Chapter 144: The Game of Numbers

Yu Youjia's performance at the debriefing meeting was flawless. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

From the background of the "Alluring Country" movie, to the historical texture required to express the film, from the artistic requirements to the humanistic requirements, from the geographical perspective to the expert opinions, the various requirements and indicators are integrated, and Runmei Company has compiled a research report on the location of the filming base with tens of thousands of words and illustrations. Moreover, any possible questions raised by Hengdian are fully prepared to deal with them.

The report meeting that is being held in this conference room is not the scene of the game of various forces, but a result of the game.

Most of what can be shown on the table is just the result of the game. The invisible place under the table is the main and even the real battlefield of the competition between the forces of all parties. is like the duel between Qin and Zhao in the Battle of Changping, outside the battlefield, the two courts are also intrigued, conspiracies, creating public opinion, inciting the people, and so on, and its excitement is no less than the narrow road encounter between Bai Qi and Zhao Kuo.

In addition to Huayue, the investors of "Allure" include Changcheng Group, which is mainly engaged in department store chains in the mainland, Starlight Group, a major Taiwanese conglomerate, and Huangyu Group in Hong Kong.

In terms of the importance of the "Alluring Country" movie, none of the investors can compare to Huayue, and Huayue itself is also the producer.

Changcheng Group's investment in "Alluring Country" is mainly for the needs of advertising, and it is eager to build its own brand and enhance its status.

Starlight Group is the second largest family business in Taiwan, the market value of the entire group and family assets amounted to hundreds of billions of Taiwan dollars, owned by the Bai family, for many years with the plot of the former family head Bai Huoshi has reached 80 years of life, many times back and forth to the mainland, looking for some historical experts to research, thinking that he is the descendant of the famous general Bai Qi of the Warring States Period. The Battle of Changping, as the most glorious battle in Bai Qi's life, will be put on the big screen, Hua Yue found the old man Bai to make peace, and the old man heard that he was going to shoot the Battle of Changping in Baiqi, and immediately decided to invest in this movie.

Hong Kong-based Royal Entertainment Group aims to be more commercial, and wants to take this opportunity to cooperate with Huayue to expand its business scope and develop the group's entertainment business to the mainland, hoping to get a share of the thriving mainland entertainment market and avoid the fierce competition with rival Dongming TV in the shrinking Hong Kong film and television market.

Although the specific motivations of several investors in deciding to shoot "Alluring the Country" are different, as the best in business, they must absolutely abide by one of the most important principles for business, that is, to make money.

Changcheng Group hopes that the film will be completed as soon as possible, the movie effect can be maximized, and it is best to see the logo of Changcheng Group everywhere when promoting and hype. The film and television city is quite large-scale, well-equipped, and professionally managed, and Hengdian has the great advantage of ensuring the filming progress. If Gaoping City is chosen, it will take one or two years to rebuild a film and television base at the earliest, which is too long beyond the bottom line of Changcheng Group.

Although the old man Bai of the Starlight Group is the nominal patriarch, after all, he is old and is no longer in charge of the family economy, and the juniors in charge are filial to the elders and agree to invest in "Allure", but making money is the first priority, although they are not bad for money, the shrewdness in their nature makes them not give up any opportunity to make money and spend less money. Hengdian Film and Television City itself has a complete set of mature operation models and existing bases that are enough to shoot a big-budget movie like "Allure", even if it is newly built, it only needs to add some new scenes, unlike in Gaoping City, where everything has to be started from scratch. Choosing Gaoping City means that investment increases, and increased investment also means that risks increase. Bai Qixin, the head of the subsidiary of Xingguang Group, who is specifically responsible for this affairs, is the grandchild of Bai Huoshi, and faces competition from various cousins of the same generation in the family business, and the company's performance is not good, and he cannot explain it to the general management office of the family business. Therefore, he is also very cautious about investing in "Allure", whether from the perspective of stop-loss risk prevention, or from the perspective of the maximum profit possibility, Hengdian is undoubtedly his first choice.

Royal Entertainment Group hopes that the first blockbuster film in the mainland to test the waters of cooperation can be successful, and has co-produced several TV series with Huayue before, and the results are good and bad, but unlike the big investment in this film, it is extremely cautious in this project, which can be said to be carried out with the idea of only success and not failure. It is not difficult to understand that Hengdian was chosen as an option.

Based on their own goals, the investors have chosen Hengdian, which can better achieve their goals, and asked to use it as the film and television shooting base for "Allure".

In fact, at the beginning of preparing for investment and cooperation, no one could have imagined that it would be stuck on the specific details of the film and television base. As far as investing in film and television, because the producer is in Huayue, the investor will not be overly charged with matters that are the professional responsibility of the producer, such as the selection of film and television bases. And considering the huge investment in the film, only the strategic agreement for investment was signed first, mainly in terms of the amount, period, batch, investment method, profit sharing, etc., and there was no hard agreement on the shooting period. However, when negotiating and signing the investment agreement, director Li Zeren also intended to shoot in Hengdian, and had contact with the investor, and verbally promised: he thought that he would shoot in Hengdian if there was no accident, which made the investor very relieved and thought that it would be set in Hengdian.

Unexpectedly, after a period of field investigation, Li Zeren not only changed his attention, but also became very resolute. This makes the investors who have signed the investment agreement very dissatisfied, because they think that they will definitely shoot in Hengdian out of trust in Li Zeren, an international director, so they do not add as many harsh and specific agreement provisions as they do to ordinary commercial investment agreements. Li Zeren's change of fortune has aroused fierce opposition from investors, and Hengdian, which originally thought that it would win the filming base of "Allure", launched a series of public relations, and Gaoping City was also ready to move, and the filming plan of "Allure" was forced to be postponed...... It can be described as a series of domino effects.

The longer it drags on, the weaker the investors' interest in "Allure" becomes. Because the agreement has been signed, Huayue can't tear up their faces to force them to contribute, and they can't take the initiative to ask for the termination of the agreement, so the two sides dragged it down, and Hengdian took advantage of this opportunity to maneuver between investors, which made the investors more determined to either not shoot "Allure" or shoot in Hengdian.

Originally, this trick was very effective. Even Hua Yue was going to think about how to persecute Li Zeren, and even started to think about the famous director. Although Li Zeren is the guarantee of the box office, and a large part of the reason why the investors are interested in it is also because of Li Zeren's reputation, but after specific contact, his behavior is too rigid in the eyes of the investors, and after a long period of fruitless discussions, Li Zeren has become a vague consensus among several major investors, Li Zeren's name as the chief director remains unchanged, he is unwilling to shoot, and it is the same to find someone to take over the specific shooting work.

If it weren't for Chu Yunzhi, the boss of Jinhe Group, a giant in the domestic real estate industry, coming to the door, Yu Luoxin might have made a decision to change his generals. Regarding the question of changing directors, in fact, Yu Luoxin thought of it earlier than anyone else. But he also has a lot of concerns, which is equivalent to falling out with Li Zeren, and it also means that Huayue automatically gave up the most shining golden signboard. Li Zeren is a great director, more expensive than any first-line artist, and he is valuable. Just sacrificing the tacit cooperation and trust between Li Zeren and Hua Yue for so many years for the sake of a movie, it is impossible for Luo Xin not to weigh it carefully.

But now, Hua Yue naturally can't agree to set up Li Zeren, the reasons are high-sounding and irrefutable. Yu Zhicheng must have hit a nail on Yu Luoxin's side, and he couldn't get Yu Luoxin's support on this point, and he didn't understand the real reason why his father didn't agree to replace Li Zeren, so he spent his energy on how to persuade Yu Youjia.

If Hua Yue can't be nodding and agreeing to change the director, other investors will undoubtedly be tantamount to a breach of contract if they ask to replace Li Zeren. Because the basis of the original investment agreement was to specify that Li Zeren was required to be the chief director and fully preside over the filming of the film "Alluring the Country".

Yu Youjia and Runmei's objective report on the investigation of the construction address of the film and television base of "Alluring Country" makes a big fuss about the film itself, and the various indices of Gaoping City are superior to Hengdian, even if Hengdian has the significant advantage of complete equipment and complete scale, it has also been diluted by various policy support of Gaoping City.

The more this report supports Gaoping City, the more it supports Li Zeren's opinion, which confirms that Huayue is impossible to replace Li Zeren, and also puts other investors in a dilemma.

This is something that other investors did not expect when they agreed to Yu Zhicheng to invite Runmei to join Hengdian to participate in the public relations investigation, and it was also something that Hengdian Group did not expect. In their opinion, Yu Zhicheng's performance should be on the same front as himself. But even Zhicheng himself gradually realized how bad his idea was later.

At this moment, although it was not specified, Yu Zhicheng seemed to understand what Yu Luoxin meant, and sent an assistant to attend to listen to the report, without giving any instructions asking Yu Youjia to embarrass Yu Youjia at the meeting.

The specific persons in charge of other investors who received the report of Runmei Company in advance naturally understood that their attendance could not change the situation. If Yu Youjia's report is refuted, it will be a slap in the face and a big shame in front of the Hengdian Group, and no one can hurriedly prepare a report that is more detailed and well-argued than Yu Youjia's after more than a week of research, and can only attack and interrogate in words, and then return to the old road of confrontation with Li Zeren, and there is no reason to ask Hua Yue to replace Li Zeren; If it is not refuted, it is tantamount to acquiescing in Li Zeren's proposal, and reaching a consensus on the selection of the filming base, and it is a breach of contract to delay the investment.

The three major investors who were able to make decisions all avoided the issue and sent representatives in attendance, rather than those with decision-making power. The four major investors attended the meeting as the assistant to the president of Huayue Group, the deputy manager of Great Wall Group, the investment commissioner of Xingguang Group, and the deputy head of department administration of Royal Entertainment Group.

Even the Hengdian Group, which is very concerned about the results, seems to feel that there will be no substantive progress after this report meeting, and only sent a vice president to observe. There were several important members of the city government and the town government, and they were very dissatisfied after listening to Yu Youjia's report. Asked some questions such as "how can the cinema be built in a short period of time in a short period of time due to the backward infrastructure of Gaoping City", and other questions that focus on factors outside the movie, Runmei has long prepared exhaustive answers to this kind of questioning, and refutes them from all angles, and the most important reason is that it is a factor outside the movie.

Yu Youjia did not answer in person, and asked Xiao Lina, a beautiful woman, to answer the male leader's questions instead of him, so that the impeccable answers were slowly interpreted by Xiao Lina, who was also impeccable in appearance, and dismissed all kinds of dissatisfied questions of those government dignitaries one by one, and at the same time made them pay more attention to maintaining their demeanor and did not further aggressively treat beautiful ladies.

"Do you have any questions?" In front of the projector, after Xiao Lina's sweet answer, except for Yu Youjia's gentle and polite initiative to ask, the room fell silent.

Yu Youjia was the only person standing in the audience at this time, and he walked slowly and looked at the audience, so thoughtfully asking everyone what questions they had, ignoring the provocative nature of his question on this occasion.

Yu Youjia walked around from time to time, and accidentally passed by the range illuminated by the projector's light, and in an instant, his eyebrows and eyes became more and more prominent in the bright light, and the originally gentle smile on the corner of his lips also changed into a sharp momentum, and the whole person was like a king who was shining brightly, smiling but unrefusable.

Yin Rongyu looked at his friend in admiration and couldn't help but want to applaud. He was proud that his friend was such a good person.

No one questioned it anymore.

Here is the final wrap-up of the meeting. Yu Youjia plans to let Xiao Lina preside over the summary, and just go down to listen by herself.

The phone in his trouser pocket vibrated a little.

Yin Rongyu instantly changed color. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )