Chapter 1748 - 846: Soul Figure_3

Chapter 1748: Chapter 846: Soul Figure_3

If every celebrity artist did this, then what do we need them for?

Liu Lan fought her way out of internal conflicts and managed to secure the position of general manager of the film company, which is enough to show her capabilities.

However, people like her who grew up in a large group like Chengqian, all have a common problem of viewing celebrity artists as commodities.

Popular celebrity artists are certainly treasures, but once they’ve fallen out of favor, they are not even worth as much as weeds.

Liu Lan has never truly looked a celebrity artist in the eye—they are merely in the spotlight because of their naturally good looks.

Do they have true talent and knowledge?

This time, Liu Lan attempted to claim a bigger piece of the pie in the sequel of "Under the Grand Dress."

She also therefore looked down on He Yong—in her eyes, as the boss of Chengqian Entertainment, He Yong could not control his own artists, and even let Zhou Yun and Zhou Lan set up their own studio, which showed his incompetence.

He Yong has always emphasized at the group level that celebrity artists should not be simply commodified, which she couldn’t stand.

She doesn’t need an artist who is always trending, she just needs artists who are currently popular to make her money.

This is Liu Lan’s philosophy.

If the trending artist doesn’t obey, she would quickly replace them with someone else.

Nothing is irreplaceable.

A product that is irreplaceable is not a good product.

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As a result, a terrible situation still occurred.

When determining investment shares, Liu Lan gave an exorbitant demand, asking for 50%.

Bear in mind, as the brand integration drama for VX, VX will take 35% of the shares itself. If Chengqian Film and Television takes 50%, there will only be 15% left for Zhou Yun and them.

If this were a production that had little to do with Zhou Yun and they just needed Zhou Yun to lend a hand, giving their studio a 15% share would be about right.

However, this drama is built around Zhou Yun as the core.

Even if Zhou Yun doesn’t star in the sequel, she’s still overseeing the overall direction of the drama as a producer. Whether it’s the director or the screenwriter, and other actors, without Zhou Yun stationed there, it’s hard to say whether everyone would be willing to return to the original cast.

In a team battle, there’s always a core, a soul figure.

In "Under the Grand Dress" series, from the beginning, the soul figure was Zhou Yun.

The sequel of "Under the Grand Dress" is clearly a money-making project. With major brand integrations and eye-popping, foreseeable top-level copyright-buying prices, obtaining more investment shares translates into gaining bigger returns.

"This sequel is being produced by us at Chengqian Entertainment, and we are going to invest a large amount of manpower and resources," Liu Lan said, "I think, everyone should have no objections to Chengqian taking 50% of the shares, right?"

Today, Zheng Xiaowen also attended the meeting.

Upon hearing this percentage, she glanced at Liu Lan in surprise and smiled.

Her first reaction was to look at Zhou Yun and her team.

Zhou Yun said nothing.

She looked calmly at the information in her hand, as if she hadn’t heard what Liu Lan just said.

Zhou Lan smiled slightly and said, "You mean we only have 15% share left to divide?"

Liu Lan also smiled and said, "Xiao Lan, your studio doesn’t need to do much, isn’t getting 15% still a lot?"

"Our studio doesn’t need to do anything? So you mean the two of us sitting here in this meeting is just to kill time, right?" Zhou Lan bluntly responded.

Liu Lan shrugged and said, "Actually, I’ve always thought, for a busy celebrity like Xiao Yun, why waste time on these meetings? Shooting a couple more commercials, and the money would have been made back already."

"Director Liu, does it concern you whether I shoot a couple more commercials or a couple less?" Zhou Yun lifted her eyes and glanced at He Yong, "Or is it President He, you are about to step down, and Director Liu is going to take over as the general manager of Chengqian Entertainment?"

He Yong: "Just joking."

He had a forced smile, enjoying watching Zhou Yun, Zhou Lan, and Liu Lan fight.

Liu Lan: "After all, you don’t want to star in this sequel, do you?"

"Did you participate in the production of the first installment?" Zhou Yun retorted.

Liu Lan was taken aback.

"Resting under the tree planted by predecessors is quite comfortable," Zhou Yun teased, "Anyway reaching out for a ripe peach doesn’t require facing the risk of failure like the first one did."

Liu Lan: "That’s not what I meant of course."

"You said that our studio didn’t need to do anything." Zhou Yun looked at her, her gaze calm, "We indeed don’t need to do much, except the script is reviewed by me. Director Ning Yufeng was personally invited back by my call, and the actors also have to be approved by me for use, oh, you might not know, this clause was written into the production agreement of the first installment, where I served as a producer."