Disaster Artist

Jiang is still old and spicy, and Li Shikuan is indeed no trivial matter.

Five years and five film festivals exhibiting works, in a single sentence, completely tied the Blue Whale Films and the Blue Summer Film Festival together.

The reason is very intuitive.

Although the current business of Blue Whale Pictures has been fully expanded, and more than one director Lu Qian is shooting and producing projects, on the whole, Blue Whale Pictures still has not accepted the injection of capital, and is still a private enterprise model. Every project must be Be careful, the pace of business development is not fast.

This also means that Blue Whale Films wants to produce works that are shortlisted for the Blue Summer Film Festival, or even the main competition, and the biggest hope is still Lu Qian.

Once this agreement is passed, then Lu Qian's "film festival works" for the next three years or five years should only choose Lan Xia; and it will also restrain Lu Qian's creative inspiration, and he can't create commercial films as he wants, some kind of film festival. To a certain extent, this agreement of Lan Xia needs to be considered at all times.

To a large extent, this is equivalent to restraining Lu Qian's career.

Of course, the agreement did not state in black and white that all five works must be Lu Qian's, and Blue Whale Pictures still has other possibilities.

For example, Wetcher.

If the cooperation between Wei Che and Echo goes well and Wei Che shoots a work with a unique style, Blue Whale Pictures can still choose to send it to the Blue Summer Film Festival.

In addition, directors such as Jiang Chenghai and Lan Chen also have the ability to be shortlisted for the main competition of the three major film festivals, and they still have room to operate.

The point is that, in this case, Blue Whale Pictures will tend to be in the Blue Xia series and stay away from the Blue Sea series. This is the real purpose of Li Shikuan.

However, the Blue Summer Film Festival also needs to take risks—

First of all, can Lu Qian's artistic creation career still remain active? The most simple and intuitive, this song and dance movie, are you sure it will not fail?

Secondly, can the vitality of Blue Whale Pictures last for five or more years?

For Rich, it was also an adventure.

But on the whole, the real risk is Lu Qian, at least in the eyes of Ji Xu and Yu Shao—

Lu Qian, was he tied to Lan Xia's chariot like this?

This…

Ji Xu did not speak in a hurry.

Yu Shao also kept his mouth shut.

Because both of them understand that this is still not all.

Li Shikuan should accurately understand the risks involved. He should not and cannot pin all his hopes on an illusory "future", and then put all his chips away, especially when it comes to artistic creation. No one can. 100% confirm the success or failure of the next work.

Even if they were not at the scene, they could feel the shadow of swords and swords from the words, and their hearts could not help tightening.

On the contrary, Lu Qian seemed very determined.

"At the same time, the publicity window set up by the Echo at the Blue Summer Film Festival requires us to pay for all expenses..."

Just as Lu Qian said a word, he was interrupted by Yu Shao's exclamation, "What?"

Ji Xu didn't hold back either, she burst out laughing, because it was too ridiculous, "Although I know that everyone says Lan Xia is stingy, but it's not too bad, right?"

Generally speaking, distribution companies, film festivals, and film companies set up booths on top of film festivals. In fact, it is a way of helping each other with film festivals. Film festivals often need to help cover most of the expenses, or give some Support, and finally the two sides form a virtuous circle.

However, Lan Xia did not take the usual path.

However, if you think about it, it's not surprising.

Before Li Shikuan took office, the Blue Summer Film Festival had been plagued by funding—

On the one hand, the economic downturn in the entire region, and sponsors are generally stingy.

On the one hand, there is a shortage of the official capital chain. Although the official is willing to express support, if there is no money, there is no money, and there is no food in the pocket, so it can only be delayed again and again.

The most typical is that the main venue of the Lanxia Film Festival is already dilapidated. The film festival has always hoped to build a brand-new venue as a landmark building, not only the premiere venue, but also the press conference venue. In addition, it can also be used as film materials. The pavilion is available all year round.

After many years of tossing and turning, the official approval was finally issued, but there was no money, and the project was shelved; later, all kinds of funds were slowly squeezed out like toothpaste, so that the project construction also stopped and went, and after five years of repeated tossing, the project still remained. It was not completed; and later, Li Shikuan took office—

The official funding chain was cut, and the project stalled again.

Two years ago, a large number of "guests" transferred the Seka Film Festival midway. One of the important reasons was that if different units and different teams went to Lanxia to participate in the exhibition, if they wanted to set up a booth, Lanxia would charge a high fee, which made filmmakers They complained, and the limited profit space in the art film market was further compressed.

In stark contrast, Onkyo.

Over the years, Onkyo Film Festival has gone further and further on the road of adhering to art and self-appeal, and it seems that it is not worried about the cold reception of the market at all.

The fundamental reason is that the support from official funds, related booths, events, seminars, etc., all have fixed funds as their backers. Although not much, it is not enough for Onkyo to splurge, but every fund can be used. On the cutting edge, push the project to work.

The official even launched a long-term cooperation with the Onkyo Film Festival, setting up an Onkyo Foundation, which organizes film seminars and selects scholarships every year to support the learning and growth of local filmmakers. A group of filmmakers from the Bridge Department.

Without comparison, there is no harm, Lan Xia was also forced to do nothing.

Now, Lan Xia is willing to set up a booth for Echo, but all the expenses need to be paid for by Blue Whale Pictures. Is this... is this too exaggerated?

The corners of Lu Qian's mouth rose slightly, looking at Ji Xu with a helpless smile on his face, and continued to speak.

"Li Shikuan, the abacus is very good, that's not all."

"He also asked us to support the Blue Summer Film Festival Foundation by funding three million a year for three years."

Ji Xu was dumbfounded.

Yu Shao opened his mouth, but the words could not come out.

Shen Yanshu was stunned, "Isn't this stealing money?"

Figure poor dagger see.

Li Shikuan finally showed his true face and asked for money directly!

However, Yu Shao looked at Lu Qian's expression through the rearview mirror, but noticed that Lu Qian's eyes and mouth were full of smiles, what's going on?

Seriously think about it~www.readwn.com~ Yu Shao made up his mind, Li Shikuan's bookish temperament, and he was born as a professor, but he was full of copper stench and "extortion". Guessing from Lu Qian's expression, Li Shikuan should also It was very uncomfortable and very uncomfortable, but after all, I still said the conditions.

Perhaps, Lu Qian complained that Li Shikuan was a science student, but it was actually an irony.

Thinking of this, Yu Shao also felt absurd, and couldn't help laughing, "Director, how did things get to this point, didn't he come to ask if this song and dance movie can go to Lan Xia to participate in the exhibition?"

Things, completely different from the initial plan, have completely deviated from the track.

So, does anyone still care about that song and dance movie at this time?

Yu Shao thought for a while, then turned his body to look at Lu Qian, "Director, you shouldn't swallow it directly, right? With your character, it's absolutely impossible to just nod and agree, right?"

Li Shikuan, he came with all his plans and preparedness, but would Lu Qian obediently disarm and surrender like this?