Proposed by Menjie, and then agreed between Wan Tongtong and Huaxia Film Group, the 'gambling contract' on the first part is actually very simple.

In this process, Wan Tongtong has repeatedly tested the other party's psychological expectations for the results that the movie "Red Cliff" can achieve.

In fact, according to the psychological expectations of the other party, if the investment of 70 million US dollars is calculated, it is estimated that only by obtaining a box office result of more than 150 million US dollars can the cost be recovered simply by relying on the box office of the movie.

If you can only harvest about 120 million US dollars, then I am afraid that if you count all the surrounding areas, you will only be able to barely recover the cost.

So in fact, the expectations of the people in charge of the movie "Red Cliff" are that it can have a box office result of more than 150 million US dollars.

Even if it is a big hit, it is estimated that it is only a box office result of more than 200 million US dollars, and its total box office performance has reached 300 million US dollars......

Even if they are, I'm afraid they can only look forward to it a little, and they really don't think that the movie "Red Cliff" can achieve such results.

However, in the first part of the 'gambling contract' between Huaxia Film Group and celebrity film and television companies, a box office figure will be directly determined.

If the movie "Spartan 300 Warriors" can reach such a height, and the movie "Red Cliff" can't reach it anyway, Huaxia Film Group will directly admit defeat in this link, and directly hand over one-third of the 'gambling money' to the celebrity film and television company.

This number must be the height that Huaxia Film Group believes is 'absolutely unattainable'!

In fact, in their hearts, the box office of $300 million is a height that they can't reach, but in order to be able to increase this number a little bit and not let celebrity film and television companies beat them very calmly, so after a long time between the two sides, they directly gave a box office result of $420 million!

If the movie "Spartan 300 Warriors" can get a total box office result of 420 million US dollars worldwide. Then Huaxia Film Group will directly determine that 'this is a height that the movie "Red Cliff" cannot reach', and will directly admit defeat in this link.

However, such a number, no matter in anyone's eyes, is too high, and even the people of Huaxia Film Group feel that Wan Tongtong will not agree, and should continue to negotiate with them.

This kind of thing, you have to give others a room for bargaining!

In fact, in their hearts, if Wan Tongtong gave 'a box office result of 380 million US dollars', they would be able to agree.

But to their surprise, Wan Tongtong did not reject such a terrifying standard of 420 million US dollars. On the contrary, he also directly asked everyone, hoping to increase the gambling funds in the first link, and even for this reason, the celebrity film and television company is willing to raise the standards proposed by the other party higher!

In the negotiation process. Wan Tongtong fully showed the self-confidence of the celebrity film and television company, and the self-confidence movie "Spartan 300 Warriors". It can get at least $420 million at the box office.

And the other party obviously doesn't think so. felt that if the standard could be raised a little higher, it would be absolutely impossible for the celebrity film and television company to win, so after hesitation, he made a decision.

If the movie "Spartan 300 Warriors" can earn more than 450 million US dollars at the box office worldwide, then Huaxia Film Group is in the first link. Even if it is lost to a celebrity film and television company.

And the stakes......

At Wan Tongtong's request, Huaxia Film Group promised at the beginning that we could pick one out of our script library at random, and if necessary, we would be responsible for the team formation and wait until the film was released. We must also unconditionally arrange the release of the group's flagship movies for its theaters', and add a new one!

The original request was equivalent to helping a celebrity film and television company shoot a movie, but after Wan Tongtong's request, there was one more request.

Compared to the first requirement, the second requirement is much simpler.

There is no need to select scripts from Huaxia Film Group, and they do not need to be responsible for forming a crew, Menjie's requirements are very simple!

At that time, the celebrity film and television company will buy the script on its own, and form a team and recruit actors by itself, all such problems will be completed by the celebrity film and television company, and what Huaxia Film Group has to do is to arrange the release time and theaters for this film when there is free time.

In this way, it really can't consume much resources of Huaxia Film Group, at best, it is just to use their relationship.

After thinking about it, I agreed to it.

And in the end, some time ago, Warner Bros. Entertainment announced directly in front of the news media that the global box office performance of the movie "Spartan 300 Warriors" had exceeded the $500 million mark, and Huaxia Film Group already knew that they lost in this bet!

The standard agreed with Wan Tongtong is 450 million US dollars, but at this time, the movie "Spartan 300 Warriors" has already broken through to the 500 million US dollar mark, isn't this just a loss?

Naturally, if you lose, you have to pay the price!

"Brother Jie, I have just contacted the person in charge of Huaxia Film Group, and they have sent all the movie scripts in their script library that have not been filmed to my mailbox, I have already sent them to you, you can take a look!"

After a while, Wan Tongtong called Menjie, and after logging in to his mailbox, Menjie saw the email sent by Wan Tongtong.

The email contains hundreds of names for the script, as well as brief information.

"I didn't expect Huaxia Film Group to have such a deep heritage, and casually sent me hundreds of excellent scripts......"

Looking at so many scripts, and through the Tianwang system, Menjie knew that the quality of each of these scripts was very good, and he suddenly blushed.

It's a pity that among so many excellent scripts, Menjie can only choose one of them.

"There are hundreds of scripts, and it's too troublesome to choose!"

Shaking his head slightly, Menjie didn't bother to pick one by one at all. directly entered the Tianwang system, opened the information of the 'Huaxia Film Group', and directly searched for their specific information.

Eyes fell on 2007, the names of all the movies produced by Huaxia Film Group were browsed and queried one by one.

Among so many scripts, there may indeed be some very good works that have been missed, and they may not come out until later, and it is indeed a little imprudent for Menjie to search like this.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, there will be two more opportunities in the future to choose scripts from the script library of Huaxia Film Group. This time, Menjie only needs to pick out the movies produced in 2007 and 2008.

In Menjie's mind, the movie "Lust and Caution" that he is currently filming will be officially released this year, and if he wants to win enough awards to crush the other party, he will have to wait at least until 2008. Therefore, Menjie wants to select the best films in 2007 and 2008 in the script library of Huaxia Film Group. Take it away. As the first film work of a celebrity film and television company, this is the king!

Yes, you need the best!

"2007 and 2008...... In the movies produced by Huaxia Film Group, there are really many excellent works! ”

Looking at the names that symbolized the box office, Menjie couldn't help but mutter.

"In 2007, Huaxia Film Group produced excellent movies such as "Disciple", "Casting Names", "Love and Love Call Transfer", "Fuse" and other works. The results are very good! ”

"These movies are all well-known in the 2007 Chinese film list, among which the results of "Love Call Transfer" and "Fuse" are not much different, and the investment is not very large. However, they have all won more than 30 million soft girl coins at the box office, which is considered an excellent work in 2007! ”

"And the best works produced by Huaxia Film Group are the movies "Casting Names" and "Disciples", which are ranked third and ninth respectively, and they are all very good works, if possible...... I really want to take them all! ”

And in the middle of 2008...... It's really weird! ”

When searching for the excellent works produced by Huaxia Film Group in 2008, Menjie frowned slightly.

In addition to the movie "Red Cliff", there are also two works that ranked third and ninth in 2008 and were funded by Huaxia Film Group.

But the movie that ranked second did not appear in the 'script library' sent by the other party to Menjie, even if Menjie wanted to choose it, it was announced!

You must know that the box office result of breaking through 200 million soft girl coins is definitely the highest-grossing movie of Huaxia Film Group in the past two years, except for the movie "Red Cliff"!

"It's a pity!"

Shaking his head slightly, Menjie didn't think much else, his eyes fell on the names of the two movies, and he frowned slightly.

One was in 2007, the third in the mainland box office list of a movie called "Casting a Name", and in the end, it was only 650,000 soft girl coins to reach a box office of 200 million, which is a rare good work.

And another work, although the box office performance only ranked ninth in 2008, but its award is simply too terrifying!

In terms of awards, it is not even inferior to the movie "The Ballad of Yunshui", and it is also an excellent work that coexists with box office and awards, a rare masterpiece, and won a box office result of 110 million soft girl coins as a literary film.

From this point of view, these two movies are definitely comparable!

"In terms of box office, I have the movie "Spartan 300 Warriors" at the bottom, and there is definitely no shortage!"

Entangled in his heart, Menjie couldn't help but mutter.

"But in terms of awards...... The two actor trophies brought to me by the movie "The Ballad of Yunshui", plus the movie "Lust and Caution", it seems that I am also not lacking, so it seems that I really don't need to participate in a literary film or a commercial film, I just need to choose what I like! ”

As the first film produced by a celebrity film and television company, and it has quite sufficient conditions, although a simple Chinese movie can no longer bring too many benefits to Menjie, but after all, he is the chairman of the company, even if it is for the company, this time Menjie plans to go into battle shirtless and go out himself. So when choosing a script, it is natural to be more in line with your own taste.

Based on the box office and awards of the two films, in fact, the benefits that can be brought to celebrity film and television companies are the same, and there is no essential difference.

"That's right!"

Suddenly, Men Jie slapped his hands violently and said in surprise, "I remember that when I was casting, I was able to compete with top big stars, which could give me an extra boost in my acting skills!" Then choose the movie where the original actor is more famous, so that my acting skills can be improved a little...... Forehead ......"

It was a pleasant surprise at first. But then, after watching the cast of the two movies, Menjie was speechless for a while.

The lineups of the two movies are quite extraordinary!

The previous movie had Liu Dehua, Li Lianjie, and Jin Chengwu, and the next movie. also has Li Ming and Sun Honglei.

are all quite strong veterans in the film industry!

"It's really tangled enough!"

With a long sigh, Menjie was also quite helpless in his heart.

"The movies are similar and the cast is strong. It's hard to choose! ”

Bit his lip helplessly. Menjie is also very entangled in his heart, and he really wants to win all two movies and directly create two movies for celebrity film and television companies.

But it's a pity that Menjie is willing, and Huaxia Film Group is not willing!

"Huh? Director? ”

When he was entangled in his heart, Menjie's eyes suddenly fell on the specific personnel information of the two movies. His gaze shrank slightly.

For a movie, the importance of the director is self-evident, so in order to be able to make these two movies at least not make the movie taste bad because of the change of director, resulting in bad results. So Menjie also plans to use the original director.

As for the selection of the original director, although because of the agreement with Huaxia Film Group, the director will help him invite, and as long as there is a script and can ensure that the film can be released smoothly, no matter which director is, basically he can be invited.

After all, they can direct a film themselves, to a greater extent, because they like a certain script very much, and they will accept it in order to be able to shoot something that meets their hearts, and they don't need to think about too many other factors.

Basically, if the treatment can be given to them, it's fine.

Such a standard, in Menjie's mind, is definitely suitable for the vast majority of directors in China, even if it is some top directors, I am afraid they will agree.

After all, if you give them enough remuneration and can shoot their favorite works, there is really no reason to refuse.

Even if it is a big director like Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yimou, as long as the script meets their wishes, the problem will not be too big, and when the time comes, they will be able to invite them if they fully show their sincerity.

It's like director Chen Kexin, the original director of the movie "Casting a Name", although he is one of the top few directors in Huaxia, but if Menjie can do this, plus the help of Huaxia Film Group, it will not be a problem to invite him.

But if it's the movie "Mei Lanfang", it doesn't seem to be such a simple problem.

Everything is because of Chen Kaige, the director of the movie "Mei Lanfang", is really too big!

Needless to say, just a simple personal resume can prove his status in the Chinese film industry!

In the past, Zhang Yimou was Chen Kaige's royal photographer, and Chen Kaige's status at that time was not inferior to today's Zhang Yimou.

After so many years of development and networking, Chen Kaige, who has been able to completely integrate business and art, is indeed quite a difficult character.

Otherwise, how could he make a movie "Mei Lanfang" that is obviously a literary film, and crazy earned hundreds of millions of soft girl coins at the box office, ranking among the top ten in the box office list of China in 2008?

From this aspect, it can also be seen that Chen Kaige, who already has the strength of combining literature and art with business, how strong and how high his status is, whether it is a commercial film director or a literary film director, he is quite respected.

Such a big-name director, even Menjie can't guarantee that he can invite him over with his salary and script!

"Forget it, just choose the movie "Vote for Fame"!"

With a wry smile, a look of reluctance flashed in Menjie's eyes, and he deleted the information of the script of "Mei Lanfang" from the computer.

If Menjie participated in the movie "Mei Lanfang", he could cooperate with director Chen Kaige, and the heroine of this movie was Zhang Ziyi, who was familiar to Menjie, it would indeed be a pretty good thing, and he would still be able to get hundreds of millions of soft girl coins at the box office, and even Menjie would have a good chance of winning some awards.

But helplessly, Menjie is not sure enough to convince director Chen Kaige to direct this movie that should have been directed by him.

After all, the script selected by Menjie next is extremely important to the celebrity film and television company, and even as the most popular star of the company, Menjie also plans to appear in this work.

Although there is some possibility of inviting director Chen Kaige, Menjie doesn't want to take this risk, he just wants to be safe and stable, and let the celebrity film and television company start the next movie plan, which is the point!

"Just choose the movie "Vote for Fame"!"

separated the name and script introduction of the movie called "Casting Names" separately and sent it to Wan Tongtong by email, and Menjie breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he is still a little reluctant, after Menjie has made a decision, he doesn't need to think too much.

The next thing Menjie has to do is to do his best to prepare for the movie "Vote for Fame"!

Although Huaxia Film Group will also help celebrity film and television companies prepare for this film, in addition, there are still a lot of work that needs to be completed by celebrity film and television companies, and even Menjie himself.

For this reason, Menjie is even ready to spend a lot of money and use his connections in the entertainment industry for many years to prepare for this movie. (To be continued......)