An Li's acceptance speech was not short, but there was not much content. He first thanked the organizing committee, producers, actors, etc., and then talked about the novel "Sense and Sensibility."
Finally, he looked forward to the future and wished the Berlin Film Festival better and better.
At this point, this year’s Berlin Film Festival Awards Ceremony is basically over.
The host came on stage and gave a closing speech, and then announced that the award ceremony had come to a successful conclusion.
However, everyone was not in a hurry, but waited for the staff to arrange and exit the film palace in an orderly manner. Their next stop was to attend the film festival dinner.
While they were waiting to leave, the people around them exchanged pleasantries.
Those sitting near Zhou Yan, whether they knew him or not, all congratulated him.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that for Zhou Yan to win the Special Jury Award at such a young age, and to have three consecutive films so successful, his future is bound to be limitless.
Many here are seniors in the film industry, and Zhou Yan responded to their congratulations very politely.
Xu Feng and the others were closer to the door, but they did not leave in a hurry, but waited for Zhou Yan to come with them.
"Here, show me the trophy." Xu Feng said with a smile.
Zhou Yan smiled and handed the trophy to Xu Feng. She looked at it up and down, then nodded and said, "An Li is right, this trophy has indeed not changed much. Come on, you guys can take a look too."
Xu Feng handed the trophy to Li Xuejian again.
Holding the little silver bear, Li Xuejian's eyes were filled with expectations and a little regret.
He didn’t win the Best Actor this time, and he doesn’t know when he will get the chance.
Of course Xu Feng knew that Li Xuejian was disappointed. She smiled and said, "Although Zhou Yan came on stage to receive this award, it does not belong to him alone. The special jury award is originally a group award. This award belongs to each of us. How many times will I do it later?" They are exactly the same. Let’s put one in each of your homes.”
Li Xuejian was a little embarrassed, “Mr. Awards, but awards are usually given to producers or directors and have nothing to do with actors.
Xu Feng waved his hand, "If you're sorry, go back to the assistant directors, the leading actors, and the children, and send one to each of them."
Zhou Yan joked, "Yes. If you don’t copy the version, Sister Feng, you can make it in sterling silver, which will make it worth more money.”
Xu Feng said indifferently, "Pure silver is not worth much. If you have the ability, win a Golden Bear Award in the future and let me bleed."
"I want to win the Golden Bear Award, Sister Feng. Really use pure gold to make a replica?"
Xu Feng nodded, "Yes, of course, but it must be hollow."
Zhu Lin said with a smile, "Or hollow. Less money?”
“Then you underestimate the malleability of gold.”
"How much gold does a solid gold trophy cost?" Zhu Lin asked.
Zhou Yan weighed it with his hands and said, "To make such a large piece of pure gold, it would probably cost three or four kilograms."
Whether it is the Golden Bear or the Silver Bear, the materials inside are actually practical. They are both copper, and the difference is that one is gold-plated and the other is silver-plated, so the weight of the Golden Bear and Silver Bear trophies are basically the same.
The Silver Bear Award trophy in Zhou Yan's hand weighs about two kilograms. The same volume of gold would weigh twice as much, which is about four kilograms.
The current price of gold is about one hundred and one, which means that a solid gold Golden Bear trophy costs four hundred thousand.
"Three or four kilograms, it's too heavy to hold in your hand." Zhu Lin said with a sigh.
Gold does not circulate much in the domestic market. Zhu Lin has never seen gold products in real life, let alone three or four kilograms of gold products, even three or four taels.
A few people were chatting, and Han Sanping came from behind. He happened to hear Zhu Lin's words and was surprised, "This gadget weighs four kilograms?"
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "No, Zhu Lin I’m asking how much the pure gold one weighs.”
“Haha, the organizing committee can’t bear to part with the pure gold one.”
"Only one pure gold one is issued, but it doesn't cost much." Xu Feng curled his lips and said.
"If it's pure gold, it's easy to steal."
"That's true."
They walked out of the movie palace talking and laughing, and took a car to the dinner place.
……
The next morning, Zhou Yan got up very early and packed his things to return home.
Last night, many people came to Zhou Yan to toast, but Zhou Yan didn’t drink much.
The heads of many companies are interested in Zhou Yan. Before, they were looking for Zhou Yan, maybe they just wanted him to score the movie, but after "Spring of the Cowherd Class" won the Special Jury Award, everyone Some companies came here just to make movies with him.
In fact, after the release of "The Sixth Sense", many companies approached Zhou Yan, but now the enthusiasm of these companies is obviously higher.
After all, although the box office of "The Sixth Sense" is very good, there is still a gap between it and the movie that really does well at the box office, and the awards at the Berlin Film Festival are different.
Just like An Li has made several movies before, although the box office performance is also very good, these film companies are willing to believe in him.
Here is the importance of awards.
But Zhou Yan has no worries about this at all. He has no plans to go to Hollywood to make movies for the time being. If he only makes movies in China, there will be no shortage of investment. Tomson can make all his movies. It’s packed.
Now even if Zhou Yan wants to make a movie with a budget of 100 million yuan, Xu Feng will support it if he tightens his pockets.
Not to mention, Huo Siqi and Zhou Hong were watching from behind.
Once Zhou Yan is short of money for filming a movie, Zhou and Qizhi Company will immediately send the money.
Zhou Yan left alone. Xu Feng and Zhang Youan stayed to discuss cooperation with some copyrights. Han Sanping finally came here. Of course, he must seize the opportunity to build good interpersonal relationships internationally.
There are also Li Xuejian and Zhu Lin, who also went to participate in the event to make their presence felt.
Showing your face more often will be a good thing for them to win prizes in the future.
……
Before Zhou Yanren arrived in Yanjing, reports about the Berlin Film Festival had already come out.
Before going to Berlin, Tomson had already made arrangements. As soon as the Berlin results came out, Zhang Youan notified the cooperating media as soon as possible, and then the articles were rushed out overnight.
Chinese directors stole the show at this Berlin Film Festival, winning four awards, including the Golden Bear and two Silver Bears, which are very important.
【Two sides, three places, four trophies! 】
In the news report of Yanjing TV Station, the eight-character title was typed directly at the bottom of the screen, with the font size adjusted to a large size.
"Our news is that at the Berlin Film Festival Awards Ceremony on the 26th, Chinese directors from across the Taiwan Strait and three places won four awards in one fell swoop, one gold and two silver medals. Chinese directors shone brightly at this Berlin Film Festival... "
"It is worth mentioning that in addition to winning the Special Jury Award for "Spring of the Cowherd", Zhou Yan is also the soundtrack director of the Golden Bear Award-winning film "Sense and Sensibility". "And Emotion" has also been shortlisted for multiple Academy Awards, including the Best Score Award. The awards will be awarded on the 25th of next month. Our station will continue to pay attention to it, so stay tuned. "Zhou Yan returns to Yan. Not long after arriving in Beijing, news about the Berlin Film Festival was already flying all over the sky.
In the past few days, his phone has been bombarded with calls from all parties to congratulate him.
Directors who are familiar with Zhou Yan basically called, Zhang Jianya, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou...
Most of the actors who have worked with Zhou Yan also called.
Zhou Yan spends a lot of time just answering the phone every day. The key is that the people who call are acquaintances. Basically, after congratulations, they have to chat for a while.
With the news of winning the Berlin Film Festival and the aftermath of the Spring Festival Gala, the national reputation of Zhou Yan’s face has risen rapidly, so much so that he now has to be fully armed when going out to prevent others from recognizing him.
But there is one thing that makes Zhou Yan feel lucky, that is, the photos of Anoke hugging him twice in a row have not been circulated, otherwise it will be a lot of trouble.
……
In the evening of March 1st, Zhou Yan received a call from Zhang Youan.
“We have reached an agreement with Fox. We don’t charge a dime for the film’s salary. You will pay for the entire soundtrack before, during and after the production, and we will share one percent of the box office share.”
Hearing this share ratio , Zhou Yan was stunned for a moment: "Are you sure?"
Zhang Youan thought that Zhou Yan was not satisfied, so he explained, "Fox's side has been bitten hard, and there is no way to move it up. In fact, it has already been It’s pretty good. As long as the box office can reach 200-300 million U.S. dollars, this single fee will be 200-300 million U.S. dollars. In addition, the sales share of the film’s soundtrack will not be small, just like other movies.”
In Zhang Youan's view, neither the remuneration nor the box office share is the bulk of Zhou Yan's income. The most impressive thing is actually the sales share of the movie's original soundtrack.
For example, for the movie "The Flying Piano Boy", Zhou Yan contracted the entire soundtrack for the movie, including creation and production, and the cost was only 400,000 US dollars.
But the soundtrack of this movie has sold more than two million copies, and for every soundtrack sold, Zhou Yan can get an average share of about one US dollar.
In other words, Zhou Yan has received a share of more than two million US dollars from the "Flying Piano Boy" soundtrack, which far exceeds his production costs.
If "Titanic" has a box office of two to three hundred million US dollars, then the soundtrack will definitely not sell poorly.
Of course Zhou Yan did not dislike the low price of one percent. He did not expect that Zhang Youan could talk to such a high level.
This is a 100% box office share, not a revenue share. If it is reflected in the revenue share, it will be at least doubled.
Although most Hollywood movies spend more than 2% on music, "Titanic" is in a special situation. After all, its budget exceeds 150 million US dollars.
With such a huge investment, it would be too exaggerated to spend 5% or more on music.
Zhou Yan doesn't know how well the soundtrack of "Titanic" has sold, but if the movie's box office is still the same as in the previous life, then just the 1% box office share will be huge.
This one made more money than all the movies he had acted in before.
After thinking about it, Zhou Yan said, "One percent is pretty good. I thought they would wait until the Academy Awards are over before deciding on this matter."
Zhou Yan felt that Fox had I was on the official website to see if Zhou Yan could win the Oscar for Best Score. Unexpectedly, they were sure of the award before it was announced.
“Of course it’s right to wait and see, but if you win the award, won’t they have to pay more? I heard that the salary they prepared for the composer was 800,000 US dollars. For creation, excluding production, the conditions given to you are actually a little better, but the difference is not very big."
Zhou Yan nodded, there is indeed not much difference. After all, the cost of music production is also quite high, and Zhou Yan is not. Charging fees also reduces pressure on Fox.
With a budget of US$150 million, even Fox is under great pressure.
"When will the movie start shooting?" Zhou Yan asked.
“It should be June or July. This movie has been in preparation for too long. Although Fox didn’t say it, I can feel that they are under a lot of pressure. A movie with such a high budget will be delayed for one more day. , the risk is even greater. If we don’t shoot this year, I’m worried that this project will collapse.”
Indeed, although the previous budget was 1.5 billion US dollars, if it is delayed further, then A budget of 500 million may not be enough.
Although the filming of the movie has not yet started, there are expenses in the preparation stage. Now Fox has to pay for these preparations every day.
Every day you delay, you will be given an extra day's money.
Fox must have been urging James Cameron to start filming as soon as possible, but according to James Cameron's character, as long as there is something that fails to meet his requirements, he will not be able to start filming.
This movie has been delayed for a long time. The first thing that will collapse is the relationship between the producer and the director, that is, James Cameron. If it were another director, Fox might have fired the director long ago.
Zhou Yan nodded and said, "Well, I understand. Later I will find time to go to the United States and meet James Cameron."
"Okay, what do you want later? I'll arrange it when I have time. Of course, I think Cameron will contact you after the soundtrack contract is signed. But let me remind you, Cameron has a very weird personality, so you should stay away from talking to him. Snack."
"Anyway, I am only responsible for the soundtrack, and his weird personality has little impact on me."
Zhang Youan smiled and said, "Actually, I'm just worrying about it. No matter how weird his personality is, you can definitely handle it."
...
After hanging up the phone with Zhang Youan, Zhou Yan was in a good mood.
After taking on such a big job, you can imagine that the small money is waving at him.
He has no direct desire to make money, but the problem is that many things he has to do cost money.
For example, his studio was adequate before, but gradually, Zhou Yan felt that it needed to be upgraded.
This was originally a warehouse, but there were still some limitations in its transformation. Zhou Yan thought it would be best to find a place nearby and simply build a modern multi-functional building, which would be able to meet his needs.
This building should include various styles of recording studios, practice rooms, and preferably a small and medium-sized concert hall.
He had probably estimated before that such a building, not counting the land, would cost at least tens of millions.
Key equipment is a bottomless pit. Throwing hundreds of millions into it may not even make a sound.
Zhou Yan can now take out so much money in his hands, but the problem is that he has to make a living, and he can't just throw in all the money he has on hand.
In addition, in addition to these, his film studio also costs money.
As the team gradually expanded, the cost of eating horse chews every day was also a huge expense.
Now both studios eat in the same cafeteria, and they spend more than 30,000 yuan each month on catering expenses.
Staff salaries, allowances and other expenses cost hundreds of thousands a month.
The loss of equipment and equipment, the purchase of consumables... Ren Hang calculated it for Zhou Yan. Now that the two studios do nothing every year, more than three million yuan will be spent.
If you do something a little bit, your expenses will increase a lot.
For example, before the Chinese New Year last year, Zhou Yan distributed New Year supplies to everyone in the studio. The standard for each person was three hundred, which cost forty to fifty thousand.
For example, this year the studio will purchase several vehicles, one bus, three cars, and two vans, which add up to nearly three million.
Zhou Yan makes money quickly and spends money quickly, so he must ensure that he can make money faster than he spends money.
He was unwilling to cut costs, so he had no choice but to increase revenue. (End of this chapter)