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Zhang Songnian and Qu Xueyan knew each other, and because of Li Zhengrong's relationship, the cooperation intention between the two parties was quickly finalized.

Both Qu Xueyan and Zhang Songnian jointly invested partly in this film. After all, both parties are not short of money. Although the investment in the two films of "Infernal Affairs" is not small, it is obviously not so difficult that the two together can't afford it. to the point where.

In addition, Zhang Songnian also proposed that his father-in-law Li Zhengrong be in charge of the production and production of the film.

After all, Li Zhengrong was the one who shot "Infernal Affairs" and achieved great success. He has rich experience and can handle the scene. Qu Xueyan agreed with this.

In terms of casting, because the main actors and roles of the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy are actually the main actors and roles, after thinking about it, Zhang Songnian still feels that the main roles cannot be changed, especially the two leading actors in the play. .

But now there is a big problem in front of Zhang Songnian. The protagonist of "Infernal Affairs" is almost the soul of this series of movies, and the images of the two protagonists have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, let alone the protagonist in this movie, there are actually many The characters with slightly more roles are basically artists within Golden Feather Entertainment.

These characters have basically been recognized by the audience after the first film was released, and the image of the characters has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

If you continue to make sequels and change actors hastily, then the reputation of the next two films will inevitably be greatly reduced.

Fortunately, this matter was quickly resolved when communicating with Li Zhengrong.

In fact, Golden Feather Entertainment did not know that "Infernal Affairs" was not just one movie, but a total of three movies in the series. If he knew, Li Shouzhao would definitely try to keep Zhang Songnian, or at least let Zhang Songnian Let people go after leaving the script.

Of course, the main reason for this is that Zhang Songnian kept his hand on this matter, not to mention Golden Feather Entertainment, and even Li Zhengrong didn't even realize that the "Infernal Affairs" series could make a sequel.

However, although Zhang Songnian kept his hand, in the final analysis, he still kept a secret. He ignored the issue of the original cast if he wanted to make a sequel.

Fortunately, Li Zhengrong finally came up with a solution.

After listening to Zhang Songnian's question, Li Zhengrong first glanced at Zhang Songnian in amazement, then smiled and said: "You guys still hide it very deeply. I thought you would have a sequel, if I had known this, I would have postponed my retirement for another year."

After hearing Li Zhengrong's words, Qu Xueyan next to him became anxious first.

"Hey, I said, Lao Li, how old are you? Don't be fooled. You can't accept your old age. This kind of script is laborious and exhausting. It's not suitable for an old man like you. You should leave it to me, a young man. You are a strong and good young man, you can take care of yourself with peace of mind, and as a producer, just give me more advice on filming."

Seeing Qu Xueyan's anxious look, Li Zhengrong burst out laughing and didn't answer.

Then Li Zhengrong looked at Zhang Songnian again, and said with a smile: "This matter is actually not so difficult to solve."

"Although you have left the company, in fact you have maintained a good cooperative relationship with the company. Since you have been able to cooperate once before, why can't you cooperate again this time? An extra gold is added to the investment of this movie. Yu Entertainment is fine, I can talk to Li Jianhua about this matter, and he probably has no reason to refuse, if it doesn't work, I will go to Li Shouzhao again." Li Zhengrong said to Zhang Songnian very confidently.

After hearing the news, Zhang Songnian and Qu Xueyan looked at each other, and he found that the other party also looked at him, his eyes were full of doubts, meaning he was asking himself what do you think about this matter with his eyes.

In fact, Zhang Songnian doesn't care about Li Zhengrong's request at that time. Anyway, no matter how much he earns, it will be a number that Zhang Songnian can't spend in several lifetimes.

But it may be different from Qu Xueyan's perspective. Qu Xueyan owns his own company, and film and television companies are notorious for burning money.

Don't look at Qu Xueyan has been making a lot of high-grossing movies in the past few years, and the profits are quite considerable, but obviously the money he earns may not be as much as the money lost by his own film and television company.

After the first part of "Infernal Affairs" became popular, as long as there is news of a sequel, the popularity will explode immediately.

In any case, unless the second part of "Infernal Affairs" is badly shot, the box office of the second part of "Infernal Affairs" will not be lower than that of the first part.

"Infernal Affairs" has a box office of more than 40 billion, and the second film has the lowest figure. Originally, Qu Xueyan and Zhang Songnian could split the net profit of the [-] billion, but now Jinyu Entertainment wants to step in. Zhang Songnian I'm not sure what Qu Xueyan's attitude is.

According to my own thinking, it is best for this movie to be the same as the Earth version. A group of actors will be used in the third movie, and it would be best not to make any changes.

"What Songnian thinks, I don't think I have any objection." Qu Xueyan expressed his position and attitude without hesitating for too long.

Zhang Songnian was a little surprised that Qu Xueyan could make a decision and answer in such a short period of time.

He originally thought that Qu Xueyan would think about it for a long time, but it only took half a minute for him to finalize the matter.

But after thinking about it carefully, Zhang Songnian could understand Qu Xueyan's approach.

From Qu Xueyan's point of view, as Zhang Songnian said, the plot and actors of "Infernal Affairs 1" have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If the actors are changed rashly, the audience may not buy it, and there will definitely be scolding at that time.

Qu Xueyan wants to make a sequel to the "Infernal Affairs" series. Apart from earning money, the more important purpose is that he also wants to make a movie with a perfect plot in the true sense.

Compared with money, what Qu Xueyan wanted more for making this movie was fame.

After Zhang Songnian came to his senses, he nodded with a smile and replied: "I don't have a problem either. Those actors look pretty good to me, and their understanding of the script of "Infernal Affairs" may be better than mine. You may not be able to find such a suitable one if you change it.”

Li Zhengrong also nodded in agreement and replied with a smile: "Indeed, Ren Chaoyang and that Shen Yun'an are indeed very good actors, and they are very popular because of the popularity of this movie recently. With hundreds of millions of fans, if they don’t star in the sequel, the pressure on the director alone will be quite heavy.”

Glancing at the two of them again, Li Zhengrong clapped his hands and said, "Okay, since you all have no problems, please come and finalize the script and detailed cooperation plan in a few days, then I will let you and Jin Yu work together Talk to the entertainers, I think it's not a big problem."

In fact, just as Li Zhengrong imagined, Li Jianhua did not do anything to stop the filming of the sequel of "Infernal Affairs", and even actively promoted it.

Li Jianhua has indeed been annoyed recently about the easy relationship with Zhang Songnian and letting him leave.

Before that, I made a vow, thinking that as long as I find a few idol stars with decent professional ability from my old club SM to come over to Neiyu to stir up a little bit, I will be able to turn the world upside down.

After all, Hallyu idols in the past two years are still very popular in China, and there are many crazy fans no matter where they go.

But it seems that only a few years have passed, and the environment of internal entertainment seems to have changed a bit.

Although the music scene is still bad, the entertainment culture related to Hallyu has almost disappeared in recent years.

Previously, Li Jianhua believed that it was caused by the lack of business ability of domestic idol stars. Later, after he successively introduced several traffic idols with good business ability in Korea from the company, Li Jianhua found that the batch of Korean idols he had spent a lot of money to attract Streaming idols can no longer afford too many snowflakes in China.

It's not that the business ability is not good enough, but it seems that the domestic entertainment industry doesn't like the Korean wave that much.

Fans of the current fan circle would rather be fans of real idols who can only play, sing, dance, rep and play basketball, rather than pay more attention to those Hallyu idols.

Li Jianhua introduced singers, singing and dancing groups, and even girl groups from the Korean entertainment industry. He has appeared in variety shows, participated in auditions, and released albums. Have the desired effect.

Moreover, the continuous investment has not seen the expected return. The board of directors has been dissatisfied with Li Jianhua's behavior more than once.

There is nothing wrong with Jinyu Entertainment saying that it is the Li family's own company. After all, whether it is the proportion of equity or the absolute right to speak, Li Shouzhao is absolutely right.

But the shareholders also hold the shares after all. If Li Jianhua continues to make the company lose money and cause dissatisfaction among all shareholders, then the Li family has to sell this account.

After all, although I hold absolute equity and have the final decision-making power, if the shareholders of the meeting sell their stocks one after another, the impact on the company will definitely not be a good thing at that time, and the sharp drop in the stock will be light .

Li Jianhua has been worried about this kind of thing recently, and now he probably understands the difference between the positions of executives and general managers.

In the past, as an executive of SM Company, no matter what he did, he was supported by the company, but now as the helm of Golden Feather Entertainment, he needs to support the entire company.
But from Li Jianhua's perspective, it is clear that he doesn't have the ability to cover the bottom line, at least not now.

The plan to introduce Hallyu was finalized by Li Jianhua. However, now that he is facing a huge signing fee and a star contract loss, he must bear the main responsibility.

On the other hand, on Li Xingruo's side, after leaving Golden Feather Entertainment, new songs came one after another.

Relying on Zhang Songnian's lyrics and composition, he forcibly turned the hit song list and new song list into his own list.

During these two months, Li Jianhua thought about it more than once, if he could keep Zhang Songnian in Jinyu Entertainment, what kind of situation Jinyu Entertainment would go to now.

However, there is no regret medicine in this world.

Li Jianhua has been very anxious these days, and the board of directors has become more and more dissatisfied with him during this period.

And Li Shouzhao also expressed disappointment with his ability in this position.

When Li Jianhua hadn't completely taken over his position, he actually performed well. At least Li Shouzhao believed that he was good enough to take over Jin Yu, a company.

However, when he was in charge of the company, Li Jianhua made many decisions that dissatisfied the board members more than once.

Li Shouzhao also realized that he might have been too sloppy at the beginning, but things have reached this point, his health is deteriorating, and there is no room for maneuver.

Even if Li Jianhua is really not good enough to steer the big ship of Golden Feather Entertainment, then Li Shouzhao must find a way to let him stabilize the shaking ship first.

Fortunately, it seems that Li Jianhua himself has figured it out and realized the importance of Zhang Songnian. This is the most gratifying thing for Li Shouzhao.

Although the process was a bit tortuous, the price paid was also a bit higher.

But as long as Zhang Songnian doesn't let go of this thread, no matter how bad Jin Yu is, he won't fall out of the ranks of the three major companies.

The only good thing is that Li Shouzhao saved a hand back then.

At the very least, the friendship between Zhang Songnian and the company was maintained, so that the two sides did not drift away.

But this friendship has been a little bit unmaintainable since the last time I had a disagreement with Zhang Songnian on the adaptation of a martial arts novel.

Fortunately, in another village, when Li Jianhua was still thinking about how to communicate with Zhang Songnian about the copyright issue, the other party came to him instead.

Both Li Jianhua and Li Zhengming felt a pity that Zhang Songnian had planned to cooperate with Menghua Entertainment for the trilogy of Shooting the Condors.

In fact, before the cooperation between Menghua Entertainment and Zhang Songnian was confirmed, Li Jianhua had been hesitating whether to find Zhang Songnian to re-communicate about the copyright matter, to see if there was room for maneuver or something. Now it seems that this is obviously not necessary. .

However, when he learned that Zhang Songnian wanted to make "Infernal Affairs" into a series of films and planned to seek cooperation from the company, Li Jianhua was still relieved.

Zhang Songnian's mind is obviously much wider than he imagined. Although the cooperation intention of the Condor Shooting Trilogy has not been reached, but at present, Zhang Songnian does not seem to have the idea of ​​alienating Jinyu Entertainment because of this matter.

Because expectations are relatively low, and the case of Tan Beng's adaptation of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was preceded, Golden Feather Entertainment did not put on airs this time.

And it doesn't make any sense for this cooperation to be a tripartite cooperation, so I readily agreed.

Zhang Songnian was in charge of the content, Qu Xueyan was in charge of the director, and Golden Feather Entertainment was in charge of everything else. In the end, the revenue was calculated according to the box office revenue, and the agreement between the three parties was unexpectedly smooth.

This almost top-notch project in all aspects of the entertainment industry was born hastily. (end of this chapter)