Fred closed his eyes and looked at the ceiling, and took a deep breath in pain, feeling a throbbing pain in his heart, is this organization that he has worked so hard to build for decades, this organization that he has in mind to exist for pure art, really want to be eliminated in the rolling wheel of history? Is Shakespeare's time completely gone......

Looking at Fred's almost desperate expression, Simon Terry smiled and glanced at Weinstein, and Weinstein immediately walked over with a smile in his eyes, with a greedy glint in his eyes, reaching out to pocket the stack of council papers on the desk.

But when Weinstein's fat hand wanted to press on the stack of official documents, he suddenly saw a thin palm "snap" on it, Weinstein looked up and saw Li Xiaole staring at him expressionlessly, he had suffered Li Xiaole's loss at the Cannes Film Festival, and he still held a grudge in his heart, and warned angrily: "Let go~" while gritting his teeth and pulling the stack of documents with all his strength.

But no matter how hard Weinstein tried, he couldn't pull a single penny of the stack......

"Sorry, but let me interject, who said the Council doesn't have a patron?" Li Xiaole squinted at Simon Terry: "Didn't Mr. Charlie tell you?" The Drama Council has just struck a deal with Black Pearl and we are about to inject £10 million into the Council as start-up funding for our new production. ”

As soon as he said this, he heard Weinstein shout softly, and the fat man, who had exhausted his strength to eat, "snapped" and tore off a small corner of paper, and fell backwards to the ground in embarrassment, he sat on the ground holding the confetti and looked at Li Xiaole in disbelief.

And the other three also looked at him stunned at the same time, Charlie was the first to react, walked to Li Xiaole's side, put his hand around his shoulder, and said in an exaggerated tone:

"President Terry~~~I forgot to introduce ~~~ This is our new partner on the council, Mr. Li Xiaole, and our new patron, we have understood what you mean, if it's okay now, we have to discuss the details of our cooperation, please......" Charlie made a very gentlemanly gesture of "chasing customers".

"......" Simon Terry's poker face without eyebrows changed several times, staring at Li Xiaole for a long time, and then gritted his teeth and helped Weinstein from the ground to leave, and when he left, the president of the Royal Film Society couldn't help but look back at Fred with a complicated expression:

"Fred, I hope you don't ruin the Drama Council by doing this, and let an ambitious Chinese control you, is it better than joining us?" Do you really think that he will maintain the noble artistic tradition of the Council? ”

"Thank you for your advice, at least if he knows basic social etiquette." Fred looked up with a gloomy face, raised his hand and closed the door, then turned back and yelled at Charlie angrily, "Charlie!! Who gave you the right to sign a cooperation agreement with this vulgar Chinese company without authorization!? ”

Charlie couldn't help touching his sore ears, and said calmly, "Can you calm down and listen to me?" I think it's more reliable to find a reliable partner to maintain our autonomy than if we were annexed? ”

"Partners? What do you like about him, is it his handsome face, or his bouncy young buttocks? Do you want to kick me out of my way and make the council your newlywed home? Fred raised his voice and said noisily, Li Xiaole and Lei Ting both felt that something was wrong...... What is this? How is it not at all like a normal business discussion......?

"Oh...... You can see that I am about to have an affair with Mr. Li Xiaole and leave you, a tyrant who has lost his mind. Charlie smiled and hung his outer lean on a hanger.

As soon as he said this, Li Xiaole finally heard it...... Oh my God, these two old men seem to be two people...... No wonder as soon as he came in, he felt a strange sense of harmony between the two of them, and the relationship was basically an old friend couple...... This Fred looked at his expression, like a resentful husband who had been robbed of his wife......

"President Fred, I'm sorry, you seem to have misunderstood something, we are here to cooperate with the council, and we have no intention of changing any status quo of the council, I will let Lei Ting transfer the money to your account now, and of course the cost of our new cooperation project will also come out of this money." Li Xiaole reluctantly explained that just now he saw the crisis clearly before proposing to inject funds to keep the council, otherwise the British market will be monopolized by the six major ones, and his theaters will have no place to stand.

In fact, to put it bluntly, he invests in the council, and the money is also used for his own works, which is a mutually beneficial way for each other.

"Look, Fred, that's the way it is, it was Mr. Li's kindness that saved us~" Charlie smiled and pulled Li Xiaole to sit down.

Seeing Li Xiaole transfer the check on the spot without hesitation, Fred seemed to have regained his composure, finally sat down, thought for a moment, and then looked at Li Xiaole with his head held high:

"Mr. Li, I have to warn you, it seems that you are a bit presumptuous in doing this, even if you inject money into us, I will not approve your film project because of this, and the "Millionaire in the Slum" committee still needs to be carefully reviewed...... "If he is given some benefits to make him give up his principles, then he might as well agree to the merger proposal of the film association, he is worried that Li Xiaole's request is actually to change the direction of his own co-production film, and put all 10 million pounds of money into this film, if so, The Council has no real benefit at all.

"No, you misunderstood~~" Li Xiaole smiled, leaned back and said: "Of course, the cooperation project of that movie must be approved by your association in accordance with the process, and this fund has nothing to do with this movie, but the production fee of our new cooperative series, do you say it is Mr. Charlie?" He turned to look at Charlie.

"Yes...... Yes~~ That's it, the money is for a new series ~ We will bid to BBC TV. Charlie understood, and immediately pushed the boat down: "The theme has been set~~~ Sherlock Holmes~~ Sherlock Holmes~~!" A pure British drama ~~ fully meets the requirements of our council~~~! ”

"Sherlock Holmes~~?? ~How dare you ......" Fred raised his eyebrows and was about to get angry but was immediately stunned for a moment, as if realizing that things were on the council's behalf, and coughed dryly: "Oh...... This is in line with our council's requirements for producing a series, but it seems that the subject matter is quite difficult...... Mr. Li Xiaole, can you tell me how much do you know about our process of producing dramas? ”

Fred's question is to test what Li Xiaole's purpose is, whether he just wants to use the resources of the council to make a small amount of money and then be promoted overseas by the series, or whether he is really ready to gain a foothold in the UK, he will definitely not agree to the former, but the latter is completely different in nature......

If Li Xiaole proposes to invest 10 million pounds to shoot a whole series in one go, it proves that his purpose is mainly for overseas markets, but if you follow the process of the Council's TV drama production, the situation is quite delicate.

In the UK, if you want to broadcast your own company's TV series on the BBC, you must first invest in filming a pilot episode and show it to the BBC.

And the BBC's strongest ratings are generally news programs, as well as those magnificent documentaries, for British audiences who can go out on the street and go to hundreds of theaters to watch the actors perform live, TV dramas are not very attractive, so the quality of British dramas is much more demanding than TV dramas in any country, not only to be good-looking, but also to have connotations, metaphors, so that the audience can discuss.

If something goes wrong with the plot, the discerning British audience will immediately insult and accuse, and the TV station will immediately take the series off the shelves, and the competition will be cruel to a degree unimaginable in any country.

This also leads to the fact that in addition to those long-lasting dramas such as "Doctor Who", which are popular with British audiences for decades, other British drama series are much shorter than American dramas, and the main reason for this is also because the screenwriter team needs to repeatedly refine the script.

Filming a popular subject like Sherlock Holmes would be an absolute disaster for any British director, and no one would dare to try this familiar subject matter to British audiences...... In Fred's view, Li Xiaole's series is tantamount to looking for death, but it is in this case that if Black Pearl shoots a pilot episode and does not pass the BBC's review, then most of the funds will go to the council, so that the council is the ultimate beneficiary.

"I have already understood beforehand that we will strictly follow the standards of the Council and the BBC for producing dramas." Li Xiaole nodded calmly, the 10 million fund, if only one episode is filmed, it will only cost about 2 million pounds, and the rest is just enough for the cost of the council's operation for one year, and when he proposed it, it was calculated, if six episodes of "Sherlock" were filmed as planned, then the funds would be just right.

The council doesn't take advantage of it at all, and if Sherlock does well, the decaying and old film agency will really start on the road to revival, and he needs to be a functioning partner who will be his first step in conquering the European market......