Chapter 878: Different acting contracts

"Jingtai sent a TV drama script over, asking me to act."

Jiang Yuqian and Li Zhibai were lying on the bed, accurately speaking, Jiang Yuqian's head was resting on Li Zhibai's arm muscles.

Both of their faces looked rosy, even in the room without lights, only faint natural light penetrated from behind the window screen.

This is Jiang Yuqian's home, there is no angle that can be secretly photographed, so they can safely use the window screen to cover the window.

Li Zhibai contentedly wound a strand of Jiang Yuqian's hair with his fingers and asked: "Did you take it?"

"No," Jiang Yuqian shook her head, "Actually, I should have taken it. I owed this producer a favor before, but the schedule couldn't be arranged, and I haven't taken any dramas for a long time."

Li Zhibai: "Based on my personal experience, it is better to stay away from Jingtai. It is not a good thing if it doesn't change these station leaders in a day."

Jiang Yuqian laughed.

"When you were hard against Jingtai, didn't you think you would be blocked by it?"

"No," Li Zhibai said, "I still find it hard to imagine until now, who has the ability to block me."

Jiang Yuqian: "It is naturally like this now, but at that time, you were just a popular idol, weren't you? Although your family also has a background and power, after all, the main battlefield is not in the entertainment industry."

Li Zhibai: "I really didn't think that much. I didn't think anyone could block me. Seriously, I don't break the law or commit crimes, why block me."

"It can only be said that Jingtai has declined. Ten years ago, their power was still very great. If any celebrity artist offended them, it was not just their family, they would unite with others to block a celebrity artist. Such things were not rare," Jiang Yuqian sighed lightly, "The times have changed now."

Li Zhibai was a bit curious and said: "Didn't you become popular shortly after your debut? How come it feels like you have also experienced a lot of threats and coercion?"

"It can't be counted as threats and coercion, but I have indeed taken a lot of plays that I didn't want to take. When I first debuted, the environment was like this. You were used by someone in a play, so you owed someone a favor. If they had a role for you to act later, you had to pay it back. Often a play is not just a play, and actors are relatively weak," Jiang Yuqian was very helpless, "It's not the same thing as when you became popular. When I debuted, there was still a bit of the meaning of the rivers and lakes. Now it is more about business. It's all doing business. At that time, it was even divided into gangs. You are from this gang, then you can't act in that gang's play, otherwise it is betrayal. Can you believe it?"

"Tsk," Li Zhibai shook his head concisely, "Fortunately, I was born late."

Jiang Yuqian's hand reached Li Zhibai's waist.

Twisted lightly.

"What do you mean? Do you think I'm old?" Jiang Yuqian asked.

Li Zhibai let out a strange cry.

"Heaven and earth conscience, how could I have this meaning!"

At the same time, in Zhang Yuezhen's office.

"Yaoyao, do you want to act in this TV drama?"

Suddenly hearing Zhang Yuezhen's voice made Ning Yao stunned.

She looked over with an innocent and blank face and asked: "Sister, I don't know, do you think I should act?"

Zhang Yuezhen said: "In my opinion, it belongs to the category of whether to act or not. It can be used to fill the schedule. After all, filming only takes twenty days, and although the investment is small and the salary is low, only 100,000, you can cooperate with He Daren in this play. No matter what, he is also a TV emperor. If you partner with him to film, you can invisibly raise your status in the industry."

Hearing this, Ning Yao understood.

Although Zhang Yuezhen started with "whether to act or not", she actually thought this play should be acted.

Then what is the concern?

Is it that the salary of this play is only 100,000 yuan?

Worried that she thinks the salary is too low?

This salary is indeed a bit low.

She is not a newcomer anymore, and she has also started to act as the heroine.

Usually, a play will have seven digits.

Ning Yao nodded and said: "If it is to fill the schedule, and there are benefits, then take it. Anyway, it's better than being idle."

Zhang Yuezhen smiled satisfactorily.

"That's fine, then I'll take it for you. This drama only has 12 episodes, and it's a script for a sitcom based on 'Friends'. Although it has some experimental nature, maybe it will explode."

Ning Yao nodded.

In the past two years, Zhang Yuezhen has had many collaborations with Jingtai.

Many of the company's actors' plays are Jingtai's dramas.

Without exception, the salary given by Jingtai's dramas is to be discounted on the basis of the market price, and the full price cannot be obtained.

This is not the first time.

However, Ning Yao is acting as the heroine for the first time in Jingtai's drama.

She thought, this is not considered no harvest.

Zhang Yuezhen suddenly changed the subject and asked: "Yaoyao, what do you think of Li Hailu?"

"Ah?" Ning Yao's heart jumped, "I'm not very familiar with him, Sister, are you asking about his acting skills? Or his character?"

"Character," Zhang Yuezhen said, "Among the few male actors signed by the company, after observing for so long, the best qualifications are He Ting and Li Hailu. He Ting is more active and proactive, and will strive for any opportunity. He has ambition. Li Hailu, however, makes me a bit unable to understand. I don't know what he is thinking. He looks like he is light and breezy, and doesn't care about many things, but if he really doesn't care, it's not like that."

Ning Yao calculated in her heart and said: "He may just not know how to open his mouth to express what he wants."

Zhang Yuezhen raised her eyebrows and asked: "What about you? Are you the kind of personality who will open your mouth to express what you want?"

Ning Yao hesitated.

"Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't," Ning Yao said. After finishing, she carefully looked at Zhang Yuezhen, "I'm afraid of taking the initiative to speak, making the other party unhappy, making the other party angry, and afraid of leaving the impression of being greedy on the other party." Zhang Yuezhen nodded: "Yaoyao, you are right to have such a sense of proportion, this will make you go further, but Li Hailu doesn't have many resources to begin with. If he thinks so, he will really be forgotten."

"The box office of 'My Sassy Girl' is estimated to stop at just over 300 million."

Li Yuefeng frowned.

"This box office—"

"It's not good or bad, it still made money, didn't lose," Wu Bai said, "However, Linghe still wants to hold premieres in South Korea, Japan, and Malaysia, and wants us to go and participate."

Li Yuefeng nodded.

"It was said at the time that this film would also be released globally," Li Yuefeng asked, "Is there no premiere plan in Europe and America?"

"The release plan for Europe and America has not been set yet," Wu Bai said, "I think, since this film is already like this, not as explosive as 'The Classic', should we still go to these places?"

Li Yuefeng looked at Wu Bai with an incredible look.

"Why not go? It was agreed early on."

"We go to participate in these activities, there is no remuneration, and it takes up a lot of schedules in vain," Wu Bai said.

Li Yuefeng: "But Linghe has helped us contact a lot of media, and there will be exclusive interviews with local media, including a TV show in Japan that Xiao Yun and I have to go on. Now saying we won't go, these arrangements will be messed up. Moreover, this exposure is also helpful to my international popularity, and I don't only have this film to be released overseas in the future."

Wu Bai: "If you want to participate, then pretend I didn't say it. I'm just reminding you that this trip is almost half a month. After a few trips, there is no remuneration, all working for nothing, and you can't get the overseas box office revenue, it has nothing to do with you."

Li Yuefeng said: "Don't be so short-sighted. Not to mention that 'Corpse Phase', which I starred in before, has given me some fans overseas, especially in Asia, just say 'My Sassy Girl', is the 300 million box office of this film very bad? Lang Xia's film box office broke 100 million and can blow for a long time, why is this 300 million not worth blowing? Not to mention, look at how much praise this character has brought me."

Indeed, the character of "Suffer-bag Boyfriend" changed Li Yuefeng's relatively sunny and aggressive image, and it is no longer the perfect man image in "The Classic". It rarely has a sense of life... even how to say? Many female audiences have generated huge good feelings for him because of this. To use a popular sentence on the Internet, they also want to find a boyfriend like Li Yuefeng, play with him, and be sassy.

This is a character that helped Li Yuefeng open up his acting path.

Li Yuefeng said to Wu Bai: "There is another more important thing, I still want to continue to cooperate with Linghe in the future. If I suddenly don't cooperate at this time, how can I cooperate in the future?"

Wu Bai sighed.

"That's true."

Wu Bai asked: "Then the film script that Yu Jiang brought over, have you thought about it? Take it or not?"

"Forget it, too lazy to take it. I acted in two romance films in one breath, I don't want to position myself on the track of romance films," Li Yuefeng shook his head and said very simply.

"Okay, then I'll go and refuse her."

"Liu Zefan refused, and Li Yuefeng also refused."

Yu Jiang's face was extremely ugly.

"Now all the first-line popular young male actors in the country have been contacted. Teacher Yu, should we consider using a first-line actress and partner with a newcomer male actor?"

"This is our youth romance film, mainly facing the female market. What's the use of you using a first-line actress? She can't dream for female audiences," Yu Jiang said unhappily, "If the male lead cannot shoulder this responsibility, the film is better not to be shot, and there will be no box office if it is shot."

"Then in this situation—"

Yu Jiang's eyes turned, and she suddenly thought of a person.

"What about Ma Zhiyuan?"

"Ma Zhiyuan? He made Xu Qinyin's belly big before, and the female fans ran away long ago. Let him act in a youth romance film, won't the audience buy it even more?"

"If we change this male lead to a character with extreme charm and extreme personality defects? At first, the heroine is a love brain, being cheated by him, then she starts to wake up, recognizes his true face, so she starts to take revenge, and finally makes him eat his own fruit, and the ending is miserable," Yu Jiang said, "Didn't everyone say before that youth romance films have fallen into routines? Then change the direction of this story to the girl's self-awakening and growth, a cool article about taking revenge on a scumbag."

Others looked at each other when they heard it.

It sounds like it's not that unreliable.

"Changing it like this, it seems not bad."

"If it is changed like this, would Lang Xia be willing to act in this film?"

Yu Jiang frowned.

"Since he refused before and said he didn't want to repeat filming these films, don't look for him in the future," she said with a seemingly indifferent emotion.

Those who know her know that the more she is like this, the more she cares in her heart.

"Ma Zhiyuan's agent is Zhou Ping'an, so should I communicate with him after the script is changed, or go now?"

"I'll call him first," Yu Jiang said, "If you go to make this call, he won't buy it. But Ma Zhiyuan... if he is used well, he may not be able to create a box office breakthrough. Didn't the film 'Scandal' make tens of millions for the platform before?"

"Yes."

Yu Jiang said: "How much salary is appropriate?"

"This is our theatrical film. Using him also has risks. Except for us, he is now difficult to have such resources. We should be able to suppress the price. 100,000? Or 50,000? Anyway, more than 100,000 is too much. Our film's budget is only 20 million."

Yu Jiang nodded.

"Then I will report 50,000 first and see what Zhou Ping'an says."

"Do you want to change the film name?"

"What is better to change to?"

Yu Jiang almost didn't think, and said directly: "Scumbag, stay away from me." ===== CHAPTER 879 =====