Chapter 169: Hollywood's Chance
The production of the film is divided into several links, and Columbia is one of the investors of the film, which does not mean that all the investment is made by it, but if you want to calculate it, its investment amount only reaches 3o%, and the rest is injected by several companies on Wall Street that focus on risk financing for films, which is a necessary way to diversify risks.
After all, movies are high-input and high-output industries, and this is only the early production link, and the later line will involve a series of companies such as theaters, and the share between the production party and the theater chain is about 5:5 in foreign countries, and the box office is only one aspect, and the proportion of raw products will even exceed 40% of the revenue of blockbuster films.
And this involves a series of operations such as production authorization, to put it simply, the production party is the first link, if there is even a problem with the funds here, then the next link, naturally there is no need to say more.
Spider-Man has a financial problem, and Hurt just received a call from those venture capitalists on Wall Street.
Even a medium- to high-cost production like Spider-Man will have such a problem, and it is not surprising that it is normal for a blockbuster to switch five or six investors in the middle.
If Wall Street's funds are withdrawn and Spider-Man can't find investors in the short term, there will be a big question mark over whether this drama can be filmed.
Yu Jun is not necessarily Hurt's lifeline, because Hurt's matter is not in his hands, it is the Columbia company's business, and if Yu Jun can solve this problem, it will be a surprise, and maybe he can persuade Tomach to help his friend's script investment.
"Let's talk to Tomach on Wall Street first, if it doesn't work out, it's okay for me to help, at least I can't let Dunst's film not even have a chance to be released." Yu Jun said with a smile.
Dunst listened to the original heart hanging in the air, but now he also put it down.
The total global box office of Spider-Man I is more than 800 million US dollars, a figure that Yu Jun remembers very clearly, and there is no problem if you count the revenue of derivatives of more than 1.2 billion, including Spider-Man's stand-alone games and so on.
And the investment in the entire Spider-Man I is not known, but it is about $1.2 billion, so in this case, excluding the box office share in various places, there is about $6.7 billion in hand, which is really a good deal.
If you can win over a group of Hollywood elites with Hurt, it will also be of great benefit to Jun, a media entertainment empire, if you don't even have a foot in Hollywood, what kind of media entertainment empire is it.
However, the method has to be considered.
Time was tight, and it had to be arranged right away.
This time, Yu Jun had no intention of listening to Hurt's friend's script for the time being, he got up and said, "I still have urgent matters to leave for a while, and I'll talk to Mr. Hurt about your friend's script another day, or you can give me the script now." ”
There is no Cheng Jiàn, just a U disk, produced by Langke, Yu Jun smiled and received the U disk into his jacket pocket, picked up Hurt's business card and said: "As soon as there is news, I will inform you as soon as possible." ”
"Yes." When Hurt arrived at the door, he called Tomach, and the phone was busy, presumably Wall Street was also notifying him.
"If there is a real problem with the funds, will you really invest for me?" Dunst asked Yu Jun with a sideways face.
He smiled, looked at her royal blue eyes, and said, "It's for you, but it's not just for you." ”
"Oh?" This answer is not what Dunster wants, if Yu Jun really comes up with $100 million for her, it will make her happy, and now it can only show that she does not have enough weight in Yu Jun's heart.
Thinking of this made Dunst feel a little sour.
"Well, it can be considered for you." Yu Jun put her arms around her waist, and she didn't do any struggle to let him hold her.
Smelling his masculine aura, Dunstfang's heart jumped slightly, she took the initiative to kiss him today, this can't be said to be a hint, such an explicit, didn't Yu Jun see it at all?
Yu Jun also took the initiative to kiss himself, and he is still hugging himself now, so what does he think?
For no reason, Dunst thought of Sun Yuhao and Qin Xue, her heart trembled, how many people was in his heart?
Yu Jun couldn't imagine what she was thinking, and after sending her to the car, he motioned for her assistant to send her straight home, so he called Donald and asked about the four venture capitalists who invested in the Spider-Man drama and needed to withdraw the funds due to problems with the transfer of funds.
The budget investment amount of the entire Spider-Man I is 120 million US dollars, and these four venture capitalists account for 7o%, which is 840000 US dollars, and they may still pay, they really can't come up with the money, and they desperately need this money to save their lives.
Donald smiled and said, "So, you're interested in investing in movies?" ”
He is also a very prestigious figure in the entertainment industry, not to mention the producer of the three major Miss shows, the "Feihuang Tengda" he is now producing has not yet been released, because the news has been disclosed when he was making Zuò, and because it is a program that has never been seen before, all of them have attracted much attention and treatment.
To put it bluntly, he also has a wealth of contacts in the entertainment industry.
"It's interesting, but there's something to be done."
Next, Yu Jun muttered something to Donald, no one knows.
The next day, the entire production team of Spider-Man I knew that something had happened to the funds, from the director to Hurt, to Maguire, Dunster, and even extras, apprentices, and everyone was panicked.
Who got the news out? Hurt was furious, thinking that it could only be Dunster, and although the director knew the news, he would not reveal the news and make people's hearts unstable.
wanted to find Dunst over and make a calm face, but when he thought of Yu Jun who kissed with her in public yesterday, his friend's script still fell on Yu Jun's body, which was a bit of a dilemma, and there was nothing he could do after his face sank for a long time.
In the end, I had to wave my hand irritably: "Call it a day." ”
The four venture capital funds sent the notice to Tomaher's desk in the morning, saying that if they didn't find someone to take over, they would cut off the supply now, which made the dignified director of Columbia Pictures speechless.
It is impossible for Columbia Pictures to be wholly funded, which is not in line with the practice of Hollywood film production, and the risk is too great, if it loses, all the losses will have to be borne by Columbia Pictures.
The four venture capitalists who had cooperated well even set a deadline of three days.
See what the hell he is, who can he find in three days! Tomach cursed in his stomach.
But there is no way, I have to call those familiar investors, but these people either have a number of movies in production or really can't come up with a little extra money, 840,000, after all, it is not a small amount, and more investment may be needed in the later stage.
No one is willing to agree, even if Tomaher said that he was willing to give up 5% of the interest, no one was tempted, no one was optimistic about this movie before the start of filming, Maguire is only an unknown third-rate actor, Dunster is not a small fame, but in this movie is just a vase, although Spider-Man comics have a certain box office appeal, but whether it can succeed is still unknown.
For two days, no one was willing to respond, and on the morning of the third day, a news suddenly came back from the shooting site that Dunst could find someone willing to invest.
This made Tomach not care too much, directly picked up the car keys, and came to the filming site in a car, these two days were indoor scenes, on the set of Hollywood, no one knows what the future of this drama is, no one has the heart to go outside to shoot again, not to mention, renting a street scene also costs money, and it is about to run out of food, and this money can be saved one by one.
Maybe when the crew is disbanded, you can still use the money to give everyone some disbanding fees.
Hurt waved at him when he saw Tomaher's car, but his eyes were on Yu Jun, who was sitting in a high chair drinking hot chocolate, and he knew that the investor Dunst was talking about might be this "Chinese Yu".
"Where's Dunst? Did the person she said come? Tomach jumped out of the car without any grace and asked.
Hurt was surrounded by a large group of people including Maguire, and the red-faced Dunst said: "She's there, the investor may be that one, his surname is Yu." ”
"Yu?" Tomach was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is it Korean, or is it **?" Is it Hong Kongers? ”
"No, he is a Chinese, maybe you should inquire about him, you have more connections, maybe you can inquire about something." Hurt shrugged his shoulders and said that he could only find out that China was a rich man, and as for the rest, he didn't know anything.
"I'd better talk to him directly and invite him into your van." Hearing that it was Chinese, with two points of curiosity and reserve, Tomaher, who was originally very panicked, now calmed down, pulled his shirt and walked to Hutt's car.
Hurt came over and told Yu Jun the news, and he smiled and said, "Please tell Mr. Tomach that I am waiting for him here, and if he is not willing to come, the board of directors may not be very happy about a bad play." ”
After filming, box office loss is one thing, and the filming was suspended because of financial problems, which is impossible in the eyes of the board of directors Yu Jun But he heard the style of the Colombian board of directors from Donald, and he also added to Hurt: "Well, those four venture capitalists will forcibly withdraw funds this afternoon, if you can't find an investor, this drama can only be yellow, please tell him, I can wait, but Mr. Tomach can't wait." ”
Hurt was shocked, even he didn't know the news, how did this China know?
After relaying the words to Tomacher, Hurt rarely saw this fat man rushing out of the van with agility like a sprinter, rushing to Yu Jun, and asked bluntly: "Are you willing to take over the investment of those four venture capitalists?" ”
"That must depend on the sincerity of Mr. Tomacher." Yu Jun stood up with a smile and handed the hot chocolate to Hurt, "Let's talk while we walk?" ”