Chapter 083: It's hard to lose money
The original movie "Little Singer" did not have a few songs, no new songs, and no classic songs. Yang Xiao is now ready to put some famous classic children's songs in this movie, so that the quality and taste of the movie will have a qualitative leap, and make this movie into a children's education propaganda film.
This kind of movie is the most popular among the above, and the dozen or so songs selected in Yang Xiao's mind are very educational and more popular. Everyone will have childhood memories, and nursery rhymes are undoubtedly the most impressive. Some classic children's songs can be sung for generations, Yang Xiao is excited when he thinks about it, what is more meaningful than doing this?
As long as the order is issued from above, what do you have to worry about at the box office? There must be about 50 million primary and secondary school students across the country who can watch movies. Even if you use a dime a dime a ticket price, you will have a box office of tens of millions. This kind of thing that is both famous and beneficial, how can Yang Xiao not do it?
He thought about the classic nursery rhymes and juvenile songs in his mind, and selected where is the spring, singing and smiling, planting the sun, looking for friends, counting ducks, two tigers, Northeast lullaby, happy new year, spring of the motherland of teenagers, I have a good mother, flowers of the motherland, morning on campus, mother taught me a song, mother's kiss, and the little girl picking mushrooms.
Standing on the shoulders of giants is cool, the classic children's songs accumulated in the past few decades are all put in one movie, think about what effect it will be? Yang Xiao spent another night writing the lyrics and scores of these songs, and put them in an envelope.
After doing this, he wanted to start thinking back to the suggestion he made to Jiang Baicheng and set up a cultural and entertainment communication company. He felt that with the support of these classic children's songs, the box office of this movie should be good. In particular, it also involves the copyright of these children's songs, and he thinks that a company should still hold these copyrights.
Although China does not pay much attention to copyright now, and piracy is more serious, now he wants to sit in front of these justifiably. That is, the newly established company should hold the copyright of these songs, and as for whether to set up a record company in the future, it is planned to make another plan.
Later, Yang Xiao thought about it again, if this company is only his sole proprietorship, there will be some restrictions in the policy, and if some foreign capital or some state-owned shares are introduced, it will be smoother. As for whether there can be equity disputes in the future, we will make a decision based on future developments.
Thinking of this, he contacted Sister Jun, and when Sister Jun heard this suggestion, she didn't say a word, just asked him how much money he needed, and just call me. Yang Xiao put down the phone and felt heavy in his heart, and he was also very moved by this kind of trust.
Yang Xiao thought about it again, dialed Zhou Meilan's phone, and briefly talked to Zhou Meilan about the establishment of a film company. Zhou Meilan said to him, I have 800,000 private money, I can give it to you, if you can't make money, you will pay me for my dowry. Yang Xiao put down the phone and touched his nose, but he didn't expect Zhou Meilan to be a little rich woman.
Now there is no need to think so much, there are these two foreign capital. Ah, he thought about it again, after donating so much money to the Public Security Bureau, his alma mater can't be left behind, so he will donate 50,000 yuan when he finds an opportunity.
Yang Xiao knew that the company's income should be good in the future, and he simply calculated that a movie now doesn't cost much, and he wants to borrow the name of Sister Jun's sister Zhou Meilan. If there were no restrictions from the current policy, he would simply be his own sole proprietorship.
Thinking of this, he picked up the pen and thought about it again, the company is still called Wantong Film and Television Company. I remember that in my previous life, this name Vantone seemed to be a pharmaceutical company and a real estate company. Don't care about anything else, just like it.
The registered capital of the company is set at 2 million. ADM Trading Company accounts for 50%. Yang Xiao personally holds 30% of the shares, and it is necessary to maintain control. Junjie Gangcheng Garment Company accounted for 10%, and Zhou Meilan Jewelry Company accounted for 10%.
Later, Mr. Huang of Gangcheng Records found out and said that he would take 200,000 Hong Kong dollars, accounting for 5% of the shares. Mr. Liao, Director Wu, Zhou Renfa, and the three brothers knew about it, and said that they would occupy some shares and invest at a premium. They are showing favor to Yang Xiao. Yang Xiao wanted to open the market in Hong Kong City in the future, and he couldn't do without the help of these people, so he had no choice but to give 5% to Mr. Liao, and the other five people each accounted for 2% of the shares.
After Gu Changge and Zhang Zhongliang found out, they encouraged the film academy and the music academy to invest, but at first there were leaders who disagreed. But in the face of Yang Xiao providing four scripts for Gangcheng and writing several classic songs, they stopped talking.
Yang Xiao was thinking about what Director Gu and Teacher Zhang said. Several other shareholders of the company are from Hong Kong City, and there are no domestic units, so it is still difficult to invest in films.
Yang Xiao once again took 10% of his shares, allowing the Conservatory of Music and the Film Academy to each hold 5% of the company's shares. Taking into account their actual situation, it is enough to subscribe to the share capital, and promise to make up the share capital after the release of the movie.
Except for Yang Xiao, the rest of the shareholders all declared that they would give up their management rights when they joined the shares, and only had the right to dividends and supervision. Yang Xiao did this just to avoid other noises in the operation of the enterprise, because only he can grasp this advantage in the general direction, that is, foresight.
After receiving Jiang Baicheng's feedback, the film academy hurriedly convened a meeting urgently. What was originally an ordinary graduation project of a school is now going to be turned into an injection of foreign capital, especially Hong Kong capital, which has attracted their attention.
At present, the state still welcomes the attraction of foreign investment, and there are some conservative forces that oppose the introduction of foreign investment. Finally, Jiang Baicheng was asked to contact, and Jiang Baicheng strongly advocated cooperation with Yang Xiao Company at the meeting.
Because the other party produced scripts, songs, and the actual investment of 200,000 yuan, and only half of the profit sharing in the end, he thought that the film school had taken a big advantage. Although they are not optimistic about this children's film, otherwise they would not have been able to give a budget of only 50,000.
In the end, Jiang Baicheng said, "You can look at the script and songs he wrote, and if the script and songs don't pass, we can give up working with him." ”
Jiang Baicheng said that this is a trust in Yang Xiao's certain literary skills and songwriting. Fifteen songs, just singing a part of it will take up about half an hour of the entire movie (each singing a short segment). If there are one or two more classic songs, it will be difficult for this movie to lose money.
Jiang Baicheng said this at the meeting, which was approved by most of the participants. In particular, there is no need to take money before buying shares, which is in line with the psychological expectations of most people, and no one wants to do a losing business.
Jiang Baicheng was also secretly amazed at the meeting, Yang Xiao is so accurate in grasping human nature at a young age. Regarding the issue of not having to take money to buy shares, Yang Xiao deliberately emphasized it on the phone.
In addition, the participants also know that this person named Yang Xiao has deep composition skills, and several classic songs have been determined to be the main melody songs, so it shouldn't be too bad this time.
As for the issue of joint ventures, this is being done from top to bottom, and as long as foreign capital does not hold a controlling stake, it is not a big problem. A small number of people just have some opinions about only the right to supervise and the right to dividends, but think that they haven't actually paid for it, so they won't say a few words.
After Yang Xiao received Jiang Baicheng's feedback, his heart was slightly hot, thinking that as long as he could participate in this movie, he would get off to a good start. As for the quality of the songs themselves, he never had to worry about them, and he promised to provide the script and songs in a month's time.
The reason is the same reason, Yang Xiao doesn't want to be too shocking. Even so, the thought of providing nearly thirty classic songs at the same time after a month, almost one every day, will blow the jaws of a large number of people.