The road to becoming a movie star from the villain

Chapter 288 Going to Warner Headquarters, Preparing for the Audition

Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV, the headquarters of the TV station.

A staff member was reporting the situation with Meng Yi, the director of the TV drama production center.

"What, broke the ratings record for online dramas, and the popularity exceeded [-] million within two days?" Meng Yi was also extremely shocked when he heard the news.

When did web dramas have this ability?
You know, compared with star dramas, online dramas are at most just small troubles.

Immediately, Meng Yi began to understand the information of "Celebrating More Than Years".

Starring Hong Chen, Chen Ming, Wu Gang.
Just seeing these names, Meng Yi almost exclaimed.

Chen Ming actually acted in a web drama, and there are 5 national first-class actors in this drama?The leading role is now the most popular film and television star Hong Chen?
This kind of drama didn't get stars?

Meng Yi saw Pinfang again, Penguin Film and Television, and China Literature Group. He realized that it turned out to be the Penguin Empire with its wealth and wealth, no wonder.

Now some video apps are richer and more generous than Satellite TV. Naturally, the TV series they produce themselves will not find TV stations, but want to broadcast them on their own platforms.

Afterwards, Meng Yi began to watch this TV series. It didn't matter if he watched it, he found that this TV series was really good!
He can become the director of the TV drama production center of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV, so he has a unique vision.

Moreover, the current popularity of this drama is enough to show that the quality of this drama is high.

Today's young people like to watch TV series and movies on video software and get rid of the TV, but most middle-aged and elderly people are still used to watching TV.

And "Celebrating More Than Years" is also the type that this group likes.

Therefore, Meng Yi immediately went to the director of the TV station and asked to buy the right to broadcast this TV series!

Facts have proved that Meng Yi's vision is very unique.

It is precisely because of this TV series that Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV's ratings directly crushed all satellite TVs in the same period, and even surpassed CCTV's ratings!
You know, the satellite TV with the highest ratings in the country is CCTV.

It is difficult for local satellite TV to surpass the ratings of CCTV.

But with "Celebrating More Than Years", Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV did it!
Seeing this situation, other satellite TVs were extremely jealous, and hated themselves for not buying the rights to broadcast Qing Yu Nian earlier, and now they can only watch others eat meat.

"I'm really going to audition in New York, it's been so hard, and I can finally take a break at the beginning of the new year." Yan Yileng said with concern at Hong Chen's home.

"Well, this role is very challenging, I want to try it." Hong Chen said seriously.

"You are the top star in China now, why are you still so tired?" Yan Yilend hoped that he and Hong Chen could be together for a long time, so he didn't want Hong Chen to run around.

Everyone's pursuit is different, for Hong Chen, he wants to make a good career in this industry.Although he has reached his current position, there are still higher mountains, and he just wants to see the scenery there.

Moreover, Hong Chen knew that compared with many people in the entertainment circle, he was actually not too hard.

Take Parallel World as an example. The new girl group idol Yang Chaoyue has debuted for more than a year and has received more than 210 announcements, including five film and television dramas, three resident variety shows and three concerts.
Comparing with Hong Chen, there are at most three or four works a year.

Of course, Hong Chen always plays the leading role in film and television works, and the time span of each work is relatively long.

Hong Chen also doesn't like the life of rushing back and forth like that.

"There are some things I want to try." Hong Chen smiled gently.

Yan Yileng knew that he had great ambitions, so he didn't say much.

Now that "Celebrating More Than Years" is going viral, Hong Chen expected it.The movie companies in the Spring Festival are still fighting each other, there are promotional posters everywhere, and various discussions and predictions on the Internet are as usual.

Real-time data shows that "Pudong Fortress" has the highest pre-sale box office, and "Crazy Alien" is the box office champion predicted by the official accounts of major media.

Many film critics agreed that "The Wandering Earth" should be able to achieve a good box office, but after all, it is a sci-fi disaster theme, and it is not suitable for the happy family atmosphere of the Spring Festival, so it will not become the box office champion.

During this period, Hong Chen was free for a few days. The first audition for the clown was from January 1th to January 5th. Hong Chen specially picked the middle time, that is, January 1th, to fly to New York.

If you go too early, it must be the time when the most actors are auditioning, and the chance of elimination is the greatest.

So, when "Celebrating More Than Years" became popular all over the Internet, and the audience was admiring Hong Chen's performance in the TV series, Hong Chen quietly flew to New York in the United States with two assistants.

He's up for an impossible audition.

New York, Universal Pictures headquarters building.

As one of the eight major film industries, the headquarters building of Warner Bros. Pictures goes straight into the sky, showing the company's wealth and strength.

Warner Bros. is the third oldest film and television company in the United States. It was rated as one of the world's top 500 two years ago, which is enough to show its status.

He owns a lot of classic IPs, such as Harry Potter and The Matrix, but the most classic IP is the Batman series.

The United States has held the ranking of the most popular superheroes many times, and the number one has always been Batman, whose status is unshakable.The second is Spider-Man.And in fact, No.2 has changed many times, but No. [-] has remained unchanged.

In fact, the reason is also very simple.Marvel and DC take different paths.

Marvel's most popular is Spider-Man, but Marvel's resources are not fully tilted to Spider-Man. Other characters in the comics can even be assigned to better artists, screenwriters, story lines and major events.

And DC is different, DC has leaned the core of the entire company around Batman.

Batman's story line has many classic works that have influenced the history of animation.

Marvel is very open. His thinking is, I don’t want to compete with you for the number one popularity. I just need to keep the superheroes I want to promote in a relatively high position.

Such as Iron Man, American Team, Thor, Widow Sister, Captain Marvel, etc.

But this is not the case for DC's superheroes. Even the other two Superman and Wonder Woman of the DC Big Three have obviously not enough resources.

Of course, there is another reason why Batman is the most popular.

That is, DC's portrayal of villains is much higher than that of Marvel. Just being a clown adds countless points to the role of Batman.

Therefore, if Hong Chen wants to play this role, it will be a very big challenge.

Hong Chen came to the downstairs of the Warner Pictures building, but was stopped by security guards.

"Hello, I'm the actor who auditioned for the clown, my name is Hong Chen." Hong Chen smiled and announced his family name.

The security guard glanced at him with indifference.

"Sir, please leave." The security guard stretched out his hand calmly, making a movement to stop Hong Chen from moving forward.

Hong Chen stood there with a tall and straight figure, and said calmly: "I am the actor who auditioned for the clown, and I have an appointment with the screenwriter Mr. David Goyer, you can ask them, my audition number is 24. "

The security guard's gaze remained unchanged. In his eyes, an Asian man who might be an audition actor must be here to make trouble.

"Sir, please leave here, otherwise I will take compulsory measures." The security guard's expression became unkind.

Hearing this, Hong Chen was inexplicably angry.

He has already said very politely that as long as the security guard asks the front desk about making a phone call, he will be sent to the audition department to audition.

But now the security guard didn't mean to ask at all, but looked at people with prejudice.

Hong Chen seems to be like in some documentary scenes, a black driver obviously did nothing wrong, but the white police still let him out, put his head on the car with his hands in his hands, and if he doesn’t obey, he will draw a gun and threaten, even punch and kick .

Obviously, the same is true for this security guard, with a discriminatory look.

Hong Chen looked up at him, his face getting colder.

The other party was just a security guard, not even a policeman, so it was already too much.

Thinking of this, Hong Chen said in a cold voice: "I repeat, my name is Hong Chen, and I am an actor who is here to audition for the clown. You can ask the front desk."

After hearing what he said, the security guard's expression turned ugly, and he immediately reached out to grab Hong Chen and throw him out.

However, before his hand touched Hong Chen, it was held by Hong Chen instead, and then Hong Chen squeezed his wrist hard, and the security guard suddenly cried out in pain.

The security guard still wanted to resist, so he slammed his other hand at Hong Chen, and Hong Chen hit his chest quickly with his elbow.

A blow to the chest often leaves a person temporarily unable to breathe.With Hong Chen's hand, the security guard immediately took two steps back, clutching his throat, terrified and speechless.

Originally, there was a security guard at the back watching the excitement, but when he saw this scene, he hurried over here.

Hong Chen was still very calm, and said again to another security guard: "My name is Hong Chen, and I am an actor who came to audition, please tell the front desk."

Seeing this scene, another security guard swallowed hard, and then ran into the company's building to inquire.

(End of this chapter)