Bright Era of China Entertainment

The early morning in China is the afternoon in Los Angeles.

The sunshine outside is warm, but you can't feel it in the studio.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were filming in the studio. The crew had already moved to the fifth studio in the park, and they were getting closer to completing the filming of the thirteen studios.

During the past few days of the domestic promotion of "Legend of Red Flame", under the control of Tang Jili and the joint efforts of the actors and various team members, the filming progress of the film was obviously very efficient.

Regarding the heated discussion caused by the domestic drama, the young couple watched it in the first two days and stopped paying attention.

They never imagined that many viewers would already regard "Legend of Red Flame" as a sweet drama.

If they knew it, the young couple would definitely be speechless.

The male and female protagonists never meet each other throughout the play, and there are no emotional scenes. Although love is not mentioned anywhere, and the plot arises because of love, all this has nothing to do with the word "sweet".

If you see the comments from the audience, they will burst out laughing.

"Crack."

"knock off."

After hearing Tang Jili's words, Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and the crew stopped in the studio.

The young couple took a sip of the mineral water handed over by Zeng Ni, then took a towel to wipe the sweat on their faces, and walked towards the director's team.

It has been a month and a half since the filming started. Some of the actors' scenes have been completed, and their respective assistant teams have returned home with the actors.

The actors who still have roles have already become accustomed to the working conditions here after this period of filming, and they no longer come to visit the studio every day even if they don't have roles some time ago.

Today, the atmosphere of the crew is no longer so lively. There is no longer the scene of large crowds of people watching whenever someone is filming a few days ago. There are only actors in twos and threes watching and learning. This is also the normal situation after everything on the crew is completely on track.

"Director Tang, are you finishing work so early today?" Liu Yifei came to the director's team and asked, changing back into normal clothes with Chu Xuan from the makeup studio.

"Today's plans are all settled. Let's go have a meal together and talk a little bit. We won't work overtime tonight." Tang Jili said, picked up the thermos cup and drank some water, then walked out with the young couple.

Liu Yifei smoothed her hair and glanced at Chu Xuan, Tang Jili wanted to tell them something?
Chu Xuan shook his head. He didn't know what Tang Jili was going to say.

With a little curiosity, the young couple followed Tang Jili out of the studio, got in the car and headed towards the hotel.

But along the way, Liu Yifei glanced at Chu Xuan secretly from time to time, with a faint smile in the corner of her eyes.

It's a pity that Chu Xuan didn't notice it, otherwise he would have noticed that this girlfriend must have some hidden agenda from him.

The group of people arrived at the hotel and took the elevator to the hotel restaurant floor. Liu Yifei stepped out of the elevator and put her arm on Chu Xuan's arm and said, "I don't know when Sister Hua and the others will come over."

As soon as these words came out, Chu Xuan didn't feel anything was wrong, but Tang Jili, who was walking in front, turned to look at Liu Yifei. The interesting look in their eyes seemed to be full of fun.

"It should be within the next few days." Chu Xuan said.

Macron and his wife arrived in Beijing on the second day of the Lantern Festival. Sister Hua talked with them about cooperation for more than ten days. In the end, both parties reached a consensus that was satisfactory to them.

Just wait for Sister Hua and the others to come to Los Angeles and visit Macron's company. If there are no problems, this cross-border cooperation will be formally signed and a contract in compliance with international law will be announced.

I got the news from Sister Hua that Macron and his wife had returned to Los Angeles two days ago, and they should be making preparations to welcome Sister Hua. After Sister Hua and the others have made preparations, they will probably come over in the next few days.

The young couple followed Tang Jili to the door of a private room. As soon as Tang Jili opened the door, Chu Xuan was startled by a "bang", and he heard a burst of cheers coming from the private room.

"Happy birthday!"

The fluttering catkins sprinkled all over the sky. Chu Xuan touched his head to clean the fluttering catkins from his hair, looking confused.

Chu Xuan looked around and saw that in addition to his mother-in-law, Sister Hua, Han Sanping, Chen Kaige, Zhang Jizhong and Liu Yi were also present.

Chu Xuan immediately turned to look at Liu Yifei, who pursed her lips and smiled.

Just now he asked him when Sister Hua would come, but it turned out that Sister Hua was waiting for him in the box.

He still couldn't react, Liu Yifei was deliberately deceiving him.

However, he also knew that this was a birthday surprise for him.

"Isn't it tomorrow?" Chu Xuan was a little embarrassed. Although the people in front of him were all familiar, firstly, they were all elders. Secondly, they suddenly appeared from the capital to celebrate his birthday, which made him act a little bit. Shy.

Liu Xiaoli smiled slightly: "Silly boy, March 3th in Los Angeles is March 4th in China. Do you think it's today or tomorrow?"

Chu Xuan has now remembered his birthday on March 3th. He has a girlfriend at home who celebrates his birthday every year, but he still can't remember it.

But after arriving in Los Angeles, the time on his mobile phone and computer was adjusted to the local time, so he just went with the flow and thought his birthday was tomorrow, forgetting about the time difference with China.

Today is March 3th in Los Angeles and March 4th in China. Today is indeed my birthday.

"Sister, thank you." Chu Xuan and Wang Jinhua hugged.

He guessed that it was his girlfriend and mother-in-law's idea to celebrate his birthday, but he thought that Sister Hua and the others also came here in advance for his birthday. Otherwise, Sister Hua and the others wouldn't have to do this when the Macrons had only returned to Los Angeles for a few days. Rushed to Los Angeles anxiously.

"Thank you, happy birthday." Wang Jinhua patted Chu Xuan on the back.

Normally, if it was a small birthday and the situation was cross-border, they might just send blessings over the phone.

But the current situation is that they happened to come to Los Angeles to inspect Macron Film and Television, and they happened to learn that Chu Xuan's birthday was approaching. The time was right, so they came a few days in advance to celebrate her brother's birthday.

"Third brother, Brother Zhang, Brother Kai, teacher, Brother Liu, Brother Ye." Chu Xuan greeted them one by one.

"Mr. Meng, Mr. Zheng, Mr. Shi." He greeted the three company channel shareholders.

Han Sanping, Zhang Jizhong, Chen Kaige and the three bosses came over. He had known for a long time that he needed their help in the negotiations with Macron.

Liu Yi and Ye Junxi, two gold medal screenwriters, came over. This was unexpected to him, but thinking that in the proposed cooperation with Macron, there would be matters related to adapting the film and television rights of the novel into a script, so these two and Sister Hua came over to make arrangements. It's to help control this aspect.

"Happy birthday," a group of people said.

Chu Xuan said with a slight sense of vanity: "A group of big guys are celebrating my birthday. This is the rhythm that will make me expand to the sky."

Wang Jinhua joked: "Indeed, if you let these teachers and bosses celebrate your birthday, you will be No. 1 in the entire entertainment industry."

Everyone laughed. Aside from Liu Yifei's 20th birthday, it was almost impossible for them to celebrate a junior birthday who was not a family member.

But Chu Xuan's business achievements and abilities were beyond words to express their praise for, and they were definitely fully appreciative of them.

When they heard that Wang Jinhua was going to come early to celebrate Chu Xuan's birthday, they didn't have the arrogance of elders towards juniors in terms of etiquette, and came together happily.

Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, and Tang Jili sat down on the sofa, and everyone else was also sitting on the sofa. The food had not yet been served on the table, so it was obviously not time for dinner.

There were two wine tables in the private room. Chu Xuan thought that his mother-in-law must have called Chenglong and the others. Chenglong and the others hadn't come yet, so the only people there were from the Bright Era. They obviously had something to say before the meal.

"Longyou went online on February 2th, the first day of the Lunar New Year. As of today, March 7th in China, the exact revenue has not been calculated yet, but I checked the backend data and it was about 3 million. "Wang Jinhua crossed her legs and gave an overview of the situation on Longyou Platform this month.

When she spoke, she looked at Chu Xuan with strange eyes from time to time.

Chu Xuan understood instantly and said: "So many!"

He shook his head: "I didn't expect it at all."

He looked at the crowd and said: "Before Longyou Company was founded, Liu Yifei and I had no confidence that it would be successful." "As luck would have it, Longyou Company has achieved good results, and Sister Hua and I also discussed selling Longyou shares. The matter of share swap and merger with Bright Times.”

“When Bright Times was first established, thanks to the help of teachers and bosses, the development of Bright Times was able to go smoothly.”

"We are a unit. When Longyou Company stabilizes and is qualified for valuation, Liu Yifei and Hua Jie and I will discuss converting Longyou's output value into the output value of Brilliant Era."

The dividends of Longyou shares are very tempting. Some time ago, Wang Jinhua told all shareholders about the transformation of output value.

But after all, Bright Times only occupies a small part of the equity, and the shareholders present may have a distrustful attitude.

Now all the shareholders of Brilliant Era are present, and everyone knows that the brother and sister Wang Jinhua and Chu Xuan are cooperating.

But after hearing Chu Xuan admit this matter personally, the bosses nodded slightly, approved of Chu Xuan's words, and felt completely relieved.

"I think that if Longyou's capital chain is guaranteed, the company can do more things." Tang Jili said.

Compared with Zhang Jizhong and Chen Kaige, Tang Jili has been involved in Haolaiwu since the 80s. His thoughts and structure concepts are more macro. Based on the fact that the Longyou platform may bring a huge capital chain to the brilliant era, he can think of plans. It's longer term.

"For example, the foundation of the film and television industry." Tang Jili looked at Chu Xuan and Wang Jinhua and said: "Since Brilliant Era is going to take the blockbuster route, it must have its own high-end studio, and high-end studios must have high-end equipment. and top talent in every department on the show.”

"Due to limitations of funding and market demand, there is no domestic studio with a full industry structure that can complete a special effects blockbuster. We can consider setting up such a factory."

"The first is to save film production costs, the second is that it is no longer restricted by foreign equipment, and the third is that it can develop in line with the film and television industrialization plan of the Brilliant Era."

After hearing Tang Jili's thoughts, except for the three ignorant bosses, Han Sanping, Chen Kaige and Zhang Jizhong all looked thoughtful.

To build a high-end studio, to put it bluntly, you need funds.

Whether it’s high-end equipment or top-notch crew talent, it all requires money.

Chen Kaige still remembers his "The Promise". Regardless of whether it was a bad movie or not, most of the post-production at that time was assisted by the production team from the island country.

The same goes for Tang Ji-ri and Seung-ryong's "Myth". The post-production was assisted by a South Korean production team.

Why not use domestic people?Because there is no such top production team in China.

Now that Bright Times has further financial resources, they feel that the company has the qualifications to form a top studio.

At this point, Chu Xuan spoke out about the topics he had discussed with Sister Hua in the past.

"Sister Hua and I have discussed before that we should split up the film and television company, and separate the original painting team, modeling team, special effects team, rendering team, and editing team into the studio."

"The Literature Department, led by teachers Liu Ge and Ye Ge, has newly established a screenwriting and film factory."

"The film and television company only retains the producer, director, and crew, and completely separates script planning, film and television shooting, and post-production and operates independently."

"Every link is detailed and efficient to achieve a film and television industry system that is in line with my country's national conditions and market needs."

"That's right." Hearing Chu Xuan's words, Han Sanping smiled and agreed: "The biggest drawback of the domestic director-centered system is that the director can control all aspects of film and television production, but the director may not necessarily be proficient in the essence of all production links. .”

"I have long wanted to separate the various aspects of film and television production, but this is a big deal and I am not the only one who has the final say at China Film."

"Our bright era is different. You, brother and sister, have the final say. This provides a prerequisite for conducting experiments."

Everyone nodded, especially Chen Kaige, Tang Jili and Zhang Jizhong. They had dealt with Han Sanping for many years and knew very well that Han Sanping's concept and pursuit was the industrialization of film and television.

As Han Sanping said, it is really a big deal to industrialize the national entertainment industry in film and television.

The lack of cooperation from the capital market and the ambiguous attitude of relevant departments have resulted in Han Sanping's pursuit never being realized.

Chu Xuan and Wang Jinhua, the current controllers of Brilliant Era, are willing to spend money on it. This is the main reason why Han Sanping has always supported Brilliant Era.

Wang Jinhua said: "If we successfully reach a cooperation with Macron, with their equipment support, special effects technical support, and the funds provided by Longyou, it will not be a problem for the company to establish a top studio, but everything will have to wait for Longyou to stabilize Come down..."

She paused and glanced at Liu Yifei: "We will wait until Mr. Liu successfully acquires shares."

She smiled and said: "After all, our subsequent capital supply chain will still depend on Mr. Chu and Mr. Liu's follow-up plans based on Longyou."

Follow-up plan? ...Everyone looked at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei. Do you have any plans after Longyou Platform?

They were a little unbelievable, but when they heard what Wang Jinhua said, they could only choose to believe it, and their hearts were filled with excitement.

The Longyou platform has made so much money, how much can it make in the follow-up plan?
At this moment, they had no objections to Liu Yifei's investment in Brilliant Times.

Liu Yifei pursed her lips and smiled. She and Chu Xuan looked at each other. The young couple also knew that Sister Hua was speaking for them.

"Okay, now that we have a rough plan, we can talk about these things later." Wang Jinhua said.

She looked at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, and changed the subject: "I'll tell you good news."

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked at Sister Hua with curiosity.

"This year's Cannes Film Festival will be held in April, and your film "Hope" was successfully shortlisted," said Wang Jinhua.

Liu Yifei was startled and said overjoyed: "It's true!"

Chu Xuan's face was full of smile: "Short film competition unit?"

Wang Jinhua nodded: "There are a total of twelve short films shortlisted, and "Hope" is one of them."

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, news came from the film and television company that "Hope" was successfully selected for the short film competition unit of this year's Cannes Film Festival, becoming one of the twelve outstanding short films shortlisted from around the world.

Among them, the recommendation of Beijing Film Academy and Han Sanping were inevitable.

The first prerequisite for being selected for Cannes is that the film must be recommended by an internationally renowned director, producer or school-level organizing committee. Individuals or companies cannot apply.

If you want to be selected, operation is indispensable.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei are outstanding students of Beiying Film, Bright Times also cooperates with Beiying, and Han Sanping's Huaying is a shareholder of Bright Times. These factors are the reasons why "Hope" can successfully apply for the Cannes Film Festival.

Chen Kaige added: "Cannes is different from domestic film festivals. Domestic film festivals vote in advance by the organizing committee, while Cannes votes during the festival."

"From the screening of each competition unit, film selection to the final winner, the time period for each event is fixed for twelve days."

"Your "Hope" will be voted on from the first day until it reaches the finals. If it finally wins, it will become the screening gift film at the closing ceremony of Cannes and win the gold medal."

"Come on, this is the first domestic science fiction short film selected for Cannes, which is very meaningful." Tang Jili encouraged.

"Come on, you represent China." Zhang Jizhong said with a smile.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked at each other. This sudden good news made them both a little excited, but it also carried some high expectations, which made them feel some pressure.

But it's always a good thing to be shortlisted, and they feel very happy.

"Director Tang, let's arrange the time when we have time." Liu Xiaoli said. As the male and female protagonists, the two children must go to Cannes. This twelve-day period must also be arranged in advance. If it does not delay the filming progress, it will be the best.

"Okay, I'll take a look at the shooting plan tomorrow." Tang Jili nodded.

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door, and Chenglong, Hui Yinghong, Zou Zhaolong, An Zhijie and others walked in.

"Xuanzi, happy birthday!" (End of chapter)