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Chapter 57
"Where did you find him?!"

Everyone in Cheng Yu'an was dumbfounded.

After finishing the promotion of "Butterfly Effect", Cheng Yu'an returned to supervise the crew of "Sword and Sword" and found Brother Hu.

Didn't Brother Hu sign Tang Ren?Yuan Yuan and Tang Ren had such an argument, Cheng Lingfeng actually had the ability to recruit Brother Hu to play Li Xiaoyao.

"I helped Brother Hu pay the liquidated damages, so I dug him in." Cheng Lingfeng seemed to be talking about an unimportant matter.

"How much?" Cheng Yu'an inquired about Brother Hu's liquidated damages.

"It's less than 50."

Since Brother Hu signed with Tang Ren, Tang Ren has not arranged any resources for him. If Brother Hu breaks the contract, Tang Ren's work progress will not be delayed, and it will be very cheap to poach him.

"Our company doesn't act as an artist manager now, so if you poach him, what resources will you feed him with?"

"Shove it into each crew to play a supporting role first."

"Okay." Cheng Yu'an didn't want to take too big a step when Long-distance Media was first started, because the producers and artist managers naturally conflicted.

His plan is to start the artist brokerage business when the development of the production business guarantees that 10-15 films will be produced each year.

Now that Cheng Lingfeng has poached Brother Hu, Cheng Yu'an didn't say much, but told her not to sign artists in recent years, because the company doesn't have so much resources to give.

Of course Cheng Lingfeng knew.

Cheng Yu'an said a few words, and then asked about CCTV: "Is there anything about the "Lotus Lantern"?"

"The negotiation is almost done, and the contract will be signed at the end of the month. I will start casting actors in the next few days."

Cheng Yu'an had read the script of "Lotus Lantern", and immediately waved to Shu Chang: "Shu Chang, come here."

Shu Chang trotted over, and Cheng Yu'an suggested to Cheng Lingfeng: "Look, little fox Xiaoyu should do this."

Shu Chang stood aside and laughed, Cheng Yu'an was puzzled: "What's wrong?"

Cheng Lingfeng smiled and said: "I still use your recommendation here. I have already agreed with Shu Chang to let her play Xiaoyu. Didn't you see that I have been focusing on her scenes for the past few days?"

"That's fine, I don't care about it." Cheng Yu'an was also happy, and was about to walk away, when Cheng Yu'an turned around and said, "Oh, by the way, you leave the crew for me, this year's summer movie will be arranged."

"Okay, do you want to shoot?"

"I originally wanted to give it to Guo Fei, but she is filming "Sword of Heaven" now. I will give you the script later, and you can find an outside director to shoot."

"What about you?" Now Cheng Yu'an is the only one who can sell the box office in Yuanyuan. Before the young director grows up, Cheng Lingfeng wants him to release at least one movie every year.

"I'll go to the National Day or Lunar New Year by myself. Hurry up and get ready, we'll be filming next month."

"Okay, I'll arrange it."

Xu Cairen is a little uncomfortable in this Lunar New Year holiday.

According to the previous tone, the directorial debut of the Golden Rooster Award is not an award that attracts a lot of attention.

But she who won the award this year was stared at by everyone.

Because she defeated Cheng Yu'an, the most popular young director this year, and won the Golden Rooster Award by stepping on a film with a domestic box office of over 4000 million.

Well, since you won the award, it proves that you are better than him, let's see your performance.

In this way, Xu Cairen rushed into the Lunar New Year stalls with "My Dad".

It has been released for more than ten days now, and the box office has not exceeded 300 million. The producer responded to the reporter's question in this way: ""My Father and Me" is a slow-moving literary film. A good score."

"Then what do you think about the box office of "Butterfly Effect" directed by Cheng Yu'an, which has exceeded 3000 million since its release?"

"I think if a director blindly pursues the box office, he will fall into the quagmire of business and ignore the characteristics of film as an art."

Of course Cheng Yu'an didn't pay attention to "My Father and Me". He didn't remember the box office of this movie at all, which meant that the results were not very good.

Taking advantage of the end of the promotion of "Butterfly Effect" and the preparation of the new crew, Cheng Yu'an flew to the United States to take care of the trumpet affairs during a period of free time.

After two days of jet lag, Cheng Yu'an showed up at the office of a major film company.

"Love Actually" performed very well, and now it has won a global box office of 1.8 million US dollars.

Breaking 2 million is a sure thing.

Cheng Yu'an remembered that the film Yuan Shikong had a global box office of 2.4 million and made a lot of money, which was a good start for Curtis's career as a director.

"Love Actually" performed so well, of course Cheng Yu'an, as the boss, couldn't be stingy. With a big wave of his hand, he decided to raise the wages of all the staff and promoted Bob to be the executive CEO of a big film company.

After meritorious deeds are rewarded, the work still has to continue.

A big film company currently only has Wen Ziren as the director. "Saw" Fox plans to release it in May, and "Howl" was released by Lionsgate, which is scheduled for October.

Wen Ziren has nothing to do.

Wen Ziren is now obsessed with horror movies. He knows that his boss has a deep understanding of horror movies, so he wants to ask him for ideas.

"Cheng, I'm here to see if there are any new scripts you can shoot for me." Wen Ziren cut to the chase.

"James, I was just looking for you. I know you are a workaholic. You are the only director in the company now. I have a lot of good ideas and I want to touch you." Cheng Yuan motioned Wen Ziren to sit down.

Wen Ziren said: "Cheng, why don't you come to Hollywood to develop? You are very talented. You can write romance films and know horror films. You will become a very good director when you come to the United States."

"Forgive me, I'm already busy in China." Cheng Yu'an shrugged.

Wen Ziren didn't understand what it meant to be on all fours, so Cheng Yu'an took the trouble to explain it to him.

"Anyway, let's get down to business, I have an idea to tell you, if you are interested, find someone to write a script and shoot it.

"A woman, I think it's best to be a single mother, going out on a boat with friends..."

"The boat capsized when we encountered waves on the way?" Wen Ziren answered.

"Of course, it's old-fashioned, right? It's okay. Listen to me. As you said, they encountered waves, the boat capsized, and finally climbed onto the wreckage of the boat to wait for rescue. Everyone thought they were saved, so they boarded the ship one after another, but when they went up, they found that there was no one on the ship, and this ship had disappeared more than half a century ago..."

That's right, what Cheng Yu'an told was the story of "Cruise of Horror", and Wen Ziren was fascinated by it.

If we summarize the style of Wen Ziren's horror films more than ten years later, many people will think that Wen Ziren does not like traditional plasma horror, but prefers to create a sense of horror by exaggerating the atmosphere and environment.

Just like "The Conjuring", no one died from the beginning to the end, only a dog and a bird died.

This conclusion is of course correct, but Wen Ziren's style has not been determined at this time, and he himself wants to try different styles.

"Cheng, this story is so good, you must let me try it."

"Okay, the story is yours. Get Bob to do the script and budget."

After Cheng Yu'an finished talking, he was about to pack up his things and go back. Unexpectedly, Wen Ziren still had something to ask him, so Cheng Yu'an asked, "James, is there anything else?"

"Oh, yes, I'm fine, it's Warner's business." Wen Ziren said.

Ray Whannell, Wen Ziren's good friend, also a horror film lover.

"He also wants to be a director and hopes to get your support."

"Of course, if he has a good script, of course I am willing to support him."

(End of this chapter)