She dominates the entertainment industry with her disaster system

The subject matter of the script of "Spring Trees and Evening Clouds" is very good, and Su Lingxi also hopes to participate in the production of a high-quality drama that is perfect in all aspects.

——But the premise of all this is that she must be given enough space to play her personal role.

"I think it's just like what Teacher Shu said. Weiwei and I definitely can't play the protagonist's childhood scenes. It's not suitable for us to play them. It's better to replace it with a young actor. Maybe they can better show the bond between the two protagonists in their childhood." After thinking about it carefully, Su Lingxi said sincerely, "As long as the proportion of the roles can be controlled well, it's OK on my side."

Shu Wan glanced at her calmly and added, "You can rest assured about this. I have thought about it in advance. If it is arranged properly, the two young actors' roles will not exceed two episodes."

Su Lingxi didn't bother to argue about the truthfulness of her words - a good screenwriter and director can make the most of every frame, and she had read the original novel. Two episodes totaling 90 minutes were more than enough to tell the story of the little protagonist.

She was more concerned about another problem. "The Xiyuan Town described in the novel is a place of poverty and chaos, with dilapidated and backward villages and infrastructure that remains at the industrial level of the last century... It would not be easy to achieve these scenes through set design."

For life dramas and period dramas, whether or not the restored scenes can bring an immersive sense of involvement to the audience is a crucial factor in attracting the audience to watch the drama.

Although Su Lingxi is only a semi-professional in the directing field, he is also aware of this.

"Of course, of course, Xiao Su, I've already read the original novel for the fourth time. The importance of Xiyuan Town to the two protagonists is beyond doubt." Song Ping laughed and spun his teacup, looking confident. "For such an important scene, of course we have to find a special filming location and rebuild it ourselves to truly achieve the effect of scene restoration."

"Yes, in order to rebuild the scene, Director Song specially took the team to the suburbs to find a filming site of more than two hectares. It is only a two-hour drive from us. It has a large space and the price is cheap." Shu Wan was unambiguous when it came to praising people.

As she praised him, Song Ping's smile became more obvious. "At the beginning of last month, I asked the art director to bring a group of staff to start the renovation in advance. I estimate that the set will be completed by the end of next month."

It is not uncommon for a film crew to rebuild the set one-to-one for filming, but it is rare for a set to take more than a hundred days to build.

Su Lingxi silently calculated that if the set could not be completed until the end of next month, then the opening ceremony would probably have to be postponed again.

Assuming that filming officially starts in October, the crew's public training stated that the filming period is 10 days, which means that her drama will take nearly 200 months to shoot, and it is very likely that it will not be completed until next summer...

In this unknown situation, it is hard for her not to worry about her schedule - she is determined to get the leading role in Li Shuo's new film, and will fly to New York this weekend for an audition, but the filming team and the start time of this film are all undecided. Even if she wants to make time for it, she doesn't know where to start...

"Joey recently took a fancy to a commercial romance film called The Death of Romanticism. He said he hopes you can take some time to look at this project. If it's okay, he wants to take over and let Sunrise be responsible for the production and distribution of this film." On the way to the airport, Yang Qian checked her emails while simply relaying the information to Su Lingxi, "I've seen the cast of the film. The director is not very famous, the actors are not very famous, their acting skills are acceptable, and the investment is not large. This is a project introduced by Kevin Dean."

For Columbia Pictures, this is just a "side project" with a small investment of tens of millions. They are fully willing to cooperate with other small companies in investment.

But for Sunrise, whether it can make a profit through such an ordinary film with common themes in the market also reflects the company's ability to some extent - if a film company wants to gain a foothold in the industry, it must have the means to make profits from stable projects.

No company in Hollywood expects to achieve instant success with just one movie. That idea is simply unprofessional.

"Has Joey been busy with this matter recently? Did he mention how much money he plans to invest?" Although a little tired, Su Lingxi still forced herself to cheer up and asked.

Now Sunrise has not established its own core distribution team and has not recruited many talents. Almost all the available people are provided by Kevin Cowan, but his people are always more or less involved with Columbia Pictures, and some issues that are too in-depth can only be decided by themselves.

For example, in the early stage of project screening, it is not easy to select profitable projects from so many investment projects and allow small companies like Sunrise to join the investment. Su Lingxi was busy with trivial matters related to college graduation, and Ruan Tang and Eva were busy with the distribution matters of Hengsheng Pictures, so these tasks were almost all done by Joey alone, and Kevin could only find time to lend a hand occasionally.

To put it bluntly, Sunrise has not even had time to screen its talents. Its management team is almost non-existent, and the position of CEO has been vacant. It all depends on a few shareholders to do it themselves, which is basically no different from a makeshift team.

If Joey hadn't studied business administration before, and if Simon hadn't been in Spain for a closed-door filming during this period and didn't need him following around, there would probably be no one who could do anything now.

"Well... he and Kevin both expect to keep the investment around 6 million. If the overall budget of the film increases due to the actors' salaries, they will make additional investments based on the situation." Yang Qian said, "At this stage, the film's budget is only around 1,500. Our investment accounts for a large proportion, and we have a certain say in the project."

"If it's just a romance film, we can hire some good and cheap actors to play the leading roles. This amount should be enough." Su Lingxi pondered for a moment and opened the script again. "Tell Kevin to find a way to lower their pay. If we can't lower it, we can go to New York to find more suitable actors in person later."

She has not starred in any Hollywood movie yet, and her status and fame are very insignificant. Ordinary C-list actors probably wouldn't want to be picked and chosen by her.

But Kevin Cowan is different - with his identity and fame, he is the perfect person to play the role of a "bad guy".