1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Gao Jinwen did not agree immediately to Zhou Yan's proposal. He smiled and said, "It is certain to set up a selection group. As for whether our ginseng will not participate, let's wait until later."

Of course Gao Jinwen understood that if there was no teacher in the selection group, the internal conflicts would be smaller.

But if they are not included in the selection team, their school will have much less initiative. This is certainly not what Gao Jinwen wants.

This time, they are positive about the school-enterprise cooperation with Zhou Yan's studio, but they certainly do not have any reservations.

They still don’t understand the school-enterprise cooperation thing, and they don’t understand exactly what they can gain from the cooperation and what they have to pay.

They care more about giving than getting.

Zhou Yan heard what Gao Jinwen said and didn't say anything else. Whether there were people from Chinese dramas participating in the selection group actually had little impact on them.

"Okay, that's it for now. I'll tell Liu Hang about the quota."

"Thank you very much."

"Director Gao, you're here again. Is it necessary for us to be so polite?"

"Personal relationships are personal relationships, and work is work." Gao Jinwen said with a smile, "I hope this cooperation can be finalized quickly. If it can be finalized this semester, we will have a semester in the first half of next year to accept the results. If the results are satisfactory, then the school-enterprise cooperation project can be included in the training plan for next year’s freshmen.”

Zhou Yan also laughed, "Well, I also hope to get it done as soon as possible. At the end of this year, our studio is planning to hold a party, and we will invite various departments to produce programs. If our school-enterprise cooperation is reached, your side will definitely do the same. There’s going to be a show.”

Hearing this, Gao Jinwen became interested, "What kind of party will it be?"

"It's not big, it's just a corporate annual meeting, but we are in a special situation after all, so the party can be more exciting."

"Where will the party be held?"

"Maybe in the cafeteria."

In fact, Zhou Yan was also hesitating whether to do a simple renovation in the cafeteria or in workshops No. 7 and 8.

It's more convenient to hold it in the cafeteria. The stage is ready-made. All you need to do is replace the sound equipment. Moreover, there are tables and chairs in the cafeteria, so there is no need to buy additional chairs.

But the problem with the cafeteria is that it is too small. The area is not large, and it is full of tables, chairs and benches for eating. It can only accommodate more than 300 people at most.

If there are only people from their studio, this capacity is actually enough, but if you want to invite more friends, it will seem a bit cramped.

On the contrary, workshops No. 7 and 8 are much larger and very open, making them easy to renovate.

The disadvantage is that it is more expensive, and it will not take long before workshops No. 7 and No. 8 will be renovated, so all the money spent now will be in vain.

Hearing that it was going to be held in the cafeteria, Gao Jinwen's interest dropped by half. He had eaten in the cafeteria yesterday and naturally knew that there wouldn't be room for too many people there, so he could only hold a small event.

But, if school-enterprise cooperation is achieved, it would be good to let students perform a show.

"Okay, you don't have to worry about the program. Students in 1993 and 1994 usually schedule a lot of programs. When the time comes, just choose one for them to perform. You don't have to worry about rehearsals."

"Yeah, no problem."

…

After hanging up the phone with Gao Jinwen, Zhou Yan called Liu Hang and asked him to contact China Theater Company.

After explaining to Liu Hang, Zhou Yan was about to change his clothes and go to the studio, when the phone in the living room rang again.

Zhou Yan walked over and picked up the phone, "Hello, who is this?"

"Old Zhou, it's me."

Although the phone call was a bit distorted, Zhou Yan still recognized Sun Qin's voice at once. He smiled and said, "What kind of wind is this that brings Director Sun here? It's rare for you to call me."

Sun Qin on the other end of the phone grunted, "If I don't call you, you won't call me either? Besides, you are now an international director and a world-renowned composer. How can I dare to call you if I have nothing to do?" Telephone."

"Look at what Director Sun said. Great directors and composers are all Xiao Zhou in front of you. What's the order for Director Sun to call you this time?"

"I'm not going to bullshit you anymore. I'm calling to ask if you have any ideas about cooperating with our TV station to create a program?"

"What program? Is your feature department going to shoot any documentaries recently? Do you want me to score it?"

Sun Qin has developed well in the past few years and has taken the top spot in the special topic department, taking over from Sun Zonglu.

After Sun Qin took over, they also collaborated. In the first half of the year, the TV station produced a program "Yanjing Aftertaste". The soundtrack was done by the soundtrack engineering department of Zhou Yan Studio, and the effect was not bad.

"We can't afford your soundtrack now. I heard that if you score other people's movies, it costs 10 million."

Zhou Yan laughed, "It's not that exaggerated. How could I ask someone for 10 million for a random movie? The total investment in other movies is not that much."

Sun Qin said in surprise, "Listen to what you mean, is there really a movie that will give you 10 million?"

"Yes, yes, the situation is quite special."

"Tsk, tsk, it's so irritating to compare people to each other. My monthly salary now is less than a thousand yuan, but if you score music for a movie, your salary will be 10 million yuan."

Zhou Yan smiled, and now he wanted to ask him to score a movie, but it really wasn't something that could be done with money.

Even if someone pays him tens of millions to score music, he still has to consider it, at least the movie he wants to score shouldn't be too bad.

After all, there are many ways to make money, and there is no need for Zhou Yan to ruin his brand for this little money.

"If you are envious, why not resign and come to my studio, I will give you three thousand a month."

Zhou Yan's words were not entirely joking. If Sun Qin was really willing to come to his studio, he would give it several times more, let alone three thousand.

At such a young age, Sun Qin is able to take charge of the special topic department of Yanjing TV Station, and his connections and abilities are not bad.

Zhou Yan has worked with him and knows his abilities very well.

"It's impossible to resign. I've been working in TV stations all my life. But you, if you want to come to the TV station, I will help you introduce me."

Of course Sun Qin knows that there is more money to be made outside, but he has no plans to go outside the system. Now he is developing well in the TV station, and many things cannot be measured by money.

"Okay, let's talk about cooperation."

"Actually, it's not a cooperation, I just want to invite you to participate in one of our programs. Our TV station is going to publish an interview special, specifically interviewing Hong Kong stars who have worked in Mainland China, and mainland stars who have worked in Hong Kong. Our initial idea is to invite Nine stars.”

Although Sun Qin didn't say it, Zhou Yan understood why they wanted to do this talk show.

Seeing that Xiangjiang will return in half a year, their TV station must have something to produce. This kind of talk show is interesting and relatively safe.

Of course, if you want to be interesting, you still have to look at which guests you invite. If you invite ordinary little coffee, it won't be interesting.

"Which nine stars?" Zhou Yan asked.

"It hasn't been finalized yet, but the initial ones are you, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Leslie Cheung, Stephen Chow, Joey Wong, Gong Li, Faye Wong, Maggie Cheung and Jet Li."

After hearing Sun Qin's list, Zhou Yan twitched his lips and asked, "Director Sun, have you been transferred to CCTV?"

Sun Qin immediately understood what Zhou Yan meant and said angrily, "Why, is our Yanjing TV station a small local station? Can't hire big stars? Otherwise, I would say that you are an international star and you no longer look down on us. Yanjing TV Station is such a small temple.”

"I can invite you, but it's a bit unrealistic to invite all these people at once."

There are nine people on this list, Zhou Yan won’t mention them. Based on his friendship with Sun Qin, he will definitely agree.

But the other eight people are all top-notch, and no one of them can be hired by any program.

Let’s not talk about whether these people will give them face or not. Except for Wang Zuxian, everyone else’s announcements are probably very full. It is not easy for them to find time to come to Yanjing to record the program.

Of course, if it is CCTV, this matter will be slightly easier.

"I also know that it is not easy to invite all these people, but people must have goals. And I have also thought about it seriously. Logically speaking, it is much harder to invite you to do the show now than to invite these people. If I can invite you all, it’s certainly not impossible for others.”

"So, you made this first phone call to me?"

"Of course, I think about you all the time."

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, "Thank you for your concern. As for this show, since you are going to do it, I will definitely support it, but..."

Sun Qin seemed to know what Zhou Yan was going to say, and immediately interrupted him, "Don't say but, I have a small favor to ask you for. Look at this list. There are Tony Leung, Joey Wong, Stephen Chow, Leslie Cheung, and Maggie Cheung. , Gong Li, you have cooperated before, how about you help me connect the dots? "

As soon as he interrupted himself, Zhou Yan knew what he was going to say.

"I have some doubts as to whether this list was specially drawn up for me. Except for Jet Li, I don't know anyone else on your list."

"Do you know Faye Wong too?"

"Yeah, we know each other, but we're not very familiar with each other." The two of them had only had one meal, and they were indeed not very familiar with each other.

"It's okay. I can contact Faye Wong myself. I know her. Just help me connect with other people."

Zhou Yan pondered for a while and said, "I can only help you pull the strings, but don't expect me to be your lobbyist. In fact, I'm not particularly familiar with them."

"No problem, you just need to pull the strings, and leave the rest to me."

"Okay, let me ask for you."

"You are still loyal enough to treat you to dinner later."

"whispering sound."

"Hey, what do you mean, you don't believe I will treat you to dinner?"

"hold head high."

"If you want to be like this, then I... I will definitely find a chance to treat you to dinner next time. I'm too busy these days."

"Go and do your business. I've asked them here and will give you a reply."

"Okay, I'll wait for your news."

After hanging up Sun Qin's phone, he didn't rush to call the people Sun Qin wanted to invite. He wanted to wait first. Maybe one of those people would call him and let him know about it then. Mention it.

…

This wait lasted three days.

On the morning of January 5th, as soon as Zhou Yan arrived at the office, he received a call from Tony Leung.

As soon as the call was connected, Tony Leung congratulated Zhou Yan, "Congratulations, Director Zhou, the box office of the new movie is so high, I have seen the news in Hong Kong."

Under normal circumstances, Hong Kong will not report the box office situation of mainland movies immediately.

But Zhou Yan is not an ordinary director after all, and the media in Xiangjiang pays great attention to him. Therefore, many media are following the box office performance of "Space Traveler" throughout the whole process.

As soon as box office news comes out here, it will be reported over there.

Zhou Yan asked with a smile, "The news you saw was how much the box office was?"

"What I saw is that it is already 35 million. Is this news wrong?"

"Absolutely."

The latest news obtained by Zhou Yan is that the box office of "Space Traveler" has just exceeded 32 million, which is still 3 million away from 35 million.

The data he obtained was actually counted up to January 2nd, and some cities were not included in the statistics, so the real box office of "Space Traveler" is most likely to have exceeded 35 million.

The media in Xiangjiang will definitely not get newer data than Zhou Yan, so there is only one possibility. This data is fabricated by the media.

Of course, the media’s data is not just random fabrication without evidence. They must be making assumptions based on real data.

Anyway, the box office of "Space Traveler" will definitely exceed 35 million, so there is no problem for them to report it in advance.

And the reason they report it is because they want readers to think their data is up-to-date.

This newspaper's statement of 35 million is considered conservative. Some newspapers are bold enough to directly write 40 or 50 million, which is very exaggerated.

"It seems that by the time the movie is released, there is hope that it will exceed 50 million."

"Well, there is hope."

Zhou Yan previously thought that the hope of exceeding 50 million was not very high, but according to current data, the possibility of exceeding 50 million is still very high. After all, it has only been released for two weeks, and the movie has great stamina.

Then Zhou Yan and Liang Jiahui chatted for a while. Besides congratulating Liang Jiahui, he also expressed his hope to have the opportunity to cooperate with Zhou Yan again.

Zhou Yan is also very willing to cooperate with Tony Leung Ka Fai, but only if he has a suitable role.

After chatting for a while, Zhou Yan saw that the time was almost up, so he talked about the talk show, "Your call came at a good time. Director Sun from the special topic department of Yanjing TV just contacted me and said that they wanted to do a talk show... "

Liang Jiahui listened to Zhou Yan's words and said with a smile, "Of course I don't mind participating in this type of talk show, but the details still depend on the content of the show and the recording time."

"That's natural. I'm just the messenger. It's up to you to talk about it yourself. If you don't mind, I'll give your phone number to Director Sun and let him talk to you."

"Of course it's no problem. Otherwise, you can give me Director Sun's phone number and I'll take the initiative to contact him."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "That's outrageous. I'll ask him to contact you."

"Okay, I'll just wait for his call."

After talking to Liang Jiahui, Zhou Yan called Sun Qin and told him Liang Jiahui's phone number.

After getting Liang Jiahui's phone number, Sun Qin couldn't wait for a moment and hung up Zhou Yan's call directly.

Hearing the blind beeping sound, Zhou Yan rolled his eyes.

More than half an hour later, Sun Qin called the phone again.

"Lao Zhou, I have already contacted Tony Leung Ka Fai."

Sun Qin's voice sounded very happy, and Zhou Yan smiled and said, "It seems the result is good?"

"Well, although it hasn't been officially confirmed, we should be inseparable. I can tell that Tony Leung gives you a lot of face."

"Liang Jiahui is not giving me face, but he himself has more feelings for the mainland."

"It's true. He should be a Xiangjiang star who knows the mainland well. He told me a lot about his filming in Yanjing on the phone."

Tony Leung Ka Fai is different from other Hong Kong stars. The first movie in his life was filmed in Yanjing, so he has a special affection for Yanjing.

Zhou Yan thinks Sun Qin and his colleagues have a good idea. Actors like Tony Leung Ka Fai and Leslie Cheung who have filmed in mainland China have different understandings and emotions towards the mainland. (End of chapter)