Chapter 156 The Movie Celebration Banquet and Another Spring Festival Gala
The closer the New Year is, the stronger the New Year atmosphere is. Every household begins to put on lights and colorful decorations. Supermarkets, shopping malls, streets and alleys are very lively. You can hear Liu Hao's jubilant singing voice in "Gong Xi Fa Cai" everywhere.
During this period around the Chinese New Year, because of the song "Gong Xi Fa Cai", the sales volume of Liu Hao's second album also increased slightly.
Of course, piracy has reaped a huge harvest.
On January 17, as Big Brother Long's movie "Who Am I" started to be released, Liu Hao's movie schedule was further compressed, and the movie box office growth was basically flat. In less than a week, the movie was released.
Already.
During the time it was released in January, Liu Hao's movie added more than 3 million in box office, and the movie's box office finally reached 35 million.
With a box office of more than 35 million yuan, Liu Hao's film company is the film producer and pays most of the publicity and distribution expenses, so it is also the distributor and can ultimately share about 40% of the film's box office.
That is approximately 15 million.
The box office share of about 15 million seemed to be no profit on paper, and even a small loss, but in fact this movie made Liu Hao a lot of money.
Not to mention the tricky movie promotion expenses, the subsequent video tapes and DVDs, the broadcast rights sold to TV stations, and the Hong Kong and overseas box office, etc. will all bring Liu Hao a large amount of income.
With the help of PolyGram, the distribution of Liu Hao's film in Hong Kong was handed over to Golden Harvest. The film has been released in Hong Kong for nearly 20 days and has achieved box office success of several million.
There is no way, it is difficult for movies made by purely mainland actors to achieve high box office in Hong Kong, even if Liu Hao is quite popular in Hong Kong.
If it weren't for the cameo appearance of his brother Leslie Cheung, I'm afraid this movie's box office in Hong Kong would have been even lower.
It's all a profit anyway. Liu Hao himself doesn't have high expectations for Hong Kong's box office, so he doesn't particularly care.
After a few albums, and with the help of PolyGram, Liu Hao's popularity in Southeast Asia is not low, and he can compete with the kings of Hong Kong cities. Otherwise, Liu Hao would not hold concerts in Southeast Asia and the two countries. For Liu Hao,
Hao's first film still has some market in Southeast Asia.
Currently, there are film producers from Southeast Asia who have come to Beijing specifically to negotiate. Well... they want to buy out the distribution rights in Southeast Asia.
Generally speaking, it is quite easy to make another ten million through these methods.
A great harvest! It’s a perfect start! This movie directly made Liu Hao’s film company famous in the industry, and it also gained a firm foothold.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
At the film's celebration banquet, amid the jubilant singing of "Gong Xi Fa Cai" played live, and amid the laughter of everyone, Liu Hao, his eldest brother and some of the film's main creators happily smashed the "35 million" with a small hammer.
Plastic carving.
After saying a few polite words, Liu Hao soon began to talk about merit and rewards.
As the first film of his own film company, Liu Hao cares more about the success of the film rather than the profit of the film. When it comes to rewards based on merit, Liu Hao is very generous and does not stingy with rewards at all.
The new year is approaching, so I will give out a big red envelope. Everyone will be happy and have a happy new year.
"Did you give me a little too much in this red envelope?" Brother Liu Hao asked in surprise when he opened the red envelope and saw a check for 1.5 million yuan inside.
"Brother, you are the biggest contributor to this movie, and you deserve it..." Liu Hao raised his red wine glass to signal to everyone, "If you don't accept it, everyone will not feel at ease accepting the red envelope. Everyone
Say yes..."
All the staff members of this film, as long as they stay in Liu Hao's company, everyone has received thousands or even tens of thousands of big red envelopes, which can be enough for their salary for several months or even a year, and there are several...
Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands were allocated.
So everyone's face was beaming with joy. When they heard this, they quickly raised their glasses and cheered with laughter.
Movies are called the director's art, and the success of a movie largely depends on the director. Therefore, if the movie is successful, the director gets the most credit, and everyone thinks there is no problem.
Besides, when we were filming the movie, we used a few extra rolls of film and the budget exceeded the standard. Brother Liu Hao was not like an old driver like Jiang Wen. He felt a little embarrassed and spent all his remuneration on the production of the movie.
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It's equivalent to getting a share of the box office.
As his eldest brother, Liu Hao will definitely not treat him badly. Now that the movie is successful, it is even more impossible.
Liu Hao had called Feng Xiaoan before and sent him a celebration banquet invitation. Because of the success of the movie "Party A and Party B", Feng Xiaoan on the other end of the phone was very happy. He revealed and showed off to Liu Hao intentionally or unintentionally:
For the movie "Party A and Party B", he is likely to get a million.
Since the film production funds were limited at the time, Feng Xiaoan also received a share of the box office when he directed "Party A and Party B". The success of the film also made him very profitable.
Feng Xiaoan could earn millions from the movie, so Liu Hao's dividends to his eldest brother would naturally not be less than this amount, so with a wave of his hand, he gave 1.5 million to his eldest brother.
If it weren't for the company and Beijing Film Studio's share of the profits, Liu Hao would have given more if he had to abide by the rules!
"They are all our own brothers. If there is anything to be said to outsiders, brother, just accept it..."
Liu Hao smiled and said in his elder brother's ear. Brother Liu Hao smiled and shook his head, and finally accepted it "reluctantly".
Everyone is happy.
Liu Hao and his eldest brother laughed and joked with each other. Han Sanye, who was invited to attend the celebration banquet, and Zhang Heping, the boss of Forbidden City Pictures, came over with a smile and held wine glasses.
Liu Hao and his eldest brother quickly stood up to apologize. After clinking glasses and a few polite compliments, Zhang Heping asked straight to the point:
"I heard that your company is already preparing for a second movie. You are so young, promising and full of energy. I wonder if we at Forbidden City Pictures can follow suit and have a sip of soup..."
"As you said, you are our senior. It is our honor that Forbidden City Pictures is willing to invest. This is your support for us..." Liu Hao said politely.
The second movie prepared by Liu Hao's company is still directed by his elder brother, starring Liu Hao and Zeng Li. It is a movie script adapted from the music video of "The Drunken Concubine" from Liu Hao's second junior high school.
Because Liu Hao "composed" several more songs for this movie, Liu Hao's elder brother especially liked the song "Chi Ling", so the title of the new movie was changed to "Chi Ling".
The movie script of "Chi Ling" has been handed over to Han Sanye for his help in reviewing. Han Sanye still likes it and is very optimistic about it. After giving his professional advice to revise it, the movie script easily passed the review.
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It's easy to do things when there are people in the court.
With his friendship with Mr. Han, it was expected that Zhang Heping could read the movie script.
The film industry is full of high risks and uncertainties, especially in today's film market environment.
"Chi Ling" itself is also an original movie script. Compared with the company's previous movie "Lonely Sandbank", this movie is set during the Anti-Japanese War in the Republic of China, and the film investment will be higher.
Brother Liu Hao's production plan for this movie has a budget of 8 million, but movies rarely go over budget, so the final production cost of the movie is very likely to exceed 10 million.
Although the eldest brother successfully directed a low-cost and high-box-office movie, even those international directors who are famous both inside and outside have stumbled. The high production cost of the movie coupled with the future publicity and distribution expenses, Liu Hao
I'm really not sure I can recoup the cost.
Besides, the movie "Lonely Sandbank" has just been released, and Liu Hao's film company has only recovered a small part of the profits, which is not enough to fully invest in the second movie.
Of course, Liu Hao himself is not short of money, but it is impossible for Liu Hao to use his own money to subsidize the film company. After all, the film company is not fully owned by Liu Hao himself, but also has the investment of Beijing Film Studio.
You can't put eggs in one basket. The best way to attract investment is to use movies. The best situation is to borrow chickens to lay eggs and use other people's money to fulfill yourself and make money for yourself.
If you use all the investment money to make a movie, you will definitely make a profit without losing money.
Therefore, Forbidden City Pictures, represented by Zhang Heping, is willing to invest, and Liu Hao is very interested.
After accepting the investment from Forbidden City Pictures, Liu Hao will reciprocate the favor. Liu Hao will also easily invest a sum of money in future movies led by Forbidden City Pictures.
After all, Forbidden City Pictures is Feng Xiaoan's old employer. His two future Lunar New Year movies, "See You or Not" and "Endless", are still produced by Forbidden City Pictures. Now that they have accepted investment from Forbidden City Pictures, in the future Liu
It is easier for Hao to follow the investment and get a share of the pie.
Both parties are willing, and it will be a matter of course to reach cooperation. It is only a matter of time.
We were almost done chatting with the big shot when Feng Xiaoan, a relatively small person, appeared out of nowhere.
The success of "Party A and Party B" made Feng Xiaoan feel proud, and he began to act a little boldly. Faced with the recruitment invitations from Liu Hao and Huayi Brothers, he was currently hanging on to both sides.
Liu Hao didn't care about this situation, but Huayi Brothers were particularly anxious.
After drinking a little too much, Feng Xiaoan opened his collar and rolled up his cuffs, and put his arms around Liu Hao to express intimacy. He did not notice Liu Hao's disgusted look at all.
"Brother, now I have created a movie script by myself. I wonder if you are interested in investing in it?" Feng Xiaoan said while he was drunk.
"Oh?" Liu Hao became interested and asked, "What movie is it?"
Feng Xiaoan smiled with a bit of lust and said mysteriously: ""Old Paoer" is a movie about gangsters in the capital. It is very passionate and interesting. Well... I want Xu Qing to be the heroine..."
"???" Liu Hao suddenly became full of questions, wondering if he had heard wrongly. Why did you write the script for this movie that was made more than ten years later?
You shouldn't, but don't worry about the details. Liu Haoxin wants you, Feng Xiaoan, to play your satirical comedy, and he is interested in investing in it, but this movie is poisonous, so you should go find your Huayi Brothers.
I can only wish you all the best in the future.
Liu Hao quickly drank the red wine in his glass, pretended to be dizzy, and poured it aside into Feihong's arms, pretending to be drunk.
After calling several times but unable to wake him up, Feng Xiaoan understood what Liu Hao meant, felt bored and left angrily.
Maybe he was tired, and it didn't take long for Liu Hao to fall asleep after pretending to be drunk.
Yu Feihong brought Liu Hao, who was lost in sleep, back to the villa.
Slippers and undressing, Yu Feihong took care of Liu Hao like a good wife.
Looking at Liu Hao quietly, Yu Feihong remembered the young boy when they first met.
He has become much more mature now.
When did he become obsessed with him? Maybe it was after the first absurdity, or when he renewed his relationship later? Yu Feihong can't remember clearly. He only knows that now, he is somewhat inseparable from him, and somewhat attached to him.
The presence.
only.....
"Hey!" Yu Feihong sighed, and without thinking too much, he quietly lowered his body, pressed against his chest, and listened quietly to his heartbeat.
That's good.
It seemed that her heartbeat was speeding up. A pair of big hands hugged her directly and turned over to press her behind her.
Soon the two of them looked directly at each other, and they stared at each other boldly for a long time before Yu Feihong blushed and said, "Are you awake early?"
"Well..." Liu Hao looked at her full of desire.
Yu Feihong sniffed it and ordered with a look of disgust: "You stink so much, why don't you go take a shower!"
"Yes!" Liu Hao said with a bad smile: "Let's go together..."
Then he carried her into the bathroom with her cooing.
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The last rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala was held, and it was New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye.
This year, during the preparations for the Spring Festival Gala, Liu Hao was assigned a separate dressing room. This was enough to show the importance he attached to Liu Hao, and the people who came and went became much more amiable.
As Huang Bo said in later generations, when you are good enough, you will find that you are surrounded by good people.
All kinds of flattering voices, looking for lame excuses to get closer.
For example, Zhao Benshan and Liu Hao will participate in "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" directed by Chen Kaige. In this movie, he will play Gao Jianli.
He plays the same role as Uncle Ge in "Qin Song".
At this time, Zhao Benshan was not yet the king of sketches, ranking behind Chen Peisi and Zhao Lirong. However, Zhao Benshan himself is now very keen on movies.
After all, movies look higher and are art!
They complimented each other a few times and started talking about the movie. After getting closer, Zhao Benshan said: "Liu Hao, it seems that it has been nearly two years since you debuted. It has been so long and I haven't seen you go to the Northeast Commercial Theater to perform acupuncture.
, you didn’t hold a concert in the Northeast this time, that’s not kind, your knowledge will chill the hearts of our fans in the Northeast, there are many people in the Northeast who are your fans..."
"Do I really have many fans in Northeast China?" Liu Hao said with a smile.
"Of course!" Zhao Benshan assured, patting his chest, "In the Northeast, your song "The Girl Opposite Looks Over" can be heard everywhere..."
Then Zhao Benshan learned to sing two lines of "Look over here, look over here..."
It was stylish and looked a little funny, a bit like Ren Xianqi's "Heart Is Too Soft". Liu Hao was amused.
But how dare Liu Hao go to the Northeast? This world is not particularly peaceful. Has Liu Hao ever heard that even the famous King Liu Tian was slapped?
I know that your Benshan brother has a reputation in the Northeast and can settle things, but Liu Hao doesn't want to owe you a favor if the time comes.
Liu Hao could only apologize and said with a smile: "I always follow the company's arrangements, and I will definitely do it in the future..."
In the dressing room backstage, Liu Hao saw many familiar faces and greeted each other and chatted.