"Teacher Wu, thank you!"

In a small restaurant in Chaoyang District, Wu Jianye, Han Heping, Huang Jianxin, teachers and students, and two other unexpected friends, Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie!

At this time, Huang Jianxin was raising his glass to express his gratitude to Wu Jianye.

Wu Jianye picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "If you say this, you will see the outside!"

The reason why Huang Jianxin expressed his gratitude to Wu Jianye was actually because of the movie "Reincarnation" directed by himself, the producer of this movie was Chang'an Film Studio, but halfway through the filming, Huang Jianxin spent money, and Wu Tianming couldn't come up with more funds.

Huang Jianxin finally had no choice but to ask for help from his former teacher Wu Jianye, but Wu Jianye was not polite, and invested another 100,000 yuan in Huang Jianxin in the name of court culture, which supported Huang Jianxin to finish filming the movie "Reincarnation".

In the late 80s, some commentators said that Chinese films in the new era were making great progress in art, but they continued to decline in the film market.

In fact, it is true that last year, China Film Company lost more than 28 million yuan in the distribution of domestic films, and about one-third of the country's distribution enterprises lost money.

In fact, this year, the major film studios have had an even worse time, and someone once counted that 45% of films were released with less than 60 copies.

Even Yan Film Studio, which was once the most well-known in China, began to lose money last year, and now major film studios have also begun to take out loans to get by.

By next year, Shanghai Film Studio's loans and arrears amounted to 20.05 million yuan, and the loan amount of Western Film Studio exceeded 20 million yuan, while the production cost of the film rose from 578,200 yuan in 1985 to 1.01 million yuan in 1989.

In the case of the entire film industry, the number of moviegoers is still declining at a rate of 1 billion per year.

China's film industry has entered a cold winter.

Even if the Western Film Studio has Wu Tianming's determination to reform, but after all, it can't resist the general trend, it can be said that playing movies in China now is the same as playing football in China in the early twentieth century, which can make you lose so much that you can't even find your parents.

Different from the cold winter of the domestic film industry, the domestic TV drama industry has ushered in its own blowout period at this time, which can be seen from the cultural company established by Yanjing, and now there are fewer and fewer cultural companies that dare to invest in films, and more people are focusing on the development of TV dramas.

In fact, even Tangting Culture is now developing in this way, and this year's filming plan of Tangting Culture is also led by TV dramas, and there are no new works launched in movies.

Huang Jianxin sighed: "Alas, the current movies are getting worse and worse. ”

Wu Jianye smiled: "You can see these years as the darkness before dawn!"

Han Heping said on the side: "Mr. Wu, you have this capital to say, now the directors of the country, except for your film can rely on overseas distribution to make a profit, other directors are staring at this acre and three points of land in China, I am afraid it will not be easy to survive this cold winter!"

Wu Jianye said: "I watched the movie "Unsinkable Horizon", it was shot well, and I heard that the cost was also recovered, why are you worried." ”

Han Heping smiled bitterly: "What's the use of my success alone, only when the development of the entire industry is prosperous, will more directors succeed!"

Huang Jianxin smiled on the side: "Yes, your realm is still high!"

Han Heping didn't care about Huang Jianxin's ridicule, and said sincerely: "I really hope that the domestic film industry can develop." ”

Wu Jianye nodded: "I trust you with this." ”

After taking a bite of the dish, Wu Jianye said to Huang Jianxin: "Are you interested, come to the court culture?"

Huang Jianxin was stunned by Wu Jianye's proposal, he didn't expect that Wu Jianye would suddenly invite him to join the court culture.

Wu Jianye continued: "This year, Tangting Culture will be divided into two, the establishment of the film department, the TV drama department, and now there is still a lack of a head in the film department, if you are interested, you can consider it, I will keep this position for you!"

As soon as Wu Jianye's words came out, Han Heping had no expression, after all, his mind was not on the private cultural company, and Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie next to him showed envious expressions.

There are many reasons why Tangting culture stands out in China and has a special status, one is because of Wu Jianye's identity, as the most powerful director in China, this is a living signboard in itself.

However, what really makes domestic studios and cultural companies envious is the relationship between Tangting Culture and overseas, as well as the relationship between major TV stations.

Everyone knows that among domestic directors, only Wu Jianye's works can go out of China unhindered and compete with directors from other countries at the overseas box office.

Now Wu Jianye has asked Huang Jianxin to be the head of the Tangting Culture Film Department, which means that Huang Jianxin will master the overseas distribution network, and Huang Jianxin can become a figure with the right to speak in the domestic film industry.

And Wu Jianye's hope to recruit Huang Jianxin actually has this consideration, in the future, "New Dragon Gate Inn" will be released, Wu Jianye is bound to find a middleman between Fengge Cinema and domestic films, and Huang Jianxin is the best candidate.

In fact, in Huang Jianxin's later career, it can also be seen that after he served as the director of several films, he gave up his career as a director and became a producer instead.

"Why me?" Huang Jianxin's expression began to calm down after being a little stunned at first.

He must admit that if he becomes the manager of the Tangting Culture Film Department, then there will be earth-shaking changes in his original future plan, judging from the current domestic film development situation, this decision may be good, but what about the future?

"Because I believe in you!" Wu Jianye then explained: "At the beginning, you and Heping were my most optimistic students in the class, so I won't talk about Heping's thoughts......."

"Hey, hey. Han Heping laughed awkwardly.

"In the following years, the films produced by Tangting Culture will pay more attention to the overseas market, and now there are still very few domestic film types, and there are even fewer genre films that can really go overseas, I need to open up such a genre for the domestic film market, martial arts films and historical dramas are the two most important genres, especially martial arts films. ”

"But now there are still very few domestic martial arts film directors, I need you to discover such directors, and also discover better martial arts movies, the company will allocate five million to you every year, specifically to discover domestic martial arts film directors and movies. ”

"Before that, you need to go to Xiangjiang for a period of time to learn about the business operation and the shooting of martial arts films, of course, this is not the one that allows you to copy Xiangjiang, what I hope is that you can find a suitable director on the basis of Xiangjiang martial arts films, and make martial arts films that can not only be liked by overseas audiences, but also can be loved by our domestic audiences!"

.......

Grunt!

Zhang Guoli didn't understand what Wu Jianye meant, but he heard a number, that is, five million!

took out 5 million a year to Huang Jianxin and asked him to find a domestic martial arts film director, what is the annual profit of a large domestic studio?

Zhang Guoli recalled that it seemed that most of the losses were ....... Not to mention making a profit.

Huang Jianxin pondered for a moment, and then showed a wry smile: "Teacher Wu, you are chasing ducks to the shelves, you trust me so much, if I refuse, it will be unfortunate." ”

"Haha, don't worry, I won't give you a profit in three years, as long as you can help me discover a few talents!" Wu Jianye laughed.

In terms of TV series, there is Li Xiaowan, and now Huang Jianxin has joined the film department, and the court culture at this time can be regarded as really setting up its own team.

Han Heping said with a smile: "It is estimated that Director Wu is going to have a problem with Teacher Wu, in the past, Director Wu was digging people, but today I asked Teacher Wu to dig the corner!"

Wu Jianye waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, Director Wu will call him personally." ”

Being able to recruit Huang Jianxin into his command, Wu Jianye was happy at this time, for Wu Tianming's side, Wu Jianye was confident that he could easily get him.

How difficult it is for Chinese films to go abroad in this era, except for Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others' art films that can sell some money in the European literary film market, other types of movies are completely self-produced and sold, playing in circles in China, and "Shaolin Temple" in the first two years to support the façade.

But now, the martial arts film of the type of "Shaolin Temple" has long been broken by domestic studios, and it is basically impossible to make a breakthrough.

"Mr. Wu, if you want to talk about the director of martial arts films, I have a choice!" Huang Jianxin has now decided to join Tangting Culture, and immediately began to give advice to Wu Jianye.

"Which one?" Wu Jianye immediately asked.

"It's also from our Western Film Studio, called He Ping!" Huang Jianxin explained: "He has now begun to direct his first film "We Are the World", and he was one of the assistant directors of "Tanglin Thief" filmed by Western Film Studio before, I talked to him, and he still has some ideas for martial arts films!"

Han Heping laughed: "Lao Huang, you have submitted a letter of nomination to Teacher Wu!"

Wu Jianye has already dug Huang Jianxin to Tangting Culture, and now he has helped Tangting Culture dig up a director of Western Film Studio, isn't it a vote?

Huang Jianxin glanced at Han Heping: "Nonsense, I'm responsible for my own work!"

"Okay, I'll leave He Ping to you to contact. Wu Jianye nodded.

For He Ping, Wu Jianye naturally knew about it, but he never remembered this director, because in the era when Wu Jianye was reborn, He Ping basically didn't come out much.

Wu Jianye remembered that the last directorial work of He Ping that he had seen was "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" starring Jiang Qian and Zhao Wei!

This was already a big production at the time, but the box office was a bit miserable, in fact, according to Wu Jianye's vision, this movie still has a lot of commendable points, but in the end, it was made into four different by He Ping, especially the suspected unfinished.......

The unforgivable sin of unfinished sins!

In the nineties, He Ping also made martial arts movies such as "Swordsman of Shuangqi Town".

It's just that today's domestic film directors always hope to add the habit of excavating human nature to their films, which is not bad, but it is a little excessive.

Not any film needs to dig into humanity.

What's more, in the absence of a perfect film market as the basis of the soil, simply playing literary movies is actually a devastating blow to the entire country's film market.

The French film industry is a prime example of this.

After a few people finished talking about business, Han Heping talked to Wu Jianye about what it meant to bring Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie today.

At this time, Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie had just finished working together in "Dead Water Breeze", and in this TV series, the two gradually fell in love, and Zhang Guoli also decided to divorce his wife in order to be with Deng Jie.

Both of them are actors from Sichuan Province, and in order to influence, the two have already discussed and come to Yanjing to develop.

When I was in Sichuan Province, Zhang Guoli and Han Heping have been old friends for many years, and it happened that Han Heping was going to come to Yanjing to do business, so they came over together.

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "I told the country before, if you come to Yanjing in the future, you can come to the court culture, not to mention Deng Jie, if the two of you want to come, the door of our court culture will be open for the two of you at any time!"

Zhang Guoli's achievements in later generations do not need to be recalled by Wu Jianye, even when Wu Jianye is reborn, Zhang Guoli is also the top boss in the domestic entertainment industry.

There is a little story that can tell the real influence of Zhang Guoli in China.

After 2000, people in the Xiangjiang film industry went north to develop, and at that time, Cheng Long naturally began to shift his development focus to China.

Later, Cheng Long's son also settled in Yanjing all the year round.

At that time, he was known as the Dragon Prince, and coupled with Cheng Long's influence, the Dragon Prince's future at that time could be said to be bright.

But Zhang Guoli's son, at that time, said that if he fought for connections, he would be far better than Prince Long.

Although there is a meaning of youth and frivolity, it can also be explained from another aspect that Zhang Guoli's influence in China at that time was definitely no worse than Cheng Long.

If Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie can sign a contract with Tangting Culture, then Wu Jianye can consider taking out the TV series "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" in advance to meet the audience.

This TV series can be said to have created a precedent for another interpretation of historical dramas in China.

Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie were also very happy to hear Wu Jianye say this, they came over this time, in fact, they also had this idea, they wanted to establish a foothold in Yanjing first, and the court culture was their best place.

The most important thing is that the court culture is rich, and Zhang Guoli needs money now.......

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