Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 454: Zhao Family, Role Change
At Xingchen Entertainment, Zhang Chen had just decided to increase the budget for "Crocodile Storm", and then he asked about the situation of "Racing".

"Racing" is the main film that Xingchen Entertainment is competing for the National Day holiday, and is the second film in the Crazy series.

In the original time and space, it took Ning Hao three years after "Stone" to come up with "Racing", which wasted too much time.

In this life, thanks to Zhang Chen’s intervention, I was able to get out within a year.

Zhang Chen has high hopes for Ning Hao and wants to make him a comedy king like Stephen Chow.

“In terms of subject matter, ‘The Racer’ and ‘The Baby Project’ are competitors. The two films are released close to each other and have similar subject matter, both of which are comedies, so there is competition.

In terms of hard advertising, we are slightly inferior to Huayi, as they have exchanged a lot of resources.

Our advantage is that "Racing" has been promoting the gimmick of multi-line narrative from the very beginning. This is currently a blank in China, and we are the only one.

With the previous success of "Stone", the audience expressed great expectations.

In addition, the post-credits scene of "Crocodile Storm" is also quite good."

In order to promote "Racing", Xingchen Entertainment also tried its best and specially made an easter egg at the end of "Crocodile Storm".

After Jing Tian and her daughter escaped from the crocodile's mouth, their father Liang Jiahui arrived in a small boat.

After surviving the disaster, the family hugged each other.

The next day, the three appeared in the cinema.

Facing the posters, Liang Jiahui asked, "Which movie should we watch?"

Jing Tian replied: "I've seen "Crocodile Storm", so let's watch "Crazy Racing"~"

The family of three smiled at each other, checked their tickets at the door, and disappeared into the aisle...

This kind of recommendation method is the first time it has appeared. It is very novel, the audience is very receptive to it, and the publicity effect is good.

The industry has also noticed this situation and is preparing to follow suit, but the conditions for this approach are rather stringent. The release dates of the two films must be very close, and it is best if they are produced or distributed by the same company.

The people in the distribution department were a little hesitant, but finally said, "The head of the New Film Association, Gao Jun, seems not optimistic about the prospects of "Racing". When he was interviewed by a magazine, he said publicly, 'The success of dialect comedy is absolutely accidental. This kind of success cannot be replicated. "Crazy Racing" has a huge investment, but still does not use big stars and insists on dialect, so the market prospects should not be very good.'"

Zhang Chen pondered for a moment: "How is the schedule given by the New Film Association?"

The other party immediately replied: "The scheduling is OK~"

"Then don't pay any attention to him, Gao Jun is just being stubborn.

When "Stone" was released last year, he said that dialect comedy could not succeed.

However, our Xingchen Entertainment projects have not failed so far. Before there is a noticeable drop in box office sales, the New Film Association will not change our film schedule..."

The publicity director then asked, "By the way, Director Zhang, do you want to preview Racing at Beijing Film Academy?"

Generally speaking, the works of Zhang Chen and Ning Hao would be screened in advance within the Beijing Film Academy, but after what happened last time, the publicity department is no longer sure.

Sure enough, this time Zhang Chen shook his head: "Forget it, just hold the premiere~"

Seeing that Zhang Chen had made the decision, the publicity and promotion director nodded and wrote it down in the notebook.

"Anything else?"

Seeing that everyone had no problem, "Okay, let's adjourn~"

Zhang Chen walked back to his office, and then saw Dong Jianqiang followed him in: "What's the matter?"

"Well, there's something that's not suitable to be discussed in a meeting, so why don't I talk to you alone?"

"Sit down, what would you like to drink?"

"I brought it with me." Dong Jianqiang shook the thermos cup in his hand.

Zhang Chen also sat back in his boss chair.

"Two things. The first one is about the assistant you asked me to find. The headhunting company recommended two candidates, Zhong Lifang from Xiaoma Pentium and Chen Xiaowei from China.com. When are you free? I'll arrange a meeting with them..."

Zhang Chen didn't say anything, but asked: "What do you think?"

Dong Jianqiang shrugged: "I don't know either of them. I've met Zhong Lifang once, but I've never met Chen Xiaowei. I can't really comment on them~"

Zhang Chen nodded: "Well, then you arrange a time and meet them all~"

After Chen Xi went to Golden Harvest, Zhang Chen clearly felt that Xingchen Entertainment was understaffed. Just like this time, after Dong Jianqiang led the team to Cannes, there was no one in the company who could make decisions, and he had to do everything himself.

This is bad!

So we must hurry up and find another tool.

"What's one more thing?"

"Another thing is that I want to recruit more people to expand the company to more than 100 people. We are a little short of manpower..."

"Sure, you can do whatever you want."

Zhang Chen agreed without much hesitation.

Generally speaking, a film and television company with more than 50 people is considered a large company. Hualu Baina, which produced "Double-Sided Adhesive Tape" and "The Good Times of Wife", has only about people.

There are more than 100 people in Xingchen Entertainment, which is really not a small number.

However, Zhang Chen felt that this was not a big deal, as long as the company continued to make money, it didn't matter.

A few days later, Zhang Chen met Chen Xiaowei and Zhong Lifang.

Both of them are famous strong women in later generations, but their temperaments and styles are different.

Chen Xiaowei is the president of "The Ninth City" in later generations.

'The 9th City' is very powerful. Its rise stems from the exclusive agency rights of "World of Warcraft" in mainland China.

In that era, online games were hailed as cash cows, and the most well-known online game, World of Warcraft, was even more so.

Jiucheng made a net profit of tens of billions by virtue of being the exclusive agent of "World of Warcraft".

The boss Zhu Junzhi was very proud. At that time, the company was completely managed by Chen Xiaowei.

As the saying goes, success is due to the wind and cloud, failure is also due to the wind and cloud~
Blizzard saw that this game was making so much profit in mainland China, so they changed the second-phase agency model to a bidding model. NetEase came out to compete, even if it didn't make any money, it was still determined to target The9. As a result, The9 lost the agency rights and went bankrupt.

Zhang Chen is confident in Chen Xiaowei's abilities. The fact that she can manage the Nine Cities in the future is the best proof of this.

Later, after Chen Xiaowei left 9you, she went to Orange Sky and continued to do well.

As for Zhong Lifang, she is also a talented person and is very knowledgeable about investment. In terms of ability, she should be above Chen Xiaowei.

The priority investment rights that Pentium enjoys a high reputation in the industry were designed by Zhong Lifang.

Zhong Lifang is now a senior executive of Xiaoma Pentium, known as the "left brain", and her importance is almost the same as that of Chairman Li Ming.

In ancient times, it would be the same as the king.

Li Ming trusted Zhong Lifang very much and gave her a lot of power. He left all matters such as financing to her. This also became an obstacle for Zhang Chen to poach people. Zhong Lifang was very grateful for Li Ming's trust and had a sense of "die for your friend" and did not want to change jobs.

"Ms. Chen, we are offering you a position as a vice president to assist Manager Dong in his work. You will be mainly responsible for the film and television business. In the future, the company may have other divisions. I promise to give Ms. Chen more room to develop at that time~"

Zhang Chen put forward his own conditions, Chen Xiaowei nodded, and put forward her own request: "Then I want to know whether Xingchen Entertainment has plans to go public?"

"Of course. Within three years, Xingchen Entertainment will definitely go public."

"Okay then, I agree to join."

The performance of Xingchen Entertainment is amazing. Since its establishment, all the movies it has produced have made huge profits.

If there is a company in the film and television industry that can go public, Star Entertainment will definitely be the first.

Chen Xiaowei is a person of decisive character. She knows that if she misses this opportunity, she will miss it forever, so she decided to join without hesitation.

Zhang Chen shook hands with him: "Welcome to join~"

"Congratulations to Director Zhang for getting another great general~"

Congratulations came from the headhunting company. They liked this kind of scene the most. Both parties meeting were satisfied with each other, and the headhunting company could also receive enough benefits, achieving a win-win situation for all three parties.

"Thank you for your trust, Mr. Chen. I won't be polite any more. It happens that I have to go to the filming site of "Legends of Martial Arts" in two days. Mr. Chen, please come with me and learn about the company's projects~"

"Okay, Director Zhang~"

Chen Xiaowei didn't expect Zhang Chen to arrange a job for her so quickly. After all, she hasn't resigned from China.com yet.

However, Zhang Chen's behavior just happened to show that he was really short of manpower right now. As long as he did a good job, he would definitely become one of the core members.

Two days later, Zhang Chen and Chen Xiaowei appeared in Hengdian.

The filming of "Wulin Wai Zhuan Treasure Hunt" has already started. The members of the inn are the main actors, and Zhao Benshan's disciples from Benshan Media are guest stars. However, although they are called guest stars, they actually have quite a few parts.

The crew is now filming a fight scene. The people from Quedaomen think that the people in the inn are bandits, so they block them and a fight breaks out.

Bai Zhantang, who is in charge of martial arts, challenges Song Xiaofeng from Que Dao Men:
Look at my sunflower acupuncture finger~
Then he was kicked away after finishing his lines~
Bai Zhantang was hung by the wire and flew out backwards~
"Click, this shot is over. Let's take a break. We'll continue in 20 minutes~"

Wang Jing's voice was heard from the director's microphone, and then the crew took a break.

The actors returned to their resting places one after another. As soon as Song Xiaofeng sat down, he was kicked in the back.

Looking back, it was Zhao Benshan.

"Master~"

"You're still sitting here. Don't you know that you didn't control your strength when you kicked me just now? How dare you sit here?"

"I……"

Song Xiaofeng also knew that he did not control the force of his kick just now, but this was actually very normal in filming martial arts scenes.

"It's okay, Master~"

Xiao Fengtian tried to smooth things over, but before he could finish his words, Zhao Benshan glared back at him.

"Come over with me and apologize. It may not be serious, but at least you have to show some attitude~"

"Oh, Master~"

Song Xiaofeng shook off the footprints on his back and followed Zhao Benshan to the other side.

In the crew, Shang Jing's original "Wulin Waijia" crew and Benshan Media's Zhao Family Class are two clearly separate groups, and they don't even rest together.

Seeing Zhao Benshan and Cheng Xiaofeng coming over, everyone roughly guessed what was going on and stood up.

"Teacher Zhao~"

Zhao Benshan is the biggest name in the crew, so even Zhang Chen has to be polite to him in person.

Zhao Benshan nodded: "Xiaofeng said that he didn't control his energy during the filming just now, and he felt a little sorry for it, so he wanted to come and see~"

Even though he ordered his disciples around in private, he still protected their reputation in public.

Song Xiaofeng also came forward tactfully: "Brother Sha, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just don't have much experience, I haven't done many martial arts scenes, I couldn't control myself for a moment..."

Of course Sha Yi couldn't say anything, he smiled and said: "Teacher Zhao, Xiaofeng, you are too formal, it's okay, this is all normal, it's the first time for everyone, it's inevitable~"

"As long as it's okay, it'll be okay~"

“This little bit of fruit is our token of appreciation~”

Song Xiaofeng put down the fruit and said politely.

Zhao Benshan is indeed a good person.

Many times, the matter is not a big deal, all people want is an attitude.

Now Zhao Benshan has personally brought his apprentice to apologize. His attitude is enough. What else can they complain about?

Wang Jing and Yuan Kui, who were far away, saw all this and secretly tried to understand Zhao Benshan's attitude.

In the crew, Zhao Benshan is the biggest star, but he doesn't put on airs and treats the young actors with the right attitude. In Hong Kong, only the evergreens can do this. Zhao Benshan was about to take Song Xiaofeng back, but when he turned around, he saw Xiao Fengtian chatting up Zhang Li.

Xiao Fengtian was talking to Zhang Li with a smirk on his face, but the latter was obviously dodging.

"What are you doing? Come back with me~"

Lao Zhao cursed without any hesitation. Xiao Fengtian looked embarrassed and explained: "Nothing, Master, I just chatted with him~"

"What are you talking about? Come back with me. The next scene is yours. Go back and rehearse your lines~"

He really couldn't stand Xiao Fengtian.

Because the other party always refuses to obey.

He was a little regretful about accepting this disciple.

After they walked a little further away, Zhao Benshan said bluntly: "Behave yourself and stop messing around. You are already married, don't you know?
Also, you know the background and connections of the actresses in this crew, and you dare to contact them randomly..."

Zhao Benshan gave him a kind reminder, but little Fengtian did not appreciate it and was quite unconvinced.

But he had to hold back his anger, because the other party was Zhao Benshan.

When the master and the apprentice were trying to show off their skills, a voice suddenly came: "Director Wang, Mr. Benshan, I'm here to visit the set~"

Zhang Chen and Chen Xiaowei walked out from the entrance, followed by several workers.

"I brought some popsicles to reward everyone~"

Although it is already September, Hengdian is still very hot, and the popsicles brought by Zhang Chen immediately became a hot item.

After waving and greeting everyone, Zhang Chen sat down next to Wang Jing, and Zhao Benshan also came over.

"I've been busy recently, so I just found some time to come over. How was the shoot? Did it go well?"

"It went smoothly. Everything went very smoothly. We have almost gotten used to the literary scenes. The martial arts scenes are still a little awkward at the beginning, but with Director Yuan here, there will definitely be no problem..."

Director Yuan is Yuan Kui, the action director of this movie.

Yuan Kui immediately became humble upon seeing this. He knew that he was able to become the action director of this movie only because Zhang Chen and Hong Jinbao had just reconciled their past grudges.

"I'm going to rely on you guys for this play. I have so much to do that I can't stay on the set for long..."

Wang Jing said with a smile: "Director Zhang, don't worry. Having an old man in the family is like having a treasure. With Master Benshan in charge, no problems will occur.

These past two days I have been observing how Mr. Benshan behaves and does things, and you are this~"

Wang Jing gave a thumbs-up gesture and said, "Many things were coordinated by Mr. Benshan~"

Zhao Benshan didn't expect Wang Jing to praise him. He smiled and waved his hands: "It's all the joint efforts of everyone. What can the crew do? Some trivial matters will be fine if we talk about them."

Zhang Chen understood it as soon as he heard it. It seems that Mr. Benshan has set a good example.

Although he was not in the crew, he was also a director and knew some things about the crew.

"Come, let me introduce you all. This is my company's Vice President Chen Xiaowei. She will be in charge of following up on the Treasure Hunt. Let's get to know her..."

After introducing Chen Xiaowei to everyone, while everyone was getting to know each other, Zhang Chen went to the crew and chatted with the actors.

"Director Zhang~"

"Director Zhang~"

The sound of greetings continued.

Zhang Chen responded one by one, and then came to Shang Jing.

"How is it, is everything fine with the crew?"

As for the crew, Zhang Chen will definitely not believe Wang Jing's one-sided statement, because Shang Jing is one of them.

Shang Jing replied: "It's okay, everyone is quite harmonious, Mr. Benshan takes good care of us, it's just..."

"Just what?"

Zhang Chen looked at Shang Jing, who looked at the others before saying, "It's Xiao Fengtian over there, who always likes to come over to chat with Zhang Li..."

"Is that right?"

Zhang Chen looked at Zhang Li, who nodded shyly but immediately explained, "But I ignored him."

After Zhang Li finished speaking, everyone around her looked at her. She was so eager to explain just now that it was really...

Zhang Chen looked at Xiao Fengtian from the Zhao family troupe opposite.

From a distance, Xiao Fengtian also noticed that Zhang Chen was looking at him, and realized that he might be being sued, but he was not afraid and looked back~
Zhao Benshan, who was far away, also saw this scene and sighed in his heart, thinking that his apprentice was still young and frivolous after all.

Or maybe my level is too low, I haven't been in the circle...

Hey~
"Okay, just focus on filming. Things like this won't happen again~"

Zhang Chen gave Zhang Li a warning, and then said to everyone, "If there are any problems that cannot be solved in the future, you can directly find Uncle Benshan or the director. If it is not convenient, you can also find our new CEO Chen Xiaowei, he is one of us..."

Zhang Chen pointed at Chen Xiaowei in the distance, and then said to Shang Jing: "Director Shang, you also need to help keep an eye on it. You need to pay more attention to this play. Next time we shoot a similar theme, I will let you direct it alone~"

Zhang Chen left after he finished speaking, while Shang Jing was still excited.

I finally have the chance to direct a movie.
Although not now, at least there is hope.

Everyone in Xingchen Entertainment knows that what Zhang Chen said has not yet been disregarded.

People around congratulated him, but Shang Jing was thinking that his complaint was not in vain.

He had long known that among Ma Li's classmates, only Zhang Li signed with Golden Harvest, and he had always suspected that Zhang Li and Zhang Chen had a relationship.

When I saw Xiao Fengtian's actions, I became interested. Sure enough, my guess was correct.

Next, this little Fengtian is probably going to be in trouble.

After that, the filming continued. In the evening, Zhang Chen, Zhao Benshan and Chen Xiaowei gathered in director Wang Jing’s room for a small meeting.

Zhang Chen spoke first: "I watched the filming this afternoon and felt that the performance of the actor named Xiao Fengtian was out of tune with the performances of the others around him. I want to discuss with Mr. Benshan whether we can replace him with someone else from the Zhao Family Class..."

Zhao Benshan sighed to himself and came after all.

Originally in the afternoon he was still hesitating whether to take Xiao Fengtian to apologize to Zhang Chen, but he didn't expect that before Xiao Fengtian's work was done, Zhang Chen took action first.

The situation is stronger than the person now, and he can't possibly fight against Xingchen Entertainment, not to mention that it was Xiao Fengtian who was at fault first.

Moreover, Zhang Chen has already taken his face into consideration. He replaced the people with other members of the Zhao Family Class, which means that he is only targeting Xiao Fengtian instead of the entire Zhao Family Class.

"Okay, I'll make some arrangements when I get back. Director Zhang, Director Wang, can you guys switch to my other apprentice Wen Song?"

"can."

When Wang Jing saw Zhang Chen say yes, he naturally said yes as well.

After talking about some other things, everyone dispersed and went back to their rooms.

Not long after that, a loud quarrel broke out in the corridor. Although I couldn't hear what they were saying through the door, I knew that the two parties in the quarrel were Xiao Fengtian and Zhao Benshan.

The taste of corn dregs is so obvious.

When filming started the next day, the crew was notified that the original role of Xiao Fengtian was replaced by Wen Song, and some of the previous shots needed to be re-shot.

Everyone knows what Xiao Fengtian has done these past two days~
The crew members once again looked at Zhang Li with new eyes, and at the same time they had a basic guess about her identity. She must be the boss's woman.
Xiao Fengtian really deserves it. There's nothing wrong with flirting with girls on the crew, but you actually flirted with the boss's woman?

Zhang Li didn't know that her relationship with Zhang Chen had been discovered. She just suddenly found that she didn't seem to be scolded anymore when filming. The staff who had originally ignored her suddenly became much more enthusiastic, and even several of her classmates who made guest appearances also benefited from it.

Even Ma Li sighed, "From now on in the crew, it will not be me who takes care of you, but you who will take care of me."

Not only Zhang Li was praised, but also Wen Song~
Wen Song's performance was good. He was very dedicated in filming martial arts films, not afraid of pain or tiredness, and was very spiritual. His performance was much better than the original Little Fengtian. Both Wang Jing and Yuan Kui praised him highly, and also expressed admiration for Zhao Benshan's vision.

Xiao Fengtian left and left the crew, and he was too embarrassed to stay here any longer.

Zhang Chen didn’t know whether he and Zhao Benshan had completely broken up.

If it's not thorough, Zhang Chen is ready to help him again.

After the shooting ended that day, Zhang Chen specially found Zhao Benshan.

"Teacher Benshan, will you be on the Spring Festival Gala this year?"

"Yes, I have received an invitation from the program team~"

Every year, the Spring Festival Gala program team is established in June, officially announced in December, and then enters the sprint stage.

A very ordinary show of a few minutes that we watch may take the cast and crew half a year to prepare.

"Has the sketch been decided?"

Zhao Benshan nodded: "It's almost decided. It's called "Talking About Things", which is the sequel to "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow."

Zhang Chen had an impression of this skit. It was a very good skit and one of Zhao Benshan's classics. It was said that a major mistake occurred on the spot as he forgot to take the prop bag. Zhao Benshan performed a god-level rescue and finally made up for his mistake.

Afterwards, backstage, he and Song Dandan hugged each other and cried loudly in fear.

"What, you figured it out?"

Previously, Zhao Benshan was impressed by the screenwriting ability of Xingchen Entertainment and wanted to have Zhang Chen perform on the Spring Festival Gala.

Zhang Chen shook his head: "I won't go. My mental state is too poor and I can't handle the pressure. But I do have a skit script here that I think is more suitable for you..."

"Sketch, show it to me~"

As soon as he heard that it was a skit, Lao Zhao immediately became interested.

Zhang Chen handed over a few pages of a script titled "Not Short of Money".

That’s right, the script provided by Zhang Chen is Xiao Fengtian’s famous work - "Not Short of Money".

In fact, before "Not Short of Money", Xiao Fengtian was already very popular in Northeast China.

But what really made him famous across the country was the song "We're Not Short of Money" performed on the Spring Festival Gala.

To be honest, in Northeast China, Benshan Media is really a giant.

Almost all the famous comedians have been included in his collection.

Because only by joining Benshan Media can you have the possibility of becoming famous outside the Northeast. Otherwise, you will have to stay in the three northeastern provinces for the rest of your life.

"Haha~"

While reading the script, Zhao Benshan actually laughed out loud.

After a while, he finished reading it and looked up at Zhang Chen again with a look of surprise: "This script is so good, it is tailor-made for our Northeast Errenzhuan~"

Zhang Chen also laughed and said, "Actually, I customized it based on your and Wensong's characteristics. I was inspired by watching "Star Avenue" yesterday, so I wrote this script..."

"Avenue of Stars" has been around since 04, and its host is none other than Mr. Bi, so even though "Not Short of Money" was launched a few years earlier, it doesn't feel out of place at all.

"Wen Song?"

Zhao Benshan brought himself and Wen Song in:
This can be!
This is really not~
It seems quite appropriate.

"Not bad, not bad, I want this book, name your price~"

"No money, why would a skit script cost money? We are partners~"

Zhang Chen doesn't want money no matter what.

His only goal was to cut off Xiao Fengtian's path.

I told you it’s free, and I even specifically mentioned that it was custom-made for Wensong, so you can’t change it to someone else.

(End of this chapter)