I was just thinking about taking the arts exam and you said I've been playing supporting roles

Chapter 236: The major turning point that changed the Chinese film industry!
Inside a club in Magic City.

Ning Hao, who had gained some weight, leaned on the massage sofa and looked at Xu Zheng who had just finished a phone call: "How was it?"

"There's a show!"

Xu Zheng smiled slightly and lay down beside him.

"Chen Jin asked me to find him!"

Xu Zheng told Ning Hao about what happened on the phone with Chen Jin just now. Ning Hao grinned and said, "The little money earned from the movie "Love Is Not Blind" has probably been spent almost all, right?"

"Who cares? I think the investment in this movie should be enough, right?"

Xu Zheng didn't want more. He felt 2000 million should be enough for "Lost in Taiwan".

"At most 3 million, maybe a little less for marketing!"

"Zhang Yimou's new film has at least 2 million yuan, and there are so many copyrights..."

A lot of information in the circle is basically transparent.

In addition to the specific investment amount, many transactions will be exposed privately, such as the Zhang Weiping incident, which is basically watched by the entire industry.

“That’s also a profit!”

"It seems that Lao Mouzi's movies have never lost money!"

Although Xu Zheng has a bald head, he is a very smart person.

“That’s not necessarily the case with this one!”

"Zhang Weiping used to be a golden partner with Zhang Yimou, and they have worked together for many years. The change of investors will definitely have an impact..."

Ning Hao was not optimistic about it anyway, so he came up to Xu Zheng and said, "I got the news from the Hong Kong circle. Jiang Zhiqiang has withdrawn his investment because he is not optimistic about this project!"

He is very close to Hong Kong, and "Crazy Stone" was invested by Andy Lau.

"And do you think Zhang Yimou will listen to a young man?"

Ning Hao curled his lips and lit a cigarette: "Have you seen the movie "Love Is Not Blind"? It was pure luck. I admit that it was a good marketing, but if it happens again, it may not have such a high box office!"

"But the adaptation of Lost on Journey is in his hands. I don't care about Huaqi, but San Ye seems to be very close to Chen Jin!"

Xu Zheng had actually already found out everything.

The original producer of "Lost on Journey", Huaqi Pictures, has already launched the project of "Lost on Journey 2".

When the script writing team was planning the writing of the sequel at the end of last year, they had always hoped to continue working with Xu Zheng and even sent the script outline to his email address for his comments.

Then the outline... was taken away by Xu Zheng.

To put it nicely, it's taking, but in fact it's stealing.

Without telling Huaqi Company, he approached Qitian Dadi Film and Television in the capital and started a project to make a movie based on "Lost in the City".

When Huaqi was applying for the project of "Lost on Journey 2", it found that Qitian Dadi had already applied to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for the project of "Lost in Hong Kong", whose screenwriter was Xu Zheng and "Nightclub" director Yang Qin.

Hubei Radio and Television clearly pointed out the project content of "Lost in Beijing", which is exactly the same as "Lost on Journey 2", even the name of the protagonist is the same.

Huaqi also presented written documents from the Radio and Television Administration.

In the end, there was no choice but for Qitian Pictures to make a written "revocation statement", unconditionally giving up the copyright and filming rights of "Lost in the City", and not participating in any related film activities with similar themes to "Lost in the City".

At this time, Chen Jin happened to find Huaqi to discuss the adaptation matters.

That is, the copyright of "Lost on Journey" continues to belong to Huaqi, and Film Science only purchased the adaptation right.

Huaqi certainly agreed.

This is like clinging to a powerful figure, and they are also given money, who wouldn't want that?

But Chen Jin had only one request, that the copyright could only be used for scientific film adaptation; Huaqi could continue to shoot the "Lost on Journey" series, but other companies could not get involved, that is, only these two companies could film the copyright!

Huaqi had no objection to this point, because there was nothing to lose and it also gained a strategic ally.

So, with Chen Jin's support, Huaqi called Xu Zheng directly and told him about this.

It's a threat.

With no other options, Xu Zheng had to call Chen Jin to discuss collaboration on the sequel to Lost on Journey.

In fact, he was also at his wit's end.

This time he was in a difficult situation.

Of course, he has done this kind of thing in the past. He filmed "Lost in Russia" and prepared it for the Spring Festival, and he did all the material promotion and distribution in theaters across the country. But because of the epidemic, this guy directly sold "Lost in Russia" to ByteDance.

This completely offended the theaters, which led to the failure of the movie "Reverse Life" directed by him later, and he was constantly involved in negative news.

Being a human being is indeed problematic.

"Chen Jin is a very capable person!"

"The top scorer in the college entrance examination is really awesome. You can't treat him as an 18-year-old!"

Ning Hao definitely admitted this.

"Now he is in partnership with Zhang Yimou, and he has the Third Master behind him. The Third Master's daughter is also in his team!"

"The old guys at Beijing Film Academy like him very much. If you can really get him to invest, it would be a good thing. But "Jinling" is a time bomb. If it is put to bed, it won't hurt Chen Jin, but it will definitely affect your movie!"

"You have to think about this carefully..."

"Also, he may not be as good as people say. After all, he has only been in this circle for more than a year. How can he have any qualifications and experience..."

Ning Hao said to Xu Zheng that although they had a good personal relationship, Ning Hao was not interested in the script of "Lost in Town".

Too ordinary.

Although he made some money, he spent it all on "No Man's Land" and "The Golden Age".

The leading actors of the movie "No Man's Land" are Xu Zheng and Huang Bo.

But the release date is currently nowhere in sight and the film is still undergoing rectification, so it cannot even participate in film festivals.

Ning Hao has indeed been depressed recently.

His entire life and fortune are at stake. He originally thought that "No Man's Land" would be just like "Let the Bullets Fly", a huge success in both awards and box office, and would directly make him one of the top five directors in China. However, he is still far behind Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige.

Not to mention Jiang Wen and Zhang Yimou.

But if "No Man's Land" wins an award in Berlin and has a box office explosion, Ning Hao will be able to compete with them.

Now, he has started filming "The Golden Robbery". "No Man's Land" is almost torturing him into a bald head like Xu Zheng.

Xu Zheng also knew Ning Hao's current situation, so he nodded: "I know, but Lao Yang wants to take a picture!"

"I don't have the face to go back to Huaqi, I can only look for Chen Jin!"

"Now I have some new ideas. The script of 'Lost in Hong Kong' is really bad. If Huaqi wants to make it, let them do it. I want to make it different from them, which is just right for cooperation with Chen Jin!"

"Otherwise Huaqi will definitely not let me take the photo!"

Xu Zheng was mainly attracted by the creative concept of "Lost on Journey", and the word "囧" has been very popular on the Internet in the past two years.

"Then go find him with a new script!"

"Have you arranged a time?"

"No, he said he's free anytime, but he's currently filming in Jinling, so I have to go find him!"

Xu Zheng was very fond of Chen Jin's tone on the phone.

He thought he was the young and frivolous type, but he turned out to be quite humble. He kept calling him Teacher Xu Zheng, which made Guangtou Xu very happy. However, he also called Xu Zheng Brother Jin, and the two of them praised each other's professions.

"Isn't that OK?"

"Director Xu, congratulations in advance!"

Ning Hao smiled and pressed the service bell. A row of young girls immediately filed in.

***
Half a month later, Bell's last scene.

With tears on his face, he drove the few remaining female students out of the city. At this point, all his scenes were finished.

In fact, there are very few scenes about the massacre in "The Flowers of War". They are all revealed from the perspective of a sidelong glance; it mainly tells the story between the church, the female students and the 13 women. The remnants of Chen Jin's German-equipped training team are the only side profiles that tell about this incident.

But Bale still looked sad during the filming.

He hugged everyone present and took photos with them.

"Chen, thank you for your help during this period!"

Bell and Chen Jin clenched their fists tightly and leaned their chests together. According to the normal progress of his role, it should have taken at least another week.

But now, even though the crew had stopped working before, he still finished filming his scenes according to the original schedule.

Of course, all this is thanks to Chen Jin.

He built a bridge of communication between Bell, Nini and Zhang Yimou, and this short period of time, almost a month together, allowed the two to establish a deep revolutionary friendship.

"How about I take you for a good tour of Jinling City?"

“The city is different now, and there’s a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust!”

Chen Jin suggested: "I can be a tour guide, but I'll charge you for it!"

"Why?"

Bell shrugged.

“The fee is the opportunity to work together again in the future!”

Chen Jin wanted to make money from Americans by cooperating with him on a new film and try to open up the North American market.

Bale still has this energy.

"Haha, yes!"

"If there's a good script, I'm willing to give it a try!"

Bell smiled and didn't really refuse. Although this trip to China was not ideal at the beginning, the appearance of Chen Jin made everything go smoothly.

And Bell also already knew that Chen Jin was the investor of "Jinling".

Without him, the film might not have been able to continue shooting, so Chen Jin's position in Bale's heart is different from that of ordinary actors.

He even knew that a previous film by Chen Jin had broken the record in Chinese film history.

It's not a bad thing for Bale to know such a promising young man.

"Before I leave, I want to treat the entire crew to a meal!"

"All of them?"

Chen Jin was a little surprised and said, "That might cost a lot of money. You know, we have a lot of people in the crew!"

"It's okay, I can still afford my salary!"

"Haha, okay, then I'll make the arrangements. Today, when we finish touring Jinling City and are about to go back?"

"It's all right. When do you think it's convenient?"

This guy Bale is indeed different from many Hollywood superstars. It seems that he is not on the future Lolita Island list?

At least this guy is serious about acting, unlike some guys who come to China to film as if it were a perfunctory act, and the arrogance of white people is fully displayed.

These are all fine for Bale, and many young actors like him.

"when are we leaving?"

Zhang Yimou was also asking this question.

"I've made an appointment with Bell to accompany him around Jinling these few days and then send him on the plane!"

"I just happened to be going back to the capital!"

After Chen Jin finished speaking, he translated it for Bell, who raised two thumbs up: "That's right, Chen will be the tour guide, and the fee will be the next cooperation!"

"Hahaha!"

Zhang Yimou's face was crooked from laughing.

"Okay, you are really capable!"

"I don't have the time to accompany him for a good stroll. The cost will be included in the crew's expenses!"

Isn't it my money?
You really know how to talk.

Chen Jin still owes the fine for having more children than allowed, more than 748 million!

Now Chen Jin is definitely Zhang Yimou's biggest creditor. The next film he will definitely let him make is an art film to win awards for himself, otherwise all Chen Jin's efforts during this period will be in vain.

He has been looking for a movie for some time.

There are many suitable ones, and the protagonists are all young people.

Films like "Better Days" and "Grandma's Grandson", one reflects on bullying and the other reveals the inheritance of an elderly person... If Zhang Yimou were to direct them, with the pictures, lens language, etc., it would definitely be no problem for him to win awards.

And they all highlight Chen Jin's acting skills.

Zhang Yimou is suitable for making this kind of movie, the plots of commercial films are too bad.

After greeting many crew members one by one, Chen Jin took Bell out of the base.

In the next few days, Chen Jin actually acted as a tour guide. Although he was not very good at it, he was definitely more familiar with it than Bell.

After seeing off this international superstar, Chen Jin could finally take a few days off.

In the next month, in addition to teaching, Chen Jin will mainly record the first episode of "China in Poetry" and prepare for "To Youth"!
The release of "The Founding of a Party" has also entered the countdown.

"The promotional video will be officially released tomorrow, so you can promote it on Weibo then!"

"The first trailer of CCTV's "China in Poetry" will also be released at the same time!"

"Join forces to stir up the heat!"

Chen Jin was not surprised at all when listening to Han Sanpin's words on the other end of the phone.

This CCTV program is also a tribute, and it is very consistent with "The Founding of a Party", which can be regarded as a strong combination.

Using variety shows to promote movies is not unprecedented.

But this form of promotion is obviously the first time.

Just look at the popularity of the first issue of "China in Poetry" to see what level the entire network can reach!

Fortunately, with the support of the Spring Festival Gala, at least the ratings for the first episode will definitely not be bad.

Some time ago, a lot of netizens participated in the CCTV voting, and they were very enthusiastic. The anticipation for this program on Weibo was also very high. The number of followers of the program on Weibo exceeded 20. Several votes were held before the promotion and trailer were released.

Once the show starts to be promoted, the number of fans will definitely increase rapidly!

"The Founding of a Party" is also very popular. A Weibo account has been registered and it is preparing to release a promotional video tomorrow.

Many people have unknowingly used Weibo as a promotional platform.

But the hottest thing on the Internet recently is not Weibo and the Hundred Regiments Offensive that has been completely bloody, but two mobile instant messaging and social software - MiTalk and WeChat!

As a rising star in starting a new business, Lei Jun launched a future war against Tencent, which is currently hated by the entire Internet.

The hottest phrase on the entire Internet is: The future has arrived.

The platform tickets in the era of mobile Internet are in the hands of these two softwares.

Whoever wins will be the king of the future.

Almost everyone in the industry knows this very well.

And Chen Jin may know more than them, this software also controls the movie ticket terminal.

This is the big turning point that will change the entire Chinese film industry!

(End of this chapter)