Chapter 113: The first meeting with Zhang Guorong
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"There is definitely money to be made, but I have two forms for you on the issue of this reward. One is direct remuneration, and the other is dividends. Directly give you a salary, like you, brother, I will give a salary of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, and because of your relatively small role in Honggu's play, I will give you a salary of 200,000 Hong Kong dollars. I will give 300,000 Hong Kong dollars to Brother Dilong's salary, and Chen Kuian, yours, I will give 50,000 Hong Kong dollars. As for Brother Xian, because you are just making a cameo, I also give Chen Kuian the same price, 50,000 Hong Kong dollars. That's what gets paid directly. Li Mingbao explained.
Hearing Li Mingbao's explosive price code, including Zhou Yan, everyone knew that the price code reported by Li Mingbao was really a high price. It can be said that it is the highest salary they get at this stage, except for Li Mingbao, it is impossible for anyone else to offer such a price, and only Li Mingbao, a rich man, will be so bold.
Even after Di Long heard Li Mingbao's offer, he began to wonder if he lost every movie when he worked at Shaw Brothers before, don't look at him The first two years were very popular, but even in the first two years, he never got such a high salary.
The sum of these people's salaries is millions of investments, not to mention the money needed to make films, and now only Li Mingbao will have such a big spending, the movie has not yet started, and millions of Hong Kong dollars will be spent, and then with other types of investment, the total investment amount of this movie will definitely not be less than three million Hong Kong dollars.
Such a large sum of money is definitely a big deal in Hong Kong, and Golden Harvest rarely has such a big sum in Hong Kong. It can even be said that there has never been such a big deal at all. Hong Kong is no bigger than Hollywood, with bigger investment and big gains. Filming in Hong Kong is about a cost, the cost is too big, and the Hong Kong market alone will not be able to recover the cost.
If it were a different person, everyone would definitely think it was a joke when they heard such a salary. But the problem is that now this salary is proposed by Li Mingbao, with Li Mingbao's reputation and his gains in the movie, it seems normal to offer such a price.
But even if it was normal, Zhou Yan still asked worriedly: "Ah Leopard, isn't this salary a bit high?" I really haven't taken a salary of 500,000 yuan. Are you so confident that this movie will make so much money? ”
"How much is 500,000 yuan? It's not a dollar, it's just a Hong Kong dollar. Since I take it out, I have the confidence to recover the capital. Don't look at this salary in Hong Kong, in Hollywood, this salary is nothing at all.
You know that movie I made in Hollywood, right? The investment in that movie is a small investment in Hollywood, but even if it was a small investment, that movie cost me millions of dollars. Compared to that, the salary in Hong Kong is nothing at all.
Don't think I'm very kind, in fact, such a salary is already very low for this movie. I didn't shoot this movie just to release it in Hong Kong, but when the time comes, it will be possible and it will go to Hollywood, and if it can be released there, I will definitely make no less money, so you can take this salary with peace of mind.
Of course, as I said before, in addition to getting paid directly, you have another choice, and that is to get dividends. Take dividends, that is, I won't give you a dime first, but after the movie is released, the box office will come out, and then you will come according to the box office, and I will give you a few percent of the dividends, and I will take out a few percent of the dividends from the box office. That's how dividends are paid. Li Mingbao said.
"Dividends? It's a new way. So do we get dividends, is it all box office dividends, or is it some other way to dividends? If all the box office dividends are paid, then I will definitely take dividends, and I also want to make dollars. Hearing the dividend model, Zhou Yan said with great interest.
"All the box office? Brother, your heart is too dark, isn't it? Where will there be so many. I give the dividend model, and the scope of the dividend is only Hong Kong, whether it is Taiwan or Japan, or Southeast Asia and North America, the box office in other places, don't even think about it. If it's a dividend from all places, then even if I give you one percent of the dividend, it's a lot of money, and I can't afford it. Li Mingbao said helplessly.
Hearing Li Mingbao's words, Zhou Yan also felt that his heart was a little darker. The dividends of the global box office, even if they don't sell much in each place, when they are gathered together, it is also a huge amount, and he can't eat so much money.
But just the box office in Hong Kong, Zhou Yan feels that it is a little less, unless Li Mingbao's percentage points are reported a lot, but this is impossible, because he is not the only one who wants to pay dividends, so many actors have to share dividends, if the percentage points are too much, then this movie is not enough for them actors.
Thinking about this, Zhou Yan opened his mouth and said: "In this case, Ah Bao, you should not get any dividends, and it is better to pay the salary directly." The matter of dividends is not so reliable. ”
Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Li Mingbao also felt that talking about dividends at this time seemed to be really not so reliable. It's no longer the time for him to start making movies, at that time, everyone didn't want to share dividends, take Wang Jing as an example, he would rather have cash than the right to dividends from movies.
And now he wants to share dividends, but there are a lot more actors, and they all have to share dividends, and he Li Mingbao can't afford to play. Of course, it's not that I can't really afford to play, but this movie is really going to give dividends, and the actors who shoot this movie can all become millionaires. In that way, Li Mingbao is completely offending all the bosses in the Hong Kong film industry.
A movie can even earn millions of dollars from supporting roles, so how can a boss who doesn't have a total income of one million in other movies live? If you block other people's roads, can others let you go? A circle, looking up and not looking down, is too stiff, and it is not beneficial to Li Mingbao's career in Hong Kong.
This right to dividends, discussed now, is indeed too early, give more pay, although others will be unhappy, at most only when you Li Mingbao is rich. But the rights and interests of dividends are going to be released, and others can't imitate them at all, not every movie made by everyone in every company can be as profitable as the movie shot by Li Mingbao.
So this right, although it seems to be beneficial, and it is also a very mature model on the Hollywood side, in Hong Kong, it is premature. Honest salary is king.
Zhou Yan opened his mouth, which can be regarded as letting go of Di Long's heart, when Li Mingbao said two salary models just now, Di Long was still startled, especially what kind of dividend salary, no one in Hong Kong has ever played this thing, that is, Li Mingbao, a newcomer, and someone who has been in Hollywood, will come up with such an idea.
In Di Long's heart, real remuneration is king, especially the salary that Li Mingbao gave himself, Di Long is simply too satisfied. Di Long was very uninterested in what kind of dividend salary, and when he heard that Zhou Yan suddenly pushed away such a salary method, Di Long was very grateful to Zhou Yan, because if he really wanted to let everyone choose later, Di Long really didn't know how to shirk Li Mingbao.
Seeing that everyone had no opinions, Li Mingbao was also satisfied. What he said just now was indeed very inappropriate, but fortunately, Zhou Yan was there, and he put his tail away, so that he didn't embarrass himself. Hong Kong is a place where there are indeed a lot of things that need to be changed, but with Li Mingbao's current foundation, it is difficult to change a little bit, and it is not feasible at all, it is better to wait for your own situation to be better in the future, and then try to make some changes, maybe it will be useful, and now, that is to do it according to the rules of Hong Kong, as for the rest, we will talk about it later.
After beating these people, Li Mingbao began to look for Zhang Guorong. At this time, Zhang Guorong, although he has already debuted, can only be regarded as a newcomer, and his popularity is very low, so it is still troublesome to find him. Fortunately, Li Mingbao has a whiteness in his head, and it is not too difficult to know how to find Zhang Guorong at this time.
So the next day, Li Mingbao went to Huaxing to find Zhang Guorong.
Huaxing is actually also a company under TVB, to say that TVB at this time is really so powerful that there is no boundary, the resources in the hands of Uncle Six are so many that they can drown other people, no matter what industry it is, as long as it is stained with film and television, people in the Hong Kong circle are more or less related to Uncle Six.
Even if the Shaw Brothers are in decline, there are a large number of actors in the declining Shaw Brothers who are now popular, who were popular in the past, and who will be popular in the future. Therefore, the sixth uncle, the uncrowned king, should be very stable, which does not complain about the attitude of the sixth uncle towards Li Mingbao at the beginning, in the eyes of the sixth uncle, the resources in his hands are the most, and if Li Mingbao wants not to cooperate, he will not be able to go through at all.
And Li Mingbao did think of this problem at the beginning, so at that time, his arm couldn't twist his thigh, so he went directly to the United States, and then killed him back from the United States, which caught the sixth uncle off guard.
And now, although the relationship between Li Mingbao and Uncle Six is not good, since Uncle Six did not explicitly prohibit Li Mingbao's actions, Li Mingbao's activities in wireless are basically public. At this time, Huaxing Records was actually just two or three kittens.
Although the previous Huaxing was founded very early, Huaxing Records at that time was only engaged in the songs on wireless film and television, and did not have its own company to produce records alone, that is, it was only this year that Huaxing Records really began to produce independently.
Even Zhang Guorong is still the first male singer to sign a contract with Huaxing Records, so Zhang Guorong can be regarded as Huaxing's first brother at this time. But after all, Huaxing's plate is small. When a big man like Li Mingbao arrives, he wants to find Zhang Guorong by name, where does Huaxing Records dare to slack off? immediately got Zhang Guorong over.