Chapter 558 Company

Lu Yanhe was actually prepared to be "treated casually" by Jin Zhiyan, but on the way there, he thought about it and felt that something was wrong.

Jin Zhiyan would not ignore him - it was not him who took the initiative to meet Jin Zhiyan, but Jin Zhiyan who wanted to meet him.

In order to ensure that there would be something to talk about later and not to let the conversation get boring, Lu Yanhe searched online for some reports and interviews about Jin Zhiyan, as well as some of his works.

Lu Yanhe has seen several of Jin Zhiyan's movies. After all, he is a rare film director in the world who can combine artistry and commerciality.

Directors who can do this are rare in any country.

Including in Hollywood.

His audio-visual style is actually quite plain, without so many fancy showmanship techniques. But because of this, he can shoot any subject. He has shot monsters, disasters, suspense, crime, science fiction and other subjects, and is a versatile person.

They met in a high-end club.

Just in case, after the address was sent, Lu Yanhe also specifically checked with his friends in Korea to find out what this place was, so as not to accidentally enter a place like the "Nth Room" and explain it clearly - in Korea, this kind of thing is not uncommon, and the news has been reported countless times.

Fortunately, there was nothing dirty.

Jin Zhiyan's smile was quite kind and his attitude was warm. As soon as he entered the door, he stood up and prepared to greet him, without the arrogance that Lu Yanhe expected to see.

As soon as they met, Jin Zhiyan expressed his love and respect for him.

Lu Yanhe knew that Koreans have a strong sense of seniority. It was not surprising that Jin Zhiyan expressed his love for him, but it was still quite surprising to hear the word "respect" from him suddenly.

"Thank you, director." The other party was so polite, and Lu Yanhe was of course polite in return.

What Lu Yanhe didn't expect was that Jin Zhiyan asked him to meet, but he didn't say that he had a play that he wanted to find him to shoot.

Jin Zhiyan is working with others to set up a film and television company with pan-Asian content, and wants to bring Lu Yanhe to join.

"Pan-Asia?" Lu Yanhe was quite surprised when he heard this word, because he had heard it before when he was at Maxine and HP.

This is mainly to expand the market scope.

Just like promoting a drama that was originally only broadcast in Thailand throughout Asia.

Jin Zhiyan is the first director to come to Lu Yanhe to cooperate with this so-called "pan-Asian" content.

Lu Yanhe said: "Director, you want me to join, what do you want me to do?"

Jin Zhiyan said: "You can do a lot, director, screenwriter, actor... I heard that the "Love Letter" directed by you will have its world premiere at the Jose Film Festival this year?"

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded.

"Your directorial debut can be shown at a top film festival like the Jose-La-Señora Film Festival. It's really enviable." Jin Zhiyan smiled, "You are very well-known and influential in Asia, and you are a leader among the younger generation. So, if we can set up a pan-Asian production company together, we will definitely be able to make something good."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "I often hear the concept of pan-Asia recently. It seems that everyone is doing this."

"Because streaming media has emerged." Jin Zhiyan said, "Streaming media has completely broken the barriers and monopoly of traditional TV stations and brought all markets together. In the past, when we made a drama, the potential audience was these people in China, but now it is different. It is the whole of Asia."

"But streaming media is still more popular than TV series, right? It seems that the influence of movies on streaming media is still far less than that of theaters."

What Lu Yanhe said is a fact.

Compared with the influence of streaming TV series, streaming movies can only be said to be better than online movies, but they have not yet entered the mainstream track.

The vitality of theaters is a little stronger than that of TV stations.

Jin Zhiyan nodded, "That's right."

"Director, does your pan-Asian production company provide content for streaming media, or?"

"Of course it's not just streaming media, I just use streaming media as an example. In fact, I hope to be able to concentrate our resources and strength to expand our strength so that our works can get better production conditions in Asia."

Hearing this, Lu Yanhe understood it in an instant.

In fact, it is to create a signboard, make this signboard brighter and more shining, and then let those who are interested come to invest and give money. Why does Jin Zhiyan want to invite him? Because he can attract others to give money.

Lu Yanhe: "..."

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"He is... trying to make a wave of money?" Chen Ziyan's first reaction was the same.

On the way back, Lu Yanhe said, "Maybe he also wants to get funds to make a movie."

In order to raise money to make a movie, the director can do anything.

Although it is said that if a big director like Jin Zhiyan makes a movie by himself, there should be a stable source of funds for shooting, but if you want to shoot a movie with a slightly higher cost, it will still be very difficult. Everyone is worried about the problem of return on investment and profit.

No one invests just to help the director realize his dream - you can realize the dream, but it must be a byproduct of making money.

However, what Jin Zhiyan talked to him about gave him some inspiration.

What direction will his own Linghe Production Company take in the future.

Pan-Asia.

The copyright operation plan that Linghe is promoting now is not another form of pan-Asian?

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The Mist earned 13.8 million in North American box office on Sunday, and the box office of the first weekend added up to about 40 million. In addition to successfully winning the weekend box office championship, the promoters of The Mist can say without hesitation that it is a "big box office success."

The Mist also performed well in the overseas box office in the first weekend. It opened in various European countries and earned about 12 million US dollars in the first weekend.

Horror movies are not like other movies-if Hollywood movies have good domestic box office, they generally have high overseas box office, but horror movies are an exception, because this is a niche genre, and in other countries, the audience of horror movies is not as large as Hollywood.

Lu Yanhe finished the promotion in South Korea and went to Japan together to attend the Japanese premiere of The Mist.

After that, it was Thailand.

Singapore was absent.

Because the two days of the weekend were used up, he had to rush back to participate in the filming of Friends.

There are only four places in Asia for promotion activities.

Because The Mist had a good decline on Monday, only falling by 37%.

This made D19 company place greater hopes on the box office of The Mist.

As for the overseas box office, because South Korea, Japan and Thailand are all big box office warehouses for horror films, they also hope to gain something here.

Especially Lu Yanhe's influence in Asia, and the theme of "Asian revenge" that this horror film has always been the main theme, make this movie very popular in Asian countries.

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"It's a pity that The Mist can't be released in mainland China. Otherwise, with Lu Yanhe's appeal in mainland China, it would have at least tens of millions of dollars in box office."

D1 Murray has been smiling all these days.

The Mist earned 40 million US dollars in North American box office in its first weekend. In terms of its production cost, if the publicity and promotion costs were not added a lot later, it would have directly recovered and started to make a profit in the first weekend alone.

But in the current situation, the publicity and promotion costs must continue to be added.

The trend of The Mist on weekdays allowed them to see the room for this movie to further create box office value.

You know, for commercial horror films like "The Mist", the box office will generally collapse more severely on weekdays than other films.

And after a few days of release, Lu Yanhe's performance was further discussed by many people on social media.

Lu Yanhe is not a strange name for European and American audiences. Before the release of this movie, many people already knew him, especially for European and American film critics.

Lu Yanhe has produced so many eye-catching works in recent years that it is hard not to know him.

Lu Yanhe's performance in "The Mist" is actually not difficult or rich in layers. The difficulty of performing this role is actually how to make it "personal".

In Lu Yanhe's understanding, this type of role is a "special" role. They have many more "inhuman" characteristics than traditional characters. Once such a characteristic can be found and magnified to the extreme, it will form a shocking visual effect on the screen and leave a deep impression in the hearts of the audience-because it is rare.

The Asian ghost played by Lu Yanhe shocked everyone as soon as he came on stage.

At the beginning, his indifference, as if he had no breath and no emotions, floated around those people like a soft ribbon. In addition to the sensory stimulation presented by the combination of sound effects and editing, it also gave people a creepy psychological feeling at a deep level.

His seemingly clean and clear eyes seemed to contain thick black fog.

In the interpretation of this role, Lu Yanhe increased the expressiveness of "shape". The character characteristics are more distinct than those of his previous roles, and the audience does not need to guess, feel, or ponder.

But this way of performance is exactly what "The Mist" needs.

And his performance ability in shaping the role has been unanimously praised by the media and the audience in this situation.

An organization conducted a survey on the audience of "The Mist", and Lu Yanhe ranked first in the list of the most favorite actors of the audience of this movie.

There is no need to say much about the love of major media for him. Just look at the exposure and the number of comments about him.

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Originally, there were still some voices in China who were fighting back, attacking Lu Yanhe for playing a villain in a horror film and smearing the image of Chinese people.

With the release of this movie, the content and theme were also spread. At this time, although people in China have not seen this movie, they know what it is about.

Lu Yanhe's fans suddenly became strong.

——He played a ghost role who revenged and killed white people, and such a role was recognized by white people!

This is not easy.

——Never think that Asians are not discriminated against and can sit at the table equally just because Asians seem to have more opportunities after the so-called "political correctness" storm swept up. This is not the case at all.

The more people understand this truth, the more they can know how difficult it is for Lu Yanhe to play in "The Mist" so well that both Europe and the United States praised him more than criticized him.

Lu Yanhe reviewed the film himself and told Chen Ziyan: "It's because I played a good role and caught up with a film promotion method that was very conducive to my personal image."

Chen Ziyan nodded: "Indeed, you seem to be the villain in this film, but in fact, in the end, you are the victim, especially the version edited by Director Muken, as if you are the protagonist of the film."

"From the script, it's not true. The main roles are played by Arne and the other three."

"Yes, but the editing has changed." Chen Ziyan said, "Obviously, the turmoil during the filming and the attention you received at that time have greatly increased your weight in the later editing stage."

"I also want to thank Director Muken's wife, Hua Ruzhen." Chen Ziyan said again, "She kept emphasizing to Director Muken that since you played the best, why not keep more of your roles, so many of your roles were kept in the second half."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"By the way, Sister Ziyan, Director Jin Zhiyan asked me to talk about the Pan-Asian plan that day. I remembered that Hua Ruzhen told me that she might also go deeper into the investment field of film and television dramas in the future." Chen Ziyan nodded, "I know this. There is a foundation in the United States. They are optimistic about the film and television market in Asia, so they want to find someone who understands film and television production here to invest. It happens that Hua Ruzhen has been responsible for the cultural industry investment of a group of wealthy people in her circle, so she was listed as one of the candidates, and there is great hope." Lu Yanhe said: "If this is true, we can really keep the copyright of many dramas in our hands and form our own team to do it." Chen Ziyan nodded and said: "Yes, fortunately, we have Hu Siwei was hired a while ago. With him, the company has already formed a production team. With him, we can save a lot of trouble.

Lu Yanhe: "Should I write a few more scripts?"

"If you can write, it's best to write a few more. There's no rush to shoot when. Put them here first, and we will have a lot more candidates." Chen Ziyan said, "Your script is our trump card. Of course, if we really want to further expand the scale of Linghe, we certainly can't just rely on your script. We can develop more projects like "Men and Women Living Together."

Before Lu Yanhe wanted to shoot a "Love Letter" himself, he had to borrow people from various places to form a good team and start shooting directly.

Now Linghe must cultivate its own fixed team. However, cultivation takes time. If you really wait until you want to develop on a large scale in the future, it will definitely be too late. A good production talent and a good production team cannot be created overnight.

Hu Siwei wanted to shoot the low-cost comedy "Housemates" himself, and it could also be used as a training exercise for the production team he had formed.

Lu Yanhe said to Chen Ziyan: "Sister Ziyan, I think we may have to invite some more production talents to our Linghe. Our company's current funds may not dare to take risks to invest in projects with hundreds of millions of yuan, but for low-cost dramas like "Housemates", if there is a suitable story, we can make more."

Chen Ziyan: "I have also considered this, but the biggest shortcoming of our Linghe now is not the lack of money, but the lack of people, but we don't have enough money to recruit people by spending money."

Chen Ziyan said here and smiled, "Do you know what I am even thinking about?"

"Huh?" Lu Yanhe looked at Chen Ziyan with some doubts.

Chen Ziyan said, "Aren't we going to make "The Birth of the Actors"? There is a live-action segment in each episode. I was thinking, if possible, can we use this to test some new production teams."

"No, don't use this to try your hand." Lu Yanhe immediately denied it, "The live-action short films of each episode of "The Birth of the Actors" must be shot with high quality and level, so that the audience can see the good. It's too unreliable to use new directors."

According to Lu Yanhe's plan, Lu Yanhe even planned to invite mature directors such as Luo Yuzhong, Chen Lingling, Fu Kai, and Liu Bige to shoot this live-action short film.

"But, Sister Zi Yan, now that you mention it, I do have an idea." Lu Yanhe said, "Didn't the 'Green Plan' we did before fail? I reviewed it myself and felt that one of the main reasons why this plan failed was that truly talented directors were worried about wasting their time because of the low threshold of this event, so they waited and watched at first, and after finding that it really didn't make any waves, they didn't come to participate."

"What if we can take out real money and help them make their scripts into movies?" Lu Yanhe said, "It's different from the nature of the competition, but like a venture capital film festival. Do you think they will be willing to come?"

Chen Zi Yan: "Isn't this risky? Give them real money to make a movie? At least several million, right?"

"But if we want to cultivate our own filming team, especially directors, is this the only way to fundamentally work?" Lu Yanhe asked.

"Of course, training new talents, especially Linghe's own direct director, is something that any film and television company will definitely do, but it is too uncontrollable. Maybe we can't find such a director in three or five years." Chen Ziyan said.

Lu Yanhe was suddenly stunned.

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"Sister Ziyan, I suddenly thought of someone."

"Ah?" Chen Ziyan looked at him doubtfully.

Lu Yanhe said: "Liu Bige's friend, do you still remember the congratulatory letter? He also wanted to ask me to make a movie before, the script of "Miss Ning", but later because of the lack of funds, it was not completed. "

"I remember him." Chen Ziyan was a little surprised and asked, "You want to recruit him to the company?"

Lu Yanhe said: "I have known him for a long time and talked to him many times. He is indeed very talented."

Chen Ziyan hesitated for a moment and said: "But it is no longer appropriate for you to act in "Miss Ning" now. A guest appearance? Another guest appearance for a new director? The script of "Miss Ning" is indeed not bad. It talks about the awakening of female consciousness. , but there have been a lot of movies with this theme in recent years, and it is no longer suitable for you to play a guest role at this time. "

Lu Yanhe said: "It doesn't have to be "Miss Ning". He can find other people's novels to adapt the script like Liu Bige, or he can buy other people's scripts. What I mean is that if he is willing to sign with us, we can support him." He makes the movies he wants to make."

"Let me talk to him." Chen Ziyan said, "I haven't contacted him for a long time."

"I haven't contacted him for a long time." Lu Yanhe said, "I don't know what he is doing now."

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In fact, since the two of them had already made plans to further expand the scale of Linghe and increase the reserve of production talents, they immediately made relevant plans.

Whether it's asking for congratulatory letters or using sincerity to attract talented young new directors to discuss projects with them, these are just attempts.

Like Lu Yanhe, he actually has a very powerful channel, which is to ask big directors in the industry such as Luo Yuzhong and Chen Lingling to recommend him.

In the entertainment industry, everyone will definitely know some people who are capable and talented but have not made it for various reasons.

Just like Li Fenglei who helped Zhao Yuan in the movie "Love Letter".

If you can get their approval, it means that this person must have something.

Lu Yanhe entrusted many friends to help him recommend relevant talents, and then handed it over to Linghe's current vice president Chen Yin and content producer Hu Siwei to talk about it.

However, although they are casting a wide net when looking for people, they also need people very much. However, according to the company's financial situation this year, "House and Duo", "Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "Raise the Red Lantern" will all be launched this year. The budget that can be diverted to employment expenses is still tight, and we cannot make all the moves.

Everyone held a meeting and clarified a goal. In addition to the administrative strength that must be enriched in various departments of the company, in terms of film and television production talents, recruitment plans can only be made based on the minimum needs of the crew's job types. Once people are recruited, the subsequent shooting projects must be kept up with the schedule. Otherwise, there will be no work to do after the people are recruited, which will be a huge waste.

One pile after another, one after another.

Lu Yanhe had to finish his work on the "Friends" crew every day, and then hold a meeting with people from Linghe in the evening. He took this opportunity to sort out the company's key issues and work plans for this year, sort them out one by one, and then make relevant decisions based on these. Arrangements should be made to coordinate all time points as much as possible to reduce losses.

The reason why they didn't finish it at this time is not that Xu Tianming and Chen Yin didn't make a plan before, but that Lu Yanhe and Chen Ziyan had a lot more ideas. If they wanted to cram it in again, they would have to start all over again.

This is what a company in a period of rapid development is like.

No one knows whether tomorrow will usher in another huge development opportunity, and we can only face these things like a war. (End of chapter)