Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 396 Comrade Meng Bai is a "good brother-in-law"

Like The Wandering Earth, Assassination of Novelist is also a special effects blockbuster, and Lu Yang uses the more difficult "on-site virtual shooting". Through motion capture, scene scanning, lens tracking, real-time matte rendering and other technologies, the effect of "combining virtual and real" is finally achieved.

To this end, Lu Yang specially shot an animation preview of more than 40 minutes before the project was launched, just like the hundreds of thousands of words of settings and thousands of screen design drafts prepared by Guo Fan and others.

If we only talk about the technical level, the difficulty of this movie is even higher than "The Wandering Earth". After all, domestic films have never used the method of "virtual shooting" before.

Fortunately, Lu Yang "invited" Xu Jian, the visual effects director of "The Wandering Earth", to continue the work. With the experience of the previous two years, at least he didn't have to start from scratch.

Meng Bai also discussed this with Guo Fan and others and planned to invest in several special effects companies.

This thing is just like the country's major infrastructure projects. It doesn't make money or even loses money, but it is the foundation for supporting the development of higher industries. If they want to make more awesome visual effects blockbusters in the future, they must have sufficient technical capabilities.

The only problem is that special effects companies are very expensive, and Arclight alone cannot sustain them. So Meng Bai plans to wait until next year's Spring Festival when The Wandering Earth is released. If the performance is good, he will drag Guo Fan to fool a few more companies.

It would be right for us to work together, including companies like China Film, Guangguang, Perfect World, or even gaming companies like NetEase and Tencent.

Back to the movie "Assassination of Novelist", in addition to the technical difficulties, another difficulty of "virtual shooting" lies in the actors. Because there is no real scene but only green screen, this will test the imagination and belief of the actors.

"Also, the role of 'Tu Ling' has a lot of action scenes, so you may need to join the crew a month in advance and receive action training." Meng Bai looked at Li Qin: "It's very hard."

"It doesn't matter. As long as there is a need, any training is fine." Li Qin said without hesitation.

Although she said that, she was actually a little unsure. Although she had been in the industry for many years, the roles she played were basically those of rich daughters, young princesses, etc., and most of her roles were literary dramas.

Even when he played a policeman in "City of Lights", he just posed a few times at most, and there was really no actual action scene.

The only thing that gave her some confidence was that she had some training in posture and movements when she was learning Kunqu Opera. Although the intensity and strength were definitely not as good as dancing, it was still a basic foundation.

Seeing Li Qin put away the script solemnly, Meng Bai picked up the second copy and said, "This is the project that Hu Guangming plans to shoot next year, the last part of the 'Zijin Chen Trilogy', 'The Long Night'. The name of the web drama version is 'The Silent Truth'."

Speaking of this, Meng Bai felt a little helpless.

When we were filming "Bad Kids" before, we had to change the name to "The Hidden Corner" because we felt that the name would easily lead to some speculation.

The same is true for "The Long Night Is Not Bright". The original title of the book was to correspond to the final ending, in which the main reason for the villain's failure lies in the fall of the "umbrella" behind him, rather than "justice finally defeats darkness". Therefore, the title "Long Night" and "Not Bright" is a metaphor.

Obviously, this metaphor is not suitable for film and television adaptation. So when the project was reviewed, the name was changed to "The Silent Truth", which echoed "The Hidden Corner".

However, in this way, the name of only one film in the entire "trilogy", "The Undocumented Crime", remained unchanged, which seems a bit "out of place".

The role given to Li Qin is called "Li Xue", a reporter for a newspaper's legal column. She is also the only remaining eyewitness of a case that happened ten years ago, and is considered one of the female protagonists.

"Won't the release dates of the movie and this drama conflict?" Li Qin asked curiously.

"No, according to the plan, the film will be completed by February or March next year, and the schedule for our drama will be able to be coordinated after that." Meng Bai introduced.

"That's good."

Li Qin nodded and looked at the last script. However, unlike the previous two, this script was unexpectedly thin. She glanced at the title of the play on the cover - "The Golden Years", which sounded familiar.

"This seems to be a novel written by Yi Shu, right?" Li Qin recalled her past memories. "I think I've read it before, but I only read half of it. I just remember it was about the story of two girls."

"Of course, Mr. Li, you are very knowledgeable."

Meng Bai made a teasing remark, and was greeted by Li Qin's arrogant snort.

"Strictly speaking, this is not a script, but a project book." Meng Bai said: "This drama is still in the project establishment stage, but I think the role of the heroine is quite suitable for you, so I'm telling you first."

Tencent owned the copyright of this drama, and originally planned to give it to New Classics to shoot. However, the latter already had four projects in hand, namely "Joy of Life", "Douluo Dalu", "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" and "The Deer and the Cauldron", and the pressure was relatively high. It happened that they had just invested in Tianqi Entertainment recently, so they gave it to Meng Bai.

"The Golden Years" has two female protagonists, one of whom is "Jiang Nansun", a white, rich and beautiful girl who has lived a wealthy life since childhood. This kind of role is Li Qin's comfort zone, and she has played many similar roles before. In addition, the background of this drama is still in Shanghai, which suits her in all aspects.

This drama is still in preparation and may actually start filming in the second half of next year, which will coincide with "The Silent Truth".

A movie, a TV series, and a web series clearly arrange Li Qin's plans for next year.

"Humph, capitalists!"

Li Qin wrinkled her nose at Meng Bai: "Your true nature was revealed right after the contract was signed. You didn't even give me a break throughout the year."

"Why are you taking a break!" Meng Bai shouted, "Twenty-eight is the right age to make breakthroughs. What you need to do now is to work hard. Come on, girl. Results, box office, awards, and traffic are all waiting for you!"

"Haha, thank you for reminding me that I'm twenty-eight years old."

"Ah, this..."

Meng Bai coughed lightly. He was a little excited just now and accidentally stepped into a minefield.

Looking at the staff and legal affairs who were almost done with their work on the other side of the room, he approached Li Qin and whispered, "Teacher Li, are you interested in visiting my office?"

Li Qin glanced at him sideways: "Sorry, a 28-year-old woman is not interested in the office."

Meng Bai laughed: "No way, are you holding a grudge like that?"

"Haha, a 28-year-old woman is just the age to hold grudges."

"..."

Meng Bai nodded: "Okay, since you don't want to go over, it's the same here. I'll let them go first."

"Wait, don't!"

Li Qin failed in a second and hurried to stop Meng Bai, but found that he was looking at her with a smile on his face and had no intention of getting up.

"rogue!"

She glared at Meng Bai with a red face, knowing what he was planning.

"Hey, it's not the first day you've known I'm a hooligan." Meng Bai said, "And didn't you say last time that you liked me to be a bit of a hooligan?"

"When did I say that?"

"Of course not. You went on to say 'keep going, don't stop' or something like that..."

"You, you are enough!"

Li Qin quickly raised her hand to cover Meng Bai's mouth to prevent him from saying anything "vicious".

At the same time, the blush on her cheeks spread all the way behind her ears.

This bastard always "forces" her to say some weird things every time he does that. After a long time, she got used to it. Now he would come out from time to time when she was excited. As a result, she was caught by this guy again.

He glared at Meng Bai fiercely, but unfortunately this dead man was too thick-skinned to be attacked like this. Li Qin had no choice but to let go of his hand and stood up: "Let's go, be careful, don't let me find anything I shouldn't find in your office."

After saying this, she couldn't help laughing.

Meng Bai felt a little uneasy after hearing Li Qin's words. Fortunately, he realized that his office was cleaned by a cleaning lady and inspected by Hua Yan every day, so there would be no such thing as missing a hairpin or earring.

He said hello to the staff who were still busy with the contract and said that he would "show Teacher Li around the company." As an employee, he naturally wouldn't care what his boss was doing, and he could even relax a little when they were not around.

On the top floor of Arclight, Hua Yan’s office.

As the boss's personal assistant and one of the founders of Arclight Films, Hua Yan also has a dedicated office in the company, which is separated from Meng Bai's office by a room.

She had a document in front of her and was doing some sneaky work while her boss was away, when the intercom on her desk suddenly rang.

Hua Yan was startled and hurriedly closed the webpage. Then she realized that it was just a phone call and there was no need to be so nervous.

"Boss, what's wrong?" There's no need to ask who it is, the call could only be made by one person.

"I have something to do here. If anyone comes looking for me, just say I'm busy."

"Ah, okay, I understand."

Hua Yan was stunned for a moment after putting down the phone. She seemed to have vaguely heard a woman's voice on the other end.

Oh, by the way, Sister Li Qin is here to sign the contract today, so she should be the one.

Meng Bai just said not to disturb him. Hua Yan, who has been exposed to him for many years, naturally understands what her boss wants to do.

"Alas, these three-dimensional humans who are controlled by desire, a pure and beautiful girl like me has been led astray."

Hua Yan picked up her customized paper idol pillow from the chair next to her and leaned against it beautifully: "My ACG is still as fresh as ever, so cute."
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After the signing was completed, Li Qin's team quickly issued an announcement to fans in the name of the new studio, and also released the next work schedule.

[It’s been ten years! Sister, you finally figured it out (crying) You should have left a long time ago. It took so long. ]

[So does anyone know if my sister is working alone now, or which company she has joined? ]

[I found "Qinmeng Film and Television Studio" on Tianyancha. I am the legal representative and she is also one of the shareholders. Applause, I am finally my own boss! ]

[The above, you should check it carefully. Didn't you see that Taiyang Chuanhe, Arclight Film and Television and Meng Bai are also shareholders? They are the major shareholders. ]

[Fuck, so Qinqin isn't going to be with that Meng Bai again? No, sister, let's not be so love-minded, okay! ]

[Haha, these fans are really hilarious. They don't think that all the resources you have are dropped from the sky, do they? I didn't say it before, but now you have a big-budget movie + two dramas right after signing the contract. Do you call this love-brained? ]

[It's really ridiculous that someone doesn't even look down on the boss of a top company in the industry. Do they really think your sister is some kind of fairy? If it were another company, career fans would be eager to find an awesome brother-in-law.]

[It should be said that although the development of this group of "90 flowers" is average, they are much better than the "85 flowers" in finding brother-in-laws. ]

[Stop talking, my friend. This “85 Flower” fan is about to cry 555]

【…】

Just like Meng Bai said, some labels will still be remembered even if they are clarified.

Although the press conference before Arc Light reversed the online public opinion, many people still have the impression that Meng Bai is a "scumbag".

In fact, it is true. No one is stupid. He is a big boss in the industry, young, rich, handsome, and in the entertainment industry where there are so many beautiful women. No one would believe that this kind of person is Gao Chunai.

In fact, being able to keep changing girlfriends like Wanda’s Mr. Wang can be considered a "clear stream" in the same class.

More importantly, Li Qin's statement at the time was ambiguous and did not clarify the specific relationship. So except for a small number of core fans who deceived themselves and refused to admit it, most fans also acquiesced.

Some fans of the career even welcome this. Just like what was said in the previous comments, their brother-in-law is a big shot in the circle, so it is better than finding an uncle who is a dozen years older or a newcomer who is nothing.

Of course, it would be better if this brother-in-law was not so unfaithful.

In general, Li Qin’s fans are very satisfied with her job change this time. Not only have her resources increased visibly, but she has also started to enter the most prestigious film industry.

It is said that the entertainment industry praises the powerful and bullies the weak, but in fact, the fan circle is the worst. Once the status of the main star is improved, the voices of the fans in the fan circle will also become louder.

Li Qin's fans were overjoyed, but another group of fans were furious.

[What on earth is Jiaxing doing? Didn’t we say that the project of “Assassination of Novelist” was under our control a few days ago? Why did they suddenly change the cast? ]

The fans of Yang Mi expressed their dissatisfaction. It was previously rumored that the heroine of the movie "Assassination of Novelist" was from their family. However, after only a few days of not seeing the movie, the character became someone else's.

[Could it be that they wanted to steal it, so they spread the news to the public? ]

[How could this be? The official Weibo account of the film company directly @黎沁 to express "welcome to join", what else can I say. ]

[Fuck, I know the reason now. Looking at the official poster released by the crew, Arclight Pictures is listed as the producer. I got cut off.]

[SB Jiaxing, it's really useless. Wouldn't you guys invest in it too? Why did you just let it be taken away like that? ]

[That’s right, he owns a web drama company, why did they just snatch it away? Is Jiaxing just sitting around doing nothing? ]

Yang Mi’s fans’ dissatisfaction with Jiaxing Media has been around for a long time. The company has been sucking blood from them in order to bring in new people, but when the time comes, it does nothing.

For many people outside the industry, the impression of Arclight Pictures is still that it is "the leading company in the field of online dramas." They know that it is somewhat impressive, but they are not sure how impressive it is.

Although Arclight has made a lot of moves recently, they are mainly aimed at the industry. Unless ordinary fans and netizens pay attention to the trends in the film and television industry every day, they are not very clear.

Your Huguang is a film and television company, and so is our Jiaxing. In this case, why should we be afraid of them?

This is the idea of many Yang Mi fans.

For a time, fans began to spontaneously launch multi-pronged attacks for the "interests" of their own protagonists.

Some asked them to come out and do something under the official account of Jiaxing Media, some went to fight with Li Qin's fans; some asked for an explanation of the reason for the replacement under the account of "Assassination of Novelist" crew, and some went to Arc Light Films and scolded them for "bullying others by taking advantage of their power."

There was even a small group of people who went to Liu Kaiwei and scolded him, saying that they were both "brother-in-law" so why couldn't you stand up straight?

However, what surprised these fans was that, apart from Li Qin's fans who immediately confronted them, the other parties were completely silent.

(End of this chapter)