China Entertainment please answer! 1997

Chapter 98
On June 2000, 6, the movie "The Grandmaster" was officially launched in Hengdian.

In Hengdian Film and Television City, after the crew of "The Grandmaster" finished worshiping the gods and turned on the machine, while everyone gathered to read the script, Cao Qing and Jin smiled silently at the budget.

Yes, Jin Xiaoxiao also came over, and she played the role of the heroine, Miss Gong Er.

Although the original role belonged to Zhang Ziyi, and she had already agreed to take the role, but before the film crew of "The Grandmaster" was about to start, Zhang Ziyi would suddenly become popular in Hollywood because of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". And suddenly he was not reconciled with the 35 yuan that he could only get as a heroine from the crew of "The Grandmaster".

So, after estimating her current status in the film and television industry, she directly offered Cao Qing a salary of 85 yuan, and at this price, she thought that she had already given Cao Qing a big face and replaced it with someone else. She wants at least 30 million.

So in desperation, after carefully estimating the filming funds on hand, Cao Qing directly chose to reject Zhang Ziyi's idea.

What the hell is the future international movie queen, what the hell is the actor who has entered Hollywood, Cao Qing, who doesn't value these things as much as those mainland directors these days, doesn't throw her face at all.

Although the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is currently popular in Hollywood, if Zhang Ziyi, a supporting actress who has received a lot of attention in Hollywood in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", is cast as the heroine of her movie, it will indeed make Cao Qing's "The Grandmaster" has received a little attention in Hollywood.

But after seriously thinking about the content of his movie "The Grandmaster", Cao Qing finally thought that it was completely unnecessary for Zhang Ziyi to increase the price. The light fighting scenes in it are the ethereal dust when swinging the sword wantonly in the bamboo forest.

No matter how you look at Cao Qing's "The Great Master", which is about punching to the flesh and contains profound Chinese culture, it is difficult for those American guys to empathize with it. Under the circumstances, Cao Qing was not willing to pay the huge sum of RMB 50 for Zhang Ziyi.

After one or two conversations, Cao Qing, who noticed Zhang Ziyi's firm attitude, directly used the reason that her temporary price increase violated the contract, not only kicked her out of the crew, but also forced Zhang Ziyi to compensate 20 liquidated damages.

The candidate for the heroine Miss Gong Er in the crew of "The Grandmaster" was directly handed over to Jin Xiaoxiao by Cao Qing after Zhang Ziyi was kicked out.

Cao Qing suddenly arranged this task. Although Jin Xiaoxiao was a little surprised, she was still very cooperative in various behaviors.

It was the second day after Cao Qing sent her a message. After dealing with the company's internal affairs in one go, Jin Xiaoxiao flew directly from Beijing to Zhejiang Province, and arrived at Hengdian at four or five o'clock in the afternoon. The crew of "The Grandmaster" did not have any delays during the entire itinerary.

After arriving at the set, but after a short break, Jin Xiaoxiao directly pulled Cao Qing's shoulders, and discussed with him the cost and logistics of the set.

"So, how much of our 1500 million filming funds is normal film production expenses, and how much is props and food expenses?"

After checking the budget with Cao Qing silently for a while, Jin Xiaoxiao asked Cao Qing softly, holding the thick stack of movie expense reports in his hand.

"Smile, are you worried that we don't have enough funds for filming?"

"Don't worry, it won't."

"Because we are missing Zhang Ziyi now, but we have one more you."

"Originally, the big man behind the scenes of our company gave me a full 1500 million yuan in filming funds, and I raised about 140 million yuan in advertising fees for our film. Currently, I hold a full 1640 million yuan in my hand. Here, as long as the money is not deliberately wasted, no matter how much we spend more than 1600 million for this movie, it is enough."

"I've already calculated that the filming of "The Grandmaster" will cost around 230 million yuan for the actors. In addition, there are a total of 60 people in our crew, and the monthly salary alone is about [-] yuan."

"Our film will take a total of four months to shoot, which means that we have to spend about 240 million in shooting funds on remembering those behind-the-scenes staff."

"At the same time, we are also responsible for the food and accommodation expenses of the crew. There are more than 100 people in our crew and nearly 180 people. According to the most basic calculation, our crew will spend about [-] on board and lodging every day; there are four months here. That adds up to about [-] million."

"Besides, since the film is set in the Republic of China, we have to spend a lot of effort to find props and make clothes. In this regard, we have to spend about 50 yuan."

"So in general, just for these miscellaneous expenses, excluding film and film post-production costs, our crew needs to spend 700 million, leaving only about [-] million to use."

"And this is based on the fact that Hengdian Film and Television City did not charge for the shooting venue."

"So, shooting a movie is really a costly thing. Those tens of thousands of filming funds seem to be a lot, but in fact they are really nervous to use."

"If that wasn't the case, how could I just reject Zhang Ziyi's idea of ​​raising her salary and kick her out of the crew? Our crew has to spend the money seriously, and she wants it too much." too much."

"If she only wants about 70 yuan, I can still reluctantly agree to him given her overseas influence, but since she insists on at least 85 yuan, it's better to just forget it. Anyway, without her, you will still smile." It can be replaced, and by the way, it also saved our film crew 10 yuan in filming funds."

Patting Jin smiled, Cao Qing said with emotion.

"Oh, so, then I, Jin Xiaoxiao, is just a substitute for Zhang Ziyi?"

"The reason why you asked me to play the heroine of this movie is because I'm easy to use and cheap. It only costs 25 yuan, which is much lower than Zhang Ziyi's quotation, right?"

Hearing Cao Qing's words, Jin Xiaoxiao raised his eyebrows and asked Cao Qing a death question.

"How could it be? Didn't I see that our company is busy, and smiling, is it already troublesome for you to deal with our company's affairs every day?"

"I owe everything to you in our company over the past two years. Compared to you, let alone Zhang Ziyi who has nothing to do with me, even Yin Tao, she is definitely not as important as you in my eyes."

"We can lose anyone in our company, but you can't do without a smile. You are my good wife. I plan to give you a part of the shares next year. How can I call you a substitute? Impossible , this is absolutely impossible."

Seeing the half-smile expression on Jin Xiaoxiao's face, Cao Qing became tense all of a sudden. He hurriedly organized the words in his mind, and then said all of them in one breath, like "flattering".

"Shares?"

"About the matter of shares, I want to remind you, Mr. Cao, that you should not distribute too much of this kind of thing. You have already distributed a total of 10% of the company's shares to Huang Bo, Sun Honglei, and Liu Yijun. , you currently hold 90% of the company's shares."

"If you really plan to give me a part of the company's shares next year, Mr. Cao, I suggest that you don't get out of your personal shares, but directly distribute some of them together, even if it is to give Huang Bo and the others a little more cash compensation. OK."

"Although I don't know how many shares you plan to give me, Mr. Cao, but I think that in terms of my current contribution to the company, my share of shares can at most be equal to that of Huang Bo and the others."

"Furthermore, I am very optimistic about your future development prospects, Mr. Cao, so I think that before I purchase the company's shares, it is best to sign another contract and directly stipulate in the terms of this contract that the shares of several of us except Mr. Cao and you Except for acquisitions, no one else is allowed to buy, sell or transfer the shares, and can only hold the shares in their hands and enjoy dividends."

Directly ignoring Cao Qing's flattering tone, Jin Xiaoxiao, who had already obtained nearly 7000 million yuan in assets from her Korean father some time ago, after hearing that Cao Qing planned to give her shares, not only did she not have a smile on her face, on the contrary she said His tone of voice was even more serious.

"Understood, let's make a movie first. Regarding these matters, I will directly hand them over to our company's legal department for discussion."

"Our company distributes so much money to them every month, and it's not for them to come and eat. When it's time to work, they naturally have to work hard."

"But to be honest, Smile, since you inherited the tens of millions of inheritance from your family, your demeanor has become more relaxed and calm. Now even the important matter of me giving you company shares, you don't feel nervous at all. feel."

Smiling and shaking his head, Cao Qing silently admired Jin Xiaoxiao's loyalty and seriousness in his heart, but at the same time couldn't help feeling secretly in his heart. , I don't care much about money.

Seeing that Cao Qing had deliberately changed the topic, Jin Xiaoxiao was not embarrassed. She looked at a talented younger brother or child and tolerated Cao Qing's childish behavior with a smile.

Following Cao Qing's leaving back, Jin Xiaoxiao followed behind him silently, and directly entered the filming location, without any intention of bringing up the previous topic.

After arriving at the production site, Cao Qing stopped chatting with Jin Xiaoxiao and waved his hand to say goodbye to Jin Xiaoxiao. Cao Qing followed the crew's makeup artist to the innermost dressing room of the shooting site.

As a lucky man who traveled through time when he was only 19 years old, Cao Qing has achieved great success in the Chinese film industry, but he is only 22 years old.

With this young appearance, he wants to play the middle-aged Wing Chun master Ip Man in "The Great Master", even if Cao Qing has the scenes of Liang Chaowei in the original movie in his mind, and will also The timeline in the original movie has been slightly adjusted, and Ye Man's age has been slightly lowered by a few years.

However, if he did not rely on the makeup of the makeup artist, Cao Qing still would not be able to perform the role of the masculine Wing Chun master Ip Man well.

Just standing there, looking at Cao Qing's young and handsome face, those movie audiences were a little unable to substitute, and directly and passively entered the state of acting.

Even in terms of not only makeup, but also various living habits, Cao Qing invited a Wing Chun master to accompany and fight hard every day long before the movie "The Grandmaster" started, and strived to let his His physical condition is more like that of a martial artist.

As a well-known director who is already quite famous in mainland China, Cao Qing has certain demands on himself.

For example, when filming the martial arts film "The Grandmaster", in order to allow himself and the leading actors of the crew to get into the roles as much as possible, Cao Qing had been working on the film for a few days before the movie "The Grandmaster" They have found their sparring boxers for the leading actors of the crew, and strive to make the movie "The Grandmaster" as real as possible.

After all, if he stood on the shoulders of Wang Jiawei, a film master of this generation, but still couldn't make a good movie, or even made a movie that was much worse than the original, then Cao Qing couldn't forgive himself.

Soon, after some skillful dressing by the crew's makeup artist, a Wing Chun master Ye Wen with a gentle appearance and vicissitudes of life like old wine appeared in front of everyone in the crew so unbelievably.

"It seems that the effect you have achieved by boxing every day during this period is quite good. Although I don't know much about Ye Wen, when I see you dressed like this, I still can't help but suddenly come to mind. A great master of Wing Chun who lived in the Republic of China, had a wealthy family, and a gentle personality like a gentleman."

"It's great! Those outsiders who don't think highly of you, Mr. Cao, think that if they can see Mr. Cao like this, they will no longer think that Mr. Cao, a young man like you, can't play middle-aged Ye Wen well."

"I estimate that after our movie is released, Mr. Cao will not only gain a lot of fans across the country, but also win several awards for his acting skills."

Looking at Cao Qing who suddenly appeared in front of her with a changed appearance, Jin smiled and her eyes shone like morning stars. She walked forward curiously and circled around Cao Qing, and then looked around again. This man with an old-fashioned big oily hair, slightly white temples, and a gentle temperament, couldn't even maintain his usual calm posture for a while, and couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.

(End of this chapter)