After the hot summer of 2004, DreamWorks became the biggest winner, and "Shrek 2" won $440 million at the box office, becoming the third highest-grossing movie of all time after "Titanic" and "Star Wars Prequel 1: Phantom Crisis". The second winner is Light and Shadow Company and Sun Ziming Film Studio, with the picked up "The Passion of the Christ", which began to be a small-scale screening in February, and actually expanded the scale of the release to the summer file, winning a box office of 370 million, which surprised everyone.

What Sun Ziming didn't expect was that Mel Gibson was really a good person, obviously he took advantage of him, only paid him a million dollars in director's fees plus a little box office share, and actually praised himself after the success of the film, saying that without his own support, he would not have been able to make the great movie "The Passion of the Christ".

"Yes, before it was made, everyone thought it was a film that was destined to lose money, even me. If it weren't for a devout reverence for God, I wouldn't have thought of making such a controversial film at all. ”

"Yes, China Ming also thought that he would definitely lose money, but he thought that my script was very artistic, so he invested in shooting this film under the persuasion of Ms. Shirley."

A million director fee is low? It does seem low now, but under the circumstances at the time, I didn't think it was low. At that time, if someone was willing to invest in the system, I would rather not have a penny in return,......"

Out of the mix, reputation is very important. Mel praised Sun Ziming so much that he was embarrassed, and took advantage of the end of the summer season when everyone was not busy, and held a grand party to celebrate for his friends.

Sun Ziming held the still bubbling champagne, pulled Mel to stand on the steps of the escalator, and said loudly: "Everyone, today's party is for my good friend Mel. To be honest, I really didn't expect his first film to be such a big success.

As you know, I've always been fair, but now that the company is public, I can't get the company to compensate my friends as I used to. However, my studio invested in this great film, so I had to compensate him and the crew personally, otherwise it wouldn't be my principle. ”

The guests exclaimed, the previous rules of the light and shadow company were to reward 20% of the crew's net profits. The film invested only 25 million US dollars, but won 370 million at the box office, which means that Mel will receive 30 million or 40 million US dollars in compensation, and it will be compensated by China Ming privately.

That's right, in the envelope that Sun Ziming handed to Mel, there was a check for $36 million. Take 36 million and tell those geniuses who have never met talents, China Ming is still the China Ming who admires geniuses the most and is most willing to support geniuses, and this account can be paid no matter what.

As a minority shareholder of the light and shadow company, Mel also has the obligation to promote the company, took the envelope and hugged Sun Ziming, turned to his assistant director and assistant Bruce Davy and smiled: "Bruce, go and cash the check tomorrow, and give everyone a bonus according to the previous practice of light and shadow!" ”

“Ok”

Mel gave the check to his assistant and raised his glass at the same time as Sun Ziming: "Cheers (Cheers)"

In a cheer, the party specially held for the crew began.

At the party held by Sun Ziming, in addition to stars and directors, employees of Natural Light and Shadow Company were also invited. After the party, when Sun Ziming put down his wine glass and went outside to smoke, he heard several women gossiping in a low voice, talking about Robert's unlucky bastard. After listening to a few words, Sun Ziming's heart moved, turned around and went back indoors, called Lena, who happened to be passing by, pointed outside and whispered: "Lianna, in ten minutes, bring Monica from the front desk to the second floor, I have something to ask her." ”

"Ok", Lena whispered in agreement, knowingly took her glass and went outside to find someone.

Ten minutes later, Lena took Monica, who had just been chatting outside, to the balcony on the second floor, closed the door and left.

"Boss, are you looking for me?"

"Oh, I heard you guys just say Robert, how is he doing now?"

"That bastard", already a mother of two children, Monica is still as straightforward as she was more than ten years ago.

Sun Ziming listened to a few words and interrupted: "He went to MTV Music TV? ”

"yes, I saw it with my own eyes in New York. I also asked their front desk, and the bastard went there to be the deputy manager of the finance department. ”

This is strange, Robert is Kirk's henchman, why didn't he go to MGM's hotel, but went to the TV organization under the Viacom parent group, and became the deputy manager of the finance department as soon as he went?

After thinking for a while, Sun Ziming suspected Bobby. That guy was also involved in the blackmail they had against him, and his aunt Shirley was the president of Paramount, and she had considerable connections within the Viacon group, could it be that she arranged it for him? Could it be that Robert's bastard isn't Kirk's man, but Bobby's?

"Go ahead, don't tell anyone, I asked you so."

"Huh? yes/boss", Monica was stunned for a moment, and then quickly agreed, and went out of the balcony to continue playing.

Sun Tzuming, who was suspicious, waited for the party to end, and asked Yoshiyo Sato and Douglas to stay. The two of them were stunned when they heard this, and they were as surprised as Sun Ziming just now, but they didn't know Bobby.

"Boos, this doesn't make sense, MTV Music TV shouldn't have anything to do with Kirk, right? If he had a relationship with MTV Music Television, he should have been able to have a relationship with Viacon's parent group before, so he wouldn't have come to our Light and Shadow Group to seek cooperation? ”

Douglas also thought for a while, and hesitated: "Boss, if you call Ms. Shirley, she should be able to inquire who recommended it to MTV." ”

If she recommended it, she couldn't get a result by asking; If it hadn't been recommended by her, it would have alerted Bobby.

"Don't ask her, Kayo, ask from the side and see if you can find something. Doug, you go to a private investigator and check on that Robert, I always feel that something is wrong here. ”

“Yes/boss”

Kayo Sato didn't find anything, but Douglas moved quickly, and he came back immediately after a trip to New York, and his face was very unsightly.

"Boss, I suspect Robert has something to do with Shirley."

"Huh? What's going on? ”

It turned out that when Douglas was watching MTV, he happened to see Robert's bastard arguing with Bobby in the parking lot of the station. Douglas didn't know who Bobby was, but Bobby had followed Shirley to his grandson, and he had seen it with his own eyes.

"Boss, the deputy manager of the finance department is a key position, and without the recommendation of the big guys, Robert would not have gotten that position at all."

That's right, Robert is not actually Kirk's man, at least Kirk and Bobby's people. In this way, the person who manipulates the stock price of the light and shadow company to make a profit, this Bobby definitely has a share. If this is the case, it is very likely that Bobby will do something in the middle, hide it from the leader of the Shantino people, and even want to take the opportunity to sow discord so that he can have a chance to replace him in the future.

It's not right, if he had premeditated, as soon as Santino launched his blackmail against him, he should have tried to destroy it, instead of waiting until the overall situation was fixed and then thinking about turning the tables.

Well, manipulating stock prices for profit was a private thing in the past, and trying to replace it was a temporary idea.

Sun Ziming, who felt that he had figured it out, no longer bothered about it. It's good that when you have the opportunity to take revenge in the future, you will also have a secret helper.

"That's the end of it, don't say it. When I go back to Hong Kong in a few days, I will have someone send the tape over, and you will find the right voice actor according to the sound quality and timbre of the leading actors of "Infernal Affairs". ”

“Yes/boss”