At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 162 The Third Circle (24)

"Did I ask you to buy the adaptation rights?"

"It's almost the same, he asked me to have dinner tonight..."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Xudong said to Shen Haobo: "Why do you invite me out for dinner? Make it clear, I'm watching "Lost Orphan"!"

Shen Haobo looked puzzled: "Are you at this high level now?"

"... what level?"

"What did they say on the phone?"

"Just eat..."

"Then why do you say that he fell in love with "Lost Orphan"?"

"...It won't be "Sword Rain" and "Suihou Pearl"..."

Shen Haobo: "So, are you going there at night?"

"Definitely go... Someone invited me to dinner, why don't you go?"

"Then if he wants the right to adapt "Lost Orphaned"..."

"...Look at the sincerity..."

"Sincere?"

"It's just... the adaptation fee and what he's going to do..."

Shen Haobo breathed a sigh of relief: "Didn't you just say that he is not suitable for "Lost Orphany"?"

"...Did I say it? You must have heard it wrong!"

Shen Haobo was speechless, asked for the address, and then drove there...

……

"...No, the program team took good care of me and didn't make things difficult for me at all!"

"Just asked some questions and I answered...you and mom remember to tune in on Saturday..."

"Well... that's all. The phone bill is quite expensive. Let's not talk..."

After Shen Xudong talked with his father on the phone, he chatted with Shen Haobo for a while. When he got to the place, he got off the car and asked Shen Haobo, "Do you want to go together?"

"Come on, you are the one invited, I'll go up and figure out what's going on, see you later!"

very easy to leave...

Shen Haobo probably never thought of entering the circle, let alone finding these people to publish books. Celebrities usually find publishers they are familiar with when publishing books. For example, Feng Xiaogang's "I Dedicate My Youth to You" is published by Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House. drafting...

This thing and Shen Haobo have always been of two systems!

He usually cooperates with Zhaohua Publishing House. "The First Under Heaven" and "Zhu Xian" are both published by Zhaohua Publishing House, and "Supplementary Records" is published by Yuanfang Publishing House...

What's more, it's really inappropriate for him to follow up with an outsider...

Shen Xudong just said something out of politeness, turned around and left. The waiter led him upstairs to a box and opened the door for him...

……

Zhang Guoli really took a fancy to "Lost Orphan".

In fact, there are not many movies suitable for him, after all, he will be fifty soon...

The film market is dominated by commercial films all over again. Which commercial film have you seen where the main character is a man in his late [-]s?

Those Hong Kong movies of later generations don’t count. Although they are almost 40, they still play [-]-year-old people!

The script of "Lost Orphans" is very good, and the leading actor is a middle-aged man...

Zhang Guoli didn't want to transform or anything, "Iron Teeth Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan" was well filmed, what kind of transformation is he considering?
Just seeing Lie Xinxi, thinking about acting in a good movie!

"Lost Orphaned" is definitely a good movie. The novel itself has a high degree of completion, and it tells a story with twists and turns in a high-level, restrained, and appropriate manner.

Although the subject matter is sensitive, it is within the controllable range and has great practical significance...

Make no secret of being critical…

After reading the novel, I immediately found my good friend and partner Feng Xiaogang...

Oh, he partnered with Feng Xiaogang to start a company. It was a beautiful idea. One person made movies and the other made TV series. The perfect cooperative relationship...

It's called Taihe People's Film and Television Investment Co., Ltd...

At the beginning of the company's establishment, the goal of the two was to make the company stronger and bigger. Zhang Guoli set the goal of making two film and television dramas in the next year, and Feng Xiaogang also wanted to make two movies a year.

I thought that by doing this, more people would invest in my company...

It's a beautiful idea, but neither of them understands capital operation very well, although Zhang Guoli is the first person in this circle to realize that being an actor will never make money as an investor...

Therefore, in the early years, they organized the filming of "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview"...

To put it bluntly, in the era when "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview" was born, the rule in the circle was contracting, that is to say, if one person contracted a TV series as a producer, the investor would only pay a part of the money, and the producer had to pay for the excess. , and if there is a surplus at the time of settlement, it is the producer's profit.

Zhang Guoli had no experience at the time. Although the show was a hit, he didn’t make any money because of overspending. Later, when he came to "Iron Teeth Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan", he learned how to behave, brought some funds into the team, and then participated in the later sales. , just made a little money...

But he is still engaged in art after all, and he is far behind in capital operation...

I originally wanted to partner with Feng Xiaogang, film a few TV dramas and movies every year, and work for myself to make money. With their fame, there is no problem at all...

Not long after, they met a big boss who wanted to invest 500 million yuan, which directly made them migrant workers. What was even more hateful was that it didn't take long for them to find out that this big boss was a big fraud, and he only wrote them a blank check...

Feng Xiaogang felt that the company's pills just happened to be offered by Huayi, so he patted his ass and left...

Of course, the two are still full of confidence.

Feng Xiaogang also thinks "Lost Orphan" is a good theme, but...it's hard to sell...

At the beginning of the company's establishment, you have to shoot some blockbuster works, otherwise, how can it continue?

Zhang Guoli made a calculation. "Lost Orphans" is mainly because there are a lot of locations. Two leading actors are enough. One is him, and another young guy is found to be the partner. If you want to shoot beautifully, you have to use a high-definition camera, not 500 million I'm afraid I can't stop it!
Zhang Guoli can also probably judge that "Lost Orphan" is difficult to make money in the market, so he recruited his old partner Han Shanping, and wanted China Film to participate and jointly fund...

In this way, even if you lose money, you can't lose much!

Of course, I had to make an appointment with Shen Xudong, so Shen Xudong met his third circle in BJ, Han Shanping, Zhang Guoli and Feng Xiaogang...

……

"I've admired your name for a long time, I didn't expect Teacher Shen to be so...handsome, you really should learn acting!"

"No…"

Enter the door and say hello first, Han Shanping teased about Shen Xudong's appearance, which narrowed the distance...

Zhang Guoli introduced Feng Xiaogang: "Didn't you say that you liked Director Feng's "Party A and Party B" very much before? Director Feng is here!"

Shen Xudong hurriedly got up: "Director Feng..."

"...Xiao Shen, I've heard them mention you a long time ago, you are really young and promising..."

"Thank you for the compliment…"

Feng Xiaogang grinned, and then asked: "Do you only like "Party A and Party B"? I don't like other movies?"

Shen Xudong was stunned for a moment, and then answered honestly: "...It's not that I don't like it, I don't have the dreamlike feeling when I first watched "Party A and Party B"...I always think that the most important thing in movies is to create dreams, and "Party A and Party B" is to give the audience a dream. , and give the main creator a dream... The sentence at the end of the movie, "1997 has passed, I miss it very much", has a long meaning, and there is a feeling that good times don't last long, and the world is changing..."

Feng Xiaogang was overjoyed, and stood up holding his glass of wine: "...Thank you, thank you for liking this movie, at your age..."

Shen Xudong said: "I really like it, I even wrote a script based on this movie..."

Zhang Guoli and Han Shanping said at the same time: "Hey, tell me!"

(End of this chapter)