China Entertainment: I just want to give my child a home

Chapter 44 Sister Hua cuts off Hu and invests in "Stone"

On August 8, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival announced the shortlist of participating films.

As expected by Chen Dong, "Those Years" only received a few nominations for minor awards.

Zhong Lifang really no longer has any illusions.

Zhou Yi began to prepare for next year's TV series project and invited Chen Dong over the phone to discuss specific investments.

He didn't go and declined on the grounds that he was busy with the later stages of the movie, but he let Zhong Lifeng go to Qiong Province.

Zhong Lifang brought back three TV drama projects, namely "Phantom Needle", "Wine to the Blue Sky" and "Li Wei Resigns".

Dongcheng Pictures has the investment rights to Zhouyi's two TV series, but it does not necessarily have to choose from these three TV series.

"Just vote for "Li Wei Resigns". This TV series is the sequel to "Li Wei Resigns". Even if the ratings are not as popular as the first one, it won't be too bad. At least you won't have to worry about selling it, and you will definitely make money without losing money."

Zhong Lifang's first choice was also "Li Wei Resigns", "This way we have one investment left. Does Director Chen plan to wait?"

"Yes, Zhou Yi has TV drama projects every year anyway, so there is no need to rush."

Having said this, Chen Dong paused, looked up at Zhong Lifang and asked: "In this "Li Wei Resigns", Zhou Yi plans to use only their own people?"

Zhong Lifang smiled: "Isn't this always Zhouyi's style? Their TV series rarely use outsiders... But if Director Chen wants to recruit people, I think Jiang Xuezhen will probably not refuse."

Cyprus?
  Chen Dong does have a few close friends, such as Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin, Zhou Yang... For them, who are about to be in their junior year, "Li Wei Resigns" produced by Zhou Yi is undoubtedly their daily contact Great resources that are not available to anyone.

But no matter how good the relationship is, even if they are not relatives, Chen Dong will not get involved in his favor for them.

unless……

He looked at Zhong Lifang, "How prepared is the company's artist economy?"

Zhong Lifang was startled, but then she seemed to have guessed what Chen Dong meant. After considering it for two seconds, she replied: "If Director Chen doesn't sign many people, I can also temporarily act as an agent."

Chen Dong thought it was okay, "Let's do this. I'll ask first and let you know later."

With that said, he took out his mobile phone.

The first one was called Zhu Yawen...

"Hey Dongzi, are you looking for a buddy?"

"Yawen, have you signed with an economic company?" Chen Dong got straight to the point without saying any nonsense.

"Signed."

"Signed? Come on, you concealed it pretty well, but I didn't know anything about it."

Chen Dong was indeed a little surprised.

"Hey, who told Director Chen to take care of everything every day?"

"Who are you kidding...which company did you sign with?"

"Huayi is owned by Sister Hua."

"That's not bad. Congratulations. Remember to treat us another day."

"Fuck, you are so rich and you want to eat from me, how shameless are you?"

"Ha ha……"

After chatting with this guy for five minutes, he hung up the phone and Chen Dong muttered to himself:
  "Hua Yi started very quickly."

Soon, he called Luo Jin again.

"What, you also signed to Huayi? Who is your agent?"

"Miss Hua."

"...It's okay. Oh, by the way, congratulations, remember to treat us to dinner later."

Then I called Zhou Yang and got the same result.

"Damn it, Sister Hua, are you trying to pry me into the corner?" There was still Jiang Yiyan left. After thinking about it, Chen Dong decided to forget it. If Sister Hua left this for him, would he sign it or not? ?
  In fact, this is fine. As for friendship, it’s better not to mix too many things into it.

At the end of August, Sister Na polished the script of "Stone" seven or eight times before Ning Hao contacted him.

This was the first time that Chen Dong came to the couple's home. It was much easier to find than the place where Huang Bo lived.

"Hey, Brother Bo is here too."

Xing Aina smiled and joked: "Ever since he knew that he could play the lead role in "Stones", he has called me every now and then."

"I was familiar with the script in advance, but it didn't happen as often as Xiaona said, okay? Haozi would have misunderstood."

Ning Hao answered, "If you were like Director Chen, I might still be worried."

Huang Bo was unhappy, "My appearance is only a little bit worse than Director Chen's."

"It's probably 100 million points, hahaha."

After the excitement, the room quickly became quiet.

Only the sound of Chen Dong reading the script was left.

Because he was familiar with the story, Chen Dong read it very quickly. Within ten minutes, he rubbed his brows and put down the script.

"How's it going? Is there anything else that needs to be modified?" Xing Aina asked impatiently.

"The script is perfect, Sister Na put her heart into it!"

Xing Aina smiled. She had indeed put a lot of effort into polishing this script in the past few months.

Chen Dong turned to look at Ning Hao: "Have you made a budget?"

Ning Hao nodded: "Four to five million, I am confident that I can make it."

Chen Dong nodded, this was pretty much what he expected.

"Let's take it as five million."

"Haha, thank you very much, Director Chen." As a director, Ning Hao of course hopes to invest as much as possible, otherwise the filming of his movie will not be successful.

"Then, do you bad monkeys want to invest some of the five million?" Chen Dong felt that if he eats meat, he will get some soup for others, otherwise how can he cooperate in the future?

Ning Hao and Xing Aina looked at each other. It was obvious that they had discussed this issue before.

"Forget it, after the failure of "Incense" that I invested in last time, I basically have no money in my pocket... Of course, I am not saying that I am not optimistic about "Stone". The main reason is that if I invest by myself, I will have too many concerns. Worrying about this and worrying about that, the final result will definitely not be as good as just being a director."

"Your reason... OK, since you have thought about it, I won't persuade you too much. Dongcheng Pictures will invest all of the five million. If I am not in the company, Director Ning will ask you to sign the contract with Zhong Lifang later. I will greet her in advance."

"Haha, okay. By the way, Director Chen, do you have any actors you would like to recommend?"

Chen Dong smiled and said, "Didn't I recommend my brother Bo to you?"

"As for the other actors, you are the director and you have to decide what to do."

"Haha, that's a good relationship. It would be great if all investors were as easy to talk to as Director Chen." Ning Hao said with some emotion. He seemed to be a person with a story.

"I'm also a director, haha."

As for him being easy to talk to?

His company doesn't have any artists yet, so of course it's easy to talk to him.

The next day, Ning Hao and Xing Aina came to Dongcheng Pictures and signed a contract.

On the same day, the script is sent to the General Administration for filing. Once it is reviewed, the project can be officially approved, actors can be found, and filming can begin...

Entering September, the post-processing of "The Tuner" was finally completed.

Chen Dong sent invitations to watch the film to all five investors.

"China Film, Shanghai Film, Bona, and Jiang Wen walked into Dongcheng Pictures together. The post-production of "The Tuner" suspected to be directed by Chen Dong has been completed. We look forward to the film's early release!"

(End of this chapter)