"Curiosity Kills the Cat" is finally about to be released, and the distributor's choice to release it on October 12 should be said to be a chicken thief, avoiding the impact of the two blockbusters "Night Banquet" and "Baby Plan" released in late September.

At the same time, October is the "Domestic Film Screening Month" advocated by the three major domestic film associations, and there will be no imported blockbusters released throughout October. The only competition in the same schedule is the police film "Crouching Tiger" starring Nie Yuan and Hong Tianming, and the Chinese and Estonian co-production "Jade Warrior" starring Cheng Taisheng and Zhang Jingchu.

The distributor's chicken thief not only released the release date, but also began to build momentum as early as August, first breaking out of the "refusal to wash" storm, that is, the workers of the Beijing printing factory refused to wash the printing because the scale of the film was too large. Then the producer came forward to respond, since it can pass the review, it means that there is no problem with the movie, but it is still recommended that children should not be suited.

Immediately afterwards, the topic of "Olympic bid" broke out, first of all, the producer of "Curiosity Kills the Cat" has submitted an application to the Film Bureau to participate in the competition for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and there was a lot of uproar for a while. Because there is usually only one film that can represent China in the Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and Feng Xiaogang's "Night Banquet" and the National Teacher's "The City is Full of Golden Armor" have already shown this meaning.

The latter two, both in terms of investment scale and director's coffee position, are much higher than Zhang Baibai's "Curiosity Kills the Cat". And immediately after the Film Bureau's response, "Curiosity Kills the Cat" has only obtained a public screening license, and does not know anything about the producer's claim to "bid for the Olympics".

first hyped the large scale of the movie, and then hyped the topic of "Olympic bid", although the latter made a lot of trouble and laughed generously in the end, but the effect of publicity has made "Curiosity Kills the Cat" one of the more popular films released recently, and the number of copies distributed nationwide has increased significantly.

For example, the manager of Jiangsu Oriental Cinema Line said in an interview that he is very confident in the box office of "Curiosity Kills the Cat": "Curiosity Kills the Cat" is a film full of petty bourgeoisie, and compared with Zhang Baibai's previous "Subway to Spring", the suspenseful and thriller style of the film is more commercial and more in line with the needs of the market. ”

He Xin heard Zhang Baibai say that the producer is ambitious this time, and at the same time full of confidence, "Curiosity Kills the Cat" is entirely likely to replicate the box office miracle created by "Stone" in the first half of the year.

even imitated the promotional techniques of "Rock" and cut a 30-second trailer and broadcast it on the Internet. And the content of the trailer is all passionate shots between Hu Jun and Liu Jialing, Song Jia, and He Xin and Liu Jialing.

He Xin is very disgusted with this kind of low-level saucy operation, "Curiosity Kills the Cat" is obviously a suspenseful theme, and now it is about to be hyped into a tertiary film. In this regard, Zhang Baibai was also very helpless, as if he was obviously Wang Jiawei, but he had to hype him up as Wang Jing.

As one of the main creators, He Xin naturally has to cooperate with the promotion of the movie. The schedule is relatively tight, first on the 10th and 11th, two premiere press conferences were held in Chongqing and Shanghai respectively, running roadshows, and attending the official premiere in Beijing on the 12th.

After He Xin finished filming on the afternoon of October 9, he drove to Xi'an, and then took a flight to Chongqing overnight.

Since Lu Xiao became the deputy manager of the production department of Xinhao Media, he has no assistants by his side, and Sister Hong has helped him find a few before, he may be accustomed to Xiao Lu Zi's way, and those few are not very satisfied with it, so he delayed it for the time being. However, when you go out to participate in movie promotion and roadshows, it is really inconvenient if you don't have an assistant around. So Chen Xi, the assistant producer of the crew, took the initiative to ask Ying and became his temporary assistant.

Oh, this Chen Xi is also fashionable now, and changed his name to the more literary Chen Zhixi.

Speaking of the rich second generation when she proposed to intern at Xinhao Media, He Xin originally thought that she would not be able to last for a few days, but she didn't expect that this girl was not only very tenacious but also very capable, and she was very competent for the work of assistant producer of the crew, and even Xiao Douding, who has always been very picky, was full of praise for her.

"Teacher He, why don't you let me be your full-time assistant. While driving, Chen Zhixi did not forget to talk to He Xin, who was sitting in the back seat.

"I don't dare to be, who would dare to let you serve you with a thousand gold. He Xin said with his eyes closed.

I have to say that this rich second generation is really capable, even the car is driving fast and steady, like a full-time driver, He Xin is relieved and boldly sits in the car and closes his eyes to recuperate.

"Actually, I just want to learn something from you. ”

"What are you learning from me, do you still want to be an actor?"

"No, I'm really dead set on being an actor, just like that Tong Yali, it's not material to be an actor. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, Xiao Tong is still working hard, and he may not be very adaptable, just get used to it. Besides, people are also your junior sisters, so it's not good for you to say that. ”

"Come on, I'm going to be a junior year, you see her acting skills are no different from amateurs, I really don't know how she got mixed up in the past two years? You see, she's fallen behind a lot of progress alone......"

He Xin was a little upset when he heard it, to be honest, he really regretted finding Tong Liya in his heart, and he knew that it was better to find the "Xiao Zhang Ziyi" nursery rhyme. This girl's acting skills are actually very good, but after experiencing such a big thing at the beginning of last year, she had a bit of a difficult time, no one asked her to film, and she was not treated well even in school.

In fact, if he said who was the most suitable for the role of Caifeng, he thought of it as a nursery rhyme at first, but after thinking about it, he was still a little afraid of trouble, after all, Director Huang was Hao Rong's mentor, and at the same time, it seemed that there was no need to offend Zhang Guoli.

"Okay, don't say it's so useless, it's all now, can't you still change people? Oh yes, you haven't said you want to learn anything from me?"

"Learn to do business with you!"

"What, learn to do business with me?" What are you kidding, how can I do any business, don't you see that the company is now in charge of Mr. Hu!" He Xin couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

"Teacher He, don't fool me, of course Mr. Hu is very capable, but she said that she is a professional manager, and the real soul of the company is actually you. In the end, the company's projects are all made by you, and you make a film to make a profit, since "Stone" has been a big hit, you don't know how many people out there are red!"

He Xin smiled: "I'm just lucky, of course, "Stone" can succeed, the key is that Director Ning has the ability, and I just follow it." ”

"But you have a good eye! Director Ning said that he didn't pay much attention to the book "Stone" at first, but you insisted on it. There is also "Wulin Gaiden", I was also very optimistic about this project at the beginning, but unfortunately you refused to take me, which shows that you were optimistic about this project from the beginning, and you are very confident. I just want to learn from you the vision of picking projects. "Soaring Chinese

"Don't talk nonsense, I've told you, I'm lucky. And I pick a book, just to see if I like it, I just put myself in the audience's perspective to see the problem. Besides, the "Tale of Two Donkeys" and "Double-sided Tape" that are being filmed this time are making money or losing money, and I don't know the bottom of my heart now. ”

Having said that, He Xin still feels that the eyes of this rich second generation are really poisonous, and he immediately grasped the key to the problem, but unfortunately this kind of skill cannot be learned by others, this is called a plug-in!

Saying that, He Xin deliberately diverted the topic and said, "So you want to open a film company in the future?"

"Yes, since you can't be an actor, it's good to be a producer. ”

"Your family is so rich, it's not easy to open a film company!" He Xin said with a smile.

"My family is rich, but money doesn't come from the wind. ”

Chen Zhixi pursed her lips, and then said seriously, "My family actually doesn't agree with me opening a film and television company, they think that investing in film and television dramas is too risky, it's similar to gambling, and the probability of profit is too low, so I need to learn now." ”

As she spoke, she smiled again: "Of course, Mr. He, if you agree to let me invest in your company, it will be even better!"

He Xin also smiled and said, "You are so optimistic about our company?"

"Of course, in my opinion, the current valuation of Xinhao Media is at least worth 50 million!"

"Hey, you really look up to us, is it so exaggerated?"

He Xin only joked with this girl, and even he didn't think that Xinhao Media, which had just been upgraded to a company, could be worth so much money.

As a result, the girl really said seriously: "It's not an exaggeration at all! Teacher He, otherwise, I will invest 10 million, and you let me take 20% of the shares, how about it?"

"Uh......"

He didn't know what to say for a moment.

At the beginning, he and Ning Hao set up a studio together, and now it has become a company, although it was for the purpose of making money from the beginning, but at the same time, he also wanted to shoot some of the scenes he wanted to film, and he never thought about anything like capital operation.

In fact, after the big sale of "Stone", Yu Dong also euphemistically expressed his intention to acquire or take a step back into the shares. Of course, the offer price is definitely not as high as the 50 million that Chen Zhixi is quoting now.

It's just that after Yu Dong proposed it at that time, Xiaodouding was bent on making Xinhao Media bigger and stronger, and she clearly objected, she opposed all acquisitions and any messy shareholdings, and she believed that maintaining the current cooperative relationship with Poly Bona was the best choice for the company.

And Ning Hao's idea is simpler, he just wants to make movies freely and make the works he wants to make. He Xin has always been very supportive of him, so he doesn't want the company to be too complicated and there will be too much noise in the future, so it's good now.

As for He Xin himself, of course, he thinks farther than Xiaodouding and Ning Hao, he knows what a huge market the domestic film and television industry will have in the future.

For a period of time, it was said that the cold winter of the film and television industry is coming, but in fact, compared to now, the market is still very large. It's just that everyone's life was too good before, and the entire market has swelled more than ten times or even dozens of times at once, and almost all the practitioners of investors, directors, and actors are inflating, so that they can't accept a little shrinkage.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the development of any thing is composed of high and low points, which is the law of development, and it is also a development process of survival of the fittest.

The big waves wash the sand, and only by constantly absorbing it, and then constantly discharging the slag, can it continue to move forward.

Seeing that he was silent, Chen Zhixi glanced at him from the rearview mirror and said with a smile: "Teacher He, how is it? I'm much more sincere than Bona, think about it!"

Hey?

He Xin was stunned, Yu Dong's proposal to acquire or buy shares was purely a company secret, how did she know?

He subconsciously said vaguely: "What Bona is not Bona of!"

"Teacher He, don't be sloppy, in such a big place as the company, what kind of news can hide from people?" Chen Zhixi chuckled.

Then he added, "Don't worry, but we're definitely not going to spread it outside." ”

Also us?

He Xin suddenly couldn't help but want to complain, why is the company about to become Tianjin Station now, like a bitch, anyone can use it, and what secrets are there!