Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 327: Jurassic Reboot

As the biggest contributor to the autumn film market this year, it is quite normal for the crew of Lost in Thailand to attend the company's annual meeting.

As actors in Li Qiutang's upcoming new play, it is normal for Huang Xiaoming and Qin Lan to have a couple of drinks at the autumn annual party.

As the pioneer of autumn youth films, it is understandable that Liu Yifei came to attend the annual meeting.

As the helmsman of Li Qiutang's Hollywood Lantern Entertainment, it was only natural that Michael Lynn was invited to attend the autumn film industry's annual meeting.

From this perspective, the annual meeting in autumn is like a film festival dinner, with too many big names.

But the question is, who invited Nazha over?

Later I found out that this girl was not brought by her agent to run around, but was brought there as a female companion to an invited guest at the autumn annual meeting.

Her male companion was Mr. Hu, whom Li Qiutang knew, who worked in the propaganda department.

"Qiutang, let me introduce you, this is Nazha." Mr. Hu thought Li Qiutang didn't know Nazha, "She's a newcomer, and an actress."

As Li Qiutang's connection in the propaganda department, Li Qiutang had met many women around Mr. Hu. The first was Fan Bingbing, and later he also met Zhang Yuqi, and some people he didn't know, but he had never seen the legal wife.

Wow, now they are reaching out to the post-90s newcomers.

"Hello, director. Nice to meet you again." Nazha greeted Li Qiutang with a smile.

"Why, have you met before?"

Nazha smiled and said, "I've seen her at some activities in the circle before, but the director may not remember newcomers like us." Is she so good at talking?
Li Qiutang smiled. Isn’t it normal that he doesn’t remember a newcomer like Nazha?

The three things of an annual meeting: drinking, giving out money, and performing shows.

Many people are annoyed by these three things, but as long as the money is paid, employees will not be annoyed.

The 18-month salary promised to the issuing department was paid in cash today. It’s a bit rustic, but the publicity effect is very good!

The investors and guests watching the ceremony in the audience clapped their hands until they were red. Many investors fell for this.

The issuing department went up one by one to collect the money, and Zhang Zhao handed the money to them one by one.

Liu Yifei, who was sitting next to Li Qiutang, said to him, "Why don't you go and send them out? It must be very cool to send them out in piles."

"It's fun to watch. I'll let you make money later." Li Qiutang said with a smile.

"I send it? I'm not an executive of your company."

"You are not an executive, you are the future boss's wife." Li Qiutang said softly.

"What nonsense are you talking about." Liu Yifei punched Li Qiutang lightly.

"Director Li, how much bonus are you going to give out this year?" asked an investor sitting on the other side of Li Qiutang.

"The film department alone should receive 10 or 20 million yuan. The results are good this year, and they are very hard-working with overtime and business trips. Pay them more."

"Your company is really willing to spend this much money." If it were an ordinary company, they would not be willing to pay money like this.

"Well, even if I have three heads and six arms, I can't run such a big business by myself. I still have to rely on these employees. It's only right that I pay them more."

In the subsequent performance, Li Qiutang led the managers and senior executives of Autumn Pictures, put on large flowery jackets from Northeast China, and performed a comical yangko dance for the employees. Liu Yifei laughed like crazy below.

From the perspective of corporate management, executives occasionally making a fool of themselves can help them get closer to employees, but it is not actually a good thing for bosses to play the role of a superior prince or king at the annual meeting.

After Li Qiutang finished dancing, she said to her colleagues who were filming with their mobile phones in the audience, "You can take pictures, but don't post them on Weibo or WeChat Moments." "Hahaha!" The audience laughed even more happily.

Wearing a large flowered jacket, Li Qiutang continued to draw lots and give out money on the stage, pushing the atmosphere of the annual meeting to its climax.

"You go back first, I have something else to discuss." After the annual meeting, Li Qiutang asked Liu Yifei to go back first.

"Then don't stay too late." Liu Yifei acted like a little wife.

"I know, let's go back."

Zhang Zhao will be in charge of the domestic affairs, and Michael Lynn has a lot of work to report to Li Qiutang.

Lantern Entertainment only released two movies last year. "The Hunger Games" is a must-see, but another unconventional film, "Ted," was also a huge success, grossing $2.18 million in North America and $5.5 million worldwide.

"The Hunger Games 2" has been completed, and Lantern Entertainment is also promoting "Ted 2". These are all known.

Lantern Entertainment is developing better and better now.

Michael Lynn is going to report on his plans for this year.

He still loves unconventional movies. He got a script called "Scorn" from a failed screenwriter named Derek Kolstad. The male protagonist is called John Wick. The plot is simple, with few lines, and it has a bit of the flavor of a noir film.

From a dramaturgical perspective, Scorn is really bad!
But Michael Lynn felt that such a revenge story was worth a try, so he bought the copyright of "Scorn" and developed it as Lantern Entertainment's first project in 2013. Currently, Michael Lynn and Derek Kolstad are working together to perfect the script.

"You just said, what's the protagonist's name?" Li Qiutang wanted to confirm again.

"John Wick." Michael Lynn also said that he hated Marvel-style superhero movies. "They ruined action movies. I want to make a pure action movie, starting with this movie."

"Of course, I hate Marvel-style action movies, too," Li Qiutang agreed, "but Scorn is too crude and the script needs to be improved. I'd like to see how it turns out."

Under the direction of Michael Lynn, Derek Kolstad added a background story of John Wick's wife's death and a huge killer organization to the whole story.

Li Qiutang certainly supported Michael Lynn in filming this movie. Why not refuse a gold mine that was delivered to her doorstep?
Perhaps having tasted the sweetness of "The Hunger Games", Michael Lynne once again set his sights on adapting juvenile books and bought the copyright to a juvenile science fiction adventure novel called "The Maze Runner", attempting to adapt it into a movie.

Such a familiar smell.

"The Hunger Games" is also a science fiction adventure novel for young people, and Michael Lynn took advantage of the subject.

Li Qiutang couldn't help but feel that old man Michael Lynn was her lucky star.

He does spend money, but the projects he found are also really good. How could he bankrupt New Line?
After praising Michael Lynn in his heart, Li Qiutang wanted to wait until he officially retired so that the company could donate one or two million US dollars to his personal fund to recognize his contribution.

But Michael Lynn turned around and said, "Universal invited us to invest in the sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman. I think we should get involved in this kind of blockbuster."

Why can't I help but praise it?
"Snow White and the Huntsman" cost 1.7 million and grossed 3.9 million worldwide. What's the point of making a sequel to this movie!

If Li Qiutang remembers correctly, the development of the sequel to "Snow White and the Huntsman" failed. The heroine of the previous film, Kristen Stewart, ran away because the script was too bad, and Universal had to change to shoot the prequel.

I didn't expect the prequel to be even worse.

Li Qiutang rejected the "olive branch" thrown by Universal, and said casually: "If Universal made "Jurassic Park", I would invest in it."

Michael Lynn told Li Qiutang: "Universal has indeed rebooted the Jurassic series."

Li Qiutang's mind suddenly perked up.

(End of this chapter)