Director’s Legend

"I announce that "Crazy Stone" is officially finished!"

It was July 18th, 2004. The last scene was filmed in the Luohan Temple. Bao Shihong was urinating in the toilet. Following that Desi expression, Shao Shuaijun shouted out loudly.

"Wow!"

The whole crew boiled and, led by Huang Bo, rushed into the toilet and dragged Shao Shuaijun out. Then the deputy director Wang Yixue and Yue Xiaojun, each holding a bottle of champagne, shook it vigorously, then pulled out the bottle cap and aimed at Shao Shuaijun.

"Hey, stop, be careful to deduct your wages!"

Before Shao Shuai finished speaking, two glasses of champagne sprayed over and got wet.

"Ahahaha, hoooo!" Huang Bo yelled strangely while spraying.

Shao Shuaijun was sprayed all over his face, and Guo Tao next to him was sprayed all over. It was summer, and Shao Shuaijun was wearing big pants and an undershirt. Guo Tao wore prop costumes, oh, it's not a prop. This costume was originally Guo Tao's own. The crew didn't have the money to buy so many clothes. In many scenes, actors wore their own clothes.

With a loud roar, Guo Tao rushed to grab Yue Xiaojun's champagne and sprayed with Huang Bo.

"Ouch, don't spray it, it breaks my camera!" Zhang Teng, who was shooting the documentary, yelled and ran out. A film documentary is to record how the film was made and the behind-the-scenes in private. On the one hand, it can be a memorial, and on the other hand, it can also be used for publicity.

Soon, everyone joined the battle group. Shao Shuaijun, who has always disliked slapsticks, also became a fan of "old man chatting with teenagers". He grabbed a bottle of champagne and sprayed it everywhere.

"Too, too, too naive." Chief Artist Zhang Xiaobing packed up the equipment to prevent it from being damaged by the shower, shaking his head and shaking his head. Suddenly, he didn't know where a champagne flew from and hit his forehead.

Zhang Xiaobing was furious and turned around to see the photographer Shi Sheng. He immediately rushed into the crowd with swift hands, grabbed a bottle of champagne, shook it a few times, and suddenly pulled out the cork.

"Boom!"

Champagne under the huge momentum, like a rocket jet.

"I am!"

Shi Sheng had been prepared for a long time, stretched out his hand and touched his back, held up a black umbrella, and put all the champagne at the moment: "Haha, what can you do with me?"

"Idiot." Zhang Xiaobing smiled lightly.

Wow, makeup artist Yang Yang had already touched it, and the champagne was poured directly on Shi Sheng.

Champagne battle broke out throughout the crew, and the battle lasted for half an hour before it stopped. Shao Shuaijun watched everyone burst into water, not knowing whether it was champagne or sweat. He laughed silently. After more than two months of hard work and rushing to shoot day and night, he finally achieved a positive result.

After laughter, it's parting.

After a whole day of trouble, eating and singing, everyone reluctantly said goodbye the next day, and several women were crying at the airport. There are always banquets in the world, and it is common for filmmakers all year round to change crews like horses and flowers, to conceal their grief and go everywhere. Shao Shuaijun personally sent away Li Kai, Guo Tao and others.

A few days later, Luohan Temple was handed over to the Yuzhong~County government, and the crew of "Crazy Stone" formally erased its traces. For the final settlement, Shao Shuaijun took a group of attendants and flew to Hengdian.

Because post-production takes half a month, Shao Shuaijun has to edit the release version of the film and several promotional videos in this half a month. Unlike general directors, Shao Shuaijun likes to edit movies by himself instead of looking for a professional editor. Shao Shuaijun spent a lot of thoughts on this movie. Many parts are different from the original version. The workmanship is more detailed and the content is more consistent.

Compared with the version in his mind, Shao Shuaijun is sure to edit a more perfect movie.

Contacted by Zhao Cheng, Shao Shuaijun quickly found a post-production team to help him perfect the film. This year Huayi Brothers has already planned to establish a company in Hengdian. Zhao Cheng transferred from the distribution department to preside over the company's proposed construction. With the development of Hengdian, the potential has become more and more attractive, and many entertainment companies have begun to move into Hengdian.

In the future, Huayi will move its headquarters.

And Shao Shuaijun is also most familiar with Hengdian and likes the atmosphere here, so he put post-production in Hengdian.

He worked with the production team to perfect the movie all day, and a group of attendants he brought lived in Liu Sanxi's home. These people include Yue Xiaojun, Huang Bo, Wang Yixue, Sloppy, Jiang Zhigang, as well as Liu Sanxi, Anan, Sishui and Zebra. The reason they got together was because of "Crazy Racing" proposed by Shao Shuaijun.

Shao Shuaijun will not direct this movie, but he intends to be an investor and producer. Let them do the preliminary work first.

Liu Sanxi is now not a group leader, and his wife has closed the commissary. Although his status is uncertain, he has become a member of Shao Shuaijun’s team. There are characters with names in the movie industry.

Having said that, the rent was collected when the team moved into his home.

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Three days later, Zhao Cheng found Shao Shuaijun who was buried in the screening room: "Director Shao, Director Hu is here, find a place, and everyone discuss the promotion of the movie."

Director Hu is the relative that Zhao Cheng mentioned last time, the financial director of Huayi Brothers, and Hu Ming, one of the giants of Huayi Group in the future. Hu Ming is an intellectual, generous, beautiful and dignified woman in her thirties. She has a master's degree in management and a certified public accountant. She has worked in the world's top 500 companies Motorola, Canon and other companies.

Followed by Hu Ming was Shao Shuaijun’s older sister, Shao Xiaoling, who is now Hu Ming’s special assistant. Shao Shuaijun guessed that on the one hand, Huayi had the intention to win over him, on the other hand, the older sister was really smart and capable, otherwise Hu Ming would never choose a fresh graduate student as an assistant.

In fact, there was nothing to talk about. Shao Shuaijun didn't bother about publicity matters. Huayi took the distribution rights of the film and invested 10 million yuan in publicity, and the box office was divided into half. At the box office of a movie, 5% of the film fund and 3.3% of the business tax must be paid, and the remaining 91.7% will be shared. Among them, theaters get up to 50%, theater companies get around 7%, and the remaining 43% goes to producers and distribution companies.

Together, the producers and distribution companies can get about 40% of the total box office. In other words, Shao Shuaijun personally invested 3 million yuan to shoot a movie and took 20% of the box office. Huayi Brothers invested 10 million yuan in a promotional film, which also took 20% of the box office.

This kind of box office split is enough to give Shao Shuaijun face, and Shao Shuaijun is really satisfied. The original version of "Crazy Stone" only won 23 million box office without publicity. This version has the strong publicity of Huayi Brothers, and the box office is absolutely popular, but Shao Shuaijun does not know how much it can reach, and he expects it in his heart. The valuation is 60 to 70 million, so that both parties can make a lot of money, plus the DVD share, it is guaranteed not to lose.

Faced with Huayi’s publicity plan, Shao Shuaijun thought for a while, and said: “In the early stage of the movie, you can arrange the starring to go to major cities for publicity. I will hurry up and cut out the first publicity video for release. Don’t do it specifically. Ask me, I don’t know, I don’t have time, and I don’t want to show my face on TV."