The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 257 The Eve of the National Day Rush (4K)

Although Wang Wei clamored to just slap the person who poached the wall, Shen Zhenyi's manager couldn't be so straightforward.

After Shen Zhenyi made a decision, she still dutifully confirmed, "I really refuse, it's 2000 million, and it's too late to regret it..."

Having been in the industry for so many years, the agent lady naturally knows how popular a new movie by a cutting-edge director whose last movie just won a box office of over one billion will be.

In particular, what Luo Jianzhou sent her now was an invitation from the heroine.

As long as she hesitated for a few more days, other actresses of similar status would immediately get wind of joining the snatch, let alone refuse outright.

At that time, it is really useless to regret it.

Shen Zhenyi laughed, "If it's just a movie, then it's nothing - even if you can't bring money into the game, the 2000 million base salary can't be said to be insincere; but, sister Yu, you know, his mind is not pure..."

The manager smiled and shook his head, "This is called obsession, girl!"

Shen Zhenyi only had the appearance of "Thank you for not being sensitive".

In fact, they all knew that Luo Jianzhou's "deep love" for Shen Zhenyi was not necessarily true.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be in love with Yang Qianyi, Shen Zhenyi's alumnus.

——Speaking of which, this news was first revealed by the manager and Shen Zhenyi.

——Although she suspected that it was Yang Qianyi who revealed the rumor behind it.

"That classmate of yours is also a smart person. I'm afraid it won't be a day or two since he has been staring at the heroine of Luo Jianzhou's new movie."

The manager lady analyzed like this, but there was a touch of admiration in her tone.

In this circle, everyone has their own way of survival—Shen Zhenyi is a gifted and European type, and her road to success is basically unrepeatable.

On the contrary, Yang Qianyi's "selling herself at a good price" is the most common way of survival.

The reason why she is said to be smart is because she set her sights on a young director like Luo Jianzhou who has a background and is not bad in ability, which is much better than those colleagues who have to cling to the "old man" after a bad encounter;

Facts have proved that her dedication is also fruitful-the first role was the heroine of Luo Jianzhou's blockbuster, and since then she has played an important role in two blockbuster films of Tang Yu Media, and her career has skyrocketed; now, after Shen Zhenyi's rejection, Luo Jianzhou's new film actress The protagonist has a great chance of falling into her hands.

If there is no Shen Zhenyi for comparison, the manager thinks that Yang Qianyi has the most potential among the younger generation of actresses.

Shen Zhenyi understood what her agent meant, and echoed her words, "That's why I don't want to get entangled. With this skill, wouldn't it be good to invest in two more movies?"

"Okay, then I will formally reject his film contract."

The broker sighed.

Although, if you can make more money, what are you afraid of pestering?
If it was another agent, seeing the basic salary of 2000 million, he would have to persuade him a little bit more.

However, the manager's lady has long been able to make suggestions and no decision on Shen Zhenyi's selection of films.

——Well, even if she has the right to speak, facing the current Shen Zhenyi, even if it is to make money, she can't force the other party's head to make money.

After all, although the agent side seems to be powerful, it still cannot exist independently of the stars and the film company, which makes them very important and very unimportant
The important thing is that as long as the stars themselves are not too stupid, they can solve many problems for the stars and help the stars increase their income;

It doesn't matter that as long as the star himself is capable, if one agent is not good, he can change to another one.

——In order to keep Shen Zhenyi, a high-quality client, the agent lady not only minimized her percentage of commission, but also tried to make the other party happy in her work.

Of course, this does not mean that she has earned less money from Shen Zhenyi.

In fact, although Shen Zhenyi is not like her other clients, who can't wait to take three or four movies every year, she guarantees the agent's income of millions every year-this is already one of the best among her clients.

Without him, the agent's work for Shen Zhenyi has gone far beyond the scope of a film agent's job, so now she not only gets the basic film remuneration commission, dividend commission, even Shen Zhenyi's investment in movies will also have a certain commission.

What's more, do you really think that Shen Zhenyi's bringing capital into the group will not be of more benefit to the manager?

Just the increase in the right to speak brought about by being one of the investors may benefit other clients under her umbrella-for other clients, the commission rate of the broker lady is quite high.

Therefore, the agent did not object to Shen Zhenyi's stance of "not making easy money, only wanting to make hard money".

"However, having said that, is it really hard to earn money for this little girl to invest in movies? Although in the Chinese entertainment industry, it is common sense not to use your own money to make movies."

The agent suddenly thought silently.

Due to the uncertainty of the film industry, not only ordinary directors and producers, but even the five major studios also abide by this principle.

The only difference is that in the hands of the Big Five, there are many projects that have a high success rate and can be said to be sure to make money - such as the sequels of some popular movies.

These projects, they will shrewdly use their own company's money to invest in order to ensure maximum profit.

For those film projects with unknown prospects and relatively high risks, they will extensively absorb various investments from the society, including investment from many star-owned leather bag production companies, in order to share the risks.

I also want to know that for such a project, it is possible to lose nine out of ten.

This is where the strangeness lies—whether it is her or those industry veterans in Dunhuang, it seems no surprise that Shen Zhenyi uses her own money to invest in movies.

"Probably because she can ask Wang Wei to help her judge which film project is worth investing in at any time;"

"If not, you can still ask Wang Wei for a project, or even direct it yourself?!"

Thinking about it this way, the manager lady felt that she had realized it.

For example, "Resident Evil", which will be released in the National Day file for the first time, Shen Zhenyi participated as a producer and has investment, has been "certified by vision" by Wang Wei.

If the movie is successful, then the status of this little girl...

The agent's thoughts can't help but diverge for a moment——

After reaching a certain height, in terms of status in the China entertainment industry, money is no longer the first element. Many outdated movie stars are very rich, but you can’t say that their status in the industry is better than some less well-known ones. Producer High;
As a producer, whether Shen Zhenyi can still dig treasures, how much profit can be realized from a project, and even to a certain extent, is more important than how many awards she wins to determine the status of the industry;

And the success in the production career will also be very helpful for her to discuss with the crew about bringing money into the game in the future-many things are like this, there is no precedent, most people are not willing to be the first to make an exception; and once the game is broken , Many people's mouths are easy to relax.

"However, the difficulty of opening up the situation is not small! The opponents of "Resident Evil" in the same period are fierce!"

The broker looked a little worried.

……

Ms. Broker's concerns are not unreasonable.

As Dunhuang's flagship work in the National Day file, "Resident Evil" is of course facing five homogeneous opponents.

But this time the situation was different from before——

"Legend of the Ranger", cast by China Media, held an early film review meeting for film critics;

The film reviews have also been released. Although there are no spoilers, they are overwhelmingly positive!

Even the act of adapting from video games, which was previously hailed as death by many people, has now been praised by film critics——

"This movie will be a milestone for video game adaptations;"

"Finally there is a movie adapted from a game that can attract mainstream audiences outside of game nerds;"

"The release of this movie proves that the film and television industry can finally connect with the brain circuit of the game industry;"

...and such comments that can almost be described as "licking", made Gu Jinguang, who led the development of the "Resident Evil" game, wonder if the film critics made a fortune!

Instead, the director He Wenying had a better understanding of the operating rules of the China entertainment industry, and told Gu Jinguang,
"This means that the internal viewing of "Legend of the Ranger" will definitely have a good response, which is why so many movie reviews have been unlocked in advance..."

Because if the evaluations of film critics are generally not good, then the common practice of the distributors is to try to block the reviews first, and even persist until a day or two after the release.

In this way, first of all, through the early publicity, we can deceive the audience and the box office first, and then see if the film critics may be wrong.

After all, this kind of thing has happened more than once. The most recent one is Wang Wei's "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance"-if you only look at the reputation of film critics, this movie should have hit the street long ago.

In the past, if someone told film critics that a game-adapted film could conquer them, they would probably laugh out loud;
Usually, when they start talking about "movies based on games" stuff, it starts with a long history of bad movies.

——Because of this reason, "Resident Evil" never thought of holding an early film review meeting for film critics.

Even though the two of them have seen the final film, they have a certain degree of confidence.

In the end, good guy, the other party even came out with the statement of "a milestone in game-changing movies".

"I'm not trying to compete for milestones, but the one-sided reviews really make me wonder, how good is this movie?"

Gu Jinguang scratched his head and said.

"This is what worries me the most. You know, film adaptations of games have always been useless in the eyes of film critics. It can make a 180-degree turn in the attitude of film critics. This film may not be easy to deal with."

He Wenying frowned all of a sudden.

Although the movie and game of "Resident Evil" are developed simultaneously, strictly speaking, they are not game adaptations, but the wind that has been actively or passively leaked from the crew before has made people who pay attention to this movie realize that this is a movie. Films with "game elements";

The so-called thing is the most afraid of comparing goods - competing with the same type of subject matter, even if your quality is not bad, but if the opponent is super god, your "quality is not bad" will become "better than others".

This year's May Day schedule is a good example.

It's just that it was Dunhuang's "Super God" that time; this time, it seems that it will be reversed.

"It's said that you have to repay it. From this point of view, the "Resident Evil" movie is not easy to deal with. After all, the opponent has a huge fan base, and it has an advantage in publicity..."

Gu Jinguang sighed,
"Then our movies can take two to three hundred million at the box office and just recover the production cost. We have to rely on the games we develop to make money."

He Wenying on the other side was really speechless.

——Did you think that the box office of [-] to [-] million is so easy to achieve! ?

——Who gave you the courage! ! ?

However, thinking about the movies that Dunhuang has invested in in the past few years, she has to admit that for Dunhuang, if a movie does not win more than [-] million box office, it can really be called a "miserable failure"...

It's just that, if the film and game collaboration that was agreed upon becomes a drag on the film, then what's the matter?

Worried in her heart, He Wenying replied bluntly, "Is that so, don't worry that the game revenue is not as good as the movie in the end, let me see how you end up?"

Speaking of the game itself, Gu Jinguang's eyes suddenly became serious.

"Our "Resident Evil" game surpasses the online games of the same period in terms of screen, gameplay and operation by a large margin, and can realize the intercommunication between the host platform and the PC platform..."

Gu Jinguang used a lot of terms to explain the power of the game version of "Resident Evil" to express his confidence in their work.

He Wenying curled her lips, but she couldn't refute him.

It's not that she doesn't understand games—well, she really doesn't understand much;
But thanks to the tacit understanding of "heart-to-heart" in the previous film and game linkage process, she at least knows what the other party has done and how it is doing.

If you follow this guy's simplest and crudest explanation——

Even the producers themselves love to play this game, isn't it a good game?
Well, even though she didn't have time to play the game, a lot of people on the film crew ended up getting addicted to the game, which made it impossible for her to piss him off.

"It would be great if the development progress of your game is faster, and it will be released earlier, so that you can accumulate some fans."

In the end, He Wenying could only sigh with regret.

In fact, the progress of the movie version of "Resident Evil" is faster than the development of the game, and it was only released on the National Day file in order to make the linkage between the two more closely.

"Didn't you see that our programmers are bald in order to catch up with the progress?"

Like all the programmers of Party A who were urging progress, Gu Jinguang's face turned black all of a sudden.

"And... isn't the game already on sale now!"

"Oh? Is this going on the market in advance?" He Wenying, who was so busy, didn't notice it.

"As you said, go public early, at least you can accumulate some fans..."

He Wenying nodded, then shook her head again, "Oh, it's still too late, but talk is better than nothing."

Gu Jinguang smiled, "That's not necessarily the case. Guess how many games are sold now?"

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　Happy Chinese New Year~~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)