Rebirth: I Want to Surf

"The reason why the box office is so high is that we promoted it well in the early stage, and we didn't sign the agreement, the agreement is invalid, and the money should not have been given."

"Master Xing trusted you, so he didn't formally sign the agreement. You broke your promise in a blink of an eye, and didn't even talk about the most basic credibility when doing business!"

"We act according to the contract, and it's useless to say anything else. Don't look at the high box office. After removing various costs, we didn't make much money, and the profit did not reach 500 million."

"ha!"

Zhou Xingchi's representative was amused, and said: "You guys are even playing with the idea of ​​stealing the concept now. What you said at the beginning was obviously a box office, but it turned into a profit in your mouth?"

"Whatever you say, this money will definitely not be given, see off the guest!"

Wang Zhonglei's face darkened, and he directly threw the person out.

That's money! More than 80 million!

The popular "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" at the beginning of the year was produced by Huayi. Before it was released, Wang Zhonglei had no confidence in the film because Stephen Chow did not participate in it, but was only the director.

He called and said: "If the box office of this movie exceeds 500 million, I will give you a certain percentage of dividends."

Then Huayi sent Zhou Xingchi an e-mail, and the two confirmed the matter through e-mail, but they did not officially sign the contract.

Because it was the honeymoon period at that time, the cooperation relationship was very good.

As a result, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" took in 1.245 billion at the box office. According to the promise, Huayi should give Zhou Xingchi 81.6 million points!

People don't recognize it.

Later Zhou Xingchi sued, but he didn't win the lawsuit, and indeed he didn't sign a formal agreement.

"Master Xing, I'm sorry, we didn't talk about it, they don't recognize it."

"It's okay, thank you for your hard work!"

Zhou Xingchi was not good at talking and talking, so he naturally found someone for negotiating such matters. When he received the call, he was angry and helpless.

This is money!

Zhou Xingchi likes money the most. He has offended many people and suffered a lot of criticism for this, but he has never responded. The values ​​​​are different. How can he respond?

"well……"

He suddenly thought of "Lost in Thailand". They didn't sign the agreement, but 99 Entertainment took the initiative to wrap a 40 million red envelope for Xu Zheng.

He thought for a while and called Yu Jiajia.

...

the next day.

A low-key nanny car drove into the 99 headquarters. Zhou Xingchi was wearing a hat and a mask, his gray hair was flowing down, thin and careful, he walked fast all the way to avoid the crowd, and came to the office.

"Miss Yu!"

"Mr. Zhou!"

Zhou Xingchi has always addressed people as Mr. and Miss, and it is even more impossible for Yu Jiajia to call him Mr. Xing. He is his aunt.

"Speaking of which, I've been in the industry for so long, and the number of times I've seen you can't be counted. Wow, you don't dye your hair?"

"Uh, I'm used to it."

"It seems very vicissitudes, you are 51 years old this year?"

"..."

The society is afraid of encountering a society cow, and shuts itself up every minute.

Yu Jiajia is quite emotional, feeling that the 90s have not passed long, Stephen Chow will be in his early 50s - in another 10 years he will be 61, Andy Lau will be 61, Jackie Chan will be 69, Chow Yun-fat 68, Jacky Cheung 62...

"I was looking for you before, and you said that you had an appointment with Huayi. Now you understand, Huayi is petty, and it won't last long. My opinion is very simple. I will invest and distribute your next film. Now I have an idea. Is it?"

"I have some ideas. I want to try the mermaid theme."

"Mermaid?"

Yu Jiajia paused for a second and said, "Do you want special effects?"

"I think I should."

"The budget must be high?"

"this……"

Zhou Xingchi really didn't like negotiations, so he stammered: "In this way, multiple companies usually share the risk."

"No need, since I invested in you, I will vote to the end, no matter how much the budget is, my family is responsible. Similarly, I take such a big risk, you have to reduce your share.

I don't want to waste time talking about this, 6% is the highest, it's OK if you accept it! "

Crackling and cannon-like, Zhou Xingchi was completely unaccustomed, stuck for a long time, and said slowly: "I need, I need to think about it."

"sure!"

That's the end, Yu Jiajia didn't stay, Zhou Xingchi left knowingly.

In fact, he is quite willing to cooperate with 99 Entertainment. 99 has a well-known reputation. As long as it is negotiated in advance, it will not interfere in the production process.

…………

This year, "The Witch", "Super Body" and "Ex Machina" were filmed. At the same time, "She" and "The Night the Comet Came" were released. Hugelive has "Black Robe Picket 2", "Black Eat Black 2" and "Warrior 2》Online.

Hugelive currently mainly buys copyrights, and the number of self-produced dramas has not yet come up. However, due to the success last year, members are growing in an orderly manner, and there are already 4 million. It is not as good as Netflix, but it is also the second largest paid streaming media platform in North America. .

Self-made dramas require a lot of money, and later generations of Netflix will spend billions of dollars every year to make dramas.

Where does this money come from?

Part of it is membership fees, and part of it is the issuance of bonds.

Hugelive has already been recognized by big capital. A European investor is entering the market, and then it will go public. The IPO will first raise a wave of funds, the listing will push up the stock price, and then a wave of bonds will be issued. The model will gradually stabilize.

Yu Jiajia pulled another cardboard box, which was thick with dozens of printed scripts.

These are all after she convened the trade union in Hong Kong in April, and the screenwriters enthusiastically contributed. Money is the biggest driving force. Encouraged by the iron rice bowl, the Hong Kong screenwriters seem to have exploded with the passion they had 20 years ago.

She named Huang Bao.

Ever since, the strange case of "Three Wolves" was remade, the urban version of "Jin Ping Mei", "Nanyang Ten Sorcery" reappeared, Onmyoji and Maoshan Taoist fought, and the heirs of the nine uncles gave Hollywood actresses in the United States Consecration to exorcise demons...

There is also a fan of Porcelain Marvel, who wrote a Hong Kong Island superhero alliance, in which there are Maoshan Taoist priests, Meishanshui masters, sword immortals, and horse immortals. Everyone catches ghosts together.

The quality of these scripts is uneven, but the brains and standards are top-notch. If they don’t enter the mainland, they will naturally be released.

And regardless of how Hong Kong movies are, they are a bit awesome, and they never engage in the routine of "white men with yellow women", they must be self-centered.

In Hong Kong movies, you can see violent beatings of foreigners everywhere, and you have to curse at the same time:

"Dead foreign devil!"

Later Online also has an independent film team, also quite strong, called Ru Studio.

"7, less!"

After preliminary screening of dozens of scripts, only 7 were marked as qualified. And Yu Jiajia plans to have 30 Internet universities online next year, otherwise he will not be able to control those practitioners.

"Relax a bit, continue to collect scripts, and tell them that as long as the script is selected, whether it is filmed or not, I will pay the screenwriter first!"

Yu Jiajia gave Jiahe instructions and continued to look through the materials.

Her plan is very clear, that is, to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2015 the year after!

(besides……)