The temperature in Yanjing in mid-November has completely dropped, and snow can fall at any time.

In such a climate, people either go to work or retreat to their homes.

The streets outside are very quiet, not only pedestrians, but also few cars.

Only the cold wind is blowing, announcing the arrival of cold winter.

In a teahouse in the DC area, in a window position on the second floor, Li Shengyao and Han Sanping sat opposite each other.

The waiter served pastries and tea.

Li Shengyao then raised his glass and touched Han Sanping.

The two have not seen each other for more than two months, and a few days ago the news that Li Shengyao bought TVB came out, and Han Sanping called to congratulate Li Shengyao.

Goodbye at this time, Han Sanping is a lot tired.

He has been very prosperous in the past two years, "The Great Cause of the Country" and "The Great Cause of the Party" both have a box office of more than 400 million, and Han Sanping is full of red light when he goes there.

At this time, Lao Han's eyes were tired, and there were even bloodshots in his eyes.

Li Shengyao couldn't help but be a little curious, "Director Han, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Alas, don't mention it, there have been a lot of meetings lately."

After all, Han Sanping is a person in the system, and as the end of the year approaches, he has a lot of meetings, which is understandable.

When Li Shengyao heard this, he smiled and said, "I have a meeting recently." ”

"Hey, you're different from me, you're all in the past to receive the award, I'm sitting down and listening."

Li Shengyao bought the equity of Shaw Brothers TVB and became the actual speaker of TVB, and after holding a banquet and meeting with everyone in TVB and the entertainment industry on Hong Kong Island, he was officially crowned the crown of TVB.

He didn't make more moves, didn't go to TVB to burn three fires, but quickly returned to his position and continued to direct the filming of "Parasite".

Although there are all kinds of invitations every day, most of the time, Lee Shengyao refuses, in his heart, it is better to make a movie than to brag and fart with people in the Hong Kong Island entertainment industry.

This time I went back to Yanjing because I had to go back.

Yesterday in Yenching, the 2011 Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons of China were awarded, and Li Shengyao was one of the winners.

This top ten outstanding young people in China is recognized above, and almost no one in the entertainment industry has received it.

Mainly people in the system, or in the sports circle.

Like Da Yao, Fu Mingbian, Guo Jingjing, Liu Xiang, they have all won the top ten outstanding young people in China.

Lee Shengyao should be the first director to win this award.

He let the crew rest for five days, and he went back to Yanjing to receive an award, and took a look at Chen Hao and Dong Xuan casually.

Han Sanping said that she has been meeting too much recently, and she seems tired, so she should have a task.

Li Shengyao smiled and did not continue to ask.

Han Sanping thought that Li Shengyao would ask, but Li Shengyao didn't ask, he could only take the initiative to say: "There are many foreign affairs this year, and I hope that China Film can support more films that promote patriotism and establish the self-confidence of the Lu people, and I am really embarrassed."

Not only do you have performance requirements, but you also need to support related films.

But you know that most of these domestic movies are losing money. ”

There are indeed a lot of foreign things this year, and the beautiful country has made a move, and the spring of Ahlabo has swept Zhongdong.

There are requirements on it, which is very normal.

With the outbreak of the mainland film market, China Film's status in Hollywood has risen, and they have invested more in Hollywood movies in the past two years.

This year's big hit "Transformers 3" has the investment of China Film.

It is uncertain how much money China Film has invested, and China Film's request is for "Transformers 3" to share the box office in the mainland market.

Under such conditions, Hollywood can't hack China Film's money, after all, the mainland is the home of China Film.

"Transformers 3" has a billion box office, and China Film must have made money.

In addition, "The Great Cause of the Country" and "The Great Cause of the Party" have made a lot of money, and the senior management of China Film will inevitably have higher requirements, and they will not be very eye-catching for those loss-making mainland movies.

When Li Shengyao heard this, he probably understood the reason why Han Sanping was looking for him.

Han Sanping continued: "Director Li, "Huaxia Partner" has completed the filming on the set, I think this movie is very good, and when the movie is released, let you Fenghua Cinema screen it." ”

The quality of "Huaxia Partner" is good, with a box office of more than 500 million, and it is screened in Fenghua Cinema, which is actually to give profits to Fenghua, after all, China Film has its own cinema.

"Director Han, thank you."

"Little meaning, I have always owed you a favor, and I haven't paid it back."

Han Sanping paused for a moment, and then said: "Now that Huaying is up, considering that more and more excellent films are emerging, we in China Film want to enhance our competitiveness, and after a high-level meeting, we decided to cooperate more with private enterprises, especially in the introduction of foreign films, we can introduce excellent films more reasonably and efficiently."

When I was in a meeting, I emphasized that I could cooperate with Fenghua, Director Li, don't refuse this time. ”

Li Shengyao paused slightly, thought for a moment, and then understood what Han Sanping meant.

The Huaying he is talking about is Huaxia Film Group.

Twenty years ago, only China Film had the right to import and distribute foreign films, but since 2003, Huaxia Film Group has been established, and this Huaying has the same privileges as China Film to introduce and distribute foreign films.

In the past, the box office in the mainland market was low, and Huaying was a little suspicious of being bad, but now that the mainland box office is up, Huaying has begun to compete with China Film.

China Film has competitors and begins to think about broadening film channels.

China Film has money and resources, and if they want to maximize high profits and good performance, they must continue to invest in good mainland films, or introduce high-quality foreign films.

There are very few good films in the mainland, and the senior management of China Film understands very well that even if they spend a lot of money, they may not be able to have high returns.

On the contrary, there are many foreign films, if they are introduced to the mainland, they may be able to get a high box office.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, China Film began to cooperate with private enterprises after 2012 to introduce foreign films.

The outer films mentioned here are not imported films with a fixed quota, but batch films.

The imported films in the mouth of the media generally refer to the divided movies, such as "Kung Fu Panda" and "Harry Potter".

The batch of films is not included in the imported films, but belongs to mainland capital to buy, translate, and then imported and distributed by China Film.

For example, Hengye Pictures bought "Genius Gunman" for 500,000 US dollars, "Wrestling, Dad" for 700,000 US dollars, and "Invisible Guest" for 500,000 US dollars.

These three films are all good at the box office in the mainland, and Hengye bought them first, then translated, submitted them for review, and applied for the right to broadcast them in the mainland.

Such films belong to buyout films, and foreign businessmen do not participate in the sharing, and are not subject to the quota restrictions of imported films.

However, it still has to be handed over to China Film, or China Film for distribution.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, these three movies were all released by China Film.

Han Sanping means that let Fenghua buy excellent foreign films, buy them and broadcast them in the mainland, China Film has a relationship, and the review is relatively fast, so they can make money together.

This matter is also beneficial to Fenghua, Li Shengyao naturally knows that those movies will be popular, and those foreign films can be bought out.

He raised his teacup and clinked glasses with Han Sanping again, "Director Han, happy cooperation." ”

Han Sanping smiled, her eyes were a little brighter, and her voice was a little louder, looking very excited.

"Director Li, there is another benefit."

"You say."

"China Film has got a piece of land in Yangcheng, we will build a film and television city over there, Director Li, Yangcheng is a big city, how about working together?"

In the past, China Film had the opportunity to build a film and television city, and then Han Sanping invited Li Shengyao, but Li Shengyao refused.

Han Sanping is very confident this time, because Yangcheng is a super first-tier city.

When Li Shengyao heard this, he looked at Han Sanping a little strangely.

I have to say that China Film and CCTV have a very poor vision.

In Foshan, Zhongshan, and Frozen Dongguan, there are film and television cities where CCTV and China Film cooperate, but the economic effect is not good.

China Film doesn't seem to understand that the film and television industry is going north, and now the two film and television centers in the mainland are Yanjing and Shanghai.

The film and television circle centered on Yanjing and the film and television circle centered on Shanghai can continue to operate.

For example, Shanghai Film and Television City, Hangzhou Film and Television City, Hengdian Film and Television City, and Wuxi Film and Television City are all film and television cities established around Shanghai, and these film and television cities can survive.

The film and television city in Guangdong Province can be described as a crowd, not only has no crew have produced film and television dramas in the past, but even there are few tourists, and investing in a film and television city in Guangdong Province is definitely a money-losing business.

Not to mention, Li Shengyao won TVB, and in addition to awarding him a top ten outstanding young man, he also gave him a practical benefit.

That is to establish a film and television city in Suzhou.

The Yangcheng Lake Peninsula in Suzhou is going to be a tourist resort, and a film and television city worth about 3 billion yuan will be built in the resort.

The above gave this benefit to Fenghua.

Li Shengyao pondered for a moment, and then said slowly: "Director Han, Fenghua will not participate in this project, we have obtained the film and television city project of Suzhou Yangcheng Lake Tourist Resort, this project will cost about three billion, and our side is short of funds, so we will not make other big investments for the time being." ”

Li Shengyao just spent 9.5 billion yuan to buy TVB equity and land, and now he wants to spend 3 billion yuan to build a film and television city, this reason is still reasonable.

Of course, in fact, with the size of Fenghua, they have no problem lending another 20 billion.

However, when Li Shengyao said this, he obviously didn't want to get involved.

When Han Sanping heard this, she understood what Li Shengyao meant, so she didn't invite again.

However, he was still very shocked in his heart, because the film and television city project of Suzhou Yangcheng Lake Resort was fragrant, and many forces were staring at it.

According to his understanding, Huayi, Guangguang, Bona, as well as Hengdian and Shangying all have ideas.

But I didn't expect it to be given to Li Shengyao.

Li Dadao won TVB, and the above paid more attention to it.

He raised the teacup and took the initiative to salute Li Shengyao, "Director Li, then forget about this matter, I have something to ask you."

The above requires China Film to invest more in patriotic films in the mainland, and also wants me to maintain performance, isn't it embarrassing? Can you help me and help me sift through those film projects. ”

Li Shengyao's business vision, which is notoriously good.

Han Sanping believes that if Li Shengyao is willing to help, China Film will not lose money.

Li Shengyao smiled when he heard this, "Director Han, I really want to help you with this, but I don't expect it, the genre movies you are talking about are difficult to succeed commercially." ”

At this time, "Wolf Warrior" and "Operation Mekong" had not yet come out, and mainland patriotic films, even if they were of high quality, could not make money.

When Han Sanping heard this, she nodded and smiled bitterly, "Isn't it, in recent years, in addition to "The Great Cause of the Country", "The Great Cause of the Healthy Party", and your "1937" has made money, other movies, where can I make money." ”

Li Shengyao picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

Leave this matter to Han Sanping, it has nothing to do with him, his energy is still focused on the filming of "Parasite".

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After staying in Yenching for four days, Lee Shengyao went south to Hong Kong Island, and after returning without any rest, he immediately continued filming "Parasite".

The actors naturally didn't dare to say anything, but on the contrary, they were very generous with Li Shengyao's time.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, it was only about 10 degrees Celsius on Hong Kong Island, and the cold wind was blowing through the streets.

On the set of "Parasite", several water trucks were pulled, and the water in these cars was lukewarm, and the scene where the actor, his daughter, and son ran wild together on a rainy night will be filmed later.

Naturally, it is impossible to use tap water, it is too cold, and it is raining in this weather, and you will definitely get sick.

Only heat with warm water.

Fortunately, technology is now advanced enough to heat water on a large scale, and there are water storage trucks.

If it had been shown 20 years ago, it would have been filmed in the summer.

The plot of this scene is that the actor enjoys a day in the villa, the rich family suddenly comes home, the actor can only take his daughter and son to escape from the villa in a hurry, and the three of them run in the pouring rain.

The daughter is still very aggrieved and doesn't want to do it.

The actor and his son are still firm in their beliefs, and they want to continue to pretend, and then rely on the rich to make a fortune.

Li Shengyao took Liang Jiahui, Bai Yu, and Song Yi to move around together during the day, and then let the three of them rehearse, and this is the official shooting time.

In addition to Li Shengyao, Liu Dehua, and Ni Dahong, they also came over.

In addition, Xu Anhua also came.

Xu Anhua relied on Liu Dehua's investment in the first half of the year to shoot "Sister Peach", which was a great success at the Venice Film Festival, and the heroine Ye Dexian won the Best Actress.

Director Xu is sixty-four years old this year, wears a pair of glasses, and has very gentle eyes, looking like an intellectual, patient, and kind person.

She is one of the few directors in the Chinese film and television circle who has always insisted on artistic creation, and her films are full of humanistic feelings, as well as observation and compassion for the bottom.

"Man Forty", "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai", "Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai", etc., Xu Anhua deserves the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Li Shengyao admires Xu Anhua very much, a director who has always been thoughtful and emotional.

At this time, Xu Anhua was sitting next to Li Shengyao, and the two of them chatted while looking at the picture in the director's monitor.

Xu Anhua looked at the picture of the director's monitor and kept nodding.

Unlike Wong Kar-wai, who likes to show off his skills, most of Xu Anhua's movies are shot from an objective and cold perspective, and the same is true of "Parasite", which makes Xu Anhua find a lot of commonality in Li Shengyao.

At this time, listening to Li Shengyao tell the story of "Parasite", Xu Anhua liked it even more.

She likes movies that think about society like this and care for the people at the bottom.

Now the big directors on Hong Kong Island in the mainland are piling up special effects, piling up investments, and telling some specious themes.

There are fewer and fewer directors like her who make movies honestly and tell stories directly.

She didn't expect Li Shengyao's "Parasite" to be this theme.

However, in addition to the theme of "Parasite", what surprised her the most was Li Shengyao's attitude.

It can be seen that Li Shengyao likes her movies very much, whether it is "Man Forty", "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai", "Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai", Li Shengyao talks about the Tao, and it is not unreasonable to boast.

This made Xu Anhua very happy.

Although she is the best female director on Hong Kong Island, her film is very commercially bad, and her peers on Hong Kong Island do not recognize him very much.

When the script of "Sister Yao" was written, she took the planning book to look around Hong Kong Island, and no one was willing to invest, and finally Liu Dehua made a move, and "Sister Yao" could be published.

And Li Shengyao, the head of TVB, the boss of Fenghua Cinema in the mainland, Fenghua Video, Fenghua Film and Television, and the absolute boss, recognized her movies so much, which made her very happy.

"Director Li, I am happier to get your approval than to praise foreigners at the Venice Film Festival."

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