Chapter 248 This Business Is Very Complicated, You Can’t Control It

Chapter 248 This business is very complicated, you can't grasp it...

After returning to China, although Wu Yuan still needs to keep an eye on the post-production of "Gravity", his work and life are indeed much easier.

Liu Yifei also became idle. Before the release of "Those Years", there was no big job.

Both of them have become lazy.

Wu Yuan only goes back and forth between the company and home every day.

Liu Yifei is even more extreme. She doesn't leave the house at all. She has become a stay-at-home girl. She stays at home every day to watch movies or read books, and do some exercise to keep in shape.

Neither of them is the kind of playful personality. They don't like to go to nightclubs and bars. Instead, they enjoy this ordinary life.

But this peace was broken not long after.

After all, one of them is a big star and the other is a big director. It is unlikely that they can stay idle forever.

On August 15, Zhang Guorong's new movie "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" will hold its premiere in Beijing.

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei also received invitations.

As people from their own company, they must go to support the event.

Liu Yifei contacted a high-end brand to borrow a dress and jewelry. Although Wu Yuan didn't have to go through so much trouble, he had to prepare a little and put "Gravity" aside for the time being.

In a blink of an eye, the time came to August 15th.

The mood of anticipation filled Zhang Guorong's heart.

He sat in the theater, adjusting the bow tie on his neck while chatting with Liu Ye beside him.

"Ye Zi, are you nervous?"

Although he is from Hong Kong Island, Zhang Guorong has integrated well in Beijing and learned Beijing dialect. He followed Liu Ye's friends to call him Ye Zi.

"I'm not nervous, director, are you nervous?" Liu Ye replied with a smile.

Liu Ye, who has participated in big projects such as "The Promise", has grown a lot now. He is completely different from when he played mahjong at Wu Yuan's house.

The inferiority complex he had before, which was caused by his poor family and coming to Beijing to study at a very young age, is no longer seen in him, and he is now full of confidence.

Fame can make a person rich!

Liu Ye, who has won the Golden Rooster and Golden Horse Awards and has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is now so confident.

Of course, Zhang Guorong, who has more awards and achievements than him, is even more confident.

He said with a smile on his face: "How could it be, I have not experienced all kinds of storms and waves? Will I be nervous?"

Zhang Guorong, who has not failed in his transformation to become a director, is more confident than Liu Ye.

Only Huang Bo, a pure newcomer, was so nervous that his hands could not help shaking while he was adjusting his suit. He smiled bitterly and said: "Director and Ye Zi are still very capable."

"I am so nervous. This is the first time I have acted in a movie with such a large investment."

Not to mention the first time he acted in a movie with an investment of 80 million yuan, even the act of acting in a movie is still very new to Huang Bo.

Although he got into the 2002 Beijing Film Academy acting undergraduate class, his acting career has not been smooth.

From 2001 to 2002, he participated in the TV series "Big Foot Queen Ma", "Black Hole" and "Red Mansion Girl", in which he played roles without lines or only one or two lines, in other words, he was just a supporting role.

It was not until 2005 that he played the leading role in "Survival of Migrant Workers".

It was Ning Hao who had a keen eye and asked him to shoot "Crazy Stone". He finally became famous and got the movie "The Good, the Bad, the Weird".

To be honest, when Zhang Guorong approached him and invited him to play in this movie, Huang Bo couldn't believe it. His first thought was that it was a scam.

Later, Zhang Guorong asked him to meet in person. Huang Bo was even more shocked when he learned from Zhang Guorong that it was Wu Yuan who recommended him to play this role.

I didn't expect that a big director like Wu Yuan would pay attention to him, a small person!

I am even more motivated to shoot "The Good, the Bad, the Weird"!

It's interesting to say that Wu Yuan was a little late to "promote" Huang Bo.

Logically speaking, Wu Yuan should have promoted heroes like Ning Hao and Huang Bo who were still in the grassroots earlier, and it would be best to trick them into the company and make money for the company.

It's just that Wu Yuan himself was so successful that he became an international star in just a few years.

Ning Hao is the kind of person who is hard to be inferior to others. Since he made his debut in filming, he has been a husband-and-wife team with his wife, setting up an independent studio and accepting cooperation with other capital, but he will not choose to completely rely on a certain company.

He would rather seek investment from Beijing Film Studio and China Film than from private capital such as Huayi and Guangying Times, because he is afraid that he will lose his autonomy and become a "tool" of these private film companies. He is a persistent director.

So Wu Yuan is destined to not be in the same boat with Ning Hao.

As for Huang Bo, Wu Yuan doesn't do comedy films, at least not in China, and Huang Bo's appearance is more suitable for comedy films, so Wu Yuan naturally has no chance to work with Huang Bo.

I have to say this is a pity, anyway, Wu Yuan likes Huang Bo very much, and loves to watch his movies in his dreams.

So, Wu Yuan, who came to the premiere with Liu Yifei and quietly entered the cinema through the back door, saw the main creative team, skipped Zhang Guorong first, and gave Huang Bo a warm hug.

Under Huang Bo's eyes full of astonishment and horror, Wu Yuan said with a smile: "Huang Bo, right? You performed very well in "Crazy Stone". If you have the opportunity in the future, you can cooperate more with us at Light and Shadow Era."

Just because he didn't make comedies before doesn't mean Wu Yuan won't make them in the future.

Low-cost movies like "Lost in Thailand" and "Charlotte" with box office sales of more than 10 to 2 billion are the same as picking up money. Who wouldn't want to do that?

It's just not the time yet.

The current movie market can only support a box office of 200-300 million per film. Even by 2008, it will be able to reach 400-500 million per film.

Under such circumstances, wouldn't it be a pure loss of money to make comedies like "Lost in Thailand" and "Charlotte"?

Yes, making less money is a loss for the capitalists.

Especially for this kind of comedy, the cost of which is basically the same whether it is shot now or a few years later, it is better to make it when the market is bigger.

Faced with Wu Yuan's sudden olive branch, Huang Bo was stunned.

When he was studying in the vocational class of the Film Academy, he actually met Wu Yuan a few times in school.

Of course, he just stood in the distance and watched Wu Yuan hurriedly coming and going around the campus with his book, and didn't dare to talk to him at all.

It's not that he's a coward, it's that the gap between the two is really too big.

One is a little-known bit actor struggling on the edge of the entertainment industry, and the other is a world-renowned director.

Huang Bo didn't even know how to talk to Wu Yuan.

"That...that" Huang Boy murmured incoherently, then reacted belatedly and said excitedly: "Thank you, Director Wu, for the compliment!"

“I would definitely like to cooperate with Light and Shadow Times again if I have the chance.”

"As long as you don't mind that my acting skills are not good enough!"

If Huang Bo's acting skills are not good enough, how many actors in China can have good acting skills?

"Next time Light and Shadow Times asks you to make a movie, don't refuse." Wu Yuan said with a smile.

"How could it be!" Huang Bo quickly assured.

Wu Yuan smiled secretly in his heart, but patted Huang Bo on the shoulder with a look of relief on his face: "I remember what you said."

Although he was eight years younger than Huang Bo, no one present felt that there was anything wrong with the two's reversal of identities.

Zhang Guorong also smiled and joked: "Huang Bo, congratulations to you. You have Director Wu's thigh. You don't have to worry about filming in the future."

"In the light and shadow era, how many movies can be made in a year now? There are plenty of opportunities for you."

Speaking of this, Wu Yuan had an idea and asked: "Huang Bo, do you have a management company?"

Now Wu Yuan is a bit addicted to poaching people.

Zhu Yawen had been poached into the Age of Light and Shadow. Wang Jinhua was so angry that she couldn't do anything about the Age of Light and Shadow.

The current ecological closed loop in the light and shadow era is almost complete.

In terms of cinemas, 16 cinemas have opened in the mainland this year. Although they are not many, with such a foundation, they will officially embark on the pace of expansion in the next few years.

In terms of movies and TV series, Light and Shadow Era has always produced its own films, and they produce high-quality projects that domestic actors are eager to star in.

Wang Jinhua, a gold medal manager who only works in the field of artist management, really has nothing to do with the era of light and shadow. He can only grit his teeth and watch as Li Xiaoping paid the liquidated damages and signed Zhu Yawen away generously.

After tasting the pleasure of poaching people, Wu Yuan became a little addicted.

Nowadays, the liquidated damages in most contracts signed between artists and agencies are not very high. For first-tier artists, they are only a few million, while for second- and third-tier artists, they may only be in the hundreds of thousands.

For Wu Yuan, this amount of money was really just a small sum, especially when he knew that after 2010, artist remuneration would take off on a rocket, so he wanted to poach a group of artists before then.

Let’s take a look. From 2012 to 2016, how many artists in China were in lawsuits with their agencies, clamoring to terminate their contracts?

Countless!

Why?

Isn't it because the money they earned has skyrocketed, but the brokerage company still takes 70% to 80% according to the old contract, which makes their mentality very unbalanced. In addition, the price of liquidated damages in the contract is not high, so they took the initiative to file a lawsuit to terminate the contract. idea?

Wu Yuan, who knew all this, of course wanted to dig out a group of artists who would make money in the future before the liquidated damages in major companies' contracts increased, and then set a high liquidated damages on their contracts.

Like Zhu Yawen, the liquidated damages in his new contract with Guangying Times are three times his annual income. There is no accurate figure at all.

Of course, Wu Yuan is not Zhou Papi. He signed a ladder-sharing contract with Zhu Yawen.

The contract lasted for eight years. The company gave him 70-30 in the first three years, 50-50 in the fourth to fifth years, and 40-60 in the last three years. This was much better than the current 70-30 contract in the industry.

Presumably Zhu Yawen will not eventually go to court to terminate the contract with the company.

Now, Wu Yuan is eyeing Huang Bo again.

"Director Wu, I have already signed a contract with the company." Huang Bo said with some embarrassment: "After "Crazy Stone" became a hit, many brokerage companies came to visit."

"I thought it would be more convenient to sign with a brokerage company, so I chose one."

"It's okay." Wu Yuan still smiled brightly, put his arm around Huang Bo's shoulders, and pulled him aside.

"Tell me in detail, what is the name of the company you signed, and what are the specific conditions of the contract."

“Let me tell you, some brokerage companies are very shady now. Once you sign, you are completely working for the brokerage company, or even doing slave labor. All the money you earn with your hard work is taken away by the brokerage company. This business is very complicated and you can’t control it…”