As a strong contender for the "second brother" among mainland young actors, although Huang Xiaoming's influence has declined compared with previous years, in Xu Rong's view, what he lacks is just a good work.

Of course, as a businessman, Liu Yanming values ​​the commercial value that Huang Xiaoming still has more.

Huang Xiaoming's current situation is similar to his. He did not renew his contract with Huayi after the contract expired last year, but he still maintained a good "friendship" with Huayi.

Once Huang Xiaoming becomes a shareholder of Hairun, for investors who are not clear about the situation, their expectations for Hairun's future will be raised immediately.

After all, with the "franchise" of him, Sun Li and Huang Xiaoming, Hairun is only missing a director who can guarantee box office.

And with a large number of Hong Kong and Taiwan directors heading north, this problem seems not to be that difficult to solve.

In fact, Xu Rong did not have much expectations for investing in Hairun.

As he gained deeper understanding of this industry, he gradually realized that the film and television industry is essentially a bet after a game.

Especially in China, film companies rely extremely on box office, box office is everything, box office is the foundation of survival.

If you win three bets, you can continue to sing and make great strides. If you lose continuously, you will be eliminated soon.

Just like five years ago, Hairun was at its peak at that time, and it was the leader of the domestic TV drama industry. Looking at today, it produces hundreds of TV dramas every year, but due to the lack of hits, it has gradually been surpassed by a group of backwards.

Huayi is now in a similar deadlock. In order to keep Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Wen, Huayi seems to have suffered a lot, and in order to maintain the confidence of investors, a group of artists forced to leave one after another.

The ultra-high return on investment is also accompanied by extremely high risks. When the box office is not good, nothing else means anything else.

I didn't go out for lunch, but I just had a meal in the company's cafeteria.

But what was strange was that after the two of them sat down, no one else sat down at a large table that could accommodate more than a dozen people.

Neither of them thought there was anything special about similar phenomena. Liu Yanming had long been used to similar situations, and Xu Rong was also gradually getting used to it.

In fact, even if Liu Yanming didn't look for him, Xu Rong planned to wait for a while to make time to free up and have a good chat with Liu Yanming.

"The food is still a familiar taste, I really miss it."

Listening to Xu Rong's sigh, Liu Yanming smiled and said, "You can get it. You can count the number of times you eat in the company. The chef has changed a lot, and it still has a familiar taste."

Xu Rong laughed and said, "Old Liu, guess how much publicity and promotion I plan to provide to "Beiping"?"

Liu Yanming first shook his head, then said, "What I am curious about is not how much promotion you are worth, but how much did you invest?"

"150 million."

Liu Heping claimed to be 200 million, but Liu Yanming was an acquaintance after all, so he was a little conservative.

Liu Yanming shook his head and said, "It's high. Unless you can guarantee that you will lose at least 50 million unless you can guarantee that you will lose another "Luxing".

"After that being said, really don't vote?" Xu Rong was still a little unwilling to give up. He hadn't even photographed this yet. What if he made money.

Although he still doesn't know how to make money.

"It's not that I don't invest, just calculate it based on what you said before. If you want to make money, you have to sell it for 300 million. Brother, even if you are 4+4 or even 4+6, you may not be able to make it back."

"Don't settle the accounts, I want to withdraw my investment even if you settle it." Xu Rong waved his hand and got to the point, "Guess how much publicity and promotion I plan to provide?"

Liu Yanming raised his eyelids: "More?"

"Thirty million!"

Of course, this number is a bit awesome, because the current promotion and distribution budget does not even have 3,000 yuan.

"Just blow it?"

Liu Yanming laughed and joked, but then his expression slowly turned serious.

He understood what Xu Rong meant, which was something he was happy to talk to Xu Rong and talked until he was talking.

But it can also make the other party understand what they want to express.

Xu Rong was reminding him that the TV series had been spent 30 million, and the promotion of the movie should not be neglected.

This is also what Xu Rong is most worried about. After all, movies are different from TV series. After the TV station buys the movie, they don’t need anyone to urge them to promote it themselves.

But the movie is different. Once the producers cannot keep up with the publicity and the audience does not understand or even know, the box office will be greatly reduced immediately.

Moreover, today's TV drama market requires massive publicity to gain popularity, let alone movies?

Liu Yanming pondered for a long time, put down the quickseller, lighted the table with his hands, and said, "I'm not unhappy to spend that money, but I still feel that a truly good work does not need to be promoted. After it is released, the audience will automatically promote it for me."

Xu Rong was afraid that he would think so, and the Qing Dynasty would perish, but Liu Yanming still had the old ideas of three years ago.

"Old Liu, this drama is a key point that affects whether it can be launched. You should have data. Except for a few upsets, you should know better than me what the current situation is in the market."

"I'll think about it again. The computer hasn't been turned on yet." Liu Yanming picked up the quick-selling, as if he was unwilling to talk more about this topic, "Do you really don't plan to shoot a TV series in the future?"

Xu Rong saw his appearance and knew it was not good. Every person who succeeded in the past was always unwavering in the concepts he had upheld in the past.

Fortunately, Liu Yanming actually realized the current laws of the market, but he was still stubbornly sticking to the concept of the past.

"I probably won't answer it in a short period of time. I've filmed more than a dozen TV shows and wanted to change my taste. Moreover, after the Grand Slam, my passion for TV series has slightly decreased."

“…”

Liu Yanming looked at Xu Rong not saying lies, and smiled and said, "According to your opinion, if you look back, if you wait for your Grand Slam, you will be in similar state as you are now?"

"It's hard to say, in the past, I thought winning an Oscar was my ultimate goal, but now..."

After having dinner with Liu Yanming, Xu Rong didn't rest much and immediately rushed back to the company. In addition to asking Jin Fangfang to find a professional to see the subscription agreement, there were also scripts that had been accumulated over the past period of time that she had to take over and take a look at them before deciding whether to take them.

In fact, the family members in the hospital are not unemployed in this industry. Like Li Guangfu's son, I heard that he is a very famous lawyer.

However, in Li Guangfu's narrative or awesomeness, his son received all the items that were based on billions. He had a total of about two million yuan, so there was no need to use it to waste other people's time.

Xu Rong frowned and looked at the stack of scripts in front of him, and asked back, "What does it mean? There are still Korean ones?"

Although he claimed through many channels that he would not take on TV series again in a short period of time, many film and television companies are still more willing to believe in money ability.

Among the many invitations, one script surprised Xu Rong.

A Korean drama.

Jin Fangfang wore a V-neck white shirt with a brown waisted skirt today and said, "Because "The Beautiful Times of Daughter-in-law" was popular abroad, you are now well-known overseas, and it is not uncommon for the situation to happen now."

Xu Rong shook his head and said, "These are just icing on the cake. The most important thing is probably my influence in the mainland."

"I came here, but I can't say I'll refuse directly. That would have been too much of a cultural exchange between the two countries. Let's do it, I'll take it for one billion."

Jin Fangfang shook her head gently, smiled gently, and said like a sister next door: "Do you seem to have any objections to Korea?"

"What can I have?" Xu Rong always felt that Jin Fangfang was a little strange today, but she didn't see what was strange about it for a while. "They try hard to export entertainment products to us every year, but for our TV series, they only allow three movies to be imported every year, and they may not be able to pass the review. When I have the chance one day, I will definitely recommend banning their entertainment products completely."

Jin Fangfang now understood completely. His opinion was here. He took back the script and said, "Do you know Yuan Yu's arrangement?"

“What arrangement?”

"She went to the crew of "Beiping" for an interview today."

"Oh." Xu Rong nodded. When he asked Jin Fangfang to sign her, he just hoped that if Yuan Yu wanted to shoot a movie or a TV, he would have the corresponding channels.

He filmed another ten centimeter-high script and said, "It's really realistic. Before the great cause of founding, I couldn't receive a decent script. In this blink of an eye, I have to spend time picking it."

"How are you learning English?"

"good."

Jin Fangfang still smiled, and said slowly: "It's okay, what does it mean?"

Xu Rong was flipping through the script, and when he heard the sound was not right, he raised his head and glanced at her. He suddenly understood why Jin Fangfang gave him a bit familiar today.

"If you are fine, don't always learn from others. Intellectuality is not something that is imitated, but it is something that is old and praised."

After flipping through several scripts, Xu Rong suddenly felt bad.

He gradually discovered a problem. Some of the scripts sent to him were from mainland film and television investments and some were co-productions, but all the ones from Qingyishui were from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and none of them were from mainland directors.

He was able to figure out the reason, because "The Founding of the Party" has a box office of 500 million yuan. In the concept of most people outside, he overcame the problem of most TV actors being unacceptable to the local environment and became a first-line male actor in the film field.

But he also encountered the same dilemma as in the past, and the high pay resulted in only big productions being able to hire him.

On the other hand, it means that mainland directors who are more familiar with the customs and culture of the country and know more about what to care about and express what they want to do will not get a big investment.

Of course, the main reason is that mainland directors are lacking in commercial film experience compared to Hong Kong and Taiwan directors, but they have no attempts. Where can they get the experience?

Xu Rong raised his head and asked, "Doesn't there be a script from a mainland director?"

Jin Fangfang stopped holding her back and leaned into the chair and said, "Yes, Li Geng wrote a book. Recently, he has been clamoring to make a movie and want me to invest five million in him."

Xu Rong laughed twice and said, "Then you can vote for him."

"are you serious?"

"What, do you think I'm joking?"

Xu Rong filmed the script and said, "Among these people, some of them have a very wrong position. You can count Li Geng's script according to the situation. Five million is too much. If you lose zero, you can try it."

Jin Fangfang asked: "Would it be a little too risky?"

"What risk should I take for half a hundred thousand?"

Seeing that Xu Rong's gaze no longer fell on the script, Jin Fangfang keenly noticed something was wrong, so she hurriedly sat upright, put her chest and abdomen in her arms, and said, "Are you going to repay Teacher Li's favor, or?"

"All of them are."

Jin Fangfang's lips curled up slightly, but she quickly suppressed it and said, "If you think so, I think we should establish and formulate a corresponding system, what kind of scripts can be cast, what kind of scripts cannot be cast, and what standard is it."
To be continued...