Just when He Yuzhu and Lou Xiao'e were eating and drinking together in the Peace Hotel, reminiscing about the past and complaining to each other, Cao Zhiqiang also invited people to dinner in the Jianguo Hotel, just reminiscing about the past, but he invited not a girl, but a man.

Because the person Cao Zhiqiang invited was none other than director Xu Qingdong.

Unlike Zhu Lin, Xu Qingdong was not valued in Beiying at this time, so it was not difficult for him to change relationships, as long as he made a report to the leader, the leader quickly approved Xu Qingdong's transfer application.

The original unit agreed to release the people, and Xu Qingdong immediately transferred to Hongguang Film Factory and became the deputy director and director of Hongguang Film Factory.

Although Hongguang Film Factory is only a small temple now, the so-called sparrows are small and have all kinds of organs, and they really have everything.

For example, the hardware of the film studio's license, camera, office space, etc., Hongguang Film Studio has all of them.

As for the personnel issue, internal staff such as accountants can be hired by the accountants of Hongguang Publishing House first, and the actors and film crews can be recruited at that time.

As long as there is a brand and the money is in place, there is no need to worry about recruiting filmmakers now.

Not to mention anything else, a large number of graduates of Guangbei Electric every year are enough to eat.

Although universities in this era are distributed in packages, students are not completely free of autonomy.

As long as you can contact the relevant unit to ask you before graduating from the university, and then ask the relevant unit to say hello to the relevant personnel in charge of assigning students to the university, generally speaking, unless the situation is special, the cadres in charge of the assignment will not stop you.

For a unit like Nortel, the last year of university is generally an internship period, and students have to find a way to complete their graduation projects.

All in all, although Hongguang Film Factory is a newly established unit, it is not well-known at present, but this unit has an advantage, that is, this unit is a unit in Beijing, and if you come here to work, you can stay in Beijing.

Therefore, the mere fact that I can stay and work in the capital is the biggest temptation for most college students.

At present, the film studios in Beijing are basically full, and they generally don't want people, so as soon as Nortel's students graduate at this time, most of them are assigned to local schools.

For example, Zhang Yimou, because of his weak background, he was assigned to Guangxi Film Studio after graduation, and Guangxi Film Studio, in this era, is almost the same as distributing to the frontier, which is synonymous with poor places.

Of course, there are also benefits to poor places in poor places.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will think about change, so a poor factory like Guangxi Film Factory is also the earliest to change its thinking, and it is also keen to cooperate with Hong Kong and other places.

If it weren't for the thinking of Guangxi Film Factory, people like Zhang Yimou would not be so easy to emerge.

In short, the identity of Hongguang Film Factory in the capital is a very attractive business card at this time.

Because in this period, where the work unit is, it is basically where it is settled.

As for Zhu Lin, she is a special case.

When Zhu Lin was transferred to Emei Film Factory as an actor, she was already married, and her husband was registered in Beijing, so as long as Zhu Lin did not divorce, he did not need to settle in Chengdu.

At that time, Zhu Lin's relationship with her husband was very weak, because there was less gathering and more separation.

It's just that Zhu Lin didn't want to give up her Beijing hukou easily, and her family's opposition continued to maintain her marriage with Mr. Wang.

Later, Zhu Lin once thought about easing the relationship, such as trying to find a way to come to the capital to work.

For example, Zhu Lin came to the capital this time, because he knew through his friends that Xu Qingdong was going to shoot a musical TV series in the capital, so he took the initiative to contact Xu Qingdong, hoping to take the opportunity to stay in the capital for a while and ease the relationship with her husband.

Xu Qingdong, who was choosing an actor at the time, felt that Zhu Lin's temperament was good, and they were all from Beijing, when Zhu Lin acted in the movie "Small Courtyard" before, he also met Xu Qingdong through the relationship of Grange Village, and we had dinner together a few times, so Xu Qingdong agreed to Zhu Lin's self-recommendation.

It can be said that Zhu Lin was able to come to the capital this time, although it was an accident, it was actually inevitable, after all, Zhu Lin had been operating to return to Beijing.

It can be seen that, at least for now, Zhu Lin is a person with a wide range of friends, a strong sense of purpose, and a strong ability to execute.

As for why Zhu Lin's personality changed greatly and gradually disappeared in front of people, that is a story from another time and space.

According to Cao Zhiqiang's estimate, if there is no appearance of herself, Zhu Lin will most likely continue to maintain a marriage relationship with her ex-husband, just for a Beijing household registration.

In the history of another time and space, Zhu Lin divorced her first husband, most likely because of the man's request, after all, Zhu Lin at this time was preoccupied with his career, and he was probably not in the mood to care about this.

may be because Zhu Lin's utilitarianism during this period of time was too strong, which caused her to be disheartened later.

In other words, it is precisely because Zhu Lin's job transfer problem is still hanging and the work relationship is still in Emei Factory, so Zhu Lin did not immediately file for divorce from her husband, as long as Cao Zhiqiang can solve Zhu Lin's job transfer and transfer Zhu Lin's work relationship to Hongguang Film Studio, Zhu Lin must immediately divorce her husband and then settle in the capital by himself.

If this is not the case, Zhu Lin may find it difficult to accept Cao Zhiqiang's flowery heart.

But for Xu Qingdong, this is not a problem.

Xu Qingdong's original work unit was Beiying, which was originally a Beijing hukou, and when he transferred to Hongguang Film Studio, he was still a Beijing hukou, no difference.

However, Xu Qingdong turned out to be just an unpopular little director, but once he came to Hongguang Factory, he immediately became the director and deputy director of the real power faction.

Although there are few people in Hongguang Film Studio at present, there are all of them.

Moreover, Hongguang Film Factory also has the best camera in China, which is incomparable to other film studios.

Others, such as the freedom to make films, and the freedom of funds, are even more valuable.

Cao Zhiqiang had already promised Xu Qingdong that after Xu Qingdong came to Hongguang Film Studio, he not only gave him personnel rights, but also recruited personnel freely, and managed personnel, and gave him at least one million personal shooting funds every year, which he could use as he pleased, shoot whatever he wanted, and have absolute shooting freedom.

It's just that once Cao Zhiqiang is in need, Xu Qingdong will give priority to shooting the movie Cao Zhiqiang wants to make, or recommend a reliable crew to Cao Zhiqiang.

In a word, Cao Zhiqiang gave Xu Qingdong enough power and freedom, so that he could give full play to his abilities.

With such conditions, Xu Qingdong would refuse if he was stupid.

However, at present, Xu Qingdong has not thought about the specific personnel structure, what he wants to do most now is to do a good job in the later stage of the movie "Love in the Ancient Pavilion" that he just finished filming, and then release it as soon as possible.

However, after the filming of this movie, there is not much work that can really make Xu Qingdong do, and it can be summed up in two words - dubbing.

As for the soundtrack and post-production special effects, they are all Cao Zhiqiang's work.

And this time the meal is half public and half private, at least half of the content, Xu Qingdong hopes that Cao Zhiqiang can complete the post-production of the movie as soon as possible, and then release it early.

"What? Cao Zhiqiang, do you want to take this movie to Japan for post-production special effects, and you have to release it in Japan first? Did I hear me right? ”

Seeing Xu Qingdong so surprised, Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "You heard it right, I went to Japan this time, just to take the movie we filmed, first go to Japan to find a company to produce the soundtrack and special effects, and then release the film in Japan first."

I thought about it, our movie should be very in line with the taste of the Japanese, once it premieres in Japan and achieves good results, it can go abroad, causing the effect of flowers blooming inside the wall and fragrant outside the wall.

When the time comes, not only can you earn a wave of foreign exchange first, but once you become famous, the domestic review will be faster and the release will be easier. ”

Xu Qingdong frowned and said: "If it can be released in Japan first, of course it would be good, after all, it can be regarded as going abroad, but the problem is, it is difficult to release movies in Japan, right?" Do you have a way? ”

"You don't have to worry about that." Cao Zhiqiang laughed, "Japan is a Western country, and their film censorship is much more lenient than ours.

Our movie is a proper and positive love film, although it involves the love between teachers and students, which may be a bit of a problem in our place, but in Japan, this is not a problem at all.

In addition, I have also contacted some bigwigs in Japan, and if I pass them, I should be able to easily pass the review of the Japan Film Ethics Management Committee.

As long as we pass Yinglun's review, we can negotiate the copyright with the Japanese film distribution company.

Our movie is so good, and now it is the honeymoon period between China and Japan, as long as we are in the name of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges, it should not be difficult to find a distribution company to distribute it.

In addition, even if it doesn't work, Japan's film post-production capabilities are more advanced than ours, especially the special effects of the films.

I'm going over there to find someone to make some special effects, and it can also add a lot of color to our movie, don't you say? ”

"If you want to say that, that's true." Xu Qingdong nodded.

Seeing that Xu Qingdong agreed, Cao Zhiqiang smiled.

In fact, when Cao Zhiqiang first filmed "Love in the Ancient Pavilion", he mainly aimed at the Japanese market, after all, he plagiarized, no, the content of the film he borrowed was the Japanese masterpiece "The Garden of Words".

It's just that "The Garden of Words" is an anime movie, and Cao Zhiqiang's "Love in the Ancient Pavilion" is a live-action movie, but if you put aside the surface, purely in terms of movie style, it is actually full of Japanese style.

Or it can be said that "Love in the Ancient Pavilion" is a typical Chinese-style modern urban movie on the surface, but the core is the Japanese style.

In addition to the teacher-student love, the real core is loneliness, sadness, restraint, subtlety, courtyard, rain, feet, and forbidden love.

These elements are precisely the elements that Japan likes most at this time.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang has prepared a lot of soundtracks for this film that are absolutely king bombs in this world, coupled with the special effects production capabilities of the audio-visual production dream space, once the work is completely completed, it is difficult to say in China, but at least in the current Japan, it can definitely produce the same effect as a nuclear explosion.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang is also confident that this movie will become popular in China, after all, truly excellent works are appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar.

But the problem is that the current domestic film distribution is a monopoly plus buyout system, no matter how good or bad you shoot and how much you invest, you have to sell it to China Film, and China Film will give you a relatively high buyout price at most, and it will be 900,000 yuan.

In other words, even if "Love in the Ancient Pavilion" has rave reviews in China and has a super high attendance rate, which can be compared to "Shaolin Temple" back then, as a film production company, the income is just that, and it is stuck.

No matter how good the movie is, no matter how high the income is, it has nothing to do with your production company, it's all about China Film.

Comparatively speaking, Xiangjiang is just a small place, and it is far inferior to the mainland in terms of market, but Hong Kong films are better than those in the mainland in terms of system and resources.

Once a Hong Kong movie is made at this time, it is just the local market, and it will easily have a box office of tens of millions, feeding countless filmmakers, not to mention the Asian market.

Not to mention anything else, at least in the current South Korea, the film market is basically dominated by Hong Kong films.

It is precisely the high income of Hong Kong films that has fed a large number of outstanding filmmakers that makes Hong Kong films now shine in Asia.

However, at present, the best and most profitable place in Asia is Japan.

At this time, Japan's economy was the second largest in Asia, ranking second in the world.

Relying on Japan's strong economy and population, Japan's film industry is also quite powerful at this time, at least in terms of box office revenue, it is currently the first in Asia.

In addition, Japanese films were also relatively open at this time, and there were fewer restrictions on imported films.

Not to mention Hong Kong movies, even mainland movies, at this time, because of the honeymoon between China and Japan, there are actually special discounts for inland films.

It's just that the inland movies at this time are really not good, at least the movies made are not very suitable for Japanese taste.

The only inland film that can be regarded as an inland movie with a Japanese taste is still a co-production movie with a Hong Kong flavor, that is, "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace".

When "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace" was released in Japan, the name was "The Queen Mother of the West".

As for the film, the total box office in Japan, also known as the Koxing revenue, reached 1.1 billion yen.

You must know that when this movie was released in Japan, but in 1984, the RMB had not depreciated significantly at that time, and the yen was still very valuable compared to RMB.

In 1984, the ratio of RMB to yen was generally 1 to 102, so 1.1 billion yen is about 10 million yuan, which is a very remarkable number.

If you don't have a concept, you can redeem it for the Hong Kong box office market at that time.

In 1984, the RMB to the Hong Kong dollar was 1 to 3.4, that is, 10 million RMB, which is about equivalent to 34 million Hong Kong dollars, this box office is definitely NO.1 in Hong Kong.

Because in 1984, the Hong Kong movie box office champion "Best Partner 3: The Queen's Secret Order", the box office was only 29.29 million Hong Kong dollars.

Even if it is divided, there are not many that can really reach Cao Zhiqiang, but Cao Zhiqiang's shooting cost is also low.

When filming "Love in the Ancient Pavilion", the equipment and film with the most expenses were rewarded by the system, which was equivalent to free.

Other hard expenses, that is, the travel expenses of the film crew, food expenses, and shooting allowances, even if they include Cao Zhiqiang's personal hotel expenses, even these expenses add up, in fact, they do not exceed 200,000 yuan.

That is to say, as long as the sales share of this movie can give Cao Zhiqiang 500,000, he will make a lot of money.

However, the domestic buyout price is most likely the highest amount of 900,000 buyout fees.

As for Japan, if there is no accident, Cao Zhiqiang estimates that the box office of this movie after its release will be at least one billion yen, and if it is distributed to Cao Zhiqiang, he will personally score 1.8 million.

If Japan is excellent after its release, it can also use Japan's platform to be released in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, South Korea and other places, and even to Europe and the United States, and it can be reaped again.

The combined income of miscellaneous items is likely to exceed 10 million RMB!

If that's the case, then the movie is really profitable, not to mention the benefits of expanding popularity.

(End of chapter)