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Chapter 774: Director Ning is killed

If killing is not illegal, then Gu Wei would want to kill Director Ning with a knife right now.

This guy is really something. He actually sent the photos of Gu Wei hugging many Hollywood actresses during the audition a few days ago to Miss Liu one by one.

He had joked before that he would make some arrangements for Ning Hao, but he didn't expect that the other party would make some arrangements for himself first.

"Tell me quickly, which of them do you think is the prettiest and who has the best figure?"

At this moment, Miss Liu had a smile on her lips, but her eyes were full of murderous intent.

“Ah, this…that…” Gu Wei had a bitter face and didn’t dare to say it directly. After all, this was a life-threatening question.

"Hurry up and tell me!" After hearing her man's perfunctory response, Miss Liu was not willing to give up and kept asking.

Faced with Miss Liu's "oppression", Gu Wei finally succumbed.

"You have the best figure, hehe."

"Huh?" Miss Liu glared, obviously not satisfied with the answer.

"Chest 83, waist 60, hip 8..." Gu Wei was reporting the data one by one, but was interrupted by Miss Liu with a red face before he could finish.

The two of them played and fought until the afternoon, and only set off for the company together after Miss Liu had finished packing.

Even after leaving the villa and getting into the car, Miss Liu was still talking about the Hollywood actress's good figure.

"I think Emma Stone is a good choice." Holding the steering wheel, Gu Wei muttered as he heard Miss Liu still nagging.

"what?"

"Nothing. I said Emma Stone performed well in the audition, and Ryder will contact her to sign a contract in the next two days." Gu Wei explained immediately after starting the car with one button.

"Haha." Miss Liu immediately rewarded him with two sanitary balls.

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As Xingchen Film and Television Company develops better and better, it has more and more staff and artists, so that the company's annual meeting has become a major event in the entertainment industry.

This year's annual meeting of Xingchen Film and Television Company is scheduled to be held on the 6th, which is tonight.

The venue was within the company. In the past, when the Xingchen Building was not yet built, Song Ge would usually book a hotel near the company, or find a manor outside the capital.

Now that Xingchen Films has its own building, it naturally doesn’t want to go out and find a separate place to hold its annual meeting.

Besides, it is very convenient to hold it in the company. The venue is large enough, and the chefs and service team are professional. It is no different from eating out.

While Gu Wei and Miss Liu were still on the road, many reporters had already gathered outside the company.

They had been waiting at the gate of the Xingchen Building early, and Wang Chen, who was in charge of the annual meeting, had let in quite a few people.

So much so that at this moment, the Internet is full of pictures and text reports of the Xingchen Film and Television Annual Conference, and from time to time there are videos of energetic singing and dancing appearing on Weibo, and the Internet is so hot that it is frightening.

"Awesome, much better than Huayi's annual meeting a few days ago. It feels like Huayi makes a lot of money, but the annual meetings are getting more and more stingy."

"This annual meeting is very expensive. I guess only Xingchen Films can spend that much money in the film and television industry, right?"

"Almost. This is because Director Gu's company is very profitable. Last year, several of their movies were huge hits at the box office. Hollywood's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" also won the North American box office championship..."

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The annual meeting of Xingchen Film and Television Company was lively and the media's coverage of the meeting was full of praise.

Because unlike other companies that are secretive, Xingchen Film and Television is really generous.

Not only did they invite many celebrity artists to perform on the spot, but they also provided a large amount of news material, making it comparable to an evening party.

The cash prize pool worth up to 8888 million yuan left reporters and netizens dumbfounded and shocked.

In addition to cash rewards, reporters also heard about other good things.

There are thirty or forty Mercedes-Benz and BMW luxury cars alone, as well as shopping cards worth over ten thousand yuan, travel tickets and other things, which are too numerous to count.

According to employees of Xingchen Films, even tickets for this year's Spring Festival Gala are available.

These tickets were naturally given to Gu Wei and Liu Yifei by the Spring Festival Gala program team, but the two of them did not consider going to watch the show in person, so they simply used them as raffle gifts.

Perhaps for Gu Wei, the Spring Festival Gala is just a noun, but for ordinary people, the Spring Festival Gala still has great significance, even though the Spring Festival Gala has been constantly complained in recent years.

And according to online news, this year's Spring Festival Gala director team has racked their brains to find a way to keep the program conservative and positive.

Among the external publicity news, there is that Liu Dehua will appear on the Spring Festival Gala for the fifth time, and other popular artists such as Lu Han, Wu Fengji, and Chen Weiting are also among the publicity items.

Not to mention, the effect is really good. The popularity, attention, and topic volume on the Internet remain high.

Countless netizens are looking forward to this year's Spring Festival Gala because of their favorite celebrities. Maybe it can really improve the declining reputation of the Spring Festival Gala.

The total value of the scattered gifts amounted to tens of millions. After the reporters found Wang Chen and asked him, they learned the specific number - 6666 million.

This time, the reporters were completely dumbfounded.

Although Xingchen Films, Shiba Culture, Xingchen Animation, Xingchen Ticketing, and Xingchen Dadi Cinemas have a total of more than 2,000 employees, on average, each person still has a share of the prize pool of nearly 80,000.

"Fuck, just for this annual meeting, I want to join Xingchen Film and Television."

After the news spread, a reporter at the scene sighed after hearing it.

"As for you, you can't even get in even if you want to." Someone joked.

"That's right." Others echoed. After all, Xingchen Film and Television Company's recruitment is becoming more and more formal. Apart from poaching people who have changed jobs, most of the remaining ones are fresh college graduates, especially those who are proficient in computer majors.

"Hey, the total amount of cash and raffle prizes is nearly 200 million, plus the performances by invited celebrities, it might start at 300 million."

"That's not even counting the year-end bonus. I heard from my friend's cousin that the starting amount per person is 200,000." A reporter who knew some inside information boasted directly.

"Wow, the total amount must be around 500 or 600 million?" Some people were shocked.

"That's nothing. They make their money back from the box office of a movie."

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outside world.

The box office of "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" has successfully exceeded 500 million. Even so, the average daily box office is still over 10 million.

As for domestic films, competition has become fierce.

Especially "The Man from Macau 2" and "Zhong Kui: Snow Demon and the Evil Spirit", the two sides directly started fighting, which was very lively.

There was a vote on Weibo these two days, which roughly meant that nine blockbuster movies during the Spring Festival would be competing, allowing netizens to vote for the movie they are most looking forward to and will definitely go to see.

The popularity of this poll is very high, and it is posted on hot searches. To a certain extent, it is also a form of publicity.

Because "Zhong Kui Fu Mo: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal" surpassed and crushed "The Man from Macau 2" in terms of votes and took the first place, Hong Kong director Wang Pangzi started to criticize.

The latter directly posted on Weibo to name "Zhong Kui Conquers the Demon: Snow Demon Spirit", saying that this movie paid for a navy to brush the votes, so it could easily increase 6,000 to 7,000 votes in an hour, which was ugly.

This was a big deal. The main investor of "Zhong Kui Fu Mo: Snow Demon and the Magic Spirit" jumped out directly and started to curse, even using harsh words like "If I hired internet trolls, my whole family will die. If I didn't, your whole family will die."

In this way, the verbal battle between the two sides became more and more intense, and in the end it began to escalate to the stage of "greeting parents' safety".

Netizens didn't care whether the two sides were just trying to create hype or were really angry with each other. They all brought their small stools and sat in rows, looking like a crowd of spectators.

In addition, the 2th Berlin International Film Festival officially opened yesterday, February 5. Although the opening ceremony has just passed, the news and information sent back from the film festival from time to time still attracted the attention of many netizens.

Before this, many mainland production companies, distribution companies and crews had already set off for Berlin.

There are countless people selling and buying copyrights, as well as filmmakers, actors and stars who are going to participate in various film festival-related activities.

But among so many people, the one that the film industry values ​​the most is Director Jiang.

Because he is the Chinese-language film director with the best chance of competing for the Golden Bear Award for Best Film at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.

It has to be said that the nomination for the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival, coupled with the huge box office success of "One Step Away".

This made Director Jiang even more ambitious. He even had the leisure to post on Weibo, vowing that he would do his best to win this year's Golden Bear Award.

In addition to Jiang Wen, another person who attracted much attention was La Peikang.

One year after taking office as Chairman of China Film Group, Chairman La personally led a team to the Berlin International Film Festival to select foreign language films.

I have to say that this person is really ambitious, a bit like Han Sanping who used to do everything himself.

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Around five o'clock in the afternoon, Gu Wei drove Miss Liu, who was pouting all the way, to the company.

It has to be said that even though Miss Liu likes to "bully" Gu Wei at home, in public, the two of them already have a feeling of husband and wife following each other's lead.

After getting off the car, Miss Liu took Gu Wei's arm, and they both smiled and nodded to the reporters standing at the door all the way.

When I entered the company, I saw that except for the two people on duty, everyone else in the hall downstairs had probably already taken their seats.

The two went straight to the banquet hall on the tenth floor. As soon as they entered the hall, Wang Chen came to meet them.

"Boss, Chairman Han, Chairman Wang and General Manager Ye are here." After saying that, following the direction of Wang Chen's finger, the three of them were now chatting and laughing.

"Haha, don't forget to collect the food fees from them later. You can eat for free here every day." Gu Wei said jokingly.

Since Xingchen Film and Television Company earns a lot, they are naturally not stingy with their daily expenses. People in the circle say that the China Film Canteen is well-deserved of its reputation, but the small kitchen at Gu Wei's company is not much inferior.

These three came quite often during the audition period some time ago. Of course, these bosses would never lack for a few meals.

The main purpose was to discuss cooperation matters with Gu Wei under the pretext of having a meal. After all, "The Wandering Earth 2" will be launched after the new year.

As the person in charge, Gu Wei naturally has the final say on the distribution of shares. China Film and Wanda have never been short of money, and now Guangguang is about to receive a large sum of funds. It goes without saying what these people are planning.

"Haha." Miss Liu couldn't help but laugh when she heard this.

As the saying goes, there is only one person in a family of a thousand. As the leaders of Xingchen Film and Television, the arrival of Gu Wei and Miss Liu naturally caused a stir at the scene.

"Hi boss!"

"Hello, boss lady!"

There were endless greetings, and Gu Wei naturally would not put on airs in front of his men.

Not only does he respond with a smile and a nod, but he also chats with people he knows from time to time.

"Are you here? Sit anywhere." Gu Wei couldn't help laughing when Han Sanping greeted him as if he was at home.

As for Wang Changtian and Ye Ning, they smiled and nodded, then started watching the performance on the stage.

Gu Wei was too lazy to pay attention to these three people and turned around to chat with the girl from the Han family.

"Junior sister, what have you been busy with recently? Have you been writing any scripts in private?" Gu Wei said this in a loud voice, obviously intending to provoke Comrade Lao Han.

Sure enough, when Han Sanping heard this, he tilted his head and glared at him.

The daughter of the Han family directly gave Old Han two sanitary balls and then started chatting with Gu Wei.

"I have written two, but they were both a bit disappointing. I am writing a new script these days!"

Hearing this, Gu Wei gave a thumbs up to the girl from the Han family. What a sweet girl! She is really a caring girl who thinks about writing scripts all day long.

"Good, keep up the good work." Gu Wei encouraged directly, and then asked casually, "What's the subject matter?"

The Han family girl hesitated for a few seconds, but still said honestly: "Anti-cancer drugs!"

"Shit, I almost forgot about this." Gu Wei muttered to himself. After reading the electronic version of the first draft of "Dying to Survive" that Han Jianv brought out, he fell into deep thought.

In the original time and space, Gu Wei had naturally read "Dying to Survive", so purely from the script point of view, he could easily come up with a mature version.

As for the first draft written by Han Jianv, Gu Wei felt that it was too realist. If the film was shot according to this version, its commercial value would be very poor. In other words, this first draft could not be called a commercial film, but should be called an art film.

In fact, for a movie like "Dying to Survive", if Xingchen Films were to make it alone, although the script would pass review and the film would be released, it would definitely be a lot of trouble.

It would be better to cooperate with Han Jianv. She would gain fame, while Gu Wei and Xingchen Film and Television would gain both fame and fortune.

Besides, Gu Wei had told Han Jianv at Han Sanping's retirement banquet that he would take her to the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars after she wrote a good script. Now that the script is out, he naturally cannot go back on his word.

Otherwise, if Old Han knew that Gu Wei bullied their two precious daughters, wouldn’t he fight with Gu Wei to the death?
"The subject matter is good. To be honest, there is a lack of such films that focus on people's livelihood in China. However, this draft is definitely not suitable for direct filming. You can revise it. If you can satisfy me, then we can go to the Oscars. How about it?"

Hearing this, Gu Wei suddenly noticed that there was light in Han Jianv's eyes, and the hand holding the phone was trembling slightly.

"Really? Really, Senior Brother, this script can win an Oscar?"

The Han girl's voice was quite loud. Not to mention Comrade Han Sanping, even Wang Changtian and Ye Ning couldn't calm down.

"When has my senior ever lied to you? Haha."

On the stage, Wang Chen was hosting the annual meeting, with various performances and raffles taking place.

From time to time, bursts of cheers and laughter could be heard, obviously someone had won the jackpot.

On the other hand, the daughter of the Han family began to talk enthusiastically about the source of her inspiration.

It turned out that some time ago, when Han Jianv was watching TV at home, she accidentally saw CCTV's "Today's Statement". The title of that episode was "Life-saving "Fake" Medicine", which told the story of a leukemia patient named Lu Yong who was imprisoned for buying anti-cancer drugs for a fellow patient.

This made Han Jianv suddenly realize that this was an excellent material. She immediately set about looking for information related to Lu Yong and tried to get in touch with him. Now she has obtained the authorization to adapt the script and has begun to try to write.

After hearing the whole story, Gu Wei smiled and said, "This subject is very realistic. If it is filmed, more people will pay attention to the patient group. Xingchen Films has invested in it."

Seeing this, Wang Changtian couldn't help himself and immediately came over to interrupt, "With Director Gu's help, my niece's movie won't fail at the box office, no matter what else it does."

Seeing Wang Changtian get ahead again, Ye Ning wanted to pinch him under the table, "My niece is really great. Director Gu has asked to take you to the Oscars, so you can definitely go."

Han Sanping, who was standing by, appeared calm on the surface. He listened with a smile to several people praising his precious daughter, but in fact, he wanted to take the script and see what kind of earth-shattering subject matter it was that could even be linked to an Oscar.

Seeing other people nearby being attracted over, including Song Ge, Jiang Xueruo and others, they were all asking in a low voice what was going on?

Even Miss Liu stopped watching the performance. She took the electronic script handed to her by Han Jianv and started to think about it. Gu Wei didn't mention this matter at this time.

He then made an appointment with the girl from the Han family, and the two of them planned to talk alone.

After an annual meeting, Han Jianu received a positive response from Gu Wei and is now immersed in her dreams.

Han Sanping, Wang Changtian and Ye Ning were so absorbed in what Gu Wei said that they had no interest in paying attention to the live performance, and the subsequent banquet was even more boring.

On the contrary, Gu Wei and Miss Liu were talking and laughing, forming a sharp contrast with the others.

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(End of this chapter)