The investment in "Invincible Life" just reached 200 million, with Ding Ruifan’s salary accounting for 50 million.

After paying film taxes, the split earnings returned 450 million to the production side. Even after paying further taxes, everyone still made quite a profit.

Investors earned, and the production side also earned.

Compared to movies with tens of billions of box office revenues, the box office performance of "Invincible Life" isn’t particularly outstanding, it’s estimated that it won’t even make it to the top five of the year.

With two movie emperors helming the film, such box office results are really not ideal.

However, the production side was very clear that the movie failed because they chose the wrong director.

"If it wasn’t for Sheng Tang’s incident, this box office result wouldn’t even have existed," the production company’s person in charge said objectively, "At least half of the box office was driven by the hype around Sheng Tang’s incident."

"Moreover, in all the reviews, Xuanxuan received overwhelmingly positive remarks. We’ve all seen the script, Xuanxuan’s character isn’t particularly charming, and initially, several second-tier actresses were invited but none were very committed," another person in charge said.

"Yes, Sheng Tang really added a lot to this movie."

Not only were they commending Sheng Tang, but others also praised her.

All of a sudden, Sheng Tang received many scripts, including major productions, inviting her to audition for the lead actress role.

Such opportunities would never have come to her before.

Her previous audition opportunities were either for very small productions or large productions invested by Guanghong Media, where she could get a chance to audition for the second or third female role.

The audition opportunity alone was not an invitation for her to play the role, but merely a "ticket to the competition."

Now, major productions still offer her a "ticket to the competition," but the race track has changed from "supporting female" to "leading female."

Her status has risen a significant notch.

However, Sheng Tang was considering.

She and Ke Fei had looked through several scripts and weren’t particularly satisfied.

"... Better to have none than to have bad ones," Sheng Tang said to Ke Fei, "Zheng Weiwei’s ’Who Fears Who in the Workplace’ is releasing in the eleventh month, next month we’re going to promote it.

’Who Fears Who in the Workplace,’ is a film I star in. If it can achieve box office success, even if only as much as ’Invincible Life,’ we can receive even better scripts or negotiate for higher prices."

Ke Fei nodded in agreement.

Then, he rationally told Sheng Tang, "Doing this has both pros and cons."

The pros are, if ’Who Fears Who in the Workplace’ performs well at the box office, Sheng Tang indeed can seize better opportunities.

The cons are, if the film flops, and Sheng Tang wastes the current opportunities, consequently, those lead roles may go to others, causing her to miss out on opportunities.

Ke Fei didn’t directly say these words, knowing Sheng Tang understood.

Sure enough, Sheng Tang understood.

She nodded, "Brother Fei, in our line of work, luck plays a big part in our success. Take ’Invincible Life’ for example, when it was invested, who didn’t expect it to perform miracles at the box office?

Now you see, if it weren’t for my incident’s hard-hitting hype, it would’ve lost at least half its box office.

So, do you really think a good script and good partners undoubtedly guarantee success? I want to wait, wait until Zheng Weiwei’s film is released before choosing."

Ke Fei fell silent again.

There are not many truly good film projects each year.

Ke Fei felt the plans for the latter half of the year were all not as promising as the ones they received.

Yet, he trusted Sheng Tang’s intuition and remarkable judgment.

He nodded, "Alright, we’ll wait until October."