Huayu started as a lecturer at Beijing Film Academy

Two days later, Huayi Company Headquarters

"Haha! It's OK. The money was not wasted this time. The box office trend of the movie "Ball Lightning" has finally begun to decline." Wang Zhonglei looked at the overwhelming posts and comments on the Internet and was very proud.

"Ball Lightning" has been unstoppable these days, with a single-day box office of more than 35 million every day, which made him jealous! Now, due to the influence of negative public opinion, it has finally begun to decline to around 30 million. Although this is still very high, it has finally made him feel relieved.

Of course, the reason why he attacked and discredited Gu Zhongyu's movie was not just because he was unbalanced, but also to pave the way for the new movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" which is about to be released. This movie was co-produced by Huayi and Zhou Xingxing Studio, with an investment of 120 million. It is the company's largest project in recent times and it must not be lost.

Instead of improving himself, it is better to suppress the opponent. It has finally worked to invite so many black fans. When his own movie is released, it is estimated that it will not take a few days to suppress the single-day box office of "Ball Lightning".

The male lead Wen Zhang also cooperated this time and liked the microblog that belittled Gu Zhongyu. It can be regarded as a token of loyalty. It seems that he can take better care of this old guy in the future.

"Besides finding someone to clean up and control comments, has Gu Zhongyu made any other moves? Or did he go to his elder brother to cry?"

"I haven't heard about it yet. The latest news is that he went back to Chang'an to continue filming after New Year's Eve." Vice President Gao Hui replied. He also specifically asked internal personnel to confirm that his elder brother did not interfere in this matter this time, which made them feel relieved.

Wang Zhonglei was relieved to hear that Gu Bohua did not end up. If it weren't for the intervention of elder brother Gu Zhongyu a few years ago, they would have trampled the new Zongheng Entertainment to death at that time, and how could this kid be so arrogant today.

"You still have to be careful. Gu Zhongyu is not a good guy. I don't believe he will give up revenge. Also, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" has been approved for advancement and will be released on time on the 28th. Pay attention to controlling reviews at any time and don't be stingy in giving money to those film critics."

"Mr. Wang, the box office of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" should not be low this time, but according to our agreement with Zhou Xingxing, we have to give him dividends if the box office exceeds 500 million. Our profit margin is actually very limited. We should control the publicity expenses!"

Hearing this, Wang Zhonglei laughed: "Who TM told him that the box office will be over 500 million. Dividends will be given to him only if the box office exceeds 500 million!"

Generally speaking, the box office of a movie is divided by the screening party, the distributor, and the producer in a ratio of 4:4:2. 5% of the film development special fund and 3.3% of the business tax need to be deducted from the total box office.

Of the remaining money, the theater as the screening venue takes 57%, and the producer and distributor take 43%. Then, the producer will pay the distributor a fee according to the prior agreement. After deducting the cost from the remaining money, the producer and the investor will share it according to the agreement. Normally, after the box office is divided, the proportion that the producer can get is about 26%-35%.

Wang Zhonglei promised to give Zhou Xingxing a dividend if the box office exceeds 500 million, so the total box office of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" must reach at least 1.5 billion. In the current domestic film market, the total box office of "Avatar", which has the best performance, is only 1.7 billion.

This means that Wang Zhonglei is simply playing tricks on Zhou Xingxing. Of course, he himself knows that the other party will definitely not agree to this condition. So the two parties did not sign a formal contract. He just sent a supplementary agreement to Zhou Xingxing, telling him that he can get dividends if the total box office exceeds 500 million.

However, the agreement was sent in the form of a private mailbox file and did not even have legal effect. But Zhou Xingxing did not find it and was really waiting for the box office to exceed 500 million to receive dividends.

This is how the Wang brothers and Zhou Xingxing fell out in the previous life. Since both parties were in a state of great trust at that time, Zhou Xingxing did not sign the agreement, thinking that the other party was a well-known big shot in the circle after all, and would not refuse to pay the money.

When the final box office of the movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" reached 1.2 billion, Zhou Xingxing excitedly took the agreement to the Wang brothers to ask for dividends, but the brothers denied the existence of the agreement. In this regard, the two parties also went to court, but because Zhou Xingxing did not sign the supplementary agreement and it had no legal effect, he could only "eat the bitter pill" and had no way to say it, and finally lost the case.

After the economic dispute, not only did Zhou Xingxing not get back the more than 80 million yuan in dividends, but Wang Zhonglei even ridiculed Zhou Xingxing and said that he did not understand movies at all, which was really a bit too much.

"Tell the guys below not to mention the contract to the people from Zhou Xingxing's studio again. We will slowly settle the account with him after the movie is off the shelves."

"Also, tell Wen Zhang to show his affection with Ma Yili recently. He has to keep his image as the best man in China stable. There are other movies that need him!"

At this time, in an office building in Yanjing, Zhuo Wei was in his office, looking at the photos on the table and getting tangled up.

The photo shows the popular young actor Wen Zhang hugging a girl and being intimate. Although his full face is not exposed, it can still be recognized that this is the actress Yao Di who worked with him in "Naked Marriage".

Although he didn't say it explicitly, he also knew that Gu Zhongyu wanted to use him as a gun and deliberately leaked the news to expose himself, hoping to ruin Wen Zhang's reputation.

But Zhuo Wei never thought of himself as a mere paparazzi. I am also a journalist with integrity. Gossip news should be dug by myself, not by others, not to mention that it will become a tool for the struggle of big bosses like you in the end.

Just when he decided to temporarily hide this explosive material and use it when needed in the future, his mobile phone suddenly rang with a new message notification tone.

"XX Bank, January 23, 2012 17:01, your UnionPay account with the last number 7549 received a deposit of 2000000.00 yuan"

Okay! In fact, sometimes you don't have to stick to your principles every time. It's also good to be flexible.

He gave too much!

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At this time, Gu Zhongyu had already arrived in Xi'an. As soon as the plane landed, he rushed to the film and television city, ready to start the intensive filming.

He had planned to come back after attending the premiere, but he still wasted a week. After arriving at the set, director Cao Dun looked at him like a woman in the boudoir, which gave Gu Zhongyu goose bumps all over the floor!

I thought Cao Dun's eyes were resentful enough, until Gu Zhongyu saw that classmate Nazha was also looking at him aggrievedly...