Chapter 498: A small profit of 100 million
Liu Yifei’s foreign language is very good.
Perhaps she has language talent, but it is mainly due to the environment in which she grew up.
I traveled across the ocean with Aunt Liu since I was a child, went to school in America, and developed fluent English.
Later, Aunt Liu deliberately trained Tianxian. Tianxian also learned French and even took singing and dancing lessons at Neon. Although the practice time was less than two and a half years, he could still speak a few sentences in Japanese.
When we got together in the evening after the New Year, it was a little farewell that was better than a newlywed. It was rare that she got into the mood, so Liu Yifei accompanied Zhou Yutang to play role-playing between teacher and student for a while.
Zhou Yutang wanted to make progress so much that he spared no effort in learning foreign languages.
Liu Yifei is preparing for "Super Body" during this period, and she has to attend Milan Fashion Week in two days.
The time of top artists is so precious, and Zhou Yutang is no exception. The Spring Festival holiday is over, and the company has a lot of things to deal with.
"The first season of "Flowers and Boys" was pretty good."
Zhang Yibei, who was following up on the work report in Beijing, had an interview in the office. Zhou Yutang had seen the first version of the material and edited it, and also put forward several suggestions for improvement.
Of course, the most important thing is to fully affirm her work: "You have done a good job, just for this light and warm style."
"Mr. Zhou, that Modutai Do you want to follow the variety show over there?”
“Let’s wait until Mango’s ratings come out.”
“Okay, Mr. Zhou.”
Zhang Yibei went back in a hurry.
She didn’t even take a break during the New Year and kept in communication with the program team throughout the whole process.
The ratings of the latest variety show "Flowers and Boys" promoted by Mango Channel are also related to the projects of Modu Channel.
Put the variety show aside for the time being and wait for it to blossom and bear fruit. The Imperial Master and his team returned to China with great honors. Zhou Yutang held a celebration banquet for them at the Dynasty Hotel tonight.
After Guoshi's film won the Golden Bear Award, the copyrights were snapped up. Excluding Asia, the copyright sales were US$13.8 million.
According to the current exchange rate of US dollar to RMB 6.28, the copyright alone can be sold for more than 80 million, which is a huge profit in foreign exchange.
At the celebration banquet that night, Li Shuang sent out invitations, and many big names in the circle came.
Deng Chao and his wife did not seem to be affected by the scandal at all. They seemed to be as loving as ever and were talking to Guangguang boss Wang Changtian.
"Yu Tang, congratulations."
Li Binbin did not have any other ideas because of her failure in competing for the heroine of "Super Body". When they met, she took the initiative to give Zhou Yutang a loving hug. .
Even Huang Xiaoming came over stubbornly on crutches to support him.
Entertainment reporters in the entertainment industry smiled crookedly. Every time Zhou Yutang held a celebration party, everyone had endless footage to take pictures of.
Zhou Yutang met Yu Dong from Bona in the banquet hall. Fatty Yu had just returned from Berlin. He obviously knew the inside story of the copyright transaction, and his tone was a little sour:
"Mr. Zhou, this It’s really a big profit to go back to Jiangdong.”
“It’s a little profit.”
Zhou Yutang said modestly: "It's not as big as Mr. Yu's family."
The two exchanged a few words of business talk, and Fatty Yu was speechless.
What is a small profit?
This is called a small profit of a few hundred million! ?
The copyright fee alone, after deducting the production cost, has already earned eight figures, and the subsequent domestic box office, that is all money!
Watching Zhou Yutang turn and leave, Fatty Yu smacked his mouth and muttered: "It's a pity that Lao Mouzi was not signed at the beginning."
When such a big fish as Guoshi entered the free market, various entertainment companies The company went on a looting spree.
Bo Na Yu Fatty once promised a huge profit, but he still missed the mark and was defeated by Zhou Yutang.
Now it seems that both parties have achieved mutual success.
Lao Mouzi regained his prestige as a great director, Zhou Yutang also gained fame and fortune, and Jiangdong Entertainment’s golden brand became even louder.
Zhou Yutang didn't have the nerve to irritate Fatty, so he turned around to find Zhang Songwen and gave him a hug: "Brother Songwen, congratulations."
"I also want to thank you. Without you, I wouldn't have this trophy. "
Zhang Songwen squinted his eyes when he smiled. He drank a lot tonight and his face was a little red.
“Don’t be so stupid.”
Zhou Yutang rubbed his arms, shook his head and laughed: “You deserve this award.”
"Hunting" directed by Guo Shi is like a simple and unpretentious knife that kills without blood, slowly destroying the life of Zhang Songwen, a middle-aged man, bit by bit.
“That movie hasn’t been finished yet, right?”
“No.”
Zhang Songwen shook his head and said: “I took leave from the crew to go to Berlin. , I will be back in the group tomorrow morning, there are still many scenes there.”
“Brother Songwen, thank you, Tang Yan has caused trouble for you.”
"Tangtang performed very well."
A wry smile appeared on Zhang Songwen's face unconsciously: "Yes, there is quite a lot of room for improvement."
"Those who are capable work hard and take care of others. She."
Zhou Yutang was immediately happy.
The best thing about Zhang Songwen is not his acting skills.
It is his ability to teach his students.
This may also be his unique talent. His tone is gentle and approachable, and his speech is slow, but he can often get to the point.
Zhou Yutang learned a lot from him when he first debuted. Zhang Ruojun and Zhu Yilong also took lessons from him, and they improved somewhat.
Zhang Songwen almost single-handedly promoted the growth of the acting skills of the three major domestic entertainment dungeons, and saved the eyes of many viewers.
From this point of view, truth is a meritorious virtue.
The two were talking and laughing when one of the three hell dungeons, Da Tiantian, appeared.
"Teacher Songwen, congratulations, you are the first Chinese to win the Best Actor in Berlin."
"Haha."
Zhang Songwen squinted and smiled: "Tiantian, you have The movie will be released soon?”
“Next month”
Jing Tian was talking to Zhang Songwen, his eyes kept wandering around Zhou Yutang.
"Come on, let's talk to you young people. Director Zhang seems to be calling me."
After a few simple exchanges, Zhang Songwen was out of the way. After all, he will be there tonight at the celebration banquet. She is one of the protagonists, and has a lot of entertainment from major directors and film and television company bosses in the industry.
“Brother Yu Tang.”
Jing Tian was wearing a pink skirt tonight, looking invincible and youthful. Those big bright eyes glowed softly, and they laughed as soon as they saw Zhou Yutang, with a sweet voice: "Next month, "Introduction to Architecture" will be released."
"I've seen the finished film, and you did a good job."
"Really?"
Jing Tian said with a little anticipation: "Brother Yu Tang, Will you come to the premiere then?"
"No matter how busy you are, you will go."
Produced solely by his own company, Zhou Yutang certainly has to stand up for it.
Hearing Zhou Yutang’s affirmative reply, Princess Tian smiled with crooked eyebrows, obviously extremely happy.
"Produced by Soochow Pictures, Zhou Yutang serves as producer and screenwriter, directed by Xue Xiaolu, starring Zhang Songwen, Gao Yuanyuan, Zhang Ruojun, Jing Tian and Shen Teng, the film "Introduction to Architecture" will be released on March 8th. ”
The film has been promoted since February.
The movie posters deliberately enlarge Zhou Yutang's name, and the effect is really good.
"Is this adapted from a short story written by Zhou Yutang in his early years?"
"Written by Zhou Yutang, directed by Xue Xiaolu, starring the Berlin Best Actor, the quality is definitely worth a look."
"On the Maoyan app, Pre-ordering in advance is only 19 yuan, which is really cheap.”
Many fans who have followed Jiangdong Film and Television dramas are looking forward to it.
Zhou Yutang glanced at Ni Ni who was carefully sorting out his opponents in the third and eighth positions.
There's Meryl Street's "The Iron Lady: Strong Tenderness," which tells the story of Margaret Thatcher.
Although the quality of the film is good and helped her win the Oscar for Best Actress last year, its appeal to domestic audiences is definitely limited.
Then there are "Midnight Train" by Huo Siyan, "Xiao Hong" by Xiao Songjia, "Love God" by Zhong Hanliang and Wang Ziwen.
The biggest opponent should be "The Martial Arts with Laughter" directed by the fat man Wang Jing and produced by Wang Cho Lam, Sandra Ng, Eric Tsang, Fatty Hong, Xie Na and others.
A total of 7 new films will be released on the same day. After all, the March 8th film is also the tail end of the Spring Festival film. It is a festival, so it is impossible to get a share of the pie.
at the moment.
However, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" still dominates the situation.
The box office in the first week exceeded 500 million, which is even more powerful than "囧" and "Bouquet of Love" which exceeded 1 billion last year, and second only to Zhou Yutang's "Now You See Me".
Ning Hao's "No Man's Land" is closely followed, with a box office of about 134 million in its first week, followed by "101 Proposals" by Huang Bo and Zhilin, ranking second at the current box office Bit.
The imported Hollywood blockbuster "The Hobbit" also entered the theater one after another to participate in the battle.
At this time, another foreign media news came back to China,
"Neon's old film magazine "Film Weekly" announced the results of this year's top ten film awards."
" "Love Like a Bouquet", which swept the neon film market last year, topped the top ten overseas films of the year, and director Zhou Yutang won the Readers' Choice Overseas Film Director Award. "
The news spread back to China, and film and television. The circle must not vibrate in a small area.
The Film Weekend is considered a prestigious award for Neon. However, Zhou Yutang was not present, and Li Shuang was asked to accept the award instead as a producer.
Doing this would be a bit disrespectful, but Zhou Yutang thought it didn't matter.
There is no point in being polite to the Neon Man. As long as he is strong enough, the Neon Man will still take the initiative to lick you.
Wang Changtian and Ye Ning don’t know if they have made an appointment.
At the same time, they came to visit Zhou Yutang’s Vision Media, and they were full of praise.
“Yu Tang, you, Vision Media, are quite powerful.”
Wang Changtian walked around and was filled with emotions.
According to the previous model, color grading, sound, and editing were all done separately. Vision Media, run by Zhou Yutang, completely integrated the entire film post-production process.
The two parts of "The Four Famous Catchers" were shot together. There was no need to look for other places for the post-production, it could be done directly at Vision Media.
“It took a little effort, but it’s pretty decent.”
Zhou Yutang smiled and felt a little proud: “From now on, Mr. Wang and Mr. Ye will take care of the business and arrange more orders.”
"A must."
Wang Changtian and Ye Ning laughed together.
This is actually what Zhou Yutang had after watching the operation of Warner's film department.
The industrialization system there is relatively mature, and each department in the film segment is like countless parts on countless film production machines.
How to promote the industrialization process of the entire Chinese film industry?
Make blockbusters, special effects blockbusters.
By cultivating young technical talents in the entire film industry subdivisions at designated points, from the subtle to the overall, and growing in practice, this is a subtle process.
Except stylist Chen Gufang, makeup artist Song Xiaotao, lighting engineer Mao Jianxin and others who were recruited by Zhou Yutang from Tangren.
Golden Scissor Du Yuan, who has worked closely with Lao Mouzi, includes Chen Minzheng, the chief costume designer of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
Photographer Zhao Fei, a classmate of Lao Mouzi, worked with Jiang Wen on "Let the Bullets Fly" and was abducted by Zhou Yutang at that time.
There are also senior talents such as art and dubbing, all of whom Vision Media has in-depth and close cooperation with.
Each person leads a group, and below are the members of the corresponding field group.
These team members are relatively young. They may be from film schools or other art schools. Some of them worked their way up from the bottom.
These people all have a common characteristic, that is, they have talents in certain corresponding fields.
“Only you have the confidence to play like this.”
Wang Changtian shook his head, feeling vaguely impressed.
Nowadays, film and television companies in the industry are pursuing how to make hits and then raise funds to promote the listing of the company.
Companies that have successfully gone public are also keen on this.
A hit movie can raise the company's stock price, which means benefits at the capital level.
Zhou Yutang does not pursue hits, because his name means hits.
All the film and television dramas he produces have good reputations and box office success, and the profits are astonishingly high.
That’s why even Guangguang and Huayi didn’t dare to do this.
Zhou Yutang did it.
The special effects department alone has burned hundreds of millions, and integrating other resources will also cost money.
Follow his pattern.
In another five years, ten years.
What will be passed down will be the solid foundation of the Chinese film industry in the future.
(End of this chapter)