billion box office tycoon

Wen Yuanshan is now nearly fifty years old. 20 years ago, he made a big splash in the international film circle with a martial arts film "Sword, Gallant and Qin Heart" and won multiple award nominations. The worker's film "Backpacker" won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director in one fell swoop, and was the most prestigious new director in China at that time.

This director, who seemed to have a bright future at the time, started a long blank period after "Backpacker", and did not return to the film industry until ten years ago, starting his legend of "father of bad movies" .

Ten years ago, Chinese movies were still in their infancy, and the Internet is not as developed as it is today. The public doesn’t have a high concept of box office. Most people would rather buy a pirated disc and watch it at home. Except for first- and second-tier cities, most people are still immersed in it. In the trend of old-style Hong Kong movies, I am not very interested in the performances of mainland actors.

Wen Yuanshan keenly seized this opportunity and made a comedy movie that gathered famous celebrities from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. This movie tells the story of a girl who inspires her to lose weight and reap love. Her parents are Hong Kong Island's famous actresses and actresses. The role of the fitness trainer is to choose the most popular idol among girls at that time, as well as small roles that are only short-lived in various ways. , which made the film the box office champion of the year in one fell swoop.

After the success of this kind of comedy with simple plot, relaxed style and relying on star effect, more and more movies have followed suit and achieved good results. However, with the improvement of public appreciation level, movie plots have gradually innovated. But the only thing that has never changed is the production team gathered by big names.

The star effect comes with a lot of publicity. For fans, even though the idol is only a cameo and only has one or two shots, they still have to support it.In this star mode of casting a wide net and catching more fish, the salary of the characters accounts for the vast majority of the film, which also makes most of the Chinese films in recent years give the impression of high box office and poor reputation. At the same time, it also makes some mature and low-cost films lose The market space is gradually declining.

That's why the popularity of "The Phantom of Hometown" made so many people feel incredible. After all, this is no longer an era when the smell of wine is not afraid of deep alleys.

Wen Yuanshan's new film "Wuxiang Mountain" follows the style of his comedy films. It uses the Wuxiang Mountain in Yunnan as the background of the story. At the foot of Xiangshan Mountain, it turned out that not only the police came here after hearing the news, but also other forces that were eyeing...

Watching the brief introduction of the movie only mentions the above two sentences, but Ye Weilin can also imagine the general style.

It stands to reason that this kind of commercial film cannot attract Yu Rong. What's more, Wen Yuanshan's films have always been full of celebrities, and the double actress can't win her much advantage. Unless there is a possibility, Yu Rong is not a cameo, but also It can't be an important supporting role, she is the protagonist in the movie.

Now that Wen Yuanshan has announced the actors, it means that the filming of "Wuxiangshan" will start soon.

In this way, it means that Yu Rong has long decided to give up "Song Manting".

Ye Weilin sighed, it seems that the actors still have some twists and turns.

Sure enough, the next day, Yu Rong's agent called and said that she couldn't act. It was very regrettable and sorry. After Ye Weilin listened perfunctorily, he called Luo Mao, and the other party said that he would wait for the company. After the procedure is approved, a few auditions will be arranged, and then he will be asked to apply for all the vacant roles.

At this time, Ji Yan had just finished contacting the last important role, and handed in the list of confirmed actors.

Ye Weilin couldn't help frowning when he saw it.

The five men who have emotional entanglements with the heroine in the script can be regarded as relatively important roles.

Among them, the actress's distant cousin "Song Ting" and her husband "Wang Qinghan" have fewer roles, but these two roles are vacant.

The Japanese military officer "Tatsuji Asano" who played a heavy role was also vacant, and only the heroine's underground lover "Lu Wu" and "Zhang Tai" who had an immoral relationship did not open the window.

Fortunately, other important roles, such as the heroine's father, sisters, etc., did not temporarily release pigeons. These actors may not be particularly famous, but they are all old actors who have been active on TV screens all year round and are familiar to the audience. Ye Weilin watched After a few glances at the information, I am very satisfied.

The approval for the restart of filming came down soon, and Ye Weilin reported the list of vacant roles immediately, and confirmed the time and place of the audition.

At the same time, the news of the filming restart of "Song Manting" quickly hit the headlines of the entertainment pages of major portals. This film attracted widespread attention after it was won by Xingyu Century last year and the project was successfully approved. Although Xingyu Century did not hold a press conference at that time, and did not officially disclose the director and starring role, the director is the well-known Liang Shuzhen, and the starring role is Yu Rong, who is in the limelight.

Later, after Liang Shuzhen's son was seriously injured by falling from a horse, the news of the start of filming of "Song Manting" faded out of the public's sight.

I thought that the filming of "Song Manting" would be put on hold indefinitely, but Xingyu Century has already found a new director - Ye Weilin very soon.

"What's the situation? What the hell is Ye Weilin? How come you haven't heard of it?"

"Don't you know upstairs, he is the director of the "Phantom of Hometown" that was so popular a while ago!"

"It's him?! It is said that this director is very young, just graduated!"

"Tch, now all ghosts and monsters can be directors? The director named Ye Weilin is still five hundred Wen Yuanshan away from Liang Shuzhen!"

"Damn! Don't look down on the bad movie Wen, okay? He still won the best director, and he was in his twenties at the time. How many honors did he win for "Sword, Gallant and Qin Heart"?! This guy named Ye Weilin just took a chance. It's just a hypocritical horror movie."

"Could it be that the above are all village netcoms? Don't you know the background of director Ye Da? He is the majestic Xingyu prince! Who do you think Xingyu praises if he doesn't?"

"No wonder, let me just say, "Hometown Phantom" was the most popular search for more than ten days at that time. It's strange to say that it's not tricky. It seems that Xingyu spent a lot of money to promote it!"

"To tell you the truth, "The Phantom of Hometown" is really good, but what's even better is Director Ye's private life, guiding the way—the land tycoon Ye Zhende and his family gathered to celebrate his birthday, and Ye Weilin brought the beautiful woman Ye Pu to a party! (Multiple pictures) .”

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Ye Weilin would habitually scroll through hot news every night before going to bed, but today, he was surprised to find that his name was among the top ten most searched on Weibo.

You know, when "The Phantom of Hometown" was released at its peak, his name didn't even make it into the top ten searches, but he just released the news that the filming of the new movie was restarted. How could it attract such intense attention?

He was puzzled and opened the comments under the news, and he understood the cause and effect without reading a few of them.

Ye Weilin rubbed between his brows helplessly, these things didn't have much impact on him, anyway, he directed "Song Manting" is a foregone conclusion, he was just worried that his classmates and friends who knew him would see it and affect their perception of him.

Of course, among them, he least wants to be seen by Yin Lan. After all, he has always tried to set a good example in front of the other party, hoping that he can walk on the right path.

But now, some unsightly photos of the original owner have been left on the Internet. It would be embarrassing if they were seen by the other party.

While he was worrying, he unexpectedly remembered that when he celebrated his birthday a few days ago, he asked how the other party knew his birthday date, and the other party replied that he checked it online.

I didn't care about it at the time, but now that I think about it, I'm afraid the other party already knew something.

While Ye Weilin was thinking, he involuntarily searched for the word "Ye Weilin" on the Internet. Sure enough, the title of the message on the top of the page was titled: Ye Weilin, the rich young man, had a party late at night, and beautiful young models gathered to celebrate his birthday. "

He opened it tremblingly, and it not only described in detail how "Ye Weilin, the young man of the wealthy family" spent his eclectic night, but also emphasized his prodigal spirit of spending a lot of money to celebrate his birthday. Hot pictures of beauties in three-point style.

"...Damn it!" He uttered a rare swear word, and closed the page of the news angrily. No wonder Yin Lan knew "his" birthday, because the news was posted on the second day after the original owner's birthday. .

Although I don't know how Yin Lan felt when he saw this gossip news, but... since the other party acted as if nothing had happened that day, then he should pretend not to know.

Since "Song Manting" is a drama in which the heroine plays the leading role, with a large age span and strong plot tension, the requirements for the heroine are very high. Not only must the acting skills be strong, but also the appearance and temperament are outstanding.

In view of these two points, of course, the audition cannot be open to everyone.

The actresses who were invited were all well-known, there were only about [-] people in total, and three of them didn't come, but they gave the information. Ye Weilin looked through the information of these three people first, and found that they were all domestic first-line actresses. They are much more famous than the other people who came here. It seems that they want to fight for it, but they don't want to put down their figure to audition with these third- and fourth-tier starlets.

Ye Weilin always hated this kind of behavior of occupying the latrine and not doing business, so he directly eliminated these three people in front of several other examiners.

At that time, Ye Weisheng promised that he had the right to dispose of important roles. Although the other chief examiners represented the investors and had the right to give opinions, it was Ye Weilin who actually made the decision.

"Hello examiners, my name is Mai Dong, I am 25 years old, and I have starred in "Pet Lover" and "Stepmother's Youth"..." The first actress who came in had a beautiful but slightly charming face, she said The voice that introduces oneself is like the cry of a yellow oriole, mellow and moving.

Ye Weilin couldn't help nodding secretly from the bottom of her heart. The other party's appearance was really good. Not only did she look good, but her voice also had the unique charm of that era. Moreover, she deliberately wore a long cheongsam, which gave people the first impression that she was very beautiful. fit.