billion box office tycoon

Facing the summer wind, under the warm care of the sun, Ye Weilin left the last scene of his student days in front of the Huaxia Drama Academy in his graduation gown.

In his previous life, he graduated from the director department of his alma mater with No.1 grades, and in this life, he still continued this trajectory.

Ye Weilin is a celebrity at the Huaxia Academy of Drama. He never lacked topicality from enrollment to graduation. He threatened to transfer to another department as soon as the semester started. After the transfer, the micro-movie "Zhuangnv's Dream Butterfly" filmed with the school eccentric Fu Qi caused a boom in the Internet. It also aroused the attention of various departments of the college. Although it did not receive any awards, in the eyes of teachers and students of Chinese opera, the quality of this micro film far exceeds other entries, and it is the uncrowned king in their hearts.

In the following three years, Ye Weilin's professional level of works was obvious to all. Whenever there was a short film shooting assignment in the department, the people who volunteered to help were lined up to wait for him to pick it. There should not be too much difference between the student's director and other classmates.

That's not to mention, even the graduation works are films that will be directly shown in theaters, why don't you teach the same class... no, why are you envious and jealous together with the younger sisters and younger brothers?

After taking graduation photos, Ye Weilin walked towards Yin Lan who had been waiting for him. She was standing under the shade of a tree holding a bouquet of flowers and a bag for changing clothes.

"Do you like it here?" Ye Weilin asked while twisting the lid while taking the water handed by the other party.

Yin Lan's eyes were attracted by the acting students who were taking graduation photos not far away. The number of students in the acting department was obviously more than that in the directing department, and they were all dressed in uniforms, but even so, it still couldn't hide the light of one of them. He is Xie Donglin.

"I like it." Yin Lan only glanced at it twice, then looked away.

"If you like it, you have to work hard." Ye Weilin patted the other party's shoulder and said with a smile: "Try hard to be my junior."

Yin Lan nodded, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by a ringtone, which was the phone of the other party.

Ye Weilin picked it up and saw that the number showed that it was Luo Mao. As soon as he connected, Luo Mao's voice came over in a hurry: "Where are you? I can't find you at the school gate. Didn't you say you were filming graduation?" Photo?"

"You are late, the graduation photos have been taken." Ye Weilin glanced at his watch, and the hour hand pointed to more than four o'clock in the afternoon. He said casually: "You don't need to come here. I will find you. Just wait at the school gate, wait. We're going to have dinner together."

"...Your brother is here too." Luo Mao's tone seemed to pause for a while before saying.

"...Are you serious?" Ye Weilin couldn't imagine Ye Weisheng's self-consciousness towards him and his brother, so he came all the way to see him.

Luo Mao glanced at the unsmiling boss beside him, and involuntarily became cautious in his words: "Really, let's not talk about it, we will wait for you at the door."

After Ye Weilin hung up the phone, the astonishment on his face still remained. Seeing this, Yin Lan asked, "What's wrong?"

He told the news of Ye Weicheng's arrival, Yin Lan was stunned for a while, and then said softly: "Why don't I go back first."

"No, let's go together." Ye Weilin shook his head with firm eyes.

He had never deliberately concealed his family background from Yin Lan, and of course he would never mention it without incident, but the two lived together and got along for a long time, so they naturally knew many things about each other.At the same time, he also understood that Ye Weisheng said that he would be ignored, but in reality, every once in a while, Luo Mao would let Luo Mao know about his latest developments. Otherwise, Luo Mao stayed well in Hong Kong Island, why would he suddenly be transferred to work in the mainland?

Ye Weisheng definitely knew about Yin Lan, including the thought of adopting her, and his feeling of treating her as a younger brother.

"The Phantom of Hometown" has become popular among late-night movies, new directors, and the leading actor Yin Lan, who is not yet full. Guessed it.

He didn't want Yin Lan to sign a contract with an entertainment company at a young age. Premature exposure would easily damage a person's ambition.

After Yin Lan became popular, people came to the school to see him every day, no matter inside or outside the school, there were always crowds of onlookers wherever he went.Even when he was sitting in class, some people would cast strange eyes from time to time, which had seriously interfered with his life and study.Ye Weilin had no choice but to suspend his studies and let him go to school after a period of calm.

What made him gratified was that Yin Lan was not lost in the overwhelming praise on the Internet after he became popular. After receiving olive branches from many entertainment companies and advertisers one after another, no matter how high the price was proposed by the other party, they all agreed. reject.

Perhaps Yin Lan was also tempted, but she made this decision because she didn't want to disappoint him. Ye Weilin sighed inwardly. Others could refuse, but if Ye Weisheng, who is his elder brother, made such a request, it would be bad for Yin Lan Refused.

"Anyway, we will see each other sooner or later, let's just say today." Ye Weilin said softly.

In the past few days before graduation, there is a long queue of cars at the school gate of Huaxi Opera. There are a lot of people. There are many handsome guys with famous cars and beauties with flowers. It is really difficult to find each other at a glance.

Fortunately, Yin Lan had sharp eyes, and it didn't take long to see Luo Mao who was submerged in the sea of ​​people.

Yin Lan had never met Luo Mao, but he had checked him on the Internet in private, so he recognized him with just one glance.

Luo Mao, who was wiping away his sweat, immediately waved when he saw Ye Weilin and the two of them. When they met, they all opened the car door and got in without saying a word.

Compared to the sweaty embarrassment of the three of them, only Ye Weicheng, who had been sitting in the passenger seat and had never been out before, was the calmest. He asked Luo Mao to drive the car out first, and then pretended to look casually at Yin Lan said: "Hello, my name is Ye Weisheng, I am Ye Weilin's brother, and I am also the person in charge of the Xingyu Century Development Department."

Ye Weilin knew that the other party's status in the company was not the same as it was four years ago, and now he is named the vice president of Xingyu Century, but he has actually joined the board of directors. In other words, he can manage everything and intervene in any department. On top of that, of course, he is not alone in the board of directors and management, and he will not be free to take care of other people's affairs, so he is mainly in charge of the development department.

The development department is a department that connects the past and the future, and has a strong coordination and wide scope.If Ye Weicheng's poaching is under the banner of the Ministry of Development, it can be regarded as high-sounding.

After Yin Lan briefly introduced herself, she pretended to be tired and closed her eyes. While Ye Weilin smiled secretly, she also greeted Ye Weicheng.

"I'm here this time because I want to attend your graduation ceremony, but I missed the time, and secondly, it's about the profit distribution of the film." Ye Weisheng took out a document bag from the drawer in front of the car and handed it to him.

He opened it and saw that they were all the dividend terms set before, but the blank lines with the original amount had been filled one by one.

The total box office of "The Phantom of Hometown" is 1.9 million. After deducting 5% of the tax and 53% of the profits earned by major theaters, and the cost of distribution and promotion of less than 1000 million, the producer can get more than 7000 million. According to the agreement Ye Weisheng can get half of the transfer share, and the remaining half belongs to him and Fu Qi, and then deducts the production cost of 300 million, which means they have a net profit of more than 3200 million.

"The box office has exceeded [-] million?" Ye Weilin felt a little unbelievable. He looked at it several times before he was sure that these amounts were filled in correctly.

"If it weren't for the wrong estimate at the beginning, neither increasing the promotional efforts of the film, nor adjusting the schedule in time, I estimate that I can make back an extra [-] million." Ye Weisheng regretted this, even though the release time was extended to nearly one month months, but he still feels that market saturation has not been reached.

"It's already very good." Ye Weilin has little ambition for the box office. If he can recover the cost and win word of mouth, his goal will be accomplished.

The car stopped in front of a restaurant not far from Xingyu Century Branch. This restaurant looks ordinary, but when you walk in, it is decorated with Chinese style elements. There are many Chinese decorations in the lobby, which looks very particular .

After the waiter invited them into the booth, the dishes were quickly served.

Ye Weilin thought that the other party would keep asking about Yin Lan during the meal, and he was ready to deal with it, but Ye Weisheng just politely asked Yin Lan a few innocuous questions and then gave up, and cared more about him.

After the meal, Ye Weilin was about to take Yin Lan to leave, but Luo Mao suddenly got up and said to Yin Lan: "Mr. Yin, can you take a step to talk."

"Okay." Yin Lan glanced at Ye Weilin and walked out of the cubicle first.

Luo Mao followed closely behind and left.

If Ye Weilin didn't understand that the other party was dismissing Yin Lan in order to talk to him alone, he would have spent two lives in vain.

"I came to you not just for the box office dividend." Ye Weisheng put away his casual gestures while eating, and even his tone became serious.

"Xingyu launched a project plan about film investment in the past two years. Luo Mao should have mentioned to you that the company allocates 2 million yuan to this project every year. Although the amount of money is large, it must be allocated to 40 films." Ye Weisheng paused for a while before continuing: "I participated in this project in the first year and got 20 million funds. The task assigned by the company was to invest in 1000 films. At that time Inexperienced, with the idea of ​​casting a wide net to catch more fish, I did not invest more than [-] million in any movie. As a result, nearly ten movies were unable to be released due to various reasons, and the box office hit movies were not profitable. How much, at the end of the year, I lost half of the money."

At first, Ye Weilin didn't understand why the other party mentioned these words, which were regarded as commercial secrets, but after hearing it later, he vaguely guessed what the other party meant.

"In the next two years, I learned my lesson and invested most of the money in big-budget films, but those with a topical lineup do not lack investors. It is not easy to get a share of the pie. After two years, the most No loss, no gain." When Ye Weisheng said this, he finally looked at Ye Weilin, his always calm gaze gradually became hot: "I only spent less than 1000 million on the release promotion fee of "The Phantom of Hometown". With a 50.00% investment share, I made a net profit of more than 2000 million, plus the profit of the cinema, a total of nearly 4000 million. This is the most profitable investment since I participated in this project."