Chasing stars is not as good as chasing agents

Chaoxi still has a lot of ideas about casting roles for his works. From the protagonist to the supporting role, he has main candidates and backup candidates.

Gu Jianchi listened to Chaoxi's list of artists, and he found that although Chaoxi was not good at writing scripts, he was good at selecting people.Chaoxi clearly knows which artists are more likely to cooperate with Ba Teng, so 80.00% of the people he chooses are Ba Teng's artists or artists related to Ba Teng.

This is not a fanciful casting plan, but one that has been carefully selected.

Gu Jianchi remembered that she had seen some young new directors before, probably because a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, those young directors would try their best to think big, for example, which movie queen or movie star would they like to shoot in this film, thinking that only the movie king Only the queens are worthy of their plays.

No comparison no harm.

As expected of Chaodong's son, he knows the factions of the artists in the circle like the back of his hand.

Gu Changfan obviously noticed this too, so his focus fell on an unknown new actress.

Gu Changfan asked: "Is this female artist named Cao Feiyun your first foreign artist?"

Xiangxi smiled mischievously: "Yes, in fact, she is still my girlfriend. She is a senior this year and will graduate soon. She is a student of Dongcheng Film Academy."

Gu Changfan pretended to be surprised and said, "That's a coincidence, my girlfriend is also from Dongcheng Film Academy."

Gu Jianchi: "..." He felt that his younger brother's ability to open his eyes and tell lies was quite strong, and he really had completely picked up their father's genes.

Gu Changfan doesn't have a girlfriend, but he believes that if Gu Changfan says he has one, he will definitely be able to conjure up a girlfriend from the Dongcheng Film Academy on the spot. The purpose is very simple, to shorten the distance between him and Xiangxi.

Sure enough, when Chaoxi heard that Gu Changfan's girlfriend and his girlfriend were from the same school, he immediately became interested: "Really? That's a coincidence, are your girlfriends in Dongcheng now? Or call them out and wait a while." After the meeting, shall we have lunch together?" Chaoxi obviously cares about his girlfriend, and now he wants to call someone to meet with investors, presumably to help his girlfriend quickly finalize the role.

Gu Changfan immediately said: "Okay! I'll ask someone to book a seat now."

As they spoke, they looked at Gu Jianchi together.

Gu Jianchi said lightly, "I don't have a girlfriend."

"Oh haha, that's it." Chao Xi looked at Gu Jianchi in embarrassment, "I can't tell, for an outstanding person like Mr. Gu, many women should come after him."

Gu Jianchi slightly raised his eyelids, and said, "I have a boyfriend."

Chaoxi: "..."

Gu Jianchi smiled politely: "He's very busy with work, I'm afraid he won't have time to eat."

Chaoxi: "..."

Gu Jianchi flipped through the character list and asked, "Why do you want to choose Chu Shui as the heroine? I read it, and the heroine is described in the script as a fierce and cold beauty, sassy and cool, Chu Shui The water looks soft and beautiful, which doesn't match the heroine's appearance."

After listening to Xiangxi, his attention turned back from the matter of eating: "Actually, that's what I thought..."

"..." Gu Changfan was a little displeased, he managed to close the distance with Chaoxi, and was suddenly taken away by Gu Jianchi.But he knew that he was not as capable as Gu Jianchi in the production of film and television dramas, so he specially brought two assistants today, he winked at those two, and the two quickly joined the discussion about the heroine .

The discussion about this movie lasted for a whole morning, and when they finished talking, it was almost 2 o'clock. Gu Changfan asked someone to book a restaurant early, and they came out of the meeting room and went straight to the place to eat.

At the banquet, Gu Changfan was very good at business, and he drank very happily with Chaoxi, and he actually found a female student from Dongcheng Film Academy to be his girlfriend in name.

On the other hand, Gu Jianchi, although at the banquet, his attitude was indifferent, he seldom spoke, always showing a kind of aloofness and dignity, but whenever he talked about work with Chao Xi, he could hit the point.

In fact, Chaoxi is also very conflicted. When it comes to making friends, he definitely likes Gu Changfan, but if it's a business cooperation, he prefers a producer like Gu Jianchi who has a unique vision and sees things accurately.

Chaoxi had little social experience, he thought he hadn't shown a bias, but Gu Changfan had already noticed it, so Gu Changfan became more hostile to Gu Jianchi and more enthusiastic towards Chaoxi.

After eating, Gu Jianchi took his leave first.

Gu Changfan was going to take Chaoxi to continue to have fun, but before leaving, he specially told the people around him: "Go and follow Gu Jianchi and see what he is going to do next."

After Gu Jianchi left, she returned to the company non-stop, and then asked her subordinates to contact the artists on the list given by Chaoxi just now.

After Gu Changfan's people inquired about the news, they immediately reported it to Gu Changfan.

Gu Changfan sneered and said, "As I expected, my brother pretended to be calm on the surface, but in fact he wanted to fight. He must be afraid that I would rob him, so he deliberately left as soon as he finished eating, pretending to be right. I'm not interested in this movie, but I'm working hard behind my back. I said, how could he not want to eat such a good movie cake."

"Mr. Gu, what should I do next?"

"Keep watching his movements and see who he likes the most, and I'll make a move." Gu Changfan wanted to win the movie, but he also wanted to disgust Gu Jianchi on purpose.

On the other side, the employees in the big office of AA Film and Television were busy, while Gu Jianchi was listening to the music gracefully in his office.

When Fang Yuyue returned to the company, he saw that everyone was busy going around in the big office. He randomly grabbed someone to ask about the situation. After he figured it out, he entered Gu Jianchi's office.

In the spacious office, Gu Jianchi is squinting comfortably, leaning on the soft leather chair and listening to a song. This is an English song. The song was sung to Ji Shi when he played the guitar last time. , this song has become a frequent visitor in his playlist.

Fang Yuyue smiled, sure enough, he had already guessed Gu Jianchi's routine.

"You made such a big show as soon as you returned to the company, the purpose is to convince your stupid brother that you are bound to win this movie?"

Fang Yuyue saw that there was so much movement after Gu Jianchi returned to the company, and he felt something was wrong. If Gu Jianchi really wanted to get in touch and didn't want to be disturbed by Gu Changfan, he would definitely let Pu Bufan get in touch.

Gu Jian slowly opened her eyes, looked at Fang Yu's jump, then stood up calmly, walked gracefully to the wine cabinet, slowly opened a bottle of wine, poured it into the glass, the dark golden wine was like his Those amber eyes, beautiful and charming.

He handed the wine glass to Fang Yuyue and said, "Do you know why I can always beat him?"

"It's not because he's stupid, but because I have smart people like you and Pu Bufan who are willing to help me. I won't talk about many things, but you all know what I want to do."

Fang Yuyue laughed, took Gu Jianchi's wine glass, and said, "I've known you for so long, and I finally said something human."

He raised his wine glass, clinked glasses with Gu Jianchi, and said, "Did that little manager make you more human?"

Gu Jianchi glanced at him indifferently, and fought for Ji Shi: "What a small manager, he is now a big manager."

Fang Yuyue laughed even harder: "It's a big manager."

"By the way, when are you going to bring him for us to see?"

"At the end of the year, I want to take him to Xiao Qi's birthday party."

Song Minglang's birthday is December 12st. To use his shameless words, it is this day, and the whole world is celebrating his birthday (all are celebrating New Year's Eve).

Fang Yu jumped up and said, "Are you ready to confess?"

Gu Jianchi rubbed the wine glass, a trace of uneasiness flashed in his eyes: "Well, I will tell him when he comes back from abroad after participating in the Jinhua Awards."

At that time, Gu Jianchi, who was the guest of honor presenting the award, would not be able to hide it even if she wanted to.

"Do you want me and Xiaoqi to go?"

"What are you doing?" Gu Jianchi asked suspiciously.

Fang Yuyue joked: "The funeral or something else, whatever you say, we can do it."

Gu Jianchi said calmly, "Oh, then you all can come to the funeral."

Fang Yuyue hurriedly said: "No, no, we'd better save our lives to catch you."

Gu Jianchi smiled lightly, but her heart was beating drums, and there was a rare trace of uncertainty about the future in her eyes.

***

In the evening, Gu Jianchi returned to Ji Shi's house, and both of them turned on their laptops after eating.

Now they are used to sitting on the living room rug and working together.

Ji Shi glanced at Gu Jianchi's computer screen and said, "Huh? Is this the cast list for your movie? This list..."

Gu Jianchi asked, "Is there any question?"

"This male artist, I met him in the crew before, he just... loves to play."

"Oh?" When Gu Jianchi heard the gossip, she immediately showed a melon-eating expression, "How do you play?"

Although Gu Jianchi is a film and TV boss, he is not like Ji Shi who hangs out with the crew every day. He really doesn't know as much gossip about the industry as Ji Shi, but he is also a person who loves to eat melons.

Seeing his curious face, Ji Shi couldn't help but find it funny, and he also noticed that Gu Jianchi was very enthusiastic when he started eating melons.

"At that time, he teased a lot of young female artists in the crew, and one of the female artist's boyfriends came to him and had a fight with him. If the male artist's manager and assistant were not there at the time, he would probably have been broken I got married. And he spent his early years abroad, you know that smoking meth is legal abroad, but he actually smoked it too, but after returning to China, he didn’t touch it much.”

"Recently, his wife seems to be divorcing him. It would be fine if they can get a peaceful divorce. If they can't, it's hard to guarantee that his wife won't make a mess and reveal all his information." Ji Shi shook his head and said, "This male artist's professional ability is indeed good, but the risk of cooperation is too great."

When many film studios and investors cooperate with artists, they will require the artists to maintain their own image during the cooperation period, especially for cooperation such as endorsement, which will have higher requirements.

There was a TV series before it was broadcast. One of the artists had a problem and was blocked by the higher authorities.

After Gu Jianchi listened to the gossip, she couldn't help hugging Ji Shi and kissed her, and said with a smile, "You are really my little lucky star."

Gu Jianchi had already figured out how to trick his younger brother.

"Really?" Ji Shi glanced at him and said, "Then you should change my note name?"

"Ok?"

Ji Shi reminded: "For example, change Xiaocaifan to Xiaofuxing?"

Gu Jianchi was stunned for a moment, and when he realized that Ji Shi had said it was the WeChat note name, he couldn't laugh or cry and said, "Okay, I'll change it right away."

Gu Jianchi changed the name of the note and asked, "By the way, aren't you going to accompany Gong He to take pictures in Europe at the end of the year? Have you booked your ticket yet?"

"It's booked, fly on December 12th, and return on the 18rd."

"First class or business class?"

Ji Shi said feebly: "Young Master, I'm in the economy class."

Gu Jianchi guessed it would be like this, so he said, "Why don't you change it to first class? It's too long to fly abroad, and it's too tiring to fly economy class."

"I fly in first class, and the artists I bring are in business class. If Gong He's fans come out in the future, they will tear me apart. Besides, do you know how expensive first class is?" Ji Shi shook his head and said , "Don't talk about first class, even business class, I can't bear it."

Gu Jianchi said: "I think I'd better not change your remark name, let's call it Xiaocaifan, oh no, it should be changed to Dacaifan."

Ji Shi bit him angrily: "If you don't give it, I will be a little lucky star, and a little lucky god is also fine."

As soon as his teeth touched Gu Jianchi's skin, Gu Jianchi touched the porcelain and screamed for pain, then fell down skillfully on the sofa, and asked Ji Shi to be responsible, the two of them quarreled and quarreled, and they got into bed.

It was another long sleepless night.

***

Gu Jianchi asked Fang Yuyue to inquire again, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with Ji Shi's gossip, he deliberately focused on contacting this male artist.

Later, under Gu Jianchi's guidance, Gu Changfan, who was eager to fight against Gu Jianchi, really changed his direction and began to focus on this male artist.

When Gu Changfan booked the male artist before Gu Jianchi, he deliberately went to show off to Gu Jianchi.

Gu Jianchi showed her excellent acting skills and made a look of "I'm sad, but I can't show it".

His acting skills perfectly fooled Gu Changfan, and convinced Gu Changfan that he won this round.

In those few days, Gu Changfan was so proud that he walked sideways in Ba Teng and AA.

Finally, with Gu Jianchi's "effort" and Gu Changfan's hard work, Gu Jinkang decided to entrust the film to Gu Changfan.

In order to show his father some achievements as soon as possible, Gu Changfan actively started preparing for this project.

In early December, Youxiang Entertainment News revealed that Ba Teng was suspected of plagiarizing the script of the film he was preparing, and they also conducted an interview with the Bitter Master Round Table.

Because this incident is not only suspected of plagiarism, but also the submitted works during the application were stolen, and the son of a famous screenwriter plagiarized and other topics, netizens are enthusiastic about eating melons. The hearts of job seekers and creators, so without the help of external forces, this matter still rushed to the top of the hot search.

In the end, it all went awry.

Gu Changfan and Chaoxi originally tried to reconcile with the Round Table privately, but they were rejected by the Round Table. Gu Changfan and Chaoxi had no choice but to be tough. They spent a lot of money to remove the trending search, and found the media and the navy to whitewash. Even turning black and white, the evidence of slandering the round table is untenable.

For a while, the wind direction of public opinion has changed.But soon, the round table slapped Gu Changfan in the face, because the round table formally filed a lawsuit in the court against Chuangyang Culture.

Before the movie was shot, Gu Changfan was overwhelmed by the defendant.

On the contrary, Gu Jianchi was refreshed every day, and was preparing to participate in the award ceremony of the Jinhua Awards on December 12. Originally, Gu Changfan was invited to the award ceremony, but it was obvious that Gu Changfan was not suitable to appear in front of the mass media right now, so this award ceremony It will be Gu Jianchi's performance time alone.

Because the plagiarism caused a lot of trouble this time, Gu Changfan was called back to the company headquarters by Gu Jinkang.

How flamboyant he was before, and how disheartened he is now.

In the company, Gu Changfan happened to meet Gu Jianchi. Compared with him who was busy with dark circles, Gu Jianchi's relaxed appearance deeply stimulated him.

Gu Changfan said angrily, "Brother, have you been very energetic recently? Are you glad you didn't take this movie?"

Gu Jianchi shrugged and said with a smile: "Dad is still waiting for you inside, don't keep him waiting, hurry up, or he will get angry."

Gu Jianchi patted Gu Changfan on the shoulder in a "friendly" way, making himself look like a real brother.

Gu Changfan gritted his teeth with hatred: "Don't be too happy, it's just plagiarism, it's no big deal, and the round table may not necessarily win."

"Oh." Gu Jianchi said lightly, "Then I wish you well."

Gu Changfan gave Gu Jianchi a hateful look, turned his head and left.

Gu Jianchi looked at the back of Gu Changfan leaving, and slowly curled the corners of her lips.

On the other side, Ji Shi, who was accompanying Gong He to work in Beicheng, received a call from the Jinhua Awards Organizing Committee.

After Ji Shi figured out the other party's intention, he said in surprise, "You want my family, Gong He, to win an award?"

This time Gong He was nominated for the Most Anticipated Newcomer Award. This award was specially set up for a male rookie with a strong background. They are all accompanied by runners, so the organizer not only does not require other nominators to be present, but also brings the names of other nominees during the publicity.

Because of the benefit of publicity, even though Ji Shi knew that this award was to run with him, he also agreed. After all, the Jinhua Award is still very famous. With a nomination, Gong He's resume will be more glorious.

It turned out that this male newcomer suddenly received a role in a foreign blockbuster, and he was asked to join the group on December 12th, and he could not ask for leave or postpone it.

The requirement of the Jinhua Awards over the years is that all winners must be present, and the organizers also want to save face. They have set up awards specially for male newcomers. As a result, now male newcomers can’t come to the scene to receive awards because they want to shoot foreign movies. After communicating several times with the work team, the other party relied on their background and was unreasonable.

The organizer was immediately annoyed, and said, if you don't come, you won't come, and don't want the prize!

The male newcomer's team weighed it up and decided that foreign films were more attractive, so they officially gave up the award.

However, the previous publicity has already been sent out. It is impossible to suddenly lose the award on the day of the awards. The organizers have to contact other nominees. Na Qiao put forward many requests, and then said that he had to consider it, look at the schedule and so on.

After hearing the words of these agents, the organizer almost turned one head into two big ones.

Ji Shi was also one of the agents they contacted. When two agents showed off one after another, this contact person actually had no hope.

"Yes, if you can be there on the day of the award ceremony, this award is yours."

Ji Shi: "..."

This is too easy, right?

But he likes it!

Ji Shidao: "The organizing committee is willing to give this award to my family Gong He. It is my family's Gong He's honor, but my family Gong He happens to have work that day. Look at this. I will discuss it with the other side to see if the time for taking pictures can be ok. We can’t adjust it, if we can, we’ll go, if not, then I can only thank you for your love.”

"I'm going to contact you now, and I'll give you an answer later, do you think so?"

"Success!" The organizers were also happy. Ji Shi was the most reluctant agent among the agents they contacted, so they also made up their minds. If Ji Shi's side can succeed, this matter will be settled. Manager, just go and rub the mud!

Ji Shi ended his call with the organizer, and turned around to contact the magazine again. He spent a lot of effort and said a lot of good things, and finally won Gong He the opportunity to return to China one day earlier.

After everything was arranged properly, Ji Shi told Gong He the good news.

Gong He's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief: "So I made a mistake? I won an award?"

"Yes!" Ji Shi patted Gong He's shoulder and said, "You're very lucky, kid."

Ji Shi is a pragmatic person, and it is a good thing to win this award. He doesn't care that this award is picked, and he will not deliberately show off and miss a good opportunity.

Gong He humbly smiled: "That's also thanks to Brother Xiao, but it's my first time participating in the awards ceremony, what should I pay attention to?"

"You must quickly get a new set of clothes, and you need to preview the process of walking the red carpet and interviewing." Ji Shi comforted with a smile, "Don't worry, I will accompany you there."

Gong He nodded hastily: "Okay, okay, I'm relieved when Brother Xiao is here."

Ji Shi said again: "I'll write your acceptance speech when the time comes, and you remember to memorize it. There is a time limit for your acceptance speech, so don't exceed it."

Gong He rubbed his face with his palm, with a beaming smile on his face: "Okay!"

The two people here were rejoicing at this unexpected joy, while Gu Jianchi, who was thousands of miles away and happy with his younger brother just after cheating, didn't know that the storm was coming.