Chapter 82 The whereabouts of "Dark Invasion 2"
In another office of Huayi Brothers, the Wang brothers had also just finished reading the news about Zhang Chen and were chatting privately.
"Last time you talked to him, how did he reply to you?"
"He declined politely."
Wang Zhongjun looked at his younger brother, then lowered his head to think. He got up and said again after a while: "Next time you see him, talk to him again and see what his attitude is. If he really has no intention of joining, then try to ensure that he will not go to a competitor. .”
"Chengtian?"
"Yes."
Both brothers know that Wang Jinghua has been in contact with Wu Kebo from Chengtian a lot recently, almost without concealing it.
There are now rumors that Wang Jinghua will switch to Chengtian after his contract with Huayi expires.
In the past two days, the two brothers have been secretly talking to celebrities one by one, hoping to keep them.
Of course, there may be a lot of benefits, but no one knows what the final effect will be.
There are two reasons why Huayi Brothers can firmly occupy the top spot among private film and television companies. One is because Huayi has bound Feng Xiaogang and pursues a one-star, one-director system.
One star and one director is the combination of Feng Xiaogang + Ge You.
Almost every movie they made with this group was profitable.
The second reason is because Huayi has many celebrities. Wang Jinghua is known as the number one agent in domestic entertainment, and she has a wealth of celebrity resources. Almost all of the famous ones are in her hands. This is why Wang Jinghua dares to challenge the Wang brothers.
But this year happened to be a troubled year. Feng Xiaogang was about to stand on his own feet, and Wang Jinghua changed jobs. It was equivalent to two legs of the Huayi brothers being discounted at the same time, so the Wang brothers were anxious.
They were eager to find two alternatives. As for directors, they initially selected Lu Chuan and Zhang Chen.
Lu Chuan was obedient, but he was too literary.
When they chatted with Feng Xiaogang before, all they heard was about the box office...
Now when they chat with Lu Chuan, all they hear is about artistic expression, and they are not on the same channel at all.
It seems that Zhang Chen is the most suitable candidate, taking a completely commercial route, but this guy seems to be completely indifferent to their private leader.
As for celebrities: After Wang Jinhua leaves, it is foreseeable that most celebrities will leave with her.
This is the strength of the number one economic man in domestic entertainment.
The Wang brothers did do some work. But they themselves had no idea how many people could be left behind.
Chang Jihong is a good candidate, and he also has many celebrities.
But Chang Jihong is from StarMedia. If they dare to poach Chang Jihong, they will start a war with StarMedia. As a film and television company, it is extremely irrational to offend the theater chain.
Forget it, take one step and take a look.
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At night, the Zhang family
The Zhang family eats braised noodles at night, which are called beans noodles in Hebei.
Mother Zhang's mouth was grinning the whole night.
Is it because the braised noodles at night were so delicious? Of course not.
It’s because my precious son won the award, and Zhang’s mother was honored.
Father Zhang was also very happy, but all his actions were within reasonable limits.
Mother Zhang was different. She was absent-minded when eating. Seeing that it was almost time, she put down her bowl and was about to go out.
"Why are you going? Aren't you going to wash the dishes?"
Zhang's father asked. Their family has always had a division of labor. One person cooks and the other has to wash the dishes.
"What's the rush? I'm going to take a walk first."
Father Zhang looked helplessly as his wife went out impatiently, and then there was a conversation with a neighbor outside. Voice.
“Xiu Qin, you are taking a walk, have you finished eating so early?”
"Ah, how did you know that my Xiaochen won the award? I thought you all didn't know."
Mother Zhang started the topic a bit abruptly.
We are all in the same courtyard. We look up and don't see each other every day. No one knows who is who.
Just looking at Mrs. Zhang’s appearance, you can tell that she is not vomiting or unhappy.
The neighbor immediately praised him cooperatively: "Xiaochen won a prize? What prize did he win?"
"American Saturn Award."
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Zhang Chen, who was far away in the United States, also received a text message from Teacher Fu at this time.
"You are an amazing kid. You can win an award abroad for your first film. When you return to China, remember to bring the trophy to me and let me see what the Saturn Award looks like?"
Students from Nortel have won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, the Golden Bear in Berlin, and the Golden Lion in Venice, but this seems to be the first time for them to win the Saturn Award in the United States.
After all, things are rare and they are looking forward to seeing the Saturn Award trophy.
"Okay, teacher, I will return to China tomorrow, and I will find you then."
After replying to the message, Zhang Chen put his phone back in his pocket.
He is indeed going back to China tomorrow.
He came here to participate in the Saturn Awards and find an agent. Now that both tasks are done, there is no need for him to stay here any longer.
That night, Zhang Chen and Lao Li boarded a red-eye flight and landed at the Capital Airport 12 hours later.
After a day of rest, I got jet-lagged. In fact, there is no need to deal with the jet lag. They have only been there for a few days and have not yet adapted to the jet lag.
Zhang Chen took a deep sleep, and the first thing he did after waking up was to run to the Huairou Digital Film and Television Production Base to check how the post-production was going.
The programmers worked very hard. Although Zhang Chen was only away for a few days, the results were visible to the naked eye.
If we follow this schedule, the special effects production can definitely be completed ahead of schedule.
Zhang Chen did not come empty-handed, he specially brought gifts and a lot of delicious food for everyone.
Programmers are very simple. A little gift can make them happy, and then they work overtime desperately.
The next day, Zhang Chen rushed to the Beidian Meter Guide Building with two trophies.
Just walking on campus has attracted the attention of many people.
"Senior Brother Zhang Chen~"
"Hello, senior brother~"
He will be a junior when school starts in September, and he is the director who has just made a successful movie. At least the freshmen and sophomores will take the initiative to say hello to him.
I arrived at the second floor of the guidance building with ease. Not long after school officially started, there were many teachers in the office.
Zhang Chen was noticed as soon as he stuck his head out.
"Zhang Chen, come in quickly~"
Teachers in all schools are very polite to outstanding students and will not discipline them like Sun Tzu. "Is this the Saturn Award trophy?" Some people couldn't help but wonder.
Zhang Chen greeted the teachers with a smile, and then placed the trophy on Teacher Fu’s desk.
"Teacher, I brought the trophy for you."
Teacher Fu looked at the two trophies and smiled. They were finally able to feel proud when they directed the play.
It’s not that Nortel has never won awards, but those in the past were basically won by students from the performance department.
Even for directing awards, the winners are basically other inter-professional students.
The appearance of Zhang Chen finally filled the gap in their directing scenes.
"Stand still, let's take a photo together~"
I called Zhang Chen here today just to take a photo.
First there was a photo of Zhang Chen with the trophy, then there was a photo of Teacher Fu with Zhang Chen and the trophy, and then there was a photo of the department head with Zhang Chen and the trophy.
Looking at Zhang Chen, his proud disciple, Teacher Fu became more and more satisfied.
These are all the results of teaching.
It depends on him to judge the professional title.
“When will you leave for the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival?”
"Probably tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
"Well, try to win another award."
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The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is actually two film awards. Golden Rooster Award and Hundred Flowers Award.
In the beginning, they were held separately. In 1992, they were merged and held together. In 2005, they were separated again.
This year's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is the last one to be jointly organized. After this year, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival will be separated and become biennial.
Next year is the Golden Rooster, and the year after that is the Hundred Flowers.
The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is actually different from ordinary award ceremonies. It opens very early, but it is preceded by some seminars and the like, with a strong academic interest.
People often say that the film festival is just the final awards ceremony.
This year’s awards ceremony is scheduled for the evening of September 19th. According to the process, the Hundred Flowers Awards will be selected first, and then the Golden Rooster Awards.
This film festival is also quite interesting. It chooses a different venue every year. This year, Yinchuan, Ningxia was chosen.
The most impressive thing about Ningxia Zhang Chen is Tan Yang.
The three most famous places for eating mutton in China are XJ and Inner Mongolia. Ningxia.
XJ uses cumin, Inner Mongolia relies on chive flowers, and Ningxia is completely steamed. Ningxia’s famous steamed lamb dish has a history of more than a hundred years and focuses on an authentic taste.
Zhang Chen also ate Tanyang in his previous life, but it’s hard to tell if it’s true.
Ningxia Tan sheep are very famous throughout China, but how many sheep are there in Ningxia? If each part of the country gets one point, how much can it get?
This makes sense when you think about it. It is the same as the bathing crabs in Yangcheng Lake.
So Zhang Chen was extremely doubtful whether the Tan Yang he had eaten before was real.
Just to eat Tan sheep, a few of them set off early. Anyway, they don't need to participate in the previous seminars, as long as they arrive at the final award ceremony.
Zhang Chen and his party took the train and traveled across mountains and rivers, admiring the beautiful scenery and tasting delicious food. Finally, they arrived at the hotel designated for the film festival on the evening of the 18th.
At this time, the hotel had already accommodated many guests who came to attend the award ceremony. Zhang Chen saw Lao Mouzi in person for the first time.
It doesn’t seem to have changed much, but people look a lot more haggard, probably because of the eight minutes of the Athens Olympics in the past two days.
"Do you think you can win the award?" It was Zeng Li who asked.
Zhang Chen shook his head: "I don't know."
If it's the Golden Rooster Award, it has nothing to do with him. The Golden Rooster Award is an art award, and the judges are all old scholars who study movies.
If you look at the list of winners of the previous Golden Rooster Awards, basically you have never heard of the movies on them.
But the Hundred Flowers Award is different. Its full name is the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award, and the winners are voted by 101 audience representatives.
A few people were sitting at a roadside food stall chatting. Zeng Li remembered Wang Jinhua’s previous instructions. After thinking about it, he asked tentatively: "Director Zhang, I want to ask, what are we doing in "Dark Invasion 2"? Are you still filming? "
Zhang Chen knew what she had in mind, but he was also worried about it.
Che Xiao has retired, but it is impossible to leave a film as good as "Dark Invasion 2" unfilmed.
Sequels to such hit movies are almost 100% profitable.
But he didn’t want to take the photo himself.
After "Shark Beach", he was no longer satisfied with making this kind of sequel movie.
Then he looked at Ning Hao: "Haozi, do you want to make a movie?"
"Me?"
"Yes, you will direct "Dark Invasion 2"."
"But that is obviously your movie."
"No, I just directed the first one, the director of the sequel can The replacement can be you or someone else."
"But what if the filming fails?"
"No, you will be the director and I will be the producer. People. I won’t interfere with the specific shooting, but I will control the overall style and make sure it is consistent with the first one, so there will be no problems with the quality of the film.”
"Just in time, you can also practice with this. Sister Na, hasn't she been writing scripts for you? This one is a success and you have made a name for yourself. You can make the second one you like."
Na My sister is Xing Aina, Ning Hao’s wife and a screenwriter. The script of “Stone” was written by her.
Ning Hao looked at Zhang Chen, then at Cao Bingkun, and then at Chen Xi and Zeng Li next to him, feeling a little moved but also hesitant.
"Haozi, I think you can do it~" Lao Cao cheered Ning Hao from the side.
Chen Xi also encouraged: "Yes, Haozi, you should give it a try. I see that you have your own ideas every time you shoot. You can definitely do it."
The same goes for Zeng Li on the other side. Although she was a little disappointed because the director changed from Zhang Chen to Ning Hao, the most important thing is that the movie can be made.
"I also think you can do it, Director Ning..."
Director Ning's words seemed to turn on a switch, and Director Ning's voice could not be heard.
"Yes, Director Ning, everyone is so supportive of you, so just go with it."
"In terms of qualifications, your "Thursday, Wednesday" won the best award at the Beijing University Student Film Festival Director Award, and you shot the previous film. You know the style of the film better than anyone else, so I can rest assured that the sequel will be left to you.”
"That's it."
"Okay, then I'll give it a try."
(End of this chapter)