Chapter 318 New project investment, gains from the reception

Chapter 318 New project investment, gains from the reception

In the September movie market, imported blockbusters are still the main issue.

"Transformers 3" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" are still strangled, and "Captain America" ​​and "Norwegian Wood" have also appeared on the stage.

Next up are "The Machinist", "Rush", and "Kingdom of Arthur 3".

Except for "Overheard 2" by Mak Zhaohui and Zhuang Wenqiang, which barely held its own, with a box office revenue of 138 million in 10 days of release, the rest of the domestic films were completely wiped out.

Zhou Yutang also took Liu Tianxian to watch the movie in a reserved theater.

It can be regarded as a relatively good quality film among the films that have come to Hong Kong in recent years, but it is definitely not amazing.

But with such achievements, the Hong Kong media has been like a chicken blood, and all kinds of exaggerated reports have come out.

"Hope for the rise of Hong Kong movies!"

"Competing with imported blockbusters, Hong Kong films have reappeared brilliantly and hit 400 million with all their strength."

"Those media are really messing around. How can it possibly have a box office of 400 million?"

When the person involved, Huo Wenxi, came to visit Zhou Yutang at the Jiangdong Entertainment Building, he couldn't help but complain about the Xiangjiang media.

According to this box office trend, the final box office may not reach 300 million.

If you want to be a box office hit, you have to watch Zhou Yutang.

"Sister mani."

Zhou Yutang also chuckled and said, "You have been really hard on me recently."

Huo Wenxi was also heartbroken.

After Chef Xie and Zhang Baizhi officially announced their separation, the storm started again.

Zhang Baizhi has a somewhat performative personality and began to act pitiful in front of the media in order to gain public sympathy.

Chef Xie is Huo Wenxi's number one general, and Yinghuang will of course support him to the end.

The two sides started a war of words, and Hong Kong news frequently made headlines.

"I can't get on the stage."

Huo Wenxi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I was wrong in the first place, but I can still be justified, so I won't say it anymore!"

Zhou Yutang has Mao Xiaoyu, the little gossip queen, by his side.

Be clear about these gossips in the circle.

Not so long ago.

Zhang Baizhi took a plane to attend the wedding of Chen Jianzhou and Fan Weiqi. Teacher Chen and Gillian were on the plane.

Gillian took the initiative to avoid Teacher Chen when she saw him.

But when Zhang Baizhi saw Edison Chen, she didn't shy away from it. Not only did she take photos with him, but she also had a lively chat with him along the way.

No wonder Chef Xie couldn't bear it. What other man could?

However, Huo Wenxi is a career-oriented strong woman after all. She quickly put these things aside and asked: "A Tang, what are you going to do for "Slaying the Wolf 2"?"

Yinghuang has plenty of money. This year it spent 500 million on film and television projects, but what it lacks is good projects.

This year's "Anti-Drug" has become a hit, and Zhou Yutang is now the star of Huo Wenxi's eyes.

"The film budget project book has been prepared. Sister Mani, please take a look at it first."

Zhou Yutang smiled and handed over the information prepared by the film department in advance.

Although this movie is called "Slaying the Wolf 2", the plot has nothing to do with the first movie.

But it's also an action scene.

The plot continues a line buried in "The Lonely Agent".

When it comes to buying and selling parts that you can’t mention too much, you definitely can’t shoot them in the country. You’re targeting the evil forces outside the country.

The biggest highlight is of course the exciting action scenes.

Zhou Yutang contacted Tyrande through China Film Group and finally got a response. International martial arts superstar Tony Jaa agreed to join.

Then there is the distribution of benefits, and it is still a few people who are familiar with each other.

Huo Wenxi stayed in Zhou Yutang's office all afternoon, made many phone calls, and finally finalized the matter.

"The total investment in "Slaying the Wolf 2" is 120 million."

"Jiangdong's 35% investment share."

"China Film Group 20%."

"Yinghuang Group 20%."

"Enlight Media 15%."

"10% share of Wanda."

The interests of all parties have been taken care of and everyone is relatively satisfied.

"Ah Tang, it's a pleasure to work with you."

Huo Wenxi stretched out his hand and shook Zhou Yutang's hand, with a pleasant smile on his face. Before Zhou Yutang could speak, he said:

"He who can do the hard work, I have to trouble you to decide on the casting. I will fly back to Xiangjiang tomorrow and there are urgent matters to deal with there."

"Sister mani."

Zhou Yutang also laughed: "Let's have dinner together tonight."

Work with women who have high emotional intelligence.

It's just so comfortable.

The editing work of "Search" went very smoothly, and Zhou Yutang stopped by to attend the cocktail party held by Guangguang Wang Changtian.

Wang Changtian is very proud of the successful listing of the light.

Zhang Zhao failed in the palace battle and was kicked out of Enlight Pictures. He turned to LeTV Pictures and became the general manager of LeTV's film department.

After taking back the power from Zhang Zhao, Lao Wang is now Guang Guang's only voice.

Liu Yifei also received the invitation, and Zhou Yutang simply took her there with him.

The appearance of this pair attracted the attention of countless people at the dinner.

Liu Yan, the host of Guangguang, was also there. When she saw Liu Yifei, she took the initiative to step forward and hold her hand:

"Yifei, you are so beautiful."

"No way, Sister Liu Yan, you are beautiful."

Polite greetings between women are business exchanges.

Liu Yan praised Liu Yifei's beautiful dress, and Liu Yifei immediately praised Liu Yan's beautiful hair.

The fairy sister is not indifferent to the world.

In the past, Aunt Liu took care of these things for her, and she was still a little immature in terms of interpersonal relationships. However, in recent years, Aunt Liu has gradually retreated behind the scenes, and Liu Yifei has gradually matured in terms of interpersonal relationships.

"Since when have you become so close?"

Zhou Yutang was a little curious.

"Sister Liu Yan, whom I met on a variety show."

Liu Yifei also smiled slightly and said: "She takes good care of me. We even went shopping together in private."

"Yifei and I are good friends."

Liu Yan has a hot figure, but she is actually quite a conservative girl in private, and she gets along well with Liu Yifei.

While several people were talking, Li Xiaoping came over.

"Excuse me, Sister Yan, please take care of Sissi."

"Go ahead and wrap it up on me."

Liu Yan nodded slightly, her eyes turning between Zhou Yutang and Liu Yifei.

Then he came close to Liu Yifei and whispered something. Liu Yifei's cheeks turned red instantly.

"Yu Tang, have you been invited to the LeTV Film Festival?"

"Please, I'm not going over."

"Haha, it's a big scene over there."

I followed Li Xiaoping to Lao Wang's small circle, and while walking, I talked about LeTV.

After Boss Jia went public, he made constant moves and established LeTV Films, intending to make it bigger. He even held a LeTV Festival a few days ago.

Liu Yan and Dai Jun were invited to be the hosts, and a lot of celebrities were invited.

Representatives of Hong Kong stars such as Zhang Baizhi and Donnie Yen.

The bosses of various film and television companies in the industry.

Great directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang, Jiang Wen and others.

Many famous producers also came to support the event.

As long as you go, there will be prizes and everyone will be happy.

Zhou Yutang also received a personal invitation letter from Boss Jia, but he was busy with the post-production of the film, so naturally he didn't go.

Only then did he notice what Wang Changtian, Cao Huayi and CEO Hairun were talking about. When he saw Zhou Yutang, his eyes lit up behind the lenses and he smiled:

"Yu Tang, come on, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Liu, Hairun."

"Mr. Liu, I have long admired your name."

They are all in the same circle, so Zhou Yutang has naturally heard of Hairun's name, and Liu Yanming is also the number one figure.

"Jade Guanyin", "A Pair of Embroidered Shoes", "One Meter of Sunshine", "Blood Romance" and "Bright Sword" produced by this company are all high-quality dramas.

Deng Chao's wife Sun Li was able to rise to the top because of the success of Hairun CEO Liu Yanming.

"Mr. Zhou, I'm glad to meet you. It's really the waves behind the Yangtze River that push the waves ahead."

Hairun CEO Liu Yanming also smiled, shook hands and hugged each other, patted each other's shoulders familiarly, and their attitude was very polite.

"Senior Mr. Liu, I want to learn from Mr. Liu."

"Haha, if that's the case, in the future, Hairun will have to learn from you when making movies."

Although Hairun was strong in the past, its development has not been smooth in recent years, far behind the most popular Jiangdong Entertainment. Unexpectedly, it is planning to transform into movies.

Come to think of it.

Zhou Yutang heard some rumors and Liu Yanming hooked up with the great Hong Kong director Du Qifeng, ambitiously preparing to enter the film industry.

They are all from the film and television industry, so naturally we have a lot to talk about.

The most talked about drama is "Jing Zhong Yue Fei".

At the beginning, a team from Xiangjiang was invited to participate in the script production.

But then Zhou Yutang entered the stage, so the scriptwriting team of Xiangjiangren naturally stepped aside.

Zhou Yutang had deep respect for Yue Wumu in his heart.

Thirty years of fame and dust, eight thousand miles of clouds and moon.

The mother-in-law got a tattoo and served the country with loyalty.

A song full of rivers is red, so magnificent and intense.

He was very dissatisfied with the original script. The plot was too delayed and the emotional scenes were too boring.

I found some connections and invited several senior scholars who have studied the background history of the two Song Dynasties to provide detailed details.

Wang Changtian has cooperated with Zhou Yutang many times and has no objections. As for Xinli Media Cao Huayi, he also showed great sincerity.

This cannot be accomplished overnight.

Zheng Xiaolong and his wife have been busy working on "The Legend of Zhen Huan" for nearly a year.

The screenwriting team at the Creative Center of Jiangdong Entertainment also has to work on the script of "Celebrating More Than Years" at the same time, which is not enough.

Zhou Yutang was chatting here, and when he glanced slightly, he saw someone: "Mr. Liu, can you introduce me to Teacher Yu?"

"You mean Lao Yu?"

Liu Yanming was also slightly stunned, and immediately brought Yu Rongguang over.

This is also an old actor. The movie "Letter to Dad" that he collaborated with the Kung Fu Emperor Li Lianjie left a deep impression on Zhou Yutang. There is a line that Yu Rongguang said to the Kung Fu Emperor in it that is very classic,

"It's only a few hundred yuan a month, why are you trying to kill yourself!"

This line later became a very popular meme on the Internet.

Yu Rongguang himself is also an experienced actor with very good acting skills.

Loyalty, evil, good and evil are all at your fingertips.

Zhou Yutang asked Liu Yanming to match him.

But it's not just for him.

The young man next to Yu Rongguang, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and looking somewhat elegant, attracted his attention.

Wang Yu was more or less at a loss when attending such a cocktail party.

Everyone was busy socializing, and he was eating steak in the corner.

It is purely a coincidence that he entered the film and television industry.

He worked as a designer in his early years, and later served as the screenwriter and post-production coordinator of the urban sitcom "Urban Man and Woman", becoming a screenwriter halfway through.

After being spotted by Yu Rongguang, the two hit it off and collaborated on several films.

Producer Jiang Xiaorong, who was born in Hairun, director Yu Rongguang, and screenwriter Wang Yun, this Rongguang combination is also a very powerful combination in the industry.

They successively produced the Border Trilogy, which was later considered to be the representative work of the "Glory Group" - "Legend of Dance" with a Douban score of 8.7, "Feng Yun in the Mufu" with a Douban score of 8.3, and "The Legend of Nanqiao Mechanical Heroes" with an 8.2 score.

But the current Glory Group has just started and is not that powerful yet.

Wang Yun is also just emerging.

Naturally, he is not a top screenwriter.

So when he saw Yu Rongguang bringing Zhou Yutang over to say hello, he was a little confused.

Zhou Yutang's reputation in the screenwriting circle can be said to be at its peak now.

Regardless of Lu Wei's older generation of gold medal screenwriters.

He is recognized as the first screenwriter of the new generation.

Zhou Yutang has always been very polite to capable people.

After taking the initiative to exchange a few pleasantries and the polite process, Zhou Yutang took the entire conversation and knew that Wang Xun had not signed the company, so he went straight to the point.

"I'm working on the project "Jing Zhong Yue Fei" and I don't have enough people. Are you interested in joining the screenwriting team to help me?"

Wang Yun originally had some guesses about Zhou Yutang's purpose, but Wang Yun was slightly startled, and then he felt ecstatic.

It is roughly equivalent to Jack Ma asking a small businessman to participate in Ali's project.

Pie in the sky!

It's a bit exaggerated to say that. Zhou Yutang's current financial resources cannot be compared with Jack Ma's.

But his status in the entertainment industry is probably equivalent to Jack Ma, who has countless people competing to recognize his father.

Being able to participate in a film and television project controlled by the top gold medal screenwriter in the industry is equivalent to gold plating, which is very attractive to people in the film and television industry.

"Mr. Zhou, why do you want to find him?"

It could be seen that Wang Yun was a little excited and didn't know what to say. Yu Rongguang patted him on the shoulder and took the initiative to ask on behalf of his good friend.

Zhou Yutang smiled and said: "I have watched the TV show you made, "Detective Cheng Xu: The Years of Dragon City". The script was well done and it was quite an interesting TV series."

At that time, not long after he had just started, the detective suspense TV series written by Wang Yu and starring Yu Rongguang, Gan Tingting, etc. had good ratings and later released a second season.

"Mr. Zhou, thank you for your kindness. It's not that I don't want to agree."

Wang Yu glanced at Yu Rongguang, shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "Now I am finishing the finishing work of a script, and I may not be able to spare time to work on other scripts."

"Don't be too busy refusing."

Yu Rongguang quickly rounded off his words: "Mr. Zhou, your vision is really good. Wang Yu is very capable. He helped me write the script of "The Storm in the Wood Mansion". It is almost completed. I can definitely participate in Mr. Zhou's project." "

Everyone knows.

In the entertainment industry, climbing up to Zhou Yutang is equivalent to a meteoric rise.

The screenwriting studio under him is also known as the Jiangdong Creative Center in the circle. It is so famous that when it comes to martial arts novels, it is the legendary martial arts holy land.

Popular film and television scripts such as "My Love from the Star" and "Hello, Old Times" were born there.

Zhou Yutang is the boss of Jiangdong Creative Center. The screenwriters under him, such as Pingpo and August Changan, are now the first-line screenwriters in the benchmark drama industry. There are even film and television companies with deep pockets. If they can't hire Zhou Yutang, they will spend a lot of money. Millions of people were asked to be screenwriters.

It can be seen that Yu Rongguang really regards Wang Yun as a friend.

""Story of Mu Mansion"?"

When he heard the title of this play, Zhou Yutang's eyes narrowed slightly.

"yes."

Yu Rongguang also lamented: "The script of this drama was not easy to write. It took more than ten years and was revised more than ten times. It is almost done now."

Zhou Yutang understood it.

This drama tells the story of the changes within the Mu family during the local rule of the Mu family chieftain from Naxi Province in the Ming Dynasty.

"The subject matter is very novel and interesting."

"What does Mr. Zhou think?"

Yu Rongguang saw Zhou Yutang's interested look, and a smile appeared on his square face: "You can read the script of this drama first and give me some guidance."

"The guide doesn't dare, let's talk about it."

The wine will simply be tossed aside.

A few people found a corner to sit down and started chatting about the show.

"The script is almost finished, but the investment hasn't been finalized yet."

This is what Yu Rongguang said, his eyes falling on Zhou Yutang.

He attended today's cocktail party just to attract investment for this drama.

The moment I saw Zhou Yutang.

I have an idea in my mind.