Chapter 225: Filming Starts Again
Chapter 225 starts filming again
"Boss, the headhunting company has given a candidate. This is the list, among which is called Huang Wenzhong, who graduated from Harvard University in 1946 with a master's degree in economic management. He served as the assistant to the sales director of General Motors in the Asia-Pacific region and the assistant director of the overseas development department of Yuman Seishiki Co., Ltd. in Japan, and returned to Hong Kong in October last year for development. ”
In the president's office of the LP company, Qu Yiming was handing several lists to Lu Yan. He has now become the assistant to the president and executive president of the LP company, and is still managing the LP company for Lu Yan for the time being.
Regarding the employment resumes of several personnel handed over by Qu Yiming, Lu Yan was very emotional about this named Zhonghuang Wenzhong. Being able to gain a foothold in the middle management of GM in the United States and Yuman in Japan shows that his business ability is indeed very strong, why not try this person?
For the development of LP, Lu Yanke is very optimistic. If you want to build Dongcheng Imaging into a first-class film company, you naturally need a strong economic backing. Otherwise, when Hollywood blockbusters invade, many Hong Kong movies will be completely beaten and powerless.
But now Lu Yan obviously has to start preparations. Although several of Dongcheng Images' films are very popular at the box office in Hong Kong, they are also top-notch at the box office in Asia and Southeast Asia. But if you want to go head-to-head with Hollywood, you obviously don't have the ability to script.
If the LP company develops well, there will be a large amount of capital injection. Then the situation is completely different
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When LP was established, Qu Yiming set up four functional departments and two comprehensive departments in the company, namely human resources department, finance department, marketing planning department, market development department, comprehensive administration department and comprehensive market management department. And for these six departments are equipped with first-class management talents.
However, as soon as Huang Wenzhong came, he found that there was serious business overlap and waste of resources. And it directly leads to the unclear division of labor, mutual blame and blame between departments, and low work efficiency.
In fact, Qu Yiming can't be blamed for this, after all, it is the first time he came to Hong Kong from Canada to serve as the president of Hong Kong. In addition, many of the systems in Hong Kong and Canada are different, so there is some confusion.
Although Lu Yan doesn't know much about management, he still understands the problem of employment. At the beginning, he loved movies, but he was also forced by his cheap father to study financial management, but Lu Yanke didn't have the heart at the beginning, so he was a half-level.
For Huang Wenzhong, Lu Yan's own observation is to let Qu Yiming be optimistic about what kind of means this guy has
However, this Huang Wenzhong does have his own set, and within a few days of coming, he found the crux of the company's lagging management. Finding problems does not mean that they can be solved, but Lu Yan is also eager to see how she can solve these problems, whether she is truly competent for the current management work, and whether she has the ability to take the management of LP company to a higher level in the future. Huang Wenzhong was appointed chief executive officer to deal with these management loopholes.
Huang Wenzhong is really worthy of being a Harvard graduate management master, and he really made an extraordinary move. In just two weeks, a series of management of LP companies have been completely new and higher in terms of mechanism structure and staffing, and there is no longer the previous chaos and blame. It also laid a solid foundation for the creation of the myth of LP Group in the future.
In the process of its restructuring, there was no vigorous and resolute action to lay off personnel, nor did it change the management system in a big way, let alone install henchmen and form parties for personal gain. In this process, Huang Wenzhong fully demonstrated his management art.
He first broke the routine and let all employees freely choose the type of work that they think can give full play to their strengths, and secondly, there is no department, no division of labor, no person in charge, but every day according to the company's schedule, let employees choose the work they can be competent to complete, and according to the quality of the work completed, the implementation of a unified reward and punishment method.
This approach was immediate, and at the beginning, some people used various excuses to make it difficult and rejected. Over time, however, the benefits of this approach were recognized. Originally, everyone came out to work to have a good development and earn more money, but now Huang Wenzhong provides such a good opportunity, how can you not cherish it. As a result, the whole company went up and down, and everyone competed to perform, and they all wanted to show their best.
A week later, the individual strength of the employees was fully displayed. According to the nature of the work, Huang Wenzhong divided everyone into a number of working groups, and took the group as a unit to complete the work tasks. Again, rewards and punishments are based on the completion of the group's work. In this way, each group member will take the initiative to cooperate with the other peers to do the work as well as possible.
Three days later, each group completed the run-in, and the group members understood each other and cooperated tacitly. In the next few days, Huang Wenzhong combined several groups related to the work into a large group and cooperated to complete the work. In just two weeks, the LP company has really made the best use of its talents, made the best use of its resources, and made smooth and fresh changes.
Even the establishment of departments and the selection of persons in charge are democratic opinions of all employees. In the end, Huang Wenzhong retained the original four functional departments, abolished two comprehensive departments and added a new functional department, thus completing the reorganization of the management structure of the LP company.
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The LP company is in the midst of drastic reforms under the leadership of Huang Wenzhong, and the filming in Dongcheng Imaging is also on track for overall arrangement.
The filming of "The Saint of Gambling" has already begun. It's just that because Stephen Chow is playing the leading role for the first time after all, the filming of many clips often makes Liu Zhenwei a little crazy. And the person in charge of photography is naturally Liu Weiqiang, who filmed "God of Gamblers", and he is also familiar with this style of shooting.
At the beginning, the opening ceremony of "The Saint of Gambling" caused an uproar*, but the start-up worship of "Carmen in Mong Kok" made Dongcheng Imaging and Lu Yan even more in the forefront of the storm.
"Did Lu Yan go crazy? Actually use rookie directors continuously? ”
"Dongcheng Imaging's Spring Festival film, will it be handed over to these two newcomers? It seems that apart from Lu Yan himself, Wang Jing has no intention of preparing for filming? ”
"The funniest thing is that it seems that this Wong Kar-wai is also from Xinyi City. I heard that he was expelled by Huang Baiming......"
"No wonder, Yan Zai is sympathetic."
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At the start-up scene of "Mong Kok Carmen", reporters exchanged heads. For many of Lu Yan's actions, they really can't see through it. It's not that I can't see through it, but I feel that it's too risky and playing with fire.
Therefore, when Wong Kar-wai appeared, he was immediately surrounded by reporters. How many questions are pressed in their hearts that they want to be explained?
"Director Wang, may I ask if the script of "Mong Kok Carmen" was also written by Lu Yan himself?"
Such a problem does not seem to be a problem anymore. At least from "The True Color of Heroes" and "The Saint of Gambling", which started filming some time ago, the scripts are all written by Lu Yan.
Unexpectedly, Wong Kar-wai shook his head and said, "No, I wrote the script myself." Of course, Boss Lu also gave a lot of advice."
"Huh?"
"No, it won't"
"Every movie of Dongcheng Imaging is written by Director Lu himself, does Director Wang feel sorry that he didn't get Lu Yan's script?"
Such a question is obviously a bit mocking. In their opinion, this Wong Kar-wai is not favored by Lu Yan. Otherwise, how could Lu Yan not write a script for him? With this Wong Kar-wai's own script, what good things can be filmed?
"Hehe, no" Wong Kar-wai smiled and didn't care: "I am a screenwriter myself, and the reason why this script can be filmed is because of the consent of Boss Lu." This means that he approves of my script. Of course, I also very much hope to have the opportunity to shoot the script written by Boss Lu. ”
That being said, Wong Kar-wai didn't think much of it. Including Lu Yan, he would never write a script and let Wong Kar-wai shoot it. For Wong Kar-wai's understanding, Lu Yan still thinks he is good. The scripts written by this director himself are very general. He himself belongs to the kind of director who thinks while filming and allows the actors to play freely. So even if you give him the full script, he won't be able to shoot the feeling you imagined.
In that case, you might as well let him play freely
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Just when the reporters were asking questions, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Wang Zuxian and other actors had already arrived.
Their appearance immediately stunned the reporters.
The starring actors are actually these three people?
"Director Wang, did you choose the actors yourself?"
"Yes"
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likes to play such routines, it seems that it has always been Lu Yan's favorite. Is Andy Lau a newcomer? Of course, this doesn't count, but his box office appeal has plummeted after being banned by TVB. And Jacky Cheung, this guy is a big hit on the record this year, but in terms of personal characteristics, he is obviously not finalized
If you really want to say that it has box office appeal, it is estimated that only Wang Zuxian is left
It's just that this combination, isn't it a little weird? But it's weird, and reporters have long been surprised. At the beginning, Lu Yan dared to use Chow Yun-fat, Dillon and Leslie Cheung, and "The Saint of Gambling" even found a trick to play the leading role, and the other actors were not heavyweights.
This time, it is not surprising that there is a combination of Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung and Wang Zuxian. It seems that Dongcheng Imaging will always be 'weird' in the selection of actors
"Andy, have you lifted the ban on TVB?"
The current Andy Lau is not one of the four heavenly kings in the future, let alone an evergreen tree. Therefore, when the reporters asked questions, they did not pay any attention to it. What's more, even if you are in the middle of the day, these uncrowned kings will dare to ask anything as long as the evidence is conclusive.
"Yes, there were only some small misunderstandings between TVB and me, and now that these misunderstandings are resolved, of course it will be fine." Andy Lau nodded with a smile, he had completely figured out what was going on this time.
At the beginning, when Fang Yihua talked to Andy Lau, Andy Lau was still very surprised. However, when he learned that he could star in Wong Kar-wai's "Mong Kok Carmen", he finally believed that TVB had let him go. Although, in the end, he signed an unfair contract on the Tvb contract that he would not shoot TV dramas for other TV companies for ten years.
But he doesn't care about any of this, because now he has set his sights on movies. Coupled with Lu Yan's support for him, he believes that he can rise
"What about Xueyou? Why did you suddenly star in this "Mong Kok Carmen"? "Jacky Cheung makes a movie, this is not a debut. It's just that this guy was able to get the opportunity to come to Dongcheng Imaging to make a movie so quickly, which is curious
"Me, when I co-starred with Joey in Brother Sanmao's movie, I met Director Lu to visit the class, and then I said that I hoped to cooperate with Director Lu, but I didn't expect the opportunity to come so quickly."
The reporter saw that Jacky Cheung was a little excited, and immediately smiled and said: "But this movie is not directed by Director Lu"
"As long as it's a movie from Eastside Images, what's the difference?"
As soon as Jacky Cheung's words came out, the reporters' faces suddenly changed. Yes, as long as it is produced by Dongcheng Imaging, it seems that every movie is very successful. Jacky Cheung's words actually represent the current Hong Kong public's optimism about the golden sign of Dongcheng Image
As for Wang Zuxian, the most asked question is obviously the love with Lu Yan.
Everyone had been looking forward to whether Lu Yan would come to the scene, but this time the start-up worship ceremony of "Mong Kok Carmen" did not find Lu Yan's figure until the end. This is also the first time that Lu Yan has missed the opening ceremony of the Dongcheng Imaging Movie, and everyone is curious and at the same time speculating about what Lu Yan is busy with
"Could it be that Director Lu is preparing his new film?"
"It's hard to say, it should be like this. The box office of "Rouge Buckle" has been so hot, and it has successfully surpassed "Sword and Horse". But he missed the summer file, and it is inevitable that this time he will launch an attack on the Spring Festival file"
"I think so too, otherwise Dongcheng Imaging will still let the two new directors take the lead?"
"Isn't there still Wang Jing?"
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What is Lu Yan busy with? Even Cheng Xiaodong doesn't know this problem, and everyone is very busy with the simultaneous shooting of two movies. Lu Yan's whereabouts suddenly became mysterious again, and everyone had to look at the time even if they wanted to ask. Among this group of people, I am afraid that no one except Wang Zuxian knows what Lu Yan is busy with