Chapter 74: Fortune
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After Zhou Linuo, who was in a good mood, walked into the company, her assistant Xiaoxian ran over with a heavy face and said: "Mr. Lan is here, Producer Hu sued you, and half an hour later, Mr. Lan asked you to go to her office for a small meeting." ”
"Got it." Zhou Linuo nodded casually and asked, "Where's my coffee?" ”
"In your office." Xiaoxian looked at her in shock and asked, "My little sister, why aren't you panicking at all?" ”
"What's the panic?" Zhou Linuo glanced at her with a smile in his eyebrows, "There is me." With that, he walked towards his office.
Xiaoxian shivered in place, her boss Zhou Zong rarely laughed, and even less laughed from the heart, so whenever she took off her mask to reveal a trace of true feelings, she would have a feeling of being hit by a mysterious force, and her hairs stood on end, not fear, but a feeling of awe when humans faced the brilliant aurora.
Zhou Linuo drank coffee, sorted out the documents, and then walked to President Lan's office on time with his head held high.
Lan Shuiyue's office is three times larger than Zhou Linuo's, it is the small top floor of this huge top floor space, going up from a circular staircase, located at the top of the mountain, looking down from her office, when the curtains are not drawn, there are transparent windows all around, and all the workstations are in full view, much like the perspective of the invigilator.
There is a set of black desks and chairs as large as a rhinoceros, and the greenery is piled up along a glass wall to form a mountain line, and almost every time someone pushes the door in, she will see Lan Shuiyue, dressed in a straight Chanel suit, holding a white watering can, spraying "snort" water on her beloved greenery.
Before knocking on the door, Zhou Linuo had already heard Hu Yishu roaring inside, but the door of the president's office was too soundproof, so it was all turned into a buzzing sound after filtering, and she waited for the disturbing mosquito sound to completely dissipate before knocking on the door, and heard Mr. Lan inside shouting "Come in." He pushed the door in, and sure enough, he saw Hu Yishu sitting in the leather chair in front of the desk angrily.
Lan Shuiyue is a tall and thin man with an inch head, with stern eyebrows, a heroic body, but she has a pink hate on her feet, and an awl face with thin-rimmed glasses, she stood in front of her green mountains and greeted Zhou Linuo without looking back: "Mr. Zhou, listen to Mr. Hu, you have caused a lot of trouble for everyone?" ”
Zhou Linuo didn't answer, and sat down on the chair next to him with an attitude of ignoring Hu Yishu.
Hu Yishu, who couldn't bear his temper, glared at her, and shouted at Lan Shuiyue: "Mr. Lan, ask her to tell you, what good things she has done!" ”
Lan Shuiyue turned around, walked to the office chair with a smile, and said to Hu Yishu: "Then tell me, what did she do?" ”
"Didn't I just tell you?" Hu Yishu was stunned.
"She doesn't know." Lan Shuiyue sat down in her chair as complex and wide as the throne of a cottage leader, folded her hands in front of the table and said, "You tell her again." ”
"Okay, I'll say it again." Hu Yishu seemed to need to be loaded before opening his mouth, and slapped the table with all his might, and his mouth crackled and complained, "We have been preparing for the project of "Unbridled Love" for two years, two years! The screenwriting teacher is an old veteran from a serious film school, we paid a deposit of 500,000 yuan or a 20% discount from others, so withdrawn, no one will return this money, although the actor is a second-tier student, but because of the most popular variety show last year, it has now become the fifth traffic in addition to the four major traffic, we and their team spent a long time to set the contract and schedule, I believe that with his participation, our drama must explode! The more he talked, the more excited he became, stood up, pointed at Zhou Linuo and said, "-But Boss Zhou fell from the sky, and if he made peace with me, everything was ruined!" Even if you want to demolish my building, don't destroy my foundation, it's all going to start over. ”
After he finished speaking, he hunched his back like a cow running through South America, panting, and looking at Zhou Linuo with horizontal eyebrows.
Lan Shuiyue put her hands under her chin, her expression was as relaxed as watching a play, she looked at Zhou Linuo and asked very casually, "Is he right?" ”
"That's right, Hu Producers did prepare for two years, that's a fact." Zhou Linuo nodded to Lan Shuiyue, then turned his face to look at Hu Yishu calmly and said, "But the script has not come out, and the actor has not been finalized, which is also a fact, as for the 500,000 script fees that have been paid and cannot be returned, it is even more true, and you forgot to say that the signing fee of the director you found was also advanced by 100,000." She flipped through the folder in her hand, took out a dozen or so pages stapled together, handed it to Lan Shuiyue and said, "There are also some travel expenses and dinner expenses, as well as some of the expenses marked with 'gift' in the invoice, which also cost more than 500,000 yuan, and our project has already spent more than 1 million yuan before it starts." ”
"Well, that's it......" Lan Shuiyue casually flipped through the details of expenditures, and the dates were marked on them one by one, which were clearly organized, and she only glanced at a few lines, then raised her eyes and asked Hu Yishu, "Is Mr. Zhou right?" ”
Hu Yishu didn't answer, clasped his hands in front of his chest, gritted his teeth and pondered for a while, and then said: "This is all normal project expenses, don't target me, any group in the company, let's go and check, it's only a lot more than what I spent here." ”
"It's really a normal expense, and I have no objection to that." Zhou Linuo didn't chase Hu Yishu with this expense, she looked down at the folder, her fingers swiped over the actor's budget column, raised her head and said to Lan Shuiyue, "Regarding the change of director and screenwriter, Producer Hu and I have already made it clear at the meeting, my opinion is very simple, that is, the style does not match." I want to focus on the casting of the actor, because Producer Hu has repeatedly emphasized data and traffic, let's take a look, that's right, he did become popular because of his participation in a variety show last year, the hot search index at that time was 16 million, after half a year, the current data is 5 million, according to such a decline, I don't think he is worth half of the production cost to sign a contract. ”
"Wait a minute, you can't look at it like that, although his data has fallen, it's because he has no works since he started variety shows, but his massive fan base is there!" Hu Yishu hurriedly interrupted Zhou Linuo's words and defended his vision, "Now he only needs a well-made drama-"
"Producer Hu, did you get the order of cause and effect wrong?" Zhou Linuo also immediately cut off his words, "We didn't make this show to make him popular, we must tailor-made and invest so much manpower and material resources, why don't we 'do' our own artists?" ”
Hu Yishu was dumbfounded, and Lan Shuiyue showed a tendency in the debate between the two for the first time, nodded with satisfaction to Zhou Linuo, and then looked at Hu Yishu and asked, "Is Mr. Zhou right?" ”
After pondering for a while, Hu Yishu said dyingly on this battlefield without gunsmoke: "According to what you say, why do so many big productions still find first-line stars?" If they don't count on their high popularity to boost their ratings and box office, they all use their own company's signed artists. ”
Zhou Linuo hit back positively: "Now the market has already passed the era of blind data-led deformity, I have the ratings and box office data of two top traffic artists, a man and a woman, I selected ten of their respective TV series masterpieces and three movie masterpieces, all from the official statistics, all of them are showing a downward trend, especially this male artist, the hot search index is close to 100 million, but-" She raised the material in her hand, "Three movies with an investment of more than 500 million, all of them are loss-making, the most recent one, even only recorded 80 million at the box office. ”
After that, she put the materials in front of Lan Shuiyue's table, and when she saw Hu Yishu silent, she continued, "I think we are like a team doing film and television dramas, we have to fight as a team, from the early stage to the late stage, interlocking, no matter how famous the actor is, he can't save the bad script and bad production, but if we join forces, the script is good and the production is good, but it can completely turn a newcomer into a new well-known actor." ”
Lan Shuiyue trusted Zhou Linuo quite a lot, and didn't look at the materials she prepared, but asked with an interesting smile: "So you recommend using a newcomer to play our "Unbridled Love"?" ”
"You can also find some old actors who are really powerful, but are buried by the 'data age', they need a chance to become popular, they will treat their work more seriously, and there is a lot of room for concessions in price, but-" Zhou Linuo slowly elaborated on his thoughts, but changed his words, "I think their position is an important supporting role, and the protagonist of our show must use people who are very fresh to the audience, because the style of "Unbridled Love" is very youthful and energetic, and there are faces of works, It is not easy for the audience to substitute for a new character, and I am confident that this drama will be made into the "Meteor Garden" in the hearts of the new generation. ”
"Well, I agree." Lan Shuiyue's whole body leaned back relaxedly, and said with peace of mind, "Since I said at the beginning that I wanted you to take over this project, you can let it go and implement it according to your own wishes, I trust your judgment, and the company guarantees to give you support." ”
Zhou Linuo then stood up and bowed to Lan Shuiyue to say goodbye, but Hu Yishu bounced up and walked to the door first, his back looking full of resentment.
"Producer Hu-" Lan Shuiyue suddenly stopped him, and when he turned around, he said with a stern gaze, "You are still the executive producer of this project, please cooperate with Zhou Linuo's work, devote yourself and go all out to complete her request, and provide her with all the help you can, even if she makes a request that seems unreasonable to you, you remember, you just need to carry it out." ”
Hu Yishu had to stand in place, and after listening to his boss's instructions, he nodded heavily and slammed the door.