Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 787 I really have no money now!

After listening to Director Yang Jie's "neither humble nor arrogant" statement, Cao Zhiqiang did not reply immediately, but picked up the teacup and drank it slowly.

By the way, I also took the opportunity to think about the pros and cons of investing in the Journey to the West crew.

To be honest, from a historical perspective, the 86 version of "Journey to the West" is indeed a classic, and he himself really likes it. After all, it was one of his favorite TV series as a child in his previous life.

But from his personal perspective, investing in the 86 version of Journey to the West at this time is completely thankless.

Frankly speaking, although the live-action shooting of Journey to the West has been highly praised, in Cao Zhiqiang's view, this is completely superfluous, or in other words, not a necessary option.

Because in Cao Zhiqiang's view, mythological dramas like Journey to the West don't need too much live shooting at all.

Of course, this is not to say that live-action shooting is not necessary, but if you pursue live-action shooting too much, you will sacrifice the first and the last.

Journey to the West is a mythological drama, not a landscape documentary. It is entirely possible to shoot a few key shots, such as the scene where the master and apprentice pass the waterfall, or go to Zhangjiajie to shoot some long shots, and then most of the other shots can be shot in the studio.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang remembered that when he was watching Journey to the West as a child in his previous life, he had little impression of the actual scenery. Instead, he was more impressed by the individual characters, such as the King of the Daughter Kingdom.

Oh, by the way, the king of the daughter country is now sleeping with him and she is pregnant.

Of course, at this time, the Journey to the West crew had not yet filmed the episode of The Kingdom of Women.

Judging from the filming progress of the Journey to the West crew, it is estimated that after Zhu Lin gives birth to the child, there will still be time to film King of the Kingdom of Women.

Far away.

In other words, although director Yang Jie's live-action shooting spirit is indeed a bold innovation, from the perspective of a simple audience, Cao Zhiqiang finds it completely unnecessary.

To be honest, according to Cao Zhiqiang's own perception, the backgrounds that impressed him most in the 86 version of Journey to the West were actually the Tiangong in the Heavenly Palace and the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea.

And these places were all shot in studios.

In addition, for movies like "Avalokitesvara", you don't have to go to places like Fujian and Hangzhou to shoot real scenes and then edit and synthesize them.

This kind of shooting takes time, effort and money, but the actual effect is mediocre.

After all, when actually watching this episode of "The Misfortune to the Goddess of Mercy", who would really pay attention to where the background is.

In other words, in Cao Zhiqiang's opinion, even the episode "The Misfortune of Guanyin Yuan" can be shot in a studio.

Even if they build a simple temple for this purpose, the overall cost will be less than what they spend on shooting on location everywhere.

Moreover, after building a temple, it is not a one-time investment. It can also be used as a tourist spot and tourism industry afterwards.

In this way, when "Journey to the West" is officially aired, a steady stream of income can be obtained from the "Journey to the West" film and television city.

Not only that, this method also has the value of land.

If this Journey to the West Film and Television City is built within the Third Ring Road, it will be even more remarkable when land prices rise in the future.

That is to say, if you want to use your own name to approve a large piece of land for construction, of course it won't work.

But if it is in the name of building a film and television city and filming my country's first mythological TV series Journey to the West, then you can apply.

On this point, the crew of the 1987 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" did a very good job.

When filming Dream of Red Mansions, the crew specifically applied to the Peking City Government to build an antique garden that was convenient for filming Dream of Red Mansions, which is the Peking Grand View Garden.

Hey, it seems that the Grand View Garden was approved for construction in 1984. I don’t remember the specific month, but it was most likely in the second half of the year.

In short, after the completion of the Peking Grand View Garden, the Dream of Red Mansions crew not only paid off the debt by selling tickets, but also turned it into a famous 3A tourist attraction, and it has been profitable ever since.

No one has calculated the specific profit of Peking Grand View Garden, but it will definitely not be less.

Because as early as when the Grand View Garden was under construction, when it was only the first phase of the project, the number of tourists here exceeded one million a year, which was a very scary figure at the time.

As for the subsequent land income, there is no need to mention it.

Cao Zhiqiang remembers that the Peking Grand View Garden he visited in his previous life covers an area of 13 square meters and is within the Second Ring Road, at the corner between the West Second Ring Road and the South Second Ring Road. The location is very good.

Don’t say 2024, just say 2010. Just look at the housing prices within the Second Ring Road in Peking.

Therefore, from an investment perspective, building the Grand View Garden in the name of filming Dream of Red Mansions is a guaranteed profit.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang recently plans to open a foreign-related hotel.

If the addresses of foreign-related hotels can also be included, the benefits will be even higher.

In other words, if Cao Zhiqiang was asked to film Journey to the West, he would not follow the lead of director Yang Jie and focus on real-life shooting.

He will mainly focus on studio shooting, and will also take the opportunity to build a Journey to the West film and television studio.

If you do this, you may not save money, but you will definitely make money.

It is not like the 86 version of Dream of Red Mansions in history, which is famous but has low actual benefits.

Simply relying on selling copyrights to recover costs will take years and months.

Furthermore, Director Yang's tone was too loud.

As soon as I opened my mouth, I asked him for 3 million filming expenses.

Moreover, the three million yuan is purely given, there is no other guarantee, and Cao Zhiqiang cannot be allowed to interfere with the specific shooting.

At most, it would be possible for Cao Zhiqiang to play a guest role in it, and at the end of each episode, when the subtitles appear, a thank you subtitle such as "Special Thanks" should be typed.

Of course Cao Zhiqiang is not interested in such things as losing money and making noise.

However, even if you want to refuse, there is also an art to how to refuse.

Rejection must be done tactfully and without offending people.

Thinking of this, Cao Zhiqiang put down his tea cup and sighed before saying anything: "Director Yang, I absolutely agree with your idea of shooting on location, and I absolutely believe that you can successfully shoot this classic Journey to the West.

From my personal point of view, I am very happy to sponsor.

But... you're late, I really can't get the money now. "

"Huh?" Director Yang Jie, who was also drinking tea, was stunned, quickly put down the tea cup, and then smiled slightly.

"Director Cao, you are just joking.

Who doesn't know now that you are the richest individual in our country, with a personal property of more than 10 million and actual property control of more than 100 million, making you the absolute richest man in the country.

Do you, the richest man in the country, still need three million?

So, if you don’t want to invest, just say so, I understand, why bother making those excuses? "

Cao Zhiqiang immediately made a surprised expression: "Wait a minute, wait a minute? The richest man in the country? A personal fortune of 10 million? The actual property controlled is more than 100 million? Who is talking nonsense? Why don't I know I am so rich?"

Seeing Cao Zhiqiang acting like this, Director Yang Jie frowned, but soon smiled and said: "Everyone is saying this, and it may be groundless.

What's more, the movie you shot before was said to be very popular in Japan and became the highest-grossing movie last year, with a box office of more than 97.5 billion yen.

The current exchange rate of Japanese yen to RMB is 100 to 1. Even if converted into RMB, it is still 9750 million RMB.

Japan adopts a split-account model. Based on one-tenth of your income from this vote, you will earn at least 975 million RMB.

This is still just a formal exchange route.

If you use Japanese yen in foreign exchange, the purchasing power is far more than this amount.

Add to that what you earned before, ten million is a small amount.

This is still your personal asset.

Even more so if you count the business assets you control. Nowadays, among all the people in the country, not counting overseas Chinese and foreign guests, you seem to be the only one who can truly exceed 10 million.

You said you are not the richest man in the country, who is? "

Hearing what the other party said, Cao Zhiqiang shook his head and smiled bitterly: "My Director Yang, you are also an old-timer, you should know that the rumors in the market are not trustworthy.

If I really had so much money, would I still stay up late writing songs and trying to find ways to find money?

If I really had so much money, I wouldn’t be able to spend it all in my lifetime. Wouldn’t it be nice to retire early? Why are you still working so hard? "

Director Yang Jie frowned: "But everyone says that."

Cao Zhiqiang said: "So, it is better to spread rumors by spreading rumors."

After a pause, Cao Zhiqiang continued: "Forget it, since you are a veteran in the directing world and can be considered one of our own, then I will tell you the truth and announce my actual wealth.

First of all, it’s the Japanese movie box office thing you mentioned.

Yes, my film "Love in the Rain" did achieve a good box office in Japan, and it was indeed the number one box office last year. The total box office did exceed 97.5 billion yen, which is the highest in history. This is correct. .

But the problem is, this is a foreign film, and I want to send it there in the name of Hongguang Film Studio, and cooperate with the distribution company there, which is Toho Co., Ltd. to distribute it.

It is said that it is a joint release, but in fact the initiative lies in other people's hands.

Although externally speaking, we use a box office revenue sharing model, the proportion we can share is pitifully small.

The money we can share is not even one-tenth of the total box office. This is completely exaggerated.

In fact, Japan’s total box office is different from ours.

Their box office is divided into total box office and allocated box office.

The total box office is the total box office number.

But in fact, at least half of the total box office must be allocated to the cinema itself, and the remaining half is what the major distribution companies can get. This is called box office rationing.

In other words, just rationing the box office would cut it in half, to only 48 billion yen.

Of these 48 billion, we can actually account for only one-twelfth of it, which is already very high.

In other words, the share we can get from this movie is only 400 million yen, and we still have to pay taxes, so the actual amount we get is only more than 300 million yen.

According to the current official exchange rate, the income is almost more than 3 million RMB.

But the problem is, this income is the income of Hongguang Film Studio, not my personal income, and cannot be counted as my personal funds.

Although I am the director of Hongguang Film Factory, this factory is still a serious state-owned enterprise and is under the leadership of the Film Bureau.

After receiving this part of the money, a part of the tax will be paid, and the remaining amount will be less than two million.

Of course, this is still in name only.

In fact, due to time constraints, we never got the money.

Although we have urged the Japanese side to send us money as soon as possible.

But the Japanese side has said that box office settlement is very complicated and the money will not be transferred until March this year at the earliest.

There is no way, they are Party A and we are Party B. You must also understand the matter of being pressed for payment by Party A.

In other words, the film "Love in the Rain" did achieve very good results in Japan and did make money.

But if you really want to get it, it will be March at the earliest.

This is still the fastest.

In fact, I estimate that at most a part of it will be paid in March, and the remaining balance can be received before June, which would be good.

So, for the time being, the money earned from that movie cannot be counted, and I can’t get that money at all now.

As for the other parts.

Yes, I have quite a few businesses on hand now.

Including Hongguang Film Factory, Hongguang Publishing House, Hongguang Department Store, Hongguang Transportation Company, etc.

But these companies are all subsidiaries of Hongguang Machinery Factory. In many companies, I just have a name and am not the real leader.

What I can really have the final say is Hongguang Publishing House, and Huaxia Audio-Video Company, which was later separated and became my personal company.

I admit, I used to work for Hongguang Publishing House and made a lot of money by selling poetry books and records.

The total amount of money is probably less than two million, which is quite a lot.

In addition, I also worked as a singer in Japan and made some money through singing.

If you add in what I earned before, including everything else, the total is just over three million RMB.

However, when I was in Japan, I purchased a lot of advanced recording equipment there and planned to transport it back to join my own private company, Huaxia Audio and Video Company, so that I could better record high-quality records.

Now, the batch of equipment has arrived at Tianjin Port and is still waiting for me to sign for acceptance.

In order to buy these equipment, I have basically spent all my money.

This was actually not enough. I actually used a few new songs as collateral to borrow a sum of money from a Japanese record company, and then I paid back the money to buy recording equipment.

In other words, I currently have less than 300,000 yuan on hand.

But for these 300,000 yuan, I still have to pay wages to the people at Hongguang Film Factory and Huaxia Audio and Video Company, and I also have to get the records, which cannot be tampered with.

I won’t mention Huaxia Audio and Video Company. As for Hongguang Film Factory, theoretically I shouldn’t be paid personally, but the money from selling the movies hasn’t come in yet, so I’ll advance the money to the film studio first and wait for the money to come in. Come here and give it back to me.

To be honest, I am really short of money now.

If it weren't for this Jianguo Hotel room, I had paid the room fee for three months in advance and the room fee was non-refundable. I would have wanted to refund the room fee here.

So, Director Yang, it’s rare that you come to me and open this mouth to me.

Ordinarily I should express my feelings.

but!

I really have no money now!

As long as I still have some spare money, even if I have tens of thousands of dollars, I will definitely support you.

After all, I also want to leave my own shadow in this TV series that is destined to go down in history.

Oh, what a pity, it’s really impossible now.

I really have no money left.

The little money we had was already planned and deposited into the company's account.

What I have on hand now is only a few hundred yuan for living expenses.

Well, today I am telling you the truth from the bottom of my heart in front of Lao Xu.

So, you must believe me!