China Entertainment: Director’s happiness is so simple

"Your company has grown a lot. How many people do you have now?"

Star Film and Television, Jiang Wen started to visit after arriving.

Jiang Wen has been to Xingchen several times, but each time it got bigger and bigger. It was fine at first, but now, Xingchen Film and Television is no longer the scale that a domestic film and television company should be.

"The two floors are 1,600 square meters. Now there are a total of 300 people coming, and we are planning to rent the third floor."

"Hey, you're almost here at Beijing Film Studio."

"There are so many projects."

Lu Pingan said, introducing various departments to Jiang Wen.

The scale of Xingchen Company is actually not large, but there are many types of departments.

In addition to what is common in companies, the special effects and animation departments alone take up more than half of the space.

Among them, the animation department has always been relatively mysterious.

"Kung Fu Panda", for which Bao Qingqing is the director, currently has an animation team of 180 people, which is more than a hundred more than when she was in Bashu.

The number of safe roads is not enough, and it will continue to increase in the future.

"Will it cost a lot of money?"

Jiang Wen asked with a sigh.

"It's not bad, the monthly salary is less than two million."

"Tsk, tsk, rich man!"

Jiang Wen continued to sigh with his hands behind his back.

But his unserious look quickly returned to seriousness: "I see that your office is full of drawings of robots. What, you want to make a robot movie?"

"Yeah, let's build a robot to fight monsters."

As Lu Pingan said, the two returned to the office, and then Lu Pingan introduced him to the "Pacific Rim" project.

Introducing the movie itself is only one aspect. The more important thing is to introduce Jiang Wen to the film industry plan that supports the filming of the movie.

After a brief introduction, Jiang Wen looked at Lu Ping'an as if he was getting to know him again.

After a while, he sighed: "Interesting, but why do I feel that you are preparing to compete with Hollywood?"

"There has to be something to pursue."

"If you have the guts, I support you!"

Jiang Wen gave a thumbs up, but then asked, "With all your money flowing out, every unit is measured in hundreds of millions, do you still have money to invest in my movie?"

Before Lu Pingping could speak, Jiang Wen raised his hand and reminded: "Let's talk first. If you have difficulties, don't be embarrassed to say it. Don't worry about our relationship. I can't do anything that makes things difficult for others."

These words made Lu Ping'an laugh directly: "Haha, of course, I promised to vote for you, how can I forget? Tell me, how much do you want."

"Not trying to be brave?"

"Of course I'm not trying to be brave."

"Okay, I want 10 million."

"Ten million is enough?"

"If I find someone who is a perfect match, I'll be given 20 million. If you add 10 million, it's almost the same. The agreed-upon 30% is 30%."

"No problem, if it's not enough, ask me for more."

Lu Ping'an knew that Taihe would withdraw its capital in the future, because Jiang Wen spent money like water and scared others.

In the end, Eagle Emperor's boss Yang came to the rescue. As a result, Eagle Emperor also got investment opportunities in the future "Let the Bullets Fly" and made back all the losses from "The Sun Also Rises".

Now that Lu Ping'an has ended, he will naturally not let the Eagle Emperor take advantage.

It's just that this way, I have to prepare some more money, but it's only tens of millions, so it's not a big problem.

"Okay, it's strong enough!"

Jiang Wen gave a thumbs up again, and at the same time he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, okay, I'm lucky, I made some money beyond my ability."

Lu Ping'an looked humble. Jiang Wen listened to his nonsense and continued to talk about business.

After taking other people's money, you have to talk about the status of the project.

"The Sun Also Rises" will start filming in Yunnan after the Chinese New Year, which is why he came here a few years ago. While asking for safety and asking for money, he also told him to cancel after the Chinese New Year.

Regarding the project, Lu Ping'an listened attentively and symbolically, but did not ask any questions. It was not easy for him to participate anyway, and the project was losing money, so why did he ask questions?

After talking about the project, Jiang Wen talked about his relationship issues again. He divorced his French ex-wife a few days ago, and then he and Zhou Yun were preparing to get the certificate. Zhou Yun was already pregnant and would be born in the second half of the year.

Jiang Wen said that when the time comes, the children will also appear in the movie.

Then he lamented that his parents did not agree with this marriage.

Lu Ping An has no experience in this kind of thing, so he can only say: "Fortunately, I don't have this kind of trouble."

Jiang Wen laughed, but stopped talking about this topic, and then talked about another thing.

"Someone asked me to make a movie a few days ago. It was adapted from Zhang Ailing's novel. As soon as I saw the plot, I wasn't interested."

Lu Pingan was surprised when he listened.

Jiang Wen was talking about "Lust, Caution".

It was indeed Jiang Wenyan who was cast in "Lust, Caution" in the original time and space first.

The male protagonist is looking for Lao Mouzi, saying that Lao Mouzi is Mr. Yi.

Even after finding Li An to direct, Chao Wei's makeup was still based on Lao Mouzi's.

But after Jiang Wen heard the outline of the story, he refused directly and complained: This is a girl's thing.

"That's what a girl shoots. I don't even understand what the heroine is thinking. Whoever likes to shoot whoever wants to shoot!"

Now after Jiang Wen finished speaking, he also complained.

Then he added, "We all know that you are planning to make achievements in literary films. She also wanted to film with you, but I helped you reject it. You'd better not touch this kind of not-so-serious thing. Of course, if you are interested, I could have made the call right now, but don’t blame me for not reminding you.”

"No, I don't like this kind of girly chirping either."

Lu Pingping immediately refused.

He really has no interest in "Lust, Caution", even if this movie will win the Golden Lion Award in the future

So it's better to let Li An do it by himself.

But after hearing this, Jiang Wen laughed and joked: "Then why did you think of filming this movie?"

"That's different, that's love."

"You don't really have an orientation, do you?"

"I have a girlfriend."

"Which girl is so unlucky?"

"too much."

"Haha, I can pretty much pretend."

After joking, Jiang Wen continued to ask: "Have you finished the film?"

It’s this topic again.

Those who are close to Lu Ping An will mention it when they see him.

It can be seen that everyone really cares about him.

But Lu Ping'an's answer was the same: "Still thinking about the later stages."

It seemed that Jiang Wen couldn't hide this from Jiang Wen. He pointed it out with a smile: "That's nonsense. How can you think about a movie for so long? It should have been edited long ago, right?"

Lu Ping'an smiled and said: "I really can't hide it from you, but it's true that it's not done well, and the soundtrack is not good enough."

This reason is very powerful, and Jiang Wen strongly agrees with it.

Then, like Guorong, he reminded Lu Pingan not to mess up his position.

Lu Ping'an had no choice but to explain again: It had been planned for a long time.

Jiang Wen asked: "Are you sure you can win the prize?"

"I'm not sure, but it will always be more certain than "Hungry Platform"."

"Quite confident."

"No, who made me your student?"

"Farewell, you are a rich man now, and with your skills, I will never be able to keep up with you in my life."

Jiang Wen pointed his finger around the office and joked.

Lu Ping'an smiled and said: "You just don't want to play these. If you really want to play, you understand commercial movies better than me."

"I like to hear that."

The two laughed.

Then Jiang Wen chatted for a while at Lupingan Company. At dinner time, Jiang Wen did not stay, saying that he wanted to accompany his wife, who was pregnant.

But before leaving, he took a look at a "Pacific Rim" model on Ping An's table: the "Stealth Ronin" that had just been made and needed to be improved.

He said: "As a toy for my son."

Then left gracefully.

Lu Pingping pouted.

I'm only two months pregnant, and it will be several years before I can play with toys. Now it's time to play with them!

If you want to play it yourself, just say so. (End of chapter)