"The reason why the box office is so high is that we promoted it well in the early stage, and we did not sign the agreement, so the agreement is invalid. This money should not have been given."
"Master Xing trusted you, so he didn't formally sign the agreement. You betrayed your trust in the blink of an eye, and you didn't even follow the most basic credibility when doing business!"
"We work according to the contract, and there is no point in saying anything else. Don't look at the high box office. After excluding various costs, we didn't make much money, and the profit did not reach 500 million."
"ha!"
Stephen Chow's representative was very happy and said: "You guys are even trying to sneak in new concepts now. What we were talking about at the beginning was the box office, but now it's turned into profit in your mouth?"
"Whatever you say, I definitely can't give you this money to see you off!"
Wang Zhonglei's face darkened and he kicked the person out directly.
That’s money! More than 80 million!
The popular "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" at the beginning of the year was produced by Huayi. Before its release, Wang Zhonglei had no confidence in the movie because Stephen Chow did not participate in the movie, but only directed it.
He called and said: "If the box office of this movie exceeds 500 million, I will give you a certain percentage of the dividends."
Then Huayi sent an email to Stephen Chow, and the two confirmed the matter through the email, but did not formally sign the contract.
Because it was the honeymoon period at that time, the cooperative relationship was very good.
As a result, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was released and took in a box office of 1.245 billion. According to the promise, Huayi should give Stephen Chow 81.6 million!
People don't admit it anymore.
Later, Stephen Chow sued and failed to win the lawsuit. Indeed, no formal agreement was signed.
"Master Xing, I'm sorry, we didn't discuss it, they don't recognize it."
"It's okay, thank you for your hard work!"
Stephen Chow was not good at talking, so he naturally found someone to negotiate for. When he received the call, he was angry and helpless.
This is money!
Stephen Chow loves money the most. He has offended many people and suffered a lot of criticism for this, but he has never responded. His values are different, so what should he respond to?
"well……"
He suddenly thought of "囧囧". They didn't sign an agreement, but 99 Entertainment took the initiative to give Xu Zheng a red envelope of 40 million yuan. Comparing people with each other made people angry.
He thought for a while and called Yu Jiajia.
…
The next day.
A low-key nanny car drove into the 99 headquarters. Stephen Chow was wearing a hat and a mask, with his gray hair down. He was thin and careful. He walked quickly to avoid the crowd and arrived at the office.
"Miss Yu!"
"Mr. Zhou!"
Stephen Chow always addresses people as Mr. Miss, and it is even more impossible for Yu Jiajia to call him Mr. Xing. She is her aunt herself.
"Speaking of it, I've been in the industry for so long and I've only seen you a handful of times. Wow, don't you ever dye your hair?"
"Well, get used to this."
"This seems very vicissitudes of life. Are you 51 years old this year?"
"..."
A social worker is afraid that if he encounters a social cow, he will become autistic in a matter of minutes.
Yu Jiajia was quite emotional, feeling that the 1990s had not passed that long, Stephen Chow is already in his early 50s - in 10 years he will be 61, Andy Lau will be 61, Jackie Chan will be 69, Chow Yun-fat is 68, Jacky Cheung is 62...
"I came to you before, and you said you had an appointment with Huayi. Now you understand, Huayi is a small family and will not be able to make it long. My opinion is very simple. I will invest and distribute your next film. Now I have an idea.
What?"
"I have some ideas. I want to try the mermaid theme."
"Mermaid?"
Yu Jiajia paused for a second and said, "Do you want special effects?"
"I think I should."
"The budget must be very high?"
"this……"
Stephen Chow really didn't like negotiating, so he stammered: "This way, multiple companies usually share the risks."
"No need. Since I invest in you, I will invest to the end, no matter how much the budget is. My family is responsible for it. Likewise, if I bear such a big risk, you have to reduce your share.
I don’t want to waste time talking about this, 6% is the highest, it’s OK if you accept it!”
Zhou Xingchi was completely unaccustomed to the rapid-fire barrage. He was stuck for a long time and said slowly: "I need, I need to think about it."
"sure!"
That was it, Yu Jiajia didn't stay, Stephen Chow realized what he wanted and left.
In fact, he is quite willing to cooperate with 99 Entertainment. 99 Entertainment has a good reputation. As long as it is negotiated in advance, it will never interfere in the production process. The promotion and distribution are top-notch. The boss is also generous and has an excellent reputation.
…………
This year, three dramas including "The Witch", "Super Body" and "Ex Machina" will be filmed, and "Her" and "The Night the Comet Came" will be released at the same time. Hugelive has "Black Robe 2", "Black and White 2" and "Warrior".
2》Online.
Hugelive is still mainly buying copyrights, and the number of self-produced dramas has not yet increased. However, due to its instant success last year, its membership is growing in an orderly manner. It already has 4 million members. It is not as good as Netflix, but it is also the second largest paid streaming platform in North America.
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Self-made dramas require a huge amount of money, and later Netflix spent billions of dollars on filming every year.
Where does this money come from?
Part of it is membership fees and part is issuing bonds.
Hugelive has been recognized by big capital. A European investor is entering the market, and then it will go public. The IPO will first raise a wave of funds, the listing will push up the stock price, and then a wave of bonds will be issued. The model will gradually stabilize.
Yu Jiajia pulled another cardboard box, which contained almost dozens of printed scripts.
These were all submitted by screenwriters after she convened the industry union in Hong Kong in April. Money is really the biggest driving force. Encouraged by the iron rice bowl, Hong Kong screenwriters seemed to have burst out with the passion they had 20 years ago.
She named him for pornography.
Ever since, there has been a remake of the strange case of "Three Wolves", an urban version of "Jin Ping Mei", "Ten Southern Magics" has reappeared in the world, Onmyoji and Maoshan Taoist priests are fighting, and the descendants of Uncle Nine are giving Hollywood female stars in the United States.
Consecrate the light to exorcise demons...
There is also a person from Marvel who wrote a Hong Kong superhero league, in which there are Taoist priests from Maoshan, navy masters from Meishan, swordsmen, and horse heroes, and they all work together to catch ghosts.
The quality of these scripts varies, but the imagination and scale are very high. If they don't enter the mainland, they will naturally be released.
And no matter what Hong Kong movies are like, they are pretty awesome. They never engage in the "white men with yellow women" routine. They have to be self-centered.
In Hong Kong movies, you can see scenes of beating up foreigners everywhere, and they have to curse at the same time:
"Dead foreign devil!"
There is also an independent film team on Houshi.net, which is also quite impressive, called Ru Studio.
"Seven parts, a little less!"
After preliminary screening of dozens of scripts, only 7 were marked as qualified. Yu Jiajia plans to have 30 online dramas online next year, otherwise she will not be able to control those practitioners.
"Be more relaxed and continue to collect scripts. Tell them that as long as the script is selected, regardless of whether it is filmed or not, I will pay the screenwriter first!"
Yu Jiajia gave instructions to Jiahe and continued to look through the information.
Her plan is very clear, which is to win the Academy Award for Best Actor the year after tomorrow, in 2015!