Pokémon's Lord of Fear

This is an autobiographical work of the Pokémon League, with a very large investment cost. Many champions and gym leaders of the time starred in it, and coupled with some events that happened at the time, it created the highest box office in the history of Pokémon world films. A box office of 4.5 billion is definitely a top work in this world.

Even if it is placed in the previous life, this number is not low. Many works in the previous life could not break 3 billion.

"How is the audition for the actors for the second season of Sherlock Holmes going?" Teng Shu put down the documents in his hand and asked Zoroark.

He is most concerned about this issue now. It has been seven days since the release of "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village". In these seven days, the box office has exceeded 500 million. The subsequent momentum has declined a bit, but breaking 1 billion is not a problem. Teng Shu also needs to start thinking about his next work.

"The competition is very fierce, boss. There are already a lot of auditions from big-name stars and movie stars from the Galar region alone. The champion Mr. Dante also wants to act." Zoroark felt a little scalp-tingling when he mentioned this.

After all, the Galar region is a very large area in the League, with a vast territory and a large population. Many big stars have appeared in this place, including a best actor and a best actress, both of whom are the highest-ranking stars in the entertainment industry.

As a result, the movie "Sherlock Holmes" attracted all these people.

"What about the auditions after the screening?" Teng Shu pinched his brows. He was mentally prepared for this situation. The title of the TV series with the highest ratings was extremely valuable. In addition, it was based on the Galar region, so the stars in the Galar region would definitely compete for it.

Thinking back to the popularity of Harry Potter, actors all over the UK dreamed of playing a role in the movie. They didn’t care how important a role was, as long as they could appear on screen.

The same is true of Sherlock Holmes now.

"There are still a lot. Our company has invited some respected seniors in the entertainment industry to accompany the auditions, but the number of auditioners after the screening is still as high as tens of thousands." Zoroark was a little helpless. It had been so busy recently that it didn't have much time to play games. Most of the time it was busy dealing with audition issues.

Everyone knows that Director Teng Shu is a director who only looks at acting skills and nothing else, so many actors who think they have decent acting skills have sent in audition requests, and after the screening, those who remain are all people with good acting skills and not much to fault.

Teng Shu couldn't help but roll his eyes.

What the devil is saying.

After the audition, there were still tens of thousands of people left? He used so many talented actors in a film of Sherlock Holmes? Unless all of them were asked to act as crowd actors, was that possible? In that case, the lunch money alone would have been quite a lot, although Teng Shu didn't care much about the cost.

After all, the second season of Sherlock Holmes has not yet officially started filming, but it has already received sky-high sponsorship fees. The Alliance Films in the Galar region directly spent 500 million to allow Teng Shu to shoot it to perfection, and also provided the largest and most luxurious train in the Galar region for Teng Shu to use as he pleases.

It can be said that even if Teng Shu signed all the best actor and actress awards to play supporting roles, he would not be able to spend all the money.

It’s just that Teng Shu paid more attention to rationality when filming. For example, for Sherlock Holmes, there are age requirements for some roles. Some veteran actors have good acting skills, but if a woman in her forties is asked to play a young girl, she can’t act out that girlish feeling even with makeup.

"Screen again, screen strictly, and strive for excellence. Select for me the ones with the best acting skills and the most suitable character settings." Teng Shu had no choice but to continue screening and continue offending people.

Zoroark nodded and was about to go down to arrange the business, but was stopped by Teng Shu. Teng Shu felt that doing so seemed a bit bad. The screening team of Ghost Pictures was very strong, Dam was a typical actor, and there were also some old seniors invited.

It can be said that the acting skills of these survivors who were selected by these people are very good.

In other words, it is equivalent to these people being the city champions from various districts, but Teng Shu's requirements are higher. He wants the provincial champion. Although the city champion is very talented, he has just met the threshold requirements.

Genius is the threshold to enter this door.

But this seems a bit too cruel.

"Ask the planning department to come to my office." Teng Shu tapped the table with his fingers. He decided to do something big.

Those who can be screened out are definitely those with good acting skills, and there are certainly some who are buried among them. Teng Shu plans to use these people to organize a variety show and invite those well-known directors and veteran movie actors and actresses to come together to perform in a variety show.

It is similar to some related variety shows in the previous life, but Teng Shu’s show has no script, no back door, only a group of acting talents who have been screened in advance.

At that time, the judging panel will select the best actors from here, sign contracts with them, and become actors in the second season of Sherlock Holmes.

As for those who were not selected, it doesn’t matter. The big directors invited by Teng Shu this time will watch their performances. If there are any who like them, then they will not have to worry about their future acting careers.

Zoroark hurriedly called the planning department over, and Teng Shu briefly explained his opinion. Soon, the people in the planning department began to supplement the plan and called the legal department by the way.

After all, signing variety show contracts for so many actors is also a problem.

"Those who pass the preliminary selection and are willing to participate in the variety show will still be paid some compensation. If you do the math, the total compensation can reach 500 million." Teng Shu took out 500 million without hesitation as the pay for this variety show.

After all, he really has too much money and can't spend it all.

Chapter 219: Variety Show for Thousands of People

The sponsorship fees received for the second season of Sherlock Holmes had reached 1 billion yuan. Teng Shu used 500 million yuan to screen the actors, and Teng Shu felt that it was no big problem.

Keep improving.

And these sponsorship fees do not include advertising fees. If advertising fees are included, the amount can be even higher. However, Teng Shu feels that 500 million is about right. If these actors divide it equally, they can all get tens of thousands. Although it is not very high for big stars, it is definitely a lot for those who have not made it far.

Of course, the specific contract ratios and other issues should be left to the employees of his own company to worry about. Teng Shu is only responsible for proposing the concept, and the specific implementation will be left to his subordinates.

And Teng Shu still has something to do at this moment.

[Old Corpse in Mountain Village: 53912] This is the current fear value that the Old Corpse in Mountain Village has gained. After reaching this fear value, Teng Shu found that he had obtained two chances to draw a lottery. This made Teng Shu a little confused. He initially thought that he would directly obtain a certain reward, but he did not expect that he would be allowed to draw a lottery directly.

"This is true." Teng Shu looked at the Snorlax-shaped box that appeared in front of him, his mouth twitched, and then he reached his hand in.

There were some things similar to ping-pong balls in it. Teng Shu knew that he was asked to pick out two, and whichever ones he picked out would be his reward. Thinking of this, Teng Shu did not hesitate. After all, these rewards looked the same no matter how you touched them. There was no difference in size or material. It was impossible to distinguish them if you wanted to, so Teng Shu directly took out two ping-pong balls.

And as Teng Shu pressed the button, the Snorlax lottery box also disappeared.

Teng Shu looked at the ball in his hand. There were two ping-pong balls with a blue note inside. Teng Shu opened one, picked up the note and took a look at it.

[Intermediate lens language: your works will be more attractive]

Teng Shu nodded and put it away. This reward was not bad and was quite useful. During this period of time, Teng Shu also found out while reading that being a director is not easy. Many directors will deliberately use the camera crew, camera language, lighting and other things which are very important.

Teng Shu took out the second ping-pong ball.

When he opened it, there was a piece of golden paper inside. Teng Shu was stunned for a moment. The previous piece of paper was blue, and this one was golden. What was the meaning?

[Primary Lord of Fear: The fear brought by your work follows you everywhere, and the fear in the audience's heart will be more easily induced]

Teng Shu was stunned for a moment. Wow! He exclaimed, Wow! Isn't this ability a little too outrageous? Making his works more likely to arouse fear in the audience? If this continues, won't the fear value rise dramatically?

Teng Shu rubbed his hands excitedly. Apart from anything else, just this reward alone made Teng Shu satisfied. This reward was really good. It could increase the fear value of his work. This was both a good thing and a bad thing.

After all, if most of the audience are scared after watching it, they may not dare to watch their own movies in the future.

However, the reason why horror movies are so popular and can remain popular is that after people experience extreme fear, they feel a strong sense of relief when they find that they are safe and sound. This is why some people particularly like to watch horror movies.

"I'm lucky this time, but I don't know if gold is the highest grade. Maybe there will be higher grades in the future." Teng Shu was in a much happier mood.

Following Teng Shu's instructions, the employees of Ghost Pictures sent variety show invitations to the actors who passed the audition, and explained in detail the content of the variety show and the status of the judges, which really attracted the attention of countless people.

Many actors guessed the significance of Teng Shu's actions and gladly signed the contracts. Some big-name stars also thought this was interesting and signed on as well.

Only some actors with tight schedules had to give up this variety show. After all, although this variety show is good, they also have schedules, and they cannot participate if their schedules conflict.

However, even so, the number of people who ultimately chose to participate in this variety show reached 11,328.

This number can be said to be very large.

"Have you sent the cooperation invitations to the teachers?" Zoroark was standing in the planning department at this moment, hurriedly handling things.

The actors have been dealt with, and the next step is to invite those big directors and veteran actors.

However, this step was much easier. After all, those invited were all semi-retired or had no schedule conflicts, so basically all those invited agreed.

Suddenly, a huge variety show plan appeared in Teng Shu's Ghost Pictures. Even Monica, who was working with the director on "A Doll's House", came over to take a look out of curiosity.

"How are the contracts going?" Teng Shu pinched his brows. Although he did want to use this opportunity to let these excellent actors be recognized by the directors, he didn't expect that so many people would choose to participate.

This number of people is enough to shoot a war film.

Now, how to shoot and how to compare has become a more difficult problem.

However, with the arrival of those directors and veteran movie stars, Teng Shu discussed with them and found a solution.

So, on the fifth day after Teng Shu's "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" broke 500 million at the box office, as the box office of "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" broke 900 million, the trailer of the variety show "Acting Competition" planned by director Teng Shu also officially landed on the hot search list of various websites. Teng Shu spent a lot of money on publicity and promotion, just to let everyone in the alliance area know about such a variety show.

【Thousands of people compete on the same stage to determine the best actor in your heart! 】

[Have you ever seen a variety show with tens of thousands of people? Well-known director Lao Mou said he is looking forward to it! ]

The overwhelming publicity, coupled with the well-known figures among the judges and contestants, immediately made this variety show attract the attention of countless people.

Anyone who has worked on variety shows knows that once too many people are involved, variety shows become nightmare-level difficult.

These issues, such as who to shoot, how to shoot, how to follow, and the choice of scenes, can make countless veteran directors' scalps tingle and make countless variety show planners gasp.

In the end, faced with these tens of thousands of actors and actresses, the dozen or so variety show planners invited by Teng Shu also proposed some solutions.

split-screen.

It is difficult to squeeze tens of thousands of people into one shot, and it is even more difficult to capture their faces separately.

So I can only do split shots.

The solution they proposed was to divide the group of more than 10,000 people into several groups, and then have several crews take charge of each group. They then started screening from the groups and did the final screening.

Chapter 220 A cute and charming villain!

Although Teng Shu has created a variety show with tens of thousands of people participating, he has no intention of hosting the show. He will only attend the finals as a special judge and select the main actors for the second season of Sherlock Holmes.

"Boss, you really aren't going to be a judge? This is a show you came up with." Zoroark looked at Teng Shu in shock. Teng Shu glanced at Zoroark and shook his head.

"Frankly speaking, I don't really have much interest in being a judge or anything like that." Teng Shu signed his name on the document in front of him. With the expansion of Ghost Pictures' IP, there are more and more cooperation applications, and according to Teng Shu's requirements, these applications need to be reviewed by him.

Otherwise, some very strange linkages are likely to occur.

Just like the one in Teng Shu’s hand now.

The famous small umbrella brand in the Pokémon world wants to collaborate with Sherlock Holmes to produce a small umbrella that cannot be "pushed" apart. Teng Shu is very confused and can only say that these people have an idea, but this idea is not acceptable.

"I can reluctantly accept any advertising sponsorship." Teng Shu threw the documents in his hand into the shredder. Although the other party often did some underworld collaborations, considering the popularity of his company's IP and brand image, Teng Shu still gave up this contract with a fairly good pay.

"What about the issue of recruiting actors for Sherlock Holmes?" Zoroark asked Teng Shu. Teng Shu was only a special guest, so what if the finalists did not meet Teng Shu's requirements? Zoroark knew very well how picky his boss was.

"Of course I'm going to watch TV." Teng Shu looked at Zoroark strangely. What was this guy thinking? Although he didn't plan to be a judge, he could watch TV.

Teng Shu is naturally very concerned about the casting of actors. It does not mean that if an actor has good acting skills, then he is very suitable for the role. Sometimes the actor's temperament, the first impression he gives, etc., will also affect whether the actor can be selected.

Just like some people give people a natural feeling of being very bad and dangerous, so they are naturally most suitable for villain roles.

Some people look very decent, but it would be very difficult for them to compete for villain roles. The comfort zone of actors has always existed, but it would be very difficult for actors in their comfort zone to get out of it. For example, those who played the protagonists in anti-Japanese dramas in their previous lives, and have been playing those types of roles, suddenly have to play villains in the next one, and the audience may not buy it.

When Teng Shu selects the actor for Sherlock Holmes, he also has to see if the actor fits the role that Teng Shu has in mind. If not, Teng Shu himself will not choose the actor, but he will also let the actor play some supporting roles.

Zoroark stuck out his tongue and ran out. Teng Shu didn't pay much attention to it, but picked up his phone and took a look.

His cell phone vibrated just now. Teng Shu opened it and saw that it was a message from Mr. Sakaki. The other party congratulated him on the preparations for the filming of the second season of Sherlock Holmes. He also asked Teng Shu if he had a role so that he could coordinate his schedule.

Seeing this, Teng Shu hesitated for a second.

Logically speaking, Moriarty did not appear in this episode. After all, as the ultimate villain, Moriarty has a very special status. It would not be convenient to shape his character if he appeared too early. And once he appeared and was killed, it would become a problem what to do next.

In "Sherlock Holmes", Moriarty left behind a lot of back-ups after his death, giving people a feeling that "the screenwriter ran out of plot to write, so he just used Moriarty."

He even created a genius sister, whose intelligence was so high that she was completely incomprehensible. She played Holmes and his brother around in the midst of conversation and laughter, which was very confusing.