rising director

"Brother Lei, how much do you Huayi Brothers plan to invest?"

Wang Zhonglei picked up the teacup and blew the tea. He didn't directly say how much to invest, but touched on another matter: "Do you know that Huayi Brothers is contacting Wang Jinghua recently to prepare our own artist management company?"

"Have you heard similar rumors, why, does this have something to do with investing in "Butterfly Effect"?" Wan Xiaohu asked casually.

Familiar with the future trajectory of the entertainment industry, he naturally knew that soon after, Huayi Brothers and the number one agent in the mainland, Wang Jinghua, jointly established the largest artist agency in China, Huayi Brothers Modernization Agency.At present, when the artist brokerage business in the mainland has not yet been formalized, the emergence of modernization is undoubtedly a strong announcement that private companies have participated in the competition for hegemony in the entertainment industry.

Wang Jinghua was one of the first group of people to engage in the brokerage business in the mainland, and she has a large number of famous artists under her hands. From now to the future, she will be the first sister of the brokerage circle in China.During the few years when Huayi Brothers rose, she, together with Wang Zhongjun, Wang Zhonglei, and Feng Xiaogang, was called the Three Kings and One Feng, creating the dominance of Huayi Brothers.

Although many nasty things happened later, they did not damage their respective futures.

It's just that Wan Xiaohu didn't make the connection. It has nothing to do with investing in "Butterfly Effect".

Of course, there was no doubt for a few seconds, and Wang Zhonglei gave the reason: "Wang Jinghua holds many star agent appointments. Once they cooperate, they will be artists under our Huayi Brothers. Investing in "Butterfly Effect" and using our own artists, how much You can get a little discount, right?"

"Brother Lei, let's make it clear."

"It's very simple. I decided to invest in you to shoot the normal version and make the movie excellent. But because the artist needs to use people under Huayi Brothers, we will arrange it. The investment amount should not be less than 800 million, and 600 million should be a normal number. .”

Wan Xiaohu frowned: "Are you going to arrange actors?"

"That's what it means. However, don't worry, we are only responsible for recommendations, and it is up to you to decide who to use."

Huayi Brothers is responsible for recommending candidates, that is to say, Wan Xiaohu only has the right to choose from artists under Huayi Brothers.Although the scope of casting is weak, but thinking that once Huayi Brothers and Wang Jinghua join forces, there will be many good actors, Wan Xiaohu agreed in his heart, and pretended to be difficult on the surface, saying: "Casting is very important to movies, which is very exciting. I'm in trouble."

"Huayi Brothers will have a lot of artists, and there will be a large number of artists from Hong Kong going north to seek gold. They will join our Huayi Brothers in the future. I think there are enough candidates for you to choose."

"Forget it, I can agree to this. But if the amount of 600 million is to be counted as a guaranteed investment, you have to add an overflow limit. I hope it is 700 million."

"More than 700."

"I will try to save money as much as possible, 700 million is the limit that can be used."

After thinking for a while, Wang Lei nodded: "Okay, 600 million is guaranteed and the upper limit is 700 million. We will pay the funds in batches, so how will the production team arrange it?"

"In principle, I don't like producers to intervene in my filmmaking, so my own Dandelion Film Company will act as the production company, and I will act as the producer myself."

"No, 600 million is not a small amount, adding another producer. It's not that I don't trust my brother. In business, we can't take such a big risk."

"Okay then, who do you send?"

"This investment is led by me, so let me come here in person and help you, brother."

Wang Lei wanted to be the producer himself, and Wan Xiaohu didn't say anything. It was better than hiring a professional producer who was responsible for saving money.During the filming process of a film, although the director and the producer are responsible for their respective responsibilities, the director is in charge of the shooting power, while the producer is in charge of the financial power. Conflicts are inevitable.

For some unknown directors, the producer is a cloud hanging over his head, always interfering with the filming with the budget.So many directors don't like producers, or they only let people they are familiar with act as producers, or even act as producers themselves.Wan Xiaohu doesn't have that reputation yet, so he can only agree to compete with investors for the producer.

After reaching an agreement on the amount of investment, the next step is the distribution of profits.

Wan Xiaohu said: "In the mainland market, Dandelion Films and I get 20% of the box office share, 30% of the DVD sales share, and 50% of the TV premiere rights. Then the distribution rights in the mainland are handed over to Huayi Brothers, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas. The publishing rights are also 50% for each. I retain the copyright of the sequel, but Huayi Brothers has the priority investment right, what do you think of this plan?"

"Is the overseas allocation a bit high?"

"However, I don't want much profit distribution in the Mainland."

What Wan Xiaohu valued was overseas copyrights. The film market in the mainland was too low, so there was nothing to do.Wang Lei puts more emphasis on mainland copyrights. Hearing this, he said: "Overseas distribution rights and TV broadcasting rights can be split 20-[-], but you can only get [-]% of the domestic box office and DVD distribution. Also, we jointly hold the copyright of the sequel. .”

"I can agree, but the film production is undertaken by Dandelion Films, you can't interfere indiscriminately."

"of course."

"Then, brother Lei, please go back and draft a contract, and sign the contract after we have no objections?"

"can."

After the cold face finished the business, the two of them immediately put on a smiling face, and chatted happily again.

In this way, "The Butterfly Effect" was officially launched.

0058【Target the whole world】

On May 2000, 5, Beijing Airport.

Wan Xiaohu and Li Xia picked up the plane together. Today is the day Su Ya and Zhao returned from Korea.

When the time came, two beautiful girls came out of the airport lobby. One was about 1.7 meters tall and the other was about one meter tall. Although they were different in height, they were both attractive.Even when I looked around, I saw two idlers chatting happily by the glass window.

One of them was in [-]s to [-]s, a white shirt with slacks, and the sleeves were rolled up, which looked a bit rusty.The other half, holding a card in his hand sideways, with "Su Ya, Zhao" written on it, is Wan Xiaohu and Li Xia.

"Hey, hey, you two, it's too irresponsible. I asked you to pick up the plane, and you are hiding here to chat, and your attitude is not correct at all!" Needless to say, the tall beauty is the boss of Dandelion Films Su elegant.

The shorter beauty is Su Ya's roommate Zhao, smiling slightly.

Wan Xiaohu and Li Xia hurriedly pretended to be nervous, and took the salute of the two beauties one by one.

"Then what, the plane arrived early? Didn't it mean an hour later?" Wan Xiaohu said nonsense with his eyes open, trying to cover up the perfunctory attitude of the two when they picked up the plane.

Su Ya slapped Wan Xiaohu contemptuously: "Can you say something more false?"

"Su Meimei's eyes are as bright as a torch, and she can see my true colors immediately, admiration." Wan Xiaohu is now more and more lively and younger, not only the body is young, but the heart is also getting younger and younger, " Oh, by the way, did you two have a good time in Korea?"

The expression on Zhao's face immediately wrinkled, and he said: "Oh, I'm not happy at all, Su Ya doesn't understand the feeling of people going abroad for the first time, and contacted Jin Haozhi in a hurry as soon as she arrived in Seoul, South Korea. Talk about the film adaptation rights of the novel and the mainland publishing rights. After the business negotiation is over, I have already boarded the plane back to China. I have been in Korea for two days, but I spent them all in the hotel!"

Su Ya snorted: "Xiaoye, don't slander me. Didn't I take you to the night market last night?"

"But we just went to have a meal, and we didn't even get into the big store next door."

"Okay, okay, I will make it up to you next time."

After getting in the car, Zhao Huan yelled angrily, saying that this was a sad trip to Korea.

But no one paid any attention to her anymore, Su Ya began to talk to Wan Xiaohu about the harvest of this trip to South Korea: "I met Jin Haozhi, luckily, the novel has just been published, and no one has bought movie rights from him yet. Moreover, he is just a college student who just came out of the society, the novel is only famous on the Internet, the copyright is easy to buy, 3500 million won, and even the publishing rights in the mainland, he got it."

"3500 million won? How much RMB?" Li Xia turned his head and asked.

"Less than 20 million."

"It's so cheap." Wan Xiaohu admired, but it's normal to turn around and think about it. After all, this "My Sassy Girlfriend" is just a funny novel on the Internet. I'm afraid Jin Haozhi didn't know it before. Adapted into a movie.

Su Ya smiled: "However, Jin Haozhi has a request."

"any request?"

"He likes a new Korean female star very much, called Jun Ji-hyun, who is the one who shot the hard dance commercial for Samsung. You should have seen this commercial. He hopes that if we shoot a movie, Jun Ji-hyun can be the heroine. "

"You promised?"

"Agreed." Su Ya blinked, and said with a sly smile, "But it's not written into the terms of the contract. If you don't want to, he can't help it, haha."