Yang Liwen's work efficiency is very high, and she never mentions the replies to other crews, and the [Mekong Operation] crew quickly communicated.

[Bona Film and Television] did not hesitate, and replied on the same day, agreeing to the request for the salary to be converted into investment.

In this way, the [Journey to the West Demon Chapter] is going to be refused.

Gu Wei received two heavyweight phone calls one after another, one was personally called by Zhou Xingchi.

I hope to persuade him to take over his own movie.

After receiving Zhou Xingchi's call, Gu Wei was still quite surprised.

He also grew up watching Zhou Xingchi's movies since he was a child, and he has a good impression of him.

After all, the title of the king of comedy is not to say, the movies he starred in in the past can be called classics.

[The King of Comedy], [Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance], [Journey to the West], [Kung Fu], etc. are all very good works.

It's a pity that Gu Wei is relatively rational and likes Zhou Xingchi well, but he doesn't have any admiration for him, let alone change the decision he has made for him.

Of course, on the phone, Gu Wei chatted with Director Zhou quite hotly, and praised him in various ways, giving Zhou Xingchi the impression that Gu Wei was his little fan brother.

In the end, I regretted that because the schedule was full, I couldn't take the shooting this time, and I must cooperate with Yunyun next time I have the opportunity.

Hanging up the phone, the smile on Gu Wei's face quickly disappeared.

Zhou Xingchi's Mandarin is average, and his speaking speed is relatively slow, so he didn't say too much in a conversation, in order to show his sincerity, he offered to give Gu Wei a higher salary on the phone, but unfortunately Gu Wei finally refused.

After becoming the boss and making movies, Zhou Xingchi is different from him who was originally an actor.

Now he is more like a businessman, making movies by himself, the first thing to consider is what factors have the greatest impact on the box office of the movie, and how to maximize the benefits.

If you take a longitudinal look, you can find that since Zhou Xingchi became a director, the protagonist of his movies has always been the hottest star in the entertainment industry during that time period.

[Journey to the West] to find Wen Zhang, Huang Bo, [Mermaid] to find Deng Chao, [Journey to the West] to find Li Jiaheng.

He has always believed that the box office of actor fire movies will be higher.

Now that I am so interested in inviting Gu Wei, I also see Gu Wei's high popularity and incomparably strong box office appeal.

But in fact, when everyone watches Zhou Xingchi's movie, the most important thing is to look at the three words Zhou Xingchi, and it doesn't matter who the starring role of the movie is.

As long as the quality of the movie is passed, everyone will watch it in the face of the star.

The second call was from Yu Dong, chairman of [Bona Film and Television].

Compared with Zhou Xingchi, Yu Dong is more enthusiastic in his attitude, this big man is one of the real giants in the film and television industry.

He also graduated from film school, but he studied neither actor nor director, but management.

After graduation, he was assigned to work in Beijing Film Studio, and the director of Beijing Film Studio at that time was Han Sanping, the current chairman of China Film.

With his hard work and excellent interpersonal communication skills, Yu Dong made a name for himself in the factory, and was soon appreciated and promoted by Han Sanping, becoming the youngest section-level cadre in the history of Beijing Film Studio.

It was not until 1999, after accumulating many years of distribution experience, that Yu Dong jumped out of the public to start a business and founded Beijing Bona Cultural Exchange Co., Ltd., the first private film distribution company in China, and obtained the first "film distribution license" issued by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

After years of development, [Bona Films] has become one of the private giants in China's film and television industry comparable to Huayi and Guangguang.

It's just that due to Yu Dong's strong official background and his previous work experience, Bona has actively cooperated with the government in recent years, and the style of the works produced by the entire company is biased towards the main theme red movie.

"Yu Dong is too polite, you are also my senior, we are all a family, of course we have to be closer.

Last time I had dinner with Han Dong, he also mentioned you to me, I didn't expect that we would have the opportunity to work together so soon.

Don't worry, junior brother, I don't dare to say anything else, there is still some box office appeal, and this cooperation will definitely be a big hit.

If I didn't have this confidence, I wouldn't have been able to ask for a stake in the company.

Okay, I'll wait for you to call me, and then call Han Dong and let's get together together."

Compared with Zhou Xingchi, Gu Wei's call with Yu Dong is more casual, although Yu Dong is better than Zhou Xingchi in terms of identity and status, but there is an inextricable relationship between him and Gu Wei.

Yu Dong is Han Sanping's old subordinate, and the development of [Bona Film and Television] from weak to strong is inseparable from Han Sanping's help and official support.

Gu Wei is also a person that Han Sanping is very fond of now, several times of cooperation and his friendship with Han Jiannu, now Han Sanping does not say anything to him, but also treats him as his own person.

In addition, both of them are from film schools and belong to alumni, so they naturally have a closeness to each other.

To say that the professional background is too useful for some people, when you are really capable, this identity is easy to get the favor of the brothers and sisters who graduated from the same school as you.

People will communicate more closely, and of course it will be easier to reach a cooperative relationship.

Of course, if you are at the bottom, there is nothing to do, and no one will help you because you are an alumnus.

Yu Dong's production of "Operation Mekong" is actually very virtual.

At this time period, the main theme movie has not yet taken off.

The company's last movie [Outwitting Tiger Mountain] was also co-produced by Bona and Wanda Film and Television, Bayi Film Studio, Huaxia Film, etc., and it is also an abacus that can share risks.

Unexpectedly, the final box office was more than 800 million, making a lot of money.

However, the fame of [Outwitting Tiger Mountain] is already great, and the prestige of "Yang Zirong" of [Lin Haixueyuan] who fights tigers on the mountain is not to mention a household name, and it is also a classic in the hearts of a generation.

The bandit code of "Heavenly King Cover the Tiger, Pagoda Town River Demon" has been passed down from generation to generation as a "hot stalk".

In contrast, far fewer people know about the real events adapted from Operation Mekong.

And police and gangster films have always been the best genre of Hong Kong films, although the film director Lin Chaoxian is also a famous director on Hong Kong Island, it is impossible to shoot the story of the mainland police in the style of Hong Kong Island police films.

In recent years, even if the authentic Hong Kong-style police and gangster films produced on Hong Kong Island have joined by a number of actors on Hong Kong Island, the box office is not too good, not to mention that this movie must have mixed styles.

Moreover, the film has the support of the Ministry of Public Security, so the final content of the film must be approved by the Ministry of Public Security.

So for the sake of the box office after the release of the movie, Yu Dong can only work the actors.

I hope to find an actor who can carry the box office to support [Operation Mekong].

Although Zhang Hanhe's acting skills are good, and there are many blockbuster movies he has participated in, if you study carefully, you will find that his blockbuster movies are basically cooperated with big directors, such as Feng Xiaogang's [Assembly Number] and Xu Ke's "Outwitting Tiger Mountain".

Without the blessing of a famous director, it would be completely impossible for him to take the lead alone.

In 13 years, Zhang Han collaborated with Wang Luoshan in a love movie [What I Love Is You Love Me], with a box office of only 30 million.

Later, the movie "Red Rush", starring him and directed by Li Ming, also failed at the box office, and the investor suffered heavy losses.

It can be seen that Zhang Hanhe is a good actor with acting skills, but he is not a big star who can attract fans to watch the movie.

At this time, [Left Ear] had just come off the screen, and Gu Wei naturally entered his sight.

The low-cost love movie is only driven by Gu Wei, and the box office results are almost about to catch up with the big IP movie [Outwitting Tiger Mountain] directed by Xu Ke and joined by many movie stars.

At that time, Yu Dong knew that Gu Wei was the big star he was looking for who could support the movie.

With Gu Wei joining, even if the results of [Operation Mekong] are not good after the release, as long as there is the support of Gu Wei's fans, the capital can be preserved at the very least.

So when Gu Wei proposed to invest in the shares, he agreed without hesitation, and anyone in the film and television industry who can really make the company bigger understands the importance of sharing the cake.

It's delicious, but it's 100 percent and 500 percent, and that's more obvious.

Find someone to make the cake bigger to get more, sometimes sharing will not damage your own interests, but will get more because the basic plate is bigger.

(End of chapter)