Chapter 308: Big News!
Dream Mutual Entertainment Company was first established, and there are countless places where money needs to be spent.
Well, even if the company's liquidity is very healthy, you can invest part of it.
There are so many places to invest.
For example, as we are now, invest in a special effects company, or invest in an animation company. Doesn't it smell?
Moreover, the efficiency of the return of those invested funds is much faster than that of investing in film and television bases.
It can also bring more benefits to the company.
So why spend hundreds of millions of working capital on building palace complexes?
But Shu Yihuan said that his film must restore this palace complex.
Of course, he added, if he wants to save investment, he can also not restore all the palaces of the Wudang faction.
He made a budget table, if all inferior materials were used, the construction would not be carried out with regard to earthquake resistance, safety, etc.
And only a small part of it was restored, and most of the palaces were built with only an empty shell, and the interior was left untouched.
In this way, it only takes about 80 million to 100 million, more than 3 months, and no more than 4 months to complete.
However, in that case, firstly, the shooting effect cannot be guaranteed, and secondly, such a palace complex will definitely not be used as a film and television base, let alone as a tourist destination.
With an investment of 100 million yuan, after filming this movie, it became a pile of broken stones, exposed to the sun and rain, and gradually abandoned, and it was impossible to return the funds at all.
If you want to make additional investment and build a film and television base in the future, this part of the shoddy building will have to spend manpower and material resources to demolish.
Dream chasing mutual entertainment is a little undecided on this matter.
There are also several meetings to be held to discuss.
"What do you think?" Duan Xiaochen asked.
Du Caige smiled: "No matter how I think about it, will you support me?"
Duan Xiaochen lowered his head and thought about it, and when he raised his head again, his gaze was already very firm: "Of course I support you." ”
"Even if this step is wrong, it's a big deal that the company goes bankrupt, and I will go out to run a business show to support you. ”
Du Caige was moved and amused.
"Not to this point. Even if the investment fails, it is not the end of the world. ”
"Brother, what do you think? Do you think this project is worth investing in?"
"It's worth it," Du Caige said, "I think so: we take out 200 million in cash, so it won't affect the cash flow too much." Then take out a loan of 300 million, a total of 500 million, plan well, ask the best team, and build the building complex. In 5-6 months, in March next year, the film will almost be ready to be filmed, and then it will continue to be built while filming. ”
"When the film is finished, we will let it go out and build a film and television base. At that time, we had works, popularity, and the prototype of the film and television base. When the time comes, other investors will be brought in, and the successor part will be built. ”
"You don't have to build it all at once," Du Caige recalled to the Hengdian Film and Television Base, which was slowly built over the course of 20 years, a little this year and a little next year, "Let's plan well and take our time." ”
"The profits from this film are used to repay the loan. ”
"As for the investment promised to Shu Yihuan, don't discount the 150 million, and don't deduct the money for repairing the palace complex. To sign a few good actors, you have to prepare 50 million for special effects and 50 million for publicity, and this budget is already very tight. ”
Duan Xiaochen kept nodding. "Okay, I'll support you at the next meeting. ”
Du Caige hesitated: "Do you really agree with my opinion, or do you ......?"
Duan Xiaochen gave him a charming look: "Is this important?"
Du Caige said solemnly: "Of course it is important. Because I'm not always infallible, and I get my judgment wrong. So I hope you don't blindly support me and say it out loud if you disagree. ”
Duan Xiaochen shrugged his shoulders, "Okay, then do you want to hear the truth or a lie." ”
"True, of course. ”
"The question is," Duan Xiaochen covered his mouth and smiled like a fox who had just eaten a hen, "even if I lied, can you tell the difference?"
“......”
......
At the press conference, the person who was chased and questioned by the reporter was not necessarily the protagonist.
Du Caige has long been deeply aware of this.
When he was on Earth, Du Caige took the actors to hold press conferences, or sometimes went to variety shows and roadshows.
Obviously, he is the director, and he is the protagonist, but the reporters are always most interested in the actors, not him as a director.
What impressed him the most was the press conference when his second film was announced.
At that time, the heroine was a second-tier actor, and the male protagonist was a quasi-first-line.
The reporter asked him about seven or eight questions very perfunctorily, and then began to point the finger - no, the microphone at the heroine.
Because not long ago, the heroine raised an orange cat and posted several sets of photos on Weibo.
When the reporters pressed the cat, they asked more than a dozen questions.
"It is said that this cat was given by my friend Li Minna, do you have a good relationship with her?"
"The picture you post on Weibo is so cute, do you spend a lot of time training it?"
"Do you prefer cats or dogs?"
"When you're busy filming, what about cats?"
And so on and so forth.
Du Caige was particularly impressed by this incident.
Because of his first previous movie, he made an urban light comedy.
With a small and big deal, he got a box office of 140 million with an investment of 11 million, which is the most optimistic among the new generation of directors.
The second-tier actress and the quasi-first-line actor have great respect for him, and can even be said to be very respectful.
He himself is full of ambition, even if he habitually keeps a low profile and is modest, he still has a sense of arrogance in his heart.
After all, a director who can make money for the employer is naturally higher than an actor in the coffee position.
But in the eyes of reporters, the actor's newsworthiness is much higher than that of him as a director.
And the reason why the news value of actors is higher than that of directors is because of the needs of the audience, most people don't care whether the director is surnamed Zhang or Li, and they don't care whether the director has a cat or a dog.
The director is the chef, and the actors are the ingredients.
When people eat the food in their mouths, they will care at most about the freshness of the ingredients, and they will not care about the chef's knife skills.
In this press conference held by Dream Mutual Entertainment, the protagonist is Shu Yihuan.
However, two-thirds of the reporters almost shoved the microphone into Duan Xiaochen's mouth.
A third of the reporters were busy stuffing the microphone into Du Caige's mouth.
After Shu Yihuan was symbolically asked a few questions, she fell into an embarrassing situation where no one cared.
But fortunately, he may also get used to it, and he is smiling all the time, so that people can't see his inner turmoil.
"Duan Tianhou, why do you want to cooperate with Hemingway to open a company?"
"Because he can write songs, he can write good songs, and I can sing. We're a perfect match. Duan Xiaochen smiled and punned.
"Is that just because of that?"
"Why don't you give me another reason?"
"Duan Tianhou, it is said that you and Hemingway have become a couple, is that true?"
"According to whom?"
“......”
"Duan Tianhou, what business will Dream Mutual Entertainment carry out in the future?"
"There will be businesses you can imagine, and there will be things you can't imagine. We are a new type of entertainment company, a new entertainment interactive experience created in the spirit of the Internet, and you will gradually witness it in the future, and we will bring a lot of difference to this industry. ”
There are also reporters chasing Du Caige and beating him hard. "Hemingway, is it true that you were said to have reconciled with Sumanqian during the recording of 'New Forces in Music'?"
Du Caige's face was expressionless: "I'm sorry you went to the wrong set, this is the press conference of Director Shu and Dream Mutual Entertainment, not the press conference of 'New Power of Music'." ”
"It's said that you're going to change careers and become a director in the film industry, is it true?"
"Your sources are pretty reliable. ”
"It's said that you fell in love with the heroine while directing the movie, right?"
“...... In fact, your sources are not reliable, so it is recommended that you deduct his winnings. ”
"Can you tell us a little bit about your first film?"
"First of all, to correct me, this is not the first film I have directed, the first film I directed was "The Depths of a Hundred Flowers", which is an ultra-short film that can be seen on the microlight video. Then this time it was a micro-film called "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years". The post-production is half complete, and it will soon be ready to meet the audience and friends. ”
"This is a story about youth, youthful friendship and love, youthful enthusiasm and confusion, it can be regarded as a semi-autobiographical film between me and Duan Xiaochen. Today we will hang the trailer on the official Weibo and major video websites. ”
"In other words, there will be some real stories between you and Duan Xiaochen in the movie?"
"To correct, a true story that has undergone a certain amount of artistic processing. ”
"Hemingway, will you continue to work in the field of music?"
"Yes, there will be some works coming out in the near future, so stay tuned. ”
waited until the reporters had almost vented their energy before they asked Director Shu Yihuan a few questions.
Then, at this time, information such as "150 million investment" and "on-site construction of palace complexes" made them a little interested.
After all, in this era, 150 million Dahua dollars is equivalent to 70 million US dollars, and an investment of 70 million US dollars is definitely a large amount.
There are not many films in the world that have invested more than 100 million dollars.
If Shu Yihuan's new film can invest 150 million yuan, it will become the 18th most expensive film in the history of Dahua National Film.
This is also a remarkable statistic, after all, Dream Chase Entertainment, which led the investment, is just a nascent entertainment company.
It has only been established for a month or two to launch such a big project, which is already very courageous.
And when Duan Xiaochen announced that the company was considering meeting Shu Yihuan's request to invest hundreds of millions of yuan to try to restore the Wudang palace complex, and that it might borrow 3 billion yuan in the next ten years to continue to invest and build a large film and television base, reporters were almost boiling.
Big news!
Chasing dreams and entertaining each other, this is a big move to hold back without making a sound!
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