Actor's Life Simulator

Chapter 109 Must be replaced
Wu Gezi was unhappy in Hollywood a few years ago, and wanted to go back to the mainland to show off his ambitions. How was it when he came back?
Brought back a piece of "Red Cliff", the global box office was 10 billion, and the investment alone was 7 million. Although there must be water, but including the cost of publicity and distribution, it still can't even recover the investment. Word of mouth still attracts crowds in the mainland. Although it won the appreciation of some overseas audiences, it was nothing at all, and it was a failure.

But Wu Gezi is because Wu Gezi's name is there, even if he fails, he is still popular.

Xiao Ma Benben invited Wu Gezi, originally he wanted to participate in the "Oriental Titanic" and "Peace Boat" that Wu Gezi had been promoting with investors.But Wu Gezi didn't want to give it a chance, Xiao Ma Benben could only settle for the next best thing, and finally only got a copy of "Sword Rain Jianghu".Wu Gezi is not named as a director, but as a producer.

Despite this, Xiaoma Benben still has hope for this.Some of them just let go of the producer thing, calculating the money, making money, and leaving. Some, like Xu Ke, say they are supervisors, but they can train the director directly on the set like a grandson, and directly treat the producer as a supervisor. Work has become a general director who is more convenient to spend money.

And with Wu Gezi's promise, Xiaoma Benben can rest assured that Wu Gezi's name will be used in the promotion of this sword rain Jianghu, so even if he suffered twice from Liu Zhengwei, but this time the cooperation with Xiao Ma Benben Still very caring.

At first, the performance of Wugezi also made Xiaoma Benben feel reliable. The intention here has just been confirmed. Wu Gezi’s friend, Zhang Jiazhen, the producer who made a big name in the golden age of Xiangjiang movies, immediately came up with a situation. Huang Ya Films from Xiangjiang was brought in to join in the investment, saying that it was convenient to coordinate Xiangjiang's resources.

Xiao Ma Benben here is based on the idea of ​​employing people without doubt and decentralizing power appropriately. Although he knows that he will suffer some losses, he still accepts it.

The director Su Zhaobing's book was handed over soon, and the two sides had a great chat, and the movie started smoothly.

Then the problem arises.

Wang Yi, as Xiao Ma Benben, was in charge of approving the money for "Jian Yu Jiang Hu", when he saw the cast list brought up by Huang Ya Films and Wu Gezi, he had a bad feeling.

Look at this cast list, Yang Ziqin, Zheng Shengyu, Wang Xueqin, Da Aisi, Yu Wenle, Lin Lei...

In recent years, Hong Kong and Taiwan directors and capital have habitually operated when participating in filming.It uses handsome men and women from Hong Kong and Taiwan plus old actors from the mainland. To put it bluntly, old actors from the mainland are used to match the handsome men and women from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

To be honest, Wang Yi doesn't care about how many thoughts there are in it, whether it is like the rumored private offensive and defensive alliance between Hong Kong and Taiwan capitals, and they decided to jointly promote a new generation of idol stars to seize the mainland market.

As a capital, he does not have such high patriotism. Money has always been without borders. If you tell him about national boundaries, he can profit at any time.

But in Wang Yi's eyes, the biggest problem with this cast list is--these actors are pulled out one by one, who can support the cast lineup of a movie with a large investment of 8 million yuan?

No matter how unreliable Liu Zhenwei's "Machine Knight" was before, they have solidly released a Liu Tianwang, not only by putting his name on the poster, he can trick a lot of people into going to the cinema to spend money.

Although it failed disastrously at the box office due to poor word-of-mouth in the end, at least it was the weekly box office champion in the Mainland in the first few weeks of its release.

And looking at the lineup of "Jian Yu Jiang Hu" now, it's better to invest less than "Jian Yu Jiang Hu" Robot Man.

The key is that even if the lineup is stretched, the performance fee is still very high.

Yang Ziqiong, an international movie star, can take 500 million.

Jung Seung Woo...

You must know that most of the box office in the mainland is contributed by young people from small towns. No matter how powerful and influential he is in the Southern Dynasty, in the eyes of young people from small towns in the mainland, he is really a face with little reputation, and he actually took 350 million.

The rest of the stars are generally between 100 million and 200 million. This cast lineup can't be supported by anything, but it is actually more expensive than "Robot Warrior"!
Do you really take pony stupid for a fool?

Wang Yi sneered, "Zheng Shengyu has to change, otherwise you won't even get our final payment."

This is for real.

Zhang Jiazhen has been a film producer since the time of New Art City. He is an absolute veteran with first-class ability to perceive words and emotions. He knows that it is Xiao Ma Benben and Huang Ya Entertainment, and the two sides are competing for skills.

Of course, a large part of Wu Gezi's cast and crew was stuffed by Yellow Duck Entertainment.But the main investor is stupid pony.

If this is a Xiangjiang film, Zhang Jiazhen must be on the stupid side of the pony, after all, he is the financial backer, but in this case, Zhang Jiazheng has to think for himself. Although he is a producer in terms of responsibilities, But mainly in the Xiangjiang circle.

Zhang Jiazhen knew very well that "Sword Rain Jianghu" was just a movie, and he kept his mouth shut to make Xiao Ma stupid, but he could still maintain his relationship with Yellow Duck Entertainment. He still has a lot to do in the Xiangjiang circle in the future It is clear at a glance who is more important to him, the pony benben from the mainland or the yellow duck entertainment from Xiangjiang.

Zhang Jiazheng made a decision in an instant, and in private with Wu Gezi, Wangye Wu Gezi was also expressionless, and the two looked down at the document carefully at the same time.

Fan Qiang from Yellow Duck Entertainment is a young talent in his thirties, with a mouthful of Hong Kong.

"We have already signed a contract with Zheng Shengyu. If the contract is breached, the liquidated damages will be paid at 20%."

Wang Yi laughed: "Pay him!"

Wang Yi waved his fingers and said to Fan Qiang: "Zheng Shengyu's salary is 350 million yuan, 20% is only 70 yuan, and the remaining money is a full 280 million yuan. At this moment, you can look for mainland actors and take out this price plus Wu Gezi's name, I believe that no actor will refuse to be the hero of "Sword Rain Jianghu"!"

Seeing Wang Yi directly calculate the account, Fan Qiang was at a loss for words.

The situation is different from what he imagined?

Before coming here, his predecessors had told him about the behavior of mainland film and television companies.

The experience comes from two years ago when Yellow Duck Entertainment co-produced "Infernal Affairs" with the mainland.

The seniors who had contacted with mainland investors before said that mainland film and television companies should follow the language of Hong Kong investors like them as their standard. Why has their attitude suddenly become so strong now?
Even so, Fan Qiang is a good student, and he still plays according to the routine he was taught before.

"Film investment is a very professional thing. Entertainment and artistry need to be considered at the same time. Our company thinks that Zheng Shengyu is the most suitable to be the hero of Sword Rain Jianghu. Even if there are different ideas on art, we must ask Xiao Ma to think about overseas. In terms of distribution, South Korea is a huge market for martial arts films."

For a while, Hong Kong people said that Wang Yi, who was also born in Guangdong Province, was full of anger.

Wang Yi finally understood why the Xiangjiang people he faced before were so angry.This is not a matter of being unaccustomed to an accent, the key is the unreasonable arrogance of the other party.

What year is it now, and you still talk about this with me... The entertainment industry in the mainland has developed for so many years, and you really think that the mainland companies are being taken advantage of, how proud do you have to be to do this?
(End of this chapter)