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Chapter 125 It's better to be a senior sister, gentle and considerate

"Suddenly This Summer" will be launched in April. Recently, the makeup photos of several leading actors have been confirmed, so several actors have come to the company one after another.

The leading actor of "Suddenly This Summer" approached Zhu Yilong.Li Jingkun is a senior in the acting department of Jingying 06.

Zhu Yilong has debuted for two or three years, but there are quite a few works with many titles, but they all star in digital movies of the costume series; and basically they are not the protagonists.

This time it was a great breakthrough and surprise for him to be able to sign a contract with Longqi Film and Television and play the leading role in a TV series.So I signed a contract with them very quickly.

Other actors include Cai Wenwen, Sun Hao, Xu Xiaolu and so on.

"You will enjoy it."

After taking the makeup photo that day, Mao Xiaotong did not leave immediately, but went to the chairman's office to be a guest.

After moving to the new company, this was Mao Xiaotong's first visit, so I was a little curious.

The chairman's office is very luxurious. Bookshelves, luxurious sofas, desks and chairs are all standard equipment, but now there are also custom-made wardrobes and a luxurious massage chair.

"What brand is it? How much is it? It feels good to the touch."

"I don't know much about a foreign brand. It was introduced by others, and it costs more than 3 yuan. You can try it."

Mao Xiaotong was wearing a white one-piece dress, and his skin was so white that it shone a little.It's not that she has never seen a massage chair before, but when she came to Li Jingkun's site, she seemed very relaxed, so she really sat on it naturally.

"Not bad, very comfortable."

"I just bought it, and I haven't used it a few times. Try it out."

"I haven't experienced it for a long time, and I'm really tired recently."

Mao Xiaotong sat on the massage chair, turned on the switch, selected a mode, and then the chair started to move.

I saw that the massage chair fixed her hands and feet, then lifted her up, let her lie flat on the chair, and then her whole body began to move up and down.

It was a little itchy at first, she couldn't help laughing, and then suddenly felt something was wrong, because the posture she was in now seemed a bit indecent...
Li Jingkun is still in the room.

"Ah, it's a bit of a miscalculation! Don't look over here! Hahaha." Mao Xiaotong said.

"You are testing my concentration..."

"Ah! Don't look at me! I'm going to press end!"

"Hahaha, just kidding, you have a good time, I won't look at you anymore."

Li Jingkun had no choice but to look away and make tea by himself.

But Mao Xiaotong didn't play for long, she quickly stopped the machine, tidied herself up, put on her shoes again and walked over.

"I almost regarded you as my own home."

"That's good, come and play when you have time."

"I'm afraid you're not that free."

Mao Xiaotong sat down on the sofa, and turned into a dignified and elegant lady in an instant.

"How do you feel, those costumes?"

"It's pretty good. The styles are pretty good. In fact, our school uniforms before weren't that pretty."

"Now I'm filming a TV series, and I must serve the TV series—have you met the other actors? How do you feel?"

"It's pretty good. They are basically born in majors. They feel better than me and have a good personality."

What Mao Xiaotong said is very true...but in many cases, good acting skills may not necessarily be the protagonist, it also depends on your background, resources, appearance, connections, etc.

Mao Xiaotong's current acting skills are indeed not as good as in the past few years, he is in the growth and learning period.But because of her suitable image and her good relationship with the director, she was able to get the role.

She was only a supporting role in "Introduction to Architecture" before, and she didn't have many roles, so it was not a big problem.But this time it's the heroine of a TV series, she has to work harder and harder than before.

The two chatted for a while about "Suddenly This Summer", and then she asked about "Detective Chinatown".

"How? Need help?"

"No, it's not that far."

"But how did I hear that you are going to sell yourself?"

"...It's not that exaggerated."

"If you want to sell yourself, remember to tell me, I will also bid for it, hahaha."

Li Jingkun gestured to her with a knife and threatened her, "The Zhongyi Brothers want me to sign them for five years, or a three-movie contract. Not to the point of investment.

I used to do this when I had nothing. Now that I have so many resources and friends, how could I sign myself to others.The big deal is to make another youth film and earn tens of millions more. "

"Wow, you are so confident. How dare you say that you can make so much money by making youth films?" Mao Xiaotong actually likes his confident appearance. So far, she seems to be the only woman who has repeatedly said that he is handsome. .

"At least the investment is relatively small, and the pressure to make money is still not great."

"Then why don't you make another youth film."

"What's the point of always repeating the same theme? You have to try more things in life."

"Yeah." Mao Xiaotong nodded, "I'm serious, if you really have no other way, just tell me and see if I can help a little bit, you know."

"Okay, I understand." Li Jingkun nodded with a smile.

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"Nice! It's the second song! And each song is better than the last one! I really want to say: Who else?"

"A very cool song, as if a child who grew up watching beauty is writing his own story..."

"I didn't read the lyrics, but the melody is so exciting! It sounds better than the last one, I like it very much, keep going!"

"It's no wonder that Li Jingkun can do so many things so successfully. It turns out that he has so much passion in his heart... BGM is automatically played in his head. Listening to this music, I can copy my homework several times!"

"The best score of the last song "fire" on the bulletin board was No. 23. This song has already reached No. 20 in the first week. Li Jingkun is awesome!"

"Li Jingkun seems to know Omi culture very well."

"It's okay, it's not a difficult culture to understand, it's just some western mythology, you can find it casually, besides, superhero movies have been so popular in recent years..."

"Listening to this song, I really feel like the stars are all over my body."

The popularity of Li Jingkun's two songs has not diminished, and some netizens directly took screenshots of some comments from foreign netizens, which also aroused a new round of onlookers and heated discussions.Then at this time, "Very Convergent" was released.

The third song has also met with everyone, and the evaluation is not bad. Although it is not comparable to the two English songs, among the Cantonese songs in recent years, the quality is at least above average.

As for album sales, Sheng Huaxin said it was not bad, and sold more than 1 copies in three days, which is already very good compared to many second-tier singers.

Li Jingkun has no idea about this, but it is understandable, after all, most people just listen to free songs on the Internet, and those who can afford to buy an album are still a minority.

Therefore, it is a bit unrealistic to make money by selling albums, but with the money from selling ring tones later, the income should be very good.

In fact, most singers can no longer make money by selling albums alone. They only release songs to continue to be famous and have works; and after a commercial performance, they earn more money than selling albums.

If you have the conditions, you can also go to acting or variety shows, both of which are more profitable and faster than selling albums.

So good songs will become less and less, and so are good singers.

Li Jingkun's two English singles have also been released abroad, and the sales are not bad, and they should be able to make a lot of money.However, Shenghuaxin's share is also higher. After all, it is entirely up to them to promote it here, so it is understandable that they get a higher share.

"Help me send out all these albums. The number of copies that each person wants to send is marked, so don't make a mistake."

In the office, Li Jingkun gave He Xuekai a list, these are the albums that he promised to give away; of course, many of them did not get it for nothing, and they would help him promote it on the Internet-although he was not I am very concerned about more sales, because the earning is really not much.

Generally like my friends, such as "Aurora Band", of course, it is enough to send them a copy.People like Han Han, Lin Xiaojie, Da Mimi, and Gao Meiyuan sent three of them.

It is enough for Qin Junjie, Yang Zini, Qin Hao, Wan Qian and others to show them a copy.

"Deng Dengdeng! Received Li Jingkun's latest music album "Very Convergent"! I have three of them, and there are also signed photos. I am very surprised and like it very much. Thank you, Junior Brother Li!"

Li Jingkun's netizen, Damimi, was very generous, and soon posted a gift on the scarf.

In the past few years, she still likes to post on her scarf, and she also likes to share her feelings, saying a lot of ambiguous things that will feel a little embarrassing when she looks back in a few years.

For example: Fortunately, there is still that clear sky for me to talk to, please forgive me for not being able to speak.

Another example: Hello, September.Then the accompanying picture is a selfie of myself at a super close elevation angle.

"Wow, I'm so envious, I want it too, where can I buy it?"

"You have it over there. You have already placed an order. It's not expensive. It's only a few dozen dollars."

"Yang Zini also distributed scarves, but she said why she only received one."

"Wow Kaka, is Li Jingkun's partiality so obvious? Yang Zini posted a photo with him before. Could it be a plastic friendship?"

"Hahaha, maybe senior sister is better than junior sister?"

"What nonsense are you talking upstairs, how could they possibly... But if it were me, I would prefer Senior Sister."

"Senior sister must be more sensible than junior sister."

"It's better to be a senior sister, gentle and considerate, mature and experienced."

"Please tell your story upstairs, I am full of traffic."

"Laughing badly, Lin Xiaojie also posted the pictures, and he accompanied the text saying: Sorry, I also received three."

Lin Xiaojie also posted the scarf, and even posted a video the next day. In the video, he sang "fire" and received a lot of retweets and likes.Li Jingkun himself also forwarded it.

But the good news about music can't solve the big problem of 1.2 million, even if the income from novels is added, it is far behind.And some fans and netizens also started asking about the movie.After all, it is indeed a bit strange that no new news has been released for so long.

"Didn't it say that the young male lead of "Detective Chinatown" is auditioning? Why hasn't it started yet? No notice."

"Yeah, it's a bit strange. I said a few times before that I would audition, and people signed up. Why haven't you been notified of the next step?"

"Well, people in the industry, I heard that the film investment is not in place, and the investors feel that there is no hope of getting back the money, so they dare not make a move for the time being."

"The project should be put on hold for the time being! I haven't found any actors yet! Except for the previously confirmed heroine Gao Meiyuan, none of the other ones have been decided! Many film and television companies originally planned to recommend actors, and they were ready to start activities, but they are now suspended. Already!"

"Yes, I have also heard that the production cost is said to be 1.2 million, and several investment companies think it is too expensive, and it is difficult to pay back... If the production cost is really 1.2 million, at least 3.6 million Only around 3.6 million yuan can be paid back, and last year, there seemed to be only 3 domestic films that earned a box office of more than [-] million."

"It can only be said that Li Jingkun is still too young, and his qualifications are a bit shallow. I am afraid that he will not be able to handle too much investment."

"But to be honest, it's really difficult to get back the cost of 3.6 million at the box office."

"Is it a bit too ambitious? I think it's a bit too inflated."

"Ah? Then what about those of us who signed up for auditions? Can't you let us fly?"

"Naive...the funds are not in place yet, how do other things start?"

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"Detective Chinatown" failed to bring down the investment, and the longer it dragged on, the more people would know about it.After all, Li Jingkun announced the news on the scarf in a very high-profile manner before.

When he was questioned as a ghostwriter before, in order to fight back, he said that he would publish an English song, write a new novel, and make a movie "Detective Chinatown". The other two have already been realized, and now the movie has not yet started.And it was agreed that there would be an audition for the role, but there was no follow-up, and someone would definitely ask.

Fortunately, there is still good news. Yueshi has already negotiated an investment of 3000 million. In addition to a certain percentage of the share, the condition is that there will be at least one year of exclusive broadcasting rights on the Internet.

Exclusive broadcasting rights on the Internet are not expensive, nor are they cheap.

Some expensive movies can sell for hundreds of millions, and some cheap ones can sell for hundreds of thousands.But "Detective Chinatown" doesn't have anything now, Yueshi.com now only requires at least one year of exclusive broadcasting rights on the Internet (at the beginning it was said to be 3 years, and later it was negotiated to be 1 year). Compared with the conditions of Zhongyi Brothers, But it was much better, so of course I agreed.

So subtract 1.2 million from 3000 million, and there is still a gap of 9000 million in funding.

"How much money do we have access to now?"

"At present, "Suddenly This Summer" needs money, and if we save some money for the company's usual turnover, we still have at least 6000 million more funds to use."

A company can use more than 6000 million yuan of liquidity, which is already far ahead of many companies. Most companies may not even be able to provide 2000 million yuan in a short period of time.But this is also because I just made a lot of money last year, and there are not many projects this year.

"Detective Chinatown" is his own project, and Li Jingkun himself planned to vote for some, but at present, it seems that he can't just vote for some.

"If we borrow from the bank, how much money can we borrow?"

In the office, Zhou Deze and Sheng Yuan were a little surprised. What does Li Jingkun mean?Want to borrow money to make a movie?

"Judging from our rate of return and profit last year, it should be no problem to borrow 4000 million yuan." Zhou Deze said.

It is not a new thing for film and television companies to make movies with loans, or to say that blockbuster movies take loans to make movies, and it has been around for a long time.Not to mention the recent ones, a few years ago "Assembly" was able to borrow 5000 million from the bank.

Now Longqi Film and Television is in its prime, and the good results of "Introduction to Architecture" are still vivid in my memory, so a loan of 4000 million to [-] million should not be a big problem.

"Then we pay 6000 million by ourselves and borrow 3000 million from the bank. Isn't 9000 million just enough?"

Spend 9000 million on your own to make a movie?

Are you crazy or are we crazy?

Zhou Deze and Sheng Yuan were shocked, and quickly raised objections.

Zhou Deze said: "This is not how movies are made, and the film and television company is not run like this. We are no longer the small company that we used to be, and "Detective Chinatown" is not the previous low-budget movie. The risk is too great."

Sheng Yuan said: "There is no need to be so anxious. Isn't it possible to pull down the investment now? No matter what, there is no need to go to this point."

Yueshi.com has agreed to spend 3000 million, and if we talk about a few companies, there must be some people who are willing to invest.

It's just that the progress may be slower.

Li Jingkun said: "In my vision, "Chinatown" will be released between December of the end of the year and February of the next year, so we need to complete the film production before January, so the ideal shooting time is from June to October. .

But I'm also in a hurry, I have to join a TV series in April, it will take at least two months, so I don't have much time to waste.Audition activities have not yet started. "

Zhou Deze said: "The audition activities can start around September, that is, after the TV series is filmed. Later, we can also leave time for the actors to prepare."

Sheng Yuan said: "It's really too risky to spend 9000 million to make a movie, no one would do it."

In fact, there are people who did this, but there are only a few in the world, such as Cameron, such as Wu Jing later.

Zhou Deze said: "Isn't this a gamble? If it fails, our company will be ruined."

Li Jingkun said: "It's not that exaggerated... No matter what, I won't lose so much."

"..." Zhou Deze and Sheng Yuan were speechless.

Li Jingkun said: "There is not so much time to spend, time is money - it's amazing that next year I will make a few more youth films to restore blood, we will not go bankrupt; and we still have a film that has not yet been released."

Zhou Deze and Sheng Yuan were relatively silent, but what Li Jingkun said was not completely unreasonable.He has always been very stable in his work, and if he agrees to make youth films again, it seems that it will not be difficult to make money.

Besides, there is still a movie that hasn't been released yet.

Although I don't know how much "Hummingbird" can earn, but with the title of the third part of Li Jingkun's youth trilogy, no matter how you say it, you can get back 4000 million, right?

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The news of Longqi Film and Television's loan request spread quickly, because they have already started to take action, and many people are paying attention to their new project, so they can soon find out their latest action.

Longqi Film and Television's financial situation is very healthy, and it also made a big hit last year, so why is it short of money, so why do you need a loan?

(End of this chapter)