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Chapter 255 It’s hard to get money from Jiang Liu

"Dear viewers, the Lunar New Year is about to ring, with the countdown to 10 and 9."

[Gongtian Group wishes New Year greetings to the people across the country! 】

At the Huangdao Pearl Hotel, at the New Year's Eve dinner of the "Orangutan" crew, Jiang Liu's eyes turned from the TV to Zhou Guoshan: "Did the 12 o'clock bell ringing commercial be filmed this year?"

"Well, 10 million in 680 seconds. This year it's mainly to promote pure alcohol."

"It's cruel enough. It has risen to 68 in one second? Let's not be taken advantage of next year. It's just a line of words on the screen. How can ordinary people see it?"

Jiang Liu picked up a crab and suggested Zhou Guoshan Road.

Seeing Gao Da Mao coming over with a toast, Zhou Guoshan nodded with a smile: "Okay."

"Brother, here's a toast to you. I listened to you and made a small profit this year."

"Why did you just listen to me and make a small fortune?" Jiang Liu was puzzled and asked curiously while holding a cup.

Gao Damao grinned and said happily: "Didn't you let me buy a house in the capital? In the first half of the year, I bought two houses, one large and one small. After buying two houses, the price increased. This will increase by as much as 20,000 yuan."

"Oh!" Jiang Liu suddenly realized and said happily: "Come on, have a drink!"

After discovering that Gao Damao could earn 20,000 yuan just by buying a house, many people from the crew came to the main table and shouted: "Boss, can houses in the capital still rise? If so, I will borrow some money to make a down payment."

"There may be some small fluctuations, but I definitely can't stop if I want to."

As soon as Jiang Liu said this, many people started talking.

People far away from the main table who were still awake gathered at the main table. The crazy fireworks outside the hotel failed to dampen everyone's enthusiasm for buying a house.

"Mr. Jiang, you must firmly believe that housing prices will rise, and Yixin's industry must also be adjusted. Instead of cross-industry real estate, it is also excellent to buy land and build Yixin Cinema." A tipsy Hou Hongliang said with a smile.

Jiang Liu shook his head: "You can't bite off more than you can chew. You want to take a bite of everything. In the end, you'll most likely push yourself to death."

Zhou Guoshan echoed: "I don't recommend it either. I have contacted several real estate developers in the past few years."

"As far as I know, there are a lot of loopholes in the way these companies operate. They use part of the money to acquire land, and then use the land to borrow money to build buildings. Half of the buildings are built. Maybe only one building is built and sold, and then the house's performance is used to find loans from other banks. Buy a piece of land, and the cycle repeats.”

"It's okay if there are no problems with this operation method. Once there is a flaw in a certain link, it will be easy for the company to collapse overnight, and it is estimated that many people will be implicated."

Zhou Guoshan sneered and said: "In the few years I have been at Geng Tian Gong, including when I was planning the launch of the pure alcohol series, what I came into contact with the most was how to obtain loans and what kind of rebates. There is something fishy about this, hehe!"

"Look, Mr. Zhou is sober. He is talking about one thing."

"I don't want to do real estate or use land to develop movie theaters. On the other hand, I am very aware of people's greed. If you come into contact with something, it will be difficult to stop it casually. I don't think I have the ability. Hou I’m always afraid that it will be difficult to do.”

"So, we still do what Yixin is best at."

“Once the content is ready and paired with the company’s growing distribution capabilities, movies and TV series can also make a lot of money.”

"Last year, there were more than 8000 episodes of domestic dramas. Yixin invested and produced nearly 500 episodes, accounting for 16% of the total number of dramas in the country. Yixin's dramas have always been well-known."

"Take "Chinese Divorce" by Shen Yan, our chief steward, as an example. This drama not only sold well in China, but was also introduced to Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and even North America. The domestic genuine compressed disc also sold for 12 yuan One piece of money.”

"This is the charm of a good drama coupled with distribution. If you don't focus on theaters and only produce content, you won't be afraid of being deliberately blocked one day."

"Whether it is a North American theater chain or a domestic theater chain, in the early stages of development, Yixin cooperates and confronts others. After opening up the North American market, it will turn around and force the domestic theater chains to make concessions. As long as one day it truly controls the content of domestic and North American theater chains. The source of it must be uncovered both at home and abroad.”

Alcohol affected the brain nerves, and Jiang Liu talked a lot more than usual.

Seeing that he was in a rare state of drunkenness, everyone quickly sent him back to his room together with Li Xin.

He got drunk once on New Year's Eve, and on New Year's Day, Jiang Liu got drunk again.

By the time the crew started working on the second day of the new year, his head was still dizzy.

Li Xin said angrily: "Drink red wine and get yourself drunk!"

"Hundreds of people from the crew, big and small, came to toast, and you'd be drunk even if you came." Jiang Liu put on his down jacket and left the room.

The crew's post-Chinese New Year scenes were relatively simple, and they were all reshoots of scattered scenes on the Yangtze River Bridge. Filming is easy, but troublesome. Applying makeup in the film is enough of a headache. Nowadays, filming dangerous scenes with large areas of wires is even more difficult and time-consuming.

"start."

"Click."

"start."

"click"

This is basically how the crew went about every day. After shooting a scene, they stopped to touch up their makeup. The crew's progress was extremely slow.

"Hey, I'm going back to the capital tomorrow. How long do you have to stay here?"

"It will be around the middle of next month." Jiang Liu closed the crew's shooting schedule and suddenly said: "Did you have a safe period yesterday? Why did I remember the wrong time?"

Li Xing spent the Chinese New Year with him on the Lu Province crew.

After he started work in the second year of junior high school, Li Xing disguised himself as a tourist and walked around the streets of Shandong Province every day to experience the local New Year atmosphere.

Being a tourist during the day was fine, but Jiang Liu had some doubts about the couple's life at night.

If he remembered correctly, he should have taken safety measures in recent days to travel lightly.

Li Xun pushed Jiang Liu: "You are really idle. Don't I know my own affairs better than you?"

"As you wish."

Jiang Liu turned off the lights and lay down with his back to Li Xin, thinking deeply.

"Li Xin is planning to have a child. If he doesn't win, he should get the required documents when he returns to the capital, and let him do the rest."

In March, a huge roar came from the Luzhou studio.

A helicopter model on the set of "Apes" exploded, sending smoke billowing out.

Meanwhile, "Apes" is finally wrapping up.

这部戏11月份开机至3月10号杀青，制作周期4个月10天，拍摄时长不算短。

The day after the plot was finalized, Jiang Liu was invited by Director Sun to attend a high-level meeting involving provincial and municipal leaders.

The meeting revolved around the Oriental Movie Capital. Jiang Liu listened to one person and two people, and they were perfunctory.

For such a big project, let alone him, no matter who it is, as long as they have a little bit of brains, they don't dare to pat their chests and guarantee profits.

He only made one promise at the meeting. If Shandong Province is really determined to build a high-tech studio, as a true Chinese and a Chinese director, he will definitely bring the crew to support when needed.

And we will do our best to help recommend movie theaters.

That's all he can do.

The meeting lasted for three days, during which Jiang Liu inspected the Gengtian Company and delayed his return to the capital until the 20th.

At the end of March and almost April, the house was full of green plants, the flowers were in bud, and the pond was clear and rippling. Jiang Liu thought it was time to invite Mr. Yu Chu and Mr. Han to Jiangzhai for a meal.

Especially Mr. Han.

Since he introduced John Woo, Jiang Liu invested 3000 million in John Woo's "Red Cliff".

Although 3000 million is not US dollars, it is not much compared to the total production cost of "Red Cliff" budget.

But 3000 million is not a small number. It has to be said that China Film Group does not support stars, but there are as many as or big and small stars and singers.

Moreover, "Red Cliff" is a movie starring China, Eagle Sauce, and Japan.

(End of this chapter)