"A Chinese Ghost Story" is basically handled by Chen Jialuo, but after all, he is only a producer, so this movie is naturally not his work.

According to the original contract, the studio would guarantee him to direct three films within three years. If you look at it purely like this, Chen Jialuo still has to make two movies for the film studio to pay off his debts.

Xu Qian is very smart, he knows very well that Chen Jialuo can't keep it, just like Xinyicheng can't keep him. At that time, he could easily leave Xinyicheng, if it wasn't for Boss Lei to stay, he wouldn't have run any film studio at all, and he might have opened a satellite company under Golden Harvest like Zeng Zhiwei.

The current Chen Jialuo is the same, as long as he wants to leave, Golden Harvest and other companies will definitely embrace him with open arms. In the current situation, it is to maximize the benefits. It's realistic, but everyone is an adult, and it won't affect any personal relationships.

After all, Chen Jialuo and Wu Yusen are still different, the reason why Xu Yu and Wu Yusen are so unhappy is entirely because Wu Yusen doesn't want to shoot "The True Colors of Heroes" right away, but Xu Yu feels that Wu Yusen should take advantage of this momentum to make persistent efforts to stabilize his position.

It's not about who is right and who is wrong, one is for the film studio, the other is for his own film concept, but two good friends who support each other have come to this point, it's really a bit unexpected.

And Chen Jialuo will not be in such a situation at all, Xu Qian is Chen Jialuo's benefactor, a predecessor, and a sky to show his ambitions. Now that Chen Jialuo has grown up and is about to fly, it is naturally indispensable to repay his kindness.

In Chen Jialuo's view, Xu Wei is much better than many 'seniors' in the film industry. After all, this circle is so big, anyone can say who they have carried out, but it is another thing to carry two people to coerce others.

There are many examples of this kind of thing in the circle, such as the king of comedy Zhou Xingxing, who was born poor and still poor after 8 years of career, he was later appreciated by Li Xiuxian, and won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards after filming "Thunderbolt Pioneer". During the filming of the film, Zhou Xingxing was scolded by Li Xiuxian all the way to the finale.

It is rumored that on the set, the person who was scolded the most was Zhou Xingxing. Because Zhou Xingxing acted very seriously, Li Xiuxian thought it was too much, and directly pointed at his nose and scolded: "Acting is not hard work, why are you working hard like a dog?"

It is said that in "Journey to the West", this is the origin of the classic line 'He is like a dog'.

Later, some people said that in Li Xiuxian's eyes, seriousness is the behavior of a dog, but in Xiangjiang during this period, what is the main focus on filming? Naturally, speed is the main thing, if Zhou Xingxing is always NG or always asks for reshoots, then it annoys the director who wants to call it a day, the actors who want to transfer scenes, and the drama affairs? In short, speed is the first and the most economical.

At first, Zhou Xingxing's contract was signed with Li Xiuxian's Universal Film Company, and his value at that time could be described as cheap. After becoming famous, Zhou Xingxing was the object of major film companies in Xiangjiang vying to sign contracts, and offered a high salary.

It's a pity that Zhou Xingxing didn't have a choice, and Li Xianxing transferred Zhou Xingxing to the Xiang brothers' Yongsheng Film Company. Li Xiuxian was responsible for paying Zhou Xingxing's salary, and Yongsheng Film Company was responsible for filming.

The next seven movies starring Zhou Xingxing, the box office income is immeasurable, Yongsheng Film Company and Li Xiuxian share the box office income equally, and as the starring Zhou Xingxing, it is said that the salary of the seven movies is still the original price, only 700,000.

It is rumored that most of the funny plot plots in the seven movies were come up by Zhou Xingxing himself, which can be regarded as writing and acting.

Li Lizhi, the director of "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance", once broke the news that at that time, it was basically Zhou Xingxing who was thinking about the lines of the script, and then asked the screenwriter to write it. Zhou Xingxing is in charge of everything on the set, and it is said that "Jiupin Sesame Official" is the lighting art, and everyone calls him "Director Taishang". He has paid far more than the duty of an actor, but the name of the director and screenwriter is not him.

has had a 'Zhou Xingxing Year' in the film industry, and Fa Ge is also known as 'Double Monday', and he is one of the actors with the most box office appeal, but he only gets the salary of a third-tier star.

It should be said that Li Xiuxian is Zhou Xingxing's Bole, in a sense, he is Zhou Xingxing's "mentor", without Li Xiuxian, there may not really be a later Zhou Xingxing, and it is for this reason that Zhou Xingxing has been grateful to Li Xiuxian many times in public.

There is also a saying that Stephen Chow said, "I am very grateful to Mr. Li, because he didn't give this opportunity to others, but gave it to me." If it weren't for Mr. Lee, I might not have been anything. ”

However, soon after the two cooperated, there were rumors that Zhou Xingxing refused to cooperate with Li Xiuxian because of his low salary. Speaking of this matter, Li Xiuxian generously admitted that he gave up on him after the first movie of cooperation.

In the 90s, the two collaborated again on "Love Saint", but this cooperation led to a discord between the master and apprentice. The reason is mainly because of the salary, Zhou Xingxing's worth had already doubled at that time, but Li Xiuxian still paid according to the previous standard of hundreds of thousands.

Because of the grace of promotion, Zhou Xingxing can't care about it, but there are a lot of film appointments outside, and some people even open a movie with a sky-high price of tens of millions, how can they refuse? Another point is that the type, style, and technique of Li Xiuxian's film production are not in line with Zhou Xingxing, is it possible to always let Zhou Xingxing play the role of the gangster brother in "Righteous Heroes"?

Perhaps it was precisely because of the sharp words and the different ways that Li Xiuxian later repeatedly asked Zhou Xingxing to cooperate, but he was deceived and fooled, and finally made the master and apprentice strangers.

There are countless examples of similar masters and apprentices turning against each other and parting ways, even Xu Xian can be regarded as a successful and self-reliant with the three giants of the New Art City.

Now the contract that Xu Wei puts in front of Chen Jialuo is no longer the original ordinary contract, but like the head contract of TVB's artist department. From the perspective of TV actors, it is not restricted to you from taking films outside, as long as you fulfill the performance of filming a few dramas for TVB every year.

The contract in front of Chen Jialuo is for the next two years, shooting two films for the film studio each year, a total of four. And all the copyrights are in the hands of the film studio, Chen Jialuo only gets the director's remuneration, three million for a movie.

These include the sequel to "A Chinese Ghost Story" and the sequel to "Prison Storm", which were designated for Chen Jialuo to shoot. In fact, these two films were filmed in a film studio, and the copyright naturally belongs to the film studio.

The reason why Chen Jialuo was asked to shoot the sequel was naturally for the guarantee of the quality of the film and the guarantee of the box office.

From then on, Chen Jialuo is not a film studio person, and he can accept other high-paying invitations in his spare time, or even set up his own independent film production company.

Obviously, every director wants to be able to hold all the resources in one hand, be the boss himself, and have no one to dictate and open his own film production company.

Xu Qian himself came over like this, how could he not know Chen Jialuo's thoughts.

As long as he signs, Chen Jialuo is a free body, and he can do whatever he wants. Now he is no longer the depressed director he was at the beginning, even if he is only responsible for making films for major companies, he doesn't need to worry about the schedule and theater issues, it will definitely be bad, and the salary will not be low.

On the contrary, if you run an independent film production company, you will survive in the cracks, which is extremely difficult.

It is really rare for a boss like Xu Yi to be able to release people easily during this period, after all, Chen Jialuo has gradually become a cash cow. Even if someone comes to rob it, no one will be willing to give in easily, let alone the current situation.

Although this contract is not generous, it is nothing at all for Xu Xian's kindness to himself.

Almost without any hesitation, Chen Jialuo picked up the pen and signed the name and said, "Brother Wu, thank you." ”

Xu Wei leaned back in his chair, folded his feet on the table, smoked a cigar and said, "Ah Luo, that's how I came over." I haven't thought about getting any big companies, I like to play movies by myself, maybe in the future, we will also have a hand in the major schedules. Haha!"