Chapter 166 Xiaoqiang's vitality is strong
"Fuck, she actually turned over. How could God be so blind."
Xiao Qi's new assistant, Li Mei, was constantly cursing. This girl had a fiery temper and a strong hatred for evil. Normally, someone with that kind of temper wouldn't be suitable for a celebrity assistant.
The strange thing is that, when she is not angry, she is so gentle and homely. She never smiles or talks when she sees someone, and she has a good temper, as if she has no temper at all. People who don't know her always praise her to death for her good temper.
She's tall and slender, full of energy and a hardworking person who can't wait a moment. A graduate of a second-tier university, she has a decent enough education and is incredibly adept with her phone, especially when it comes to making short videos, both filming and editing them. Since her arrival, Ye Mengyu's videos on short video platforms have been highly praised. The company's account has amassed millions of followers.
Traffic hunter.
Most importantly, she is a cooking genius. The taste of the rice she cooks is so delicious that people can’t stop eating.
She should have been placed in the publicity department to specialize in short videos.
She was originally going to take over Xiaoqi's job.
Xiaoqi has now started to manage artists as an executive agent.
It’s just that the new employee doesn’t have that much work to do, so when she’s not busy, she comes back and takes over from Li Mei.
Aunt Monroe is now Li Mei's assistant, helping her.
Sister Luan still used the name of her big agent and sent Zhang Dahai, an agent who had been poached and tested for a period of time and had a very good reputation in the industry, to be her executive agent.
Zhang Dahai was certainly happy to do it. What was wrong with being an executive agent? Being the boss's executive agent would mean he'd be promoted directly to the company's artist director. His salary wouldn't be reduced, so the title wasn't important at all!
As for the executing broker, it depends on who you are acting as the executing broker for.
What is Yu’s current status in the circle?
All he needs to do is win an award-winning movie to become a top-tier superstar!
It is because of him that Xiaoqi always comes to work part-time as an assistant to learn.
Usually, Li Mei and Sister Monroe follow me.
Li Mei is even better at gossiping than Xiao Qi, and her ability to gossip is even better than Xiao Qi's.
She also understands human relationships better. Whether she has something to do or not, she walks around among the staff with various samples sent by merchants, claiming to help try the samples and listen to feedback. She does small favors and does a lot of favors.
She knows about 70% to 80% of the gossip in the entertainment industry.
Ye Mengyu was impressed. This level was almost as high as her ability to read other people's minds in her previous life.
Look, the period drama that Zhou Xuran invested in was a huge hit. It really pissed her off, and she started criticizing the show from the beginning to the end.
After the incident of Zhou Xuran grabbing the C position, he was silent for more than half a year and was banned from various evening parties and award ceremonies. He did not appear on any satellite TV programs.
After spending nine figures on marketing and relying on Xia Shu's unwavering support, he barely managed to become a regular guest on an online variety show. It was a show where several people played house together, with a few guests appearing each episode, and a large group of people working, cooking, chatting, and engaging in scheming.
He became famous by quarreling with others, and became a black and red person.
After that, I found a way to appear on two satellite TV programs.
It can be considered as an official comeback after the ban was lifted.
Then came the period dramas, and she was an investor who rode the drama's popularity.
When the drama became a hit, everyone involved got to share in the profits. As the financial sponsor, it was normal for her to be praised by all parties.
However, this movie that has received a lot of funding is doomed to fail, and it is still unknown when it will be released.
"She's just following Sister Yu to get some benefits. She'd be awesome if she could come up with her own story."
The reason why Li Mei said this is because the period drama produced by Mengzhu Entertainment became popular earlier than the one invested by Zhou Xuran.
A drama becomes a hit, and other dramas with the same theme are released soon after. They are of similar quality and they ride on the popularity of the previous drama to make money.
"Isn't she busy filming a drama about a family feud?"
Maybe they have tasted the sweetness, wow, their new project is shooting based on what Ye Mengyu has shot before.
She started filming "The Mistress of the Marquis's House" early and had finished filming a few months ago, but Director Kong was famous for his meticulous craftsmanship, and since it was a long drama with more than 60 episodes, it had to be completed even slower.
We set up a group here to rush the shooting and make up for the lost time.
"This is even more infuriating. Damn, copying someone else's subject matter is tasteless enough, but they even bought our costumes. They just made a few minor changes and used ready-made ones. The high-definition Reuters marketing costumes and makeup are exquisite. Bah, shameless. Birds of a feather flock together. She's so rich, but she didn't even bother to go to a good hospital for injections. She's becoming more and more like silicone..."
Collecting old costumes and remaking them for use is truly disgusting. If other productions were to use them, it would be out of thriftiness, but if Zhou Xuran were to use them, Chunchun would just be annoying her.
Speaking of faces, there's something even funnier.
No matter how much he thought, Ye Mengyu was planning to wait for Su Lansu, the elder sister who had taken advantage of Jiang Fanyu the most, to fall into trouble and then give her a beating. If it weren't for the fact that she still had some dramas waiting to be aired, and he didn't want her work to be unavailable and offend her colleagues, he would have taken action long ago.
Being the industry's biggest boss isn't a good reputation. She has a good reputation within the industry, but she doesn't drag innocent people into her struggles. Small companies that desperately try to invest in a project and then can't get it off the shelves could actually go bankrupt.
Those who invested in her project before she issued the warning need not be implicated. But those who still invested in her project after the warning, deserved it.
Before this, Sister Su couldn't get any dramas starring the heroine of Eternal Love. She had to invest and produce it herself. She didn't have a lot of capital, so she could only invest 100 million or 200 million at most, and the whole family had to live frugally.
Even good male leads are nowhere to be found, so she resorts to casting newcomers to fill in the gaps. She carries the show alone, which increases the risk, making her even more hesitant to try a career change, confined to her comfort zone of period dramas. She keeps filming one film after another, draining away her previously accumulated fame. By the time it's all gone, she'll be forgotten.
It's almost consumed now.
Her downfall, aside from Ye Mengyu's minor push, was primarily due to Zhou Xuran's shrewd tactics. Her methods of hyping things up were almost identical to Su Lan's. She was also richer than Su Lan, and money came naturally to her. Furthermore, she had a better foundation. Plus, she had Xia Shu, her true boyfriend, who was a mutual friend.
In the field of high-investment marketing, Zhou Xuran squeezed Su Lan out.
With two-thirds of his fans gone, relying solely on bots, he couldn't compete with regular people. Su Lan no longer dared to use Jiang Fanyu for marketing. What does it mean to have unequal status? This is it.
In the past, anyone with their eyes knew that it was impossible for her and Jiang Fanyu to be together, but she still had fans and money, so she could use a lot of marketing and force herself to get the job.
Now, I'm not even worthy of it.
The entertainment industry is so cruel.
"In just three short years, people have come and gone, so many people have jumped in and out of favor, rising and falling, coming and going. Now, surprisingly, only one Pisces couple remains. Mr. Jiang, you're quite pitiful. No one dares to tie you down as a newcomer. There's not even a single person who can fight you..."
Ye Mengyu even teased Jiang Fanyu about this matter. He was almost becoming a true flower on the Internet, and he couldn't be easily picked.
"I'm not afraid of me, I'm afraid of you. The tigress next to me is too powerful and eats people, so no one chased me away. It's all thanks to my wife."
The only thing missing from their relationship is an official announcement. Why would anyone want to offend a young lady who is at the peak of her career? That's crazy.
"After I finish filming my movie, can we go on a variety show?"
"Okay, what's the content?"
"Promote national art and show affection."
"Hmm? In what form?"
"We'll invite three families, each choosing an art form to promote. The general plan is to record the guests' daily lives and invite professional guest stars to promote ethnic culture. For example, I plan to learn embroidery at home and invite Master Wang Mulan to be our guest to explain embroidery-related knowledge. Then, I'll start a company with Xia Liangwei to customize embroidery-related clothing, combining traditional skills with modern craftsmanship and promoting it..."
"Oh, I see. It's for your new company, right? It's not enough to just shoot a TV series, you have to shoot a variety show too."
Xia Liangwei, the last disciple of Master Wang Mulan, my mother-in-law's good friend, has returned to China for some time and gets along very well with Ye Mengyu.
The two of them thought about it for some time and decided to create their own high-end brand.
It is not the traditional sense, and it does not have to be haute couture recognized by some foreign clothing association.
Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy the ones made by yourself. Only a dozen or dozens of sets are produced each year. They are truly handmade, treasure-level, and the finished products are top-level customization that can be put into museums.
Now that she has her own brand, Ye Mengyu can wear her own brand in all the activities she attends in the future.
This is also the best advertising space, so don’t waste it.
It doesn't mean you have to wear it on the red carpet just because you have a high-end brand endorsement.
As soon as she said the content, Jiang Fanyu immediately realized what the purpose was.
By participating in a variety show, you can earn three kinds of money: one is for the labor fee of the variety show, one is for the promotion of the TV series, and one is for the promotion of the brand.
How much advertising expenses can be saved?
Jiang Fanyu couldn't help laughing at this little calculation. "You have a good business acumen. You've made progress. Killing eight birds with one stone."
"You can just tell me I'm picking at you, and that's fine with me."
"It's good to be stingy. The richer you are, the stingier you are."
"Are you not going to film anymore?"
After two years without filming, Ye Mengyu was curious to see that Jiang Fanyu had no intention of making a comeback. The ancient costume drama that had ruined her life hadn't been filmed yet.
After main-theme and comedies dominated the domestic box office for a few years, it’s time for a few costume films.
"When filming, we're always choosing scripts. Good screenwriters are hard to come by, and most are already established and become bosses, taking on new talent, and the new talent isn't very talented. The big directors are also bosses, and they insist on creating and mastering the story structure themselves, refusing to listen to the screenwriters and insisting on doing it themselves. But being a good director doesn't guarantee a good screenwriter.
Art films want to be both artistic and profitable, while commercial films want both money and prestige, and the result is a mess.
Everyone wants the right to speak, but too many dragons won’t help with water control, and the script will be awkward.
I figured if all else failed, I could just find a talented new director, buy the rights, and ask a screenwriter to rewrite the film. If I wanted to make something I was satisfied with, and it came down to finding a good script and a good team, the chances were slim.
You still have to do it yourself."
"Now you know how I feel. Why do I have to fund this project myself? I can't stand all this hassle. This movie has so many production companies, and Sister Luan is almost going crazy. I have to fight with people all day long. I have to coordinate relationships with all parties and suppress those who want to make trouble.
I am also convinced. Director Zheng joined the crew with the endorsement of the box office champion, and the screenwriter is from our Mengzhu Entertainment team, which has never had a failed work.
The main character is still me.
Even this can't suppress their ambitions. They always want to make trouble. Even after killing them several times, there are still some who refuse to believe in evil."
To suppress the rebellion, the actors were replaced twice. Once, they were replaced shortly after filming began to avoid any bad habits. Another time, the actor was in the final scenes of filming and wanted to take advantage of the situation because the crew didn't want to waste so much money. As a result, they failed and were fired.
How much extra money is spent.
When there are more people, there are more problems. Even the chefs have had troubles.
Most of them were first-time partners, thinking that the young lady was a big money sponsor with plenty of money, so they all wanted to get a piece of the pie. But then they hit a wall and realized that the young lady was not easy to fool, so they would be honest.
It's all about battles of wits and courage.
There are many things to do in making a movie besides acting well. Director Zheng is a hands-off boss who doesn't care about anything other than filming. Everything else has to be done by Sister Luan. Ye Mengyu is a worrywart and can't do anything but just watch.
I can only step in and help.
She really cherishes her work. Her lifelong dream in her previous life was to make a pure movie that was completely to her liking, not influenced by capital, and without all the messy things she knew about.
Now that she has the chance, if she fails to do well, she will feel sorry for her journey through time.
If you strive for excellence, your heart will be tired.
Xingyao was the biggest sponsor of Jiang Fanyu’s previous works, but apart from providing money, he only did his job as an actor and didn’t care about anything else.
In the past two years, taking care of the children at home was one aspect, and not being able to find scripts was another.
It seems that I will be forced to do the project myself!
There is actually not much difference between them and those big directors and screenwriters.
In the final analysis, they all just want the right to speak.
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