Pauley Bernard Film Distribution Company, General Manager's Office.
Yu Dong and Zhang Hao, the company's deputy general manager in charge of the publicity and marketing department, chatted about Li Qian.
From the time "Jaws" was first launched, the three major companies, Bernard, Guangxian, and Huayang, had already begun to pay attention, and within one day they had done analysis and evaluation to evaluate Li Qian's value and what kind of treatment he should receive.
Come to recruit him.
However, the performance of "Jaws" continued to exceed their expectations, and they could only continue to adjust their evaluation of Li Qian.
After all, talent is rare. You don't need to think about it to know that a director with the ability to sell box office will definitely attract many companies to rob him.
As the influence of "Jaws" grows, everyone is shocked that it has caused such a huge response in society.
"Li Qian must win this!"
This was the first sentence Yu Dong and Zhang Hao said.
Although both "Phone Booth" and "Jaws" are low-budget horror and suspense films, such films have a limited audience and cannot be compared with blockbusters, and their box office is capped.
But after all, Yu Dong has been in the industry for so many years. With his professional appreciation, in his eyes, "Jaws" is not an ordinary horror movie.
Besides, ordinary horror movies cannot create such a big response.
"What about President Yu, what are our conditions?" Zhang Hao asked.
Yu Dong said grandly, "The title of art director, a production cost of less than 20 million, and the best publicity resources."
The production cost was 20 million, which is not a small amount of money. It would have to exceed 50 million at the box office to make it back.
Even if Bernard itself is a publishing company and has a distribution share, the pressure is not small.
Last year, there were only a handful of domestic films with a box office of over 50 million.
However, the box office of "Jaws" seems to be reaching 20 million, which is 4 million effective clicks.
Even if only half of the four million people are willing to go to the cinema, the cost is 2 million. A movie ticket is 30 yuan, which is 60 million.
This does not include the group of people who use the accounts of people around them to watch movies.
You can also borrow an account to watch online movies, but if you want to watch theater movies, you have to go to the theater or wait for pirated copies to be released.
"What if he wants to pay dividends?" Zhang Hao asked.
"Dividends are impossible."
Yu Dong shook his head, no matter how much he liked Li Qian, it was impossible to give dividends to a new director.
"The maximum salary is 2 million."
There is a huge pay gap among domestic directors. Zhang Yimou was able to earn tens of millions for "House of Flying Daggers".
However, Zhang Yimou never participated in dividends. He did not take risks and only received a one-time high salary.
Ma Xiaogang's apparent salary is 3 million, but in fact the specific dividend figure is unknown to outsiders.
A salary of 2 million is already the price for a first-line director, and Yu Dong is willing to go all out. After all, Bernard is still blank in film and television production, and is in urgent need of excellent film projects.
Guangxian Media, Wang Changtian and Zhang Zhao are also discussing similar things.
"I'm not afraid of his conditions. As long as I can bind a director who can sell box office, I'll give him whatever he wants!"
Faced with Zhang Zhao's question, Wang Changtian had only one sentence.
Guangxian had just entered the film industry and lacked everything. A successful director was enough to sustain the company during the difficult early period.
Zhang Zhao nodded. As for the bottom line of "Give him whatever he wants", you have to think about it carefully.
This is just like the verbal promises made by company leaders to subordinates. Sometimes they cannot be taken literally.
Just like the word "everything works", it may sometimes mean that everything doesn't work.
However, Zhang Zhao came to Guangxian and founded Guangxian Pictures in the past few years, and he also understood Wang Changtian’s determination and character.
Huayang Media, the Huang brothers, Chen Guofu, and Zhang Jun were also discussing the same matter.
Last time Zhao Jun, the deputy director of the production department, was rejected, so Chen Guofu volunteered.
"How about I go this time? To be honest, I'm a little curious about what kind of young people can make a thriller like "Jaws"."
Chen Guofu, who is also a director, is very interested in Li Qian, especially since Li Qian also shoots horror movies. After all, he is also the director of classic horror movies such as "Twin Eyes", and the two of them are in the same industry.
Huang Zhonglei smiled and said, "It's better for me to go, I'm better at this."
In Huayang Media, Huang Zhonglei was basically responsible for the social aspect. At the same time, he gradually gained a large number of drinking and golfing friends.
Chen Guofu didn't insist. After all, Huang Zhonglei was more suitable than him for interpersonal communication.
Moreover, as the company's production director, he is in charge of all films including Ma Xiaogang's films, so he is indeed too busy.
"It seems we can only wait until he comes to the company to get to know each other slowly." Chen Guofu said with a smile.
Huang Zhongjun nodded, "Then leave it to Zhonglei to bring this Li Qian back."
Although Huayang Media has Ma Xiaogang, it is getting harder and harder to control him. Instead of making comedies, they will make war movies. Who knows what unpopular genre the next movie will be.
Moreover, Deng Chaojin was arranged to join the crew of "Assembly Number", and Ma Xiaogang constantly took the opportunity to vent his dissatisfaction, and almost had the words "old paper dissatisfied" carved on his forehead.
Originally there was Cheng Long, and "Baby Project" was obtained by Huayang, but Cheng Long was obviously unwilling to hang himself from a tree.
As the largest agency in the country, it has too many actors and not enough roles. Without a few directors who can sell the box office, sooner or later these people will be unable to stay.
Huang Zhonglei personally took action, and Zhang Jun was relieved. Finally, he didn't have to go there by himself. It would be embarrassing to not see anyone again.
The three major companies all have their own difficulties, and they all have their determination to win over Li Qian.
In another large company, Zhang Weiping also considered this idea, but still rejected it.
With so many domestic directors, including Cheng Kai, Ma Xiaogang's "The Night Banquet" would still have lost money if it hadn't cheated foreigners.
Only Zhang Yimou can do it both at home and abroad, so you don’t have to worry about not making money.
For him, Zhang Yimou is more effective than any director.
The three major companies quickly took action. The first person Li Qian met was Zhang Hao, Poly Bernard's deputy general manager in charge of publicity and marketing.
Theater movies must cooperate with a capable distribution company. Apart from China Film and Movie Film, there are only a few companies with large-scale distribution.
Li Qian was willing to cooperate, so he didn't do what he did last time, so he made an appointment to meet at a coffee shop in a hotel in the city.
In fact, the person Li Qian most wanted to cooperate with was Bernard. After all, it is the largest distribution company in the country, and Yu Dong is the chairman of Poly Wanhe Cinema Line.
In addition, Yu Dong was born in the Beijing Film Studio, and his old boss, Jiang Defu, the former director of the Publicity and Development Department of the Beijing Film Studio, served as the general manager of marketing at China Film.
To become the largest distribution company in the country, Pauley Bernard also relies on its relationship with China Film.
Moreover, Bernard has just gotten involved in film and television production and is in more urgent need of high-quality projects than Huayang Media.
However, it still depends on whether the other party can accept your conditions.
After filming two online movies, he started to officially make theater movies. Li Qian just doesn't want to be restricted in everything!
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