Chapter 356: A Fox on a Mountain
Xinli Media is a rising star in the industry, but there are many popular works. TV series include "The First Half of My Life" and "The True Story of Hot Mom".
The film has invested in "Searching", "33 Days of Broken Love", "Taoist Priest Descending the Mountain", "Pancake Man", "Charlotte Troubles", "Love Saint", "Iron Fist of Shame", "The Legend of the Demon Cat" and so on.
In 2015 alone, 4 films were released, with a cumulative box office of 3 billion, which can be regarded as a new force in the rise of the Chinese film market.
What's even more unique is that the new calendar "bind" Chen Kaige, just like Lux's signing of Zhang Yimu.
According to the prospectus of Xinli, Xinli Media and director Chen Kaige signed the "Director Cooperation Agreement", agreeing to carry out exclusive cooperation with Xinli Media in the Greater China region on the film business during the validity period of the agreement, and serve as the director in 7 films produced by Xinli, with a validity period of seven years and a cooperation signing fee of 21 million yuan.
However, director Chen Da's filming is really not ordinarily slow, and it has only been 18 years since another time and space that he has only made three films: "Searching", "Taoist Priest Descending the Mountain" and "The Legend of the Demon Cat".
What's even more regrettable is that slow work may not necessarily produce detailed work. Director Chen Da cooperated with Xinli Media in the three films, except for "Search", which has a good reputation and box office, the remaining two are quite average.
But at this moment, Cao Huayi, chairman of Xinli Media, is full of ambition, director Chen Kaige's 213-day shooting of "Taoist Priest Descending the Mountain" is about to land in the summer, looking around, except for Lu Lin's "Three-Body Problem", I really haven't seen any opponents.
He has no interest in box office wars, he is a businessman, and he wants to make money. I just wanted to take this opportunity to get close to Lu Lin and coordinate the schedule, so I spoke out in support of Lu Lin.
But Lu Lin will be dissatisfied with his peers for a false name. In the end, it was the organizer of this industry conference, and Yu Dong sat in the first place. The rest are seated according to the size of their respective companies, but they are not particularly clear.
After drinking a few glasses of wine at the beginning, everyone chatted while eating. Cao Huayi sat next to Lu Lin, and suddenly said, "By the way, Director Lu, is your "Three-Body Problem" scheduled?"
Lu Lin said: "Not yet!" immediately remembered that "Taoist Priest Descending the Mountain" should be from the new calendar, and said with a smile: "What, Mr. Cao has an idea?"
Cao Huayi said: "I wonder if the schedules of our two blockbusters can be coordinated and mutually beneficial!"
Lu Lin smiled and said: "Cheng, I'll discuss it with Mr. Song of the company when I go back, and I will definitely notify you as soon as the schedule is set!"
Cao Huayi's face changed when he heard this, what he said. After setting the schedule and notifying him, wouldn't it mean that Lu Lin took advantage of the schedule first, and it depends on his choice whether to avoid it or not!
However, with Lu Lin's current reputation in commercial films, even if Chen Kaige is a big director, he has to back down, and it is good to be able to find out about the schedule as soon as possible. smiled and said: "Cheng, then it's a word!"
The rest of the people listened but didn't do it, and said one after another: "Don't, Director Lu, your "Three-Body Problem" schedule is set, just hurry up and let me know, everyone is good to adjust the schedule!"
It was Wang Zhonglei, Wang Changtian, Zhang Zhao, etc., who all followed. Obviously, Lu Lin's previous works have left too deep an impression on everyone, and no one wants their movies to collide with "The Three-Body Problem"!
Lu Lin said with a smile: "Cheng, then I will try to set the schedule as soon as possible, and then notify everyone!"
When everyone heard this, they raised their glasses and saluted Lu Lin. After eating and chatting, I soon talked about Lu Lin's new movie, "The Chinese God of Medicine" adapted from "Lu Yong's Case".
Wang Zhonglei took the lead and said: "Director Lu, I heard that your new film "Chinese Medicine God" will be filmed soon?"
Lu Lin nodded, "Well, here "The Battle of the Deer" is finished, and when it is transferred to the later stage, the new film can be launched." ”
Wang Zhonglei clapped his hands and said: "Okay, Director Lu is amazing, all films with such themes are involved, China needs a director like you!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, because in everyone's inherent impression, the relationship between Huayi and Longlin Pictures was not very good. In the previous box office wars, Longlin made Huayi suffer a lot of losses. But he immediately understood that Xiao Wang was always going to kill!
In fact, most of the people here are not optimistic about the movie "Chinese God of Medicine". The position problem is too difficult to grasp, 40,000 bottles of genuine drugs in Switzerland, and 500 pirated drugs in India.
Genuine medicines, most of them can't afford to eat and can only wait for death. And Indian pirated drugs have given many patients hope to live. The protagonist Lu Yong rescued people but was arrested, and the risk of public opinion is bound to be not small.
This increases the possibility of Lu Lin's box office failure, once he breaks the golden body of "box office invincibility" and disappoints the audience, the box office appeal will be greatly reduced, and it will be ...... at that time.
Since there is such a possibility, Xiao Wang will definitely "support" Lu Lin and support him in filming "The God of Chinese Medicine".
Zhang Zhao also smiled: "Director Lu, your commercial films are already very good." If only a realistic movie could do well. There is no domestic director who can compare with you!"
Wang Zhonglei said badly: "Director Zhang Yimu is not good?"
Zhang Zhao was dumbfounded, and said secretly: "Your sister, you will ask!"
There are so many people in this party today that there is a possibility that anything will be heard. Zhang Yimu is a contracted director of his own company, how can he weaken his prestige.
Zhang Zhao smiled: "He and Director Zhang are two generations, they can't be compared like this!" Wang Zhonglei laughed dryly when he heard this, but he didn't compare it with Zhang Zhao.
Lu Lin said with a smile: "Everyone is polite, it's just an ordinary reality-themed film, the investment is not high, there are no big scenes, and the plot is a little sad." After the release, I can have some box office proceeds, so that I can donate it to help some leukemia patients!"
At this time, Yu Dong said: "Originally, I told Director Lu that the donation is equivalent to one-fifth of the movie's income. However, Director Lu was afraid that the box office would not be high, so I didn't take more, and in the end I changed it to donate 10 million. ”
Yu Dong is also a wilted master, obviously Lu Lin's words about the box office of the "two billion target" have been spread, but what he said made it difficult for Lu Lin to have little confidence in the film.
However, most of the bigwigs at the table are self-made, or they have worked hard for years to become the boss. Don't do things that don't do anything good for no reason. They didn't squeak one by one, eating and drinking silently.
Only Huayi's Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei are actually the rich generation, but their style is more like the rich second generation.
Especially Wang Zhonglei, the biggest pleasure is not to manage the company, but to hide in the studio in the CBD to paint oil paintings, and even spent 800 million yuan to buy three famous paintings.
"Since Yu Dong has donated, we can't lose 10 million!" Wang Zhongjun, who was relatively silent, said suddenly.
Mr. Xiao Wang added, "I heard that Director Lu made a bold statement, and this film will cost more than two billion. As for me, even if I encourage Director Lu, if it can really exceed 2 billion, we Huayi will definitely donate 10 million to your fund!"