Chapter 234: Have You Ever Driven a Race Car Before?
Although 10 million is nothing for him Jiang Wen to make movies, he is willing to pay 10 million out of his own pocket to invest in him making movies in this era.
This made Jiang Wen also a little moved.
You must know that 10 million at this time is enough to buy a small courtyard house, and now the market for courtyard houses is still a little tight, plus housing prices have been showing an upward trend in recent years, which is equivalent to Jiang Bai giving up millions of annual income to invest money in himself.
He also knows what the company's current situation is, if Jiang Bai's movie is to be made, the investment will be at least sixty or seventy million.
Even if all the company's money is taken out, Jiang Bai's money is also taken out, and it is estimated that the funds are just enough.
If Jiang Bai's requirements are a little higher, then he has to go outside to attract investment.
Although he also knew that Jiang Bai was a personal essence, he also knew very well that as long as it was what Jiang Bai promised, he would definitely do it.
What's more, Jiang Bai directly took out a bank card and put it on the table when he was talking: "Brother Jiang, there are more than 10 million in this card now, I will put it for you, if you want to use it, come and take it away at any time." ”
Jiang Wen waved his hand when he heard this: "No, no, I'm a stubborn person, if it's a movie I want to make, even if I lose money, I have to make it, if you have hundreds of millions in your hand now, I will take your 10 million and say that I will take it, and I will not be polite to you, but now I have a general understanding of your situation, and it is not interesting for me to take your money again at this time." ”
Today's meeting has almost begun, and the tone has been set, so Zhao Zhe announced the end of the meeting first, Ning Hao will go to the crew tomorrow, Zhao Zhe plans to go home, and the others will go back to continue working.
But after leaving the office, Jiang Bai followed behind Jiang Wen, and after no one was around, he came directly to Jiang Wen's side and put the card into Jiang Wen's hand: "Brother Jiang, although you always call me a little fox, I still read the love between brothers, just now I said that those are not for you or to show others, I am really willing to invest, the password of this card is six nines." ”
Saying that, Jiang Bai stopped Jiang Wen's action of pushing back, grabbed Jiang Wen's hand and stuffed it into his pocket before nodding: "Brother Jiang, don't be polite to me, the reason why I took 10 million is because I can only take out 10 million." ”
After speaking, Jiang Bai turned around and left.
I came downstairs to my own Audi, opened the door and sat in the co-pilot's seat.
"Money given?"
"Well, I gave 10 million, and a little bit more."
"Then do you think Jiang Wen can give up making his movie?"
Jiang Bai shook his head: "It's hard to say, his temperament is too straight, and it's a little incomprehensible, but that's it, if he insists on making his movie, my 10 million will be considered a favor." ”
Zhao Zhe also looked at Jiang Bai with more and more admiration: "Then you are really generous, take 10 million to sell favors, do you know how many small companies in Yanjing can be bought if you take out 10 million now?" ”
"It doesn't matter, Jiang Wen's value is much higher than those small companies, even if he loses all the money, it doesn't matter, anyway, the money is a bastard, let's make it if it's gone."
Zhao Zhe glanced at Jiang Bai deeply, in all fairness, if he were the boss of this company, if he could have so much money from Jiang Bai in his hands, he would not take out the money to invest in a project that would definitely lose money.
And since he met Jiang Bai, he has been gambling, gambling with Zhang Jizhong, gambling with himself, and gambling with the actors recruited by Jiang Bai to the company.
But every time Jiang Bai won the bet.
In this way, Zhao Zhe drove the car directly to Jiang Bai's new home in the evening, and on the way, he had already called his wife and said that Jiang Bai would stay here for one night.
After arriving at Jiang Bai's side, he first contacted the chief shooting director on the Fast and Furious side.
"Hey, Director Lin, I've already asked Jiang Bai here, he is very interested in your movie."
Lin Yibin on the other side of the phone was also very happy when he heard this: "Since this is the case, then I will tell the two actors on the Japanese and Korean sides that we have found someone, Mr. Zhao, I will send you the contract in a few days, and you will also see if there are any problems at that time." ”
"Okay, it's hard work."
"But there is one more thing, this movie is now the third part, and we will continue to shoot it in the future, and I hope that when we make a sequel, Mr. Jiang can also participate."
"No problem, we all attach great importance to this IP, and if we have the opportunity in the future, we will definitely star in it, but when the time comes, I will trouble Director Lin to contact in advance."
"You can rest assured that it takes a long time for each of our films to prepare, so we usually contact the actors at the beginning of the preparation."
"By the way, Director Lin, I also have a problem here, if I make a sequel, the salary will ......"
"You don't have to worry about the salary, we will give it according to the role, but what I can guarantee you is that Jiang Bai will only get a lot more at that time, but if Jiang Bai needs to star in the fourth part, we will talk about the salary of the fourth part at that time."
When it comes to this, there is no big problem, and the rest of the things will be clearly written in the contract.
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Zhe looked at Jiang Bai: "It's all negotiated, and after you're busy with the things at hand in the second half of the year, I'll go over there to shoot." ”
"Well, that's ...... about car training."
"I'll get in touch with this too."
Saying that, Zhao Zhe rummaged through the address book of his mobile phone for a while, and finally found a phone number and dialed it: "Hey, Mr. Meng, I'm Zhao Zhe." ”
After Zhao Zhe dialed the phone, he reported to his home, and the other party quickly reacted: "Mr. Zhao, how is your business recently?" ”
"It's okay, Mr. Meng, what about you?"
"It's okay here, but what did Mr. Zhao call this time?"
Zhao Zhe smiled: "Mr. Meng, you are too polite, what do you not order, this call is to ask you to do something." ”
"Mr. Zhao is polite, now your company's development is thriving, didn't you just make a movie last year? I heard that it was a big box office hit. ”
"Hahaha, that's all luck, but Mr. Meng, I called this time to ask if you know anyone from the team? Because Jiang Bai took a play here and wanted to systematically learn something about racing, I didn't think of you all of a sudden. ”
"The team, our group has its own team, and the general manager of the team has a good relationship with me, but Mr. Zhao, do you want Jiang Bai to simply learn, or do you have any other ideas?"
Zhao Zhe turned on the speakerphone when he was on the phone, and when Jiang Bai heard this, he suddenly motioned to Zhao Zhe to let him talk.
"This, or let Jiang Bai talk to you, he's next to me."
"It's fine."
Then Zhao Zhe put the phone in front of him: "Hey, hello Mr. Meng, I'm Jiang Bai." ”
"Mr. Jiang, I have admired your name for a long time, I used to like to watch your TV series and movies very much, and if it weren't for the fact that the spokesperson on our side has not expired, I would like to invite you to our side as a brand spokesperson."
Jiang Bai now has eight endorsements, but there are no car advertisements yet, but if a car company finds it, neither Jiang Bai nor Zhao Zhe will refuse, after all, car companies have always been wealthy, and the advertisements they shoot are also high.
"That's no problem, if there is a need, Mr. Meng can just talk to me, or talk to Mr. Zhao."
Mr. Meng on the other side of the phone did have this intention in his heart, but now that people are calling, he has something to do with himself, so he asked again: "Mr. Jiang, do you want to simply learn how to drive a car and some of the ......rules here?"
Jiang Bai thought for a while: "I want to understand it first, because I can only drive some ordinary cars, and I don't know anything about racing." ”
"Okay, then I'll help you contact the team side first, see when you have time, and everyone get to know each other first, because I'm only in charge of the business, and there are people on the team side to take care of it."
"No problem, then trouble Mr. Meng."
"Don't bother, don't bother, I'll contact that side later, and we'll talk about it when the time comes."
"Okay."
After making the call, Jiang Baicai looked at Zhao Zhe curiously: "Brother Zhao, who is this Mr. Meng?" ”
"He is the person in charge of Volkswagen's East China region, and he also has a lot of relationships with the headquarters in China, and he has seen it at a cocktail party before, so he left a contact information, but I didn't expect it to be used today, although he is in charge of business, but Volkswagen also has a team, which happens to be on the magic capital."
"Brother Zhao, you are really well-connected, and the boss who sells the car can also know you?"
"He's not a boss, but his power is not small, and even if I don't think about other people, I have to think about you, and it doesn't hurt to know more about business."
"What if it doesn't work out here?" Jiang Bai asked again.
"If you don't succeed here, contact Yanjing, you can always ask a few more people, I remember that there are several teams in Yanjing."
"Brother Zhao, I'm thinking about it now, what can I do without you?"
"Okay, don't say such meaty words, how disgusting."
"Hahaha."
Every time Zhao Zhe was by Jiang Bai's side, he basically talked about business, either in the company, or for some projects that Jiang Bai received.
And this time it's not different.
"The dumplings have already taken the animation to the awards, and the foreign ones have voted for some, and the domestic ones have also voted a lot, because animation is not the main project of our company, so I forgot to tell you some time ago.
In September, the animated short film of the dumplings was shortlisted for the nomination for the best animated short film at the Guangzhou Golden Dragon Awards, and in November, it won the Excellence Award in a campus creative competition of Autodesk.
Then he won the Best Animated Short Film and Best Creative Nomination Award at the Sichuan TV Festival Golden Panda Award in November, won two awards in the Animation Academy Award of Beiying in December, and also won the Classic Award of the South China Sea Animation Technology Forum, the Best Animated Short Film Award and the Outstanding Work of the Original Mobile Animation Game Competition in January this year.
Anyway, I won a lot of prizes back and forth, I didn't ask for the bonus, I let their team share it by themselves, and it is estimated that everyone can have at least seventy or eighty thousand. ”
"Well, we don't have to take this money, give it as a bonus, it can also make them more motivated, but what did the dumplings do later? Was that animated unit drama I told him before? ”
"Yes, I've made some of it now, and I've hired two more artists for their group, and my idea is that when the time comes, both physical comics and online animations will blossom.
We haven't walked on either side, and we haven't invested so much, so it's time to test the water. ”
"Yes." Jiang Bai nodded, "Their animation department can recruit more people to expand it when the time comes, and make my martial arts story into an animation, and if you can, you can also engage in comics, and now the comics market is still good, especially in martial arts, not only in the mainland, but also in Hong Kong and Taiwan, if you do well, you can also develop overseas." ”
"Okay, then I'll go back and talk to Dumpling, but now that Dumpling is getting more and more mature, I feel like I can make him the head of the animation department."
"Yes, dumplings are indeed quite capable."
After chatting for more than an hour, Mr. Meng from the Volkswagen side also called.
"Hey, Mr. Zhao, I asked for you, the team is actually quite interested, see when you have time to come over and meet with the person in charge of the team."
"There will be time in these two days."
"Okay, how about the day after tomorrow? Because there was a race on the team's side recently, they could have a day off the day after tomorrow. ”
"No problem, then I'll go over the day after tomorrow and contact you when the time comes."
"Well, but Mr. Zhao, I have a reluctant request here, that is, after I called the team just now, I also called the headquarters to chat, and asked Mr. Jiang to be the spokesperson, and the headquarters also has this intention, so when you come over the day after tomorrow, can you stay one more day, and I will take you to meet the person in charge of our side."
"Absolutely."
"Then it's settled, we'll see you the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, see you the day after tomorrow."
After chatting, Jiang Bai began to prepare to meet the team.
In the evening, Zhao Zhe helped Jiang Bai contact the racing venue in Yanjing again, and made an appointment to go over and drive tomorrow.
The next day, the two came to the car park of the China Automobile League together, first met with the person in charge here, and then the person in charge arranged a racing coach for Jiang Bai.
If you want to practice here, you have to spend money, not only the venue money, car rental money but also the coach fee.
Of course, this money is nothing to Jiang Bai, so he swiped the card directly.
"Mr. Jiang, have you ever driven a racing car before?"
"Nope."
"Do you have a driver's license for racing?"
"Not either."
"It's okay, so let's tell you the difference between a racing car and a regular car."
(End of chapter)