Chapter 747: In less than two months, the box office exploded again

"How do you feel about this drama?" Lu Yan He asked Yan Liang.

Yan Liang nodded.

"Lian Bei is very good at capturing details," he said. "And he is particularly concerned that there must be a blank shot between every segment of the play. I like this design of his very much. He said this is an identifier that distinguishes *Jiang Banquet* from other dramas."

"That's good. If there are no accidents, *Chinese Paladin* will be broadcast this summer. Let's see if the summer file can attract more students who are on vacation at home to watch this drama," Lu Yan He said. "Later, Linghe will come to find you and sign a supplementary agreement with you. Based on the peripheral development made by your character image in the drama, you can enjoy a 20% revenue share. The numbers for Li Zhibai and me are the same. I will tell you first."

Yan Liang nodded, indicating OK.

"Is Linghe preparing to do peripheral development around *Chinese Paladin*?"

"Hmm," Lu Yan He nodded. "This drama is very suitable for peripheral development, especially the school season in September. We have already gone to talk to the 'Bai Xing' stationery I endorse. Stationery sets with the *Chinese Paladin* theme will definitely be released. Besides that, some daily fast-moving consumer brands are also contacting us. The market heat is even more enthusiastic than I imagined."

"After all, it's the first time the three of us have acted in a play together," Yan Liang said with a smile. "I am looking forward to what this drama will look like when it is broadcast."

"I am looking forward to it too," Lu Yan He said. "I am thinking now, through the window period of the summer file, can we let this batch of students sit in front of the TV again and help us create a ratings record."

Yan Liang hesitated for a moment and said, "Will students be willing to sit in front of the TV and watch TV?"

"Not necessarily," Lu Yan He said. "Many students now have their internet access time strictly controlled by their parents. Watching TV is not so strict. This time, *Chinese Paladin* will also be like *Friends*, leaving a 24-hour window period for TV stations."

"Are you really serious about wanting to break the ratings record?"

"Hmm," Lu Yan He nodded. "Because the online broadcast data of *Chinese Paladin* will definitely be very good, this is beyond doubt, and I am not worried at all. And *Chinese Paladin*... its fan attribute may be stronger than mass-oriented sitcoms like *Friends* and *My Own Swordsman*. If this drama can form an effect of word-of-mouth among students, discussing and chasing it together, then the ratings improvement effect will be much stronger than *Friends* and *My Own Swordsman*. Adults always have many other things to do, but the life content of student parties is much purer."

Ordinary student parties, especially junior high school students and high school students, are basically not allowed to go out at night. If they are not allowed to go out, can't they only stay at home?

Option one, study.

Option two, go online—provided parents allow it.

Option three, watch a TV series that is very popular among classmates.

Of course, different people must have other different options. But generally, it must be these major categories. In fact, option three itself is not an option. Making it one of the options is what Linghe and Yuehu TV have to do seriously during this period.

Lu Yan He firmly believes in the fan stickiness of *Chinese Paladin*. Maybe many people will say, in this space-time, there is no game, can this drama still be so popular... To be honest, how many of the audience of *Chinese Paladin* have played the game? It can be popular for so many years, it must be because the story itself is moving.

Yan Liang didn't expect that Lu Yan He had such high expectations for *Chinese Paladin*.

In fact, according to current market standards, from the perspective of story theme and style, *Chinese Paladin* is indeed not a drama that can create records.

In the current market, the ones that are particularly explosive are either realistic subject dramas that can set off social discussions and have high national popularity, or ancient idols (including Xianxia), or the two sitcom series written by Lu Yan He, *Friends* and *My Own Swordsman*. Others, even *The Summit* starring Yan Liang, and *Seventeen Layers* starring Lu Yan He himself, can only be said to be vertical explosive dramas, not becoming phenomenal works.

The so-called phenomenal must have left a heavy stroke in the social trend of that year.

If *Chinese Paladin* is positioned in the youth market, Lu Yan He feels that it is at most a hot drama that can be counted as an explosive drama, but it is difficult to pull away from other dramas. Even if this drama already has the three of them starring. However, if this drama can pull a huge group to become fans and drama fans of this drama—

To say something unpleasant, the audience of *Tiny Times* is definitely the most "narrow" kind, but it doesn't prevent it from living in this lively internet world more than ten years later, "timely and new." Using *Tiny Times* can actually prove a fact: a work, as long as there is a group of fans who firmly support and love it (rather than chasing heat in a swarm when the heat comes up), it can live.

And compared to *Tiny Times*, the word-of-mouth of *Chinese Paladin* is much better.

Lu Yan He believes that *Chinese Paladin* is definitely not the drama with the most viewers this year, but if it really comes to a drama bringing a social phenomenon, at least in terms of film and television dramas that students like most, *Chinese Paladin* must have a fight.

And as the post-production of *Chinese Paladin* was completed and delivered, the second payment from Yuehu TV, Arctic Light Video, and Ice Field Video was finally hit.

The first payment was hit when the shooting started, the second payment was when the film was delivered, and the third payment was when it was broadcast.

The largest payment is this one when the film is delivered.

The copyright fees for the three companies reached 250 million. Added to the 100 million of the first payment, it is 4.2 billion in total. After the drama is broadcast and the third payment is returned, this drama can reach 420 million in revenue.

And according to their cooperation agreement, different broadcast results during the hot broadcast period (within 90 days after going online) will also need to pay "incentive copyright compensation," and in the highest case, the total amount reaches 100 million, which means that this drama can obtain 520 million in revenue during the first broadcast period.

This number will break the purchase price of domestic dramas.

After all, this is no longer the "nouveau riche" era when hot money poured in.

A few years ago, as long as it was a top-tier lead, or a big drama, with more than 35 episodes, it could basically sell for more than 350 million (for example, according to BJ Jicheng Century's 2021 financial report, the revenue brought by the drama *Ace Troops* reached 350 million).

Now, major platforms have collectively entered the "cost reduction and efficiency increase" stage. *Chinese Paladin* can still sell the drama for such a price, which is only possible because of Lu Yan He's screenwriting plus the three of them starring and a top director like Luo Yuzhong sitting in town.

Other S+ dramas, in the current environment, can sell for 300 million, which belongs to quite good.

However, Yuehu TV and the others obviously will not sign contracts that make them suffer.

Such a drama was targeted by major brands as soon as it started shooting.

They have to pay Linghe advance payments, and advertisers also have to pay them advance payments in order to compete for the advertising space of this drama.

Lu Yan He specifically told them that the promotion should focus on the student group, especially junior high and high school students.

Regarding Lu Yan He's suggestions, they also attach great importance to them.

After all, Lu Yan He's "promotional suggestions" have repeatedly created "promotional miracles."

After some discussion and communication, for this TV series with a final cut of 32 episodes, the three parties determined the broadcast plan.

One episode a day, 40 minutes per episode, just in time to finish broadcasting during the summer vacation.

And the promotional slogan they hit in the first round was—

This summer, let us return to the classical Xianxia world!

Subsequently, one of the producers of this drama, Chen Yin, accepted an interview program on Yuehu TV. For 15 minutes, he mentioned with a smile: "The core of this drama is youth chivalry. It is not a romance drama. It is those classical Xianxia stories we read when we were young, a story of a group of hot-blooded, flesh-and-blood teenagers trying their best to save the world."

"It is very suitable for teenagers to watch. It is the kind of TV series I most hoped to see when I was in school, talking about killing demons and removing demons, talking about justice, faith, and benevolence. It is also youthful, hot-blooded, and it is a dream that may have appeared in everyone's heart, the kind of dream that only existed in youth."

"Our broadcast mode is one episode a day. Dads and moms don't have to worry about children spending too long on watching this drama every day. Watching one TV series episode for 40 minutes at night does not affect study or rest."

Everyone was stunned.

Because it has really been a long time since a TV series has so blatantly positioned its promotional target as the student group.

Why?

A very important reason—

Everyone has formed a consensus that young people have long abandoned the TV set.

And the student group is even more so.

More importantly, relative to a huge viewing market, the student group is actually not large.

Why would *Chinese Paladin* make such a promotional focus tilt?

Film and television companies in the industry discussed it.

For Linghe's approach, many people don't understand.

However, everyone soon threw this incomprehension to the back of their minds.

As soon as the movement of *Chinese Paladin* came out, the hot searches on various platforms were arranged immediately.

Yuehu TV first previewed *Chinese Paladin* four times a day during its advertising time, which will be broadcast in this year's summer file—

The first round of trailers is only 5 seconds long, focusing on Director Luo Yuzhong and the all-star cast to build momentum.

Arctic Light Video and Ice Field Video opened pop-up windows at the same time, inviting users to make an appointment for this drama. The keyword information of the pop-up window information is also "this summer."

This is clearly warming up.

It's just, warming up?

Now more and more TV series have become "air-dropped." It happens that the number of episodes of TV series now has ushered in a reduction, at most 30-something episodes, less than 40 episodes. Generally speaking, it is finished in more than half a month. Such a time window, in such an information-exploding era, is really difficult to produce explosive dramas.

If you don't do warm-up and promotion in advance, let more people know about this drama before it starts, look forward to this drama, make the basic market bigger, and then wait for large-scale promotional resources to "roll the snowball" after it is broadcast, the previous broadcast period of two months could let a good-quality snowball roll bigger and bigger. Now the broadcast period is so short, no matter how good the quality is, the time that can be rolled is ultimately limited.

However, because of the instability of the broadcast environment, coupled with the fact that online broadcast platforms joined the TV station war, the scheduling of every TV series seems to have become a difficult thing. Being able to schedule four or five days in advance is a remarkable thing.

Like *Chinese Paladin*, which started scheduling and warming up a quarter in advance, this is the only one this year.

And it can do this because *Chinese Paladin* is heavy enough, and its production company Linghe has relatively large discourse power, which can affect the platform's scheduling. Therefore, in this case, it can be listed in the broadcast schedule of the three companies a quarter in advance, and corresponding promotional plans can be made according to this broadcast schedule.

Lu Yan He's importance to this drama also made the three platforms have high hopes for this drama.

Even if Yuehu TV has a 24-hour window period, every episode needs to be online on the video platform 24 hours after being broadcast on Yuehu TV—

Lu Yan He has always emphasized: "In this era, if you are still worried that TV station audiences will be diverted, then it is too unconfident. If TV station ratings can create a record, it will only make the audience base of this drama bigger, not reduce the audience of the video platform."

The problem with TV series now is not grabbing audiences from each other, but other entertainment forms grabbing audiences from TV series.

The biggest difference between the Chinese market and the American market is that the American market has been opened little by little for decades or hundreds of years, and its potential has been calculated very clearly in such a long time. However, the Chinese market is a hidden iceberg. You think you see an iceberg and feel it is already very big and is the industry ceiling. In fact, as long as you can really pull this market, you will find that the iceberg is really just a corner.

*Ne Zha 2* rode the dust and poked the ceiling directly from the roof of the first tallest building to the stratosphere, which proves this point. *Capernaum*, which doesn't look like a box office hit, can sell hundreds of millions in China, which also explains this point.

The United States has a large group of audiences with fixed viewing habits, so many films can be predicted according to market laws. But in China, sorry, not many audiences will regularly walk into the cinema to find films just because they hear that a film is good.

TV series are the same now.

If you want to attract a large number of people to watch TV series, you have to be like *The First Half of My Life* and *The Knockout* back then, letting ordinary people discuss this drama, and on the subway, many people's mobile phone screens are this drama. This requires a huge audience base—

And this precisely requires the fermentation of time.

There are too many people in China, and the amount of internet information is too large. Breaking through requires time.

*The Knockout* didn't become that popular on the second day of broadcast either.

Soon, a self-media "Relic Story" under "Jump Up" announced that it would join hands with the *Chinese Paladin* crew to tell the "Relic Story" of the filming location of *Chinese Paladin*.

The fans of this self-media "Relic Story" have more than 3 million.

Such a promotional mode does not require the film side to pay promotional fees.

For Linghe's film and television dramas, many promotional resources are exchanged through resource replacement, saving costs and achieving goals.

This is also because *Chinese Paladin* comes with traffic. With it, the related content of "Relic Story" will also attract many new fans.

This is of course just a beginning.

Not long after, Jiang Zhi, one of the filming locations of *Chinese Paladin*, released a cultural and tourism promotional video.

In the video, the internationally famous geographical photographer Geo Haynes shot a video for Haolan River, one of the filming locations of *Chinese Paladin*.

The video is 3 minutes long.

Morning smoke is vast, afternoon light spots are rugged, sunset fishing boats sing late. Deep night, late wind brushes the face, one boat one old man, carrying a lamp to fish at night.

This video is both a cultural and tourism promotion for Jiang Zhi and a promotion for *Chinese Paladin*.

Because at the end of this video, the video screen gradually dyed into ink, and then, several characters in *Chinese Paladin* appeared in the ink painting, and then gradually rendered into a real picture.

A boat, Li Zhibai and others are sitting or standing, high-spirited.

That is a segment in *Chinese Paladin*.

This video was pushed across the whole network.

For the official, this is a local cultural and tourism promotional video, but it invited an internationally famous geographical photographer to hold the camera, which has international communication value, so official media accounts large and small are forwarding and liking it.

For the public, this video is indeed shot too beautifully.

This planning was proposed by Lu Yan He—

He thought of this because he thought of a very popular local cultural and tourism promotion video he had seen before, Dongjiang Lake in Chenzhou, Hunan. At that time, there was a moving picture that was popular across the whole network—when the morning light rose, water smoke and morning light blended, the fisherman raised his arm and waved, and a net spread out like a skirt under the illumination of golden sunlight.

And Jiang Zhi, as a tourist city, has invested a lot in culture and tourism.

*My Own Swordsman*, *Love Letter*, and *Chinese Paladin* have successively filmed here, making it famous.

Jiang Zhi naturally attaches great importance to the promotional ideas proposed by Lu Yan He.

Thus, Lu Yan He connected and invited people to shoot, Jiang Zhi paid the bill, and finally the video went online and was promoted across the whole network.

Another hitchhiking promotional method.

Jiang Zhi Culture and Tourism also followed up with an advertisement: In Jiang Zhi, feel the classical Xianxia implication of China.

Good promotional methods must be mutually beneficial and win-win.

Find common ground and cooperate with each other.

Throughout March, *Chinese Paladin* did a big wave of promotion from multiple technical levels such as theme and filming location, but did not mention the story and character settings.

This is gradual.

If you throw everything out in one breath, what will you promote later?

Now you just need to let many people have an impression of the drama *Chinese Paladin* and generate a little interest.

For the industry, what everyone discusses more is the promotional rhythm and scale of *Chinese Paladin* in March, which did not let the film side spend much promotional marketing funds.

Borrowing force to hit force, hitchhiking promotion.

For another play, such a promotional scale would not be done without eight digits.

What surprised the industry even more was that *Chinese Paladin* did not focus on stars under such heat, nor did it shift the focus to the plot promotion of this drama.

It was all creating an atmosphere—

The requirements of all aspects of the drama *Chinese Paladin* are high-quality.

Too wasteful.

This is the common feeling of many film and television companies.

Lu Yan He didn't care, he even explained to all the actors of *Chinese Paladin* that before this drama officially started the crew's promotion, please don't mention *Chinese Paladin* in public, and don't mention your participation.

A drama must maintain a sense of mystery. Mystery is the source of expectation.

The drama hasn't started broadcasting yet, and it's all shaken out to you. Who is interested in watching your drama episode by episode?

Now the promotion of various film and television dramas, especially films, the point that Lu Yan He doesn't understand most is that basically the most highlight segment in the film must be the most widely circulated on the internet. To be honest, this has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is naturally higher heat, but the disadvantage is that after everyone has seen this highlight, do they still want to watch this play?

Or after watching the highlight, is there a kind of similar satisfaction in the heart? -

In early April, Lu Yan He flew to the United States and went to promote the film *Buried* with Li Zhibai.

This film is about to be released.

Global release. This time, Parameter was finally a bit powerful, and it will be released in 24 places around the world at the same time.

The promotion of *Buried* is not a blockbuster promotion mode, but it still has to go to several places. Besides the United States, it also has to hold premieres in the UK, Spain, China, and Japan—of course, not the kind of large-scale premiere like a grand ceremony, mainly media fields held for the media.

The promotion of this film is very unified globally.

Promotional point one: This year's Sundance Film Festival hit.

Promotional point two is the theme of this film: A man locked in a coffin, can he escape before the oxygen runs out?

The distribution of *Buried* in China is done by Linghe. Promotion is too. Lu Yan He specifically emphasized one point: the promotion of this film can praise Li Zhibai's solo performance, but it must never use "acting explosion" as the main promotional point. Because for such a genre film, no one will walk into the cinema to watch it because Li Zhibai's acting is explosive.

This solo film of Li Zhibai, his fans will definitely walk into the cinema to support without promotion. The focus of the film's promotion is the group of people who are not Li Zhibai fans but are thriller film lovers.

Whether they can be attracted into the cinema is the key.

The last stop of Lu Yan He and Li Zhibai's promotion is China.

The question that the media is most interested in is actually how much box office they think the film *Buried* can sell.

Lu Yan He was a bit speechless and said: "How hard you help us promote, that's how much box office we can sell."

Mainly because the box office performance of the film *Home Alone* globally is too outstanding, so that the Chinese media are very eager to know if the film *Buried* can replicate the miracle of *Home Alone*.

This is also very easy to be praised to death.

Sure enough, a media outlet immediately asked this question.

"Do you think *Buried* can exceed the performance of *Home Alone*?"

Lu Yan He shook his head and said directly that it couldn't.

The whole audience was in an uproar.

"Why? Is it because the quality of the film *Buried* is not as good as *Home Alone*?"

"Because every film is unique, and the results cannot be replicated. Any film I make is not to exceed a certain film I made before," Lu Yan He said. "*Buried* will not become the goal of any of my later works."

During the promotion period of *Buried*, the program *Chinese Good Songs* started airing.

Deng Lu, the producer who took over from Xin Zixing for *Chinese Good Songs*, came to ask if it was necessary to link up with *Buried* for promotion.

Generally speaking, such promotional resources delivered to the door for free, don't take it for nothing.

However, Chen Yin, who has been doing film and television promotion with Lu Yan He for several years, now sincerely agrees with a truth: promotion that cannot have a positive effect is better than no promotion.

*Buried* and *Chinese Good Songs* are not related at all.

Therefore, Chen Yin refused directly.

However, Chen Yin suddenly thought of something, found Lu Yan He, and said that he hoped to perform a theme song of *Chinese Paladin* in the last episode of *Chinese Good Songs*.

The broadcast of the last episode of *Chinese Good Songs* is already at the end of June, which also happens to be the concentrated promotion period of *Chinese Paladin*.

Lu Yan He felt that this was quite suitable.

"Can," he nodded, "Let Li Zhibai go to sing his character theme song."

*Xiaoyao Sigh*.

An original song, not yet released, the first singing is placed in the last episode of *Chinese Good Songs*, quite good.

Chen Yin went to communicate with Lin Suyang about Li Zhibai's schedule immediately.

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Not long after, *Buried* opened globally.

In China, this is the second starring film of Li Zhibai released.

Moreover, it is a true solo performance.

Just as Lu Yan He guessed, Li Zhibai's fans were very powerful. The box office on the first day was directly brushed to 110 million RMB. This is not the Spring Festival file or any other big file, it is just an ordinary Friday in the off-season of April.

Of course, this also made the daily box office on Saturday appear to slip, only 92 million. Such a trend is relatively rare.

However, despite this, the box office performance of breaking 200 million in two days can still be said to be very good.

The most critical thing is the box office performance on Sunday.

If the box office on Sunday can reverse the decline, it shows that this film will have a performance that can be expected a little more in the market. If it continues to slip, the trend of this film is a bit dangerous.

And at this time, the Friday box office in North America also came out.

*Buried* finally opened in 920 cinemas, and cut down a box office performance of 5.2 million US dollars on Friday, which can be called a big explosion, giving Parameter a surprise that was both unexpected and expected.

The word-of-mouth of the Sundance Film Festival still has powerful dominance in the North American market.

This film, from director to lead, has no fame, only screenwriter Lu Yan He has fame in North America. But, the screenwriter cannot carry the box office. Those who can reach the level of J. K. Rowling are few and far between.

Parameter arranged for *Buried* to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival, which seems to have gone right.

During the promotion period of *Buried*, media and audiences were crazily discussing how "different" this film is.

This is not an ordinary thriller.

This is very worth going to the cinema to watch.

Only in the dark cinema can you feel the death shadow and pressure brought by the cramped space.

In short, under the conventional promotion of *Buried*, it indeed attracted many audiences of such films, willing to walk into the cinema at the first time to see what is going on with this film.

On Saturday, the box office was flat with Friday, roughly reported about 5.15 million US dollars.

However, the response of the film on social media was very enthusiastic.

Many people are discussing this "unusual" film.

At the same time, the Sunday box office in China came out, 84 million RMB, ultimately did not exceed the box office on Saturday, but the total box office has already approached 300 million.

For *Buried*, the production cost of this film does not exceed 1.5 million US dollars, but the global promotion and distribution funds exceeded 7 million US dollars—perhaps many people will think that this is putting the cart before the horse, the film production only needs so little money, but the promotion and marketing spent several times the price.

However, this film is just so special. It is not that Lu Yan He and Parameter are unwilling to spend more money on film production, but that this film only needs to spend so much money to produce.

And if you want to "win big with small," then promotion and marketing must be big.

Are you really waiting for the audience to "come by themselves" and let everyone know about this film through "word of mouth"?

In fact, the first weekend performance of *Buried* not only made Linghe decide to further add promotional funds to do a good job in the follow-up promotion in China.

Parameter also decided to further add promotional funds to do a good job in the global promotion and marketing of this film.

The first weekend box office of *Buried* reached 13.74 million US dollars. According to the box office model of such films, this film can at least get a result of more than 30 million US dollars in North America.

And at the same time, the box office performance of this film in places outside North America (excluding China, the same expression below) is also quite good, with a total rough report of 23 million US dollars in the first weekend.

Especially in the Asian region, more than half of this 23 million US dollars came from Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. On the contrary, its performance in the European region can only be said to be average.

Of course, a film with a production cost and promotion cost of only about 10 million US dollars can get such a box office performance, which is enough to label itself as "winning big with small."

Although the box office of this film in North America can only rank third, losing to two other films starring A-List actors, counting the box office in China, the first weekend box office of this film reached 80 million US dollars, sitting firmly on the throne of the global weekend box office champion.

Although Parameter can only enjoy the small share of the box office in China, compared to the cost, this film can still earn tens of millions of US dollars for them—this is just the income of the theater box office.

What Lu Yan He said to Zebby Doyle was fulfilled.

Lu Yan He sent another email to Zebby Doyle: If you were willing to open *Buried* in more than 3,000 cinemas directly before, maybe the first weekend box office would have exceeded 100 million.

Zebby Doyle saw this email and really didn't know what to say for a while.

Things that didn't happen, can he say that Lu Yan He's assumption must not be realized?

Lu Yan He's second email came again: If I were you, at this time, you should find a few good roles from Parameter's later projects and send invitations to Li Zhibai.

Just as Lu Yan He said to Li Zhibai before.

*Buried* is released, Li Zhibai will be popular globally.

This film, this role, the focus is all on Li Zhibai alone.

His relaxed and natural performance advantage with few traces is reflected to the fullest in this cramped space, on the screen.

To say how mature his acting skills are, it's not like that.

But Li Zhibai's performance is too immersive. He is the kind of style that is natural once he enters the performance state.

Lu Yan He can't do it, Yan Liang can't do it either, gifted.

Li Zhibai didn't let himself act very maturely, didn't completely change an image, and went to this film to act as another person.

He just used Li Zhibai's personality to enter the character's personality.

If those who have seen the original version of *Buried* come to see him act, they will feel why it is so different. Li Zhibai's version is completely a young man's version, Ryan Reynolds' version is more mature.

However, people in this space-time didn't see Ryan Reynolds' version, there is no comparison, Li Zhibai's version is the first version.

Li Zhibai's performance in this film, how should I put it, is like Keanu Reeves in *Speed* back then. Men think he has charm, and women also think he has charm—of course, for men and women, the definition of this charm is different.

But Li Zhibai's popularity globally is consistent.

Speaking of which, it is really unfair.

Some actors have starred in several films that have global influence, but to talk about fans and popularity, they can only say it is lackluster. This has both the actor's own reasons and the limitations of the film type.

And some actors, one film, although the box office is not very high, at least it has not reached the record-breaking level, but because of the film type and character type, they become popular overnight.

Li Zhibai is the latter.

Li Yuefeng: Friend, when will you write me a script? Friend!

Lu Yan He looked at the message Li Yuefeng sent him, crying and laughing.

He replied: If there is a suitable one, I will definitely find you.

Li Yuefeng: All are suitable, my acting skills are very good, I can control any type!

Lu Yan He: There will be, don't be anxious, you are so popular now, what are you anxious about.

Li Yuefeng:... Compared to you guys, what kind of popularity is this.

Lu Yan He could only say: Already very popular, if there is a script suitable for you, I will definitely find you.

The success of *Buried* at the global box office is only less than two months away from *Home Alone*.

Lu Yan He achieved success twice in such a short time. If nothing else, for Hollywood companies, this is two films released by different companies, directed by different directors, and starring different actors, proving the role he played as the only intersection of these two films—screenwriter.

Why has "Timothée Chalamet" achieved good box office for so many films in a row, but in terms of salary, he still cannot compare with those A-List actors? Because he has not yet proven his importance to the box office. Whether it is *Little Women*, the *Dune* series, or *Wonka* and *A Complete Unknown* (spit a slot, this Chinese translation is really too bad), the film box office is not his core selling point.

And why can Jennifer Lawrence report such a high salary later? After a series of starring films represented by the *Hunger Games* series, she took an R-rated comedy, *No Hard Feelings*, and the salary quote was 25 million US dollars. Maybe the number on the contract was reduced, but it definitely wouldn't be too much, and the cost of the whole film was only 45 million.

Why can she report such a high salary in such a non-commercial blockbuster R-rated comedy?

Because the only selling point of the film is her. Besides her, there is no famous director, and no other famous actors.

In fact, such a very ordinary R-rated comedy sold nearly 90 million US dollars globally. Although the box office is not as high as everyone expected, plus selling to streaming media and other copyright fees, the film side must still be earning (the name Jennifer Lawrence can make this film report high prices in all aspects of copyright fees)—

And Emma Stone, who has won two Oscars for Best Actress, has not exceeded 10 million US dollars in salary until now.

Salary is something that relies on the market to "verify goods."

And verifying once is not enough, you have to verify it again and again. The more you verify, the higher your salary can be, until it is high to the ceiling of this industry.

After all, the market doesn't buy it, and Nicolas Cage has to directly reduce his salary by a zero and then fold it in half.

The market buys it, that is the situation of Jennifer Lawrence, breaking industry practice, and the production company signs the check obediently.

Is there any second actress who can report a high price of 25 million US dollars when shooting a low-cost R-rated comedy film like *No Hard Feelings*?

According to the information that can be searched currently, the answer is no.

Darren Wilson said to Lu Yan He: In the future, your scripts, any quote below 10 million US dollars, cannot be agreed to.

Lu Yan He was crying and laughing.

10 million US dollars quote?

This is almost the price that Hollywood super-first-line screenwriters can sell.

Martin Scorsese's film, if it is a script written by himself, is about this price.

However, even if such a price is given, Lu Yan He may not sell it.

He wants other things.

When Li Zhibai starred in the film *Buried*, the salary was only 500,000 US dollars.

And now, his salary quote in Hollywood has directly come to 1.5 million US dollars.

Rocket-like speed.

Hollywood's reaction speed is also extremely fast, and many scripts came over immediately.

Li Zhibai brought the script back to China, while slowly reading the script, while sending a message to Liu Manbo: *Grass on the Fly* script, have you finished changing it? Can it start shooting this year?

When Liu Manbo received this message, his heart was mixed.

Li Zhibai is already so popular, Liu Manbo thought he estimated that he would give up the *Grass on the Fly* project, but he still remembered it.

After the failure of *Nineteen Years of Crime Record*, *Grass on the Fly* was the second opportunity Liu Manbo obtained with Li Zhibai's support. Without Li Zhibai's support, Liu Manbo would definitely not have obtained the second directing opportunity so quickly.

Liu Manbo took a deep breath and sent a message to Li Zhibai: The draft will be finalized this month, and it will definitely start shooting this year!

Li Zhibai: That's fine.

Li Zhibai said again: Have you watched *Buried*?

Liu Manbo: Watched, your performance is very powerful.

Li Zhibai: I think in the part where I go into magic in *Grass on the Fly*, can I learn from the restless state in *Buried*?

Liu Manbo: Let's try it when the time comes?

Li Zhibai: Okay, let's meet sometime recently? I have some ideas to chat with you.

Liu Manbo: Good. ===== CHAPTER 748 =====