Lin Qingxia's visit to Wang's house went very smoothly, and Wang Zijun's father was dizzy by an uncle, and then she kept helping her sister with housework and taking care of her pregnant sister-in-law, who was indescribably virtuous.

Wang Xianzhi nodded and commented: "This girl is good, she will run a house." ”

Wang Zijun sweated wildly, and said in her heart: She is also diligent in front of you, and her mother is waiting for her when she goes home.

The Spring Festival has just ended, and Wang Zijun is busy again.

After handing over hundreds of thousands of manuscripts of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and "Sou Shen Ji" to Yu Donglou, he began to look for those film companies that were about to go bankrupt.

The "Wang's Film Company" he is now registered with is an empty shell bag company, and after registration, he asks the accountant of the instant noodle company to do the accounting every month, and then uses the negative profits from the studio and the explosion experiment to file tax returns with the authorities.

Nowadays, Taiwan's film industry is much more developed than Hong Kong, and there are countless film companies, but even if even the three big mountains "Cathay Pacific, League of Nations, and Commonwealth" have collapsed two one after another, not to mention other small companies, which are going bankrupt every day.

Soon Wang Zijun found a film company named "Tianhua" that was on the verge of bankruptcy, and finally won it with 300,000 yuan in cash and 800,000 yuan in cash. In addition to having its own professional production team, Tianhua Company also has a certain distribution capacity, which is very rare in the current Taiwanese film industry where production and distribution are separated. These resources were packaged and eaten and merged into Wang's Film Company.

The general manager of Tianhua Film Company is called Bai Muyang, who is almost fifty years old, and used to work in a film company in Shanghai, but later went south with [***] and was pulled by investors to be the general manager of the company.

Bai Muyang's ability to do management is still good, Tianhua Company has been established for nearly 10 years, from an obscure film company, to a well-known medium-sized company in Taipei.

It's a pity that the shareholders didn't work together later, and saw that the industry was doing well in recent years, so two shareholders withdrew from it, and the performance declined all the way, and the company laid off several employees in a row, which made people panic. In addition, in the past few months, they have made every effort to create a big production with an investment of more than 2 million, and they were originally going to rely on it to turn over, but they tragically collided with "Tangshan Big Brother" and lost all their money.

As a result, the only remaining shareholder also picked a child. When Wang Zijun proposed to buy Tianhua Company, the boss barely raised the price, and soon reached an agreement.

Looking at the new young boss, Bai Muyang had no bottom in his heart. He has naturally heard of Wang Zijun's name, but can a singer who is not yet 19 years old bring hope to the company?

Wang Zijun's directing of the advertisement, after the revelation of the actors and photographers who participated in the filming at the beginning, is now only circulated in a small number of director circles, and many people still don't believe it. In Bai Muyang's opinion, the current boss is estimated to have starred in a Qiong Yao film, and he played with the film company on a whim.

There have been no changes within the company, the only thing that has changed is that the name on the wall has been changed to Wang. The company's logo was designed by Gu Long's "Daddy" cartoonist Li Feimeng, and it is a roaring colorful tiger, and the king character on the forehead is particularly eye-catching. The tiger is descending the mountain, and the huge tiger claws are pressed on a roll of film, which has a kind of intimidating aura.

After several layoffs in the original company, there are now more than 30 employees left, including photography, makeup, art and props personnel, but none of these people's names have been heard of Wang Zijun. As for the question of whether these people will stay or not, Wang Zijun will be investigated, and whoever is passive and slacking off in the next month will be directly eliminated. Now that Cathay Pacific has just gone bankrupt, and its employee Golden Harvest has only eaten a part, it is not difficult to recruit professionals.

But there is still work to be done to reassure people.

Wang Zijun clapped his hands and asked with a smile: "Everyone knows me, right?" ”

"I know, you are Wang Zijun." Most employees saw that after returning from the Chinese New Year, the company's name changed from Tianhua to Wang's, where is it not clear that the boss sold the company? It's just that they didn't know that Wang Zijun was their new boss, and when they answered, many people thought that the company was going to invite Wang Zijun to film.

Bai Muyang applauded and said, "Next, I would like to invite Mr. Wang Zijun, chairman of the company, to speak. ”

After a moment of coldness, the employees applauded sparsely and said in surprise: "The new boss is actually him, is there a mistake!" ”

"I think it's good, anyway, it's a mixed salary, at least this boss is a handsome guy, but it's much better than the old man who was sexual." A beautiful woman in the makeup department said.

"I think it's because this boss doesn't have a boss lady, who was chased to the company by the boss lady last time to shave his ears." A sissy beside her smirked.

The beauty was furious and scolded: "Dead ladyboy, fake man, sissy!" ”

The sissy shot back: "Stinky bitch, vixen, rotten scratcher!" ”

Wang Zijun was troubled by the noise below, slapped the table, and shouted with a straight face: "Give me peace!" ”

The employees were frightened by his sudden action and immediately quieted down, only to hear Wang Zijun say: "During the one-month inspection period, if you don't feel at ease at work, you can get out of the way if you mess with other small actions!" Manager Bai, this matter is left to you. ”

Bai Muyang smiled bitterly, Wang Zijun played tricks to make himself a villain, and the new boss was not a stupid boy who didn't understand anything.

The employees were shocked by this sentence, and they were all honest. It's hard to find a job these days, and I'm really losing where to cry.

Wang Zijun followed Bai Muyang to the warehouse to take a look, and there were only five old cameras, some films, two rail cars, and some other props. He frowned and said, "How many years have these things not been replaced with new ones?" ”

Bai Muyang said: "Five years." ”

"Hairy." Wang Zijun burst into a foul language, and then made a list of purchases for Bai Muyang before saying, "I'm going to prepare for the filming of a war drama soon, and you will assign the best people to me." I'm looking for people from outside for the cinematography and lighting, you can also choose one or two, and the film is now in the process of casting and is ready to start filming early next month. In addition, publicity can start from the start of filming, and I will tell you more about the specific method another day. ”

Bai Muyang was surprised: "Boss, are you saying that you want to be the director yourself?" ”

"yes, what's the problem?" Wang Zijun asked.

Bai Muyang felt that the sky was dark, it was tragic enough for the original boss to treat the company as a bank, and the current new boss was actually hot-headed.

Wang Zijun asked, "Have you ever seen the advertisement for Master Wang's instant noodles?" ”

"I've seen it, and it's shocking, but it's too expensive." Bai Muyang said.

"I directed that commercial." Wang Zijun said.

"You ......" Bai Muyang looked at him in disbelief, you must know that the director of the commercial film has now been praised as an idol by some directing students.

"So, you don't have to worry about my directing ability at all." Wang Zijun patted him on the shoulder and said, "In addition to arranging manpower, the most important thing for you now is to do publicity, and give me propaganda to every township and village in Taiwan. ”

Bai Muyang said: "In that case, I'm afraid the publicity fee will be very high, and it may outweigh the losses." And as long as our movies are done well, there will be countless theaters and filmmakers rushing to copy them, and we don't need to publicize them at all. ”

Wang Zijun listened to this theory and wanted to kick him to death, but Bai Muyang was not a reborn, so it was normal to have this kind of thinking.

Today's movies are not squeezed by pirated audio tapes, DVDs, the Internet, and television, and there are very few entertainment activities on the island, so all good-looking movies are sold out without publicity, and the supply exceeds the demand.

This strong supply side directly led to the film company not paying attention to publicity, and prompted the birth of the "film scheduler" industry.

If you classify the film industry, there are generally only three categories: "distribution", "production" and "theater". However, in Taiwan, there is an additional "film arrangement" industry, which has been prosperous in the past few decades since Taiwan's recovery, and has thus become a unique industry in the island's film industry.

Taiwan's movie theaters are everywhere in counties, cities, towns, and towns, but film companies, whether they are distributors or producers, were all concentrated in Taipei City at the beginning, and theaters from all over the country had to go to Taipei City to rent films from film companies if they wanted to show movies. Counties and cities near Taipei, such as Keelung, Yilan, Taoyuan and other places, are not far from Taipei City, and you can directly contact the film company nearby, but the theaters in the south-central and eastern regions far away from Taipei are not so simple.

In this era, Taiwan's transportation was not as convenient as it is now, and it took a whole day to take a train from Kaohsiung to Taipei, taking the night express train, leaving Kaohsiung at 10 o'clock that night and arriving at Taipei at 6 o'clock in the morning of the next day, and taking a car was even slower, and the civil aviation on the island had not yet been opened. As a result, the theater owners in these remote areas have entrusted relatives and friends living in Taipei or appointed special personnel to be stationed in Taipei to deal with the film companies -- these "representatives" are the so-called "film schedulers." After a long time, the profession of film arranger has gradually developed into a profession.

Filmmakers often go in and out of film companies in Taipei, booking and renting films, arranging schedules, negotiating prices, and grabbing good films. For example, there are 5 theaters in Taichung City, and they found that there was a blockbuster film in Taipei, and everyone wanted to fight for it, so the representatives of these theaters in Taipei asked the eight immortals to cross the sea to show their powers, pull relationships, and find a way; Sometimes I have to go to the house of the manager of the film company to give gifts, and whoever can grab the "good film" will have the means.

In such a hot film market, good films don't need to be promoted at all, and bad movies are useless if they are promoted.

Wang Zijun had to patiently explain to him: "How much box office do you think a movie can get in Taiwan." ”

"The best is about 6 million, but last year, Qiong Yao's "Cai Yun Fei" had a box office of 7.2 million, and the Hong Kong film "Big Brother Tangshan" rolled up to 11 million box office (for specially indicated places, they are all in New Taiwan dollars)." Bai Muyang said, "I think 11 million is already the limit. ”

Wang Zijun smiled: "What if I say that my film is going to invest 10 million (an additional 2 million when the cinema was built)? ”

"What?" Bai Muyang hurriedly shook his head, "You're not kidding, 10 million will definitely be lost!" ”

Bai Muyang is not unreasonable, the reason why the League of Nations went bankrupt has a lot to do with Li Hanxiang's big production of every movie, and then constantly delaying time. And Bai Muyang's original Tianhua Company finally went bankrupt because of a vain attempt to turn over with a large investment.

Big investment can be done occasionally, but it can't be used more, and the big investment of 10 million is absolutely so big that you don't even know your mother.

(To be continued)