After a month, Tang An came to work in Huayi again.
After parking the car, I just entered the company lobby and met Li Binbin.
"Good morning, Binbin!" Tang An greeted her with a smile.
"Mr. Tang is back?" Li Binbin walked over naturally and walked in side by side with Tang An.
"Yes, I just came back yesterday!" Tang An said with a smile.
"You don't have to work, what's wrong with coming so early?"
Li Binbin combed his hair and said with a smile, "It's okay. Director Wang is recently talking to Gucci about being a spokesperson in Asia. I want to ask about the situation."
Gucci, an internationally renowned luxury brand.
Being able to endorse such a high-end luxury brand is enough to prove a star's fame. Li Binbin's smile never disappeared along the way, as if he was afraid that others would not know about his happy event.
"Congratulations then. It seems that Gucci hasn't found any film and television stars to endorse in Asia, right?"
"That's right, not only are there no film and television stars, Gucci has no Asian spokesperson at all. This is the first time we are looking for a spokesperson in Asia." Li Binbin became more and more proud.
Tang An saw her so happy and really didn't want to tell the truth to hurt her.
Gucci Asia spokesperson was indeed appointed by Wang Zhongjun, but it was not Li Binbin, but Wang Xiaoming.
Li Binbin should have become a Gucci spokesperson in 2012 and a global spokesperson in 2013. He is also the first Chinese global spokesperson for Gucci in a century.
It seems that Li Binbin officially entered Hollywood after meeting Wendi Deng, starring in "The Secret Fan", "Resident Evil", and "Transformers 4", and began to endorse international famous brands, and the magazine cover was also hung in Manhattan.
Tang An thought about it and wanted to make her happy again, and then said, ""The King of Kung Fu" will be released soon. It seems that you have another movie that will be released recently, right?"
When you mentioned this, Li Binbin's originally smiling face suddenly became unhappy.
"Forget about that movie, it was released for more than a month and the box office was 7 million."
She starred in a movie that no one watched. Recently, her appearance in major media pages has become less and less. She cannot be compared with "Super Body" and "The Wind" at all.
Not to mention the box office, the 50% attendance rate for the premiere was not even 50%, and every road show was full of seats. I went to the cinema at 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening several times, and there were less than 20 people in one hall, so I only had one ticket to book the whole show.
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Everywhere I go there are only a handful of reporters, and the gap is really huge.
You must get Tang An’s next movie, no matter what, you must get it!
Li Binbin secretly thought to himself that Tang An seemed to like some exciting tricks. Last time he was in the car on the roadside, and another time he was almost backstage at the TV station, and there were quite a lot of postures...
Li Binbin was so lost in thought that she almost hit the elevator door.
Tang An quickly pulled her and said, "Hey, what were you thinking about? You hit the wall."
"Ah...I didn't think about anything, it's nothing."
Li Binbin quickly dismissed the discordant things in his mind.
"It's okay if you don't have a rest. This endorsement is yours and you can't run away. Why are you so anxious?"
Li Binbin shook his head, "No, I'm just thinking about something."
Tang An asked casually, "What are you thinking about?"
"The King of Kung Fu will be released in two months. I don't know what the result will be." Li Binbin said with some anticipation.
After all, it's a movie starring two big stars. It won't be bad at the box office. It should be stable at 200 million domestically. Although she is only the second female lead, at least it is much better than the lead female lead in a movie that no one watched.
"Whether the box office is good or not, it has nothing to do with you." Tang An said unceremoniously.
"The box office hit was a big hit, and it was all thanks to Cheng Long and Jet Li, or there was Liu Yufei. It failed at the box office, and it was the three of them who were scolded."
"Can't you say something nice?" Li Binbin rolled his eyes at him.
"Isn't that a good thing? No matter what, you have no loss." Tang An shrugged.
With a ding, the elevator arrived. Tang An went to the office to wait for a while, and then went to the conference room for a meeting.
"Good morning everyone, Mr. Cheng seems to be very busy recently. The dark circles under his eyes are almost like giant pandas, haha."
"Mr. Ding hasn't seen you for more than a month and he looks much younger now. Did you change your beauty salon recently?"
"Mr. Tang is joking. Recently, I stay at the company every day and spend less time going to the beauty salon."
"What is Director Feng busy with recently?"
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We said hello one by one and chatted for a few words casually.
Not long after, Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei also came to the conference room.
"Everyone, Mr. Tang is back today. Please tell us about the recent scandal in Xiangjiang!"
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the direction of selecting actors for the film and television dramas invested by the company in the future, whether to continue to use Hong Kong stars as the main actors, or to use their own actors on a large scale.
"Dr. Wang, everyone, in fact, we can now use our own actors to star in blockbusters. Several of Director Tang's films and Director Feng's "Assembly" are good examples. As long as the quality of the film is good, there is no need for big-name stars.
fame!"
Liu Tao, director of the artist management department, spoke first. He was still thinking about his actors.
"I think it is possible, at least there have been several successful cases, and it can reduce production costs, which is more conducive to profitability and reduces risks!" Financial Director Ding Qi agreed.
"I don't think it's necessary to do it all at once. Except for Li Binbin and Zhou Xun, few of the actors in the company have starring experience. We can start with some medium-cost movies and reduce the number of large-scale productions!"
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Everyone expresses his or her own opinion, and basically there is some truth to it.
Wang Zhongjun looked around and looked at Tang An and Chen Guobo who had not yet spoken.
Tang An and Chen Guofu looked at each other and said, "Dr. Wang, you guys, I would like to know if we have done a sample survey of the audience, whether most of the audience has the same attitude because of Cheng Guanxi, Zhang Bozhi and the others.
Look at the actors in Hong Kong."
"Mr. Tang, we have done a sample survey on this, both online and in real life. It is true that a considerable number of viewers have a bad feeling about the actors in Xiangjiang." The director of the public relations department said.
"That means it will have a certain impact. Let's see how many actors in Hong Kong today besides Li Lianlian and Andy Lau can take on the leading roles in big productions."
"Louis Koo, Yanzu Wu, and Donnie Yen are just a few who are barely qualified. Louis Koo is famous, but his movies are limited to police and gangster movies and action movies. The box office of the movies in which the latter two starred were not satisfactory.
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Tang An continued, "As for actresses, there are basically not many to be found. The "Beauty of the Country" invested by Bernard even wants Chen Huilin to play the heroine."
"Obviously, it's not a question of whether we can use it or not, but it's that no one is available."
"Everyone knows about Liu Dehua's "Mo Gong". This year there will be another "Three Kingdoms: The Dragon Disarms" and Li Ming's "Jiangshan Beauty", which will be released within two months. I think you can watch these two movies.
situation."
After Tang An finished speaking, he sat there and waited for Wang Zhongjun's reaction.
After all, he is also an art director, so he can't make one movie every year and be done with it. Otherwise, there is no need to make a movie. It is just a decoration anyway.
Wang Zhongjun nodded silently and looked at Chen Guobo, "What do you think, Mr. Chen?"
"Mr. Tang and I agree. Now the domestic film market has passed the era of star-studying. Top directors have more appeal than top actors. The loss of "The Legend" to Director Feng's "Assembly" is a very big mistake.
A good example, and the first-tier stars from the mainland may not have less appeal than the first-tier stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan."
"I think that with Directors Tang and Feng on board, blockbuster movies don't need top stars at all. Medium-cost movies can't afford top stars, so it's better to use our own actors to control costs and reduce risks!"
"Everyone is right. Let's do this. We'll see the situation in two months and then decide!" Wang Zhongjun said slowly.
"The King of Kung Fu" will be released in April. If this movie with a superstar + superstar model does not meet expectations, then we really need to consider the follow-up direction.
"Now let's talk about Director Feng's film. In If You Are the One, Director Feng plans to use Shu Qi as the heroine. Everyone knows her name. She has made many Category III films, and many of them are fully exposed."