Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

Chapter 283 New issue.Play bone.remember the past.

In the cultural publishing industry, doing financial and current affairs magazines is the best choice to enhance the credibility of the company; while doing literature and art magazines is the best choice to enhance the company's reputation.Compared with financial magazines and current affairs magazines, literary magazines and literary magazines are really unpopular among newspapers and periodicals.But for Li Wei who is not short of money, this is obviously the second magazine he intends to set foot in.In the foreseeable future, Qilin Comic Club will definitely be able to deliver a large amount of cash flow to the □□ Group. With such a huge cash flow as a pillar, Li Wei is really not afraid of losing money by running a literary magazine.

According to the report given by the survey company entrusted by Li Wei, the top domestic literary magazines in China are divided into the double wall of serious literature and the four flowers of popular literature.In terms of serious literature, Yanjing-based "Qiu Shi" and Nanhua-based "Hundred Flowers" are the most influential; while in terms of popular literature, Yanjing's "Youth Literature", Donghai's "Modern Novels", Nanhua's "Contemporary Literature" and Mingzhu's "Southern Literary World" are the best sellers.However, even for these six major literary magazines, the average sales volume of each issue is about hundreds of thousands, which is completely incomparable with other magazines.However, these magazines are mainly aimed at college students and literature lovers, so their influence in the literary circle is still very wide.As for literature and art magazines, there are currently no comprehensive literature and art magazines in China, but they are divided into two categories: literary criticism and art criticism.

"To sum up, our suggestion for the future Kylin Literature Club is to launch a serious literary magazine and a popular literary magazine, both published in the form of a monthly magazine. We don't have a particularly good suggestion for the style of a serious literary magazine, but Our opinion is to buy a second-rate but serious literary magazine with certain qualifications. As for popular literary magazines, our suggestion is to focus on one category, such as pure love or reasoning. As for art review magazines, this is the same as that of literary clubs The positioning does not match, and it is recommended not to be involved; and a literary review magazine can also be created. In this case, a serious literary magazine will be launched at the beginning of each month, a literary review magazine will be launched in the second week, and a popular literary magazine will be launched in the third week. This is what we are suggestion."

Li Wei nodded. Li Wei still trusts this investigation company very much.As the world's top three consulting and survey companies, their fees are not cheap, but their survey reports and survey suggestions are very valuable for reference.Li Wei is also very clear that the biggest advantage of the □□ Group at present is money, and this is also the only advantage.But the problem is that the establishment of a publishing house is definitely not based on money.

For the circle of cultural people, what people pay attention to is seniority and face.Why do "Qiu Shi" and "Hundred Flowers" always get manuscripts from top authors in the country?Strictly speaking, their remuneration can only be regarded as a first-line crane, but their reputation is there, and serious literary magazines have double walls. This is a temptation that no writer can refuse.And with the development of the magazine, some authors will form literary genres or groups around the magazine.If you want to be recognized by this group, then you can only publish in this magazine; and the heirs of the group can only publish their works in this magazine in order to show that their inheritance is true.This is why the research company suggested that Li Wei acquire a qualified magazine, because starting from scratch is far more difficult than growing from small to large.

"Do you have any good acquisition targets? Since you all suggested that I acquire them, you should have a list?" Li Wei asked.

"Of course." The person explaining the report to Li Wei took out another form, "Here are the three magazines we recommend. The first one is "Article World", which is mainly published by accepting submissions. A literary magazine that maintains manuscript sources. The style of this magazine is between serious literature and popular literature, and the style tends to be liberal. The second is "New Tide", which is a very serious literary magazine with a long history A well-qualified literary magazine. The "New Tide Literature School" that emerged 30 years ago is what they advocated, and the "New Tide Society" that is still influential today is also based on this magazine. "New Tide" magazine pursues elitist literature, style It is diverse, but it rarely accepts contributions from non-members of Xinchao Club. The last one is "Wenyi Chunqiu", which is one of the earliest literary magazines in China, and it is also the literary magazine with the longest history. It is a pity that it was ten years ago , due to the fact that the magazine was unable to make ends meet, the remuneration for manuscripts fell sharply, and the style of the magazine tended to be conservative, so "Wenyichunqiu" fell from a first-tier literary magazine to a second-tier literary magazine. But even so, "Wenyichunqiu" every spring and autumn The "Newcomer Award" held in the Spring and Autumn Period of Literature and Art and the "Spring and Autumn Literature and Art Award" held every winter are among the top literary awards in China. Because of this, "Spring and Autumn Literature and Art" is also the highest asking price of these three magazines."

"Let's work hard towards "Wenyi Chunqiu". Try to negotiate a lower price, and then tell them that I don't interfere with the daily operations of their editorial board, but I must participate in the magazine's style and some major decisions. In addition, financial , personnel and legal departments must also be under our supervision. If "Wenyichunqiu" can't reach an agreement, then go to "Xinchao". Tell "Xinchao" that as long as they agree to the acquisition, we will do our best to build them. The literary award of "The Spring and Autumn Period of Literature and Art," Li Wei ordered. "At the same time, you can also tell these two magazines that in the future, we will launch another popular literature magazine focusing on reasoning literature and a literary review magazine. Therefore, don't worry that we will lay off staff, and we will expand enrollment."

After dealing with these matters, Li Wei began to recruit suitable actors for his residence.In the new film, in addition to the absolute starring role of the child actor, the role of the mother is also a very important supporting role.It can be said that the plot line of the whole play is the promotion of the emotional line between mother and child.Therefore, Li Wei needs to find a very suitable mother actor, and this is the most difficult type of actress to find.Regardless of whether it is the Earth plane or the Aquaplanet plane, the movie industry where men are the main characters makes most actresses just exist like vases.And some talented actresses are either too young to play couples, or too old to play grandma.

However, "mother actors" who are stuck in these two age groups are very rare. This is not only related to the lack of outstanding actresses, but also to the actresses' own choices.Actresses are very reluctant to play the role of "mother", because once you play a mother once, then you can only play the roles of mother, aunt, and aunt in the future.You know, in film and television dramas, if the female character chooses the protagonist, then it must be a young girl.It is absolutely seldom played by the role of mother, aunt or aunt, so for an actress, after acting as a mother once, it means that her future income will be reduced by at least half.Therefore, for actresses, they will never act as mothers unless it is absolutely necessary.Even if she has plastic surgery to pretend to be tender, she is determined not to act as a mother casually.

And Li Wei's leading actor is only thirteen or fourteen years old, so the age of the actress in the opposite play cannot exceed 40 years old, otherwise it will not be real.For actresses who have not yet reached the age of 40, they generally call themselves young mature women or mature women, and they will never say that they can already play mothers.They still have to play the older sister in a sibling relationship, or continue to pretend to be the cute and clear little sister after radiotherapy and botox injections.

Therefore, although Li Wei Film Studio has issued invitations to the actors' union and major brokerage companies, not many actresses are willing to play.Originally, the role guide suggested that Li Wei relax the upper age limit, but Li Wei denied it.One must know that when Li Wei was on the earth plane, he had watched many school idol dramas, and every actor who could be a father and a mother wanted to pretend to be a high school student, which made Li Wei feel sick to his stomach.It's not that age limits actors, but how do actors with wrinkled faces play those high school students with hyaluronic acid on their faces?

"Director Li, if there is no suitable actor, I have an actor recommendation here, it depends on whether you dare to use it." Just when Li Wei was worried about the actor, the assistant director Tang Xin found Li Wei.

Li Wei's crew is very European and American, and the assistant director is Li Wei's deputy, who only helps Li Wei handle some details of the filming and daily work.On the contrary, those outreach, location scouting, and artist liaison are all in charge of corresponding producers.For example, financial expenses or personnel management are managed by the production coordinator (Line Producer); while script creation and writing are managed by the production director (Supervising Producer).Although this producer responsibility system weakens the director's management function, it also liberates the director's shackles in his daily work.

Seeing that Li Wei had no objection, Tang Xin continued, "Director Li, do you still remember Liu Jiaying? Liu Jiaying, who was known as the most beautiful woman in the country back then."

"Her? Didn't I hear that she was banned for playing big names? After doing the math, it's been almost 20 years, right? It's a shame you still remember her." Li Wei looked at Tang Xin a few times.He knew that Tang Xin was definitely not aimless, and must have something to ask for.

"Director Li, this Liu Jiaying is my distant cousin. She wasn't blocked because of playing big names, but when she was filming, a certain director and actor's elder brother was interested in her. If she didn't want to, the elder brother would Kicked her out of the crew, and spread her rumors everywhere. That big brother was very powerful back then, so my cousin was gradually forgotten by everyone. But I can guarantee that my cousin still loves movies, And I never let go of my acting skills." Tang Xin patted her chest and said, "After my cousin was banned, she simply went to the Art Academy to study acting, and then switched to acting in stage plays. I can be on stage in some small theaters, so I don’t have much fame.”

Li Wei probably guessed what was going on, the film industry was not so clean when it was born, and there are often dark sides in the industry.This kind of powerful big brother actor is like a bully in the crew. The new actor wants to serve the big brother like a servant, and some pretty actresses naturally become the objects of the big brother actor's plot study at night.If someone dares to resist, at least they will trouble you in the filming process, and at worst they will drive you out of the crew.If you meet some small-minded people, they will even tamper with it during filming, preventing you from going to the hospital for a few months to get rid of their depression.

"Let your cousin audition. If it's OK, we'll sign a contract with her." Others may care about the face of those veteran big brothers, but Li Wei doesn't care at all at this level.In addition to being a director, he is also a producer and CEO of an entertainment group.Except for those who are not open-eyed, who would offend him for nothing?

To be continued...