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The auditions for "Burning Fire" are in full swing, and many people have come to ask Lu Yanhe for information.

After all, Lu Yanhe is the only actor confirmed to be the lead actor in this movie. In everyone's eyes, Lu Yanhe should know some information.

But Lu Yanhe really doesn't know any information. In this play, he is just an actor, not a screenwriter, and has not been invited to participate in more productions, so he is not well-informed.

As for how Longyan Pictures chooses people, no one knows.

The only thing Lu Yanhe knows at present is that "Burning Fire" is going to invite Wan Renhai to direct.

A top domestic commercial blockbuster director, he has never directed a low-budget film in his career, all commercial blockbusters, from gunfights to police and gangsters, from martial arts to action, from magic to war, with rich experience, and has shot more than ten movies.

Wan Renhai started cooperating with Longyan Pictures about eight years ago. At that time, he helped Longyan Films to shoot a costume fantasy film called "Exorcist", which earned 1.2 billion yuan at the box office. Although the reputation was a bit polarized, the picture was unanimously praised. After that, he shot the second part of "Exorcist", which still earned nearly 1.1 billion yuan at the box office. After that, Wanrenhai's third film shot at Longyan Films was an action war film called "Crossing the Eagle Valley", which made the domestic action-themed film with war as the background earn more than 2 billion yuan at the box office for the first time, and won 2.2 billion yuan at the box office, becoming the third place in the box office of the year.

It can be said that the name of Wanrenhai Director, if nothing else, is at least a guarantee of box office.

He also maintained a good relationship with Longyan Films, and it was not surprising that he would direct "Burning Fire" this time.

After all, the investment in "Burning Fire" was so large, and it was aimed at a series from the beginning, so it must be reliable to find a director who can handle it.

It is a pity that Lu Yanhe has never met Director Wanrenhai. Wanrenhai is not the kind of director who will appear at award ceremonies, and his films have never been selected for mainstream domestic awards. As for other activities, Lu Yanhe rarely attends them.

After knowing that the director was Wanrenhai, Lu Yanhe specially found the movies he had made before and watched them one by one. For a film director, any evaluation from outsiders is indirect. Only by watching his works with your own eyes can you personally feel his charm as a director.

After watching seven or eight films of Wanrenhai, Lu Yanhe found that this director was very similar to the style of a director named Wuershan he knew before he traveled through time. Both were very grand and strong visual styles. No matter what the subject matter is, his film vision actually has a sense of rendering of comic colors.

His narrative rhythm is indeed not humanistic and restrained, but very commercial, fast, and progressive, interlocking, and extremely story-telling. Combined with his strong visual effects, it makes people watch it with their eyes fixed.

Lu Yanhe couldn't help but get excited. Although it is a commercial film, it is not routine at all, nor popcorn at all. It has a very strong personal style and there is no substitute.

After watching the movie, he immediately called Shang Yongzhou.

"Brother."

"Hmm?" Shang Yongzhou was quite surprised when he received his call and asked, "What's wrong?"

Lu Yanhe asked, "Brother, have you decided whether to act in "Burning Fire"? "

"I... I'm still thinking about it." Shang Yongzhou said.

"Brother, have you seen "Exorcist" directed by Wanrenhai?"

"Exorcist? I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it."

"Go and see it. If you can't help you make up your mind after watching this movie, it's hard for anything else to help you make up your mind about acting in "Burning Fire." " Lu Yanhe said.

Shang Yongzhou was confused and obviously didn't understand why Lu Yanhe suddenly called and said such a thing.

However, Shang Yongzhou still listened to Lu Yanhe's words and went to find both movies in the "Exorcist" series to watch.

That night, Shang Yongzhou sat in his home's audio-visual room. After watching the two movies in the "Exorcist" series, he pondered for half an hour and watched them again from beginning to end.

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On March 21, "Burning" announced that Shang Yongzhou would join the cast of "Burning".

This news made the movie "Burning" and Shang Yongzhou both trending on the search.

Some media reported that Shang Yongzhou and Lu Yanhe worked together again on "Burning" after "Road to Glory".

This news made the already stalemate and heated audition even more eye-catching.

The results of the first round of auditions have been announced, and many people have received notices for the second round of auditions.

This includes Huai Qian.

In fact, Huai Qian has basically been locked in by Longyan Films to play one of the roles, but in order to further confirm his suitability, Longyan Films still notified him to participate in the second round of auditions.

The second round of auditions was directly auditioned with makeup.

Shang Yongzhou and Lu Yanhe were both invited by Longyan Films to watch this round of auditions, especially for a role that had a lot of scenes and played more with them. Huang Tai and others also wanted to hear the opinions of Shang Yongzhou and Lu Yanhe.

Not only the two of them, Liu Bige was also invited by Huang Tai and others.

Many people came to watch the second round of auditions and to watch the movie.

Lu Yanhe only brought Zou Dong and Wang Biao.

As a result, several actors who came to audition, their teams were seven or eight people, and they occupied a place in the waiting room. They even brought makeup artists to touch up their makeup at any time.

Lu Yanhe came to the audition room and greeted Huang Tai and others first.

As soon as Mrs. Huang saw Lu Yanhe, she greeted him enthusiastically and said, "Yanhe, the film critic forum organized by your girlfriend is great. When can you invite all of them to China to hold an offline forum so that we can also communicate with them on the spot?"

Lu Yanhe immediately said, "Okay, I'll ask Siqi later to see if we can invite them over? In fact, we should indeed hold and organize more such exchange activities, so that these influential people in the commentary circle can see more of our Chinese films and understand our Chinese films."

"Yes, they didn't pay attention to our films before. I didn't expect that your "Jump Up" could establish such a familiar relationship with them." Mrs. Huang said, "These film critics People are usually very arrogant. We wanted to ask them to say a few good words for our movie, but no one paid attention to you. "

Lu Yanhe was speechless for a moment, thought about it, and said: "They all have their own evaluation standards, and they will definitely not give up their standards and praise our movie just because of favors. Their European and American film circles don't play that way. At our premiere now, all the guests are relatives and friends, and they all say compliments based on human relationships, but their film critics are not like ours in China."

Mrs. Huang immediately said: "What domestic and foreign, they are all the same. Before, they said that Japanese products were made, and they had craftsmanship and high quality standards. Now, aren't they exposed for cutting corners?"

Lu Yanhe felt like he was talking at cross purposes.

It seemed that Mrs. Huang didn't understand what he was saying at all.

Or maybe she didn't want to accept this at all.

"Mrs. Huang, that's true. You're right. I can't guarantee that all film critics are like them, but at least the film critics we invited have their current reputation and status in the critic circle, which shows that the film reviews and words they wrote before can still be recognized and respected."

Lu Yanhe didn't want to argue with Mrs. Huang about film critics here.

If it weren't for the fact that there were so many people in the audition room here, and Mrs. Huang brought up this topic so openly, Lu Yanhe wouldn't even deny her words in person.

Lu Yanhe just didn't want to leave trouble for himself.

So, after saying this, Lu Yanhe immediately took the initiative to change the topic and said to Mrs. Huang with a smile: "Mrs. Huang should be very busy recently, right? I heard that most of the actors in the entertainment industry have come to audition for the movie "Burning Fire."

When this topic was mentioned, Mrs. Huang's face bloomed with a bright smile again.

"That's true." Mrs. Huang nodded. "The movie "Burning Fire" has received huge attention. Everyone can see what kind of achievements this project will achieve in the future." Lu Yanhe smiled slightly, and the topic was successfully changed, so he didn't say anything more. He saw Shang Yongzhou sitting alone in the corner, so he smiled and greeted others, walked over and sat down next to Shang Yongzhou. "Brother." Lu Yanhe called him. Shang Yongzhou nodded to him and asked, "Yongshan Hesan hasn't said anything to bother you recently, right?" "Not yet, but I don't know if he will continue to go crazy later." Lu Yanhe said with a smile. Shang Yongzhou nodded, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Have both "Rouge" and "Lost on Journey" been filmed?" "Yes, they are all finished." Lu Yanhe nodded. "When are you going to release it? If you hold a premiere, remember to send me an invitation." He said, "I really want to see what the script you wrote looks like after filming." "Okay." Shang Yongzhou took the initiative to come to support him, and Lu Yanhe was of course happy. Shang Yongzhou added: "However, it is a pity that these two films cannot be shown at this year's Holland Film Festival."

"Huh? Why?"

Shang Yongzhou said: "This year's Holland Film Festival invited me to be the image ambassador."

Many film festivals will invite a filmmaker who has status, influence and can represent the standards of the film festival as an image ambassador at each festival.

Shang Yongzhou was able to receive such an invitation when he was in his early thirties, which is enough to show his achievements in the film industry over the past few years.

Indeed, Shang Yongzhou is the most representative Chinese actor of his age, and one of the most well-known Chinese actors in the world.

Lu Yanhe widened his eyes in surprise.

"Oh——" Lu Yanhe lowered his voice and exclaimed, "This news has not been announced yet, right?"

"Well, not yet, it will be announced soon." Shang Yongzhou said, "The annual Jose-La-Ciel Film Festival is held in May."

As the most audience-oriented and critic-reputation-oriented of the four major international film festivals, and the only film festival that votes for awards through one hundred film critics and two hundred audiences every year, its artistic quality has always been called the weakest of the four major film festivals, but its influence and spread are generally the greatest.

Shang Yongzhou said: "If these two films can be exhibited and screened at the Jose-La-Ciel Film Festival, this will be a very good and top-notch publicity window."

Lu Yanhe thought about it and said to Shang Yongzhou: "It may not be too late. It depends on the editing of the film. If it really can't catch up and can't be screened there, it's okay to promote it there and sell the film there."

Shang Yongzhou smiled and nodded, "That's right."

The two of them chatted, and soon, the second round of auditions began.

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For the story of "Burning Fire", Lu Yanhe actually feels a bit like the Harry Potter version of Prince Revenge.

A man with a blood feud came to a magic school and became a mentor of the school. His enemy is the dean of this school, and Li Wushang, played by Lu Yanhe, is the adopted son of this dean. Li Wushang is also a student of the magic school. He accidentally discovered that the new mentor Wei Yang was secretly investigating his father, so he also launched an investigation into Wei Yang.

A standard story mode of confrontation first and cooperation later.

Because it is a series of movies, the world view of the entire movie has actually been built. And why does every role have to be cast so carefully? It is very likely that a character with only two lines in the first part will become a crucial role later.

Of course, at this time, no one knows what will happen later. It can only be said that it must be cautious and cautious.

Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou did not serve as interviewers. They just sat aside and watched. However, Lu Yanhe did not expect that he would meet so many acquaintances to audition.

Among the actresses, even Meng Li and Xiao Yun came to audition.

The more Lu Yanhe looked, the more he felt overwhelmed. Because it was really difficult to choose, there were so many excellent and well-acted actors, it was like a fight between gods.

It can be said that this was the highest quality audition Lu Yanhe had ever seen.

Only a blockbuster of the level of "Burning Fire" could gather so many already famous actors to audition on the spot.

Including Li Yuefeng.

During the break, Lu Yanhe whispered to Shang Yongzhou: "I originally thought it was difficult for us to get already famous actors to audition in our country."

Shang Yongzhou said: "Burning Fire is still different. The box office target is more than 1 billion. The added value it brings to the actors is too great. No one is not tempted."

Lu Yanhe didn't know whether "Burning Fire" could be made into a classic magic blockbuster, but as a time traveler who had experienced a series of blockbusters such as "Harry Potter", "The Lord of the Rings", "Twilight", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and the Marvel Universe, he knew very well the significance of a successful movie series to an actor.

Just like Mission Impossible to Tom Cruise, it can be said that the height of his career is completely tied to this film series.

Lu Yanhe doesn't know what kind of blessing "Burning" will bring to himself, including Shang Yongzhou. They want fame and money, but they are indeed different. The difference is that as an actor, do you have a role that almost everyone has seen, knows, and is deeply rooted in people's hearts?

In short, as an actor, do you have a role that has entered the common memory of all mankind? This statement is a bit exaggerated and a bit big, but it actually means this. This means that there is such a role that actually unifies the world's memory of you, and the collection of this memory is much more influential than the collection of the roles in fifty or sixty film and television dramas.

This is also the reason why Chen Ziyan must let Lu Yanhe play a blockbuster as soon as possible.

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In the movie "Burning", there are more than a hundred characters with names.

And "Burning" has a very new gameplay.

After the second round of auditions, they announced a list of actors:

Welcome Bao Zhenzhu, Huai Qian, Xiao Yun, Lang Xia, and Li Yuefeng to join the series of movies "Burning Fire"!

It was not announced all at once, but in rounds.

The announcement of this round of actor list has set off a heated discussion.

There were many actors who were photographed entering and leaving the "Burning Fire" audition site before.

At this time, because they did not appear in this list, many people began to ask:

-Did XXX get rejected in the audition?

-Yin Xincheng, who starred in two seasons of "Friends" and became a first-line actor, was also rejected?

...

These actors who were suspected of being eliminated have also become hot topics.

The topic of "Burning Fire" is almost the highest in the past five years. And at this time, it has not even started shooting yet, and is still in the preparation stage.

Lu Yanhe has seen how much attention a real blockbuster can get.

No wonder so many actors are rushing to act in it.

In terms of the selection of actors, Mrs. Huang did listen to Shang Yongzhou and Lu Yanhe's opinions.

She would ask almost every actor she wanted to decide what they thought of their performance.

Shang Yongzhou and Lu Yanhe did not play the villain, and basically said that they were good and suitable.

Including Lang Xia, Lu Yanhe did not deny him. The main reason was that even if he denied it, Mrs. Huang might not listen to him.

After several contacts with Mrs. Huang, Lu Yanhe had already vaguely felt that he and Mrs. Huang were not the same kind of people, so he should have less contact in the future and just maintain a working relationship.

Just like with Zhong Benshuo of Maxine, there is no possibility of personal relationship in the future, so it is enough to maintain a good working relationship.

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In early April, "Burning" announced the third batch of actors. In this batch of names, there was a person who did not appear in the audition scene, Huang Kairen.

When Huang Kairen's name appeared, everyone had only one feeling, is Longyan Films planning to put all the most popular actors in the country in this movie?

Lu Yanhe was also surprised.

Because before this list came out, he had no idea that Huang Kairen would also join.

He immediately called Huang Kairen.

As a result, he made two calls, both of which showed that they were in the process of calling.

It is estimated that many people are calling him at this time.

About ten minutes later, Huang Kairen called him back.

"Are you also going to ask me about the movie "Burning Fire"?"

"Yes." Lu Yanhe said, "I just saw the list they released, saying that you will also join. Why didn't you tell me in advance?"

"Because this matter itself was only finalized this morning. They have a role for me to play as a guest star, just two scenes." Huang Kairen said, "I didn't expect that they would put me in the list of participants with such a big fuss."

Lu Yanhe: "Hahaha, so that's the case. Of course, as long as you are willing to join, any movie will make a big fuss to publicize the news of your joining."

Huang Kairen: "However, this movie is so popular, I can make a guest star and show my face. Maybe my role will play an important role in the sequel later."

"Huh? What role do you play?" Lu Yanhe asked.

"There are only two scenes. In the first scene, I question the new rules proposed by the dean, and in the second scene, I was expelled from the academy by the dean." Huang Kairen said, "Mrs. Huang told me that my role may play a big role later, but it has not been completely determined yet. The dean is a big villain, right?"

"Yes, in the script I got, it is like this." Lu Yanhe said, "Looking at the setting of your character, it feels that you will continue to appear later. Otherwise, what are these two scenes used to express? The setting of the dean as a big villain?"

Huang Kairen hummed, "It may be this role. Anyway, according to my feeling after reading the script, the two scenes in which I appear in the movie at the end, the shots of my appearance may only add up to 30 to 40 seconds."

Lu Yanhe said: "Brother Huang, even if there is only 30 to 40 seconds of screen time, I believe you will definitely make these 30 to 40 seconds of shots that the audience can't take their eyes off."

Huang Kairen laughed.

"Of course, there are only so few shots. If you don't think about it carefully and make it more impressive, then it would be a waste of your acting."

Lu Yanhe asked: "Brother Huang, what are you doing now? Are you in the crew?"

"How can I be in the crew? I just finished filming Rouge Button. I haven't recovered yet and am resting." Huang Kairen said, "I will record an episode of China in Culture later."

"Huh?" Lu Yanhe was stunned, "What does this program have to do with you? What are you recording?"

Isn't this program just inviting scholars to give lectures?

Huang Kairen said: "Zixing added a new format to this program. In each episode, she would find a short story from the lecturer's content and arrange it into a stage performance of about ten minutes. The actors would perform it as a way of interpretation and put it at the end of the program. After each lecture, the lecturer would sit in the audience with all the audience to watch such a stage performance. I had no choice but to be named by her and go to the first episode."

Huang Kairen's words shocked Lu Yanhe.

This kind of shock was something that other people could not understand at all.

Because such a format is actually very much like a program, "China in Classics". Originally, Lu Yanhe planned to wait until "China in Culture" was made before proposing such an idea and making a new program. Unexpectedly, Xin Zixing had already thought of it on her own.

Sure enough, these are just two different worlds, but even if they are different worlds, they come from the same culture and historical heritage. As long as there is a little introduction, capable people can draw inferences from one example without being led by hand.

It can be said that Xin Zixing's idea of ​​"China in Culture" and her proposal to add actors' stage performances to this program were all her own ideas and her creativity. Lu Yanhe never communicated with her about this idea.

Lu Yanhe was really incredible.

He shouldn't have the arrogance of a time traveler.

This world will not wait for you to take things out of the treasure house bit by bit.

When you are still hiding some things as treasures, someone in this world has already created similar treasures.

But on the other hand, Lu Yanhe was sincerely happy that Xin Zixing could think of these.

"Sister Zixing is really amazing." Lu Yanhe said, "This program will definitely be popular."

Huang Kairen said: "She has been busy day and night for this program recently. I finally got a break, but she is busy again. Sigh."

"What will you do, Brother Huang?"

"What else can I do? I will be her assistant." Huang Kairen was helpless. "Now everyone knows that we are together, and she doesn't have to hide it. She will definitely use me as a free laborer."

Lu Yanhe laughed even louder.

Huang Kairen complained: "You don't have to laugh so loudly."

Lu Yanhe: "This is great. I am not laughing at you, absolutely not."

Huang Kairen gritted his teeth: "Okay, wait, I will never laugh at you in the future, absolutely not!"

Lu Yanhe hung up the phone, and the smile on his face did not disappear for a long time.

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"Dear, Yanhe's salary really can't be so high."

Mrs. Huang looked at Chen Ziyan helplessly and said: "You have also seen that our movie uses an all-star cast and the cost is too high. But we only have a budget of 500 million. If we need to give Lu Yanhe such a high salary , our production budget will be reduced in other aspects.”

Chen Ziyan said: "Mrs. Huang, I believe you must know that the conditions I proposed are not excessive compared to the current market situation of Yanhe."

Mrs. Huang: "Of course, of course, it's just that, Ziyan, you and I are old acquaintances, and you also know who I am. If it weren't for the fact that the situation really doesn't allow it, how could I care so much about such a small thing? "

Chen Ziyan said: "A top commercial blockbuster can only give Yan He a salary of eight million in the end. To be honest, if such a figure is signed and spread, we Yan He will become a joke in the entire entertainment industry."

Mrs. Huang said: "Yan Ha took the initiative to lower his salary in order to support a sincere film. How could it be a joke? This is a good reputation."

"Then all the actors should be demoted together. This is the reputation." Chen Ziyan looked at Huang Tai unmoved, "Shang Yongzhou can get 20 million yuan in salary plus 5% of the box office revenue share, but Yan He can only Taking a salary of 8 million plus 20% of the role-derived income share, I think this is a condition that no agent will sign for Lu Yanhe. "

When Chen Ziyan said these numbers, Mrs. Huang's expression, which had always been sure of winning, finally changed.

"After all, Yan He has never starred in a commercial film. His ability to carry the box office of commercial films has never been verified. We also need to explain to shareholders." Huang Tai said in a different way, "Moreover, this number is for the first time starring in a commercial film. For him, it’s not a number that makes people laugh when he says it, right?”

"Not to mention the drama series, although Yan He was a guest star in "Three Mountains", the early publicity of the movie and the most popular topics during the release were all borne by Yan He. In the end, the cost of more than 10 million was spent on two releases. The total box office is over 100 million. "Late Spring", as you know better, is a literary film used by Longyan Pictures for director Liu Bige to practice. From the director to the actors to other creative staff, the only star is Yan He, and the only publicity point is Yan He. River, the cost is about 10 million, and the total box office is more than 600 million. "

Chen Ziyan explained each number clearly word for word.

"It is true that Yan He has never acted in a commercial blockbuster, but to say that he does not have the ability to carry the box office and has not been verified by the market, I think, Mrs. Huang, if we say this, other film companies will probably laugh at us."

Chen Ziyan smiled slightly, "A salary of eight million? Now with a salary of less than ten million, Yan He is looking for films. Apart from literary films, there are very few. Even if it is a comedy that Yan He has never acted in, he can be generous. Maybe it's because the current cast of "Fire" is luxurious enough, and there is no need for Yan He to play the second male lead. Anyway, we only signed a contract of intention. If Mrs. Huang has a change of heart. , we can exit.”

Mrs. Huang was silent for a few seconds and smiled.

"Zi Yan, from the situation in the industry, everyone can see that "Fire" will be a much-anticipated blockbuster. How much additional additional income can such a movie bring to Yan He? Endorsements, business, popularity, Popularity, explicit and implicit, he can completely make up for this loss in salary through other aspects, why should we worry about this number here? "

"If Yan He wanted to make money, with his influence and popularity, why would he come to play the second male lead in "Burning Fire"?" Chen Ziyan smiled softly, "Mrs. Huang, it's not about how much or how little the salary is. I don’t care about the absolute number. As I said, there are too many film companies throwing money at Yan He, not to mention the nearly 30 endorsement invitations we turned down this year. From now on, we can earn from endorsement fees. 100 million."

Huang Tai's expression finally became unbearable and turned ugly.

Chen Ziyan was unmoved.

"This is Yan He as an actor. He should get his own number. When talking about numbers, don't mix in other factors and count everything." Chen Ziyan said, "When we first acted in "Late Spring", we Have we talked about the remuneration? I agreed without any hesitation. Why do we have to argue about the remuneration of "Burning Fire"? This is not something we should be careful about. "

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