Chinese New Year's Eve has passed for several days, and this year's Spring Festival Gala did not receive several sacks of audience criticism letters in just one week because the program was too bad, and the Spring Festival Gala program team finally did not have to apologize to hundreds of millions of viewers in "News Network".

On the contrary, because Teresa Teng and Zhao Yazhi appeared in the Spring Festival Gala without warning, they gave the mainland audience a full surprise. In particular, the song "Blessing" was widely sung in just a few days.

Every year, the Spring Festival Gala will be popular with a few people and a few songs, and today is no exception.

The first one to become popular was the young female teacher of the Central Dance Academy who danced the folk dance, and before the Spring Festival ended, she was absorbed by the General Political Song and Dance Troupe. followed by Dong Wenhua, who sang a cover of "The Fifteenth Moon", which was also remembered by the audience at once.

The most popular is the song "Happy Chinese Year" sung by several hosts when they appeared, which is even much more popular than "Blessing" sung by Teresa Teng.

Without him, because this song is so appropriate and festive. It would never have had such a big impact on normal times, but now it's the Chinese New Year! This song is catchy, hum a few words at any time, and it is pleasant and auspicious.

Record companies in the mainland are still contacting the Spring Festival Gala program team, wanting to produce a record of the Spring Festival Gala song program, and the album title and title song are "Happy Chinese Year".

But before this matter was discussed, all kinds of pirated tapes had been circulated on the streets, including male covers, female covers, and male and female chorus, and even the quality of some pirated tapes had been completely professional.

Piracy is, after all, piracy, and most of it is shoddy. At present, there are no private record companies in the mainland, and these state-owned record companies are extremely confident in their professional production capabilities and sales channels, and they quickly contacted the copyright owners of the songs through the Spring Festival Gala program team.

Wang Zijun wanted to leave Beijing the next day after participating in the Spring Festival Gala, but was forcibly kept by Huang Yihe, so he had to take him to his home for the New Year to thank him.

Knowing that Wang Zijun, Teng Lijun, and Zhao Yazhi were all at Huang Yihe's house, some people in Beijing's cultural and entertainment circles couldn't care about the New Year, and came to visit.

That's the difference in identity.

If Wang Zijun came back as an overseas Chinese businessman, then all kinds of officials came to him. However, there is no trade between the two sides of the strait at all, and the Mainland Affairs Council of the Taiwan authorities is still under ambiguous discussions, and it is uncertain whether it can be established. As soon as he heard that he was from Taiwan, he lost much enthusiasm for attracting investment, and even the leaders of the administrative office and the municipal axe were not present.

But the world of culture and entertainment is different. Now everything in the entertainment industry in the mainland is moving closer to Hong Kong and Taiwan, just look at how many Hong Kong and Taiwan stars have been invited to this Spring Festival Gala unprecedentedly, and Hong Kong and Taiwan programs account for almost a quarter of the entire party.

And Wang Zijun is a leading figure in the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles, and there are so many entertainment resources under his hands that they are terrifying. Although "Titanic" was not released in the mainland, it was very easy for some people in the circle to get the video, and after they watched it, in addition to being shocked and admiring, some filmmakers in the mainland have completely regarded Wang Zijun as a god-level existence.

Even if there is no Wang Zijun, only Zhao Yazhi and Deng Lijun are enough to attract many visitors.

stayed at Huang Yihe's house for only one day, and on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Zijun couldn't stand it and wanted to leave, and stepped out of the door, but was stopped by a somewhat short and thin man.

"Mr. Wang, stay!" Wang Zijun, who was about to get on the bus, was stopped by a man wearing a brand new Zhongshan suit.

Wang Zijun felt that this person was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was for a while, so he asked, "Who are you?" ”

"Contemptible Wang Flynn, director of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions". Wang Flynn hurriedly took out the business card that was ordered overnight and handed it over.

"Oh, it turned out to be Director Wang, I have been looking up for a long time." Wang Zijun hurriedly shook hands with him, saying that Jiu Yang was not a lie, whether it was in his previous life or now, he had been looking up to him for a long time. The news that Wang Fulin was going to shoot "Dream of Red Mansions" spread a few years ago, and even red scholars in Europe and the United States were paying attention to it.

Jiashi filmed the TV series version of "Dream of Red Mansions" a few years ago, but it is completely incomparable with Wang Flin's "Dream of Red Mansions". People have famous red scientists in the mainland to write scripts, and they are also very professional in modifying the plot of Gao E's sequel, which has been unanimously recognized by red scientists at home and abroad, rather than the disgusting nonsense of later generations.

Not only that, but the red experts also came to give classes to the actors and staff for free, and even the Grand View Garden had to be built in real life.

It's just that Wang Flin, who is over half a hundred years old in front of him, has no wrinkles on his face at all, and he doesn't look like he is yet forty years old, Wang Zijun is really difficult to connect him with the kind old man with glasses in later generations.

"Where, where, Jiu Yang doesn't dare to be." Wang Flynn rubbed his hands and said, "Mr. Wang, you see it's quite cold here, why don't we find a warm place?" ”

Everyone came to the door, and Wang Zijun didn't want to throw him on the street, nodded and said, "Okay, the guest is as you please, Director Wang, you can take the idea." ”

Wang Zijun was taken to a tea plantation, which was not open during the Spring Festival, and most of it was Wang Fulin's face that gave in.

The tea garden was deserted, and no one was performing on the stage, Zhao Yazhi and Teresa Teng made a bowl of tea and chatted while chatting, they could see that Wang Fulin looked like he had something serious to talk about.

"Mr. Wang, your production of "The Legend of the New White Lady" is really wonderful, in addition to the limited conditions of the on-site shooting, the plot, costumes, music and lines are all masterpieces, which has benefited me a lot." Wang Flynn was the first to come up with a burst of compliments.

It's not exactly a compliment, although he has done TV dramas decades ago, but it is the kind of short film that only has a few episodes to praise socialism, and he doesn't know anything about commercial TV dramas. In order to shoot his own TV series, CCTV directly assigned him to Europe a few years ago to investigate and familiarize himself with the production process of commercial TV dramas.

Soon after the idea of filming "Dream of Red Mansions" came up, "The Legend of the New White Lady" entered the mainland for broadcast, and many things in it made Wang Flin's idea suddenly come through.

After greeting for a while, Wang Flin began to ask Wang Zijun for experience in the production of various TV dramas.

This was said for more than an hour, Wang Zijun began to be a little impatient, he didn't have time to talk nonsense with people in the teahouse during the Spring Festival, and couldn't help asking: "I don't know what Director Wang is looking for me today?" ”

Wang Fulin did not answer directly, but asked: "Mr. Wang has been here for a few days, have you gone to the Grand View Garden in Beijing to have a look?" ”

Wang Zijun said: "Time is too tight, and I haven't had time to appreciate Director Wang's masterpiece." ”

Wang Fulin said: "If you have time, I will personally take Mr. Wang to visit." ”

"Definitely, definitely." Wang Zijun nodded and said.

It was only at this time that Wang Fulin finally said his purpose: "Mr. Wang, I don't know if you are interested in investing in "Dream of Red Mansions"? ”

"What?" When Wang Zijun heard this, he almost didn't squirt out the tea he had just drunk. Wang Fulin is so poor and crazy that he actually thought of finding funds for himself, a Taiwanese compatriot.

Wang Fulin saw Wang Zijun's surprised expression, and said with some embarrassment: "I won't tell you anything, the money in my hand is running out." ”

"How so?" Wang Zijun said strangely, "Wasn't "Dream of Red Mansions" invested and filmed by your Central TV? Will there be no money? ”

"Mr. Wang, you don't know anything." Wang Flin took a sip of tea, pursed his lips and said, "The original plan of CCTV was to shoot 25 episodes and gave me a budget of 5 million. But now we have to shoot 36 episodes, and in order to restore the original work as much as possible, we also deliberately built the Grand View Garden......"

Wang Fulin explained, and Wang Zijun finally understood.

It turns out that at this time in the mainland film and television industry, filming movies is art, and TV series are just children's toys for small fights, and they can't be staged at all.

As a TV series director, Wang Flynn happens to have been in conflict with his predecessors in the film industry.

A few years ago, he filmed a TV series "He Yue Caiyun Returns" that reflected the homesickness of Taiwanese compatriots, and it happened that the film studio also made a movie "Love the Sky and Hate the Sea" based on the same film; He remade Jiang Zilong's "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple" into a TV series, which made Chen Baoguo popular in one fell swoop, and the movie of the same name also came out; This time, Wang Fulin filmed the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", and the film industry continued to "not forgive".

At the beginning of last year, Beijing Film Studio announced the filming of the film version of "Dream of Red Mansions", and it is also preparing to make six 8-episode series, with an investment of more than 20 million yuan.

As soon as the filming of the movie version started, Wang Flin's pressure was even greater, after all, in today's people's concepts, TV series cannot be compared with movies, and even CCTV is ready to give up the filming of TV series.

Wang Flynn persevered and finally endured for a year. may have been stimulated by the movie version, and he repeatedly increased the production budget under the pursuit of excellence, but the central station behind him spread his hands with just four words - no money!

The poor director turned a businessman, and as soon as the Grand View Garden was built, he asked friends from the media to help advertise, using the Daguan Garden, which had not yet been fully built, as a tourist attraction, and relying on the money from admission fees to make up for the lack of funds for the filming of TV dramas.

When Wang Zijun heard this, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up, not only did he not spend a dime to build the Grand View Garden, but he made a fortune.

However, a director is so poor that he relies on collecting tickets to maintain filming, which is indeed tragic enough.

Wang Fulin sighed and said: "Taili allocated more than two million yuan and didn't give money, seeing that the construction of the Grand View Garden still costs money, there is no way to find Mr. Wang." ”

Wang Zijun said strangely: "Why don't you give money?" Didn't you say that you plan to invest 5 million? ”

Wang Fulin said: "First, it is the pressure from the Beijing Film Studio, and the station feels that the TV series cannot be compared with the movie, and the filming does not have much influence. Well, it's that my side spends too much money, and it may cost six or seven million if it goes on like this. But Mr. Wang, you are also a director, and the money I spent can really improve the quality of TV dramas. ”

Wang Zijun thought to himself, I'm afraid there is another reason that your production cycle is too long. It's been almost three years since the casting, and the progress is less than a third, if I were your boss, I wouldn't stop filming, but I would definitely change the director.

A few million yuan is not much for the central station at that time, but it is also a lot less. If there is an executive order on it, let alone millions, even if one or two million is taken out to play in the water, it will not blink an eye. But if it is used in a TV series that is not taken seriously, and it has been filmed for a few years without results, and I don't know if it will be filmed on a TV series in the Year of the Monkey, it is worth considering. After all, the TV drama production center of CCTV has been established for less than two years now, and there are no works that can be used, and there is not much ability to ask for funds from the station.

Wang Zijun covered the tea bowl and asked, "Do you want me to invest?" Are you willing to do it? ”

Wang Fulin smiled bitterly: "They wish someone would take over, otherwise they would have to continue to pay for it." ”

"What about politics?" Wang Zijun asked, "The filming of "Dream of Red Mansions" has been passed to the book, and there are so many red scholars in it, and it has risen to the height of promoting the quintessence of the country. After all, I'm from across the strait, and if I intervene, I'm afraid some people will gossip. ”

Wang Flin said: "Taili means that it will cooperate in filming, but the main body is still Central Station, and the copyright of TV dramas is also in Taiwan. ”

Wang Zijun asked rhetorically: "Then what can I get?" ”

"Profit sharing from sales to local and overseas TV stations." Wang Flynn Road.

Wang Zijun couldn't help but laugh and said, "I'm afraid this is not your personal idea." ”

Wang Flynn nodded and said, "It's my personal idea, and it's also the idea of the TV drama production center." ”

Wang Zijun knew that the newly established CCTV TV Drama Production Center was now in a tight budget, and the idea of rushing to make achievements made them reluctant to give up "Dream of Red Mansions", which had already made a name for itself overseas, so he thought of the idea of joint production.

If the TV series is not filmed well, it is naturally the cost is shared, and if the TV series has a huge impact after it is broadcast, then the honor is still the TV production center. As for the profits distributed to Wang Zijun, the trivial things in the TV drama production center, and the more money they make, they will only give out some benefits.

are all from Central TV, and it is estimated that it was because someone from the TV drama production center saw Wang Zijun's appearance at the Spring Festival Gala that they suddenly thought of this idea, and then instigated Wang Flin, the director, to come up and attract investment.

Even if it causes controversy in the future, the people in the TV drama production center can also explain it like this: The whole country is attracting investment, and our co-production of TV dramas is also attracting overseas investment, which is in line with the general trend of reform and opening up...... "That's it," Wang Zijun thought about it, millions of yuan was trivial to him, and he decided to build a good relationship with CCTV in advance. Although the TV drama production center is still young at this time, it will grow rapidly in a few years, and there are opportunities for cooperation in the future. He wrote a phone number on the table with tea and continued, "I can't invest directly, you call Huang Xizhao of Hong Kong DreamWorks Entertainment Venture Capital, and he will get things done." ”

"Great, I thank Mr. Wang on behalf of the whole crew!" Wang Flin saw that Wang Zijun was willing to invest money, so he quickly stood up and shook hands to thank him, and excitedly found a pen and paper to copy the phone number.

(To be continued)