You don't understand the happiness of the director

The reason why Wang Quan can promise to release the movie nakedly is that he is not short of money, and the cost of the movie will be very low.

In addition, with his reputation, he is no worse to China than Neon Hayao Miyazaki. Even if he does not promote it, there will be people who will support him, and he will not be able to break through 100 million.

But he does not suggest that other films and directors should learn from him. Even if it is a literary film, if it is made with money, it should still be responsible for not losing money. The publicity that needs to be done must be done.

For example, "Spring", which was released during his retreat, was also the third of several Chinese-language films to be released at Cannes this year. The company invested a lot of promotional resources in this film.

Although it cannot reach the 700 million hit of "I'm Not Pan Jinlian" and "Don't Tell Her", looking at the current reputation and trends, 70 million is still available, which is much better than Bai Xue's debut "White Rabbit Candy" .

The investment in this movie was only 10 million, and the box office not only recovered the cost, but also made a profit.

Not to mention that because it won the Best Film in the Attention category, overseas copyrights were also sold at a good price.

The most important thing is to cultivate Bai Xue, a direct descendant of Cannes, which will clear the way for entering the main competition unit in the future.

In a film company, some directors are face-saving, some directors are lizi, some make money at the box office, and some win awards. Bai Xue positions herself as an award-winning player.

At this time, Wang Quan and his party were on the plane back to Beijing, and Xiaotian was resting with her eyes closed. She was indeed a little overloaded with work these days. After all, she was just a little girl weighing only ninety pounds.

This was also the first time that she had faced the king alone for such a long time. Although she was very happy and fulfilled, she was really tired afterward.

After graduation, she officially served as Wang Quan's assistant, and the company offered her an annual salary of one million.

This salary is higher than Zhang Tianai and Jiang Shuying. After all, she has the aura of a famous school.

However, if you include the additional workload besides the assistant, it doesn’t seem to be very expensive.

Of course, her income is certainly not just superficial salary.

While on the plane, Wang Quan received a WeChat message from Zhang Yiming, which contained two headlines.

One headline read: "Kuaishou registered users exceed 100 million!"

The other is "Xiao Ka Xiu has added tens of millions of users in a single month!"

This number of users is definitely not comparable to Toutiao at this time, but it is comparable to Douyin, because Douyin currently has 0 users.

Wang Quan knew that Zhang Yiming must have a lot to say to him, so he simply called him.

Wang Quan smiled and asked, "Why, are you anxious?"

"To be honest, it's a little bit," Zhang Yiming said sheepishly, "I didn't expect the other party to run so fast before."

"So how far has your software achieved?"

Zhang Yiming replied: "We are already at 80% progress. The suggestions you made, Mr. Wang, have given us a lot of inspiration and helped us avoid a lot of detours."

He is truly grateful and truly deserves to be the wizard who once created YouTube.

"So when will it be launched on the market?" Wang Quan asked again.

Zhang was conservative, "It should be fine by the end of the year. We plan to use New Year's Day, Spring Festival, and Spring Festival movies to promote it, and we have already started to acquire music copyrights."

Douyin, Douyin, and soundtrack are very important, so the software must have a large amount of authorized music and audio.

Wang Quan hummed. This time is half a year earlier than the original time and space, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

After all, Toutiao started earlier and developed faster than before. Backed by this super software with hundreds of millions of users, Douyin has much greater potential than Kuaishou alone.

Wang Quan encouraged Zhang Yiming again and asked him to do it boldly. The future of China's Internet belongs to them.

After hanging up the phone, Xiaotian, who was sitting next to her, opened her eyes. She also heard the call just now. She knew that Wang Quan invested in many Internet companies, but companies like ByteDance invested, and individuals also invested, and everything was done in detail. This is the first company to provide assistance.

"Boss, are you very optimistic about the short video field in the future?" She wanted to discuss it with Wang Quan.

Wang Quan: "Yes, although short videos may have an impact on my beloved film industry, this is a trend we cannot resist. If we engage in short videos, many wealth myths will definitely be born in the future."

Xiaotian's eyes lit up when he heard the words "wealth myth".

Although the annual salary of one million is not low, and with various benefits, it is more than three to four million per year, but I am afraid that she will not earn 100 million in her lifetime. As Wang Quan's assistant, she can't be worse than her father, right? .

"What, you want to enter the short video industry?"

"Ah, can I?" Xiaotian asked.

Wang Quan looked into her eyes: "So you don't want to be my assistant?"

"No way!" Xiaotian grabbed Wang Quan's big hand with both hands, "I can do some part-time work, I just want to exercise myself."

Wang Quan smiled and said: "Don't worry, when you are mature enough, capable and capable enough to be independent, I will give you a company to manage, the kind with shares."

"Ah, really, what kind of company is this?" Xiaotian was excited. The boss was indeed very kind to him.

"Are you sure you want to know now?"

"Tell me about it~" Xiaotian said coquettishly. Although the assistant is a close official of the emperor, she is not as good as a feudal official. She is not a woman like her predecessor who can be impressed by film and television resources.

Wang Quan coughed twice and said, "Jingdong You know."

"Of course, the e-commerce giant second only to Taobao, boss, when did you invest in JD.com?" Xiaotian said unexpectedly and pleasantly.

Wang Quan: "I haven't invested in it. I'm talking about Xiaohongshu in Shanghai. Although Xiaohongshu is a women's lifestyle community, it is also an overseas shopping platform. It has some business conflicts with JD.com. You can pay attention to it in the future." , if you perform well and have an assistant who can take over your job, you can delegate it to others for training.”

Xiaohongshu was established in 2013, and Xiaohongshu is an angel investor on February 2. In the first half of this year, the sales of Xiaohongshu Welfare Club exceeded 200 million, and it is slowly starting to gain momentum.

Xiaotian had never used Xiaohongshu, so he immediately downloaded this software to learn more about it.

However, she quickly thought of what Wang Quan had just said. She would only let herself go out for training if there was someone who could take over her. It seemed that she was about to start looking for a new person.

Looking at Wang Quan's side face, she was actually quite reluctant to help her find the goblin, but her ambition did not allow her to stay as an assistant for too long.

I'm afraid that even if I work for Wang Quan for too long, I will feel bored. Only distance can produce beauty.

After leaving the airport, the latest film, television and entertainment magazines were already laid out in the car.

Wang Quan flipped through it casually. When he returned to the capital, it was already the end of June. "Wolf Warrior" was officially launched in China, with a score of 1.284 billion, narrowly beating the 1.275 billion of "Legend of the Shark Pearl".

The two movies are temporarily ranked third and fourth of the year. The first and second are "Avengers 2" and "Jurassic World".

In half a year, the mainland has produced seven billion-dollar films, four from Hollywood and three Chinese-language films. It is not difficult to meet the film bureau's expectations of ten billion-dollar films.

However, the leaders of the film bureau looked through the movies in the second half of the year and found that only "Ghost Blowing the Lantern 3" could be considered to have a stable sales of over 1 billion, and "囧" could only be regarded as half a movie because of the absence of Bao Qiang and Huang Bo.

As for Hollywood movies, there are no good ones in the second half of the year. Although there is a "Star Wars Story", do you really think that "The Force Awakens" exceeded 1 billion in the mainland because the audience likes Star Wars?

So the small goal of 10 billion units is really hard to say.

Moreover, there were three 2 billion-level works last year, and the highest this year is only 1.5 billion, which is also a bit embarrassing.

Wang Quan saw the promotion of the summer film in this magazine.

Wang Dao has "The Ghost Blows Out 3" and the co-production film "Lucy".

Qiankun has "Pancake Man".

Mishi has a platter movie "City in Love".

In addition, "My Girlhood" invested by Lin Chiling is also on summer release in August, competing for the popularity of Chinese Valentine's Day.

Other well-known works worth mentioning include Chen Kaige's "The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain", Er Dongsheng's "I Am a Passerby", Director John Woo's "The Taiping Wheel Part 2", Guo Jingming's "Tiny Times 4: The End of the Soul", Lin Chaoxian's " "Broken Wind", Xu Chengyi's "Monster Hunting", He Jiong's "Gardenia Blooms", Lam Lingdong's "Mysterious City", "A Dynasty Woman - Yang Guifei", "A Tale of Three Cities", "Bride Wars" and other topics work.

Of course, Hollywood movies are not absent either. Illumination Entertainment's "Minions with Big Eyes" and the retired governor's new film "Terminator: Genisys" are also in this schedule, but the mainstream is still Chinese-language films.

At this time, the Hollywood blockbuster "The Great Wall" is being shot in China.

In order to promote the upcoming release of "The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain", Chen Kaige took leave from "The Great Wall" and returned to the capital. However, he only had three days to land at the Beijing airport with Wang Quan.

Also returning to China with Director Kai Ge was the not-so-famous Zhang Songwen. His role had ended. The director was in first class and he was in economy class.

However, he also had a good chat with Director Kai Ge's assistant in the economy class.

He just has this ability, he can chat with all walks of life, and he is good at observing life.

Zhang Songwen said that he definitely did not deliberately lie, but Director Kai Ge's assistant still revealed to him that Director Kai Ge was in a bad mood.

"Why, because the producer of "The Great Wall" wouldn't let him change the script?" That's all Zhang Songwen could guess.

The assistant shook his head and lowered his voice: "No, it's because of Director Wang Quan and Director Kai Ge's next film is "Legend of the Demon Cat". For this reason, the investors built a city with Xiangyang. Unexpectedly, before the movie was filmed, the investors Director Kai Ge will definitely be angry if we want to give this location to Director Wang Quan and let him shoot first.”

It can be seen from the assistant's slightly gloating tone that although he is working for Director Kai Ge, he prefers Wang Quan.

Zhang Songwen understands clearly that for a grand and gorgeous Tang Palace scene, the director must care about who takes it first.

After getting off the plane, Zhang Songwen took a taxi home, but received a call from another disciple Gu Linaza on the way.

"Master, do you have a schedule?" she asked.

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As usual, Wang Quan went to the company first after returning to Beijing. Yu Feihong was busy working on her new film, so Wang Quan told Du Yang his requirements for the casting of the new film.

Du Yang was flattered. Director Quan asked him to be his producer. In the past, Mr. Huang was basically in charge!

Wang Quan: "I want four middle-aged male actors, between 35 and 55. The requirements are: good acting skills. I don't want those who are too famous."

"ah?"

"Ah, what, are you surprised that I want so many people, or is my request too high?"

Du Yang was puzzled: "It's understandable that there are four, but why don't you want the one who is too famous?"

Wang Quan: "My cost is low, I only work for 10 million, and the actors who are too familiar are afraid of the audience being disappointed."

Du Yang understood. It seemed that the director really didn't make this movie to make money.

Wang Quan added: "In addition, we are looking for ten adult actresses, between the ages of 18 and 28, and an eight-year-old girl. There are no requirements. They are cheap and have decent acting skills. They can be found from major art schools. try to find."

There is a lot of room for movement here, which is equivalent to giving up some rights to Du Yang, and she can operate as she pleases.

Wang Quan gave a final reminder: "Don't promote it in a big way. As I said, we don't have a publicity budget for this movie."

"I understand." Du Yang replied honestly.

As soon as Du Yang left, Wang Quan's cell phone rang. It was Nazha's. She knew that Wang Quan was going back to Beijing today and asked, "Are you free to come to my place tonight?"

Wang Quan said regretfully: "I'm afraid it won't work, let's do it tomorrow."

"Are you sure you're free tomorrow?"

"If the work ends early, it should be no problem, or you can come to Wangdao to work with me." Wang Quan boldly suggested, not caring that the power world was downstairs.

Naza was very happy, but worried: "It won't affect your work, right?"

"It's nothing too important, just choosing the starring role for the new film." Wang Quanyun said calmly.

"I heard about your new movie. Do you want to choose Killer?"

"Not entirely. There are four male roles in total. We need middle-aged actors with good acting skills and little fame."

"Oh, my master is very suitable!" Nazha suddenly thought.

"Teacher Zhang, how old is he?"

"It seems less than forty."

Wang Quan: "Okay, count him in."

"Should he come to the audition?" Nazha wanted to confirm the time and place.

Wang Quan: "What kind of test? For the sake of my Zaza, I decided to go with him."

"Ah!" Nazha hung up the phone in surprise and told Zhang Songwen the news.

After hearing the good news brought by Nazha, Zhang Songwen was stunned. After hanging up the phone, he felt relieved for a long time. At this moment, he just wanted to laugh three times!

Then he actually laughed, "Ha! Ha! Ha!"

"Brother, are you okay~" The guy from Jingcheng in front was frightened.

"Drive carefully. I'm fine. I'm just too happy and a little bit out of control. I'm sorry."

"Is this some kind of pie-in-the-sky good thing?"

Zhang Songwen nodded: "You're right, it's a pie falling from the sky, I have to catch it steadily this time!"

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Later, Wang Quan informed Du Yang that he would just find three more of the four middle-aged protagonists, and Zhang Songwen had already been selected.

At this time, Huang Jianxin came up from downstairs. Seeing how happy he was, Wang Quan asked what was good.

He smiled: "It's nothing. It's just "Mad Max 4" that you recommended to us before. The Three Stooges introduced it successfully. It was released on the same day as Zhao Yanzi and Huang Xiaoming's "Rampage in Hollywood". It was defeated at first. Now we have overtaken it and the momentum is strong.”

This film can be imported, even if some scenes are cut out, but the reputation of these three cobblers is really sufficient.

Wang Quan asked with a smile: "How about it? Can it break the box office record of The Three Stooges?"

The best box office performance of this company that specializes in film approval is the neon cartoon "Doraemon: Stand by Me" released in June 1st. The box office exceeded 500 million. It was not only the best performance of the Three Stooges, but also the best performance for the Three Stooges. The company made 100 million, which was Neon Film's best result in China. It shocked many people in the industry at the time.

Huang Jianxin shook his head: "It's a pity. The summer season is already here. Blockbusters such as "Ghost Blowing the Lamp 3" and "The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain" are released at the same time. There won't be much room for the survival of old movies. If it reaches 300 to 400 million, it will be considered a success."

After that, Huang Jianxin was concerned about the situation of Wang Quan's new film. Although the project was handed over to Du Yang, Huang Jianxin was not bad as a director. Wang Quan talked to him about his shooting ideas.

After hearing this, Huang Jianxin could only say, "It's very bold and avant-garde. No wonder you want to advertise the release naked. Most of the audience may not be able to stand it. But it's okay to enjoy this kind of experimental film occasionally. If you are addicted to these things, it will be a big problem for everyone." What a huge loss to Chinese movie fans.”

"This is natural. I definitely hope more people will see it when I make a movie, but this subject involves the pain of eleven families, so there is no need to advertise it too widely."

Wang Quan was not blinded by the second Palme d'Or in Chinese-language films. While he was young and energetic, he would definitely make more blockbusters, spend the most investment, experience the latest technology, and mobilize the most cast and crew to enjoy it.

After walking around the company, Wang Quan went downstairs to Power World, and Yang Mi had just heard about the casting of Wang Quan's new film from Du Yang.

Since 11 actresses were to be chosen, they must be casting for the victims, so when Wang Quan came downstairs, she immediately gathered all the actresses in the company and asked him to choose a few more.

"Give the children some opportunities~" Yang Mi looked like a mother.

Looking at the dozen or so actresses of different looks in front of him, Wang Quan was in a trance. Why did he feel like Dongguan?

But these girls in front of me are better looking.

Although these actresses all hope to be favored by the royal power, they are also worried that because there is a high probability that they will play the victim, they will not have that kind of scene, right?

Although there are also company veterans like Zhang Jianing and Mao Xiaotong among these people, most of them are newcomers.

Yang Mi also held a photo album and said: "There are a few people here who are not in the company. It's the same when looking at the photos."

Then she asked the girls to introduce themselves, mainly their names, ages, heights, schools and past works.

"Hello, director, my name is Tan Songyun. I was born in 1990. I am 16cm tall. I graduated from Nortel's 07-level vocational class and acted in "The Legend of Zhen Huan"."

It seems that the youngest girl is already 25 years old, which is considered older in this group of people.

Wang Quan nodded, and the people behind him followed.

"Hello, director. My name is Liu Mengmeng. I was born in the 1990s. I'm 165cm tall. I'm in Nortel's Grade 10 advanced training class. My representative work is Nolan in "Love Apartment 3"."

"Hello, director, my name is Xuan Lu. I was born in Jinling in 1991. I graduated from the 2009 performance college class of Chinese Opera. My representative works are "Legend of Dance" and "Soul Ferry"."

"Hello director, my name is Zhu Xudan..."

Mishi is famous for its many actresses, and there are even a few current students of Nortel Chinese Drama in it.

Wang Quan felt that it was better to make an agreement in advance, "Our movie will not have a premiere when it is released, nor will there be overwhelming publicity. If we go to the Venice Film Festival in the future, we will not take you. In fact, you may not be able to There is a lens, so if you don’t want to, you can take a step back now.”

"Ah?" Yang Mi was not calm at first, "What does it mean that there is no camera? Shouldn't they be the protagonists?"

Wang Quan explained: "I will choose about 10 adult actresses, and only one of you will get the heroine status, and the rest will have very little role. As for who to choose as the heroine, it needs to be determined through cooperation. "

This is a multiple-choice question of one out of ten choices. Since there is still a 10% chance, these people will naturally not back down.

So Wang Quan asked them to act out being raped, and everyone looked at each other, how should they act?

Yang Mi smiled and suggested: "Director Quan, how about you do a show?"

Wang Quan immediately refused: "My acting skills are not very good."

However, the actresses were very excited, and the boss had spoken, so they immediately asked Wang Quan to help with the scene.

However, Wang Quan really didn't want to take advantage of them, so he held a camera in his arms and played with the actresses one by one from a first-person perspective.

Finally, Wang Quan looked at the filming materials and chose two, "Zhang Jianing, Jiang Peiyao, just you two."

After hearing this, the two people couldn't hide the surprise and joy on their faces, and they wanted to jump three meters high on the spot.

"Ah, there are only two, choose a few more!" Yang Mi tried her best to sell her girls.

Wang Quan said: "Give other companies some opportunities. If there are not enough choices outside, I will first consider Power World. Okay, honey, it's time for us to get off work."

It was indeed getting late, and Liu Yifei at home was still waiting for the two of them to have dinner.

On the way home, Yang Mi still refused to give up promoting her female artist, so Wang Quan agreed to choose another one, so Liu Mengmeng received Yang Mi's good news on the way home.

After arriving home, the meal was ready. While eating, Liu Yifei discussed with Wang Quan how to shoot "Who is He", and she listened leisurely and fascinated.

"It's amazing. It took only one week to complete such a creative script, and it also saved a lot of time on filming!" Liu Yifei admired Wang Quan's artistic perception from the bottom of her heart.

And Yang Mi finally understood why Wang Quan said there was only one heroine and the other actresses almost didn't show their faces.

After understanding what was going on, she immediately lost her previous enthusiasm and said, "Then you should return it to me quickly when you are done using it."

"Don't worry, except for the heroine, all other scenes can be shot in one day."

The next day, Wang Quan selected two more actors from Shiba Culture.

Shiba Culture has more male actors, and Wang Quan's selection is not very wide, so he chose Pan Zhilin from Nortel and Zhu Yanmanzi from China Drama.

Fan Bingbing also quickly recruited a group of new people, and finally Sun Xian and Peng Xiaoran were selected for Wang Quan's list.

On this day, Wang Quan also met Zhang Songwen and chatted with him. Wang Quan decided to give him the most important role. However, he was not yet forty years old and was still relatively young. He would need to look older when the time comes.

Because Wang Quan didn't have much time to film, it only took him about a week, so the pay was naturally very shabby.

Zhang Songwen said, "I am willing to pay for it, but the script..."

Wang Quan handed the script to him, and Zhang Songwen couldn't wait to read it in front of Wang Quan. If he had any questions about understanding, he could ask the director now.

However, after opening the script, Zhang Songwen was dumbfounded, "No lines? All expressions?"

Wang Quan smiled slightly: "Yes, Mr. Zhang, please think carefully about it in the next half month. If you have any thoughts on the character, the script cannot be changed."

At noon, Wang Quan took a car directly to Nazha's place. Now that he didn't have time to stay up late at night, he had no choice but to come to meet his little lover at noon.

As a result, Nazha took her mobile phone and smiled at Wang Quan: "Brother, it is said on Weibo that you are divorced, is it true~"

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