Poverty alleviation variety show goes to the countryside, my talent can no longer be hidden

Chapter 438: Start-up Trouble

Zhou Hao is not a person who particularly likes hype.

Before the filming of the online movie started, he did not carry out any publicity campaign, nor did he choose an auspicious day for the start of filming. He just started filming as soon as all preparations were ready.

Even the opening ceremony was very sloppy, with things like offering sacrifices to the altar and worshipping a pig's head... forget about all the metaphysical stuff.

Instead of wasting that money, it would be better to use it to subsidize the extras and staff below.

For the entire opening ceremony, he only prepared a few bland speeches, and finally planned to take a group photo and call it a day.

So until the filming started, apart from the insiders of Youying, only a few people knew the name of his online movie project - "You Are the Apple of My Eye".

After careful consideration of various aspects, Zhou Hao finally chose this film.

Reason one: This is a film that promotes the female lead, and its positioning is very suitable for Lin Xina.

Reason two: This is a very pure youth film. There is no quarreling, no bullying, no bloody quarrels between N men and N women, and no car accidents, cancer, or abortion. Everything in the camera is from the youthful and hazy days of school.

The third and most important reason is that it’s a hit!
The box office results of the film "Earth Next Door" have already confirmed this.

With a cost of just over 7600 million, it is definitely a low-budget film. However, despite the weak promotion and publicity in the early stages, it grossed over million in the mainland market alone.

This data may not be very impressive in the 20s when movies easily made billions, but that was the box office data in 2011, and more than 7600 million was already an impressive result.

And this is only the box office performance in the mainland market, not including the box office performance in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

In addition, this film was even later exported to Japan, allowing the daily life to be remade.

When it comes to low-budget youth-themed films, this movie is definitely the best standard answer.

Moreover, under Zhou Hao's leadership, production costs can be further reduced.

He reduced the pay of the female lead Lin Xina to 70.

As for the male lead, he chose Cao Xing, this unlucky guy who had played a lot of supporting roles in a row, finally got his turn as the male lead.

But the pay is... 30.

The combined pay of the male and female leads is only one million. This price is simply a fantasy in the Chinese entertainment industry where hot money is rolling in.

Even Peter Lam couldn't help but curse the man as stingy after finding out. This is basically the price of child labor!
However, Cao Xing and Lin Xina themselves did not have any objections. They had taken this film because of Zhou Hao in the first place, so the pay was fine.

If you really want a sky-high paycheck, there are plenty of olive branches out there.

Everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.

However, on the day of the opening ceremony, a problem occurred in the crew - the actor Liu Junxin, who was originally scheduled to play the supporting male role Cao Guosheng, did not show up on time.

After waiting for nearly a quarter of an hour and still no one showed up, Zhou Hao was about to contact this person in person, but he received a piece of news that made him furious - this Liu Junxin had quit!
It is said that because he has taken on another web drama with the No. 1 position, he looks down on the supporting role here.

Although Zhou Hao is very famous now, after all, this is not a TV series, but a half-dead online movie!
The pay offered by the film company is also pitifully low. Chun Chun is just trying to gain a good reputation. In comparison, the pay offered by online dramas is much more generous!

After calculating the pros and cons of breach of contract, he chose to surrender to the actual high pay.

Zhou Hao was directly enraged.

If you want to quit, if you want to change jobs, that’s fine!
After all, the industry of traffic stars is updated very quickly, and most of them only have a shelf life of two to three years. If a person does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth. It is understandable that they want to earn more benefits for themselves in a limited time...

But you should at least inform them in advance, so that the crew can be prepared!

Now we're waiting for the filming to start, and you just quit without saying a word and run off to another crew?
are you kidding me? !
Fortunately, this launch conference was closed and no outside media or entertainment reporters were invited, otherwise it would have been really embarrassing in public.

This was the angriest time for Zhou Hao since he entered the circle. He called Youying directly.

Because this Liu Junxin was recommended by Youying.

Now that something like this has happened, of course we have to contact Youying after-sales service.

When Youying's team learned about the situation, they were also shocked.

I've seen brave people, but I've never seen anyone as brave as this.

Why don't you try your tricks at any other time? Why do you have to do it at this time?

Do you know what Zhou Hao’s current position is within Youying?

Even the executives of the platform have to speak to him politely. How dare you, an 18th-tier traffic star, ruin his place at a time like this?
Without saying anything, he called Liu Junxin's agent directly and kept on talking for half an hour, scolding the agent until he started crying.

After being scolded, Liu Junxin and his agent realized the seriousness of the situation and quickly contacted Zhang Hong, apologized repeatedly, and promised to come back immediately to fulfill the contract and participate in the filming.

Zhang Hong’s reply was – No need to come back, see you in court.

This handling opinion was decided by Zhou Hao himself.

It’s hard to find a three-legged frog, but is it also hard to find an actor with two legs?
Go to hell with fulfilling your promise. I'll find a cheap and good backup and then ask you for a huge penalty. Isn't that great?
But after such a farce, the progress of the start of filming was inevitably affected, and Zhou Hao had to re-select Cao Guosheng.

This time, he directly rejected all recommendations from Youying... Go and have fun, I won’t fall into the same pit twice!

Originally, according to his idea, he was going to ask Shanhai Film and Television to recommend a backup, but Peter Lam said directly: There is no one else.

Liu Wei has already started preparing for "The Undocumented Crime". Almost all the artists under Shanhai who have schedules have gone to this crew, and there are no male stars of the right age sitting idle at home.

This news left Zhou Hao a little confused.

Just as he was thinking hard about who was the right person for Solo, Cao Xing suddenly said, "Brother, why don't you do it yourself?"

Zhou Hao was stunned for a moment, "What?"

"You play the male lead." Cao Xing grinned and said, "I'll just play Cao Guosheng. We both have the last name Cao. Maybe this is my destiny."

Zhou Hao frowned, "No..."

"Brother, I've actually wanted to tell you this for a long time." Cao Xing scratched his head and said, "You know the relationship between Nana and I. I actually feel quite embarrassed to act out a love scene with her."

"And you two have already worked together in 'The Beginning' before, so your rapport has already been established. There is no need for further adjustment."

"I agree." Zhang Hong also interrupted, "If you play the role yourself, the box office expectations will be the most stable."

(End of this chapter)