long as he goes to Hollywood and announces that he has a project, a large number of investors will come. Swarming towards him waving banknotes.

However, he gave up the idea of ​​shooting Hollywood blockbusters and focused on China, looking forward to leading Chinese films abroad.

For a time, Wei Jin attracted many patriotic fans on the Internet.

Just when the Internet was making a fuss, Wei Jin had already started filming with the crew.

The main scenes of this movie take place in Tokyo and Xiangjiang. The others are the arrest of two drug hiders at foreign airports, as well as some fragmentary scenes of nature interspersed.

Foreign airports can just arrange for an assistant director to lead a team to shoot. As for scenes of nature, there are many documentaries in the CCTV material library, so you can just call them.

Therefore, except for the necessary exterior scenes that will be shot in Tokyo and Xiangjiang, the interior scenes will basically be completed in the studio of China Film Digital Base this time. China Film Digital Production Base is located in the HR area, covering an area of ​​800 acres. The project was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in July 2005. The base has a construction area of ​​7 square meters.

This base was officially completed and opened to the public last month. "Super Body" was the first crew to choose to start production here. For this reason, Director Han also specially discounted the cost.

There are a total of 16 fully-functional studios in the digital base, designed and built in accordance with international film photography standards, with a total area of ​​more than 4 square meters, including a 1-square-meter super-large studio, the largest in the world.

The project "Super Body" naturally did not require such a large studio, so this time we rented a medium-sized one.

The current filming is mainly about the scenes of playing the Korean gangster and the heroine, so other actors have not joined the cast for the time being.

The same goes for Chen Baoguo. In the early stage, he mainly did academic exchanges, and then there were scenes of talking to the heroine on the phone and finally meeting in the laboratory.

The filming location for the speech in the film was arranged at Peking University, but the time had to be coordinated. With Wei Jin's status, this was not a problem.
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What was filmed today was the scene where the heroine was caught from the hotel front desk by the gang boss’ men and taken into the hotel suite.

"Click, stop."

Wei Jin looked at the picture on the monitor and stopped.

"Brother Hong Lei, Tiantian, come here."

After hearing this, the two of them were a little confused, but they still walked to Wei Jin and listened to his drama.

"Brother Hong Lei, your character is not just a ferocious expression, but also cold at heart. Your mood just now was a bit worse."

"Tiantian, your emotions just now were not full enough. You were afraid, helpless, and anxious. These are not just expressions, but also your voice, breathing, and subtle movements of your body. You need to think about these carefully."

"Let's rest for half an hour first, let's find our state."

"Okay, director."
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Hengdian, the crew of "Sword and Sword III".

After the day's shooting, Yang Mi was about to go back to the room to rest, but was stopped by Miss Cai's secretary.

"Ms. Yang, Mr. Cai is waiting for you in the room."

"Okay, I'll pack up and go there, wait a moment."

Yang Mi closed the door, went to the bathroom, and made a phone call.

She knew exactly what Miss Cai wanted to do with her, and now she needed to find a consultant to help her make suggestions.

"Hey, Sister Jia, Mr. Cai is here to see me again."

"No Mi Mi, you are like this"

After hanging up the phone, Yang Mi felt confident.

Soon Yang Mi followed the secretary and met Miss Cai.

"Mimi, how are you thinking about it?"

This is not the first time we have talked about this, and Ms. Cai’s patience has almost been exhausted.

"Mr. Cai, thanks to Tang Ren's respect, of course I am willing to work with you all."

Yang Mi was very grateful, but she was sneering in her heart. A heroine wants to win people's hearts? Think too much.

"It's just that, as you know, the role of "Red Mansions" has also been decided. If I terminate the contract with Honor now, firstly, not only will the character be lost, but secondly, I am afraid it will have a negative impact on the crew."

Miss Cai also had to admit that what Yang Mi said was very reasonable. Just as she was about to say something, the latter gave her explanation:

"Mr. Cai, when the filming of "Red Mansions" is over, my contract will not be much different, and I will be able to pay less liquidated damages by then. What do you think?"

"Okay then, let's make an agreement?"

"Ah."

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