"Xiao Gang, don't underestimate this Li Qian, he may not be able to play with realistic themes, just the "Perfect World" the year before last, which was half a realistic movie. ”

Compared with Ma Xiaogang, who was already full of hostility towards Li Qian, Liu Zhenyun is much more objective, even if he does not approve of the movie "Perfect World".

At the age of 14, he lied about his age to join the army because of his height advantage, and at the age of 19, he returned to his hometown to work as a teacher, teaching students during the day and reviewing and preparing for the college entrance examination at night.

However, although "Perfect World" is about children's education, it avoids school and learning, and does not criticize this aspect, Liu Zhenyun's sense of the movie is not bad, and he even agrees that this is a classic movie.

Ma Xiaogang still had that disdainful face, and he said with a slight mockery, "I don't dare to assert other genres, but the reality theme, he is young, do you have that experience, as for "Perfect World", it is just a plagiarism of "This Killer is Not Too Cold", but what is this "I am not the God of Medicine", does he have a place to copy, Hollywood does not have many movies about medical themes, not to mention classics for him to copy. ”

Come on, Ma Xiaogang is so extreme, Liu Zhenyun doesn't bother to say it.

Chen Guochang smiled, "In your opinion, in which direction will this "I Am Not the God of Medicine" be a realistic movie?"

Realistic movies, or medicines, which are related to people's livelihood, cannot be separated from both directions no matter how they are filmed.

One is to criticize the government, and criticize the beneficiaries of all parties.

The other direction is often said in various documents of optoelectronics, to carry forward the socialist core value system as its own responsibility, in the creation of the ideological connotation, enrich artistic expression, enhance the realm of character, leading the pursuit of value.

Which direction?

Ma Xiaogang didn't have to think about it, "If you really want to please the above, you won't be able to please the audience, Li Qian is not that stupid, and didn't I hear that Li Qian went to China Film a year ago, I am probably afraid that I will not be able to pass the trial, so it must be critical." ”

This kind of sensitive subject matter, or the direction of criticism, really doesn't know how to die.

Even if the script can be fooled, but the finished film still has to be submitted for review, and if you can't escape, when you see the film criticizing the government, system, and hospital, you can make the ghost after the trial.

Even if the deletion and modification have been reviewed, the movie has no taste of criticism, and who will watch it.

Moreover, a young man in his twenties has no life experience, how can he make a good reality-themed movie, is it a demon!

No matter how you look at it, Li Qian's "I Am Not the God of Medicine" has a high probability of failure, and Ma Xiaogang can't wait to see the day the movie is released, and wants to see Li Qian's fiasco.

Even, Ma Xiaogang regretted a little that he had been procrastinating before and did not prepare "1942" earlier.

Otherwise, if you hurry up a little, this year's Chinese New Year file will be released, and you will be ashamed!

What a pity!

......

Several movies in the Spring Festival have been released for half a month, except for "Time Planning Bureau", there is no heat, the newly released "The Green Hornet" and "Love to the End" are not small, but the discussion about Li Qian's new film, with the media breaking out the plot synopsis, has become the hottest movie at the moment, even if it has not been released yet.

However, major companies also found an opportunity, privately found some media and water armies, and began to sing about Li Qian.

Within two days, there were some different voices on the Internet.

Li Qian still didn't listen to what was going on outside the window, writing the storyboard script, and occasionally chatting with Xu Zheng about the script, and taking care of the preparation of the movie and the company's affairs.

By the way, Grava has completed the B round of investment, with an amount of 30 million, Dinghui, a large domestic investment institution, and Shengda, a local player in Modu, led the investment, and Li Qian followed the investment of 5 million.

Investing in this thing, even if you know that the prospects are good, you can't always invest on your own, and you must attract funds and resources from all parties.

By the way, he participated in Dianping's B round of financing, with a total of 100 million US dollars, and Li Qian invested 30 million yuan and got a pitiful 5% of the shares.

There is also Meituan's B round, which is much worse than the boss of the group buying website, with a total investment of 50 million US dollars in the B round, and Li Qian invested 20 million yuan and took 6.5% of the shares.

As the top two companies on life websites, Li Qian invested together, and they will not refuse the investment of Li Qian, an influential director, and the cost of advertising on big-selling movies is not small.

Ele.me Li Qian also voted, and there are several group buying websites such as Lashou.com, so they will definitely not lose anyway.

There are also some IT, education, environmental protection companies, are popular investment industries, now every day talk about environmental protection, new energy, the richer the more attention to education, a total of more than a dozen companies more than 20 million.

However, I didn't study this aspect by myself, investing in this kind of thing is to look at luck, cast a wide net to catch more fish, and Li Qian doesn't understand it, it is better to make money, and it is not much to lose.

It's just that there are some emerging industries, and Li Qian has never seen them.

For example, in modern dramas and movies with modern backgrounds, those who use mobile phone software to call a car, and the bicycle that can be ridden by scanning with a mobile phone on the side of the road, should be a bicycle rental, and Boston already has this kind of business.

There are also yellow and blue clothing delivery companies, and Meituan and Ele.me are written on the clothes, but these two companies have not done this yet.

as well as live broadcasts, mobile phone video software, and other things that are common in film and television dramas, most of which have not come out.

There were also a lot of rejected investments, and Comic rejected Li Qian's investment on the grounds that they must remain impartial and cannot accept investment from any film and television company.

There is another one that Li Qian has been paying attention to, that is, WeChat.

Most of the modern film and television dramas in my mind, compared with the later era, seem to be useless in the way people communicate with each other through mobile phones, which shows that they are almost monopolistic instant messaging tools.

As a result, WeChat came out last month, and it was Ma Huaqian.

It must be in the soup, and if you want to send money to others, others probably don't want it.

However, Li Qian still bought some shares of Tengxun, just because people chatted through WeChat in film and television dramas, and they had to buy it.

168 Hong Kong dollars a share, Li Qian bought 300,000 shares for 40 million, about 0.017% of the shares, which is not very useful, buy some if you have spare money.

It's still easy to buy, and the shares of Tengxun have not risen in the past year, and it has been a crazy period of quadrupling in two years.

However, when WeChat is promoted, it is estimated that it can make a lot of money.

Spending money is like flowing water, 100 million will be spent, and this feeling is so refreshing that Li Qian almost didn't stop.

Fortunately, I stopped in time, I didn't forget what I did, and I almost forgot my job.

At the end of February, the storyboard script was almost completed, and most places just drew a scoop according to the gourd, and it was written quickly.

I also came to the company to see what was to be dealt with.

In the conference room, I listened to several senior executives report on the situation of various departments.

Two months have passed, the scale of the company has been further expanded, and the various departments have been reorganized.

The distribution department already has the ability to distribute films on a large scale across the country, and when you have a director who can break box office records, distribution is no longer a problem.

Zhang Weiping came across the line, why can he distribute the movie to all corners of the country, and bargain with the theater chain, because he is taking Zhang Yimou's film.

The publicity and marketing department is mainly online marketing, which can almost take into account the entire network, and the offline local network has also begun to be deployed in weak second- and third-tier cities.

The production department is mainly busy with "I Am Not the God of Medicine" and Guo Fan's "The Adventures of Li Xianji", as well as Qi Yukun, who is researching in southern Henan.

After reporting one by one, Du Yang finally asked for instructions about the theater line.

Huayang and Bernard are both doing theaters, although the scale is not large, but their theaters have joined various theater chains, which can be regarded as having a connection with the theater chain.

Now the cinema chain is also expanding at a high speed, and it is also the best time to enter the market, otherwise when the market is occupied, the good locations in various cities will be gone, and it will be difficult to do it again.

"After the investment in the two films, how much money does the company have?" asked Li Qian.

"The total of 250 million in "Warm Inside the Light" and "I Am a Legend" has arrived, and there are still 320 million in the company's account, and there are still 200 million left in addition to the 120 million investment in the two films. Du Yang reported.

The money theater of "I Am Legend" gave it very happily, and it didn't have to wait for two or three months like other movies usually.

Although it was invested by the studio, it was all called the company.

"I Am Not the God of Medicine" has an investment of 50 million, which includes Li Qian's 20 million salary, and "The Adventures of Li Xianji" is about 70 million.

The company spent 200 million, and the studio spent more than 100 million and there are more than 200 million left.

Theaters can be done, but how to do it and who will do it is a question.

"So, let's find a suitable person first. Li Qian said.

Huang Yandao, director of marketing and publicity, said, "Director Li, I have a candidate. ”

"Mr. Huang, please say. ”

"I used to work in the New Film Association, in the past few years, the new film association has been restructured, the champion team has left, and there have been many administrative problems in management, which has led to the departure of many franchised theaters. ”

New Films?

Li Qian remembered that he was still the boss of the theater chain in 08, but in 09 he was restructured and the management was replaced, and he became the third directly in that year, and he became the fifth last year, and in just three years, he slipped directly from the first echelon, and he had no sense of existence at all.

"Okay, Mr. Huang will contact you first, of course I welcome the champion team of the New Film Association. Li Qian nodded.

There are a lot of things in all aspects, and in the end, Du Yang reported two new projects, one is Teng Huatao's "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love", which was brought by Du Yang, and he and Teng Huatao are also old friends in Huayang.

There is also a project he brought from Perfect Film and Television "The Legend of Lu Zhen", which was originally a cooperation between Perfect Film and Television and Shonan TV, and was brought over by her, and it is also the only TV series project.

As for the actors, priority is given to their own families.

In addition to Wang Baoqiang and Deng Chao, Zhong Shuai also signed several newcomers, students from film schools and Chinese opera.

There is also a Zhao Liying, but this time it is not digging the corner of Huayang, according to Zhong Shuai, he has a younger brother named Huang Bing who jumped ship to follow Huang Xiaoming, and took a few little actors with him by the way.

It's all their own family, a few little actors, and Huayang doesn't matter.

Among them is Zhao Liying, and then Zhao Liying was asked to come over by Zhong Shuai.

A little actor, specially coming over, I really don't know what Zhong Shuai thinks, and he doesn't have the ability to predict the future, knowing that Zhao Liying will be popular.

has acted in so many big-budget TV series, and also starred in blockbusters like "Journey to the West", and he is also the protagonist.

With her appearance, she can get this kind of role, Li Qian can imagine how popular it will be in the future.

Gold medal agents are different, and there is no one with this vision.

Zhong Shuai would be ashamed if he knew Li Qian's thoughts, he asked someone from his former apprentice to come over, purely because at the previous premiere ceremony, Li Qian and those girls chatted very happily.

If it weren't for Liu Yufei and William Mosley signing a global brokerage contract, Yang Mi would not be easy to dig, and Zhong Shuai would have gone to talk about it a long time ago.

The king of Chu has a thin waist, and he is hungry in the palace.

Of course, Zhong Shuai didn't have the idea of pimping, and according to his observation, Li Qian didn't mean it.

It's just that I can talk to Li Qian, and it doesn't take much effort, I dig it up, and I can chat with Li Qian if I can't hold it up and have no future.

"Zhong Shuai?"

Li Qian's cry pulled Zhong Shuai back from his thoughts, and he hurriedly said, "Director Li?"

"Show me the artist information of your department. ”

Zhong Shuai handed over a document in front of him and introduced it, and only a few students had signed so far.

Li Qian looked at it, there were four or five people, some of them were more familiar.

There is a film school 09 student Li Meng, who seems to have played a supporting role in a suspense drama "The Hidden Corner", this drama is high-energy at the beginning, and Li Qian is very impressed.

There is also a film academy level 09 named Li Chun, with the same surname, also familiar, who played a supporting role in the "Celebrating More Than Years" starring Chen Daoming.

are all good supporting characters with distinctive characteristics.

Li Qian has also read the book "Celebrating More Than Years", since it is so coincidental.

Li Qian put down the document, "Mr. Du, send someone to Shengda Literature to take down the film and television copyrights of "Celebrating More Than Years" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp". ”

"Celebrating More Than Years"?

Du Yang automatically filtered this one that he had never heard, but "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" knew that after all, it was also out of the circle before, and the sales of physical books were also popular.

""Ghost Blowing the Lamp" seems to have been bought from the author by Shengda Literature for 100,000 yuan a few years ago, and the theme of tomb robbery, whether it is a movie or a TV series, may not be allowed to be filmed. ”

"Then buy it at ten times the price, all eight of them, it doesn't matter if you have photoelectricity, just rob the tomb and change it to an expedition." Li Qian waved his hand.

The theme of adventure does not seem to be available in China, if "Thorn Tomb" is excluded.

Now that Li Qian has spoken, Du Yang has no doubts, just one.

Finally, there was nothing to do, and everyone was busy going around.

Out of the conference room, I found that Wang Baoqiang and Deng Chao had both come to the company, such a coincidence.

Think about it on your toes and know what they're here for.

are all acquaintances, and Li Qian is also straightforward, "Brother Chao, there are no suitable roles in the company's current films, protect the wall, there is a film tailored for you after this while." ”

As soon as these words came out, the two were embarrassed, as if they had come here to ask for a role.

We just heard that you were here, and we came to see how you were doing!

"I'm too busy with a lot of film appointments now, and I can't take on roles anymore. Deng Chao hurriedly said, his own people, as long as they have a suitable role, are all his own, and he has nothing to be disappointed in.

Although Wang Baoqiang was ecstatic for a moment, he still endured it, revealing his trademark honest smile, "Director Li, you are busy with yours, I don't care." ”

"Okay, you guys get busy first, and we'll talk about it next year. Li Qian said with a smile.

“???”

The two were stunned, why is it next year, it's only February now!

Li Qian shook his head secretly, it is also troublesome to have actors under his umbrella, and he has to worry about them.

Although there are a lot of memories of films in my mind, if I don't think about it deliberately, I don't have a good choice for a while, after all, there are too many films.

It's like "Celebrating More Than Years", if it weren't for the actor who happened to see Zhong Shuai's signature playing a supporting role in it, Li Qian wouldn't have remembered it.

It's better to wait for this busy period to take the time to list some high-quality adapted film and television dramas, so that people can buy the copyright, which saves a lot of trouble.