During the filming of "Welcome to You", Xuluo asked Han Sanping again if Eying Studio would invest in the filming of "Farewell My Concubine".

Han Sanping didn't even ask the price, and directly refused.

This is not just what he meant, but before he came to Beijing, when he reported to the factory director's work meeting, he raised it in front of the senior management of the factory, and then was all vetoed.

Okay.

Eying Studio is reluctant to forget it, after all, Xu Luo dare not say that "Farewell My Concubine" is a work that can win the Cannes Golden Palm.

Of course, they didn't believe it.

Kaige's father is from the Perylene Power Plant, and he proposed that since "Farewell My Concubine" was filmed in Perennia Beijing, he could cooperate with the Permeale Power Plant.

The power plant will send people and relations, and Xuluo will only pay money, and then divide the rights and interests according to the negotiation.

This Xuluo agrees.

After all, if you don't have the help of the local snake, you won't be able to do things well.

These things are not something that Huzi's group can do, they have said it themselves, and their good at running errands and dealing with small things is just that.

But here comes the problem again.

There are two.

The first is in what capacity does Xuluo be an investor?

It's not enough to have money, you have to erect a main body to come out.

Is it a domestic film agency or an overseas film company?

There's something special about it.

Now that Eying Studio is not participating, and the Yuan Power Plant obviously does not pay for it, then Xuluo's idea of using the adaptation rights to buy shares will naturally be broken.

He wants to be like Zhang Guoli said, and he can't find a place to anchor in China.

So he can only choose to use overseas film companies to invest.

If it weren't for Xuluo's intervention, Xu Feng's Tomson Film Company would have been the main producer in his previous life.

Now Xuluo is also thinking about opening a film company in Xiangjiang, and then using the model of this film company to invest in filming films in the mainland.

Actually, it's not that hard.

Because the relationship between Xuluo and Jiahe is good.

Golden Harvest is also a very unique film company, it likes to support its stars and directors, let them set up film subsidiaries, and then everyone works together to develop films and make money together.

Xu Guanwen, Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, Xu Ke, Wu Siyuan...... And so on, it's all a model of this kind of cooperation.

It is not unusual for Xuluo to join in, and Zou Wenhuai will only be more welcome.

All the procedures, personnel, office space, etc. of the film company can be entrusted to Golden Harvest, anyway, it doesn't need much manpower and office space, it can be said to be an empty shell.

The main one is in the interior, in Xuluo.

So, the first problem was solved.

What remains is the second question.

Money.

The problem of money is even more important.

Except for mom and dad. 's 1 million, Xuluo had a total of 4.1 million in his hands before, which were the money for "The Gambler", "Shanghai Beach Gambling Saint", "Red Fan District" and "Huang Feihong's Top Gun", as well as the copyright fee of 100,000 yuan for "Men Should Be Self-Improvement".

The last time I came to shoot "Welcome to You", it cost almost 280,000 yuan, but this money has already been earned through the purchase and broadcast rights of major TV stations and even TV stations in prefecture-level cities during this time, and it is still earned.

The total income is 490,000, which almost doubled.

No way, there are many TV stations in Huaguo.

Although prefecture-level cities can only give 2,000 yuan, there are more than 100,000 yuan in fifty or sixty developed prefecture-level cities.

In fact, the expenses of the organizing committee this time are not high, about 400,000.

Tan Yonglin couldn't help but shake his head when he listened to the cost.

Principal Tan told Xuluo that if this is changed to Xiangjiang, 400,000 is just to invite a first-line star, so many stars will appear, and there will be no five million or eight million?

But that's the superiority of our system, and that's what we're doing for Asia. What about the gifts, what money do you want?

Even in the future, it is not impossible for us to make a movie for the motherland, gather hundreds of stars, and participate in the show with zero pay!

All right.

Back to the present.

There are also a lot of expenses, such as the application for a mobile phone patent, it takes money to register and apply in Europe and the United States, but in general, 4 million in hand is appropriate.

But what is 4 million enough?

No matter how willing Zhang Guorong is to reduce his salary, can you give hundreds of thousands, one million?

No, you can't.

It's a matter of respect.

You can give him a discount because it's a literary film, but you must not give him an insulting price.

Xuluo consulted Wang Jing before, and Wang Fatzi said that Zhang Guorong's salary in Xiangjiang was about 200-3 million, and it would be more appropriate for Xuluo to give 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

And then Zhang Fengyi, Ge You, Chen Xiaoxu and other main actors, together, it's not too much to give 1 million yuan, right?

All the staff, including director Kai Ge and producer Xu Feng, it's not too much to give 1 million yuan, right?

None of this is a big head.

The big head is the various expenses during the shooting.

Film, venues, props, group performances, eating, drinking, and ...... Wait a minute.

Even with the full support of the Perylene Power Plant, you have a budget of 3 million, can you get it?

In the whole calculation, this requires an investment of 5 million.

If it is added with an additional 20% preparation fee, then 6 million RMB will be required.

Therefore, the 4 million in Xuluo's hands is still a third short, far from enough.

Xuluo is not an immortal, and there is no way to turn money out.

It is even more impossible to go to Aomen to gamble and multiply the money in your hand tenfold.

So he thought about it, and he only had two ways.

Actually, it's also one.

That's borrowing money.

The difference is only in whether it is borrowed from Jiahe or Yongsheng.

In the end, Xuluo compromised.

He decided to borrow 2 million from Yongsheng and 2 million from Jiahe - after all, he couldn't shoot "Farewell My Concubine" in his hand, and he didn't have any money at all.

Xiangjiang's film companies, Golden Harvest and Yongsheng are the top three, and 4 million is not a big number for them.

But Xuluo can't rely on one side alone, he needs a checks and balances.

So both film companies, he is ready to owe two scripts and "pay them back" within a year or two.

It is a bit of a pressure to come up with four Xiangjiang blockbuster movie scripts within a year or two, but now Xuluo has two God-given treasures - Sister Lin and classmate Yu, and he has a lot more confidence in his heart.

Not to mention that after "Farewell My Concubine" won the Palme d'Or from Cannes, the copyright alone can earn the money back, not to mention the domestic box office.

The year before last, the box office of "Red Sorghum" in China was 40 million yuan, and Western Film Studio and Zhang Yamou got a share of more than 4 million.

But in foreign copyrights, because they won the Berlin Golden Bear Award, the film copyrights of European and American countries were sold for a total of more than 3 million US dollars, and this money was also obtained by Western Film Studios.

Xuluo planned to shoot "Farewell My Concubine" by himself, and won the Cannes Palme d'Or, which is half a level higher than the Berlin Golden Bear Award, so the income will not be less than that of Western Film Studio.

It's just that Western Film Studio only used more than 800,000 yuan to shoot "Red Sorghum", but Xuluo used more than 6 million yuan to shoot "Farewell My Concubine", which undoubtedly has a different return on investment.

……

Obviously, Xuluo did not overestimate his status in Heung Kong Film Company.

When he called Wang Jing and Cai Yongchang respectively, 4 million yuan had been transferred to his small treasury account the next day.

They didn't even let him hit an IOU.

It's a form of trust.

So it is impossible for Xuluo to pay back the cash directly after making money in "Farewell My Concubine" - this is immoral, even if he makes money, he has to follow the rules and use the script to repay.

But then there was something extraneous.

Zhang Guorong, who had returned to Xiangjiang to deal with some of his affairs and was about to return to Beijing to study Peking Opera immediately, made a phone call back.

"Xiao Luo, my salary really doesn't need to be so high." Zhang Guorong said very bluntly, "Don't look at my salary of two or three million on weekdays, or even up to three or five million, but it is a commercial film." When making literary films, everyone just needs to get a symbolic salary. You give me 200,000! ”

Zhang Guorong lied.

There is a significant reduction in the salary for participating in literary films, but for him, the price of 200,000 is too low.

Xu Luo immediately thought that the rumor of borrowing money by himself must have spread, Zhang Guorong felt that his salary was too high, and he asked people to borrow money to shoot, he was very embarrassed, so he took the initiative to say this.

In order to make Xuluo's face feel good.

Again, that's the same sentence.

If people give you face, you have to give them face.

When encountering such a careless and honest person as Zhang Guorong, Xuluo will not treat others badly: "Brother Rong, don't say it, I have all the funds ready!" This 1 million is not much, you still have to pay for at least 8 months to a year of filming time, are these not worth 1 million? ”

Yes.

This is the second loophole in Zhang Guorong's speech.

People in Xiangjiang shoot literary films, at most one or two months, including Zhang Guorong's "The True Story of A Fei", which has not yet been released before, and it is also 70 days of filming.

Several times in Xiangjiang, there has never been a film that can be filmed for 8 months to 1 year, whether it is a commercial film or a literary film.

So you delay a superstar for almost a year, during which he will hardly do anything else, but you only give him a salary of 200,000, do you think it is appropriate?

1 million is just a friendship price.

Zhang Guorong saw that Xuluo insisted, but he didn't say too much on the phone, but he also changed to another topic.

"Xiao Luo, the boss of the brokerage company I signed with now is called Huang Baiming, you know him, right?"

"I know, Zhu Xiucai!"

"Huh!"

As soon as Zhang Guorong heard it, he knew that Xuluo was really familiar.

Because "Zhu Xiucai" is the name of Huang Baiming's character in the first movie starring Huang Baiming that year - "Happy Ghost".

"Boss Huang, he heard about your name, so he wanted to make an appointment with you for a script." Zhang Guorong said, "But he is not taking the opportunity to take advantage of you now, the price is still 1 million yuan, as long as you want, no matter when the script comes out, the money will go directly to your account." ”

Xu Luo was extremely surprised when he heard it, "Boss Huang is a famous screenwriter, "Take the Wrong Car", "Happy Ghost", "Best Partner", ...... I'm amazed at all of this, so why are you looking for me? ”

"Hey."

Zhang Guorong laughed and said: "He hasn't been very successful in the past few years, and Xinyicheng is about to end, so he is so anxious, how can he have the heart to make a good script?"

Your script is also a big one for him to use when he's ready to start anew! Boss Huang is a very good person, I think if you still have the energy to spare, you can agree! Don't worry, he won't rush you. ”

If it was someone else, Xuluo would definitely choose to refuse at this time.

But in the face of Zhang Guorong, who took the initiative to ask for only 200,000 yuan just now, Xuluo must be embarrassed.

So he didn't hesitate much: "Okay, thank you Brother Rong, and help me convey my gratitude to Boss Huang, I will give the script as soon as possible!" ”

"Good!"

Zhang Guorong on the other side of the phone was very happy and secretly relieved.

He can finally make a deal to his friends.

……

I read an article saying that Zhang Guorong was paid 4 million in "Farewell My Concubine", which is a little unbelievable.

Because in 93, 2 years after the filming of "Farewell My Concubine", the hottest year for Xiangjiang movies, Andy Lau's movie was 8 million, Zhang Xueyou 1.2 million, Li Shu 1 million, and Kwok Fucheng 800,000 - Zhang Guorong's box office appeal is not as good as Andy Lau's, he has never been a single-handed box officer, this is a bit similar to Liang Chaowei after 2000.

Besides, "Farewell My Concubine" is a literary film, and it is impossible to give the salary of a commercial film, I have never heard of this kind of rule, so I set it to 1 million.

As for the salary of domestic actors at this time, not to mention, as quoted above, Lao Mouzi finished filming "Red Sorghum" for more than 800,000 yuan, what do you say is the actor's salary?