Chapter 745 A Sino-Japanese Co-Production? It’s Completely Tied Up!

"This SM agency is really miserable. Artists come back to the country again and again, and they can only stare blankly. How can they tolerate this?"

In the crew of "Operation Mekong", Kang Honglei, an old director who never paid attention to hot searches, actually started talking about Lu Han.

This shows how popular that little fresh meat is currently on the Internet!

Behind the monitor, Chen Fei said without looking back: "You have to endure it if you can't bear it anymore. With the mainland market on its back, if they dare to have objections, they will never want to come to the mainland to make money in the future."

"That's true."

Kang Honglei responded knowingly, and then began to murmur in a low voice: "With such great popularity, if you can participate in a certain TV series or movie, wouldn't the producer make a lot of money on the spot?"

Chen Fei smiled and did not respond.

He knew very well that those film and television producers would never give up this opportunity.

If nothing else, there will be some movement in the next two days.

…

In the morning, all the crew members were in place, and the crew of "Operation Mekong" officially started filming the second scene in Yunnan.

On the vast expanse of mountains as far as the eye can see, several helicopters were taking off and landing.

The first male lead, played by Zhang Hanyu, stepped out of one of the helicopters and formally met the second male lead, played by Chen Fei, who drove over in an off-road vehicle.

Behind the monitor, Kang Honglei officially took the position of main director and began to be responsible for controlling the overall situation.

In the following time, whenever there is a scene involving Chen Fei, he will be in charge of the entire crew.

The two "veteran actors" almost always acted in the same way, which saved a lot of time.

After lunch, everyone had a two-hour break.

Waiting until two o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Shishi, who had been following the crew everywhere from beginning to end, finally had her first makeup session.

She played the girlfriend of Chen Fei's character in "Operation Mekong".

Her role is positioned as the girlfriend of a drug police officer for ten years, a dancer, graceful figure, and a drug-related person.

Compared with the character played by Li Bingbin, the ending of the character played by Liu Shishi was not very good.

She was raped and photographed by a drug dealer while she was in a coma after being involved in drugs, and used this as a threat. Finally, after witnessing the drug dealer's successful escape, she committed suicide by swallowing a gun in front of her boyfriend.

Because Liu Shishi's scenes were relatively concentrated, the crew simply used local materials and placed the filming location directly in a theater in the city center, and booked the venue for the entire afternoon and the morning of the next day.

Looking at Liu Shishi who had finished her makeup, Chen Fei nodded with satisfaction, and then reminded:

"Time is limited, we will try to finish your scene as soon as possible, and then we will move on to the next transition, do you understand?"

"Yeah, I understand, Director Chen."

Liu Shishi nodded heavily, with some determination in his heart.

This is her second time acting with Chen Fei after filming "Fast and Furious 3" many years ago. This opportunity is really rare.

She secretly vowed that she must perform well and not let Chen Fei and her fans down.

"Are you ready?"

Behind the monitor, Kang Honglei began to urge.

Liu Shishi made an "ok" gesture and then sat in front of the dressing room mirror in the backstage of the theater.

The first scene she had to act was the drug-related process, and the subsequent scene where the drug dealer used private photos to blackmail her.

While the camera crew was adjusting the lens, Chen Fei came to her side and reminded her again:

"The character you played was abducted and involved in drugs step by step. He was completely trapped. During the whole process, his eyes were blurred and he was in a slightly numb state... You didn't dare to let your boyfriend know, but because of the torture Threatened and forced to steal confidential information from your boyfriend, your mood is entangled and struggling. You know you have made a mistake and have no idea of ​​​​survival..."

Liu Shishi kept nodding his head, keeping all of this in mind.

A few minutes later, Kang Honglei's voice came from the intercom: "Attention all units, prepare... Action!"

Chen Fei stepped back slightly, walked to the side and watched Liu Shishi's performance.

As the filming officially started, the clothes she was wearing were taken aside by the assistant, and her graceful figure wearing a gauze suspender dance skirt came into view.

The small syringe is extremely conspicuous under the light, which makes people feel chills running down their spines!

Outside the door, the wretched drug dealer counted the time and pushed in the door and violated her, which made her teeth itch with hatred!

Later, she turned sober and looked at the photos... and completely collapsed...

The afternoon passed quickly, and Liu Shishi's performance was unanimously recognized by Kang Honglei and Chen Fei.

The next morning, the scene transitioned to the stage.

After filming a scene in which Chen Fei's character recalls his girlfriend dancing, Liu Shishi's final scene came.

As an anti-narcotics policeman, Chen Fei struggled with drug dealers on the stage. The iron frame collapsed and the pistol accidentally fell to the feet of Liu Shishi, who was wearing a red dress and barefoot.

She picked up the gun, her spirit on the verge of collapse, and shot at the drug dealer frantically, but the latter managed to escape in the end...

At this moment, her spiritual world completely collapsed. She looked at her boyfriend helplessly and sadly, with tears streaming down her numb eyes until she swallowed the gun.

"Bang!"

After a loud noise, she completely fell into a pool of blood.

Scarlet blood stained her red dress. In the camera, she looked so poignant...

In some cases, whether an actor can show good enough acting skills depends mainly on the director's training in addition to his own talent.

For example, most of the Star Girls and Mou Girls who debuted from Zhou Xingchi and Zhang Yimou are actually amateurs.

So why can they have a very stunning appearance in the movie?

This is actually inseparable from the director's training and guidance.

"Ka!"

Kang Honglei's voice sounded again at the scene: "Congratulations, Liu Shishi, your role is officially over."

In the pool of blood, Liu Shishi stood up, ignoring the stains on her body, but hurriedly thanked Kang Honglei and Chen Fei: "Thanks to the guidance of Director Chen and Director Kang, otherwise I would not have passed so smoothly."

Chen Fei waved his hand casually: "Go wash up quickly, the company called me and said that some clips of "Sicario" need to be re-dubbed, you should go back tomorrow."

"Okay, Director Chen."

Liu Shishi nodded slightly, bowed again to express her gratitude, and then left the set.

Watching her leaving, Kang Honglei muttered in confusion: "This girl is pretty good, why is there so much scandal when she was in Tangren?"

Fade Chen shrugged: "You have to ask Cai Yinong how she does PR and marketing for the company's artists."

As the old saying goes, if you mention the devil, he will appear!

During the lunch break that day, Fei Chen suddenly saw the latest publicity draft issued by Tangren on Weibo:

"The industry has been looking forward to it for a long time. Tangren's powerful actress Chen Yao's first film masterpiece "Five Minutes Before Midnight" has been successfully scheduled. The brilliant collision between the Chinese and Japanese film circles will surely create different sparks! See you in the cinema on the 23rd of this month..."

For a time, Tangren's carefully planned publicity offensive came like a tide, not only occupying the headlines of major media, but also setting off a heated discussion on the Internet.

What surprised the industry was that Tangren even added words such as "Pusan ​​International Film Festival" in the publicity draft, which directly made the film popular before it was released, and added a bit of international aura.

Subsequently, many celebrities and artists who belonged to Tangren or were good friends with Chen Yao joined the publicity army.

They forwarded the relevant press releases released by Tangren in a humorous or affectionate way, using their own unique ways to promote the film.

For a time, all major social platforms including Weibo were dominated by topics related to "Five Minutes Before Midnight", forming a powerful online publicity effect.

When seeing the Weibo sent by Cai Yinong using her personal account, Chen Fei almost died of laughter.

"This time, Chen Yao challenged cross-border cooperation for the first time, starring in the Sino-Japanese co-produced film "Five Minutes Before Midnight", which not only marked an important step in her acting career, but also a gorgeous appearance of Chinese actresses on the international stage..."

For Tangren's behavior of promoting the new No. 1 sister, Chen Fei can be said to be very pessimistic.

Even if they really want to promote it, at least they should bring out some high-quality resources!

Moreover, the project of "China-Japan co-production" sounds very strange, and it always makes people want to think in a crooked way.

...

Fate is so wonderful.

Tangren was very excited and was promoting it with the idea of ​​winning, but unfortunately, LeTV intervened halfway.

When LeTV Pictures and Zhang Yimou Studio jointly held a press conference, they directly attracted the attention of the entire entertainment industry!

At the press conference, with the release of a solemn and exciting news, the entire film and television industry was completely shocked!

"Director Zhang Yimou, a film master renowned both at home and abroad, officially announced that he has reached an in-depth cooperation with LeTV Pictures - that is, he purchased 12 million original shares of LeTV Pictures at an internal price of 1 yuan per share!"

"This move not only marks another major expansion of Director Zhang Yimou's personal investment portfolio, but also indicates that he and LeTV Pictures will work together to draw a new chapter in the film and television industry."

"..."

At the press conference, Zhang Yimou wore a neat suit, smiled, and his eyes flashed with infinite vision for the future.

He said affectionately: "I have always believed that good content is the core driving force for the development of the film industry, and LeTV Pictures has shown strong strength and innovative ability in content creation, distribution and operation, which makes me deeply admire it.

I hope that through this investment, I can not only inject new vitality into LeTV Pictures, but also find more possibilities for my exploration on the road of film and television."

At the same time, Zhang Zhao, president of LeTV Pictures, also delivered a passionate speech. He highly praised Zhang Yimou's artistic achievements and his persistent pursuit of film career, and said:

"LeTV Pictures is very honored to be favored and supported by Director Zhang Yimou. At the same time, we sincerely invite more outstanding film and television people like Director Zhang to join our big family and jointly promote the development of Chinese films and even the global film industry.

In addition, we will also open more investment channels, using original shares as a link to attract more knowledgeable people and jointly create a more brilliant tomorrow."

As the news spread, the entire film and television industry was boiling!

Countless filmmakers cast envious glances. They were not only shocked by Zhang Yimou's investment, but also deeply attracted by the development potential of LeTV Pictures.

You know, although LeTV Pictures has not yet been listed, its valuation is much higher than that of Huayi.

And now, those directors, shareholders, actors, etc. of Huayi faction, even if they only have 1.8 million to 3 million original shares, have become billionaires one by one as the company goes public.

If this is used as an analogy, then the 12 million shares in Zhang Yimou's hands are enough to support his net worth to more than 1 billion!

After getting this data, the entire film and television industry cast envious eyes, only hating that they are not Zhang Yimou.

Chen Fei also saw this news.

Unlike others' envy, in addition to sighing in his heart, he also had a bit of pessimism: "It's tied up, completely tied up, and it will never break free!"

At the same time, when many people's eyes were still on the fact that Zhang Yimou and LeTV had reached a deep cooperation, the announcement from China Film also appeared.

"The chief director of the Sino-foreign co-production of the big-budget movie "The Great Wall" has been confirmed - the famous Chinese-language film director Zhang Yimou!"

The appearance of this news did not surprise many people.

After all, with Chen Fei's clear refusal, it seems that there are only one or two directors in the mainland who can grasp such a big-budget movie.

Among these people, Zhang Yimou is undoubtedly the most suitable.

What really attracted the attention of the industry were the several new announcements released by China Film Group immediately afterwards:

"The movie "The Great Wall" will now officially start the open casting. The film aims to integrate the essence of domestic and foreign films. Therefore, the entire casting process will not only be open to domestic actors, but will also include Hollywood stars."

"Once the casting is settled, these lucky ones will need to get ready and go to Hollywood for a closed training lasting several months..."

"In order to ensure that every actor can get a fair chance, the crew has formulated a detailed process for actor resume submission, recommendation, and casting audition. This process not only standardizes the selection process, but also ensures that every actor who is interested in participating in this film can have a stage to show himself..."

At the same time, with the exposure of the casting news, the news that "The Great Wall" is a movie with a female theme also spread.

For a time, domestic actresses became restless!

Led by the big flowers such as the four Dan and Shuang Bing, all the actresses who think they have strength, opportunities, and connections have all taken action.

At the same time, those former actresses of Mou Girls also became agitated, and each of them thought they had a chance to participate in it.

No one would honestly audition. After all, facing such a big project, it would be strange if they could get a role by simply auditioning!

...

The night fell, and the lights of the city and the stars in the sky complemented each other, covering this busy city with a mysterious veil.

On the starry side, Lu Zheng pushed the door open and walked in with a quick but firm step.

For him, today is an unusual day.

In the afternoon, a call from China Film was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, stirring up ripples in his heart.

The director of "The Great Wall" has been determined, so the next thing to be determined is naturally the most important male and female roles.

And the contract that is crucial to Lu Zheng has finally ushered in new progress!

The moment he got the contract, he couldn't hide his joy and returned to the company as soon as possible.

Jing Tian, ​​who had been waiting for a long time in the company, saw him coming back, and immediately showed a pleasant smile on her face: "Uncle Lu, how is it, is everything going well?"

Lu Zheng smiled slightly, with a confident light in his eyes, and waved the briefcase in his hand: "Don't worry, it's all done."

After that, he opened the briefcase and took out the contract from it.

Jing Tian hurried over.

When she saw the words "The Great Wall...actor recruitment", the uneasiness in her heart finally fell.

So far, she has once again won the leading role in a big-budget movie!

Lu Zheng also reminded: "Tian Tian, ​​China Film will not announce the news that you have won the leading role for the time being, so you still have to participate in each round of auditions as usual."

"Ah? Why?" Jing Tian showed a little puzzled on his face.

"For marketing, topics, and popularity."

As soon as these words came out, Jing Tian instantly understood.

She nodded and said, "Don't worry, Uncle Lu, I will do as required."

While speaking, she opened the project book of "The Great Wall" again.

When she saw "Zhang Yimou" behind the director column, a trace of disappointment inevitably flashed in her eyes.

"After all... I still can't work with him."

~

In a blink of an eye, half of October has passed.

On the 16th, a new movie news was reported by the media:

"The comedy film "Detective Chinatown" produced exclusively by Feiyue Film and Television, directed by Wang Shiliang and written by Chen Fei, has been released for 18 days and the total box office has accumulated 1.035 billion yuan!"

"Warm congratulations, the movie "Detective Chinatown" has successfully broken the 1 billion mark at the box office!"

"One more person has been added to the 1 billion box office director club, namely: Wang Shiliang, the contracted director of Feiyue Film and Television!"

Although because of the release of many domestic films and imported blockbusters, the films launched at the beginning of the month have been greatly affected.

But judging from the data released by the cinema chain, the screening rate of "Detective Chinatown" has not been reduced too much, and it still maintains a share of more than 20%.

Nowadays, the film has crossed the 1 billion box office threshold, which can be said to have successfully achieved the goal.

As for whether it can reach more than 1 billion in the end, it depends on fate!

Many media shouted the slogan of "extending the key to reach 2 billion box office", but they were all ignored by Chen Fei.

After all, the potential of the movie is there, let alone a month's delay, even if it is delayed for two months, don't think about reaching the 2 billion threshold.

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