After disguising himself and telling his agent off, Chen Xiao drove alone to the location Yang Hao had sent him, which was a teahouse.

After having more contact with big guys like Ci Peikang, Yang Hao gradually began to like discussing things in stylish places like teahouses.

Under the guidance of the cheongsam girl, Chen Xiao came to the agreed box.

The first thing I saw was Yang Hao, who was wearing a casual shirt and sitting and sipping tea.

"Mr. Yang," Chen Xiao cautiously came to Yang Hao and greeted him in a low voice.

"Sit down," Yang Hao personally poured tea for Chen Xiao.

"Mr. Yang, I can do it myself. You are too polite." Now there is a huge gap in status between Chen Xiao and Yang Hao. He dare not be arrogant in front of Yang Hao.

"Chen Xiao, you are 28 years old this year, right?" Yang Haoming took a sip of fragrant tea and asked a meaningful question.

"Yes, Mr. Yang, I am exactly 28 this year." When asked about his age, Chen Xiao's expression was a little gloomy.

The entertainment industry is a circle where you have to become famous as early as possible.

Although male artists have longer career lifespans than female artists, 28 is still a rather awkward age.

Especially when Chen Xiao thought that Yang Hao was five years younger than him but was already a big shot in the circle, the expression on his face became even more lonely.

Yang Hao had been paying attention to the changes in Chen Xiao's expression. Seeing his lonely and dim eyes, Yang Hao knew that his emotions were almost brewing and it was time to get straight to the point.

"Mr. Chen, have you ever thought about changing your agency?"

Before coming here, Chen Xiao had thought that Yang Hao might be trying to poach him.

But when this moment really came, Chen Xiao's heart couldn't help but pounding.

Excitement, excitement, impatience, all kinds of complex emotions mixed together and emerged in my heart one by one.

Yang Hao's company now invests in seven or eight movies and TV series every year, and its resources are incredibly abundant.

The most rare thing is that every one of them is a hit.

Moreover, there are very few artists in Yang Hao's company, especially male artists. Apart from Yang Hao himself, there is only Li Xian.

Look at Li Xian, he has only been in the industry for a few years, but now he has already stepped into the first-tier market.

Chen Xiao was very conflicted at this time. On the one hand, he really wanted to join Yang Hao's company, but on the other hand, he felt that he was somewhat sorry for Yu Zheng by defecting.

When Chen Xiao signed with Huayi, Wang Zhonglei wanted to seduce him, which scared him so much that he jumped out of the car and ran away. In the end, he joined Yu Zheng and was able to terminate his contract with Huayi.

The kindness of protecting chrysanthemums should be repaid with gratitude.

Yang Hao saw Chen Xiao's wavering expression and decided to add fuel to the fire.

"Chen Xiao, you have been in Yu Zheng's studio for four years, but Yu Zheng has not promoted you. You are already 28 years old. How many more four years do you have left to waste?"

"Artists and companies are originally in a business relationship. If you really feel that Yu Zheng has done you a favor, you can leave Yu Zheng's studio and pay the penalty as agreed, and you will have repaid the favor."

After saying this, Yang Hao picked up the teacup, took a sip, observed Chen Xiao's expression changes, and then continued.

"Chen Xiao, you should know that my next movie is a science fiction blockbuster with two male protagonists. If you are willing to come to my company, one of the male protagonists will be yours."

"Apart from this movie, the company now has at least three or four TV series filming every year. With your image and acting skills, you should have no problem competing for the male lead."

Appealing to people's emotions and appealing to their benefits are the only ways to poach people.

There is no corner in the world that cannot be dug. If there is, just keep adding money.

Chen Xiao, who was already shaken in his heart, could no longer suppress his excitement when he heard the resources promised by Yang Hao.

"Mr. Yang, I would like to join your company."

"Welcome, welcome," Yang Hao extended his right hand and shook hands with Chen Xiaoxing.

"Yu Li will discuss the specific treatment with you later. Of course, I will inform her in advance, and the resources promised just now will definitely count," Yang Hao continued after shaking hands.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Yang."

Walking out of the teahouse, Chen Xiao, who had been a little depressed due to his career setbacks, now had a rosy face.
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Yu Zheng Studio.

"What? Chen Xiao, you want to terminate the contract?" Yu Zheng even suspected that he was hallucinating.

His studio has not been developing smoothly recently, and he thought that someone would terminate the contract, but he never expected that the first person to terminate the contract would be Chen Xiao.

He was sexually exploited by someone and it was me who rescued him out of kindness.

I have praised him a lot in recent years, but I never expected that he would be so ungrateful.

Yu Zheng yelled loudly: "Which company is contacting you?"

Yu Zheng is not a fool. Chen Xiao is determined to terminate the contract, so he must have found a new club.

"It's Yang Hao's company." After all, it was a change of ownership. Chen Xiao lowered his head in shame, not daring to look at Yu Zheng.

"Very good, very good, you..." Yu Zheng pointed at Chen Xiao's nose and wanted to say something, but he stopped talking halfway, slumped down in the chair, and his hands hung down weakly.

Almost everyone in the circle knew about Yang Hao's feud with himself.

Digging into your own corner is a blatant slap in the face!

But he was helpless, as Yang Hao was no longer someone he could afford to offend.

Yu Zheng only felt his cheeks burning at this moment, as if he had been slapped hundreds of times.

At the same time, he felt a little regretful, wishing he had not plagiarized the script of "The Legend of Lu Zhen".

Who would have thought that in just less than 3 years, a down-and-out boy could have developed to such a point.

He suddenly remembered a novel he had read recently, which contained this sentence.

"Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west; don’t look down on the young because they are poor."

At this moment, he finally understood Nalan Yanran's feelings regarding the three-year agreement.

And if you calculate carefully, it has been almost exactly three years since I plagiarized Yang Hao's script.

It can be considered a real-life version of the three-year agreement.

"Teacher Yu, there's nothing else, so I'll leave first. As for the penalty for breach of contract, I will pay every penny to the company," said Chen Xiao, and then he pushed the door and walked out.

The fierce roar in Yu Zheng’s office just now was heard clearly by everyone outside the door.

Not long after, the news that Chen Xiaoyao was going to terminate his contract and leave Yu Zheng's studio to join Yang Hao spread throughout the company.

Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but they fly away separately when disaster strikes. Even husband and wife are like this, let alone celebrities.
For a time, everyone in Yu Zheng's studio was in a state of uncertainty.
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In mid-April, after attending the 37 billion box office celebration party for "Detective Chinatown", "The Witch" is about to start filming.

"The Witch" was originally a Korean movie, but now that it has been snatched up by Yang Hao, it is no longer appropriate to call the heroine Gu Ziyun, so Yang Hao changed her name to Zhao Ziyun.

The heroine's classmate Du Mingxi was changed to Li Mingxi.

The final cast was also decided after internal auditions.

The female lead is Meng Ziyi. Li Mingxi plays Nazha. Mr. Cui plays Chen Xiao. Mr. Li Xian plays the nobleman.

Yang Hao originally wanted to ask popular celebrities like Liu Shishi or Da Mimi to play the villain Dr. Bai, but they were rejected. The reasons they gave were all the same, saying that they had signed endorsement contracts and had an agreement that they could not play villains.

He took on some endorsements at the beginning of his career. As he earned more and more money, Yang Hao turned down all endorsements, so he didn't know much about the restrictions on endorsements.

This is the first time Yang Hao has heard that an endorsement contract restricts one from playing villain roles.

Afterwards, Yang Hao had some discussions with Da Mimi and Liu Shishi, and only then did he learn that endorsing some big-name luxury brands seemed to pay high prices, but there were also many restrictive terms.

Such as not being able to play villains, not being ugly in the roles played, and even having to attend a certain number of film festival red carpets and appear on the hot search headlines in a year have all kinds of requirements.

When Yang Hao heard that there were requirements for the hot search headlines, he really wanted to ask Da Mimi, does the brand you endorse have very high requirements for the number of hot search headlines? Otherwise, why do you buy hot searches all year round?

Yang Hao used to feel very confused. What’s the point of walking on the red carpet? As long as you are not nominated for any awards, it won’t bring much attention and it will only make you lose face.

And why are those traffic stars unwilling to play villains and refuse to make themselves look ugly? It turns out that they all have contracts.

In the end, the villain role fell to Yang Hao's first love Huang Mengying. She is a professional villain and a little Karami in the entertainment industry, so she doesn't have so many scruples.
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The start-up ceremony of "The Witch" was held at the Huairou Film and Television Base.

Yang Hao originally wanted to start filming in a low-key manner like he did with "Detective Chinatown", but who knew that on the day of the start of filming, many media came to request interviews.

In the end, Yang Hao had to hold a press conference after the opening ceremony.

We rented a venue in a star-rated hotel as the venue for the press conference.

Sitting on the podium of the press conference, I looked at the thirty or forty media reporters crowded below.

Yang Hao suddenly had a feeling that the situation was inevitable.

When I first debuted, I wanted to invite media reporters for interviews, but I couldn’t get any.

Now I just want to start the filming in a low-key manner, but so many media outlets have come uninvited.

"Quiet, quiet," Yang Hao's voice came out from the microphone, instantly attracting the attention of the media reporters present. The originally noisy scene immediately became quiet.

"Because of limited time, there are more than thirty or forty media reporters here. It is impossible to ask questions one by one. I will randomly select media outlets for interviews later. I apologize in advance to those who are not selected." After saying this, Yang Hao bowed deeply to express his apology.

"Lady in the first row, third from the right, let's start with you," Yang Hao lowered his head and glanced at the reporters present, then casually pointed at one of them.

There were so many reporters gathered here, and when she heard that only a few of them could ask questions and interview, she had not held out hope. She never expected that the first person to ask a question would be her.

"Excuse me, Yang Hao. As we all know, there are no real science fiction blockbusters in the domestic entertainment industry. Is your new movie really a science fiction blockbuster? Or is it just a fake science fiction blockbuster?"

This female reporter seemed easy to get along with, but the questions she asked were quite sharp.

There are many bad movies in the circle. When promoting, they will use the words "sci-fi blockbusters" and "special effects blockbusters" to promote them, but in fact the special effects are five-cent special effects, and the science fiction is soft science fiction, which is completely a lie to deceive the audience.

No matter whether Yang Hao answers the question of whether his movie is a science fiction blockbuster or not, he is admitting that previous science fiction films in the domestic entertainment industry were all fake.

The person who offended will be destroyed.

"I can only say that the movie "The Witch" is a science fiction film, and it contains a large number of special effects shots. The final effect will definitely not disappoint the audience." Yang Hao only commented on his own movie and did not mention any previous science fiction films in the domestic entertainment industry.

"What is the cost budget for "The Witch"? ", another reporter asked.

“No less than 2.5 million”

“Does this include publicity?”

“Not included”.

When they heard that the publicity and promotion costs were not included, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

As we all know, nowadays, the publicity cost and production cost of a blockbuster movie are almost 1:1.

If the pure production cost is as high as 2.5 million, the final cost including publicity and promotion will be as high as 5 million. This is probably the most expensive movie in the history of domestic entertainment.

A movie with a cost of 5 million yuan needs to earn at least 15 billion yuan at the box office to make back its investment. Nowadays, there are only a few movies in the entertainment industry that earn more than 15 billion yuan a year.

Only Yang Hao dares to play so big.

Thinking of this, a group of reporters couldn't help but get excited and started taking notes in their notebooks. Everyone realized that this was a hot news.

When he first debuted, Yang Hao also liked to compress the cost of movies, but with the cashback ratio as high as 0.4, Yang Hao now likes to increase the cost of movies.

In this way, the cashback funds will be more and the system drainage effect will be better.

As long as you don’t make the costs too outrageous, you will basically not lose money by relying on the system’s cash back.

"Then may I ask, what is your box office expectation for the movie "Witch"?"

"Oh yes, it's the global box office," a reporter added after asking.

All the reporters in the audience pricked up their ears and listened attentively to Yang Hao's answer.

The box office of "Detective Chinatown" was as high as 37 billion. The box office of "The Witch", which was released worldwide, will not be lower than 37 billion.

"Eight hundred million US dollars," Yang Hao glanced at everyone present and gave a confident and affirmative answer.

As soon as Yang Hao finished speaking, noisy discussions were heard below the tower.

Many media reporters took out their mobile phones to check the current US dollar exchange rate.

I soon learned that one US dollar is exchanged for 6.28 RMB.

In other words, Yang Hao expects the global box office of "The Witch" to be 50 billion yuan.

This is 50 billion!

All the reporters were shocked, but at the same time they felt that it was possible.

This year, the box office of "Detective Chinatown" reached 37 billion.

The movie "The Witch" has just started filming, and it will probably be released next year.

It grew from 37 billion to 50 billion in just one year, and it’s the global box office. Isn’t that too much?

Then several reporters asked questions one after another, and Yang Hao answered them one by one. Finally, the launch conference ended successfully.

Of course the most important thing is the travel expenses, which Yang Hao will definitely not forget.

Depending on the level of the media, different travel expenses are given, ranging from one thousand to five thousand.

As the thirty or forty media outlets that came to interview left, soon after, news reports about "The Witch" came out one after another.

"Shocked! Yang Hao boasted that the global box office of "Witch" will reach 50 billion"

"Shocking! The production cost of "Witch" is as high as 5 million"

"Yang Hao promised that "The Witch" is definitely a genuine science fiction special effects blockbuster and will not disappoint the audience"

……

I have to say that media reporters still have a certain level of ethics. If they receive money, they will never take things out of context and create negative news for you.

Yang Hao browsed the web news for a long time, but he didn't see any bad reports about "Witch". (End of this chapter)