I Haven’t Been A Boss For Many Years

I Haven’t Been A Boss For Many Years Chapter 161

2022-03-09

Chapter 161 Meeting

Early February.

DreamWorks, Conference Hall.

Li Dawei, Wang Jing, Liu Weiqiang, Wu Yusen, Zhang Guobin, five people sat in the office for the New Year's First Stage strategy meeting.

Zhang Guobin in a suit and leather shoes, sitting in the main seat with a cup of coffee in hand, Wu Yusen sitting on the right side, Li Dawei sitting on the left side, Wang Jing, Liu Weiqiang sitting under Li Dawei and Wu Yusen respectively s position.

"There is a small meeting today about the first quarter, DreamWorks' shooting plan." Zhang Guobin took a sip of coffee, put a few scripts in his hand, and said.

Li Dawei, Wang Jing and others all have serious expressions.

Unlike most companies at this stage, which have different annual plans, Boss Zhang brought his management experience from later generations to the 1980s, and divided the one-year work plan into four plans, one quarter, Scheduled for a quarter.

Wu Yusen leaned against the sofa with a relaxed expression. Unlike Li Dawei and Wang Jing, he is only a cooperative relationship with DreamWorks, and does not involve subordinate management. If it wasn't for Zhang Guobin who said that he would be asked to arrange films in the new year , he does not need to attend the DreamWorks meeting.

Of course, Director Wu respects Zhang Sheng very much, and Zhang Sheng is always on call.

Fatty Wang took a cup of water, took a sip of tea, looked at Zhang Sheng's expression, Zhang Guobin threw the two scripts to Li Dawei, and said in a crisp tone: "Awei, yours."

"Okay, Zhang Sheng." Li Dawei was wearing a white shirt, straightening his head, took the script, took a look at the title, and said with a wry smile: "It's "Happy Ghost" again, "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", Huh... "The Biography of 500 Million Inspector Lei Luo"?"

"Zhang Sheng, there is a new movie!" Li Dawei was surprised.

Zhang Guobin tapped on the table and said seriously: "How about making money?"

"As long as "Happy Ghost" and "Province and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" are not out of date , and it still sells well, DreamWorks shoots every year, and it gets old."

Wu Yusen sat next to him, face revealed a bitter smile.

Fortunately, I didn't bring "The True Color of Heroes",

Zhang Sheng still has a conscience.

However, when he recalled the review of "Plan A" by "Film Biweekly", he mentioned that Zhang Sheng only made high-quality films, not making money-making movies. What do you know about Zhang Sheng, you don't know anything!

"The Biography of 500 Million Inspector Lei Luo" is a famous corruption-themed work in Hong Kong. The prototype of the film story is Lu Le, the first Chinese Chief Inspector who fled ten years ago.

In this era, filming this script is very courageous!

As an ordinary film director, don't even dare to write, let alone shoot.

But Zhang Guobin's background is hard enough, just shoot it, and talk about it after the money is made!

Just out of politeness, before filming, I should have flown to Taiwan Island to visit the former Chief Inspector Hua.

Just in time, Zhang Guobin decided to go to Taiwan Island once at the end of the month. He made a special trip to thank Lord Chen Gang. If Lord Chen Gang had not opened up the Taiwan Island release channel, "Plan A" would not have been able to make a lot of money on Taiwan Island. .

"These two copies are yours." Zhang Guobin took out two more scripts, threw them in front of Wang Jing, and said aloud: "Fat boy, take a good look!"

"I know, Zhang Sheng." Wang Jing had a thief smile on his mouth, and took the script cheaply. Last year, he filmed "Ten Thousand Fights Ten Thousand" in DreamWorks at the box office. The "King of Thieves" once again won a box office of 7 million yuan. In terms of his shooting cost and time alone, the box office income ratio is extremely considerable.

Of course, in front of Li Dawei, the pillar of DreamWorks, he is still a lot lower.

After all, Li Dawei holds two Metal Element columns in his hands, and his cumulative box office exceeds 50 million. He is already a famous director in Hong Kong, and Wang Zai has just appeared in the arena, and he is a little more tender.

After he got the two movie scripts, he opened it and laughed: "I knew it! It's a gambling movie again!"

"Boss Zhang and I are really Heroes see the same thing, and I also want to make gambling films, hehehe."

Fat Boy Wang has no resistance to constantly making gambling films, and is happy to see it succeed. One of the two scripts reads "Gambling" God", one wrote "Supreme Supreme".

The titles are all powerful and domineering.

However, the fat boy was drinking tea, and his mung bean eyes were looking around, but he didn't read the script.

Betting on movies...

This old business,

very easy!

Fat Boy Wang even felt that Zhang Sheng didn't need to write the script, give him one night and he could make three more gambling films!

"Aqiang, your share is yours." Zhang Guobin threw out another script. Liu Weiqiang, who was sitting under Wu Yusen's head, changed his expression, immediately stood up excitedly, and asked aloud. Said: "Zhang Sheng, can I also film?"

Although, before he received the notice and entered the Conference Hall for the script meeting, he had some guesses in his heart, and Zhang Guobin gave Wu Yusen a word in advance. , it may be necessary to train Liu Weiqiang to film, but in the face of the sudden opportunity, Liu Weiqiang was still a little unbelievable and asked back.

Zhang Guobin laughed, shaking his hands kindly: "Don't get excited, sit down and talk."

Liu Weiqiang took the script and sat down. The script is called "Mong Kok Carmen".

Zhang Guobin held the coffee cup in both hands, and said kindly: "Aqiang, you have also worked in DreamWorks for more than a year. You have filmed a few movies and you have grown rapidly."

"Although you are not a professional film director, where does a director have a career? This industry only depends on talent. Regardless of your background, as long as you can make good movies, the audience will recognize you as a great director."

This sentence inspired Liu Weiqiang, who dropped out of middle school, and twisted his butt twice on the chair.

"This script is not difficult to shoot, but it is very difficult to make it well. I have assigned you an assistant director, and you will go out to find him later."

"you The two work together to make the movie well."

Zhang Guobin issued more than just scripts, but one chance after another to become famous. For the overwhelming majority directors, the most rare thing is not the script, but the money .

The script thrown by Zhang Guobin represents Hong Kong Paper, Hong Kong Paper, or Hong Kong Paper.

This is the rarest value.

Liu Weiqiang held the script in both hands, stood up again, bowed and thanked: "Thank you Zhang Sheng, I will work hard to make the movie well and live up to your expectations."

Wu Yusen Zai Side with a smile, nodded in heart.

Liu Weiqiang reluctantly counts him as half a discipline, and he recommends a newcomer to DreamWorks. Seeing that Liu Weiqiang has the opportunity to direct, he can't help but feel happy for Liu Weiqiang.

Zhang Guobin turned the chair and handed the last script to Wu Yusen: "Director Wu, take a look?"

"Blood and Blood?" Wu Yusen saw the name of the script , I felt a little itchy in my heart, and immediately opened the script and said aloud: "I'll take a look first."

"Okay." Zhang Guobin gave Wu Yusen full respect, and the script given to Wu Yusen is also one of his masterpieces One, it is simply tailor-made for the current Wu Yusen.

"Zhang Sheng!" Li Dawei shouted from the side at this time: "This play is so classic, it involves real characters, will something go wrong?"

After the baptism of "Hong Kong Flag Soldier" and "Beautiful Girl", he was already confident in making "The 500 Million Inspector", Zhang Guobin said with a smile: "What happens, I will bear it."

"I am relieved to have Zhang Sheng's words." Li Dawei breathed a sigh of relief.

"In addition, the goal of the first quarter is not to end the shooting of all the scripts in hand. DreamWorks' style has always been to pay equal attention to quantity and quality. Under the condition of ensuring quality, it is possible to shoot a few films. A few." Zhang Guobin glanced around the conference table, he was not worried about the speed of Fatty Wang's shooting, he was afraid that Li Dawei would catch up with the schedule and shoot three movies in three months. This sentence is equivalent to telling Li Dawei. In addition, Wu Yusen and Liu Weiqiang both have only one play, so there is no need to worry about not being able to make them.

"About casting, the company's list is attached to the back of the script. The characters marked with an asterisk must be used. Others can be reported for replacement. You can decide for the missing characters."

"If there are people who can't be invited, come and tell me, and I will send someone to invite them."

"Don't worry, Zhang Sheng."

"Understood, Boss."

Li Dawei, Wang Jing, Liu Weiqiang nodded agreed.

Zhang Guobin turned his head and looked towards Wu Yusen, Wu Yusen "Pa" closed the script, looked up and said, "Zhang Sheng, I took this play."

"The script I I have to go back and watch it again, I think the play is well written."

"OK, the meeting is over." Zhang Guobin put down Erlang's legs, stood up with a water glass, said aloud, and followed the whole The group walks out of the Conference Hall.

He left the Conference Hall and went straight back to the office. As soon as Li Dawei, Wang Jing and his group entered the office area, they were swarmed by the artists who were guarding the door early and asked about the role arrangement.

In the film industry food chain, the capital is at the top, the director, the execution, the stars and the artists...

At the strategic meeting of DreamWorks, the artists I don't even have the qualifications to participate, but Boss always considers artists.

"Brother Qiang, I'm Ah Wei. I used to be a freelance writer who wrote scripts for film companies." Wang Jiawei, wearing toad sunglasses, stood in the office area, his movements were somewhat restrained. Go forward to find Liu Weiqiang, extend the hand and introduce himself.

Liu Weiqiang immediately realized his identity, reached out and shook hands: "Just call me Ah Qiang."

He looked at Wang Family Wei, always feeling that the other party was older than him, While Wang Family Wei was submitting articles to DreamWorks, his talent was discovered by DreamWorks and reported to Boss's office. Boss had a talk with him and directly recruited him as an assistant director. Historically, the classic "Carmen in Mong Kok" was also the joint effort of Liu Weiqiang and Wang Jiawei. Liu Weiqiang was in charge of the screen shots and Wang Jiawei was in charge of the script.

Both of them are future famous directors of Heung Kong, and they are very talented as directors. However, now that Liu Weiqiang has experience and is appreciated by Boss, the two have fallen away.

Interesting thing, Wang Jiawei's first film directed by himself, and Liu Dehua's first film, this time, Carmen in Mong Kok also wants Andy to contribute a wave of youthful acting skills.

"Are you interested in having lunch together?" Liu Weiqiang was chatting with Wang Jiawei, made a gesture, and looked towards the door. Wang Jiawei readily agreed: "Okay."

"By the way, why do you want to wear sunglasses in spring?" A Qiang and A Wei took two steps, suddenly turned to look at A Wei and asked, A Wei pushed the frame of the glasses with the same expression, and said calmly: " Because it's cool!"

......

"Wow!"

"It's also a gambling film, but Zhang Sheng wrote it so wonderfully?"

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Evening.

The fat boy was at home, wearing slippers, his mouth full of foam, holding the script in one hand and the toothbrush in the other, and exclaimed.

(end of this chapter)