Chapter 207 Other people's weddings focus on socializing
"What a big deal!"
Meng Bai sighed as he looked at the wedding scene with people rushing around in the spacious banquet hall of the Shanghai Exhibition Center.
"The guests and staff who came here add up to about 2,000 people, so of course it looks grand." Yang Ming said on the side.
After that, he gestured to Meng Bai with a "two" gesture: "It is said that the cost of this wedding is at least this amount."
"Only 20 million?"
"Add a zero."
"Okay." Meng Bai sighed.
On the way here just now, you can see that half of Yan'an Middle Road is covered with wedding photos of Huang Xiaoming and Yang Tianbao. The entire Shanghai Exhibition Center was directly booked today.
Outside the door of the banquet hall, a 20-30 meter red carpet was specially set up.
The guests walked on the red carpet, took photos, and signed autographs, which looked no different from the scene of a film and television awards ceremony.
In fact, there are some differences. Ordinary awards ceremonies cannot have so many bigwigs.
Let’s not talk about the stars and directors in the film and television entertainment industry. Just the business guests include the two Wangs of Huayi, Yu Dong of Bona, Yang Shoucheng of Emperor Entertainment, Xiang Huaqiang of Star Entertainment, Chen Ou of Jumei, Lei Jun of Xiaomi, and Jia Boss of Leshi.com...
It is said that Ma Ali was originally invited to be the witness, but because of something urgent, he only recorded a VCR blessing.
As for Wanda, Wang did not come, but Xiao Wang was one of the best men.
Only Tencent’s Ma has always been low-key and does not get involved in such activities.
Many netizens on the Internet joked that this was the "wedding of the century". Judging from the luxury of the scene and the quality of the guests, it is still worthy of the name.
But despite the high cost, they still make money.
Before the wedding, Huang Xiaoming founded a trendy brand in the name of "AH" (abbreviation of Huang and Yang), and took advantage of the popularity of the wedding to run an advertisement with extremely high traffic.
In addition, normal weddings are all sponsored from dresses, souvenirs, to various red wines and restaurants.
And there is also a gift money. Considering the net worth of this group of people, the minimum red envelope should be 88,000 yuan.
Calculating all kinds of income, a wedding may make 30 to 50 million yuan. It
is not a loss for the guests. This kind of activity is generally a social occasion. If the big guys get to know each other and chat, there may be some new cooperation.
"Meng Bai!"
Hearing someone calling him, Meng Bai looked in the direction of the voice. A dark man stood there, looking a bit like Chen Sicheng.
After saying something to Yang Ming, he stood up and walked a few steps closer to take a closer look.
"Fuck, senior brother, did you just come back from Africa?"
Meng Bai was a little impressed by his eyesight. It turned out to be true.
"Almost." Chen Sicheng smiled and said, "Didn't we go to Thailand to select the scene? It's the rainy season over there. When the sun comes out, it's more than 30 degrees. It's unbearable."
The 2013 movie "Lost in Thailand" directly brought up the tourism craze in Thailand.
Since then, Thailand has always given great preferential policies and conveniences to the filming of Chinese film and television projects.
Therefore, in the past two years, many movies that need to use foreign plots will choose Thailand, which is close and low in cost.
Because there are so many crews going there, Bangkok has formed a local group actor organization similar to the one on the street of Beijing Film Studio.
The price is also cheap, and an ordinary group actor only needs 300 baht (60 yuan) a day.
Since "Detective Chinatown" is about "Chinatown", it must be filmed abroad, and Thailand is the first stop.
"By the way, let me introduce someone to you."
Chen Sicheng said, motioning to a woman behind him and said, "This is the producer of our movie, Chen Zhixi."
Meng Bai looked over and saw a bright and generous woman coming over, smiling and extending her hand and saying, "Hello, President Meng, nice to meet you, I am Chen Zhixi."
Meng Bai had heard of the name Chen Zhixi a long time ago.
She was responsible for producing "Lost in Thailand" in 2013, "The Breakup Master" in 2014, and "The Pancake Man" this year.
Although the reputation of the movies is uneven, each one is a box office hit.
To be honest, for this kind of person, even if he has no ability at all, there are still many project parties in the circle who will rush to hire him.
It's nothing else, just for good luck.
"When I saw Producer Chen, I felt that the performance of our movie should be stable." Meng Bai shook hands politely.
"Haha, this should actually be said to President Meng." Chen Zhixi laughed heartily and said, "Without such an excellent script as President Meng, what's the use of relying on us alone."
Everyone lifted the sedan chair, and the two started a wave of commercial praise.
"By the way, didn't Teacher Baoqiang come today?" Meng Bai asked.
Both Huang Xiaoming and Yang Tianbao are very familiar with Wang Baoqiang. Logically speaking, he would not miss this occasion today.
Unexpectedly, when Wang Baoqiang was mentioned, Chen Sicheng sighed first.
After asking, I learned that Wang Baoqiang participated in a variety show called "Real Men" some time ago, which mainly allows celebrities to experience the actual military.
Liu Haoran also participated in it, which was considered to let the audience get familiar with the combination of the two in advance.
As a result, during the recording, Wang Baoqiang accidentally broke his leg and is still recovering.
If it was any other time, it wouldn't matter, we could just take care of it slowly. But the problem is that "Detective Chinatown" is already waiting, which is a bit troublesome.
Wang Baoqiang was also very embarrassed, and told Chen Sicheng that it was not possible to change someone.
Old Chen was also loyal to his friend, and told him that he would wait for him if he didn't change anyone.
"We originally planned to start filming next month, but with this delay, it should be the end of the year or the beginning of next year." Chen Sicheng said.
"The beginning of the year..."
Meng Bai frowned and pondered.
"What's wrong?"
"Didn't our Arc Light take over the web drama of "Ghost Blowing Out the Light", and it will start filming at the beginning of next year. I'm afraid there will be a conflict in time by then." Meng Bai explained.
Chen Sicheng thought for a while and said, "It's okay. Anyway, the script has been completed. If there are any problems with the plot, we can communicate remotely."
"Well, that's fine. Let's see the details later."
Chen Sicheng nodded, and then smiled again: "I remember that there is another movie about "Ghost Blowing the Light" released this month."
When it comes to this, Meng Bai couldn't help but wave his hand: "Don't mention it. What I hope most now is that the audience can quickly forget this movie." The movie
released this month is the previously mentioned "Nine-story Demon Tower", which was written and directed by Lu Yu.
Before the release, the audience was actually quite interested. After all, this is the first remake of the "Ghost Blowing the Light" series, and the special effects in the trailer are not bad.
But after the actual release, it was discovered that they were completely fooled by the director.
Except for the name of the character and "Ghost Blowing the Light", the rest of this movie has nothing to do with the novel. It is just a simple "monster movie".
Douban opened with a score of 4.8, and then dived all the way to 4.3, which is not as good as "Gardenia Blossoms" two days ago.
However, even so, this movie still took nearly 800 million yuan at the box office, surpassing the National Day hit "Charlotte's Troubles" and the third "囧 series" "Hong Kong囧".
I can only say that thanks to the rapid development of the mainland film industry in the past two years, this kind of movie can also make money.
It doesn't matter if this movie is bad, the key is the plot of "Nine-story Demon Tower", which is the story of the first part of the original work "Jingjue Ancient City".
Isn't this putting pressure on the publicity and promotion of the web drama project out of thin air?
"By the way, I still remember "Ghost Blowing Light". Meng Bai said: "It just so happens that Director Wuershan is here today. I'll go and ask about his movie."
Wuershan is the director of "Mojin", which is on the New Year's Day, and the lineup is more luxurious than "Nine-story Demon Tower".
It is estimated that now, apart from their crew and producers, Tencent and Meng Bai are the ones who hope that this movie will succeed the most.
It is also with this "sincere blessing" that Meng Bai and Wuershan had a pleasant chat, although they had no intersection before.
After the chat, Meng Bai was relieved.
I don't know what the quality of the finished film is, but at least the plot and casting sound pretty reliable.
I heard that Meng Bai was going to inspect the filming location next, and Wuershan recommended several places to him.
Unfortunately, they were all grasslands, which didn't match the Gobi Desert style of "The Forbidden City".
But he was still very grateful. Anyway, "Ghost Blows Out the Light" is a series, and maybe it can be used in the next few episodes.
After saying goodbye to Wuershan, seeing that the wedding banquet was about to start, Meng Bai was about to return to his seat, but he
ran into Boss Jia who had just come over after walking a few steps. "Long time no see, Boss Jia." Meng Bai greeted him.
This was really not a polite remark. Because of the cooperation, he could go to Leshi.com on average once a month. But in nearly a year, he really hadn't seen the other party once.
"Yes, I've been abroad this year and haven't been back much."
Boss Jia said enthusiastically: "By the way, I heard that Arc Light had transferred the financing amount of Leshi Pictures before. Is there any problem?"
You, who reduced your holdings and cashed out 8 billion in one year, still asked me why I withdrew?
Meng Bai complained in his heart, but still said with a regretful tone on his face: "At that time, Arclight had invested in a lot of projects, and the funds were not very sufficient, so we could only ensure liquidity first." "
I heard that it was a film project with Wanda, right?" Boss Jia said with a smile: "In fact, if there is financial pressure, you can also cooperate with Leshi Pictures."
"Leshi Pictures, we also talked about it at that time, but unfortunately they probably felt that the project was not suitable, so we didn't reach an agreement in the end." Meng Bai also said with a smile.
"Really?" Boss Jia's emotions stagnated, "I really don't know about this, maybe the film industry has its own considerations. It doesn't matter, our cooperation with Leshi's online drama is still normal."
After speaking, he saw He Jiong and Cai Kangyong, the wedding hosts, starting to lead the clean-up on the stage. The two exchanged a few simple greetings and then separated.
Meng Bai walked to his seat while thinking.
The previous accusations against Leshi's financial fraud were slowly suppressed over time. In addition, Boss Jia finally returned to China, which can be regarded as stabilizing the confidence of shareholders and investors.
The most important thing for Leshi.com at the moment is the merger and reorganization of Leshi Pictures starting at the end of the year.
Meng Bai had already transferred the financing shares of Leshi Pictures, so whether the merger and acquisition succeeds or fails, it has little to do with him. What
he is considering is, given the financial situation of Leshi.com, how much liquidity does it have now?
I have to talk to Liu Jun later and settle the income and investment of "Forensic Qin Ming" as soon as possible.
As for the next "Green Ivy Series" originally scheduled for "Day and Night Chase", it is best to wait and see.
It just so happens that there are two projects "Ghost Blowing Out the Light" and "Detective Chinatown Detective" as excuses, which is reasonable.
Thanks to "One Person is Good 7", "Green Bear Brown", "The World is Big" and other big guys for the rewards!
(End of this chapter)
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