Chapter 158 "The Journey" Starts Shooting (4/6)
It is difficult for actresses who look more beautiful than a lady from a wealthy family to become popular.
That's how Gao Lu is.
The gentle and tough Wen Qiang in "The Unruly Princess" and the elegant and neat Sister Li Zi in "The Nth Power of Home" are an actress with good looks and acting skills!
Then what?
After working hard in the circle for decades, I am almost forty. In the last "Ace vs. Ace", the editor still cut her pictures...
This is the actress who is not popular!
But she kept having sex and life was comfortable...
Few people know that she was like Tangtang back then, and she was also an actress signed by Xu Li, and she called Wang Jing Baba...
OK, let’s talk about “The Age of Fruit Marriage”, Tracy is Tong Jiaqian’s boss, a character with a strong desire to control…
"I thought you would let her play my cousin!"
"…That character is not likable, and Sister Lu should like that kind of challenging character, right?"
Gao Lu smiled and didn't say anything...
"Where is that Sun Xiaorao?"
"I originally wanted Jiao Erbao to come, but the investor stuffed an actress and looked quite innocent. I think it's quite suitable, so let her try it!"
"Where is the second treasure?"
"The second treasure has "Black Fox", so don't worry..."
Lu Xiaoran and Tangtang directly discussed the casting of "The Fruit Era". Xu Li and Gao Lu were a little embarrassed...
After almost five minutes, Tangtang finally realized: "Mama Li, don't you have something to look for Xiaoran?"
Xu Li smiled and said, "…Xiaoran, what do you think of the Hong Kong entertainment industry?"
"It is declining and the young and beautiful are not in line. I can only count on a few scenes that are almost sixty years old. Once the mainland film industry is initially established, they will lose their greatest advantage!"
Of course, this is just Lu Xiaoran's polite words.
He knew that the reason why Xu Li asked this was nothing more than introducing him to join the Hong Kong circle...
Deep down, I still admire the Hong Kong filmmakers.
After a century of accumulation and the still huge entertainment industry behind it, Hong Kong is still a major film center, and Hong Kong filmmakers will still have a place in Chinese-language films.
"...you...you are so unpredictable?"
"It's not that I don't think it's right, but that reality is just like that. You can wait and see it. The concept of Hong Kong movies will gradually disappear..."
...
Xu Li really wants to break up the relationship between Lu Xiaoran and the Hong Kong circle, and then she can trade it...
But Lu Xiaoran has always insisted on the mainland team and cannot make big productions, so we slowly hone our productions since we were young.
Yang Qing’s director contract was signed to Orange Image, and Xu Zheng was the same. In the future, more filmmakers will grow together with Orange Image.
By that day, even if Lu Xiaoran's movie box office may fail, his status will not be shaken, because he will be the new generation of masters!
The Husky said that it should be 11 and 12 years, Chinese movies were defeated by Hollywood, and they were ranked in the top ten in the annual box office rankings, and Hollywood blockbusters accounted for eight seats!
A bunch of experts say something like 'Chinese movies are heading for death!'
Then a new group of Chinese filmmakers stood up, "Lost in Thailand", "33 Days of Love Break", and "Painted Skin Ii", these three films, let alone how they are in art, at least they gave Chinese films a shot in the box office!
When it comes to "Painted Skin ii", we have to talk about "Painted Skin"...
Husky told Lu Xiaoran about this movie, and he also suggested that Lu Xiaoran must strive for it...
How to fight for it?
Chen Kun is Zhou Xun’s good buddy and Zhao Wei’s good buddy. They are one of the three!
In fact, the idea of "Painted Skin" was developed by Ye Weixin and Zhen Zitan. They found a mainland investor and originally wanted to make a movie with a bit of humanistic color...
The so-called humanistic color is probably humanity and social...
That is to lose money!
Mainland investors are not fools. After studying it, they felt that the possibility of selling well is very low, so they disagreed. Then Shanghai Film Studio intervened and directly passed Ye Weixin, brought Chen Jiashang in, and chose Zhou Xun to play the fox demon. Zhou Xun recommended Chen Kun, and Chen Kun recommended Zhao Wei again...
Lu Xiaoran?
Does it have anything to do with him?
Playing that lizard monster? Are you willing?
Not willing to...
If you don’t want you to say nothing, just stay honestly!
In fact, many movies in the past two years have been jealous. For example, "Assembly of the City", "October Siege", "The Sound of the Wind"...
You have a good idea of being jealous. If you don’t say anything else, Lu Xiaoran has obtained the copyright on "The Sound of the Wind". Do you think he wants to film it?
What a fool, Zhou Xun's salary is 3.2 million, Li Bingbing's salary is 2.8 million, and these two plus one is 6 million. Other actors cannot be far behind. The pay alone is more than 15 million...
And this thing is not something you can take if you have money!
Actors also have to choose directors!
Chen Guofu came, actors can adjust their schedules at will, and give them some free money. Do you want Lu Xiaoran to try it?
...
In late September, "Painted Skin" was released, breaking the first-day box office record of several domestic blockbusters such as "Assembly" and "A Letter of the Name".
According to this trend, it is normal to break 200 million!
Inside the orange image, a bunch of people are both envious and a little confused...
Because "Painted Skin" has a good reputation and the scene is not particularly large, they are all insiders. After estimating, it will be a production cost of only 60 million yuan at most!
Lu Xiaoran looked through the box office report in his hand and sighed: "When do you think we can play big production?"
"…Don't have this idea. Big productions are not something we can play with!"
Well, Orange Image, except for a few fans, is actually not very famous outside world.
The reason is very simple. If you haven’t made big productions, you are not considered a big company!
This is the world now. Being able to shoot blockbusters means you have the ability and even the theaters are three points higher.
At the beginning, Lu Xiaoran and Zeng Guangxian reached a consensus on film investment: they will never invest more than 30 million yuan, at least in the past five years!
The so-called big productions are nothing more than big directors, big stars, big investments, big scenes, big themes, etc.
It is easy to get these together, but it is still quite difficult to combine them into a complete mainstream commercial film from the domestic level.
Zeng Guangxian didn’t believe this, and Lu Xiaoran didn’t believe it either…
Zhang Jin nodded rarely: "Actually, "Save Mr. Wu" has become a big production!"
"… Let me tell the truth. I spent less than 30 million on "Save Mr. Wu", and Liu Dehua only had eight million in pay..."
"We can promote it according to the blockbuster!"
"…Okay." Lu Xiaoran nodded and said, "You must control the small-scale trial next month, and never let the film source leak..."
"Yeah, I understand!"
"Dingling..."
The office phone rang...
Lu Xiaoran casually answered: "Hey..."
"Hey, hello, I'm Fan Bingbing!"
"…Bing…Sister Bingbing, you said..."
"It's only one day, we will adjust the shooting plan... Well, don't worry, the script will be sent to you later... OK, thank you so much!"
“I wish you a smooth work…”
After hanging up the phone, Lu Xiaoran's mouth couldn't help but rise.
"Is it Fan Bingbing?"
"right!"
"She promised to star in it?"
"Um!"
Chapter completed!