Chapter 195 Projects

Making money can now be said to be the last in Zhao Zhenghao's development goals!

Zhao Zhenghao, who is already worth more than 10 billion, has lost his motivation in making money, and what still pushes him to continue to work hard and move forward is the unremitting pursuit of honors and achievements in different industries!

Specific to the film industry, it is the thirst for titles such as actor and best director!

In order to ensure the smooth achievement of this series of achievements in the film industry, Zhao Zhenghao is willing to give up part of his interests!

Besides, just give up part of the interests, but not all the interests, in order to ensure independence in the film production process, the share of "Zhenghao Studio" in the total investment of "Journey to the West" will not be less than 51%.

In the future, no matter how much external funds are introduced, "Zhenghao Studio" must be the major shareholder of the theatrical films written, directed and acted by Zhao Zhenghao, and it must be the controlling shareholder with the absolute right to speak!

When Zhao Zhenghao's authority in the field of directing is established, it doesn't matter how much "Zhenghao Studio" invests in a movie, whether it is controlled or not, because at that time, Zhao Zhenghao can firmly control the right to speak in the entire film by virtue of his authority.

However, Zhao Zhenghao can't do this now, although he has proved his level of directing to a certain extent in "A Chinese Ghost Story", he is by no means a joke as the outside world says, but has real skills.

However, it is not enough to decide the final direction of a movie with an investment of more than 100 million, or even as high as 500 million, based on this alone.

Therefore, in the early stage, even if Zhao Zhenghao opens the investment control of his director's films, he will not completely open it, at least to ensure that he can grasp the project and let it go on according to his own ideas.

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"Zhenghao Studio" opened the investment control of "Journey to the West", which made "Nine Star Entertainment", which was the first to get the news, suspicious.

For a film with an investment of more than 100 million, 500 million, or even 1 billion, in order to diversify the investment risk, the initiator of the project introduces external funds, jointly develops, and shares risks, which is a common practice in the film industry.

However, "Zhenghao Studio" has already produced "A Chinese Ghost Story" separately, and has achieved great success and earned huge profits, so it changed its investment strategy so quickly and developed an investment access control in the second film, so that "Nine Star Entertainment", which has suffered a lot in film investment over the years, does not dare to act rashly, and it also wants to be reasonable.

"Nine Star Entertainment" can't figure out the context of the behavior of "Zhenghao Studio", and doesn't dare to act rashly, it doesn't mean that other people are equally cautious after getting the news!

After the news was spread by whom, on the same day, "Zhenghao Studio" received a lot of films from investment institutions to inquire about the authenticity of the news, and after receiving a positive answer, many film speculators flocked to "Zhenghao Studio" for further consultations.

After getting the financing plan made by "Zhenghao Studio" for the film project of "Journey to the West", many investment institutions with ill intentions were disappointed.

In this fundraising plan, "Zhenghao Studio" not only clearly stipulates that it will only raise 40% of the external funds for the "Journey to the West" project, and the other 60% of the investment share is still firmly controlled by the "Zhenghao Studio", ensuring the absolute control of the project by "Zhenghao Studio".

Moreover, the rights of these raised external funds have been clearly and harshly stipulated, and these raised funds only enjoy the right to dividends, and there is no management right to this project, and investors cannot interfere with all the processes of this project in any way!

Of course, "Zhenghao Studio" does not have the right to dividends, and no longer gives investors who have paid real money a little right, Zhao Zhenghao still left them a little recommendation right in terms of movie roles, but who to use and who not to use, it is still up to Zhao Zhenghao to have the final say!

In fact, this was originally the condition given by famous directors when they were planning new film projects and attracting investment, but Zhao Zhenghao is now just juxtaposing himself with those famous directors in advance.

As for the supporting roles that only leave the leftovers, let those investors recommend the main actors of the movie, Zhao Zhenghao has already decided, and it is reasonable, after all, "Zhenghao Studio" is still the largest investor in this project!

Moreover, in order to avoid disputes, "Zhenghao Studio" also set up a new company specifically for the "Journey to the West" project, which was nominally divided into the name of this new company, and in a legal sense, there is no longer a partner with "Zhenghao Studio", and "Zhenghao Studio" is only participating in this project as an investor.

This is also a common practice in the film industry, especially in Hollywood in the United States, like this, for a project, temporary set up a leather bag company, there are too many to mention, its establishment, is dedicated to the project, the film service, when the project is over, the company will often be cancelled.

The biggest purpose of this is to ensure that if there is a dispute in this project, the scope of this dispute will be limited to this leather bag company, and will not involve the parent company behind it!

This practice basically appears in large projects with many investors, and there is no need to invest in projects with a single source like "A Chinese Ghost Story".

This approach, which is more in line with the spirit of the modern social contract, has gradually been accepted by the Dragon Kingdom film and television industry in recent years, and has slowly become a common means of joint venture projects.

Some ill-intentioned investment institutions, originally thinking that "Zhenghao Studio" has not been established for a long time and has not been involved in the film industry for a long time, may be negligent in this regard, leaving them with an opportunity to take advantage of the project "Journey to the West" to get involved in the "Zhenghao Studio" that cannot be splashed by water.

Unexpectedly, the vigilance of "Zhenghao Studio" was so high, it didn't leave them any chance, and directly wiped out their attempt in the womb.

Now, for those large investment institutions, what really attracts them is not a film project with a total investment of only 500 million, but the "Zhenghao Studio" whose market value has been estimated to be 20 billion!

Therefore, after the attempt to get involved in the "Zhenghao Studio" was shattered, those large investment institutions did not show much interest in the project of "Journey to the West".

Those projects with large investment institutions with deep pockets and an investment amount of less than one billion yuan are small projects for them!