This star is from the earth

Most of the finalists in the "Director Professional Unit" are literary films with strong styles, unspeakable intentions, obscure or publicity, which make people think about everything after watching. "Dark Net" is an anomaly among them. It makes the blood on the face drop, makes people bluff after watching it, cover their mobile phones tightly, and then encourages friends to "have fun" too.

The movie was shown for several days, and the reputation of "Dark Net" spread far and wide. There were not even enough tickets to sell, and the seats were full, which made the midnight show not like the midnight show.

More and more people want to talk to Han Jue. During the day, media workers and colleagues come to look for them, and at night, businessmen come to look for them.

The film festival is not just a feast for film lovers, it is also for businessmen. Even if you stick to the artistic film festival, there is no way to completely reject commercial. Because movies have carried commercial attributes from the beginning of their birth, no matter how literary and artistic films are, they are also commodities, but the target customer group is lovers of art movies.

Some people want to buy the copyright and foreign distribution rights of "Dark Net", some people want to invest in Han Jue's next movie in advance, and some people want to give Han Jue shares, and then use Han Jue's name to speculate and cheat money.

These people were all dealt with by Wang Zhi, a veteran in the market.

"He wants to vote for our next movie again." Wang Zhi returned to the dining table and sat down with the dinner plate in his hand, and put a business card in his pocket.

"I came here early in the morning, and I'm quite dedicated." Xia Yuan took a mouthful of hot noodles and looked up at the place where the self-service food was picked up. It is no secret that they live in this hotel, and some hardworking people can find out with a little effort. Xia Yuan has been in this business for a long time, and he knows that those who give business cards now belong to the right way, and there are other people who give sweet cars and beauties. She casually asked, "Which one is it from?"

"[Humen]." Wang Zhi said the name of a film company, took a bite of the soup dumpling, and guessed: "I should have taken a fancy to "Dark Net" and wanted to make the second and third parts."

Xia Yuan has obviously heard of the name of [Humen], a film industry that is good at producing and distributing horror-themed films. But she just nodded after listening, not too surprised.

Because this situation has been happening since the screening of "Dark Net", [Humen] can only be regarded as a company with a name among many candidates for cooperation.

Nowadays, the movies that audiences buy tickets to watch in theaters are either blockbusters with special effects, family fun, or adaptations of popular works. As for literary movies, they would rather wait a few months until the movie is launched on the platform and watch it comfortably at home.

Therefore, in the eyes of some businessmen who want to make money from movies, a director like Han Jue, who is good at making commercial movies with small cost and big returns, has worked hard and refused to spend money, and only wins awards. Artists who don't earn box office are much more attractive.

So no matter famous or unknown, domestic or foreign companies, they all want to find Han Jue to make movies. Some calls even reached Xia Yuan. The way is relatively wild. Yesterday, there was a farm owner who dared to invest 100 million yuan to make a movie for Han Jue.

One hundred million, huh. Xia Yuan sneered in his heart, he didn't know whether he felt that the other party underestimated Han Jue or overestimated Han Jue.

"[Humen], don't they make independent films?" Han Jue, who has also heard the name of [Humen] after making up lessons, was puzzled.

"It's a lot of losses," Xia Yuan replied, "Fat's "Scythe" series is getting worse and worse. They lost about 800 million last quarter and laid off a lot of employees. So they want to cooperate with us, or they want to develop "" "Dark Net" series, either want distribution rights."

Han Jue took a sip of water and asked Wang Zhi, "When will our company's own distribution department be ready?"

Before Wang Zhi could speak, Xia Yuan replied with a smile: "When you start making blockbuster movies with a budget of 500 million, the distribution department will almost be established."

Wang Zhi looked at Han Jue with an expression of "almost like this".

Han Jue lowered his head and drank the porridge.

Before the premiere of "Dark Net", Wang Zhi, Xia Yuan, Han Jue and Jalens had a discussion about the future of [Tinder] company.

The whole meeting lasted half an hour.

The motives for creating [Tinder] are actually different among the four people. Wang Zhi is for making money, Xia Yuan is for challenges, Jalens is for counterattacking the Chinese film industry, and Han Jue is for creative freedom.

Nowadays, the competition in the film and television industry is very fierce. Apart from the competition of streaming media, all major film and television companies are developing vertically in the upstream and downstream of the industry chain. Those who do theater chains want to do publicity, and even touch on the content, and those who do publicity are developing their own theaters and preparing their own content at the same time. If Han Jue and the others want to make more money/meet more interesting challenges/more successful counterattack against China/more free creative space, then [Tinder] has to become bigger and stronger and form a set of its own industrial chain.

So it took five minutes to reach a consensus, and twenty-five minutes to discuss the development plan: to make [Tinder] into a company integrating development, production, distribution, publicity, integrated marketing, and cross-industry cooperation within five years. Establish a set of own talent training system and talent output mode.

The reason why he had the confidence to plan this way was because of the scripts locked in the safe in Xia Yuan's office.

"How's your harvest these days?" Han Jue finished his last mouthful of porridge and asked Xia Yuan who had been scouting new directors these days.

"A few of them are not bad, quite spiritual." Xia Yuan said, but there was no gain on his face: "But they all just graduated, thinking that they are the next master, and they are all very proud. When they heard me say After signing the contract, they may have to shoot the script provided by the company, and they immediately shake their heads and sneer, feeling that they have been deprived of their freedom of expression, saying that they are not the lackeys of capital."

Wang Zhi laughed loudly, saying that if those young people knew what kind of script they rejected in the future, they might regret being able to take the lead.

Han Jue also laughed. But not laughing at those young people with high spirits, but congratulating themselves. Because a director can make the movie he wants to make, which is actually a very lucky thing. If he had successfully retired early and hadn't met Jalens Natsuhara and his group, he might have done the same as those young people, either spending all his money to make a work to attract investment, or taking the script to look for opportunities everywhere, and then in the filming Time and time again, he has argued with the management for creative space.

"It's okay," Han Jue said, "Anyway, we don't expect to find any master seedlings. Good directors can also be polished, like Xiao Zhou and Sun Dao."

Wang Zhi looked at Han Jue in shock, feeling that Han Jue was so shameless that he didn't put his name in the example.

Now that Xiao Zhou and Sun Dao were mentioned, Wang Zhi asked Xia Yuan curiously: "How is Xiao Zhou?"

"It's pretty good," Xia Yuan affirmed first, and then stepped on it precisely, "It's better than his master's first shot."

Xiao Zhou's master had a thick skin, and said with satisfaction: "My painstaking cultivation is not in vain."

Wang Zhi continued to ask: "Where is Director Sun? Has "Network Lost" been sent to Berlin for the competition? What is his next film?"

Xia Yuan said: "I said I haven't decided yet, I want to shoot all those scripts, but I don't know which one to shoot first."

Wang Zhi was taken aback: "Why is this sentence so familiar?"

Xia Yuan squinted at Han Jue, his eyes narrowed into two worms, the meaning was self-evident.

"..." Han Jue looked at the large expanse of sunlight pouring into the restaurant, and said that the weather outside was fine, and he was going to go back to the house and sleep again to recharge his batteries for tomorrow's work.

"Are you going to the awards ceremony tomorrow?" Xia Yuan asked Han Jue.

"Not going," Han Jue shook his head. I've seen almost all the movies I'm interested in these days, so there's nothing to do here. Han Jue didn't plan to go to the award ceremony and closing ceremony in the evening. "In case the movie wins an award, let Lao Jia help me collect it."

"I won't win an award." Xia Yuan waved to Han Jue.

Han Jue smiled, picked up the plate and left the table first.

Walking out of the restaurant, Han Jue walked to the elevator. Speaking of going back to bed to sleep is naturally a joke. Although he is not sleepy now, some things are indeed more comfortable to do on the bed. For example, reading a book, watching a movie, or writing a script. What is important is a state, a sense of ritual.

It was already eight o'clock in the morning, and the guests of the hotel woke up one after another and went downstairs to the restaurant for breakfast.

Since the hotel is very close to the cinema where the [Modu Film Festival] is held, most of the people who have stayed in the hotel in the past few days have work or interests related to movies. Han Jue walked in the corridor without any disguise, so someone recognized him from a distance. They nodded to Han Jue, and Han Jue would say good morning with a smile. A fan wanted to sign an autograph, so Han Jue also stopped to write an autograph for the other party.

It looks very kind, but this kindness is only reserved for his fans. If someone came to him to talk about the possibility of work, Han Jue would leave with an excuse and push them to Wang Zhi or Xia Yuan. It's just that there are still many people who want to come to his room in the middle of the night to discuss the script, which makes Han Jue very annoying.

"Teacher Han."

While waiting in front of the elevator, Han Jue heard someone calling him not far away.

Han Jue turned his head and saw two middle-aged men, one in formal clothes and the other in casual clothes, and the one in casual clothes was looking at him in surprise.

Han Jue nodded with a smile, then turned his head back.

"What a coincidence, Mr. Han, you live here too?" After the other party approached, one of them continued to talk to Han Jue in a tone that was not the first time they had met.

"I don't live here, I just go for a stroll." Han Juefan came out casually, making the other party a little overwhelmed, and the topic couldn't continue.

Han Jue turned his head to look again, and vaguely felt that he had seen this person somewhere before.

The other party seemed to see the confusion in Han Jue's eyes, and was worried that Han Jue could not distinguish between enemies and me, so he quickly reminded: "The filming of "Welcome Home" is very good. The big boss also liked it very much."

"Welcome Home" is Han Jue's advertisement for 【Xiangyun】. The filming is over, but it hasn't been released yet, so the only people who know about the content of this advertisement are [Xiangyun] besides the relevant team. The former, Han Jue, knows everyone, and the latter...

oh--

Suddenly, Han Jue remembered that the other party was the director of the advertising department of [Xiangyun]. When Han Jue went to [Xiangyun] for a meeting to meet with the team, it was the director who received him. That's right, the surprise on the other party's face just now is exactly the same as when we first talked about 996.

"Just like it." Han Jue smiled and shook hands with the other party.

Since he was an acquaintance and a former benefactor, Han Jue put down his guard and started talking with the other party.

The director of 996 has watched "Dark Net", so he told Han Jue: "The performance of the computer in the movie is really good. If I had known earlier that you were making a film like "Dark Net", [Xiangyun] would have advertised .”

Han Jue didn't seem to know what politeness is, and asked: "Then when we filmed the second part, did we really come to ask you for advertising fees?"

"...Haha, okay." Director 996 said yes.

The elevator came, and Han Jue and the two people from [Xiangyun] got into the elevator together.

The director of 996 asked Han Jue: "Has the next film project started?"

Han Jue replied: "Not yet."

"I remember you said in the interview that if you want to spread technological panic, you should shoot something else." The director of 996 looked at Han Jue and said with a smile: "We are very interested in this [other]."

"You?" Han Jue looked at the director of 996 and the middle-aged man in formal attire beside him who didn't speak from beginning to end.

"The built-in chip where the memory image can be searched at any time, the world has no concealment. Wash off the criminal's memory erasing device and throw them into the park to suffer the crimes they committed. After losing their lover, they can be accompanied by artificial humans... ...I was also in this position of the elevator that day, and heard your ideas."

The middle-aged man in formal attire said with a smile, then took a step forward, and introduced himself to Han Jue: "I am the general manager of the [Cloud] platform, and I am very interested in your stories about technology and human nature. They're filmed."