Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

Nowadays, the association has sufficient funds. If it is not used, it will just sit in the bank and rust.

Just like last year, they still had $2 million left in funding.

Even if they were all sent to Cape Town for 20 days, it still cost 300,000 US dollars.

Funds are meant to be squandered, this is Chen Zhao's philosophy.

Members of the association also held the first meeting of the new headquarters.

Of course, the content of the meeting is to let everyone work hard in the new year.

Perform each task carefully while enhancing your own strength.

The new headquarters also has its first residents.

Not a member of the association, but a prisoner sent to the dungeon by Kaos and others.

That is the person who released the crocodile in the river outside Mirror Lake.

Puppet master Chanon is also one of the residents here.

Chen Zhao and members of the association visited the dungeon at the headquarters.

The environment here is very good, at least it's not that eerie and scary.

Of course, the punishments and instruments of torture are much more advanced than in the past.

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"Chen, our new movie has started casting, do you want to come and take a look?" Steven called Chen Zhao.

"I don't understand, what's so interesting about it."

"Anyway, you are also one of the parties involved, and you have the right to speak, so come over and take a look."

"All right."

After the New Year, Chen Zhao really had nothing to do.

There are no customers either. Chen Zhao spends these days walking around the headquarters besides home.

Chen Zhao arrived at the audition set, and there was a sea of ​​people outside.

This scene is simply terrifying.

Chen Zhao made a rough estimate and found that there were at least 300 actors on site.

"Steven, I'm at the door. Ask someone to pick me up." Chen Zhao said.

"Are you here? Then don't come in yet. Just mingle with the audition crowd to see who are suitable candidates or actors who need to be eliminated." Steven said.

Chen Zhao rolled his eyes. Steven regarded him as a coolie.

"Hey brother, are you here for an interview too?" A young man with curly hair patted Chen Zhao on the shoulder: "Which company are you from?"

"Um...I don't have a company."

"Don't you have a company? Then you don't have much chance." The curly-haired young man said: "I heard that many well-known actors from Asia are now coming to audition. It is said that there is a very important character in Mr. Steven's new movie this time. The role will be played by a yellow man, and Mr. Steven’s intention is to invite actors who are already famous in Asia.”

Chen Zhao was not too surprised by this.

After all, Steven had already told Chen Zhao about this beforehand.

And Steven also intends to choose Chinese actors.

"What about you? What role are you auditioning for?"

"A villain, a character with a few minutes of scenes." The curly-haired young man said: "I am a student at the Southern California Film School. Banco, what about you? What do you call me?"

"chenzhao, I am Ye Luzi." Chen Zhao replied.

"You are like most people here." Banco said: "Everyone is trying their luck. After all, as long as you appear in Mr. Steven's movie, it means becoming famous, including me."

Now in Hollywood, Steven is the most famous person.

Not only are his movies popular, even if he only holds the title of editor, he has huge market appeal.

Although James has now gotten rid of the title of new director, he also knows very well that his strength is far from reaching the current height.

Although "Animal Supermarket" has achieved unprecedented success, James knows that if Steven hadn't reached out to help him, he would probably be one of the depressed directors now.

Therefore, he has always claimed that Steven's editing is the biggest contributor to the film's success.

This also led to Steven's fame rising to the next level.

Just one edit turned the low-budget "Animal Supermarket" into a god-level movie.

So people have no doubt about Steven's strength.

So his new movie is also attracting much attention.

In the past two days, Steven and Rasfa have teamed up to release news about their new movie.

The headlines of entertainment media across the United States are all about the news of Steven's new movie.

Someone even dug up content for the new movie.

The whole of Hollywood was a sensation, and even the international entertainment circle was a sensation.

The most exciting one is the Asian entertainment industry.

After all, Steven has to choose an actor among Asian stars to play one of the very important roles.

Because of the three main characters released so far, two of them are old white men.

But there is also a male bodyguard character, the third character, but he is an Asian man.

The entire film uses the role of the Iron Triangle, so this Asian male character has become very interesting.

This also caused all Asian entertainment companies to send lists of male actors of the right age to Steven's desk for Steven to choose from.

Among them, entertainment companies in China, Japan and South Korea responded the most fiercely. After all, these three are the largest film markets in Asia.

Among them, the Chinese and Japanese stars should be the most competitive.

Because China is the second largest film market in the world, and Japan is the third largest film market.

In terms of character setting, he is a Chinese.

Now all parties are showing off their strengths and striving to enable their artists to break through and succeed.

Chen Zhao walked around outside for a few times, and then was taken in by Famtis. By the way, he mentioned the name of Banco, whom he met outside, so that he could at least survive the first round of auditions.

As for whether he could be selected later, Chen Zhao tried not to interfere.

After all, as an outsider, if you criticize the film too much, it may lead to the film's failure.

Even though Steven absolutely respected his right to choose, Chen Zhao didn't think it was necessary to use his power.

Although Chen Zhao has a Chinese complex, when it comes to selecting actors, Steven is still the main one.

If a domestic young talent were to play his role, Chen Zhao felt that half of the movie would be ruined.

Therefore, Chen Zhao would rather let a foreign actor play his role.

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Chen Ke is in China these days because the movie "Animal Supermarket" in which she acted is released in China these days.

As the second female lead in this movie, her role is almost equal to that of the lead female lead.

This also led to Chen Ke's fame in the domestic entertainment circle skyrocketing.

In China, it is also her home field, so the entire publicity team is dominated by Chen Ke.

Even James must be polite to Chen Ke.

Of course, a large part of the reason for this is still because of Chen Zhao.

The success of his film this time is absolutely indispensable to Steven's editing.

And Steven's willingness to help him edit was entirely because of Chen Zhao.

Therefore, as Chen Zhao's cousin, Chen Ke's treatment in the crew is definitely no less than that of the heroine.

Even if the heroine complained repeatedly about this, no one would care about her complaints.

She has no right to complain. The domestic publicity team even ranked Chen Ke's name as the heroine's name.