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Chapter 125 Sister Hong, I invested because of your face

Author: Knight Confused 2023

Chapter 125 Sister Hong, I invested because of your face

"Hiss...roar..."

At Yan Danchen's place, the passion accumulated over the past few days was released, and Qi Wei slept very happily.

When he woke up early the next morning, he looked at Yan Danchen who was still sleeping soundly next to her. Seeing that there were tears on her face and a satisfied smile on her lips, Qi Wei couldn't help but bite her jelly-like elastic face.

Her long eyelashes twitched.

Seeing the happiness on her face, Qi Wei was in a good mood.

He gently covered her with the quilt, then tiptoed into the bathroom and started washing her.

Ten minutes later, Qi Wei walked out of the bathroom humming a song and wiping his wet hair with a dry towel.

At this time, Yan Danchen had woken up, sitting on the bed and looking at Qi Wei with a smile on his face.

"Or did I wake you up?"

"No way, you don't know that we get up earlier than this when we go to school."

Students in the Nortel Performance Department have morning classes, and have to get up at 6 o'clock every day to do some singing.

"Didn't you ask for leave today? You don't have to go to school. You can sleep more today."

At this time, Nortel was still very strict, and innocent absenteeism was a very serious matter and would be punished.

However, Qi Wei, who is now popular, is the darling of his class teacher Cui Xinqin and even the entire Nortel. Qi Wei, who finished his new college promotion work yesterday, returned to Nortel to report. Before Qi Wei could say anything, Cui Xinqin very considerately gave Yan Danchen a day off.

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Of course, Yan Danchen also has legitimate reasons to ask for leave, because she is about to join the filming of "Never Close Eyes" with Qi Wei.

Qi Wei had already sat by the bed, picked up the hair dryer and started drying his hair.

Yan Danchen had already gotten up from the bed and skillfully helped Qi Wei take out clothes from the cabinet.

She served Qi Wei and dressed up like a good wife and mother.

He lowered his head and looked at her, letting herself be manipulated by her, watching her busy for herself, and the kindness she had treated him in the past came to mind.

This is the woman that I should cherish the most.

After she helped herself button the last button on the collar, she also looked up at herself.

The tender eyes are twinkling.

Qi Wei couldn't help but hug her, and kissed her red lips.

I don't want to be separated for a long time.

"You still have important things to do today." After parting their lips, the panting Yan Danchen let out a long sigh of relief and said with a smile like a crescent moon.

"You are the most important thing to me."

"I'm very happy that you said that, but you have already agreed on a time to meet with others. You can't waste any more time. Don't be late. I don't want to be a stumbling block to your career." She said very considerately.

"You will never be a stumbling block for me, because you are my good wife." Qi Wei said while holding her hand.

"Your mouth is so sweet!" She happily kissed Qi Wei's cheek.

Qi Wei's love words made the smile on her face become even brighter.

While there was still time, Qi Wei briefly "reminisced about the past" and left with satisfaction.

I took a car to a high-end hotel. When I arrived at the reception room, the person I wanted to meet had already been waiting for a long time.

"I shouldn't be considered late." Qi Wei looked at the time on his watch and said with a smile.

"No, you're on time. It's just that we came early."

Zhao Baogang was also there, he said with a smile, and then started to help introduce.

"This is Qi Wei, the most popular singer in China right now."

"Don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously." Qi Wei waved his hand and said with a modest smile.

Zhao Baogang pointed to the two people sitting opposite Qi Wei and said: "This is Director Li Shaohong, and this is"

Qi Wei interrupted: "Director Zhao, you don't need to introduce me to this one. She is the most beautiful woman in our mainland. Everyone knows about her."

Then Qi Wei took the initiative to reach out to her. After shaking hands, Qi Wei looked at her and said: "I am not satisfied with you saying that when I first watched the Three Kingdoms, I saw your performance of Diao Chan. Her eyes, smile, and every move made me fall in love for the first time.

I am so fascinated that I will think of you for a long time and for many nights."

If an ugly person says something like this, it might be considered harassment, but if a handsome, talented, and wealthy person says something like this, it's completely different.

"You are so humorous, you don't need to compliment me." The beautiful woman opposite became amused by Qi Wei's words, covering her mouth and laughing.

I suddenly felt a good impression of Qi Wei in my heart.

"I am not complimenting you. I am speaking from my heart. I have been holding it in my heart for a long time. If I had been born ten years earlier, no, even five years earlier, then I would definitely pursue you at all costs. If

Sister, if you don’t mind the relationship between brother and sister."

"If it were you, that would be fine." The woman opposite smiled even more happily and her words became humorous.

The interaction between the two was seen by Chen Shaohong, who was sitting next to Chen Hong. Her eyes under her glasses squinted at the two of them, and a smile could not help but appear on her lips.

I thought I had done the right thing by bringing Chen Hong here this time, and maybe I could really get investment from Qi Wei.

She smiled and interjected: "Director Chen Kai will be unhappy if he hears what you said."

"Even if Director Chen is here, I will tell the truth. He has already married my goddess and it's a done deal. I believe Director Chen is not a stingy person."

"Haha, but he is not as generous as you think." Li Shaohong said with a smile.

Brother Chen Kai and Li Shaohong are classmates, and their relationship is very good.

Even Chen Hong was able to serve as the heroine of her new drama "Da Ming Gong Ci" because of this relationship.

So it's harmless for her to tell some of her friends' jokes.

Qi Wei looked at Li Shaohong, sizing her up and saying polite words:

"Director Li, "Pink" directed by you is so classic. I like this movie so much. I don’t even know how many times I have watched it."

Qi Wei has indeed watched the movie "Red Pink" many times, but it is not because Qi Wei likes this movie so much.

Li Shaohong is a director who graduated from Nortel, and her film "Pink" won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. It was once explained in class as a classic case, and it was inevitable to watch it several times.

"A good man never mentions his bravery."

Although he says this, when talking about this movie, Li Shaohong always has a proud smile on his face.

Li Shaohong used to be a film director and is now a TV drama director. With the chain of contempt in the film and television industry, she was "forced" to change her profession from a film director to a TV drama director because of the movie "Pink".

After the film reform in 1993, the director's room was abolished. If anyone makes a movie, you can produce it based on the factory's quota, but you need to raise your own funds.

Li Shaohong's path as a director was much more bumpy than her classmate Chen Kaige's smooth sailing.

Did she spend several years looking for money for the movie "Pink", or did Hong Kong director Xu Ke fund the early preparations for "Pink".

After the film was finally approved, relevant policies canceled co-productions, which almost wiped out the money spent on the early project.

After many twists and turns, "Pink" finally raised 2.5 million yuan. Because it was eager to recover the cost of distribution, after passing the review, the copyright of the film was purchased by Hong Kong City Ocean Film Company for 3.8 million yuan.

For this film, which won an award at the Berlin Film Festival, this price is actually a bit low.

Facts have also proved this. This movie earned 28 million yuan at the box office when it was released in China, but most of the profits did not belong to the producer.

This movie was relatively successful in terms of awards and business, but it left Li Shaohong with rather painful memories.

It is really not easy to attract investment for making a movie, but that is not the point.

From the initial investment to the completion of production and release of the movie "Pink", Li Shaohong worked hard and put in all his thoughts.

He contributed the most, but most of the cake created by the entire movie was taken away by others.

She didn't even drink the soup when others ate meat. She was completely making a wedding dress for others.

The film brought her honor, but little else besides honor.

The entire mainland film market is deteriorating, and even if she wants to make a film, it is still not easy to attract investment.

At this time, she had already established her own film and television company Rong Xinda with several friends. Even if she wanted to make a movie, she could get investment, but other business partners in her company would not be willing.

The reason is also very simple, that is, you can't make money from making movies.

Li Shaohong is not like Brother Chen Kai who has the ability to organize the overall situation and invest in making blockbusters. There are many ways to make blockbusters. Even through accounting and other forms, you can make a lot of money in film production. There is no need to consider making money from the box office after the film is released.

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And Li Shaohong can only make some low-cost movies. Low-cost movies can't make much money from film production. If you want to make money, you can only watch the box office.

But in today's harsh film market environment, trying to make money through box office is tantamount to wishful thinking.

Not every film is lucky enough to achieve high box office success like "Red Rain."

Moreover, "Red Rain" was able to achieve high box office results because others knew how to operate commercially and did a good job in publicity and distribution.

If you don’t sell the copyright and do it yourself, you really can’t do it so well.

The TV drama market is completely different.

With the popularity of television sets and the surge in TV advertising costs, major TV stations need more high-quality content to attract viewers in order to achieve ratings. The supply exceeds demand, which makes the entire TV drama market generally appear to be booming.

In 1996, Li Shaohong began to transition into directing TV series. In the same year, he directed the TV series "Thunderstorm" adapted from the play written by Cao Yu.

The market response is quite satisfactory.

Although in 1997, she came back to film a feature film "Red Suit".

But she had already tasted the benefits while filming "Thunderstorm", and now she is focusing her career more on TV series.

Start organizing games to play big production.

"Director Zhao should have told you the purpose of this meeting with you. I am currently preparing a "Daming Palace Ci" project. Are you interested in investing?"

After chatting for a few words, Li Shaohong said straight to the point.

Seeing Qi Wei nodded, she took out a stack of documents from her bag and handed it to Qi Wei, "This is the script of "Da Ming Palace Ci", you can take a look first."

After taking it, Qi Wei pretended to look at it seriously with a serious face.

There are great risks involved in investing in film and television dramas. Although in today's market environment, investing in television dramas is much less risky than investing in movies, small risks do not mean there are no risks.

Only TV series that can achieve high ratings will be rewarded if the audience loves them.

The higher the ratings, the greater the returns.

And in fact, the inflow of more capital into the TV drama market will also bring certain competition, but it is not so obvious in the current TV drama market where supply exceeds demand.

Generally speaking, investment in TV dramas is getting higher and higher, and like movies, they are also developing towards high-investment large-scale productions.

Of course, at this time, it was impossible for private capital to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to film the Four Great Classics like the wealthy CCTV did.

From the memory of later generations, Qi Wei does not know how much investment was made in the TV series "Ci of Daming Palace", but it is certain that the investment exceeded 25 million.

The investment of 25 million in the TV series is definitely considered a large-scale production with large investment at this time.

Large investments mean higher risks and it will be more difficult to get your money back.

Very few film and television companies can afford such a large investment, and even if they could, they would not invest on their own.

Eggs cannot be put in one basket. It is wise to find allies to share risks and benefits and make the cake as big as possible.

It would be best to borrow a chicken to lay eggs.

Li Shaohong found him through Zhao Baogang to attract investment, which has already explained a problem:

The project "Da Ming Gong Ci" is not particularly ideal for attracting investment.

Because generally speaking, in addition to funds from some allies, film and television project investors are more willing to look for investments from outside the industry.

Why? Because those outside the industry don’t understand, so it’s easier to cheat. Even if the film and television project fails in the end and loses money, the losses will be the investors’ money, and the film and television producers will make a lot of money.

It's not so easy for those in the pit circle. They are all foxes with thousands of years of history. Why are you playing with me? Everyone knows all the details inside.

Looking for funds in the circle often results in both success and loss.

Qi Wei doesn't remember what the ratings of the drama "Da Ming Gong Ci" were, but this TV series with high reputation should have caused a ratings frenzy at the time.

Otherwise, Li Shaohong would not have released a crappy "Song Palace Ci" twenty years later under the name of this drama.

Well. "The Palace of the Song Dynasty" is difficult to describe in one sentence, and the plot is just crappy. The same goes for the casting. Teacher Liu Baijie was very smooth when she was young, but is it really appropriate at that age?

I was completely dumped by the person in front of me.

The Chen Hong in front of her is indeed beautiful. She has just finished unloading her goods and is taking care of herself. She is nearly thirty years old and has the right advantages. She has the charm of a young girl and the charm of a mature woman.

When Qi Wei read the script, he would glance at it from time to time.

They even looked at each other when they glanced at her, but she didn't mind and smiled at Qi Wei.

Charming and moving.

This smile was like sunshine illuminating the heart, reminding Qi Wei of the legacy of Prime Minister Cao buried deep in his heart.

There is something agitated inside.

After spending more than ten minutes reading the script, Qi Wei closed the script and said:

"The plot revolves around Princess Taiping of the Tang Dynasty and tells the story of the court struggles and grudges in the Wu Zetian era.

The lines are very gorgeous and have the style of Shakespeare's opera, which I like better. Overall, the plot of this play is quite different from historical facts.

How should I put it? This drama should have good ratings prospects, right?

TV dramas still depend on the ability of the producer and director, and of course I still have full confidence in you, Director Li."

Qi Wei said in an uncertain tone while describing the analysis.

Li Shaohong clapped his palms and gave a thumbs up to Qi Wei, praising: "You just watched it like this and analyzed it so thoroughly. You are very capable. I now believe in your previous films and TV shows."

Making a profit on investment is definitely not as simple as a blind cat encountering a dead mouse.”

"A blind cat meets a dead mouse? Why did you think that my investment was profitable before because I was just lucky?"

Li Shaohong smiled and did not answer, but asked: "Have you read the script, are you interested in investing?"

Qi Wei became silent, and then looked at Chen Hong.

Pretending to think for a while, he asked Chen Hong: "Sister Hong, do you want me to invest in this drama?"

She smiled and said: "I am the heroine of this drama, of course I hope so."

"In that case, Sister Hong, I'll invest for your sake!"

Qi Wei said proudly, and then looked at Li Shaohong, "Director Li, you have also heard that I can invest in this drama. Let's talk about the details. I wonder how much investment you still need for this drama. How much investment do you need from me?"

(End of chapter)