Chapter 251: Banned Director

The younger Boss Wang pushed open the door of the elder Boss Wang's office, and before he arrived, his voice came over.

"Brother, brother, it's not good, something happened..."

The elder Boss Wang glared at the panicked younger Boss Wang and scolded: "Look at what you look like, what are you panicking about? The sky won't fall!"

With a "slap," he threw the newspaper in his hand onto the desk, pointed to the big news headline, and said: "Is it this matter?"

The younger Boss Wang glanced at it, and it read: "... Wang Jinghua and Huayi parted ways, established a brokerage company, and many Huayi artists followed one after another..."

"Brother, why aren't you anxious? That woman can leave if she wants, but she took so many people at once, even Chen Daoming, Hu Jun, Xia Yu, and Hong Kong's Carina Lau, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Sandra Ng... these people all followed her."

The elder Boss Wang knocked on the table, "What's the use of panicking! I told you long ago, voluntary, voluntary, don't force others to do things they don't want to do. You just don't listen. Why don't you use your brain and think about it? There are so many people who want to be famous, is it necessary to force them?

Besides, as long as you use resources to exchange, is it necessary to force them? Why did Wang Jinghua leave? Those were all brought out by her. Hasn't she argued with you many times about this? You..."

The elder Boss Wang pointed at the younger Boss Wang and couldn't help sighing.

Wang Jinghua's departure is simply digging the foundation for Huayi.

"The company signed them, made them famous, and let them earn big money. They just go out to socialize, and they still need to be voluntary? Still need to give them resources to exchange? It's simply inexplicable..."

The younger Boss Wang defended in a low voice, but before he finished, he was interrupted by the elder Boss Wang slapping the table.

"Slap!"

The elder Boss Wang glared at the younger Boss Wang and said with hatred for iron not becoming steel: "I told you long ago not to learn that set from Hong Kong, but you just don't listen. Are you a pig!

Just give a small actor a role, and they can happily go do things. If they are famous, promise to give them an important role, or arrange an activity, and they can also voluntarily listen to you. Is this very difficult?

Don't you give these people roles and arrange activities if you don't promise anything? You give them what originally belonged to them in the name of exchange, and they can still happily and gratefully go do things!"

The younger Boss Wang didn't speak. He felt that although what his elder brother said made sense, it was too degrading.

Do I still need to "coax" the artists signed to my company? Didn't I, the boss, serve in vain?

"Brother, what should we do now?"

The elder Boss Wang ignored the younger Boss Wang, pondered for a moment, and asked: "Is Fan Bingbing's contract expired?"

The younger Boss Wang thought about it and said reluctantly: "Not yet, almost."

"Like this, you go talk to her first, relax the conditions, treat her as the same level as international chapter, offer preferential conditions, and let her renew the contract."

The elder Boss Wang thought about it and continued: "Feng Dao's new film is prepared to use Li Xiaoran as the female lead. You find a way to talk to Li Xiaoran and her agent, offer the top-level contract, and dig her and her agent over as much as possible.

In addition, you find a way to contact Gao Yuanyuan. I heard that she is a bit dissatisfied with her current brokerage company, complaining that the brokerage company gives too few film and television resources. Try to see if you can dig her over too."

The elder Boss Wang's idea is very good. As long as he can dig over Li Xiaoran or Gao Yuanyuan, and then successfully renew the contract with Fan Bingbing, he can basically offset the impact of Wang Jinghua's departure.

The most popular actresses in China are the so-called Four Huadan, but among the four, the ones with the best and most active resources in film and television are Li Xiaoran and international chapter. They are also the actresses with the highest pay in China.

And Fan Bingbing, in the eyes of the elder Boss Wang, is purely luck; this is something that makes many actresses envious and jealous.

The elder Boss Wang almost dared to be sure that when Cao Yang's *Inception* is released, Fan Bingbing's fame and influence abroad will definitely not be lower than international chapter.

"By the way, when you talk to Fan Bingbing about renewing the contract, you can hint slightly, just say that in order for her to participate in *Inception*, the company didn't spend less effort."

After the elder Boss Wang pointed out to the younger Boss Wang, he waved his hand and said: "Go do it quickly."

After a while, the elder Boss Wang looked at the younger Boss Wang who hadn't left yet with some strangeness and asked: "Anything else?"

"Uh, that..."

The younger Boss Wang smiled awkwardly and said: "Brother, before Fan Bingbing signed *Inception*, didn't Wang Jinghua keep making trouble to leave for these two months? I was trying to appease her at the time, so I... so I..."

The elder Boss Wang suddenly had a bad premonition, staring at his stupid younger brother.

The younger Boss Wang gritted his teeth and said directly: "Didn't Wang Jinghua keep arguing with me, saying that I arranged for people to socialize without telling her, and making trouble to take the artists away? To appease her, I said I would definitely discuss it with her in the future.

She didn't believe it, saying that I had Fan Bingbing, whom she signed, blocked to the point of being nowhere to be found. If I really had sincerity, I would terminate the contract with Fan Bingbing, who had no plays to film, and don't kill them all."

The younger Boss Wang carefully looked at his elder brother and said in a low voice: "At that time, Fan Bingbing had clearly indicated that she would not renew the contract. Her contract had less than two months left. I thought that keeping these two months would be useless, so I agreed to Wang Jinghua."

The elder Boss Wang's temper suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart. He pointed to the door and coldly spat out a word from his mouth, "Get out!"

The younger Boss Wang hurried out, while muttering in a low voice, "Her contract had less than a month left, and she wasn't willing to renew it. I did this to keep Wang Jinghua, what's wrong with that? Who could have thought that she would be... by Cao Yang..."

Only heard a "bang" behind him, I don't know what the elder Boss Wang threw.

A few days later, something that made the elder Boss Wang even angrier happened: Gao Yuanyuan high-profile joined Wang Jinghua's Happy Sunshine Brokerage Company.

A few days later, Fan Bingbing and Wang Jinghua held a press conference together, announcing that Fan Bingbing officially joined the company.

For a time, Happy Sunshine Brokerage Company became famous and became the largest brokerage company in the film and television circle.

The news that the elder Boss Wang inquired privately was that Gao Yuanyuan and Fan Bingbing both had shares in Wang Jinghua's brokerage company, and quite a lot, counting as senior partners.

He wished he could beat his stinky younger brother to death. Moreover, Li Xiaoran clearly refused the younger Boss Wang's digging, saying that she had no idea of jumping ship for the time being. The elder Boss Wang had a headache.

*Crazy Stone* has been taken off the screen. The box office was still affected by *Seven Swords*. Not only did it not break 200 million, it didn't even reach 170 million, and finally only had 168 million.

Of course, in this era, this is already a very remarkable achievement.

Ning Hao has also become a hot director.

He is still quite sober and hasn't been carried away by success.

He accepted several exclusive interviews, all of which mentioned that the reason the box office could be so high is mainly because everyone went for Cao Dao. Without Cao Dao, who would know him.

He repeatedly emphasized that Cao Dao contributed at least 80% to this film, mentor Tian Zhuangzhuang contributed 10%, and he barely contributed 10%.

Before going to Venice, Cao Yang called Han Zong.

Before he could speak, Han Zong joked with a smile: "Should I call you Chairman Cao, or President Cao? Or should I call you Professor Cao? Haha, congratulations, junior brother."

"I feel most comfortable hearing you call me junior brother."

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Cao Yang replied, didn't be polite with Han Zong, and said directly: "Senior brother, you are also one of the producers of *Black Swan*. If you don't have anything important on hand, it's not bad to go to Venice."

Although the investment in *Black Swan* is not large, Cao Yang still pulled in the Youth Film Studio and China Film Group. His studio contributed half and owned the rights, and the Youth Film Studio and China Film Group contributed the other half.

In fact, the Youth Film Studio and China Film Group don't care about the ownership of the rights. They care that this is Cao Yang's film, this is a film that is very likely to win an award, and that is enough.

Within the system, unless the box office explodes or breaks records like *District 9*, what they care about most is the major awards, especially the awards of the three major European film festivals, which is the best political achievement.

Han Zong is such a smart person, he immediately heard the subtext in Cao Yang's words.

"Junior brother, are you serious?"

Cao Yang didn't explain much, laughed, and said: "Senior brother, I'm planning to leave on the 28th."

"Good, good, good."

Han Zong said three goods in a row.

After hanging up the phone, he locked the office door, couldn't help but wave his hand fiercely, twisted a few times in a mess, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

He tidied up his clothes, touched his hair with his hand, and then opened the door, saying to the secretary outside: "You call the Beijing Film Academy and ask how many people Cao Dao is going to Venice this time, and the specific departure time. Book the tickets in the name of China Film Group."

Returning to the office, Han Zong couldn't help but have some longing.

Although the highest awards of the three major European film festivals all have their own names, Golden Bear, Golden Lion, and Golden Palm, they also have a unified name, called Best Picture.

Nominally, Best Picture is an award for the entire film, and the film's producer is the biggest beneficiary.

This point is the same whether it is the Oscars or the three major domestic awards; basically, the producer goes on stage to receive the award.

The three major European film festivals are a bit special.

However, as a producer, going on stage to receive the award certainly won't be questioned by anyone. Writing it into the resume is the best qualification and political achievement.

Han Zong, who started as a traditional director, is still very yearning for the three major European film festivals.

On the 28th, Cao Yang met with Han Zong, took Dong Xuan, Huang Xiaoming, and Lv Yi and other eight people, and embarked on the flight to Italy.

At this stage, there are no direct flights to Venice in China, and you need to transfer once in the middle.

Coincidentally, while waiting for the flight, they met another crew who was also going to participate in the Venice Film Festival.

Director Li Yu took her *Dam Street*, and was also going to the Venice Film Festival, but this film did not enter the main competition unit, but entered other units.

Li Yu was once a host in Shandong, later entered CCTV's Oriental Horizon, became a documentary director, and from then on embarked on the path of a director.

This person is quite famous, and Cao Yang and Han Zong both know her.

It's not that the films she shot are very awesome, well, actually they are also very awesome.

In 2000, she shot her first documentary-style film called *Fish and Elephant*, which is a lesbian film.

There are many directors who shoot banned films in China, but female directors are almost invisible.

So she is very famous in the film and television circle.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 252 =====