Chapter 334 The 1 Billion Agreement
The news from Yingguang is that the post-production will be completed in two months at most, and the broadcast time is expected to be in July.
Long Lin must cooperate with the promotion and distribution in Asia.
This will be Long Lin’s focus in the first half of this year, and all members need to work hard for this.
In fact, when the crew of "Reply" was promoting in various countries, Long Lin sent an entourage to negotiate with people in various places.
The progress is going smoothly so far. As long as the content of the film is submitted for review in advance, there will be no problem with simultaneous broadcast.
Then the key to follow-up is publicity.
This puts a lot of pressure on the publicity and distribution departments of Longlin and Qilin.
Chen Linfeng regards this drama as a key step in expanding his influence.
Therefore, the authority of the publicity department has been relaxed. As long as it is a reasonable and effective publicity activity, he will cooperate as much as possible.
Years later, the top executives of the two companies got together and held a meeting.
Specially emphasizes the importance attached to the project "Sherlock" and all members must work hard for it.
Subsequently, some news about "Shenxia" quickly appeared on the Internet, and the pre-heating began in February.
Of course, as the boss, he is said to be fully cooperative, but in fact he is not needed very often.
After Chen Linfeng finished the meeting, he returned to his home in Yanjing.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Xiaoyun meowing around his trouser legs.
Liu Qianqian walked to the living room and couldn't help complaining, "What's your name? I didn't abuse you."
Chen Linfeng knelt down and stroked the cat's head and asked, "Why is it so early? I’m back. I won’t stay home for a few more days.”
“Why?”
Liu Qianqian said angrily, "Don't you know? You just want to see my joke."
She took the bag from Chen Linfeng's hand and skillfully hung his coat on the hanger.
"I'm going to the set of "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" in two days. When will you go?"
Chen Linfeng raised his eyebrows, "I will join the set the day after tomorrow, so we can spend the same time together. It seems that they are ready."
"That's good for us to go together," Liu Qianqian said happily.
Chen Linfeng made an agreement with Han Shanping in advance that he would be able to spare some time in the past few days after the Chinese New Year to finish filming this scene.
Unexpectedly, they were very considerate and arranged for Sissi to be together.
Two days later, Chen Linfeng and Liu Qianqian came to the film and television base where "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" is located.
You can see many celebrities arriving at this time.
As soon as he got off the bus, Chen Kun waved to him and walked over quickly.
"Director Xiao Chen, you are here. Mr. Han and the others are discussing things inside. I'm here to pick you up."
He also did not forget to say hello to Liu Qianqian, "Happy New Year, Qianqian."
"Happy New Year, brother Kun."
The two of them have long since lost the unhappiness they had in "The Golden Family". The experience they had at that time has become quite an interesting conversation now.
Chen Linfeng joked, "I heard that Chen Kun played Chang Ching-kuo, congratulations."
Chen Kun smiled bitterly and said, "I'm almost dying of worry. It's really hard for me to play this role."
"There's nothing I can't stand, it's just a role."
"You don't know, there are so many bosses in the crew, I feel guilty just looking at it."
As he said that, Chen Kun made an "ah" sound, as if he suddenly thought of something.
"I remembered it. Mr. Han seemed to have mentioned that you were originally intended to play this role."
He said complainingly, "How good you are at playing this role. No one dares to say anything. Your status is suitable for you."
Of course Chen Linfeng would not take it seriously, knowing that the other party was saying that he had no It means grabbing the role.
He smiled and said, "I directly recommended this role at that time. I just didn't want to play it. It would be great if you asked me to play it. It's okay. I support you."
Chen Kun was secretly relieved. He took a breath and said, "This is what you said, I take it seriously."
The two of them walked and chatted, and soon reached the filming location.
Chen Kun pointed forward and said, "Look, Director Chen, Director Jiang, Director Feng, all the big guys are here, and they are all high-ranking officials of the party and state. Do you think I can do this without trembling with fear?"
Chen Linfeng looked up and saw that indeed, there were also Wang Xueqi, Liu Dehua, Zhang Ziyi, and many other big names.
Over there, Han Shanping was talking to a group of directors. Suddenly he saw this, raised his hand and shouted loudly, "Xiao Chen is here, come here quickly."
Chen Kun felt conscious Go away.
Chen Linfeng signaled to Qian Qian and walked over.
"Mr. Han, you came quite early."
"Waiting for you."
Han Shanping said, "It just so happens that you are both directors and come up with ideas. It's not easy to allocate roles now. , and there are too many stars here in kmt, and they are uneven. Do you have any ideas? "
How could Chen Linfeng intervene in this kind of thing? What role is difficult to assign?
Now that the news of "The Founding of a Republic" has completely spread, it has become a major event in the industry.
As an actor, you don’t want to miss this opportunity.
At this point, who cares about the remuneration? If you are not selected, it means that there is something lacking in popularity, status, and importance.
Everyone wants to be in, and the total length of the movie is only so long. At this time, we must consider excluding some people.
Thankless, whoever wants to command can command. Han Shanping laughed when he saw this kid was so quiet. He didn't care at all. It was just a joke.
Several other people are also secretly happy. Xiao Chen has been around for so long and everyone knows who he is, so they will definitely not be able to fool him.
Actually, given their status, saying a few words is not a big deal.
But no one wants to offend anyone for no reason, so Mr. Han, you and Director Huang should just go ahead and give it a headache.
Chen Linfeng looked at the costume that Jiang Wen had changed into and joked, "Oh, isn't this Brother Jiang who said he wanted to play Mao before? I don't think you look like this."
< br>Jiang Wen’s face turned dark, “Hey, you kid caused trouble for me as soon as you came up.”
Chen Linfeng patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, "It's okay. It's okay to play Mao Renfeng. After all, they have the same surname, so there's not much difference."
Jiang Wen's face turned even uglier, "How about riding a horse?"
He couldn't help but fire at Han Shanping, "I wonder why I can't play that guy because I look pretty good. If you don't let me play, forget it. Find me a job as a spy leader." , Isn’t this just killing people?”
Han Shanping didn’t answer, but said angrily to Chen Linfeng, “Xiao Chen, please stop saying a few words, it’s so difficult to arrange a role, and you are still causing trouble for me.”
He comforted Jiang Wen again, "Just like what Xiao Chen said, they all have the same surname and there is not much difference. At least the audience will know that your heart's desire is to serve the people. Please understand."< br>
Chen Linfeng almost laughed out loud.
Several other people were also happy.
After the little episode, it was a little awkward for a few of us to be together.
Last year, Chen Linfeng and Chen Kaige were competing against each other, and Chen Kaige was completely defeated.
Now that he met the real owner, he didn't come up to talk about some literary topics like before.
There is also Feng Xiaogang. His "If You Are the One" was obviously the number one film of the year, but because the film was released on New Year's Day, public opinion couldn't beat it, so it was abruptly moved to 2009.
This incident made him a little frustrated, so he didn't look good when he saw Xiao Chen.
Chen Linfeng's expression didn't change at all, and he didn't care at all.
At this level, it is impossible to show dissatisfaction on the face because of such a trivial matter. At most, there is a little grudge in the heart.
After a few words, it passed.
Sure enough, just a moment later, Chen Kaige inquired about Chen Linfeng being shortlisted for the Chinese Literature Award.
Chen Linfeng told the truth.
“These two awards are actually based on translated versions, so the winner actually depends on the translator, and currently they are only shortlisted. Whether they can win the award remains to be seen.”
Chen Kaige comforted, "It's good to be shortlisted. After all, there is a chance to win the award. And if a translator wants to translate well, he must have a good foundation in the original work. It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice."
At the same time, he also asked curiously, "Is this the second time you have been shortlisted for this Book Critics Circle Award?"
"Yeah," Chen Linfeng nodded.
“That’s great, there should be a great chance this year.”
After chatting with Chen Kaige for a while, Feng Xiaogang couldn’t hold back and joined the topic, asking about the overseas success of “Police Incident” box office.
Chen Linfeng thought about the data he had just received before and said, "Including the box office of Neon and Bangguo, it is about 400 million.
European and American copyrighted movies have also been sold , I’m not sure how much there will be there, but it’s all a buyout, and I can’t get much money back.”
Feng Xiaogang took a breath and said, "My dear, you earn more from outside than at home. Otherwise, brother, you are so proud that everyone abroad recognizes your name."
Chen Linfeng smiled and said, "That's basically it. There is a limit to overseas box office growth. Our domestic box office is growing faster. It is estimated that a single film will reach over one billion in a few years."
Feng Xiaogang shook his head, "You are too optimistic. Now, when can we first break the box office record of Dazhou? The figure of 360 million is in front of us. It must have been 11 years now, and no one can surpass it."
Speaking of this, there are few people around. Everyone was silent.
As proud as Jiang Wen was, he couldn't help but sigh.
In such a big country, for more than ten years, the box office championship of the film market has been occupied by outsiders. This is a shame for film and television people.
Chen Linfeng thought for a while, and in the second half of this year, "Transformers 2" seemed to push the record to 400 million.
However, this time it is the power of the domestic film market, and 400 million is not difficult at all.
He said lightly, "Judging from the market situation, this record will have to be broken this year, whether it is a film from our country or a foreign film."
Han Shanping couldn't help it anymore, "If this was ruined by a foreign film, the situation would be even more ugly."
"We will have to overtake him later. I think the current "Foundation of the Republic" is very promising." Chen Linfeng is very confident about this.
Han Shanping glanced at him with an inexplicable expression, "You have always been very confident."
Chen Kaige said, "The first time I made a commercial film, I took 300 million at the box office. The total number of overseas films has exceeded 700 million, so I must be confident."
Chen Linfeng shook his head and said, "It's not because of this. I have always been confident in our country's box office market potential.
In my opinion, it is inevitable that everyone here will surpass the box office in the future.”
Everyone was surprised.
Chen Linfeng especially felt that it was not enough, and added, "In the future, it may not exceed 1 billion, and it is estimated that he can no longer be called a great director."
Jiang Wen shouted, "That's it. , I think what you said before is still possible, 1 billion is too much."
Chen Linfeng said seriously, "Not much, a big country should have this size."
He. He suggested with great interest, "How about we make an agreement to see who reaches 1 billion at the box office first, and who fails to reach this number in the end?"
Several directors present were silent for a moment.
In the end, it was Chen Kaige who stood up first. He has always been proud. Regardless of whether this confidence is true or not, there is no lack of confidence anyway.
“Okay, it’s interesting, I’ll join.”
(End of this chapter)