Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 251: Director of the Banned Film
Mr. Wang pushed open the door of Mr. Wang's office, and before he arrived, a voice came in.

"Brother, brother, something bad has happened..."

Big Boss glared at the panicked Little Boss and shouted, "Look at you, what are you panicking about? The sky is not falling!"

With a "bang", he threw the newspaper in his hand onto the desk, pointed at the big news headline, and said, "Is this the case?"

Mr. Wang took a look and saw that it said: "...Wang Jinghua parted ways with Huayi and established an agency. Many artists from Huayi followed her..."

"Brother, why aren't you anxious? Let that woman go. She took so many people with her, including Chen Daoming, Hu Jun, Xia Yu, and Hong Kong's Liu Jialing, Liang Jiahui, and Wu Junru...all of them followed her."

Da Wang always knocked on the table and said, "What's the point of panicking! I told you long ago that it's voluntary, voluntary, don't force others to do things they don't want to do, but you just won't listen. Why don't you think about it? There are so many people who want to be famous, is there any need to force them?
Besides, you only need to exchange resources, do you need to force? Why did Wang Jinghua leave? She brought all those people here, has she argued with you many times about this matter? You..."

Mr. Wang pointed at Mr. Wang and couldn't help but sigh.

Wang Jinghua's departure is like undermining the foundation of Huayi.

"The company signed them, made them famous, and made them rich. They just need to go out for social events, but they still need to volunteer? They also need to exchange resources with them? It's totally incomprehensible..."

Mr. Wang tried to explain himself quietly, but before he could finish, he was interrupted by Mr. Wang, who slammed the table.

"Snapped!"

Mr. Wang glared at Mr. Wang, and said angrily, "I told you not to learn Hong Kong's ways, but you just wouldn't listen. You are a pig!

Young actors can happily do their jobs if given a role, and famous actors can voluntarily obey if promised an important role or an event is arranged for them. Is this too much trouble?
If you don't promise anything, then you won't let these people take on roles or arrange activities? If you give them what originally belonged to them in exchange, they can still happily and gratefully do things! "

Mr. Wang didn't say anything. He felt that although what his elder brother said made sense, it was too cheap.

The artists signed to my company still need to be "cajoled" like this, isn't it useless for me to be the boss?
"Brother, what should we do now?"

Mr. Wang ignored Mr. Wang, thought for a moment, and asked, "Has Fat Bing's contract expired?"

Mr. Wang thought for a moment and said reluctantly, "Not yet, almost there."

"Well, go talk to her first, relax the conditions, treat her as an international Zhang, and offer favorable conditions to let her renew her contract."

Da Wang thought for a moment and continued, "Little Cannon's new film is going to use Li Xiaoran as the heroine. You should find a way to talk to Li Xiaoran and her agent, and offer them the best contract, and try to poach her and her agent together.

In addition, you should find a way to contact Gao Yuanyuan. I heard that she is a little dissatisfied with her current agency and thinks that the agency provides too few film and television resources. Try to poach her as well."

Mr. Wang has a good idea. As long as he can poach Li Xiaoran or Gao Yuanyuan and successfully renew the contract with Pang Bing, he can basically offset the impact of Wang Jinghua's departure.

The most popular actresses in China are the so-called Four Qingyi (青衣), but among the four, the ones with the best resources and the most active in film and television are Li Xiaoran and Zhang Ziyi. They are also the highest-paid actresses in China.

As for Pang Bing, in Da Wang's opinion, it was pure luck that got her the job, which was something that many actresses envied.

Mr. Wang is almost certain that when Cao Yang's "Inception" is released, Pang Bing's fame and influence in foreign countries will definitely not be lower than that of Zhang Ziyi.

"By the way, when you talk to Pang Bing about the contract renewal, you can give her a hint and say that the company has put a lot of effort into getting her to star in Inception."

After giving Mr. Wang some advice, Mr. Wang waved his hand and said, "Hurry up and do it."

After a while, Big Boss Wang looked at Little Boss Wang strangely and asked, "Anything else?"

"Uh, that..."

Mr. Wang smiled awkwardly and said, "Brother, before Pang Bing signed the contract for Inception, didn't Wang Jinghua keep making a fuss about leaving for the past two months? In order to appease her, I just... just..."

The king suddenly had a bad feeling and stared at his silly brother.

Mr. Wang gritted his teeth and said directly: "Wang Jinghua has been arguing with me, saying that I arranged for people to socialize without telling her, and she was clamoring to take the artists away. In order to appease her, I said that I would definitely discuss anything with her in the future.

She didn't believe me and said that I had banned the actor she signed, Pang Bing, and that if I was really sincere, I should have terminated the contract with Pang Bing, who had no more roles to play, instead of killing him off completely. "

Mr. Wang looked at his eldest brother cautiously and whispered, "At that time, Pang Bing had already made it clear that she would not renew her contract. She had less than two months left on her contract. I thought that there was no point in keeping her for two months, so I agreed to Wang Jinghua's request."

The rage of the boss suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart. He pointed outside the door and spat out a word coldly, "Get out!"

Mr. Wang quickly slipped out, muttering softly, "Her contract only lasts for more than a month, and she doesn't want to renew it. What's wrong with me doing this to keep Wang Jinghua? Who would have thought that she would be... "

I just heard a "bang" from behind and I didn't know what the king had dropped.

A few days later, something happened that made President Wang even angrier. Gao Yuanyuan joined Wang Jinghua's Happy Sunshine Agency in a high-profile manner.

A few days later, Pang Bing and Wang Jinghua held a press conference together to announce that Pang Bing had officially joined the company.

For a time, Happy Sunshine Agency became famous and became the largest agency in the film and television industry.

According to information obtained privately by President Wang, Gao Yuanyuan and Pang Bing both have shares in Wang Jinghua's agency, and quite a lot of them, making them senior partners.

He wanted to beat his stinky brother to death. Moreover, Li Xiaoran explicitly rejected Mr. Xiao Wang's attempt to poach her, saying that she had no intention of changing jobs for the time being, which gave Mr. Da Wang a headache.

"Crazy Stone" has been taken off the screen, but its box office was still affected by "Seven Swords". Not only did it fail to break 1.7 million, it did not even reach 1.68 million, and finally only million.

Of course, in this era, this is already a remarkable achievement.

Ning Hao has also become a popular director.

He was still sober and not carried away by the situation.

He accepted several interviews, and in all of them he mentioned that the reason the box office was so high was mainly because everyone went to see the movie because of Director Cao. Without Director Cao, who would know him?

He repeatedly emphasized that Director Cao accounted for at least 80% of the credit for this film, his mentor Tian Zhuangzhuang accounted for 10%, and he barely accounted for 10%.

Before going to Venice, Cao Yang called Mr. Han.

Before he could say anything, President Han smiled and joked, "Should I call you Chairman Cao, or President Cao? Or Professor Cao? Haha, congratulations, junior brother."

"I feel most comfortable hearing you call me Junior Brother."

Cao Yang replied without any polite words to Mr. Han, "Brother, you are also one of the producers of Black Swan. If you don't have anything important to do, it would be nice to go to Venice."

Although the investment in "Black Swan" was not large, Cao Yang still brought in Qingdao Film Studio and China Film. His studio contributed half of the investment and owned the copyright, while Qingdao Film Studio and China Film contributed the other half.

In fact, Qingdao Film Studio and China Film Group do not care about the ownership of the copyright. What they care about is that this is Cao Yang's movie, a movie that is very likely to win an award, and that is enough.

Within the system, unless the box office is as big as "District 9" or breaks records, what they care about most is the big awards, especially the three major European awards, which are the best political achievements.

Mr. Han is such a smart man that he immediately heard the hidden meaning in Cao Yang's words.

"Junior brother, are you serious?"

Cao Yang didn't explain much, just laughed and said, "Brother, I'm going to leave on the 28th."

"Good, good, good."

Mr. Han said "good" three times in a row.

After hanging up the phone, he locked the office door, couldn't help but waved his hands vigorously, twisted them a few times, and then let out a long sigh of relief.

After straightening his clothes and touching his hair, he opened the door and said to the secretary outside, "Call Beijing Film Academy and ask Director Cao how many people are going to Venice this time, the specific departure time, and book the tickets in the name of China Film."

Back in the office, President Han couldn't help but feel a little longing.

Although the three highest awards in Europe have their own names, the Golden Bear, the Golden Lion and the Palme d'Or, they also have a unified name, called Best Film.

In theory, the Best Picture award is given to the entire film, and the film's producer is the biggest beneficiary.

This is true whether it is the Oscars or the three major domestic awards, where it is basically the producers who go on stage to receive the awards.

The European Big Three are somewhat special.

However, as a producer, no one would say anything if I went on stage to receive the award. Just writing it down on my resume would be my best qualification and political achievement.

As a traditional director, Mr. Han has a great desire to see the three major European film studios.

On the 28th, Cao Yang met up with General Han and boarded a flight to Italy with a group of eight people including Dong Xuan, Huang Xiaoming and Lu Yi.

At present, there are no direct flights from China to Venice, so you need to change flights in the middle.

Coincidentally, while waiting for the flight, we met another crew that was also going to attend the Venice Film Festival.

Director Li Yu is also going to the Venice Film Festival with her film "Red Beauty", but the film did not enter the main competition unit, but entered other units.

Li Yu was once a host in Shandong Province. Later, he joined CCTV's Oriental Horizon and became a documentary director, thus embarking on the path of being a director.

This person is quite famous, Cao Yang and Mr. Han both know her.

It’s not about how awesome the movies she made are, well, they’re actually pretty awesome.

In 2000, she made her first documentary film called "This Summer", which was a lesbian film.

There are many directors in China who make banned films, but female directors are almost invisible.

So she is very famous in the film and television industry.

(End of this chapter)