Zhang Meng invited Wu Yuan to this banquet, and it was not until ten o'clock in the evening that it ended.

Both of them drank a lot of wine, and they also talked a lot about the differences in concepts and shooting techniques between directors.

Overall, Wu Yuan is still very satisfied with tonight's entertainment.

Although Zhang Meng did not agree to join the Light and Shadow Era, he also expressed his willingness to cooperate with the Light and Shadow Era, if he has a new movie, or if there is a suitable book here in the Light and Shadow Era, they can contact and cooperate with each other.

It's good to get such a promise.

Wu Yuan didn't think that just by virtue of the time of a meal, he really fooled a very assertive director into the age of light and shadow.

His minimum requirement is to get closer to Zhang Meng, and if the company wants to do "Life Events" or "Donkey Gets Water" in the future, he can be invited to direct.

The themes of these two movies, unless Wu Yuan himself is allowed to do it, Zhang Guorong, Li Yang, Li Ruijun and others will not be able to shoot it.

On the contrary, Han Yan seems to be able to give "Life Events" a try, but Han Yan has been preparing his new movie recently.

In the past few years of entering the era of light and shadow, Han Yan has always been in a state of free-range.

With the support of the company's manpower and material resources, he tossed several of his own movies.

He first made a movie called "Prelude to Marriage", and then made a movie called "Let Me Rely on You".

To be honest, the box office results are not good, and they can only be regarded as experimental products.

Han Yan is not a talented director, the kind of miracle that became popular did not happen to him, he can only grow little by little.

Fortunately, after the training of these two movies, Han Yan has found his most suitable film path, and is already preparing a new film that officially opens the road of "Korean-style warm movies".

The new movie is called The First Time.

is a movie that tells the beautiful and romantic first love story between Song Shiqiao, a girl who has a genetic disease but loves dancing, and Gong Ning, a rock man.

This movie should be regarded as Han Yan's later "Get Out!" The overture work of "Tumor Jun" and "Send You a Little Red Flower".

Although this movie called "The First Time" is not famous, it is this film that established Han Yan's subsequent film shooting style and Han Yan's special film route of focusing on people with diseases.

Wu Yuan was naturally unwilling to disrupt Han Yan's pace, so he had to take the initiative to pull some other directors for the company.

It was also after meeting with Zhang Meng that Wu Yuan remembered the support plan for young directors in the light and shadow era that he had done once and was later sealed again.

The first phase of last year's director support program was carried out, and the effect was still very good, and several directors who are now the backbone of the company were selected.

Li Yang, Liu Meichuan, and Li Ruijun all relied on this support plan to stand out.

Although Cheng Er and Xue Xiaolu did not join the era of light and shadow, they can be regarded as the beneficiaries of this young director support program.

Wu Yuan has repeatedly mentioned that he wants to hold the second phase of the Young Director Support Program again, but this matter has always been only on the lips and has not really been implemented.

This is also one of the reasons why most of the programs and projects in China to support young directors are stopped after one or two times.

Doing this is really thankless in most cases, and it can be regarded as purely supporting the development of the industry.

But this time, after Wu Yuan remembered this matter again, he no longer just talked about it.

The day after meeting Wang Meng, he came to the company and talked to Li Xiaoping about restarting the young director support program.

"The company still has to continue to invest in supporting young directors."

"Directing itself is a difficult profession to cultivate, and now the atmosphere in the circle is becoming more and more impetuous, and there are too many talented directors, because of the blind heat of the market, they have lost the opportunity to get ahead."

"After a large number of coal bosses and capital with hot money poured into the entertainment industry, everyone only found famous directors to film, and only looked at fame, which led to a large number of talented directors with good level and talent, but no one was willing to give them a chance to show their talents."

"What director didn't start out with his debut film?"

"We should support more new directors, so that more new directors can make their debuts, and take the most critical first step, so that more excellent directors will emerge in China in the future."

"Of course, we can also select some excellent directors from them to strengthen the company's director team."

"Director Liu Meichuan and Director Li Yang, isn't that how you came?"

In the face of Wu Yuan's request, Li Xiaoping really couldn't say a reason to refuse.

"Soul Ferry: Yellow Springs" has just been completed, and Liu Meichuan is the pillar of this series.

"I see." Li Xiaoping had no choice but to respond positively: "I will let the company implement the second phase of the young director support plan as soon as possible." ”

"It's definitely going to start this year."

"Are the requirements still the same as the first one, as long as the director is under 40 years old and is preparing his first debut, he can submit the script to the company?"

"We are ready for six places and 20 million investment funds?"

"20 million is less." Wu Yuan shook his head: "Times are different, and now there is more and more money spent on making movies." ”

"3000, a director's budget of five million is absolutely enough to make a feature film."

Wu Yuan himself plans to make "Love Letter", not counting his own directing fees, plus Liu Yifei's friendship starring, the cost is about five or six million.

It's also the lowest cost it takes to make an independent film right now.

Wang Meng's "Piano of Steel", the male and female protagonists are not paid, and the director does not have any directorial fees, in this case, Wang Meng also spent five million to complete the preparation, formation, shooting, and post-production of the whole movie, and reluctantly made this movie.

It is no longer the era when Wu Yuan debuted and hundreds of thousands of people can make a movie.

Now even filming a TV series costs three or four million yuan per episode.

"Tsk." Li Xiaoping also sighed: "In recent years, the production cost in the circle is indeed one price a year. ”

"When the company did "Fated I Love You", it only cost millions to shoot the entire TV series."

"Now the company's latest project, the TV series "The Legend of Lu Zhen" in cooperation with Yu Zheng Studio, has a production cost of up to 80 million, which is simply scary."

"Huh?!" Wu Yuan was a little surprised, and his voice was three points higher: "When did our company cooperate with Yu Zheng?" ”

"Oh, this matter has just been discussed, and I am about to report to you." Li Xiaoping pushed down her glasses and explained: "Yu Zheng made the "Palace Lock Heart Jade" two years ago, and it was launched at the beginning of the year, and the ratings exploded well! ”

"Then Yu Zheng set up a studio, wanted to do his own TV series production, and openly sought cooperation, so I came to talk to him."

"This screenwriter is really powerful, and he is very good at business, and he is very cunning."

"If you cooperate with him, the probability of success is still very high."

Wu Yuan's face immediately became a little ugly.

(End of chapter)