Director’s Legend

() "I announce that "Crazy Stone" is officially finished!"

The time was July 18th, 2004. Bao Shihong peed freely in the toilet when shooting the last scene at Luohan Temple. Following the frightened expression on his face, Shao Shuaijun yelled "Finish".

"Aww!"

The whole production crew boiled up, and under the leadership of Huang Bo, they rushed into the toilet and dragged Shao Shuaijun out. Then the assistant directors Wang Yixue and Yue Xiaojun each took a bottle of champagne, shook it vigorously, pulled out the bottle cap, and aimed at Shao Shuaijun.

"Hey, stop, be careful with deducting your wages!"

Before Shao Shuaijun could finish his sentence, two shots of champagne were sprayed over, and his whole body was soaked.

"Ahahaha, woohoo!" Huang Bo yelled strangely while spraying.

Shao Shuaijun was sprayed all over his head and face, and Guo Tao next to him was also sprayed all over. It was summer, and Shao Shuaijun was wearing big underpants and sweatshirts, so he was sprayed as soon as he was sprayed. Guo Tao is wearing props and costumes, oh, they can't be considered as props, the clothes are originally Guo Tao's own, the crew doesn't have the money to buy so many clothes, many scenes are actors wearing their own clothes.

Guo Tao roared, rushed over to grab Yue Xiaojun's champagne, and spat at Huang Bo.

"Hey, stop spraying, you broke my camera!" Zhang Teng, who was filming the documentary, shouted and ran out. A movie documentary is to record how the movie was made, as well as private behind-the-scenes footage. First, it can be used as a commemoration, and second, it can also be used for publicity.

Soon, everyone joined the battle group. Shao Shuaijun, who has never liked to fight, also developed the pride of "old man chatting with teenagers", snatched a bottle of champagne from nowhere, and sprayed it everywhere.

"Too, too, too childish." Zhang Xiaobing, the chief artist, packed up the equipment to prevent it from being soaked, and said shaking his head. Suddenly, a stream of champagne flew from nowhere and hit him on the forehead.

Zhang Xiaobing was furious. He turned around and saw the photographer Shi Sheng. Immediately, he rushed into the crowd quickly, grabbed a bottle of champagne, shook it a few times, and pulled out the cork suddenly.

"Boom!"

Under the huge momentum, the champagne seemed to be sprayed by a rocket.

"I will!"

Shi Sheng had been prepared for a long time, reached out to touch his back, propped up a black umbrella, and poured all the champagne at once: "Haha, what can you do to me?"

"Idiot." Zhang Xiaobing smiled lightly.

Wow, the make-up artist Yang Yang has already touched it, and poured champagne directly on Shi Sheng's head.

A champagne battle broke out among the entire crew, and the battle lasted for half an hour before it stopped. Shao Shuaijun watched everyone get wet, not sure if it was champagne or sweat. Laughed silently, more than two months of hard work, day and night rushing to shoot, finally came to fruition.

After laughter, it is parting.

After a whole day of quarreling, eating and singing, everyone reluctantly bid farewell the next day, and several women even wept at the airport. There is always a banquet in the world. It is common for people who are filming all the year round to change crews like a horse and a flower. They hide their sadness and go to various places. Shao Shuaijun personally sent away Li Kai, Guo Tao and others.

A few days later, the Arhat Temple was handed over to the county government of Yuzhong, and the crew of "Crazy Stone" officially erased the traces of the past. After the final amount was settled, Shao Shuaijun flew to Hengdian with a group of followers.

Because the post-production will take half a month, Shao Shuaijun has to edit the public version of the film and several promotional videos in this half month. Unlike ordinary directors, Shao Shuaijun likes to edit movies by himself instead of looking for professional editors. Shao Shuaijun put a lot of thought into this movie, many places are different from the original version, the workmanship is more refined, and the content is more coherent.

Compared with the version in his mind, Shao Shuaijun is sure to edit a more perfect movie.

With Zhao Cheng's contact, Shao Shuaijun quickly found a post-production team to help him perfect the film. This year, Huayi Brothers already planned to set up a company in Hengdian. Zhao Cheng was transferred from the distribution department to preside over the company's proposed establishment. With the development of Hengdian, the potential became more and more attractive, and many entertainment companies began to move into Hengdian.

In the future, Huayi will move its headquarters here.

And Shao Shuaijun is also the most familiar with Hengdian and likes the atmosphere here, so he put the post-production in Hengdian.

He worked with the production team to perfect the film all day, and a group of followers he brought lived in Liu Sanxi's home. These people include Yue Xiaojun, Huang Bo, Wang Yixue, Sloppy, Jiang Zhigang, as well as Liu Sanxi, Anan, Sishui and Zebra. The reason they got together was because of Shao Shuaijun's "Crazy Racing".

Shao Shuaijun will not direct this movie, but he intends to be an investor and producer, so let them do the preliminary work first.

Liu Sanxi is not the leader of the group now, and his wife has also closed the canteen. Although his status has not been determined, he has become a member of Shao Shuaijun's team. He often brags to the former group performers that he is now a general of Shao's class There are already famous characters in the film industry.

Having said that, the team settled in his house, and the rent was still collected.

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Three days later, Zhao Cheng found Shao Shuaijun who was buried in the screening room: "Director Shao, Director Hu is here, find a place, let's discuss the promotion of the movie."

Director Hu is the relative that Zhao Cheng mentioned last time, the chief financial officer of Huayi Brothers, Hu Ming, one of the giants of Huayi Group in the future. Hu Ming is an intellectual, generous, beautiful and dignified woman in her thirties. She has a master's degree in management and a certified public accountant. She has worked in Fortune 500 companies such as Motorola and Canon.

Following Hu Ming was Shao Shuaijun's older sister, Shao Xiaoling, who was now Hu Ming's special assistant. Shao Shuaijun guessed that, on the one hand, Huayi wanted to win him over, and on the other hand, the elder sister was really smart and capable, otherwise Hu Ming would never have chosen a freshly graduated college student as his assistant.

In fact, there was nothing to talk about. Shao Shuaijun didn't care about the promotional matters. The distribution rights of the film had already been taken by Huayi, and they invested 10 million in publicity, and the producers who won the box office got half of it. For the box office of a film, 5% of the film fund and 3.3% of business tax must be paid, and the remaining 91.7% is shared. Among them, theaters get up to 50%, theater companies get about 7%, and the remaining 43% goes to producers and distribution companies.

Taken together, the producers and distribution companies can get about 40% of the total box office. That is to say, Shao Shuaijun personally invested 3 million and made a movie, which took 20% of the box office, and Huayi Brothers invested 10 million to promote the film, which also took 20% of the box office.

This kind of box office share is enough to give Shao Shuaijun face, and Shao Shuaijun is indeed very satisfied. The original version of "Crazy Stone" only won 23 million at the box office without any publicity. With the vigorous promotion of Huayi Brothers, the box office of this version is absolutely booming, but Shao Shuaijun doesn't know how much it will reach. The valuation is 60 to 70 million, so that both parties can make a lot of money, plus the share of the DVD, it is guaranteed that they will not lose.

Faced with Huayi's publicity plan, Shao Shuaijun thought for a while and said: "In the early stage of the film, we can arrange the leading actors to go to major cities for publicity. I will hurry up and cut out the first promotional video for release. You don't know how to do it. Ask me, I don't know, I don't have time, and I don't want to show my face on TV."