Chapter 60: Self-Surrender
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In order to prevent Chai Zhiping from seeing the flaws, after the meeting that day, Gu Cheng instructed Lin Zhiling to make appointments with several other record agencies and production companies in the circle, pretending to talk about a lot of "spare tires".
In fact, they all maliciously negotiated in the name of negotiation to fool people, just to put pressure on Chai Zhiping and prove that "I still have a lot of places to invest someone's money, and there is no need to hang myself on the tree of "Meteor Garden".
Chai Zhiping, who was preparing to start construction, was really a little nervous, and only a few days later, he came to urge Gu Cheng to hurry up and enter the market, and rushed to sign a formal capital injection contract.
Gu Cheng didn't have that much cash on hand, so he just gave 500,000 yuan as a signing deposit to help the crew buy out the adaptation rights of the original author of "Boys Over Flowers" - after all, he still had to leave some deposits for Zhou Jielun's records to be purchased in January, and he was really short of money before the legend charged.
At that time, the progress of filming idol dramas was generally one episode in 3 days, and a 20-episode TV series was not considered post-production, and it took about 2 months to shoot. Gu Cheng thought to himself: Since his capital injection only accounts for 45%, it should be no problem to rely on Fulong's own funds to shoot for more than a month, and it is okay to put his money in place when the money is not enough in the later stage.
There has never been a film and television crew that has to raise 100% of the funds before starting, especially for films with a relatively long cycle, and it is the norm for the developer to build a house, isn't it just enough to get enough land money, and then start directly?
But what Gu Cheng took for granted, Chai Zhiping was very unsure.
Maybe it was because of the smokescreen bombs that Gu Cheng asked Lin Zhiling to put off, she always felt that this Gu Cheng was an uncertain young man, and he would give up the deposit at any time after finding a better spare tire.
So she studied Gu Cheng's resume as an investor more carefully.
"It turned out to be a self-made business in just a few months? I thought it was a rich second generation of a wealthy family, relying on family resources. And when I was a child, I also practiced in the entertainment industry in Dongyi for a year ......and a half?
In addition to being surprised, another thought came out of Chai Zhiping's mind: Since this Gu Cheng is not a child of a rich family, the second generation of a wealthy family, and has also been a trainee, it means that no one in the family restricts him from entering the showbiz......
Will he consider "going to the sea" to play in person?
Of course, Chai Zhiping would never dare to move Gu Cheng's thoughts, but he was an investor, not a little fresh meat. She just wanted to take a reassuring pill and tie Gu Cheng more closely to the crew of "Meteor Garden".
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Having made up his mind, Chai Zhiping visited Gu Cheng again two days later, and the place was naturally in Gu Cheng's company.
After a little politeness, Chai Zhiping revealed her thoughts and thoughts.
She first asked a tactful question at the bottom: "Mr. Gu, you should have read the script carefully, right?"
Gu Cheng confessed: "Of course I read the script." ”
Chai Zhiping said in his heart, after reading the script, it was good to communicate: "Blame me for being clumsy last time, I didn't know that you had such a high talent in person." The top students who practice in Dongyi S-M company must be much stronger than those newcomers I am looking for, I don't know if you are interested...... Try the role of the male No. 2 Hanazawa?"
Gu Cheng was surprised, and seemed to have heard a very funny joke.
He has been a human being in two lives, and he never thought that others would actually ask him to go down to shoot a TV series in person-he has had countless experiences such as standing behind the scenes and throwing money and sharing accounts, and there have been many times in his previous life;
I have eaten too much pork and have never seen a pig run.
Now Chai Zhiping actually asked him to act in an idol drama in person?
Gu Cheng's face turned cold: "Aunt Chai, do you think I have no credit and are afraid that I will withdraw my investment?"
"No, how could it be. I'm genuinely optimistic about your talent. ”
Chai Zhiping tried his best to persuade and explain, and even explained the reason for casting: "After all, you have been a trainee in S-M company, and I also have friends in Dongyi, I have inquired about your situation, not only practicing singing and dancing, but also learning acting skills." It's definitely better than anyone I'm looking for. As for letting you play the second male, it's definitely not because I look down on your ability, it's because this role is more suitable for you - Hua Ze's character is a little autistic and cold. As for Daoming Temple, it is too domineering and outward, which will damage your temperament. ”
Gu Cheng somewhat believed that the other party was sincere and had done his homework.
Although her original motive was still afraid that Gu Cheng would withdraw after finding a spare tire.
"It seems that it is not impossible to make a TV series in person. Anyway, I'm young now, and I have enough energy, so I can experience the film and television production process of this era, accumulate some experience, and make it easier to operate in the future. But will the idol drama model be LOW?"
Idol dramas, after all, are considered by insiders to be the lowest form of film and television with the lowest artistic value, and Gu Cheng has to worry a little.
However, after thinking about it, his current nominal wealth is only seven or eight million, and the rest of the money is borrowed from banks for financing under the ultra-high asset-liability ratio. And a large part of it is burned out for promotion.
After removing his debts, his net worth is not much.
If such a person goes to shoot a TV series, it seems that he will not be thought to be at a discounted price, right? The assets of first-line film and television stars have exceeded 100 million, so they are not still filming.
Gu Cheng's mind was alive.
Since it is a life experience, it will help you integrate into the circle in the future, and since you are only 17 years old after filming the drama. Young, what can't you try?
It's better to try now than to try again after two years when you're worth a billion - it will really drop the price of making a TV series when the time comes. Even if you want to make a cameo, it has to be an Oscar-level movie, otherwise you can't easily end up in person.
Gu Cheng compromised and said, "That's it, you give me two days to think about it." After all, I have a lot of things to do, so I have to see if my subordinates can arrange time. When are you scheduled to turn it on?"
Chai Zhiping replied in a sloppy manner: "As long as your funds are in place in time, I will start the machine on December 1st." Probably after filming the first 15 episodes, I have to take a holiday for the New Year. After the year, I will come back for a month, and I will do the post-production, and it will definitely be released in March. ”
"Okay, then it's still more than a week before it starts, give me two days, I'll go back to China to deal with some things, and get into the role by the way - but the actor you're looking for has been temporarily replaced, are they holding it?"
Regarding this question, Chai Zhiping directly packed the ticket almost as a scoundrel: "It's okay, they are all newcomers, they can't talk about acting skills at all, and they are no worse at playing anyone." ”
Gu Chengxin said: Just this bunch of people who have no acting skills at all, how did they become popular in history?
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After making an appointment, Gu Cheng bought a ticket to fly to Hujiang on the same day, and then transferred home.
Since it is possible to be absent from the company's front-line management work for a month or two in a row, Gu Cheng has to at least make some arrangements to stabilize people's hearts.
IN PARTICULAR, I NEED TO NEGOTIATE WITH MY COUSIN, WHO IS STRUGGLING TO SUPPORT HER IN CHINA, TO SEE IF SHE CAN HOLD THE SITUATION OF LEGENDARY ENTERTAINMENT.
Although all major decisions of Legend Entertainment are controlled by Gu Cheng. But just the daily complicated management and response to emergencies are enough for Pan Jieying to be busy. It is said that she has hardly taken MBA courses in the past month, and she has not been expelled because of her supervisor's release.
Seeing her cousin come back, Pan Jieying, who hadn't seen her for more than half a month, was naturally very happy, and it seemed that her fatigue and hard work had been swept away, and she had the backbone to do everything.
In order to suppress the guilt in his heart, Gu Cheng did not discuss the TV series with his sister for the first time, but spent a whole day immersed in work, dealt with all the official duties of the squeeze, and sorted out the company's business conditions.
He was pleased to see that the beta version of the "Internet Café Owner Recharge System" and the upgrader had been developed.
And after the marketing team Gan Jiawei led by the group of "local push madman" in the past month to sweep the Internet cafes fruitful, now in more than 100 prefecture-level cities across the country, more than 8,000 Internet cafes willing to install the system have been launched.
This achievement was accomplished by Legend Entertainment itself with only 5 sales staff, more than 20 core sales personnel temporarily loaned from Ahri Baba, plus several times the local secondary sales staff. (ahem...... It's not a pyramid scheme, it's just an outsourcing with local resources, only a commission, no salary)
On average, each local push management team swept out more than 300 Internet café customers in a month, with an average of 10 Internet cafes per day.
Legend Company has spent 1.2 million yuan on the franchise of these 8,000 Internet cafes.
Considering that in 2000, there were only more than 20,000 Internet cafes legally registered and operated in the country, and the clever trick of Legend Entertainment is equivalent to incorporating nearly one-third of the country's regular Internet cafes into its own recharge system. And this is only a month's results, before the official charge, Legend Entertainment has 5 weeks to continue to promote this strategy, and it will not be a problem to account for more than half of the country's regular Internet cafes. (Of course, according to the national conditions at that time, there were many more black Internet cafes than regular Internet cafes.) )
Gu Cheng was a little glad that he recruited Gan Jiawei, the leading "O2O Ground Push Maniac" in later generations, and he was even more glad that he actually caught up with the idle horse boss in the cold winter, and then temporarily borrowed Ahri Baba, who can be called the strongest ground push resource in China, for his own use.
Without these two conditions, I really don't know how many times more time and cost this business will take to carry it out.
In contrast, the Legend Open Beta has further code optimizations, redundant data combing, server maintenance, and stress testing......
Gu Cheng is not too worried about these jobs.
The power of the legend lies in market positioning and marketing, and the software is not very difficult.
After spending the whole day sleepless and sorting out the business, Gu Cheng's apology for his cousin was also relieved.
So the next night, after the family finished dinner, Gu Cheng called Pan Jieying to the bedroom and prepared to talk to her.
"Sister...... There's something I don't know how to say. I've been here lately, are you tired?"
Pan Jieying gently reclined on the sofa, looked at the starry sky outside the window, thought for a while, and asked: "Are you coming up with some new business? Can't you finish one thing and do another?" You always tighten the company's capital chain, I'm afraid that I will be scared out of heart disease by you at any time." ”
"You guessed wrong this time, it's not about business...... Well, although it can also be considered business. ”