Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

After hanging up the phone from Li Wan, Yu Dongqing lay on the bed thinking about funds.

Although Li Wan's budget has not yet been determined, based on the cost of making martial arts films in the Mainland, excluding the actors' remuneration for the time being, the remaining budget is estimated to be over 60 million.

Post-production special effects, costumes, and a lot of location shooting all cost money.

Of course, if you use 50-cent special effects in some costume dramas and combine the cutouts in a studio, it really doesn’t cost much.

However, Yu Dongqing feels that if you want to take pictures, you must take the best ones!

As for the actors' remuneration, Li Yunjie alone gets 30 million. Meili's remuneration adopts a profit-sharing model, which will account for 1% of the entire film's profit. The rest of the actors, including stand-ins, etc., are also estimated to be around 10 million.

There are also film promotion roadshows and other events, which cost at least 10 million.

In this way, the investment in this film exceeds 100 million, making it a large-budget film.

Yu Dongqing plans to invest 50 million in his own studio. Including several of his friends and Li Wan's studio, the investment is estimated to be around 30 million, and the rest will be raised by himself.

Thinking of this, Yu Dongqing picked up the phone, opened the address book and found a number to call. He called Zhang Longwen, the boss of Longmei Mining.

The call was quickly connected, and Zhang Longwen's Mandarin with a heavy Shanxi accent came: "Hello, Director Yu, do you need investment to make a movie?"

"Haha, Mr. Zhang, are you so accurate in your guess?"

"As the saying goes, you don't have to go to the Three Treasures Palace if you have nothing to do. You are a busy man. Tell me how much investment you need from me? Is 30 million enough?"

"Ha, Mr. Zhang, you still don't know what I want to shoot and you have to invest 30 million?" Yu Dongqing was slightly surprised.

"Director Yu, you don't know, in my mind, Yu Dongqing is a golden sign! Others think you are great at singing, but I think you are even better at making movies! The last time you filmed "The Tuner" it was box office It's 800 million. I estimate the cost is 50 million, right? It's a huge profit! It's a pity that you didn't take me with you."

Hearing Zhang Longwen's verbosity, Yu Dongqing smiled and said: "Thanks to Mr. Zhang for looking up to me, and thank you for investing 30 million, I will tell you the content of the script here."

Yu Dongqing briefly explained the content of the script on the phone, and Zhang Longwen on the other end of the phone repeatedly cheered: "Martial arts film! Okay, okay, it will definitely make a lot of money! Director Yu, can I invest more in it?"

"That's enough, thank you."

Yu Dongqing replied.

When other people make movies, they try to attract investment from everywhere. It’s better to do it yourself, and don’t want it if it’s too much if it’s delivered to your door.

Yu Dongqing briefly talked about the current preparations of the crew and agreed on a time to sign an investment contract with Li Wan. Just as he was about to hang up the phone, he heard Zhang Longwen say: "Director Yu, I have a small request, can you arrange a role for my goddaughter?" ? Forget about the female lead, any junior sister or Ren Yingying will do, how about it?"

"You mean Ye Xiaomin? Isn't she filming? I don't allow an actor to take on two scenes at the same time." Yu Dongqing refused on the spot.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Longwen said: "It's not Xiaomin, it's my other goddaughter, her name is Zhao Sisi, who also graduated from Yidian. She is very beautiful and has good acting skills and has practiced dancing. She will definitely satisfy you."

Damn it!

How many goddaughters do you have?

They are all from Yandian!

Zhang Longwen briefly introduced Zhao Sisi's situation. She just graduated from Yan Dian this year. She had filmed several film and television dramas during her studies. Although they were all minor supporting roles, she still had some acting experience.

After listening to Zhang Longwen's words, Yu Dongqing decided to agree. I need to find actors anyway.

"Okay, Mr. Zhang, you make an appointment for me to meet her, but I have a request."

"any request?"

“You must come without makeup!”

Three days later, Yu Dongqing met Zhang Longwen at Beichen Golf Club.

Zhang Longwen originally invited Yu Dongqing to go to Yan Jingliang for dinner, but he declined. He got tired of going to Yan Jingliang every time he ate.

Although the food there is high-end, it is not to Yu Dongqing's taste. It is not as delicious as the crayfish at Hu Da Restaurant.

So Zhang Longwen invited him to play golf at Beichen Golf Club and discuss business while playing.

In the original time and space, Yu Dongqing was a frequent visitor to the golf club, but after coming to this time and space, he almost never went there.

Usually I drink tea and go fishing with a few buddies, and sometimes I have a lot of fun eating skewers and drinking beer, and I almost forget about it.

When Zhang Longwen invited him to play golf, he suddenly became interested and drove there happily.

Beichen Golf is located on the edge of the Asian Games Village. It has guest rooms, Chinese and Western restaurants, coffee shops, cigar bars, locker rooms, etc., and the golf course is even greener.

Yu Dongqing was wearing a T-shirt and slacks, a golf hat, and a club in his hand. Zhang Longwen was also dressed casually, and there was a girl with no makeup next to him.

She is Zhao Sisi.

When Yu Dongqing saw her for the first time, he couldn't help but sigh.

Sure enough, netizens joked that the coal boss's aesthetic ability is indeed extraordinary.

The Zhao Sisi in front of me has an oval face, a classic beauty with a hint of playfulness, and is simply the perfect choice for junior sister Yue Lingshan.

More importantly, he doesn't seem to have had any plastic surgery.

"How's it going? Is Sisi good?" Zhang Longwen sounded a little proud.

"good!"

Yu Dongqing swung the golf club and the ball flew straight into the distance.

"Director Yu, your skills are pretty good."

"So-so." Yu Dongqing looked at Zhao Sisi again: "I heard Mr. Zhang said that you have learned dance?"

"Yes, I studied Chinese classical dance at Level 13." Zhao Sisi said.

"Okay, you will play Yue Lingshan. After signing the contract, I will give you the script. You can take a good look."

"No audition required?" Zhao Sisi was a little surprised.

"No need, the students who graduated from Yandian are not much different." Yu Dongqing replied.

In this "Swordsman", the highlight is the fighting, and the literary part is mainly performed by the female lead Meimei.

Yue Lingshan and Ren Yingying don't have many scenes to perform. To put it bluntly, they just need to find a beautiful vase, and their acting skills come second.

This should be enough for Zhao Sisi.

"But I told you in advance that this is a fight scene, which is more difficult and dangerous. You have to be mentally prepared. Of course, we will have stand-ins for dangerous scenes." Yu Dongqing looked a little serious.

Zhao Sisi hesitated after hearing this, but still nodded.

"Also, your salary won't be too high."

"How many"

"400000."

"Only 00,000?!" Zhao Sisi's eyes widened and she was about to say something, but she heard Zhang Longwen cough, looked at his face again, and quickly changed her words: "400,000, just 400,000."

"Have we finished talking about business? Play, play!" Zhang Longwen swung the club.

After playing for a while until the afternoon, the three of them had dinner in the club restaurant before Yu Dongqing drove away.

After sending Yu Dongqing away, Zhao Sisi couldn't wait to say: "Godfather, the salary is only 400,000 yuan, is this too low? It's a martial arts scene, I don't want to go."

"You know nothing!" Zhang Longwen suddenly cursed. "Do you think I let you join Yu Dongqing's crew just for the mere reward of hundreds of thousands? It's to make you famous quickly! Look at Xiao Min, the movie "The Tuner" was not only a box office hit, but also Already nominated for Best Actress in this year’s Golden Rooster Awards!”

"Even if she doesn't win an award in the future, it's a great honor to be shortlisted! Look at her salary, which has soared from more than 2 million to 8 million! This is already close to the salary of a first-line star!"

"Godfather, then help me fight for the number one female lead. I will become famous faster." Zhao Sisi muttered.

"The lead female lead in this film is Yu Dongqing's sister-in-law. Can it be your turn?! Take it step by step. What's the rush? Also, once you're on the set, you're not allowed to have a bad temper. You have to listen to the director!"

"Yeah." Seeing Zhang Longwen's unkind tone, Zhao Sisi quickly agreed.

Zhang Longwen ignored her and suddenly smiled: "You said, Yu Dongqing's sister-in-law doesn't do directing, so she plays the leading female role for her brother-in-law. They are really interesting.

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