Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 165 Exiting the crew

December 1997, Dongxing Building, Dong'anmen Street, Santa Maria delle Gragio, Red Earth Continent.

This is a restaurant founded in 1902. It is known as the first of the "Eight Big" Shandong cuisine restaurants. It mainly specializes in Jiaodong cuisine, which is characterized by light, red, delicious, tender, oily but not greasy.

Liu Xiaoli, the inland agent manager of Gao Cang Wentai Studio, first went to the young people majoring in directing in the Art Department of Yenching Normal University to vote for a student film project called "Thursday, Wednesday".

Then, I went to the box in Dongxing Tower that I had booked long ago, and met again with Wang Biao, the Chinese producer of "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin", and Wang Peigong, the screenwriter.

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These days, Liu Xiaoli has roughly known the bottom line of Imperial Film Studio through Wang Peigong.

In principle, Imperial Film Studio is willing to get rid of this burden, and now the cumulative investment in this film has reached an unprecedented 7000 million yuan.

Kaizi is too arrogant and crazy. He is completely different from the one on the crew of "Farewell My Concubine" when the project was first investigated. The studio executives are not willing to gamble with Kaizi at all...

What the Imperial Film Studio now means is that it needs to give an explanation to the Beijing Circle and give Kaizi a dignified way to exit.

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Kaizi is now a popular fried chicken restaurant in Beijing.

During the filming period, he also joined the Mengzhou Club in Beijing and became the vice president of the club.

Mengzhou Club has a very high influence in the entire sports circle. It has established basketball teams, football teams, tennis teams, table tennis teams, swimming teams, and cheerleading teams, with a total of more than 100 people.

Except for some leaders and coaches, all the team members are celebrities in the entertainment industry, including artists from Xiangjiang and Yizhou Island.

Huang Jianxiang, Sun Nan, Wu Jin, and Mao Ning are on the football team. Huang Jianxiang and Wu Jin even won the "Top Scorer".

Liu Minxin, the former head coach of the National Youth Football Team, was invited to serve as the head coach of Mengzhou.

World football champion Maradona came to China to compete, and the only time he participated in the TV program "Universal Video" was to cooperate with the main players of "Dream Boat".

This club holds competitions every year in BJ's universities, middle schools, government agencies, factories, troops, companies, foreign companies, embassies, news units, and professional sports teams. Over the course of a year, there are no less than 100 events in various categories.

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The Beijing Circle is a group of veterans who are the strongest, most face-conscious, and most organized among the eight major sects in the inland film and television industry.

After Director Chen finished filming "Farewell My Concubine", he was completely connected with the Beijing circle, with deep brotherly love and sympathy.

Faced with Director Chen who has such momentum, Imperial Film Studio is definitely not willing to stand up to him.

We can only let foreign capital act as a cross-river dragon and offend the Beijing circle.

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Seeing this, Liu Xiaoli simply came up with a cooperation plan acceptable to both parties.

Japanese New Wave Film Company will bear 10%, Teito Film Studio will bear 20%, and Takakura Bunta Studio will bear 70%.

The studio provided 100% of the investment amount, occupied more than 70% of the share of "The King of Jingke Tattoo", and had absolute dominance of the crew.

Imperial Film Studio does not have to pay a penny, but it does have to provide some professional behind-the-scenes personnel, venues and various channels. Imperial Film Studio is also responsible for liaison and occupies 20% of the share.

Japanese New Wave Film Company is responsible for the promotion and distribution work in overseas markets, accounting for 10% of the revenue share.

To put it bluntly, Takakura Bunta paid for it, Teito Film Studio and Japan New Wave Film Company provided resources, "Jing Ke Tattoo King" made money, and the three companies divided the accounts according to 70%, 20%, and 10%.

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Imperial Film Studio must be making money.

They just borrowed resources and publicity channels, but the studio was still responsible for the related expenses, and they got 20% of the profit in vain. Takakura Bunta Studio is not at a loss either.

If Liu Xiaoli's inland operations team were to handle these channels themselves, they would not spend less money and the results might not be good. It would be better to cooperate directly with the Imperial Film Studio.

Not to mention, if we can take this opportunity to make good deals with Imperial Film Studio, it will also be good for the future development of the studio.

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The studio has now signed Zhou Xun and Zhang Ziyi from the Four Dancing Double Bing, as well as Zhang Jingchu and Jiang Qingqing from the Four Tsing Yi, and Liu Qianqian, one of the Four Little Dancing Girls in the 09 edition, who is currently studying in Japan.

According to the studio's plan, these contracted artists will still develop according to the route of the original plane, and then optimize through Takakura Bunta's foresight and entertainment resources to make them develop better.

Liu Xiaoli's proposal was recognized by Imperial Film Studio, which will send relevant leaders to Tokyo, Japan to sign a tripartite contract with Takakura Bunta Studio and Japan's New Wave Film Company.

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As for Kaizi, Wang Biao of the Imperial Film Studio didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup Takakura Bunta poured into Director Chen.

He actually asked the extremely arrogant Kaizi to send a fax back to his country.

He also agreed to publish reports and public announcements in Jiangcheng Evening News, a subsidiary of Hunan Provincial Television Station.

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"Announcement on Kaizi's Retirement from the Cast"

Today, due to health reasons, I had to make a difficult decision - to withdraw from the crew of "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin". The regret and unwillingness in my heart are like turbulent waves, which are difficult to express in words.

"Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" is a work that I have poured my heart and soul into. I know that every character and every scene carries the expectations of countless audiences.

I am deeply sorry for this and would like to express my sincerest apologies to all viewers who were looking forward to this work.

Here, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the crew of "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin". We have gone through ups and downs together and created countless precious memories together.

Your dedication and hard work will always make me proud. I hope you will continue to move forward in the coming days and make this work a masterpiece that will be passed down from generation to generation.

I hope you will go further and further on the road of art, and may "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" become a classic that will be recorded in history forever.

Sincerely Kaizi
————"Jiangcheng Evening News"

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Seeing this statement in "Jiangcheng Evening News", Chinese producer Wang Biao and screenwriter Wang Peigong were overjoyed.

The former is happy that he does not have to worry about retaliation from the Beijing circle, and he can also perform his work as a producer normally.

What the latter is excited about is that, according to the previous agreement, Takakura Bunta Studio will take charge of the crew and adopt an editorial center system for production.

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Film and television works now mainly have three methods: director-centered system, screenwriter-centered system, and producer-centered system. As the name implies, who is the center is who is responsible for the film and television works.

The works of Guoshi and Zheng Xiaolong are representatives of the first category;
Qiong Yao’s works and Hai Yan’s works are representatives of the second category;
The works of Lin Xinru and Chen Sichen are representatives of the third category;

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Since we want to implement the writer-centered system, we need an obedient director.

Liu Xiaoli, head of the studio's inland brokerage team, thought of the student director she invested in...

(End of this chapter)