Director of Photography Department of Huayu

Chapter 156: The higher the rank, the more powerful the person. The copyright is difficult to sell.

Beijing Film Academy, President's Office.

The heavy solid wooden door was closed tightly.

It is a bright spring day outside. New buds are beginning to bloom on the locust trees. The breeze brings a faint fragrance of flowers.

The room was so quiet that you could hear the ticking of the clock.

Mu Deyuan and Zhang Huijun sat opposite each other, staring at each other.

"Do you know about this?" Zhang Huijun looked up and looked at Mu Deyuan.

"Hmm," Mu Deyuan pondered for a moment, then replied hesitantly, "It should have been filmed after Now You See Me finished filming."

Zhang Huijun raised his eyes and snorted unhappily.

nonsense!

Now that the results are out, I still need you to guess. That's what I mean.

"How can you be a teacher? Your disciple is making such a big fuss, but you didn't catch anything?"

Mu Deyuan was also amused when he heard this.

There are only two of us, and you're acting like a headmaster. Everyone knows about the trivial things going on at school. Then he directly brought out what Zhang Huijun had said:
"We're not teaching in a permissive way. Otherwise, how can we achieve results in social practice?"

Zhang Huijun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he didn't refute it. He smiled knowingly and changed his tone to a businesslike tone:
"Okay, then. The photography department needs a report. Please submit it as soon as possible. It's due this week."

When Mu Deyuan heard this, his face immediately darkened.

"Row."

I responded quickly, but cursed in my heart——

You make the decision, I do it, and after it's written you make some changes, and that's your summary report.

A higher-ranking official can crush someone to death. This is really unethical.

Half an hour later, in the photography department director's office, Deputy Director Li Wei finished his task and walked out cursing:

"What do you mean by 'write a report on a recent major department event'? Damn, there was only one major event in the department recently. Whose disciple is Wu Chen, anyway?"

Li Wei walked and cursed, and when he arrived at the next office, he saw Xu Bin holding a teacup. He immediately smiled and gently pushed the door open and walked in.

"Old Li, what's wrong? What new task did Director Mu give you?" When Xu Bin saw him come back with a smile on his face, he felt something was wrong.

Li Wei's eyes lit up and a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He leaned his hands on Xu Bin's office chair and said in a kind tone:
"Old Xu, are the students in the department making any noise lately?"

"Huh?" Xu Bin blinked warily. "It's okay. Some of them are quite noisy. You know, not everyone is Wu Chen, whose photography work is terrible.

Oh, no, I have to go talk to them!"

"Hey, hey, don't worry, there's still time to teach him a lesson later."

Li Wei reached out and held him down, his smile particularly hypocritical. "Old Mu just gave us a task. He asked us to write a report summarizing the recent major events in the department."

Xu Bin was stunned: "What's the latest big event in the department?"

Li Wei pointed at the desk and said, "Look, you haven't put away the newspaper yet."

Xu Bin followed it up with a look: Wu Chen, Cannes, Main Competition, Thriller
Seeing Li Wei's "kind" smile again, I reacted immediately and said, "I X"

"Hey, you're a good writer. It's okay. I'll help you."

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Wu Chen's entry into Cannes without saying a word really shocked the industry.

Many people carefully calculated the media's estimated time, starting from when Wu Chen went to Hollywood to film "Now You See Me", then when "Now You See Me" was completed, and finally he returned to China a little over three weeks after the completion.

All in all, Wu Chen seemed to have stayed in Hollywood for about twenty more days.

"Oh my god, he didn't shoot another movie in just over 20 days, did he?"

For a moment, everyone was calculating the time and suddenly they were confused.

“Damn, Junior Brother, did you really finish filming ‘Get Out’ in just over 20 days?” Ning Hao was a little shocked. He later learned that Wu Chen had indeed filmed another movie in Hollywood, but he didn’t really calculate the time.

"I guess so. Twenty days to be exact." Wu Chen replied with a smile.

"." Ning Hao didn't know what to say for a moment, "No, I have to cheer up."

Wu Chen thought Ning Hao was going to start writing a script for a new project, but Ning Hao's next sentence immediately went off track:

"I'm going to shoot a music video to warm myself up."

"?"

Wu Chen was stunned, his mouth twitching. "I've never heard of a movie director shooting a music video to practice. How much did they pay you?"

“Well, that’s quite a lot.

But you know what, my MV is different. It’s an EP album created by Zhang Yadong, Faye Wong’s exclusive producer. You can think of it as a small movie.”

After Ning Hao said this, Wu Chen knew who it was. Who else but the eighteen-year-old Jing Tian could afford to pave the way and make a powerful move?

Theoretically speaking, Zhang Yadong creating an album and film director Ning Hao shooting the MV are definitely a dream that newcomers in the music industry dare not have.

Even top singers may not be able to get such a prestigious position.

Now, it's given to a new person.

"That's good." Wu Chen sighed, a hint of amusement in his eyes, "Making money is not shameful.

At the same time, in Building A of Fenglian Plaza in Chaoyang District, in the general manager's office, Feng Xiaogang and Wang Zhonglei stared at the newspaper spread out on the table with different expressions.

"It's okay. We are going to hold a press conference to sell the film. He is just going to participate in the competition. It won't be a problem." Wang Zhonglei said quietly.

He felt that Wu Chen seemed to be Feng Xiaogang's nemesis, and Feng Xiaogang had never had the upper hand.

Damn, "The Banquet" hasn't announced that it will go to Cannes yet, but Wu Chen suddenly has a movie going to Cannes without any warning.

baffling.

No one in the industry even knows when Wu Chen took the photo.

Feng Xiaogang felt sour.

If we can be shortlisted for the main competition unit, who the hell would just want to go there and show a trailer?

"'The Promise' has set a bad precedent. The copyrights for major costume dramas are having a hard time selling these days."

Wang Zhonglei changed the subject, "I heard that Zhang Weiping was planning to take the risk of inviting eight major American film studios to the set of 'Curse of the Golden Flower' to observe the filming."

Hearing this, Feng Xiaogang was stunned.

As a director, he knows very well that a truly confident crew will never allow film producers to "visit the set".

The film set is a private domain, a creative space, and a "fragile place" before any image is created.

However, Zhang Yimou's movies can still invite these big Hollywood film producers to come and watch them, but what about him?

"Let's find a time to promote our trip to Cannes."

Feng Xiaogang nodded.

Just a few days into April, Spielberg, Oliver Stone and others visited the Beijing Film Studio's "Curse of the Golden Flower" set, where they were caught red-handed by several media reporters.

The media swarmed in, flashbulbs flashing wildly.

"We signed an agreement that Zhang Weiping and I cannot appear in the same filming or promotional setting. You can ask me to come over to film, but no one else can come in!"

Gong Li didn't give any face at all on the phone and directly confronted Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yimou had no choice but to lie to the public that Gong Li was not on the set.
Zhang Weiping asked Zhang Yi to invite Spielberg and his friends inside to chat, while he himself faced the reporters at the door first:
"In the past, for 'Hero' and 'House of Flying Daggers', the film producers would discuss the deal after watching the trailers. But last year, after Weinstein returned 'The Promise', I lost my deposit and was unhappy about it.

This circle is very small, and all Hollywood film producers know about this. It makes people feel that the movies directed by Chinese directors are somewhat unreliable, and they are skeptical about the promotion of future Chinese costume films.

So, this time I made an exception and took the risk to invite eight major American film studios to the set of Curse of the Golden Flower to watch the filming."

After Zhang Weiping’s “shout”, many netizens who were unaware of the situation knew the truth.

The news of The Promise being withdrawn had actually already spread in the domestic media;

However, due to face concerns and the strong publicity campaign of "The Promise", some domestic media were afraid of causing trouble, which led to a large number of people mistakenly believing that "The Promise" was a big hit in North America.

"Zhang Weiping said this, I'm afraid he will offend Brother Chen Kai to death. He is too arrogant." Xiang Zhuo was stunned when he saw the news.

Some things cannot be spoken about, and it is enough for everyone to know them. But if they are said publicly, the nature of the matter changes.

If he were Zhang Weiping, he would definitely not tell anyone about this matter and would just explain it to the public.

"It's quite arrogant." Wu Chen nodded silently.

Using Yimou to control the world is the source of Zhang Weiping's arrogance.

As luck would have it, France, which had bought the copyright for "The Promise", was releasing the film on a large scale, but the bad reviews had already spread back to China after a few days.

Five media outlets, including France's largest-circulation newspaper Le Figaro, Le Monde, and authoritative film magazines Premiere and Box Office, gave the film only one star rating.

The most appalling thing is that seven media outlets didn't even give it one star.

Jean-Michel Féraudon, the most authoritative film critic of France's Cahiers du Cinema, completely denied The Promise.

Comments such as "absurd special effects, exaggerated exoticism" have been widely circulated on domestic portal websites.

Plus Zhang Weiping did this.

At this point, after reading the report, Brother Chen Kai was completely humiliated. He smashed the coffee table on the spot and was furious: "A mad dog!"

Zhang Yimou did not expect that Zhang Weiping would reveal the matter so openly and add insult to injury.

Although he and Chen Kaige are competitors, they still have a good relationship in private, and he is very dissatisfied with Zhang Weiping's behavior.

“He made a terrible movie called ‘The Promise’, so why should we take the blame for it?” Zhang Weiping said with disdain.

(End of this chapter)