the longest dream

Chapter 288 Solicitation
Zhao Qiang was feeling a little bit emotional about this scene of "the monarch and his ministers get each other", when he heard the news from the front, Niu Li and Wang Lun came again.

When Zhou Cheng heard this, he immediately remembered, and said, "When I left the movie theater, I saw two people who looked like them from a distance. But I came here in a hurry, so I didn't say hello."

After Zhang Qing thought about it, he smiled and said, "I asked for an investment of three million from me the day before yesterday. Maybe I saw Director Zhou coming over, and I was afraid of being intercepted, so I hurriedly chased you over."

Zhou Cheng was a little anxious when he heard it, and said, "I really need a sum of money to start the project!"

Zhang Qing laughed and said, "Director Zhou, you don't need to consider funding issues when you start a movie in the future. For projects below [-] million, you can make a decision and approve the project yourself at any time. If it is more than [-] million or less than [-] million, ask Mr. Zhao to sign. Three More than ten million..."

"Enough is enough!"

Zhou Cheng wiped off the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead, and said, "For a cost of 90 million, you need a box office of [-] million to pay back. The highest domestic film in the [-]s didn't even reach [-] million..."

Zhang Qing smiled and said: "Although the top mainland movie is not [-] million, but Sun Kuohai's blockbuster sold more than [-] million, and the Hollywood blockbuster the year before last sold more than [-] million. It means that our audience is not willing to watch it. Movies, I can’t find good movies to watch.”

According to the historical process, next year the big Hollywood ship will come in and directly rake in nearly [-] million at the box office. After [-] years of friction with Chinese-language movies, another American blockbuster broke the record.

Although the box office does not mean everything, although you can find all kinds of reasons and excuses, but...

In the end, there was only one sigh.

While talking, Niu Dao and Qiao's seven people retreated. Seeing Qu Qin and Zhou Cheng's chatting smiles, both of them felt restrained.

Qu Qin had a straight temper, and before she retreated, she said straightly: "What's the matter, you're here to vote? Lao Zhou, your speed is too slow, right? After all, you are the next young director in the world."

Zhou Cheng's temperament is really peaceful, but also angry, he said cheerfully: "What kind of international director am I? I used to beg for food with Qingduo."

Qu Qin gave a "tsk tsk", looked at Niu Li and said, "Good guy, are you planning to unify Chinese movies?"

Niu Li hehe said: "Old Wang, you have failed your studies, and you are trying to trick me in a different way? If this name is used, the irrelevant departments should give me eye drops. You have been treated badly, and you want to pull people Sheung Shui?"

Director Niu: ... ""

Zhou Chengdao: "Qingduo just wants to do something for our Chinese films."

Director Niu believed: "Do something for Chinese movies? You're doing too much, right? The box office of this movie is so low, isn't it?"

Qiao said: "If you say more, it will be higher than "Duo Lin Duo Lin."

Niu Li laughed but said nothing. When Qiao saw this, he slapped his forehead immediately, and laughed at himself: "Look at my stupid brain. At that time, a movie ticket for "Duo Lin Duo Lin" was only [-] cents, and the box office was less than [-] million yuan. , even if a group of people watched it several times, at most there are not hundreds of millions of people who have watched it. Now a movie ticket costs ten yuan, and hundreds of millions of people... Good guy, but do you have to hug billions?" After finishing speaking, he laughed up.

Zhou Cheng shook his head again and again and said: "That's how it is calculated. It costs ten cents a piece, and the common people can afford it. I remember that in [-], the economic situation was good, the whole country was in decline, and the farmers had a good harvest. They spent ten cents to watch a movie. It's still worth it. It's the same now. The economy outside the city is good, and there are workers everywhere. It looks like the outside of the city is suffering, but the countryside is actually even more miserable. The number of people who can afford to watch movies is less than four or seven years. Hundreds of millions of people must have None, tens of millions of people... there is no hope."

Niu Li smiled, and said: "Let's see, let's talk about it, even if there is no box office of [-] million or [-] million, if you deduct it from the east and the west, and then share it with the theater, you will only get tens of millions, and after deducting the tax, there will be a lot. There is also a record that makes less money. And every movie can encounter this kind of century-old prosperity, which can catch a wave of popularity. As far as the current domestic theater system and the number of screens are concerned, I want to be able to compete with movies. To get rich, die as soon as possible. I don’t have the energy, and I can do anything to make more money than making movies.”

Zhou Chengdao: "Others say this is worthy, but Qingduo said there must be something wrong. Good guy, our girl and I have been having a tantrum for two or eight years, and he actually called me a while later, just to ask me to help her." I bought "I Am a Boy" CDs, pictorials, dolls, short sleeves and so on. It cost me about [-] yuan to get them together. Don't think it is too expensive. In a slightly larger city, you can buy whatever you want. .”

Knowing something inside, Mrs. Qiao said with a smile: "We, Qingduo, earn vulgar money. The money they earn is to go to Hong Kong Island to buy "Ming Pao". That is a super small property with a market value of one billion Hong Kong dollars. It can be calculated with money. Who dares to use money to buy Huaguo Daily? It’s no wonder it was picked out by someone’s ear. But the influence of Ming Pao in the world is much lower than that of Huaguo Daily. Zhou This title is good, 'Qingduo', it was called Qingduo before, it's too appropriate!"

Niu Li asked Niu Dao: "Can you bear him like this?"

Director Niu became amused, took out a cigarette and smoked it, and said, "Is it happy to praise you for being awesome?"

Niu Liluan: "That's right, did you suffer when people praised you for looking up at the Big Dipper? I'm still far behind. This kind of praise is really a skill. Digging deep, you can get a Here comes a good movie."

Qiao said "Hey", and said in a low voice: "You really flatter me, I understand, I will definitely save up a good notebook later."

Niu Li said: "Director Zhou has already agreed to join Du Juan, and he can do whatever he wants for a movie with a budget of more than [-] million yuan. Qu Qin, are you interested in joining Du Juan?"

It's hard to talk about this person's character, but there are still problems with the director's skills, at least in this era.

Director Niu looked sideways and said, "Is he taking more than [-] million carefully?"

Niu Li shook his head and said: "I admire Zhang Qing's talent, but before his talent is fully revealed, he can only be approved to [-] million. If Qu Qin can prove himself step by step without solid results, he will also lower the quota. Nothing at all It should be explained that I will completely interfere in the creative process and filming process, and the producer is an arrangement, giving the director the least power."

Zhao Qiang chuckled and said, "Eight million is too much, which means at most [-] million at the box office to barely make it back. In the past ten years, there are only a handful of mainland movies that have achieved this box office. "

Joe rubbed his head and said: "In the [-]s, the box office was actually high. At the lowest point, there were no more than eight or seven billion. As a result, the more reforms, the worse he was. Before the account split in [-], it was more or less anxious, but there was no limit to it." .I reckon that it needs to be changed again. The theater chain system needs to be changed, so what's the use of it? By the way, Qingduo, I heard that the group of people who came out of Changying are all in Dujuan now?"

Niu Li said: "No such thing."

Zhou Cheng said in a low voice: "I've heard that too, so you can pull out a team to film at any time."

Niu Li shook his head and said: "A small number of them are asked to prepare to shoot a TV series and re-run together. There is still a part of them who are determined to stick to movies, and they are sent to Hong Kong Island to study. Director Zhou can go to Hong Kong Island to pick people for filming. You are worried, the director is smaller than the sky on the set. In addition, Bai Kezhi's wife Zhao Lin is a top producer, and now she is also the vice chairman of our Dujuan Culture Media in charge of the film and television department, and she will help the producers when the time comes."

What Zhou Cheng was naturally satisfied with was that he could be more satisfied. In terms of various film front-screen technologies, Hong Kong Island is slightly weaker than Xiao Lu.

Joe thought it made sense: "For such a small battle, the labor cost on Hong Kong Island is much lower than ours, how much box office can we get back the money?"

This time "Huang Feihong" was screened, Du Juan was able to send accountants to monitor the votes without so much showmanship, which was absolutely possible last time.

Just stealing the box office and hiding the box office can teach Niu Li to be a man last time.

Niu Li himself said it just now, he understands this, so he actually added a small investment?
Niu Li smiled and said: "We have reached a strategic partnership agreement with Hong Kong Island Quqin Films. Wang Lun does not have more than [-] theaters in Nanyang, and there are no distribution channels in Wanwan, Japan and South Korea. There is no sub-channel with Nanyang, and there is little difficulty in distributing without promotional channels. Therefore, as long as the film is too unremarkable, the problem of paying back the cost is small."

Director Niu felt that Niu Li had nothing to say, squinted and said, "What do you mean being too unremarkable?"

Qu Qin laughed and said, "It's the kind you wrote. After leaving Pingjing, the audience will be less surprised, but after crossing the Yangtze River, a few people will hate it."

"Fuck!"

Niu Dao swears: "Who do you think you care about?"

Niu Li hehe said: "You said it yourself, when you wrote it, did you only care about your own pleasure, or did you consider the readers in the south?"

Director Niu simply dismissed it: "When I write a book, even I will go back and read it again. Who the hell thinks about the north and the south?"

Niu Li smiled and said: "So, your books are as popular as mine, and they are sold as widely as mine. It doesn't matter whether you are in the north or the south, some people like to read martial arts. But your Beijing accent and rhyme are loved by the people in the south. There are really few."

Niu Dao was overwhelmed with anger, and Mrs. Qiao helped to clarify: "Lord Lun's books sold very well in the south."

Niu Li said with a chuckle: "That's because it was just released, and the common people have other books to read. The novels are all serious literature, and there is a string of alleys popping up in the heat, and the idle writers are curious, so they buy it. Try to sell it in the past few years, how many copies can be sold in the south of the Yangtze River? It is because of Lao Wang's talent, it is a small problem to write a good script. Of course, I am also asking for it, just a suggestion. Would you like You can write whatever you want, and you can shoot whatever Zhang Qing wants after writing. I insult the freedom of creation."

Both of them are actually people who cherish their feathers. It may be too much to say that such a person is an extreme egoist, but it is too little.

The two of them will definitely ruin their reputation for the sake of their money, so Niu Li is very worried.

Director Niu was not angry at first, but when he heard this, he smiled angrily: "You have never done business like this, and I think it has been a long time."

Niu Li looked at him and said, "Is there anything wrong? If there is something to do, I'll leave a meal."

Niu Dao's eyes were straightened, what a fucking ghost, when did he get so mixed up that people would chase him in, fearing that he would steal his money?

If Qu Qin pulled him back, he would have to slap the table and curse: "Are you busy with nothing?"

Qu Qin shook her head and said, "There is something urgent, I need to talk to Director Zhou about his last movie."

Qu Qin snorted, and said: "It's a coincidence, I also want to talk about the last movie. Today's lunch, you have to take care of it, you have to take care of it, I still have to go! At noon You leave for dinner, and you leave after dinner... Did you Dujuan send an accountant to count the votes? Just in time, after [-] o'clock in the evening, we will gather up and gather, and we will see if you are a dragon, a tiger, or a bug!"

Qu Qin laughed and said: "You are a housekeeper? When did you make a thousand phone calls from a thousand movie theaters across the country? It's a mistake if the results come out tomorrow, and you still count at that time? Yes, can you help? The staff and staff can also..."

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(End of this chapter)