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"What did you say? Let me think..." Li Minjun rolled his eyes, "It seems that you are inviting me to play a role or two."

So, sometimes the world is so unfair.

Many people can't compete for a role after breaking their heads.

Like Yu Qing, she has a special relationship with Du Caige. She has known Du Caige for more than ten years, and she is also kind to Du Caige, and has helped Du Caige overcome difficulties many times.

Such a relationship can be said to be very strong.

But when she asked Du Caige for a role, Du Caige was actually unwilling. If Yu Renxue hadn't agreed to invest, Du Caige really didn't want to agree to give her an important role.

Why?Because of her acting skills, in Du Caige's opinion, she could not meet his requirements.

As for Li Minjun, it was Du Caige who begged him to act.

Because he is good at acting!His presence adds color to the film.

To use an analogy, it's like the old-school martial arts novels and fairy tale novels.

The supporting role knelt down and begged to join a small school, but the small school didn't want to accept it.

And the main character appeared brilliantly, with a pure and unique talent, and all kinds of outsiders and famous sects offered all kinds of preferential conditions to accept apprentices.

Let’s not talk about novels, let’s talk about reality. Those students with top grades want to apply for Tsinghua University and Peking University.How about you consider Huda, Huazhong?

This is still top-notch.

As for ordinary students... if they want to spend money to read a second book, they will pick and choose.

And some geniuses, such as the gold medal winners of the International Mathematical Olympiad and Olympic Physics, were chased by the academic director of Tsinghua University and Peking University, "Come to our school, we are better than Tsinghua University/Peking University, as long as you come to our school, I will give you the highest score." The first level of scholarship, you can choose the department or department, undergraduate and master's degree, you will be taken to do scientific research in the freshman year, and you are recommended to study abroad, and there are gentle seniors who will guide you to familiarize yourself with the school environment and guarantee you the best environment for personal development. "

It's maddening to compare people to people, right?

If Yu Qing knew the treatment Li Minjun was enjoying right now, she probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep all night.

The fire of jealousy can burn people to death.

As a result, Li Minjun still ignored the treatment.

"Yes, what do you think? The salary is negotiable." Du Caige couldn't wait.

Although the stage name "Cui Min" is not as popular as Xu Qingya, it is still extremely popular - of course, outsiders think that Cui Min is Cui Minzhen, only a few people know that the actor of Yan Yuanyi is a man who disguises himself as a woman starring.

And these few people, under Du Caige's gag order, kept silent.

With the popularity of "Cui Min" and Li Minjun's own acting skills, if he is willing to play the leading role (male or female), Du Caige is even willing to give him a salary of 1000 million US dollars.

"It's not a question of salary," Li Minjun explained, "I am a person who can eat simple food and fine clothes. I can live with money, and I can live without money. I don't care how much money I earn. I just Care about whether you are happy or not."

"That's even better," Du Caige said happily, "You also like acting, you have been very happy during the filming of Wulin. Let's cooperate again!"

Li Minjun hesitated; "After my sister conveyed your words to me, I thought about it for a long time. I really like acting, and I am happy to cooperate with you. But I don't want to play the leading role."

"I only accept supporting roles, and there can't be too many roles. The filming must be completed within a few days, at most within ten days. If you can accept this condition, I will continue to cooperate with you, as many movies as you want. If If you can't accept it, then don't talk about it, and you don't have to persuade me, I won't change my mind."

Du Caige opened his mouth, but didn't say words of persuasion right away.

He didn't understand very much, but seeing Li Minjun's expression, he was indeed very determined, so he couldn't say anything.

"Why don't you think about it again?" Du Caige said.

"No matter how long I think about it, my mind will not change." Li Minjun smiled.

"Why don't you play the leading role?"

Li Minjun touched his smooth face, showing a mysterious smile, "Maybe it's because, I just like the feeling of being a supporting role, and being a leading role would put me under too much pressure."

"That's not a reason."

"This is the reason I gave you. If you are not satisfied, I will think about it again?"

What else can Du Caige say?He could only smile wryly and shake his head.

He stood up, went to the window, pressed the switch, and the curtains automatically opened to both sides, and the dazzling sunlight poured in.

He looked out of the window and saw the sea surface of Santa Monica Bay in the distance. The charming blue is like the autumn waves of a beautiful woman, and one can be intoxicated willingly.

Li Minjun smiled and skillfully brewed tea with a set of Chinese-style porcelain provided by the hotel.

"By the way, why did you come to the Stars and Stripes this time?" Du Caige leaned on the window sill, looking out the window and asked.

"Tourism."

"Really?"

"If you don't believe me, I can think of another reason." Li Minjun said with a smile.

"Forget it, that's the reason," Du Caige looked back at him, "I'll ask someone to give you the script later, and you can choose the characters you are interested in, male or female characters are fine, to be honest, I'm quite I want to see you play a male role. In addition, in TV dramas, you may also be asked to play a few guest roles, which are very important roles with relatively little playing time and can be filmed in a few days."

Li Minjun drank a big mouthful of Mingqian Longjing tea as if rinsing his mouth, and leaned lazily on the back of the sofa, "You really plan to make a big, big move this time."

Du Caige smiled and explained to him in as simple a way as possible.

Warner Bros. Pictures' business scope covers the creation, development, production, distribution, marketing, licensing and other related fields of various entertainment content.

While best known for movies, the company's business isn't limited to movies.

It can be said that Warner Bros. Pictures is at the forefront of the industry in film, television, home entertainment, animation, brand product licensing and interactive digital entertainment.

Warner Bros. Pictures has more than 5000 permanent employees in the Stars and Stripes alone-this does not include many short-term employees and employees in overseas branches.

The company has seven major business divisions, including: Warner Bros. Film and Television Home Entertainment Group, Warner Bros. Film Group, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Warner Bros. Film Studio, Warner Bros. Stage Performance Company and Warner Bros. Animation Group Inc.

The acquisition of Juzhi Investment is a packaged purchase of the entire company and these 7 departments.

Among the seven major departments, the relatively large ones are "film and television home entertainment group", "television group company", "film group company" and "film studio".

Among these four major departments, except for the "TV Group Company", all others are losing money.

Chapter 751

"Warner Television Group Corporation" previously relied on Time Warner's cable TV network, so its operating conditions were not bad.

Although there have not been any blockbuster works in recent years, it is still no problem to maintain capital, and even make a slight profit.

However, the "stage performance company" and "animation group company (non-DC)" are relatively small in size and low in cost, so even if they lose money, their losses are limited.

The consumer products department has always been profitable because of the sale of peripherals and the like, and the financial statements are very beautiful.

Before being acquired, Warner Bros. Pictures was mainly losing money by "film group company", "film studio" and "film and television home entertainment group".

"Film Group" is composed of "Warner Bros. Pictures" and "Warner Bros. Pictures International".

The former is responsible for the development, production and distribution of films in the Stars and Stripes, while the latter is responsible for the expansion of overseas markets. On the one hand, it distributes locally produced films overseas; co-production.

"Film and Television Home Entertainment Group" consists of six branches, namely "Warner Bros. Home Video", "Warner Bros. Digital Distribution", "Warner Bros. Advanced Digital Services", "Warner Bros. Company" and "Warner Bros. Anti-Piracy Operations."

The "Film and Television Home Entertainment Group" is responsible for providing consumers with all entertainment content other than those provided by movie theaters, TV networks and TV stations.

However, due to the lack of hematopoietic capacity and content production of Warner Bros. Pictures in recent years, this group company, which should have been profitable, is also in a state of loss.

Among its 6 subsidiaries, the only profitable one is "Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment". This company governs 10 game companies. It also undertakes game development projects for third-party customers.

Since Warner Bros. Pictures had a large number of valuable IPs in the early years, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has developed many popular games relying on these IPs in recent years.

Although the capital required to develop the game is huge, it is still self-sufficient and even slightly profitable.

After introducing the basic information, Du Caige told Li Minjun:

After Juzhi Investment acquired Warner Bros. Pictures, in order to make money, investors had to regain their confidence in Warner Bros. Pictures.

In order for shareholders to have information about Warner Bros. Pictures, the most basic thing is to at least turn Warner Bros. Pictures into a profit.

You don't need to make too much profit, but you have to turn losses into profits.

And it's not easy to do.

If it was in the past, a big company like Warner Bros. Pictures could easily make a fuss on the books.

It's not cheating, but legally using some means to make the books look profitable-even though they are actually losing money.

For example, a building once bought for 5 million is now sold for 15 billion.

However, the company lost 8 million in its operating activities this year.

Well, in fact, the company sold the building worth 15 billion and converted the fixed assets into cash, but the total assets remained unchanged; and it lost 8 million in operations.

But on the book, it is the selling price of 15 billion minus the purchase price of 5 million that year. This transaction made a profit of 10 billion, and then other operating losses were 8 million. The book profit for this fiscal year is 2 million.

This is making a fuss about financial statements.

This is legal, but deceptive.

But now, the assets of Warner Bros. Pictures have been sold almost, and they can't make a fuss if they want to.

To turn losses into profits, you have to make real profits.

Du Caige doesn't understand financial, personnel, management and other systems, and doesn't want to worry about them.He doesn't care about personnel adjustments.

He is just trying his best to drive Warner Bros. Pictures to do content.

In terms of movies, several big investments are needed to revive the film, and the box office needs to make a slight profit; and if the movies are not going well, the profits in TV are very important.

Therefore, in Du Caige's plan, movies, serial dramas and even variety shows must go hand in hand.

"Understand?"

Although Li Minjun was lazy, his expression still showed surprise, excitement and a bit of admiration, "Understood, this is probably the biggest handwriting in the world's entertainment industry in the past ten or twenty years."

After a pause, he said in a positive tone, "You will definitely succeed."

"Really?" Du Caige smiled, "I wish I could be so confident."

Du Caige really lacked confidence.

After all, he can't do everything.

With so many projects launched at the same time, even if they are really carried out according to his design, they may not be profitable.

What's more, it may not be able to meet his requirements.

Is copying the "Inception" on the earth intact to Azure Star, will it be a big success at the box office?

Even if it is possible—but copying it intact is impossible.

Even if Du Caige stays close to each other and directs in person, the "Inception" produced by different directors, actors, and special effects companies is hard to say which one is better than the original version.

What's more, Du Caige couldn't stay away.

He is responsible for too many projects at the same time, and each project can only be followed up slightly.

"Brother Hemingway, do you have so many high-quality content to produce? Or have you acquired some good scripts recently?" Li Minjun asked curiously.

Du Caige hesitated for a moment, but still told the truth, "I wrote a batch of scripts recently."

Anyway, in this world, he has manifested himself too many times, and people are more receptive to him.

He will never make a fuss because he comes up with a few good scripts at once, but get used to it, and at most shrug his shoulders and say, "This is Hemingway".

Sure enough, Li Minjun was not surprised at all, "Since you wrote it yourself, there must be some good scripts. I want to participate! But the conditions remain the same, I will only play a supporting role, and I have to concentrate on the performance time."

"Well, let's talk about it. In short, I will send you the script first. Maybe you will find a certain protagonist that you particularly want to play? It is not limited to female roles. I am also looking forward to seeing you play the leading role."

"Let's talk about it, then again," Li Minjun was noncommittal, and changed the subject, "What happened between you and my sister?"

Du Caige's face froze.

Li Minjun smiled playfully, and stared at him, "You wouldn't eat her up, would you? Well, it's very possible, after all, she is unguarded against you, and she has always liked you."

"Don't talk nonsense, there is nothing to eat, what to eat." Du Caige was a little embarrassed, but not flustered, after all, people in their 40s and [-]s have experienced a lot.

"Your sister and I are good friends and appreciate each other, but this is not the relationship between a man and a woman."

Li Minjun laughed: "Really? It turns out that my sister is bragging. She said that she is already your lover! Now at the headquarters of Double Star Group, you know everything you need to know. It is said that Warner Bros. To open a branch in Bangzi Country, my sister is in charge of this matter. If she is not your lover, this good thing will not happen to her."

Du Caige's expression froze again, and he said vaguely: "What kind of lover is not a lover, this kind of language is too disrespectful to girls. Your sister... Cui Minzhen is a very independent and self-reliant girl, she will definitely not be willing to be someone It’s from my lover. Let’s stop talking about this topic and talk about something else. There are also some production plans in the domestic dream-chasing entertainment, are you interested in participating?”

Li Minjun asked suspiciously: "Brother Hemingway, why do I feel that you are changing the subject?"

"This is an illusion, an illusion. I'm talking about business with you!" Du Caige coughed, "Speaking seriously, Chasing Dream Huyu also has a package of film and television production plans for this year, and currently there are 5 movies and three TV series that have been confirmed , and may also make a variety show.”

"I don't care about that, I just want to know," Li Minjun leaned forward, "Brother Hemingway, when will your new film start?"

Du Caige lowered his head and thought for a while, "Actually, I have seriously considered this issue. Filming is definitely a must, and it will start within this year. It's just that I'm still hesitating about which script to shoot and where to shoot."

Li Minjun smiled and said: "Leave me a role. I'm not sure about other movies, but I must participate in your movie."