Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 279 Empty Plate 2 Eating and Movie Reward Settlement

Chapter 279: Eating from an Empty Plate and Movie Reward Settlement
"Chen Kun said he wanted to lower the price? Why?" Da Tiantian was very surprised.

This is unclear.

what happened?
Zhou Mo hung up the phone, also looking confused.

"I do not know either."

After thinking for a moment, he had a guess in his mind.

"I guess Chen Kun saw Huang Xiaoming's movements and guessed that Huang Xiaoming would compete with him for the role."

"But aren't you going to give each of these two a role?"

"Yes, but Chen Kun doesn't know." Zhou Mo spread his hands.

Then, Da Tiantian watched Zhou Mo start editing the text.

"What are you doing?"

Zhou Mo didn't even raise his head: "Change the matter of Chen Kun's price reduction to a more euphemistic way, and then let Huang Xiaoming know."

Da Tiantian: ...

Absolutely.

"You're...killing two birds with one stone?"

"wrong!"

Zhou Mo corrected, "It's eating from an empty plate, because I haven't even started filming the movie yet, so there's no fish at all."

Da Tiantian was a little surprised: "Could it be that the leader didn't react and there might be two characters?"

Zhou Mo smiled and shook his head.

"If it was someone else, they might have reacted, but it would be hard for the leader to react. And because the leader couldn't react, Chen Kun couldn't react either."

"How to say?"

"Tiantian, you might as well recall the history of the leader's rise to power. You will find that the leader actually stole many classic roles. The most typical one is Yang Guo in The Return of the Condor Heroes. The actors who were initially confirmed were Dybala and Zhao Jingzhong, but when filming started, Yang Guo became the leader.

You should be able to tell what's going on at a glance. People who are used to fighting to solve problems will never fail to figure out what's going on, so just let them fight."

People in the circle say that the leader is a good guy.

But this guy is actually very tough most of the time.

Including Yang Guo in "The Return of the Condor Heroes".

There needs to be a plot in "Partners".

In "The Guillotines", he fought with Ruan Jingtian and finally succeeded...

When he was in a relationship with Yang Tianbao and was asked what he thought about Dabaobei and Chen Weiting, the leader responded: "Who is Chen Weiting? I don't know him."

Based on these experiences, can you say that Huang Xiaoming is a soft-tempered, nice guy?
Where should we place Lao Pan?
It was also a divorce, but Huang Xiaoming seemed to be in a much worse situation in his previous life even though he was separated from his big baby.

But when his big darling left him, his resources and status dropped instantly. When he saw that the leader had a new girlfriend, he had to use the reason that his child was sick and had to go to the hospital to compete with her.

Poor old Pan was not only cheated by his ex-wife, but he was also blamed for his crime and had no way to defend himself.

Lao Pan: Fainted in the toilet from crying.

Half a day later.

The leader's face changed when he saw the news.

"Chen Kun actually lowered the price, how is that possible?"

I looked at the message again.

The content is absolutely true.

The price has indeed been reduced.

Just as Zhou Mo predicted.

Huang Xiaoming's first reaction after confirming the situation was:

"You really want to compete with me for this role? Fine! Isn't it just a matter of lowering the price? Everyone can do that!"

Huang Xiaoming became furious.

I called Zhou Mo immediately.

After a while, the call was connected.

"Hello, Director Zhou?"

Da Tiantian replied, "Zhou Mo just went out for something and may not be back for a while. Brother Xiaoming, do you have anything to do? If it's urgent, I'll let him know."

"Tiantian, good afternoon. I don't have anything else to say. I just want to trouble you to tell Director Zhou that the cooperation that Director Zhou discussed with me verbally before, after I went back and thought about it, I think I should reduce the salary.

Director Zhou gave me a chance before, and Seattle benefited me a lot. It’s not possible to continue working with him at the old price, so I plan to reduce my salary by 3 million…”

After a while.

Da Tiantian hung up the phone and muttered to herself, "It's really reduced."

"See, my analysis is never wrong."

"Then why didn't you answer the phone?"

Zhou Mo: "Because the next step is to let Chen Kun know about Huang Xiaoming's price reduction."

Da Tiantian was shocked.

"No way, you're still coming?!"

"Of course, once is not enough." Zhou Mo looked calm.

"You want to use the same trick a second time?"

"Wrong, it's not me who uses it, it's you who uses it."

Da Tiantian was dumbfounded: "Me? How can I use it?"

"Didn't you just answer Huang Xiaoming's call? Then you told Young Master Zhou about this matter, and then she would naturally go to find Chen Kun."

Da Tiantian: ...

"So this is why you asked me to answer the phone just now?"

"Yes, isn't it normal for best friends to talk about interesting things?" Zhou Mo stretched out his hand to Da Tiantian and made a "please" gesture.

"Ms. Jing, please start your performance next."

……

The following week gradually became calm.

The dispute with Mr. Pan seemed to have been completely decided because of the speeches of Chen Kun and Huang Xiaoming.

Wang Keun Suk fell silent.

The white lotus also calmed down a lot.

The single-day box office of "Tiny Times" dropped to less than 10 million.

Guo Xiaowu's dream of soaring into the sky has been half realized.

Fly away.

But it didn't soar into the sky, and was almost broken into pieces.

Despite this, he still talked about the favor of many investors in recent days.

No matter how low the score of "Tiny Times" is or how many negative reviews it receives, it will not affect the movie's outrageous box office of 80 million on the first day.

Just based on this reason, many people want to take a chance on Guo Xiaowu.

As to whether the purpose is to make long-term investments or to squeeze out the last bit of surplus value, that is another matter.

From this perspective, Guo Xiaowu is undoubtedly successful.

"The Detective" is a lot more uncomfortable.

This masterpiece, which combines the two superstars Wen Zhang and Jet Li, achieved the achievement of "successfully halving" the single-day box office in less than ten days after its release.

"The Four Detectives" has been criticized a lot, but its box office is much lower than that of "Tiny Times".

Wang Changtian was very angry.

Complain to Zhou Mo.

"I trusted those two fathers and sons so much, but they made me lose so completely... Chao!"

Zhou Mo: "You are right, but can you please settle the publicity fee for "Detective Dee"?"

Wang Changtian: …

"Director Zhou, we are old friends after all. I am complaining to you now."

Zhou Mo: "Oh, right? Could you please settle the psychological consultation fee?"

Wang Changtian: I feel so tired.

I think I would not love anymore.

Hang up.

Wang Changtian said angrily: "This Zhou Mo is really choking people to death without paying for his life."

An assistant at the side reminded him, "Boss Wang, it seems that you contacted Director Zhou today to ask him for the investment share of "Cold Wind"."

Wang Changtian slapped his thigh.

"It's bad. He managed to get away with it."

……

June 10th.

"Lucy" is out of theaters.

The total box office is 900 million.

It surpassed "Man of Steel" and "Fast and Furious 6".

It set a record for domestic science fiction drama + movie with a female lead.

"Lucy" celebration party.

Zhou Mo, under the influence of alcohol, expressed his gratitude to several "friends".

"In addition to the quality of the film itself, I should be most grateful to the three old friends who made Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, Tiny Times, and The Mystery Detective for their great help."

The audience burst into laughter.

But few people thought that Zhou Mo's words were offensive.

Several movies frequently mentioned Zhou Mo during their promotions.

Now it's time to settle accounts. It would be too unfair if I don't use a flying dragon to hit my face.

Three rounds of drinks.

Zhou Mo went back to his room and changed his clothes.

At the same time, the system rewards of "Lucy" were settled.

"An overseas film and television entertainment company."

This reward is acceptable.

With this overseas film and television entertainment company, the filming and production of "Gone Girl" will have no problems at all.

Moreover, with this company, if he wants to cooperate with overseas film distribution companies in the future, he will no longer have to overcome layers of obstacles and rely on other people's channels.

The next morning.

News of the Lucy party had gotten out.

Early in the morning, Zhou Mo was eating breakfast and watching the replay of "Swordsman".

Traditional channels have their own advantages.

At least it won’t be like the later development of online channels, with charges everywhere.

vip, svip, ssvip.

That's outrageous.

The key is not only to have advanced screenings, but also to separate TV and mobile phone accounts, and no more than two people are allowed to appear in front of the screen.

Da Tiantian sat aside and put on makeup.

She has an endorsement contract to sign today.

Zhou Mo took a look and saw that Tietouwa was drawing eyeliner.

"Tiantian?"

"Ok?"

"Why do you open your mouth when you put on eyeliner?"

Big sweet: (`)
"Ok?"

She looked at herself in the mirror and her mouth was actually open.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know." Zhou Mo smiled and said nothing, ready to watch the show.

As expected, from the moment Da Tiantian discovered that she would subconsciously open her mouth when drawing eyeliner, she began to compete with herself.

Shut up and succeed.

Eyeliner applied, success.

Mouth: (`)...

Zhou Mo laughed like crazy: "Tiantian, otherwise let's not try it."

"horizontal!"

She glared at Zhou Mo and turned back to continue drawing her eyeliner.

To shut up.

Draw lines.

Mouth: (`)
Da Tiantian: ...

"Eh? I don't believe it!"

I tried several times in a row, and the result was always the same.

"Oh, it's so annoying! It's all your fault!"