Chapter 10: I Am a Candle

This very classic "old father sells daughter" business was a great success, and the most shocking one was An Hanjian.

After Li Jingming negotiated, he introduced An Hanjian to Ken Carlyle, saying that this was his head of entertainment business, and he would also be the direct boss of Cobby Carlyle, although he would not interfere too much in Cobby's career, and proper supervision was still necessary. At a young age, Li Jingming said that he likes everything young and is also very confident in the level of education at Harvard. After the other party knew that An Hanjin was a top student at Harvard Business School, he was relieved.

"John will be talking about the next movie, Mr. Carlyle will help me talk to Warner if I can, and I'll be grateful if I give you a discount when it is released." Unlike the general situation, film companies, especially the Big Eight, of course they will release independent films, but they all buy out movies directly and rarely share the box office, but Li Jingming is not only not ready to let them buy out their own films, but also is ready to buy out their theatrical channels to use. It doesn't make sense, but the things he played in his previous life were much more advanced than in the business field, and he firmly believed that extraordinary means can achieve extraordinary goals.

Ken Carlyle was satisfied with the income ratio of sixty percent, so he nodded directly and agreed, anyway, it was just a matter of saliva, and it had nothing to do with him whether he succeeded or not.

Seeing Ken Carlyle away, Li Jingming called several other people over. Several people looked at the general intention written by Li Jingming, and they were immediately shocked. Sixty percent of the income distribution is indeed very high, but if people don't come here, they will have nothing in Guangguo music, which is a kind of courage. There was nothing on his side, only a bunch of dead equipment, but as soon as Li Jingming opened his mouth, he came to a potential stock, and in the minds of these four people, they all thought that Li Jingming was going for Ken Carlyle, a former gold medal producer.

Li Jingming won't say too much to them, the ancients of the Celestial Empire still had a thousand dollars to buy horse bones, not to mention that he bought a real thousand miles of horses. Put Ken Carlyle, and later you can borrow his fame.

"John, tomorrow, no, this afternoon I want you to find this woman on the phone, talk about this script, I'll give you a budget of one million dollars, if the price is lower, the rest is yours, if it's higher than one million, then I don't think White needs to go to Korea with me." Li Jingming handed over a card with a number on it and a line of small print.

Here's the little print: Diablo Coty, "Juno."

Li Jingming had done an investigation before, "Juno" had not yet started, and the script was still in the hands of the screenwriter and no company took over, after all, this is a very sensitive script. Koreans don't care about this, Koreans have made works with themes like "My Little Bride" and "The Bride is Eighteen" before, but the United States is different, and "Juno" is also different. The United States is a country where churches are prevalent, and many people living here are devout Christians, and having a relationship without marriage is fine, but pregnancy before marriage is serious (for Christians), and the movie involves such a sensitive word as abortion, and it is no wonder that large companies are afraid of it. It's just that Li Jingming remembered that in his previous life, the movie was released in the summer, how could it still be a script now.

In fact, it is very simple, his own trajectory is completely different from that of his previous life, and it is inevitable that the situation of many companies in the United States will change, and a butterfly effect will occur.

An Hanjin knows that this is a test of his ability, and it is also a great opportunity for him to truly gain Li Jingming's trust. He doesn't need to know where Li Jingming got the news from, and Weishenme will have confidence in this script, he just needs to bring the filming authorization letter of this script to Li Jingming in the evening. However, he still needs to know Li Jingming's specific requirements: "Then are there any other requirements, senior?" ”

"You're attentive and good because it's important." Li Jingming seems to be waiting for him to say this, "I don't know how other people define independent films, but I want you to do it so that the name of an unrelated company does not appear in the subtitles of this movie, I just want to see the words 'Guangguo Pictures'." By the way, just write my English name in the producer column. ”

Li Jingming's words have already shown an imperative attitude, as if he has already got this movie in his hands and has already made this movie. An Hanjin just ate this set, he deserves to be a wise and martial senior, this king's domineering spirit is released, and he is really difficult to parry, if it weren't for someone watching next to him, maybe he would have worshipped it.

"Okay, don't look at me like that, the senior can only help you get here." Li Jingming often said the latter half of the sentence to An Hanjian.

At noon, everyone ordered takeout here, opened a bottle of champagne and lived, and the super overlord who stood proudly at the top of the Shijie cultural industry in the future was only witnessed by five people on the day of sailing.

In the evening, An Hanjin came back with good news, and after making sure that it was not a commercial fraud, the other party had no other requirements, except that the director of the film could use Jason Reitman, because it was a friend who had given her support.

Li Jingming has no other requirements, so he can shoot "Juno" in the original way. An Hanjin negotiated a price of $600,000 to buy out the script, and he didn't really take the rest of the money into his pocket, but was ready to hand it over to Li Jingming, Li Jingming was immediately furious, can he afford his apartment and sports car, do you care about the $400,000!

An Hanjian zuihou still took the money. But this money is not what An Hanjin cares about, what he cares about is what Li Jingming said to him: "Don't be a senior in the future, call me brother." ”

Whether it is a screenwriter or a director, Li Jingming must be seen, otherwise how can he start with the title of producer, but now it is definitely not suitable, and he didn't expect it to go so smoothly when the matter of this music company was decided. Success also means that the rest of the work must be done in one go. But tomorrow he will first go to his own film company, which he prepared earlier and more carefully than the music company, although the progress is slower.

There are countless large and small studios in Hollywood, and every year new ones come in, and there are old ones that go bankrupt. Li Jingming has no connections here at all, so he can only continue to do the work of collecting rags, and wants to buy a company that no one wants. He has been thinking about it since he came to the United States, and after getting Apple and Facebook, he started to look for a suitable partner, but unfortunately a year has passed and nothing has been found.

It wasn't until later, when he really didn't have the patience to wait for this "right opportunity" that he didn't know when it would appear, that he decided to cobble together a film company by himself. It's simple to put together, every day there are people who lose their jobs because of the bankruptcy of the company on the streets, and this situation is the same in Hollywood, so there is also a talent market here, including scene notes, lighting engineers, cameramen, prop masters and other professions, and there is no shortage of talents buried in it. Li Jingming began to gather these unemployed Hollywood workers, only to understand how difficult it was to have no professional knowledge, so he specially found an agent to help him collect talent, and it took a year to piece together the prototype of a company.

has no fame and no background, and it is a bit disturbing that he has not even made a film when others ask. Although Li Jingming's salary is still higher than that of other small companies, many people think that this is a company used by black shili to launder money and dare not come over. There is no norm for the people in the company to gather and disperse like duckweed, Li Jingming is not a character who can be improvised, people live for a lifetime and everything is still the first, he is already in his second life and he is determined to become a hit. For one reason or another, his Guangguo Film Production Company has not been working, and the staff is not neat.

The head of this company, Johnny Howard, was originally the agent of a famous Hollywood child star, but unfortunately that kid was really not on the road, and after becoming famous, he began to promiscuity, and the worst thing was that he was addicted to drugs. Howard, as an agent, had no idea how the sixteen-year-old guy got involved with that kind of thing, and that guy had always been a good boy in front of him. Zuihou Howard's reputation was ruined along with it, and it was a very serious dereliction of duty not to be optimistic about his artists, God knows that this is the child's father's business, because that kid's son is always up to him and he has to listen to him, and his agent is basically a coolie.

Howard is not a big man in Hollywood, but the artists in his hands have been popular for a while, and he has met a lot of people, with good knowledge and excellent professionalism. Now Li Jingming is also relieved when he hands over the first movie to him, so many people in the company say that this is a money laundering company, and he is scared to death, although he knows that the big boss is a shareholder of several famous companies, but the shareholders of famous companies can't play black shili, there is no need to launder the money, he is not sure, being arrested is still a trivial matter, being entangled by black shili is basically a god.

One day later, in the morning, Li Jingming still took the four guys together, and after meeting the screenwriter and director, Li Jingming waved his pen, and the budget of 10 million US dollars was directly allocated, he not only wanted to shoot, but also shoot well, better than the "Juno" he knew.

When the director saw Li Jingming's Asian face, he was sure in his heart, because Asians often don't have as many scruples as local American companies, and this movie has been rejected too many times before due to too much resistance, and they have to carefully consider whether this movie is really not suitable for the big screen. Money is truly regardless of nationality, and this 10 million dollar liliang makes everything go smoothly, and if you need to, you can cast it tomorrow. However, Li Jingming knows the quality of the script of "Juno", which is his ambition, and he will continue to invest in it if necessary, and strive for perfection in everything. However, it is one thing to allocate money, Li Jingming still found an account team in the investment company to supervise the funds, and in the future, he was responsible for all the expenses of the film company.

At this time, in the office of the film company, Li Jingming was seriously looking at a video on the computer.

In the picture, an indistinct figure holds a candle in his hand, groping and sneaking through a dimly lit cavern, and the blinding light not far away indicates the direction of the exit. When we reach the exit, the camera zooms out, and there is a beautiful country bathed in light, and the picture is very bright. At this time, the camera turned back, and out of the hole was an innocent and cute little boy, that is, the figure holding the candle just now, the little boy ran and jumped happily, and walked farther and farther away in a piece of light. It's not all over yet, the camera enters the cave just now, a extinguished candle is left on the stone, at the junction of light and darkness, a wisp of green smoke floats out of the wick, the candle drags out a shadow and the candle itself forms a letter "L" Look closely, the shadow of the candle has the shape of a faint flame at the top.

The candle on the screen then literally turns into letters, and a line of English appears behind it: Nation of Light Film Productions.

This is what Li Jingming asked the animation company to help do, and this will be the opening animation of all the films he belongs to in the future. That L is himself in his heart.

Some candles are still burning when they are extinguished, and some candles are burning but have been extinguished.

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