Chapter 119 Fanning the flames and pulling chestnuts from the fire
“Her!” Manager Qiao lowered his head and thought for a moment, “Director Li, you also know that I am not someone who gossips behind your back, but this Zhang Wei has a bit of a brain and a bad temper. She is weird and affects the unity of the crew. She messed up three projects and is now demoted to the finance department..."
"I think she is a pretty good person, so it is decided that she will be here on July 1st. He came to Hengdian Mingyang Entertainment and looked for me.”
Is he nice? Are you sure?
Seeing Li Mingyang's firm attitude, Manager Qiao nodded with a smile.
After Li Mingyang left, he came to the Finance Department and called over Zhang Wei, who was immersed in accounting and had been demoted two levels.
"Just now, Li Mingyang, Director Li came to the company and asked you to help by name. Don't mess around this time. Be honest and do whatever he asks you to do."< br>
Zhang Wei rolled her eyes, "No."
"No, you still want to be demoted! Mr. Gu admires him very much. He can't say enough things about me! You Just calm down your temper."
Zhang Wei returned to her seat and continued to settle accounts.
"I have already agreed. If you don't go, resign!"
"Resign, then resign!"
Manager Qiao's face turned cold and he said displeasedly, "Resign, equity incentive But it’s gone. If you want to get back what belongs to you, just do it well this time and don’t mess up again. You know, I’ll say something for you, and you won’t even become the vice president.”
Zhang Wei hesitated for a while and nodded helplessly.
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After coming out of Youku, Li Mingyang drove back to his apartment and took out his account book.
Although the movie's box office share has not yet come out, he is not short of money.
Accounts in the entertainment industry are very complicated.
If we simply calculate revenue and net profit, even Guangguang and Huayi's books are surprisingly low.
The combined annual revenue of the two may not be as good as the revenue of Yanbei Wanda Plaza.
Far less than the monthly revenue of popular online games.
The entertainment industry is a vanity fair.
Besides money, the most important thing is reputation.
If you are famous, there are so many ways to make money.
Layers think that for a film or television series to be successful, only the stars can make a lot of money through commercial performances.
In fact, the director's income is even crazier and more low-key.
The domestic film market is a director-centered system.
It is film directors and actors who are recognized as having box office appeal.
Take Xiangjiang as an example. The shareholders behind all major film and television companies include film directors.
After a movie is successful, as long as the director proposes a new project, he will send a lot of people money, and there is no way to stop him.
Although the movie he will start shooting on June 1st next year doesn’t even have a name.
But Wang Changtian’s endorsement of director worth 100 million yuan not only caused an uproar in the industry, but also raised Li Mingyang’s reputation to a higher level.
The Rays have signed many agreements and received a lot of investment.
The money cannot be made public for the time being because there is no project name, but it does not affect its use.
Li Mingyang ran out of money, so he went to ask for it.
He borrowed five million in succession. In addition, he also borrowed two million from Lao Gu, two million from Wang Wei, five million from Tie Gongji, one million from Boss Zhao, and Xin. Li borrowed 500,000, and Huanrui borrowed 500,000...
Twenty million was borrowed...
Li Mingyang has no assets, but is famous in the entertainment industry It's an asset.
Others will not care how many houses, cars or savings you have.
Others will only care about how much your fame is worth.
Just like Zhou Jielun and Brother Martian lost three to four hundred million in a casino overnight, they only needed to sign a contract and the casino would send them home, because the casino knew that as long as they squeezed them hard enough, they could easily earn back their money.
Film investors can be robbed of their money, and the borrowed money must be repaid.
Jing Tian was so shocked that his eyes nearly popped out when he saw those IOUs.
Originally Li Mingyang planned to lend him 50 million.
But Jing Tian was worried and kept trying to persuade him not to borrow it anymore, so he had no choice but to give up.
Excluding car redemption, food, clothing, housing, transportation, necessary company expenses, etc...
Add in the three million that was cheated by Lao Jia.
By the end of the year, there were more than 2200 million in disposable and investable money on the books.
After an afternoon of calculations, we maximized our profits.
He planned to change the order of filming, filming the Running Man first, and then filming the Spy Playing House.
Li Mingyang picked up his cell phone and called Gong Yu, "Mr. Gong, I thought about it. It's better to dissolve enemies than to marry them. Let's be Chinese! I'm going to shoot Running Man during the summer vacation. What do you think?" br>
"You are right to think so. Do you have the plan? Bring it, I will submit it."
"We will discuss the plan tomorrow...it is just that the production cost is not low. , and there are a lot of things behind the scenes. Can it be done before the summer vacation?"
"Anything can be done if you have money. Where are you now?"
"I still need to contact you. Others, tomorrow, tomorrow.”
"Okay, come to Baidu tomorrow."
After hanging up the phone, Li Mingyang called Wang Changtian again and asked him to lend him the filming team.
Wang Changtian was a little surprised when he learned that Li Mingyang was going to shoot Running Man first, "Didn't you shoot Spy Playing House first? Why did you suddenly adjust the shooting order?"
"Spy Playing House" I haven't written a word of the script, so I have to adjust the shooting order!"
"You don't want to trick the sugar man, do you?" Wang Changtian put down the tea in his hand and couldn't drink it anymore. "TV series are not movies. It doesn't matter whether they are written or not. The two films of Sugar Man's Fairy Sword were both written and revised while filming. Mr. Cai won't mind."
"I have something to remind you. You are no longer the unknown student you used to be. You still need to pay attention to the impact of certain things."
"What is it?"
"Did you borrow money from those film and television companies."
"Yes, there is a problem? No problem, don't everyone do this."
"That's no problem, but you shouldn't take the video company's money as well. They are essentially antagonistic to us. You have to remember that you are an insider first."
Make it seem like you have never done anything before , you are the one who does it the hardest.
Being a referee and an athlete at the same time, I was fucked by people in the industry.
Well, you have no chance now.
“Understood, Gong Yu from Baidu asked me to meet to discuss the Running Man plan. Do you want to get together?”
"I don't have time to worry about that. Don't think too much about this variety show. Just get all the benefits you can get. Focus on TV series. Variety shows are tools to make money. The big ones are always the platform and the TV station. . ”
After chatting with Wang Changtian for a while, I learned that I would leave at the end of the month after the audit.
Li Mingyang said congratulations and quickly hung up the phone before Wang Changtian could curse.
Then Li Mingyang called Cai Yinong again.
When Cai Yinong heard that he would not film spies to play house during the summer vacation, he was furious on the spot. Li Mingyang even heard the sound of a teacup breaking.
"Li Mingyang, do you think I'm easy to bully! I'm all ready, now you tell me not to shoot!"
"Gong Yu is urging me, I want to shoot away first Man, didn't you sell the spy's share to Gong Yu? If you agree, I'll sell you half of my running man's share." "How much?" Cai Yinonglai. interested.
“5 points, two million.”
“How can it be so expensive!”
"Huayi also participated, they are 15, I estimate the total investment is around 40 million."
"How much is Baidu?"
"It will not be less than 55, they are the main investor "
Cai Yinong thought for a while and agreed to the extension, but two million was too much, and she was only willing to pay 1.5 million.
Li Mingyang hung up the phone directly.
Then he called Sohu. When Zhang Chaoyang heard that Running Man was going to be filmed in advance, he was very happy. His originally lazy voice immediately became excited.
"Director Li, my dear Director Li, you have finally thought about it. When can you stop filming TV series? Running Man is the most important thing. Don't worry, I will definitely help you make a publicity plan this time. , It’s done beautifully.”
“No need, Baidu will take care of it.”
“There are specialties in the art industry, but Baidu just takes advantage of the search engine. In fact, it does everything. No, you have to look at our Sohu for news.”
The bottom coders on the Internet are all hard-working and can’t speak easily.
However, once you enter the middle level of the Internet, you will be able to brag. They are all trained in PPT.
"That's what I say, but Baidu is the largest investor. If you work so hard, aren't you being laughed at?" Li Mingyang said.
"Just a little more. When I go back and buy out their share, I will be the largest investor." Zhang Chaoyang said happily.
Outsiders say he is stingy, but in fact he is not stingy, he is just waiting for an opportunity.
Running Man is an excellent opportunity. The crazy number of clicks is definitely a weapon to attract traffic. It is more terrifying than diaosi. In addition, the country is now determined to crack down on the piracy chaos in the video industry.
If you don’t take action now, wait until later.
This time he will let everyone know that he, Zhang Chaoyang, is very generous, but you don’t understand.
“I’m afraid not, Gong Yu has bought all the shares of other video websites.” Li Mingyang said to sow discord.
When Zhang Chaoyang heard this, he was stunned. Then he knew that he had been tricked by Gong Yu and those bastards.
And Li Mingyang told him this, he must have bad intentions, but he really couldn't bear this tone.
"This Gong Yu is still the same as before. Okay, hang up now. I'm going to be busy."
What are you busy with? Gong Yu!
He wanted to treat Li Yanhong to a meal and have a good chat.
Running Man has a total of five producers, including Huaxue Entertainment, Guangguang, Sohu, Huace, and Brothel Brothers.
Made some phone calls.
Test Wang Changtian's attitude, sow discord between Gong Yu and Zhang Chaoyang, introduce the difficult Cai Yinong, and borrow the "extreme master" Zhang Wei.
With so many people involved, without his control, Running Man would definitely collapse.
Li Mingyang happily picked up the lighter and played with it for a while.
He borrowed so much money because he wanted to take advantage of the information gap to get Running Man at a low cost, and then get back the copyright of Running Man from other people.
I don’t want to be exclusive, but I want to take the majority.
Now that Huayi has entered the game, the filming costs will definitely explode.
Gong Yu will definitely not let go if he gets the big head.
“Since we can’t get the copyright, we can only make a fortune.”
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(End of this chapter)