From "Famous" to "Time Raiders", Wei Yang has starred in two consecutive movies with Fan Xiaopang. The information revealed is worth pondering.

Soon, someone dug out a new company called Bingyang Entertainment under Fan Xiaopang's name. Its only two shareholders were her and a small company. After tracing the equity, it was found that the boss behind the company was Wei Yang.

Tsk tsk!

They are making movies and starting a company together. Even the person in charge of the previously high-profile Coral Entertainment was once Fan's man, which made many people curious.

Could it be that Fan Yang succeeded in getting promoted? Since 2009's "My Love from the Star", the two have been flirting with each other, sometimes in a sister-brother relationship, sometimes in a love triangle, and before they were filmed in the same hotel, Fan Xiaopang brought food and clothes to Wei Yang.

At this stage, it seems that they have taken a step further and even started a company together, which inevitably makes people think too much.

So at the opening ceremony of "Time Raiders", some media asked directly about the relationship between the two.

"If opening a company means being in love, then the marriage certificate should not be obtained from the Civil Affairs Bureau, but from the Industry and Commerce Bureau."

Wei Yang was very calm: "I am a businessman. Investment cooperation is common. This Bingyang company is just a cooperation project between the two of us, nothing more."

The reporter was unwilling: "Then can I ask, why do you want to start a company with Miss Fan?"

"Because she is Fan Bingbing!"

Wei Yang pointed at the smiling Fatty Fan next to him and asked in confusion, "She is one of the most popular female stars in this country and even in Asia. Her personal brand and commercial value are a valuable asset. Is it confusing for us to start a company together?"

Putting aside the rumors about the two of them, there is almost nothing to discuss about this matter.

Stars of Fan Xiaopang's level have particularly strong commercial value, and some companies and enterprises cooperate with them.

Even if there were no Wei Yang and Blue Whale, there would be Tangde Film and Television or other companies. From the perspective of normal business logic, it would be a normal investment and operation. It was only because of the relationship between the two that it was hyped up.

Even though Wei Yang has given an explanation now, and it is well-founded, many people still believe that the business cooperation is mixed with personal feelings.

Of course, their persistence is not without reason, and this is indeed the truth of the matter. Boss Wei is just being stubborn.

Compared to Boss Wei, who felt somewhat guilty, Fat Fan was much more open and even started advertising.

This year, "The Legend of Wu Mei Niang", jointly produced by Blue Whale and Ice Ocean, will be officially launched and is expected to start filming in the second half of next year or early next year. Fan Xiaopang will personally play the heroine Wu Mei Niang.

This was not unexpected, but what interested everyone more was whether the male lead would be played by Wei Yang.

Neither Fan nor Wei gave a clear response to this point, which is actually a euphemism for notification.

Wei Yang + Fan Xiaopang, the cost of filming is unstoppable.

Whether the TV station can afford it or not is another matter. The more important thing is that "The Empress of China" is a drama with a strong female lead, so there is no need to bring in Wei Yang as a foil.

It would be fine if the female lead was a newcomer, and Wei Yang's participation would help to raise her profile, but with Fan Xiaopang's fame, there is absolutely no need for this.

It's not impossible to get Wei Yang to play the male lead, but the cost-effectiveness is really too poor. Unless it's an exclusive project of Blue Whale, I guess the team and even the company will not support it.

With this much time, Wei Yang could personally take the lead in another project, and the profits might be even higher than joining "The Empress of China".

Of course, the most important thing is that Wei Yang doesn’t want to.

If he really wants to build a platform for Fan Xiaopang, who can stop him? There are too many such cases in the entertainment industry. Everything is concerned with gains and losses and rankings. Many big names really don't have many roles to play.

The reason why Wei Yang didn't want to was not because he felt that Fan Xiaopang was not worthy of being his foil, but because he didn't like the script of "The Legend of Wu Mei Niang".

Although the adaptation by the Blue Whale screenwriter team is slightly better than the original version, it still cannot escape the essence of Mary Sue.

The setting of a young emperor who is in love in the early stage and a scumbag in the middle and late stages really has no appeal to Wei Yang.

As long as Li Zhi in the play is better portrayed, no matter whether he is a good or evil person, even if he is a super invincible perverted scumbag, as long as his characteristics are more distinct, the character setting is outstanding, and there are enough memorable points, Wei Yang might consider it.

Just like Yongzheng in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", even though it is a drama with a strong female lead, her room for performance and presence are not weak at all.

However, the character of Li Zhi in "The Empress of China" is too mediocre, even a bit like a tool, a mere foil for the heroine Wu Meiniang. Naturally, Wei Yang has little interest in him.

These entertainment reporters are all veterans and naturally understand the subtext, but that does not stop them from still writing "Wei Yang is suspected to be starring in the film."

After all, this will attract traffic and high attention, and Wei Yang and Fan Xiaopang will not clarify for various reasons.

Mutual benefit!

The scandal between Wei Yang and Fan Xiaopang occupied most of the opening ceremony, and the rest was discussion about the movie.

This time in "Time Raiders", Wei Yang did not serve as the director, but his behind-the-scenes identity was the producer + chief screenwriter + supervisor.

But everyone considers him to be the first creator of this film.

Because the directors of "Time Raiders" are two unknown newcomers, one named Su Lun and the other named Tian Yusheng.

The former just graduated from college a few years ago, and according to public information, he has not even participated in a formal film and television crew. His shooting experience is all in MVs or commercials.

The latter is also very young, less than 30 years old this year. He is a screenwriter and his representative work is "Lost on Journey". He has no experience as a director.

The fact that these two completely new directors were able to become directors of "Time Raiders" is certainly because Wei Yang promoted the newcomers, but it also revealed that the two were just "puppets" and it was Wei Yang who had the final say in the crew.

In fact, he was not wrong. Although Wei Yang did not serve as the director, he had the final say in the crew of "Time Raiders".

It's just that outsiders don't know much. Those two new directors are not complete puppets, but real new talents with real abilities.

Su Lun was the original director of "Time Raiders" in his previous life, and he has a certain grasp of colors and visual images.

Tian Hanyu created the "Ex-Files Strategy" series and is considered an expert in the field of commercial love in the industry.

Of course, although both of them will achieve great things in the future, they are just rookies now and have a long way to go, so Wei Yang is needed to keep watch.

In fact, Wei Yang originally wanted to find Xue Xiaolu to shoot this movie, as she is good at love themes. He also thought of Chen Kexin, who is also a well-known love director.

However, Chen Kexin was busy with "Dear", and Xue Xiaolu was concentrating on filming "Love in Seattle", so their schedules conflicted.

In desperation, Wei Yang could only recruit two new directors and serve as the producer himself.

There is no doubt that with such a lineup, the presence of the two new directors is extremely low, and Wei Yang is also regarded by the outside world as the real director and controller of "Time Raiders".

Su and Tian did not express any dissatisfaction with this, and they themselves thought so.

As a result, Wei Yang, the leading actor, also has to take on some of the responsibilities of a director and talked about the movie.

"This is a story about time and space, somewhat similar to the original Twinkle Twinkle Star, but the setting is quite different..."

Wei Yang is known as a genius screenwriter, largely because he likes to use atypical routines.

Not to mention the adaptations of online novels, many original scripts like to play tricks.

For example, his famous works "Twinkle Twinkle Star" and "My Love from the Star", and his debut film "Fame".

The first two are about time travel and aliens. The latter does not have so many bizarre settings, but it combines the Blizzard Villa mode with comedy and suspense very well.

At that time, some people were speculating when Wei Yang would make a movie with some strange settings. Unexpectedly, the second movie was "Time Raiders".

Time Travel + Cohabitation, just five words have created the most hype and expectations, making it a hot movie that everyone is looking forward to.

However, what disappointed everyone was that Wei Yang only briefly talked about the external settings and did not reveal too much. If they pressed the issue, they would just know when they went to the cinema.

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Instead, Fan Xiaopang talked about how he fell in love with the script and how he felt particularly attracted to it. He persuaded Wei Yang with all kinds of tricks and finally won him the role, making the media very happy. He will have no shortage of material when he returns.

Wei Yang looked at Fan Xiaopang with appreciation. Apart from anything else, in terms of publicity and marketing, Fan Xiaopang was definitely the woman with whom he had the best understanding.

There is a clear division of labor, and she is willing to provide information. When filming or doing activities with her, Wei Yang never has to worry about exposure and topics.

In fact, Xiao Zhao and Da Mimi can do this too, but their technique and timing are much worse. They are far inferior to Fan Xiaopang who can do it with ease and just the right sense of measure.

After the launch conference, the crew finally calmed down.

Fan Xiaopang took an interview, while Wei Yang was drinking water in the lounge and listening to the publicity team's cooperation and promotion plan.

Different from the group drama "Famous", "Time Raiders" basically consists of the roles of Wei and Fan, with a few supporting roles and cameo roles.

At present, most of the other actors have not joined the crew, and their roles are really limited, so the only two main actors who appeared were Wei Yang and Fan Xiaopang.

After finalizing the plan, Wei Yang pulled the two directors aside to discuss tomorrow's shooting schedule.

There is no need to say much about the room at the center of time and space. This can only be set in a studio, and then part of the exterior scene can be used in real places, and the rest can be used for special effects.

Since it is a time and space, Wei Yang attaches great importance to texture. The props must be well made, especially for the old time and space. Many real streets and locations require close attention to details.

The film has limited scenes and the production cost is not high, mainly focusing on special effects, set design and actors' salaries.

Especially Wei Yang's remuneration. After "Famous", his value skyrocketed, and his movie remuneration alone increased to the level of a first-line movie star.

The pay for a single movie starts at 8 million, which is catching up with Ge You.

There's no other way, since Uncle Ge is just a supporting role and needs to cooperate, while Wei Yang can support the project by himself. 8 million is just the starting price, and the actual amount he is invited to pay will definitely be more than this.

If you add in the cost of writing the script and the behind-the-scenes production fees, this price is considerable in the entertainment industry.

More importantly, Wei Yang doesn't just get the money. He is very similar to Cheng Long. In addition to the film salary, he also wants dividends.

For example, for "Time Raiders", Wei Yang's package price was 20 million + 10% of the movie dividend.

This price is already very generous. If Wei Yang had not already occupied the vast majority of the investment share, he would never agree to this ratio.

For example, in Cheng Long's "The Chinese Zodiac", he received no salary but directly took more than half of the share. In other words, he was the only one who contributed and did not pay a penny, which was a "freeloader".

Wei Yang is different. He separates himself from the company. The company's investment is investment, but he also gets personal remuneration. Of course, it's basically a "friendship price".

Both methods have their pros and cons. Cheng Long is bringing his personal brand to its fullest, while Wei Yang still has to take care of the company's development.

Fan Xiaopang is just paid for the film salary. Her salary has increased a lot now. The movie is priced at 8 million. Of course, the actual price is not that high, it can be done at 6.5 million.

Even so, this increase is still astonishing. You have to know that when she was filming "Famous" a year ago, her friendship price was only 2.8 million.

This is also the reason why Wei Yang insisted on establishing Coral Entertainment. The current increase in artist pay is too damn crazy.

Previously, there were not many first-tier artists with annual income exceeding 10 million yuan, but now many second-tier artists are expected to break through eight figures, and top artists are even expected to reach 100 million yuan.

With several top-tier and popular artists in their hands, their profits are no worse than those of some well-known film and television companies. The key is that they can save money by employing their own people.

Generally speaking, there is an internal price for the company's artists to shoot their own films, and the price depends on the boss's conscience.

The more particular ones will give 70% to 80% of the market price, the average ones will take half, the unscrupulous ones will give 30% to 40%, and the unscrupulous ones will just give a basic salary or even give no money, but few people do that.

Blue Whale is quite generous to artists, basically charging 70% to 80% of the market price, and sometimes even the market price. As the artist's fame and status rise, the price will also be raised.

In this case, the savings are actually not that much, at least a few hundred thousand, at most a few million, that's all.

But once the salaries of these artists go up, the amount saved will be very considerable, easily saving tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, and it may be even more in the future.

Not to mention the distant past, Blue Whale has tasted the sweetness of success with "Fall in Love with You" and "Swords of Legends".

The combined internal remuneration of the two saved Blue Whale eight figures in budget.

As a film producer, Wei Yang hates this inflated market very much, but as an artist and the boss of an artist company, he is eager for the film pay to soar.

It’s really painful and happy!

But no matter what, the total pay of Wei Yang, Fan Xiaopang and various supporting actors is almost 30 million. With the production costs + publicity and promotion, the cost of "Time Raiders" must be at least over 60 million.

That’s why everyone says Wei Yang makes a lot of money, and the market changes are even more dramatic. It is estimated that in two years, the revenue of popular film projects will not be less than nine figures.

Two years ago, Wei Yang thought 10 million was a large number, but now he feels numb to the number 100 million.

The term "small goal" means that things are getting easier and more comfortable...

(End of this chapter)