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Zhou Hao readily agreed to Teng Huatao's budget of three million, and also allowed a 30% overspending margin during filming. This made Teng Huatao feel relieved. A three million investment and a maximum budget of three million nine hundred thousand were enough for him to make this movie.

After confirming the production cost, Zhou Hao asked Teng Huatao what his requirements were for his director's salary. He thought for a long time and asked for 100,000.

One hundred thousand yuan is neither high nor low compared to Teng Huatao's current fame. Zhou Hao does not have a deep feeling for Teng Huatao, but if he can really shoot commercial love movies earlier, he may also be able to shoot some high-grossing movies in the future, so Zhou Hao intends to sign him to Haobo Technology.

If he wants to sign, he has to do it as soon as possible. If he waits until he finishes filming Those Years, I'm afraid his value will go up. So Zhou Hao immediately said to Teng Huatao, "How about this, if you are interested in Haobo Image, sign a long-term contract with us. Starting from this movie, the director's fee for the first movie is 50 yuan, and each subsequent movie will increase by % based on the previous one. In addition, I promise to invest in a movie for you every year. As for your TV series, we will not interfere. You can take on the film on your own. What do you think?"

Zhou Hao doubled Teng Huatao's director's fee, which shocked Teng Huatao. However, the most important reason that made him overjoyed was not that the director's fee had doubled, but that Zhou Hao was willing to invest in one of his movies every year.

Generally, directors who mainly direct TV dramas do not have much influence in the film industry. For a director like Teng Huatao, it is good enough to have the opportunity to make a big movie every two or three years. Moreover, the scripts that come to him may not be good, nor may they be big productions. However, the ultimate dream of every director is to make a big movie, because this is the highest level in the film and television entertainment industry. As a director, who doesn’t want more opportunities to make movies? Moreover, slightly famous directors will hardly take on TV dramas. Even those who started out as TV drama directors and later made achievements in the field of film directing will never go back to make TV dramas. That is, every director regards movies as the ultimate pursuit.

The same goes for Teng Huatao. He also hopes to have more opportunities to make movies and become a first-line film director, but opportunities are hard to find. Now Haobo Yingxiang has extended an olive branch to him. Faced with the attraction of making a movie every year, he agreed without hesitation, "Mr. Zhou, how many years can we sign?"

Teng Huatao wanted to sign the contract for as long as possible, but he also knew that the director's fee Zhou Hao gave him had a 1.5-fold increase. If he signed the contract for too long, the director's fee would be sky-high later on, so Zhou Hao probably wouldn't sign the contract with him for too long.

Zhou Hao roughly calculated that if the coefficient was 1.5, Teng Huatao's directing fee for his first film would be 20, 30 for the second, and 45 for the third… If inflation and his growing fame were taken into account, the overall increase would not be high and might even be a bit low. However, this was also the benefit of signing a long-term contract. At least for Teng Huatao right now, the price was still very attractive.

So Zhou Hao said to him, "How about this, let's sign a five-year contract first. After five years and five films, if we are happy with the cooperation, we can set a new standard."

Teng Huatao immediately said, "Okay! Mr. Zhou, I'll sign it!"

Teng Huatao had also heard of Zhou Hao, and Ning Hao had also introduced Zhou Hao's current industry to him. Haobo Yingxiang had the backing of Haobo Technology, which was a good opportunity for him. As a director, he was very sensitive to box office, ratings, and coverage. If he signed with Haobo Yingxiang, it would be equivalent to finding a strong potential user group for future movies. In the future, if Haobo Technology used PP to promote Haobo Yingxiang's movies, it would be a sure win.

Speaking of PP, Teng Huatao also highly respects it and is the most loyal user of PP and a loyal member of PP. This is because he has established several work groups in the industry. Communication groups, talent recruitment, and preparation for team building can all be handled in the groups. It is the best choice to improve work efficiency and promote resource integration. Therefore, he also highly respects PP. Signing a contract with Haobo Yingxiang can also bring him a strong sense of belonging.

After talking about the long-term contract with Teng Huatao, Zhou Hao was in a very good mood. He said to Teng Huatao: "I want to make this movie a benchmark for Chinese campus romance movies, so that all future movies of the same type will not be able to catch up. So you must spend more time to shoot the purest, most natural, most resonant youth love, and it must be unconventional."

Teng Huatao nodded and said very seriously: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhou, I understand."

Zhou Hao smiled slightly, "You don't have to worry about the music of this movie. Dream Era and Chen Qi will both sing a theme song for this movie."

Teng Huatao asked happily: "Are they all willing to lend their voices to this film?"

Zhou Hao said with certainty: "That's right."

Teng Huatao certainly knew the fame of Dream Era and Chen Qi. Apart from anything else, it can be seen from the popularity of the micro-film "Old Boy". The original soundtrack of "Old Boy" is still very popular, which also greatly promoted the movie.

Zhou Hao's idea was to give the song "Those Years" to Dream Era, with Pei Feihong as the lead singer, as the first theme song of the movie, because there is no other song more suitable as the theme song of this movie.

In addition, Zhou Hao also wanted to bring in "The First Day" for Chen Qi, because the lyrics of that song are very good, not only in line with the movie, but also in line with the tone of filming in summer. "Those Years" was originally a love story that took place in summer, with summer rain, summer cicadas, ignorant men and women in summer, and the pure and beautiful love in summer, which fits the theme perfectly!

As for the other interludes, it’s easy. We can just find two more suitable songs for Pei Feihong or Chen Qi.

Teng Huatao signed a five-year, five-film contract the day after they met, and then entered the preparation stage for filming. Zhou Hao did not ask for too much, but only reminded him to find the most beautiful middle schools and universities as filming locations. Zhou Hao preferred Ludao, where the summer was breathtakingly beautiful, especially several schools, which were famous throughout the country for their beautiful scenery.

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After Zhou Hao finalized the production of "Those Years", Chen Qi also returned from Hong Kong.

This time Chen Qi stayed in Hong Kong for a week. During this period, Zhang Guorong and Mo Wenwei took her to meet many influential people in Hong Kong's entertainment and music circles, laying a solid foundation for Chen Qi's future development in Hong Kong. She also tried singing several times in the recording studios of several music producers, which amazed many people.

Zhang Guorong let her go back only after she had met almost all the people she could meet. During these days, Zhang Guorong and Mo Wenwei had developed a love for Chen Qi, so much so that when Mo Wenwei sent Chen Qi back to Beijing, she was reluctant to part with her and hugged her and cried at the airport.

The night she came back, Chen Lan specially invited Zhou Hao to come over, and the two sisters treated Zhou Hao to dinner together. To Chen Lan, her sister's current situation was all thanks to Zhou Hao's help, so she was very grateful to Zhou Hao. Not to mention Chen Qi, who almost treated Zhou Hao as her own parent and was even more obedient than her parents.

Zhou Hao was happy for Chen Qi when he heard her talk about what she had seen and heard in Hong Kong. He said to her, "I wrote two new songs for you, one in Cantonese and one in Mandarin. When you have time, we can sort out these two songs and try to record them as soon as possible."

Chen Qi was stunned and said, "Brother Zhou Hao, you wrote a new song for me again? And a Cantonese song? Did you write it too?"

Zhou Hao nodded: "You have to release your first album within this year, and you have to prepare at least eight songs. I also arranged a movie for you during the summer vacation, which is the campus romance movie I told you about before."

Chen Qi said shyly: "Brother Zhou Hao, you are so nice to me... even better than my sister..."

Chen Lan on the side was unhappy and pouted, "You ungrateful little bastard, you keep telling me how good your brother Zhou Hao is to you, have you forgotten all the good things I've done to you over the years?"

Chen Qi giggled, "How could that be, sister? You are also very good to me, but you are different from Brother Zhou Hao."