Did Tomahawk Entertainment's executives have a visionary? Do you have the guts?

Yes! At least they're more willing to gamble than other companies.

But that doesn't mean they're willing to spend their money.

Although the company does not have their shares, there are dividends at the end of the year, and there are quite a few. Every time the company pounces on a movie, their dividends at the end of the year will be less.

After all, not everyone is Liu Rong's big dog, and it will still be distressing to really lose money.

When the project of "Escape Era" was established, domestic science fiction movies were in a depression, which was an absolutely unpopular theme, but they finally looked at the script and the various science fiction special effects ideas proposed by Han Lan, and passed the project with a high vote.

When the project of "Huo Yuanjia" was established, Chinese kung fu films were almost synonymous with domestic bad films, which was a more unpopular theme than domestic science fiction, but after reading the script and considering Han Lan's own martial arts strength, they also approved the project with a high vote.

When the project of "Angel Angela" was established, the almost crazy behavior of investing 500 million in a literary film, they made a bet of 500 million to buy a Cannes actress, but they still passed the project with a high vote.

Even when the puppet show film "A Chinese Ghost Story" was established, after several twists and turns, in the end, it was still for the sake of the script, creativity and Wang Xianzhi's joining, and they passed a project that did not make much money in the eyes of outsiders.

Every time, as Han Lan said, if you win, you will be the first to eat crabs! They also eat a lot of crabs now.

But now, the sample effect of "A Chinese Ghost Story" has come out, which is far from what they hoped to achieve. Although the samples of the previous projects came out with a lot of differences from the final films, they could at least see the winning side. And now, "A Chinese Ghost Story" obviously doesn't let them see any wins.

This is also normal, after all, they look at the movie with the thinking of a conventional movie.

No matter how delicate the puppet is, its eyes, mouth, limbs, and fingers are very flexible, it is always not as good as that of a real actor, and even the performance level of ordinary people cannot reach it.

It's so stiff!

Even if the crew took a trick according to Han Lan's suggestion when filming, most of the clips filmed were big moves, and there were few close-ups of various facial activities in the literary drama, but the preview effect presented to the executives was still too stiff.

Maybe it's also because the current special effects, dubbing, and incomplete plot have no beginning or end, and the audience's attention will still focus too much on the performance of the puppets, especially the facial expressions.

At present, 80 million yuan has been allocated for this movie, nearly 100 million yuan, and there is still a budget of 120 million yuan that has not been allocated. If you stop in time, you can stop the loss and even recover a lot of investment. 120 million is a small goal, but not a small number.

Survival is also a skill that must be learned for managers, and if they are reluctant to give up, they may end up losing more. Especially this kind of project that leaves them with little hope.

In fact, as long as there is a chance of winning one or two percent, these gamblers are willing to follow Han Lan crazy, but now the odds of winning in this project are getting lower and lower, and they are not enough.

Han Lan was also looking at them, and there was silence in the conference room for a moment, but Han Lan suddenly asked, "Is there something wrong with the company's finances?"

Han Yiping didn't expect Han Lan to break this, and they were all silent.

The financial pressure is indeed one of the reasons why they want to stop the "A Chinese Ghost Story" project. You can't bring Liu Rong's funds to the rescue every time, right? Tang Yu's infighting, these people still remember it. It's okay now, but who knows what will happen later?

Wang Xianzhi was also stunned when he heard this, and was about to follow the producer to withdraw first, when he saw Han Lan wave his hand to signal that they didn't need to avoid it.

"Shouldn't it? The company has been profitable for the past two years, so there shouldn't be financial problems, right? Han Lan asked.

"It's just that short-term funds are a little tight, and when the box office of the next few movies is all recovered, there will be no big problem." Han Yiping said.

"The box office of "Angel Angela" should be settled in the next few days, can we get more than a billion? It should be enough to support the follow-up release of "Jingwu Chen Zhen", not less than this 100 million investment, right? Han Lan said again.

"Han Shuai, that's not how the account is calculated." The boss of Tomahawk Entertainment's financial department finally couldn't help it, and reminded with a light sigh:

"Han Shuai, no one can guarantee what the box office will be before the movie is released, even if we watch "Jingwu Chen Zhen", we don't think we will lose, but we have to prepare for the worst, right? There is also "Zhuxian 1" in the follow-up, which is another unknown. If these two films don't perform well, we will lose more than 700 million, and with the expenses of other parts of the company, as well as the budget for next year's film, Angel Angela may not be able to make ends meet at the box office. At this time, maintaining an obviously loss-making project will put too much pressure on the company's capital turnover. ”

Someone took the lead, and other executives also spoke out:

"Han Shuai, in fact, you really want to come out this year. The four films started filming at the same time in the first half of the year, and they are all independent and large investments, which no company can bear......"

"yes, this year the company is dancing on a tightrope."

Of the four films in the first half of this year, "Jingwu Chen Zhen" naturally went without saying much, and the project was unanimously approved. There are also "Angel Angela" and "Zhuxian 1", although they are a little reluctant, but in the end, at Han Lan's insistence, a group of people can only agree when they look at Han Yiping's face.

As a result, I didn't expect to shoot an MV, Han Lan gave the whole movie again, if it wasn't for Han Yiping's instructions in private, it wouldn't have been passed at all!

But now, all kinds of problems have begun to appear, and they finally can't help it.

This is actually not a catastrophe for Tomahawk Entertainment, even if there is an additional "A Chinese Ghost Story", they have the ability to revitalize the funds. Even if "A Chinese Ghost Story" really loses 200 million, it is not a big deal for them.

But what about later?

These people are also human spirits, knowing that Han Yiping is Han Lan's son, Tomahawk Entertainment will definitely be handed over to Han Lan in the future. When the time comes, Han Lan will be bolder, and she will start seven or eight blockbusters at the same time in a year, so what a fart?

This group of people wants to take advantage of the opportunity of "Zhuxian 1" to finish and Han Lan to return to the company, and use the incident of "A Chinese Ghost Story" to beat him and teach him not to be willful and foolish!

There's nothing wrong with making movies as a high-risk investment, but you can't stake the company's fate every day!

In the past, Tomahawk Entertainment made one or two movies a year, and basically one movie did not start betting on the next movie until the box office came out. And this year, the four movies will be released together, what about the trouble?

Han Lan finally understood their thoughts, and looked at Han Yiping again, Han Yiping didn't interject, obviously acquiescing.

Maybe even Han Yiping was instructed behind today's incident.

Although this fat man spoils his son, there are some things that should be taught.

"It's me who is in a hurry......"

Looking at the company's executives, as well as Han Yiping, Han Lan finally bowed his head, and their concerns were not unreasonable.

Even if these four movies are profitable, it is still too irrational to start filming at the same time in the first half of the year, and it is easy to have problems in the funding chain.

As an artistic creator, he has the ability to implement his ideas, which is naturally true; But if as the heir to Tomahawk Entertainment, he can't just think about his good movies.

Han Yiping didn't speak, patted him on the shoulder, and went out with a group of executives.

Before leaving, he didn't say that he would stop the project, and the funds for "A Chinese Ghost Story" will continue to be allocated.

However, there can be no next time.