With Ma Ye's experience, everyone was obviously much more enthusiastic and worked harder when they participated in the audition for "The Story of the Ex", because everyone knew that this time it was a truly fair competition, which is rare in the entertainment industry.
It's fair to say that even if you don't have any fame before, you can still get the opportunity to play the male lead through your own efforts.
It is for this reason that actors who had never dared to consider the lead role changed their original intentions. So much so that during the audition process for "The Ex-Raiders", more than a dozen actors auditioned for the male lead role.
, there are four roles: male second, female first, and female second, so the competition is naturally extremely fierce.
However, this kind of competition is undoubtedly a healthy competition. Every actor has used all his skills to strive for a good performance.
In the end, Hu Shuo selected the four actors with the best performances to serve as the four leading actors in "The Ex-Raiders".
Two of these four people are relatively well-known. One is Wang Yu and the other is Xiao Xiaoli. Their situations are somewhat similar. They both debuted as an idol group. Later, the group disbanded and the members went their separate ways.
After pursuing solo careers, Wang Yu and Xiao Xiaoli successively joined Wanli Pictures.
Both of them are currently considered third- or fourth-tier artists. They are well-known on a small scale and have fixed fan groups, but their numbers are relatively small. Moreover, their fans are almost all accumulated before they went solo.
After going solo, both of them worked very hard. Unfortunately, they filmed a few movies at Wanli Pictures, but they didn't make any splash. However, for them personally, their acting skills have been improved to a certain extent.
These two people were also designated by Hu Shuo as the male and female leads in "The Story of the Ex".
Wang Yu plays Meng Yun and Xiao Xiaoli plays Lin Jia.
The actors who play the second male lead, Yu Fei, and the second female lead, Ding Dian, are both unknown 18th-tier actors. One is named Jiang and the other is named Wang Keer.
Both of these people just joined Wanli Pictures last year and were originally the newcomers that the company planned to focus on training. In today's audition, both of them performed very well, so Hu Shuo gave them the opportunity to be the second male and second female lead.
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After the main casts of the two dramas were determined, Hu Shuo stood in front of the conference table again, put his hands on the conference table, and said with a serious face: "Now the starring casts of "The Road to Love" and "The Story of the Ex"
Everything is basically confirmed, and then I will tell the two directors
Let me give you my assessment criteria. First of all, these two dramas are typical commercial films. Therefore, the criterion for testing their success is the box office. Therefore, I gave different assessments based on the budget and cast configuration of the two dramas.
Standard, that is, a passing line!”
Speaking of this, Hu Shuo paused for a moment, looked at Zhang Fan and Li Yuqing, and said solemnly: "The box office passing mark of "The Road to Flowers" is 800 million! The box office passing mark of "The Expedition" is 600 million!!"
"If these two movies cannot even meet this passing standard after they are released, please leave on your own!!"
When he said the last sentence, Hu Shuo looked determined.
However, after hearing Hu Shuo announce the box office passing mark for these two movies, everyone in the conference room was stunned, including Tian Kai.
For a long time, there was silence in the conference room, and everyone looked at each other in a still state.
The reason why everyone has such expressions is very simple, that is, the two box office passing standards set by Hu Shuo are too high!
It’s so high that it can even be said to be an impossible task!
Let’s not talk about movies far away. Let’s talk about the movies produced by Wanli Pictures itself. Wanli Pictures has been established for a short time, just over five years. It has produced a total of 21 movies and participated in the investment of 23 movies.
Among these movies, only three have a box office of over 500 million. Only one of them was produced by Wanli Pictures alone, with a box office of 540 million. This movie can be regarded as the pinnacle of Wanli Pictures since its establishment.
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For the remaining two movies with a box office of over 500 million, Wanli Pictures only participated in the investment, accounting for about 30% of the shares. Of these two movies, one had a box office of 560 million and the other was 630 million.
In other words, among all the movies that Wanli Pictures has participated in and invested in since its establishment, the one with the highest box office was only 630 million, and that time it was because the movie had the top domestic movie stars in it and it was a big movie jointly produced by three film and television companies.
Production, with a box office of 630 million, has actually just recovered the cost, making a slight profit.
Therefore, if we compare it with the box office passing standards proposed by Hu Shuo, it is not difficult to understand why people have such expressions.
"Beautiful Heart" has 800 million, and "Strategy of the Ex" has 600 million!
According to Hu Shuoding's box office passing standards, and referring to Wanli Pictures' past performance, "The Story of the Ex" can only be completed if it creates the best box office performance in Wanli Pictures' history, and "The Road to Flowers" has an 800 million
There is no need to think about it, after all, no movie has achieved this level since the establishment of Wanli Pictures.
"Mr. Hu, are you kidding?"
The silence in the meeting was finally broken, Zhang Fan frowned, with a look of disbelief on his face.
"I won't joke about this kind of thing!" Hu Shuo replied with a serious face.
“800 million??”
"Mr. Hu, do you know the highest box office of a movie produced by Wanli Pictures?" Zhang Fan asked again.
"have no idea!"
Hu Shuo shook his head decisively and said: "The past achievements of Wanli Pictures are not what I should care about. What I care about is the future of the company. Now Wanli Pictures has been merged into Chuangshi Entertainment. In the past, Wanli Pictures
I don’t care how bad the movies produced by the company are at the box office, but from now on, I hope that every movie produced by the company will at least be profitable!"
"Mr. Hu, can I ask what you base this box office passing standard on?" Zhang Fan asked again.
"Based on the brilliance of these two scripts and the strong publicity capabilities of Wanli Pictures, with these two powerful fulcrums, if you two can't make the movie's box office reach the box office passing standard I set, you can only
It’s because of the two directors. After all, film is the director’s art!!”
Hu Shuo spoke plausibly and had a firm attitude.
However, after hearing this, Zhang Fan shook his head: "Mr. Hu, if you insist on setting this box office standard, you might as well just let me go!"
"The male protagonist is an 18th-tier artist. He has no first-tier celebrities, no top traffic, and no halo. The investment budget for the entire film is only 50 million, but it requires a box office of 800 million. I believe it is not just me who cannot complete this assessment.
No director in the entire Chinese entertainment industry can complete this assessment!"
"If someone can really do it, I, Zhang Fan, would rather eat shi!!"
It seemed that Zhang Fan was really anxious and even swore a poisonous oath.