Global Movie Emperor

In the imperial capital, the palace restaurant that Lu Ze and the others often visited, after the filming ended, Lu Ze and the four students had their last meal before leaving.

Until the end, the four students were not in high spirits. They were obviously unable to adapt to the upcoming separation. This time there was no camera surveillance. Under the influence of Li Chou, Peng Kuo and Chen Dongsheng couldn't help but drink two more drinks. Their drinking capacity was very high. They were all pretty good. Although his face turned red, his eyes were not blurred, his tongue was not straight, and he did not show any ugly expression. But suddenly, Peng Kuo interrupted and said something that had nothing to do with separation.

"Teacher, Tiancheng is looking for me."

After this meal, Lu Ze was going to go abroad non-stop. It was estimated that he would not be able to eat decent Chinese food for a while. Thinking of this, he closed his mouth and put a strip of steak breast into his mouth. , braised in a slightly sweet sauce with extremely tender breasts, without using teeth, just licking your lips and scraping off half of it. After hearing Peng Kuo's words, he nodded, ate the beef in his mouth first, and wiped it with a napkin After wiping the corners of his mouth, he crumpled the napkin into a small ball and replied.

"what do you think."

"I think... the resources are provided very well."

"Well, then you think about it carefully and just let me know when you decide."

After the recording of the program ended, various parties also began to compete to compete for the amateur contestants in "Actor's Diary". Among them, Lu Ze's contestants were favored by major brokerage companies.

As for the reason, it is also very simple. Except for Lu Ze, who has not cooperated with a domestic brokerage company, the other three mentors all have companies. Although the program team wants to avoid shady situations as much as possible, the background of the program team mentors is not clear. Here, it is inevitable that some debut artists who have successfully used the back door will become contestants on the program team.

Lu Ze was just afraid of being like the other three mentors who kept arguing with the agency, so no matter who wanted to leave the relationship, he would not agree to it, even the debut artist who was really talented and had no back door. His pass was rejected, and he insisted on recruiting vegans just for the sake of peace.

However, this also caused a lot of trouble for the four contestants under Lu Ze. After the show, the four were bombarded by multiple agencies, which confused them all. They all wanted Lu Ze to give them advice as a last resort. , but no matter who asked Lu Ze this question, the responses they received were ambiguous and did not give them a practical answer.

Lu Ze didn't want to care about this matter, not because Lu Ze didn't want to have any contact with them after the show was filmed, but simply because he didn't want to break the rules and interfere with their future choices.

At this time, Lu Ze has a great say in the hearts of the four of them. If Lu Ze decides the whereabouts of the four of them now, there is a 90% chance that they will follow Lu Ze's arrangements and decide their own whereabouts. But Lu Ze Will the arranged destination definitely make them prosperous? Not necessarily. If it really doesn't develop in the future, there's no guarantee that Lu Ze won't complain. This is something Lu Ze doesn't want to accept.

Secondly, even if Lu Ze makes the decision for them, he may not be able to get a superior contract. If the other party's share is 28/20, then even if Lu Ze sells face, he will not be able to get a 50/50 share for them. According to the contract, the company will only give Lu Ze as much as the newcomer is worth. Otherwise, it will really give Lu Ze face. If the artist is not popular, it is okay. If he is popular, how much money will he lose? Can you, Lu Ze, replenish me the tens or even hundreds of millions I lost? Secondly, if a good contract is really given, what will happen to the other newcomers in the company? Why are others selling face? You can't convince the public, can you?

Outsiders may think that the entertainment industry has no bottom line. This is indeed true in some aspects, but in fact this industry is also very disciplined and hierarchical, especially now that even if you have background and ability, you may not be popular. , in an environment where becoming famous all depends on spending money, real money is the real thing. You want to make people lose money just to sell your face? You see, people and birds don’t care about you.

So now even if Lu Ze helps them, he can't help them much. He just allows them to use his own light to get a contract with better resources and not so bad terms. This is the end. I really want to rely on Lu Ze's signature fish. And bear paws? Impossible.

Peng Kuo was not surprised when he saw that Lu Ze did not give an answer. After all, he was the last student among the four who had not yet chosen a company. When the other three were worried about this matter, Lu Ze did not give them any help. Thinking of this, Peng Kuo sighed, shook his head slightly and took a sip of soup, leaving the matter behind.

Among the four students, Ju Yulin was the first to reach a cooperation with Tiancheng, a long-established domestic leading entertainment company, and successfully became its artist. He only waited for the variety show to be broadcast to officially debut. Wu Chun signed a contract with the new company "Mi" which was established in 2020. When she told Lu Ze that he had signed a contract with this company, Lu Ze was a little surprised. However, according to her explanation, her intention to go to Mida was the same as the reason why Lu Ze signed with Sega. It was with the intention of occupying a position in advance in the hope of becoming a veteran of the company.

In today's domestic entertainment industry, after many rectifications and changes, the momentum of the six major entertainment companies to carve up the world more than ten years ago has completely collapsed. In just a few years, the six major entertainment giants and Lu Ze Platform have been called by the industry There are only two families of Xiaolaoqi's Qianshijia that have survived now. The smarter ones left early for retirement, while the ones who still wanted to struggle died miserably. The ones who went to jail were jailed, the ones who ran away ran away, and the ones who died of illness died. Have a good ending.

More than ten years ago, if someone said that these giant companies would collapse in just a few years, few people would believe it. However, the fact is that the leaders who used to be the dominant ones in everyone's minds have been corrupted by regulations and scandals. The Chinese government has made a huge comeback. Nowadays, another wave of new capital has arrived. After ending the rule of the old hegemons, what is ushering in is the contention of hundreds of schools of thought in the new era. Except for a few entertainment companies, industrial and technology companies invested by Internet companies, Standing on the stage again, Mida, who Wu Chun signed, is in this category.

Peng Kuo stopped talking and was still hesitating. What surprised Lu Ze was Chen Dongsheng. He was the first student to sign a contract, but he did not sign with the above mentioned companies. Instead, he chose a company that Lu Ze did not expect at all. Yes, "August 1 Production", a truly established and established company in China.

Looking closely at Chen Dongsheng, although he is not as tall as the other three students, who is in line with the aesthetics of the times, and his body is a bit frail, there is a heroic spirit in his eyebrows. Although his appearance is different from Lu Ze's, for the leader of the Big Brother Factory Generally speaking, Chen Dongsheng is obviously more in line with their aesthetics than the other three students.

Although the output of Big Brother's films is not high now, and as the supplier of seven sets of royal films, the influence and quality of the works are not as good as before, but after entering Bayi, it is a completely different concept from contracted entertainment companies.

Maybe entertainment companies make more money and have better resources, but only actors who are famous in Big Brother factories like Bayi can be called national faces, representing the highest level of Chinese drama actors. I believe it won’t be long before the people of the country You can see him in every year's tribute films and main theme film and television works.

As an actor who has participated in movies produced by Bayi Production, or a non-staff member of Bayi Production, Lu Ze is still very happy that Chen Dongsheng can make this choice. After all, you have to admit that the domestic production It is indeed difficult for actors’ income to match that of capital entertainment. Maybe in a few years, everyone will live in small villas, and you are still scratching your head about the down payment for a small apartment. But the more obvious the income gap is, the more it proves Chen Dongsheng’s choice. Without the interference of money, he is really pursuing the path of becoming an excellent actor.

Of course, this doesn't mean that the other three are money-seeking masters, but Bayi didn't even look for them.

In just a few days, several people have transformed from independent amateurs to actors with backers. The comparison has not changed at all from a few days ago, but in Lu Ze's eyes, this is their true coming-of-age ceremony. For modern people, The age of eighteen is not the boundary between adulthood and adulthood at all, it is after joining the first job.

After drinking and eating, they went out to the hotel. Song Guiyuan's driver was waiting at the door. When it was time to say goodbye, Lu Ze looked at the four students, fixed his hair and put on his hat and said, "Okay, go back, don't send them away." I'm at the airport gate, otherwise it will be the evening rush hour when I come back. If you want to go out at night, pay attention to safety. Peng Kuo, you take the lead and go home early."

Separation is a required course in life, but these young people in their early twenties have obviously not graduated from adult classes. They are reluctant to give up several times, hoping to send Lu Ze to get on the plane. As Wu who has spent the longest time with Lu Ze Chun started to secretly wipe her tears when she checked out, but she didn't act coquettishly towards Lu Ze like she did during the filming. She just stood at the end of the crowd and kept wiping her eyes with her sleeves.

Lu Ze quickly established an image of a gentle elder for them within a few months, even though Lu Ze was only a dozen years older than them.

There was no such bloody plot as Lu Ze was reluctant to let him go, or he was chasing the car. After his repeated pleas to send Lu Ze to the plane were firmly rejected by Lu Ze, the few people had no reason to persist any longer and just kept talking. Say goodbye and send Lu Ze to the commercial vehicle.

Time is running, and Lu Ze also leaves in a clockwise manner. The encounters between people are like the hour and minute hands in a clock. They overlap briefly at a certain period of time, and then they run hard for a long time, looking forward to the next time. , we meet again after going round and round.

After taking him to the airport, he thanked the driver who obviously had to face a long traffic jam alone, checked in, went through security, signed autographs and took photos with several fans who recognized him in the VIP lounge, and then boarded the plane again.

The mission this time is very simple. It is to attend the premiere of "Atonement" held in Turin and shoot another promotional poster for Piaget's new watch. Then you can return to China and work on the election for the Electrician Association. There is no filming work. It would make this trip much easier, so Lu Ze slept very soundly on the connecting flight to Singapore.

But before going to Italy, he still had to go back to Liverpool, because there was someone who was obviously not as happy as himself.

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"Brother Lu."

Outside the airport, Wang Zixuan was waiting at the door. Her petite figure was buried behind a group of tall people. She was not discovered until Lu Ze had gone a long way. She hurried over, took Lu Ze's trolley suitcase and opened the car door.

During this period, Wang Zixuan has been running Lu Ze's overseas business and has not returned to China yet. However, she looks good and should not be very busy. She is driving and Lu Ze is sitting in the passenger seat. The two of them are driving back to the company.

The car was a little quiet. Lu Ze didn't feel sleepy at this time. He turned on the radio and listened to the local retro rock radio station. As the hometown of the Beatles, the radio station here has always played their songs tirelessly. It has been playing their songs for decades. That's true, but the Beatles' songs are indeed classics. Even after listening to them many times, I still don't get tired of hearing them when I hear that Lu Ze, a man who doesn't have all the five notes and has no emotion in his singing, can sing most of their songs.

The song "Let it be" was playing now. Lu Ze followed the rhythm and tapped his jeans with his fingers. He looked straight ahead and asked, "How is Mickey doing now?"

"He's not in a good mood right now. I haven't been to the headquarters for a long time, but others say he's like a powder keg now. He gets angry when he says a word that doesn't go well."

"That's it..."

"Um."

"I thought he would get angry when someone talked to him."

"Um?"

It was a joke. Lu Ze knew better than anyone how angry Mickey must be right now. His urine was probably the color of soybean oil. Without mentioning Mickey, the two chatted about work until they arrived at the company door. Wang Zixuan did not follow. At the same time, he was probably also afraid of bumping into Mickey, or that the explosive pack would fire on him if he caught someone biting someone, so he drove away in a hurry.

The doorman, Old Gil, was sunbathing at the door. The old guy was still strong and his eyes were clear and bright. When he saw Lu Ze, he stood up with a smile and took off his gentleman's hat to say hello to Lu Ze. Lu Ze pointed to the upstairs. He shook his head and pointed with his index finger. Pointing to his mouth and shaking his head, Lu Ze understood and nodded to go upstairs.

There was no one in the conference room on the second floor. There was no Mickey or the big Russian guy who was always lying on the sofa playing with his mobile phone. He closed the door and turned to the general manager's office. He knocked on the door, but no one responded.

"Hey Mickey, it's me."

Still no one responded, but Lu Ze had no choice but to pull the door handle without locking the door. Lu Ze opened the door. The room was dim and it was hard to tell that it was daytime. The curtains were tightly drawn, but fortunately, Lu Ze did not Didn't smell anything too unpleasant.

Relying on his memory, he walked to the window and opened the curtains. Sunlight broke into the room, allowing Lu Ze to have a panoramic view of the room. It was not very chaotic, and there were no bottles of wine. Only a half-drunk bottle of brandy was placed on the table. , there was a person lying on the sofa, with his left foot on his right foot, and his suit jacket covering his head. He was still unresponsive. If his stomach wasn't bulging and deflated, Lu Ze would have thought that this person was cold.

"Pretending to be dead?"

He took out a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator, opened it, sat on the single sofa next to him and took a sip. Lu Ze looked at the motionless Mickey and smiled, then put his feet on the table and lay down in a comfortable position.

"Do I need to call an ambulance for you? Or call the police? Mr. Police, there was an injury case here. How is the condition of the injured person? His heart is almost broken..."

"Are you fucking annoyed? Get out of here and don't make me angry."

Mickey finally reacted, lifted up the top covering his head and threw it to the ground. He turned over and faced Lu Ze, clasped his arms and continued to meditate with his eyes closed.

"How long will it take for you to not be so depressed? To accept the fact that Fanny is destined to leave? Wait until she leaves? Or should you be a real father now and say goodbye to Fanny in a dignified manner?"

"Of course I'm going to send her off! It's just that I don't accept it. Elizabeth is a fucking idiot. I really wonder if she was shot by that man when she went to bed with her! She just got divorced half a month ago. She just planned to leave with a new man. There was something wrong with her brain. She made decisions faster than a fucking rocket! She never thought about whether Fanny would be able to adapt to a new environment. She thought she was acting Is it "Before Dawn"? Or "Love Actually"? She never thought that she had a daughter who was still in middle school!"

"Stop, stop, stop, I don't want to hear you curse. What will the judge say?"

"The judge said that I have a criminal record and a history of violent crimes. He also said that my job meant that I had no time to raise Fanny. The most important thing was that he asked me to do a mental evaluation. He really thought that I He’s mentally ill!”

In fact, Mickey felt a little guilty when he said this. Indeed, if he were asked to present a mental evaluation now, he would probably be diagnosed with some kind of mental illness. This can be seen from the fact that he sometimes cannot control his emotions at all and likes to vent his anger through violence.

Lu Ze was shocked when he heard this, and quickly waved his hands. This matter is indeed one person's idea. Although it is outrageous for Mickey's ex-girlfriend to do something like this, Lu Ze's focus is not on whether Mickey can get custody. It's Fanny's own thoughts.

"Would Fanny be willing to go herself?"

"She said she didn't know."

"I do not know what that means?"

"She said she also wanted to try life in the Netherlands, but she couldn't bear to part with her current classmates and so many years of living in Liverpool. Children will always have this fantasy of living in a foreign country, but that is travel, and real life there. All the discomfort will be exposed. What if she regrets it? I think if she wants to visit the Netherlands, she should stay there for a few months and come back when she gets tired of living there, instead of like now, She was dragged by her mother to settle down!”

"But it's a foregone conclusion that she will go to the Netherlands now, isn't it?"

Mickey's words were stuck in his throat. He actually wanted to analyze the pros and cons of Fanny going to the Netherlands with Lu Ze, but Lu Ze's words made him realize that it was a fact that his daughter was leaving him. So he became angry and lay back on the sofa with his back to Lu Ze, yelling: "Go away! I knew that telling you wouldn't solve the problem."

Lu Ze understood Fanny's position in Mickey's heart. He actually felt sorry for his old friend, but he still had no choice but to decide not to bother Mickey anymore. He just asked one last question before leaving.

"When will they leave?"

Mickey said nothing and turned into a corpse again.

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