Chapter 78 Wanda’s Gambling Agreement
The next day, Li Mingyang came to school. In Director Tian’s office, Director Tian helped Li Mingyang organize and fill out the materials for review.
Submitting for review through Beiying Film can save a lot of trouble and get twice the result with half the effort. After all, Beiying Film has two big bosses involved in the review.
In addition, back then, Lao Zhang had a confrontation with Zhongxi, which greatly offended Zhongxi.
The big bosses of Zhongxi Drama have long disliked Lao Zhang and his gang, so it might be a good idea to be a favor and give them some eye drops.
There is a big boss from China Drama who also participated in the review.
After finishing the submission for review, Li Mingyang started busy arranging films again.
Jing Tian is still filming the biography of Sun Tzu, but she has already said hello to Lu Zhen in advance.
Lu Zhenren was in Yanbei, but held a meeting at Wanda headquarters.
Wanda is quite interesting. It is obviously Dalian Wanda, but its headquarters is in Yanbei.
In 2008, Wanda Group's headquarters moved from Dalian to Beijing Wanda Plaza, marking Wanda's entry into a stage of large-scale and rapid development.
On the other hand, BAT is directly locked in Yanbei, Hangzhou, and Yangcheng.
After waiting in the starry sky for most of the day, Lu Zhen came back at around three o'clock in the afternoon.
Lu Zhen looks very young, in fact he is almost forty years old. He has an ordinary appearance, but he is not angry and has the majesty of a superior.
Li Mingyang met him several times in his previous life, the last time was at Yanbei Airport, when he returned to China and Fang Run went abroad.
To be honest, Wanda is so unlucky.
The real estate and cinema chains that were once the most profitable have now become money-losers.
"Go in and talk." Lu Zhen pointed to his office.
Li Mingyang nodded and followed Lu Zhen to his office.
Lu Zhen searched for a while on the bookshelf, found a piece of information, and handed it to Li Mingyang.
Li Mingyang opened it and looked at it for a while. It was a gambling agreement.
“Is this too fussy?” Li Mingyang laughed after reading it.
“We are under great pressure to help you arrange films. Distributors have the right to choose theaters. Neither Huayi nor China Film Group want to see your film released this year, and domestic films that can make money, Most of them came from them," Lu Zhen said lightly.
Li Mingyang only spent 2.1 million to make the movie. According to this gambling agreement, if the box office does not reach 5 million, he will have to make up for the losses.
The box office is one million, and he wants to pay four million!
If it were just that, Li Mingyang would sign without hesitation.
But there is a big pitfall in this agreement.
The so-called box office is not the total box office of the movie.
The agreement specifically noted Wanda Cinema Box Office.
In other words, the box office at Wanda Cinema must reach 5 million.
Wanda is awesome, but it only accounts for less than 10% of the market's screens.
Mainstream theater chains across the country have about 4,000 screens, and Wanda has 375.
A rough calculation shows that Bouquet is normally available in all theaters, and the total box office will reach 50 million, in order to complete the 5 million in the gambling agreement.
Although it is not the same as it was a few years ago, the domestic film market is booming and there are many movies with annual box office exceeding 100 million, but those are all big-budget movies.
Movies worth around 50 million are either imported or sponsored by Hong Kong and Taiwan stars.
The much-hyped "Crazy Stone" was released in 2006, with a box office of just over 25 million.
How can the immortal He De afford a box office of 50 million!
Ten million people died.
“If you don’t want to sign, forget it.” Seeing Li Mingyang’s hesitation, Lu Zhen urged him to make a decision quickly.
Of course Wanda is not short of the five million. They just want Li Mingyang to retreat when he sees difficulties.
For the stability and development of the market.
Feng Pants can even listen to his advice and shut up. If Li Mingyang doesn't know what's good, then he'll be in debt! Li Mingyang had no confidence in Liu Yifei, nor in the market. He felt that he was about to lose money and retreated decisively.
"This... there won't be a gambling agreement for the movie next year, right?" Li Mingyang closed the gambling agreement, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Lu Zhen.
Lu Zhen chuckled, "Of course there is no such thing."
Li Mingyang nodded, said goodbye and left.
When Li Mingyang left, Lu Zhen's expression changed. He picked up the gambling agreement with a cold expression and threw it into the trash can like trash.
“What the hell!”
……
After leaving the door, Li Mingyang took out his cell phone and called Jing Tian.
She was always busy when she was on the phone, and the person who answered the phone was her assistant. It would take a long time for Jing Tian to call back.
Unexpectedly, the person who answered the phone was Jing Tian.
"You're lucky today! Do you have a day off today?" Li Mingyang stopped, turned back and sat on the sofa, and refused to leave.
"There are only three scenes today. I have finished my work early. I am browsing the bookstore. I want to learn about the history of the Warring States. Which book should I buy?"
"Spring and Autumn and Warring States."
"What else?"
"This book is very thick, enough for you to read."
"It's really thick and heavy."
View Tian is very dedicated, so dedicated that none of the actors who have worked with her want to work with her again.
Those celebrities who bring screenwriters into the group and add crazy dramas to themselves are nothing compared to her.
In the movies she participated in, the entire crew had to coax her, and the screenwriters didn't even listen to the director, only hers.
She not only likes to change scripts, but also likes to participate in editing.
That's how "Jing Tian's Warring States Period" came about.
After chatting for a while, Jing Tian suddenly remembered, "Have you gone to find Mr. Lu? What did he say?"
"Hey, I did. I'm in Starlight now, He asked me to sign a betting agreement before arranging films for me." Li Mingyang deliberately raised his voice when he saw Lu Zhen coming out.
"What is the gambling agreement?" Jing Tian asked.
“I just can’t finish the box office, so I have to make up the money myself. The gambling agreement requires that the box office reach 5 million. If the requirement is not met, I have to make up the difference... Let’s put it this way, the movie hasn’t been released yet. "Five million in debt."
"Isn't that okay? The heroine is Liu Yifei. It's impossible for her movie to not even have a box office of five million, right?"
Li Mingyang meets Lu Zhenwang. Smiling to himself, "If the total box office is 5 million, I will sign it, but the agreement specifically states that it is Wanda Cinema! There are about 4,000 screens in the country, and Wanda accounts for 10% of the total. According to the algorithm, it is possible to complete the gambling agreement only if the total box office reaches 50 million. "It takes 50 million! Can your movie achieve this?"
"It's impossible. What I'm shooting is not a commercial film. It only has love elements, no action, no special effects, and no actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The only one who can resist the box office is Liu Yifei. She can only resist the box office of 10 million."
"She is quite popular, she doesn't only have 10 million, right?"
Jing Tian is still filming TV series, and doesn't know much about the film industry, and he doesn't know much about the movie viewing market. Li Mingyang doesn't Not a person who likes to explain.
But now only if Jing Tian makes a fuss can he get the film schedule without signing the gambling agreement.
Li Mingyang explained for more than an hour. Afterwards, people from Starlight Company gathered around, and Lu Zhen even moved a chair, sat aside and listened carefully.
The domestic film industry chain is divided into three major links: upstream production, midstream distribution, and downstream theater chains (theaters).
Wanda currently focuses on downstream theater chains and movie theaters, making money on the side. It doesn’t know much about the film market and only blindly follows the trend.
The one who knows the movie viewing market best is the upstream production, followed by distribution.
The leader among them is Guangguang Media, which focuses on the upstream and midstream and abandons theaters for the future.
(End of this chapter)