Global Movie Emperor

The release of the first promotional video heralded the official start of the pre-release publicity war. In the following days, Lu Ze went to the Imperial Capital and other provinces to cooperate with the crew in publicity work.

Because of the fame of the three directors and the strong cast, this film has indeed achieved impressive publicity results before it was released. Whether it is online or offline, as long as "Finding You" is mentioned, a large number of The crowd will instantly remember it, and nod their heads in understanding.

"You're talking about the movie about human trafficking, I know."

But this type of movie will definitely not be a hit, because the heavy storyline and the illegal activities that people are most disgusted with are all taboos in the hearts of ordinary movie fans.

Not many people who just watch movies occasionally to kill time would go to the cinema to watch a movie and find it unpleasant for themselves. Those who can pay for this movie are basically loyal movie lovers and fans of the actors.

But except for fans of Lu Ze and the three directors, the average age of these veteran movie fans is around forty or fifty. People of this age group have basically been excluded from the profit group by the film market, unless It is the children who buy the tickets, otherwise these uncles and aunts would not buy their own tickets and go to the cinema.

Therefore, some people predict that the box office of "Finding You" and "Alive" should be on the same level, and there will not be much difference. They are movies that are both popular and not popular.

But this doesn't have much to do with Lu Ze. After all, he doesn't get a share of the movie's box office. The movie's profit is really not as important as its reputation.

After participating in several promotional work, Lu Ze returned to the Magic City and refocused his work on Qian Sega's new movie plan. After signing a filming contract with the company, the movie title was officially decided.

"Rise of Mankind: Inferno".

This movie is not a complete story, but the first part of an epic war. It tells the story of human beings in a fictional world who rise up with tenacity under alien oppression by the protagonist.

As the beginning of the movie and the beginning of suffering, the first part is the darkest and most depressing part of the entire war. The living conditions of human beings are so miserable that it makes people breathless.

In an era when there was no sunshine, no rainfall, and the earth collapsed, serving as rations for alien races, there were monsters outside that ate people, and internal wars continued. People used their children as rations, and it was a dark mess.

With the birth of the Son of God, he will lead the tribe to integrate internal conflicts, defeat foreign enemies, lead humans to gain a firm foothold in a world where demons are rampant, and build a city belonging to humans. This ends the first part of the story.

As for the next story, whether it is filmed or not depends on the success of the first part. But if a sequel is really made, the investment in the second part should be more than double that of the first part.

Because as the world view gradually expands, the war scenes will become more and more huge. Even under the plan of the five screenwriters, in the final war, humans should be like the Zerg, with women constantly giving birth to children and using magic to ripen them. One generation of men enters the battlefield, and the next generation of women continues to give birth. This cycle only takes about half an hour for each newborn.

What finally breaks out is a huge war involving hundreds of millions of humans and monsters. It uses a lot of special effects and burns money at a rate no slower than a crematorium and a human furnace. It is estimated that by then, Sega alone will not be able to afford this movie. , it needs to be co-produced with other companies, but that is a matter of the future, and it is not certain whether it will be filmed or not, it is too far.

On August 1st, Lu Ze came to the company to prepare for external films to invite artists to audition for Sega. More than 170 people were interviewed, and the auditions were conducted in batches over three days.

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"It's over now. Thank you for your participation. Please go back and wait for the news."

Bai Xiqun glanced at Lu Ze's eyes, folded the artist's information in his hand, put it up and tapped it on the table, then handed it to the actor who came for the interview and asked him to leave.

After the young man put his resume in his bag with a grimace and left, and closed the door, Bai Xiqun glanced at Lu Ze and tried to ask.

"I thought the guy just now was pretty good. What do you think was wrong with him?"

"The line skills are good, and the movement and intensity are also very good. The control of micro-expressions is slightly lacking, but it's not a big problem. His biggest problem is that he likes to hook his fingers. This should be his subconscious action, and he will do it inadvertently when speaking. It shows, just like some people like to nod when talking, the academic can't even change his subconscious movements, and I don't know which teacher taught him, in short, I think he is not qualified."

Lu Ze pointed out the shortcomings of the young man who had just auditioned in a calm tone, and received wry smiles from Bai Xiqun, Feng Changhao, and He Guohui.

In their opinion, Lu Ze was a bit too strict in brushing off a lot of good prospects. To put it bluntly, Lu Ze was always a bit picky.

But what they don't know is that Lu Ze has actually relaxed his requirements for actors. As for the actor who auditioned just now, if Lu Ze really wants to find fault, he can make the second half of the line that the young man said just weak and weak. If you can catch them, there will be no problem if you catch more than ten or twenty of the ailments all over your body.

After all, he is a young man, and he does not have the system to help Lu Ze like when he was young. Of course, Lu Ze can understand that he is a little lacking in ability, but having personal signature actions that do not conform to the script, Lu Ze cannot accept this.

This is a young actor from an academic school. During his four-year college career, if he listened carefully to the lectures, he would definitely be pointed out by the teacher and corrected, but he still maintains this habit. What does this mean?

It shows that this young man is very talented, but he probably didn't like listening to lectures that much in college, and he didn't take professional classes seriously, and he was always a cunning student.

Lu Ze already had more than a dozen tarnishers on his body. He was unable to raise any issues with this young actor who had a history of cheating and cheating, so he simply found someone who didn't need to raise any issues to lighten the burden on himself.

Although from the frowning brow of the young man just now and the fact that he was wearing clothes that Lu Ze rented out in a private styling studio two or three years ago, it can be seen that his career development is not very good, and he must be having a good time recently. difficulty.

But the casting is not miserable. Lu Ze can't give him the role just because he feels sorry for him, otherwise he will be the one who drags him down in the end. Moreover, during the most difficult period, Lu Ze also relied on his own personal ability to get the role, and he never No one pitied him. This is how this industry is. If you are good at it, you will get better. If you are not good at it, get out. From the beginning to the end, it has not changed.

For three consecutive days, he interviewed more than 150 actors. This was indeed a physical job. Lu Ze felt like he was going to get hemorrhoids from sitting down. He rubbed his face, took the cigarette handed over by Feng Changhao, and reached out to open the row of cigarettes on the wall. Turning on the wind, he was about to call the next audition actor in, but was interrupted by secretary Li Shanjun who suddenly knocked on the door and walked in.

"Secretary Wang, what's going on?"

"This is the list Mr. Liu gave to the four of you. Brother Lu, take a look. I'm leaving first. Thank you for your hard work."

The black high-heeled shoes made a clicking sound on the marble. Lu Ze frowned and took it, motioning for the three of them to look at it first. However, they waved their hands and refused, so they could only open the folder by themselves and read the words and pictures on it. Say it out loud.

"The studio of Tiancheng Media Co., Ltd., the artist of Zixin Studio, Pei Yuanhui...isn't this...the captain of some girl group?"

Lu Ze didn't have the nerve to say the words "know nothing". He just slurred for a moment and turned the folder over to show the other three people the one-inch photo on the file.

"this......."

Bai Xiqun was also in trouble. He held a cigarette in his hand and flicked the ashes into the disposable paper cup on the table. He looked at Feng Changhao and He Guohui. They didn't say anything. They just sat there with their heads down and deliberately turned out their mobile phones. Pull twice.

Lu Ze stood the document up and shook it twice. A small piece of paper fell out. He took a look at it alone and saw the words Guo Mingde written on it.

Helpless, she picked up a lighter, lit the small piece of paper, threw it into the ashtray and watched it burn up. She picked up a disposable paper cup and poured some water on it, opened the folder, and stapled Pei Yuanhui's resume with a stapler. , handed it to Bai Xiqun, watching him stuff his resume into a pile of resumes, shook his head, stood up and opened the door, first waved to the three of them, and then shouted outside.

"Okay, there is only one left this time, Xiao Fei, Zhu Lan's audition actors, please let them all leave and call the next audition actor in."

Lu Ze also walked through the back door, but of course, it wasn't the back door.

At first, he was happy that he had a relationship, but now, Lu Ze felt more and more upset. The company had selected nine artists. Originally, there were 14 vacancies, but Li Shanjun added five more roles, and finally only nine were chosen. The new one is related to the departing Guo Mingde. What do you want Lu Ze to do? If others don't give you face, can you make Lu Ze not even give Guo Mingde face?

Pei Yuanhui was okay. Lu Ze had heard that this girl was Guo Mingde's niece. In terms of seniority, she had to call Lu Ze Uncle. The key was the one He Ruikuan sent in. Lu Ze didn't know what to do after meeting the crew. Looking directly at her, he could only scold He Ruikuan behind his back for being so shameless.

He was almost sixty years old. It wasn't enough to have a 28-year-old wife at home, and he also raised a 19-year-old girl outside. Lu Ze felt that he was only thirty years old, and He Ruikuan, this old man, was addicted to this crap. , he had the nerve to blame someone else's crew for doing this bastard thing. It's really shameless.

The interview lasted until about three o'clock in the afternoon. When there were only a dozen actors left to interview, Lu Ze finally got the last role, and Lu Ze breathed a sigh of relief.

I originally thought that the last one could only be the bigger one among the short guys who were auditioning actors, but I didn't expect that I didn't have to do it. The big guy came by himself, which saved the four of them from having to discuss it again. Now they can get off work.

"Lu Ze, Fei Emperor will be in the capital tomorrow, right? I wish "Finding You" a top-notch reputation."

These three people also knew that it would be difficult for "Finding You" to be a hit at the box office, so they changed their words to express their blessing. Lu Ze accepted the good intention, shook hands with the three people, turned around and left the company, and went to the underground parking lot.

Sit in the driver's seat, close your eyes, let out a long sigh, open your eyes, fasten your seat belt, ignite the car, put it in gear, fill up the gas, and go home.

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