Chapter Seventy-Two: The Commercial Pursuit of Literary Films

"It's not surprising that when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds."

Sitting opposite Li Xianyun, Xuandong smiled strangely.

"Is there one? I don't think Yisheng Media is big now. Li Xianyun was puzzled.

Xuandong spread his hand, "Then it depends on who you compare with." Those who can produce movies in batches, even if they are Internet universities, can be regarded as large companies. ”

"Come on, the question now is how to solve it." Li Xianyun leaned back against the boss's chair and said, "Jiangcheng Film and Television is not satisfied with us being a film and television base, &bsp&bsp has begun to stumble." The daily business of the later department of Yisheng Media has been affected, and if it weren't for the old ghost's Tongtianji, it would definitely be a loss this year. ”

"You can't blame them all, they did a lot of things for us in the later period." Xuandongdao.

"But you can't always expect your own output to live." Li Xianyun rubbed his temples, "The film and television atmosphere here in Jiangcheng is not as good as the capital and the magic capital after all. What do you think? Set up two offices in the capital and the magic capital to undertake business there. ”

Xuandong thought for a while and said, "At the end of the year, the first phase of the ghost town can be completed, and it will be ready for trial operation at that time." With the help of our own film and television base, we can also contract business, is it necessary to do so? ”

Li Xianyun shook his head: "I think it's necessary." Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the ghost town has just started, and it is not easy to make a name. What the old ghost told me at the beginning, although it had the purpose of lowering the price, was generally correct. Having an office in the capital and the magic capital can not only take over the business in the later stage, but also the business in the ghost town, and also strengthen the cooperation with other film and television companies to further sell special effects. ”

At this stage, special effects are the main profit of Yisheng Media, and the decisive battle of Sky City and God Killing is easy to get 60 million.

Since they have decided to sell special effects, of course they have to sell them openly.

Jiangcheng Film and Television blocked me? It doesn't matter, &bsp&bspI don't have a bar with you, the south is not bright and the north is bright, &bsp&bsp not to mention that the north is brighter.

Good opponents are used to squeeze their own potential, and without them, Li Xianyun would not have thought of this stubble.

Xuandong nodded when he listened, "That's right, after all, it's going to be done first, and it's too late to cut it when it's not needed." I'm okay with that. Or give it to Dou Lingling? ”

"No way!" Li Xianyun immediately objected, "Dou Lingling is very capable, but she can't be trusted." Now she controls the artist, if she is allowed to control the business again, then Yisheng Media will have to look at her face. ”

Hearing this, Xuandong smiled.

He laughed because Li Xianyun has become more and more boss-like, his thinking is becoming more mature, and his ideas are more insightful.

Xuan Dongdao: "That's okay, just recruit people locally." It just so happened that I met a few friends in Huayou, and I dug them up directly. ”

"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Li Xianyun continued, "By the way, Liu Li's matter, in fact, I am also responsible. Zhao Yunyang asked Liu Li to dictate, which is very bad. This time Liu Li admitted, next time I change someone, &bsp&bsp directly said I didn't know there was such a thing, I didn't hear it, what should I do? ”

Xuandong nodded, "It is still necessary to strengthen the process, and some things must be reported in writing." ”

"But it's not good to rely on the process to do everything." Li Xianyun said.

The more intensive the process, the less efficient it becomes.

A problem that can be solved by verbal paraphrasing, if you have to make a report, isn't it a toss-up thing? There are a lot of things in the enterprise, and everything is reported and applied, do you still want to do this work?

Do you want to go through the process when you go to the toilet?

But the company can't always rely on self-consciousness, stupid people will make mistakes, and smart people will also make mistakes. The problems of smart people are harder to detect and the consequences are more serious than the mistakes of fools.

At this moment, Li Xianyun and Xuandong discussed for a while, and after all, Li Xianyun said, "There is still no need to go through the process for such simple things, but communication links must be strengthened." ”

Xuandong asked, "Isn't there already a group of enterprises?" ”

"The problem is that they didn't say this in the group, maybe they have scruples." Li Xianyun found that the sequelae of slapping the table is that some employees dare not say anything.

That's the contradiction.

The boss is too polite, people are not afraid of you, and no one listens to what you say; It's too fierce, I'm so scared that I'm afraid, and no one dares to speak about the problem.

Thinking of this, Li Xianyun said, "We have to give them a platform to speak freely." Enterprises must have systems and human nature. You say, how about an intranet? ”

Large enterprises generally have an intranet, mainly to facilitate employees to open their hearts, and to put it bluntly, to let superiors better obtain grassroots information.

"Do it now? Isn't it a bit early? Xuandong was a little unimpressed.

That's what big businesses need to do, not small businesses.

But Li Xianyun didn't think so, he shook his head and said, "It's not that it's useful to have an intranet, there will definitely be many problems." It's better to do it now and find out early. The company is now profitable, and this cost is no problem. In addition, tell Zhao Yunyang again, if the boss of the special mother didn't speak, won't he ask again? He is now a department manager, so cowardly, no wonder the director did not do well in the first place. ”

Zhao Yunyang's personality is a little weak, and Zhao Yunyang is indeed responsible for this matter - Boss Li himself began to show his domineering, and he began to feel that his subordinates were too weak.

Selective oblivion - the one who is not cowardly has been expelled from him.

"Okay, I'll go back and arrange it, and then talk to Zhao Yunyang." Xuandong nodded.

"Don't do it to you, let Lao Liu come, he's still quite good at enlightening people."

"As long as you don't drink." Xuandong laughed.

The two discussed the company's current problems for a while, picked up the missing parts, and then went their separate ways.

Today, Huayou came with news.

The theater they agreed on was ready to go.

This theater was agreed between Huayou and Li Xianyun last time, with a director fee of 1 million plus 5% of the box office, and by the way, he also took the initiative to repay the remaining 10 million debts.

But because of this, Li Xianyun does not have the right to choose the script.

The content is set by Huayou, and he puts forward suggestions for revision at most, just like a real director, just take money to work and fulfill his duties.

Li Xianyun is very acceptable to this.

His status was lower than this when he was in charge of the god-killing crew.

handed over the company to Liu Yijiang and Xuandong to be responsible, and Li Xianyun began to find a fault for the Chaoying series - if you don't look for it, you can't do it, if you don't find something for them, they will have to urge you in turn, when will the boss start work?

Li Xianyun can't say that you wait, boss, I'll give someone else a job first.

It's okay to improve the quality of the product.

Li Xianyun is full of enthusiasm and looks forward to showing his skills and applying the aesthetics he learned from Zhang Damou.

Two days later, I finally waited for Huayou's script.

When Li Xianyun saw it, his nose was crooked - he finally understood why Huayou was so generous this time.

Directly picked up the phone and called Yang Yuan, Li Xianyun said unceremoniously, "Old Yang, aren't you so pitiful?" ”

Yang Yuan smiled: "Have you read the script?" ”

"Nonsense!" Li Xianyun scolded directly, "I said, why are you so generous, give me such a garbage script?" Let me guess, this time it's purely foreign, right? How much money did you cheat? ”

The reason why Li Xianyun is angry is because this script turns out to be a story about the inner journey of a mentally ill person.

Listen to this theme, a proper literary film!

The problem is that if you really want to make a literary film, you can forget it, but what you actually want to make is a commercial film.

That's.

Commercial films are meant to make money, who watches psychotic stories?

Especially the script is still so bad, it can only be repaired and not changed.

Yang Yuan called Qu, "The conscience of heaven and earth, we just sell a resource, there is no money, everyone supervises it, and the script is also required by the management." ”

And so it was.

Li Xianyun guessed it at once.

This is the same as Rong Dasheng's experience of filming, they were all led by the will of investors.

What Li Xianyun didn't expect was that he would encounter such a story.

It is also a large enterprise in Nanhai Province that is willing to spend 40 million yuan to make a story about a mentally ill person.

Tiandi is the largest investor, no matter how awesome Huayou is, he can't resist the investors, in the end they can only choose to accept this book, all the money is paid by the investors, Huayou is to put it bluntly, it is to sell resources to get a vote.

Of course, in order to coax investors, they actually own 15 percent of the shares.

Five percent of this was given to Li Xianyun.

This explains why they are so generous.

Such a film, with an investment of 40 million, can sell 4 million to belong to the director's level, and it is not surprising to sell 400,000.

If the theater chain is forced to get up, it is not uncommon for it to sell on the Internet, after all, it costs money to enter the cinema. As soon as the threshold is high and the lower limit is low, there are box office tickets that sell hundreds of yuan in a theater.

Most of the crashy nets don't do that.

The lower limit of the network is higher than that of the theater line, that is, the upper limit cannot do the theater line.

Huayou, that is, to appease the capital, took 15% of the shares, saying that we share the honor and disgrace with you, and we also hope to make the film well, in fact, these 15 points are not worth anything, and it is not distressing to send them all out.

They also didn't want to get into too much trouble with Li Xianyun, so they gave Li Xianyun a director fee of 1 million.

As for why Li Xianyun was looking for this matter, to put it bluntly, it was the same reason.

A commercial film with a literary theme is the same as the BMW Anmercedes-Benz logo, the director of the literary film can't look at it, and the director of the commercial film doesn't care about it.

The management does not look down on the small director, and the big director does not look down on the capital.

Up and down, not up and down, left and right, not left and right.

Huayou measured to measure, and found that hey? Li Xianyun is very suitable.

He is suitable not because he has good skills, but because he is the owner of a film and television company.

Generally, if a director makes a bad film, he may lose his job for a lifetime.

Li Xianyun is not afraid, as long as his company makes money, he doesn't have to worry about making ten bad films.

But it's one thing not to be afraid of losing, it's another thing to be willing to lose.

If this thing is smashed, it won't smash Li Xianyun's job, but it has a bad reputation!

I'm a big boss, why do I still make movies?

Because of art!

Because of fame!

Who hasn't had a pretending demand these days?

The bigger the person, the higher the psychological needs.

So Li Xianyun was angry when he read this script, and you didn't come for my directorial level, but for those who weren't afraid of me making bad shots.

No wonder it was delayed until now to give the script.

There is no need to ask, they are also afraid that the director's work will not affect the plan, and they must first get the money from the employer, and then hand the script to the director - this matter is also simple to operate, find other directors to deal with the matter first, and then change the director after getting the money.

Routine operations.

Full of confidence turned into a bubble, Li Xianyun didn't have a good tone when he opened his mouth, "Get out, I won't shoot this film, and I will delay my time in vain." ”

"Don't." Yang Yuan shouted, "Didn't we give you back the 10 million?" ”

Li Xianyun was happy when he heard it, "What's the matter, have you paid off your debts and made contributions?" Should I thank you? ”