Huayu’s ex-husband

Chapter 24 24. Just teasing her

"Then are you going to direct our movie yourself?"

Wei Wu patted her on the shoulder and said, "Yes, the heroine of my debut movie will be left to you. You must act well, otherwise you will be scolded every day on the set!"

I don’t know why, but when I heard Wei Wu say that I would entrust you with my debut novel, Liu Tianxian felt that his heart was hit by a warm current, as if the whole world became brighter because of it.

As an actor, a debut film is very important. A good start is half the success. If the debut film is a big success, then the actor will have smooth sailing in the early stage; but if the debut film fails, then he will have to go through several more rounds of delays.

As a director, the importance of a debut film may be even more important. If an actor messes up his debut film and wastes a few years, he may still have the opportunity to start over.

But if a new director messes up his debut film, he will not be trusted much and he messes up. It is very likely that he will never have the opportunity to pick up the director again.

After all, directors generally have to accumulate qualifications step by step and work for many years. Most people do not have the opportunity to direct their first film until they are in their thirties or forties.

Even among the three major mainland directors, they all made their film debuts in their 30s. Chen Kaige is 32, Feng Xiaogang is 36, and Zhang Yimou is 37.

The employment pressure is high and the room for trial and error is small. Even for successful directors, a failure may cause them to fall off the altar and lose their job, or even be forced to retire.

Wei Wu is talented and skilled, and obviously has many choices, but it is obviously to accommodate himself that he took the risk of making this film his debut.

To be honest, even if this movie fails, it won't have much impact on me. It's just that I spent two movies instead of three. At least she has a way out and can act in TV series.

But the impact on Wei Wu was so great that it is very likely that no one will ask him to make a movie again.

He is willing to risk his career for her. This is the most sincere confession.

No wonder people say, don’t always look at what a man says, but look at what he does for you.

Wei Wu clearly liked him very much, but he deliberately disparaged me, probably because he was afraid that I would discover his little thoughts.

Huh, what a arrogant person!

Others may not know how high Wei Wu's directorship is, but Liu Tianxian definitely knows it.

This kind of campus youth love-themed movie is not very difficult to begin with, and Wei Wu can easily handle it at his level.

But the problem is that Wei Wu is not well-known now, and he has no experience in directing films independently. It may not be that easy to become a director without qualifications.

"Then have you found a company willing to invest? Do they agree to let you be the director?"

"I haven't tried it because I know it would be a waste of time." Wei Wu pointed at himself and said:

"It is impossible for any film company now to be willing to let a 21-year-old directing student who has not yet graduated to direct a theatrical feature film, unless the boss of that company is my father."

"Then what are you going to do?"

Wei Wu spread his hands and said, "What else can I do? Invest your own money! I have the final say on my territory. I can use whoever I want. Who can control me?"

Although Liu Tianxian had vaguely guessed it, he was still a little surprised:

"But investing in movies is very risky. Besides...do you have so much money?"

Wei Wu immediately came to the show, sighed and said:

"As you know, my family background is not very good. My parents still have a savings of two to three hundred thousand, but this money is for me to get married and buy a house after graduation."

Liu Tianxian was also a little discouraged: "The difference is a bit big! Besides, since it was the money prepared by your uncle and aunt to buy your wedding house, they probably wouldn't agree to let you use it to make a movie, right?"

"However, I can help you get some together."

Wei Wu became interested: "Oh, how much can you collect?"

Liu Tianxian thought for a while and said: "It can't be too much, at most one or two million. My mother will definitely not agree to it any more."

Maybe it’s because he’s from a wealthy family and he’s young, so he doesn’t take money too seriously; it’s also possible that it’s too easy to make money as a star, so he doesn’t take money as much, and one or two million is so easily promised. .

Of course Wei Wu knew that Liu Tianxian must have done his best by taking out one or two million at a time.

Many people may have misunderstandings, thinking that Liu Tianxian is popular at this time and must be able to make money.

In fact, this is not the case. Although she is already on the front line at this time, because she has only been popular for only two years, her salary has not increased much. Besides, the salary of actresses is much lower than that of male actors of the same level.

Of course, there is another reason, which is that the general environment is not good. At this time, the film and television industry in China is in the ascendant, and the salaries of all actors in domestic entertainment are not high.

Those who get relatively high salaries are Hong Kong and Taiwan stars. After all, foreign monks like to chant sutras!

Take "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" currently being filmed by Liu Tianxian as an example. It was filmed from October 2004 to the end of April 2005. Not counting reshoots, the filming time was as long as 6 and a half months, but there were a total of 40 episodes. The salary is less than 300,000 yuan, which is less than 8,000 yuan per episode.

Not to mention the film remuneration. First, she is still a newcomer in the film industry, and the box office of her first two films was less than 1 million. Her current film remuneration is probably no more than 200,000.

But fortunately, her image is outstanding, so she is still favored by some advertisers, and she earns a lot of endorsement fees and advertising fees.

Through the statistics of Forbes Celebrity List, we can roughly estimate her income in the past three years:

In 2003, I just entered the industry for one year and my income was not less than 1 million (because the top 100 on the list is 1 million). In 2004, my income was 4.8 million, ranking 58th. In 2005, my income was 4.5 million, ranking 51st.

The year 2002 can be basically ignored, because that year when she first entered the industry, she filmed a movie "The Golden Family" as a supporting role. The salary was not much, and she was not famous at that time, so naturally she didn't have much other income.

Then add 2002 and 2003 together and calculate it as 1 million. It may not be there, but it should not be too different.

This means that as of this year, Liu Tianxian's total income since joining the industry is about 10 million. Then she has to pay about 40% tax, which will only be about 6 million in her hands.

Then the money will have to be paid to the brokerage company as a commission, as well as to purchase clothing for events (brand-name clothes and bags, rental of jewelry), entertainment, media travel expenses and public relations expenses, makeup and styling... these fixed expenses alone can take up a year. To millions.

In the end, she probably only had two to three million left, and she certainly couldn't take it all out at once. She had to leave hundreds of thousands for emergencies and daily expenses, so she was definitely trying her best to get 2 million.

Of course, she graciously agreed, but she's not yet an adult! She may not be sure what she said about the money, and she probably couldn't move it without Liu Xiaoli's approval.

If it's tens of thousands of dollars, that's fine. One or two million yuan is equivalent to wiping out all Liu Tianxian's savings in the past few years.

Moreover, it sounds very unreliable to invest in a movie, so it would be strange if Liu Xiaoli knew that she was not crazy.

You must know that Liu Xiaoli's dissatisfaction with Wei Wu is almost overflowing now. She must not give her such a big stimulus at this time, otherwise she will really come to fight him desperately.

Liu Xiaoli was already very worried. Wei Wu approached Liu Tianxian in order to defraud money. Now that he was in trouble, why not fight him to the death?

To be honest, even if Liu Tianxian said "I'm pregnant" to Liu Xiaoli at this time, it would be better than "I want to lend 2 million to Wei Wu."

After all, the former is a fixed loss that has been basically determined. Of course Liu Xiaoli is sad, but she has made certain psychological preparations.

Since people have become irreversibly deranged, their money must never be defrauded again, otherwise they will lose both their lives and their wealth.

So Wei Wu naturally had no intention of asking for Liu Tianxian's money, he was just teasing her.