Although Zhang Yimou is such a freshman director, he is very pragmatic in his work. He has convinced Huanshi's senior executives within a week and handed the script to Jiang Wen. After reading the script, Jiang Wen felt that it was good and expressed his willingness to join. His current salary is 30 million, but in fact he basically does not take on the role. He is the self-director and acts, which is why the national teacher has this face.

After reading the script, the senior executives of Huanshi saw the planned lineup. Without saying a word, they immediately made a decision and jointly produced the film with Xinxingyuan. The suggestions for the movie are all-stars, big productions, and big investments.

The speed of the project launch is extremely amazing. It only takes half a month from the project establishment to the launch, because the movie sets the season in winter, and now it is the end of February. If you want to release it at the end of the year, you must shoot some of the winter scenes in March, such as the final battle of the Ice Lake at the end of the film.

It is obviously no longer suitable for shooting such shots in Beijing in March, but there is no problem in the Northeast.

If it weren't for the encounter with Feng Gang in Shanghai, Zhang Hehuan would not have started the "Old Cannon" project this year, nor would he have joined the "Old Cannon" crew in early March. However, the current All-Star lineup is somewhat contrary to his original intention. Feng Gang would probably not be convinced by defeating Feng Gang's "Private Customization" with such an All-Star lineup.

He also received a notice from the crew and hurried to the Northeast for filming.

Hainan's climate is pleasant in March. "Private Customization", which won the box office championship for the New Year holiday, officially started filming. On the day of the start, he saw a news story. The National Master also started filming in March. The cast is extremely strong, with the leading actors, Jiang Wen and Gong Li.

Seeing this news, he suddenly remembered a not-so-pleasant encounter with that junior in Shanghai not long ago. There were not many secrets in this circle. With Feng Gang's connections, it was easy to get some insider information.

He soon found out that one of the producers of "Old Cannon" is Xinxingyuan. The producer and screenwriter are both Zhang Hehuan. It seems that this film is for him. So what about the National Master? In recent years, the National Master has been unable to succeed in the box office, and he is in the golden period. It is not necessarily known who will win. Even if he loses at the box office, he will still be honored if he loses at the box office.

In March, there was still heavy snow in Liaocheng. The first scene after the crew of "Old Cannon" was the final battle of Binghu.

Zhang Hehuan is not the protagonist in this drama. Jiang Wen, who rarely takes on movies directed by others in recent years, chose to join because he was completely moved by the script.

Although this movie is full of stars, the overall production cost is not high. Except for Jiang Wen, the absolute protagonist, who collected 30 million yuan, most of the other actors are guest appearances and joining the national teacher's movies. They only symbolically charge a friendly price. Even an international actress of Gong Li's level, she only costs five million yuan.

According to preliminary estimates, the total investment of "Lao Cannon" is 100 million, with 40% each from Xinxingyuan and Huanshi, and the remaining 20% ​​are invested by Maoyan, which is responsible for domestic distribution. Of course, this 100 million is just a production cost, and it does not include promotion and distribution. According to the usual practice, the promotion and distribution of this movie will cost at least 50 million.

On the day of the start of the computer, it started to snow heavily in Liaocheng.

After a brief start-up ceremony, the official shooting began.

Jiang Wen was wearing a general's woolen coat and walked towards the ice lake with staggering steps. The dazzling sunlight shone on his face. The camera rotated, locking his broad and dark back. Standing in the middle of the lake, he burst into a roar, his face full of sadness and anger, unwillingness...

Zhang Hehuan has watched the original version of "Old Cannon", and he is not satisfied with the original ice lake final battle. Although Liu Ye is lonely, he is still as strong as the tiger and old heroic spirit. He just falls on the ice in the tragic BGM sound. That won’t work!

Director Zhang agreed with Zhang Hehuan's idea that even if Master Liu died, he would fight a vigorous battle.

Jiang Wen also thought it would be a bit coward if he didn't rush for a while. He wanted to stand up straight and make money. Movies need to be tragic, but they need to be more fun!

The filming of "Old Cannon" is very confidential. As the producer, Zhang Hehuan's strategy is to block the news to the greatest extent. The more mysterious the better. The filming cycle of this movie is expected to take three months, and the early shooting will be over until summer.

The later stages of the movie are not complicated, so they are completely ready to be released at the end of the year.

Although Zhang Hehuan plays the number one villain, she doesn’t have many scenes. After spending two days in Liaocheng to shoot the final battle in Binghu, other scenes will be filmed in Beijing in May.

Through negotiations, Lantai and Youku made some concessions. They agreed to the additional investment of Xinxing Domain, but the upper limit was 15%, which was still quite far from Zhang Hehuan's bottom line required by the bottom line 30%.

Zhang Hehuan decided to give up his investment plan and maintain his original contract, collecting 10% of the profit dividends per quarter. Anyway, the big framework has been set up for them. According to the first season model, as long as you don’t make any tricks, there will be no problems for several seasons, and your own interests are also guaranteed.

2013 was the year when domestic films exploded. At the beginning of the year, "Journey to the West" won a box office of 1.3 billion. Before March, the literary and artistic romance film "Meet Seattle" won another 500 million box office. You should know that March is not the golden period, and this movie is not a big production. It is quite amazing to get such a box office.

There will be new films released almost every month, and most of them are modern urban love. It can be said that the success of "My Savage Girlfriend" in the box office has made domestic youth films and romance films see hope.

The attention of major filmmakers has also shifted from the past big scenes and big productions to small-cost comedy and romance movies. Who can spend a small amount of money to make big money? Who will risk investing in high-risk projects?

Although "My Savage Girlfriend" is very popular, it must face the reality that popularity has declined over time. During this period, Xinxingyuan has been busy with settlements through various channels.

What made everyone feel strange is that Zhang Hehuan and An Ran, the movie starring, did not strike while the iron was hot to launch a new film, nor did they rush to take on various business services like other actors. After the movie was removed, the two of them seemed to have a long holiday.

An Ran is a shareholder and image spokesperson of Chiyo Group. At least she took a set of promotional photos of spring fashion for Chiyo Group. Her photos can be seen in various stores of Chiyo, so Zhang Hehuan simply came to the room to evaporate.

This guy is not short of reputation now. Even if he does not appear in public, his reputation is increasing at a rate of 500,000 per day.

This time, I went to Seoul to promote and thank the fans. At the invitation of Peninsula Film, the two agreed to meet at Liuting Airport and fly directly to Incheon.

Given the current popularity of the two, they still chose first class to avoid unnecessary disturbances. They chose to board the plane at Liuting because there are not many entertainment journals here.

An Ran hadn't seen him for a while, and after taking off, she was still looking at Zhang Hehuan.

Zhang Hehuan laughed and said, "What are you looking at? Have you never seen it?"

An Ran smiled sweetly: "I feel you are handsome again."

"That's!"

An Ran said: "I heard you acted in a new film?"

"Either the starring actor or the villain in it."

“For you.”

Zhang Hehuan laughed, the flight attendant came to deliver drinks, and Zhang Hehuan ordered a cup of mineral water.

An Ran also followed suit: "What are the arrangements next?"

Zhang Hehuan said: "Relax and take a vacation. I don't have many scenes in this movie now, so I will focus on shooting my scenes in May."

An Ran drank a sip and said, "You are rich now, should you consider bringing "Shanghai Bund" to the screen?" Their fans have many of these CPs, mainly from the roots left by Xu Wenqiang and Feng Chengcheng at that time. When the radio drama "Shanghai Bund" was broadcast on the Jiaotong-Bund Channel, it caused a sensation and set several records on Jiaotong-Bund.

At that time, Zhang Hehuan also gave the copyright of the show to An Ran. After An Ran gradually got out of the trough after "My Savage Girlfriend". She still liked the performance very much. The first thing she thought of was to bring "Shanghai Bund" to the screen.

Zhang Hehuan said: "You are a movie star now, and you really plan to go back to shoot TV series?" Usually, movie star doesn't shoot TV series, and of course there are two-pronged approaches, but real top actors are very strict in filming, such as Brother Long, King Liang, and Gong Li, who will not put down their figures and act in TV series.

But now this situation is changing, and the salary of TV series has increased. Now many TV actors have paid an astonishing 90 million yuan in a TV series, which actually exceeds the top actors in the movie.

An Ran nodded. In her opinion, it doesn’t matter whether it is filming movies or TV. The key is who to shoot with.

Zhang Hehuan thought to himself that Nanjiang TV and Tomato TV both want to cooperate with him, but under the current policies, "Shanghai Bund" does not conform to the mainstream today. Gangsters fight, love, hate, and love. Although the plot is attractive enough, if you are not careful, you will violate the rules.

Zhang Hehuan said: "The policies on TV dramas have been tightened recently, and it is not easy to pass the review of this kind of subject. Let's put it aside first. If you really want to shoot it, you should make it into a movie first. You can use the form of a trilogy to make a domestic version of "The Godfather".

An Ran focused on the performance itself and was definitely not as good as Zhang Hehuan's policy. She was a little disappointed, but she didn't want to cause trouble for Zhang Hehuan and whispered: "That's it, let's wait until the policy is relaxed." This "Shanghai Bund" has a special meaning to her. She believed in her heart that she must play Feng Chengcheng, and Xu Wenqiang must be Zhang Hehuan, otherwise she would rather not shoot it.

Zhang Hehuan said: "I have written a book recently. See if you are interested."
Chapter completed!