After four months of filming, Feng Xiaogang's blockbuster "The Night Banquet" has finally been completed.

Compared with turning on the phone, the shutdown ceremony of "The Night Banquet" is much simpler.

There was only a ceremony inside the crew, no media was invited, just the crew had a meal together.

The specific information was revealed by Huayi Vice President Xu Li.

During the Lunar New Year holiday last year, I just watched "The Promise", "Clues of Time" and "King Kong".

But Feng Xiaogang's absence did not make the Lunar New Year festival lack of laughter, everyone was busy watching the jokes in "The Promise".

Feng Xiaogang's blockbuster is already on the horizon and ready to go.

Cheng Yuan, who just won 170 million box office, has not made any move yet.

Through this Lunar New Year campaign, Cheng Yuan has been fully recognized by the market.

He has also completely established himself as a first-line director in China.

No one can ignore this 24-year-old guy anymore.

Cheng Yu'an no longer had to go around seeking investment when making a movie, and someone finally took the initiative to give him money.

Huayi, China Film, Shanghai Film, and even Western Film Group waved their money and asked him when he would make a blockbuster movie.

The most exaggerated one was Bernard's Yu Dong, who directly said that if Cheng Yu'an wanted to make a blockbuster, he could offer 100 million.

However, Cheng Yu'an refused to accept the offer and directly announced to the outside world that he would not make a so-called blockbuster this year and that his work this year would focus on the construction of the company's distribution department and the training of new directors.

Yes, after experiencing the box office theft incident, Distance Media will set up its own distribution department.

Han Sanping said that he wanted to investigate the matter thoroughly, but after such a long time, China Film still did not give a specific explanation.

Cheng Yu'an knew about this and was ignored.

So the aunt and nephew began to form their own publishing team.

As for training new directors, an important reason is that Cheng Er gave up his job.

He is undoubtedly an excellent director, but he is not a qualified tool man.

He is very thoughtful and has a stubborn and arrogant personality.

He had never wanted to take on "Sunflower" before because he looked down on such a superficial story.

When filming "Sunflower", firstly, he was living in poverty at the time and needed the generous remuneration provided by remote media, and secondly, he wanted to meet his idol Andy Lau.

After the filming of "Sunflower" was completed, Cheng Er turned to his own script "The Third Man".

The filming permit for this film was obtained as early as 2003, and it took a long time to start filming this year.

Then Cheng Er ignored Cheng Yu'an.

As a result, Cheng Yu'an has a somewhat insufficient director.

Guo Fei has turned producer and basically stopped filming. Huang Ke is on the crew of "Soldier Assault", Ning Hao is still working on the late stage of "Crazy Stone", and Han Yan is busy with his graduation short film and can't spare any time to help him.

Young directors are unreliable, so they have to look to the older generation of directors.

It just so happened that Cheng Yuan had a script suitable for an older generation of directors.

"Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots".

In Cheng Yu'an's opinion, it is one of the best domestic road movies.

This story originated from a report in Southern Weekend, telling the story of a migrant worker who carried the corpses of his companions thousands of miles back to his hometown for burial.

So I started to adapt this story.

So our Cheng Dao came to the college with his face licked.

He wanted to ask Tian Zhuangzhuang to direct the play.

"Here we come." Tian Zhuangzhuang saw him coming, still holding the script in his hand, "It's very efficient. There was a new script just two months after "Clues of Time" was released."

Cheng Yu'an handed over the script and explained his purpose: "Teacher Tian, ​​please take a look at this book."

Tian Zhuangxing lit a cigarette and read while smoking.

After a long while, he said: "It's a very good story. Are you short of money or actors?"

"We are short of money and actors, but we are short of directors." Cheng Yu'an showed his fox tail, "I would like to ask you to do this play."

Tian Zhuangzhuang refused without thinking: "I don't have time. I have to work on "Wu Qingyuan" and I can't get away. In addition, I also have production and supervision work on several films, so I really don't have time. It's a pity."

Tian Zhuangzhuang likes the story "Falled Leaves Return to Their Roots" very much.

"How about you wait for me for a year, and I will set aside time next year to take pictures."

"No," Cheng Yu'an shook his head, "None of this year's projects have been scheduled. I want to put "Falling Leaves Returning to Their Roots" on November this year."

Just as he was talking, Hou Kenming came in from the door with a thermos cup: "What a pity, the two of you are here sighing." He took a sip of strong tea.

"Is there a new play? Come, let me take a look." Hou Kenming saw Tian Zhuangzhuang holding Cheng Yuan's script in his hand.

Cheng Yuan's eyes lit up and he immediately climbed up the pole: "Teacher, look at this."

Hou Kenming took the script and read it: "It's a very good road movie script. Why are you looking for Mr. Tian?"

"I wanted to ask him to film this movie, but he didn't have time. Hey, Mr. Hou, you don't have time to direct the movie yourself, right?" Cheng Yu'an pulled up a stool and came closer.

Hou Keming knew Cheng Yu'an so well that he knew what he was going to do as soon as Cheng Yu'an stuck his butt out: "Why, why did you think of me when Teacher Tian couldn't pick it up?"

"What do you mean I have no time to direct a movie? I just finished filming a movie last year."

Hou Keming filmed a TV series last year called "Evil Fire", which will be broadcast this year.

"I'm talking about movies. You haven't made movies since 1990, right?" Cheng Yuan said with a smile.

In 1990, Hou Kerming co-produced a movie called "A Strange Marriage". The movie did not arouse much response, and he never made a movie again after that.

Hou Keming's subsequent work focus has been on film teaching and academic research, and he has also been engaged in work such as supervision and production.

It has been more than ten years now and only 4 TV series have been filmed.

As far as director status is concerned, Hou Keming's low production cannot be more low.

"If you are interested, let's master and apprentice work together?" Cheng Yu'an hit the snake and followed the stick.

It's okay if Cheng Yu'an didn't say this. After he said this, Hou Kenming realized that he hadn't made a film in more than ten years.

Tian Zhuangzhuang was smoking at the side and also advised: "Lao Hou, this story is not shabby. If you want to take it, you can take it. You haven't made a movie in more than ten years, your hands are not itchy? I really don't have time this year, otherwise this

Can I give you a good book?"

Cheng Yu'an stood aside and said, "Teacher, don't think about it. You have to be impulsive and passionate to make a movie. Thinking too much will delay things."

"I didn't say I wouldn't take pictures." Hou Kenming was still moved.

"That's it." Cheng Yu'an knew that the matter was settled, "I will be your producer, and if we, master and apprentice, join forces, it will be a good story."

Hou Keming smiled and said: "The good story is that I took advantage of you. "Clues of Time" sold 170 million yuan. I can't sell it for such a high price."

Cheng Yu'an's score of 170 million made Hou Keming very embarrassed in the academy.

Everyone knows that Cheng Yuan is his most proud disciple.

"Don't worry, it won't be a problem to sell this film for 30 to 40 million yuan. If you don't get the guarantee, I can still get you a prize." Cheng Yu'an said kindly.

To be honest, the film "Falling Leaves Returns to Root" is not expected to sell 70 to 80 million yuan, but Cheng Yu'an is still confident that it will sell 30 to 40 million yuan.

"How much are you planning to cast for this film? Who are you planning to cast as the actor?" Hou Kerming asked.

"What I originally thought was that if Mr. Tian can't direct, I'll ask him to star. But now it seems that Mr. Tian has no time."

Tian Zhuangxing smoked a cigarette and ignored him.

"I'm going to ask Uncle Zhao to act."

"Honsugi?"
Chapter completed!