That year Huayu

Chapter 1058 Ren Zhonglun's words; share division...

Ren Zhonglun, along with his secretary and assistants, rushed directly to Han Sanping as soon as he got off the plane.

Although the main task of this trip to the capital was to discuss the investment share of "Operation Red Sea", in his heart, "Dying to Survive" was also the top priority, and even its status was slightly higher than the former.

Because "Operation Red Sea" was ultimately just a commercial blockbuster with the main theme of the navy, but "Dying to Survive" was different:

Its unparalleled practical significance, the bold breakthrough of the first such film, and its universality and empathy that were destined to be the focus and concern of the whole people...

Once the project was successfully established and filmed, it would inevitably go down in history, and its main creators and producers would remain in the history of film forever and be remembered!

"Operation Red Sea can indeed make Shanghai Film Studio produce a film with great political achievements, but there is nothing to publicize it. After all, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy is the first mainstream commercial film to take the lead;

But Medicine for the God of Medicine is different. As the first genre film in the history of Chinese-language films, the original event even promoted the change and amendment of relevant legal provisions, benefiting everyone in the country;

It can make Shanghai Film Studio eat up the honors and let me finish the last few years of my term in glory. Even if I retire, I will still receive flowers and applause..."

Sitting in the living room of Zuoshan Diao's house, Ren Zhonglun talked nonstop, his tone was excited and excited.

Han Jianu rolled her eyes at this scene. You should talk about business!

Compared with the somewhat impetuous Xiao Han, Lao Han was smiling and happy to watch Ren Zhonglun's "performance".

"So, what did the Magic City say? Did they agree to help?" A moment later, while Ren Zhonglun was holding up the teacup to moisten his throat, Han Sanping asked.

"Yes, Uncle Ren, did they agree? Tell me quickly!"

Listening to Han Sanping's slightly concerned inquiry, and looking at Han Jianu's anxious expression. At this moment, Ren Zhonglun felt so sour in his heart.

"Old Han, for Jianu's movie, I went there for two and a half days in a row; I also met with the leader yesterday afternoon, but it was only ten minutes."

At this point, Ren Zhonglun deliberately stopped, picked up the teacup again and moistened his throat calmly.

"Uncle Ren, come, I'll add some for you." Han Jianu thought she was very "sensible" and picked up the teapot, and Ren Zhonglun nodded with a smile on his face and handed it over.

Han Sanping shook his head speechlessly and said jokingly, "Jia Nu, if they didn't agree, do you think your uncle Ren would have the leisure to act here?"

"Ah?" Han Jianu turned back and looked at her father.

"Hahaha, I knew I couldn't hide it from you, a mountain eagle. I have made such a great effort, can't I let Jianu add a glass of water for me?"

Ignoring the excited little Han classmate who realized it later, Ren Zhonglun continued to sigh and said in a serious and solemn tone:

"Old Han, I don't know how your relationship is here, but I owe a lot of favors to the Magic City.

To be more precise, I don't even have that much favor and face to owe. I am begging for help from above. If there are any instructions from there, we can't hide."

After Ren Zhonglun said this, even Han Jianu, who has always been carefree, was silent. She knew very well how heavy the subtext contained in these words was, very heavy!

"Well, I know, I understand what you mean." Han Sanping nodded again.

"Well, it's good to know."

The living room became quiet, with only the intermittent sound of adding tea and pouring water, and the topic was also far away.

After a long time, Ren Zhonglun looked at the time and was about to get up and leave. He had to do something else.

When the father and daughter sent him out of the villa, Ren Zhonglun stepped into the car with one foot, he hesitated again, stepped out, and then whispered to Han Sanping in a low voice:

"When I left the city government yesterday, the publicity person seemed to joke with me casually: If the film successfully obtains the filming permit, I hope Director Lin Nan can do his best to shoot the best."

It was not until the car drove out of sight that Han Sanping looked at Han Jianu as if nothing had happened. The latter was happily sending messages on her mobile phone.

"Jia Nu, your uncle Ren and I will co-produce this time, and you can go to be Lin Nan's assistant director again, screenwriter and assistant director."

...

After working at Tiangong Color for a whole morning, Lin Nan did not go to the company in the afternoon, but went to Guangguang.

Wang Baoqiang strongly invited him to watch the post-production of "A Chinese Odyssey: Part Two", and the meaning behind his words was very clear, that is, his personal affairs would never affect his work.

Lin Nan was embarrassed to say polite words to refuse the other party, and secondly, he also had sympathy, so he agreed.

But to be honest, from the perspective of a professional director, Lin Nan was not optimistic about "A Chinese Odyssey: Part Two", which was why he invested in the name of Shanhai Media.

Similarly, Director Lin was still not optimistic about the post-production editing of the small clips of "A Chinese Odyssey: Part Two" that had been completed; well, he was not optimistic about Wang Baoqiang, because the script, which was the foundation of the movie, was very bad from the beginning.

But, just treat it as a comedy like "The Breakup Master" and "Bad Angels". After all, Lin Nan originally just wanted to invest in Wang Baoqiang, not in "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 2".

"The woman hid her two children. School has started now, but the children didn't register at all. She just went to the court this morning, hoping to use the power of justice to get the person to be handed over. , let the children go to school.”

Wang Changtian smacked his lips and sighed in a low voice. As for Wang Baoqiang, he has once again devoted himself to post-editing work.

"It fits his character. He hasn't studied much, but he pays special attention to his children."

Lin Nan smiled and said firmly. As a very traditional person from a rural area, Wang Baoqiang’s weakness was taken advantage of, namely, children!

"You may not understand what I mean, I mean he is really powerful and his ability to withstand pressure is terrifying."

"Huh?" Lin Nan was a little confused.

"It seems like he has been diagnosed with a bad disease in the past two days..."

Wang Changtian glanced at Lin Nan and clicked on. This topic was indeed a bit heavy, and neither of them wanted to continue discussing it.

"Let's talk about the release. There are only three weeks left before the release of "The Murderer"." Lin Nan changed the topic.

"Don't worry, the light will give you the maximum distribution. But you have to be mentally prepared. After all, Cao Baoping's film is not a commercial film in the traditional sense..."

Lin Nan nodded, he understood the meaning of these words. That is to say, don’t have too high expectations for the box office.

"Operation Red Sea has been decided?" Wang Changtian is still determined to be evil.

"I'll make sure tomorrow morning. If you don't have anything else to do here, I'll go back, right?" As he spoke, Lin Nan sat up.

"Are you afraid that I will speak again?" Lao Wang immediately lost his temper.

"I'm a little scared, so don't worry about it. It's hard to say how much share our company can get this time."

Lin Nan didn't mean to deceive Wang Changtian. The investment amount in "Operation Red Sea" will be very high, especially in the loss of military equipment. As for the specific distribution of the shares, it depends on what the maritime affairs department says tomorrow morning.

In the outside world, movies to be released in September are all undergoing their final promotional sprint.

In the early part of the month, there was "Yangtze River Pictures" which just won the "Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution" in Berlin this year;

In the middle of the year, there will be movies such as "Westward Journey 3", "July and Ansheng", "Anti-Corruption Storm 2", China Film's "This War of Mine" and "The Murderer";

In the second half of the year, there are several commercial films that have clear goals and are rushing to the National Day schedule, namely: "Passing Through Your World", "Grand Trail"...

At first glance, the domestic film market in September seems to be quite promising, but what it actually looks like is another story for another day. In short, Lin Nan Pictures has one and a half movies to be released.

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"Lin Nan, hurry up. Director Guo and Director Lu have been waiting for you for a long time."

Hearing this, Lin Nan looked at the little meat bun in his hand, and then looked up at Liu Yifei, who kept urging him in front of him with a "nothing to do with me" look. He just wanted to ask: "How do you have the nerve to rush me?" ?”

"Haha, don't be in a hurry. You two can eat slowly. It's only nine o'clock now."

Lu Yang sat there and joked with a smile, and Guo Fan lowered his head, trying not to laugh out loud.

The two of them were called by Hai Zheng to go to the film bureau with Lin Nan today, so they ran excitedly to join Lin Nan early in the morning; but the reality was that the two of them found that they had arrived early.

As for how early? When we got here at 8:30, Director Lin was still sleeping, well, so was Producer Liu!

Then, Liu Xiaoli embarrassedly arranged for the two of them to have another breakfast, while she turned around and entered the villa... and "smashed" the door.

"It's not in a hurry. On occasions like this, we don't talk about business until after 11 o'clock. At least until lunch time, and then finalize it at the dinner table. Well, this is the unspoken rule of entertaining other units in the system... …The same goes for entertaining Hai Zheng!”

Lin Nan said with great certainty that he had rich experience in this matter because he had eaten there so many times in the bureau.

Not long after, Lin Nan set off with Guo Fan and Lu Yang. After watching several cars leave, Liu Yifei turned around and entered the yard.

"Sissi, the company assistant's phone number is Bazaar's business again..."

News of the official opening of the Venice International Film Festival was also spread back to China when Lin Nan and others arrived at the film bureau and appeared online.

It's still the same, there is no Chinese-language film in the main competition section, and in other sections there are only two inconspicuous Chinese-language films "Where Are You" and "Bitter Money" that entered the screening section and the horizon section.

Generally speaking, at this Venice International Film Festival, Chinese-language films have almost no participation.

But for a large number of domestic actors and stars, this doesn't matter; although they have no works, this does not affect them in the least from competing for beauty there, taking photos, making videos, and issuing press releases...

When they were brought to the conference room, Lin Nan and the other three heard Zhang Hongsen complaining about this matter:

It is said that the reputation of domestic actors and stars who have not been shortlisted for film works in major foreign film festivals is getting worse and worse;

Even foreign media are reporting that there is a business specifically targeting Chinese celebrities, that is, selling “red carpet tickets” – buy a ticket and walk on the red carpet!

To this end, there are foreign professional teams operating this business during the film festival, including but not limited to: pretending to be media personnel to conduct interviews, pretending to be foreign fans or moviegoers to enhance the atmosphere, acting...

In short, it is a full set of services that allows these Chinese celebrities to send out enough press releases to deceive domestic fans and netizens!

"Lin Nan, you three have finally arrived." Tong Gang greeted with a smile.

"Hello, leaders. It shouldn't be too late now, it's not even 11 o'clock yet." Lin Nan responded with a smile.

The conference room was still filled with the same people as five days ago, namely: Tong Gang, Zhang Hongsen, and the three from Hai Zheng, as well as Han Sanping, Ren Zhonglun, and La Peikang.

"Director Lin Nan, Director Guo Fan, Director Lu Yang, please sit down quickly. Let's take a break and let's get down to business."

The head of Haizheng smiled and nodded, pointing to the side.

After ten minutes of brief greetings, everyone sat around the conference table.

I saw the deputy on the left side of the chief of maritime affairs, opening the document bag in front of him and distributing information one by one to everyone present; the focus was on Lin Nan, La Peikang and Ren Zhonglun, because the three were "Operation Red Sea" co-producer.

"The maritime administration has a dedicated team to prepare the budget, and the navy also provides help. This is what you see now:

The military equipment cost budget involved in "Operation Red Sea" is around 200 million, which is already the lowest cost within the budget.

This expenditure cannot be given away for free by the Navy, because every account of the army must be clear; and this "Operation Red Sea" not only requires the dispatch of a large number of naval officers and soldiers, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, It is even more necessary to dispatch a formation with the Type 054A guided missile frigate Linyi as the core. In addition, there is also the loss of artillery shells... Military expenditures are not a trivial matter!

In addition, all filming and post-production expenses, as well as actors' remuneration, director, producer, supervisor's remuneration, etc., plus the crew's expenses for more than half a year, are tentatively set at 300 million.

In the end, the total budget of "Operation Red Sea" is tentatively set at 500 million! Take a look, you should have no objections, right? "

In such a large-scale battle, even a formation of missile frigates is out. Who can say that 500 million is expensive? It’s really not expensive, so cheap!

“This 500 million budget gives people a feeling of great value for money, as it should be!

Unlike some movies, the cost is very high, such as "The Ferryman" with an investment of 400 million, "Legend of the Gods" with an investment of 500 million... One day another movie will come out with an investment of 1 billion, but in real comparison, they are really worth it. So much money? Comparing it with the lineup and budget of "Operation Red Sea", doesn't it feel like everyone is selling stolen goods? Ha ha……"

Lin Nan joked unscrupulously, and everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard it.

"You can just joke about it in private, but don't say it when you go out. If you say this in your status, the impact will be too great." Tong Gang pointed at Lin Nan and cursed angrily with a smile.

"What Tong Ju said is true, but what Director Lin Nan said is not unreasonable. Nowadays, the film and television industry is really tricky when it comes to production costs. It can cost hundreds of millions, but in fact there is not much!"

The head of Haizheng said ambiguously. After all, Haizheng is responsible for the navy's publicity and construction work. It has its own production work and is more or less a unit in the film and television industry.

"Okay, let's not go further off topic. Now let's discuss the specific division of shares. The cost of military equipment will be borne by the maritime administration.

In addition, all procedures abroad and communication with relevant parties will be handled by the navy. Only 40% will be retained for maritime affairs, and the remaining 60% will be divided among the three of you. "

As soon as the head of Hai Zheng finished speaking, Lin Nan, Ren Zhonglun and La Peikang looked at each other subconsciously; Hai Zheng was very generous, because his first purpose was to make a good film of "Operation Red Sea", not to make money. The former gave Lin Nan three parties benefits to a great extent!

"Then let's divide it equally? Lin Nan, La Dong?"

Ren Zhonglun was the first to speak, which could be regarded as setting the tone. Because La Peikang was given the upper hand, this meant that it was difficult for him to have any objections, and it was also difficult for him to eat and occupy more.

"I have no objection, 20% is pretty good." Lin Nan nodded immediately, while Guo Fan and Lu Yang listened while reading the documents.

"China Film has no objection either." La Peikang followed closely and responded.

In just a few minutes, the specific investment shares of the four major producers were determined for "Operation Red Sea" with a budget of 500 million.

"Zhang Ju, are you sure the script will be released tomorrow?" the head of Hai Zheng asked Zhang Hongsen.

"No problem, I'll watch it myself."

"Well, after the script is released tomorrow, we will immediately open the casting to the entire industry. I'd like to trouble directors Guo Fan and Lu Yang, and auditions will start on the 10th at the latest.

We also hope that Director Lin Nan can keep an eye on the scene. We know that Director Lin is currently busy with the post-production of the film, but he is close enough that he should be able to keep an eye on it. In addition, Hai Zheng will also send people there, I hope Lin Nan Pictures can make arrangements..."

"There is no problem with the audition on the 10th. We will send out the joint announcement tomorrow. I think there will be a sensation in the industry."

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"With the lineup of producers, behind-the-scenes production, and investment scale of "Operation Red Sea," how could it not be a sensation in the industry? It's absolutely lively..."

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"Then it will be held in the large conference room on the third floor of Lin Nan Pictures, because this time it is completely conceivable that there will definitely be too many actors from the industry to come to audition, haha..."

Lin Nan followed Guo Fan, Lu Yang, Han Sanping and others, smiling and nodding in agreement.

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As expected, everyone was left by the film bureau to entertain lunch at noon.

At the dinner table, the head of the maritime administration once again talked about the "rhythm" issue of "Operation Red Sea";

That is to say, after the audition and casting are completed, they will rest for a few days, maybe a week at most, and then all the creative staff of the crew will have to go out with the Navy to officially start military training, including the sea part and the land part.

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