After sending Li Yang away, Yang Ruohan sat alone in the office and thought. When she first prepared to shoot the blind well, she wanted to invest some money to win the prize. But Li Yang's arrival gave her an unexpected gain.

Her initial plan was to invest about 1.2 million yuan to shoot the blind well and send it to the award, and spend part of the public relations fee to win the award as much as possible. But Li Yang only needs to spend 800,000 yuan to shoot it, and he also signed an award-winning gambling agreement.

In this way, even if it doesn't win the award, then Mufan Pictures will gain an experienced director, and it will not be a loss.

And the most important thing is that even if Yang Ruohan obtains the film adaptation right from director Li Yang and uses the company's resources to write the script of the blind well and send it to the General Administration for review, it is estimated that he will not obtain a shooting permit, and in the end he will have to find other underground directors to shoot.

But after all, the shooting of underground movies still affects the reputation of "Mufan Pictures", and it is good that the General Administration does not investigate it, but if it is investigated, I am afraid there will be trouble.

Now that everything is in front of Director Li Yang, it will be fine.

Yang Ruohan has been paying attention to mainland films recently, and she has always wanted the company to expand its business scope, but she also knows that now is not the best time to set foot in the film industry, and mainland films are now 95% loss-making. There are very few box office tickets that exceed 10 million.

But even though now is not the best time to enter the film market, Yang Ruohan still entered the scene to make a movie without hesitation, showing the film industry that Mufan Pictures is coming.

Because she has a hunch that the era of movies is coming.

At that time, she had a unfounded premonition that the General Administration had opened up the production and distribution rights of films to private companies last year. PropNex has successfully obtained a film distribution license.

The second is "Hero" filmed by Zhang Yimou, which will be released in December. New Picture Pictures dared to invest 30 million to shoot this movie, which also supported Yang Ruohan's hunch.

Therefore, she needs Mufan Pictures to shoot a film that can win awards to attract the attention of many film screenwriters and directors. Mufan Pictures is too short of talent.

Yang Ruohan has learned some management knowledge during this time, and she clearly knows that she has been following the 721 law in the film and television industry.

Only the boss can enjoy 7% of the share of the film and television industry, and now Bona, New Picture, and Huayi are already competing for the position of the boss of the future film industry.

Bona Films has good friends with filmmakers in Xiangjiang, and the new picture has Zhang Yimou, and Huayi has Feng pants.

In the face of them, if Mufan Pictures does not enter the market now, I am afraid that there will not even be a chance to compete in the future.

In order to prevent Mufan Pictures from becoming other market participants in the 721 law, Yang Ruohan can only shoot an award-winning work when the wind in the film and television industry has not yet blown. Attract the attention of potential film directors.

This is why she is willing to invest 800,000 yuan to shoot "Blind Well" when the big market environment is not good.

Of course, entering the film industry does not happen overnight. Mufan Pictures' current basic plate is still in the shooting of music MVs and the filming and production of TV series.

Yang Ruohan intends to completely split the company's business after the company is completely stabilized in a few years. But what exactly it is divided into, she hasn't thought about it yet, so she can only slowly explore.

However, Yang Ruohan has already considered the issue of Mufan Films, which he talked about with Yu Feihong before, to implement the director-centered system and the screenwriter-centered system.

For directors who have the ability to have box office guarantees, the "director-centered system" is implemented, for example, if Zhang Yimou joins Mufan Pictures, he will definitely form a crew with Zhang Yimou as the center. All the other staff members are all serving Zhang Yimou.

Other capable directors, such as Guan Hu and others, find a screenwriter or producer with similar abilities to discuss the plot together.

For new directors, it needs to be treated specifically, genius directors have the privilege of genius directors, and ordinary directors are honest and tool people.

Of course, all of this still only exists in Yang Ruohan's mind, and even if it is taken out, it may not be really implemented, after all, the director-centered system is popular in China. The director is arrogant.

And according to the method that Yang Ruohan thought of, Mufan Pictures still has a long way to go.

After all, Zhang Yimou and Guan Hu have their own film and television companies to work with, and they basically won't join Mufan Pictures if there is no accident.

And Mufan Pictures doesn't have a particularly powerful screenwriter now. Even the film director has only one Ning Hao so far, and he is just a student. At present, he mainly shoots music MVs.

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After confirming the investment in the "Blind Well" project filmed by director Li Yang, two weeks later, a group of young screenwriters in the Mufan Film industry also had some eyebrows for the adaptation of "Little Soldier Zhang Ga". has already handed over the outline of the script to Yang Ruohan.

Yang Ruohan took the adapted script outline to Mr. Liu of Hai Yan to seek cooperation. The main hope is that Haiyu Pictures can find a suitable director for the script.

Mr. Liu looked through the script outline brought by Yang Ruohan and was very interested, the popular TV series in the mainland in 2002 were all Qiong Yao dramas or costume dramas.

For "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", the starring roles are all teenagers watching the masses, and there are basically no TV series for primary and secondary school students.

The genre of this drama should still be the blue ocean of mainland film and television dramas, and there is a lot to do. And the leading actors are all teenagers, and there is no need to invite big-name film and television stars for the whole drama, and the investment amount will not be much.

After reading the script, Mr. Liu asked Yang Ruohan how much money he was going to invest in filming this TV series.

Yang Ruohan thought about this question before she came, after all, there were no similar works in the market before this, even if she was very confident in this work, she only planned to shoot 20 episodes to test the waters.

"We are planning to shoot 20 episodes, and 100,000 yuan for one episode is enough, so the entire investment should be about 2 million."

"Then Yang always plans to let Mufan Pictures invest exclusively in this TV series?" Mr. Liu smiled.

"No, after all, Mufan Pictures has just started, and there is not so much money, and there is probably a shortage of about 500,000, so I came to you to run the funds." Yang Ruohan knows that at this stage, Mufan Pictures is not capable of taking the risk of producing and distributing a TV series on its own.

"There's still a shortage of 500,000, isn't it! That Haiyan Pictures voted. Mr. Liu said lightly, showing the demeanor of a successful boss.

"Mr. Liu, you can invest, but Mufan Pictures hopes that the starring role in this drama will be determined by us." Yang Ruohan said after hearing that Mr. Liu promised to invest.

This drama was filmed by her in order to support Zhang Fan, if the starring role is not Zhang Fan, then there is no need to shoot this drama. She had to tell the story before signing the contract.

Mr. Liu agreed after thinking for a while, for him, it was just a children's TV series for teenagers, and he didn't care too much about the ownership of the starring role. There is no need to have a bad relationship with Mufan Pictures for a leading role.

Mr. Liu agreed, and handed over the selection of all the actors to Mufan Pictures. Haiyu Pictures is only responsible for finding directors for filming.

After a few days of discussion, Mufan Pictures signed a contract with Haiyu Pictures, and it was determined that the crew would start filming in May next year.

Before the start of filming, it is necessary to arrange someone to improve the script and send it to the General Administration for approval, obtain the qualification certificate for filming, select actors, find a director, find a filming location and a series of other tasks to be busy.

TV series director Hai Yan Film and Television arranged director Xu Geng, who is the leading children's film director in China, and won the title of excellent director for filming "Grass House" as early as 1999.

The filming location of the movie is arranged in Baiyangdian in the original novel.

The leading actors were determined after layers of selection by Mufan Pictures. In the whole film, except for the starring Xie Mengwei who became Zhang Fan, the other actors have not changed.

is still Zhang Yishan's young shopkeeper. Wang Shasha plays Yingzi, and Liu Jinshan plays fat translator. The theme song of the TV series is also sung by Liu Jinshan.

After all the actors were confirmed, it didn't cost much, after all, there were no well-known actors in the entire crew except for Liu Jinshan. The most expensive starring Zhang Fan's salary is 1,000 yuan per episode, and Liu Jinshan's salary is 800 yuan per episode. The remaining actors are paid from 500 to 800 per episode.

The preliminary preparations of the entire crew of "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" have been prepared, and they are waiting to arrive in Baiyangdian in May to start shooting.