Huayu: From an ordinary person to a happy director

Chapter 29 Yang Mi's Thoughts

Now Yang Mi is a contracted artist of Taolin Film and Television.

Shi Lei glanced at Yang Mi's long white legs and nodded with satisfaction. At the age of 17, Yang Mi's height was already close to her peak and her legs were long enough.

Perhaps it was because his admiring gaze was too unscrupulous, Yang Mi felt a little shy, and instinctively clamped her legs together, took two steps back, and pulled her skirt up to cover her long white legs. Then she reacted and pulled her skirt up.

His gaze moved upwards and stopped at Yang Mi's conscience. At this time, Yang Mi's conscience had not yet reached its peak!
He continued to look up, looked at Yang Mi's face and asked, "What do you want from me?"

Yang Mi realized at this time that she had overreacted, so she quickly smiled, walked around the desk, and wanted to sit in Shi Lei's arms.

"No, if you have something to say, just say it. There are surveillance cameras here!" Shi Lei pointed to the corner of the room.

His office is equipped with surveillance cameras that can record audio and video. In order to prevent hackers from snooping, the office surveillance cameras are not connected to the Internet. Instead, an internal storage network is set up to store the videos in a safe.

The reason he installed this surveillance camera was because he was worried that someone would scam him!

There is nothing wrong with the actress who took the initiative to play with him and expose their relationship, but the kind of person who takes the initiative to make trouble must have ulterior motives, such as Yang Mi now. A minor threw himself into his arms and he was able to blackmail her.

As a director, he had many girlfriends at the same time and even had no problem cheating on his girlfriend, but he was afraid of breaking the law.

Of course, he was not defending against Yang Mi, but his competitor.

"Installing surveillance cameras in the office?... Director, you have really unique ideas. Are you still from the entertainment industry?" Yang Mi looked in the direction of Shi Lei's finger and saw a surveillance camera. He couldn't help but complain.

"You don't understand..." Shi Lei did not explain.

As a celebrity, he also has video and audio recording equipment in his belt.

There is no way, he may go to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and other places. The public security in these places is hard to describe.

"Let's talk about why you came to see me!"

Yang Mi looked at the surveillance camera in the corner, feeling a little embarrassed. After thinking for a while, she rolled her eyes and said, "Brother Lei, I want to treat you to a meal."

"You are a high school student who skips classes and comes to the company just to treat me to a meal? If you have something to say, just say it." Shi Lei refused directly.

Yang Mi is a mischievous person. The moment he rolled his eyes, he must have some bad intentions.

Yang Mi is not edible yet, just look at her youthful aura.

"Brother Lei, I specially asked for leave to treat you to a meal. Do you have the nerve to refuse?"

"Just do me a favor and come with me. There's a surprise here." Yang Mi said coquettishly.

Surprises can also turn into shocks.

"Forget it, let me be frank. Million Dollar Baby is a purely foreign film. For some reason, the Chinese in the film can only be background characters." Shi Lei directly broke Yang Mi's fantasy.

"Jade Guanyin" has been a project for a long time. Yang Mi is certainly not doing it for this movie. Her purpose is obvious, which is "Million Dollar Baby" for which he is still drawing the storyboard script.

It might be difficult for Yang Mi to know the specific content of the script, but it was not difficult to find out that he was preparing a new movie.

"Ah~~ It's not a domestic movie?" Yang Mi looked disappointed, "I thought it was another martial arts movie!"

"There will be a martial arts film, but it won't be shot this year." Shi Lei explained, shaking his head.

In the previous life, in 04, there were three movies with box office revenue of over 1.56 million yuan, two of which were martial arts films, one was "House of Flying Daggers" with 1.73 million yuan, and the other was "Kung Fu" with million yuan.

The other one is "A World Without Thieves", but he bought the copyright of the original novel of "A World Without Thieves" in 99, more than a year earlier than Feng Dapao. Therefore, Feng Dapao cannot shoot the film this year.

Domestic film and television companies do not have the habit of hoarding copyrights. They only purchase copyrights when they want to shoot a film.

At present, copyrights are not very strict in China. We can't even deal with pirated DVDs, let alone the film and television adaptation rights of novels. Some movies and TV series may start shooting without buying the film and television adaptation rights, and the novel authors can only sell them in the end. Of course, if the copyright is in the hands of insiders, it will be different. Insiders can prevent your movie/TV series from being released.

Therefore, the copyright of "A World Without Thieves" is in his hands, and Feng Dapao has no chance of filming it.

However, it seems that no one from Huayi has come to him to discuss the purchase of copyrights, so Feng Dapao may have other plans.

For such a continuously successful director, if one film is missing there will be others to fill the void.

"Ah?" Yang Mi was surprised at first, then he looked at Shi Lei with sparkling eyes and asked, "Brother Lei, can I act in the martial arts film to be filmed next year?"

"If there's no problem with your fighting scenes, then that's fine." Shi Lei thought about the martial arts film he was going to shoot and agreed.

In the past, some martial arts films had good reputations but not high box office.

It’s not that these martial arts films are of bad quality, but that they were born at the wrong time. The glory of martial arts films will only last for a few years, so make them as soon as possible!

Yang Mi smiled and said excitedly: "Okay, no problem, I will practice martial arts when I get back."

"Don't be happy too soon. The North American box office of the next martial arts film won't be high." Shi Lei looked at Yang Mi who was about to jump up with excitement and couldn't help but discourage him.

People in North America watch martial arts films just for the novelty. If he remembers correctly, after the release of "Hero" next year, no martial arts film will exceed 3000 million US dollars.

If they could control costs, they could still make money in North America by selling copyrights, but "The Promise" and "The Banquet" wiped out the Big Six's interest in martial arts films.

"Ah? It's not "The Matrix: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"? "Yang Mi asked in surprise.

"Well, if we want to make The Matrix: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, we need to cooperate with Warner Bros. Currently, Warner Bros. has no plans to shoot it," Shi Lei explained.

其实真实的原因是03年11月上映的《黑客帝国3》票房只有4.27亿美元，比《黑客帝国2》的7.41亿美元差距有点大。

He had little confidence in "No One 2", which was released two years later.

The Matrix Universe is not the Marvel Universe. The current problem with the Matrix Universe is that the main plot of the movie is weak. After "The Matrix 3", the savior has already fought all the battles, and there is no new main plot. The derivative movies based on the main plot can only be small shrimps.

Instead of trying to touch the "Matrix" universe, it would be better to get a piece of the pie from the Marvel Universe, and maybe make "Iron Man" fail.

In fact, even the Marvel Universe is troubled by the main storyline, and it began to decline after "Avengers 4". However, its fan base is huge and the basic base is still there, but it just makes less money.

"Oh... What's the name of your new martial arts film? Can I see the script?" Yang Mi was very disappointed that he couldn't enter Hollywood.

"It's a secret. I can't tell you about this movie that's only going to be shot next year or the year after." Shi Lei shook his head and refused.

"Really? You're keeping it a secret from me?" Yang Mi took advantage of Shi Lei's inattention and touched his vital point.

Shi Lei shuddered all over, quickly pushed Yang Mi's hand away, and said with a smile: "Girl, you should study hard and talk about it after you go to college! Now is not the time for you to exert your strength, why are you in such a hurry?"

"Then when I go to college, you will help me enter Hollywood!"

"No problem." Shi Lei made an OK gesture.

Having said that, he was just doing his best.

In a few years, the TV drama and movie markets will explode one after another. By then, the actors' pay will be incredibly high, and no one will rush out at that time.

The main reason is that they can't make any progress. For example, Zhang Ziyi, who claims to be an international star, can only shoot "Art and Skill" abroad.

Just after Yang Mi left, another female artist from the company walked in.

(End of this chapter)