Seclusion in the Entertainment Industry

Although "Infernal Affairs" and "Crazy Stone" are both based on plot, with more literary dramas, no big actions, big scenes, and no advanced special effects, relatively speaking, the amount of investment in "Infernal Affairs" But it's almost five times higher than "Crazy Stone".

The final total investment budget of "Infernal Affairs" was set at around 40 million.

Among them, the personal salary of the best actor Chen Hui is nearly 10 million. This is because Chen Hui himself likes the role in the film very much, and because of Zheng Yugang's face, he lowered it a lot. Otherwise, if he went to make some purely commercial For a blockbuster film, it is possible to get around 15 million or even 20 million.

This is the value of an actor.

As for the other actors, although they have initially planned to hire some capable actors, their salaries are generally not as expensive as Chen Hui's.

Among the 40 million investments, Chen Feng personally invested 20 million, Tailang Entertainment invested 10 million, and the remaining 10 million will be put on the market to be divided among related companies in other industries.

For example, some relatively influential publicity and distribution companies, and even some film and television investment companies under the theater chain cinemas, etc., will only help with the promotion, distribution, and filming of the film when they can share the profits. , therefore, the investment share of 10 million allocated is still very worthwhile for the final box office of the entire film.

The films invested by Chen Feng will naturally be sought after by many companies.

After all, the first movie he invested in, "Crazy Stone," has already earned 250 million. Even Tailang Entertainment and director Ni Hao also made a lot of money and turned around in one fell swoop. Everyone is jealous of such an opportunity.

So when Chen Feng was preparing to make a movie for the second time, many people in the industry wanted to get a share of the pie.

Both Chen Feng and Xu Tailang can understand this kind of thing. After all, everyone makes money together. If you eat the meat, you have to share the soup with others. If you really don't get a dime, I'm afraid they will slowly become the leader of the entire industry. mortal enemy.

As for Chen Feng, he finally registered and established his own investment company by taking this opportunity. After all, it is more convenient to do many things in the form of a company, and Chen Feng's personal accounts cannot always be linked to Tailang Entertainment. , so it is the wisest thing to directly set up your own company.

Chen Feng didn't know much about the company, so An Ruohua took the initiative to take on most of the work.

After returning from Longtan Town, An Ruohua has already begun to work hard to learn related knowledge about the operation and management of investment companies. No matter what, she must help Chen Feng share some of the pressure. Anyway, she doesn't really want to film recently, so she just has time. Deal with these things.

As for the name of the company, Chen Feng directly chose the most tacky word "peace". Anyway, his biggest wish now is to let himself and the people he loves the most enjoy a safe and happy life.

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After Mai Zizhao came to Kyoto, he discussed the movie script with Chen Feng several times. At the same time, he also made some more reasonable plot optimizations, and the entire script became more perfect.

In the last few times, even the leading actors Chen Hui and Lin Zhehua also participated.

When I first saw Chen Hui,

Mai Zizhao was so excited. In his words, when he wrote this script, the protagonist in his mind was based on Chen Hui. Unexpectedly, his dream has come true now.

Lin Zhehua's appearance also makes Mai Zizhao very satisfied. Although I don't know how his acting skills are, Lin Zhehua is still very famous recently. He can be regarded as a celebrity who is not careful about his fame. With him and Chen Hui as the two protagonists, the film The quality is at least 70% guaranteed.

When it came to Lin Zhehua, after reading the script of "Infernal Affairs" and learning that he would play one of the protagonists and have to play many opposite roles with Chen Hui, he was so nervous that he could not speak.

Although Chen Feng had long said that he would play an important role in the new movie, he did not expect that he would be such an important starring role.

After all, he originally played a supporting role in "Crazy Stone", but now he was directly promoted to the leading role?

This kind of leap is probably too big.

Seeing Lin Zhehua's nervous look, Chen Hui next to him comforted him first.

"It's a pleasure to work together."

With that said, Chen Hui stretched out a hand towards Lin Zhehua.

Lin Zhehua shook hands with Chen Hui in a daze, and it was only then that his heart finally calmed down a little.

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In the end, with everyone's efforts, the script was completely finalized, and then it was about setting up the crew. However, as an investor, Chen Feng did not want to participate in the specific details. These matters were left to the director and production-related personnel. Just the staff.

Liu Qiangwei was with Mai Zizhao, and also had detailed discussions with Chen Feng several times. Seeing that the script had been finalized and the two leading actors had been finalized, and one of them was a movie king-level actor like Chen Hui, Liu Qiangwei finally felt relieved. , and began to devote seriously to the work.

In the end, the film was decided to be co-directed by Liu Qiangwei and Mai Zizhao. After all, Mai Zizhao is a screenwriter himself and has been friends with Liu Qiangwei for many years. If the two of them work together, the effect will definitely be better.

The specific work of setting up the crew was left to Liu Qiangwei and Mai Zizhao. As veterans who have been in the film and television industry for many years, they have even more experience than Ni Hao. They know many things. It can be completed easily, and the crew's construction and advancement work is very fast.

In terms of actors, Chen Feng recommended two more people. One is Wang Xu from Tailang Entertainment, who will play Lin Zhehua in his youth. Not to mention, if they wear makeup, they look quite similar.

After all, handsome people are mostly similar, and unhandsome people are each ugly in their own way...

Another actor recommended by Chen Feng is Fan Weide...Brother Biao...Since the first time I saw him, Chen Feng has always thought that this actor is very good. Moreover, Chen Feng has also watched his movies. He is that kind of actor. An experienced actor with excellent acting skills, and the most important thing is... Chen Feng can always see the shadow of Brother Chen in the movie in his dream world in Fan Weide.

Brother Chen is a very important character in "Infernal Affairs" and must be supported by an experienced actor.

After all, the first scene at the opening is Brother Chen's personal performance show. Once this character stands up, the whole film can unfold more smoothly.

Liu Qiangwei and Mai Zizhao soon worked hard to invite people according to Chen Feng's request.

It's okay for Wang Xu, after all, he is from Tailang Entertainment.

As soon as Fan Weide heard that it was a new film invested by Chen Feng and that Chen Hui was participating, he accepted the film without much hesitation.

It seems that the crew is making good progress!