Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 960 New Movie (13)

Uh… something went wrong at the press conference; Shen Yan publicly stated that he disliked Li An…

Then I got criticized by a lot of people.

They said he was ignorant and arrogant!

They won the Palme d'Or, what's with all the arrogance?
Shen Yan felt a bit confused, because he had said the same thing before, and even responded to it in the live stream...

Okay, he won the Palme d'Or, and a lot of people are unhappy about it!
Compared to Ang Lee, Shen Yan is missing an Oscar for Best Director and a Berlin Golden Bear…

But he has the Palme d'Or, Li An doesn't...

Li An was also nominated for the main competition at Cannes with "Making Woodstock", but did not win a single award!
However, Yan Ge remained quite calm and did not respond to the related topic—Li An's "Gemini Man" will be released next year, and then it will completely flop!

After "Life of Pi", Ann Lee became completely obsessed!
As a Chinese person living in the United States, the ability to make a cross-cultural story about a British Indian writer is absolutely strong. Everyone says that "Life of Pi" deservedly won the Oscar for Best Director.

But Ann Lee may have felt that the success of "Life of Pi" was due to 3D technology.
Therefore, the later "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" kept promoting new technologies, and the story became clichéd.

"Gemini Man" continues the trend of "Halfway"—a subpar commercial film that focuses on technical skill but fails to tell a good story.

The reason people are so fond of Life of Pi is actually more because of its storytelling than its technical aspects.

Actually, it's good that Gemini Man was a failure...

Ann Lee also had the opportunity and time to produce "Spring Snow Bottle" - Ann Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was actually more based on a novel written by Nie Yunlan called "Jade Dragon", which was adapted from the first half of Wang Dulu's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and the second half was "Spring Snow Bottle".

Nie Yunlan adapted Wang Dulu's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" into the novels "Jade Dragon" and "Spring Snow Bottle"...

Among them, "Yu Jiaolong" was adapted into a TV series of the same name and won the first Outstanding Long Novel Award of "Legend of Today and Yesterday".

"Spring Snow Bottle" has a very tragic feel to it...

I've been really looking forward to Li An making a film...

But Ann Lee went on to make "Old Gold Mountain"—a story of Chinese laborers and their descendants against the backdrop of the American Gold Rush, based on the novel "The Color of Gold Mountain," the story King Hu most wanted to film; and also "The Bruce Lee Story," promoting her own son…

However, I heard that Sony abandoned the "Bruce Lee" project—as of May 2025, Sony Pictures still hadn't approved filming permission due to funding issues…

……

On the 15th, Shi Shi went to the set of "Ninefold Purple". This is her first time as a producer to oversee a major drama with an investment of 9000 million yuan!

This TV series is considered an S-level production…

The main reason is that the combined salary of the male and female leads was 1500 million yuan.

This means that most of the budget went to production rather than actors' salaries…

Besides the female lead Meng Ziyi, whose salary reached 800 million yuan, the male lead Han Dongjun's salary was 700 million yuan.
All the other actors were paid less than 200 million...

Even she herself only gets a 300 million yuan salary—for a supporting role…

Including in the upcoming drama "The Strategy of a Concubine's Daughter," she will also be a supporting character...

The main reason is that my age is not suitable for playing the female lead.

Otherwise, from the perspective of a producer and investor, if she plays the female lead, these two dramas can immediately be upgraded to S+ production level!

But Shen Yan said to her, 'If you're hoping to sell your shows yourself, why do you want to be a producer?'

She made up her mind!

"The Strategy of a Concubine's Daughter" is considered an S-level production, with Tan Songyun as the female lead and Nie Yuan as the male lead. The production cost was 1.8 million yuan.

The production process for TV series is quite different from that for movies. Movie production typically prioritizes high quality, with core positions filled by top talent who remain relatively stable. TV series, on the other hand, emphasize large-scale collaboration and utilize a rotating director system to improve efficiency… Shishi has to be on set every day…

After all, the production crew's daily revenue was staggering; she really couldn't rest easy without keeping an eye on things...

Back then, the TV station's program acquisition department colluded with many program companies to make money in various ways!

Film crew meals are a big business, not to mention props, costumes, and locations.

Various subsidies, film purchases, viewership manipulation, data acquisition, and attracting investment are all complex skills...

If you want to hear legendary stories, you can look for female reporters from local TV stations and newspapers. They have many interesting gossips that will leave today's children speechless and incredulous.

Now...

While the flow of funds for video platform purchases of dramas is relatively transparent, many issues still exist.

Shen Yan then flew to Hainan…

……

Danzhou, Danzhou, Hainan!
Su Dongpo was demoted three times, and one of those times was to Danzhou…

It is said that it was because he wrote a poem: "White hair scattered in the frosty wind, a sick face rests on a rattan bed in a small pavilion. Reports say the master sleeps soundly in spring, while the Taoist gently strikes the five-watch bell."

Then the poem reached the hands of Prime Minister Zhang Dun. He glanced at it and laughed: "Is Su Shi (Su Dongpo) still so cheerful?"

Let me translate: Wow! Su Shi is actually living such a carefree life?
What does it say?
This indicates that the place where they were demoted was not remote enough...

With a stroke of his pen, he sent him straight to Danzhou!
Danzhou, formerly known as "Dan'er," was an extremely wild and dangerous place during the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi, who was 62 years old at the time, realized that this might be a one-way trip of life and death, so he entrusted his affairs to his eldest son, Su Mai, and went to Danzhou with only his youngest son, Su Guo...

Not only Su Shi, but Su Zhe was also demoted. Where was he demoted to? Leizhou!
Why was Su Shi from Danzhou? Why was Su Zhe from Leizhou?
According to Lu You's "Notes from the Old Study", Zhang Dun chose Danzhou because Su Shi's courtesy name was Zizhan, and the characters Zhan and Dan look similar; while Su Zhe was demoted to Leizhou because Su Zhe's courtesy name was Ziyou, and both You and Lei have the character Tian below them.

Such an absurd reason has aroused indignation among people of later generations.

By the way, many people say that Su Zhe was always trying to protect his brother, but that's not true this time—Zhang Dun and Su Shi were once very close friends. According to historical records, Zhang Dun was a generous but narrow-minded person. Because Su Zhe had impeached him, he held a grudge and took it out on Su Shi.

However, Su Shi and Su Zhe were indeed very close brothers.

"Though we are separated by vast distances, we share the same moon" was written for Su Zhe, expressing brotherly affection. It was not a love poem, nor was it written for a lover.

To be honest, upon arriving in Danzhou, Shen Yan and several assistant directors and photographers were quite surprised: there were traces of Su Dongpo everywhere!
In the ancient city of Danzhou, there is a road called Dongpo Road; a well called Dongpo Well; and a type of field called Dongpo Field…

Of course, there's also the Dongpo Academy!

They had a team of photographers take a bunch of pictures, and then... they chose another location and set up...

"This location isn't suitable for filming, let's go to..."

An accompanying official interjected, "Could we build a set on Ocean Flower Island?"

Before Shen Yan could speak, another official immediately retorted, "Impossible... Ocean Flower Island is a cultural tourism project..."

Ocean Flower Island... Evergrande Ocean Flower Island!

It is said that after Mr. Xu went to Dubai for inspection, he was amazed by the grandeur of Palm Jumeirah and suddenly had the idea to build a similar project in China.

Shen Yan also shook his head: "We'll just build a few thatched huts over there..."

"I think we could build a film studio..."

Shen Yan ignored him…

(End of this chapter)