Chapter 169 of the main text volume is like yesterday

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The fact that things can go so smoothly has a lot to do with the Academy Awards.

The Hong Kong Film Awards is not just an award ceremony, during which most of the film practitioners in Hong Kong will participate, including big directors and big stars.

Naturally, film investors from Hong Kong and Baodao will come to look for investment opportunities.

When a film wins an award, the value of the director and the actors doubles, it is very beneficial to make friends with these people, and perhaps also to discover some promising young people, and it will also be rewarding to train these young people to become big stars.

The Film Awards are not only film awards, but also a grand event for the exchange of the film industry, which can drive the development of the entire industry.

This is the reason why there are film festivals with international influence in the country.

Wen Jun was able to find investors in such a short period of time and finalize this investment precisely because of the holding of the Xiangjiang Film Awards.

These investors are in Xiangjiang and are looking for investment opportunities, and after hearing Wen Jun's introduction, they decided that it was feasible.

These people are the driving force behind the film industry, they can invest in films, they can also invest in filmmakers, it depends on whether you have the qualifications to be worthy of their investment.

They invested in Zhang Yimou, because they felt that Zhang Yimou's films could make money, and they invested in Jiang Wen because they were optimistic about Jiang Wen's future potential.

After all, Liu Xiaoqing is a mainlander and an actor, and he knows only a limited number of investors in Hong Kong, and the people he is looking for are not very reliable.

Therefore, professional things should still be handed over to professional people, and they are looking for Wen Jun to make the right move.

In a high-end restaurant in Lan Kwai Fong, Lin Zixuan and the three of them had lunch with investors, during which these investors were very interested in the entertainment industry in Beijing, and they inquired side by side.

Since these three investors are so generous, Lin Zixuan and Jiang Wen accompanied them with half-truths.

Living in the capital, who doesn't know a few department leaders, even if they don't know each other, they have heard some anecdotes, pick a few things to talk about, and fool these Xiangjiang people enough.

How can I say that Lin Zixuan has also been received by national leaders, and this confidence is still there.

In this era, the people of Xiangjiang have very limited understanding of the mainland, especially the capital, which always gives them the feeling that the water is too deep.

After eating, everyone talked about business, and Lin Zixuan was in charge of this.

Jiang Wen and Liu Xiaoqing are both actors and are not very familiar with this aspect, Lin Zixuan has been a producer and knows how to operate.

When he was in China, he asked Zhang Yimou.

For this kind of co-production, the rights of investors are very large, and the director is only equivalent to working for them, and they will appoint a representative to supervise the entire crew, that is, the producer.

Zhang Yimou is a great director and has great autonomy, but the producer has the right to propose changes to the script for the sake of the market, as well as the right to make final cuts in the post-production.

In the mainland, it is a director-centered system, with directors as the mainstay.

In places like Xiangjiang and Hollywood, where the director operates commercially, the director's rights are very small, and the investor is the leader, unless you have enough capital to make the investor give in, Jiang Wen obviously does not have such conditions.

Lin Zixuan has no intention of changing this model, and he can't change it.

This is a commercial society, and if domestic films want to go out and be in line with world films, they must first learn to adapt to the rules.

What he has to do is to try his best to fight for Jiang Wen to take the lead in the production of the film, to make a movie he wants to make, and of course, the director's remuneration, which must also be fought for.

As a novice director, there is no need to talk about box office sharing, it is unrealistic, and investors will not agree, literary films like this sell copyrights, and no one will be optimistic about box office results.

In this era, domestic directors are paid a fixed salary.

Zhang Yimou took 800,000 Hong Kong dollars for filming "Alive", but "Alive" is a big investment, Zhang Yimou is a big director, it is normal to get this kind of remuneration, for Jiang Wen, Lin Zixuan thinks that 150,000 Hong Kong dollars is very suitable.

This is the market, and the salary can reflect the value of a director.

Jiang Wen didn't care much about the salary, he thought that the movie could be filmed as much as possible, and after negotiating with investors, Jiang Wen's salary was finally set at 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, and Lin Zixuan took 60,000 Hong Kong dollars as a screenwriter and producer.

Wen Jun agreed, he understood that the mainland was not Xiangjiang.

As a producer, he can manage the crew and make shooting plans, but he can't coordinate the relationship between all aspects of the capital, and this kind of work can only be done by locals in the capital.

Lin Zixuan has been in charge of a big $1.5 million project, and he has no problem as the producer of this film.

These investors did not have much hope for the film, but more wanted to build a good relationship with them, and in this case, the two sides did not have much disagreement, and they quickly reached an agreement.

The negotiations only reached a preliminary intention and initialed a cooperation agreement.

The first $300,000 will be in place soon, and Wen Jun will go to the capital to assist in the preparation of the crew.

After the negotiation, Lin Zixuan and the three returned to the hotel and asked for a bottle of expensive red wine, and they went to the room to celebrate.

"Cheers!"

The three glasses are clinked together, and the red wine in the glasses exudes an alluring aroma.

They looked out the window at the afterglow of the sunset, and the high-rise buildings of Xiangjiang under the sunset, sipping red wine, talking about the future, as if a better life was coming.

Prior to this, although Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen had acted in many movies, they had never worked behind the scenes, and Lin Zixuan was also new to the film industry, and all three of them were novices.

It was the three of them who were novices, holding an unreliable script, who fooled into an investment of $1 million.

This is the result of a combination of many factors.

Anyway, they got the investment, got off to a good start, and the film was finally going to shoot.

The three of them drank a lot of red wine last night, Lin Zixuan got up a little late, Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen had already gone out, it was estimated that they were shopping, they were going to attend the Academy Awards ceremony in the evening, and they would return to the capital tomorrow.

Lin Zixuan was alone in the hotel in a daze, thinking about a lot of things in his mind.

Through the window, he can see Lan Kwai Fong not far away, whether it is day or night, it is full of people coming and going, and the experience of the past few days has made him see the bright lights of Xiangjiang, drunk and golden.

Do you want to live like this?

Lin Zixuan thought about it and shook his head, life is not only about distant wilderness, but also about home.

In the afternoon, Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen came back, Jiang Wen changed into a new suit and looked a lot more energetic.

The Academy Awards require formal attire to attend, that is, it is best to wear a suit and leather shoes, Lin Zixuan brought a suit, which Mu Shanshan bought for him when he was in New York, and spent a lot of money.

Put on a suit, look in the mirror, and remember the scene of the two arguing when they were shopping for clothes, just like yesterday