Chapter 295 New nickname: “The Money-Giving Boy”!
“Hello, Director Zhang!”

“Brother Jin…”

“Just call me Chen Jin…”

“Director Meng!”

“…”

Chen Jin met Meng Jinghui, Zhang Yibai and their group at the entrance of the Film Science Institute. They were pretty much the same as he remembered them.

These people are actually very special in this circle because they graduated from the Central Academy of Drama. Zhang Yibai started early and has a good relationship with several film and television companies in the capital; others are not so lucky.

To put it bluntly, in this circle, you have to prove that you have the ability to sell out before investors will work with you.

Meng Jinghui is a great drama director and has also dabbled in the film industry, making a movie called “Fly Like Chicken Feathers”, which won numerous awards at home and abroad, but it flopped at the box office and he has never ventured into the industry again since then.

If he can’t make a living from this, then he can focus on stage plays. Currently, he is in various drama clubs, big and small, in the country, and is like a god of wealth.

As long as his plays are there, he will make money.

Zhang Yang, who graduated from the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama, had won several international A-class awards for his films before, but after the box office failure of “Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots”, he was also unable to get investment.

This movie grossed 2200 million and had a very good reputation. It was even shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival, mainly because Zhao Benshan demonstrated his best performance in the film.

But his personal salary was 2000 million, so the total investment amount was as high as 5000 million!
Facts have proved that Zhao Benshan has a huge number of fans across the country, but he is still a failure in movie theaters and does not have much box office appeal.

Therefore, the real strength of movie stars is that they can bring in the box office themselves.

Better than many so-called best actor and actress.

Ultimately, capital still depends on whether you can make money.

Zhang Yang had no other choice but to co-produce a movie called “Over the Roof” with Beijing Film Academy’s Qingying Studio last year in order to save costs. He even used his father’s reputation to invite Wu Tianming, Xu Huanshan and other older Beijing Film Academy directors and artists… Chen Jin also wanted to audition at that time.

It should be almost finished filming, the leading actors are all talented.

If this movie does not perform well at the box office, Zhang Yang will have almost no chance of making a comeback.

Capital can give you a chance to fail, but it won’t give you a second chance.

Chen Jin had seen the box office of “Over the Hood” in her future autobiographical film, which was only a pitiful few million. The word of mouth was also very good, but without a screening and the market’s lack of recognition, it was useless no matter how well it was filmed.

In the next 10 years, China’s film market was actually very distorted.

Many bad movies can get high box office by relying on marketing and the success of the leading actors; however, many directors who work diligently to make excellent films cannot be welcomed by the market at all because they cannot promote their films.

The fact that bad money drives out good money was proven time and time again in the next 10 years.

Capital only seeks to make a profit. Even if your film is bad, as long as you make money, you are a good director.

Under this unhealthy trend, movies have become more and more focused on marketing and traffic, and ultimately… have suffered a backlash.

Chen Jin really wants to change this situation, but a person’s ability is really limited.

Fortunately, it is only 2011 now, and it is not too late; Chen Jin wants to make a name for himself with film science, at least to gain market recognition.

As for the last director, Shi Runjiu.

This is the worst.

Music MVs are getting worse year by year, and masters are gradually becoming scraps.

So it seems that everyone in Honghu Studio is talented, but except for Zhang Yibai, everyone is actually not doing well in the film industry; on the other hand, Chen Jin is currently the hottest star in the film industry.

All three films were huge hits at the box office, with two breaking Chinese-language box office records.

The recent release of “Life Events” has already broken many records for art films. This is real achievement.

In addition to the title of Venice Film Festival Best Actor, many people in the industry actually want to work with Chen Jin.

Since he took the initiative to contact everyone through Cai Shangjun, Zhang Yibai and the others obviously wanted to get to know him.

After exchanging pleasantries at the door for a while, they walked into the meeting room together.

Guo Xun was also called over by Chen Jin.

In fact, there is another person in film science who cannot be ignored by the outside world – Zhang Yimou.

With Zhang Weiping’s imprisonment, Zhang Yimou is now branded by the outside world as a contracted director of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, which is also a golden signboard.

Zhang Yimou has never explained anything. When people say that he is working for Chen Jin, he has never refuted it.

It is precisely because of these reasons that Dianke’s influence in this circle is increasing.

As the boss, Chen Jin is of course even more special.

“I grew up watching TV series directed by Director Bai. When I was a kid, I watched “Love Is War” on TV every day!”

“I was probably 7 or 8 years old at that time, and I thought Xu Jinglei’s Wen Hui was really beautiful!”

Chen Jin said to Zhang Yibai, whose hair was a little sparse.

Zhang Yibai smiled a little: “Now I have to call Director Xu!”

“Haha, the only female director in China with a box office of over 100 million!”

“Director Xu is still capable, and his transition to filmmaking was very successful!”

“I heard that she has also switched to Weibo? She used to be the queen of blogs, with tens of millions of fans…”

Everyone started chatting about the same topic.

In this circle, the topics of conversation are nothing more than women, movies, and gossip. Xu Jinglei brought her own topics, and everyone started with her and continued talking about the current film market, marketing, and so on.

“Weibo will definitely be the battlefield for movie marketing in the future!”

“I read a lot of film reviews, which are more professional than Douban!”

“Many film critics have also opened accounts…”

“Director Tian’s film ‘Life Events’ is really well made, and it has received full marks online. I will go and show my support when I have time!”

Zhang Yibai said to Meng Jinghui beside him.

Meng Jinghui is not very interested in movies. His main purpose of coming here is to cooperate with Chen Jin.

Although he makes money from performing plays, he just opened a studio a few years ago. In addition to promoting his own plays, he also distributes plays.

Yes, plays also need to be distributed, which means scheduling with theaters across the country.

Chen Jin’s stage play “China in Poetry” has been very popular recently. He wants to cooperate with China Electronics Technology Group Corporation to see if he can promote it in other places. It will definitely be a profitable business.

When it comes to making money, no one will complain about it being too little.

It was Zhang Yang who was the calmest among all the people present.

His new movie “Old People’s Home” has just finished filming, and he came here just to get to know Chen Jin. Maybe he will need investment in the future; and Zhang Yibai and several others all have their own ulterior motives.

Even Cai Shangjun and Diao Yinan, who had been silent the whole time, actually had their own plans in mind.

In the end, it was Chen Jin who took the initiative to bring up the topic.

“Director 100, youth films are very popular recently, are you interested in making one?”

As soon as Chen Jin said this, everyone looked at him.

“I think everyone has heard about the movie ‘Those Years’ which was just released in Taiwan. If nothing goes wrong, the mainland will definitely introduce it!”

“In fact, when Love Is Not Blind was released last year, I felt that this type of movie was very popular in the market. Director Yibai, have you done market research on the movie Future? It should be watched by young people, right?”

Chen Jin glanced at Zhang Yibai, who hummed, “Yes, actually I want to make one too, and I’ve been looking for a script recently!”

Zhang Yibai really wanted to take a photo.

“I’m older now, not as good as before…”

The most important thing is that when you are not successful, you can rack your brains to prove yourself and write an outstanding script yourself, and you can also discuss it with the people in front of you.

Make the script more exciting.

But now, firstly, I don’t have the energy, and secondly, it is better to buy a mature script or copyright than to write it myself, which is more convenient and cost-effective.

This is also the reason why Honghu Studio fell apart.

They no longer have the original creative passion they had. After living a good life for a long time, they may not be able to write about the love life of ordinary people.

“I saw a novel a few days ago, and I think it’s suitable for adaptation!” “It’s called ‘Fleeting Time’, and I have the copyright, but Lao Guo doesn’t want to make a romance film anymore. Is Director 100 interested in filming it?”

The original timeline of this novel was directed by Zhang Yibai.

During this period of time, Chen Jin has asked Chen Kai to hoard copyrights. As long as there are popular TV series, movies, etc. in the movie library, or novels on the market, Chen Jin is ready to buy them.

In this way, some directors may come to you in person.

It’s just like when Chen Jin bought “Love Is Not Blind”.

“Fleeting Time?”

“I’ll go read the original novel later!”

Zhang Yibai heard the willingness to cooperate in Chen Jin’s words, and the other people were obviously also tempted.

Shi Runjiu, who had been silent the whole time, said, “Brother Jin, are you interested in investing in the documentary?”

“Ha ha!”

Everyone laughed.

Due to the recent downturn in MVs, Lao Shi switched to shooting documentaries.

This has a low cost, but there is actually a market for it, and many TV stations and video websites will purchase it.

“Of course I’m interested in documentaries!”

“But I have a music video that I would like to ask Director Shi to shoot…”

Obviously, Chen Jin didn’t call these people here to sit and chat. In fact, he already had a prepared speech in mind.

Shi Runjiu thought he had heard it wrong: “MV?”

There are still people who want to shoot this kind of thing these days. He made the transition because he failed to make MVs.

“Are you going to record a record?”

Shi Runjiu looked at Chen Jin. It was not impossible for someone with this appearance to cross over to record a single DEMO. It was also a normal operation in the industry. Many actors liked to release a record when they had nothing to do.

But shooting a MV is a bit costly!
The cheap ones start at hundreds of thousands, and the good ones can easily cost millions. Jay Chou’s MVs sometimes invite well-known artists, so the price is even higher.

“It’s not me, it’s the theme song of my movie!”

“I’ll provide the material, and you can help shoot it…”

“Haha, Lao Shi, you’re back to life!”

Zhang Yang patted Shi Runjiu’s shoulder, and everyone looked at him. Obviously, they didn’t expect that he could cooperate with Chen Jin?

“Okay, okay, thank you, boss!”

Shi Runjiu grinned. Of course he would not refuse the opportunity to earn some extra money.

“It has to be filmed well!”

“This MV is very important and needs to be promoted all over the Internet!”

Chen Jin said it seriously, Shi Runjiu was a little surprised and asked: “Who is the singer?”

“Wang Fei!”

When Chen Jin said this, not only Shi Runjiu, but also Zhang Yibai who was standing next to him was stunned. Obviously, he didn’t expect that Chen Jin could let Wang Fei sing the theme song for his movie?

This guy, did he learn from me?

The theme song of Zhang Yibai’s “Will Love” is “Because of Love” sung by Wang Fei and Eason Chan. This song was very popular at the time and was also a major selling point for the box office of “Will Love”.

“Director One Hundred, this is my tribute!”

Guo Xun laughed at the side, and Zhang Yibai shook his head helplessly: “It seems that my unique killer move has been stolen by you!”

“Ha ha!”

Everyone laughed.

This is certainly not a big problem. This theme song + romance movie routine actually originated from Hollywood.

Zhang Yibai also learned from others.

But he was able to invite Wang Fei, which some people could not; so Zhang Yibai was a little surprised that Chen Jin could invite such a big shot.

“It’s the Queen’s MV!”

“Say earlier…”

Shi Runjiu clicked his tongue twice, not because he thought Wang Fei was a big shot.

But Dou Wei had a very good relationship with him, and he was the one who shot the Black Panther band’s original MVs.

He also knows Dou Peng, and the MV of “Because of Love” is also his work.

In other words, he is very familiar with Wang Fei.

“Because you have worked together before, I thought it should go a lot more smoothly!”

“Ok, then I will definitely take good pictures!”

Shi Runjiu now perked up.

The MV also depends on the singer. For someone like Wang Fei, it is definitely not cheap, and he has no shortage of traffic, so it is also a kind of promotion for him as a director.

“Lao Diao——”

Cai Shangjun winked at Diao Yinan. At this moment, Chen Jin was chatting harmoniously with everyone.

If you submit a script or something at this time, there is a high probability that Chen Jin will not refuse it.

Even if she didn’t want to take the photo, Chen Jin would not embarrass Diao Yinan in front of everyone.

Diao Yinan understood what he meant, but he was very nervous about social anxiety!
He rubbed his hands under the stage, finally gritted his teeth, and suddenly said to Chen Jin: “Brother Jin, I wrote a book…”

“Oh?”

Chen Jin looked at him. In fact, everyone knew about Diao Yinan’s script because they had all read it and discussed it together.

But to put it nicely, it took a long time to polish it, but in reality, no one was optimistic about it, so it took so long to polish it.

Many screenwriters in the industry are accustomed to using this excuse.

What about the script that took several years to write? That’s all bullshit; the story is created in a moment of inspiration and has little to do with the length of time. A script can take a few months at most.

As time went by, the stories became fragmented.

“Okay, did you bring it?”

When Chen Jin said this, Diao Yinan was obviously very excited and hurriedly took out a not-too-thick script from the computer bag beside him.

And it is brand new, you can tell it was just printed.

“This… Actually, you can also send it by email!”

Chen Jin smiled, took it, and subconsciously glanced at the cover.

The four characters above are very strong.

“Fireworks in the Daytime”!
Chen Jin’s heart skipped a beat, but he remained calm and said, “Director Diao, the name of your script is very literary…”

“It just suddenly occurred to me. I think the name is good, so I wrote it down first!”

Diao Yinan clenched his fists shyly, and his breathing was actually a little rapid.

“Okay, I’ll give you an answer within three days!”

“About how many are needed?”

Chen Jin looked at Diao Yinan with such sincerity that not only Diao Yinan himself, but also Cai Shangjun was somewhat moved.

It’s rare to find such respectful investors these days!
Zhang Yibai and the others standing nearby were actually quite surprised.

Is this guy a rich second generation?
Like a boy giving away money!

(End of this chapter)