At the meeting, Sister Fen gave her a big gift for joining the company: Uncle Zhan agreed in principle to be the technical director in charge of the company's recording studio.
It's just that Uncle Zhan put forward a condition, that is, he must participate in the purchase and debugging of various equipment in the recording studio to ensure the effect of the recording studio.
Uncle Zhan's request is exactly what Sun Dahai wants. With a professional music producer like Uncle Zhan to design the combination of various equipment, the finished effect will be smooth and smooth.
Uncle Zhan and Sister Fen have a good personal relationship, so he agreed to come to Youlian. He did not ask for shares in the company, but asked for a relatively moderate annual salary and commission.
Since this topic was brought up, Sun Dahai told everyone his plan to further upgrade the recording studio and make it one of the projects of the Star Gas Station.
Except for Sister Fen who heard Sun Dahai briefly talk about it last night, this was the first time for everyone to hear about this plan. Gao Yi distributed a written document to everyone.
Sun Dahai also said that everyone just learned about the plan today, so now we will just briefly explain it without discussing it. After everyone has absorbed and understood the plan in a few days, we will find time to organize a special discussion.
The complete plan is called "Jiahua Xiangjiang Entertainment Resort Plan". The plan designed by Sun Dahai is relatively large. Even including the land, it will require an investment of at least 800 to 900 million U.S. dollars, nearly half of which is the price of purchasing the land. .
Strictly speaking, this is a project of Jiahua Investment Company, and the Star Gas Station is just an independent part of this plan.
In comparison, the investment in Star Gas Station alone is only a fraction of the total investment in this plan, and it also needs to be led by Jiahua Investment Company.
So when the time comes, Qiao Hongwei will organize the two companies to discuss it together, and Sun Dahai will leave it alone and go home.
Gabriel is mainly running around outside this time. Not only did he sell the screening rights of "A Better Tomorrow" to many countries, he also promoted "An Autumn Fairy Tale" to the "Venice International Film Festival, Italy" held at the end of August.
The copyrights of these two movies are in the hands of Youlian Film and Television Company, so Gabriel has a lot of fun selling the movies. Don't look at the sales price of many small countries for only tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the total is not a small amount. amount, and the funds are withdrawn very quickly.
"An Autumn Fairy Tale" entered the main competition section of the Venice International Film Festival, which was an unexpected surprise. Gabriel planned to sell the screening rights of the film in Europe, so he invited some distributors to watch the film, and also invited some His old friend in the European film industry.
As a result, this pure, passionate but restrained love movie deeply touched the heart of Sabine Azema, a French actress. Coincidentally, she is the chairman of the jury of this Venice International Film Festival.
Therefore, the producer Youlian Film and Television Company received an invitation from the organizing committee of the 44th Cannes Film Festival, and the film "Autumn Fairy Tale" entered the main competition unit of this film festival.
After Gabriel received the news, he immediately suspended the sales of "Autumn Fairy Tale".
He decided to take a chance. If "An Autumn Fairy Tale" can gain a good reputation in Venice, even if it doesn't win the award, the sales of this film will be much easier in the future, and the price will also increase a lot.
The screening rights he bought before were mainly for "A Better Tomorrow" because it was a gunfight movie with a large audience, so it was easier to sell.
As for "Autumn Fairy Tale", a pure romance film without a single erotic scene, before word-of-mouth came out, except for some professional film producers who desperately lowered the price, they only sold the Canadian distribution rights. Moreover, the other party was not confident and adopted the film.
It's a box office split, not a buyout.
But now it's good. "Autumn Fairy Tale" has been shortlisted for the main competition of the world's top film festivals. If you want to expect Gabriel to sell it at a low price, you must be crazy.
Many distributors don't need to worry now that they understand Gabriel's plan. They can wait until the final draw of the film festival before making plans. Gabriel is not a young guy who has just entered the industry. It will be too difficult to pick something out of his hands.
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If that doesn't work out, the distributors can finally purchase the screening rights of the film based on a guaranteed profit sharing model. Although the profit seems a little lower, it's better than being safe.
In addition, Gabriel also negotiated a cooperation plan with New Art City for another film.
The eldest daughter of the Lei family stepped in temporarily and became one of the investors of "A Better Tomorrow 2". Tsui Hark helped contact Youlian Film and Television Company about this matter. To be honest, it was quite unreasonable.
It is the easiest way for movie companies to make money by investing in sequel movies, because the risks are all borne by the first movie, and a certain level of audience base has been built.
When you shoot a sequel movie, as long as you don't risk your own life, you will usually make money. Therefore, there are many companies investing in making movies, but in addition to the copyright owner, as well as the producers and distributors who are directly related to the movie,
It is impossible to become an investor in a sequel movie just by relying on funds.
Miss Lei's company is actually a pure investor and has nothing to do with the first part of "A Better Tomorrow". Logically speaking, it is impossible to get involved in the investment of "A Better Tomorrow 2".
Because neither Tsui Hark Studio (which is branded as New Arts City) nor Youlian Film and Television Company lacks the 30% of the shooting fee worth 2 million Hong Kong dollars, there is no need to divide the profits already in their mouths.
give others.
However, who knows that Miss Lei’s father is the boss of Xinyi City and also has the kindness to Tsui Hark and his wife?
Tsui Hark and his wife couldn't get the entrustment, so they had to go to Sun Dahai, sell their old faces, and promised to use their investment rights in three movies in exchange for Miss Lei's qualification to enter the film.
Sun Dahai was not interested in "A Better Tomorrow 2". He spent one year doubling his investment of several million Hong Kong dollars. This small amount of money was really not worth Sun Dahai's eyes.
When Sun Dahai invests in making movies, his feelings come first. Just talking about making money, how can it compare to how he makes money quickly and hard in the financial market.
Since Tsui Hark took the initiative to offer a blackmail, Sun Dahai naturally accepted it generously. There will be many classic movies that Xu will shoot or produce in the future. Sun Dahai will take advantage of this favor first, and Tsui Hark will return it in the future.
When it comes to favor.
Therefore, Miss Lei smoothly became an investor in "A Better Tomorrow 2". With a 30% investment ratio, she could make a lot of money.
A few days ago, Huang Baiming from New Art City proposed to make a family-friendly New Year film, which he plans to shoot before the end of the year and will be released during the Spring Festival next year.
The plot of this kind of movie is ridiculously simple, and the ending is a fake happy ending. All it wants is to be festive.
