Chapter 342
Naughty Child
Kei Fujiwara happened to be at Matsunichi Pictures that day and met with some senior executives of Matsunichi Pictures. He detailed his plan to them, hoping to get more investment from Matsunichi Pictures.
The more investment Matsunichi Pictures makes, the more attention it will pay to the film, and more publicity resources will be injected during the film's promotion period. You must know that there are many magazines, radio and TV programs under the control of Matsunichi Pictures.
And during the official screening period, more films will be scheduled in its theater resources.
Therefore, Kei Fujiwara still tried his best to obtain an investment of 100 million yen from Matsunichi Pictures.
Eiji Shirai also stood by Kei Fujiwara and tried his best to get more production funds for him. Many senior executives, including the vice president, did have some shaken opinions after reading the rough content of the script.
The reason why I wanted to reduce investment in Kei Fujiwara's movies before was because of doubts about the subject matter. In addition, the previously failed movie was adapted from Kei Fujiwara's original work, so I also had some doubts about whether the famous Kei Fujiwara was actually in the movie.
Not good at movies?
However, after hearing Kei Fujiwara's detailed description of the film, the attitude of some executives changed, and they agreed that Kei Fujiwara would discuss whether to make additional investment.
After the meeting, Eiji Shirai happily said to Kei Fujiwara: "Mr. Fujiwara, what you just said is very good. I feel that additional investment should not be a problem."
"Shirai-san, thanks to you." Kei Fujiwara said.
"I trust Mr. Fujiwara's ability, and it is what I should do to support him behind the scenes," Eiji Shirai said.
After the meeting, there was still a planning meeting with the creative team. At this time, Inoue Mori and her agent came again.
Kei Fujiwara was not too surprised when he saw Inoue Morimata. He just asked the assistant director to take her for a brief audition, then took out the contract that had been prepared and quickly signed the contract.
At this point, all the actors are in place.
Although the additional investment from Matsunichi Pictures has not yet been received, Kei Fujiwara is too lazy to wait for them. Anyway, the funds for the early stage of filming are sufficient. In addition to the tens of millions initially received from Matsunichi Pictures, Kei Fujiwara and Nagaharu Ohno jointly funded
More than 100 million, and investments from Fushan Television, New Filmmaker magazine and Spring and Autumn Society were also received.
When choosing investors, Kei Fujiwara consciously cooperated with these big media to facilitate the promotion of the film after it was produced.
The publicity work of a film and television work is very important, not even less than the film production itself. Sometimes the publicity team of a work can even dictate the production content - "If the trailer is edited like this, it will not be conducive to publicity. Please re-edit the trailer."
"Well. Although the production team is annoyed when encountering this situation, most of the time they do it obediently. Kei Fujiwara does not comment on the right or wrong of this matter, but the reason why this phenomenon occurs is not unreasonable.
Judging from the attitude of Matsunichi Pictures executives, additional investment should not be a problem, but it is hard to say. If it succeeds, it will succeed. If it fails, Fujiwara Kei will not be able to use the money himself, so it doesn't matter.
Fortunately, Kei Fujiwara doesn't have his own business yet, so he doesn't have any cash flow pressure. Even if he invests another 100 million yen and burns it all, without getting a penny back, it won't cause him much harm.
At most, I feel a little distressed.
The so-called enterprise is Schrödinger's cat, which is always in a state of superimposition of money-printing machines and money-burning machines. If Kei Fujiwara now has a company of his own, I am afraid he will not be able to say such easy things. If he is not careful, he may
You will face the dilemma of not being able to pay wages to your employees.
The actors and creators were already in place, so Kei Fujiwara gathered the actors together and held a week-long script meeting. During this period, they would become familiar with the script, assume the role, and figure out the story.
After learning that Inoue Mori would participate in the filming again, Arimama Sai was very happy. According to Arima Kexiang, he turned several somersaults on the sofa that day.
The relationship between Kei Fujiwara and Keika Arima is an open secret in the crew, but an open secret is also a secret. The two never appear to be too close during working hours, and the staff on the crew will not talk about their relationship.
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But this is just pretending to be serious on the surface. After all, I work on a film crew, and there are always countless opportunities for contact. For example, during a meeting, you secretly hooked my little finger, and I gently rubbed your earlobe while no one was paying attention.
This kind of thing still happens.
On the fifth day of the script meeting, a young woman suddenly came to the set, bringing with her a young man in his twenties and a little boy of about five years old.
"Who is this?" Fujiwara Kei looked at the well-dressed young woman with a proud look, while some staff members of Matsunichi Pictures enthusiastically helped her, and even directly asked Fujiwara Kei's assistant director to come to her.
Buying coffee, I couldn't help but ask.
Eiji Shirai also came, looked at the woman and said, "A deputy director of the Artist Economics Department."
"You're not an ordinary deputy chief," Kei Fujiwara said.
"Well, he was promoted by the president. That kid and the president are the same family."
"Oh." Fujiwara Kei finally understood. It turned out that this was the girlfriend of the president of Matsuni Pictures. She was indeed young and beautiful.
He has also heard of this woman, but has never seen her. She is young but relatively capable. After giving birth to a child, the president also pampered her and would do anything to her. Because he was afraid that the female artist would seduce his boyfriend, he
She strongly requested to work in the Artist Economics Department to take care of those little idols. President Nobi was reluctant to let her get involved in company affairs at first, but he couldn't stand it and finally agreed.
Later, this woman often blew the whistle, and the success rate was very high, and even the whisper influenced the company's decision-making to a certain extent.
"What is she doing here?" Kei Fujiwara asked.
Eiji Shirai looked a little embarrassed, "That's right, she wants her brother to be your chief assistant director."
Fujiwara Kei couldn't help but frown.
In the beginning, it was these two siblings who gossiped in front of the president, which led to the production cost of "Confessions" being cut in half. In fact, it may not be entirely related to them. The main reason is that the president of Matsuni Pictures did have a negative opinion of the film.
There are doubts about the film's future and fate.
But these two people more or less played a role in fanning the flames.
But Kei Fujiwara didn't know about this.
The meeting between Kei Fujiwara and the executives a few days ago made the company's decision-makers more confident in the film, so they are preparing to increase investment to 120 million and increase the production of the film.
At the same time, the funding for other projects will not be reduced, which is equivalent to an increase in the total funding, so the main creators of other projects do not object.
After this woman knew about this, she started to think about it again. He knew Fujiwara Kei's ability and saw that the company's decision-makers were optimistic about the fate of the film, so he wanted his brother to be on his crew.
Gold plated.
Her brother didn't have much experience in working with a team, but he asked to be the chief assistant director as soon as he came on. In Kei Fujiwara's view, this was more or less excessive.
But Fujiwara Kei is not the kind of person who doesn’t rub sand in his eyes. As long as there are benefits, not to mention sand, but bricks will do. He also didn’t want to offend the nepotism of the presidents of the five major film companies, so he said: "Let him
I am in charge of the second assistant director, just in name, without having to personally participate in the work, what do you think?"
Eiji Shirai hesitated for a moment: "It should be no problem. I'll discuss it with her... Oh, Mr. Fujiwara, please bear with me."
As soon as he finished speaking, a harsh cry suddenly came from his ears.
They both turned around and saw the president's youngest son crying profusely. He stretched out his hand to grab the corner of Inoue Morimata's schoolbag, and kept shaking his fist with his other hand, hitting Inoue Morimata again and again.
The two were startled, not knowing what was going on, and ran over quickly. As they approached, Fujiwara Kei saw the little boy grabbing the gashapon toy that Inoue Mori had hung on his school bag, the gashapon that Kei Fujiwara had given her before.
Crying until my face was covered with snot.
And Inoue Mori's face was livid, biting his lip, enduring the little boy's fists again and again, but he still held on to the toy.
Chapter completed!