It took Nie Cheng'an ten minutes to finish writing the song he had just composed on inspiration. He moved his shoulders and then glanced at his son standing outside the door.
"Dad, what song are you writing?"
Nie Xingbang walked in, surprised and delighted, because his father had not composed a piece of music for two years. Just like all music fans seeing their most admired musicians have new works, this joy came from the heart and could not be controlled.
Nie Chengan sorted out the music scores on the shelf and wrote a line of small words on it with a pen: "Act 2, Paragraph 3".
"It's the movie that Wei Mingjie mentioned when he came that day. Contact him and ask him to prepare the contract..." After a pause, Nie Chengan said, "Their investment is not large, so the contract price will be the cost price, maybe one million as a token of appreciation."
Nie Xingbang frowned when he heard this and couldn't help asking, "Just one million?"
One million is indeed the cost price for Nie Chengan, because producing the film soundtrack also includes the cost of inviting a band to record later.
Although the music must be input into the film by the director in the end, it is impossible to give the director the five-line score to fill in the blanks by himself, right? The music must be produced, and the soundtrack will be released later. Especially for a master like Nie Xingbang who has dedicated fans, the composition fee and copyright are separate.
In other words, even if Nie Chengan accepted the contract to produce the soundtrack for Wei Lan's film, the copyright of the music would still be in his hands. Wei Lan only obtained the right to use the music in the film, and the sales revenue from the future release of the film soundtrack would still belong to Nie Chengan.
As a master in the industry, Nie Chengan's long-term collaboration with the orchestra is of course the best in the industry, at the national level.
Taking into account the performance fees, musical instruments, recording equipment, etc., one million is really the most generous cost price.
"Well, I'm very interested in this project." Nie Chengan nodded and urged his son: "Go find them to sign the contract."
Seeing his father's enthusiastic look, Nie Xingbang knew that his father had made up his mind, so he could only smile bitterly and said, "I understand. I'll go prepare the contract right away."
Wei Mingjie was completely stunned when he received the call from Nie Xingbang. Listening to the contract terms given, he even suspected for a moment that he was dreaming during his nap in the office - could it be that the friendship between Mr. Nie and his father was even deeper than he thought?
After hanging up the phone, Wei Mingjie quickly called Wei Lan and excitedly told her the good news:
"Lanlan, you can never imagine what happened!"
Wei Lan's baby voice and the sound of pages turning came from the other end of the phone: "What happened?"
Wei Mingjie didn't keep anyone in suspense: "Mr. Nie has agreed to compose the music for your movie! And the price is only one million!"
He was waiting for his daughter's surprise and cheers, but he didn't expect Wei Lan's calm voice to come from the other side:
"I know. Mr. Nie has sent me some written music scores. I'm reading them now."
Wei Mingjie: “???”
…
Wei Lan went to the studio every day, and the editing work proceeded in an orderly manner. At the same time, Nie Chengan on the other side was very inspired. In this state, he burst out with great enthusiasm for work and made new progress almost every day.
Basically every one or two days, Nie Chengan would exchange a letter with Wei Lan to discuss matters related to the soundtrack.
In early February, as the editing work was coming to an end and all the soundtrack compositions were finalized, Nie Chengan invited the band and spent three days to produce the soundtrack master tape, which he sent to Wei Lan.
By the middle of the month, Wei Lan had almost integrated all of the soundtracks into the edited film.
What follows is a period of nitpicking while watching the film, slowly taking the time to polish the world of the film into a coherent whole.
During this period, Wei Lan occasionally took time to pay attention to the filming of "Star Wars". Compared with her unknown small crew, there were much more actions over there. Basically, there would be news every time a new filming cycle began, not to mention that the actors were all well-known big names, and even the supporting roles were at least second-tier rising stars.
During this period, someone joined the crew, someone finished filming, and the popularity brought by the stars also played a role in publicity.
Just two days after Wei Lan finished producing the movie, the war horn she had been waiting for was sounded as expected.
Chen Yuanhang assembled a group of well-known superstars and held a new film press conference with a luxurious lineup, announcing to all media that "Star Wars (Part 2)", which has invested more than 1 billion, will be released on March 10th.
If the first part of Star Wars was somewhat experimental, then through the commercial success of the previous part, Chen Yuanhang attached more importance to the achievements that could be achieved this time.
Because this concerns his future power and status in Chengguang.
If Star Wars (Part 1) was Chen Yuanhang's token of allegiance when he left Wei's company and joined Chengguang Pictures, then the box office of the second part was to show off his muscles to Chengguang in order to gain more power in his new company.
Looking at the eager media in the audience at the press conference and the almost non-stop flashing lights, Chen Yuanhang's heart was filled with a sense of pride and ambition.
He never denied that he was a person with a strong desire for power.
The reason why Chen Yuanhang chose to leave Wei's was because he believed that he was raised by Wei Mingjie's father since he was a child. Even if his status was not settled, he could not escape the identity of a half-adopted son. Later, he became a director. His talent was much higher than Wei Mingjie's. He created many classic works for Wei's. However, when the old man of the Wei family passed away, he did not allocate any shares of the Wei Group to him!
On the surface, Chen Yuanhang and Wei Mingjie are good friends, but in fact, he has been holding a grudge against them for a long time. He has been secretly colluding with his rival Chengguang and using Star Wars to give Wei Mingjie a severe backstab.
After arriving at Chengguang Pictures, if Chen Yuanhang wants to obtain Chengguang’s equity and voice, his second Star Wars movie must be shockingly excellent.
Although the first "Star Wars" was announced to have an investment of 900 million, in fact only 600 million was used, because the initial modeling and trial and error in the director's machine was completed by Wei's, and the cost in this regard was borne by Wei's. Now the second part has actually cost 1.1 billion, and this is even though the sequel saved a lot of scene construction!
The cast of participants is the most luxurious in the industry. Each of the leading actors can support a movie individually. There is a dedicated art director and technical director team. Although Nie Chengan was not invited to compose the music, another master who has won the Golden Tripod Award for Best Original Score was invited.
The influence of last year's "Star Wars: Part I" is still there, and this set of cards is ready to sweep away the same period.
Originally, because people knew that this movie would be released in March, many movies moved up or postponed their release dates. After this press conference, two movies that had long been announced to be released in March immediately announced changes to their release dates, one moved up and the other postponed, which made Chen Yuanhang feel very proud.
After watching the press conference on TV at home, Wei Lan took out his mobile phone and checked the current date. There were still twenty days left until the release of "Star Wars (Part 2)", which was more than half a month.
Looking again, I saw various holiday information marked on the mobile phone calendar.
March 11th happens to be Teachers' Day in this world.
Wei Lan slapped his thigh: Great!
Originally, the title of her movie had not been decided and she was hesitating between several names, but now that she saw the date, she no longer wanted to think about anything else.
She immediately picked up the phone and called Secretary Wang from Wei's PR department: "Secretary Wang, I have confirmed the release date, March 10th. I will send you the movie poster later. You can contact the theaters and offline material production to officially start the movie promotion."
"March 10th? Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Secretary Wang agreed. Wei Lan had told her in advance when the production of the film was almost completed, so everything seemed orderly now.
After hanging up the phone, Secretary Wang turned his gaze to the computer, preparing to look for the theater's contact information, when his attention was attracted by the news that popped up on the computer.
'The sci-fi masterpiece "Star Wars (Part 2)" has announced a release date and will be released on March 10! '
Secretary Wang's pupils dilated and he picked up the phone and called Wei Lan back.
"Hello?" A confused female voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Director Wei, I'm sorry I'm not sure. You just said it's scheduled for March 10th? Is that correct?"
The answer from the other side was affirmative: "That's right."
Secretary Wang was incredulous: "But I saw the news, it was Star Wars..."
"Yes." Wei Lan on the other end of the phone chuckled, "I want it to be released on the same day. Go and prepare. I've sent you the poster."
Wei Lan had said so, so even if Secretary Wang was surprised and confused, he had no choice but to do as he was told.
…
Because of the failure of "Sword V", many viewers went to "Sword IV" to "revisit the classics". The movie introduction on Wei Lan's Weibo account, which only has a "different science fiction", has also accumulated a certain amount of popularity, and has more than 10,000 "looking forward to the release" votes.
This vote does not have any actual money-making function, but users who vote for the expectation vote will receive update push notifications when there are changes to the movie synopsis.
At this time, the mysterious movie that had been silent suddenly updated its release date.
March 10th.
While other movies were avoiding the prehistoric behemoth "Star Wars", a new director's first film dared to clash with the release date? !
This move quickly attracted the attention of various marketing accounts through forwarding. They smelled the flavor of hot news and forwarded it one after another:
A Little White Fish v: Wow! This is the director of Sword IV! I even pushed her. //@魂小原v: Is the director so brave? //@黑黑的望天v: I took a look at the subject matter and it’s still science fiction, ah this…
As more and more reposts and comments are forwarded, the information ferments and spreads.
An hour later, a Weibo post from an entertainment marketing account received the most retweets:
'Is the director brave? An ant trying to take on an elephant? Look at how popular this movie is now.'
Below is a screenshot of the movie page, where the number of 'looking forward to release' has exceeded 80,000 in a short period of time and is still rising.
Now everyone understands. They were on the first level before, and this new director was on the second level. They were going to collide with Star Wars, and they were actually taking advantage of the popularity of Star Wars!
Otherwise, such a little-known movie, with no related publicity in the early stage, might not have been noticed when it was really released. Now it is being released at the same time, directly taking advantage of the popularity of Star Wars, and letting many fans who are interested in Star Wars know that there is also a science fiction movie being released on the same day.
As for whether the box office will be crushed by Star Wars?
This is a matter of personal opinion. Even if it is a bad movie, there will always be people who are curious about how bad it is. At least this director's move was a brilliant one in the eyes of insiders.
Just when everyone knew that this movie was riding on the popularity of Star Wars.
Three hours later, Wei Lan posted a new Weibo post:
"The Rural Teacher is scheduled to be released on March 10th. It is a different kind of science fiction, a gift for Teachers' Day, and a tribute to this great profession." A movie poster is also attached below.
The Internet's melon-eating crowd ate so much that the melons fell off:
The release date and the film’s subject matter are all related to Star Wars, and the film’s name is all about Teacher’s Day... Absolutely amazing!
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