A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 385 Young Directors Program

Zhao Jinmai, who had been eavesdropping from somewhere, suddenly appeared and asked worriedly, "Brother, can our movie still start shooting?"

"Don't worry, China Film Group has been planning this project since 12. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been allocated. We will definitely not give up just for a few tens of millions of dollars."

Zhao Jinmai stuck out her tongue after hearing this. The huge sum of tens of millions sounded like a few thousand yuan when it came out of Chen Jinnian's mouth, which made her feel a little dazed, as if the petty director who was haggling on the crew two years ago was not the person in front of her.

Chen Jinnian naturally had no idea that Zhao Jinmai was plotting against him in her mind. He just felt that although the withdrawal of investment was a difficult issue, it was not the end of the road yet.

Guo Xun actually has another person he can look for, and that is Ning Hao.

In fact, as early as 2010, Ning Hao acquired the copyrights of most science fiction novels from Liu Cixin, including "The Wandering Earth". However, he felt that it needed a suitable director to shoot it, so he transferred the copyright to China Film Group.

Ning Hao and Guo Meng have an even closer relationship. The Wandering Earth is included in Bad Monkey Pictures' support plan. Even Guo Meng's ability to form a reliable team is inseparable from Ning Hao's help.

From Ning Hao's perspective, he didn't want the project, which he had been preparing for two years, to be interrupted because of this problem.

After Chen Jinnian finished sorting out the project of The Wandering Earth, he suddenly realized that he was fighting alone, while other directors all had helpers and benefactors.

If there were no system reward, he wouldn't know where he would be hiding in that corner now.

There was a promised program to support young directors, but why hasn't anyone come to support him?

After thinking about this, Chen Jinnian turned around angrily and shouted at the executive director, "Hurry up and clean up. The set will be cleared and filming will begin in five minutes."

Under his urging, the crew began to operate in an orderly manner.

In fact, Chen Jinnian guessed correctly. Before Guo Xun went to China Film Group, he specially consulted with his elder brother Ning Hao. Ning Hao has been a bit lazy in the past two years. After directing "My Lucky Star", he wanted to switch to the position of producer and supervisor, and was not very inclined to lead a movie himself.

"Rural Teachers", which will start filming this year, is a project that Ning Hao has delayed for a long time. It is so long that after many revisions of the script, Liu Cixin's original work has nothing to do with it. If Liu Cixin could see the final revised script, he would probably be shocked.

"You went to escape famine." Ning Hao was immediately happy when he saw Guo Xun.

"Oh, that's about it. I want to die now." Guo Xun started to complain after seeing Ning Hao. The pressure of being a director was already very high, especially since his investment was withdrawn before the filming started. He really couldn't hold on any longer.

Ning Hao's lover Xing Aina made him a cup of tea while Guo Xun was talking.

"Have a drink of water first, your lips are dry. Don't get angry. We can talk slowly if we have something to say."

"Hey, thank you, sister-in-law." Guo Xun bowed slightly and took the teacup from Xing Aina with both hands.

"Your brother has been out scouting locations recently, so I don't know the details yet," Xing Aina explained.

Guo Xun nodded and briefly introduced what happened after the New Year. He then focused on what happened in the past two days and what he and Chen Jinnian had just discussed.

"Chen Jinnian? Director? How come I didn't know about this new guy when he appeared?"

Ning Hao thought for a long time but couldn't remember who Chen Jinnian was. He was a director who came out of Andy Lau's "Asian Rising Star Director" program, so he attached great importance to supporting young directors. Last year, he signed ten young directors in one go and launched the "Bad Monkey 72 Transformations" program.

So Ning Hao can’t say that he knows all the young directors, but he still knows the names of the more outstanding ones.

"He shouldn't be considered a newcomer now." Guo Xun felt that Chen Jinnian's experience seemed even older than his. "He's already made three movies. Yeah, he should be finishing the fourth soon."

However, Guo Meng found it difficult to explain himself clearly, so he could only summarize: "To put it simply, he's now the male lead of my film, an investor, and a special effects partner. I just went to the set to see him, and he agreed to help me with the production costs, but only if China Film Group also needs to pay for the publicity and distribution."

"So you want me to accompany you to ask for money." Ning Hao touched his slightly raised forehead. It is not easy to get money from China Film. China Film is too big, but the annual amount is limited. If this project takes more money, the other project will have to invest less.

"How much."

"No less than 2500 million in publicity and promotion."

"What?" Ning Hao looked at the embarrassed Guo Xing in surprise. Twenty-five million was enough to complete a small- to medium-sized film. He hurriedly asked, "How much of your investment was withdrawn?"

"One hundred million." Guo Xun silently extended a finger, of course, not the middle finger.

Ning Hao's heart was clenched tightly. Not counting the publicity and promotion costs, his new movie only cost more than 200 million but less than 300 million. But Guo Xing was directly deprived of 100 million.

After a moment of silence, he asked hesitantly, "If we can get 2500 million, can Mr. Chen come up with such a large sum of money?"

"Yes." Guo Xun nodded seriously. He had no doubt about it.

Chen Jinnian now has hundreds of millions in cash flow, and he has also seen the trailer of the new movie. Guo Xing thinks it is the best campus youth film in recent years and there will be no problem with the box office.

With these two conditions as a basis, Guo Xun didn't think that Chen Jinnian was teasing him.

"Okay, go back and pack up first, I'll ask someone to make an appointment."

Hearing Ning Hao's words, Guo Xing was overjoyed. He immediately stood up and said, "No need to pack up. I'll go like this. The more miserable the better. Only crying children get milk."

"Are you sure? You're like a refugee now, aren't you afraid of being laughed at by others?" Ning Hao looked the other person up and down. If it weren't for their good relationship, he wouldn't have let Guo Xing in today.

"If a few laughs can earn me 2500 million, then I've made a profit." Guo Xun said with a laugh.

Ning Hao could only helplessly let him go. He knew how tight the director's finances would be if the budget was tight. When he was filming "Stone" that year, he was also anxious and scratching his head every day.

Chen Jinnian in the crew, after finishing his scenes with Wang Yidi, gave him a massage out of concern. The hug and throw he had just made almost make Wang Yidi cry in pain.

Even though I gritted my teeth and held it back, tears were still welling up in my eyes.

"We have one more take. After we finish filming, we'll rest. We don't have to work tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"What should we do with the wasted time?" Wang Yidi said in a low voice.

"It's okay. Guo Xun's movie won't start shooting next month. It will be June at the earliest." Chen Jinnian said comfortingly.

He is not in a hurry now, so it doesn't matter if the shooting period is extended. Shooting martial arts scenes will overdraw the human body, so he has to shoot slowly and wait for the body to recover on its own. Being anxious will only leave a lot of hidden injuries.

Zhao Jinmai watched them showing their affection for each other and silently cursed them as love-struck dogs.