Near the Chedun Film and Television Base, in a large restaurant.
"When we meet for the first time, I would like to propose a toast to you all." Zhang Yuan and Cheng Hao were sitting at the main seats. He stood up and held a glass with some light yellow tea in it.
"Sorry, I have to start work in the afternoon soon, so I can't drink. I can only drink tea instead of wine." He apologized.
“Hey, it’s okay.”
“That’s all I need.”
"We're all friends."
Soon, a table of strangers mingled.
Chen Wei and Yaoyang are returning to the Magic City for the first time, while Sun Xing has already come to the mainland to develop and has traveled all over the country.
This time Hao took the crew friends out to play, and they also provided food and accommodation, mainly because they saw what Zhang Yuan did on the crew on weekdays.
He was able to get so many roles because he had enough friends. Basically every crew member could make many friends.
Cheng Hao's original personality was relatively traditional, very academic, and the kind of good student who paid more attention to his own performance.
But now she also wants to make more connections, especially since Zhang Yuan told her that the film and television entertainment-related industries will also be a blue ocean in the future. If you want to become a boss yourself, connections are essential.
Zhang Yuan understands what she is thinking, and connections do need to be accumulated from small steps.
After all, not everyone is like Liu Qianqian. She has a godfather on the outside and a mother on the inside. She has zenith-star resources when she debuts.
In other words, in the entire Chinese entertainment industry, until the next two decades, there has never been another person with the support of resources like Liu Qianqian.
Many people think that the big boss behind Jingtian is also very good and his resources are exploding.
But who’s resources behind Jingdian are mainly in China, and Boss Chen’s behind Qianqian’s domestic resources are not as good as those behind Ms. Jing, but in Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas, they are far more powerful than the one behind Miss Jing. Stronger.
There are also many rumors that after Liu Qianqian broke up with Hua Yi, she was forced to go to Hong Kong to serve the big boss.
The origin of these rumors should be that she attended events with Yang Shoucheng, Jackie Chan and others. After all, these two have a reputation for women that is obvious to all.
But in fact, Boss Chen’s resources in Xiangjiang are not Yang Shoucheng, but another “city”, namely Xiangjiang Lao Li.
In the late 1990s, the country launched the reform of state-owned enterprises, but where did the reform require money?
Where does the money come from?
Going overseas for listing and financing!
In 2000, the first local state-owned enterprise in the imperial capital was listed on the Hong Kong stock market. This company was called Tong Ren Tang.
After listing, Hutchison Whampoa became the second largest shareholder of Tong Ren Tang.
The person pulling the strings behind the scenes is Boss Chen’s Jingtai Securities.
With Hutchison Whampoa's relationship, Yang Shoucheng is nothing compared to Lao Li.
This is just once.
His presence is behind the listing of a large number of state-owned enterprises and central enterprises overseas.
Boss Chen was the big middleman of that era!
It's okay to say that he has white gloves, but he is infinitely superior to the white gloves of Zhao Yanzi's husband.
He can be said to be the white glove born of the country's economic development.
After all, he is serving the country, otherwise how could he be elected as a member of the National Party Committee for two consecutive terms.
Therefore, after Boss Chen rejected Huayi, he used his top overseas financial connections to find Liu Qianqian a brokerage company called WMA William Morris.
This company is recognized as the number one brokerage company in the world, bar none!
Chaplin, Elvis Presley, Monroe, Marlon Brando, Stallone, Michael Bay, Mel Gibson, and even Jackie Chan and Zhang Ziyi were all members of this company.
Many domestic tabloids said that Liu Qianqian later signed a contract with a small foreign company... Your small company looks like this.
Without the support of WMA, she would not have received the super project "Mulan" later.
The only rival of WMA in the world is CAA, which is the second largest agency in the world.
Its include Tom Cruise, Madonna, Justin Bieber, etc...
In China, stars who later signed or collaborated with CAA include Lao Mouzi, Director Feng, Ang Lee, Zhao Yanzi, Zhu Bajie and Xiao Longnu.
This is one of the reasons why Liu Qianqian has never cooperated with the three major domestic directors. The backstage management company behind them is a sworn enemy.
Every time he thinks about Qian Qian’s resources, Zhang Yuan’s eyes turn red, even if he has a good relationship with her, he is extremely envious.
Not to mention those colleagues who compete with her.
Compared to before, Cheng Hao dated these Hong Kong and Taiwan starlets just to expand some connections. After all, her main connections were in the imperial capital.
However, looking at the way she kept picking up food for herself while eating and pinching her waist with her fingers, I guess it was a fake act to bring friends to play, and the real purpose was to "play" with herself.
I feel a little tired after this meal.
He kept holding the tabletop with both hands and holding it firmly.
Why?
Sitting opposite Zhang Yaoyang, what if Brother Crow lifts the table!
After eating, the three discerning men wandered off on their own.
They also asked Zhang Yuan where the best nightclub in Shanghai was.
After showing them the way, these three people walked away.
"You seem to be very familiar with nightclubs in Shanghai?" Cheng Hao smiled broadly, his big almond-shaped eyes narrowed with joy.
“Of course it’s familiar.” Zhang Yuan didn’t take it seriously: “That was voted for by my sister Fei.”
"Sister Fei?"
"Wang Fei."
Big Lao Wang himself always loved drinking, so he participated in many nightclubs across the country. Later, he and Li Yapeng also performed in the Magic Club Duhe opened a high-end nightclub called VIPROOM.
"Oh..." Cheng Hao nodded lightly. Zhang Yuan had mentioned the matter with Wang Fei to her before.
"By the way, good sister, regarding the three friends you just brought, I advise you to be cautious in your interactions." Zhang Yuan said seriously.
Cheng Hao rolled his eyes, and then jumped in front of him. He pointed at his chest with a smile and said, "Is it sore in here?"
"It's okay."
"Well! "
"It's sour, it's sour, I'm so sour..." Zhang Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead. The woman was worried that she might miss a good chicken if she was not careful.
"What I mean is." Zhang Yuan cleared his throat: "When you first came here, when you saw me looking like this, you thought I had eaten some contraband, right."
"Oh, I apologize for blaming you wrongly." Cheng Hao shook his arm.
"I don't care about that. What's important is, guess why those two people were so sure that I haven't eaten it?"
"This..." Cheng Hao frowned and thought for a while. Then his eyes widened.
“Yes, it’s just what you think. Hong Kong and Taiwan are more chaotic than the mainland.”
“Only those who are really good at eating can tell whether others have eaten or not.”
"So, you can make friends with these people, but don't go too deep, just maintain appropriate contact."
"I understand." Cheng Hao looked at him with admiring eyes: "It's still you Smart."
"I listen to you."
Then he hooked his arm and started walking.
Zhang Yuan led her to the door of a Chinese medicine shop.
"Brother, here are two kilograms of wolfberry."
After paying the money and holding a large bag of wolfberry, Zhang Yuan grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his mouth.
"How can there be such food?" Cheng Hao asked confused.
"I have been too weak recently in filming to adapt to the role, so I have to prepare for the battle."
Cheng Hao thought for a while, then her cheeks turned red and she rolled her eyes at him charmingly.
Late night, hotel.
“You lied!” Cheng Hao shouted feebly.
"Where are you weak?"
Angrily, she stood up and threw the wolfberry that Zhang Yuan bought at noon into the trash can.
Replenish?
Then she has to die in the magical city!
"Okay, after resting, it's time to talk about business." Zhang Yuan patted her big white legs.
“You call this rest?” Cheng Hao pointed to the mess on the ground.
"After a while, I plan to open a brokerage company and let you hold part of the shares." Zhang Yuan said to himself.
"Why do you suddenly want to open a brokerage company? Are you too bold?" Cheng Hao asked confused.
"Do you believe me?"
"Yes."
"That's it." Zhang Yuan said slowly: "In the beginning, the company will only have one artist, you Practice first and give it a try.”
“Of course, I will also take care of it. You are mainly responsible for business and management matters.”
“Only one person, but also business and management? "Cheng Hao became more and more puzzled.
"Who is this person?" "Did you watch the Golden Horse Awards a while ago?" Zhang Yuan smiled and replied: "The best newcomer."
"My name is Wang... ..."
"Wang Baoqiang." Zhang Yuancheng couldn't remember it, so he reminded him.
“It was just him in the beginning to make you adapt to this job.”
"And I told you that the contract between Sister Hua and Huayi is about to expire, and their conflict will break out sooner or later."
"By then your Chengtian will definitely become Wang Jinghua's partner, because Now besides Huayi, Chengtian has the strongest funds."
"There will definitely be turmoil within Chengtian due to the arrival of this big fish."
"By then, there will be turmoil within Chengtian. You can take the opportunity to recruit people and expand the company's team."
Cheng Hao was dumbfounded!
Zhang Yuan's plans were all aimed at his own agency and the largest agent in China.
“A big star is born between heaven and earth, how can he live in depression for a long time!”
“Let’s rebel and do it alone!”
“This can work. Aren't you afraid of being surrounded by several companies?" Cheng Hao was worried that he would take too many steps and make mistakes easily.
“Don’t worry, these things are indeed complicated, but I will get it done.”
Cheng Hao is originally a bright and cheerful type, and her intelligence and emotional intelligence are not low. Although she has no experience in managing people, she should be good at it after learning.
Besides, as long as you support yourself, you won't get into big trouble.
As for Wang Baoqiang... now is the time when high quality and low prices are available, so it is appropriate to choose him as my first artist.
In the film and television industry, it is generally composed of these parts.
Agency companies, film and television production companies, distribution and theater companies.
The status and upper limit of the three are from low to high.
Even in later generations, the upper limit of domestic pure brokerage companies is generally difficult to exceed 5 billion market capitalization.
Film and television production companies can easily break through tens of billions, but it is difficult to think of hundreds of billions.
The strongest ones are distribution and theater companies, the most typical of which is Wanda Pictures. Because it holds a large number of physical assets such as theater chains, its peak market value easily exceeded 100 billion.
These three things form a complete industrial chain.
If you want to become a dominant player in the entertainment industry, these three things are indispensable, otherwise you will be hampered by others.
He understands that if he relies solely on acting, he will never be able to win the favor of a company at the level of WMA like Liu Qianqian.
The guys who cooperate with CAA are all backed by capital, or are themselves members of capital.
If you want to trade with the giant PY, you must have capital!
Zhang Yuan is now as wild as a reed in the entertainment industry, but without strong background support, he can only start slowly from the lowest end of the industry chain.
Wang Baoqiang is just the first step, but the structure of the brokerage company is completed. He wants to sign all the actors from Deyuan Society and Happy Mahua to the brokerage company!
Doing this will not only make the valuation of the brokerage company skyrocket in an instant, but also control the personnel flow of other companies in which it is a shareholder through the brokerage contract, killing two birds with one stone.
He told Cheng Hao everything.
After Cheng Hao was surprised, his mouth opened wide, almost giving him some bold ideas.
“Have you already settled?”
"Absolutely."
"So." Zhang Yuan patted her shoulder: "Boss Cheng, your tasks will be very heavy in the future."
Looking around after being patted on the shoulder by him There were two lumps on the trembling chest.
Well, it is very heavy.
Having spent so much energy on Cheng Hao, of course I have to develop her body... no, abilities to the extreme.
Moreover, this company controls its own basic lifeline and can only be left to someone like her who she can fully trust.
Besides, if someone is being raped by me day and night, why don’t you give me something in return?
"I'm still a little confused." Cheng Hao felt that why was he suddenly so clearly arranged by Zhang Yuan?
And even the strength has been calculated. In the early stage, only one person is assigned to myself.
"It's great to follow you. I don't even have to worry about it." After thinking for a long time, the other party lay in his arms.
"I will try my best."
"Yes."
After the two of them rubbed their ears together for a while, they chatted for a while.
"By the way, you said that this time you come to Shanghai, you are going to talk about a new drama. What kind of movie is it?"
"It's called "Fireworks in March" and it's adapted from a novel. The book is said to start shooting at the end of the year." Cheng Hao became serious as soon as he mentioned his work.
"I'll go meet the director and screenwriter tomorrow night to talk about the script. We'll have to see what happens next."
"Oh..." Zhang Yuan frowned.
"Fireworks in March"?
This title sounds so familiar.
"I don't have a night show tomorrow night, how about I go with you."
"Really!" Cheng Hao agreed happily.
Not to mention the work during the day, just like other actors, being "tortured" by Mr. Xing was extremely painful.
He is still one of the actors with the fewest NG remakes, but he is also feeling uncomfortable all over.
While filming, Cheng Hao was watching from the crew when he had nothing to do.
I don’t know when, she and Huang Shengyi looked at each other with evil intentions.
“There’s something wrong with the way she looks at Zhang Yuan!”
“There’s something wrong with the way she looks at Zhang Yuan!”
The two of them said in unison.
Zhang Yuan felt a chill go down his spine, and when he looked back, he saw two piercing eyes.
“Who did I offend?”
In the evening, I accompanied Cheng Hao to a teahouse.
He found a table by himself, ordered scented tea and snacks, and waited quietly.
Let Cheng Hao go to the private room alone for the appointment.
This is her work and career. There is no need for her to get involved. Quiet companionship is the best.
He was sitting in the corner of the first floor of the teahouse.
Recently, due to the broadcast of several TV series, he has also become familiar to the audience.
Like Liu Qianqian and others, fans will come up to ask for autographs when they go out to eat.
Fortunately, he collected a lot of calligraphy tips, and his calligraphy is not bad.
But today, I don’t know whether it’s because I’m not popular enough, or because I lost weight in order to adapt to the role on the set, but no one recognized me anyway.
As a professional actor, Cheng Hao arrived early.
After all, actors are considered Party B in front of the crew, and their attitude is very important.
Soon after, two people walked in at the door of the teahouse.
Zhang Yuan took a quick look and was stunned.
One of these two people is middle-aged and the other is young.
Because he has been with the crew for a long time, Zhang Yuan can recognize them at a glance. Their appearance and temperament should be that of people in the film and television industry.
But none of that matters.
"No wonder it sounds familiar."
"I forgot about this!"
"Fireworks in March", this movie is not very famous.
But the screenwriter of the film is very famous.
Zhang Yuan stared at the younger of the two and watched carefully.
Medium build, neither fat nor thin.
A pair of sly eyes, set off by gold-rimmed glasses, shone with agility.
That face looks like a smile but not a smile. It is unremarkable, but it is easy to remember.
This is the novelist and screenwriter of "Fireworks in March", and he is also a notorious celebrity in the entertainment industry in later generations.
Yu Zheng! (End of this chapter)