Chapter 686 Friendship who loves to send red envelopes
This amount of investment frightened Huang Baiming so much that he immediately stopped asking Xinyi City to participate.
Because Huang Baiming knows that if the project proposed by Youlian is an ordinary commercial film, Xinyi City will definitely be able to reach an agreement and follow Youlian to make money. Youlian’s vision in selecting films has been recognized in the Hong Kong film circle
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However, for a literary film with this kind of investment scale, even if Huang Baiming submitted a plan, it would definitely not be approved. Everyone is here to make money in partnership, and no one is willing to risk losing money to play with emotions.
Everyone in the Xiangjiang film industry now knows that Sun Dahai has a criminal record in this regard. He actually spent 6.5 million US dollars to invest in a movie like "The Last Emperor" that will definitely lose money. Even the people in the Xiangjiang film circle
After hearing the news, Jiahe, who was the most daring to spend money, shook his head and said he couldn't afford it.
Therefore, if Youlian invests in commercial films, New Art City will definitely be willing to follow, but if it invests in literary films, everyone must be cautious.
Sun Dahai was a wealthy man, so he was willful. Xinyi City was originally in trouble with several shareholders due to uneven profit distribution, but they didn't dare to follow Sun Dahai in doing whatever they wanted.
Sun Dahai is also bad enough. He showed others' classic movies from his previous life in advance and didn't let people participate and drink the soup. It was a bit bullying.
Sun Dahai is bullying Xinyi City. Who made Xinyi City disintegrate in two years?
But the personal conditions he gave Huang Baiming were quite good: a script fee of 200,000 Hong Kong dollars, a producer salary of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, plus a 2% commission on the local box office revenue.
At present, the highest commercial film scripts created by Hong Kong's top screenwriters are only 200,000 Hong Kong dollars. The box office of literary and artistic films is not high, so the price of the scripts is even lower.
However, Sun Dahai directly offered Huang Baiming a script fee of HK$200,000, which is already the top price for a Hong Kong movie script.
You know, the idea for this story was provided by Sun Dahai. According to convention, half of the script fee should be credited to Sun Dahai.
As for the producer's salary of HK$500,000, it is also very high. Tsui Hark was not only the producer of "A Better Tomorrow", he also helped Wu Yusen revise the script. It took almost a year to complete several
Change the draft. Producer Tsui Hark's salary is only 350,000 Hong Kong dollars.
As for the local box office share, Huang Baiming doesn't care about it now. In his eyes, this is just a high-cost literary film. By then, if the local box office performance of this movie can exceed the shooting cost, it will be considered a high price.
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If he could really achieve that kind of box office performance, the 2% share that Sun Dahai gave him would be worth more than ten or two hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars, which would be considered a big red envelope.
After the box office performance of "A Better Tomorrow" broke the Hong Kong film industry record, Sun Dahai proposed an additional bonus plan of up to HK$2 million.
Although this plan was rejected by New Art City, Sun Dahai still gave an additional bonus of HK$1 million to all the cast and crew through the then Youlian Film and Television Company, which is commonly known as the "big red envelope".
That happened last year, and it caused quite a stir in the Hong Kong film circle at that time. Most of the film practitioners unanimously applauded it, but the bosses of the film companies and film investors were more embarrassed.
Although Sun Dahai's actions are suspected of driving up prices and increasing the cost of investing in movies, the box office results of "A Better Tomorrow" are still there.
The first movie invested by Youlian broke the historical box office record in Hong Kong. The boss was happy to give out red envelopes, but others could not say anything.
Besides, the situation of Youlian Film and Television Company at that time was obvious. When people in the industry took a look, they knew that this was a film company that was just trying to make money.
A wealthy man who knows nothing about anything but money, hooks up with a few well-connected artists to amuse himself in the film industry.
In the 1970s and 1980s, when Hong Kong films were at their most glorious, there were many such film companies. It was precisely because of the heavy investment from these companies that Hong Kong was able to produce hundreds of films every year without collapse.
The actors in Xiangjiang during this period were extremely lucky. Whether it was a bi-weekly success or not, the Five Tigers of TVB, as well as Xia Yufanghong, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Li Xiuxian, Yam Yam, Man Tsz Leung, Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung... it was really a star-studded cast.
Including directors and other film workers, they and these actors are all beneficiaries of this period. If a filmmaker wants to succeed, talent and hard work alone are not enough. Only the training opportunities brought by countless different types of films can
This is the key factor that makes this group of people so outstanding.
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At that time, Youlian Film and Television Company was basically a grassroots team. Everyone didn't pay much attention to Sun Dahai's act of handing out red envelopes, and just regarded it as a show of excitement.
It is also common in the film industry for people outside the industry to get the wrong investment projects. If there is no such money-making effect, funds from outside the industry will rush in after being fooled.
As for when Sun Dahai once again gave away red envelopes after the release of "Autumn Fairy Tale", people in the industry were speechless. Anyone who invests in any literary film can win the Golden Lion Award and the Silver Award at the Venice International Film Festival.
Lion Award.
Just because of this person's vision and courage, if someone wants to give out a red envelope, they have no right to say anything.
At that time, Zhang Wanting and Luo Qirui took the completed script and investment budget, but they approached many local film companies to attract investment, but no one recognized the product.
We all looked at it together and couldn't see that this was a project that would bring both fame and fortune. In the end, it was picked up by Youlian, so we were willing to admit defeat without saying anything else.
This is the second time Sun Dahai has given out red envelopes to a movie invested by Youlian. Because this film was solely invested by Youlian, he had the final say when it came to raising the money, and there was no need to discuss it with others.
After "Autumn Fairy Tale" won the award in Venice, its external distribution and sales have been very popular, especially in European and American countries and regions, and it has continued to create great results.
Not mentioning the forward income for the moment, the profits that can be received within the current year alone are already tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.
Sun Dahai was not stingy either. With a wave of his hand, Youlian took out five million Hong Kong dollars and distributed red envelopes to everyone.
Director Zhang Wanting and screenwriter Luo Qirui received a total of 1 million Hong Kong dollars. As for whether they should split it 50/50, 64, 37, or 37, they can go home and decide on their own.
Fa Ge received 800,000, Hong Gu received 400,000, and the other main costar Chen Baiqiang also received 400,000, and the remaining money was distributed among the other cast members.
There is no way, now Xiangjiang actresses are well-known, but their pay is not high. Although Hong Gu is popular in Southeast Asia and is a heroine, her pay is less than one-third of Fa Ge's, and even the pay of supporting actor Chen Baiqiang is lower than that of Fa Ge.