China Entertainment: Director’s happiness is so simple

Reports about this year's Academy Awards came out the next day.

Neither the mainland nor the Hong Kong media had any major controversy over the results of the awards.

It is true that the quality of "Source Code" is higher than that of "Heroes" in the eyes of the mainland people, but it is true that "Heroes" has won several category awards that "Source Code" cannot compare to, and "Source Code" can. , can't compare to "Infernal Affairs".

So the Academy Awards were dubbed "fair and just", and their gold content became a little higher.

Lu Ping'an had no time to care about this kind of thing. He was chatting with the big guys from China Film and Television Han Sanpin and Xiangjiang.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to sign agreements at the landing port and the Hong Kong Film Awards, Hong Kong held small talks with various parties involved in mainland film and television.

The format is not formal, it is just a bilateral exchange meeting.

Lu Pingan had chatted with several big companies in Hong Kong in the name of cooperative distribution.

This time his main purpose is to play in the front line.

One is for future theaters and distribution, and the other is for various copyrights.

In terms of theaters and distribution, Golden Harvest is the top priority.

Starting this year, Golden Harvest will no longer have film production business, but will turn to film distribution and theaters.

In 2007, Chengtian, a new domestic entertainment company, and Jiahe cooperated to establish Chengtian Jiahe, which will become one of the well-known domestic film distributors in the future.

Its cinemas are located in Xiangjiang, Bayan, Southeast Asia and the Mainland.

If Lu Pingan wants to participate in distribution in the future, Hu Chengtian can do it.

At present, he has plenty of funds.

He has successively invested all his income in the past year into the stock market, and by the second half of the year, the total funds are expected to reach more than 200 million US dollars.

This money can be used to do many things, among which the layout of theatrical distribution in Asia must be done.

In the future, Chengtian's acquisition of more than 20% of Zou Wenhuai's shares will only cost HKD 200-300 million, which Lu Ping An can afford.

On the other hand, there is the copyright of the works held by various Hong Kong film companies.

This is to pave the way for future video websites.

It is a huge advantage for a website to have a huge library of videos.

Now that video websites have not yet come out, the price of online copyrights is not high. Many people don't even pay attention to the Internet, but that won't necessarily be the case in a few years.

Therefore, after setting up the front station, you can let Xiang Guoqiang slowly negotiate and try to get a batch at a low price to prepare for the future.

After the conversation, another day passed, and we returned to Sichuan safely the next day. The rest was left to Xiang Guoqiang, while he could concentrate on his job as a director.

The impact of SARS is gradually becoming apparent in the mainland, and quarantine measures have been implemented in many places.

Lu Ping'an held a meeting with the people at the production center and prepared enough medicine and medical equipment. It was best to get through it safely. If something happened, don't panic.

On April 12, the Venice short film was completed.

[Congratulations on completing "Dinner for a Few", the restoration degree is 92%, and the rewards have been distributed]

92% of the restoration is as expected. It is the first time to make a 3D animation, so there will inevitably be defects.

Then Lu Ping'an looked at the reward.

[Reward for "Dinner for a Few": five secret meat seasoning recipes]

This is a great reward for housewives.

No, this is perfect for a fried chicken restaurant too!

With these five seasoning flavors, Lu Pingan feels that the competitiveness of his fried chicken restaurant can be raised to a higher level.

"This forces me to become bigger and stronger!"

Lu Pingan accepted the reward with a smile.

It just so happens that Beijing may have to implement epidemic prevention measures in the next few days, which will have a certain impact on the business of fried chicken restaurants. We can take advantage of this time to upgrade the food at fried chicken restaurants.

As long as the secret recipe is involved, relevant confidentiality measures have to be taken.

It seems that Li Chenggong needs to be treated better.

As for the offer, don’t use it if you can.

The short film is finished, and Lu Pingan's next task is to take the short film back to Beijing to produce the relevant soundtrack.

It is expected that everything will be finished before May and then sent to Venice together with Ning Hao's "Incense".

As for the production center, Lu Pingan also arranged the task, which was to first shoot the scenes and decide on the various characters in "Kung Fu Panda".

The most important one is the style of painting.

Since it is China's "Kung Fu Panda", in addition to the plot, the image, style of painting, etc. must also change.

Lu Pingan asked everyone to brainstorm, and the task within half a year was to shoot the scene, and then come up with everyone's favorite look and style based on the main scenes in the play.

The general framework of the script has been determined. The framework of the little characters growing into heroes does not need to be changed. Several main scenes also need not be changed. The skeleton of Shi Youle is still there, and many things can be started first.

Once finalized, the detailed script will probably be completed, and then formal production will begin. At that time, the skeleton will be filled in with details.

After arranging everything and telling him to pay attention to epidemic prevention, Lu Ping'an went to the mountains to say goodbye to Guorong and returned to Beijing that evening.

After returning to the capital, the SARS epidemic began to spread.

On the 16th, WHO officially named the SARS virus.

In the following days, the number of cases in Beijing increased, and then a one-day epidemic reporting system was implemented. Elementary and junior high schools began to suspend classes, and colleges and universities also began to implement limited closed management.

For safety reasons, seven fried chicken restaurants in Lupingan were closed, and wages were still paid. This time was dedicated to testing and developing five secret recipes.

The chicken made with five secret recipes has a unique taste and will become a big selling point of fried chicken restaurants in the future.

Lu Ping'an couldn't help but think that it would be better if the golden finger could reward the source of broiler chickens. This is a big project worth hundreds of billions.

Li Chenggong was officially promoted to general manager and was entitled to options. Lu Ping An allocated another 10 million to him so that he could flex his muscles after the epidemic. During this period, his task was to buy stores and build structures to prepare for future expansion. prepare for.

After the secret formula was finished, Lu Pingan continued to invest in the post-production of the short film.

During this period, Yan Danchen went to Wuhan. He took on a new drama called "Death Diary" and it took four months to film.

Yan Danchen is very well-known now, and she is low-key and down-to-earth. The showrunners had seen her image as a female officer in "Source Code" and asked her tentatively. They had no intention of taking her. After all, movie actors are worth a lot and the other party can't afford it. money.

However, Yan Danchen liked the script very much and took a small pay cut to act in it.

Lu Ping'an glanced at the list of characters for this drama, searched his memory for a long time, and found out that the drama was later called "Silent Witness". The heroine, Che Xiao, and the second heroine had divorced. Now, the heroine is Yan Danchen.

After Yan Danchen left, Lu Pingping did not stay alone in the empty room at night.

Zhang Songwen and Bao Qiang would come to the courtyard from time to time and cook occasionally. Anyway, they had nowhere to go during the SARS period.

Zhang Songwen held a training class. It was temporarily closed due to the recent epidemic, and the crew did not go. They waited for Jiang Wen to come back from work before following him.

Baoqiang made some money by following Lu Ping'an some time ago. Recently, the epidemic has nowhere to go, so he came here to have a meal.

On Monday, an Anti-Japanese War drama crew was gathered. It was unknown and it is estimated that it will not be broadcast in the future.

Ning Hao also comes over occasionally to stay with Xing Aina. Xing Aina always has a lot of screenwriting questions and asks if she is safe.

Lu Ping'an was sure that Ning Hao came to prostitute him for free.

Not only him, but all of these people are here to get rich money for free!