The preparatory meeting for "Rushing to the Sky" lasted for a long time, almost a morning, and all the work was finally arranged. ∮∮, in fact, this preparatory meeting is mainly a preliminary preparatory meeting for the revision of the script and the establishment of the overall tone and selling points of the film.

There are not many other specific matters for the time being.

Those things can be studied and handled internally by the crew, and Director Zhao and Director Rong are responsible for checking them, and then report them to Zhuo Qinglian, there is no problem.

Regarding the filming location of the Xiangyang Palace, Zhuo Qinglian also mentioned Prince Gong's Mansion to everyone.

Everyone is generally satisfied.

However, it will be necessary to look at the specific environment at that time before the director team can make a final decision.

If it's not suitable, find another location for the shooting.

There is no need to worry about Zhou Yi in this regard, the crew has a full-time producer and assistant director to deal with these things.

After the meeting, everyone went about their own business.

From now on, the crew has to regroup again.

The screenwriting team is going to start adapting the script. The martial arts team, led by action director Huang Huacheng, will start designing action scenes. The art team has to design various weapon shapes. The props team prepares various props. The costume team has to prepare to design the costumes of the leading actors, which will definitely not be the style of the previous life, and the open-chested hollow outfit is too ugly. Fortunately, the clothing group has always been very stable, and there is Rong Lao's check, so Zhou Yi doesn't have to worry.

At the same time, the set workers also have to prepare to work, and when the military experts are in place next week, and the director, director, and artists have designed the tower, it will be their turn to work. However, the work of building the tower is very heavy, and it is necessary to hire some external art construction team to help.

At present, the funds are in place, and these are not problems.

After the preparatory meeting, Manager Zheng hurried back.

He brought back exciting good news for the company.

In view of the excellent screening results of "Five Poison Gate" this week, the four super-stars of Huaxia Cinema have now extended olive branches.

Although they have super new films from the six major Chinese films to be released next week, they will not fully support small-budget cult films like "Five Poisons", but they will also take out some theaters to screen them, showing their concern and support.

Among them, Zhonghua took out the screening scale of 500 theaters, and China's time-honored brand was actually bold this time, which was quite unexpected.

PropNex has always been known in the industry for its precise vision and daring to take risks, and this time it took out 300 theaters to support the screening of "Five Poisons".

Xingmei is well-informed, and also noticed this film with strong screening results, and took out 300 theaters to express support.

In fact, Zhengdong is playing a special advertisement on Xingmeijia's "Xingmei Entertainment Circle" portal, how could Xingmei not notice it? At present, among the four supers in China, only the Imperial Cinema has no response. However, now that the number of theaters is almost enough, it has been fully rolled out, and it is more than enough for "Five Poisons", and there should be no higher expectations.

Whether the Imperial Cinemas reacted or not, in fact, it doesn't matter.

At present, the screening contract has been brought back, and it can take effect when Zhou Yi signs it.

Then Manager Zheng will continue to go out to run business in the afternoon.

Liansheng has already notified him that he will work overtime urgently today to make a digital copy and ship it immediately. The new theaters will certainly not be in time to release at the beginning of next week, but they will certainly catch up on the weekend, which is too good for hitting next week's weekend box office charts.

Liansheng uses many professional duplicators to make digital copies in large quantities at the same time, which is very fast.

And they have prepared a lot of surplus in advance, absolutely no problem.

Making a digital copy is not a big deal, the main thing is that it takes time to deliver the copy.

But no matter what, the new theaters will definitely be released on time next weekend.

Liansheng promised to do a good job and would never delay things.

They are quite professional and have never made mistakes.

That's why Zhengdong trusts Liansheng, and has investigated the situation in advance, and Manager Zheng will not go to cooperate just because of the relationship between classmates.

There is no need to elaborate on these situations, Zhou Yi understands them very well.

The current situation of the theater chain is that there will be 1,016 theaters at the beginning of next week, and by the weekend, plus the theaters in Taiwan and Hong Kong, a total of 1,056 theaters will be released, and then counting the total of 1,100 theaters provided by the three super theaters just finalized today, there will be 2,156 theaters on the weekend. This has narrowed the gap in the number of theaters between "Five Poison Gates" and "Disciples of the Evil God", which is very good.

And the number of such theaters can almost rank in the top ten.

According to Manager Zheng, the three super cinema chains have made it clear that if the follow-up box office trend of "Five Poisons" is strong, they will even adjust the number of films and theaters, increase support, and use "Five Poisons" to replace the number of screenings of films with poor box office.

In short, a qiē must speak with strength.

The capable go up, the mediocre go down!

Of course, they will also give the necessary publicity resources, and they will let "Five Poisons" compete fairly and will not favor other films.

For Zhengdong Pictures, it is enough to be able to compete fairly.

In fact, as long as it can get some theater resources from the big cinema chain, Zhengdong Pictures is very satisfied, and it doesn't expect the big cinema chain to fully support it. Now the situation is excellent, even exceeding the earlier expectations of Zhengdong Pictures executives.

After the contract was settled, everyone went out for lunch together, and then Manager Zheng went out to do business non-stop.

Dong Yiwu is in charge of the propaganda side, and everything is smooth.

Looking at the company in the afternoon, Zhou Yi originally wanted to go back to school, but Zhuo Qinglian received a call from Producer Zhang, and Huang Yinda, the big boss of the griffin, was going to come to Zhengdong Pictures this afternoon to talk about cooperation and ask if the time was appropriate.

Zhuo Qinglian naturally agreed, the sooner the matter was done, the better.

In this way, Zhou Yi could not go back to school and could only stay in the company.

The big boss of the other party came forward in person, how could Zhou Yi not be there? This is basic social courtesy.

At present, the company's executives are busy, and he must also take corresponding responsibilities and cannot run back to relax.

Manager Zheng went out to talk about business, and when he was not in the company, he was accompanied by Manager Yan.

In the afternoon, Huang Yinda, the boss of the griffin, did come in person, with Zhang Producer by his side, and it seemed that he was indeed very sincere in reaching a cooperation.

The number of negotiators between the two sides was very small, and Boss Huang was light and simple, and everyone met in the chairman's office. The griffon's Boss Huang is a fairly rich middle-aged fat man, just like a fat griffin. He hit Zhou Yi at first sight, and hugged him affectionately when they met. Zhou Yi thought Boss Huang was quite interesting. The two sides are not in a hurry to negotiate the contract, and they will chat for a while.

During the chat, Zhou Yi realized it later.

It turned out that this Boss Huang learned from Producer Zhang that Zhou Yi was going to make a sister drama, and felt that Zhou Yi was a fellow practitioner, and he really spared no effort to praise his "sister", and he was very impressed, no wonder he was so affectionate.

Zhou Yi was quite helpless, and he didn't know what to say: our "nature" is different, okay?

Who is in the same path as you?

But Boss Huang doesn't think it's different. Is it really different? It's no different!

And Boss Huang still admires Zhengdong Pictures for being able to turn the tide so quickly, so he came to see it in person, not just for Zhou Yi to shoot a "sister drama". The big boss is not so funny.

During the conversation, Boss Huang was also very envious of the screening results of Zhengdong's "Five Poison Gates", after all, after the completion of the acquisition, the first small-budget film can have such an amazing level and results, which is quite rare, which shows that Zhengdong Pictures is indeed very powerful.

And Zhou Yi does have the potential to be a future action superstar.

Boss Huang is willing to come to cooperate in person, which is also reasonable, he is very optimistic about Zhou Yi's future.

Zhou Yi and Zhuo Qinglian were polite.

There were also Manager Yan and Producer Zhang next to him, and the two sides talked happily.

The rest of the work is simple.

In fact, it is very easy to negotiate a contract, there is nothing cumbersome, after all, everyone has the sincerity of cooperation, and as an industry insider, when talking about this kind of contract that both parties have intentions, they are very clear about how to divide the interests, and there will be no unreasonable requirements.

Boss Huang knew Zhou Yi's purpose, so he naturally cheered, and everyone hit it off.

What he values is not the cooperation of the current TV series, but the cooperation in the future.

This TV series is just testing the waters to see how the two sides cooperate for the first time and how it turns out.

Needless to say, some of the details of the contract are basically based on the principle of equal sharing of interests, and both parties each contributed 3 million Chinese dollars in the early stage, with a total of 6 million Chinese yuan as the production cost of this 40-episode TV series.

On average, the cost of a single episode is 150,000 yuan, which is 900,000 yuan in RMB in the previous life.

The cost of such a production is really not high, and it cannot be compared with the cost of making a movie.

Even in the production cost of TV dramas, it is not even mid-range.

This TV series is a youth campus drama, not a historical drama, not a war drama, there are no special big scenes, naturally it doesn't cost much, and there are not many main actors, let alone big-name stars, they are all young actors, or new actors, naturally there is no high salary. Among the young leading actors, it is estimated that Zhou Yi is the biggest name, and he has only acted in a small-budget movie, and the salary is not high.

Besides, he is embarrassed to give himself a high salary when he shoots a sister drama, at most it is meaningful.

In this way, the overall budget will naturally not go up.

Those TV series with large investment are often because of large scenes, or big-name actors, with high salaries, tens of thousands of salaries for a single episode, and naturally large investment.

But this TV series clearly doesn't have these situations. The cost of making a TV series is inherently low, even if it is a popular sister drama, Zhou Yi will not increase the cost of making a series infinitely, because there is no need. No matter how big the investment is, the money can't be spent.

Director Wan will not get a high salary, that is, the basic salary, plus the later dividends, will not increase the investment pressure. TV series directors are not as well paid as film directors. Relying on late profits to dividends is solved.

If additional investment is needed at a later stage, the two parties can negotiate a solution.

What Zhou Yi values is not the other party's millions of investments, he is not short of this money at all. What he values is that he can borrow the other party's connections and quickly build the framework of the crew. If you don't have these relationships, if you rely on yourself, you will not only pay the cost of time, but also the investment cost will not only cost 3 million yuan more, which will simply double the upward growth, and the price paid will be too great.

A mature system and convenient cooperation channels will greatly save these related costs.

This is the basis of cooperation between the two sides, not just money.

There are many rich people outside who want to enter the market, will Zhou Yi cooperate with them? It's useless to have money.

In terms of leading actors, those who can be drawn from the east will be drawn from the east, and those that cannot be transferred will be solved by Griffin Media.

In terms of the crew, Griffin Media is naturally responsible for the preparation, building the framework, and providing the director and various behind-the-scenes personnel.

At present, their TV drama crews and movie crews are idle, so they will naturally be able to prepare soon. When the contract is officially signed, Director Wan will start preparing the crew. These things are all in charge of Director Wan.

The studio due east will be occupied by the movie, and the sky tower will be built, but there is also a separate studio on the griffin side, so there is no problem.

Post-production zuò can also be done there.

If the relevant personnel in the east can be free later, they can also help.

However, this is unlikely, after all, the movie consumes their energy too much.

In this way, the contribution of both sides is clear.

In general, what Zhengdong paid for was the script project and several male and female leads.

Everything else has to be handled by Gryphon Media.

It is estimated that the actors that Zhengdong Pictures can come up with are Zhou Yi, Tang Yan, Tang Wang and Lin Yan, and they may have to ask Lang Jun to borrow Qiu Cao.

Is Lang Jun borrowing? Or don't borrow it?

Boss Lang is usually very generous, he must be fine, this is Zhou Yi's idea.

It is a very cool thing to take advantage of Boss Lang. Who made him like to pretend?

It's just no psychological pressure at all!

The rest of the work is up to the griffons.

The people involved in the negotiation between the two sides briefly discussed the details of the contract terms, and felt that there was no problem, and officially signed the contract, which was very simple and easy. In fact, there are very few negotiators, on the east side are Manager Yan, Zhuo Qinglian and Zhou Yi, and on the griffin side, there are Boss Huang and Producer Zhang, and there is no one else.

The fewer negotiators, the simpler the negotiation will be, and it will be easy to get it done.

After the contract was signed, everyone was very happy, and this TV series project was officially approved.

Today, Zhou Yi is very happy to be able to complete the project of the film project and the TV series project.

However, there must be a lot of tedious work to be done in the future, but those that do not need Zhou Yi to be busy himself, they are all the affairs of the crew, with the directors and producers in charge, Zhou Yi is just an actor, so it is naturally very easy.

The contract is negotiated, and Boss Huang still wants to take Zhou Yi out for a drink!

Zhuo Qinglian was very worried that this yellow fat man would bring Zhou Yi badly.

However, Zhou Yi still had to wait for the news from Manager Zheng in the company, and the film would be released on a large scale next week, so he politely refused with this excuse. He doesn't want to go clubbing and drinking, so he should stay in the company honestly!

Boss Huang laughed, but he didn't force Zhou Yi, and said that he would take him out to play in the future.

Now he is also going back to the company and summoning Director Wan to prepare the crew.

Of course, this is a serious matter, and Zhou Yi also hopes that the crew will prepare as much as possible.

Sending away Boss Huang and Producer Zhang, Zhou Yi was not in a hurry to go back to school, so he stayed in the company to see if there was any good news.

There is good news.

Manager Zheng came back with Director Jiang from the marketing department in the afternoon, and they negotiated some more theaters, and they didn't even have to put too much effort into it. After all, everyone knows the results of the screening of "Five Poisons", and many theaters have moved when they hear the news. Manager Zheng naturally does not refuse, as long as it is a well-known regular theater in the industry registered by the state, this is to prepare for the box office rankings next week.

Huaxia is so big, even if it is a first-line cinema line like Huaxia Sichao, it will not cover all cities and regions.

Small cinemas in some small places are useful.

At present, some small and medium-sized chain cinema chains in some second- and third-tier cities have added 234 cinemas in the province.

Taj got the news and also added 200 new theaters.

Of course, these new theaters will only be available until next weekend, and it will take time for copies to be delivered.

Counting the 434 new theaters added in the afternoon, the number of theaters that will release "Five Poisons" next weekend has reached 2,590.

This number of theaters is even infinitely close to the number of openings of "Disciples of the Evil God".

The disadvantages are shrinking little by little, and the balance is gradually balancing.

After all, "Disciple of the Evil God" is squeezed by the two super blockbusters "Eight Hundred Soldiers" and "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", and it may not be able to have too high a number of paintings, at least it is impossible to play the effect of "double difference", which is enough. Zhou Yi's confidence is getting stronger and stronger.

Regardless of "Eight Hundred Warriors of Langya Mountain" and "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", next week we must cut down the direct competitor "Disciple of the Evil God"!

Then next week, there will be a bloody bath in "Assassin Nie Yinniang".

In this way, who can compete with "Five Poisons" with the same schedule and type of films?

With the support of theaters of this scale, Zhou Yi has raised the box office expectation of next week's film from the top ten on the weekly list to the top five on the weekly list.

This is the current ambition of Zhou Yi!

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