"Brother Ming, are you back from Europe?"

"I just arrived at the company in the afternoon, why don't you come and sit down?"

"Another day, you have a good rest, I can't leave the crew to shoot here."

"Okay, you can come over directly then, and the two of us will meet for a meeting."

Tian Ming went on a business trip to Europe to the company's variety show team, also because he had negotiated the production of the "Voice" program in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the past.

Now that it has been done, Tian Ming also attaches great importance to these two programs, and left the members of the two groups of the company's variety show department over there to watch.

This time it's done, it can carry sacks of pounds and euros, as long as the potential of this music variety show is proved in the European market, the United States will definitely not be able to sit still.

is as calm as Zhou Yutang, and his heart can't help but have some waves.

After chatting with Tian Ming, he found that Xu was sitting next to him with his head still in his eyes, and Zhou Yutang was slightly stunned: "Old Xu, do you still have something?" ”

"It's okay, Mr. Zhou, congratulations on making a big profit at the box office."

Xu Guangtou pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and heard from the few words that Zhou Yutang was just talking to the CEO of Mingjie Company, and his attitude became more and more flattering and respectful.

He is very good at franchising, can meet the source left and right, and his emotional intelligence is naturally very high, and he speaks auspicious words one after another.

"The box office of "People in Embarrassment" will not be bad."

Zhou Yutang said with a smile: "When the time comes, we will have another meeting to discuss the schedule and see if we can put it in the Spring Festival file." ”

"Spring Festival stalls?"

Xu Guangtou's lenses lit up, first happy, and then a little worried: "Several big directors in the Spring Festival file are gathering ruthless films, is it too dangerous?" ”

The choice of a movie's schedule is very important, and it can even affect the box office ceiling of a movie.

Judging from the current situation, if a low-cost production like "People in Embarrassment" wants to get a certain box office basic market steadily, it is best to put it in a schedule with little competitiveness.

But let's be honest.

Zhou Yutang's personal intuition is that if this film is well publicized and watched in the Spring Festival atmosphere, the box office performance will definitely be more than twice that of the usual schedule.

"It's worth trying, and it's only about 10 million investments."

Zhou Yutang dusted off his trouser leg and smiled indifferently: "However, you have to talk to Huaqi Company first, Jiangdong Entertainment wants to buy out the copyright of the Embarrassment series." ”

"Sword Rain" was a big hit at the box office, Zhou Yutang recently held several video conferences with the company's film and television department, and the estimated box office figure of "People in Embarrassment" at the company's internal meeting may exceed 100 million.

If the first part of the embarrassment series has this box office, then Huaqi Company can still be willing to release the copyright of the formalities?

"Huh? Mr. Zhou, don't you have the right of first refusal? ”

Xu Guangtou touched his bald head, a little unable to keep up with Zhou Yutang's train of thought.

Zhou Yutang patted Xu Guang's shoulder: "Buy out the copyright directly, save the time to rip off, notify Huaqi that the movie has been withdrawn, I will ask the company's legal department to assist you, if you can talk about it, I will give you a big red envelope." ”

Hearing that there was a big red envelope, Xu Guangtou's eyes lit up instantly.

He worked hard to drill the camp in order to make his own movies and make money.

Don't look at him in the circle for many years, and he has made some money.

This amount of money may be a lot compared to ordinary people, but at that time, the capital did not enter the market, and the remuneration of mainland actors was generally not high.

Xu Guangtou is not a first-line coffee position, and the amount of money he makes is limited, otherwise he would not even ask Zhou Yutang for millions of investments in "People in Embarrassment".

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men.

Xu Guangtou immediately patted his chest and swore a promise: "Mr. Zhou, you said so, this matter is on me, and I will help you do whatever you say!" ”

The filming of "Big Man" is underway.

The simple shots in the early stage were relatively smooth, and the difficulty of the subsequent shooting gradually increased.

Still inevitably ran into problems.

The main thing is Hu Jun.

Hu Jun, who graduated from Chinese opera, is really a very good literary actor.

At that time, he acted in a literary film "Lan Yu" with Liu Huohua, which became famous across the Taiwan Strait, but because this film was so good, the two were rumored to be homosexual for many years, until they married each other and had their own families, and they didn't have much contact later.

There is one thing to say.

Hu Jun's line skills are really good.

And he is full of the smell of male hormones, and with his body shape, it is too convincing for him to play a tough civilian policeman.

But here's the problem.

Many people were affected by Hu Jun's heroic and domineering image of Xiao Feng in Tianlong Babu, and felt that he was very capable of fighting, but in fact, he himself had no martial arts foundation at all, and he was not a martial arts actor at all.

And there are several action scenes of the male protagonist in the play "Big Man", and Hu Jun is a little difficult to film.

After the release of "Sword Rain", Zhang Jing took leave to leave the group to participate in the roadshow promotion, but fortunately there was still Wu Gang in the crew.

Wu Gang is a martial arts instructor introduced by Zhang Jing to help, this person was born in a family class, followed Cheng Long for more than 20 years, and worked in Hollywood in the early days, serving as a stuntman in "Tomb Raider 2" and "Mission Impossible 3", "Detective Chinatown" is also his martial arts finger.

Very capable.

Zhou Yutang has always treated such capable film and television practitioners with courtesy.

It just so happens that most of the fighting scenes in "Big Man" are biased towards Jackie Chan-style vaudeville fights, which is very suitable for him to play.

However, Hu Jun took the initiative to find Zhou Yutang and said with a wry smile: "Yutang, I'm sorry, this kind of action scene is too difficult for me, and it delays the filming progress of the crew." ”

"Take your time, Brother Jun, you're fine."

Zhou Yutang encouraged and comforted.

In this case, the filming schedule may be delayed by at least half a month.

As a director, even if he is helpless in this situation, it is okay, after all, Hu Jun does not have Chenglong's action talent.

Then you can only grind the lens slowly.

Fortunately, Hu Jun is a very professional actor, he will not shout bitterness and tiredness, even if he bumps into a little injury during the filming, he will continue to do it directly.

After a meeting with Wu Gang, I discussed the next shooting.

Zhou Yutang's mobile phone vibrate, and he picked it up and took a look, and the curvature of his mouth gradually softened.

Liu Tianxian posted a photo of watching "Sword Rain" with Shu Zhan, with a bright smile, and the two girls went to eat Malatang after watching the movie together.

Liu Shishi also sent him a selfie in his busy schedule.

Shi Shi, who was wearing a white dress, had a black green silk tied into a bunch of smart ponytails, and his smile was gentle and moving.

It's just that the little face that has been quiet for years has lost a few points, and it looks a little haggard.

On this day, Zhou Yutang has deeply experienced a roadshow in a city, and his strong body is a little unbearable, let alone Liu Shishi.

This girl loves to surf the Internet very much, and she gets up early in the morning to brush up on comments, and when she sees her praised, she will take screenshots and share them with Zhou Yutang.

Recently, I have been chatting with Zhou Yutang every night about the box office of the movie and falling asleep

But.

Zhou Yutang could feel Liu Shishi's happiness.

first there was "Those Years", and then there was "Sword Rain", these two movies together are enough for Liu Shishi to prove himself.

It is completely unique among the small flowers of the same generation.

Just waiting for a hit drama.

Pull up the fan base completely.

"Rain of Swords" is soaring and has the same momentum.

There is also a "Three Smiling Talented Beauty" released at the same time, and Guo Degang, who talks about cross talk, also came to the entertainment industry to make movies.

He personally went into battle to play Tang Bohu, Yu Yu played Mrs. Hua, other horses in Deyun Club also starred one after another, Yao Di, a good friend who is still a popular little flower and heraldry, is also there, Da Meiyuan and Zhang Ruojun's stepmother Liu Bei didn't know how to take over this play

Guo Degang was in high spirits at the premiere, and in the face of media reporters, he bluntly said that Tang Bohu looked like this in history, and the box office would surpass "Ip Man 2", defeat Zhou Yutang's "Sword Rain", and prepare to dominate the May 1st file.

The result?

The box office came out on the first day, only less than 600,000, and then the Douban score was only 3.9 points, and reality gave him a heavy blow.

Zhou Yutang was in the crew, and he received a call from Da Meiyuan, and chuckled: "Sister Yuanyuan, don't cry, stand up." ”

"Stand on your head!"

Da Meiyuan was speechless, with a box office of 600,000 on the first day, which was a shame for her acting career.

Especially under the backdrop of "Sword Rain", Guo Degang's face was swollen.

"By the way, how did you take this play?"

"My brokerage team arranged it, and you were not in the capital at the time, so I didn't tell you."

"It's okay, you also participated in "Sword Rain", the roadshow publicity team is about to go to the capital to run publicity, you remember to participate in the roadshow."

"You know what to call me."

Gao Yuanyuan said with a coquettish tone: "How is the progress of your play?" ”

"It's still grinding slowly, and it's estimated that it will take time."

"Then when will you return to the capital?"

"It's going to take a while, do you miss me?"

"It's really shameless, who thinks about you, when will the filming of the drama "Sweeping Drugs" start?"

"It's probably going to be October, you reserve the schedule first."

"Mani, how is the box office of "Rain of Swords"?"

At this time, Boss Yang also paid great attention to the box office of the movie Sword Rain.

"Boss, the box office of the premiere was 30.8 million, the box office on the second day of the May Day holiday was 34.89 million, the box office on the third day was 38.75 million, and after three days of release, "Sword Rain" directly won 104 million box office.

Huo Wenxi took the information that the film department had sorted out a long time ago and reported to Yang Shoucheng.

"How did it perform over the same period?"

"The box office of "Ip Man 2" fell after the May Day holiday, and the box office yesterday was 6.4 million, the box office of "Side A and Side B" was 8.9 million in the first week, and the box office of "Iron Man 2" was 55 million in the first week."

"The potential of "Ip Man 2" is almost 200 million, which is not enough for "Rain of Swords", "Iron Man 2" can break 100 million, and it can't stop the momentum of "Rain of Swords" at all"

Yang Shoucheng leaned on the back of the chair and tapped his fingers on the table: "Zhou Yutang is still in the crew of "Big Man" recently? ”

"I heard it's still filming."

"This is a demon in the entertainment industry, Wanda seems to have hooked up with him recently, and he has been taking care of a lot of films, and in the future, he will do things in the mainland, and he will usually communicate with him more and maintain the relationship."

"Yes, boss."

Huo Wenxi agreed very simply.

The two exchanged things about the film department for a while, and thought that they also had a part of the share in "Rain of Swords", and then there was a blockbuster "Let the Bullets Fly" that was ready to hit the Chinese New Year.

Yang Shoucheng couldn't help laughing.

He felt like he had boarded the great ship of the new era.

"Sister, you sit on the bow of the boat, and my brother walks on the shore, loving and loving, and the rope is swinging."

In Beijing, in the KTV private room of the pony club, Li Ming, the pony galloping boss who is known as the big dog brother in the rivers and lakes, is holding Chen Ergou's shoulders and singing indulgently.

"Ergou, how's it going?"

"Big dog, you're this."

"At that time, I gave this project full authority to Zhou Yutang to do, and there was no doubt about employing people, and no suspicious people were needed, which was awesome."

Chen Ergou gave a thumbs up: "I am convinced from the bottom of my heart, Zhou Yutang is indeed famous." ”

"Haha!"

The big dog brother was also happy: "This time it's all Yu Tang's credit." ”

Previously, Pony Galloping mainly made TV series, but in recent years, it has gradually become involved in film investment.

The film "Rain of Swords" is a major film project invested by Pony Galloping last year, and it is also the highest-grossing film project Pony Gallop has ever done.

The sword test is in the rivers and lakes, and there is no opponent in the May 1st gear.

"It's a pity that Yu Tang is still in the crew, otherwise I would have to pull him over to have a good celebration wine."

Brother Big Dog looked proud, poured a glass of foreign wine, and waved his hand: "Come, continue to sing, continue to drink." ”

…………………………

Some people rejoice, and some people sing and dance.

Zhou Yutang asked for leave from the crew again.

Recently, he was focusing on filming several action scenes of Hu Jun, and he handed over the crew to Wen Muye and Wu Gang, and came out to cooperate with the roadshow of the main creative team of "Sword Rain" in the magic capital.

Joined the main creative team, and as soon as I got out of the nanny car, I heard the wild shouts of fans on the side of the theater:

"Ahhhh Zhou Yutang is handsome! ”

"The aura of the governor is really amazing."

"Shi Shi is also so beautiful."

"Jiang Asheng played by Deng Chao is also there."

"Sugar Candy, I love you!"

Zhou Yutang waved to the fans with a smile and walked towards the theater.

I heard Deng Chao next to me quip: "Yu Tang, your popularity is higher than our leading actors, the reporters will definitely surround you today, we can have a good rest." ”

Tang Yan also hugged Liu Shishi's arm and complained: "Yu Tang, the publicity roadshow is really tiring." ”

Orange Sky Culture is rotten, and Tang Yan is also swinging.

The main thing is that she didn't get any good film appointments even after a few plays, so she simply became a bastard in the crew of "Big Man", thinking about brushing Zhou Yutang's favor, and occasionally receiving a commercial performance notice here in the magic capital, and her life was quite comfortable.

As a result, he was coaxed by Zhou Yutang to participate in the publicity roadshow.

In just a few days, Tang Yan realized what is called the cruelty of reality, and those long legs are about to break.

Zhou Yutang glanced at her lightly: "Haven't you acted in movies before, and you haven't run a road show?" ”

"That "Fengyun 2", I ran a few games with the main creator at that time, and then I went on vacation, how can I fight so hard."

"The publicity plan formulated by Yu Tang is still very effective, and if you want to have a high box office, you have to endure hardships."

Liu Shishi comforted Tang Yan a few words, and a smile bloomed on his face: "At least when I see that the box office is rising, I feel that my efforts have not been in vain." ”

"That's just as well."

Tang Yan felt very involved.

"Yu Tang, are you free at night?"

During the roadshow, Deng Chao took the initiative to find him, which surprised Zhou Yutang slightly.

Could it be that Brother Chao wants to bring himself hi skin?

Deng Chao explained with a smile: "That's the case, this movie, thank you for giving me the opportunity, it's rare for you to come out of the crew, I will invite you to dinner with Lili." ”

Thanks to the crazy publicity, there are no strong opponents in the same period, and the quality of the movie itself is good, so the time and place are favorable, "Rain of Swords" swept the May 1st file, according to the judgment made by the authority based on data, breaking through 300 million is almost a sure thing.

The key is to look at the box office trend after the first week, and if it can be stabilized, it may even go further.

Deng Chao is the leading actor in this play, and it is also the rare highlight moment of his acting career.

Zhou Yutang chuckled and nodded: "Yes." ”

"Then I'll call Lili to set the place."

Deng Chao happily called his daughter-in-law.

Soon, today's publicity roadshow ended, and after making an appointment for dinner with Deng Chao and his wife tonight, Zhou Yutang took Liu Shishi to Mingjie Company.

Company underground garage.

Hidden corners.

The car slowly stopped shaking.

Liu Shishi tidied up his shoulder straps, pulled his hair, leaned up on the snow-white swan neck, and checked the rearview mirror in the car.

That beautiful little face seemed to be moisturized and radiant.

Then see if there is a mark on your collarbone.

Fortunately, Zhou Yutang was very restrained just now, but he planted a few strawberries on the side of his neck.

Thinking that he was so unbridled just now, Liu Shishi couldn't help blushing a little, reached out and touched Zhou Yutang's arm, and said with shame:

"Don't do this next time, it's too dangerous, what if someone sees it?"

"Don't worry, my own company, the car is still pasted with anti-privacy film, and this corner is not monitored."

"It's the last time anyway."

"Okay, well, I'll listen to you."

The woman is so ruthless, the two of them are newlywed, obviously the blind sister took the initiative to kiss her, Zhou Yutang was busy filming in the crew during this time, and he didn't eat meat for a while, so he naturally couldn't hold it.

"Boss, Mr. Tian is waiting for you in his office."

took Liu Shishi to take the internal elevator into the company, and happened to meet Zhang Yibei, who came up to greet him with a smile: "Shi Shi, I have been looking so good lately." ”

Liu Shishi also smiled and said, "Sister Bei, you seem to have lost weight." ”

"Is there one?"

"It really looks a lot thinner, and it looks good today."

Liu Shishi and Zhang Yibei chatted very well, mainly Zhang Yibei saw Zhou Yutang and Liu Shishi come to Mingjie Company a few times, and she already knew the relationship between the two people, and she also wanted to marry Liu Shishi.

"Mr. Zhou is good."

"Mr. Zhou."

Met several other high-level executives of the company's department coming out of the conference room, Zhou Yutang nodded slightly as a greeting.

Entering Tian Ming's luxurious office, I saw Tian Ming sitting on the boss's chair, holding a thermos cup in his hand, drinking purple-black wolfberry water.

"Brother Ming."

Zhou Yutang smiled.

"Yu Tang."

Tian Ming put down the thermos cup in his hand and screwed the lid: "You came just in time, you can read the program preparation reports on both sides of Europe." ”

"You let your subordinates do it with confidence, and make sure that the main idea of the show remains the same, and the details are properly localized."

Zhou Yutang picked up the report and glanced at it, and smiled indifferently.

"There is also the latest episode of the first season of "The Masked Singer", which has an audience rating of 3.48% and an audience share of 9.89%, and this project is a great success."

"The project planning plan for "Running man" has been completed, and the camera crew has been recruited, and it is almost ready to start."

Tian Ming pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and took the initiative to ask: "This show, Modu TV intends to eat it, do you want me to contact it and get a good price?" ”

"It's too passive."

Zhou Yutang crossed Erlang's legs and smiled indifferently: "Release the news directly, just ask the person in charge of the domestic first-line satellite TV variety show department to close the door and chat, whoever is more sincere, cooperate with whom, what you want is to maximize benefits." ”

(End of chapter)