Chapter 142: Daily Affairs
Nazumi Horiguchi walked into Shen Zhenghui's office, and she said in a somewhat relaxed but complaining tone, "Why are you staying in this office?" President Fukuda's office has been reserved for you. ”
"Isn't she gone yet?"
"She doesn't come to the office very often anymore, and she usually calls me to report the situation of the company to her," said Nazumi Horiguchi, "and I've helped you add a table and chair to her office, because it says on the door of the office that this is the president's office." ”
Shen Zhenghui ignored the joke in this sentence, but was quite puzzled, "You mean that when President Fukuda came back from Nara, he still rarely stayed in the office?" ”
"Of course." Nazumi Horiguchi replied, placing a stack of documents on Shen Zhenghui's desk, "Although I don't want you to sign them, you must read these documents, otherwise you don't know what the current business situation of the group is." ”
Shen Zhenghui looked at the huge stack of texts and felt a headache, "So since President Fukuda doesn't come to work, what is she busy with?" I saw that she seemed to be very haggard and seemed to be staying up late. ”
"Can you see it even if you stay up late? She should have makeup. ”
"No, I mean I can see she's having a late-night snack." Shen Zhenghui replied.
Nazumi Horiguchi pursed her lips, "To be honest, I really don't know, but it is said that several companies in which Kasuga Shrine has shares have undergone personnel changes. Nazumi lowered her voice.
"Personnel changes?" Shen Zhenghui asked rhetorically.
"Yes, it's said to involve a change in equity or something." Natsumi deliberately lowered her voice, "Several large companies have changed shareholders or something, this is a hot topic in financial news recently. ”
"Ahh Shen Zhenghui rolled his eyes and nodded, "Okay, I know." He said, "It's been a hard time for you. I'll look at these things, you go get busy first. ”
"Oh, there's a couple of things that are important, and I'm going to talk to you about them." Nazumi Horiguchi said hurriedly. "This is an invitation to the Tokyo International Film Festival. You are invited to attend the 13th Tokyo International Film Festival in person. ”
"It will open on January 28," Shen Zhenghui said to himself, "this, shouldn't you invite me half a year in advance?" ”
"Ugh. Actually, this invitation came very early. You've been there, though. ”
"So you forgot to mention it to me?"
President Fukuda said that it was still early anyway. It's never too late to make a decision. Nazumi Horiguchi was a little embarrassed, "Are you going?" ”
"Okay, it's okay to go and see if it's okay." Shen Zhenghui put away the invitation. "I'm a professional now, aren't I?"
"Oh, the organizing committee heard that you have a new film that has not yet been released, and I would like to ask if you are interested in exhibiting at the festival."
Shen Zhenghui thought about it carefully and felt that the action movie "Black Fist" didn't seem to fit the style of the film festival, so he shook his head, "Forget it, even if this film is put on it, it won't win the award, I'll still focus on the box office." ”
Nazumi Horiguchi blinked, and continued to take out a copy and said, "This is a letter from Sony Columbia," she handed to Shen Zhenghui, "Their manager Thomas in Asia told us that the 73rd Academy Awards will add the Best Animated Feature Award, and they are going to apply for the award for "World Air Battle Story". ”
Shen Zhenghui was stunned for a moment, he didn't pay much attention to this aspect in his previous life, and he didn't know when the Best Animated Feature Film Award was established, but he only remembered that "Spirited Away" won this award. Now "World Air Battle Story" has been released in the United States for more than three weeks, and the current total box office is 148 million, and it is believed that it will be able to hit about 160 million before the next painting, and Murahama Shoji has become a big name in Japanese animated films with the help of this film, which is equivalent to a box office of 2oo00 million yen, and even Gonzo has become a world-renowned animation film company. As a side, Kasuga Pictures and Sony-Columbia are naturally making a lot of money.
"Because of the success of World Battle Story in the United States, according to Colombians, there is hope of breaking into the top 10 of the annual box office charts, so the Oscars have made up their minds to add the award for Best Animated Feature, although it has not yet been announced, but Mr. Thomas said that it is already a sure thing, and he told us to prepare." Nazumi Horiguchi said.
"You should inform Murahama Shoji, we can just send someone with him." Shen Zhenghui threw this thing aside, although it is also an honor, but this honor is not only related to himself, but also to Spring Pictures. Murahama Shoji's three versions of the anime combined may even be the world box office of Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away", and this guy doesn't know what to be proud of.
"Okay, I got it." Nazumi Horiguchi nodded, "It's still early anyway." ”
"No, let him know," Shen Zhenghui touched his chin, "so that he would probably think more about it when he made Zuò Battle Fairy Snow Wind." ”
Nazumi Horiguchi's eyes widened, and finally nodded, and took the official letter from Sony-Colombia from Shen Zhenghui's hand. Shen Zhenghui continued, "Give him this thing too." ”
"Mr. Thomas is going to visit you again," said Nazumi Horiguchi, "and President Fukuda would like you to meet him, and although the first draft of the Black Fist has been negotiated, he says that he has a lot of details to talk to you about. ”
"Okay, make an appointment with him for me." Shen Zhenghui also felt that it was really inhumane to always let the overly busy Fukuda Mitsumi deal with these guys, "Find me the agreement we reached with Colombia, and I'll take a look." ”
"Okay." Nazumi Horiguchi nodded, "Besides, Mr. Miyamoto is coming back," she said, "and he called in advance to ask him what you thought of his script, and if he could, he wanted to prepare the crew first." ”
"Oh!" Shen Zhenghui slapped his forehead, "Has Stephen Zhou's "Shaolin Football" been filmed?" ”
"It is said that the filming has been completed, and now it is in the process of post-production." Natsumi Horiguchi replied. "So Director Miyamoto is back."
"Isn't he going to accompany Takeshi Kitano to Venice?"
"It is said that the "Big Guy" directed by Kitano was only exhibited in Venice and was not submitted for jury."
"Holy!" Shen Zhenghui knocked on his head, and took out the brain-opening script that had been revised by himself from the drawer of his desk, and he didn't know if Miyamoto would be able to grasp this style of script. This film is all the way to Takeshi Kitano's "** Rhapsody", but all kinds of fantasy styles must be shot in a very strict way, and Shen Zhenghui is a little worried about this.
Well, let's wait until he comes back and has a good talk with him.
So Shen Zhenghui recorded this matter, put it aside, and then continued to ask Nazumi Horiguchi, "Is there anything else?" ”
"Miss Liu Xin and Miss Liu called. I hope to be able to come to your side and talk to you sometimes. ”
"Huh?" Shen Zhenghui was a little surprised. "She actually called you to make an appointment, why?" Shen Zhenghui was very puzzled, "Didn't she always call me directly, or come over directly?" ”
Shen Zhenghui picked up the phone. I was going to dial it to Liu Xin to ask about the situation.
"Miss Liu said she would bring her colleagues who had just come from China." Natsumi Horiguchi hurriedly added.
"A colleague from China?" Shen Zhenghui was stunned for a moment. Put the phone back. After thinking about it carefully, I realized that what Liu Xin said was very likely to be Ah Heng.
Shen Zhenghui knocked on the table and looked at the time, it was almost noon. Let Liu Xin and his party drive over, and they will immediately find a place to eat.
"Well, you can tell them that if they are free, they will come over in the afternoon, and if they are not available this afternoon, they will come tomorrow morning." Shen Zhenghui said.
"And what about Mr. Thomas?"
"If I can, I'll ask him to dinner tomorrow night." Shen Zhenghui replied.
After recording Shen Zhenghui's request, Natsumi Horiguchi nodded and said, "Okay, then there is nothing else." Oh, by the way," Natsumi said as if she had remembered something, "Ayaka Kuroishi wants us to send a movement director to the queens, and she wants to be able to train the girls with a certain amount of physical fitness." ”
"Can't they keep up?"
"The official long-term performance is still a bit bad, so the time for my debut has been postponed again."
"Holy!" Shen Zhenghui slapped his forehead, "You go and contact 6 Yang and ask him to send a female action guide over." By the way, you can't even find an individual coach? ”
"Oh, the girls watched your movie and thought that practicing kung fu was a better way out, so on the issue of physical trainers, they strongly asked to send someone who knows martial arts, so that it would be more helpful if they wanted to show their faces in the movie in the future." Nazumi Horiguchi said with a smile, "Asakura and Tsurumai are very jealous! ”
"The rivers and lakes of women." Shen Zhenghui sighed.
"Oh, there's also a film investment plan, so it's important to take a look at it as well. There are also many forms for filmmakers to apply for investment behind that table, which also need to be confirmed, President Fukuda has already seen it, most of them are young directors who want to try their luck here, President Fukuda's opinion is to choose five to ten films with small investment to invest in, and you might as well sign them when you meet talented young directors. ”
Shen Zhenghui really wanted to roll his eyes, he didn't care so much about the big 6 company, and he was actually busy with the company's management business in Japan, "Okay, I know, I'll watch it." He shook his head, "Liu Xin and Thomas's reply will tell me when the time comes." ”
Nazumi Horiguchi nodded and finally walked out. Shen Zhenghui sighed in the face of Wen Jiàn, who was like a mountain, and had to bury his head in it.
Looking at the most important documents on the top, Shen Zhenghui felt a little dizzy, which is why he couldn't personally devote himself to a company with a higher return on investment. Tedious business work is a kind of torture for him, BAT these three most promising companies, he knows that more promising business leaders will be cast, but as soon as he thinks of the hard and tedious work of those bigwigs on the way to start a business, he is discouraged and just retreats to prepare to become a shareholder. Animation is boring in his opinion, and the filming of the movie can attract people's interest, and at the same time can brush up on prestige. It was listed as his choice, and now, when Mitsumi Fukuda handed over the responsibility of the company to him, he felt not the excitement of being in power, but a kind of torture.
"I really hope that Mitsumi Fukuda can deal with the end of her master's affairs as soon as possible," Shen Zhenghui said to himself, after being poured with strange red wine by Mitsumi Fukuda, Shen Zhenghui clearly felt all kinds of changes in his body, his memory was enhanced, and he was full of energy. If his master's medicinal wine could have such an effect. Then her master's death is obviously not a normal thing, and Mitsumi Fukuda is naturally not dealing with the normal inheritance delivery, "But I still don't know about this kind of thing." ”
Shen Zhenghui shrunk his neck and put down the text in his hand. Rubbing his eyes. Really put the details that a company has to deal with in front of you. That's a lot of confusion, but fortunately a lot of things have been handled by the leaders below, and the leaders only need to know one outcome.
What Shen Zhenghui is now looking at is the list of scripts submitted by young directors who have applied for investment from Kasuga Pictures. Young directors in Japan have struggled to grow up. They also have to endure a long process of seniority. Unless he was favored by big shots, he started step by step from the grassroots level, accumulated several years of experience, and finally became a director, but unfortunately failed once, and immediately continued to wait for a new one. They have little chance of being able to show off their talents, and when they are old, their talents are outdated. Now is not the post-war period of rejuvenation, the old directors are a turnip and a pit, and the newcomers are out of the blue.
The birth of Kasuga shocked several insiders, look at the director they promoted, Chong Shimizu, who was only 27 years old when he filmed "The Cruel History of Peking High School", and immediately after his success, he took Kasuga's money to shoot "The Grudge", and now it has attracted the attention of Hollywood.
Miyamoto, who was just a mixed A+V director before, actually made two popular TV series after climbing to the spring day, and then was sent to study with Shinji Fukasaku and Takeshi Kitano, and he was about to direct his own movie. This situation is like a whirlwind blowing the hearts of young people in the pre-director circle, especially the young directors who are still interested in promoting Hong Kong in Kasuga, and suddenly, Kasuga has become a holy place in the hearts of young Japanese directors. As a result, Kasuga keeps receiving scripts from young directors, and many people hope to be favored by Haruga and become famous in one fell swoop, especially when the box office results of Chunga's investment and industry are very good in the past two years.
Shen Zhenghui looked at these unfamiliar Japanese names and unfamiliar attachments - the synopsis of the script, and felt that he also had a headache. Obviously, Kasuga is a new film company, and it needs high-level directors to grow and expand, but he is really unfamiliar with Japanese directors. After a cursory look at these things, Shen Zhenghui leaned on the back of the chair and rested for a while, then stood up and walked to the window to look down, the people who had rested at the end of the morning work went out of the building to buy lunch to eat, of course, there were also those who continued to stay in the office with their own box lunches, Shen Zhenghui looked at the employees of his company below, and felt that most of them did not know him.
At this time, Nazumi Horiguchi came to knock on the door.
"Come in, what's the matter?" Shen Zhenghui turned around.
"Miss Liu Xin will bring her colleagues to report to you in the afternoon on the production of 'Rebellious Lelouxiu'," Natsumi pursed her lips, "In addition, the people from the Chinese animation department who came to visit and study will also report to you about their visit and study." Please be prepared. ”
"Prepare what?"
"Miss Liu said that those people are a bit radical, and I hope you can be prepared to convince them."
"Radical? All right. Shen Zhenghui patted his forehead, "Where is Mr. Thomas?" ”
"Oh, the phone call from his secretary, and his secretary said he appreciated you for giving him the opportunity to have dinner." Natsumi replied, "and asked if you would mind if Mr. Thomas brought a friend over for dinner." ”
"Friends? Is it a female companion? Shen Zhenghui asked.
"I asked, it's a woman." Natsumi replied.
"Well, of course I don't mind." Shen Zhenghui stared at Natsumi, "Then I should also bring a female companion out of reciprocity, but who should I bring?" Natsumi do you have time? ”
"Ahem," Nazumi rubbed her nose, "I don't think I'm a good fit." ”
"Did you ask him who his female companion was?"
Natsumi spelled this English sound in Japanese, and Shen Zhenghui didn't understand it at all.
"Forget it, let's talk about it then." Shen Zhenghui didn't call again himself, and then he stretched, "I think I need something to eat now." ”
"Do you need me to buy or order takeout for you?" Natsumi asked.
"Thanks, no, I was just thinking about going out for a walk." He said, "I feel a little headache after reading the materials in the morning, let me go out and get some fresh air." Shen Zhenghui walked towards the door, followed by Nazumi Horiguchi and helped him close the door.
"You should go to work in the president's office." Nazumi Horiguchi saw Shen Zhenghui come out, and the people in the corridor kept bowing to him, and he kept taking the opportunity to say, "Your office is here, and everyone doesn't feel comfortable." ”
"I'd consider moving to an office, but at the moment I have more of my own stuff in my office." Shen Zhenghui replied.
"You can move it all to the president's office, and there's still a lot of space in the president's office."
Shen Zhenghui had to stop and say to Nazumi Horiguchi seriously, "I'll think about it," after a pause, he asked again, "Are there any other empty offices near the president's office?" (To be continued!)
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