After director Tian Zhuangzhuang came on board and received support from the academy and Qingying Film Studio, the nature of "Famous" changed.
The outside world has to re-examine this movie.
"This kid really made it happen." With the support of such a lineup, the outside world no longer doubts the real operability of this movie.
As a result, the phone calls of Zhang Yuanjun's studio and Qingying Film Studio were inundated with calls from various film producers.
Tian Zhuangzhuang doesn't have many works, but there's no need to worry about the quality. There are many film producers who want to invest in him.
Huayi is internally discussing whether to participate in this film.
"Why did you refuse when they came to the company to solicit investment? Why didn't you tell me!" Wang Zhonglei began to blame, "I will definitely meet them when I am free in those days."
There was a script for "Famous" sitting on the conference table—very easy for the industry to get their hands on.
This film is very experimental and does not fit Huayi's style. However, the preparations for "The Night Banquet" hindered Huayi, and the company did not make a particularly loud noise this year.
This year, only one film, "The Great Sage", a collaboration with Yin Huang, was released on Christmas.
"For such a small crew, we can just invest 500 yuan." Wang Zhonglei said, "It's Guihai Yi Dao and Yang Guo. He is very popular now and is very helpful to our company.
"Who was responsible for negotiating the contract with him in the first place?" Of course Huayi had contact with Zhang Yuanjun.
"It's Sister Hua."
After hearing this, Wang Zhonglei didn't say much about the signing: "Contact his studio and see if I can invest."
The same scene happened with private film companies such as Pony, Bernard, and Guangxian.
After Tian Zhuangzhuang joined the crew, China Film naturally won the distribution rights of the film and invested 570,000 yuan for Tian Zhuangzhuang's sake.
This amount of money also made Zhang Yuanjun roll his eyes: "So Dayi Group, the big brother of Chinese movies, costs more than 500,000 yuan, I'm sorry."
"You can just have fun with 500,000," Wang Jinsong said. "Do you think China Film is rich? There are so many old directors under you asking for money every day to make movies. You didn't ask for money when you went to China Film, right?"
"No," Zhang Yuanjun said, "he drank a glass of water, left the script, said he would evaluate it, and kicked me out."
"If Teacher Tian hadn't taken action, you wouldn't even be able to get the 500,000. I won't tell you anymore, I have to meet a few people." Wang Jinsong said and was about to leave.
"Where are you going? Who are you meeting?"
"I met with the heads of several production companies and they all wanted to invest." As a producer, this is Wang Jinsong's job.
"Is this just called Thirty Years in Hedong and Thirty Years in Hexi? I asked them to vote before but they refused to vote. Now they are rushing to vote for us." Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile.
"A dog's mouth can't spit out ivory. This is a normal business consideration, so people have to invest in you?"
"Why don't I just tell you that you have worked hard and negotiate a good price for us?" Zhang Yuanjun flattered his teacher.
Wang Jinsong was worried that Zhang Yuanjun was too young and had just entered the industry, so he would not be able to negotiate with professional producers from film companies, so many times it was him or senior producers and supervisors from Qingying Film Studio who came forward to negotiate investment for the crew.
The people he was going to meet today were Bernard's people.
Teacher Wang and Qingying Studio are responsible for the production, and Teacher Tian is responsible for the crew. This way, Zhang Yuanjun, the project leader, has nothing to do.
It's not like there's nothing to do at all.
He has to be responsible for the actor side.
Among the selected actors, Zhang Yuanjun had to arrange for everyone to go out first.
Fortunately, "Fame" is a situational drama, so they can rehearse it in the school theater.
"Several of the main actors have not been confirmed yet," Zhang Yuanjun, who acted as a director at the theater, scratched his head in confusion, "It's really difficult to handle."
Liu Yifei is fine. She has been hanging out with Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin and the others every day these days. She really can't participate in the show, but it doesn't stop her from enjoying herself on the sidelines. Sometimes she also helps out as a guest star for Su Mengdie, who has no one to play for the time being.
She seems to particularly like this kind of tragic female character with a poor family.
Zhang Yuanjun was not polite and used her as free labor.
The young man rehearsed for a few days, and Zhang Yuanjun discovered a serious problem.
The roles and actors previously arranged were not that suitable.
Lu Fangsheng's beard is wild enough but not evil enough.
"You are not perverted enough," Zhang Yuanjun said, "I want a perverted killer."
"I'll look for it again." He said as he sat on the chair, thinking about how to become more perverted by smoking.
"No, what I want is evil, not the words "I am a pervert" written on my face." Zhang Yuanjun denied one of his performances again.
"Okay, I'll take another look." He said, holding a cigarette and walking to the edge of the stage to think by himself.
"The cigarettes for rehearsal are all good ones I bought from outside. You can smoke sparingly." Zhang Yuanjun knew that these bastards were stealing his cigarettes. "If you smoke three packs of my cigarettes a day, you won't be afraid of dying."
"I'm rehearsing a play for you, but I can't bear to smoke you two cigarettes. How stingy." Everyone rolled their eyes.
"As if I didn't say it, you slap me."
Zhang Yuanjun was sitting in the audience reading the script, and Liu Yifei sat next to him and said, "I didn't expect that you can also direct."
"What do I know?" Zhang Yuanjun didn't dare to say that he knew how to direct. "I wrote the script. I know what I want. How can I be a director? I can only say a few words." Zhang Yuanjun asked her again, "It's not about signing a contract. Sony, why has there been no movement for so long?" He was running out of words to talk to.
"It's not yet time. Sony wants to find a suitable time to do this." Liu Yifei was quite happy when she thought about signing a contract with a major global music company and singing and dancing. "Don't you know how to write songs? Write them for me too. Just one song."
"You want it with all your words?"
"If you don't write for free, I'll pay you according to the market price."
"How much can you give me?"
Liu Yifei didn't know the market price of the song, so she held out two fingers and said, "How about 20,000 yuan for a song?"
"No wonder you are the richest woman in the 02 table. You really don't regard money as money. I'm not worth 20,000." Zhang Yuanjun laughed.
"It sounds good." Liu Yifei said, "The previous song "Give You, Give Me" is just fine. It's simple and catches your ears. Just write me a song like this. This song is worth 20,000."
"You really think about it." Zhang Yuanjun did not agree to write a song for her on the spot. "Sony is such a big company, but it still needs my songs. Let's see."
Liu Yifei asked again: "How were your other actors chosen?"
Zhang Yuanjun shook his head: "No, the actor Su Mengdie is too young. I want a mature actress who is over 30 years old and has some experience."
"Didn't Yan Danchen come to audition a few days ago? She's so beautiful, so why not?"
Zhang Yuanjun still shook his head: "No, she has the same problem as Dong Xuan in front of her. It's okay to stand still and act like a vase, but it doesn't look good when she moves.
"Actually, it can be used. It just needs to be adjusted by the director. Our crew already has enough young people. I don't want to spend too much time on actor training for the role of Mengdie. It's best to have a mature actor who can also lead We act.”
After Zhang Yuanjun finished speaking, he heard a female voice behind him say: "The mature actor you wanted is here."
(End of chapter)
