After filming two movies, Xie Xiaoke also had a little experience and knew that the market was constantly changing. Take Mu Shenji 1 and 2 as an example. The two movies were not long and the market didn't have time to make changes, so he just needed to shoot it according to the original work. However, the Legend of the Condor Heroes 1 and 2 were separated by 29 years. If it still remains unchanged, it would definitely be a dead end. So when he asked Gong Qiu Wei to find a screenwriter, he specifically told her to find younger screenwriters, and young screenwriters were more likely to grasp the current market rules.

Now that the crew has just been formed, Wang Jing, as a major director, led the crew to rush to the filming location of the year, Yanjing International Film and Television City. The reason why he chose this location is mainly to continue the plot of the year.

At present, they are still rushing to Yanjing, and Xie Xiaoke has received a call from Su Yuanyuan in the office.

Su Yuanyuan has always regarded Xie Xiaoke as a friend in the circle. She doesn't want Xie Xiaoke to make unnecessary sacrifices. In her eyes, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes 2" will definitely be successful after its release. Because many film companies have made such attempts before, she wants to call to persuade her.

Xie Xiaoke was watching the conversation on the computer when he suddenly heard the phone call.

"Hey, Mr. Su, hello!"

Su Yuanyuan couldn't wait to answer the phone and asked, "Mr. Xie, I heard that you are going to make old Hong Kong movies, is that true?"

"What's the joke about this?" Xie Xiaoke said bluntly.

"It's not a joke. I mean you have too much risk. It's not suitable for making old Hong Kong movies in this era. Apart from the more nostalgic post-80s and 90s, basically no one can watch it!"

Xie Xiaoke very much disagrees with this statement.

Even if it is a post-80s and post-90s, there is nothing wrong with watching. People who can go to the cinema to buy tickets are basically these economically based people. It doesn’t matter whether the post-00s like to watch it. Anyway, most of them don’t have any financial income, as long as their parents like to watch it.

"So what?" Xie Xiaoke asked back: "It would be great if all the nostalgic parties could be won over!"

"Things are not as simple as you think. Liu Zhenwei had filmed a movie called "Kung Fu League", and the protagonists in it were all our favorite characters from the 1990s, such as Ip Man, Wong Feihong, and Chen Zhen, but the box office was still a failure in the end."

Su Yuanyuan feels that the taste of the audience has completely changed. It is impossible to spend money to watch an old Hong Kong film, because no matter how you shoot it, you can't get the same feeling as before. So if you want to watch the movies like the past, you can search online. I don't know how many ready-made free movies are waiting for them to watch, why do you have to spend money to watch the newly filmed Hong Kong films?

But Xie Xiaoke disagreed: "The production of "Kung Fu League" is too nonsensical. For nonsense and funny styles, the audience only recognizes Stephen Chow, and the others are just a floppy film. Moreover, these martial arts stars are not suitable for making funny movies!"

"Miss Su, what you said makes sense. I also thank you for your suggestions. However, I will still shoot this movie. Even if I only watch it alone, I will not stop shooting it. I don't rely on this to make money!"

"It's your own business that you don't want to make money, but you can't joke about the future of the actors. Shi Xiaolong just won the Best Actor. If you make another bad movie, what will the audience think of him?" Su Yuanyuan was so sincere that the heavens could tell.

"It's hard to say whether it's bad or not. You don't have to persuade me again about this!"

Xie Xiaoke still decided to film the Legend of the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, regardless of the wind and rain.

In addition to Su Yuanyuan, the entire office is also talking about this matter, and now our own people are also questioning the movie.

If the movie is not profitable, why do you still need to make money? The company needs funds to maintain operations, not specializing in charity. The previous Mu Shenji 1 was equivalent to contributing a fantasy blockbuster to others for nothing, but he didn't make a penny. Now he is going to have another movie that is not profitable. What's going to do?

"I think Mr. Xie is too wise to be like this?"

"We have lost one, why do we have another one? I really don't understand what Mr. Xie is thinking?"

"It's impossible. Martial arts movies can't be invested much, and they won't lose money!"

"Since Mr. Xie does this, there must be his reason."

...The voice became stronger and stronger, and finally alarmed Gong Qiuwei, so she had to go to Xie Xiaoke's office to talk about the situation.

Xie Xiaoke extinguished the cigarette in his hand, threw it into the ashtray, and walked to the office of his peak era without saying a word.

The office was surprisingly quiet. When the boss came, they listened to him with anticipation. They wanted to know what Xie Xiaoke was thinking and whether he had any foresighted strategic plans.

In fact, Xie Xiaoke’s idea is really simple, not as complicated as they imagined.

He said to everyone with certainty: "Your doubts, Mr. Wei has already told me. It's good to have doubts and ideas, but you don't care too much about whether the box office will fail this time."

An employee suddenly stood up and asked, "Mr. Xie, we know you have money, but you can't waste it like this. It's obviously a floppy movie. Why do you still have to film it even though you know you don't make money?"

Xie Xiaoke looked at him coldly and said sternly: "What's wrong with not making money? This movie will be awesome if it invests at most 100 million yuan, and the entire loss is only 100 million yuan. There is no need to make a fuss at all!"

"You don't need to discuss this matter anymore. I'm responsible for whether to make or lose money!" Xie Xiaoke left this sentence and walked out of the office.

The employees said that Xie Xiaoke's personality has always been different from that of normal people, but thinking about it on the other hand, it's enough to spend money with him anyway. If you don't have to talk too much, just do your own thing quietly.

After chatting with people from the peak era, Xie Xiaoke immediately came to the fifth floor to see how the hilarious Jianghu has been formed recently.

Chen Qiongle was also on the fifth floor, and together with Chen Xiang, he led the people inside to move tables, chairs, computers, green plants and other things, and kept shouting: "Move this over there!"

"Manager Chen, where is this?"

"Oh, let this go!"

"Oh, Boss Xie is here!"

When Chen Qiongle heard someone reminding him, he immediately turned around and said with a smile: "Mr. Xie!"

Xie Xiaoke saw this scene and knew that they were very busy now, so he asked them to take a break: "Everyone will put the matter at hand, I'll just say a few words!"

Chen Qiongle took the lead in coming to Xie Xiaoke, and Chen Xiang and others also put down their things one after another.

There were a few new faces among them, and she seemed to have never seen them before. Xie Xiaoke asked curiously: "What are these?"

"This is the software engineer, UI designer, and market operation personnel we recruited!" Chen Qiongle said.

"It's great, it's very fast, keep on coming!" Xie Xiaoke encouraged a few words, and then said the main topic: "I won't say much about this video self-media app of Laughing Jianghu. How to do it? We have already explained it clearly at the last meeting. You can hand over the detailed data with them. In addition, I would like to add that new users can register our APP account and receive red envelopes every day within 3 months. The amount is set between 0.1 and 5 yuan. As long as you watch 10 minutes of videos every day, you can receive red envelopes, and red envelopes can be withdrawn!"

Chen Xiang nodded: "I understand, Mr. Xie!"

"I will find someone to endorse this APP!" Xie Xiaoke remembers that Zhao Liying's avatar will be released every time he sends a red envelope on the Meituan APP. It seems that they have only asked Zhao Liying to endorse this. Such a hilarious Jianghu APP also needs to find a celebrity to endorse it.

Who are you looking for?

Shi Xiaolong and Wu Qian have both gone to Yanjing. Hu Qu is still filming at Chengtian Entertainment, and only Zhou Dongyu is empty for the schedule.

In the afternoon, Xie Xiaoke called Zhou Dongyu directly and asked her to come to the company to talk.

At this moment, Zhou Dongyu was shopping with a group of sisters. These people were her good friends before, but her acting skills and appearance were not as good as her in all aspects, so she always wanted to sign a contract until her peak era but failed to get what she wanted.

Zhou Dongyu and Xie Xiaoke were also listening to each other. After hanging up the phone, someone couldn't wait to ask: "What's the matter? I just heard that I seemed to ask you to endorse an APP!"

Zhou Dongyu showed a proud smile on his face: "Yes, it's my contracted company old!"

"What, is that Xie Xiaoke?" Someone showed an incredible expression.

"Why didn't you invite you to film the Legend of the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber this time? Just let Wu Qian go?"

"Is there any other blockbuster movie waiting for you to shoot?"

...

Many questions arose one after another, and Zhou Dongyu didn't know how to answer: "There is no suitable character in the Legend of the Condor Heroes, what should I do?"

"Who said that there is no role for you? Master Mie Jue is not good?"

"roll!"

Zhou Dongyu carried a small bag and quickly asked her driver to take her to her peak era.

After arriving at the company, Xie Xiaoke waited for her downstairs, and then the two drove directly to a nearby Starbucks for afternoon tea.

The environment in the cafe is quite elegant and quiet. There are a few foreigners writing books at the corner of the wall. There are a few young people sitting in front of the cashier listening to music with headphones, and a few couples flirting and kissing me.

Xie Xiaoke found a location close to the glass exterior wall, put the things in place, and said, "Sit down!"

"Oh, okay!" Zhou Dongyu sat by the window and turned to look out the window. Suddenly it started raining. There was no warning from the rain. Passers-by outside the door accelerated their pace to hide from the surrounding shops, and many people came in one after another in the Starbucks Cafe.

Starbucks is not a hotel. You have to go to the cashier by yourself when you order something here. There is no waiter who comes to your location to serve you.

Xie Xiaoke stood by the cashier, ordered two cups of coffee and two small pastries, waiting for the barista to make coffee.

In a moment, many people came outside the door. Suddenly, a big and thick man came. He walked to Zhou Dongyu and was about to sit down, but was stopped by her: "There are people here!"

"Oh, sorry!" The man stood up in a hurry, turned around to find another location, and happened to meet Xie Xiaoke who was holding coffee behind him.

Fortunately, Xie Xiaoke learned the man's self-defense technique and was quite agile. When he was still 1 mm away from the man's arm, he immediately turned around and put the coffee and pastry on the table.

This scene was fully visible to Zhou Dongyu. She raised her hand and applauded: "Handsome!"

Xie Xiaoke lifted the bangs on his forehead, sat down seriously, and pushed one of the cups of coffee and a piece of pastry in front of Zhou Dongyu.

"Thanks!"

“It’s raining again!”

"Yes, it's time to change. By the way, you want to build a self-media platform now?" Zhou Dongyu asked with a coffee cup.

Xie Xiaoke also took a sip and felt that the coffee tasted like that. It was not as good as the coffee made by Li Xiangchuan’s private roastery, but there were still so many people chasing it. This is the brand benefit. In addition, the Chinese people’s awareness of following the trend is the world’s number one. As long as there is something in China, it is to make money with your eyes closed, and there are a lot of people coming to consume. Some people have not even tried it once, and they will think that Starbucks’ coffee is delicious from the bottom of their hearts. This concept comes from the theory that “the things that everyone likes must be bad.”

Back to the point, today they were not here to have coffee, but talk about APP endorsements. Xie Xiaoke asked concisely: "Yes, I want to find you to endorse, with a 3 million endorsement fee!"

Zhou Dongyu was very happy, otherwise she wouldn't have come. Besides, Isn't it just a matter of one sentence to ask her to endorse her in her company? I just don't know what the specific arrangement is, so I came to ask: "What's the form?"

Xie Xiaoke opened the Meituan APP on his mobile phone, ordered takeaway, and a portrait of Zhao Liying popped up on it, holding three red envelopes in his hand, with the words "Zhao Liying sent a red envelope!"

Then a red envelope of 6 yuan off for a purchase of over 35 yuan appeared below.

"Did you see it? Just put an advertisement like this in the APP."

Zhou Dongyu looked at Xie Xiaoke's mobile phone screen and nodded: "Is that all, is there anything else?"

"Yes, this APP mainly signs contracts with some authors who shoot funny videos, and lets them publish their works on our platform. The benefits we give are higher than those of other platforms, and there is also a full attendance mechanism. In this way, people are not afraid that no one can watch their works and they will not make money. These advertisements must be promoted from you!"

Zhou Dongyu also has some understanding of self-media videos. Several of her sisters have certified Jin V on Xigua Video and can earn between 20,000 and 30,000 yuan a month, which is much higher than the wages of working people. She also knows that people in the domestic self-media industry are growing vigorously like mushrooms after a rain, and their speed is terrifying. Now young people generally don’t like to work anymore.

"Yes, my schedule is empty anyway!"

"This is only three or four days. Later, Gong Qiuwei will arrange for you to take on a new movie!"

Xie Xiaoke knew that Zhou Dongyu definitely didn't like to do something idle, so he would have no money to make money. Wu Qian, Shi Xiaolong, and Hu Chu were all filming, and it would be unreasonable that she didn't film alone.

"Well, try to arrange costume dramas for me. I've been addicted to filming costume dramas recently, hahaha!"
To be continued...