"Now You See Me" is scheduled to start shooting in early April, and the filming location will be in the United States.

In addition, there are some outdoor scenes in Paris, but they are mainly to fool the audience. The protagonists do not need to go to Paris to shoot in person.

Cao Xuan left a week in advance, mainly to say hello to Warner's senior management, and at the same time go over the script and preliminary preparations with director James Wan.

In order to ensure Fanxing's control over the crew, Cao Xuan served as the supervisor and producer of "Now You See Me".

Hollywood is a producer-centered system. The crew producer is the boss, and with a supervisor as a guarantee, it can be said that he has great power.

However, there are more positions, and even if Cao Xuan delegates a lot of power, he can't just push the envelope. Many things still have to be dealt with personally, especially this time at the Hollywood home court. Without Cao Xuan, others can't control the situation.

Also rushing to the United States with him was Da Mimi.

As one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, she doesn't have many individual scenes, but a lot of group scenes. It can be said that she has to be present from beginning to end.

Damimi is also very busy. She took on three movies at once. She just finished shooting the movie version of "Wulin Gaiden" and now she is working on "Now You See Me" non-stop.

In fact, the filming time of her filming this movie was a bit coincident with another movie "Big Bang". The distance was so far, and "Now You See Me" was so important, there was no way Damimi could skip the movie.

So Da Mimi initially wanted to push the movie "Laughing Out Loud", and the liquidated damages were already prepared.

As a result, Lao Zhao said that "Laughing in the River" can be stopped by shooting other people's scenes first, and then wait indefinitely for Damimi to reshoot when she is finished.

Just kidding, let’s not talk about Damimi’s own popularity. Her participation in Cao Xuan’s new Hollywood movie has caused a stir in the industry.

With an investment of US$85 million, it is definitely at the top level in today's Chinese film industry.

Li Bingbing's participation in "Snowflake and the Secret Fan" will only cost 20 million US dollars, and the media made all sorts of embarrassing claims.

The only movie that can actually be compared together is "The Green Hornet" starring Xiao Zhou, which is said to have an investment of over 100 million US dollars.

However, "The Green Hornet" is produced by Columbia, and Xiao Zhou is considered the second male lead, he is just an actor, while "Now You See Me" is single-handedly produced by Cao Xuan, who is undoubtedly the core of the core.

The difference between the two is not the same. On the contrary, Damimi and Xiao Zhou have similar positions, and they are both starring roles.

No one knows what the future of "The Green Hornet" will be, but Cao Xuan's name is the most effective in the domestic film market.

Not to mention Xiao Zhou, even if the rumored Xingye plays this role, it is impossible to challenge Cao Xuan and try to overpower Cao Xuan in the country, unless Bruce Lee is resurrected.

Putting aside whether or not she can outshine Fanxing, no matter what, Damimi's appearance in "Now You See Me" will undoubtedly greatly improve herself.

If it becomes a hit, a Hollywood "international actress" will definitely bring a lot of benefits to their movie.

Cao Xuan wants to cut off all the Marvel actors, and they also want to take advantage of him.

Da Mimi even regretted that she had taken so many roles. If she had taken the role after "Now You See Me" was released, her salary would have doubled at least.

But she can't blame others. She originally wanted to break into the film market and was not afraid of meat and vegetables. She took on so many movies in one go. Now it's too late to regret it.

In fact, it's not thanks to Da Mimi. Several hit movies have made her the most popular little girl nowadays.

Even if his appeal in movies is not deep, he can still earn a pretty good salary due to his high popularity and the support of stars.

The movie "Wulin Gaiden" gave her 2 million, the first salary of the crew.

In comparison, Sha Yi, who had a hit in "Run", only had 1.2 million, Guo Zhenni had 1 million, and Yan Ni had 1 million. The latter starred in Lao Mouzi's "Three Guns" and his net worth increased a lot. The remaining

For several actors, the total package price does not exceed 2 million.

The salary for "Laughing in the River" was 2.2 million yuan, and Lao Zhao spent a lot of money to hire Da Mi Mi. It is said that the male protagonist Xiao Shen Yang's salary was only 300,000 yuan, and several apprentices such as Cheng Ye simply took their salary.

Of course, this is just a rumor, and I don’t know whether it is true or not.

However, the cost of "Laughing in the River" is indeed not high, only about 10 to 20 million. Putting aside the salary of Damimi and several Hong Kong and Taiwan actors, plus the production funds, the salary left for the Zhao family must be very limited.

Looking at it this way, Cao Xuan, a boss who gives a lot of resources and pays full salary, is definitely a model of conscience...

The film that gave the most salary was "The God of Wealth Inn", with a salary of 2.5 million. Yinghuang was rich. I heard that Chef Xie gave Xiao 6 million.

However, this movie mostly uses Yinghuang actors, and although the pay is high, it can make a lot of money back.

Yinghuang approached Damimi mainly because of her popularity in the mainland. She also approached Tong Dawei to promote the "Temptation of Going Home" stunt.

With the rise of mainland movies in the past two years, films with purely Hong Kong casts have become less and less popular. If Hong Kong films used to recruit mainland actors and then co-produced them for censorship, now they are really relying on the popularity of mainland artists.

For the three movies, Da Mimi and the single film alone earned RMB 6.7 million. Even if the company has to share it, the rest is still considerable.

Not to mention "Now You See Me", with a salary of US$300,000, which is just over 2 million yuan.

And this is just for movies. Although the current movie market salary is also increasing year by year, it is still stable overall, but the TV drama market is not as crazy as usual.

As long as the artist is famous, the salary will not be less than 50,000 per episode. The more famous the more popular.

Especially for a TV series like Damimi, which has guaranteed ratings, if you don’t choose anything and just watch it for money, someone might agree to it if you pay 400,000 for an episode.

That is to say, Damimi is very ambitious. She not only wants to catch up with Liu Tianxian, but also wants to enter the film industry, improve her celebrity status, and obtain more commercial endorsements and fashion resources. Otherwise, most people will not be able to bear this temptation.

This is what Cao Xuan admires most about Damimi, her long-term vision.

Nowadays, filming TV series is about making money. If she is not taboo about meat and vegetables, she may be able to earn tens of millions, but it is just a novelty, and it will be hard to tell in a year or two.

But if you can seize this opportunity and continue to climb up, you will not only be successful for a longer period of time, but also earn more, and even become the capital to share the fruits one day in the future.

Damimi has always said to the outside world that her idol is Hu Jing, hugging the Empress of the East Palace's thigh tightly.

But in fact, Damimi's real idol is Cao Xuan, and he is not a fan or movie fan, but a career fan.

She also wants to become an entertainment giant like Boss Cao, who can turn her hands into clouds and turn her hands into rain.

I don’t know how many nights Da Mimi hated herself for being born ten years late, otherwise she would have been entangled in Cao Xuan life and death. At that time, she would have been the vice president of Fanxing.

Bah, what kind of vice president? She wants to be the president of Fanxing Group.

More than once, Da Mimi secretly criticized Hu Jing for being too conservative and only supervising one stall. If she were the Empress of the East Palace, she would have gathered the power of Fanxing and resumed the affairs of Fang Yihua of Shaw Brothers.

No, she is more powerful than Fang Yihua...

Of course, she was murmuring in her heart that she wouldn't dare to hook up with Cao Xuan now.

Whether she succeeds or not, she will not be able to defeat Hu Jing, and more importantly, she will suffer crazy revenge from the Empress of the East Palace, and even the Empress of the West Palace will punish her.

She didn't dare to do it before, but now as a confidant of the East Palace, she knew that Hu Jing was pregnant, so she didn't dare to do it even more.

What she doesn't know is that even if he had met Cao Xuan ten years earlier, even if the two of them were together, Cao Xuan would not have let her interfere with the management of Fanxing.

Just kidding, even if he has never watched "Wu Zetian", he still knows the fate of Qingzi who "seized the title and deposed the emperor".

When two ambitious people get together, they can cooperate and even become confidants, but it is best not to become a couple, let alone do business together...

………

After getting off the plane, Damimi followed Cao Xuan by car to the office rented by the crew.

Under normal circumstances, Hollywood film crews have their own companies, and many matters can be discussed directly at the company. Fanxing has not opened an office in Hollywood for the time being, and he does not want to rely on others to go to Warner, so he can only temporarily rent an office in the name of the film crew.

However, this also reminded Cao Xuan that Fanxing should set up an office or branch in Hollywood in the future to handle related matters.

"When you received the letter, I was still wandering, and I kept the promise I made that year in my heart..."

On the way, Cao Xuan closed his eyes and fell asleep, humming softly, and Da Mimi listened curiously.

"Boss, is this your new song?"

Cao Xuan did not answer, but asked: "What do you think of this song?"

"It's very nice, the melody is fresh and beautiful, and the aftertaste is endless."

Damimi was very happy, Cao Xuan smiled and started humming another song.

"An outstanding person like me should have lived a brilliant life, but how come after more than thirty years, he is still drifting in the sea of ​​people... A mediocre person like me... a person like me who is unwilling to be ordinary..."

After humming for a while, Cao Xuan looked at Damimi: "This is my new song, what do you think?"

"It's very good. It's nice and deep. It's not only memorable, but also thought-provoking. It touches the soul."

Damimi boasted loudly, but she was complaining crazily in her heart.

A world-class superstar with a net worth of hundreds of billions, yet he has the nerve to say with a shameless face that he is mediocre and unwilling to be mediocre.

If you sink, we will have nothing left to sink...

In fact, not only did Damimi complain, Cao Xuan also realized a long time ago that the lyrics of the song "Someone Like Me" were wrong. It contained more confusion and depression, which was inconsistent with his current situation and mood.

If it is forced to be put into a new album, it can only be dismissed as an early work, which has been perfected and created now.

Of course, in fact, it doesn’t necessarily have to be about Cao Xuan himself.

This is not the first time he has done reading comprehension. Many of his songs have multiple interpretations.

"Someone Like Me" can be said to be a song written by Cao Xuan out of sympathy with those born in the 1980s and 1990s who are currently confused.

Or maybe Cao Xuan chatted with a person who was about to leave campus, learned about his state of mind, and combined with his own experiences back then, he had an idea and achieved success in one fell swoop.

Changing more than thirty years to more than twenty years, the story is not about Cao Xuan today, but the young people Cao Xuan was then and now...

Writing stories is considered Cao Xuan's strong point. I can't say how perfect it is, but at least it can be justified.

Although it is a temporary office, a lot of the preliminary work of the crew is completed here. There are more than 40 permanent staff here, which is comparable to an ordinary company.

As soon as Cao Xuan arrived, Wen Ziren also hurried over. After everyone introduced him, Damimi went to try on makeup, while Cao Xuan and Wen Ziren reviewed the script.

The movie "Now You See Me" has not changed much compared to the original version, except that it makes Cao Xuan's presence stronger.

It's not that Cao Xuan wants to be in the limelight, but because he himself is responsible for the box office. He just wants to keep a low profile, and neither the director nor the screenwriter would agree.
To be continued...