After finishing the call, Zhang Yuan returned to the dining table.

"Dandan, your last advertising fee will be credited to your account soon."

Zhao Xunxun immediately stood up and bowed to express her gratitude. Her movement was so big that her neat ponytail flew into the air.

"Thank you, Brother Zhang Yuan!"

[Received thanks from Zhao Xinxin, martial arts foundation +1! ]

Look, this girl is a real person.

What he said was consistent with what he did, which was quite refreshing.

"What money?" Liu Qianqian turned her head and asked her "stand-in".

When Zhao Xinxin told the story, everyone else felt that Zhang Yuan was a good person who always thought of his friends first when doing good things.

For actors like them, eight thousand may not be a lot of money.

But for a martial arts school student like Zhao Xunxun, this is already a huge sum of money.

Only Liu Xiaoli looked surprised.

"His endorsement fee is no less than Sissi's!"

Aunt Liu knew very well what level her daughter was at.

That’s how much resources are piled up!

It’s better now. In the early days, most of the advertisements were obtained through the relationship with the Godfather.

So in the past two years, Boss Chen basically made losses.

But Boss Chen comes from a real estate background and knows the importance of initial investment.

Look, we have already started to make profits this year.

Especially after Liu Xixi was confirmed to play the role of Xiaolongnu, she has been receiving continuous commercial endorsements.

But all this is subject to the prerequisites mentioned above.

Huge amounts of money and connections were thrown into it.

But Zhang Yuan was just a self-employed man after all, yet he was comparable to his "expensively raised" daughter.

How could Liu Xiaoli not be surprised?

"He is so awesome." Even the well-informed Aunt Liu found that she seemed to have never seen another young man like Zhang Yuan.

After dinner, I started working.

Others couldn't notice it, but Liu Xiaoli noticed at a glance that Yu Min looked downcast and listless today.

Obviously, he was severely criticized by the bearded man.

Liu Xiaoli found it funny when she saw his expression.

A big director has no way to deal with a young actor.

Thinking about it this way, I feel that Zhang Yuan is an amazing guy and I like him more.

On the other side, Zhang Yuan was lying on the cold jade bed.

He said that Xiaolongnu should sleep on the cold jade bed in Gong Han's house.

This broken thing is made of blue plastic and has LED lights inside. After Zhang Yuan lay down on it, he didn't dare to move much for fear of collapsing it.

On the other side, Liu Xixi was "sleeping" on a hemp rope as thick as a Northeastern garlic sausage.

Of course, he was hanging on wires.

This is still a martial arts novel. Who in their right mind can sleep on a rope?

The two of them maintained their own state, speaking their lines while filming.

During the half-time break, Zhang Yuan noticed that Liu Qianqian looked a little unnatural.

"What's wrong? Is your butt itchy?" he walked forward and asked.

Liu Qianqian rubbed her hip with one hand and glanced at him.

"That hemp rope always..."

"Old what?"

"It's so annoying." Liu Qianqian said in a low voice with a red face.

It won’t rub your butt.

"Have you never worn a thong?" Zhang Yuan thought, isn't that also a rope?

"No..." She answered in a mosquito-like voice, shaking her head slightly.

Her underwear is still bought by her mother, so how could she buy such mature things?

Of course, it is not clear whether Liu Xiaoli herself has Zhang Yuan.

This girl has a lot of projects to be developed... Zhang Yuan smiled and stretched out his hand.

"Xian, you know I can give massages."

"How about I help you press it."

"Uh-huh!"

Just as Zhang Yuan was flexing his fingers and Liu Qianqian was blushing in a dilemma, a very loud cough came from behind them.

Liu Xiaoli looked at Zhang Yuan with a stern face.

I just liked it, but now I don’t like it anymore.

"Let me massage your neck. Your wig is so heavy, your neck must be sore." Zhang Yuan quickly changed the topic.

"Oh." Liu Qianqian turned her head. She did have a sore neck recently.

"Press it after the show is over. I'm going to memorize my lines first." Zhang Yuan felt Liu Xiaoli's lioness-like gaze behind him and quickly ran away.

Halfway through the run, he quickly walked back and whispered something in Liu Qianqian's ear.

"Put some toilet paper on it."

After saying that, he walked away quickly again.

"Hey." Xiao Longnu replied softly with a smile.

Liu Xiaoli looked at her daughter's dazed look and rubbed her brows in worry.

"If I wasn't there, one of them would really dare to rub it, and the other would really dare to be rubbed."

Looking back, I saw my girl covering her head with a gauze dress, stretching out her arms, jumping around like a zombie.

Everyone around her looked at her as if she were a fool.

Only Zhang Yuan covered his chest and pretended to be frightened and played with her.

If you keep coaxing him like this, it would be strange if he doesn't like him.

She is no longer afraid of thieves, but now she is afraid that the Husky will open the door for the thieves!

The next day, in the morning.

Early in the morning, Zhang Yuan received a call from Zhao Yanmin, the boss of Hairun Pictures.

"Hello, Mr. Zhao."

Zhang Yuan exchanged pleasantries with the other party.

And Boss Zhao was also very polite to him.

Of course you’re welcome!

Zhang Yuan is one of the hottest young actors nowadays.

Hairun Pictures is actually a comprehensive film and television company that produces and manages films, just like Ciwen and Huayi.

Zhang Yuan had said long ago that this type of comprehensive company has great disadvantages.

Huayi suffered great losses after Wang Jinhua left.

Hairun Pictures also suffered this disaster later.

Who is the current “number one lady” of Hairun?
Of course it’s Sun Li, the nationally famous “Empress” who starred in “Jade Guanyin”!

If we talk about the “number one brother”, it should be Liu Ye.

In fact, all of these people made their fortune by discovering Jiang Wenli, a contracted artist of Chang Jihong, another well-known female agent in the entertainment industry.

Later, Chang Jihong "jumped to" Star Media, the same company that Liu Qianqian's former agent Liu Yonghui jumped to.

Sun Li and others were also taken away, causing serious damage to Hairun.

But these are all things of the past. Hairun Pictures is still very powerful now, and its strength in the TV drama circle far exceeds that of Huayi.

Knowing that Zhang Yuan took the initiative to contact him and wanted to cooperate, Boss Zhao was naturally happy.

It would be even better if we could accept this "general".

He is also an insider and has heard that Huayi, Ciwen and Chengtian are all interested in this guy.

If I can win it, wouldn't it be very impressive?
So he pulled Zhang Yuan aside and talked a lot, praising Hairun Films to the skies.

Of course Zhang Yuan responded politely.

But I thought that this company's work was really not suitable for me.

Because it is either a romance film or a criminal investigation drama, the extremely famous "Serious Crime Unit 6" is a well-known series of works by Hairun.

The key point is that their company's works are not only slow to shoot and pay little, but there are already a large number of well-known actors occupying the positions, leaving them with no room for operation.

But even so, it is enough to increase the bargaining chips for himself in the negotiation with Huayi.

He was deliberately creating hype to make himself look very popular and that many companies were scrambling to buy him. His contact with Hairun also had this effect.

"Zhang Yuan, how do you plan to cooperate with our company?" "I am personally very sincere, and the company also has several film and television dramas to be filmed, so we can talk about it." This was the first time the other party had contact with him, so naturally he had to throw out a bait.

But whether to accept it or not is his business.

"It's like this, Mr. Zhao, I'm actually a fan of the novel "Bright Sword"."

"I heard that your company is going to adapt "Drawing Sword" into a TV series. Is that true?"

"Yes..." Zhao Yanmin answered hesitantly.

The reason why he felt strange was that he himself was not very optimistic about the drama "Drawing Sword".

He came into contact with this play because by chance he saw the novel while waiting for a flight at the airport.

It happened that the flight to the United States took thirteen hours, so he finished reading the novel of more than 400,000 words on the plane.

After watching it and returning to China, he found someone to buy the copyright.

After learning about the situation, Liu Yanming also felt that he was a bit impulsive at the time.

Because the original author Du Liang wrote a novel for the first time in 00, and the work was "Drawing Sword".

In terms of literary attainments, this book can only be considered third-rate.

But as a novel set against the backdrop of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it is very enjoyable.

After the book was published, the copyright was sold quickly for 18.8 yuan.

A year later, the copyright was bought by a Guangdong company for 60 yuan.

Later, it came into the hands of Liu Yanming, who spent 100 million yuan.

Otherwise, Guazi Second-hand Car would use "No middlemen to make a profit from the price difference" as its advertising slogan.

After purchasing it, Liu Yanming planned to produce and shoot it.

As a result, problems arose and the script failed to pass several reviews.

Because in the second half of the novel, the protagonists' fates are extremely tragic, they really end up dying, fleeing, or getting injured.

Liu Yanming experienced that era and was deeply touched by these events.

He liked the tragic ending of the story.

Moreover, in the novel, the protagonist Li Yunlong swore a lot in the early stages and talked nonsense, which made the army very unhappy.

Liu Yanming was numb.

There are problems in the front and back, how can we shoot?
In fact, this was just bad luck for him, because next year would be the 60th anniversary of the victory of the anti-fascist war. The country attached great importance to the military-themed film and television dramas produced this year, and he was caught in the crossfire.

In the end, we still have to rely on an expert, the screenwriter Jiang Qitao, who later wrote the screenwriter for "The Right Way in the World is Long and Difficult" and "The Young Marshal".

He made major edits and revisions to the work, directly deleting the second half of the content, and slightly restrained the personality of the character Li Yunlong, before it passed review.

The script issue was finally settled, but Liu Yanming was already very tired.

Then it’s time to find actors.

At the beginning, the Li Yunlong in his mind was actually Tang Guoqiang.

He offered the other party a salary of 55 yuan, but Teacher Tang refused.

Later, he increased the offer all the way to 100 million, but the other party still refused.

Teacher Tang felt that this character did not match his own image.

At that time, Mr. Tang had already played a great man, and he felt that if he played a revolutionary soldier with an eccentric personality, the audience would have bad associations.

Veteran artists are still very demanding about the roles they play and are very rigorous in accepting roles.

Liu Yanming felt numb again.

The script I liked got drastically changed, and the actors I wanted refused to act in it.

Looking back now, I feel that I was a little impulsive.

On second thought, this novel might not be that good.

It has come to this point, the copyright fees have been paid, we can’t waste it.

As I just said, next year will be the 60th anniversary of the victory over fascism. While the state has conducted strict review, it has also provided a lot of support.

Then let’s shoot.

In the two years from 04 to 05, Hairun Pictures produced a total of 12 TV series!

When making a movie, you have to invest first and then make the profit. When shooting more than ten movies in succession, the investment is bound to be high and low, some are taken seriously and some are not.

Hairun's mainstay is Hai Yan's dramas, so of course the budget is closely based on Hai Yan's works.

The two Hai Yan dramas cost a budget of more than 30 to 40 million yuan, and the leading actress was the leading actress Sun Li.

Liu Ye was given another role in the drama "Blood Romance". Of course, Sun Li was still the leading female role. Boss Zhao really supports him!

In addition, she has to support Wang Qian, who became famous for "Serious Crime Unit 6". Her husband Xu Qindong is the director of "Serious Crime Unit 6" and has long-term cooperation with Hairun.

After all the calculations, the budget was given to those who wanted to be promoted, and those with connections took it away.

After checking the company's accounts, the budget left for "Drawing Sword" was less than nine million at most.

And more than two million of that was spent on post-production and public relations, which means that the pre-production preparation and filming totaled less than seven million.

You know, two years ago, when the crew of "Conquest" was so poor that there were only a few actors, but it still cost more than four million!

Moreover, Sun Honglei, who had the highest salary in "Conquer", only received more than 20,000 yuan.

The protagonist of "Bright Sword" is Mr. Li Youbin, as well as a group of acting masters including Mr. Lu Fengxian and Zhang Guangbei.

It's not appropriate for you to give Teacher Li tens of thousands of dollars.

Therefore, Mr. Li's pay is 500,000, and the other major well-known actors also received pay ranging from hundreds of thousands to several million.

After deducting the film remuneration, the crew has even less disposable funds.

Moreover, "Drawing Sword" is a war film. With just these few small details, they also have to film the Battle of "Ping'angrad"!

The two directors were so worried that they tried to find ways to get something for free.

The venue is owned by the Bayi Factory.

For the sake of the anti-fascist cause, you, the August 1st Factory, must make a contribution.

There are only two cameras in the crew, one for close-ups and one for long shots.

Even this is it, and it’s still using the Shanghai Film Studio’s machine.

For the sake of the anti-fascist cause, you, the Shanghai Film Studio, must make a contribution.

In the later military academy plot, the school was actually the Shenyang Military Region.

For the sake of the anti-fascist cause, you, the Shenyang Military Region...

After the assistant director and the executive director came to the crew, they hardly did their job duties and just put on military uniforms and made cameo appearances.

The guys who delivered lunch boxes were dragged along to be extras.

I would pull over any dog ​​that passed by to take a few shots.

At that time, there was no exact adjective to describe this behavior.

It came into being in later generations and was called "Sai Guofan".

But even though the crew was so poor, the actors never lowered their standards for performance. That's what professionalism is.

Because the budget was so bleak and there were conflicts over the script and actors, Boss Zhao didn't have high hopes for this play.

Just consider it as completing a political task.

When Boss Zhao heard that Zhang Yuan was a fan of "Drawing Sword", he first felt a sense of closeness as if he had met an old friend in a foreign land.

Then, he started sucking his teeth.

"Zhang Yuan."

"I'm afraid you can't participate in this play."

“Firstly, the budget is relatively small.”

Boss Zhao is not a fool. He has already inquired about Zhang Yuan's worth. Now, if he wants to use him to make a movie, except for abnormal ones like the bearded one, the price basically starts from one million.

"Secondly, there is no suitable role for you."

He also knew that Zhang Yuan mostly played elegant, handsome and cool characters, which did not fit in well with anti-Japanese war films.

"Third, this movie just started shooting, so it's not appropriate to change people at the last minute..."

"Ouch." Zhang Yuan replied with a voice full of regret: "That's troublesome."

“I really like this book.”

"Is there really no way I can help?"

"Is there anything else I can do to help the crew?"

"It seems not." Boss Zhao shook his head.

"Oh, by the way, you just said that this movie has a small budget, how much is it?"

"It's quite difficult." Boss Zhao still said while hugging her.

"Then can I give them some extra money so that they don't have to work so hard?"

"what?"

Zhao Yanmin was stunned.

no……

I've only seen actors come to my company to make money.

I’ve never seen an actor come to my company to give money!
Boss Zhao thought that he might have met a fool... (End of this chapter)