Chapter 312: Messy
"The leaders of the autonomous region have agreed to give you a piece of land to set up the sky city you envisioned. Lewen Novel"
"It's a city in the clouds." Shen Zhenghui responded to Wang Anping, "How did they figure it out?" ”
"They're going to build a scenic tourist area in the city in the clouds, using this building of yours."
"So it's only possible after the movie hits the box office, right?"
"Yes, so while you're building, you're waiting for the box office results of your first installment to come out," Wang replied.
"Normally, shouldn't we wait until the box office comes out before building? If the movie hits the streets, no one will be interested in seeing this place where the movie was filmed. ”
"Hehe," Wang Anping covered her mouth, "You're too unconfident in yourself, right?" You, the director who has created a miracle in Asia, are your name that others value. ”
"I'm just imagining the worst-case scenario," Shen Zhenghui scratched his head, "Why, can't the leader even wait for half a year?" ”
"It's really like this," Wang Anping said, "He nodded over there, and hundreds of millions of construction costs on our side were spent locally, and around this tourist area, a large amount of money could be spent on supporting facilities, and the growth rate of GDP immediately went up." ”
"Uh, you mean."
"Needless to say, everyone takes what they need." Wang Anping raised her eyebrows, "Of course, I hope you can achieve good results at the box office." ”
"I hope so," seeing that Wang Anping's face was not good-looking, he changed his words again, "It must be so." ”
Wang Anping's expression was a little more relaxed, she shook her head, "The movie that cost you so much money to shoot, if it fails, what will happen to you?" ”
"It's not going to be good." Shen Zhenghui replied. "Maybe a few years off, but I have a lot of other things to do besides directing. Look at Director Chen, Director Zhang, and Director Feng, if you don't do anything, you will continue to do something, well, maybe Director Chen will be a little unlucky. ”
"Okay, from a business perspective. All three of them did not lose money. Wang Anping pouted, "Director Zhang probably thinks that he hasn't explored enough culture, and he has a new film plan." ”
"Oh. What kind of film is it? Shen Zhenghui asked.
"It's like an oriental epic, with a sense of history." Wang Anping deliberately emphasized the latter sentence. "It's obviously for you, many people say that your movie is a Western epic drama, although the script is written by a Chinese, but in comparison, everyone prefers this drama like "The Lord of the Rings" rather than "Harry Potter."
"Then I'm not very advantageous," Shen Zhenghui asked rhetorically, "I'm actually equivalent to a combination of these two plays." ”
"Whatever you want." Wang Anping yawned. Then he raised his eyebrows again. "I heard that your girlfriend's movie is about to be released."
"Girlfriend? Which one do you say? Shen Zhenghui subconsciously asked.
"I forgot you have a lot of girlfriends," Wang Anping pouted. "That Japanese girl, the one who is an actress, didn't she star in some "Memoirs of a Geisha"?"
Shen Zhenghui blinked.
"Because of Gong Li's appearance, I also paid attention to it," Wang Anping continued, "I heard that this role will be a big favorite for the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar for Best Actress?" ”
"From a commercial point of view, I don't feel too optimistic about this film." Shen Zhenghui replied.
"And you're still letting her take the movie?" Wang Anping asked.
Shen Zhenghui blinked, "According to what you said, isn't it possible to brush up on the prize?" "With the urine nature of the Japanese, being able to brush up on a nomination is enough for all of them to be excited for a while.
"So ......"
"I think starring in this movie is still good for her acting career." Shen Zhenghui replied.
"Sure enough." Wang Anping pursed her lips, "But the mainland is not ready to introduce this film, of course, it is said to be because of the subject matter on the surface." ”
"It's okay, the pirated disc will definitely be able to see it anyway." Shen Zhenghui replied.
"You don't care at all?"
"All I care about now is my own films." Shen Zhenghui clapped his hands, "The filming here is about to be completed, and the set will soon be moved to your brother's territory, I hope he can match me with enough lifeguards." ”
"You can rest assured." Wang Anping said, and then she said with some emotion, "I can't believe that your progress is so fast, if it weren't for you as a director, I really can't believe that your theme is "Magic Apprentice". ”
"There's nothing I can't believe it," Shen replied, "and it took a lot more time to shoot this film on set than it did on set," Shen replied, "and my assistant director could only sleep less than six hours a day on the special effects crew, just to get the dailies out as soon as possible." ”
"For the release?"
"In order to find out what is wrong early, you can reshoot the shot." Shen Zhenghui replied.
The set in the northeast has been used up, and Wang Anping is doing further development, building many temporary buildings into semi-permanent or permanent buildings, and then building a complex of buildings in the same style around these buildings as a tourist development. Many villagers live directly in modern buildings disguised as Western classical architectural styles, from the outside, it looks like a Renaissance citizen city, but the houses are readily available for all kinds of water, electricity and gas, in order to maintain the consistency of the style, the line development is underground, Wang Anping also spent a lot of money to do the development of this project, although there is cheap land and active policies provided by the government, but such a remote place, in the end it seems that you have to pin your hopes on "The Magic Apprentice" 's box office exploded.
"Now many people are anxiously waiting for the box office of your movie," Wang Anping said, "although it has already been filmed, why wait for the first half of the year?" ”
"We have to arrange a good schedule, and at the same time, the film itself is shot for the foreign market," Shen Zhenghui said, "although I am confident in its domestic box office, but the domestic box office will not be able to recover the cost at all." ”
"If this drama succeeds, are you ready to go all out into Hollywood?" Wang Anping asked.
"The first part was successful, and there were second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth parts. It's all planned. If it works, I'll open Hollywood. This is Shen Zhenghui's response.
With the further promotion of Apprentice Magic, there is an atmosphere that is taking shape on the web. Not only did Chinese and foreign journalists pay close attention to the progress of the filming of "Apprentice Magician", so that audiences around the world could keep abreast of the filming at any time, but also the Western architectural ensembles that stood on Chinese soil amazed Westerners and made Chinese followers feel mixed feelings.
It has to be said that the buildings are quite beautiful. A Western-themed film was filmed on Chinese soil, but the film was written by a Chinese, mixed with various interests. An indescribable flavor brewed. The www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion has been noisily promoted over and over again, and the update of Lanjing's new work is not particularly effective. But he has been on the various official recommendation lists www.biquge.info Biquge, and even he has been enjoying special treatment as a representative of excellent authors, online interviews have been one issue after another, and all the authors have blushed at the interview, and Lanjing talked about his remuneration very secretly, the world's book copyright distribution, film adaptation copyright purchase, and the screenwriter's remuneration for participating in the screenwriting production. It is no exaggeration to say. Lanjing could have used the money to buy a number of houses in Puhai, and for the rest of her life, she relied on the rent and the price of the house itself to live a good bourgeois life. However, he has repeatedly expressed his love for writing and his strong motivation to continue writing in interviews.
Many of the authors who read it shouted loudly. "Big brother, don't write it, give us a chance!"
"Demon Warrior" has not yet been written, it has been announced that the rights to the book's global distribution have been sold at a good price, and the rights to the film adaptation have also been sold, and the price is equally good. The www.biquge.info of Bi Qu Ge extravagantly gave Lan Jing a super high-standard signing treatment, which they called "super platinum writer" treatment, and Lan Jing is currently the only one. But then, the www.biquge.info of Biquge promoted the unequal contract, and transferred the adaptation rights of all the works signed with him to the author of the film, TV, games, animation, etc., all at one time to the www.biquge.info of the Biquge, and the www.biquge.info of the Biquge quickly understood what Shen Zhenghui meant by the upstream enterprise, although the proportion of high-quality products in online novels is not very much, but it can't stand a large amount!
Then the TV series "Dream Back to the Qing Dynasty" filmed by the copyright of "Dream Back to Daqing" acquired by ATV began to be broadcast on ATV, and this kind of work that mixed women's peculiar love concept and narcissistic Mary Sue's writing was immediately popular once it was broadcast, and gained unimaginable attention from young girls, so that the impact of the digital army suddenly went to a big level. Previously, because of the popularity of Qing court dramas such as "Huanzhu Gege", there was an overall outbreak, and the new theme of love travel dramas that ignored history gave everyone an irresistible sense of substitution, so that "Dream Back to the Qing Dynasty" became a hot topic in Hong Kong, and many school teachers raised solemn protests against this TV series, including misleading young men and women's view of mate selection, unrealistic plots have a bad impact on children, interfere with children's learning, etc., During this period, there were even reports of little girls committing mass suicide in order to cross the masse.
ATV felt a lot of pressure on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was gratified, no matter what, the ratings were not fake. Their positive response is that the time-traveling drama has been around for a long time, isn't "Looking for Qin"? In the past, there were TV series in which Yongzheng traveled to modern times, and as an entertainment TV series, everyone should have recognized that this was fake from the beginning, just as ATV will claim at the beginning of every TV series: This story is pure fiction, if there are similarities, it is a coincidence. Later, they changed the sentence to read: This story is pure fiction, and do not imitate the actions, experiences, and encounters of the characters in the play.
When "The Voice of Asia" was facing the finale, the TV series quickly rose up, and ATV's morale was greatly boosted. "Dream Back to the Qing Dynasty" was even purchased by mainland TV stations, but it was stopped by radio and television after only five or six episodes were broadcast, but it doesn't matter, VCD and DVD are popular, and there is even a version of Mandarin dubbing with a high level of production on the market.
Shen Zhenghui knew this, but he didn't interfere. He is more concerned about Deputy Director Guo's food documentaries and the documentaries of the Chinese peacekeeping forces, and he has mastered the television station, if he only knows how to make entertainment programs and TV dramas, this is far from enough, and he must show enough political weight. Since Shen Zhenghui is not a guy who likes to speculate, or he knows how to speculate, then he naturally wants to make himself appear not to be speculating.
But it's good to be in a qiē shun lì. In the case of obtaining sufficient financial and personnel resources. Deputy Director Guo's work has been done beautifully, and the two seven-episode documentaries have been completed, each episode is no more than 50 minutes, but the time and money spent is no less than the money spent by Shen Zhenghui to make the film -- minus the cost of setting up the scenes.
Shen Zhenghui took these two documentaries and went to the seaside of Wuyue Province with the crew to shoot a movie, and he deliberately met Wang Anran's face and met the leader who was the top leader of Wuyue Province at the time. This documentary was naturally given to the leaders as a gift. The leader looks amiable, although his temperament is very much like that of the big brother who takes the lead. He happily accepted Shen Zhenghui's gift and said words of encouragement to several key people in the crew before the meal. Then he discussed the art of film with Shen Zhenghui with interest. The leader is also a person who likes to watch movies, and he likes to watch war movies. I am very interested in Shen Zhenghui's previous movies, and I am also willing to exchange his experience with Shen Zhenghui.
Of course, the leader will not just say what movies he likes, he is also very keenly aware of the trend of Chinese commercial films. However, the leader is somewhat dismissive of this trend, he said that several directors in the film industry blindly cater to the West, and the films shot by the director zhì do not have the backbone of China. When filming commercial films. Some of them tried to imitate the methods of Hong Kong and Hollywood, but they lost their most soulful things. "Although commercially successful. But for the movie itself, it is actually a disservice. The leader said this, and then he praised Shen Zhenghui very highly, saying that several of his films are very energetic, which is very good.
Shen Zhenghui listened and smiled, sweating on his back. This big man in the future, no, it should be said that he is a big man now, and the super-big man in the future actually puts too much pressure on people, maybe he doesn't feel it himself, but Shen Zhenghui, as a person who knows the political trajectory of the other party, invisibly, he took every word of his heart to heart.
In the end, the leader's wife also appeared in the restaurant, as Shen Zhenghui's acquaintance, she greeted Shen Zhenghui generously, and talked with Shen Zhenghui about cultural exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong, and even Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges.
The leader was not very interested in this topic, of course, perhaps because of his identity, he could not express his interest, so it would be better to let his wife talk about this topic. Wang Anran was accompanied throughout the whole process, and it can be seen that he has a good relationship with the leader's family, and the leader's wife obviously treats him as a nephew, and even asks about Wang Anping's recent situation. Wang Anran has entered the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee and continues to serve as his deputy department-level secretary, with the title of a deputy director, but it is obvious that this guy has a bright future.
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According to Shen Zhenghui's plan, when "Dream Back to the Qing Dynasty" is broadcast, it can be officially arranged for "A Bite of China" to be broadcast, according to the rhythm of one episode a week, it will be broadcast for less than two months, waiting for the results of feedback to decide whether to shoot the second and third seasons. And "Going Abroad - A Documentary of China's Peacekeeping Forces in Africa" can be broadcast along with "A Bite of China". But just when he was immersed in the sea of Wuyue Province and began to shoot Enleko escaping from the United Kingdom of Leding to the territory of the pirate king Russell, and exploring the treasure of the god of wisdom with his teacher Princess Chrissy, ATV's director Wang called to ask for instructions.
In order to ensure the communication of the crew, the mobile company helped them set up a base station on the island, which was disguised as a pine tree in order to avoid affecting the shooting effect. But Shen Zhenghui actually hated being disturbed by irrelevant phone calls when he was at work, and when Director Wang reported with some uneasiness that CCTV asked ATV if he could sell them the documentary "A Bite of China", Shen Zhenghui was still slightly stunned.
"How much do they pay?" Shen Zhenghui asked rhetorically.
"Well, it's not about the money." Director Wang was a little speechless, "They want to buy it right away, prepare to broadcast it nationwide, and if the effect is good, they will cooperate with us to shoot the second season." ”
Shen Zhenghui knew what was going on, "Do they have any requirements?" ”
"We were asked to broadcast later than them, and CCTV was also the filming unit on the subtitles."
"So how much money are they going to pay?" Shen Zhenghui continued to ask, "What are they going to buy?" If the distribution rights to DVDs and VCDs were also included, they would have to bleed a lot. ”
"But, this is CCTV!" Wang Taichang's tone trembled, "If you have a good relationship with them......"
"They just banned my TV series." Shen Zhenghui's tone was very tough.
"That's the radio ......"
"Aren't they family?" Shen Zhenghui asked rhetorically, "We are counting on selling DVDs to make money, and now they want to play it first, and they also want to hang their names, if they don't come up with a price that satisfies me, they don't even think about it." ”
"But ......"
"Mr. Wang, you are the director of ATV, and you want to protect the interests of ATV." He replied, "If you feel that you can't get over your face, you can ask Deputy Director Guo to come forward, this film is produced by him, you let him talk, CCTV won't return my shooting fee to me, we will resolutely not agree." He paused, "Sue them, there are also Japanese media to assist in filming, if they drag it out, the Japanese side will broadcast it first." After saying this, he hung up the phone, leaving Director Wang in a daze on the phone, this gentleman is not quite used to the purely commercial style. (To be continued.) (lwxs520。 ))
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