Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 72 Get out!
"After the writer Mai Jia released his latest masterpiece, The Whistleblower, it was favored by many film and television companies. The copyright dispute began in November last year, and many big directors, including Jiang Wen, wanted to purchase the copyright of The Whistleblower. The copyright dispute lasted nearly two months and pushed the copyright fee of The Whistleblower to the million mark. Mai Jia said that he would not pay too much attention to the money, but paid more attention to the strength of the film and television companies."

"The copyright dispute of The Sound of Wind has entered the final stage. Currently, Mai Jia has had many contacts with the CEOs of Huayi Brothers, Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei, and the two sides have reached a 'strong' intention to cooperate. This copyright dispute may determine that Huayi will win."

"The dispute over "The Whistleblower" has revived. The reporter learned from China Film Group yesterday that young director Li Qiutang expressed his love for the novel "The Whistleblower" to Mai Jia through Han Sanping, chairman of China Film Group, and hoped to obtain the film and television copyright of the novel and adapt it into a movie for the big screen. Chairman Han revealed in the interview that Li Qiutang is currently still on the set of a new drama and cannot meet with Mai Jia in person, but to show his sincerity, Li Qiutang wrote a 10,000-word long letter, explaining his understanding of "The Whistleblower" and his ideas on adapting the story of "The Whistleblower". The letter has been handed over to Mai Jia by Chairman Han."

"Li Qiutang is a contracted director of Huayi Company, but this time he teamed up with China Film Group to fight with Huayi. It seems that there is an unknown conflict between Li Qiutang and Huayi Company."

This one is a bit exaggerated.

But it is not wrong to say that there is a conflict between Li Qiutang and Hua Yi.

The two sides had a pleasant cooperation on "No One", and the starting point of the conflict was "Famous".

Who told Huayi not to pay?

The actors, locations, and props for "Famous" are all ready, and you tell me you won't pay me? I'm making a movie for your company, and you want me to raise investment myself?!

I also used so many actors from your company.

The Wang brothers remained silent from beginning to end, tacitly accepting that the people below them were treating Li Qiutang like this. Did they really think Li Qiutang was made of clay?

This injustice is not big, but it is not small either.

Mr. Han came to visit the crew a few days ago, and he asked Mr. Han to ask Mai Jia to buy "The Sound of Wind" on his behalf.

Besides, Li Qiutang is not a contracted director of Huayi. Huayi only has the priority investment right of his films, and Huayi cannot restrict him from freely choosing projects.

He took a fancy to "The Whistleblower", so he could naturally compete with Huayi.

This is true according to the contract signed between Li Qiutang and Huayi, but outsiders may not see it that way.

It should be said that Li Qiutang's ten-thousand-word long letter played a role. After reading it, Mai Jia made a special trip to call Li Qiutang, and the two communicated a lot about the adaptation of "The Sound of Wind" on the phone.

Li Qiutang raised a point on the phone: "We need to film our faith.

"This group of people sacrificed their lives to do these things, not because of small family love or simple revenge, which is too small. They did these things because they really believed in XX theory and they really believed that they could create a new world.

"It's too easy to be lazy when making this kind of film. I could just adopt the techniques of Hollywood commercial films and say that I killed the devils because they killed my family, or that the devils' raiding of my home left me with a psychological trauma, so I want to kill the devils when I grow up. But this is too easy."

You said so, Haiqing. If you can’t capture the power of faith, just add a moment of missing your deceased husband.

In the middle of the month, Li Qiutang invited Mai Jia to visit the Hengdian crew, hoping that he would understand her work.

Mai Jia also readily agreed and came to Hengdian.

On the third day after Mai Jia left Hengdian, Li Xing came to the crew of "Famous".

In fact, there is not much difference between Huayi buying "The Whistleblower" and Li Qiutang buying "The Whistleblower". Since Li Qiutang bought it, Huayi can still invest in it.

Li Xing came today mainly to test Li Qiutang's attitude.

The rumor has spread that Li Qiutang and Huayi have been in conflict since they started working together for more than a year. Based on this rumor, many companies have set their sights on the fat piece of meat called Li Qiutang.

Li Xing certainly knew that although there were some frictions in the cooperation between Li Qiutang and Huayi, it was generally pleasant.

But she really didn't know that the company was suppressing Li Qiutang's investment!

It was only 2000 million yuan, there was no need to worry about it. Huayi could save a little and 2000 million yuan would be there soon. But Li Xing soon understood the reason.

However, she had no say in investment matters. She personally felt unfair for Li Qiutang, but she couldn't help her.

Li Qiutang said that he was not competing for "The Whistleblower" to be angry with Huayi, and that Huayi was not the only one competing for "The Whistleblower". He really wanted to shoot "The Whistleblower".

"It's okay for me to quit, but the company must let me shoot this film, otherwise why would I quit?" This is a promise Li Xing could not give to Li Qiutang.

Later, Li Xing asked Li Qiutang about her opinion on the company. Li Qiutang said, "I have no opinion on the company. The company just has my investment rights. The company may not think highly of "Famous", but it doesn't matter. I will raise the investment myself. I have already talked to China Film. They will provide 350 copies and I will shoot and edit at the same time. It will be released in May or June." The company did not think highly of the film and did not invest, but shoved so many actors in it. Any director would be uncomfortable with it.

It can be said that Li Xing gained nothing in Hengdian.

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"Director, I think we can perform this in a different way." Deng Chao told Li Qiutang his understanding.

But Li Qiutang didn't listen to him. Deng Chao was usually a lively person in the crew, responsible for livening up the atmosphere. With him around, the crew was indeed much happier. However, Li Qiutang didn't allow him to express himself freely in terms of performance methods: "Forget it, just act as you did just now, and we'll do it again."

He also criticized Deng Chao's comedy performance very bluntly: "Your performance is derived from nonsense. Except for Zhou Xingchi, it would be ugly if others performed it."

And he said of Deng Chao: "You can play both positive and negative characters, but don't play comedies. You don't have the talent for comedy."

The comedy in "To Be Famous" is not delivered through the exaggerated performances of the actors. In the detective team, except for Hai Zhaofeng and Chen Xiaoda who have comedic elements in their characters, the other characters are very serious.

Deng Chao would never listen to Li Qiutang. He still felt that he had a talent for comedy.

Now we are filming the scene where Hai Zhaofeng gets shot and falls to the ground.

Huang Xuan was lying in Deng Chao's arms, his face and body covered in blood.

"Come on, get set, start!"

Huang Xuan raised his hand tremblingly, pointed at Chen Xiaoda, played by Wang Baoqiang, and said playfully, "I'm a fan of his. I want to say something to him."

Wang Baoqiang held Huang Xuan's hand and leaned his head over.

Huang Xuan said one word with difficulty: "Get lost."

As a result, the whole set burst into laughter. When Huang Xuan laughed, all the cast and crew members on the set laughed too.

Even Li Qiutang, who was sitting in front of the monitor, laughed.

Deng Chaojian imitated Huang Xuan, approached Wang Baoqiang, and also said, "Get lost."

"Hahahaha!"

Wang Baoqiang himself couldn't stop laughing.

Li Qiutang came to the center and asked Wang Baoqiang: "What did you feel when you heard that sentence just now?"

Wang Baoqiang: “Get lost.”

"Hahahaha!"

(End of this chapter)