Most of the shortlisted [Director's Professional Unit] are literary films, which have a strong style, unspeakable intentions, or obscurity or publicity, which make people think about everything after watching it. "The Dark Web" is one of the outliers, it makes the blood on people's faces fall, makes people babble after watching it, covers their phones tightly, and then encourages friends to come and "have fun" too.

The movie was shown for a few days in a row, and the word-of-mouth of "The Dark Web" spread far and wide, and the tickets were not even enough to sell, and the venue was full, making the midnight show not like a midnight show.

More and more people want to talk to Han Jue. During the day, media workers and peers come to find them, and at night they are businessmen.

The festival is not only a feast for film lovers, it also belongs to businessmen. No matter how hard a film festival is, it can't completely reject commerce. Because movies have carried commercial attributes since their birth, no matter how literary and artistic films are, they are also commodities, but the target customer group is lovers of art films.

Some people want to buy the copyright and foreign distribution rights of "Dark Web", some people want to invest in Han Jue's next movie in advance, and some people want to give Han Jue shares, and then speculate in the name of Han Jue to cheat money.

These people were all dealt with by Wang Zhi, a veteran of the shopping mall.

"You want to pitch for our next movie again. Wang Zhi returned to the dining table with a plate and sat down, putting a business card in his pocket.

"I came here early in the morning, and I was quite dedicated. Xia Yuan ate a bite of hot noodles and glanced up at the self-service pick-up place. It's no secret that they stay in this hotel, and some hard-working people can find out with a little touch. Xia Yuan has been in this industry for a long time, and he knows that the person who sends business cards now belongs to the right path, and there are not no other beauties who send incense cars. She casually asked, "Which one?"

"[Tiger Gate]. Wang Zhi said the name of a film company, took a bite of the soup bag, and guessed: "I should have fallen in love with "Dark Web" and wanted to shoot the second and third parts. ”

Xia Yuan has obviously heard of the big name of the film company [Humen], and he is good at producing and distributing movies with thriller themes. But her reaction after listening to it was only a nod, not too surprised.

Because this situation has been happening since the screening of "Dark Web", [Humen] can only be regarded as a company with a name among the many cooperation candidates.

Now the movies that audiences pay to buy tickets to watch in theaters are either special effects blockbusters, family carnivals, or adaptations of popular works. As for literary films, they would rather wait a few months later until the movie is launched on the platform and watch it comfortably at home.

Therefore, Han Jue, a director who has his own traffic, is good at making commercial films with small costs and large returns, and who is desperately unwilling to spend money and has succeeded twice, is much more attractive than a literary master who only wins awards but does not earn box office in the eyes of some businessmen who want to make money from movies.

So no matter whether famous or unknown, domestic or foreign companies, they all want to find Han Jue to make movies. Some of the calls even reached Xia Yuan's place. The road is relatively wild, and yesterday there was a farm owner who dared to invest 100 million yuan to make a movie for Han Jue.

One hundred million, huh. Xia Yuan sneered in his heart, not knowing whether he felt that the other party underestimated Han Jue or overestimated Han Jue.

"[Humen] Aren't they making independent films?" Han Jue, who had made up the class, had also heard of the name of [Humen], so he was puzzled.

"It's a lot of losses," Xia Yuan replied, "The "Scythe Horror" series, which made a fortune, is getting worse and worse, and they lost about 800 million yuan last quarter and laid off a lot of employees. So when you come to work with us, you either want to develop the Dark Web franchise or you want distribution rights. ”

Han Jue took a sip of water and asked Wang Zhi, "When will our company's own distribution department be done?"

Before Wang Zhi could speak, Xia Yuan replied with a smile: "When you start making blockbusters with a budget of 500 million, the distribution department will almost be built." ”

Wang Zhi looked at Han Jue with an expression of "almost like this".

Han Jue lowered his head and snorted and drank the porridge.

Before the premiere of "Dark Web", Wang Zhi, Xia Yuan, Han Jue and Jalens had a discussion about the future of [Tinder].

The whole meeting lasted half an hour.

The motivation for founding [Tinder] is actually different for the four people. Wang Zhi is to make money, Xia Yuan is to challenge, Jalens is to counterattack the Chinese film industry, and Han Jue is to create freedom.

Nowadays, the competition in the film and television industry is very fierce, except for the competition of streaming media, major film and television companies are developing vertically to the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. Those who do theaters want to do publicity, and even touch the content, and those who do publicity and distribution are developing their own theaters, and at the same time preparing their own content. Han Jue: If they want to make more money/usher in more interesting challenges/more successfully counterattack Huaxia/have a freer creative space, then [Tinder] has to become bigger and stronger and form a set of its own industrial chain.

So we reached a consensus in five minutes and discussed the development plan in 25 minutes: to make [Tinder] a company integrating development, production, distribution, publicity, integrated marketing and cross-industry cooperation within five years. Establish a set of its own talent training system, as well as talent output model.

The reason why I have the confidence to plan this way is because of the scripts that are locked in the safe in Xia Yuan's office.

"How have you been harvesting these days?" Han Jue finished his last mouthful of porridge and asked Xia Yuan, who had been surveying the rookie director these days.

"A few of them are not bad, quite aura. Xia Yuan said this, but there was no gain on his face: "But they have just graduated, and they think that they are the next masters, and they are so proud that they can't do it." As soon as they heard me say that they might have to shoot the script provided by the company after signing the contract, they immediately shook their heads and sneered, feeling deprived of freedom of expression and saying that they were not the lackeys of capital. ”

Wang Zhi laughed, saying that if those young people knew what kind of script they rejected in the future, they might regret that they had to grab their heads.

Han Jue also smiled. But instead of laughing at those young people with extremely high spirits, he is rejoicing for himself. Because a director is actually very lucky to be able to make the movie he wants to make. If he had retired early and had not met the likes of Jalens Xia Yuan, he might have been like those young people, either spending all his money to make a work to attract investment, or taking the script to look for opportunities everywhere, and then fighting with the management again and again in the filming to create space.

"It's okay," Han Jue said, "Anyway, we don't have the luxury of digging up any master seedlings." A good director can also be polished, like Xiao Zhou and Director Sun. ”

Wang Zhi looked at Han Jue with a shocked face, feeling that Han Jue was so shameless, he didn't even put his name in it when he gave an example.

Since Xiao Zhou and Director Sun were mentioned, Wang Zhi asked Xia Yuan curiously: "How is Xiao Zhou over there?"

"It's good," Xia Yuan first affirmed, and then stepped on one accurately, "It's better than his master's first shot." ”

Xiao Zhou's master was extremely thick-skinned, and said with satisfaction: "Don't let me cultivate hard." ”

Wang Zhi continued to ask: "What about Director Sun? "Internet Lost" has already been sent to Berlin to compete, right? What does he want to make in his next movie?"

Xia Yuan said: "I said that I haven't thought about it yet, and I want to shoot those scripts, but I don't know which one to shoot first." ”

Wang Zhi was stunned: "Why is this sentence so familiar?"

Xia Yuan squinted at Han Jue, his eyes narrowed into two insects, and the meaning was self-evident.

"......" Han Jue looked at the large slices of sunlight spilling into the restaurant, and said that the weather outside was good, and he was going to go back to the house to sleep again and recharge his energy for tomorrow's work.

"Are you going to go for tomorrow's awards?" Xia Yuan asked Han Jue.

"No," Han Jue shook his head. I've watched almost the movies I'm interested in these days, and there's nothing to do here. Han Jue didn't plan to go to the awards and closing ceremony in the evening. "If the movie wins, let Lao Jia help me collect it. ”

"It's not going to win. Xia Yuan waved at Han Jue.

Han Jue smiled, picked up the plate and left the table first.

Walking out of the restaurant, Han Jue walked towards the elevator. It's a joke to say that he goes back to the house to sleep, although he is not sleepy now, some things are really done in bed to be more comfortable. For example, reading books, watching movies, and writing scripts. What is particular is a state, a sense of ritual.

It's eight o'clock in the morning, and the guests of the hotel are waking up one after another and going downstairs to the restaurant for breakfast.

Since the hotel is very close to the cinema where the "Magic City Film Festival" is held, most of the people who have moved in in in the past few days have jobs or interests related to movies. Han Jue walked in the corridor, dressed up undisguised, so someone recognized him from a distance. They nodded to Han Jue to say hello, and Han Jue would also smile and say goodbye. Some fans wanted to sign autographs, and Han Jue also stopped to write an autograph to the other party.

It looks very kind, but these kindnesses are only reserved for his fans. If someone was looking for him to talk about the possibility of work, Han Jue would leave under the pretext of leaving and pushing them to Wang Zhi or Xia Yuan. It's just that there are still many people who want to come to his room in the middle of the night to discuss the script, which makes Han Jue annoyed.

"Teacher Han. ”

While waiting in front of the elevator, Han Jue heard someone shouting to him not far away.

Han Jue turned his head and saw two middle-aged people, one in formal clothes and the other in casual clothes, and the one in casual clothes was looking at him with a little surprise.

Han Jue smiled and nodded, then turned his head back.

"What a coincidence, Mr. Han, you also live here?" After the other party approached, one of them continued to talk to Han Jue in a tone that was not the first time they had met.

"I don't live here, I just hang out. Han Jue's anti-reconnaissance lies came casually, which made the other party a little overwhelmed all of a sudden, and the topic couldn't go on.

Han Jue turned his head to look again, and vaguely felt that this person had seen it somewhere.

The other party seemed to see the confusion in Han Jue's eyes, and was worried that Han Jue would not be able to distinguish between him and me, so he hurriedly reminded: "Welcome Home" is very well filmed. The big boss also liked it. ”

"Welcome Home" is an advertisement shot by Han Jue for [Xiangyun]. The filming is finished, but it has not been released yet, so in addition to the relevant team, only the people of [Xiangyun] know the content of this advertisement. Han Jue knows everyone about the former, and the latter ......

Oh –

Han Jue suddenly remembered that the other party was the director of the advertising department of [Xiangyun]. When Han Jue went to [Xiangyun] for a meeting to meet with the team, it was this director who received him. Yes, the surprise on the other party's face just now was exactly the same as when we talked about 996.

"It's good to like it. Han Jue smiled and shook the other party's hand.

Since they were acquaintances and former financiers, Han Jue let down his guard and talked to the other party.

The director of 996 has watched "Dark Web", so he sighed to Han Jue: "The performance of the computer in the movie is really good." If I had known earlier that you were making a film like "Dark Web", [Xiangyun] would have advertised. ”

Han Jue didn't seem to know what politeness was, and asked: "Then when we filmed the second part, we really came to ask you for advertising money?"

“...... Haha, yes. "The 996 director said okay.

The elevator came, and Han Jue and the two people from [Xiangyun] entered the elevator together.

The director of 996 asked Han Jue: "Is the next film project going on?"

Han Jue replied, "Not yet." ”

"I remember you said in an interview that if you want to spread tech scare, you can shoot something else. Director 996 looked at Han Jue and said with a smile: "We are interested in this [other] and interested. ”

"You guys?" Han Jue looked at the director of 996 and the middle-aged man in formal clothes beside him who didn't speak from beginning to end.

"With a built-in chip that can be searched at any time, the world becomes unhidden. Wash away the criminals' memory erasers and throw them into the park to suffer their own crimes. After the loss of a loved one, you can be accompanied by an android...... I was in the elevator that day and heard your thoughts. ”

The middle-aged man in formal clothes said with a smile, then took a step forward and introduced himself to Han Jue: "I am the head of the [Cloud] platform, and I am very interested in your stories that explore technology and human nature, and I want to shoot them. ”