Chapter 20: Investing in Filmmaking
In the "Friends" barbecue restaurant, Lehi and several people were crammed into a small private room. Ma Xiaoling, who was in Yang Ying's bedroom, looked at Lin Fei'er and said apologetically, "Fei'er, I'm sorry! If I hadn't proposed to go to Lan Kwai Fong to jump, what happened today wouldn't have happened?"
"It's none of your business, it's that bald guy who is too hateful. ”
Zhang Chen, who lived in Li Hai's bedroom, said, "I heard those people call the bald head Brother Pao! This person looks like a fool of the Tao, so let's be careful in the future." ”
Yu Zuo hugged his arms and said coldly: "Don't be afraid! ”
Lehi smiled and patted Yu Zuo's shoulder.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that it was really a wise decision for him to invest in the Zo National Martial Arts Gym. A Yu Zuo is so powerful, when he is full of peach and plums all over the world, see who else dares to provoke him.
Zhang Chen admired the five-body throw of trivial kung fu, he had a martial arts dream when he was a child. It was rare to meet a master like Yu Zuo, and asked: "Brother Yu, aren't you going to open a martial arts gym?
"Of course welcome!" Yu Zuo said to Zhang Chen: "Moreover, I can give you a 5% discount on tuition fees." ”
"How much is the tuition?"
"20,000 a year, 10,000 in half a year!"
"Then I'll pay for a year. Zhang Chen said excitedly.
"No problem. Yu Zuo was also very happy that he finally had his first student.
Chatting and chatting, Xu Jimeng and others learned that Yu Zuo's Guoshu Martial Arts Hall was also invested by Li Hai, and the total investment reached 5 million.
Ma Xiaoling and Feng Ying looked at Li Hai in surprise, and Feng Ying sighed: "Now I know that it turns out that Li Hai is the low-key rich second generation of our college. ”
"I'm not a rich second generation, I'm a founding generation now, maybe I'll become a rich second generation in the future. ”
Li Hai remembered that his father would operate an "online car-hailing" business in the future, and when he was successfully listed, he would really become a rich second generation.
In the afternoon of the next day, Lin Fei'er asked Li Hai to accompany her to the Spring City Film Studio.
Chuncheng Film Studio, a veteran film production unit, has now been restructured and established as "Chuncheng Film Production Company".
Li Hai followed Lin Fei'er to the crew of "Dragon Whisperer".
The director of the crew is a balding middle-aged man named Feng Zhang.
Feng Zhang is well-known in the film industry, this time he directed the Sino-foreign joint venture "Dragon Whisperer", full of confidence, the total investment of the film is as high as 180 million, and he said to the producer that the box office will definitely exceed 1 billion.
Lin Fei'er told Feng Zhang that Li Hai was her agent, and Li Hai had full authority to represent everything for herself.
Li Hai had already seen Lin Fei'er's luck curve with his heavenly eyes, and the movie she starred in should be a comedy movie called "Thai Adventure", not a special effects blockbuster based on movie stunts like "Dragon Whisperer".
Feng Zhang introduced to Li Hai that the main investor of the movie "Dragon Whisperer" was a well-known gold company called "Money Leopard" in Spring City. The male number one is Song Wei of the Philharmonic men's group, and the female number one is the popular female anchor Gan Tiantian. The consultant of the special effects team invited the consultant of SM Stunt Company in the United States. If Lin Feier can star in this movie, with her beautiful appearance, she will definitely show her head in the entertainment industry, but the salary is less, only 250,000.
After listening to Feng Zhang's narration, Li Hai asked, "Director Feng, are you going to make other movies besides this dragon whisperer?"
"At the moment, there is only this one movie, and I have killed a lot of scripts. Hey! Nowadays, young people are really impetuous in writing scripts, and the industry is really short of gold medal screenwriters. ”
Just then, there was a knock on the office door.
Feng Zhang shouted, "Come in!".
It was a young man who came in, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old.
Feng Zhang frowned and said, "Zhao Yusong, how many times have I told you, you wrote that Thai adventure script will not have investors to invest." Even if there are investors who are willing to contribute, there will be no high box office income when it is auctioned, and it is not a dead street. ”
"Director Feng, I have confidence in my script, can you give me a chance?"
", don't bother me here, stay wherever it's cool. Feng Zhang impatiently ordered Zhao Yu to be evicted.
Zhao Yusong's face was full of disappointment.
He is a graduate of the "Spring City Film and Television Academy" and has been working as a screenwriter at the Spring City Film Studio since graduation. I can only help write the lines of the storyboard in other people's scripts every time. He was unwilling to live such a mediocre life, and used his spare time to write a script for "Thai Adventure". showed it to Feng Zhang with joy, but was scolded by Feng Zhang for being indecent, saying that the writing was too jumpy, and the audience would definitely not be able to accept this alternative and funny comedy.
Zhao Yuqing did not give up his dream and found Director Ding of Chuncheng Film Studio. Ding Xuezhi told him that as long as his script could attract investors, he could shoot it.
After Zhao Yusong left, Li Hai said to Feng Zhang: "I'm sorry Director Feng, Fei'er won't make your movies anymore, you can ask Gao Ming again." After speaking, he pulled Lin Fei'er and chased after Zhao Yu.
"Hey, Hey......"
Feng Zhang looked confused, and spat out, "What kind of agent is this? Hey, it's a pity for Lin Fei'er." His gaze revealed a lustful glow.
Lin Fei'er saw that Li Hai was running faster and faster, and asked him as she ran, "Hey, why are you pulling me to run so fast?"
"I'm going to take you to meet the director of the movie!"
"Didn't you tell Feng Zhang that you wouldn't let me participate in the movie he directed?"
"I didn't let you play him. ”
"Who's playing that?" Lin Fei'er asked curiously.
Li Hai pointed at Zhao Yu, who was not far ahead, and said with a smile: "That person." ”
Lin Fei'er exclaimed, "Isn't he the one who was scolded by Feng Zhang for being a bad screenwriter?"
"Don't worry, people aren't bad screenwriters. ”
After Li Hai caught up with Zhao Yusong, he patted him on the shoulder, greeted him and said with a smile: "Hello! My name is Li Hai, I am an investor, I am very interested in the script in your hand, can we find a place to have a good chat?"
Zhao Yuzhen screamed "Ah!", couldn't believe his ears, took Li Hai's hand and asked excitedly, "You...... You mean you want to read my script?"
Lehi nodded and asked, "Are you free now?"
"Yes, yes!" Zhao Yusong looked excited and happy.
"Are there any cafes nearby?" asked Lehi.
"Yes, I'll take you!"
Zhao Yusong took Li Hai and Lin Fei'er to a nearby café called "Left Bank".
Lin Fei'er didn't say anything, but she also had a lot of complaints about Li Hai in her heart. I don't know if Li Hai is sick in the brain, so he doesn't let himself cooperate with the famous director Feng Zhang, and lets himself participate in this little-known screenwriter's movie.
After arriving at the "Left Bank" café, Li Hai first read the script of Zhao Yusong's "Thai Adventure". The general meaning of the script is to write about a young man who lives a down-and-out life and one day receives a call from his mother asking him to go to Thailand to collect his grandfather's inheritance. The young man happily went to Thailand and met a young and beautiful girl. He thought that the girl was a shemale, and a series of ridiculous things happened with the girl in Thailand. In the end, he received his grandfather's inheritance as a "moonlight treasure box" that could take him back and forth to three years ago. The boy and the girl agreed to meet somewhere three years ago and started a beautiful and romantic love again.
After reading the script, Lehi immediately made the decision to invest. He has long seen the box office trend of the movie "Thai Adventure" with his heavenly eyes. When it was first released, the film schedule was only a pitiful 3%, but with the fermentation of word of mouth, the number of films scheduled in major cinemas will gradually increase, and finally the number of films scheduled will counterattack to 41%, and the box office will win the 1 billion yuan mark. You must know that the low-budget movie "Thai Adventure" only has an investment of 10 million.
After reading the script, Li Hai handed the script back to Zhao Yusong and said, "I think the plot of the script is very novel, and it is completely qualified as a comedy." I can invest in this film, how much budget do you need to shoot it?"
"Do you really want to invest in my script?" Zhao Yusong asked excitedly.
Lehi nodded and said, "Not only is it investing in your movie, but the director of this movie must also be you." However, the candidates for the heroine and the second female protagonist need to be designated by me. ”
"You're an investment producer, and of course you have the right to appoint actors. ”
"And how much budget do you need?" asked Lehi.
Zhao Yu tilted his head and thought for a while, and said, "It takes about 10 million!" He actually wanted an investment of 12 million, seeing that Li Hai was a young man, younger than himself, even if he was rich, he might be the rich second generation of a rich family. There is no complete freedom in financial control. For the sake of safety, I asked for an investment of 10 million.
Li Hai nodded and agreed, and said, "Yes, I will invest 10 million yuan in you first, and I will increase the publicity and distribution costs for you by 5 million yuan in the future." ”
"Great!" Zhao Yusong excitedly stretched out his hand to Li Hai and said, "Mr. Li, you are really my Bole!"
"You're also a thousand-mile horse!"
"But Maxima often exists, Bole does not often have!"
"Hahaha! Director Zhao is really good at talking. ”
After Li Hai laughed a few times, he pointed to Lin Fei'er beside him and said to Zhao Yusong: "Her name is Lin Fei'er, and she is my alumnus! Let her play the second female lead in the movie." ”
"Female ...... Number two?"
When Li Hai said that Lin Fei'er would play the second female lead in the movie, not only Lin Fei'er was stunned, but even Zhao Yusong was stunned.
Zhao Yu nodded and said, "Okay...... Okay, I'll let Miss Lin play the second female lead. ”
In Zhao Yusong's heart, Lin Fei'er and Li Hai should be boyfriend and girlfriend. Even if it's not boyfriend and girlfriend, it's not a shallow relationship. If it were another investor, he would like to use his own woman to play the No. 1 heroine in the movie. But this Li Hai acted too strangely, not letting Lin Feier play the female number one, but directly letting her play the second female number one in the movie, which is really incredible!