Yan Fusheng flipped through two pages casually and was stunned... Why, in this project information, the actor's pay, venue rental fees, prop production fees, even daily food, electricity fees, and actor's insurance... are clearly listed on it.

What is this idiot trying to do? Write all these into the contract? Do you still want to make money? Yan Fusheng looked at Li Xiaole. He thought Li Xiaole just didn't know the turtle that was thick and thick, but now he thinks Li Xiaole is not ignorant, but stupid. What is he doing?

Of course, Li Xiaole knew why these people were so surprised. He was an old gangster in the film and television industry. He knew why mainland movies experienced this period of cold winter, and the speed of progress was so slow.

To be simply concerned with artistic standards, whether it is actors, directors, or even photography in China, these three links are world-class, but most of the things shot by the crew are of very low quality.

Many millions of investments are made, but the finished products are made by amateurs. They are extremely rough. No matter how hard the actors work, the movie itself is very thin.

Because there is a phenomenon that is not used by outsiders in this case, called "black budget".

The so-called "black budget" means that the crew put the funds invested in the movie into their pockets in various ways during the filming period. For example, the Guangxi factory once filmed a movie "Looking Back" that was not released, with an investment of 3 million yuan. At that time, if all the money was spent on the movies, it would have been quite well-made in that era.

But during the filming process, the director hoped that the birch tree with eyes-like scars appeared in the movie. In fact, this could be processed by the artist group, but the director said that for "artistic effect" it must be a real scene. So he invited his own people to fly across the country to find this birch tree.

Of course, I found it in the end, and the funds spent on this birch tree were 110,000 yuan.

What is actually going on? The director had seen similar trees in a certain place before filming started. After receiving the movie, he made such a request. He didn't invite anyone to look for it. Instead, he put the 110,000 yuan in his pocket and swayed for a few days before saying that he had found it. In the end, the money naturally came to his pocket.

Examples of this "black budget" are everywhere in the film and television industry in mainland China. They are by no means personal behavior, but producers, directors, and even the participation of actors' agents.

It is a miracle that a movie invested by 3 million yuan can finally be used for filming. Everyone in the crew is not thinking about how to make the box office of the movie better, but thinking about how to make more black budgets from the production of this movie. The effect of this kind of movie can naturally be imagined.

This situation was most common in several major state-owned studios in the 1990s, because there was definitely no box office in filming during this period, and these moviegoers rely on this to support their families.

Why are the Yan family and his son so powerful in China Film now? It is because all the old employees of Beijing Film Studio who live on black budgets are counting on them to approve the budget to their own team and make a fortune through black budgets.

China Film Group integrates several major studios and restructures the structure to completely eliminate this "black budget" phenomenon, eliminate these people from the structural roots, and use the new force of Han Sanpin Han Xiaoli to make the entire China Film Group correct the situation. However, any industry reform system faces huge difficulties, involving the interests of a group of people, which is to touch the lifeblood of others.

If Han Sanpin wants to touch them, he needs to achieve results, but in recent years, it has happened to have a double impact on piracy and Hollywood movies. The entire mainland film industry has declined, and the black budget has even become the only extra income for most filmmakers. This is why Han Sanpin, as a reformist, struggles in China Film.

Why he always wanted to find new directors to come to China Film Academy? It was not because the old directors were not good, but because the old directors involved too much, they would bow their heads to Yan Fusheng and others. So he tried his best to support Feng Xiaogang and Lu Chuan. Unfortunately, these two talented young directors left one after another because they could not stand the harsh internal environment of China Film Academy.

But in addition to Jiang Wen, who has strong connections and can form a crew by himself, even Feng Xiaogang and Lu Chuan in Zhongying will be subject to the unspoken rules of "black budget", and the quality of the movie will be somewhat affected.

This Li Xiaole is so good. He came up and showed his own attitude and never vilified the budget. He was completely self-destructive and was an enemy of the filmmakers of the entire China Film Academy!

At this moment, just as everyone was stunned, they suddenly heard a weak and unavoidable voice coming from the phone speaker that had been silent: "Call it..."

Hearing the instructions of Chairman Xie Yang, the people at the scene didn't even dare to show their anger. They all looked at Yan Jie and saw the fat old man smiling and nodding:

"Mr. Xie has already issued an instruction, so this project has been decided, and we will discuss other things."

Everyone looked strange and whispered, discussing this strange thing. Han Sanpin and Han Xiaoli both looked at their eyes and felt relieved. They were dormant for half a year and were waiting for this effort. Fortunately, everything went well.

Li Xiaole sat back in his seat, and Wei Xiao gave him a thumbs up and praised him: "Director Xiao Li~ I have backbone, I support you~!"

"Why do I feel so cautious about the atmosphere..." Although I received the investment from the group, Ning Hao seemed to be unhappy. He always felt that others looked at him, as if they were looking at the enemy.

"Xiao Li, Xiao Li~~ You are a little interesting." Jiang Wen lowered his head and looked up at Li Xiaole, and smiled meaningfully: "Don't worry, you can hold on to your best, if you can't stand it, I will feel uncomfortable in Zhongying, I will leave you with the position of the assistant director here."

"Teacher Jiang, I look forward to our cooperation." Li Xiaole smiled. Jiang Wen obviously just admired him as a promising young filmmaker like Wei Xiao, but he did not regard him as a colleague who could be fair.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on Jiang Wen, because he is indeed far behind this "half master". If it were a year ago, his true level might not be as good as Wei Xiao now.

Take your time, the works will prove everything, and you also need more shooting experience to make yourself stronger.

***

After dinner, Li Xiaole went home and lay in bed, wanting to have a good sleep. No matter what, his film project has passed the review of China Film and the most difficult step is to solve it. The subsequent matters will be easy to deal with. Next, the information about recruiting the male lead should be sent to various performing arts companies through China Film and Television to see if he can choose a good candidate.

From the end of 2002, that is, two months later, the Chinese film industry will enter a period of takeoff, increasing at an average rate of more than 30% per year. I am afraid no one now expects that the mainland films that make people feel sad will increase from less than 400 million yuan in the whole year to nearly 10 billion yuan.

Just as he was half-waking up, dreaming of showing off his strength in this best film era in the mainland, he was suddenly awakened by a phone call.

"Mom... why did you call here so late?" Li Xiaole said a little surprised.

"Xiaole, what's wrong with you? You are too ignorant." Li's mother said angrily on the other end.

"What's the matter... say it slowly." Li Xiaole didn't understand what was going on, so he was too ignorant?

"Tell mom honestly, what was the result when you went on a blind date last time?" Li's mother asked on the other end.

"Oh that's the matter..." Thinking of Mama Rong, Li Xiaole was completely awakened and explained with a smile: "Mom, this is really not my pickyness. Miss Rong and I are really not suitable. We can't even talk about it together."

"Oh~ Xiaole, mom, I know that you like to talk about feelings when you are young, but you feel that this thing can be cultivated. Besides, even if Miss Rong is not good, you can't refuse them in person. You also like Miss Rong's classmates... you harassed the classmates who accompanied her in front of her. This is indeed you are too much."

"What does it mean?" Li Xiaole was confused when she heard this, but her mind immediately turned around. It must be her threatening Sun Li to come to her crew. As a result, Rong Yingying held a grudge and told her mother a little. Girl, this woman is really childish...

"Mom, don't listen to people's nonsense. Why do I harass her female classmates? I saved them..." Li Xiaole said the whole thing again, and then pretended to be obedient and said, "Mom~ You can't trust outsiders, don't believe in your son, right?"

"Oh... that's right." Li's mother's attitude finally softened a little: "Then didn't you force Sun Li to go to your crew to film?"

"This..." These words immediately blocked Li Xiaoleke. He was making up lies in his mind and wanted to explain it. Unexpectedly, he heard Li's mother's happy laughter.

"It's good, Xiaole, tell your mother, is that Sun Li really that beautiful? When will you take her home to show her to your mother, and you will check it out..."

Li Xiaole was completely speechless by his mother. No matter how he explained it, it was different. After a balabar, he finally became safe and lay down to sleep again. But after a while, the text message rang again. Li Xiaole could only get up again and picked up his phone. This time it was indeed an unfamiliar number.

"Hey, I'm Sun Li, Li Xiaole!! What did you tell your mother? Why did she send me a text message to check my household registration? I was so scared..."

Li Xiaole was stunned for a long time after reading the text message, before sighing. How introverted and weak "I" in the past was? His mother was so worried that she could not find a girlfriend to this point...
Chapter completed!