MTL - Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire-Chapter 11 3 conditions
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Zhao Zhenqiang's talent also matters. Most importantly, he also has an enterprising spirit.
After graduating from the TVB artist training class, Zhao Zhenqiang was promoted to the position of director, and the people behind him also said: As long as he can come up with a good script, let him be the producer and director.
However, how can a good script be so easy to create? Therefore, Zhao Zhenqiang has been worrying about a good script recently...
Zhao Zhenqiang's melancholy was swept away until he saw "Shanghai Bund" on "Oriental Daily"!
Then, Zhao Zhenqiang rushed straight to the headquarters of Oriental Daily.
In less than half a day, Zhao Zhenqiang appeared in front of Xu Cun.
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In an ordinary Hong Kong-style tea restaurant, Xu Cun and Zhao Zhenqiang sat face to face.
Today's Zhao Zhenqiang is not the gold-medal producer known as the 'Vision Master'. Therefore, he couldn't wait to order the meal and said, "Mr. Xu, our TVB intends to adapt your "Shanghai Beach" into a TV series. What do you think, Mr. Xu?"
Compared with Zhao Zhenqiang at this time, Xu Cun, who has more than 50 years of experience, is much deeper—he said calmly: "The afternoon before yesterday, the McDonald's Bear from Lishi also looked for me, I want to use 300,000 yuan to buy the adaptation rights of "Shanghai Bund", and give me another 50,000 yuan for the screenwriting fee. However, I did not directly agree to him. "
As soon as Xu Cun's words came out, Zhao Zhenqiang's heart sank.
In today's Hong Kong, the screenwriters are extremely neglected - some films don't even have screenwriters, the director writes a simple script framework, and the film starts shooting. As for the specific content, it all depends on the on-the-spot performance of the actors.
Therefore, the average movie script is worth 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, and the script written by a famous screenwriter is only about 100,000 yuan at most.
In terms of TV dramas, it would be two or three thousand episodes.
However, nothing is absolute! For example, the right to adapt Jin Nan's novels requires at least 21,000 episodes, and this is Jin Nan's friendship price for Shao Daheng's face.
With Xu Cun's current reputation, it is naturally not comparable to Jin Nuan, but Xu Cun's "Shanghai Bund" also has a huge reader base, plus Xu Cun and "Mischievous Journey" gathered high popularity, so Xu Cun It is not an exaggeration to say that McDonald's will spend 300,000 to buy the adaptation rights of "Shanghai Bund".
But although the adaptation rights of "Shanghai Bund" are worth 300,000 yuan, Zhao Zhenqiang, a small director, is not qualified to spend 300,000 yuan to buy the rights to adapt "Shanghai Bund".
Taking a step back, even if the people behind Zhao Zhenqiang made a move to get the wireless executives to agree that Zhao Zhenqiang would spend 300,000 to buy the adaptation rights of "Shanghai Bund". In this case, Zhao Zhenqiang can't get any benefit. Because, in this way, it is unclear whether it was caused by the wireless high-level executives or whether it was caused by his Zhao Zhenqiang? The most troublesome thing is that, by then, he Zhao Zhenqiang, a newcomer, will probably not be able to become the producer or director of this big drama that cost more than 300,000 yuan for the script alone.
Therefore, as soon as Xu Cun finished speaking, Zhao Zhenqiang was like an eggplant that was beaten by frost—withered.
Xu Cun didn't care about Zhao Zhenqiang, who didn't even have the courage to speak up. He picked up the cup of milk tea that the waiter just served and started drinking it slowly...
It wasn't until Zhao Zhenqiang showed that he was about to give up that Xu Cun put down the teacup and said calmly, "If you can agree to three conditions, Mr. Zhao, I can reduce the price to 100,000, and I will assist you in adapting the script for free."
Zhao Zhenqiang, who had already planned to get up and leave, heard Xu Cun's words, and his eyes suddenly released the light of hope, and said anxiously, "Please speak clearly!"
"The first condition is that I want Feng Chengcheng and Wu Zhi to choose." Xu Cun raised a finger and said.
"I wonder if the two people that Mr. Xu chose are wireless people?" Zhao Zhenqiang asked.
"I want to use Zhao Yazhi as the heroine, she is a contracted actor of TVB. I want to use Lin Zhengying for martial arts. He used to be Mr. Bruce Lee's royal martial arts, but he is not from TVB." Xu Cun replied.
Wireless has a lot of contracted actors and martial artists, so naturally they are reluctant to sign contracts with non-wireless people, especially since Zou Wenhuai founded Jiahe, wireless executives are even more disgusted with people who sign contracts with non-wireless.
However, if there is only one martial arts finger, it is not difficult to get Zhenqiang's connections. Therefore, without even hesitating for a moment, Zhao Zhenqiang said, "This should be no problem."
"Second, I would like to ask Mr. Zhao to borrow a set of good filming equipment for me." Xu Cun raised another finger and said.
"Uh... Mr. Xu wants to make a movie?" Zhao Zhenqiang said in surprise.
"Why, can't you?" Xu Cun asked with a smile.
Afraid of Xu Cun's misunderstanding, Zhao Zhenqiang quickly explained, "Mr. Xu, please forgive me, I just didn't think that you want to make a movie, Mr. Xu."
After a short pause, Zhao Zhenqiang said with a wry smile on his face: "I really can't promise you about borrowing movie equipment. After all, wireless is not my home." Immediately, Zhao Zhenqiang's tone changed slightly, and he continued: " However, Mr. Xu, if you are willing to spend money, I can help you rent a set of equipment for filming at Golden Harvest at a 30% discount, and I can even rent the costumes for you, and I guarantee that they are the best."
Xu Cun also knew that it was unrealistic to borrow equipment for filming without spending money. Therefore, he did not waste time on this, but raised another finger and said directly: "The third, next summer, I want my movie to be screened in Shaw Brothers' theaters for 30 days. "
After listening to Xu Cun's third point, Zhao Zhenqiang frowned and said, "Mr. Xu, you are too **** me! As we all know, unless Shaw Brothers doesn't have a good movie, Shaw Brothers' theater chain will not work. Movies other than Shaw Brothers are generally not shown, not to mention the 30-day combined screening in the summer season?"
Xu Cun said bluntly: "If there is no difficulty at all, it is impossible for me to sell the adaptation rights of "Shanghai Beach", which is not for sale for 350,000 yuan, to you, Mr. Zhao, for only 100,000 yuan."
Xu Cun's words left Zhao Zhenqiang speechless! After a while, he said in a consoling tone, "Mr. Xu, it's your first time making a movie, so you really don't need to take such a big risk - the bottom line of the sixteen Shaw Brothers theaters in the summer. The fee is at least 100,000 per day, and about 4 million in a month. The risk is too great! Otherwise, how about I ask a friend at Jiahe to help you book five theaters for ten days in the summer? "
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The bottom line fee is a huge pit for the production company - if the movie does not sell well, the production company will not only be unable to share the money, but may also owe a large amount of debt to the theater chain.
Therefore, Zhao Zhenqiang's words of persuasion to Xu Cun were not for nothing.
In a previous life, Xu Cun heard a gossip that Zhao Zhenqiang had something to do with Li Xiaohe, the current chairman of the board of directors of Wireless.
Eli Xiaohe and Shao Daheng have been friends for decades, and it is a matter of one sentence to show a movie in a row for 30 days in the summer. Therefore, Xu Cun will automatically lower the price of the adaptation rights of "Shanghai Bund" and let Zhao Zhenqiang help him contact Shaw Brothers' theater chain.
At this moment, seeing Zhao Zhenqiang so embarrassed, Xu Cun secretly said: "It seems that the gossip is not true."
Afterwards, Xu Cun said in an unquestionable tone: "Mr. Zhao, I have these three conditions. If you can do it, I will sell you the right to adapt "Shanghai Beach" for 100,000 yuan, and I will assist you in adapting the script. . If you can't do it, then I'll have to continue talking to McDonald's."
After speaking, Xu Cun began to drink milk tea without saying a word.
After a while, Zhao Zhenqiang said, "Mr. Xu, please give me two days, and I will reply to you in two days, is that okay?"
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