At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 497 I Have Advised You Long Ago

"Teacher Xudong, please sign for me..."

Backstage, Zhao Liying took out two 'Collected Works of Shen Xudong'...

Shen Xudong smiled—a fan again!

but…

"Collected Works of Shen Xudong"?
When he opened the book, he couldn't help but twitched his face: "Where did you buy it?"

"Xinhua Bookstore! A book costs 12 yuan!"

"I have never published an anthology..."

"It hasn't been released...you mean...this is a pirated version?"

Zhao Liying is not a fool, she heard Shen Xudong's implication...

"It's okay, I'll sign one for you... By the way, do you like that novel?"

""Zhu Xian", I like "Zhu Xian" the most!"

"...Very good..."Zhu Xian" game has been closed beta..."

"I heard they said they were going to make a TV series?"

"Well, it's being planned..."

Zhao Liying was about to say something more, "cough cough" Feng Xiaogang walked in and coughed...

She immediately understood and left the room.

She has done sales before, and also worked as a secretary, so she knows how to deal with the world!

"Xiao Shen, thank you!"

"...What's the matter, you asked me to come here because you think highly of me!"

Feng Xiaogang immediately said: "What does it mean to be respected? Who doesn't know Shen Xudong's name, he can easily praise a director with a box office of [-] million yuan..."

Shen Xudong: "Luck, luck... The movie "Stone" was recommended by Huang Bo. He liked the script. The crew had no money, so I voted for it..."

"So, you still have vision..."

"It's mainly cheap, I can afford it, if it exceeds 2000 million..."

Feng Xiaogang suddenly changed the subject: "Harvey quit "The Banquet"!"

"I just..." Shen Xudong was about to be humble, when he heard the news, he was immediately surprised: "What? He really retired?"

Feng Xiaogang had a bitter face: "Well, he said he didn't like it and asked to return the product..."

Shen Xudong: "Did you say that it's either $100 million...or return it?"

"It's $50...he's not even willing to pay $100 million!"

Shen Xudong was also silent for a while, and then complained: "Uncle Feng, I told you a long time ago that Harvey is unreliable, why didn't you listen? He also returned "The Promise" like this, but "The Promise" With China Film, Warner has formed a distribution right..."

"The Promise?"

Shen Xudong thought for a while, then shook his head again: "No, "The Promise", he just didn't want it... He didn't say how much to sell it to him at all... He didn't even ask for a deposit..."

Well, from this point of view, at least in Harvey's opinion, the market performance of "The Banquet" will be better than "The Promise"!
In the Japanese market, although the box office of "The Promise" surpassed that of "The Banquet", the DVD sales volume of "The Banquet" was overwhelmed by "The Promise"...

"Let's not talk about "The Promise"," Feng Xiaogang continued with a bitter face: "... Harvey signed the contract, who knows he would dare to break the contract..."

"He came from the bottom, and he doesn't care about his reputation at all... Besides, he has a high status in the North American independent film industry, and his reputation will not be affected by cheating a few foreign filmmakers and foreign film companies. On the contrary, many people admire him even more because of this. he…"

You have the ability to trick foreigners, you are awesome!
It's the same all over the world...

When Feng Xiaogang heard Shen Xudong say this, he became anxious: "Didn't you say that foreigners are very contractual?"

"Do you believe it?" Shen Xudong was speechless: "What 'Westerners regard contracts as an indispensable spiritual belief.', 'Why do you say that 'Westerners have more contractual spirit'? It is worthy of Chinese people's reflection!" Horse nonsense, deceitful..."

We promote the spirit of contract in the West all day long. The spirit of contract has been integrated into the lives of everyone in the West, affects their moral judgments, and fundamentally protects people's social status. Therefore, the spirit of contract has also become the spirit of Westerners. An important part of the world...', 'Chinese people love to take advantage of loopholes, chicken thieves, and lack the spirit of contract'...

The key is that the people who wrote these things are all Chinese, and there are also a bunch of professors and experts on the horse...

This subtle publicity…

Those who are on the horse, in order to join the Western-led system, do not hesitate to cut their feet to fit their shoes!

China has no contract spirit?That's because China doesn't pay much attention to the form of contract!

Because China is as good as it is!
After a pause, Shen Xudong asked, "What should we do now?"

"The Chinese army said...sell it to him!"

Also, if you don't sell it to Harvey, who else can you sell it to?

Up to now, I have gone to the film festival "Night Banquet" that I should go to, and I have talked about the business of the film, and it is very difficult to find a buyer again.

Chinese films are difficult to sell, and it will be even more difficult if they have the reputation of returning products.If it is not sold to Harvey, the North American copyright may be in his hands, and the loss will be even greater.

Go to court?Sue him for breach of contract!

A dozen for at least a year, Weinstein Films doesn't care about time, can the Huayi Brothers not care?

They borrowed nearly [-] million yuan for "The Banquet"!

In the current situation, what Harvey originally said was 500 million US dollars has become 100 million US dollars. It is 50 US dollars. In other words, "The Banquet" charges at least 1200 million US dollars more!
Originally, after excluding domestic and foreign publicity fees, the box office would be more than 6000 million yuan, which would be enough to cover the cost.

With Feng Xiaogang's appeal, 6000 million is not a problem. Now add 1200 million US dollars, which means at least 1.4 million...

This... is a bit difficult!

"I told you a long time ago, but you don't believe me!" Shen Xudong comforted: "In the future, when doing business with foreigners, you must be more careful..."

Feng Xiaogang wanted to say a lot of things, but finally condensed them into one word: "... Alas!"

……

In fact, when mainland film producers, especially Huayi Brothers, also cheat foreigners, this is the case with "Big Wrist" and "Heroes of Heaven and Earth"-Colombia wants overseas copyrights, but Huayi Brothers has mainland copyrights, and the investors are all Colombia!
A real big injustice...

The Huayi Brothers made a lot of money with these two movies - not only earning distribution fees, but also earning fame!
Huayi invested in several films with very small investment, but they advertised as the main investor, frequently accepting media interviews, so that their intangible assets have grown rapidly in the past few years, but they can't take out too much in actual investment. money.

Columbia also suffered a lot, and took Chen Guofu into it!

——Chen Guofu used to be the president of Columbia Greater China, and later joined Huayi...

From this point of view, it can only be said that there are winners and losers.

……

At night, having dinner together, Feng Xiaogang suddenly remembered something: "Do you like that Zhao Liying?"

Shen Xudong waved his hand: "...I can't talk about it, I just feel that in the current entertainment industry...or in the future, there will be less and less people from her background!"

"how to say?"

"We all know that the entertainment industry is quick to make money. In the future, our industry will definitely have all kinds of second generations..."

Hearing this, Feng Xiaogang shook his head: "In fact, being an actor still has no social status...In ancient times, it was called an opera, what is an opera, and it was for the entertainment of dignitaries. It is the same now, back then..."

Director Feng said a lot of things that he couldn't write... I don't know where he heard them, they were all bed stories of celebrities, and there were even details...

Shen Xudong was a little speechless: "Where did you hear about it?"

"...There must be rumors about this kind of thing...As long as the powerful and powerful are attracted to it, you have to follow it, what is it called, this is an actor! Do you think the real rich will send their children into the entertainment industry? ?”

(End of this chapter)