Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 281 The Towering Tree Project, launched!

"No, can someone explain why Yang Mi is in The Legend of Hongmen Feast? Didn't she act in Lu Chuan's The Banquet?" Li Qiutang saw on the news that Yang Mi played Yu Ji at the premiere of The Legend of Hongmen Feast, which was really puzzling.

A colleague at the company told him, "Yang Mi did go to the filming site of The Banquet in March. Some said she played Concubine Yu, and some said she played a supporting role, but the crew never confirmed the news. Later, it was said that Yang Mi left the crew because of schedule conflicts. In fact, Lu Chuan just couldn't stand her overlapping roles. At that time, Palace was very popular, and the dramas looking for her were scheduled from here to Chang'an Street. I didn't expect that she went to Legend of the Hongmen Feast. She didn't show up when filming started in April, and the crew even kept Concubine Yu a secret at the time."

Li Rengang didn't care about Yang Mi's overlapping roles at all, and Yang Mi had a huge amount of traffic at the time, which could bring attention and box office to his movie.

Besides, Feng Shaofeng plays Xiang Yu and Yang Mi plays Yu Ji, and the honey love story will be hyped up again, so this topic will come up.

This is indeed the case. Honey romance is the trump card of the marketing hype of "Legend of the Hongmen Banquet".

Even though the two have denied their relationship countless times, those who want to support them still go crazy and support them with filters.

It can be seen that Yang Mi and Feng Shaofeng are unwilling to be fired like this, but they seem to have no choice.

The effect was also extremely significant. "Legend of the Hongmen Banquet" earned more than 1200 million on the first day and 8200 million in the first six days, easily winning the championship.

Is this also Yang Mi's glorious achievement in her first big screen debut? The first week champion of the Lunar New Year holiday is also worth mentioning.

But Yang Mi still has some spirit left. Even with such good results, she seems unwilling to hype up a relationship with Feng Shaofeng.

When did she and Uncle Liu officially announce their relationship? It seems to be coming soon.

Although Li Qiutang has no projects on hand and the company is absent from the Lunar New Year holiday, he is really busy.

He and Zhang Zhao received their first investment from coal bosses, totaling 6000 million yuan.

Li Qiutang and Zhang Zhao invested the money without hesitation into the company's ongoing youth director support program.

This plan has a very high priority within the company, and is called by Li Qiutang and Zhang Zhao as "a strategy that determines whether Qiuqiu can become a respected film company."

Being able to produce and distribute films and make high-grossing movies is not enough to be considered respectable in the eyes of Li Qiutang and Zhang Zhao.

Both of them felt that they should make a different contribution to the industry.

Making good movies certainly counts, but it’s not enough.

This plan is temporarily named the Towering Tree Project. Qiu Tian and Li Qiutang personally hope to use their own tiny power to cultivate a towering tree for the future Chinese film industry.

It may be an exaggeration to say that we can train them, but at least we can give young directors an initial impetus and send them forward. As for how far they can go, it depends on themselves.

Li Qiutang focused most of his energy on this plan.

The source of funds, distribution channels, the structure of the entire plan, many things require Li Qiutang to discuss in person.

Just after the first week of the Lunar New Year holiday, Li Qiutang hosted a banquet in Chengdu to entertain Zhang Zhao, Xu Shanzheng and Chen Zhixi.

The copyright of "Lost on Journey 2" undoubtedly belongs to Qiu Tian. Xu Shan wants to transform himself into a director to shoot the sequel. He can either go the edge, but Qiu Tian sues him and he will lose, so he will completely offend Li Qiutang and Zhang Zhao, or he can choose to cooperate with Qiu Tian.

The cost of the former is too high. Autumn is not the Citibank of the original time and space. If Xu Shanzheng had any brains, he would not choose this path.

Chen Zhixi is still an independent producer. She is optimistic about Xu Shanzheng's talent and supports him in filming "Lost on Journey 2". Come and meet Li Qiutang.

Xu Shanzheng's Lost on Journey 2 has already been scripted, and the film is set in Thailand. Zhang Zhao is not happy about this, and it seems that Xu Shanzheng really wants to start a new project without Qiu Tian.

But none of that matters right now.

After they sat down, Xu Shan asked Li Qiutang why she was in Chengdu. Li Qiutang said, "I have some work here. I have been in Chengdu for half of the past half month."

During the dinner, Xu Shanzheng recounted the general story of his "Lost on Journey 2", and finally said: "The production cost is not high, only to million will be enough." As he could obtain the legitimate authorization, he certainly did not want to take the risk.

Li Qiutang and Zhang Zhao also told Xu Shanzheng and Chen Zhixi about their towering tree plan.

"This program is mainly to train new directors. Of course, it would be best if they can make money at the box office, but if they can't, we won't be too critical."

Li Qiutang has the vision to allow new directors to make losses.

"Because this is a new talent program, the movies invested in this program will not be high-cost." This is as it should be, "We will try our best to control the cost within 5000 million."

As soon as this number came out, Xu Shanzheng was moved, as he felt that he met the requirements very well.

After hearing this, both of them said that Autumn's plan was well-planned and courageous.

"Paving the way for newcomers is a great merit."

Li Qiutang meant that in autumn, "Lost on Journey 2" could be authorized to be filmed by Xu Shanzheng, and this film would be the first film of the Cantianshu Project.

Xu Shanzheng laughed and said, "Then am I still considered a young director?"

Li Qiutang said: "A director's golden creative period is between 30 and 50 years old. Why are you not considered a young director?"

Chen Zhixi smiled and said, "Then how do you calculate it?"

"I'm less than 30 years old, and I'm a young director." Li Qiutang said with a smile.

The subsequent discussions went smoothly. Xu Shanzheng's editing, directing and acting fees were in accordance with industry practice. When Zhang Zhao asked him if he was willing to consider his salary as an investment, Xu Shanzheng obviously struggled for a moment, but finally gave up. He had a small family and a small business, and he didn't dare to gamble with Qiu Tian on the profits, so he chose to take his own share of the salary.

But he also joked: "If the movie is a big hit, just give me a red envelope."

His choice is understandable. A new director should be thankful to be able to find investment, and he would never dare to gamble on box office revenue.

But there is another problem here. Qiu Tian invested in "Lost on Journey 2" with full capital and is also the copyright holder. Chen Zhixi is out of work!

Chen Zhixi was also bold enough to raise this question on the spot.

Li Qiutang smiled and said, "This is easy to solve. Our company would like you to be the producer and manage the crew for us."

Chen Zhixi is really not a rookie. She has produced the TV series "We Are Brothers" and the movies "You Deserve to Be Single" and "Border Storm". She has a lot of experience in analyzing movie genres and investing in movies.

I can safely hand over the 3000 million yuan investment of "Lost on Journey 2" to her in the fall.

Li Qiutang suddenly had an idea and said, "We can definitely include producer training in our Cantianshu Project. We lack directors who can shoot movies, but we lack producers who can manage even more."

The management of domestic drama crews is very rough, to put it bluntly, it is no different from the opera troupes of the last century.

After all these years, Li Qiutang is still the only director in the country who enforces alcohol control.

And the management is not very strict.

We always talk about industrialization. Not only the director’s filming should be industrialized, but the management of the crew should also be industrialized.

Li Qiutang thought it was worth a try, so he started with Chen Zhixi.

(End of this chapter)