1990: Starting from Baojia Street

The next day, Hong Ben gave the list to Zhou Yan.

This time Zhou Yan transferred a total of twelve people from the Chang'an factory, but only six expressed their willingness to stay at the Yanjing factory.

This result was a bit beyond Zhou Yan's expectation. He thought that at least eight or nine of these twelve people would decide to stay.

It’s not that he is fully confident in his personal charm, but because coming to Yanjing Factory should be a very good opportunity for these film workers.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the current development of the Chang'an factory is not as good as before, while the Yanjing factory is in the capital and has good resources in all aspects. After coming to Yanjing Factory, their development will definitely be better.

But if you think about it carefully, it is indeed normal. These people are raising their families. If they are really seconded to the Yanjing Factory, it means that their lives will change dramatically.

It's just a transfer to the crew, and it only takes a month or two to go back, so it's considered a business trip.

But if they are really seconded, there will be fewer opportunities to return home in the future. The key is that they are seconded, and their relationship is still in the Chang'an factory. The future is relatively uncertain, and it is really difficult to plan.

Zhou Yan took the list and thought about it for a while, then called Han Sanping.

Han Sanping heard that six people were willing to stay, and his reaction was very different from Zhou Yan's.

"So many people are willing to stay?"

Han Sanping knew deeply that being seconded was a big deal to many people, and the Yanjing Factory did not offer any better conditions.

Under such circumstances, half of the people were willing to stay, which shows how high Zhou Yan's status is in the hearts of these people.

"These people were basically the first to follow me."

Hong Xin, Lin Juan, Jiang Mengfei, and Liu Qing were the first to know Zhou Yan. They were together when "Raise the Red Lantern" was filmed.

Later, Zhou Yan directed the short film "Antfly" by himself, thanks to the help of Liu Qing and others.

"That's better, it's more reliable this way." Han Sanping said with a smile, "Okay, I will go to Chang'an Factory to ask for people according to this list."

"Will it be difficult to have six people at once?"

"It's not a big problem. I still have some face. Besides, there are no projects in Chang'an Factory right now, so the wages of so many people are also a burden."

Now that the policy has changed and major film studios are responsible for their own profits and losses, everyone is suddenly under greater pressure.

Especially for a factory like Chang'an, which was so glorious before, with a large number of people in the factory, and a huge consumption of people eating horse chews every day, it is actually a good thing for them that the Yanjing Factory helps them solve the salary of some employees.

Not to mention six people, even if all twelve people are transferred, there won't be much difficulty.

Han Sanping has the confidence to dare to transfer people. With the cooperation of Tomson Company, their film studio is really not particularly short of money now.

Huo Jianqi has a new project here. With this project alone, it is no problem to support a crew for several months.

As long as Tomson is stabilized, they will have many projects to come.

Zhou Yan had no doubts about Han Sanping's words. Han Sanping was quite confident in his work.

"Okay, third brother, then I'll trouble you about this."

"What you said is that I should be thanking you."

……

The next morning, just as Zhou Yan was about to leave home, he received a call from Xiao Can.

"Director Zhou, I have something to report to you."

"Well, you said."

"Jiangjuntuo Primary School wants to rent our school."

"Jiangjuntuo Primary School? How do they want to organize it?"

"What they mean is, let us make an offer and let them see if it suits them."

Zhou Yan frowned and said, "This is not something they can decide, right? Does the relocation of the school site require approval from the higher authorities?"

Xiao Can smiled and said, "I asked around and found that this matter should have been instructed by the superior leaders. Otherwise, their elementary school would not dare to mention this matter."

Zhou Yan nodded, that would explain it.

It is estimated that Jiangjuntuo Elementary School has been eyeing their school building for a long time. Otherwise, Jiangjuntuo Elementary School would not have mentioned this matter as soon as the movie was finished.

The school was built, but it would be a waste to leave it there. If it could be used, it would be a good thing. However, Zhou Yan was a little hesitant because when the school building was built, it had a bit of a prison style and was completely different from a normal school building.

If students go to school there, will it be affected?
Apart from the school's architectural style, other aspects of the school building are very good. The location is excellent, and there is a road at the door, so the transportation is relatively good.

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "I know about this. I will discuss it with the company and give them an answer when I have the result."

"Ok."

Chidi Middle School belongs to Tomson Company. Zhou Yan naturally cannot make the decision. He needs to tell Xu Feng.

Zhou Yan talked to Xu Feng on the phone and told them about it. Xu Feng was very generous at first and said that he didn't need to rent it and would donate it directly to them.

But after thinking about it, Xu Feng changed his mind and decided to rent it to them even if it didn't cost any money. The effect of renting and donating is actually the same, but the nature is different. After donating, they have no initiative.

To put it bluntly, if this school building is donated, it is unknown whether it can be used by Jiangjuntuo Primary School in the future. When the time comes, the good deeds are half done and they will be disgusted.

Xu Feng made the decision, and the matter was settled. In the end, the school building was leased to Jiangjuntuo Primary School. The lease term was tentatively set for fifteen years, and the rent was one yuan per year.

Xu Feng wanted to keep a low profile and act quietly, but the local government disagreed and held a lively signing ceremony and even asked the news media to report the matter.

Originally, Tomson didn't do any publicity when the movie was finished, but now because of this incident, he has publicized the movie's completion.

Many news media only realized later that Zhou Yan's new movie had been completed.

The filming of "Spring in the Cowherd Class" was very low-key when it was started, without any ceremony. When it was finished, the media didn't even know that Zhou Yan's new movie had been filmed.

Although the box office record of "The Sixth Sense" did not last long in North America and was broken by "Police Story 3", it was really overheated before, so now everyone is paying more attention to Zhou Yan's new movie. .

All media wanted to know about Zhou Yan's new movie, but after searching around, they found that very little information could be found.

The only thing I know is the name of the movie, which was written in the report that the school building was rented to Jiangjuntuo Primary School.

Many people are surprised when they see the name "Spring of the Cowherd Class", because from the name, it seems that this movie focuses on rural themes, and the word "cowherder" can easily think of rural areas.

However, the three words "cowherd class" are very confusing, because no one has ever heard of what a cowherd class is. How can there be a class for cowherds? However, soon everyone knew the meaning of "cowherd class". The news came from Taiwan. It turns out that there is a saying in Taiwan that "cowherd class" generally refers to classes composed of poor students, that is, garbage classes.

Now people understood that Zhou Yan's new movie was probably related to education. No wonder the building was rented to a primary school.

Seeing that the media was paying close attention to Zhou Yan's new movie, Tomson simply took advantage of the situation and started a wave of publicity. He first announced some of the actors participating in the movie, and then revealed some of the film's preparation process.

Colombia did not miss this opportunity and took the opportunity to announce that they had won the rights to remake "The Sixth Sense".

Originally, Zhou Yan's new movie was only a little popular, but now that Colombia has entered the scene to promote it, the popularity has suddenly increased.

[Defeating Warner, Columbia finally wins the rights to remake "The Sixth Sense"! 】

Of course, Columbia will not let Warner go. In the announcement, it even stepped on Warner. But Warner can't refute it yet, because what Columbia said is true.

……

This is not the first time that Zhou Yan's movie has been remade abroad. "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" has been remade before, but this time the situation is different, because when the remake rights were purchased, the major Hollywood studio Columbia, and read the news Warner is also in the running.

Two major Hollywood studios came to compete for the rights to remake "The Sixth Sense" at the same time, which shows how much attention this movie takes.

The remake of "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" has done very well, with a global box office of 40 to 50 million US dollars. It is a low-cost, high-profit movie.

This time everyone is curious about what good results the remake of "The Sixth Sense" can achieve, and whether it can surpass "The Flying Piano Boy".

After all, Columbia is a big company with rich publicity experience. When they saw the popularity rising, they started to brag.

The first thing they brag about is the movie's budget.

Although they set a budget of 20 million US dollars, they announced that they planned to spend more than 50 million US dollars on the remake of "The Sixth Sense", which was more than twice their actual budget. They even said that if necessary, they would increase investment on this basis.

And the second thing they brag about is the director of the movie.

Columbia has announced through many media that they will select big-name directors, such as Spielberg, James Cameron, and Martin Scorsese.

There are also actors, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and even Schwarzenegger were mentioned.

Many of the news were serious. If Zhou Yan hadn't known the inside story, he might have been deceived.

I have to say that Colombia's trick is really effective. As soon as the news spread, some media reporters ran to ask the actors and directors who were rumored to be involved in "The Sixth Sense".

Most of the directors and actors said that they had no contact with Colombia, but some people did not say it directly, but just expressed their willingness to accept the challenge, or said a few polite words, "The Sixth Sense" is a good movie, if you are lucky enough, I would be very happy to be able to participate in the show.

Although only a few people said this, it also gave the media something to write about.

Seeing the development of the situation, Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh. Regardless of what they are, these major studios have really strong publicity capabilities. A remake of a movie with a budget of 20 million US dollars can be created by Colombia to have the momentum of a blockbuster.

For those who didn’t know better, I thought that the Colombian version of “The Sixth Sense” would be a blockbuster with a super high budget and many big names.

Even Han Sanping was fooled.

One day when Zhou Yan went to Chang'an Factory to watch the editing, he was caught by Han Sanping, who kept congratulating Zhou Yan for "The Sixth Sense" being remade into a blockbuster.

"Fifty million US dollars, tsk tsk, this money is enough for our factory to make many movies."

When he said this, Han Sanping's eyes were filled with envy.

Even if the cost of a movie is 3 million yuan, 50 million US dollars is enough for their factory to make one or two hundred movies.

With so much money, they won't have to worry about the future of the factory for a long time. I have to say, Americans are really rich.

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "The news is too exaggerated. In fact, the budget is only 20 million US dollars."

"Twenty million US dollars... that's a lot, but can twenty million US dollars hire a director of Spielberg's level and Tom Hanks?"

"Those are also fake."

Hearing that these news were all false, Han Sanping couldn't help but sigh, "Americans still know how to play. I thought some of these news were true, but they were all false."

"It's okay, at least the reshoots are not fake."

"What if this is fake? Then it's also fake that Warner participated in the competition?"

"Oh, this is true. Colombia doesn't dare to step on it."

"Fortunately, it's not too outrageous. There is news that the rights to reshoot this movie cost Colombia 2.5 million US dollars. How big is this?"

"There's close to a million moisture."

"That's more than 1.5 million U.S. dollars, which is a lot. This movie cost more than 10 million yuan, right? Just one remake of the copyright fee was enough to make it back."

Zhou Yan nodded, "Absolutely."

"I wonder if "Spring in the Cowherd Class" will also be remade later."

"Hard to say."

Zhou Yan knows that Han Sanping attaches great importance to this movie. After all, he has single-handedly directed this movie since he came here. He definitely hopes that the movie's performance can surpass "The Sixth Sense".

But the final result will probably disappoint Han Sanping, because the movie "Springtime of the Cowherd" is not as commercial as "The Sixth Sense".

Perhaps "The Spring of the Cowherd" will get a better reputation, but it will be difficult to sell at the box office.

Although the possibility of losing money is low, it is basically impossible to sell more than "The Sixth Sense".

In fact, Han Sanping didn't know it. He was a director himself and had a keen sense of the market. He must have known that "Spring of the Cowherd Class" could not sell as well as "The Sixth Sense".

But people always have hope, and the market sometimes surprises people.

……

In the next few days, Zhou Yan would go to the editing building of Yanjing Factory every day and stay there for most of the day.

In fact, the editing of this movie was not expensive. There were only a few negatives, and the editor did not have many choices. They basically cut according to Zhou Yan's storyboard.

Moreover, for "Spring of the Cowherd", Yanjing Factory fully cleared the way and gave priority to editing this film, unlike other films that need to be queued.

According to the current progress, it is estimated that the existing film can be edited in more than three weeks. (End of chapter)