Huayu’s ex-husband

Chapter 197 196. Brother Chen Kai also came to support

"Third Master."

Seeing Han Sanping's figure appear at the door, Wei Wu hurriedly greeted him.

Today, the "Bad Monkey 72 Transformation Project" held a press conference. This project is led by Bad Monkey Pictures, China Film and Nortel.

Han Sanping, like Wei Wu, is nominally the initiator of the project. He will also be cutting the ribbon and speaking on stage later, so he must come today.

Han Sanping nodded slightly and asked with a smile: "Wei Wu, are you ready for the press conference?"

Wei Wu nodded and said, "Everything is ready. The media are almost here. We just need to wait for the guests to arrive and it will officially start at 10:00."

"That's good." Han Sanping raised his hand and looked at his watch:

"There's only half an hour left. Who's not here yet?"

Wei Wu thought for a while and replied: "Among the ribbon-cutting guests, it seems that Director Chen Kaige and Dean Zhang Huijun haven't arrived yet."

Yes, Chen Kaige was also invited and has agreed to attend today's signing conference.

If it were a celebration party for Wei Wu's movie, then Chen Kaige probably wouldn't come.

He somewhat maintains his own identity. Even if the two of them had no disagreements before and were disapproving of each other, as a senior, it is unlikely that he would praise Wei Wu's bad feet.

However, the "Bad Monkey 72 Transformation Plan" is different. After all, it is nominally a support plan for young directors.

Pass on the fire from generation to generation and support those who are behind. To put it bluntly, this is political correctness in the director’s circle.

Therefore, this time Wei Wu openly sent invitations to Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang and almost all famous mainland directors.

However, Zhang Yimou is at a critical moment of finishing due to the post-production of "Golden Armor".

Moreover, this movie will be released in a month, and the preliminary publicity work has been carried out, so I can’t get away from it for the time being, so I can’t come today.

As for Feng Xiaogang, his situation is even more special, because his new film "Assembly" just started shooting the day before yesterday.

He definitely couldn't leave at this time, so he couldn't come today.

Only Chen Kaige has not yet approved a new movie project. In addition, he has been keeping a low profile and thanking guests behind closed doors recently, so he has no work at hand for the time being.

In fact, Chen Kaige's next movie, "Mei Lanfang", had to wait until July next year to officially start filming, and it hasn't even been officially announced yet!

So when Han Sanping called Chen Kaige, he couldn't find a suitable reason to shirk it, so he had no choice but to agree.

Mainly, Han Sanping also hopes that the relationship between Chen Kaige and Wei Wu will be more harmonious. Even if they are not on good terms, they will still be able to get along on the surface.

After all, both of them are now generals of his faction. If the two of them had never been in contact with each other, others would only laugh at his inability to control him.

But the problem is that great directors are generally very arrogant, and Wei Wu has become famous at a young age, and he is also famous for his youthful energy.

It is definitely unrealistic to expect him to take the initiative to bow his head and curry favor with Chen Kaige.

Then we can only make Chen Kaige, an old man, a little more generous and softer, so that the two sides can truly turn their hostility into friendship.

Of course, Chen Kaige must not be happy either, but now the situation is stronger than others.

Why is he currently at the lowest point in his life? Can it make a comeback and regain its glory? To be honest, there are many places that rely on Han Sanping!

Another very important reason why Chen Kaige agreed was that a few days ago, China Film Group had relented and initially agreed to invest in the filming of "Mei Lanfang".

It turns out that since the failure of "The Promise", Chen Kaige's new film has been subject to the strictest scrutiny, and several scripts have been directly rejected.

In the end, Chen Kaige was forced to have no choice but to rest on his laurels from "Farewell My Concubine" and told China Film that he wanted to film "Mei Lanfang", and this time he was finally able to get the project approved.

But even so, China Film still conducted a relatively strict review of the script. Currently, 4 versions have been revised, and the current script is already the fifth draft.

If nothing else, China Film will officially announce its investment in Chen Kaige to film "Mei Lanfang" later this month.

On the eve of the official announcement, Chen Kaige certainly didn't want any accidents to happen, so as soon as Han Sanping called him, he immediately agreed.

After all, "The Promise" also tarnished Han Sanping's face and suffered a lot of criticism, but Han Sanping was still willing to support him.

Naturally, Chen Kaige had to reciprocate the favor. Even if he still couldn't let go of Wei Wu, he still had to give Han Sanping some face!

Hearing that Chen Kaige hadn't arrived yet, Han Sanping frowned and said:

"Is Chen Kaige not here yet? Let's do this. If he hasn't arrived in another 10 minutes, Wei Wu, remember to remind me and I'll call and ask."

Wei Wu immediately nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."

As for the other Zhang Huijun who had not arrived yet, he was ignored by the two at the same time.

After all, his status is extraordinary. Even Han Sanping couldn't boss him around.

This person is none other than the current dean of Nortel. Although Dean Zhang knew Wei Wu, he didn't have much friendship.

The main reason was that Wei Wu had done a good job this time and was a professional counterpart, so Tian Zhuangzhuang was able to invite him to attend.

In fact, Zhang Huijun was already the principal when Wei Wu entered the school.

He happened to be the president of Nortel in 2002. In his previous life, he worked until 2017 before officially retiring.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Huijun was actually from Nortel's class of '78, and he and Zhang Yimou and Gu Changwei were classmates in the photography department. They even lived in the same dormitory at the time.

So the Class of ’78 from Nortel is indeed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! In a small dormitory room 306, among the four people, there are two famous directors and a Nortel principal. This is too exaggerated!

But then again, the reason why the Class of 1978 was so awesome at that time was directly related to the background of the times, because the college entrance examination had been suspended for several years before that!

Although the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, due to the lack of information at that time, most people were doubtful and missed the college entrance examination that year. Therefore, it was not until 1978 that the majority of college students signed up to take the college entrance examination on a large scale.

Special policies have resulted in many outstanding students from many sessions being forcibly gathered into the starting papers of this session's college entrance examination.

Needless to say, the competition was fierce, so if anyone could stand out and get into college at that time, there was basically no one who was inferior.

Because if you are even slightly worse, you will definitely fail and end up in the 79th or 80th class.

So it’s not just the ’78 graduates from Nortel who are awesome. In fact, the ’78 graduates from Shanghai Theater and China Theater are also pretty awesome. It’s the same with other colleges and universities. In short, that class is exceptionally talented!

Wei Wu led Han Sanping inside, and Han Sanping asked about the later period of "Painted Skin":

"Is the post-production of "Painted Skin" going well?"

Wei Wu nodded and said: "It's not bad. Although it has just been rolled out, it is going quite smoothly."

Han Sanping nodded slightly and then asked: "What are your plans for the special effects? Who are you going to find to do it?"

Wei Wu replied: "Viewpoint Pictures, they seem to be the only company in the mainland that can do this."

Han Sanping nodded and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. Our domestic film special effects industry did start relatively late.

“I know Viewpoint Pictures as a company, they are responsible for the special effects of “The Night Banquet” and “City of Golden Armor”.

"Since Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang can trust them, I agree to hand over the post-production of "Painted Skin" to them."

Viewpoint Pictures, formerly known as Viewpoint Special Arts, was established in the millennium and is considered one of the first companies in the mainland to engage in film special effects. It has developed well now, at least it has been able to receive orders from Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yimou.

In addition to the two movies mentioned above, the movies for which Past Life Viewpoint Pictures was responsible for special effects include "Tangshan Earthquake", "Love at the Hawthorn Tree", "If You Are the One", "Revolution of 1911", "The Taiping Wheel", "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven", "On the Sea" "Mu Yun Ji", "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", "1942", etc.

In fact, Wei Wu had no other choice. Now there are other good special effects companies in later generations, such as Tiangong Yicai and MoreVFX.

None of them have appeared yet or have only been established for a year or two. Anyway, they are not popular yet, at least not comparable to point-of-view movies.

Therefore, if we do not want to leave it to Viewpoint Pictures, we can only hire special effects companies from Hong Kong and Taiwan or Europe and the United States.

In that case, the quotation will be much more expensive, after all, people usually settle in US dollars.

Forget it, if you really ask them to do it, the production cost might double, and the movie will basically lose money!

Since Wei Wu wants to be the best commercial film director in China, his films must not lose money. This is the red line.

In Wei Wu's opinion, special effects only need to be sufficient.

After all, this thing is uncapped, and the production budget of 100 million may not be enough——

But even if you add another 100 million or even another 230 million, you will still be able to spend nothing in the end.