"Yes, two hundred million."

Li Lin said lightly, "This is the first time that the Gold Medal Group has tested the Chinese market, and the person directed by it is Zhang Yimou. ”

"The City Full of Golden Armor" has been fully processed, but it was only postponed because of the impact of "Diablo 1: Original Sin War", and now Zhang Yimou is on vacation.

Li Lin felt that it was necessary to let this national teacher give full play to the last light and heat, you know, when the Olympic Games really started, Zhang Yimou would be very tired, and he didn't have the time to direct at that time.

In the face of that grand event, every qiē had to give in.

"If it succeeds, we will invest heavily in the development of the Huaxia market, but if it fails, the group's strategy will be readjusted, at least in the Huaxia film market, the group will maintain a very conservative strategy."

Chen Zhiming pondered for a moment and shook his head fiercely, "200 million is unlikely to succeed." ”

It's not that Zhang Yimou can't make good movies, in fact, Zhang Yimou's movies are very exciting, but the biggest problem is that the film market in China is too small, and the real dragon can't come out of shallow water, and no matter how good-looking the movie is, it can't get a super high box office in the Chinese market.

Even now in the spring of the film and television industry, according to the share, the investment of 200 million will need at least 400 million to barely return to the capital, 500 million to make a profit, and 600 million to make a big profit, but now in 06, if you want a box office of 600 million, how is it possible.

Li Lin's move, in his eyes, was crazy.

"Even if it is Zhang Yimou's movie, it is impossible to get such a high box office. You are doomed. ”

said so, but Chen Zhiming's heart was moved.

An investment of 200 million, directed by Zhang Yimou. This qiē is full of temptation for him, even if the final box office does not meet the requirements, and the gold medal group loses money, it doesn't matter.

Investors are not fools, they also know that as long as the box office is good enough. There are enough people watching, and the loss of reputation is not worth mentioning at all.

As a matter of fact. As long as it is not a box office fiasco, the industry will not attribute it to the actors, because the director bears the brunt.

Under such a temptation, Fan Binbin's faceless behavior has long been thrown out of the clouds.

"Just forgive. Can you get? ”

He asked cautiously. As long as Li Lin said yes, he immediately agreed, compared with the 200 million Huaxia yuan investment and the movie directed by Zhang Yimou, his holiday with Fan Binbin is just pediatrics.

As for whether the movie will be bad, he is not worried about where Zhang Yimou's reputation is, and not every movie is Wuji.

True. After transforming into a commercial film, Zhang Yimou's reputation declined. But this is a decline, not a collapse, in fact, whether it is "Hero" or "Ambush on All Sides", there are many people who complain, but in terms of evaluation, they have nothing to do with bad movies, at most they have mixed reputations.

And compared with "Wu Ji", Zhang Yimou's movies can really crush the other party at the level, which is already commendable among the big directors who have planted their heels after joining the WTO.

"Of course not."

Is there such a cheap thing in the world? Even if there is, one Fan Binbin's chips are not enough, "The movies invested by our company are first considered by the artists under our own company, and only if they are not suitable, we will choose other artists, but no matter what, we will never choose the artists of Orange Sky Entertainment." ”

Here's where the benefits of corporate artists come in.

Don't underestimate a right of first choice, a right of first choice is enough to keep most artists firmly out, in the entertainment industry, no artist is irreplaceable,

Playing stars, the famous Jet Li, Cheng Long, real bullets, etc., there are a lot of them, as for the good acting skills, there are even more, and the more artists you can choose, the more important the priority.

"Company."

Chen Zhiming is silent, the artists in the entertainment industry are not free, at least the current artists in the entertainment industry are not free, in this era when the film and television production company controls the investment in films, the only choice for artists in the entertainment industry who want to take over the film is to rely on the company behind them, which also makes the film and television production company replace the function of the brokerage company in a certain process.

This is not the same as in Europe and the United States.

European and American record companies and film and television companies rarely sign artists, and even if they do, they do not sign contracts through other means, such as Sony Music, they do not directly sign musicians, but assign the musicians' signing contracts to their own brokerage companies, making the company clear in terms of authority.

Huaxia is different.

Huaxia's film and television production company signed artists, and they signed a large number of contracts, and even created a lot of barriers in order to compete for artist resources, this kind of thing will not start until Fan Binbin takes the lead in leading the artist to open the studio era.

In Li Lin's previous life, after Fan Binbin opened a studio, a series of well-known artists such as Zhao Wei began to open their own studios, and they attached the studio to a large company, and then relied on their connections to invest in movies and TV series, and then cast their own roles from them.

This approach greatly increases the autonomy of the artists, but at the same time, it also makes the artists not pure, they begin to think about their own investment, they begin to interfere with the crew, impose their own will, and wishful thinking that their ideas are right.

Whether this approach succeeds or fails is not well judged, because some have succeeded and some have failed, but in general, the artist is a layman and an insider, which makes the directors in this circle disgusted with the artist.

There have been directors who complained to the media, saying that I am a director or is he a director? When filming, this is not right, that is not right, changing the script arbitrarily.

Although it was not explicitly stated, the media still branded the word drama bully.

Moreover, if the artist's investment fails, the artist will be forced to make money, and it is basically the norm to take on a large number of plays and repay money to make money, and in this way, he is also overdrawing his career.

Just like Andy Lau, the company he opened failed to invest in one after another, and finally he was forced to take on a large number of bad scenes, overdrawing the enthusiasm of fans, and during that time, he was very hard.

Even this kind of bitterness continued after 2010, Fuchun Mountain Jutu is a debt left over from that era, although he knew that it was a bad movie, he still filmed it, and then he was scolded by fans, and once again lost his popularity.

But that hasn't happened yet.

Fan Binbin, who started the studio era, is now licking his wounds under the protection of the company, as for Zhao Wei and the like, they are all very good at the company's treatment, and they have no intention of going out to work alone, so there is no trend of opening a studio in the entertainment industry.

"You want to sign me?" Chen Zhiming smiled undeniably, "I'm afraid it's not enough just such conditions." ”

When it came to the end, he was picky.

Although he knew that the gold medal group was the best choice, he did not rush directly like a shark smelling blood, but was reserved and talked about the conditions.

Li Lin didn't care, Chen Zhiming was willing to talk, which meant that he had the intention to talk, "The signing fee is 60 million for three years, and the liquidated damages company will help you pay it, as for the share, how about setting it at 55?" ”

The signing fee is 60 million for three years, which sounds like a small amount, but it is Chen Zhiming's current price.

If someone dares to give Zhou Xun such a price and keep Zhou Xun spraying him to death with a mouthful of salt soda, why is the veteran actor Chen Zhiming only 60 million in three years, but Zhou Xun surpasses him?

The reason is very simple, popularity, salary.

Zhou Xun opened the door to foreign countries with "World of Warcraft", although she is barely a third-tier actor abroad, but for China, she is the next Zhang Ziyi, who is touted by the media.

Her salary has also risen steadily, surpassing Chen Zhiming every minute.

In the eyes of investors, qualifications and status are all false, only the box office appeal is real, how to look at the box office appeal?

The first is to look at past achievements, and the second is to look at the current popularity and fame.

As one of the four little flowers, Zhou Xun is second to none among actresses in terms of popularity and fame, and as for the box office, the box office of the movies she starred in is not low.

So her salary is high, and the signing fee is also high.

In fact, there is a misunderstanding here, many people think that the signing fee is the payment of the money to the artist as remuneration after the artist signs the contract, but in fact this is not the case.

The signing fee is not so much the signing fee as the guarantee money or insurance money.

When the company signs an artist, how much is the three-year signing fee, it means that the artist must make so much money in the company, if he can't make so much money, then the company will supply the missing part to the artist, on the contrary, if the artist earns enough money in the time of signing the contract, and exceeds this money, then the company actually does not need to pay this money.

So the artist needs to spit out the signing money in hand.

This is not the same thing as signing a contract in the eyes of outsiders.

And the payment of the signing fee is not immediate, he pays in installments.

For example, if the Gold Medal Group signs Chen Zhiming with a three-year signing fee of 60 million, then they immediately need to pay Chen Zhiming a signing fee of 20 million, and the remaining 40 million will be paid to Chen Zhiming in installments next year and the year after.

Once Chen Zhiming's popularity suddenly declines, or Chen Zhiming encounters some kind of unexpected event, the company will begin to evaluate whether it is necessary to continue to pay Chen Zhiming the signing fee.

Once the company believes that it is not necessary to continue to pay the signing fee to Chen Zhiming, then the company will stop paying, and they stop paying, which also means that the contract between the company and Chen Zhiming is automatically terminated, and Chen Zhiming can find another job.

To put it mildly, the company saw that Chen Zhiming could not make profits, so it kicked Chen Zhiming away.

It may sound ruthless, but it is a means for the company to reduce the risk, the artist is guaranteed a certain amount of protection, and the company avoids the responsibility of the risk that it bears all of its own. (To be continued......)