I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 1125 1120.

"Why does this Huba look like a big white radish?"

At Hong Kong Disneyland, Wang Sicong was speechless after watching the trailer of "Monster Hunt" on his mobile phone.

However, the speechless expression on his face did not match the baby bag hanging on his chest and the stroller he was pushing. Instead, he looked funny.

The once pure love God of War has now completely become a professional dad.

There were all the big and small bags hanging on my body, I had to coax the baby in the stroller, and I had to watch eagerly as the mother in front of me walked and played in the wind.

He looked like he had forgotten his milk.

When Xu Xin next to him heard this, he pushed up the sunglasses on his face:

"My daughter likes it, so what?"

"……Fine."

At this time, Mr. Wanda had nothing to say.

Today is Children's Day, which happens to be the weekend, and there are really many people at Disney.

However, in order to celebrate Children's Day for the children, the two families also worked hard.

I flew here from Yanjing specially to take a walk.

It's a pity that the Disneyland in the Magic City hasn't been built yet, otherwise there wouldn't be such trouble.

"I thought you would release it after the Silk Road Film Festival."

"It's not necessary. After all, the Silk Road Film Festival is still an art film market. If this family-friendly film is promoted like last year, it will appear nondescript... By the way, when will the wheel arrive?"

"It was about five o'clock... He laughed several times in the cameo scene in "Charlotte", and the progress was a bit slow. But we don't need to worry about him. We will finish playing in a while and just go out to eat. You can prepare for his wedding. What gift?”

After hearing Wang Sicong's words, Xu Xin subconsciously said:

"When is his wedding?"

"The 17th of this month."

"Assi!"

A trace of irritation flashed across Xu Xin's face:

"Why don't we just get married? We have to go to England. It's so annoying! Where is there to stay in England? We have to go through all the trouble in advance... I really vomited."

Wang Sicong looked strange:

"When I got married...you wouldn't have complained like this, right?"

Xu Xin glanced at him and said in a calm tone:

"Do you care?"

The eldest young master shrugged:

"We've been married for two years, so why do we care? But let's put it this way, it's really a hassle. But the church that Old Wolf found for him is very rare... Hey, if you ask me, Old Wolf is still a chicken thief, I I thought he would contribute to the Palace of Versailles, but in the end he didn’t give up..."

"It's all nonsense. Weddings are so troublesome... Why hold it? Now that I think about my original wedding, I'm digging my toes..."

"You two come here and take pictures!"

Yang Mi's voice sounded.

The two of them looked up at the same time and found two young women from the capital wearing sunglasses waving.

Next to these two people stood two Mickey dolls, holding Nuannuan and Yangyang in their arms.

"Tsk."

Xu Xin, who had been walking around Disneyland for most of the day, was so tired that his back ached and gritted his teeth, but he did not dare to resist and walked over with his friends obediently.

Neither of the two families brought a nanny today, just two families coming here to play.

After the photo was taken, Xu Xin, who was a little dizzy from the sun, reminded:

"Wheel will arrive with Kun Ling in a moment. We have to go back to Yanjing after dinner, and they still have to go to school."

"..."

Yang Mi's mouth twitched.

She knows her husband very well.

He even knows what he's going to do as soon as he sticks his butt out.

So he didn't answer the question, but walked to Nuannuan and muttered a few words.

Not long after...

"Dad, dad! Hug me! Hug me! Good dad, you are the best dad in the world~! Can we play a little longer..."

Holding the child in his arms, Xu Xin looked at his wife as if he wanted to eat someone.

Yang Mi smiled lightly, took Si Wei's arm and continued walking forward.

Disney is so big that you can’t finish it all. You can’t finish it at all.

And just when Xu Xin was holding his own koala in his arms and working as his wife's follower, suddenly, the savior came.

"Ding ding dong dong..."

"Have you switched to Huawei?"

Wang Sicong looked at the mobile phone with the Huawei logo in Xu Xin's hand and was a little surprised.

"yes."

After putting his daughter down and letting her torture her mother, Xu Xin looked at the name "Master Xing" on the caller's phone and said:

"They asked me to be their spokesperson. They will announce in August that they will no longer be able to use Apple. They support domestic products. Besides, this phone is very good for me."

As he spoke, he answered the phone:

"Hey, Master Xing."

"Idol, are you coming to Xiangjiang?"

Zhou Xuchi's words made Xu Xin blush.

It seems that this "you are my fan" meme is hard to get past.

"hey-hey."

Xu Xin, who felt a little embarrassed every time he heard this title, laughed dryly:

"Yes, Mr. Xing, isn't it today Children's Day? Let's go to Disneyland with our children."

And Zhou Xuchi didn’t talk nonsense here and went straight to the point:

"When will it end? Let's have tea together?"

"Um...Master Xing, do you have anything to do with me?"

Seemingly hearing his hesitation, Zhou Xuchi asked in surprise:

"Are you busy with something?"

"That's not true. The main reason is that the children have to go to school tomorrow. Our plan today is to come here to play during the day and go back directly in the evening. But it doesn't matter. If you have something to do here, I can stay one more day."

After he finished speaking, Yang Mi, who was walking in front, looked back at him.

After a while, Xu Xin hung up the phone.

"Who?"

"Master Xing, come and have tea with me."

Yang Mi was stunned for a moment, then nodded:

"Then if you're busy, just a few of us can eat tonight, you and Lao Wang together?"

"If I don't go with him, we both have to go back to Yanjing tonight. My dad is also arriving tonight. He misses the child very much... Do you want to stay? Then will you have dinner with us tonight?"

Xu Xin didn't say he was with Wang Sicong and the others just now, but Zhou Xunchi did have something to do with him.

Hearing his friend's words, Xu Xin shook his head slightly:

"I guess I can't get along with you. He said he has a movie project for me. But it's not convenient to talk about the specific situation on the phone... Otherwise..."

"Then go and get busy."

Before he could finish his sentence, Yang Mi waved her hand:

"We'll have dinner tonight, you can just go over there."

"Um."

Xu Xin agreed.

The two families went through the children's experience at Disney several times, and after watching the final float parade, they "parted ways" after leaving the park.

Then, when Yang Mi landed in Yanjing at around 11 o'clock in the evening, Xu Xin called.

"Hey, are you done?"

"Um."

Xu Xin's response was somewhat drunken.

Then... there was a sigh:

"well."

"...Why are you sighing?"

"It's a pity. Originally, I had an opportunity to direct an idol movie, but I didn't cherish it. It wasn't until I lost it..."

"stop."

Yang Mi couldn’t laugh or cry:

"In what age are you still in "Westward Journey"? What are you talking about? Master Xing asked you to direct a movie?"

"That's right. Mr. Xing has a new script. It's a... science fiction story. It tells the story of mermaids and humans. He wants me to direct it."

"He stars?"

"It's considered a friendly guest appearance. If he was really the protagonist, then I wouldn't hesitate. But it's just a guest appearance, so I rejected it."

"ah?"

Yang Mi was stunned for a moment, then understood what he meant:

"Then you didn't do his job?"

"It has nothing to do with work. The role of the protagonist is different. How old is Mr. Xing? Now you ask him to play a successful person and domineering president in his twenties and thirties. Do you think it is suitable? So he can only make a guest appearance. I refused directly. However. Promise him that the film will be taken back to the factory."

"Shall we invest?"

"Yes, wasn't the last "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" very enjoyable? He was too lazy to find anyone else, but this time he has to invest a lot."

"How many?"

"We started with a guaranteed minimum of 300 million. We had a chat and found out that the people he was looking for were basically A-listers... Hey, how much is Deng Chao's current salary?"

"Hmm... It seems to be quite high. After "Running Man" became a hit, his popularity has skyrocketed. Although I didn't ask specifically, I recently had dinner with people from Tencent to talk about the current status of the industry. His current salary is Absolutely top-notch, the average salary for a movie is at least 25 million."

"..."

Yang Mi's words made Xu Xin silent for a while.

After a while, he said:

"It's so magical... 25 million, which is as much as my total investment in one movie."

"Brother, what era are you in? You are a big director, and others are willing to make your films even if they lower their prices. But if you look outside... each movie now starts with an investment of 100 million, and the money is getting more and more rarified. Well."

"Tsk."

Xu Xin slapped his mouth again:

"You know, we are at Disney today, and Lao Wang and I are still talking. Guess how many screens were added to the domestic cinema chain from the third quarter of last year to the first quarter of this spring? Nearly 1,000. According to predictions made by Wanda people, the number of new theater screens in the entire country this year will reach 2,700 to 3,000 yuan. Do you know what this means in 10 years? The number of theater screens is only about 8,500 in just five years, and it is already nearly 20,000...Now, not only first-tier cities, but many cinema chains, including Wanda, are competing for the market in second- and third-tier cities..."

Hearing her husband's nagging, Yang Mi guessed that he and Xingye had drank a lot.

Otherwise, we won’t start worrying about genius again.

Yes, that is unfounded worry.

My husband has been in this state recently.

The root cause is nothing more than the changes in this circle.

My husband was one of the first people to predict that this industry would change, but... it turns out that neither he nor others underestimated the speed of this change in the film and television industry.

It's just too fast.

Among them, the fastest-changing thing is actors' remuneration.

In the past, the salaries of first-tier, second-tier, and third-tier actors were actually ladder-like.

For example, if a third-tier actor earns 1,000 yuan for a play, then the second-tier actor gets about 10,000 yuan, while the first-tier actor starts at 50,000 yuan, with no upper limit.

Although at first glance, it may seem that the cost is rising several times, but in fact, when our cost estimate line is placed here, it is not too exaggerated.

But now it's different.

Now, the salaries of all actors are rising, and the rise is unreasonable at all.

From Alibaba, Tencent, to LeTV... these Internet companies have brought about a very vicious cycle.

Just a few days ago, people from LeTV found Sister Bingbing and wanted to make a TV series.

Although Yang Mi has not seen the script, according to Sister Bingbing, LeTV is looking for her and Zheng Xiaolong, the original cast members.

The purpose is to make another "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

And the salary given to Sister Bingbing alone is 1 million per episode.

If calculated based on 80 episodes, then this drama can bring her an income of close to 100 million.

And the reason for this is simple.

Domestic real estate giant Evergrande has also entered the film and television industry and established Evergrande Film and Television. I had a script in my hand and found Sister Bingbing. It was called "The Legend of Wu Mei Niang". I want Sister Bingbing to act.

Before Sister Bingbing agreed, LeTV came to her door after hearing about it.

Evergrande gives 800,000? Then we give one million.

As long as you nod and agree.

After nodding in agreement, we went to work on the script and gather a team.

Everything else is not a problem, and money is not a problem, as long as you agree.

You see, this is the current situation in this circle.

A group of wealthy people who have too much money to spend regard actors as "assets" and want to hoard them.

Even though they haven't even planted the seeds yet, they hope to divide the land first.

Not only Liang Binning, but also Yang Mi herself.

People from Tencent brought her at least five online novels and a dozen movie scripts.

Let her choose as she pleases.

Note that it was not the people from Tencent who decided what to shoot and asked Yang Mi if she was interested.

Instead, like Chinese cabbage, they came up with one story after another, and they filmed whichever one Yang Mi was interested in...

And, I don’t know if it’s Tencent, but other companies are like this too.

To put it bluntly, in the eyes of these wealthy people, there are only a few people with box office appeal in the film and television industry. Try to trap these people as much as possible. Once they are trapped, we can then talk about how to use them...

This situation began after the Chinese film industry exceeded the 37 billion mark last year.

What my husband said now further proves this point.

When everyone knows that the film and television industry can make a fortune and the audience's movie-watching habits have been developed, they will naturally enter the theater with sickles.

Therefore, in the future movie market, box office will definitely increase steadily.

But similarly, the income of all practitioners in this industry will also skyrocket.

Be it Deng Chao or Sister Bingbing.

As long as you are a front-line actor, it is inevitable that your salary will rise significantly.

Yang Mi even knew that in some crews, the proportion of actors' remuneration alone could account for 60% or even more.

This seemed outrageous to her.

But it just happened so naturally.

No one can stop it.

Not to mention others, the wages in the factory have also increased recently.

This is true for everyone.

Thinking of this, she sighed helplessly:

"Oh... I remember Brother Qi was also talking about this two days ago? Didn't he say he wanted a loan?"

"Well. Not counting loans, the banks here in Shaanxi are actually treasury to us. The interest rates are so low that it's scary... We can definitely afford these 300 million, but Master Xing only wants a 100% The factory will definitely not accept a 40% dividend, so this matter still needs to be discussed..."

"40 percent? Crazy?"

"You just have to sit back and pay back the money. It doesn't matter, not to mention that the profit share for "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" was very low... The script is in my hands now. I have to go to Xi'an tomorrow."

"Just go. But if you're busy, hurry up. We have to go to the wedding on wheels on the 13th."

"I know...what did you talk about tonight?"

"There's nothing to talk about, just eating and drinking..."

While the children were sleeping tiredly, the two of them chatted from the airport until the car arrived home, and then hung up the phone.

Xu Xin, who was dizzy from drinking, was still wondering what Deng Chao was doing until his consciousness fell into darkness... Why was the salary only 20 to 30 million?

I don’t understand.

That movie "The Breakup Master" wasn't that good either...

…

Early in the morning on June 2, he took the plane left by his wife and rushed to Xi'an.

After receiving Xu Xin's clear decision that "he would not direct", in order to control the estimated cost of 300 million, Xi Film Studio came up with a decision after two days.

Cooperation is possible, but Xiying also needs to have a supervision team, a team composed of producers, supervisors, and producers, to join the crew.

Also, if the share is too high, it needs to be lowered.

Zhou Xingchi did not refuse. The investors provided producers and supervisors as the most basic responsibilities.

As for sharing...

The two sides started to pull.

But Xu Xin doesn't worry about these things.

His job has long been determined, that is, to ensure that the situation similar to "The White-Haired Witch" will not occur during the filming of this film.

As one of the producers of this film, he is responsible for the quality of every shot from a director's perspective.

If a cooperation is reached, "Mermaid" will regularly submit footage for producers to check and review.

But now that the contract hasn't been signed, he can't be busy for the time being.

He simply returned to Yanjing and continued to work on the later stage of "Master".

In order to catch up on the promise he made to his daughter, he has been busy working on "Monster Hunt" for the first half of the year, and "Master" has almost become ashes.

At present, all post-production work on "The Master" is nearing completion.

Xu Xin worked from 9 to 5 every day for another week, and all the post-production work of "Master" was completed. Then, the studio did some research and found that the application time for Venice had passed, so they just waited for the review in Berlin in August to start, and put the film in Berlin.

To be honest, last year... or this year's Berlin and Cannes, the participation of Chinese films cannot be said to be not very strong, but it can almost be said to be completely absent.

Xu Xin's original intention was that this movie had been delayed for more than a year, and it would be better to meet the audience earlier.

However, after watching it, the studio thought the film was very good.

It is very competitive.

It would be a pity not to participate.

What can I do... set a release date.

"Master" is the Lunar New Year file of Xiying this year. February 7 is the 30th day of the year, and it is directly set for the Lunar New Year. And February 6 happens to be the opening of the Berlin Film Festival.

There is no conflict between the two sides.

If "Master" can win an award, the box office may explode again.

What?

You ask what to do if it is not shortlisted?

Sorry.

The people at Xiying Film Studio never considered this matter at all.

This is Xu Xin's movie.

His movie was shortlisted for the top three, it was easy.

As it should be.

…

On the 16th, Yorkshire, England.

According to Jay Chou, Yorkshire is a city with a very long history in the UK.

The English name of New York in the United States, NEW YORK, is actually taken from here.

This is York, and the United States has a New York.

It is said that this place used to be the property of a corrupt member of the large landlord class with the title of Duke, and the style of the whole town has maintained the style of the old London noodles.

Even the inspiration for Diagon Alley in "Harry Potter" was taken from here.

In short, it is a very famous tourist city in both the UK and the Western world.

There are a lot of tourists.

And the most famous Selby Church in Yorkshire is the holy place for Jay Chou's wedding this time.

Xu Xin went to see the place, it is really good.

But he is more interested in bridesmaids.

It's a pity... there's a tigress next to me, otherwise, Old Xu would have to learn from Yang Yang, hug the bridesmaid's thigh and rub it, to see how many D black stockings that sister wears...

But...

Xu Xin secretly glanced at the time on his watch.

5:30 pm.

There's still an hour and a half before the singles party.

He can be free.

Holding his wife's hand, he continued to walk aimlessly in the streets full of tourists.

Not to mention, Yorkshire still has its charm at dusk.

At least walking on this pedestrian street, the things sold in various British-style shops are all works of art worth stopping to look at for a while, which is quite interesting.

And at this moment, Yang Mi seemed to see something and walked over with Xu Xin's hand.

Xu Xin was originally looking at the leather shoes displayed in a store window, but he was inexplicably pulled to a stall... placed in front of a store door.

Dark blue velvet tablecloth, crystal ball in a box, and a deck of playing cards on the table...

He was stunned and subconsciously looked up.

"Jesse's Lucky Crystal House"

This is the name of this store.

"Honey, it's divination."

Xu Xin thought, isn't this nonsense?

Crystal ball, tarot cards, divination standard.

But...

"Shall I call the boss?"

There was no one at the stall, so Xu Xin wanted to go into the store.

"No, no, I'm just curious."

Yang Mi stopped her lover's intention, and pointed at the tarot cards on the table with her scallion-white fingers:

"You draw one?"

"This... It's not good to mess with other people's cards, right?"

"At worst, you pay. You draw first, and if the boss comes later, we'll pay. If the boss doesn't come... You wait for me to finish drawing and run away!"

"..."

Xu Xin thought, why are you so stingy, woman?

But she still cooperated and randomly drew a card from the pile of cards.

But he didn't reveal it, but put it in his palm and said to Yang Mi Le:

"Hey, compare the size?"

Yang Mi was a little confused:

"Can this thing compare the size?"

After thinking about it, she also drew a card:

"What if I lose?"

"Then agree to a request from the winner."

"Okay! Come on, three, two, one!"

"Well, come on..."

Soon, the countdown ended, and the two of them unfolded their poker cards, and they were all stunned.

In Xu Xin's hand was an image of a woman wearing a blue robe and holding a book in her hand.

But this is not the point.

The point is...there are no numbers like poker cards. There are two stone pillars on both sides of the woman image on Xu Xin's card. One of the stone pillars is J and the other is B.

When Yang Mi saw the two letters...

"Puff...hahahahaha..."

She burst out laughing.

"Chicken...chicken...hahahaha..."

Amid her laughter, Xu Xin's head was full of black lines.

"Let's not talk about chickens, be civilized, you hear me and him!"

"Hahahaha..."

Under her wild laughter, he silently threw the tarot cards in his hand on the table, and then took the cards from his wife's hand.

A woman in flowery pajamas held a microphone in her hand and sat on a red chair.

"..."

To be honest, he didn't understand.

But seeing his wife's tears, he could only shake his head helplessly, throw the cards in her hand on the table, take out a five-pound note from his wallet, press it under the cards, and leave with the woman who was covering her mouth and laughing.

"Okay, stop laughing... Tell me, what do you want to ask for?"

"Hahaha... I haven't thought about it yet, let me laugh for a while, hahaha, a J, a B, goose goose goose goose..."

The figures and voices of the two people gradually faded away.

And just when the two disappeared in the sunset, the door of the store was opened.

A foreign woman with some water stains on her hands came to the table.

When she saw the two tarot cards that were turned over, she was stunned at first, and then she noticed the five-pound note under the tarot cards.

Anyway, after a while, she seemed to realize something and picked up the two playing cards on the table.

One is the priestess.

And the other is the queen.

Priestess: Wisdom, developing inner mysterious potential, predictions of changes in the future, deep thinking, keen insight, accurate intuition.

Queen: Harvest, happiness, success, gain, worry-free, happy family life, good environment, beauty, art, contact with nature, pleasant travel, leisure.

The foreign woman nodded slightly.

Although I don't know which two guests with such high quality are...

But being able to draw these two cards means... these two people are very lucky.

Perhaps, they are a very happy couple.