"We had a meeting to study this issue before we came here. There is no problem in handing over the distribution rights of "God of Gamblers" to Yongsheng. We don't have distribution channels ourselves. It doesn't matter who we turn to for distribution.
As for Yong Sheng's desire to invest in this project, we don't think it's a big problem. The budget of Wang Sanri's film is not high, only 5 million Hong Kong dollars. The company is not short of this amount of money, so in the end it is up to you to give Yong Sheng any share.
Let’s decide.”
Sun Dahai thought for a while and then asked: "You just said you wanted to involve the He family in Ao County to invest. What channels are you going to use?"
Sister Fen smiled and said: "He Qiong, the second roommate of the He family, is very familiar with me. She is very good friends with Fa Ge, Leslie Cheung, and Chen Baiqiang, who worked with us on "Autumn Fairy Tale".
If you want to involve the He family, just contact He Qiong directly. She is the successor that the He family has focused on training, and she means what she says at home."
Sun Dahai nodded and said: "That's it. The filming cost of the "God of Gamblers" project is set at HKD 5 million, plus an additional HKD 2 million for publicity and distribution, the total investment is calculated at HKD 7 million.
Leave 20% of the investment share to each of these two companies. Leave the distribution of the film to Yongsheng, and you can decide the rest."
After the two of them finished speaking, they returned to the group. Sun Dahai looked around and asked, "Gabriel, what have you been busy with recently?"
Gabriel said: "Boss, didn't I report to you? In the future, my work will focus on Hollywood and the European film market. I can't take care of the business in Hong Kong, so I want my assistant Song Qingshan to be responsible for daily
When it comes to work, I have the final say.
At this time, I am mainly cooperating with the crew of "The Last Emperor" to carry out public relations activities for the Golden Globe Awards and Oscar Awards, as well as cooperation with Castle Film Company, so Xiao Song is temporarily asking Sister Fen to help guide it."
Song Qingshan is next to him. He is an elegant middle-aged man in his early thirties, wearing a pair of rimless glasses, and has a gentle manner.
He is a top student in the Chinese Department of Xiangjiang University. He also studied in the United States and obtained a master's degree in film and television production from the University of Southern California. After graduation, he joined NBC and became a member of the production team of an outsourced column.
The year before last, he ended his contract at NBC and returned to Xiangjiang. Song Qingshan originally wanted to teach at Xiangjiang University, but was spotted by Gabriel, who recruited him into the company and became his assistant.
Gabriel wants to help Song Qingshan rise, not only because of his personal abilities and work attitude? There are other reasons as well.
Song Qingshan's family is well off. He runs a publishing house and two independent cinemas at home. The cinema has been operating for many years. Although the cinema is not large and does not make much money, it has a very close relationship with the film industry.
Song Qingshan is the only son in the family, and these properties will all belong to him in the future. However, he is not very interested in operating entities. Instead, he hopes to engage in investment and production of film and television projects. This is why he gave up teaching at Xiangjiang University?
The reason for coming to work at Youlian Company.
Since "An Autumn Fairy Tale" won the award in Europe and took over the "The Last Emperor" project invested by Sun Dahai, Gabriel has paid more and more attention to the European and American film markets.
Therefore, he hopes that Song Qingshan can take over the work of the Investment Cooperation Department in Xiangjiang as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the business is launched, he will need to travel around the world. Just the time difference will kill him.
As for Song Qingshan's work arrangement, it was an internal matter of Youlian Brokerage Company. Sun Dahai was noncommittal. Gabriel's thoughts? Sun Dahai could also understand it.
Strictly speaking, Gabriel is a businessman in the film industry. Born in the European film industry, he has a deep-rooted love for mainstream European art films.
And the nature of a businessman makes him yearn for Hollywood-style commercial film projects, believing that this is the money-making model opened up by industrialized film production.
Therefore, he naturally looked down upon Hong Kong movies that were neither high nor low.
Is this really the case with comedy movies? Artistic movies are not recognized by the world's mainstream filmmakers, and commercial movies are difficult to break into the European and American markets, which means it is difficult to make big money.
On the whole, Xiangjiang movies basically just entertain themselves in the Southeast Asian circle, which is a bit similar to Bollywood later, but the scope is larger.
Of course, some high-quality films in Xiangjiang films are not included. It’s just that there are so few such high-quality films that it’s okay not to mention them.
As for Sun Dahai's plan to open up the mainland market through film co-productions, even Sun Dahai admitted that within ten years it will only be to lay the foundation and build reputation.
According to the current business model of various theaters in mainland China, it is impossible to realize the box office dividend model, and the only option is to sell out the films to the distributors at low prices.
Therefore, when a co-produced film is released in the mainland market, the box office performance has little to do with Youlian. Not to mention making money from a co-produced film, even getting back the money is just a luxury, and selling it abroad can make a living.
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However, now that Sun Dahai has entered this industry, he does not want to give up halfway.
Doesn’t it mean that it takes a long time to cultivate the market, and it is temporarily impossible to recover the capital from the mainland market? Upstart Sun Dahai said that there is no problem at all.
Think about it, which of the tourist agriculture projects under Jiahua does not require at least three to five years to lay the foundation?
This is why Sun Dahai, relying on his advantage as a reborn person, can obtain a large amount of profits through financial investment and continuously inject it into his own projects, so that he can maintain and develop.
“Don’t be afraid of being late for a good meal!”
Sun Dahai has money in his pocket, so he can naturally be more willful and treat his long-term industries that he is optimistic about as venture capital incubation projects.
If it were anyone else, even if they could predict the huge future development space of these projects, they might not have enough funds to maintain the operation of these projects.
When Sun Dahai thought of this, he not only felt a little worried. If things continue like this, maybe the Youlian Brokerage Company will have to implement a three-shift all-day rolling work system like the Future Investment Company, right?
While Sun Dahai was thinking wildly, Gabriel continued to report on his work.
Due to the organizational restructuring of Youlian Brokerage Company in the second half of last year, its business almost came to a standstill and only the release of "A Better Tomorrow 2" was completed.
There is only one external cooperation project arranged, and that is the Lunar New Year film "The Good News" which will be released during the Spring Festival.
This was New Art City's last project last year, and the script written by Huang Baiming was aimed at this year's Spring Festival.
Since many of the main characters in the film are close friends, and there were big differences within New Art City about the box office prospects of this family-friendly Spring Festival film, so they simply pulled the trigger.