China Entertainment Times 1999

Chapter 268 Invest in the Immortal Sword and Visit the Tang Dynasty! (Please subscribe!)

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Lin Xuan went to the hotel banquet hall to attend the closing banquet.

There were more than twenty tables opened for the dinner, and the atmosphere was lively.

Lin Xuan, as the protagonist of the banquet, was toasted in turn.

However, he was in good health and remained conscious until the end of the drink.

"Director Yimou, it was a pleasure to work with him this time. I look forward to our next cooperation."

"Okay, let's make an agreement."

"Brother Hua, I'm going to trouble you about the premiere of "Xiu Chun Dao"."

"Don't worry, I will definitely be there, and I will try to call as many of my friends on Hong Kong Island as possible."

"Thank you so much. Sister Ziyi...hey, where is the person?"

"She drank too much and went back to rest first."

She consumed too much last night and suffered from a severe lack of sleep, and now she was full of wake-up energy.

"Drinking too much is unavoidable at the wedding banquet. Besides, I haven't had a drink in a few months, so I'm a little greedy."

Early the next morning, Lin Xuan was awakened by the ringing of his cell phone.

The culprit was found and found to be Zhang Ziyi's cell phone, and the caller ID was her assistant.

"I don't believe it."

Zhang Ziyi was shaken awake and slapped the quilt irritably.

She has been looking forward to tonight's final battle for a long time.

It is said that the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage was found to make it, but it is not known whether it is really concubine.

"Hehehe..."

A few hours later, the closing banquet ended.

However, she didn't dare to show off to Lao Mouzi's drama, and she could only complain a few words.

Zhang Ziyi slept so deeply that the ringing of her cell phone didn't wake her up, and she still hugged him like an octopus.

Zhang Ziyi had three extremely expensive costumes in the movie, all of which were bought by Lin Xuan.

"Ah, then you still drink so much!"

Lin Xuan's role has been completed, but Liu Dehua and Zhang Ziyi still have some roles.

According to Zhang Yimou's filming speed, it would take at least more than half a month.

Lin Xuan returned to the room with a blushing face. Zhang Ziyi was already waiting on the bed and almost fell asleep.

"If you don't believe it, try it."

"Look at your blushing face. Why did you drink so much?"

"Just try it."

Putting on her clothes, Zhang Ziyi reluctantly left.

Zhang Ziyi lowered her head and whispered: "Hey, I heard that being drunk will affect that. Is it true?"

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"Then go and change your clothes. These rags are quite expensive. They cost me hundreds of thousands."

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Lin Xuan lay on the bed and continued to sleep, sleeping until noon before getting up to go to the airport.

He did not return to the capital, but went straight to the Magic City.

She hit him angrily.

"Hey, I couldn't sleep well during filming, and now that it's finished, I still can't sleep well."

Lin Xuan leaned against the bed and drank up the hangover soup in three gulps.

Lin Xuan smiled and said, "But I'm not drunk, and I'm much better than ordinary people."

"I bought you hangover soup."

Lin Xuan scratched his head helplessly.

"Get up, it's time to go filming."

Before returning to Beijing, he had to negotiate cooperation with Tang Ren and sign the contract.

Otherwise, if you go to all the trouble to help them get a broadcast license, wouldn't it be like making a wedding dress for others?

"Ah! I'm so annoyed!"

And after many days of hard work by Lin Xuan, she finally made up her mind and agreed to some of his excessive demands.

"It should be true!"

Zhang Ziyi was speechless for a while, pointing to the small bowl on the bedside table.

"That's so considerate, thank you."

After talking to Liu Yifei that time, he received a call from Li Guoli the next day.

The two parties agreed on a time, and Lin Xuan Studio's negotiation team flew to Shanghai in advance to make contact with Tangren Company first.

Negotiation is a time-consuming and energy-consuming thing.

He was too lazy to take care of it and left it directly to the professionals.

Arrive in the magical city and check into the hotel.

Lin Xuan was in the living room of the suite, listening to their work reports.

Investing in TV series is all about making money. If "Legend of Sword and Fairy" can only be broadcast overseas, the cost will be recovered at most.

If you want to make money from TV series, you have to rely on the huge mainland market and dozens of provincial TV stations.

In addition, the ratings are also very important, which directly affects the second and third rounds, overseas copyrights, and subsequent DVD sales.

Lin Xuan is the guarantee of ratings, plus he has the ability and connections to get the broadcast license.

This negotiation was on simple mode from the beginning.

Lin Xuan's requirements can be divided into three general requirements.

First of all, to ask him to star in a TV series, the studio must occupy 40% of the investment share, and his salary is calculated separately.

Secondly, in order to ensure the quality of the TV series, he must have absolute say in the crew.

The script, actors, photography style, post-production, editing rhythm, dubbing and soundtrack all had to be approved by him.

These two items sound a bit overbearing, and no director with any sense of integrity would agree.

But for the Tang people, they were eager to do this.

Filming a TV series is a high-risk business, and you can lose everything if you are not careful.

If Lin Xuan helps control the details, this drama will definitely be more successful, so why not.

As for the integrity and so on, making money is not shabby.

The third requirement.

If Lin Xuan helps get the broadcast license, the management will need to give him a 20-point revenue share as a reward for his activities.

In other words, if all goes well, Lin Xuan Studio will receive 60% of the profit from this drama.

Issues involving interests are all big issues, and here lies the focus and difficulty of negotiation.

After several days of difficult discussions, the studio team successfully completed the task.

Several investors reluctantly agreed to his request.

Although his asking price is high, without his help, the show can at best break even.

If you want to make money, that is wishful thinking.

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The next morning, Lin Xuan arrived at the Tangren Company building on time.

"Director Lin, welcome."

Li Guoli, wearing glasses and gray hair, stood at the door to greet him.

Standing next to him were company executives, management representatives, and contracted actors.

Most of them met Lin Xuan for the first time, but they knew his legendary experiences very well.

Especially the young actors, their excitement is written on their faces, and many people regard him as their goal and idol.

"Director Li, long time no see. The last time we met was on the set of "The Greatest Love"."

"Yes, time flies so fast, four years have passed in the blink of an eye.

When I was on the set, I concluded that you would definitely become famous in the future.

I wanted to sign you back then, but unfortunately Wang Jinhua started too quickly. The more I think about it now, the more I regret it. "

He wasn't the only one who regretted it.

Every time Lin Xuan's new drama breaks out, Li Shaohong and Rong Xingda will be taken out and whipped.

A cooked duck can fly. How can you run a film and television company with such vision?

"It doesn't matter whether we sign or not, aren't we cooperating again now?"

"Haha, that's true. Let me introduce it to you."

Li Guoli turned around and introduced the senior Tang people to him one by one.

"This is my partner, Miss Cai Yinong, the director and president of Tangren Film and Television.

Young, beautiful, smart and capable, in today's terms, she is called a strong woman. "How near-sighted are your eyes? Can this be called beautiful?"

As for ability... why don’t we elaborate on this.

"Hello, Mr. Cai."

"Director Lin, I have admired your name for a long time and have been looking forward to meeting you."

With a smile on her face, Cai Yin took the initiative to take a step forward and hold Lin Xuan's hand.

Next are company executives and management representatives.

There is Bay Capital behind the Tang people, so there were several Bay people among the people present.

After this group of people were introduced, it was the turn of Tang Ren's contracted actors.

The company has signed many people, but Lin Xuan's time is limited, and those who are qualified to come and make introductions are all the main artists.

For example, the current Tang Dynasty’s first brother Li Mianpeng and first sister Sun Li.

However, one of the two's contract is about to expire, and the other will retire from the industry and have a baby in two years.

Seeing Lin Xuan, Li Yapeng's expression was a little unnatural, and his heart was full of mixed emotions.

When he first debuted, Lin Xuan was still playing house in a rural village in the backwaters.

When he became popular, Lin Xuan was still playing a small role in Beijing Film Studio, and he had a lot of trouble.

When his popularity reached its peak, Lin Xuan came from behind, and both of them were rated as the first generation of four major students.

Now that his popularity has begun to decline, Lin Xuan has become the only superstar in the mainland film and television industry.

In just a few years, so much has changed.

After briefly greeting them, Cai Yinong took the initiative to introduce the other two young people.

They knew Lin Xuan very well, Hu Ge, the future first brother of the Tang Dynasty, and Yuan Hong, the second brother.

"Hello, Director Lin. Nice to meet you. I'm your fan."

"Me too, I still have signed posters hanging in my university dormitory."

The two of them smiled warmly and said hello cordially.

They are the same age, just in their early twenties this year, have not left school yet, and their faces are still very childish.

"Thank you."

Lin Xuan shook hands with them, and the smiles on their faces became even brighter.

If Hu Ge knew that Lin Xuan had taken away his luck, he probably wouldn't be able to laugh anymore.

The meeting ended and everyone headed to the conference room.

The contract is ready, but someone from the legal department needs to go over it again.

Li Guoli and Cai Yinong took Lin Xuan to visit the Tang Dynasty Building, and then went to the reception room to drink tea and chat.

After the contract modification was completed, both parties formally signed the contract and then took a group photo.

Cai Yinong arranged a dinner for them, and Lin Xuan did not refuse.

She was really kind to Hu Ge and Yuan Hong. She even brought them to the dinner and asked them to toast Lin Xuan.

After dinner, Lin Xuan went to the villa in the city center.

It was the villa from the last century that I bought when I was filming "The Dark Side".

He purchased the design drawings through System Space.

The structure of a Western-style villa is not easy to adopt the new Chinese style.

Moreover, similar decoration styles can easily lead to aesthetic fatigue after looking at them for a long time.

The renovation this time is in the neo-French style, which belongs to the style of more than ten years later.

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It was a co-production starring mainland and Bayan actors.

Before the coal boss came in, mainland film and television companies were very short of funds.

If this co-production can be successful, it will definitely attract a large amount of Bay Capital to invest in the mainland in the future.

Therefore, this co-production is of great significance to the development of the mainland film and television industry.

Facts have proved that the cakes painted by Lin Xuan are still very fragrant.

As for being broadcast on CCTV, forget about it.

Within two days of submitting the script, it passed the review smoothly.

After getting that thin piece of paper, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" can finally be officially launched.

Lin Xuan invited Li Guoli and Cai Yinong to the capital for detailed discussions, which took place at Lin Xuan's studio.

The two landed in Beijing by plane in the morning, and the studio sent a car to pick them up.

Looking at the Mercedes-Benz fleet in front of them, Li Guoli and Cai Yi secretly smacked their lips, thinking that Lin Xuan's ability to make money was too terrifying.

There are many people in the film and television industry who can afford to buy more than two million Mercedes-Benz, but there are really not many people who can buy three cars in a row to form a fleet.

When the Mercedes-Benz convoy arrived downstairs of the company, the two felt Lin Xuan's aura again.

Lin Xuan Studio rents three entire floors of a very large office building in the suburbs of Beijing. It has more than 300 employees and a dozen chaotic departments.

What kind of studio is this? Ninety-nine percent of the film and television companies in the mainland do not have such a large scale.

Lin Xuan showed them around.

The three of them came to the door of an office area, and more than thirty workstations were all filled with people.

However, these people are not working, they are just surfing the Internet, reading news, and browsing forums.

Those who didn’t know better thought this was an Internet cafe.

Li Guoli asked curiously: "Director Lin, what do these employees do?"

"This is the web department of the studio."

"Network department? What exactly does it do?"

“Go online, chat, read news, and visit forums.”

Li Guoli frowned, looking confused.

"Is this considered work? It's no different from those young people who spend all day in Internet cafes."

Lin Xuan smiled and said: "You are right, but the future will always belong to young people.

If you want to be popular for a long time, you must collect the preferences of young audiences..."

He explained to Li Guoli casually, without mentioning other important tasks of the network department.

However, Cai Yinong's eyes lit up when she heard this.

That’s so right, that’s so right.

When Tangren Film and Television was first established, whenever a TV series was aired, she would go to forums to collect comments from viewers.

Through this act, she accurately captured the preferences of young people today and played a key role in the subsequent development of Tang dramas.

Unexpectedly, Lin Xuan actually did the same thing, even better than her.

At first she was the only one doing this, but Lin Xuan actually formed a department.

No wonder they are so popular!

This forward-looking vision is at least a step ahead of other colleagues.

After visiting the company, several people went to the conference room to discuss work and arrange follow-up procedures.

The core of film and television dramas is the script, and the original script of Fairy Sword needs to be revised.

Next comes the shooting location. Lin Xuan has very high requirements for the scene.

It’s impossible to shoot everything in Hengdian, that would be too petty.

Then there are the crew, costumes, styling, props, photography, martial arts...

For unimportant positions, Tang people's team can be used.

These key functional departments mentioned above require people from Lin Xuan Studio.

Finally, there are the actors. The male and female protagonists have been determined.

He suggested open auditions for the remaining roles, and actors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places could participate.

For the sake of the completion of the work, several investors are strictly prohibited from adding people to the crew.

Except for small roles with few roles.

But those important roles must go through auditions by the crew.

Li Guoli and Cai Yinong accepted several requests made by Lin Xuan.

But if he shoots like this, the budget will have to increase by at least 30%.

Lin Xuan only fights for wealth when filming.

The actors, creators, costumes, props, and scenes all need to be well-matched.

If the budget is not enough, then add more. If the investors don't want to pay, the studio will make up for the vacant part.

Anyway, the final benefit is calculated by the investment share.

After dinner in the evening, Li Guoli and Cai Yinong took the information and headed to the airport in a daze.

After coming to the capital, the two of them got to know each other a lot.

(End of this chapter)