Li Man didn't expect to meet Zhang Ran in Hengdian. She wanted to come over and say hello, but she was worried that Zhang Ran would ignore her. A few days ago, Zhang Weiping sent her withdrawal to the newspaper and said she wanted to sue Zhang Ran. She felt that Zhang Ran would definitely be very angry, so she looked at Zhang Ran for a long time and didn't know what to do.

At this moment, when he heard Zhang Ran's words, Li Man bit his lip, walked over, and stood in front of Zhang Ran with his head down, as if he had made a mistake in the child: "Zhang, Teacher Zhang."

Zhang Ran said lightly: "I thought you wouldn't know me if you became a Mu girl!"

Li Man smiled awkwardly. Teacher Zhang seemed to be really angry and quickly explained: "Teacher Zhang, I'm afraid you will be angry and dare not come over! Those words Zhang Weiping said really have nothing to do with me. I have never thought about it that way."

Zhang Ran snorted: "Am I that stingy? Besides, I'm not stupid. Zhang Weiping's actions are obviously hype. Forget it, the movie has been on the film for two months. How are you doing the film?"

Seeing that Zhang Ran was not angry, Li Man breathed a sigh of relief: "It feels good, it's quite interesting. It's very troublesome to get hair. It's the kind of hair in the palace. You will know it when you see it. There are many hairpins that look like little stars. It's not easy to wear them well. It takes half an hour to just insert them."

Zhang Ran nodded slightly: "Will you have a show tomorrow?"

Li Man nodded: "I will have my show tomorrow night. Teacher Zhang, will you come and see it?"

Zhang Ran said, "I must see how you act so as not to lose my people."

Li Man spitted out his tongue. There was a particularly difficult scene in the remaining drama. She had always been worried. Now when she heard Zhang Ran coming over, the stone in her heart fell to the ground. She laughed: "Thank you, Teacher Zhang!"

After Li Man left, Zhang Ran shook his head and continued to move forward with the members of the creative team.

The group soon arrived at the Qingming Shanghetu Scenic Area. When they walked into the gate, they saw the river winding from east to west through the city. The river water was clear and sparkling. The willow trees on the river bank were shaded, the breeze was blowing, dancing gracefully, and fish were flocking in the river, which was vividly visible, and the bridges were unique and spectacular. There were buildings everywhere, flying pavilions and flowing eaves, and the colors were dazzling and breathtaking.

The entire scenic spot, Qingming Shanghetu, is based on film and television shooting, and is very realistic. Walking on the street gives people a distant feeling of traveling through time and space and getting closer to history.

Zhang Jigang proposed a creativity based on "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". The ground showed the picture of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" through LEDs, and then the ground cracked and a bridge rose up. The actors danced on the bridge. Everyone thought this idea was OK, but it was not particularly outstanding, especially Zhang Ran and Han Lixun thought that Yi Zhongtian's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" reality show was interesting.

However, Han Lixun thinks the scroll is a very interesting Chinese symbol. Maybe he can make a fuss on the scroll, but he has no idea how to express it.

It was almost six o'clock when we came out of the Shanghetu Scenic Area in Qingming. Everyone felt hungry, so they walked into a restaurant under Zhang Ran.

After a meal, Zhang Ran asked the waiter to go to the private room to check out.

There was also a middle-aged fat man with a rosy face who looked like the boss. He said politely: "Welcome to the shop to have a meal, and today I will give you 20% off."

Everyone was very surprised: "There is such a good thing?"

The fat white man smiled and said, "Yes, but I have a ruthless request." After saying that, he looked at Zhang Ran and the others and said, "If I read it correctly, this is director Zhang Ran, this is director Zhang Jigang, and director Chen Weiya. You are the people of the opening ceremony team. I am a sports enthusiast and pay special attention to the Olympics. If you can come to the shop, it is really a blessing. I wonder if you can take a photo with you?"

This was not a big deal, and the other party was also a spectator who was paying attention to the Olympics, so Zhang Ran and the others agreed with a smile.

The fat white man was overjoyed and immediately asked someone to bring the camera, and then stood with Zhang Ran and the others.

After the "click" sound, the fat white man excitedly walked out of the room with his camera, and then ordered: "Rinse it out quickly, frame it and hang it in the hall!"

In almost every restaurant owner in Hengdian can report a large number of well-known customer names. Bosses with marketing acumen like to hang their signature photos of celebrities on the wall to attract customers.

This is a major feature of Hengdian. Fans do not need to go to the set of the crew to chase stars. As long as they are guarding the restaurant, even at the food stall or even in front of the stall selling shredded radish cakes, they can meet several stars. Those who sit at the next table to eat are either the male protagonists of the current popular TV series or the well-known director with a box office of over 100 million yuan. Of course, you also need to keep your eyes wide open, because they usually face the sky when eating, and if they don’t look carefully, they may regard them as passers-by.

Back at the hotel, Zhang Ran turned on the TV and watched the news for a few minutes, and then wanted to have the creativity of the opening ceremony.

When it was almost nine o'clock, a knock came suddenly. Zhang Ran opened the door and saw that it was Jiang Ziqiang, the boss of Xiangjiang Anle. He knew that Jiang Ziqiang had a good relationship with Zhang Yimou, and it should be Zhang Yimou who told Jiang Ziqiang that he was here. He smiled and said, "Boss Jiang, why are you here? Come, please come in quickly!"

Jiang Ziqiang followed Zhang Ran into the room, sat down on the sofa, looked at Zhang Ran and said, "Zhang Ran, I came here because I wanted to ask you if I had something to do!"

Zhang Ran said without comment: "Don't know what?"

In the past, Zhang Ran had no distribution ability, and almost all copyrights in the entire Southeast Asian region were sold to Jiang Ziqiang. But now it is different. He acquired Jiahe and has strong distribution capabilities in Xiangjiang and even the entire Southeast Asian region. The movie must be distributed by himself and will not sell the copyright to Jiang Ziqiang again. If Jiang Ziqiang came for this, he would not agree.

Jiang Ziqiang said directly: "That's right. This year's New Year holiday includes your two movies "Wreak City" and "Crazy Travel". These two movies collided with "Golden Armor". I came here just to negotiate the schedule with you."

Zhang Ran pulled his face and said, "Boss Jiang, this is my business with Zhang Weiping. You should not interfere!"

Jiang Ziqiang said helplessly: "Zhang Ran, you are wrong. "Golden Armor" is a movie that we Anle mainly invested in."

Zhang Ran was a little surprised. He knew that Zhang Yimou's "Hero" was invested by Jiang Zhiqiang. As for "Golden Armor" and later movies, he always thought it was invested by Zhang Weiping: "Is it your Anle main investor?"

Jiang Ziqiang nodded and smiled, "It was our main investor. Zhang Weiping's new picture is only responsible for the issuance in the mainland. After the sale is completed, he will leave his own issuance fee and then return it to us."

Zhang Ran said in surprise: "Since it is your Anle Investment, why should you let the new screen be released? Don't you directly search for China Film or other companies to issue it?"

Jiang Ziqiang explained: "There is no way. Yimou trusts Zhang Weiping. They are one. If investors want to cooperate with Yimou, they must agree to let Zhang Weiping's new picture company be one of the producers. They must sign in the first place in China, and the domestic issuance rights must also be given to Zhang Weiping."

Zhang Ran still couldn't understand: "Are you and Zhang Yimou also old friends? "Hero" is so successful, why don't you just work with Zhang Weiping away from Zhang Yimou?"

Jiang Ziqiang also wanted to cooperate directly with Zhang Yimou so that Zhang Weiping would not let Zhang Weiping take away a piece of profit in vain. He said helplessly: "At the beginning, "Say Something Good" was cheated because Zhang Weiping didn't know how to publish it, and he eventually lost more than 10 million yuan. Yimou felt very guilty about it. Moreover, Zhang Weiping was really good to Yimou, and solved many problems outside of creation for Yimou. Yimou had no time to take care of his family and life, but Zhang Weiping was able to take good care of his clothes and shopping, and his parents and children took good care of him, so Yimou trusted him especially, and he was taking care of everything outside of filming."

Zhang Ran suddenly realized that he was just trying to scare Zhang Weiping. After all, he had to go out with Zhang Yimou to make suggestions for the opening ceremony. If "Golden Armor" really defeated, everyone would not be good. He said with embarrassment: "I originally wanted to teach Zhang Weiping a lesson, but you are my friend, so you must give me this face. Let's do this, "Wreak City" was released a week in advance, but we can't let "Crazy Travel" go!"

"Wreak City" has been reduced a lot of pressure in "Golden Armor" a week in advance. Jiang Ziqiang said happily: "Zhang Ran, you are a friend, just talk if you have any needs in the future!"

Zhang Ran waved his hand: "Don't be so polite. I just don't understand. Director Zhang Yimou is an art film director at heart, so why did he force him to make a commercial film? From "Hero", "Ten-Ambushes" to "Golden Armor", business is just the skin, and the bones are still art films. "Hero", "Ten-Ambushes" are better, but the story of "Thunderstorm" is so depressing and desperate, it is actually packaged into a commercial film. I really don't know what you think!"

In fact, it is not just these three movies, but also Zhang Yimou's later "Three Guns" and "The Flowers of Flowers", which is very depressing. "Three Guns" is also a comedy, but the result is that everyone except the heroine Yan Ni died. How can such a comedy be there?

Zhou Xingchi is known as the king of comedy and is a famous box office elixir, but he can't bear the depressing film. The failures of "Jigong" and "Resurrection Night" are lessons. Audiences are relaxed and entertaining when they enter the cinema. If they feel uncomfortable after watching the movie, how could they applaud?

Take "Golden Armor" as an example. Many couples have to have sex after watching the movie on Christmas Eve, but the movie tells the story of lovers becoming siblings. It would be strange if they don't scold you to death.

Few major companies in Hollywood are willing to invest in despair and depression like "Golden Armor", especially the six major film companies will not invest. A few years ago, the producer of "The Godfather" Albert Raddy ran all over Hollywood with the script of "Million Dollar Baby", but no original investment was made. Albert Raddy emphasized that the movie will be directed and starred by Eastwood, with Swank as the heroine and Freeman as the supporting actor. But it was useless. Those film companies thought the ending of the film was too tragic and such a movie had no market. In the end, Albert Raddy had to go to the European film festival and completed the financing through pre-sales, which led to the later "Million Dollar Baby".

Of course, you can say that Hollywood film companies are blind and have lost their eyes on "Million Dollar Baby", but the desperate and depressed movies are useless, which is a consensus within the industry.

Jiang Ziqiang was slightly stunned: "You mean the audience's reputation in "Golden Armor" will be very bad?"

Zhang Ran said affirmatively: "It must be worse than "The Ten-sided Ambush"!"

Jiang Ziqiang knew that Zhang Ran had in-depth research on the film market. When he heard him say this, his expression became solemn: "Then what do you think of the box office?"

Zhang Ran remembers that the box office of "Golden Armor" in the mainland seemed to be 290 million yuan, and there were about 40 million US dollars overseas, so he said: "The domestic market should be better than "Ten-sided Ambush". By the time the movie is released, the number of screens in the domestic market should exceed 4,000 yuan, but the overseas box office should be worse than "Ten-sided Ambush". If the cost of the movie exceeds 30 million US dollars, I am afraid I will lose."

Jiang Ziqiang breathed a sigh of relief. "Golden Armor" claimed to cost US$45 million, but in fact it was only US$20 million. If 30 million was a loss, the movie would definitely make money.

As producer Jiang Ziqiang, of course, he also hopes that the higher the box office, the better. He began to think about how to tell Zhang Yimou and let him listen to Zhang Ran's opinions. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!