Chapter 394 The male lead starts the filming with a big red envelope

Jing Tian’s first job after becoming the deputy general manager was to participate in the audition for roles in “Fights Break Sphere”.

At present, iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video have set up audition registration offices in ten cities including Beijing, Shenyang, Zhengzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing and Xi'an.

It can be said that there are long queues and huge crowds of people in front of each registration office.

After all, the temptation of being a star is still great.

Of course, not everyone can participate in the auditions, there are still standards.

Not only his age and height were required, his appearance also had to be acceptable, and he even had to change into period costumes for the audition.

Jiang Heng absolutely cannot tolerate such things as ugly men in ancient costumes.

Even if an actor is professionally trained, he will not be considered if his appearance is not good.

The result was that after a long period of auditions, the few candidates selected were not from professional backgrounds.

Jiang Heng was a little hesitant because none of these people were future stars and he had no idea how they would develop.

Once you select him, it means you have directly changed his fate!
Jing Tian was unaware of Jiang Heng’s dilemma. Every day he helped sort out the information sent by the various registration offices and watched the competition videos of the “seed players”.

"Brother, this guy looks okay. He's 1.81 meters tall, quite tall. He's not as good looking as you, but he's pretty handsome too. Most importantly, he looks like he won't admit defeat!"

Jiang Heng took the photo that Jing Tian handed over and took a look at it. It was indeed almost as she described. Using the deduction function of the "super microcomputer", he could immediately see that the man's ancient costume appearance was actually the most consistent with the description in the original novel.

I looked at this person's resume again, Zhang Wei.

In Jiang Heng's mind, the image of Li Jiahang in "Love Apartment" suddenly emerged.

Shit, this is a bit scary, the two of them have completely different styles!

"The appearance is quite satisfactory, but the name...!"

Jing Tian smiled and said, "Just give it a stage name!"

Jiang Heng thought about it and agreed. It was normal to use stage names in the entertainment industry.

Even the great director's name Zhang Yimou was given later, his original name was not this.

"Call them and bring this person to the company!"

"Ok!"

"Call the others over as well!"

After Jiang Heng finished speaking, he checked a few names on the form and handed it to Jing Tian.

It takes a lot of effort to organize an audition, which takes a lot of manpower and resources. We can’t just choose one and be done with it, we have to keep a few candidates as backup.

Jing Tian personally called the heads of several registration offices and made appointments.

After coming back, I saw Jiang Heng was also on the phone and they were having a very pleasant conversation.

"Teacher Chen Daoming?"

After hanging up the phone, Jing Tian was a little surprised.

"Well, ask him to play the role of Yao Lao in the film!"

"Wow, that must be amazing! I like Mr. Chen Daoming's performance the most!"

Seeing that she seemed to be hesitant to speak, Jiang Heng smiled and said, "Why, do you want to act again?"

Jing Tian smiled awkwardly, "No, I just think Teacher Chen Daoming is so amazing, it would be great if I could have him teach me!"

"Oh, then you can come to the film and play a role, and ask him for advice when you have time!"

"Is it really possible?"

Da Tiantian opened her eyes wide. She had this idea but was a little embarrassed to say it.

After all, he had said he wanted to retire from the entertainment industry, so it feels a bit like going back on his word if he continues acting.

Jiang Heng doesn't think so. With Jing Tian's popularity, his cameo appearance in the film will help the film.

Furthermore, even if I quit the circle, I wouldn’t quit completely just by saying it.

Just reduce the workload and stop making filming the focus of your work.

"Of course, I couldn't ask for more!"

"Well, it's settled then!" Da Tiantian said happily.

The next day, eight candidates for the role of Xiao Yan came to the company. After Jiang Heng's interview, a candidate named Zhang Wei was selected to play the role of Xiao Yan. Two other candidates were left to sign ordinary agency contracts and stay in the crew to play minor roles.

At this point, the actors of the film have been basically confirmed.

In mid-March, the crew held a new film press conference in Beijing and then went to Hengdian for filming.

When Jiang Heng was filming "Fights Break Sphere", he naturally couldn't do anything like "Fighting Qi Turning into a Horse".

Not only that, but the descriptions of the various martial arts and battles in the book must be restored as much as possible.

Basically, all of these require special effects, and have to be shot at the China Film Digital Base.

However, some of the daily indoor and urban scenes in the film were first shot at Hengdian World Studios.

At the same time, the film "Under One Person" has been taken off the screen in China, and its box office revenue of 17.3 billion in the mainland market failed to break the mainland market's box office record.

Including overseas revenue, the total box office is more than 800 million US dollars, and there is basically no hope of breaking 900 million.

Compared with "The Legend of Little Soldier" and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", it is indeed much lower, but it is also a normal box office result.

After all, even in Hollywood, there are only a handful of films that produce over a billion dollars in global box office each year.

What's more, "Under One Person" has obvious Chinese culture and is not as cool and shocking as "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 2". The total box office of more than 800 million US dollars is already a lot.

More importantly, the next part will be released in a few months.

Even though the performance is not as good as the previous part, the total box office is still impressive!

Liu Yifei can finally stop her promotional work and have a good rest.

But she did not return to Beijing immediately, but rushed to Hengdian to visit the set.

"Thank you, thank you sister Yifei, I really like your role as Feng Baobao!" A crew member took the milk tea and thanked Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei also responded very politely and courteously.

After she arrived, she generously treated the entire crew to milk tea.

It should be noted that Jiang Heng was shooting a special effects blockbuster, and the crew members had at least two to three thousand people. Treating everyone in the crew to a cup of milk tea is not a small amount of money.

After handing out a few cups personally, Liu Yifei went to the shooting site and handed the cup to Jiang Heng personally.

"Thank you!"

"You're still being polite to me!" Liu Yifei looked at Jiang Heng with resentment.

"Be polite!"

Jiang Heng drank his milk tea and said casually, "You have worked so hard over the past month. You have made an indelible contribution to the high box office of the movie!"

"So, how are you going to reward me?"

"I'll give you a big red envelope!"

"How big is it?"

"Fifty million, maybe!"

"This, so much?"

To be honest, Liu Yifei was really scared by the number Jiang Heng said.

After all, it is still 11 now. Although first-line stars also make a lot of money, million is still a considerable number.

Jiang Heng considered it from another perspective. First of all, the film’s high box office was largely due to Liu Yifei’s continuous promotion.

The red envelope of 50 million is considered as her share of the box office revenue.

Excluding the box office in Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas, this share ratio is less than 10%.

Of course, in the current domestic film market, the vast majority of directors and actors have nothing to do with box office revenue sharing.

Jiang Heng's big red envelope was really thick.

But they have been together for so long, so it's only right that they treat each other better.

If it is publicized, it can also increase her value.

Other people can earn tens of millions in box office dividends from a movie.

You want to give me a discount invitation, is that okay?

(End of this chapter)