Chapter 085 Film Special Fund
After hanging up the phone, Li wanted to continue driving, and after a while, he came to the vicinity of Peidian.
Li Xiang parked his car in the nearest parking lot and walked onto campus, this time to discuss something with his graduate supervisor.
After all, Symenian is the cradle of stars, and those who go out here have more or less a probability of becoming stars, so they will not chase stars like other peers, but when they see big people who are rarely seen in their daily lives, they will still be more or less excited, such as seeing Li Xiang.
So along the way, Li Xiang greeted him with familiar or unfamiliar faces, and there was no way that this is the most popular director in China now.
Li Xiang smiled and dealt with these people, and at the same time quickened his pace into the teaching building of the Department of Expression and Guidance, and met his mentor, Wang Rui.
Wang Rui, the head of the directing department of Symenic Electric, the graduate tutor of the directing department, and Li Xiang's teacher, although Li Xiang really hasn't come to class a few times.
But in general, Wang Rui has no bad sense of Li Xiang, Li Xiang has no problems with the rich second generation, and treats people generously, and the most important thing is that he is very qualified as a commercial film director.
Wang Rui is not as conservative as the traditional academic school, he especially knows how to keep pace with the times, knows that commercial films are the mainstream of the future market, and is also very willing to guide his students to the road of commercial genre films, after all, in this circle, you must first survive, and then consider whether life is wonderful or not.
"You kid hasn't come to class for a while!" Wang Rui knew that Li Xiang was very busy, but he still had to have an attitude.
"Teacher, do you know that I'm not busy with gunman business, and you see that my next movie is ready to start preparation, so you can be accommodating. Li Xiang knew that he was wrong, but he still explained.
"You are efficient enough, what type are you going to shoot this time?" To be honest, Wang Rui is very envious of Li Xiang's strong creative ability, but this cannot be imitated.
"This time I'm going to shoot a suspenseful crime theme. ”
"You're preparing to dabble in all genres, aren't you?" directors are generally good at a limited number of genres, but they are not without geniuses, such as the late master Stanley Kubrick, who is a great director who can play all genres, and Christopher Nolan, who is expected to become a new generation of phenomenal directors.
"I'm still young, I always have to try all kinds of subjects to determine what genre I'm good at!" Li Xiang scratched his head and said with a smile.
"Say, what are you doing when you come to see me this time? You are the one who will go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing!" Wang Rui knows Li Xiang too well, so he won't come if this thing is fine.
"It's a bit of a thing, it's good for you and for us in the film school. Li Xiang smiled mysteriously.
"Tell me about it. Li Xiang's words made Wang Rui interested.
"I want to set up a special fund to support the students of our directing department, don't you want to discuss this?" Li Xiang said his plan.
"That's a good thing, tell me about the specific plan. Wang Rui slapped his face, this is really a good thing, it will help the film school a lot, if the fund is established, he can also add a sum of money to the credit book.
Li Xiang sorted out his thoughts and said: "The special foundation will take out a sum of money for students to shoot experimental short films, and if they win awards, there will be another reward, this first phase will be limited to 20 million, and then it will fluctuate depending on the situation." ”
"If all goes well, I'll go to North America around August next year to prepare a movie, and if the box office is good, I'll consider making it into a series and releasing it at a rate of one a year. You can invite outstanding students from our department to work in our crew, so that they can familiarize themselves with the operation mode of Hollywood commercial films. At the same time, the fund will also set up a green light review system similar to Hollywood, if the script of our classmates passes the review, then the foundation will pay to help him make the movie, and I will also be the producer for him if time permits. ”
"Li Xiang, I'll bow to you for the classmates in our directing department!" Wang Rui stood up and bowed deeply to Li Xiang, and Li Xiang hurriedly helped the teacher up.
This is a circle that is not very friendly to newcomers, money and fame limit the development of newcomers, and if Li Xiang's fund is established, it will undoubtedly be a blessing for these rookie newcomers in the academy.
No money? It doesn't matter, the fund will help you out! No name? It doesn't matter, Li wants to help you be the producer! One knife 999, the equipment is all on the explosion...
In other words, Li Xiang is also a little bit of funding other people's capital now, this time "Genius Gunman" was invested by Feixiang Studio, except for HK and Southeast Asia because they wanted to make friends with Yindu and gave up 90% of the profits, the buyout fees in other places have gone into Feixiang's pocket.
The overseas buyout cost totaled 30 million, plus the 3.5 million HK Southeast Asia share, and the sponsorship fee of 15 million, this part of Feixiang got 47.5 million.
The mainland box office is 243 million, deducting the share of the theater chain, the optical fiber gets a total of 162 million, and after removing the 45 million of production + publicity, there is still 117 million left, of which the optical fiber has to intercept 10% of the distribution share of 16.2 million, and then remove the 10% box office share of Li Xiang's choreographer, Feixiang Studio has a total of more than 85 million pre-tax income in the mainland.
In other words, just one "Genius Gunman" got back 130 million pre-tax income for Feixiang, although this part of the income is counted in the Chocobo Studio, but after all, it is a wholly-owned sub-studio of Feixiang, which is nothing more than the left hand guiding the right hand.
After two years of development, the cash flow of the studio has exceeded 500 million, which is a very terrifying data, and the liquidity of many large companies may not fly much, which is also one of the important reasons why the later generations of bigwigs have entered the film industry.
If you have money in your hand, you naturally want to give back to the society, and other people are responsible for charity or something, and Li Xiang is naturally engaged in what he is good at, so he will come to Victory to find Wang Rui and prepare to set up a special fund for films.
The reason why he chose to go to Victory for graduate school was also because he needed this identity, if the fund was established, then Victory would be firmly bound to himself, and Feixiang would have a strong talent reserve to choose from.
"Mr. Wang, I want you to be the president of this fund, and the special fund is supervised by you, the fund operation officer appointed by Feixiang Studio and me, so as to ensure that the money is used in the right place to the greatest extent!"
20 million per year, this is not a small amount, Li wants to believe in the character of Mr. Wang Rui, or he would not have worked in the position of head of the department for so many years, but people's desires will continue to change with the improvement of status, in order not to have such an accident, or should first say ugly things in front.
"As long as it's for us to tie up, it doesn't matter what you ask me to do!" Mr. Wang didn't think about anything else, he was still happy about the fund at this time, if he knew what Li Xiang was thinking now, I don't know if he would turn his face.