"Zhang Chu? Why are you here too?"

Jiang Hua was sitting on the box on the second floor and unexpectedly saw a familiar figure. He ignored the rules of the theater and walked to the wooden railing and greeted him.

At this time, Zhang Chu finally used money to open the road and specially bought a one-month VIP ticket for Zhengyi Temple Opera House, so that he could get the opportunity to communicate with the Peking Opera actors of the troupe.

These days, there are very few young people watching Peking Opera, and there are not many who are so generous in their actions. Therefore, these actors who are preparing to put on makeup regard him as a drama-loving audience, and only think that he is interested in the behind-the-scenes performance of Peking Opera, so he knows everything.

Zhang Chu looked up and saw that the bearded man waving his arms was Jiang Hua, so he said to the staff of the theater: "Then I won't disturb your preparations before the performance. I'll come over and talk in detail after the performance is over."

"No problem, Mr. Zhang please give me a gift." The staff dressed in ancient maids also knew that Zhang Chu had something to do, so he left.

After Zhang Chu went upstairs, Jiang Hua began to speak like a machine gun: "When I saw it, I thought I had accepted the wrong answer when I saw it, but I didn't expect that the old man would take you to see a scene and fascinate you. Today I will be acting in "Mu Guiying as the Commander", and all the famous actors come! By the way, I saw the finale of "The Legend of Wukong" last night, and you finally finished writing it."

"Teacher Jiang, do you actually have research on Peking Opera? You spend all day here."

"I am a friend of the old man. He said that no one is watching Peking Opera in China now, and the actors are even more unpopular. So if that person wants to let more people see Peking Opera, he asks the old man to create a movie related to Peking Opera. You know, the old man is not as good as before and has the idea of ​​retirement. Now he is planning to shoot a movie related to our traditional Chinese culture as a pen-blocking work. Am I here to take notes and accept the influence of this!"

Zhang Chu suddenly realized that he didn't expect that Mr. Xu was still strong and wanted to retire.

Many foreign directors are still at the peak of their creation when they are in their 80s. The old man is still a little short of seventy, and it is time to stop writing.

"The old man probably won't film the sequel to "Psychological Crime" again, right?"

Jiang Hua nodded and said in a blunt manner: "I don't know when this sequel will be launched. The old man said privately that if you write it out, our studio will definitely find a reliable director to shoot it, and it will not ruin the fame and praise of the first part!"

Zhang Chu couldn't help laughing at this time: "It means you are unreliable? Otherwise, you should have found you."

He really didn't take any pot, and Jiang Hua's face turned red and he muttered, "If he really asked me to take pictures, would you investors dare to use me?"

"That's true, I'm really not very relieved."

What a big truth to tell, Zhang Chu found that he was very relaxed when chatting with Jiang Hua alone and did not regard the other party as an elder at all. Anyway, given his age in his previous life, they were almost the same age.

Jiang Hua sighed, "Isn't this over? I'll go out to work on my last movie with the old man, but now the Peking Opera movies are not that easy to shoot. I hope his reputation will not be dragged down by the last movie!"

Today, when entertainment is becoming more diversified, going to the cinema to watch movies is the first choice for young people.

As a national opera, theatre performances of Peking Opera are declining day by day, and theaters have become the removal of middle-aged and elderly people. Some people even call this phenomenon "sunset art".

At least Zhang Chu has not seen anyone who really appreciates the drama when he came to Zhengyi Temple Opera House these two times. Most of the young people come in to shoot theaters with a strong retro atmosphere, take pictures of Peking Opera actors with exquisite appearance, and then pass photos and videos to Weibo or WeChat Moments to show off, check in at a certain location, and check in at a certain culture.

Peking Opera is the art of theater. Faced with the many difficulties faced by theater art, how to attract more people to enter the theater, especially young people, has become a major problem for such art practitioners.

This cannot be solved by shooting a movie with Peking Opera theme. The overall environment cannot be reversed and everything will be the same.

However, since Xu Ji had already made plans, he must have considered these things very clearly. After all, Zhang Chu was just an outsider and had no say.

Their interests are nothing more than the movie "Psychological Crime"!

Speaking of this movie, Zhang Chu asked curiously: "How much is the box office for psychological sin now? I have been so busy that I have no time to pay attention to this news recently."

Jiang Hua looked at him with contempt, "Are you having box office dividends or I having box office dividends? I don't even care about my own money."

"How many things are, please make me happy!"

"The one billion just broke yesterday and a celebration banquet was held. It is estimated that the total box office will be around 1.5 billion. This is a satellite. No one would have thought that there would be such a high box office." Jiang Hua said excitedly. This qualification is very important to be an associate director for a movie with a box office of 1.5 billion.

"Psychological Crime" has been released for more than a week, and its reputation has been fully utilized. In addition, there is almost no opponent in the same period. The second week's box office champion should be a foregone conclusion!

Zhang Chu is actually just a small share of the box office of "Psychological Crime", which is terrifying for the dividends director Xu Ji's studio can get.

As one of the investors, they can get a dividend of 15%, and director Xu Ji's personal pay is also converted into dividends, up to 8%!

Among so many investment issuers, Director Xu Ji's studio can be said to have made a lot of money.

Another big head is Yida Pictures. They not only participate in the investment business, but also assume the heavy responsibility of distribution. Even their Yida Cinema is making money. They participate in all three links, and the share ratio they get is no lower than Director Xu Ji Studio!

Zhang Chu felt a little sad when he thought about his 2% box office dividend. Even if the box office was 1.5 billion yuan, he could get 30 million before tax.

If only I could have won more dividend ratios at the beginning, maybe I could have become a billionaire now.

However, he also knew that at that time he was a newcomer in the film industry and a literary world. Being able to get 2% of the box office dividends was already the result of the agency's efforts.

The film and television adaptation rights of many newcomers' works are taken out at a bargain price, and no matter how much box office is, it has nothing to do with them.

Thinking of this, it seems that Zhang Chu can get 30 million and is already at the top level!

Of course, this further strengthened his idea of ​​starting a self-employed person.

When I was an unknown person, I needed to get in touch with the agency and I needed to go to various film companies and game companies to discuss cooperation.

Now that Zhang Chu has become famous, it is the company's turn to come to him. He can offer any conditions as long as he can get the copyright!

Just as he lowered his head and thought, Jiang Hua, who was sitting next to him, began to chatter: "By the way, when will the Journey to the West movie you promised me to start shooting? Don't conflict with Mr. Xu's movie time, that would be troublesome."

"First of all, I did not promise you to film. You have to take out your own works, otherwise how dare I hand over the script to you casually, after all, we are not familiar with each other."

Let’s talk about breaking first, then don’t be confused. Instead of letting him look forward to it in vain, it’s better to let him make a real movie before talking about it!

Jiang Hua clenched his fists, "It really takes qualifications to make such a blockbuster. I will first make a movie that really belongs to me as a stepping stone."

With nothing to say, how can Zhang Chu know how strong the other party is?

People who have never filmed movies independently start shooting big investment videos at first glance. This is not to help him reach the top in one step, but to harm him!

Zhang Chu nodded: "We can afford to wait. Good stories are not afraid of time passing."

Besides, he also wants to operate this video in his own company, and it takes time no matter what level it is.

Jiang Hua recovered at this time and asked quips: "Can you simply reveal the content or name of the story? It's good to satisfy my craving!"

"The name of the movie is tentatively set to be "A Chinese Odyssey", and the content of the story will be kept confidential for the time being."

Originally, "The Legend of Wukong" borrowed some content from Stephen Chow's movie "A Chinese Odyssey", just like the character setting of Fairy Zixia and many sentences from colleges and universities.

But if "The Legend of Wukong" was successful only after imitating "A Chinese Odyssey", then this is not accurate. Although these two books also write about the story of Sun Wukong, they have completely different souls!

"A Chinese Odyssey" consists of two parts: Moonlight Box and Great Sage Marriage. Later, the third sequel was filmed after many years, but no one included that movie into the overall story.

The ratings of the first two movies are among the top 250 in Douban movies. The sequels starring migrant workers and thieves and the shame of the Central Academy of Drama are not even five points, and netizens scolded them to death.

In fact, "A Chinese Odyssey" did not receive much recognition when it was first released. It was not until 1997 that it began to spread in the mainland and the Internet and became popular quickly.

These are two quite classic nonsensical comedy films, which reinterpret Journey to the West, and it is more like a follow-up to Journey to the West.

"A Chinese Odyssey" has many successes. Although the box office was not high at that time, the subsequent revenue was very gratifying!

The most famous one is Stephen Chow's company sold the game adaptation rights of this movie to NetEase. NetEase fully utilized the role of this IP and made countless money from netizens.

First, the movie was transformed into a game of the same name. When it was in the early 21st century, "Westward Journey" was very popular, and then it had a Q-version game called "Fantasy Westward Journey". The popularity of "Fantasy Westward Journey" was even higher. At its peak, more than two million people were online at the same time.
Chapter completed!