Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 191 The founder's style determines the company's style

Early March

The Darkness 2 is still being shown

Inside Xingchen Entertainment Company, Zhang Chen, Chen Xi and Ning Hao were chatting in the office. After chatting for a while, they suddenly realized that one person was missing.

Zhang Chen: "Where's Brother Dong?"

Chen Xi: "I'm being interviewed by Southern Weekend next door~"

"Oh, I forgot about that." Southern Weekend originally wanted to interview him, but Zhang Chen refused. There was a lot of commotion in Hong Kong, and Jiang Zhiqiang even blocked Han Sanping's door. San Ye asked Zhang Chen to keep a low profile for the next two days.

Well, so the chance to show off, no, the chance to show off, was given to the boss.

……

In the general manager's office next door, the boss was talking to the reporters (pretending to be cool).

"Although Xingchen Entertainment is a new company, we are a young company. If we must make an analogy, we can be compared to Cinema City in the 1990s. The people in the company are all young, energetic, and have ideas. Ideas collide every moment, and maybe we can come up with a good story..."

"I heard that Xingchen Entertainment has a very powerful writing team?"

"Yes, Zhang Chen attaches great importance to screenwriters. This screenwriter team was first established at his request. It is also the first department of our company. Initially, there were only six people, but now it has expanded to twelve people, and the salary is much higher than that of peers..."

“Why does Director Zhang attach so much importance to screenwriters?”

"We always believe that a good movie is first of all a good story. Look at our previous movies, "The Darkness" and "The Shallows" are all of this model. Although the scene is simple, the story itself has many twists and turns and conflicts..."

"Then can you tell me why Star Entertainment's movies are so successful?"

"It's mainly because of our sincere love for the film. We don't want to show off our skills or express anything too profound. We just want to tell a good story. Maybe that's why the audience likes it so much..."

"You mean audiences don't like things that have too much personal expression attached to them?"

"I don't know about others, but we have discussed it internally, and everyone thinks that life is tiring enough and we have received enough education. The main purpose of watching a movie is to have fun. No one wants to be educated when they are relaxing..."

Dong Jianqiang said a lot of things, some of which were his own insights into life, and some were opinions expressed during everyone's discussion. He didn't think he was pretending to be cool.

Just saying some high-sounding things is called pretending, but if you say something meaningful and touch the soul, then it is not pretending, but only...

The reporter changed direction: "By the way, I have an online survey questionnaire here, which contains several issues that netizens are most concerned about."

Dong Jianqiang spread his hands and indicated that he could ask anything.

"First, some netizens are concerned. Recently, almost all directors are making blockbusters. Zhang Yimou and Chen Shishi are all making blockbusters. It is said that Feng Xiaogang's new work is also a costume blockbuster. As a billionaire director, does Director Zhang Chen have any plans for similar blockbusters?"

This question really stumped Dong Jianqiang. It seemed that he and Zhang Chen had never communicated on this aspect.

But the answer is obvious without any communication.

Dong Jianqiang answered confidently: "Of course, but probably not now. Right now all our energy is on "The Accidental Murderer" in May and "Crazy Stone" in July.

The filming cycle of a costume blockbuster is too long. Director Chen Da’s The Promise has not been completed after a year of filming. Xingchen Entertainment is still a small company, and in the near future it will focus more on low-cost or medium-cost feature films.”

The reporter nodded and asked the next question.

"Netizens are also concerned about Crazy Stone. Your company seems to be very confident in this movie. Director Zhang Chen even shouted the slogan 'Come and fight if you don't agree' in public. So, what kind of movie is Crazy Stone that gives you such great confidence?"

Dong Jianqiang has been waiting here for a long time. To put it bluntly, he accepted the interview today just to promote "Stone", so of course he had to praise it.

"Stone is a very wonderful story. I have been working in the film industry for 20 years. It is no exaggeration to say that Stone is the most wonderful script I have ever seen, bar none...

"Come and fight if you don't agree" is not only Zhang Chen's idea, but also the consensus of our entire company. I can't reveal much about the plot, but the whole script is cleverly structured, and the jokes are just right, which is very advanced.

"Stone" doesn't have big stars or big investments, but the plot alone can beat all the films of the same period, so we dare to say "If you don't agree, come and fight!"

Dong Jianqiang, who is well versed in the essence of hype, knows that hype must be done in a shocking way.

The reporter's eyes lit up and he thought he had made the right decision today.

Xingchen Entertainment is really a good friend of the media. Not only does Zhang Chen love to brag, but the general manager Dong Jianqiang is also a big talker.

Apart from anything else, as long as he said that, the sales of this issue will not be bad.

The reporter continued: "Netizens have another question about your company. Since Xingchen Entertainment is preparing to delve deeper into the commercial film field, why don't you cooperate more with Hong Kong?"

Dong Jianqiang was stunned by his question: "Why do we need to cooperate more with Hong Kong?"

"Because only Hong Kong teams can handle commercial films?"

"Who told you?"

The reporter choked when he was asked the question. He has been working as a reporter for more than ten years, and this is the first time he has been confronted by a guest.

"The Darkness and The Shallows, which we made before, are pure commercial films, produced entirely by mainland teams, and have nothing to do with Hong Kong, and they are also very successful.

I just don't understand where your argument that only Hong Kong teams can pull off commercial films comes from?"

The reporter immediately asked: "But I heard that Stone invited Mr. Andy Lau this time?"

Dong Jianqiang was stunned. How come so many people knew about this?
But he still nodded: "Yes, I have been invited. There is a role in The Stone that is played by a Hong Konger. The ideal situation would be to find a real Hong Kong actor to play the role, but King Liu has already refused. He cannot act because of schedule conflicts."

"Schedule conflict?"

"In fact, it is likely that King Liu was afraid of offending those people in the Hong Kong circle, so he found an excuse to turn it down. But it doesn't matter, we still have a backup plan."

Dong Jianqiang suddenly felt too lazy to cover up and just told the truth. If you want to be a decent person, this is fine. But the news was all over the place for no reason. Dong Jianqiang asked himself if it was not spread by his company, then it could only be from King Liu.

Not only did you refuse, but you also deliberately released the news to disgust people, which was a bit like making fun of you. Dong Jianqiang was not going to be friendly with you anymore.

He was also a little angry about what the reporter had just said.

In fact, he himself was a little puzzled as soon as he said this.

According to his previous habits, he would definitely not say such things.

Then why did you say it?

To put it bluntly, it was still influenced by Zhang Chen.

A company bears the imprint of its founder. If the founder is combative and protective, the company's style will generally be the same.

……

next door
Chen Xi was suggesting: "Our Black 2 has been released for more than half a month, shouldn't we hold a celebration party?"

Zhang Chen: "How much is the box office?"

Ning Hao: "You don't care about your movie at all?"

Zhang Chen shrugged: "This seems to be your movie~"

Ning Hao rolled his eyes: Are you playing with your Extra in front of me?

Chen Xi said beside him: "It already exceeded 5000 million yesterday, but the box office potential is basically reaching its limit..."

Zhang Chen: "Then open one."

Ning Hao blamed himself a little: "We have discussed it. Even if we use a celebration banquet to stimulate the box office, the final box office will probably be around 6000 million. It will be difficult to reach the box office of 6310 million of the previous film. It's my fault..."

Zhang Chen sneered, "It has nothing to do with you. The sequel doesn't have the mystery of the first one. It's hard to reach the height of the first one. You're already pretty good if you can keep it similar. And don't you think about it? I was the director of the first one. Can you compare with me?"

"Hey, you brat..."

After making a joke, Ning Hao stopped being pretentious.

Zhang Chen changed the subject: "Have you contacted me about the MV?"

Ning Hao was a little embarrassed when he was suddenly asked this question. "I have contacted them. Everything is ready. We will shoot tomorrow."

"Oh, you really accepted it. Isn't that a lot?"

Ning Hao nodded with interest: "Well, there are indeed a lot of them. In your words, they are very brutal~"

"I've already said that the dinner invitation is still valid. Do you want to..."

Zhang Chen waved his hands hastily: "Forget it, forget it. If I really eat this meal, won't my fellow readers criticize me for being a venomous point?"

Seeing that Ning Hao wanted to continue, Zhang Chen quickly changed the subject: "I'm quite curious about "Stone". Since you want to make it into a dialect comedy, why did you choose Chongqing dialect? I thought you would make it in our hometown dialect..."

Ning Hao really fell for it, and his attention was immediately diverted: "I did think about it at first, but as you know, the dialect in our area is different every ten miles. I'm from Taiyuan, and I can't understand the dialects of other provinces and cities in the coal-fired province outside of Taiyuan."

Zhang Chen said "Oh", this is indeed the case in the coal province.

It seems that only the coal-producing provinces in the country are like this, the accent really changes every ten miles.

Taiyuan and the neighboring Yuci, which is now Jinzhong, can still be barely understood, but Taigu, which is further away, is incomprehensible. It's as if you're out of the province. But in fact, the distance between them is only more than 70 kilometers, and it only takes more than an hour to drive there.

While they were chatting, Zhang Chen's phone suddenly rang. It was his father.

I answered the call as quickly as possible: "Dad?"

Zhang's father's voice on the other end of the phone sounded cheerful: "Son, I have good news for you. Our Taiyuan TV Movie Channel may want to purchase the TV broadcasting rights of your "The Dark Invasion" and "The Shallows"~"

?

Zhang Chen couldn't understand, Dad, aren't you from the railway industry? How did you get involved with people from the TV station?

"It's a friend of mine. He has connections with the film channel of Taiyuan TV Station. He told the TV station that you are a great director from our coal province and they should support you. The TV station finally agreed to purchase the broadcasting rights for the two films."

"Okay, then thank your friend for me."

Things like TV broadcasting rights really have more symbolic significance than practical significance.

Ordinary provincial TV stations still have some dignity, but city and county TV stations are lawless and can broadcast anything.

They dare to broadcast anything that is pirated.

What copyright? It doesn't exist. I play your film to give you face. I even play Hollywood blockbusters.

Even if such broadcasting rights were purchased, the price would probably not be much, so most film and television companies simply don't put any effort into this aspect.

Those few things were not enough for the travel expenses.

Zhang Chen was curious, "Dad, your friend is helping me out for no reason, is there something wrong?"

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