On behalf of Penguin Pictures, Zhang Yanping decided that he hoped to be able to keep up with the car of the movie "Night Hunter" by Wedo Entertainment.

The story told in "Night Hunter", according to Ye Jiayi, should be an independent film of a shooter hero in LOL, Wayne (VN).

VN is a very popular character in League of Legends, and her backstory is also quite distinctive.

According to Zhang Yanping's judgment, after the release of "Demacia: Glory", if the results are relatively satisfactory, then "Night Hunter", which will be released next, as a movie under the same IP series, should not perform badly.

Although there is not even a shadow of the movie "Demacia" now, Zhang Yanping is still very willing to gamble on the IP of LOL and the past success of Wedo Entertainment.

However, there were financial problems.

His application was rejected by the group headquarters.

The reply given by the headquarters probably means that too much money has been invested in the entire series, and it is not appropriate to invest further until the first film has not been effective.

Zhang Yanping was a little stunned.

But fortunately, the time given to him by Wedo Entertainment was about a month, so he managed to meet with some big bosses of the group and talked for more than an hour.

Unfortunately, in the end, he still failed to convince his boss.

However, the one-hour interview was not without results. Although he did not receive any money from the group, he was allowed to raise funds in the name of Penguin Pictures.

According to the contract with Wedo Entertainment, the cooperation between the two parties is exclusive, and the third party is not allowed to directly intervene in the investment and share the benefits, let alone enter the copyright sharing pool to share the copyright interests.

However, if debt financing is carried out, the money can be invested in the movie "Night Hunter" in the name of 'Penguin'.

At that time, Wedo Entertainment will normally share accounts with 'Penguin', so how Penguin distributes benefits with their creditors has nothing to do with Wedo Entertainment.

Take the IP of "League of Legends" and the boss of "Dimension Entertainment" Fan Zhe to create it himself, these two names are enough to bluff people, and it is not a big problem to find some investment.

Even, it can be said that all parties rushed to vote.

However, there is also a saying about casting.

In the following period, Zhang Yanping was looking for external sources of funding. People who want to invest have broken the door, but most of them want to get a share of the box office directly, and there are even many wishful thinking people who want to get a sum of money and enter the copyright sharing field.

This is definitely impossible, not to mention that it is impossible for Wedo Entertainment to agree, and it is impossible for Zhang Yanping to agree.

He gave a condition for external funding:

"Financing 300 million yuan for a period of three years, promising a certain rate of return, can be negotiated, but will never accept negotiations on box office sharing and copyright interests."

The meaning is obvious, I borrow money, and I give a good interest, and the movie doesn't lose money if it loses investors, anyway, it's borrowing money, not admission; But if you make money, don't expect to get extra points.

Under such conditions, a large amount of external funds immediately cooled down.

Everyone is waving money and wants to come in and make a lot of money, but not many people are interested in using their own money to help the penguins make money.

Others, who are still enthusiastic, continued to consult in depth about the rate of return on debt financing, and the results ...... It's not high, either.

In order to control the cost of capital, and more importantly, to control the risk, the rate of return they give is actually relatively low.

At least not as appealing.

This also led to the financing of the penguins, which did not go well.

Zhang Yanping has no idea how much money he can raise after the one-month period.

But for him, no matter how much he melts, he has to smash into it. Even if you can't fill in such a large investment as 300 million, you can invest as much as you can, at least keep up with the car.

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While Zhang Yanping was busy raising funds, Fan Zhe was still trying to advance the progress of the film project "Demacia: Glory".

At present, the contact of film actors is relatively smooth.

Domestic actors still have a lot of interest in such a movie with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. As soon as the news was released, before Wedo Entertainment began to take the initiative to contact the actors, there were already many brokerage companies and star teams that automatically came to the door, and there were some relatively popular traffic stars.

But Fan Zhe is basically useless.

Even after thinking about it for a while, he didn't use Chen Yu and Li Ze from his own company. Chen Yu is popular enough, but to be honest, his acting skills are still a bit immature, and Fan Zhe feels a little unstable as the protagonist of such a movie. Li Ze is the opposite, his acting skills are enough, but his popularity is much worse.

The agent of the two of them, that is, Dai Weidong, the person in charge of 'Dimension Brokerage', still felt a little unwilling, and personally came to Fan Zhe once, saying something like 'If you can't get the protagonist, forget it, and give one or two supporting roles with better scenes', Fan Zhe bombarded him back.

The two of them, plus Una, are the three most famous stars signed by the current 'Dimension Brokers', and they are their own family members. In the series "League of Legends", there will be many parts in the future, and there will be many heroes who will appear, so you don't have to worry about running out of opportunities.

Moreover, as long as there are a few works with relatively good results, the dependence of the later series of movies on the fame of the actors is not so high, and they can even be used to praise newcomers at that time.

It's not suitable for this now.,After all, it's the first movie in the LOL series.,It's more or less cautious.。

pressed a large number of second- and third-line actors who came into contact, and some first-line actors also fell into the pending sequence, and the main targets of the project team were still the ones that had been predetermined before.

In the end, the prince, one of the two male protagonists, was basically settled - Peng Yuyan.

This movie star from Taiwan was also a bit like a little fresh meat at the beginning, but the subsequent development journey is obviously different from those fresh meat stars who follow pure idol faction and pure traffic, and his acting skills have gradually improved, and he has cooperated with many big names, and in the end, he can single-handedly resist the box office of a movie.

Along the way, he can almost be said to be one of the best among the new generation of Chinese movie stars.

In addition, an important supporting role has also been set, and he is still a well-known star - Xie Tingfeng.

This second-generation Hong Kong star, a singer, made his debut, and later turned to be an actor, and his results are good, but I don't know what to think, and in recent years, I have changed careers to become a chef......

But no matter what, these two agreed to the invitation of Wedo Entertainment, and the salary situation is relatively good.

The former is 25 million and the latter is 15 million, adding up to a total of 40 million yuan, which is still acceptable.