The Spring Festival in 2012 came earlier than usual, and the New Year ended at the end of January.

The farce of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" and the Oscars, with the arrival of the lively Spring Festival and Li Qian's laziness to pay attention to Zhang Weiping, also slowly came to an end.

Since there are no popular movies in the Spring Festival file, the only two blockbusters "Counter War" and "The Great Magician" were pressed and rubbed on the ground by "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

The industry has fallen into a period of silence, and this Spring Festival stall is a little tepid.

However, "Pleasant Goat" did not dominate the list for long, and was overturned by Tom's "Mission Impossible 4", and the box office exceeded 100 million in two days, setting a new record for the fastest imported film to break 100 million.

Hollywood films have begun to dominate the mainland film market for a long time.

During this period, the comedy "Dinner is Crazy" starring Huang Bo, "Time and Space Rescue" starring Huo Jianhua and Jing Tian, and "High Altitude Love" starring Gu Tianle and Gao Yuanyuan were all ruthlessly swept into the trash.

There is nothing to care about during the Spring Festival, and after Li Qian spent a year in a leisurely manner, he continued to devote himself to work.

Most of the company's several projects have started to be launched, "Celebrating More Than Years" has started filming, and "Jaws 3" will start filming in early March.

"Funeral Coffin", Qi Yukun also went to southern Henan, and the movie will be filmed in situ.

The production of the original film is a little rough, and it is obvious that it is estimated that it is subject to cost issues.

This time, Li Qian directly gave a production cost of 10 million, which is enough for such a movie.

actors, according to what Qi Yukun said, look for local actors in southern Henan, or simply don't look for professional actors, and find locals to act.

However, Li Qian still recommended an actress in the company, Li Meng, a natural literary film actor.

The script of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is still in difficult childbirth, and it is impossible to do it this year.

As for Li Qian's own "Truman's World", the past two months have been slow and leisurely, and half of the sub-shots have been completed one after another.

There is no hurry, I write for four or five hours a day, there is no need to tire myself, the time is enough to catch up.

In addition, Li Qian also remembered that he had been thinking about what he was going to do before, but he forgot about it.

I bought some film and television copyrights, and I bought some of the TV series with the same name in my memory, and filmed it slowly.

It's all trivial things, mainly the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series, and after more than half a month, Xu Ke also figured out which one to shoot first.

"Director Li, I think it's better to start filming with the first "Exquisite Ancient City", even if the sales of physical books and Internet hits are particularly high, but there are many viewers who have not read the original work, and the first part should set up the characters and background. ”

Xu Ke's suggestion is to shoot the first one first, after all, a movie, even if it is an adaptation, the necessary characters and backgrounds must be explained.

If you start shooting from the back, of course, you can also explain the background of the characters, but it is not as smooth as the first part.

"It's okay to shoot "Exquisite Ancient City" first. Li Qian nodded, the "Looking for the Dragon" in his memory should not be based on which one, but a story based on the original book and adapted separately.

You can shoot it no matter how you want, anyway, Xu Ke shoots it himself, this subject, Li Qian believes that he will not mess up.

However, there are some things Li Qian still has to say first, "Director Xu, the content of the adaptation is still based on exploration, breakthroughs, monsters, and treasure hunting, and the theme of tomb robbery, optoelectronics will definitely not be so easy to pass, rather than revise and modify it when the time comes, it is better to avoid it now." ”

"I understand this, materialism. ”

Xu Ke smiled, of course he knew this, looking at gambling movies, zombie movies, and ghost movies that were banned in the mainland, he knew that tomb robbing, including some mysterious things, must not be had.

Li Qian and Tsui Hark chatted about their creative ideas, which were basically based on the story of the first "Exquisite Ancient City" and carried out secondary processing on it.

The positioning of the movie is suspense and adventure, and the core is suspense and adventure.

Most of the time, Xu Ke is saying, Li Qian is listening, making movies is a very self-conscious thing, especially a big director, who has been famous for many years and has his own unique style and habits, Li Qian will not go to many times to intervene.

The box office of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" is only more than 500 million points, which is a little short of expectations, and the reputation is average, the importance of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" to Xu Ke is self-evident.

After chatting for three hours and determining the direction and theme of the shooting, Xu Ke took his leave.

"Director Xu, it's not too early, why don't we have a meal together. Li Qian looked at the time and invited.

"It may not work today, but Huayang Media will hold an annual meeting in the evening, and I agreed to attend. Xu Ke said apologetically.

"Okay, another day. Li Qian nodded.

.....

Xu Ke went back, put down the manuscript, and went to the Kerry Center Hotel in Beijing.

The 2012 Huayang Media Group Annual Meeting was held in the Grand Ballroom, which can accommodate up to 1,500 guests on the second floor of the Kerry Centre.

As the largest private film and television company in China, Huayang Media's annual meeting has always been full of appearance.

However, this year, with the departure of Shuangbing + Zhou Xun, Deng Chao and Wang Baoqiang are also gone, and the new generation has not yet been able to hold up the scene, and the annual meeting will not be enough.

That is, Huang Xiaoming, who set up a studio to work alone, and Zhang Hanyu, the biggest actress now is Yao Chen.

If you have to say it, she is also the queen of Weibo, and if she divorces by mistake, she can still let the man be abused by the whole network, which can be regarded as a big name.

However, Cheng Longlai came to the scene, and Ma Qingyang, one of the shareholders, showed up briefly and left, which can be regarded as giving face.

The lively annual meeting lasted for three hours and ended, although the star lineup was not as good as two or three years ago, but Huang Zhongjun was still very satisfied.

In 2011, Huayang Media's net profit was as high as 250 million, which was obtained when the film business plummeted by 70%.

Last year, Huayang Media did not release any films at all, and the profit could reach a record high of 250 million, and this year's "1942", "Zodiac", and "Painted Skin 2" are three big productions that hit one billion, as well as the "Tai Chi" series of two-part series.

If we can settle the box office share within this year, it will really be a flip with our eyes closed.

In addition, the old rival Zhang Weiping was killed by Li Qian, "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" hurt his muscles and bones, and Minsheng Bank urged the 150 million loan every day, which is no longer a climate, and Zhang Yimou can't save the new picture.

Huang Zhongjun, who was in a good mood, was now able to lower his posture in the face of Teng Huatao, touched a glass with him, and apologized for what happened before.

"Hua Tao, I really can't stand you last year, the company's business was not very good at that time, and my brain was a little dull. ”

Teng Hua said with a smile, "Huang Dong's words are serious, I understand." ”

Huang Zhonglei next to him saw that Teng Huatao's mood was quite good, and thought that the appeasement during this time had played a role, after all, he had been in a relationship for several years, so he said with a look of self-blame.

"Actually, I was blamed at the time, you also know me as a person, I am good at eating, drinking and having fun, but I don't know anything about professional things like movies, why did you say that I was confused at the time, and I didn't approve money for you in time. ”

The two brothers apologized here for not investing in "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" for Tenghuatao last year, and they both blamed themselves, and the wine was twice as dry.

The apology is true, and self-blame is also true, after all, a "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" has a direct profit of 200 million yuan, plus the indirect income caused by popular actors, and it can be changed into a TV series, which is also a proper hit.

This movie alone topped Huayang Media's profits last year.

Can the Huang brothers not regret it, their intestines are about to regret it.

"Zhonglei, why are you still talking about this, it's over. ”

Teng Huatao was still smiling, and his already round face looked as if he really didn't care at all.

Seeing him like this, the Huang brothers also breathed a sigh of relief, a blockbuster director, it was impossible to meet at that time.

However, Huang Zhonglei was faintly puzzled, and Teng Huatao's smile seemed to be a little familiar, but he didn't care.

After a heart-to-heart exchange, the relationship between each other seems to have returned to a year ago, when they tasted wine together, played ball together, and had a party together.

Seeing that it was almost over, Huang Zhonglei seemed to inadvertently ask Teng Huatao what his plans were next.

Teng Hua took a sip of the wine in the glass and said with a smile, "The plan is nothing, it is to cooperate with Future Pictures to invest in the filming of the TV series version of "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love". ”

As soon as these words came out, Huang Zhongjun and Huang Zhonglei's faces changed color at the same time.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with this, it is normal for "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" to make a TV series, but in front of them, it is intriguing to say that it will be co-invested with Future Pictures.

Before they could come back to their senses, Teng Huatao said again, "There is also Bao Jingjing tinkering with a new script." ”

"I'm preparing a new film so soon, I've been looking forward to your new film for a long time, and I'll personally help you prepare for this film. Huang Zhonglei said busily.

"That's troublesome loyalty. Teng Hua said with a smile.

Get!

Huang Zhonglei handed Huang Zhongjun a look that I had already assured, and both of them smiled.

However, Teng Huatao immediately said, "This time the three of us will work together to complete this movie, and I think it will be more successful than "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love". ”

"Hehe, that's ......"

Huang Zhonglei couldn't laugh anymore halfway through laughter.

Three-way?

Huayang, Teng Huatao, and Li Qian?

Teng Huatao wants to invest himself, this is for sure, 600 million box office directors are enough to qualify.

However, you still have to pull Li Qian together?

At this time, Huang Zhonglei immediately remembered why Teng Huatao's smiling appearance was so familiar.

Li Qian is smiling like that, a standard smiling face, very annoying.

I haven't seen you for a year, Teng Huatao seems to have not only rebelled, but even laughed and learned from Li Qian!

For a moment, the Huang brothers didn't know what to say.

At this time, Xu Ke walked over with a wine glass, which was regarded as relieving them.

Teng Huatao and Xu Ke exchanged two words and walked away under the pretext.

Huang Zhongjun could only put it aside, slowly did his work later, and smiled at Xu Ke, "Director Xu, how is the script preparation of the prequel of "Di Renjie", how is the preparation of the script of the prequel of "Di Renjie", you can say how much investment you want this time, 200 million 300 million is no problem." ”

Teng Huatao rebelled, but there is still Xu Ke's "Di Renjie" series.

However, Xu Ke's answer made Huang Zhongjun stunned.

"I'm sorry Huang Dong, recently Li Qian invited me to remake the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series, I have watched this one several times a few times, and I like it very much, so I plan to shoot "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" first, and then shoot the prequel of "Di Renjie", it just so happens that the series does not need to be so intensive, one every few years, let the audience digest it. Xu Ke said with a smile.

“......”

"Grass!" Huang Zhongjun burst out with a national scold in his heart, what is the matter, why was Xu Ke abducted!

......

ps: The students who watched "Eight Hundred" today will give a score.

8 points, classic.

7 points, a must-see.

6 points, it's worth taking the time to watch.

5 points, it's really boring, you can watch it if you have nothing to do.

4 points, I'd rather lie at home and the corpse is not worth seeing.

The movie ticket has risen from 33 to 40 yesterday, and I will watch it next time I order it for six minutes.