Chapter 662 Ripples
"Yang Chaowei and Zhou Meiling, the Golden Dragon Award-winning Best Actor and Best Actress couple, have been officially designated by Yang Ming as the male and female protagonists of his next 500 million new movie!"
"The Yenching Film Academy faction has reappeared. The young talented director Yang Ming insists that the leading male lead in his new film will be Yang Chaowei, a senior from his academy, the best actor, and he is fond of families and friends. The leading female role is Yang Chaowei's girlfriend Zhou Meiling. Miss.←Dingfeng Novel,..o”
"The cast of this blockbuster "2012", which is said to cost RMB 500 million to be produced, was announced yesterday. It can be said that it is a star-studded gathering of superstars. The best actors and actresses at the level of the China Golden Dragon Award and Hollywood superstars have joined forces to star in this blockbuster. !”
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When Yang Ming held a press conference for "2012" and announced the cast on the spot, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the Chinese entertainment industry.
The media has made countless speculations and interpretations about Yang Ming's choice of actors in his new film from different angles.
Most of the media maintained a neutral attitude and reported the press conference of "2012". Although the male and female lead actors Yang Ming were suspected of taking care of their own families, the strength of Yang Chaowei and Zhou Meiling still gained recognition in the entertainment industry. recognized.
After all, in the outside world, Yang Ming and Yang Chaowei have always had a very good relationship as junior brothers, and when Yang Ming first debuted, Yang Chaowei took great care of his junior junior brother.
Not only did he support Yang Ming in public, but he also brought his girlfriend Zhou Meiling to support Yang Ming several times.
Now that Yang Ming has become famous and prosperous, it makes sense for his senior brother and his girlfriend to be the male and female protagonists in his blockbusters.
Since ancient times, the most important thing in China is personal relationships.
Besides, none of the big first-line directors in the entertainment industry has their own regular co-actors. For example, Jing Yongchang, the famous comedy director in the entertainment industry, likes actors he is familiar with. In the movies he has directed in recent years, male actors The protagonist is basically his good friend actor.
Therefore, when Yang Ming cast Yang Chaowei and Zhou Meiling as the male and female protagonists in "2012", it did not cause much trouble.
Compared with the shock and concern of colleagues in the entertainment industry for Yang Ming's "2012", the Chinese people and countless movie fans were extremely excited and crazy after seeing the cast announced by Yang Ming.
For ordinary movie fans, they simply want to watch good Dian movies.
Big scenes, big production, many stars, and a movie that is enjoyable to watch. This is the most practical idea in the minds of ordinary movie fans.
As for supporting domestic films and boycotting Hollywood blockbusters, that is too far for them.
Some movie fans even pointed out very sharply in the face of these controversies that domestic films do not live up to expectations and are just trying to make money. Should they be allowed to support domestic films? Do they have to waste their movie ticket money in order to be considered supporting domestic films?
After hearing the answers from these fans, many film companies could only sigh helplessly and give up promoting the idea of supporting domestic films in the media.
Movie fans are right. A film with carelessness can be seen as soon as it is released. The film industry in China has been so chaotic in recent years. Many film companies are just trying to imitate those popular movies, so hurry up. I also made one or two movies to make money.
As long as they can make money, a film company can film a subject until it dies.
Yang Ming has a very direct feeling about this.
The two movies he made, "My Sassy Girl" and "Girls We Chased in Those Years," were both low-budget love movies and can be considered campus romances.
After his two movies became a hit, this year several film companies in the entertainment industry launched dozens of campus love-type movies.
What about "My Celebrity Girlfriend", "My CEO Girlfriend", "Girls We Dated", "My Favorite School Beauty"...
In order to imitate Yang Ming's two best-selling movies, these film companies came up with movie titles that made Yang Ming dumbfounded.
Yang Ming has no choice about this. He can only do his own thing well and make his own movies.
No matter what, the announcement of the cast of "2012" is like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, causing ripples in the entertainment industry and making countless people daydream.
"Well, I know!"
Luo Tianwen hung up the phone with a calm expression, and then threw the phone on the coffee table with a bang, regardless of the fact that this phone was the latest model that was just replaced some time ago.
He stood up from the sofa, walked to the window, opened the curtains with a bang, and took a deep breath of the air outside to calm the endless depression in his heart.
That guy actually chose Yang Chaowei in the end.
When the news about Yang Ming's acquisition of a film company in Hollywood spread, it immediately attracted Luo Tianwen's attention.
Because he is now taking an international route, but the cultural gap between the East and the West makes his international route not very smooth.
Now Luo Tianwen is in a rather embarrassing situation, because he does not have a single film that is good internationally. Although his status in China is unshakable, his international influence is not
There is a lot of difference, and there is even some dian regression.
Faced with this situation, he has only two options. One is to abandon his career in China, agree to Hollywood's request, and develop in the West wholeheartedly; the second option is that he can take over a film in China that can generate enough people.
Influential film works.
But in the past two years, in China, he has also received several movies that were prepared for global distribution, but the results were not satisfactory.
Although the box office performance in China and Southeast Asia is still hitting new highs as before, the box office performance in the United States and Europe was basically a disastrous failure, which made Luo Tianwen extremely disappointed and unwilling.
And because several films in succession have not achieved good results in the West, Chinese film companies are extremely cautious and dare not invest in relatively large-scale film productions.
This made Luo Tianwen even more anxious.
In this way, he could only face the first choice, join Hollywood and give up his career in China.
But this made it even more difficult for Luo Tianwen to choose.
You know, this life is no different than the previous one. Every star in China yearns for Hollywood, and even believes that only by achieving success in Hollywood can they truly become famous.
Today, China is extremely powerful, and the film market in Southeast Asia is China's largest ticket warehouse. Hollywood is coveting this Greater China film market, so they also want to invite one or two well-known Chinese stars to join their film production.
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However, when Chinese stars come to Hollywood, they will definitely not be the leading actors, but will definitely be supporting roles or even negative roles.
With Luo Tianwen's identity and status in the Chinese entertainment industry, let him go to Hollywood to play a supporting role in movies, and then go to the Chinese film market to make money. Unless he is crazy, the Chinese entertainment industry and people will definitely
Spray him to death with saliva.
The national pride felt in the hearts of the Chinese people today is not just something to talk about casually.
Of course, in his heart, Luo Tianwen would not even consider pursuing a career in Hollywood. He would rather be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. He is a huge star in the Chinese entertainment industry, and he cannot afford to lose this person by going to Hollywood to play a supporting role.
Yang Ming acquired a film company in Hollywood and invited Barber, the former general manager of Pan American Entertainment of the six major Hollywood giants, to join Oriental DreamWorks, which immediately attracted Luo Tianwen's strong attention.
Especially when Yang Ming was interviewed by reporters at the airport returning to China and announced that the production of his next movie would cost 500 million, Luo Tianwen became extremely excited.
This opportunity seemed to be completely prepared for him.
For this reason, he did not hesitate to forget the previous unhappiness with Yang Ming, and took the initiative to ask his agent to contact Oriental DreamWorks, saying that he could cooperate with Yang Ming and star in the film. He even hinted that the agent could make a decision regarding the salary.
concession.
However, the final result was like a slap in the face, hitting him hard in the face.
The young man didn't care about his kindness at all, and even ignored his initiative to lower his status. He rejected his kindness and chose Yang Chaowei. This made Luo Tianwen, who always thought highly of himself, unbearable.
He even felt that he was severely humiliated by Yang Ming for what he did.
He looked at the high-rise buildings outside the window. After a long time, his mood slowly returned to normal. Then he exhaled heavily and turned around, but his face looked very ugly.
Zhonghuang Entertainment.
After Bai Chongshi saw Yang Ming announcing the cast news of "2012", he was stunned for a while, and then his expression returned to calm, without anything unusual.
After a while, he was lying on his comfortable boss chair with his eyes slightly closed.
I was thinking about Yang Ming in my heart.
I didn't expect the other party to grow up so fast.
With a production cost of 500 million and an all-star cast, it is probably difficult for Zhonghuang Entertainment to invest in such a hugely expensive movie.
The failure of "The Boy Who Chased the Wind", which cost over 100 million yuan, put Bai Chongshi under a lot of pressure in the company.
However, these pressures were nothing to him, but he was very unwilling to accept this failure.
Especially in contrast to the brilliant results of "One Goal to Fame", his failure made him feel even more humiliated.
But Yang Ming's pace was too fast. He didn't expect that after "One Goal to Become Famous", he would create such a huge formation, which caught Bai Chongshi a little off guard.
It even made him feel a little powerless.
If the production cost of Yang Ming's new film was not so exaggerated, even if it was only 230 million, Bai Chongshi would dare to compete with Yang Ming.
But the production cost of 500 million really shocked him.
After all, business is business and there is no room for anger. After seeing the media coverage of Yang Ming's press conference, he felt helpless in his heart.
At the same time, the cast lineup of the "2012" press conference was also spread to Hollywood, causing a considerable impact, but compared to China, it was much smaller.
After all, Manx and Mike are not Hollywood's first-line actors, but even so, the two of them plus Barber have attracted a lot of attention in Hollywood.
Compared with the cast of "2012", the theme and plot of this movie have attracted greater attention in Hollywood.
The topic of doomsday still has a very large market and influence in the West.
Chapter completed!