In the afternoon, Zhang Ran met the starry boss Lu Zheng, the legendary coal boss, in the café. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info However, Lu Zheng is very different from the coal boss imagined by Zhang Ran, he is not the kind of nouveau riche with a shiny face and a meaty face, he is in his thirties, he looks thin, and he can be seen to be a very knowledgeable and cultivated person.

After expressing his respect for Zhang Ran, Lu Zheng began to come up with his own purpose: "I heard Ning Hao say that Mr. Zhang is a straightforward person, so I won't beat around the bush." There is an artist in our company named Jing Tian, and Mr. Zhang met her at the Bazaar dinner yesterday. We hope that she can star in the film and television works of the pinnacle of the century, and all the works in which she plays the starring role will be funded by our star-studded funds, and you will be responsible for shooting and distribution, and the final profit will be divided fifty-fifty, what do you think?"

Zhang Ran was slightly stunned, this Mr. Lu is really generous enough, all the films starring Jing Tian do not need to pay a penny at the peak of the century, but the income is fifty-fifty, I am afraid that not many companies can refuse this condition. However, Zhang Ran didn't answer, and asked very gossipy: "Is she your girlfriend?"

Lu Zheng was taken aback and hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, we just have a working relationship." ”

Zhang Ran was indeed very moved by Lu Zheng's conditions, but he was worried that this matter would be effective, if he started this way, then the company's system would be like a fictitious thing, and there would be more and more cases of stuffing people into the crew in the future.

Lu Zhengjian was silent, and felt that he needed to come up with better conditions, so he said: "Mr. Zhang, in addition to the things I told you, there is another big advantage in cooperating with us. ”

Zhang Ran glanced at him and said, "Let's hear it!"

Lu Zheng took a sip of water and said: "Century Peak has had a lot of actions in the theater line in the past year or so, the layout is mainly in Donghua and South China, and I haven't seen the corresponding action in the northwest, and we can help you, for example, we can say that we can persuade Chang'an Cinema to join Century Peak;

Zhang Ran really didn't expect the other party to throw out such a condition, which was really attractive to him, and at the same time, he was very surprised, what is the origin of this Lu Zheng?

Chang'an Cinema Line is a local cinema line in Qinchuan Province, and now the Qinchuan film market is more complicated, in addition to Chang'an Cinema, Henan Oscar, Poly, Wanda Cinema are all in Daxing Cinema, competing for Qinchuan Film Market, if you can cooperate with Chang'an Cinema, then the cinema line at the peak of the century can lay a wedge, with Chang'an Cinema Line as the center point, radiating the entire northwest region.

In the 80s of the last century, the West Film Studio was similar to Yan'an in the hearts of revolutionary youth to young directors. Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Gu Changwei, Li Shaohong and others all came out of here, although the Northwest Circle has now declined, Zhang Yimou and they have all gone to Beiping to develop, but many people's personnel relations are still here, so the influence of the Northwest Circle is still there.

Since Lu Zheng has a strong relationship in the Northwest Circle, it is not surprising that Zhang Yimou will replace Zhang Jingchu and choose Jingtian!

Zhang Ran stared at Lu Zheng for a few seconds, and said slowly, "Who is Jingtian?"

Lu Zheng snorted and said, "An eighteen-year-old cute girl, a student in the 07-level undergraduate class of the Performance Department of Peking Film Academy. Lu Zheng frowned when he saw Zhang Ranzhi, and hurriedly explained: "The child of an old leader's relatives, this leader has helped many people before, and our boss is also deeply favored, although the old leader has long since retired, but our boss is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and the little girl likes to act, so our boss will repay the little girl." ”

Zhang Ran felt that he could believe this, but he couldn't believe it all, and asked, "I don't know who your boss is?"

Lu Zheng smiled and said: "If you do real estate, you don't know it." However, there are some connections in Qinchuan, and if the peak of the century develops a cinema line in Qinchuan, our boss will definitely be able to help. ”

Zhang Ran pondered for a long time, and finally made the same choice as Wanda: "I can promise you, but your purpose is to win Hongjingtian, right?"

Lu Zheng did not shy away from saying: "Yes!"

Zhang Ran stared at Lu Zheng and asked, "Do you know what Jingtian's biggest feature is?"

Lu Zheng thought for a while and said, "Beautiful!"

Zhang Ran smiled, so Mr. Lu really didn't understand actors, so he began to talk about his opinion: "Jingtian's eyes are beautiful, and the whole person looks very spiritual and heroic, but her face is an inverted triangle, her facial lines are a little hard, and she lacks affinity, which gives people a very powerful feeling." For actors, affinity is especially important. If you don't have affinity, no matter how much you publicize it and take photos again, at most you can only mix up a familiar face, and the audience will still not like her. ”

Zhang Ran opened his laptop and searched for a set of photos taken in Seattle in the first half of this year when Jingtian endorsed the Northwest Cherries in the United States.

He browsed through the photos, pointed to the analysis: "The photos are beautiful, but they are more contrived, giving people the feeling of clay puppets, and the sense of alienation is particularly obvious." The audience will find the girl beautiful, but it will be difficult to like her due to the lack of affinity. Among them, Jingtian riding a bicycle, as well as a few photos of playing with children, are more vivid, particularly energetic, and have the feeling of a girl next door, if all the photos are in this style, the effect will be much better. Jingtian is very lively, energetic, and full of vitality, which is her advantage, but you have not taken advantage of it. The right thing to do is to let her play basketball, let her run, and let her take photos on campus, which not only narrows the distance between her and the audience, but also shows her characteristics!"

Lu Zheng was stunned when he heard this, and said after a while: "Mr. Zhang, we took a lot of photos of Jingtian, and we also organized people to promote it on the Internet, but the response was mediocre. I don't understand, Jing Tian is obviously much more beautiful than Tianxian MM and the like, and the photos are also better, but why is Tianxian MM popular, but Jing Tian pays little attention? After listening to your words, I am suddenly enlightened!"

Zhang Ran smiled faintly: "I am a teacher of the acting department and a director, observing and analyzing the characteristics of the characters is our basic skill." It is not difficult to support Jingtian, the key is to choose a good development route, to develop her strengths and avoid weaknesses, give full play to her advantages and characteristics, act in more youth campus dramas, idol dramas, and less big dramas, Jingtian is not a genius actor, she can't hold up. Also, it is necessary to act in more TV dramas, accumulate enough popularity and acting skills through TV dramas and then develop to the big screen. ”

In the previous life, many people said that Adou, who couldn't be supported, couldn't hold Jingtian, who couldn't be popular. In Zhang Ran's view, Jingtian purely took the wrong route. The idea of the Jingtian team is very simple, they spend money to invite big stars to make movies, they think that there must be a big star who has a high degree of attention, and as soon as the attention is high, Jingtian will become popular!

This idea seems reasonable, but in fact it is very wrong, Jing Tian is not the kind of person who is born to eat movies like Zhang Ziyi, and putting her in a big production not only can't support the role, but instead reveals her lack of acting skills.

Acting skills are afraid of comparison, Liu Ye's acting skills are good enough, but his performance in "No War in Peking" was scolded bloody, and it was said to be the biggest failure. The reason is that the opponent is too strong, and compared with many old drama bones, Liu Ye's performance is suddenly dwarfed. Playing against Jing Tian are actors with excellent acting skills such as Sun Honglei, Cheng Long, and Chow Yun-fat, and the acting skills of cooperating with these people Jing Tian are naturally beaten, and the lack of acting skills is quickly amplified. After a few plays, the audience formed a mindset, Jing Tian's acting skills were bad, and even Jing Tian's reaction was a bad movie.

Therefore, if Jingtian wants to be popular, he can't take the route of big productions, he should act in more dramas that meet his own temperament, act in more TV series to accumulate audience popularity and popularity, and then move to the film industry.

Lu Zheng really felt that looking for Zhang Ran was the right person: "Mr. Zhang, before I came, I was not convinced by you, and I thought you were just a lucky person! Now I am convinced, and there is no vanity under the fame! You are a person who really understands actors and acting." Jing Tian also really likes acting, and she admires you very much, I don't think it's as good as this, let Jing Tian learn acting with you, what do you think?"

Zhang Ran heard that Da Tiantian was asked to learn acting with him, his hairs stood up, and he had a headache when he accepted Liu Yifei's apprentice, and if there was a rich and willful Da Tiantian, would he not be alive anymore? Hurriedly waved his hand: "Mr. Lu, the nine students in the 05 level 1 class I am taking now are all selected by me one by one, and I have high expectations for them, but now I don't even have time to care about them, how can I bring other students?"

In cooperation with the peak of the century, Zhang Ran will definitely give Jingtian resources, but will he support Jingtian with his heart? This is difficult to say. In Lu Zheng's opinion, if Jing Tian can learn from Zhang Ran and become Zhang Ran's student, things will be much simpler: "I know that Mr. Zhang is busy with the Olympic Games, this matter is not in a hurry, and after the Olympic Games, it will be too late to learn from you." ”

"Don't mention this matter again, I won't bring any more students except for level 05, let alone female students alone!" Zhang Ran refused without much explanation, and then looked at Lu Zhengdao, " It's okay to cooperate with you star-studded, and it's no problem to win the red Jingtian, but you must promise me two conditions, first, Jingtian's development route must be according to our requirements; second, Jingtian's freshman and sophomore students will obediently stay in school to study, and don't go out to take on the play; if you can do it, I will personally supervise this matter; if you can't do it, then there is no need to talk about it. ”

Lu Zheng pondered for a while, nodded and agreed, his task is to make Jingtian popular and cooperate with the peak of the century, then he will be much easier, with the energy of Zhang Ran and the peak of the century, he will definitely be able to make Jingtian popular, which is much more reliable than throwing money everywhere to pull the team to film.

In the evening, Zhang Ran had a light meal with Jing Tian and Lu Zheng, told Jing Tian about his requirements, and let her study in school with peace of mind, and only came out to act two years later. Jing Tian did not object to this, but asked with a little excitement, do you want to act in your movie when the time comes? Zhang Ran did not refuse, nor did he agree, and said with a smile, it depends on your performance. Jing Tian said energetically, I will definitely perform well.

Jingtian's appearance is just a small episode, and Zhang Ran's work is still focused on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and the acquisition of Netflix. On September 16, Zhang Ran finally waited for the most important news, Netflix's acquisition of Blockbuster had passed the US government's antitrust investigation.

On the morning of September 19, Blockbuster and Netflix held a signing ceremony for the merger and acquisition in Dallas.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the hall of Blockbuster headquarters was crowded with people, reporters and photographers were constantly talking, and the whole scene was very lively. The main personnel of both sides of the press conference were not present, and only five or six staff members were debugging the microphone and maintaining order on the spot.

At the same time, the lights of Beiping City were bright, the floor where Zhang Ran's acquisition team was located was brightly lit, and it was a busy scene, and the conference room seemed to be the same as the combat headquarters, with people constantly coming and going, and the phone calls were ringing one after another, and everyone was making final preparations for the raid.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Yu Liping walked to Zhang Ran's side and said with a solemn expression: "Mr. Zhang, the funds and personnel are all in place, and you can do it!"

Zhang Ran took a deep breath and spit out two words: "Do it!"