As we enter December, the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to enter the rhythm of ice and snow.

But John Days felt more and more hot inside him day by day.

Christmas is coming, in North America, businesses have begun to engage in various actions, unconsciously, the pre-holiday atmosphere has begun, and even the entire North American region has begun to enter the Christmas rhythm.

At the same time, after the signing of the distribution agreement, Colombia quickly entered the rhythm of work, and the time has just entered December, and the relevant publicity related to "Hulu Baby" has already begun to appear.

Because of the cultural requirements of Minghu, the film was defined as "a family animation from China", and in Colombia's related publicity, it was promoted as "a magical story from an ancient and mysterious oriental country, a story of brothers working together against evil".

Li Qian did not interfere with these propaganda plans in the slightest, but John Days has always been chasing this matter, and this propaganda plan is said to have been finalized by him and the Colombian side together.

Regarding the promotion and distribution of "Hulu Baby", he behaved very carefully.

In the negotiation of the original distribution agreement, it was his repeated requests that made Oriental Dream Film Company finally obtain the right to enter, and Oriental Dream Film Company will provide an additional $5 million in publicity and distribution funds, and also increase the total publicity and distribution funds of "Hulu Baby" from the original only 10 million US dollars to 15 million US dollars - but in the distribution share, Oriental Dream Film Company will only get 20% of the share!

And that's not all.

What's more, "Hulu Baby", which invested 15 million US dollars in publicity and distribution, may not really be able to sell much box office after it is listed, for Oriental Dream Film Company, it is difficult to invest 5 million US dollars to participate in this promotion, and it is difficult to earn back the 5 million!

Therefore, the Colombian side looks at John Days like a fool, and there is also a small discussion within Oriental Dream Film Company about this.

However, Oriental Dream is personally controlled by Li Qian, John Days is a management shareholder, owning 8% of the shares, and Li Qian has authorized him to manage the company with full authority, so no one can object to him doing this.

It's such a stupid business, it's such a business that is likely to watch five million dollars lose money, and John Deiss, an old Hollywood businessman, did it without hesitation.

Li Qian only smiled when he learned about it, but Qi Jie said at the time: "If you win Colombia in the future, this person will definitely not be the president!"

Li Qian nodded yes.

However, it's nice to have someone who is willing to pat themselves on the back — even if it's actually taking their own money to slap their own ass.

And the problem is, he knows very well where to shoot the sycophants!

The promotion of "Gourd Baby" is a business that even if you lose money, your boss will be happy - whoever says that people from European and American countries will not be sycophants in the future, Li Qian will definitely not believe it.

December 9, Manhattan, New York.

In the morning, accompanied by Qi Jie, John Dyce, and several lawyers from the United States, Li Qian signed several contracts.

The total amount involved in these contracts is more than $3 billion, and once the contracts are finalized, the amount of commissions paid to the entrusted parties alone will be as high as tens of millions of dollars.

One of them is that Minghu Culture and Li Qian personally entrusted a company named PricewaterhouseCoopers to complete two things, first, PricewaterhouseCoopers was responsible for registering an offshore company on behalf of the company as the initiator of the acquisition, and second, PricewaterhouseCoopers calculated the total assets and net assets of all subsidiaries and tangible intangible assets of Columbia Pictures on its behalf, and gave a quotation valuation.

The second large, most important is a licensing acquisition agreement, that is, Minghu Culture and Li Qian personally entrusted Morgan Stanley Group to initiate the formal acquisition of Columbia Pictures and all its subsidiary assets on behalf of the company, and was responsible for the financial takeover and audit in the short term after the acquisition.

Of course, this commission will also include the valuation of various assets under the Morgan Stanley Group in Colombia.

The third major part was to entrust PricewaterhouseCoopers and another law firm to carry out the entire financial, accounting and legal supervision of the entire acquisition.

After the agreement was signed, the matter was officially transferred to the hands of several companies that had accepted the commission.

Until this time, including China and the United States, there were still very few people who knew that Minghu Culture was going to launch an acquisition of a film giant like Columbia Pictures.

Until now, this matter has been classified as top secret.

After the agreement was signed, Qi Jie remained in the United States and took full control of the subsequent acquisition, and plans to make a takeover request to Coca-Cola, the owner of Colombia, by December 20 at the latest.

At this time, Li Qian took a plane directly from New York and flew back to China.

There was a shocking transaction going on in secret, but he repeatedly reminded himself to settle down - after returning to China, he rested for two days, and then, he appeared in the art director's office of Minghu Culture Company normally, and started the morning office, replacing Qi Jie to handle the company's daily affairs, going to the ninth floor to edit in the afternoon, and urging the special effects department to start the follow-up production schedule of "The Matrix" as soon as possible.

Because at this time, he knew very well in his heart that no matter how big the matter was, he, a layman, did not have to interfere.

The agreement was signed, the money was ready, and there was only one thing left for him to do, and that was: wait!

Waiting for the global simultaneous release of "Gourd Baby", waiting for the one stone of this acquisition to stir up a thousand waves.

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Shuntianfu, Daxing, Minghu No. 1 Film and Television City.

The crew of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

After a day of filming, the crew called it a day.

The actors returned to the dressing room to remove their makeup, the staff was busy sorting out the equipment, and several photographers and drama managers sorted out all the filmed materials and unused films, cameras, etc., some of them had to be sent to the company for storage on the same day, and left for post-editing and production after the completion of the whole play, and some were kept nearby and sent to the exclusive warehouse of the "Legend of the Condor Heroes" crew in the film and television city.

It's a lot more convenient now.

Because the film and television city is Minghu Culture's own, everything is its own, so after the security personnel are matched, a lot of not so precious equipment and props, etc., after filming every day, you only need to simply sort it out, and then throw it on the scene, tomorrow you only need to come to the studio half an hour in advance for a certain reset, or arrange it according to the requirements of the director's advance arrangement, and everything will be in order.

If you are out on location or filming in other film and television cities, at night, no matter how bits and pieces these things are, they must be packed up and loaded and pulled away, and then get up early the next morning to pull them over and rearrange them - in that way, it will take at least two hours, or even more than three hours, to come and go every day, and it will be a waste of these things.

Han Shunzhang sat slumped in the director's chair for a while before standing up.

Assistant director Liu Xueyi took people and took the important things - the films and materials that had been filmed, and left first. He walked around from side to side, looking, and watching the crew sort out the machines, equipment, props, etc., and then, when the actors began to take off their makeup and say goodbye to him, he smiled and nodded one by one, saying goodbye to people.

Then, the staff was basically gone, the actors were basically gone, and in the huge indoor classical studio, only five or six staff members were still carrying out the final work, but he still did not leave, but walked over and carefully checked the things that the staff had sorted out just now.

Like him, who is doing the last inspection everywhere, there is also an assistant director Feng Bicheng.

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has a total of three assistant directors.

One is Liu Xueyi, who is responsible for all the hardware of the crew, props, sets, lighting, film, cameras, and even shooting vehicles, etc., everything that will not breathe by itself is under his control, and it is called small logistics in the industry.

The second is to be responsible for all the external activities of the crew, what to eat, where to live, go out to a certain location to rent the venue in advance and negotiate the price, etc., to decompose part of the producer function of Han Shunzhang, the director and producer.

The person who plays this role in the crew is still Li Qian's classmate, Lu Bin.

The third assistant director is Feng Bicheng, who is responsible for casting during the preparation period, and is responsible for communicating with all the actors and behind-the-scenes staff after the crew is established, and is responsible for personnel reception.

To tell the truth, Feng Bicheng, the assistant director, has the least responsibility and power.

During the casting period, the big role must be hand-picked by Li Qian, and the second-level important role has to be made by Han Shunzhang, the director and producer, and he, the casting assistant director, is at best an errand runner and organizes materials, and the later stage determines the level of passers-by supporting roles and extras. To put it mildly, after recruiting a few more extras and a few more lunches, he had to run to explain and communicate with Lu Bin.

But since the beginning of the preparation period, he has been very happy in the crew of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Here, you can hardly see the scenery and Xuan He that the 500 million director should have, and some are just a large handyman who is busy chattering all day long and will pay attention to everything.

Lu Bin's big logistics is Li Qian's sworn friend and descendant, and he looks down on Feng Bicheng, but Feng Bicheng treats him with a smile, and he does everything accurately in the number of group performers and lunch boxes every day, so that Lu Bin hardly has to worry about it. Liu Xueyi, Li Qian's sworn friend, will have a more peaceful personality, but he has a heavy burden, and he is responsible for sending the film shot today back to the company's film library every day for sealing, so he is behind to check various equipment and other things, Feng Bicheng consciously helps him stare at it, after a long time, Liu Xueyi still has a good impression of him, and he can usually squat together and smoke a cigarette and chat a few words.

As for Han Shunzhang, the big housekeeper of the Minghu Culture Film and Television Department, since he first proposed that Feng Bicheng join the crew to give him a hand, he didn't treat him as an outsider at all, not to mention the shooting, the training of the actors, and even the camera positioning, etc., all kinds of problems, once they can't make up their minds, they will discuss with him.

After all, Feng Bicheng is also from a film background, and he has already made three movies, and his experience, ability, and insight must be top-notch for the younger generation of directors in China.

Moreover, the two have worked together in the crew of "Big Names", and Han Shunzhang knows his abilities very well.

It can even be said that now in Minghu Culture, the person who knows Feng Bicheng best and knows best what kind of rebirth and rebirth he has experienced is Han Shunzhang.

The two of them cooperate very tacitly.

This time, as almost every time before, it was the two of them who fell last.

By the time the two of them said goodbye to the studio manager, they finally walked out of the studio, and the time was already half past seven, and it was already dark outside.

Out of the studio, both of them lit cigarettes one after another, smoked cigarettes, chatted, and walked slowly to the parking lot.

At present, two staff dormitories have been built in the film and television city, one arranges the staff and set workers inside the film and television city to live in, which is a pure staff dormitory, and the other is not low, it is said that it is equivalent to the ordinary star hotel outside, and the interior decoration is also more practical. And this staff dormitory is aimed at the staff filming here, including the actors.

As long as the crew is stationed in the filming, the members of the crew can apply for a house for free during the filming, and this room fee will eventually be settled by the financial department of Minghu Culture with the management of the film and television city, and then in turn with the financial settlement of the crew - in the later stage, it will even be open to the outside crew to move in.

Of course, at present, all the free rooms are double rooms. If you want to live in a more comfortable single room, you need to pay a part of the money, and Minghu Culture and the crew do not pay for these money.

At present, the crew of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is the second crew to enter this film and television city after the crew of "The Matrix", and "Daming Palace Ci", which came in not long ago, is the third. Many staff members of the two crews chose to live in the staff dormitory, because it was indeed comfortable and convenient, and they didn't have to run back and forth.

But for Han Shunzhang, he will feel that it will not be too far to go home, so Han Shunzhang still prefers to go home every day to live - his and Zhu Yu's child is more than two years old this year, and the little guy is very cute, he especially wants to see him every day, even if when he comes home, all he can see is him in his sleep.

And Feng Bicheng is different, he lives in the staff dormitory.

Walking along the road, there is a parking lot, and not far away, there is a large restaurant inside.

Halfway through a cigarette, seeing that he had already arrived at the parking lot, Feng Bicheng was about to say goodbye to Han Shunzhang, went to eat by himself, turned the intersection, but found a person standing under the street lamp.

He has good eyes, and he can see at a glance that it is Zheng Xiaoyue who plays Mu Nianci in the play.

A little girl who just graduated from the acting department of Songjiang Drama Academy last year, Zhou Zhiyu's little sister, when auditioning, Han Shunzhang took a fancy to her at a glance, and felt that she had a temperament that was both heroic and righteous, which was very suitable for Mu Nianci, and strongly recommended it to Li Qian, and finally Li Qian agreed to his suggestion.

And somehow this thing has been spreading!

At this time, Feng Bicheng turned his head to look at Han Shunzhang, and sure enough, he frowned.

This is nothing new, although the little girl is secretive, but these people who have been in the crew all the year round are all sharp-eyed and smooth-eyed, a little bit of wind and grass, and they can immediately feel the taste, not to mention, Zheng Xiaoyue has just filmed a few scenes and mixed a few crews, and they are still very tender.

It's just that Han Shunzhang never picked up her stubble.

Thinking about it from Zheng Xiaoyue's point of view, this thing is actually quite normal.

She doesn't even need to know anything else, she just needs to know that Han Shunzhang is the manager of the film and television department of Minghu Culture, which is enough! As for Han Shunzhang, who is also one of the shareholders of Minghu Culture, he is a hidden little rich man or something, and there is no need to mention those things.

Because if she understands a little deeper, she will know that Han Shunzhang is the third person in the character sequence of the Minghu Culture Film and Television Department, and Cao Zhan, who joined the animation department, is also the fourth person. Moreover, Cao Zhan is actually in charge of the animation department, Jin Han basically doesn't care about things, and Li Qian, the art director, has always been only responsible for the general and detailed affairs, so Han Shunzhang, the big housekeeper, can actually be regarded as the first person in the film and television department.

Zhao He, himself, is a big director, but he can't watch it enough in front of him.

Like Xie Mingyuan in charge of the music department, in terms of film and television, this is the person who really helps Li Qian take the helm.

And the problem is that Han Shunzhang is just in his early thirties, not only is his status very high now, but his future prospects are even more limitless - he is not handsome, but he can be regarded as slightly more handsome than ordinary men. is not short, thin, looks very energetic, plus he is calm and spicy, and he has some man's charm.

Such a character, and the previous "grace of Jane's pulling" and "grace of carrying", even if he has not deliberately teased, for a girl like Zheng Xiaoyue who has just come out of the rivers and lakes, it is really normal to have admiration - this is still good and good-natured.

If you say anything worse, maliciously speculate: Who to fall in love with is not to talk? Who to sleep with is not to sleep? Young actresses in China are stubble after stubble, and it is too difficult to come out of nowhere, and the best way is to find a "nobleman" to help! Then instead of looking for an old man who looks awkward, in terms of strength, status, and power, it is not as good as Han Shunzhang, a young man, why not seize the opportunity to take down Han Shunzhang!

If this Zheng Xiaoyue also thinks so, Feng Bicheng will not be surprised at all!

In this day and age, money is king.

No one is worse than anyone else, why does she get up in a play, it is a film contract and an advertising endorsement, and I have to be willing to be poor and stick to my art? Where am I worse than her? Isn't it because she "fell in love" with an important person?

And...... What the hell is art?

Therefore, although she knows that Han Shunzhang already has a wife and children, and his wife Zhu Yu is still a typical Li Qian party - she was also born in Shuntian Film Academy, and came with Han Shunzhang very early to assist Li Qian in creating the film and television department of Minghu Culture, from the beginning to the present, except for the more than a year when she was pregnant with a child and gave birth to a child, she has always been the art director and costume designer of each of Li Qian's plays, and she also created a clothing brand with Zhou Yan, and the relationship is so good that it is not good - then she is still not afraid.

In fact, Feng Bicheng felt in his heart, let alone the upper position, she was not even likely to be a concubine, but the experience of crawling in the circle in the past many years made him know very well: Today's girls are bold!

Bowing his head and coughing, Feng Bicheng said: "What, old Han, I'll eat first!"

After a pause, he whispered before leaving, "Take it easy." ”

Han Shunzhang nodded.

Waiting for Feng Bicheng to go over first, he nodded and said hello to Zheng Xiaoyue, who was standing alone under the street lamp, and then he walked over slowly, and when he walked not far in front of her, he deliberately didn't stop, looking like he was just saying hello very casually, and said, "Wait for someone!"

But Zheng Xiaoyue looked at him and said directly: "Wait for you." ”