Sun Dahai dares to spend money on movies, not only because he is rich, but the key is that he does not care much about the return on investment in movies, otherwise he would not invest in "The Last Emperor".
Huang Baiming has long known that Sun Dahai makes money in the financial investment circle. The annual dividends from the Lan Kwai Fong project alone are enough for him to invest in several movies every year.
As for the problem of actors being underpaid, Sun Dahai wants to solve it through box office sharing. In other words, actors will be paid according to their normal salary for filming literary and artistic films, and Youlian will give them an additional portion of the local box office commission.
Sun Dahai knew that if he always gave out big red envelopes, Youlian would become a public enemy within the circle sooner or later. Sun Dahai wanted to develop quietly, but he did not want to act like a loner.
Therefore, after Huang Baiming heard Sun Dahai explain his plan, he put an end to the idea of letting Xinyi City join in.
A literary film actually requires such a high investment and also gives up part of the box office commission. Such conditions will definitely not be passed if discussed internally by New Art City.
The terms Sun Dahai offered to Huang Baiming were very generous. Huang Baiming also felt that this project was very promising, so he decided to cooperate with Youlian in his personal capacity.
What Huang Baiming didn't know was that Sun Dahai was actually compensating him by offering him such high conditions.
Huang Baiming's future classics were grandly claimed by Sun Dahai, and he was asked to help. If the treatment was not given higher, Sun Dahai would have a painful conscience, if he had any.
After chatting with Huang Baiming, it was already getting late. Some of the guests at the reception had already begun to leave.
Sun Dahai looked around and felt that nothing happened to him, so he said hello to the acquaintances around him and quietly left.
On Sunday, Sun Dahai, who had breakfast outside, came to his own office in Future Building.
Fortunately, the rooms they booked at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel were not refunded and were still reserved, so they left the reception yesterday and were too lazy to go back to the trading team. After making a call to the service desk, they went upstairs to their rooms to rest.
Already.
Today is Sunday. Sun Dahai had not thought about the company. Next week will be the second half of the stock market crash. Sun Dahai still wants to have a good day's rest to recuperate and prepare to enter the market to buy the bottom.
As a result, things backfired. First, Zhou Tao's affairs took up time this afternoon, and then he had to deal with the film company information sent by Chen Xi.
Sun Dahai had no choice but to come to the company to work after breakfast. He also promised to go back to Chef Cao for lunch at noon.
There is a lot of information sent by Chen Xi, but what follows is an introduction to movies previously shot by this film company called Kasol. It doesn't matter whether you watch it now or not.
Kasol Film Company was established after the end of World War II and has a history of forty years now.
The first boss of the company started his business by making chewing gum. During World War II, his products were selected as military supplies and he made a fortune. After World War II, he thought that his chewing gum business would plummet, so he opened this film company.
, preparing to switch businesses.
Unexpectedly, his chewing gum business was not affected by the armistice, but became even more prosperous. And the newly opened film company invested in several movies, which can be regarded as a small profit.
So his companies on both sides did not give up and continued working at the same time, forming such an unrelated cross-border operation.
Now, Kasol Film Company has been replaced by a second boss. He is the son of the original boss, and he pays more attention to the chewing gum business. Therefore, the film company has been maintaining the production rate of one movie per year on average.
Hollywood film companies can be roughly divided into three levels. Those giants are the first level, and they have the right to speak in Hollywood.
There are about thirty or fifty second-tier film companies, led by New Line. Kasol is also included in this category, but it ranks very low.
Third-tier film companies refer to those film companies that have film production qualifications but have not established a normal production model and cannot stably launch new films within a certain cycle.
This includes both newly established film companies and film production studios, as well as old film companies that are in poor operating conditions, have temporarily suspended production, or are on the verge of bankruptcy.
Kasol Film Company's financial situation is average. Citibank gave a valuation of US$35 million, of which the company's offices account for more than half of the valuation.
Castle Film Company was established early, so its location is quite good. According to the introduction, the company is located on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, only a few hundred meters away from the famous Chinese Grand Theater.
Kasoldi Film Company occupies a large area of more than four acres, which is equivalent to two internationally recognized football fields.
There is a four-story office building facing the street of the company, which is the company's office location.
Behind the office building is a parking lot and green area, and beyond that is a huge six-meter-high flat-story building with three indoor studios, with a total area of more than two acres, or about 10,000 square meters.
This indoor studio was built when the company was founded. Not only is it convenient for the company to shoot its own films, it can also be rented out to crews from other film companies.
This studio has been in use for forty years. Although it needs to be maintained every year, it is already very old. However, there are still very few such studios nearby, so the business is booming and the income is high.
The profits from the films invested by Kasol Film Company in recent years have not been very good. On the contrary, this studio has continued to generate benefits and maintained the expenses required for the company's basic operations.
Behind the faxed information are introductions to a large number of movies, fifty-one in total.
These are films that Kasol Film Company has invested in since its inception and has full film rights.
Sun Dahai is not a movie maker. A few glances are enough to introduce these old movies that are only available in English.
He asked Hu Cheng to call Youlian and invite senior executives of the company to come up and discuss it before deciding whether to acquire Kasol Film Company.
After a while, Landico, Gabriel, Sister Fen, Fang Ying, and several senior executives from Youlian Brokerage Company all came upstairs, which was quite neat.
Yesterday was the premiere of the movie "The Last Emperor" in Hong Kong. Although this movie was invested by Sun Dahai out of his own pocket and is only in the company's name, the company still has to follow normal procedures to handle the project.
All kinds of information collection, as well as the arrangements for the next publicity activities and other matters must be dealt with as soon as possible, so no one took a rest at home and came to work overtime at the same time.
Sun Dahai also didn't expect that everyone would be in the company during the rest day.
But this is okay, now that we have enough people, if the discussion is completed, the decision can be made directly without having to wait until the working day to continue the meeting to discuss.