Chapter 167 of the main text volume

Next chapter

At the beginning of April, Lin Zixuan came to Xiangjiang.

At this time, it is not easy to go to Xiangjiang from the mainland, and it will be more convenient for locals in Guangdong Province to apply for customs clearance documents, and people from other provinces will have to apply at the police station for identity verification.

Lin Zixuan has an invitation letter for the Academy Awards, for good reasons, and has already completed the relevant procedures.

Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen are acting stars, and it is easy to find a reason, Liu Xiaoqing went to a magazine in Xiangjiang to take a cover photo, and Jiang Wen participated in a film seminar.

The trio stayed at a hotel in Central, near Lan Kwai Fong in Hong Kong, where there are many bars and mid-to-high-end restaurants, making it a great place to talk about things.

Liu Xiaoqing called to invite investors.

In the Hong Kong film circle, in addition to those powerful big film companies, as well as small film and television companies attached to big film companies, there are also some relatively free investors.

These people are either outsiders, have funds in hand, know friends in the film industry, and are interested in investing in films.

Either they are insiders, understand the market, and invest in promising films when they encounter them, which is more flexible than that of large film companies.

In Xiangjiang, such investors are generally found for shooting niche literary films, mainly those big film companies make commercial films, and Xiangjiang films are the world of commercial films.

"Sunny Days" is positioned as a literary film, even if they say it is a commercial film, someone must believe it.

Liu Xiaoqing made a few phone calls, made an appointment with the investor to meet, and the three of them had dinner and rested.

At this time, there were still five days before the award ceremony of the Academy Awards, Lin Zixuan was not in a hurry to contact Du Qifeng and those people, he had called before he came, and it was just out of politeness to send him an invitation.

"The Story of Ah Lang" won a high demand at this year's Academy Awards, and Du Qifeng also became one of the famous directors of Hong Kong.

After the success of the film, the film company remembered Lin Zixuan, and reported his name and other members of the crew when the film was shortlisted for the Academy Awards, so that the organizer of the Academy Awards sent an invitation letter to Lin Zixuan.

Lin Zixuan was not surprised by this, the two sides were originally a business, and there was no friendship at all.

The main purpose of his visit to Xiangjiang this time is to attract investment, and he can attract as much investment as he can, and when he goes back to talk about the rest, the mainland market has been liberalized, and it will be much easier to raise funds than before.

Of course, this refers to an investment of one or two million, and it is not easy to shoot a movie in the mainland at this time.

The next day, Liu Xiaoqing went to work first, shooting the cover of an entertainment magazine.

Lin Zixuan and Jiang Wen were in the hotel thinking about how to fool investors and study what investors in Xiangjiang were interested in, and the two looked at the local newspaper in Xiangjiang and chatted casually.

"They will return in a few years, and they should be interested in the policies of the mainland. Lin Zixuan guessed.

"Not necessarily, I think these people like gossip, you see that the best selling magazines in Xiangjiang are gossip magazines, let's talk about things in the Beijing circle and fool them." Jiang Wenti said.

"Is it real or fake?" Lin Zixuan asked.

In the capital, it is a favorite activity for ordinary people to talk about the big mountains, from the country's major policies to the trivial things around them, they can talk for a long time, but there is not much truth.

Moreover, because the people of the capital live in the root of the imperial city, they love to talk about national affairs, as if they know some earth-shattering secrets, and they can stunned outsiders.

Actually, it's all foolishness, if it's really a secret, he can still live blindly in the alley!

"What are you really doing, let's talk about what they want to hear, just talk about the Beijing entertainment industry, you write novels, and the next thing is your work. Jiang Wen said irresponsibly.

"In this way, this circle is dominated by your big courtyard disciples, your background is placed there, there is a sense of mystery, and it will definitely be able to bluff them, this is a huge network of relationships, including major film studios, TV production units, TV stations, etc., all have our relationship. Lin Zixuan continued.

"It's too much, it's too much, it's like we can see the sky with our hands and eyes, in that case, let's still come here to find investment." Jiang Wen shook his head and said.

"We are still young, we belong to the marginal people, and we have not yet mixed into the core layer, so we can only come out to invest. Lin Zixuan added.

"That's fine, but it's not too marginal, otherwise it's easy to be looked down upon, and it's the kind that has a future and can be motivated, and you have a bright future. Jiang Wen joked.

The two were fooling around in the hotel, waiting for Liu Xiaoqing to come back.

In the evening, the three of them met the first investor in a restaurant in Lan Kwai Fong, a wealthy businessman in Hong Kong.

During the meal, everyone chatted casually, and after eating, they went to the bar next to them to talk about things.

Originally, the conversation was good, but when this wealthy businessman heard that a literary film would cost him a million dollars, he was very surprised.

At this time, one dollar to Hong Kong dollars is seven dollars eight, and one million dollars is seven million Hong Kong dollars.

In Xiangjiang, the production cost of a literary film is only two or three million Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to three literary films.

With such a large investment, the film will have to pay for itself at least 20 million or more at the box office.

But even in Xiangjiang, where the film industry is prosperous, there are very few literary films that can reach such a high box office, and as for the European market that Jiang Wen said, it is even more unreliable.

Unless it is a film that can win awards at major European film festivals, it will sell at a good price.

Jiang Wen is directing a movie for the first time, and there are no famous actors starring, no matter how you think about it, it is a loss-making business, Xiangjiang people are very shrewd, and it is not easy to get money from them.

The next two days were basically the same.

These people are willing to invest in small-budget films, Jiang Wen's project is too risky and the success rate is too low.

On the fourth day of their arrival in Xiangjiang, Liu Xiaoqing made an appointment with a producer named Wen Jun, who had worked with him before.

Or the bar in Lan Kwai Fong, where the four of them talked about filming.

Wen Jun analyzed the current shape of the Xiangjiang film industry for them, from Jiahe to Yongsheng, from independent producers to Baodao's funds, and finally came to a conclusion, that is, it is difficult to find investors.

Investors don't invest in movies for art, but to make money, so they're willing to invest in commercial films.

Art films can also make money, provided that they are directors like Zhang Yimou and internationally renowned actors like Gong Li, and "Sunny Days" does not meet this standard.

A novice director with a group of unknown actors, no matter how wonderful the script is, there is no way to gain the trust of investors.

"Actually, the partner we want to work with the most is you. After listening to Wen Jun's analysis, Liu Xiaoqing said sincerely.

Liu Xiaoqing has said this sentence many times in the past few days, and every time she is so sincere, she can definitely be called one of the most outstanding actresses in Huaguo. (To be continued.) )