1980 My literary era

Nowadays, there are very few movies that have celebration parties, let alone some ice sculptures to break the ice like in later generations.

Amidst the whispers and envious eyes of everyone in the audience, the creators on the stage finished speaking.

The microphone returned to Yu Dong's hand, "I'll say a few more words. If there's nothing else to do, we at Wenhua Film and Television have launched a script solicitation event. We'll take this opportunity to promote it today and hope that people in the industry will sign up enthusiastically.

All scripts that pass the selection can be made into movies, and Wenhua Film and Television will provide an investment of no less than 5 million yuan. "

Yu Dong's words are concise and clear, without any ambiguity, but they contain a huge amount of information.

Is Wenhua Film and Television going to collect scripts? Can a movie be made with an approved script? Investment is no less than 5 million?

Everyone in the audience quickly extracted the key information from Yu Dong's words, and immediately realized the awesomeness of this event.

Once the script is approved, it can be filmed, and the investment is no less than 5 million. This is simply good news for directors and screenwriters!

How difficult is it to attract investment in today’s market?

Not to mention the directors, even if the studio wants to make a big investment movie, it has to go to the public to attract investment. If you don't take good care of the bosses, how can they throw money at you?

When we arrived at Wenhua, there was only one requirement: if the script was qualified, we would invest 5 million yuan. Who could not do it? The directors and screenwriters present were the first to get excited.

What's more, the most impressive thing about Wenhua Film and Television is that the main creative team shares box office dividends. This is the most attractive thing.

If anyone can make a "Hero", no, make a movie that can reach one-tenth of the profit level of "Hero", he will probably have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

After Yu Dong finished speaking, there was a commotion in the audience. Compared with the excitement of the directors and screenwriters, the reaction of many studio and film and television company bosses who came to today's celebration was quite indifferent, but their hearts were actually more complicated.

We and Wenhua Film and Television are not only peers, but also competitors. Wenhua Film and Television was born not long ago, but in just a few years, it has risen to the leading position in the domestic film industry at a rocket-like speed.

With "Hero" breaking a series of records, Wenhua Film and Television's popularity in the film industry has become even more ridiculous. Now there is a trend of gradually attracting talents in the film industry. Faced with this situation, everyone will naturally feel on pins and needles. , like a fish in the throat, like a thorn in the back.

well!

How could such a monster appear in the film industry?

The script solicitation activity mentioned by Yu Dong was naturally the one proposed by Lin Weimin before the release of "Hero".

Recently, Yu Dong had a detailed chat with Lin Weimin and felt that it would be better to have greater competition, so he expanded the scope of solicitation and the amount of investment.

With the unprecedented success of "Hero", Wenhua Film and Television is on the verge of success and is eager to give it a try.

At the celebration party for "Hero", at least a dozen film directors came. Among them, Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang were contracted by Wenhua. There were also several directors who had been cooperating with the Chinese Literature Society, such as Huo Jianqi, Li Shaohong, Huang Jianxin, and the rest. The ones below are all acquaintances in the industry, such as Tian Zhuangzhuang, Hu Mei, Xie Fei and others.

Except for a few people such as Feng Xiaogang and Huang Jianxin, the others are basically from Yanying.

At today's celebration party, Han Shanping, the director of Yanying Factory, also came, and he was chatting and laughing with everyone.

Hu Mei was chatting and laughing with everyone, and asked: "Why didn't Kaige come today?"

After asking this question, everyone was still smiling, but the atmosphere became more subtle.

Tian Zhuangzhuang and Cheng Kaige also come from the Yanying family, and they are usually close to each other. He said, "Kaige, he is retreating to create."

"Since "Feng Yue", he has been silent for a long time. What is the content of the new movie?" Hu Mei continued to ask.

Tian Zhuangzhuang said: "It is also a work with historical themes."

At this time, Feng Xiaogang interjected: "I heard that Mr. Kai is also planning to make a blockbuster movie. Director Tian, ​​is there such a thing?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately looked at Tian Zhuangzhuang.

He said helplessly: "I don't know much about this."

Of course it's not that he doesn't know, it's just that it's hard for him to publicize it to Cheng Kaige. The real master hasn't announced it to the outside world. If he says it here, if it gets back to Cheng Kaige's ears, it will offend people. Kaige...

Everyone is a human being. Seeing his expression, how could they not understand the twists and turns involved.

At the moment, no one is exploring this matter anymore.

But as soon as everyone dispersed, Cheng Kaige's new work immediately became the focus of everyone's gossip.

Huang Jianxin and Feng Xiaogang walked together, "If you know something, don't hide it. Tell your brother. Don't you feel safe with what I say?"

"Hey, I heard what others said, so I can't take it seriously!" Feng Xiaogang said half-truthfully.

"Yes, yes, I understand. You just said that, and I just heard it, no matter what you said." Huang Jianxin assured.

With a tacit understanding, Feng Xiaogang got closer to Huang Jianxin, "I heard that Mr. Kai seems to have been stimulated by Director Zhang's "Heroes" and is planning to make a blockbuster set in the Three Kingdoms era."

Cheng Kaige and Zhang Yimou are both leading figures in the fifth generation of directors. Now that Cheng Kaige has just finished filming "Hero", he is planning to create a historical blockbuster with costumes. It is indeed suspected of being unfair to others.

However, during the Troubled Times of the Three Kingdoms, this period of history is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Cheng Kaige found a really good starting point.

"Who are you shooting specifically? Cao Cao? Or Liu Bei?"

"I heard it's Lu Bu."

Huang Jian's news was full of questions, shooting Lu Bu? There are so many good people in the Three Kingdoms who don’t pat Lu Bu?

Before he could react, Feng Xiaogang added: "With Diao Chan."

"With whom?" Huang Jianxin asked again subconsciously.

It's not that he didn't hear clearly, he just wanted to confirm again.

"With Diao Chan. "Lu Bu and Diao Chan", I heard it was called that."

Huang Jianxin stopped talking, not because he didn't want to talk, but because his brain was a bit overloaded.

Lu Bu and Diao Chan?

If you don’t film so many characters and so many exquisite stories in the Three Kingdoms, why do you have to film Lu Bu and Diao Chan?

He looked at Feng Xiaogang with a questioning look in his eyes. Feng Xiaogang obviously had the same confusion as Huang Jianxin and he immediately started to explain.

"I heard that Mr. Kai originally wanted to film "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin", but his script hasn't been written yet, and director Zhang has already started filming. Although "Hero" uses pseudonyms, who knows? I didn’t know this was the story of Jing Ke’s assassination of Qin!

I guess Mr. Kai couldn't save his face, so he changed the subject again.

I heard..."

When Feng Xiaogang said this, he came closer mysteriously and said, "The person who plays Diao Chan is Cheng Hong."

When you say that, I understand.

Huang Jianxin gave Feng Xiaogang a knowing look and said with a smile: "It seems that Director Cheng is also a hero who has a hard time being a beauty!"

"Master Kai is handsome and talented. This is normal."

Huang Jianxin instantly caught the subtlety in Feng Xiaogang's tone.

Many directors came to the celebration today, but in the end it was the two of them who ended up together. Of course there is a reason.

Huang Jianxin was from the Xiying Film Studio, and Feng Xiaogang was from the Caotai team. They were not related to Yanying and the Yanying Factory gang. Huang Jianxin especially understood the disdain that people from Feng Xiaogang's background had towards Cheng Kaige, a son of an aristocratic family. used.

The two of them gathered together and murmured for a while, feeling quite like meeting a close friend and regretting meeting each other so late.

The great success of "Hero" is great news for Wenhua Film and Television, especially for Chinese Literature Society.

In the past two years, Guowenshe's publishing business has been impacted by pirated books, and its growth has stagnated, and sales have even shrunk. The development of the old business is not optimistic, but the new business results are gratifying, which makes everyone at Guowenshe relaxed. He breathed a sigh of relief, but Lao Cheng was not among those who relaxed.

Last year, he made a switch with Lin Weimin, from president to editor-in-chief.

It's not like Lao Cheng has never done the job of chief editor before, but he doesn't know if it's because he's getting older. He feels that his sense of manuscripts has fallen behind the changes in the market and readers' tastes.

In this year, the Buhuhu Series has published twelve more novels, but sales have declined to varying degrees compared to before. Two of them even sold less than 100,000 copies in more than half a year. book.

This was something that was unthinkable before.

Cheng Wuchun knew very well that the impact of pirated books on genuine books had indeed been increasing in the past two years, but with such a large decline in sales, he still blamed himself and began to doubt his work ability and professionalism. .

This morning, he found Lin Weimin with a sample book and a manuscript.

The sample book is "Don't Knock on the Door Tomorrow". The novel has been published in "Contemporary" for more than five months and will be released this month.

Lin Weimin took the sample book, looked at it, and said with a smile: "The design is good, the editor-in-chief worked hard."

Cheng Wuchun ignored his joke and handed the manuscript to Lin Weimin, "Help me take a look at this."

Lin Weimin glanced at the manuscript and did not reach out to take it, "Isn't it appropriate for you to let me read this manuscript? This is not within the scope of my work!"

"What do you mean it's not within the scope of your work? You are the president of the Chinese Literature Society. Does the Chinese Literature Society know? Where the book is published, the person in charge doesn't review the manuscript!"

Lao Cheng took the lead when he came up. If he didn't know him well, Lin Weimin would have been almost fooled by him.

"Don't do this to me. What did we say at the beginning? What's the matter? Now you want to leave the review of the manuscript to me. Do you want to be the boss and get paid for it? Be careful, I will sue you to Lao Zhou!"

The two faced each other tit for tat and stared at each other for a long time.

Lao Cheng was extremely hard-edged at the sight, and a caring smile broke out on his stiff face.

"Look what you said, what kind of hands-off shopkeeper? Am I that kind of person? You take the manuscript first, you take it first..."

He forced the manuscript into Lin Weimin's hands and continued: "The situation of this book is different. Don't you know much about the Internet? This book is about things on the Internet. The young people in this book group all said after reading it Okay, but I know nothing about this, and I don’t feel anything after watching it. I’m here to ask you for help!

I remember that "Computer News" reported some time ago that you were going to meet netizens..."

"Don't go off topic." Lin Weimin interrupted him and looked at Cheng Wuchun suspiciously, "Is this really the case?"

"real."

"Just this book, right?"

"Just one!" Cheng Wuchun said firmly.

Lin Weimin nodded, "Okay, I'll reluctantly help you take a look."

"It has to be for the people!"

Lao Cheng thanked him profusely and cursed when he left the house.

If I had known that I would be treated like this now, I would have never abdicated in favor of someone more worthy.