Chapter 333: Sleep when you should, pay when you should.
As Meng Bai thought, Li Qin, whose defense line was broken, burst into tenderness like spring water.
Even if Meng Bai made some requests that were more excessive than before, she agreed with a blushing face.
Although she couldn't keep up with the physical strength in the second half every time, Li Qin always gritted her teeth and insisted on catering to Meng Bai.
It's a pity that this girl still didn't agree to introduce her bestie.
After a few days, although Li Qin's energy was a little exhausted, her complexion became more and more tender and bright, and her originally cold temperament also became much softer.
Now it was Wu Bai's turn to be a little uncomfortable.
According to the plot, Fang Muzheng and Tai Wei jointly set up a trap to frame Jiang Ya, who was in a state of being misunderstood and wanted, but the state of "Mi Nan", the prospective girlfriend, was better. It's okay.
Although there is no important role, it still looks very distracting.
There is no way, so the makeup artist can only put on makeup before each shooting, and try to make Li Qin look pale and haggard.
Fortunately, this girl didn't have many scenes left, so it wasn't too troublesome.
At the end of October, the filming of "City Lights" gradually entered the final stage.
"When will director Cao Baoping start filming?"
"He said it will be in December."
"That's not bad, I can take a break for a while."
Watching the assistant team move the packed suitcases out, Li Qin walked to the door, turned around and hugged Meng Bai behind her.
"I'll go back first." She looked up at Meng Bai: "Don't secretly look for other girls."
"You said that, it's not like you don't know what the situation is in our crew now, there are only a bunch of men left." Meng Bai put his arm around her waist and said: "Even Mai Mai has finished filming and went back to school."
"You are actually thinking about Mai Mai!" Li Qin frowned.
Meng Bai's breath stagnated, looking at the woman who was laughing in his arms, stretched out his hand and patted her little butt: "What nonsense!"
Li Qin smiled guiltyly knowing that she was in the wrong, and touched her butt again.
"Does it hurt?" Meng Bai's hand touched it dishonestly, and rubbed it twice out of habit.
Li Qin, who had been developed and matured in the past few days, suddenly had a disordered breathing, her feet softened, and she leaned on Meng Bai's arms.
Meng Bai smiled at this, lowered his head and leaned into her ear and said: "How about another parting commemoration, anyway, the flight is still early?"
Li Qin's heart moved, and she carefully looked outside the door, and found that the assistant and others had already taken their luggage downstairs, and she felt relieved immediately. After closing the door, she was half-reluctantly pushed to the wall by Meng Bai, and then he hugged her legs and hugged her.
Half an hour later.
"You... why haven't you, haven't you finished yet?" Li Qin said breathlessly.
The phone tightly held in her hand kept ringing, and it was obvious that the assistant was urging her when he saw that the time was almost up.
Meng Bai stood proudly without any sign of tiredness, looked at her blushing little face, and smiled and said: "Otherwise, you might be faster if you change the way."
As he said that, he also kissed her delicate mouth.
Seeing the man's malicious smile, Li Qin rolled her eyes at her unhappily. But under the urging of the phone, she had to roll up her long hair with one hand and squat down.
"Why don't you wipe it first... Um!"
Twenty minutes later.
In the underground parking lot, Jia Jia, the assistant waiting by the car, was hesitating whether to make another call. Suddenly, she heard the sound of the elevator door opening, and then Li Qin appeared at the elevator entrance.
"Sister, you finally came down."
"I made a temporary call. It's okay, it's still in time."
After getting in the car, Jia Jia asked the driver to drive to the airport. Just as she was about to say something to Li Qin, she found that she had been frowning and pursing her lips, as if she was spitting something.
"Sister, are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Li Qin blushed when she was discovered, but still tried to pretend to be natural and said: "It's okay, a small insect just flew into my mouth."
After saying that, she couldn't help but curse someone in her heart.
——After
sending Li Qin away, Meng Bai finally focused on supervising the filming of the movie.
In fact, there are not many scenes left. Most of the plots have been shot, and there is also the last part of "City Lights" - the "ultimate showdown" between Fang Mu and Jiang Ya.
In the movie, the police have completely confirmed that Jiang Ya killed Liao Yafan and was also the real "City Light", but almost all the evidence was destroyed by the other party.
Obviously, this is a naked challenge to the judiciary by Jiang Ya and the organization behind him, with the purpose of forcing Fang Mu to implement "extrajudicial judgment".
"I have seen with my own eyes that you privately punished the rich second generation who molested the young girl but let others take the blame. You have already crossed the line, why do you still have to continue to hypocritically hold on to me."
"Kill me, and you can complete the final redemption."
This is what Jiang Ya said to Fang Mu, and it is also the reason why he wanted to challenge from the beginning.
However, what he didn't know was that the "punisher" he saw on the rainy night before was actually Tai Wei, not Fang Mu.
Because this past was exposed by Jiang Ya, although it was too long ago and could not be verified, Tai Wei was still investigated by the Discipline Inspection Commission and then recorded a serious punishment.
After the investigation, he was also "demoted" from the position of captain of the Luteng City Public Security Criminal Investigation Detachment to the Binhai District as deputy captain, and then met Guan Hongfeng, who had not yet left the police force.
This is the background connection between the "Psychological Crime" series and "Day and Night Chase".
Of course, this is after the plot of the movie.
Fang Mu was not defeated by Jiang Ya's behavior, but after discussing with Tai Wei, he designed a routine.
He shot and "killed" Tai Wei in public, and then blew himself up and accepted the title of "City Light".
In this way, he turned from open to covert and forced Jiang Ya to show up.
In the final showdown, Fang Mu scratched Jiang Ya, then cut off the finger with the other party's flesh and blood DNA, wrapped it with a condom prepared in advance, and swallowed it into his stomach.
In this way, as long as the forensic doctor gets the evidence in his stomach, Jiang Ya can be convicted.
It's not that Fang Mu has no other way, but he has realized that there is an organization behind Jiang Ya who is providing help, and the other party's target is himself.
In order to prevent more people around him from being in danger, he decided to exchange one life for another.
[Since "City Lights" was born because of me, it will end here. ]
Meng Bai originally wrote Fang Mu to death in the script, but later after the discussion of the screenwriters, the clear ending was deleted.
It is not only to leave a backhand for the sequel that may be restarted in the future, but also to comfort the fans.
Because the last "decisive battle" involves action scenes, Wu Bai specially left it to the end to shoot. In this way, even if any actor is injured, it will not affect the whole movie too much.
This action scene is not too long, and it is only about two minutes in the movie. But because Qin Hao and Zhang Luyi were not professional action actors, they needed action directors to teach them step by step, so the filming was very slow.
It took a week to shoot a shot of more than 100 seconds.
But fortunately, it was finally finished.
Before November, "Psychological Crime: City of Light" was declared finished.
The actors went back to their homes, and the crew began to dismantle the scenes and collect props for the next project.
Meng Bai and the production team began to check the various financial expenditures and current accounts of the crew.
However, he no longer needed to do the specific work himself, as long as he had to review and sign at the end.
"Brother, when are you leaving?"
Meng Bai walked out of the "Green Vine Public Security" building and saw Wang Longzheng sitting on the steps in front of the building, and asked casually.
"Go back tomorrow." Wang Longzheng, who was awakened, smiled and replied, and then fell silent again.
Meng Bai didn't care whether the ground was dirty or not, and sat down on the steps next to him.
"What's wrong? Did you have a conflict with Teacher Ma?"
"Teacher Ma" is Ma Wei, Wang Longzheng's girlfriend, the girl who was proposed to in the crew of "White Night Chase".
"You care about people." Wang Longzheng glanced at him, "We are very good."
"Did you suddenly find that you are over middle-aged and can't do it?"
"Haha, you are not ashamed to say that to me. With all the girls you have, just hold on until you are thirty."
The scumbag's face is naturally not broken by this level of ridicule. Meng Bai asked indifferently: "My physical fitness is not something that mortals like you can understand... So, what are you melancholy about?"
"Nothing, I just saw the ending of the movie and suddenly felt a little emotional."
From the first season in 2014 to now, he has played "Tai Wei" four times in three years. Now that I suddenly find that the story has come to an end, I always have an inexplicable feeling in my heart.
But he is also an old actor, so he is not as emotional as Zhao Jinmai. It's just that I have to leave tomorrow, so I will sit in front of this "Public Security" building where I have been for a long time.
"Okay, stop sighing. I didn't say there won't be a sequel." Meng Bai said, "Besides, after "Psychological Crime" is over, there is still "Day and Night 2". We'll continue next time."
Wang Longzheng was excited when he heard this: "When will the second season start filming?"
"It's hard to say, the script hasn't been written yet." Meng Bai spread his hands, "And there are also the "Detective Chinatown" web series and the new series "Hunting Crime Picture Book" ahead of them. It is estimated that we have to wait for 19 years."
Arc Light Film and Television has many projects this year, and there will be more next year.
There is no way. The company is making too much money. It is too unprofitable to keep the excess funds in the bank to earn interest. It is better to invest them all into expenditure costs. Although taxes still have to be paid, they can be reduced to some extent.
This is not tax evasion, but just some reasonable and legal tricks in financial auditing.
To be honest, he did not follow the trend to register a company like "Horgos Arc Light Film and Television", which is already very law-abiding.
Because it is located in the frontier, Horgos has extremely favorable tax policies, so in recent years it has gradually become another "tax haven" for film and television companies after Shanghai, Wuxi, and Hengdian.
With the same annual turnover of 100 million, companies in Beijing North have to pay nearly 9 million in taxes. But in Horgos, it only costs about 5.5 million.
With a difference of nearly 40%, it is no wonder that these companies have "moved westward" in large numbers.
Chen Jing had mentioned to Meng Bai before whether he should register a shell company in Horgos like other companies, specifically to handle the financial transactions and accounts of film and television projects.
However, Meng Bai refused after considering it.
First of all, he has a similar company in Landao. As a well-known "local entrepreneur", the relevant departments of Landao have also given Arc Light many preferential policies. Although it is not as big as Horgos, it is still okay.
Moreover, in his opinion, it is difficult to say how long such a fair and intensified "tax avoidance" trend can last.
Once the wind direction changes, the fruit swallowed now will have to be spit out, and maybe something else will be involved.
Look at Brother Baoqiang, after the divorce, he would rather borrow money to pay taxes.
Our President Meng is also an honest man. He sleeps when he should sleep and pays taxes when he should pay taxes.
Speaking of Wang Baoqiang, Meng Bai remembered that he should have recently gone to New York with Chen Sicheng to shoot the movie "Detective Chinatown 2".
Unlike the first one, Meng Bai only made an outline for the script of this one, and the remaining details were filled in by the screenwriter department of Arclight and Chen Sicheng himself.
Moreover, compared with the first one, the production cost has also increased significantly. After all, New York is not like Bangkok, and the personnel cost of the crew alone is a huge expense.
The budget has risen from 80 million to 400 million, and there are 150 million publicity and distribution costs. In other words, the box office of the second part must be at least 1.6 billion to make money.
This result was completely whimsical a few years ago, but it is not impossible for the current domestic film market.
Ticket subsidies are getting less and less, ticket prices are getting more and more expensive, more and more cinemas are being built, and the number of moviegoers is increasing year by year.
With the foundation of the nearly 1.2 billion box office of the first part, as long as the quality of the second part is not too bad, it can be said that it is a sure win.
However, in this case, the production of the online drama "Detective Chinatown" should also be put on the agenda, and it must be broadcast before the movie is released.
In addition, Arclight has many projects lined up. So the finishing work on Landao was almost done, and Meng Bai went back to Beijing first.
...
As soon as he returned to the company, he received an unexpected good news.
The previous small production "Chef Fang in the Flower House" that was not taken seriously in cooperation with Huace, unexpectedly became popular.
Or to be more precise, it was the heroine "Fang Yishao" played by Zhu Xudan that became popular.
[Who can refuse a little cook who can cook, know kung fu, is both cute and can encourage her husband? ]
[Three thousand weak waters, only marry Yishao! ]
[(Fang Yishao cooking stills) Brothers, I really like this! ]
[Knife in hand, follow me. Kill Shen Yong, grab Yishao! ]
[What, does the upstairs look down on my Dongxiangfu's number one "hungry tyrant" Shen Gongzi? (Manually funny)]
[...]
Looking at the barrage of people shouting "wife" on the barrage, not to mention the audience, even Arclight and other producers were dumbfounded.
The background of Tencent Video shows that more than half of the male audiences are following this drama, and the amount of interaction is extremely high.
Even in the bullet screen of the main film, there is a mighty "one spoon army".
For a long time, most film and television companies have positioned ancient costume dramas like "Huajian Tihu Fang Dachu" as those little female audiences who like sweet dramas.
I never expected that it would attract such a large number of straight male audiences.
Tencent Video has also done some surveys and found that this situation is not completely without reason.
First of all, the proportion of male audiences in the film and television market is not low, but in recent years, most of the so-called ancient puppet dramas and fairy dramas are aimed at the preferences of female audiences, so there are very few male audiences.
On the contrary, suspense dramas like Arc Light Film and Television are almost never short of male audiences.
It is also for this reason that after seeing that the producer of this drama also has Arc Light Film and Television, a large number of straight male audiences were diverted.
In addition, the plot of this drama itself is also in line with the appetite of male audiences. There are no messy house fights or various sadomasochistic routines.
Most of the plots are basically simple cooking, eating, solving cases, and then watching the male and female protagonists show off their love.
In addition, the character of the heroine "Fang Yishao" is really likable, so it is normal to have such popularity.
The only thing that makes many viewers murmur is that this drama is worthy of being produced by Arclight Films. Even if it is a costume drama, it has to add suspense and detective elements, which really does not forget the original intention.
In any case, "Fang Yishao", the new generation of wife of everyone, has become popular, and Zhu Xudan, who plays the role, has also become popular.
Just like "Tong Ronger" in the first half of the year, Zhu Xudan also enjoyed the treatment that Li Yitong had at the beginning.
Her popularity has soared, her number of fans has increased greatly, and various film and television resources have also come in droves.
When the show first aired, her team was helping her to fight for the resource of "Zhou Zhiruo" in the new version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
This remake, like this year's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", has the same director and team. Although the popularity of the whole show is average, Li Yitong, who plays "Huang Rong", is really popular.
Therefore, facing the two heroines of the new version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", a group of young actresses also competed fiercely.
Originally, Zhu Xudan was not the first choice, but the role of "Fang Yishao" became popular every few days, driving her popularity up. In addition, Taiyang Chuanhe also has the channels of Arc Light Film and Television, so the crew directly decided that she would play "Zhou Zhiruo".
This girl has been very happy recently. She calls Meng Bai every other day, and her tone is very intimate.
Meng Bai even suspected that if it weren't for the phone, this girl would have jumped on him directly.
"Very good." Meng Bai said with the phone in hand: "Our Soul Ferry: Huangquan is counting on you to attract more people."
"Eh——"
Zhu Xudan on the other end of the phone snorted with her lips puffed.
She was still not overwhelmed by the sudden popularity. From the audience's point of view, her popularity was definitely not as good as the value of the IP of Soul Ferry itself.
"Okay, play the new drama well. The role of Zhou Zhiruo has a huge mountain ahead of you. If you play it too badly, don't blame the audience for scolding you." Meng Bai said: "I have something to do here, so I'll hang up first."
"Oh, okay, then you go ahead."
Zhu Xudan said disappointedly, and then heard the sound of the phone hanging up.
Exit the call interface, and Meng Bai's photo appeared on the background wallpaper of the phone.
Looking at the screen and smiling foolishly, Zhu Xudan couldn't help flicking at the position of the forehead.
Really, my senior brother has obviously scumbag so many girls, why can't he have one more for me?
No, I can't be impatient, I have to find a suitable opportunity.
Thinking of this, Zhu Xudan opened the mobile browser.
The "historical search" in the search box is full of keywords such as "Li Qin + Meng Bai", "Li Yitong + Meng Bai", "Song Zhi + Meng Bai" and so on.
...
On the other side.
Meng Bai really didn't lie to Zhu Xudan, he really had something to do at the moment.
"Sorry, Mr. Fang, I've been waiting for a long time. I suddenly had something to do just now." Meng Bai walked into the reception room and said to Fang Fang who was waiting inside.
"Mr. Meng is polite, just don't blame me for visiting suddenly." Fang Fang smiled lightly.
As she spoke, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart. In the past, Meng Bai went to Penguin Films, but now it's the other way around.
But there's nothing you can do, who lets Arclight have such a big influence now.
The news that Yuewen wanted to buy Arclight for 15 billion yuan was a hot topic in the circle, and many people doubted the authenticity of this news.
But as a different group of a group, they, Penguin Films, clearly knew that this was true.
Yuewen's status in Tencent is much more important than theirs. Even they treat Arclight with courtesy, so there's no reason for them not to move around more.
(End of this chapter)
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