Chapter 197 196 Brother Chen Kai Also Came to Support Us

Chapter 197 196. Brother Chen Kai also came to support the event

"Third Master."

Seeing Han Sanping's figure appear at the door, Wei Wu hurried to greet him.

Today, the "Bad Monkey 72 Transformation Plan" held a press conference. This project was jointly led by Bad Monkey Pictures, China Film Group and Beijing Film Academy.

Han Sanping is nominally the initiator of the project, just like Wei Wu. He will also cut the ribbon and speak on stage later, so he must come today.

Han Sanping nodded slightly and asked with a smile: "Wei Wu, is everything ready for the press conference?"

Wei Wu nodded and said: "Everything is ready. The media has almost arrived. We just need to wait for the guests to arrive. It will officially start at 10:00."

"That's good," Han Sanping raised his hand and looked at his watch:

"Only half an hour left. Who else hasn't arrived yet?"

Wei Wu thought for a while and replied: "Among the guests who cut the ribbon, it seems that Director Chen Kaige and Dean Zhang Huijun haven't arrived yet."

Yes, Chen Kaige was also invited and has agreed to attend today's signing press conference.

If it was a celebration party for Wei Wu's film, Chen Kaige probably wouldn't come.

He is somewhat self-respecting. Even if the two had no conflicts before and looked down on each other, as a senior, he is unlikely to flatter Wei Wu.

However, the "Bad Monkey 72 Changes Plan" is different. After all, it is nominally a support plan for young directors.

Passing on the torch and supporting the younger generation. To put it bluntly, this is the political correctness of the director circle.

Therefore, this time Wei Wu openly sent invitations to Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang and almost all the famous directors in the mainland.

However, Zhang Yimou is at the critical moment of finishing the post-production of "The Golden Armor".

Moreover, the film will be released in a month, and the pre-promotion work has been launched. He can't get away for the time being, so he can't come today.

As for Feng Xiaogang, his situation is more special because his new film "Assembly" just started the day before yesterday.

At this time, he must be even more unable to leave, so he can't come today either.

Only Chen Kaige has not yet launched a new film, and he has been keeping a low profile recently, so he has no work on hand.

In fact, Chen Kaige's next film, "Mei Lanfang", will not officially start shooting until July next year, and it has not even been officially announced yet!

So when Han Sanping called Chen Kaige, he couldn't find a suitable reason to refuse, so he had to agree.

Mainly, Han Sanping also hoped that Chen Kaige and Wei Wu would have a better relationship, even if they were not in harmony, they would still be able to get along.

After all, the two are now the generals of his faction. If the two of them never interacted with each other, others would only laugh at him for not being able to control his subordinates.

But the problem is that big directors are generally arrogant, and Wei Wu is now famous at a young age, and he is also famous for his youthful vigor.

It is definitely unrealistic to expect him to take the initiative to bow his head and curry favor with Chen Kaige.

Then we can only let Chen Kaige, the senior, be a little more generous and flexible, so that both sides can truly turn hostility into friendship.

Of course, Chen Kaige is definitely not happy, but now the situation is stronger than people.

Who made him currently in the trough of his life! Can he make a comeback and regain his glory? To be honest, there are still many places to rely on Han Sanping!

Another very important reason why Chen Kaige agreed is that a few days ago, China Film had loosened its mouth and preliminarily agreed to invest in the filming of "Mei Lanfang".

It turned out that since "The Promise" suffered a Waterloo, Chen Kaige's new film has been subjected to the most stringent review, and several scripts have been directly returned.

In the end, Chen Kaige had no choice but to choose to rely on the old capital of "Farewell My Concubine" and told China Film that he wanted to shoot "Mei Lanfang", and this time the project was finally approved.

However, even so, China Film still conducted a relatively strict review of the script. At present, 4 versions have been revised, and the current script is already the fifth draft.

If nothing unexpected happens, China Film Group will officially announce the news of investing in Chen Kaige to shoot "Mei Lanfang" at the end of this month.

At present, Chen Kaige is on the eve of the official announcement, and of course he doesn't want any accidents to happen, so when Han Sanping called him, he immediately agreed.

After all, "The Promise" also made Han Sanping lose face and suffered a lot of criticism, but Han Sanping was still willing to support him.

Then Chen Kaige naturally had to return the favor. Even if he still couldn't let go of Wei Wu, he had to give Han Sanping face!

Hearing that Chen Kaige hadn't come yet, Han Sanping frowned and said:

"Chen Kaige hasn't come yet? Let's do this. If he hasn't arrived in 10 minutes, Wei Wu, remember to remind me, and I'll call and ask."

Wei Wu immediately nodded and said, "Okay, I know."

As for Zhang Huijun, who hadn't arrived yet, he was ignored by both of them.

After all, his status is not ordinary. Even Han Sanping can't order him around.

This person is none other than the current president of Beijing Film Academy. Although President Zhang knows Wei Wu, they are not close friends.

Mainly because Wei Wu has a good reputation this time, and his professional background is really suitable, so Tian Zhuangzhuang can invite him to attend.

In fact, when Wei Wu entered the school, Zhang Huijun was already the president.

He happened to take office as the president of Beijing Film Academy in 2002, and in his previous life he worked until 2017 before officially resigning and retiring.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Huijun was actually from Nortel's class of 1978, and he and Zhang Yimou and Gu Changwei were classmates in the photography department. They even lived in the same dormitory at the time.

So the Class of ’78 from Nortel is indeed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! In a small dormitory room 306, among the four people, there are two famous directors and a Nortel principal. This is too exaggerated!

But then again, the reason why the Class of 1978 was so awesome at that time was directly related to the background of the times, because the college entrance examination had been suspended for several years before that!

Although the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, due to the lack of information at that time, most people were doubtful and missed the college entrance examination that year. Therefore, it was not until 1978 that the majority of college students signed up to take the college entrance examination on a large scale.

Special policies have resulted in many outstanding students from many sessions being forcibly gathered into the starting papers of this session's college entrance examination.

Needless to say, the competition was fierce, so among those who could stand out from the crowd and get into college, there was basically no one who was inferior.

Because if you are even slightly worse, you will definitely fail and end up in the 79th or 80th class.

So it’s not just the ’78 graduates from Nortel who are awesome. In fact, the ’78 graduates from Shanghai Theater and China Theater are also pretty awesome. It’s the same with other colleges and universities. In short, that class is exceptionally talented!

Wei Wu led Han Sanping inside, and Han Sanping asked about the later period of "Painted Skin":

"Is the post-production of "Painted Skin" going well?"

Wei Wu nodded and said: "It's not bad. Although it has just been rolled out, it is going quite smoothly."

Han Sanping nodded slightly and then asked: "What are your plans for the special effects? Who are you going to find to do it?"

Wei Wu replied: "Viewpoint Pictures, they seem to be the only company in the mainland that can do this."

Han Sanping nodded and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. Our domestic film special effects industry did start relatively late.

“I know Viewpoint Pictures as a company, they are responsible for the special effects of “The Night Banquet” and “City of Golden Armor”.

"Since Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang can trust them, I agree to hand over the post-production of "Painted Skin" to them."

Viewpoint Pictures, formerly known as Viewpoint Special Arts, was established in the millennium and is considered one of the first companies in the mainland to engage in film special effects. It has developed well now, at least it has been able to receive orders from Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yimou.

In addition to the two movies mentioned above, the movies for which Past Life Viewpoint Pictures was responsible for special effects include "Tangshan Earthquake", "Love at the Hawthorn Tree", "If You Are the One", "Revolution of 1911", "The Taiping Wheel", "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven", "On the Sea" "Mu Yun Ji", "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", "1942", etc.

In fact, Wei Wu had no other choice. Now there are other good special effects companies in later generations, such as Tiangong Yicai and MoreVFX.

None of them have appeared yet or have only been established for a year or two. Anyway, they are not popular yet, at least not comparable to point-of-view movies.

Therefore, if we do not want to leave it to Viewpoint Pictures, we can only hire special effects companies from Hong Kong and Taiwan or Europe and the United States.

In that case, the quotation will be much more expensive, after all, people usually settle in US dollars.

Forget it, if you really ask them to do it, the production cost might double, and the movie will basically lose money!

Since Wei Wu wants to be the best commercial film director in China, his films must not lose money. This is the red line.

In Wei Wu's view, special effects only need to be sufficient.

After all, this thing is uncapped, and the production budget of 100 million may not be enough——

But even if you add another 100 million or even another 230 million, you will still be able to spend nothing in the end.