1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Gao Jinwen did not agree to Zhou Yan's proposal immediately. He smiled and said, "We will definitely set up a selection team. As for whether our ginseng will participate, we will talk about it later."

Gao Jinwen certainly understood that if their teacher was not in the selection team, the internal conflicts would be smaller.

However, if their people are not on the selection team, their school’s initiative will be much smaller, which is certainly not what Gao Jinwen wants.

They are definitely enthusiastic about the school-enterprise cooperation with Zhou Yan's studio this time, but they are certainly not unreserved.

They don't understand the school-enterprise cooperation yet, and don't know what both parties can gain and what they will pay from the cooperation.

They care more about giving than getting.

After hearing what Gao Jinwen said, Zhou Yan didn't say anything else. Whether there were people from the Central Academy of Drama participating in the selection team actually didn't have much impact on them.

"Okay then, let's settle it this way. I'll tell Liu Hang about the quota."

"Thank you very much."

"Coach Gao, you're here again. Do we really have to be so polite to each other?"

"Personal relationships are personal relationships, and work is work." Gao Jinwen said with a smile, "I hope this cooperation can be completed quickly. If it can be finalized this semester, we will have one semester in the first half of next year to check the results. If the results are satisfactory, we can include the school-enterprise cooperation project in the training plan for freshmen next year."

Zhou Yan also laughed, "Well, I also hope to get it done as soon as possible. At the end of this year, our studio is going to hold a party, and we will invite all departments to perform. If our school-enterprise cooperation is reached, you will definitely have to put on a show as well."

Hearing this, Gao Jinwen became interested, "What kind of party is it?"

"It's not a big event, just an annual corporate party. But our situation is special, so we can make the party more exciting."

"Where will the party be held?"

"It might be in the cafeteria."

In fact, Zhou Yan was also hesitating whether to make a simple renovation in the cafeteria or in workshops No. 7 or 8.

It is more convenient to hold it in the cafeteria. The stage is ready and we just need to replace the sound equipment. Besides, the cafeteria has tables and chairs, so there is no need to get separate chairs.

But the problem with the cafeteria is that it is too small. It is not very big to begin with, and it is filled with tables, chairs and benches for dining, so it can only accommodate about three hundred people at most.

If there are only people from their studio, this capacity is actually sufficient, but if they want to invite more friends, it will be a bit cramped.

On the contrary, workshops No. 7 and No. 8 are much larger and very spacious, making them easy to renovate.

The disadvantage is that it costs more money, and it won’t be long before workshops 7 and 8 have to be renovated, so the money spent now will be wasted.

When Gao Jinwen heard that the event would be held in the cafeteria, his interest dropped a lot. He had eaten in the cafeteria yesterday and naturally knew that it could not accommodate too many people, so only a small event could be held.

However, if a school-enterprise cooperation is achieved, it would be nice to let the students perform a show.

"Okay, you don't have to worry about the program. The students in 93 and 94 usually rehearse a lot of programs. When the time comes, just choose one and let them perform. Don't worry about rehearsals."

"Yeah, no problem."

……

After hanging up the phone with Gao Jinwen, Zhou Yan called Liu Hang and asked him to contact the Central Academy of Drama.

After explaining everything to Liu Hang, Zhou Yan was about to change his clothes and go to the studio when the phone in the living room rang again.

Zhou Yan walked over and picked up the phone. "Hello, who is this?"

"Old Zhou, it's me."

Although the call was a little distorted, Zhou Yan immediately recognized it as Sun Qin's voice. He smiled and said, "What brought Director Sun here? It's rare for you to call me."

Sun Qin on the other end of the phone snorted, "If I don't call you, you won't call me either, right? Besides, you are now an internationally renowned director and a world-renowned composer. How could I dare to call you if I had nothing to do?"

"Look at what Director Sun said. Big directors and composers are nothing but Xiao Zhou in front of you. Director Sun, did you call me this time to give me some instructions?"

"I'm not going to waste my time on this nonsense. I'm calling you to ask if you have any idea of ​​cooperating with our TV station to make a show?"

"What program? Is your special feature department going to shoot a documentary recently? Do you want me to compose the music?"

Sun Qin has made good progress in recent years and has already taken the top position in the special department, taking over from Sun Zonglu.

After Sun Qin took over, the two sides also cooperated. In the first half of the year, the TV station produced a program called "Memories of Yanjing". The music was made by the music engineering department of Zhou Yan's studio, and the effect was pretty good.

"We can't afford your soundtracks now. I heard that you charge 10 million for each movie you compose for."

Zhou Yan laughed, "How can it be so exaggerated? How could I ask for 10 million for just a random movie? Their total investment in movies is not even that much."

Sun Qin was surprised and asked, "From what you said, is there really a movie that gives you 10 million?"

"Yes, it is, but the situation is rather special."

"Tsk tsk, comparing yourself to others makes you angry. I get less than 1,000 yuan a month in salary now, but you can get 10 million yuan for composing music for a movie."

Zhou Yan smiled. If they wanted to invite him to compose music for a movie now, it would not be something that could be done with money.

Even if someone offered him tens of millions to compose music, he would still think about it and at least make sure the movie he was composing couldn't be too bad.

After all, there are many ways to make money, and there is no need for Zhou Yan to ruin his reputation for a small amount of money.

"If you're envious, why not quit your job and come to my studio? I'll give you three thousand a month."

Zhou Yan wasn't joking. If Sun Qin was really willing to come to his studio, he would be able to give him several times more, not to mention three thousand.

Sun Qin is so young and yet he is able to take charge of the special department of Yanjing TV Station. He has both good connections and abilities.

Zhou Yan had worked with him before and was familiar with his abilities.

"It's impossible for me to resign. I will stay in the TV station for the rest of my life. If you want to come to the TV station, I can introduce you to it."

Of course Sun Qin knows that he can earn more outside, but he has no plans to go outside the system. Now he is doing very well in the TV station. Many things cannot be measured by money.

"Okay, let's talk about cooperation."

"It's not a collaboration, we just want to invite you to participate in one of our programs. Our TV station is going to produce a special interview series, specifically interviewing Hong Kong celebrities who have worked in the mainland, and mainland celebrities who have worked in Hong Kong. Our initial plan is to invite nine celebrities."

Although Sun Qin didn't say it, Zhou Yan understood why they were doing this talk show.

Seeing that Hong Kong will be back in half a year, their TV station must produce something. This kind of talk show is interesting and relatively safe.

Of course, if you want to make it interesting, you still have to see which guests you invite. If you invite ordinary small-time celebrities, there will be nothing interesting.

"Which nine stars?" Zhou Yan asked.

"It hasn't been finalized yet, but the initial list includes you, Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung, Stephen Chow, Joey Wong, Gong Li, Faye Wong, Maggie Cheung, and Jet Li."

After listening to Sun Qin's list, Zhou Yan curled his lips and asked, "Director Sun, have you been transferred to CCTV?"

Sun Qin immediately understood what Zhou Yan meant and said unhappily, "Why, is our Yanjing TV station a small local station? Can't we invite big stars? Otherwise, I would say that you are an international star and you already look down on our small temple, Yanjing TV station."

"We can invite them, but it's a little unrealistic to invite all of them at once."

There are nine people on this list. I won’t mention Zhou Yan. Based on his friendship with Sun Qin, he will definitely agree.

But the other eight people are all top-tier stars, and any one of them is hard to invite for any program. Regardless of whether these people give face or not, except for Joey Wong, the schedules of the others are probably very full, and it is not easy to get them to take time out to record a program in Yanjing.

Of course, if it were CCTV, this matter would be a little easier.

"I also know that it's definitely not easy to invite all these people, but everyone has to have a goal. And I've thought about it seriously. Logically speaking, it's much more difficult to invite you to the show now than to invite these people. If I can invite you, it's naturally possible for others."

"So, this was your first call to me?"

"Of course, I think of you in everything."

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes. "Thanks for your concern. As for this show, since you want to do it, I will definitely support you, but..."

Sun Qin seemed to know what Zhou Yan was going to say and interrupted him immediately, "Don't say anything, but I have a small favor to ask you. Look at this list, the names of Tony Leung, Joey Wong, Stephen Chow, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, you have worked with all of them, how about you help me connect them?"

As soon as he interrupted himself, Zhou Yan knew what he was going to say.

"I'm a little suspicious whether this list was drawn up specifically for me. I don't know anyone on your list except Jet Li, but I know everyone else."

"You know Faye Wong too?"

"Well, I know him, but we're not very familiar with each other." They had only eaten one meal together, so they were indeed not very familiar with each other.

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"It's okay. I can contact Faye Wong myself. I know her. You can just help me get in touch with other people."

Zhou Yan pondered for a while and said, "I can only help you make some connections, but don't expect me to be your lobbyist. I'm not particularly familiar with them."

"No problem, just pull the trigger and I'll take care of the rest."

"Okay, let me ask for you."

"You are so kind. I will treat you to a meal later."

"whispering sound."

"Hey, what do you mean? Don't you believe I will treat you to a meal?"

"hold head high."

"If you want to do this, then I will... I will definitely find a chance to treat you to a meal next time. I've been too busy these past few days."

"Go ahead and do your thing. I've asked them and will get back to you."

"Okay, I'll wait for your news."

After hanging up the phone with Sun Qin, he did not rush to call the people Sun Qin wanted to invite. He wanted to wait and see. Maybe one of those people would call him and he could mention this matter then.

……

This wait lasted for three days.

On the morning of January 5th, Zhou Yan had just arrived at the office when he received a call from Tony Leung Ka Fai.

As soon as the call was connected, Tony Leung congratulated Zhou Yan, "Congratulations, Director Zhou, the new movie has such a high box office, I even saw the news in Hong Kong."

Generally speaking, Hong Kong will not be the first to report on the box office situation of mainland movies.

But Zhou Yan is not an ordinary director after all. The Hong Kong media pays close attention to him, so many media are following the box office performance of "Time Traveler" throughout the whole process.

As soon as the box office news comes out here, it will be reported in the newspapers over there.

Zhou Yan asked with a smile, "What's the box office revenue you saw in the news?"

"What I saw was that it was already 35 million. Is this news wrong?"

"Absolutely."

The latest news Zhou Yan received was that the box office of "Time Traveler" just exceeded 32 million, and there is still a gap of 3 million to 35 million.

The data he obtained was actually counted up to January 2nd, and some cities were not included in the statistics, so the actual box office of "Time Traveler" is likely to have exceeded 35 million.

The Hong Kong media will definitely not get data newer than Zhou Yan’s, so there is only one possibility, that the data is fabricated by the media.

Of course, the media does not make up data without any basis. They are definitely making inferences based on real data.

Anyway, the box office of "Time Traveler" will definitely exceed 35 million, so it's okay for them to report it in advance.

The reason they report it upwards is that they hope readers will think that their data is the latest.

This newspaper's writing of 35 million is already conservative. Some newspapers are bolder and directly write 40 million or 50 million, which is very exaggerated.

"It seems that by the time the movie is released, there is hope that it will exceed 50 million."

"Well, there is hope."

Previously, Zhou Yan felt that the hope of exceeding 50 million was not very high, but according to the current data, the possibility of exceeding 50 million is still very high. After all, it has only been released for two weeks, and the movie has strong staying power.

Afterwards, Zhou Yan and Tony Leung exchanged pleasantries for a while. In addition to congratulating him, Tony Leung also expressed his hope to have the opportunity to work with Zhou Yan again.

Zhou Yan is also very willing to work with Tony Leung, but the prerequisite is that there is a suitable role.

After chatting for a while, Zhou Yan saw that the time was right, so he talked about the talk show. "Your call came at a good time. Director Sun from the Special Topic Department of Yanjing Television just contacted me and said that they want to do a talk show..."

After listening to Zhou Yan, Liang Jiahui smiled and said, "Of course I don't mind participating in this kind of interview program, but it depends on the content of the program and the recording time."

"Of course, I'm just a messenger. You guys should discuss the details yourself. If you don't mind, I'll give your phone number to Director Sun and let him talk to you."

"Of course no problem. Otherwise, you can also give me Director Sun's phone number and I will contact him."

Zhou Yan laughed and said, "That's not right. I'll ask him to contact you."

"Okay then, I'll wait for his call."

After talking to Tony Leung, Zhou Yan called Sun Qin and told him Tony Leung’s phone number.

After getting Tony Leung's phone number, Sun Qin couldn't wait any longer and hung up Zhou Yan's call directly.

Hearing the blind sound of "dududu", Zhou Yan rolled his eyes.

More than half an hour later, Sun Qin called again.

"Lao Zhou, I have already contacted Tony Leung Ka Fai."

Sun Qin sounded very happy. Zhou Yan smiled and said, "It seems the result is good?"

"Well, although it hasn't been officially confirmed, it should be almost certain. I can tell that Tony Leung Ka Fai gives you face."

"Tony Leung is not giving me face, but he has a lot of feelings for the mainland."

"That's true. He should be the Hong Kong star who knows the mainland better. He talked to me a lot about his filming in Yanjing during the phone call."

Tony Leung is different from other Hong Kong stars. The first movie he made was shot in Yanjing, so he has a special feeling for Yanjing.

Zhou Yan thinks that Sun Qin and his team have good ideas. Actors like Tony Leung Ka Fai and Leslie Cheung who have filmed in mainland China have different understandings and feelings about the mainland. (End of this chapter)