Finally, Wei Lan obtained full authorization from all but three top luxury brands.
This includes not only clothing and accessories from their main brand, but also various sub-brands. The men's clothing section obtained free authorization from LT, but because it did not appear much and the main brand was still a women's brand, it did not receive any additional sponsorship fees.
However, even so, Wei Lan's new movie has not yet started shooting, but it has saved almost all the clothing licensing fees related to the fashion circle, and also received 15 million sponsorship fees from three brands. Note that this is pure sponsorship, not investment, and the final box office revenue does not need to be distributed.
In this regard, Wei Mingjie felt that his daughter was truly a business genius and that the future of the Wei family did not need to be worried about (fog).
The script structure of this movie is not complicated, and Wei Lan finished writing the script very quickly. Simply put, it is not a movie with a strong humanistic temperament like "Rural Teacher", but a typical commercial film. When writing the script for this movie, Wei Lan even had spare energy to conceive the next movie. In addition to the actors, the difficulty of the early preparation work mainly lies in the matching of the costumes in the movie.
After drawing the storyboard, Wei Lan communicated with the chief designers of three luxury brands and informed them of his desire for scenes and emotional expression, and the rest was left to these professionals.
Professional matters should be left to professionals. Wei Lan is responsible for controlling the general direction, such as what style of clothes is needed in this scene, how to use colors to express the emotions of the characters in a certain scene, etc.
The other side is about casting.
Yang Xingyuan agreed to play a supporting role, and Wei Lan naturally thanked him for joining. On the other hand, the actress contacted by Wei’s public relations department finally responded.
There are not many candidates who meet Wei Lan's requirements, and the public relations department has only found three candidates who are of suitable age, qualifications and availability.
Wei Lan held the list with three names on it.
Mo Qionghua, Qin An, and... Zhong Ningyun.
No wonder Secretary Wang looked strange when he took it. This is the reason.
Zhong Ningyun was one of the film queens who had jumped ship from Wei's before, so Wei's certainly didn't want to work with her again. However, because she met the requirements of Wei Lan's new movie, Secretary Wang still put her name in it. This shows the current status of Wei Lan Studio in Wei's. After the severe slap in the face by "Rural Teacher", those shareholders are eager to offer this cozy commodity, and their status is even better than that of Chen Yuanhang in the past.
After looking at Zhong Ningyun's information, Wei Lan quickly crossed out her name.
Although Zhong Ningyun's qualifications, appearance and temperament are quite suitable for this role, and she once played the queen of a galaxy in "Star Wars", she is considered to be from Chen Yuanhang's faction, and has an old grudge with the Wei family. She also snatched Su Yining's dress at the Golden Tripod Awards, which is a new grudge. With the new grudge and the old grudge, the other party's conditions are not so good that Wei Lan can ignore these and invite her to film.
She looked at the other two profiles. Qin An and Mo Qionghua were both Golden Tripod Award winners. Wei Lan was currently more optimistic about Mo Qionghua. The 46-year-old actress was a standard beauty with a strong aura, and had played the role of empress several times.
The film queen has no shortage of roles to play, and Wei Lan only accepted the invitation because she had just won an award.
However, on the morning of the day when he had an audition appointment with Mo Qionghua, Wei Lan received a sudden reply from the other side saying that the filming of a drama Mo Qionghua had previously taken on would start ahead of schedule and his schedule could not be moved.
Wei Lan, who was stood up, frowned and had to turn his attention to another film queen, Qin An, who had accepted the invitation.
Qin An is forty-five years old. In fact, in terms of award qualifications, she has the highest number of awards among the three actresses. She has won the Golden Tripod Award for Best Actress twice and has been nominated three times. She is a frequent guest in the acting reviews of various marketing accounts, but she is a very low-key person and rarely takes on advertisements and endorsements. In the hustle and bustle of the entertainment industry, she lives like a hermit.
Wei Lan actually did not expect that she was willing to come. He had not been very optimistic about her before because Qin An's appearance and temperament were rather gentle, and her previous screen image had always been of this aspect. Her last Golden Tripod Award was for playing a mother suffering from depression, and her delicate and moving performance in the film was amazing.
A very good actor, but overall she doesn't seem to be very suitable for the role. However, Wei Lan still invited her to audition because she would not underestimate the strength of an actress of movie-winning level. Some people can play any role, even if she has never played this type of role before.
Entering the holographic space, Qin An sat quietly on the sofa waiting for Wei Lan to appear. She naturally had a gentle and indifferent aura.
The red panda soon appeared on the sofa opposite her.
"Hello, Ms. Qin."
"Hello, Director Wei." Qin An had seen Wei Lan's image when he watched the Golden Tripod Awards ceremony. Now that he actually saw her in the holographic space, his eyes were somewhat curious.
Wei Lan's heart moved as he listened to Qin An's voice, because the other person's voice was unique and gentle.
"To be honest, I didn't expect you to be willing to audition." Wei Lan said after thinking for a while.
Qin An smiled casually: "I read your "Rural Teacher", I like it very much."
"Uh..." Wei Lan felt a little uncomfortable after hearing this: "But this movie is actually a pure commercial film, and it is completely different from The Rural Teacher."
This movie was actually a work that Wei Lan came up with on a whim to relax and find his state of mind after listening to Su Yining's words that day. Although he tried his best to make it perfect, the depth of the script was not explored in detail.
In general, the genres are different. The essence of "Rural Teacher" is humanistic feelings, and the story, turning points, and logic are all very important. This new movie is a pure commercial film, which requires more exaggerated dramatic conflicts and visual stimulation.
Wei Lan was known as the director with the most diverse styles in her previous life. She was able to make good films of all types and themes, mainly because she knew better than others where the focus of different types of films should be placed.
If Qin An came here thinking that the style of this movie is the same as "Rural Teacher", then her perception of the role is wrong, and Wei Lan must tell her this in advance.
"I know. I have read the role script you provided." Qin An still smiled and said, "I will not choose a role without reading the script. "Rural Teacher" proved your guidance ability, and your role is a breakthrough for my previous roles. I am very interested."
After hearing this, Wei Lan felt relieved and felt a little expectant.
"Now that you've read the script, how about we act out a scene?"
"Of course, we are auditioning." Qin An looked at the little panda in front of him: "Which part do you want? The crying scene?"
When Wei Lan heard this, she felt that the actress was truly extraordinary. She started by auditioning for a scene that was the most difficult for others. However, she felt that Qin An could easily handle that scene with his abilities.
"No, the second one, the one where I scolded Lu Wei."
Now it was Qin An's turn to raise her eyebrows. She recalled, nodded, and stood up from the sofa.
"Do you know why I chose you this time?"
Qin An handled this strong role without any deliberate effort. She used her soft and special voice to speak to the red panda, as if she was facing an assistant who had not met her requirements in the script.
"Before this, I hired girls who were completely different from you. They were slim and beautiful and said they loved fashion and the job, but in the end, they always disappointed me... and you..."
Qin An's gaze was clearly not fierce, but that natural, superior, and lofty aura was fully revealed through this one glance.
"You have a different resume than them. I thought you would be different... but your performance is far more disappointing than theirs."
She didn't emphasize the last word "disappointment" particularly, but when it came out of her soft voice, it had the effect of a final blow. Wei Lan felt like it was a blow to his heart.
If the person opposite was really a girl who had just entered the workplace and was full of dreams for the future, she would be crying uncontrollably now.
As expected, she is worthy of being the queen of film. Her ability in delivering lines and changing aura are totally incomparable to any actor Wei Lan has worked with before, even Yang Xingyuan, who just won the Best Actor award, is inferior to her.
Almost instantly Wei Lan decided that Qin An must be invited to play this role.
Because Qin An's superb acting skills are fully qualified for this role, her image and appearance, on the contrary, bring a kind of beauty of conflict. Without showing her fangs and claws or pretending to be indifferent, she can achieve an effect of being intimidating without being angry. It is really a wonderful chemical reaction.
It’s great to be rich and famous, as if the card pool in mobile games is all SSR.
"Queen." Wei Lan said suddenly.
Qin An was instantly pulled out of his acting state, looking at the panda in front of him with some confusion: "What?"
Wei Lan said with a pleasant smile: "The name of this movie is "The Queen", which is also the positioning of your role."
Qin An now understood that she had passed the audition. She smiled and said, "So... it was a pleasure working with you?"
“It’s a pleasure to work with you!”
While controlling the panda to shake hands with Qin An, Wei Lan looked at Qin An's long, gentle hair. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he asked, "Do you mind if I make your hair white in the movie?"
"I haven't tried it." Qin An opened his mouth in surprise, but soon revealed a smile of interest and expectation: "It's really interesting to cooperate with young people, so let's give it a try."
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