my wife is a showman

Chapter 132 Difficult Negotiations

It wasn't until after six o'clock that all the scenes today were filmed. With Zhao Weigang and Wu Jingsong leading the lineup, the actors were indeed a lot better and hardly had a rest.

The crew had a driver, so everyone went in the same car, Zhao Weigang, Wu Jingsong, Xu Lang, Shi Shi, Ma Ke, Chen Ge, three men and three women.

After dinner, their respective drivers will drive to pick them up.

"Old Ren drove over from the company." Wu Jingsong said.

"Baby Wang and Liu Bo are already in the box." Xu Lang replied.

Sitting in the last row, Chen Ge secretly took out the mirror and took a look at the bruise on his forehead.

"It's okay, the makeup artist can cover it up." Ma Ke comforted.

"Ah."

Xu Lang pulled Chen Ge's hand away, looked at her forehead, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"She got into a fight with someone on the third floor, almost stabbing each other with needles," Shi Shi said.

"Why did you fight?" Xu Lang asked puzzled.

"For you." Ma Ke said.

"Me? What's going on, Chen Ge." Xu Lang asked.

"Zhang Xinyu said that she wanted to rest just now, but ran into your room by mistake. You want to let her sleep with you on the condition that you bring her to the dinner tonight."

"I also said that you like nurse uniforms, but if she disagrees, you will move your hands and feet. I scolded her for farting, and then she scolded me for being shameless, so I slapped her, and that's it." Chen Ge said.

Xu Lang didn't expect Chen Ge to be so powerful and dare to strike first.

"Does anyone believe such a fake? Why didn't anyone come to me?" Xu Lang asked.

"Director Zhao told her to get lost after hearing what she said," Chen Ge said in a low voice.

Xu Lang smiled and said, "Director Zhao, do you trust me so much?"

"I have been in this circle for many years, and I can tell what kind of person is at a glance. This girl is so stupid. She thought that no one would see her sneaking up. My assistant saw her open several doors to find someone. .” Zhao Weigang said.

Wu Jingsong turned on the reading light to read the script and made marks with a pencil. He seemed to be familiar with such things and didn't interrupt at all.

Shi Shi took out the mobile phone video and handed it to Xu Lang, and said with a smile:
"Don't look at Chen Ge as soft and weak, but he is really powerful when he moves his hands."

Xu Lang clicked on it and saw that it was taken by other nurses.

Chen Ge and Zhang Xinyu grabbed each other's hair, and neither of them let go. In the end, Chen Ge tripped each other to the ground and suppressed each other tightly. They didn't tear them apart until Zhao Weigang arrived.

Xu Lang vaguely remembered that the first time he saw Chen Ge, she looked like a little concubine, and it seemed that she had some tricks.

Zhang Xinyu either has a bad mind, or her career is not going well, and her spirit has collapsed.

Even if she was reasonable and got into a fight with Chen Ge, the director would still attack her.

The local tycoon next to her only offered 100 million advertising sponsorships, the lowest-end ones, dispensable, how can it compare with Chen Ge.

Not to mention that she offended several people at once. Didn't she know that by slandering Xu Lang, she also offended Ma Ke and Shi Shi?
Who are these two people, the third and fourth largest investors in this drama plus the starring role, plus Chen Ge's 3000 million.

The amount equivalent to Xu Lang is 5000 million, how to play?
"You can, Xu Lang, now there are girls coming directly to your door." Ma Ke teased.

"It should be a misunderstanding. She may have overestimated me. She thought that if she could invite so many big bosses to dinner, she must be a big boss." Xu Lang laughed.

Everyone has been dismissed, so there is no need to continue the discussion, adding insult to injury will damage the demeanor.

Wu Jingsong handed the script to the back and said, "Xu Lang, you change the two lines I marked, it's too harsh, so that the audience won't over-interpret it and cause unnecessary trouble."

Xu Lang looked at it, nodded quickly and said, "Okay, I'll go back and change it."

In fact, it was a conversation between Elder Sun and Sha Zilong. Elder Sun still had hope for the Qing court, and even wanted to be the number one scholar in the martial arts examination. He was relying on learning the soul-breaking spear. Sha Zilong couldn't bear the entanglement, so he said to him:

"We kneel forward, it's the Qing court, kneel backward, it's foreigners, you are the champion of martial arts, do you want to kill foreigners or the peasant army, after killing these people, will you be able to stand up, and the common people will be able to eat and wear Is it warm?"

Originally, there was no problem with this, but Sand Dragon had already seen through it. The people were in dire straits, and the imperial court was exhausted. It would be better to do nothing and die with his Soul-Severing Gun.

But Xu Lang still planned to follow Wu Jingsong's request and change it mildly, lest everyone think that Sha Zilong has no integrity.

In the online society, public opinion is easy to go astray. Some gangsters sit in luxury theaters, drink iced Coke, hold delicious popcorn, and start spraying with their keyboards.

They expect the poor people who have no enough food to eat, whose children starve to death, and who are as skinny as wood, to use kitchen knives to fight with foreign guns and cannons to become heroes and protect the princes and grandchildren.

How can you be a kneeling clan, how can you lead the way for the coalition army in exchange for dog food.

"Mr. Wu, the old man Sun's thinking is a bit pedantic, I wonder if you mind?" Xu Lang asked.

"This is not a problem. I am not an idol. As long as I have a challenging role, I want to try it. The important thing is to shape the role well and not make it too facial. The dialogue that the old man Sun came to visit Sha Zilong for the first time was designed to be very good."

Then Wu Jingsong changed seats with Chen Ge, sat with Xu Lang, and the two chattered about the script.

In the private room, Liu Bo and Wang Baobao were chatting. Liu Bo was excited and cautious, and kept pouring tea for Wang Baobao. This was the first time he had dinner with a big star.

"Did you find Xu Lang, or did Xu Lang find you?" Wang Baobao asked.

"It was Zhang Yuhan who provided the information. Xu Lang found my hometown. I am very grateful for his help. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to find a decent actor for this play."

Liu Bo's attitude has changed 180 degrees compared to before.

The Law of True Fragrance is the eternal truth of the universe.

At this time, there was a commotion outside the private room, and Baby Wang knew it as soon as he heard it.

"They were spotted by the masses."

Although Shi Shi and Ma Ke were both wearing masks, they were recognized by everyone because the New Year was not over yet and there were many people eating in the restaurant.

"Oh, big stars, Shi Shi and Ma Ke."

"It looks so pretty."

"You look good in clothes too."

"That seems to be Wu Jingsong."

"That's Xu Lang, that cowardly treacherous official in Liang Hongyu."

"He also played the role of Papa, which is amazing."

Liu Bo stood up nervously and went to the door to greet him.

Xu Lang led everyone in, quickly closed the door, and dozens of people left the table, chasing pictures with their mobile phones, and frantically posting on Moments.

The hotel also sent two security guards at the door.

"Director Liu Bo, Chen Ge, this is Director Zhao, I don't need to introduce the others." Xu Lang laughed.

Liu Bo could only keep nodding and bowing, because his character is reserved and introverted.

"Ms. Wu, happy new year. I wanted to go to visit the New Year, but I was afraid of disturbing you." Baby Wang shook hands with everyone quickly.

"Fortunately, you didn't go. You took the old man to travel abroad. How was the New Year?"

"It's very tiring, running for publicity every day."

"Who made you popular? You occupy the Spring Festival every year, and the salary is over [-] million." Zhao Weigang laughed.

"Hey, Director Zhao, don't laugh at me."

Although Wang Baobao's film salary did not exceed 4000 million yuan, last year's guaranteed film salary was higher than that of the protagonist Tang Sinuo, plus bonuses, it was worth [-] million yuan for a movie.

This year's sequel has also risen to 2500 million guarantees.

"Old Ren hasn't come yet?"

"Come on, let's sit down first."

Xu Lang pushed Wu Jingsong and Zhao Weigang to sit on the table, but Wu Jingsong said: "This is your play, let Director Liu sit on the table."

Liu Bo was terrified at the time, and quickly said, "Mr. Wu, just call me Xiao Liu."

"Mr. Wu, you let Liu Bo sit at the table, do you still want to let him eat?" Xu Lang said.

Wu Jingsong had no choice, and he didn't like to talk and talk, so he sat down and continued to flip through the script.

"Xu Lang, I'll take the role of Old Man Sun."

Xu Lang was a little surprised, and quickly stood up to pour tea for Wu Jingsong. This was too easy, and there was no talk of salary.

"Mr. Wu, you are really supportive. I will discuss the salary with you later."

"It's easy to say, it's the same as the baby, it's in the form of a shareholding, after all, the budget is not much, this movie is filmed in Jingzhou."

"Yes, there are many Qing Dynasty buildings here, just right."

"Old Summer Palace is the highlight. What will happen then?"

"It's time to add special effects to the scenery."

"Okay, anyway, I have no problem running on both sides. When the time comes, Baby Wang will give me some pointers on the action scenes."

"No problem, waiter, serve the white wine." Wang Baobao was very excited, and it was very enjoyable to be a Wuzhi.

After Ren Hongwen arrived, Liu Bo and Xu Lang reintroduced the story to everyone, and also focused on explaining the wonderful storyboards.

"Is the investment in place?" Ren Hongwen asked.

"Soon, tomorrow I will sign the contract." Xu Lang replied.

“这样吧，1.5亿票房5%分成，2亿10%，超过3亿15%。”

"Mr. Ren, but our 1.5 million box office cost has not yet been recovered. Can we raise it a bit at the beginning?" Xu Lang said.

"Old Ren, 2 million 5% and 4 million 15% are more reasonable. You Guangying are also shareholders of this support fund, so it can be regarded as supporting young directors." Shi Shi said.

"There is a cost for us to distribute, we have to keep the cost, the box office is good or bad depends on the quality of the work."

Film distribution is not something that star studios can do. It must be a big company like Guangying Huatian to have resources.

If it weren't for the presence of so many big bosses, Ren Hongwen, a senior vice president, would not be interested in talking about such a small project with tens of millions.

The main reason is that he feels that Xu Lang doesn't have box office appeal, so he shouldn't be the leading role. If Baobao Wang is the leading role, then he can consider arranging more shows.

But Wang Baobao couldn't play the unique temperament of the role of Sand Dragon.

To be able to catch the stars of civil and martial arts at the same time, you have to have temperament. Except for the elderly Li Jie, I really can't find another person.

What is the concept of 1.5 million, with so many big shots coming to join, Light and Shadow only needs to say hello to the theater with a good relationship, and it can be achieved without investing a penny at all.

A few celebrities can get it done with a little effort to find a relationship.

Nothing challenging.

In short, he is not optimistic, to deal with errands.

Xu Lang was self-aware, and hurriedly toasted Ren Hongwen.

(End of this chapter)