While Yang Xile was complaining that 1 million a year wasn't enough to live on, Lin Xiao and Xiao Yu were doing hard labor at 60 euros a day, and Xiao Yu's senior was meticulously calculating every penny of her expenses.
Wei Changfeng, on the other hand, was looking at the 15 million yuan endorsement fee in the contract and hesitating.
"This price? Brother Hui, are you saying this is a fast-moving consumer good just launched by a newly established company?" he asked, looking at Zhao Hui.
"I know what you're trying to say, it doesn't make sense, right?" After all, the agent and he had worked together for several years, so they had that kind of understanding.
“Although it’s a new company, it’s backed by Xiangyu Group, which has plenty of funds. There’s no need to worry about that,” Zhao Hui explained.
"Xiangyu Group? Isn't that a company that produces steel and machinery?" Wei Changfeng was even more puzzled upon hearing this.
Zhao Hui nodded: "It's a new company established by the daughter of the chairman of Xiangyu Group. She says she wants to diversify the group's industries, probably hoping to use the power of capital to extend her reach into all aspects and get involved in more fields."
Samsung, a South Korean company, covers many industries. It is said that South Koreans cannot live without Samsung from birth to death.
We don't understand business matters, but it seems like many large companies do this.
"Good heavens, that's quite an ambition!" Wei Changfeng exclaimed.
"Brother Hui, do you think this collaboration is reliable? I don't have any other concerns, but I'm mainly worried that if the new company goes bankrupt after we endorse the product, we'll be criticized to some extent."
Zhao Hui understood his concerns. Previously, a prominent figure in the film industry had endorsed several products, and two or three of them later faced the crisis of the companies going bankrupt and the products ceasing production. This led to him being ridiculed online for a while, with people saying that whatever he endorsed would fail.
Moreover, Wei Changfeng's status is far from comparable to that big shot. If the products he endorses don't sell well, at most it's just a matter of not renewing the contract next year. But if a new product disappears from the market, the resulting public opinion storm could be more serious, and it would also give his critics ammunition against him.
Although celebrities don't care about these haters and marketing accounts, it's always good to be cautious when it comes to business collaborations.
Zhao Hui said that it seems quite reliable at present, mainly because it has the backing of Xiangyu Group. This new company and its new products should not be too bad, and its future development should be relatively stable.
After all, this is a company founded by the chairman's child. Even if it encounters difficulties, how could the head office not lend a helping hand in time?
According to the current schedule, Wei Changfeng can take two days off in mid-May, during which time he will focus on filming the scenes between the second male lead and the female lead.
Zhao Hui asked him to return to Beijing at that time to meet with the person in charge of the other company to discuss cooperation matters in detail.
Many fans arrived in Hengdian on the same day as Zhao Hui.
After finishing their business, Zhao Hui and Wei Changfeng talked about how they had encountered his fans when they were getting out of the airport, and Zhao Hui handed over the letters and gifts from the girls to him.
Wei Changfeng cherishes every letter from his fans because these letters represent the pure love and support from strangers, giving him a lot of strength.
However, more and more fans are visiting the set now, and people gather around whenever the set goes out, waiting and filming outside the venue, which has caused some trouble for the staff.
However, the fans' behavior was spontaneous, and even if the celebrities and their management companies tried to persuade them, it had little effect.
Fortunately, Wei Changfeng's fans are generally quite obedient. As long as he goes out with makeup and hair that he doesn't want to be seen in advance, and Xiao Hao and Zhao Hui signal to him not to take pictures, they will obediently put down their phones and cameras.
But paparazzi don't care about any of that. They don't have any "true love" for the celebrities they want to photograph; they're just in it for the money.
The more photos they take, the more likely they are to sell them, so they don't care whether the itinerary is public or private, or whether the photos are handsome or ugly, as long as they can get the photos.
These past two days have mainly featured scenes between Wei Changfeng and Du Shuang, which have been very intense.
That afternoon, Du Shuang was filming a gunfight scene when she had to do more than ten takes due to problems with the props, and she gradually became irritable.
If the blood packs explode at the wrong time, you have to redo your entire outfit, makeup, and hair – it's incredibly exhausting.
Wei Changfeng's frontal shots were filmed by himself, but due to his leg injury, the scenes of him leaping and jumping off buildings were completed by stunt double Wang Chang.
Du Shuang's stunt double and lighting double were also waiting on set, but because Du Shuang insisted on doing most of the action scenes herself, they were not used much.
Du Shuang was not in good condition that day, and after several takes, she had to call in a stunt double.
Director Xu sat behind the camera with a stern expression, clearly dissatisfied with the result of the 20th take.
Finally, after the 25th take, the shot that Director Xu wanted was captured.
After filming the gunfight scene where they leaped from the restaurant, it was Wei Changfeng and Du Shuang's turn to take the stage and film some close-ups and extreme close-ups of the front and side views.
Compared to the previous action scenes, this scene between the two went quite smoothly, requiring only five or six takes. Then came the scene where the third female lead arrived on set and met up with the first female lead.
After finishing filming, Wei Changfeng returned to Zhao Hui and Xiao Hao, who were waiting for him on set. Zhao Hui whispered to him, "Director Xu is indeed as strict as he's known."
Xiao Hao whispered, "Brother Hui, you don't know, Director Xu can be terrifying when he gets angry."
"Changfeng got scolded?" Zhao Hui asked. He hadn't been in Hengdian for a while and didn't know what was going on.
"It's not my brother, it's the third female lead. She's been publicly scolded and made to cry several times. It seems she got in through connections."
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