Chapter 90: The Film Studio is founded
The Academy Awards are now the same as the Oscars, and after the end, there will be a Western-style celebration party, where everyone drinks and eats Western food together.
Of course, some people are happy and some are worried, and the winners of the award are full of spring breeze and accept everyone's blessings.
Filmmakers who have been nominated and lost awards or even didn't take a trophy home have to pretend to be chic without minding, they are really born good actors, no wonder life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills.
Of course, more people just regard such a celebration dinner as a social occasion, actors seek the approval of the director, the director finds investors to spend money on filming, and beauties take the opportunity to be the heroine, often many blockbuster movies are born under the coincidence of opportunities!
At this time, sure enough, two old acquaintances had already come over with wine glasses, and Meng Chao looked back and saw that it was Xu Ke and Teddy Robin, a pair of monsters in the film industry.
The relationship between the two is very good, and last year they also cooperated with Struggle Film Company to make an urban comedy love movie, the movie is called "The Emperor of Workers", the protagonists are Xu Guanjie and Wang Zuxian, and these monsters are gags in it, responsible for making jokes, it is a light-hearted movie, and the box office is passable.
"Boss Meng, congratulations, three nominations today, three awards have been won, I think you are the biggest winner tonight!"
Although Teddy Robin has a flaw in height, this person is a rare musical and movie genius, Meng Chao already admires him very much for this, so he replied with a smile: "Teddy, don't make fun of me, the few awards I nominated are not of high gold content, and the real awards have been taken away by others." ”
Xu Ke had contact with Meng Chao once, and talked about a lot of topics, knowing that Meng Chao was a person who could joke, so Xu Kecai said: "Boss Meng is too modest, he won't be too modest, but he will become hypocritical!" ”
"Director Xu, are you ready to reply to me about the things I mentioned to you last time?"
Meng Chao had talked to Xu Ke privately before, wanting to poach Xu Ke and Shi Nanqi, a couple in the film industry, to pass over the Genesis Film Company, Meng Chao set up a film studio for him, giving him absolute film autonomy, and even after the film is filmed, in addition to the salary payable, Xu Ke will be given corresponding dividends after the movie makes money, hoping that Xu Ke will consider joining.
But until now, Xu Ke has not given an accurate answer, although it has only been less than half a month, Meng Chao is still a little anxious.
After all, Xu Ke is the film director that Meng Chao personally admires the most, his movies are whimsical and have their own unique charm, and Meng Chao concludes that the film market will get better and better from this year onwards, so Xu Ke's kind of movies with content and connotation will definitely be very popular, and will definitely be able to make a lot of money for Genesis Film Company.
Xu Ke took the wine glass and prepared to toast Meng Chao, Meng Chao knew that there was a play at a glance, and hurriedly clinked glasses with him, only to hear Xu Ke say: "Didn't I come over and prepare to reply to you?" ”
Meng Chao didn't rush to ask, but listened to Xu Ke continue: "After drinking this glass of wine, we are the relationship between the boss and the employee, Boss Meng!" ”
This also represents Xu Ke's attitude, so Meng Chao excitedly drank the champagne in his hand, and said with a smile: "Director Yu doesn't need to say this, I invite you to join the establishment of the studio because I really appreciate your film talent, and the film studio can be fully responsible for the production of the film to the end, for this we should be a cooperative relationship, not the relationship between the boss and the staff, and I hope that our future cooperation can be more and more smooth!" ”
In Meng Chao's view, Xu Ke is the most aura and thoughtful film director in the whole of China, and he specializes in making films of various genres, including comedy, martial arts, science fiction and monster films.
To sum up, no film genre can be difficult for him, this old monster who has liked comics and movies since he was a child began to show his talent after returning to Xiangjiang from studying abroad, and became famous for a Gulong drama on Jiashi TV, and was promoted by Wu Siyuan to shoot "Butterfly Change" and was highly praised, so he filmed "The Third Kind of Contact" and "Hell No Door", but because his personal style was too strong, he was not accepted by the market!
After Xu Ke began to find a balance between business and art, he joined Mecca's Endeavor Film Company, where he shot several blockbuster comedies, and Xu Ke began to be unable to stand Mecca's dictatorship, because Mecca was a pure film businessman, he made a fortune making comedies, so he has always specialized in comedy.
But Xu Ke is a person who is unwilling to repeat himself, so he accepted funds from Golden Harvest to shoot the movie "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", introducing Hollywood stunts, and with Huaxia's outstanding technology, the effect is very exciting.
However, it is not good to catch up with the movie market, and the cost of film production is too high, although the box office is okay in the end, compared with the high production fee, it is still a loss!
For this reason, Xu Ke is not a person at the end of the struggle film company and the Golden Harvest Group, although he still makes movies for the struggle film company, but he has never been reused and cannot give full play to his talent.
For this reason, Meng Chao found him at this time, which was the best time, and out of appreciation and trust in Xu Ke, Meng Chao even proposed to set up a film studio for him, in addition to paying him a salary and box office dividends, and also giving Xu Ke the most desired film dominance, how could Xu Ke not be tempted?
So the two eventually hit it off!
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April 30, 1986.
Xu Ke finally officially broke away from the Struggle Film Company, and Xu Ke, who was supposed to be funded by Lei Juekun, the owner of Xiangjiang Kowloon Construction Industry earlier, to set up a film studio, because Lei Juekun was not optimistic about the film market and the real estate industry, and he couldn't find anyone to appreciate him.
In the end, Meng Chao appeared, gave Xu Ke very superior conditions, and had a high appreciation and trust for Xu Ke!
This made Xu Ke feel that he was going to meet a good talent, and finally couldn't help but accept Meng Chao's invitation to become a satellite company under Genesis Film Company, but it was a film studio with complete autonomy!
When the film studio was established, it seemed that there was already a plan for the development route, Xu Ke didn't immediately reply to Meng Chao that he was not thinking about it during that time, in fact, the superior conditions given by Meng Chao had already moved Xu Ke, what else did he need to consider?
So what Xu Ke is actually thinking about is how to make the film studio an important component of Genesis Film Company, and also allow Xu Ke to gain a firm foothold in Meng Chao's company!
So Xu Ke's prepared tactics were to play steadily, and in order to avoid being too aggressive, Xu Ke prepared a small-budget movie called "Shanghai Night".