Chapter 18 Long-term interests
At the end of June, Li Hualong invited Yue Feng to the headquarters office of Huayi Brothers Film Group and handed over the list of income of "Golden Lotus" to Yue Feng.
"Brother Yue, the investment cost of the movie "Golden Lotus" is 186,000 Hong Kong dollars, the Hong Kong box office share, and the income from overseas sales, a total of 420,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the profit is 236,000 Hong Kong dollars, you take 15% of the profit share, give you a whole whole, and give you 40,000 yuan."
Yue Feng is more than ten years older than Li Hualong, and after the two get acquainted, they are commensurate brothers.
"No, no, you give five thousand more, that's too much."
"If there are not five thousand, there are more than four thousand. The two movies "Hong Kong Holiday" and "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" were box office hits, and I gave you less red envelopes. Don't shirk it. Li Hualong took out a check from the drawer and handed it to Yue Feng, "You're welcome." Take it! ”
"Then you're welcome. Coupled with the salary I got before, 60,000 yuan, it's really too much. Yue Feng smiled embarrassedly, although he was not very satisfied with the box office results of the movie "Golden Lotus", he was quite satisfied with the income he could get from filming this film.
"Brother Yue, you are too polite. You are not only the director of "Golden Lotus", but also the screenwriter of the film. You take 60,000, which is not much. ”
"It's a lot, a lot. In other film companies, a director provides the script and directs himself, and I have never heard of a director who can get 60,000 yuan. ”
After chatting a few words, Li Hualong asked, "Brother Yue, what do you think about the next movie?" ”
Yue Feng said with a smile: "I'm just waiting for you to provide a good script, so that I can make a movie that is a big hit at the box office." ”
"In my eyes, you are a film artist, you can't just think about making commercial films, you should make more literary films when you have the opportunity."
"I understand now that whether it is a commercial film or a literary film, the most important thing is to make the audience like it. If no audience is willing to pay to go to the theater to watch it, it's a bad movie. Besides, the two commercial films "Hong Kong Holiday" and "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" are not simple commercial films, but also have high artistic value. ”
"Hehe, you praise these two movies for their artistic value, but you have the meaning of boasting!" Li Hualong joked with a smile.
"What's wrong with boasting, I'm telling the truth." Yue Feng smiled, "I saw that "Ming Pao" serialized several novels you wrote, and it never stopped, and you still have to run a real estate company, a film company, and a newspaper, writing novels, scripts, and songs, why are you so busy?" ”
"Mr. Lu Xun once said that time is like water in a sponge, and there will always be squeezing. When I was in a good state, whether I was writing novels or scripts, I could write a lot of words a day, but I serialized novels in Ming Pao with an average of 2,000 words a day. It doesn't take much time to write a song, but when inspiration comes, you can write a song in less than an hour. Real estate companies, film companies, and newspapers, these companies have professionals to help me manage, as long as I control the general direction of development, small things can be handed over to others to do, and managing multiple companies at the same time is not tiring. ”
"You have talent, vision, and courage......"
"Okay, okay, okay, stop!" Li Hualong interrupted with a smile, "Brother Yue, you praise me like this, is there something wrong?" ”
"Yes, I didn't say it, I'm waiting for you to provide me with a script."
"Okay, when I go back today, I'll think about writing a movie for you to shoot."
"Then I'll thank you first." Yue Feng said and stood up, "I know you're busy, so I won't bother you, if there's anything, call me." ”
“ok!” Li Hualong stood up and sent Yue Feng to the door.
Seeing Yue Feng away, Li Hualong returned to his desk and sat down, pondered for a while, and decided to write the script of "New Love".
Li Hualong of later generations has watched "New Love" starring Liu Qingyun and Yuan Yuyi, he especially likes the theme song of this movie, and he also likes this movie, he has not watched "No Love", if he has seen this movie, Li Hualong, who has the memory of two people, may plagiarize "No Love" first.
Because "No Love" has not yet appeared, Li Hualong naturally will not use the name of "New Love", and renamed it "No Love", before writing the script, he first wrote the lyrics of "New Love", and at the same time, renamed the song "No Love".
After Li Hualong "created" the script of "Huang Feihong's Righteousness Bo Yuntian", he wrote a theme song for this movie - "Men should be self-reliant", it is easy to write lyrics, he remembers the words of this song, and composing the music, it took him a lot of time, the song is adapted from the ancient song "General Order".
"Huang Feihong's Righteousness Bo Yuntian" was completed, and after the post-production began, Li Hualong and Song Songhai entered the recording studio together, sang "Men Should Be Self-Improvement", and recorded it.
After Li Hualong wrote the script of "No Love", he did not immediately hand it over to Yue Feng, he was busy for the filming of "Huang Feihong's Righteousness Bo Yuntian" for more than three months, and he also participated in the post-production work, plus the preparation work before the start of filming, he invested a lot of time and energy into this movie.
One afternoon in early July, Li Hualong and Xia Meng got off work together from the film company and went to Li Hualong's home.
After the completion of "Huang Feihong's Righteousness Bo Yuntian", Xia Meng participated in the post-production of "Huang Feihong's Righteousness Bo Yuntian".
Li Hualong hopes that Xia Meng can become a filmmaker in the future, Xia Meng is very interested in filmmaking, and she is studying and working hard for it.
Xia Meng often came to Li Hualong's house as a guest and stayed here for dinner, and Li Hualong's parents had already regarded her as a daughter-in-law.
Before dinner, Li Hualong talked about a lot of topics with his family.
"Hualong City, do you know how much money Hualong Real Estate Company has made in the past six months?" Li Yisong asked with a smile.
"A while ago, didn't you say that you made more than three million yuan, and a few days ago, you sold a lot of pre-sale houses, which should be more than four million, right?" Li Hualong smiled.
"From New Year's Day to the end of June in 1951, in half a year, Hualong Real Estate Company earned 4.48 million yuan, which is a net profit." Li Yisong smiled, "I've made so much money, count me as a credit, right?" ”
"Of course, if it weren't for you as the general manager of this company, the company's profits would definitely not be so high in the past six months. Father, do you want me to give you a bonus? ”
"yes, how much are you going to give me?"
"Uh...... I'll give you two million! ”
In half a year, Hualong Real Estate Company earned more than 4 million Hong Kong dollars, which is not what Li Hualong cares about the most, this is only the immediate interests, he attaches more importance to long-term interests, in this more than half a year, the land area of Hualong Real Estate Reserve has increased a lot, and there are several pieces of land The purchase price is not cheap, and there is a lot of room for appreciation in the next few years.
In the past six months, Hualong Real Estate is the largest building area among all real estate companies in Hong Kong.
Li Hualong feels that the Hong Kong property market is good now, and in the next few years, as long as there is a large amount of good land in hand, he will definitely be able to obtain rich profits.
"You're so atmospheric." Li Yisong smiled, "In the past six months, although Evergrande Company has not made as much money as Hualong Company, it has also made a lot of money, all relying on your construction, hehe, I won't ask you for bonuses." ”
"Abba, how much does Evergrande earn?" Li Huahu asked curiously, with a smile on his face.