Chapter 117: Intercepting Feng's Pants

After the seminar organized above, there seemed to be a lot more meetings suddenly.

First, the China Film Association also held an enlarged meeting of the board of directors three days after the seminar.

Although Liu Zhou is not yet a member of the board of directors, he was also invited to attend this expanded meeting.

Afterwards, the China Directors Association and the Screenwriters Association also held meetings in succession, and Liu Zhou was again called to attend.

After the release of "My Sassy Girl", Liu Zhou was invited to join the above three associations.

In the mainland, where relationships are so important, it is difficult to get around them unless you want to be unique.

They almost control all domestic awards and have a lot of advisory power over the formulation of policies above.

Besides, there is no harm for Liu Zhou to join these associations. On the contrary, there are many benefits. Many of the people in them are from academic backgrounds.

However, compared to the more practical content in seminars, these meetings are more abstract and it feels like completing a task assigned by superiors.

So Liu Zhou remained silent and did not talk as much as he did at the seminar.

After this wave of meetings, it is already May.

The Beijing University Student Film Festival is about to open at the Beijing Olympic Center.

Liu Zhou's "The Piano Tuner" became the film with the most nominations at this college student film festival.

Although the Beijing University Student Film Festival is not a mainstream film festival, its influence is growing day by day. It is considered to be the most valuable and well-known award in the mainland besides the three major awards.

At last year's College Student Film Festival, Liu Zhou won the Best Debut Award for "My Sassy Girl", but because he was busy with investment matters in Hong Kong at the time, he did not attend the award ceremony.

Liu Zhou was invited again this time, and he did not refuse, and attended with Qin Hao and others.

There were many people attending the film festival, and it was also a gathering for the industry.

The College Student Film Festival also had a red carpet, but Liu, Zhou and the others didn’t linger and walked through it quickly.

As soon as Liu Zhou arrived at the venue, he became the focus of the entire venue.

In the absence of Zhang Yimou and Cheng Shishi, Liu Zhou was undoubtedly the most handsome guy.

After dealing with the people who came to say hello, Liu Zhou also sat down in his seat.

The award ceremony began soon, and the first awards were given out for the short film and college student video competitions. These awards were given out for the first time this year.

This is indeed a very good exposure opportunity for college student directors and unknown new directors.

Then a variety of other awards were presented, and "The Tuner" won a pretty good trophy, the most popular film among college students.

Colonel Lu won the Best Debut Award for "Looking for the Gun".

Looking at Colonel Lu's high-spirited look when he gave his acceptance speech on the stage, he did not look at all as aggrieved as he did when he cried to the media about Jiang Wen's tyranny during the filming.

Without exaggeration or understatement, Colonel Lu's early films are quite good, especially "Kekexili", which is really excellent.

But I don’t know if this guy has lost his mind, he actually overestimated his own abilities and made a movie called “Jinling! Jinling!”

To be honest, if Liu Zhou was from Jinling, he would really want to shoot him after watching this movie.

Liu Zhou felt that people like Colonel Lu were even more hateful than Zhao Lixin and should be banned!

Afterwards, "Escape from the Amazon" and Feng Kuzi's "Big Shot" won the Best Viewing Effect Award, but he himself was not present, and it was Ge You who accepted the award on his behalf.

Finally, there were a few of the most important awards. The Best Actress award was won by Hu Ke, and the Best Actor award was won by Qin Hao without any suspense.

This was his first award, and Qin Hao, who had been calm, couldn't help but get excited.

The Best Director award was given to Huang Jianxin, who is Han Shanping's good friend and former classmate in the Beijing Film Academy's advanced training class.

Liu Zhou also felt a little regretful about this, as he had never won a significant award until now.

However, the most important award for Best Feature Film was won by "The Piano Tuner".

"The Piano Tuner" is undoubtedly the biggest winner of this College Student Film Festival, winning three major awards.

After the award ceremony, Liu Zhou returned home and couldn't stop thinking.

Now that I have achieved some success at the box office, it is time to focus on awards.

Even if we don't aim for the three major European awards, we should still try for the three major domestic awards or the three major awards in mainland China.

Otherwise, if he were to confront Feng Kuazi again in the future, he would take advantage of the fact that he had no awards and attack Feng Kuazi like crazy. Although it would not have any substantial impact, it would make people feel very uncomfortable.

However, this matter cannot be rushed and needs to be done slowly. After all, Liu Zhou is too young at the moment. When the judges are selecting, they will inevitably feel that they should give Liu Zhou some thumbs down because of his age.

The next day, Liu Zhou came to the studio and called Zhong Lifang.

"Mr. Liu, you called me?"

"Yes, there is something I need you to do."

"what's up?"

“I saw a short story a while ago that was perfect for film adaptation, but for the moment I forgot which publication it was serialized in.

The name of this novel is "Lawsuit". You can take people to search for this novel in all domestic publications that publish novels, then contact the author of the novel and buy its film and television adaptation rights. " "Mr. Liu, search in national publications?"

"Yes, this matter is a bit complicated, but you don't have to do it yourself. Arrange a few more people to look for it, and then you can negotiate the copyright after they find it."

"Okay Mr. Liu, are you going to adapt this novel for your next movie?"

"Not sure yet, we'll tell you when the time comes."

At this time, Liu Zhou's thoughts turned, and he continued:

"Mr. Zhong, not only the novel "The Lawsuit", you can also buy the copyright for other novels that you think are worthy of film and television adaptation in the future. Even if you don't shoot it now, you can keep it as a reserve."

"I understand, Mr. Liu."

"So what's going on here?"

Zhong Lifang replied with a smile:

"I just happen to have something I want to discuss with Mr. Liu."

After hearing what Zhong Lifang said, he changed to a comfortable position and said:
"What did you say?"

“I have been in the company for a year, and things in the studio are getting on track. I now have a certain understanding of the film and television industry.

I think that in the current mainland film and television industry, TV dramas are more profitable, so I wonder if our studio can enter the TV drama field?"

Hearing what Zhong Lifang said, Liu Zhou couldn't help but ponder.

Liu Zhou certainly knew that TV dramas were making more money at this time, otherwise Deng Jianguo of Superstar Pictures would not have been so generous last year when he said he could invest 30 million yuan to make a movie for him.

But to be honest, Liu Zhou still believes that movies are art, and he focuses all his attention on movies.

Moreover, Liu Zhou did not have the time and energy to invest in the production of a TV series at that time, so it has been delayed until now.

Now that Zhong Lifang has joined the studio, all departments are more staffed and there is enough energy to take care of the TV series as well.

In this case, Liu Zhou also felt that it was time to enter the field of TV dramas.

"No problem, you will be in charge of the TV series, but let me take a look before we start investing in the project."

"Okay, Mr. Liu." Zhong Lifang replied with a smile.

After joining the studio for so long, Zhong Lifang had more things to do at the beginning, but has been relatively free since then.

After he gained a deep understanding of the situation in the mainland's film and television industry, Zhong Lifang's mind began to become active.

Even though Liu Zhou makes a lot of money from making movies, most of them lose money. On the contrary, the TV drama market is very hot, and it seems that the supply is insufficient to meet the demand.

Instead of watching the money in the account just sit there, it is better to invest in TV dramas. This will not only expand the business scope of the studio, but also give yourself something to do.

After Zhong Lifang left, Liu Zhou couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

The past few years have been an era of explosive growth in excellent TV dramas. Since you're going to make TV dramas, it's a good opportunity to stockpile more novel copyrights.

Nowadays, not only movies but also many TV series are adapted from novels.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhou wondered whether he should acquire a certain company. Ten years later, there were more and more TV dramas adapted from online novels.

But now a certain point has just been established, so let it develop first.

After instructing his subordinates to purchase the copyrights of some novels he was familiar with, Liu Zhou went to the drama theater to take a look.

There are more people in the theatre now.

As Qin Hao and Tang Wei became famous in the industry because of "The Piano Tuner", more and more people began to pay attention to the small drama troupe.

Because Liu Zhou's studio has rarely actively recruited artists, many newcomers choose to sign up for the drama troupe, hoping to use it as a springboard to star in Liu Zhou's films.

However, Zhang Chen was relatively sober and still adhered to the principle of "better to have nothing than to have someone of poor quality". He only recruited suitable actors and made it clear in advance that the main purpose of joining the drama troupe was to perform in dramas.

This made many people back off, but some people who were passionate about performing still insisted on joining the drama troupe.

Zhoushan Repertory Theatre is now quite famous in the industry, and actors like Qin Hao and Tang Wei also returned to perform in dramas after becoming famous. The newly joined Zhang Tong is also performing in dramas.

This has resulted in almost every drama performance at Zhoushan Theater being sold out recently!
Only Qin Hao and Zhang Tong are relatively pure and do not like to participate in commercial activities. Otherwise, if someone else had their fame, they would have gone to make money long ago and would not have been able to come back quietly to perform in a drama.

Seeing that the drama troupe was now thriving, Liu Zhou also left happily.

Time slowly came to the end of May, and what surprised Liu Zhou was that Zeng Li, who had been in the "Hero" crew for more than half a year, finally finished filming and returned.

Looking at Zeng Li, who looked haggard and obviously thin, Liu Zhou felt distressed.

Liu Zhou was about to hug her, but unexpectedly Zeng Li jumped directly into his arms and kissed him roughly.

For Liu Zhou, who had been holding back for a long time, this directly ignited the fire in his heart and he responded enthusiastically.

The two of them walked around in circles and stumbled into the bedroom.

After their lips parted, both of them saw the raging fire burning in each other's eyes. No words were needed before the sound of clothes tearing rang out in the room.

(End of this chapter)