Volume 1 Chapter 37 This is showbiz
signed He Fan, the master of erotic films, now that the script is there, the investment is there, and the director is there, the main skeleton of a movie has been built, and the rest is much simpler.
Three days is not short, not long, at least these three days are spent in a busy manner for Lin Xiaozhi, and by the time he found out, the time had already reached the evening of the third day.
At the Rainbow Cafe at No. 1004 Youdlao Road, Lin Xiaozhi looked at the time on his wrist for the third time, and his brows furrowed slightly.
"Miss, add me another pot of coffee!"
With a wave of his hand, he stopped a waiter who had just passed by nearby and asked her to help him add another pot of coffee.
"Good sir!"
The waiter left with the coffee pot and went to buy coffee for him, leaving Lin Xiaozhi alone, sitting there, stirring the coffee from time to time, or watching the time pass on the watch on his left wrist little by little.
He's waiting for someone!
Over the course of three days, Lin Xiaozhi visited many people. After hesitating for a while, he really couldn't find a more suitable male lead for "I'm Crazy for Qing", so Lin Xiaozhi had to put his choice back on Charlie Cao, who had played this role in the original movie. Yesterday and today, he spent two days visiting Charlie Cao, but unfortunately, in the end, it was not successful. Charlie Cao has acted in a lot of erotic films, but he doesn't mind showing up on the screen again, but he asked for 650,000 Hong Kong dollars with one mouth, which is now a very high value among Hong Kong's second-tier artists. Lin Xiaozhi couldn't accept this price at all, so in addition to meeting him on the first day, this morning, Lin Xiaozhi was grinding his skin with Charlie Cao's agent, but unfortunately after the other party stuck to the high price of 500,000, Lin Xiaozhi had to give up Charlie Cao and choose the second male lead.
He had an appointment tonight, but it was a woman, a woman who was long overdue.
“…… Lin Sheng, I'm sorry, I'm late. Didn't keep you waiting......"
When the second pot of coffee was delivered, Lin Xiaozhi had already drunk half of it, and a crisp and pleasant female voice sounded in his ears. Lin Xiaozhi raised his head and glanced at the other party, and a smile appeared on his face: "Hello, Miss Qiu!" ”
The woman Lin Xiaozhi was waiting for was Qiu Yueqing, the Asian sister champion he had invited before.
His eyes swept over the clock on the wall behind her, the time on it was already 7:45, and the two had made an appointment to meet here at 7 o'clock. In other words, Qiu Yueqing was 45 minutes later than the agreed time. This undoubtedly made Lin Xiaozhi very annoyed, the time and place were chosen by the other party, but she did such a show.
"Have you had dinner?" Although he was annoyed in his heart, Lin Xiaozhi's brain was not burned out, Qiu Yueqing was not an employee or artist under him, they were in an equal relationship.
Since he woke up, he has understood that although he has the identity of the second young master of the Jiulong Lin family, the convenience that this identity can provide him is very limited, and the foundation left by the previous gentleman is really bad, otherwise he wouldn't have to work hard for so long to get two million from his family, and it is very likely that he will be the last two million. In other words, if this time, if he is really like the third child in the family, just to cheat money from his family to buy a sports car, I am afraid that it will be difficult for him to get a little help from his family from now on.
Therefore, for "I'm Crazy for Qing", which can bring him the first pot of gold after he wakes up, Lin Xiaozhi values it more than everything, and any personal honor and disgrace can be put aside temporarily.
It can be seen that Qiu Yueqing has applied light makeup today, she was born with a beautiful personality, and now she is even more elegant under the background of a black dress.
No wonder he was able to get into the eye of that 'star killer'.
After Lin Xiaozhi sat down, he looked at her seriously, and secretly praised in his heart that his choice was right, sure enough, with her, the champion of the Asian sister, and the third runner-up of the previous Asian sister, Ye Yuqing, it was not a difficult thing for "I am crazy for Qing" to become an instant hit.
Lin Xiaozhi was constantly looking at her, and Qiu Yueqing was also looking at Lin Xiaozhi. Although Lin Xiaozhi ate a face of plaster at Luo Zhaohui that day, she was still very cautious about her first movie, and in the past few days, she has mobilized almost all the connections in her circle to help her inquire about Lin Xiaozhi and New Asia Movies, and gradually some of the old styles of that gentleman and the situation of New Asia Movies have also reached her ears.
Coupled with the first meeting, Lin Xiaozhi's indisputable performance in front of the strong and abnormal Luo Zhaohui was also considered by her to be a lack of confidence. What's more, Lin Xiaozhi seems to have some 'festivals' with Luo Zhaohua, who she is dragging, and after she told him about his personality and the breakdown of New Asia, she had the idea of refusing. The reason why she came to see Lin Xiaozhi today was because she didn't want to offend the second young master of the Jiulong Lin family in vain. Second, the relationship between New Asia Film and ATV also made her have to scruple again. She has been hidden by ATV for a year and has no way to go to the sky, and it is impossible to say that she does not resent. But even if she is resentful, she is still looking forward to thinking that ATV will remember her as soon as possible, arrange a scene for her to make her popular, and let her leave the dirty, tiring and hard job of photography and modeling as soon as possible.
However, although she came to see Lin Xiaozhi, she was already reluctant in her heart, and naturally she couldn't talk about it, not only did she deliberately be late for a long time, but Lin Xiaozhi's patient waiting was further determined by her to be due to her lack of strength, and she knew what she should say immediately.
"Lin Sheng, you don't need to be so troublesome. You know that the model has a high demand for the figure, and in order to keep the figure, I rarely have dinner! She stroked her long silky shawl hair, and her eyes were full of confidence in her figure, and she did have this proud capital.
Lin Xiaozhi nodded, "Since that's the case, let's talk about the movie, I ......."
He had just taken the briefcase from the side, and was about to open and take out the contract he had prepared for Qiu Yueqing, but he didn't want his words to be interrupted by Qiu Yueqing, she said very politely: "I heard from Miss Ye that this movie is a erotic film that needs to be dew and stage a bed scene, right?" Lin Sheng, you should know what kind of impact starring in such a movie will have on a female artist, so I can accept your invitation to the movie, but please also ask you to compensate me in terms of salary! ”
She was originally a photography model, and her private life is relatively open, so she is naturally not afraid to show her point in the movie or stage a passion scene. However, when Ye Yuqing was mentioned in the words, her face was slightly colder, since Luo Zhaohua saw Ye Yuqing, she had not gone to Macau to find her in the past few days, which made Qiu Yueqing, who thought that she had knocked on a Kaizi, feel jealous.
He was talking, but was interrupted impolitely, Lin Xiaozhi frowned, but what Qiu Yueqing said was very reasonable. He secretly suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and asked: "At this point, Miss Qiu can rest assured, although you don't have any filming experience, as long as you are willing to join this movie, Xinya will give you a salary of 120,000, and I promise to help you win box office dividends." ”
This price is what he inquired about, many third-tier artists in Hong Kong, the salary of a movie is only 20,000 to 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, and even the vast majority of artists can't get this money. The income of Hong Kong artists has always been very polarized, 100,000 yuan is a watershed in the film industry, in the past, even if it is a second-tier artist, it is not impossible to be diligent and earn a net worth of one million by taking seven or eight movies a year.
120,000!
It was a little higher than she imagined, Qiu Yueqing calculated slightly, she helped Lisboa shoot a promotional poster, and she could get about 50,000 yuan in the end. Naturally, such a big list can't be there often, usually she shoots cover posters for some media magazines in Hong Kong, and she can earn two or three hundred thousand yuan a year.
The money she earns from making a movie is half of her income from a year's hard work. Thinking of this, Qiu Yueqing's heart had already decided on the thought, but she hesitated a little, her eyes stayed on Lin Xiaozhi who was waiting for her reply, and finally her lips spit lightly, and she shook her fingers, "Lin Sheng, I didn't see any sincerity...... You must know that a woman's clothes are not so easy to wear back when she takes them off! ”
Fingers lightly tapped on the dining table, Lin Xiaozhi held his chin with his left hand, his eyes were fixed on her, and he suddenly cracked his mouth and smiled: "I'm a little curious, how much do you want?" ”
He had already seen that he was afraid that he would be underestimated by this woman. Sure enough, it was a good person who was bullied, and the last time he didn't want to be an enemy of Luo Zhaohua, a famous billionaire in the circle, before he was fledgling, so he suppressed his anger and tolerated some, it seems that his actions were regarded as good people and could be bullied, right?
First late, then interrupted, and then said no to the sincere contract he had carefully prepared......
Thinking of this, the corners of Lin Xiaozhi's mouth became more and more curved, but those eyes were so cold that Qiu Yueqing was a little uncomfortable even looking at him, and couldn't help turning a little sideways, avoiding his gaze before gently spit out a few words: "I want a salary of 300,000!" ”
For a moment, the atmosphere between the two froze and fell into a dead silence.
"Ha Lu Ha ......" for a long time, Lin Xiaozhi Ha Lu Ha Da Lu laughed for a while, and waved his hand, "Waiter, pay the bill!" ”
His voice was as flat as ever, but Qiu Yueqing, who was sitting opposite him, was restless, she had guessed dozens of Lin Xiaozhi's expressions of annoyance and anger, the only thing she didn't expect was this one.
"Hello sir, it's 247 yuan in total!"
"Here, the rest is your tip!"
"Mr. Xie Lu, Mr. Xie!"
Lin Xiaozhi took out five hundred, put it on the tray and settled the account. Looking at Qiu Yueqing, who was fidgeting opposite, he smiled and took his briefcase, opened it in front of her and took out a contract from it, "Re-introduction, Miss Qiu, my name is Lin Xiaozhi, assistant to the president of New Asia Film Company, and I am also the largest investor in the movie "I'm Crazy for Qing". I know who gave you this kind of confidence, so that a newcomer who has never acted in a movie or filmed dares to open his mouth to ask for this price, and I can probably guess what you think in your heart. If I'm not mistaken, you signed a three-year long-term contract with ATV. I have seen your information on ATV, it is very interesting, last year's Asian sister champion, but I didn't receive a single play for a whole year, and it is not as good as some artists who failed to enter the top eight in last year's Asian sister competition. ATV didn't even arrange any shows and events for you? What do you know it's called? ”
"This is called Xuezang, I'll pack a ticket with you, the person who ATV wants to block, she will have a hard time. Can you sing? You are not Liu Dehua, there is no TV shooting, no movie pick-up, a year's time, only relying on the work of those magazine models, the popularity of Sister Ya when she won the championship last year is about to be astigmatized now, right? This is showbiz! ”
After taking out the contract, he didn't hand it to Qiu Yueqing, he put it aside casually, pressed it with his coffee cup, then lit a cigarette for himself, got up and said: "I can give you what he can give you, and he will definitely not be able to give you the one you want to rely on." The salary of 120,000 yuan is not ungenerous for a newcomer, and I also wrote the box office dividend into the agreement. If the box office of the movie can exceed 5 million, add 50,000 dividends, and if it can exceed 8 million, add 50,000...... It seems that this is going to become a piece of waste paper! ”
In Hong Kong, a small-budget movie can pass the box office of 5 million, but if it exceeds 8 million, it is already a muffled fortune, and the box office of 10 million is like a trench, stuck on the small-budget movie. In the past, it was the dark horse of the box office of the year, which will always be recorded by history.
"Then Miss Qiu, you are so self-conscious......"
Picking up the briefcase, Lin Xiaozhi's eyes turned back and forth on Qiu Yueqing, who had changed color, and the agreement he pressed on the table, the smile on the corner of his mouth became thicker and thicker, and after saying hello, he turned around and walked out of the Rainbow Cafe without looking back.