Chapter 765: Settled
In the reception room, Chu Yu and Song Gangchong had a somewhat dull atmosphere for a while!
Songgang Chong himself was worried in his heart, because he himself felt that his behavior was like a criticism, a rich man who could get seven or eight billion dragon coins to make animation, and he came rashly like this........ I didn't say that I would ask an old friend in the industry to convey the news first, and then make an appointment to have a meal together and talk about it in detail!
That's it, I came here with some cigarettes and alcohol, which is really a bit rude!
But Songgang Chong also has a way, he can go all over the circle last night with a group of friends, but the question is......... The boss of this GT animation company is in the animation industry in Tokyo, and no one knows his contact information!
Matsuoka Mitsuru just knows that GT Animation was acquired last year, and the company is now in a state of vigorous development, producing two animations, Slam Dunk will be broadcast in April next year, and Spirited Away will be released in July next year............
The lack of people in this company is what he speculated, because the company he stayed in had also experienced this period, how could there be an experienced director in the company who could hold such a large-scale animation at this time!
They have money, but they are short of people, and now it's November, their production cycle is very tight, if they want to die and lack people, they will definitely fill the production team members this month..........
It's just a very simple reasoning, and Songgang Chong judged these news through the narratives of friends in the industry and the information collected about this company on the Internet!
That's why he had such a risky move........... After all, although he is famous now, no one wants to use him!
After all, Matsuoka Chong has never been a small-budget animation director, he is a well-known person who is big in making animation, although there are many examples of failures in his late career, but the media has never sprayed his works to paint, rhythm and .......... The reason why his works hit the street is very simple, that is, the plot of his works is obscure, the ideas are too advanced, and in the eyes of people of his age, the plots of these works are great!
But he ignored a question back then, the investors behind him wanted to make money, and he went to make literary animated films, who among the teenagers in the main force of animation were in the mood to watch those director's self-congratulatory works?
In recent years, many anime lovers have rewatched his works, and have commented that those street works of the year are actually profound, but people at the beginning couldn't understand them!
Just like the Legend of Shushan and the Journey to the West movie in the parallel world, when it was released, it was also afraid of a dismal box office, Zhou Xingc lost money because of the Journey to the West, and the company went bankrupt, even if the later works reversed with the passage of time, what was the use?
Songgang Chong has now become a famous director that no one dares to use......... Because investing in him is not cheap! He doesn't make small-budget movies! What if he pounces again?
No one's money is blown by the wind......... Investors are also cautious!
However, Chu Yu is obvious, he is not among them, he has never been afraid of taking risks, Songgangchong's personal strength is there, Chu Yu is basically satisfied, he already has the script or something, as long as he is not given the right to change the script, he can't be committed..........
"I have a general idea of what you think......... But this kind of thing is too sudden for me!" Chu Yu pretended to be embarrassed.
was going to look for him, he took the initiative to run to the door, how could he let him run!
But now........ It's a little different!
When you look for the other party, it is your own side to ask him, and he comes to the door, the situation is the opposite, in short, it is the negotiation of the conditions of cooperation.
Songgang Chong's past works Chu Yu has already looked at it today, and he doesn't care about the plot or anything, just from the rendering of the effect, vocal music, and atmosphere of the production picture, he is worthy of being a master-level existence, so Chu Yu is not suspicious of the entanglement now......... Negotiation mode began immediately.
While arguing with Songgang Chong, he already had a very good director candidate, and on the other hand, he hurriedly chatted with the software to arrange for Huang Ming to come back quickly, negotiation is not Chu Yu's strength, what is the market price of such a person, and what conditions should be discussed with him, Huang Ming is far more clear than Chu Yu.........
So in the next hour, Chu Yu and Songgangchong played Tai Chi throughout the whole process, and they did not make a clear statement on the key questions, and then did not show their intention to replace the original director, but continued to show an attitude of interest in Songgangchong's business ability!
The old man across from him was also puzzled.......... It feels weird, but ......... This situation is much better than the situation he expected to be directly forked out by Chu Yu by the security guards!
He clearly smelled the breath of opportunity..........
He is not interested in this kind of long-form animation of Slam Dunk, but for the sake of the 400 million cost investment, he can't lower his stature to be responsible for this kind of work!
But just like a film director going to shoot a TV series, he feels very awkward, but he also knows that his current situation has no room for negotiation, as long as the other party is willing to give him the opportunity to direct the 450 million Spirited Away animated movie, if everything is OK after reading the script, he can put it down, and even the remuneration or something can be reduced very low!
But the question is .......... How to convince the young man opposite...........
When both parties were thinking about how to continue the follow-up conversation, at this time, after getting out of the car, Huang Ming, who was panting all the way, finally arrived..........
When he saw that Songgang Chong really came to the company to talk to Chu Yu, his expression was confused!
The general situation, Chu Yu has already sent a message to him!
What's next........ Chu Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead!
"Hello Songgang senior, this is the person who is in charge of making this piece in our company, and he is also my partner, if you have any questions and demands next, just talk to him!" Chu Yu hurriedly said, and then quickly left the reception room.
In the room, Huang Ming and Songgang stared wide-eyed..........
Substitution?
Songgang Chong is devastated, and the more than an hour before the co-authorship was talked about in vain?
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Chu Yu, who returned to his office, rested for a while and continued to devote himself to work!
For a work like Spirited Away, a good director is indispensable, but when it comes to the cost of this director, Chu Yu doesn't care too much, saving money on this is often just the end result is just counterproductive!
From three o'clock until six o'clock in the afternoon......... Huang Ming and Songgang Chong chatted dryly, but they could talk for so long.......... This also shows a lot of questions!
"Director Huang is really young and promising, a talent!" Song Gangchong smiled and walked out of the reception room.
"Where, Songgang old-timers are old and strong, I have always been a fan of you, and I feel that it is a huge loss for the world animation industry for people like you to disappear like this........"
"Where, where!"
"Kind to ........"
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After rejecting Huang Ming's invitation to dinner, Chu Yu and Huang Ming met.
"What's wrong, after talking all afternoon, how is the situation?" Chu Yu said curiously.
"It's nothing, I just told him about the situation of our company, the script can't be moved, and many times the style of the work may be Zhao Qinyin will make a request, if Songgang Chong has obviously better suggestions, we will adopt them, but other than that, everything is based on us........... "Huang Ming said calmly.
"Although he is very entangled, it doesn't seem to be unacceptable, after all, he also knows that if he misses our village, there will be no next store, he has waited for twelve years to have this opportunity, I guess he doesn't have the patience to continue waiting!"
"He said he was going back to think about it, but I think there should be news in the next two days!"
"On the premise that he agrees to join our company, I want to talk about the cost of inviting him, although it can be forced to a very low price while he is weak now, but ......... If you want him to continue to cooperate with us after this cooperation, there is no need to save too much!" Huang Ming said!
"An animation director of his level on the island of Japan generally costs more than 10 million yuan to direct a work, and of course, those people rarely encounter an animated film with an investment of 450 million, so I decided to give it to him according to this standard........... Of course, you can also give him a guaranteed salary and part of the box office dividends, but specifically, it depends on what you think?" Huang Ming said in one breath!
"Ten million?
Chu Yu doesn't think much of this money at all now, after all, judging from his income this year, because of the influx of Shuixin's tuba works into the island of Japan, and Zhao Qinyin's trumpet blossoming in both places, a bunch of earnings have arrived in the account, and the number of 10 million seems to be very large, but in fact, it .......... Less than his average two-day gain!
Chu Yu is not interested in spending too much time on this, and even Chu Yu feels that the price is too low, making live-action movies, many well-known directors account for about one-tenth of the total investment, and international directors can even account for twenty or thirty percent of the total investment, and they also enjoy box office dividends!
After all, animation directors are a small category in the film industry, and the salary is not so high, but in fact, if the other party's level is enough, not to mention that he can make a breakthrough in Hayao Miyazaki's original version of Spirited Away, making the quality of the work even higher!
As long as he can present this work in this world to be similar to the original, or lower the requirements a little, and have more than 90% of the artistic level of the original, Chu Yu feels that if the director fee is added a little, it is nothing for him to pay the other party twenty or thirty million!
However, the division mentioned by Huang Ming made Chu Yu wake up, there is this kind of system that must be to let the director not fish in the production of the work, and hold the mentality that he will do it casually when the money is in hand anyway, after all, there are dividends, and he will definitely show 12% of his strength!
Although the other party is in this situation now, Chu Yu doesn't think that he will waste this may be the last chance in his life, but it is always good to be careful!
Chu Yu groaned...........
"You haven't talked to him about the director fee yet!" Chu Yu said.
"No, I'm just planning to do this, this kind of thing will definitely be discussed in detail if he really intends to join our company!" Huang Ming said.
"Then let's do it, if he can really accept our request after going back and thinking about it carefully, the fixed salary, the salary level of 10 million can be floated upward, and you have the authority to make your own decisions within the total salary of 15 million, anyway, you can talk to him yourself, it is naturally best to be low, but the money is definitely not important!"
Although Chu Yu doesn't mind spending more money on talents, he still has to follow the market price, and the market price of a director of Songgangchong's level is now about 10 million for a work, or even lower, after all, the yield of animated films has always been average!
Chu Yu's upper limit salary is already beyond the market price, of course, in practice, he can't find another person at the level of Songgang Chong at this price, after all, the liquidated damages of these people's contracts with the original company may be the same as this price, so finding Songgang Chong is currently the most economical and fastest choice for forming a production team! Otherwise, even if Chu Yu is willing to spend money to poach people, when those contract disputes with the original company are settled, who knows how long it will be delayed?
"If he's interested in a dividend model....... That's five million plus the income from the work........ 3 percent .......... No, two percent!"
"There are two models, the first one, after talking, the upper limit is no more than fifteen million fixed salary! The second is five million fixed salary plus 2% of the box office revenue of Spirited Away, you let him choose by himself!" Chu Yu said after thinking about it.
When Huang Ming heard this, he lowered his head and made a rough calculation.
If Matsuoka finally chooses to join GT Animation and chooses the second way of earnings, then the total box office of Spirited Away must be as high as more than 2.8 billion, and after deducting the cost, there will be more than 15 million revenues!
Of course, fifteen million fixed income is the upper limit given by Chu Yu, if Huang Ming can talk about Songgang at the price of 10 million, and the second income method, the difference between the two is 5 million, and Spirited Away only needs 2.1 billion box office to make Songgangchong's total income reach more than 10 million!
From the elder brother, the dividend amount was reduced from 3% to 2%, .......... Huang Ming had already felt Chu Yu's confidence in Spirited Away's work! If he hadn't really felt that Spirited Away's final box office could exceed two or three billion, he would never have been entangled in this topic!
But this ......... It's outrageous!
The highest-grossing live-action movie in Dragon Country is only 7.7 billion, and the highest box office record for animated films in Dragon Country is only 2.8 billion..........
In the live-action film industry, the world movie box office record is a work of the United States, which is converted to 8.6 billion Helong national currency, and the box office record of animated films is also the United States, and the Helong national currency is 3.6 billion!
At least the people of the Dragon Kingdom and Southeast Asia are not interested in the film and television animation in the Omi region, and it is natural that the countries with large population and box office will contribute too much to the box office!
Brother's attitude, is directly aimed at the box office record of Spirited Away's Dragon Kingdom animated film?
Is it self-confidence or something else?
Huang Ming didn't bother to think about it........ It's not that I don't have confidence in Chu Yu, it's mainly that Chu Yu's thinking is too out-of-the-box, and the first animated movie he made had this kind of thought............ Anyway, he thinks he is Songgangchong, and he will not hesitate to choose a fixed salary of 10 million!
At least Huang Ming thinks that the lower limit of the box office requirements of Tianxing's book realm, 400 million investment, may be about 6 or 700 million, so that the box office income plus the sale of peripherals, and the income from online broadcasting in the later stage, there should be no problem to return to the original! As for the upper limit, Huang Ming thinks that the people on Tianxing's side may dare to think of about 1.5 billion, so that the work can still make a lot of money!
In addition to the pervert of Chu Yu in the animation industry, how can there be such a high rate of return, Tianxing has made these actions to enhance the company's reputation and open up the Japanese island market is the goal, as for making money, it is still in the future!
This is the end of the conversation between Chu Yu and Huang Ming.........
In the next few days, Huang Ming and Songgangchong made many appointments!
Hotels, bathhouses, custom halls.......... Of course, the two just met to drink and have fun, which was very formal! After all, although the two were romantic, they were not!
However, these two people still smell like each other, although Songgang Chong is twenty years older than Huang Ming, but the two call each other brothers and sisters in a few days...........
As for the matter of cooperation, it is easy to negotiate at the wine table, after all, a man has affection and a concubine is intentional, and the hesitation on the surface is only to strive for greater interests, which is just a means of negotiation!
Matsuoka is full of his own situation, and even the minimum plan in his heart is to be willing to join GT Animation with a fixed salary of five million, he mainly wants a chance, like Japan Island, these investors who look down on him prove that he will get back what he lost, instead of coming to make money!
But who knows.......... Huang Ming gave two options: a fixed salary of 10 million and a dividend of 5 million plus 2% of the income..........
It really brought tears to his eyes for a while!
He was extremely grateful to the young man who had only met once, and from the fixed salary of 10 million yuan, he felt that the young man liked him...........
As for the dividend of 5 million plus 2 percent of the income, he calculated that if he wanted to exceed the income of 10 million, the conditions were too harsh...... Thinking that the other party believes in his ability to produce works with a box office of more than 2.1 billion, do you want to take the other party's trust in you?
Songgangchong fell into confusion.........
But in the end......... He still chose the first model, a fixed salary of 10 million.........
After all, although he mainly wants to get this opportunity, he has nothing to do with money!
However, when I finally signed the contract, I always felt that I had lost it.......
However, under Chu Yu's generous handwriting, Songgang Chong also introduced many senior talents in the industry to Huang Mingzuo's production team for reference........ This surprised Huang Ming........
After all, in addition to the lack of big guys like Songgangchong, the company also lacks a level of middle and high-end talents........
Songgang Chong's connections are much bigger than Huang Ming's level of only two years on the island of Japan!
Although many companies are reluctant to invest in him, Songgangchong's apprentices and grandchildren are everywhere!
It's easy for him to find talent that GT Animation doesn't have and who just has the idea of making a career change.
That's ....... Helped a lot!
In the following week, GT Animation began a vigorous poaching war in the Tokyo animation industry........
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