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059 Lack of money

Qi Jibai was a little nervous now.

He had been sitting in the private room of this teahouse for ten minutes. During this period, he raised his hand to look at the watch three times and drank two glasses of water.

But in fact, there are still more than ten minutes left before the agreed time with the other party.

That's right, he waited here half an hour in advance.

Sometimes life is so wonderful. You will never think that the most dull chat one day may become a turning point in your destiny.

More than a month ago, in the crew of "Forensic Chronicles", Qi Jibai saw that Shao Bing admired Wei Xun and out of his attitude of many friends and multiple ways, he took the initiative to chat with Wei Xun and added a contact information.

At that time, Qi Jibai didn't think too much about it.

However, a month later, he received a notice from the company that a film project was about to be launched, asking him to come to this teahouse and wait for an interview with the investor representative.

The name of the investor representative is Wei Xun, and the upcoming film project is called "No Questions to the West".

Because of the shady incident of "Please Call Me Actor" that bombed major online headlines a few days ago, now, almost few people have never heard of the script "No Ask the West" in or outside the circle.

The movies that Wei Xun is the screenwriter, and Zhai Qing and Jiang Duzhou are sure to join are the most eye-catching news.

What's more, this movie was officially announced by Wei Xun when the traffic on the entire network exploded.

As an insider and a signed director of Times Film, Qi Jibai also learned some deeper insider information.

For example, this "No Questions to the West" has initially invested 40 million yuan, and the three companies jointly invested and auctioned, Wei Xun alone invested 20 million yuan, Huaying 10 million yuan, and Times Pictures 10 million yuan.

Although Qi Jibai has not read the script yet, how good can the book that allows Zhai Qing and Jiang Duzhou to support the platform be so bad?

The actress of the Big Golden Flower Zhai Qing, Jiang Duzhou, who can still hold the box office in the acting skills, and Wei Xun, who has the same traffic acting skills, have three excellent actors and a good script. Such configurations are well-deserved top resources even in the director circle.

So when this top resource fell on his own, Qi Jibai was almost knocked unconscious.

He came to the teahouse that Wei Xun decided to do, and his mind was very confused now.

To this day, Wei Xun and more than a month ago have changed a lot.

The storm in "Please Call Me Actor" ended. Zhou Xingchen apologized, the program team apologized, Dynasty Entertainment deleted the official alert message, the actor Gu Chengxian completely disappeared, and Tianguang Media remained silent.

Who wouldn't be amazed at this person's record of sweeping the whole game?

In addition, the "Forensic Chronicle" has exploded, and the box office has actually exceeded 50 million. By the time it was released, the total box office could reach 80 million even if it was less than 100 million.

For a film with a niche theme and a two-time vote-lapse, this result is impressive.

The senior executives of Times Film have been wandering around these days.

What’s more interesting is that “Forensic Chronicles” was jointly invested by Royal Chao Entertainment and Times Pictures. Although Royal Chao Entertainment has not invested much, it has become a beneficiary.

As we all know, there are irreconcilable contradictions and conflicts between Wei Xun and the Imperial Entertainment.

Well, these are all off-topics. What is worth paying attention to is that Times Film did a market research. The reason why "Forensic Chronicles" was popular is inseparable from Wei Xun's traffic.

The company's marketing department even came to an astonishing conclusion that Wei Xun had strong box office capabilities.

Although it is incredible, the result is convincing.

Not to mention when Wei Xun officially announced "No Questions to the West", he almost completely spread the unfilmed movie to promote it online, saving a huge amount of publicity and distribution costs.

So in the project "No Questions about West and East", Wei Xun, who is the investor, screenwriter, and male lead, naturally has a greater say.

In other words, as long as Wei Xun nods today, Qi Jibai can become the director of "No Questions to the West".

This is also the reason why Qi Jibai is nervous.

After another ten minutes, the door of the box was pushed open, and Wei Xun walked in in a casual outfit and a mask, and followed him with an assistant Mao Bin.

Oh, it's not appropriate to say that the assistant is already.

From the moment Wei Xun entrusts Xingyang Law Firm to file a contract termination lawsuit with Tianguang Media, Mao Bin has become Wei Xun's agent.

"Wei...Mr. Wei." Qi Jibai stood up and said hello, a little restrained.

After all, the two of them have different identities now and they can't be as casual as before.

"You are kind to you, just call me your name."

After not seeing each other for a while, Wei Xun didn't change much. His attitude was still gentle. He took out two thick stacks of scripts from his bag and handed them over, and said with a smile: "Let's sit down and chat, you can read the script first."

"Hey, okay." Qi Jibai nodded and responded, opened the script and looked at it, then was stunned.

In the script Wei Xun gave him, he painted very beautiful and clear storyboards with detailed picture annotations. As a professional, Qi Jibai can see how much energy it takes to scan it.

But… the storyboard script is the director’s job.

When he was an assistant director for Shao Bing, Qi Jibai also brought these storyboard scripts from Shao Bing in this way, and then shot them step by step.

He thought he could finally be the leader this time, but now it seems... it is obviously not.

Wei Xun looked at Qi Jibai's slightly stagnant expression and smiled and said, "How about it, are you going to take this book?"

The storyboard script was taken out, and the meaning was actually very clear. I can give you the position of the director, but I have the final say on how to shoot it.

There is no humiliation, nor does it mean that there is no seizure of power. We speak ugly words openly and clearly and simply.

Whether to answer or not is all within your thoughts.

Qi Jibai was silent for a moment and said in a stern voice: "Come on."

Even if he is a no-brained director who seems to be frustrated, there is definitely no shortage of directors who are willing to be named after a film starring Zhai Qing, Jiang Duzhou and Wei Xun, which is involved in 40 million yuan.

And with the achievements of the director "No Questions about the West", are you still worried about not being able to direct the movie independently?

Just think it's acquiring experience.

Qi Jibai agreed very happily to understand the interests.

Wei Xun was more happy than him, so he stood up and said, "Okay, that's all for you. I recently passed the notebook and joined forces with Times Pictures and Huaying to organize the crew team to help us start filming in half a month. I still have something to do here, so I won't tell you all, we will see you in half a month."

Qi Jibai held the storyboard script in his hand and looked at Wei Xun who was rushing over and leaving in a hurry, stunned.

He was nervous for several days, but the result was so simple that he passed the interview?

After leaving the teahouse, Mao Bin complained: "We are in a hurry. Brother Xun, you have to ask Qi Jibai out to chat. Just a few words, make it clear on the phone, and hand it to him the notebook, and then you'll be done."

Wei Xun rubbed his eyebrows and said, "It's a bit humiliating for a famous director. If I don't come to meet in person, I will inevitably feel unhappy when I start filming the movie later. If the deal is done, the relationship must be stabilized."

"Okay, just now, in order to see Qi Jibai, the time in the booked recording studio was free, and it was booked by other families. We can only queue until the middle of the night to record."

Mao Bin sighed and said, "Now you still have a men's magazine cover that needs to be filmed. Recently, due to the contract termination storm, your endorsement has dropped very well. In the afternoon, the first party of this advertisement hopes that you can go over and have an interview in person. If time is free, you can still schedule a radio music preheating promotion at eight or nine o'clock in the evening. After that, it just happened to return to the recording studio to record "Youthful and Promising"."

Wei Xun has been very busy recently, really busy.

"No Questions" is about to start filming, and 20 million yuan of funds will be paid in three batches according to the contract, not to mention that he still has millions of owed debts every month.

So I can only take advantage of the time to shoot magazines, join in with appropriate endorsements, and record and release the two songs "Youthful and Promising" and "The Devil from Heaven", and do all the trivial things to do in advance, because after the filming is launched, I have to follow the crew completely, and I will not have time to do these things.

Hearing the whole lot of work in Mao Bin's mouth, Wei Xun took a deep breath and said, "Okay, let's hurry up."

In fact, he has been doing this for the past half month, and he has to squeeze out time to draw scripts and score footage. He only sleeps for three or four hours a day.

As for why I have to work so hard, of course it is because I lack money. ps: Thanks to the four big guys, "Luojun", "Glowing Salted Fish", "Colorful Cloud Sea", and "Cold Candle Painting Screen". I'm also very good at working hard. I have to code so many words every day, and you're talking about it more slowly. It's really hard.
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