Entertainment: Top Agents

After negotiating with Xu Zheng about cooperating on these two films, Liang Lin will not consider investing in other projects for the time being.

At least these two movies, based on current investment and my own memory of the box office.

With an investment of 100 million, these two movies can bring him at least 400 million in box office revenue.

Having such an income is very good for me.

After Liu Yifei received the script, she didn't ask any more questions.

She believed in Liang Lin and believed him 10,000%.

As long as it was a project that Liang Lin recommended to her and won for her, she would not doubt it and just act.

And after reading the script, she was also attracted by the story of the script.

But looking at this script, we can’t be anxious now, but we have to go to the capital.

Mainly on January 7, the premiere of"The Grandmaster" will be held in the capital.

It will be released on the 8th, and the premiere will be moved forward one day.

This movie was shot over a period of three or four years.

Speaking of the movie"The Grandmaster", it is really interesting.

In 1997, the director of this film, Wang Jiawei,Prepared.

Four years passed, and in 2001, Wang Jiawei also announced the registration of this script.

In other words, it took four years to register the script and finalize the plot.

In 2002, a press conference was held to officially announce the title and starring roles of"The Grandmaster".

The actress identified at that time was Zhang Ziyi, not Liu Yifei.

In 2003,"The Grandmaster" was put on hold due to the production of the movie"2046".

When the movie"2046" was promoted in 2004,"The Grandmaster" was once again confirmed to be on the agenda.

However, in 2007 At that time, due to the rush to shoot the movie"Ip Man" and the fact that Liang Chaowei wanted to shoot"Red Cliff" in 2007, the filming of"The Grandmaster" could only be postponed until 2008. , because the name of"Ip Man" added the prefix"The Grandmaster", which led to a twin case, Wang Jiawei criticized the producer of"Ip Man".

In the end,"Ip Man" finally removed the prefix and directly decided on the movie title.

It was also because of the instant success of this movie that the actors in"The Grandmaster" also had problems.

From the idea in 1997 to the launch, it took ten years of preparation.

By 2008, Liang Chaowei said that he was no longer young.

If she delays it any longer, she won't be able to shoot this movie.

Later, when fighting for the role of the female lead, Liang Lin spent a lot of words for Liu Yifei. After a long night of discussion with Wang Jiawei, he persuaded her to replace Zhang Ziyi and let Liu Yifei play the lead female role. This is also because at that time, Zhang Ziyi became famous for making movies, and her love life was very chaotic.

Coupled with the many tricks he made for some resources, Zhang Ziyi's reputation in that short period of time was not very good. Liang Lin took advantage of it and persuaded Wang Jiawei to let Liu Yifei play the leading female boss. Human palace two.

After Zhang Ziyi learned about this incident, she even made a big fuss with Wang Jiawei.

From the troubled Wang Jiawei, he saw what Liang Lin said before.

Originally in 2001, Zhang Ziyi starred in Zhang Yimou's movie"Hero".

The heroine was originally scheduled to be Zhang Manyu, but she made some tricks behind her back and asked Zhang Yimou to add extra scenes to her like crazy. In the end, her role exceeded that of Zhang Manyu, causing Zhang Manyu to become the supporting actress.

As for how she asked Zhang Yimou to add scenes to her, everyone can figure this out.

Zhang Ziyi's behind-the-scenes operations are not just this kind, but many others.

It was precisely because of this that after Wang Jiawei learned about it, he went to find someone to understand and investigate and found that it was really the case. With Liang Lin's advice, he decided to replace Zhang Ziyi.

If the filming of this movie is postponed for some reason, Liang Chaowei is too old and will not be able to film it; after all, it has been stranded for 10 years.

In order to ensure that the filming of this movie can start smoothly, Wang Jiawei announced the casting of Liu Yifei.

Just after signing the contract, Zhang Ziyi used her cool skills to dig a hole for Wang Jiawei.

In the end, out of desperation, Zhang Ziyi was cast as the daughter and Ip Man's wife.

And Liu Yifei grew up smoothly and retained the lead female role in this movie.

In order to make this movie well, Liu Yifei also spent a lot of effort.

She even studied Baguazhang for more than a year.

It is precisely this that makes Liu Yifei's martial arts scenes even more outstanding.

Later, the filming of this movie was also intermittently. The plot was changed again and again, scenes were deleted and scenes were reshot, etc. It took about four years to complete the filming of this movie.

When Liang Lin was in prison, he never worried that Liu Yifei would be replaced in this movie.

After all, the contract was signed, and Wang Jiawei didn't dare to make any more trouble.

So by the time he was released from prison in April last year, the movie hadn't been finished yet.

I know that the filming was completely completed in October last year.

Of course, because of this incident, Zhang Ziyi and Liu Yifei became enemies.

But Liang Lin was not worried at all about this so-called enemy.

After all, everyone in the industry knows about Zhang Ziyi’s reputation.

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"haven't seen you for a long time."After meeting Liang Lin, Wang Jiawei took the initiative to come over and shake hands.

"Alas, I can't hold this hand."Liang Lin smiled and refused director Wang Jiawei's handshake.

"Why?"Wang Jiawei, who was refused a handshake, asked him the reason.

"After squatting in the dormitory, my hands were dirty."Liang Lin smiled and said the reason, but Wang Jiawei angrily shouted:"Fuck your mother's bullshit! Will I care about this nonsense?"

Before Liang Lin could answer, Wang Jiawei immediately held Liang Lin's hand.

Why?

Mainly because it was Liang Lin who helped settle the matter that Zhang Ziyi tricked Wang Jiawei into.

If he hadn't helped settle the matter, Zhang Ziyi was probably really going to threaten Wang Jia to get the female lead in the future, but Liang Lin dealt with it in advance.

"You guys are really awesome. The first movie you invested in set a new box office record for Chinese-language movies."Wang Jiawei praised this, making Liang Lin smile.

"It is said that you also took a big gamble? Signed a gambling agreement with theaters for a box office of 500 million?

Liang Lin, standing next to Liu Yifei, smiled and said,"You all know?""

"Can you not know? The whole circle knows"

"Huayi suppresses you like this. If you want your movie to get a good screening rate, you really need to use abnormal means, but I didn't expect you to hate it so much? Directly gamble 500 million?"Even Liang Chaowei was extremely surprised.

"How do you know that the movie's box office can exceed 500 million?"

This question made Liang Linwen laugh:"You think too highly of me."

"Haha~" Liang Chao laughed. It's true. What he asked was wrong.

If he could know the box office of the movie, he would never lose money when investing in the movie.

Liu Yifei took Liang Lin's hand and stayed with him. These big guys chat

"So how did you dare to bet?"Wang Jiawei was also particularly curious.

Of course Liang Lin couldn't admit that he really knew the movie's box office, so he made such a big bet.

But he also wanted to give a reasonable explanation

"Mainly because of the movie market at that time, the box office was very poor"

"During the National Day Golden Week in October, Huayi released two movies of"Tai Chi" in succession." (To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

"In addition, there are other blockbusters also gathered in the National Day schedule"

"But none of these works are comedies."

"So I see the slump in the film market. Audiences in this period don’t like to watch such romance, martial arts and spy films."

"Then there is only one possibility, and that is a comedy，"

"It just so happens that as of the second half of the year until December, there hasn’t been a pure comedy film."

"《"Lost in Thailand" happens to be a pure comedy. I think that this movie was released at this 687 time, which is equivalent to a good medicine for the temporarily depressed movie market."

"Plus Huayi suppresses me, so I might as well take a gamble."

"Anyway, it was just a big gamble of 500 million, and I made a little money by investing in"The Deadline""

"And with a month-long 50% film schedule, no matter how bad the box office is, there will still be a box office of 400 million, right?"

"At most, it’s 50 million investment in a loss-making movie, plus 100 million as back-up, so 150 million"

"If you are not willing to spend 150 million to be with Hua Yigang, then don’t even think about turning around."

After making up so much, Liang Lin felt that this should be convincing enough.

Sure enough, after listening to his words, Wang Jiawei and Liang Chaowei both gave him a thumbs up.

Liang Lin just wanted to say, don't It was said to be 500 million. Even when he signed a 1 billion gambling agreement, he didn't even boo. How could he still be afraid of a 500 million gambling agreement?

He didn't propose a 1 billion gambling agreement at the beginning because it was for the future. There is still room to continue

"Okay, let’s not talk about it for now. Let’s go to the premiere ceremony first."

It's almost done. The director said with a smile that he would go to the premiere ceremony first.

Before the premiere, there will be an interview with the main creator.

It means that the director and the actor will accept an interview with the main creator arranged by Goose Factory.

"Then I'll go there first."When there was an interview, Liu Yifei said that she would go there first to be interviewed.

"Um."Patted Liu Yifei's lower waist and asked her to go to work first.

"rogue."Liu Yifei spat, and then walked to the interview stage in front.

Liang Lin smiled and pinched her chin, watching Liu Yifei and other main creators of the film being interviewed together.

This interview process took about an hour at most.

When the interview with the main creator was over, I will go in to watch the premiere later.

The premiere is actually held the day before the release. Some celebrity friends or some special people, such as people from the media and investment companies, will be invited to the cinema to watch.