During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 411: The Movie Cast
Shanhe Building, in the chairman's office.

"Mengying, send audition invitations to these people."

Wei Jin handed over a piece of paper, on which was a list of names that he had decided on in his mind, which were more suitable for the number one protagonist and villain in "Big Shot".

Honestly speaking, the role of an honest policeman is relatively simple. He is nothing more than a stubborn little guy, and the acting skills required are not too high.

On the contrary, the role of the villain Zhao Tai requires him to be young and handsome, with a sinister look in his eyes, which requires more acting skills.

Although Bao Beier gave his best acting skills in the original version, his peak was a bit low and completely superficial, giving people a feeling of "born to be beaten".

As for the other supporting roles, they are very easy to choose, and most of the main characters can be copied from the original.

Coincidentally, Wei Jin also likes the two actors Wang Yanhui and Du Yuan.

It is worth mentioning that in the original version, the character of Mei Ting, Sister Li paid a lot of price to speak for her friend without knowing it. Wei Jin couldn't help laughing when he thought about it.

As for the leading lady, we won't look for the original one. This character is heroic and as brave as any man, a flower in the police force, with her unique skill she can kick a thug away with one kick. It's not difficult to perform. There are many female artists in the company, so there's no need to give it to an outsider.

In addition, in order to avoid any accidents during the final review of the film, he plans to invite the super tool man "Teacher Ma" to play one of the roles.

"Okay, Mr. Wei."

After sending his assistant away, Wei Jin paid attention to some movie information.

As an art film, "A Simple Life" has inevitably shown its decline after being released for more than 20 days.

The box office has now passed the 8000 million mark, but the single-day box office is already less than one million, so it is estimated that there is no hope of breaking the million mark.

However, "Ex Machina" performed quite well. After one week of release, it earned more than 4600 million at the box office, and the daily box office remained above 500 million.

According to this data, it might be possible to exceed 100 million.

After a while, Huang Mengying, who had arranged her work, came in again.

"Boss, Sister Bin's "Hello Old Times" will be aired tonight, do you want to watch it together?"

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Jin looked at Huang Mengying in surprise, then a playful expression appeared on his face, "Did Liu Yan ask you to say this?"

Being exposed by the boss in front of her, Huang Mengying stuck out her tongue and said, "Well, Sister Liu Yan said she missed you."

"Haha, okay."

Wei Jin nodded in agreement. After all, Liu Yan was in her thirties, so it was understandable that she had strong demands. Moreover, it had been almost two months, so there must be something fishy going on.

In the capital, in a villa in Yanjiao, a three-player game of Landlord is going on.

Huang Mengying, sitting at the card game, had a flushed face and a dazed look in her eyes. It was obvious that Wei Jin's behavior of "taking responsibility to the end" every time moved her deeply.

Wei Jin was also very moved at this moment. In front of him, Huang Mengying was flying up and down, "pressing forward step by step", and behind him, Liu Yan was holding an innate spiritual treasure and massaging him attentively. He was not only moved, but also dared to move.

After a while, Huang Mengying was the first to play out all the cards in his hand and admitted defeat.

Different from the previous position, Liu Yan chose a more difficult posture. She knew very well that this was the only way to make Wei Jin enjoy himself.

Wei Jin was quite satisfied with the thoughtfulness of his first assistant. While controlling Daju, he was like a tiger descending from the mountain, and every card he played was extremely powerful.

"Boss~~~"

Half an hour later, Liu Yan uttered a coquettish sound, and Wei Jin immediately understood. He pulled her hands over, pressed his waist and abdomen against her back, and ended the card game.

After enjoying Huang Mengying's shuffling service, Wei Jin hugged the two beauties, one big and one small, in his arms and enjoyed himself very much.

Before the TV show started, Wei Jin caressed the delicate bodies of his two assistants while chatting with Liu Yan about "I Am a Singer".

Wei Jin learned a lot from Liu Yan.

The recording of the second season of this program has been completed. For the ten or so episodes aired so far, the average ratings have remained at around 2.5%.

Although this data seems to be a little worse than last year, you have to know that with the increasing development of the Internet, the ratings of TV stations are declining every year.

Mango Channel’s flagship variety show “Happy Camp” can only barely maintain around 1.8%, and only occasionally can the ratings break 2.

However, what surprised Wei Jin was that the episode with the highest ratings of "Singer" this season was the one where Liu Yifei appeared on the show to promote her performance, and it actually exceeded 3.

I have to say, the little girl is quite popular.

"Who is the champion this season?"

Last year, Lin Zhixuan won the championship of the first season, which was well deserved.

This year's contestants are equally strong, including Han Lei, Wei Wei, Zhang Yu, Jane Zhang, Luo Qi, Gary Cao, Chen Li, as well as replacement singers Zhang Jie, Victor Wong, Man Wenjun, Power Train, and Zhou Chuanxiong.

Wei Jin was still quite curious about who would win the championship.

"It's Han Lei."

Wei Jin nodded. He was also a talented singer. His song “Borrow Another Five Hundred Years from Heaven” was so explosive.

After a while of chatting, "Hello, Old Times" started airing on TV.

The broadcast of this drama was quite bumpy. In August last year, Shanghai TV and Jiangsu TV won the first broadcast rights, but because the two TV stations had to coordinate the broadcast time, it was not launched until this year.

"You know what, Xiaobai's school uniform is really quite stylish."

Looking at Bai Bin's campus uniform on the screen, Wei Jin held his chin with his hand and made a comment. This reminded him of the cosplay on the night of the annual party two years ago, so much so that he raised his head slightly not long after he released it.

"Boss, if you like, I can wear it too."

Seeing the boss starting to get cocky, Huang Mengying gently controlled him while revealing her feelings.

Liu Yan on the side was not to be outdone and buried his head deeply.

"Hiss, Little White Tiger, Mengying, didn't you say there was some good TV? What are you two doing?"

Huang Mengying took Wei Jin's hand and placed it on Liu Yan's proud magic weapon.

"Boss, we just need to focus on the ratings of the TV series. The evening time is very precious."

Looking at Liu Yan who was still working hard and silent, Wei Jin shook his head. It was really not easy to treat everyone equally.

"Well, if I don't go to hell, who will? Tonight, let me subdue you two evil monsters."

Just as he was about to show leniency to the two assistants, the phone suddenly rang. Huang Mengying handed the phone over with a tactful look.

"Hello, Hunter?" "Boss, Happy Death Day 2."

Listening to Hunter's report, Wei Jin couldn't help but smile.

"Happy Death Day 2" was released in North America a few days ago, and the box office revenue was reported to be 1.33 million US dollars.

The global box office was a bit lagging and was not summarized until today, but the results were quite impressive, with a cumulative box office of 2.58 million, exceeding the previous work.

This movie cost 800 million U.S. dollars to produce. After deducting the publicity and promotion costs, the net profit from the box office alone was as high as 8000 million U.S. dollars. Although a part of it had to be shared with James Wan, it is undeniable that the movie still made a lot of money.

What’s more crucial is that there will be a lot of DVD copyright income in the future, which can be said to be a real long-term profit.

In fact, the large number of copyrights accumulated by Summit Entertainment over the years have generated annual cash flow of hundreds of millions of US dollars, which is truly a guaranteed income regardless of the market conditions.

"By the way, The Hunger Games is about to be released. How are the negotiations with the theater chain going?"

Wei Jin has great expectations for this movie, which will become Summit Entertainment's biggest cash cow after the "Twilight" series.

"Boss, no problem. The amount of this painting will definitely not be less than 4,000 yuan."

"Okay, wait until the first week's box office comes out and then report back to me."

As soon as Wei Jin hung up the phone, he saw Huang Mengying looking up from his chest and smiling sweetly, "Boss, congratulations on the box office success."

"Haha, you are so sweet. The boss will reward you well tonight."

"Yeah~~Boss~~~Yeah."

Hearing Huang Mengying's moans, Liu Yan, who had been working hard for a long time, suddenly stopped.

"Boss, it's my turn this time~~"

Upon hearing this, Wei Jin reached out and pulled Liu Yan over, pressing her down on the bed, and holding the real big orange in his hands, unable to let go.

"Haha, why are you in such a hurry? Come together."

After saying that, Wei Jin looked at Huang Mengying, who immediately understood and lay on top of Liu Yan, fitting tightly against her.

Looking at the moving scene before him, Wei Jin was so excited that he lowered his waist and dismounted from his horse.

“Oh~~Oh~~”

Throughout the night, the two assistants were invested with countless billions by their considerate boss, and became rich overnight.
Wei Jin had to admit that the assistants understood his thoughts too well, so much so that when he woke up the next morning, he was eaten several times by the two goblins again.

When I arrived at the company, it was already past ten o'clock. I opened the email and saw the data sent by the TV series production department.

The premiere of "Hello, Old Times" had a viewership rating of 1.3% and a market share of 9.2%, ranking second during the same period.

"good."

After muttering to himself, Wei Jin browsed through some industry news.

You don’t know until you see it, and you’ll be shocked when you see it. Is the Hong Kong circle crazy?

These two days happened to be the time when the Hong Kong International Film Festival was held. A group of Hong Kong filmmakers shamelessly discussed the future of Chinese-language films at the film festival and commented on mainland films and the market.

It would be fine if their comments were truly to the point and incisive, but this group of people have too many personal agendas.

Chen Kexin, the famous director who is known for his dishonest behavior, put it quite directly.

"With the implementation of the China-US agreement, the Chinese-language film market is facing great challenges. Only by investing more in co-productions between China and Hong Kong can we compete with Hollywood blockbusters. However, the mainland's film industry started late and lacks high-end industry talents, which happens to be Hong Kong's strength."

Wen Jun, chairman of the Academy Awards, was even more blunt: "Cooperation between the two places is the general trend. Hong Kong is responsible for the creativity and production team, and the mainland is responsible for investment and providing target markets. Only in this way can Chinese films go international and compete with Hollywood."

It sounds very high-sounding, but to sum it up in one sentence: mainland investors are responsible for paying the money, mainland audiences are responsible for buying tickets, and the rest can be left to Hong Kong filmmakers.

This is simply treating people as fools, or fooling people and tricking themselves into it?

Wei Jin couldn't help but posted a Weibo post with only one sentence in it.

"Fuck, you're so stupid! Are you really taking advantage of me?"

As expected, although Wei Jin's Weibo post was nonsensical, many media outlets still speculated on its meaning.

For a moment, the media went crazy with excitement!
You know, the "Zhen Zhao dispute" has only been over for a few days, and Boss Wei is going to open fire again?
In just one day, all kinds of news started to ferment on the Internet.

Many mainland companies that have been cheated have spoken out and detailed the problems that have occurred in many co-productions over the years, such as unclear funding, perfunctory creation, and poor film reputation.
Many mainland filmmakers also said that the current market share of mainland films is getting higher and higher, while co-productions are on the decline, which shows that there are many excellent filmmakers in the mainland. They highlighted Wei Jin, Wu Ershan, Lu Yang, Ning Hao, Guo Fan and others as examples, and called on investors to consider more mainland teams.
If the media and industry insiders were relatively restrained in their comments, then netizens were openly mocking.

"Hong Kong movies have been so bad these years that they are unwatchable. Why are you still trying to fool people?"

"Chen Kexin charges $6000 for a straw hat. How dare she call herself a professional?"

The Hong Kong circle seems very unhappy at the moment, and says sarcastically that this is affecting the unity of filmmakers in the two places.

Wei Jin was too lazy to pay attention to these naggings. I didn't mention anyone by name. If you want to jump out and act like an idiot, what does it have to do with me?

After calming down, Wei Jin came to the small conference room on the 8th floor, and the audition for "Big Shot" began.

Because it is an invitation-only system, not many people came to audition this time, and the audition process was very simple.

In just one afternoon, Wei Jin finalized his role.

The male protagonist, Sun Dasheng, finally chose the latter between Sun Honglei and Hu Jun.

Hu Jun, who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, has great acting skills and a look that is full of justice. Plus, they had worked together in "Knife of the Assassin", so Wei Jin naturally had a good impression of him and quickly decided on him.

It is worth mentioning that Hu Jun originally had a contract for a TV series, but Wang Jinhua made the decision on the spot and turned it down, which will definitely not affect the start time of the filming here.

What a joke! Can’t Wang Jinhua tell the difference between the leading actor in a TV series and the leading actor in a Wei and Jin Dynasty movie?
Wei Jin originally liked Qin Hao as the villain. He thought this guy could handle the role perfectly. But after the on-site audition, he found that he looked a little older and a little rough, not like a rich second-generation pampered person.

In the end, Wei Jin chose Huang Xuan, who graduated from Beijing Dance Academy.

Huang Xuan, 27 years old, has a very good figure and temperament, and looks a bit like a pampered rich second-generation chaebol. Although he is not a professional actor, his performance is very spiritual and he performed very well in the short audition clip.

As for the possible scandal between him and Jiang Wenli, that was not something Wei Jin needed to consider.

The casting director has basically finalized the rest of the roles these days. The female police officer has been given to the company's artist Zhang Li. This girl is beautiful and has long legs, so it's no wonder that she plays the role of a policewoman.

It is worth mentioning that Wei Jin specially invited Fan Bingbing to play another female star who was sexually exploited.

Since he is a top rich second generation, he should have everything, so that it will be impactful!

(End of this chapter)