China Entertainment started from art school

Chapter 160 Inviting Jing Kun to Play the Male Lead (2 in 1)

Although the result is good now, Mao Xiaotong still remembers the scene when Li Jingkun couldn't find the money - he took out the company for a loan.

And she herself is not short of money now, because of "Suddenly This Summer", her acting career is much better now, so it is true that she does not need any dividends.

But Li Jingkun is obviously also a male chauvinist. Most of the time, he only wants to feel it himself, and he doesn't want others to feel it.

He said to Mao Xiaotong: "That's right, it's really not easy for me to make some money by making a movie. After all, this movie only made two to three hundred million at most."

"Pfft!" Mao Xiaotong couldn't help laughing, and then scolded him with a smile.

A movie can make so much money, is it called "at most"?
Too Versailles too!

Then she also asked what Li Jingkun's new plan was. Li Jingkun said that there was a high probability that it would be a comedy, and there was no suitable role for her.

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The final box office of "Detective Chinatown" is 10.2 billion. After deducting costs, taxes, theaters, distribution and other expenses, it can probably earn more than 2 million.

But this is only domestic income. The box office in Southeast Asia is not that exaggerated, but the income is also good, so it adds up to an income.

There is also the previous 1000 million advertising revenue, plus part of the revenue later sold to movie channels and video websites.

The final total income may be less than 3 million, but there must be more than 2.5 million.

But this is a series of movies. After the second and third movies are filmed, let alone the box office, it can make a lot of money just by selling it to video sites.

But now that he suddenly made such a huge sum of money, the company must have to upgrade again.

Kyoto, Longqi Film and Television Company conference room.

Zhou Deze said: "We must have our own distribution channels. After all, many large and medium-sized domestic film and television production companies also have their own distribution departments or distribution subsidiaries."

In fact, Longqi Film and Television Company has always claimed to have publicity and distribution business on Encyclopedia, but there is no real national distribution channel at all.

Sheng Yuan said: "But establishing distribution channels is not cheap, and it will take time. At the same time, we will have to establish branches in many cities."

Zhou Deze said: "There is no need to establish so many branches in the early stage, mainly people, professional talents."

The job of the distributor is to make copies, apply for a key, arrange the schedule, and send the copies to theaters.At the same time, you have to do publicity, buy advertisements, negotiate the proportion of accounts, sign contracts with theaters, and so on.

There is also physical work, sending dozens of people to movie theaters across the country to do activities, do publicity, fix advertising spots in movie theaters, watch the show, do scrutiny, and so on.

There are more and more complex, and it does take time, after all, you have to build a good relationship with the cinema.

However, Longqi Film and Television also has an advantage, that is, their own publicity department is quite mature, and a lot of work has actually been done very well.

Moreover, the names of Longqi Film and Television and Li Jingkun are also very useful, and basically all theaters across the country know these two names.

Li Jingkun said: "Or how about buying a hairdressing company? You can also buy shares."

Zhou Deze said: "Acquisition or shareholding can of course have their own distribution capabilities faster, but now there are fewer pure distribution companies. One is that it is not so easy to survive and there is great competition;
One is that large film and television companies have their own distribution departments and do not need them, so it may be difficult to find a suitable distribution company that the other party wants to sell. "

Li Jingkun said: "Then look for it first, if not, I'm considering setting up one myself."

Zhou Deze said: "Actually, I prefer to set up by myself, and the premium will be higher if I buy it. Issuing is actually not difficult, just recruit people and pay enough money!"
Even if we can't have our own publishing ability in a short period of time, we have several works every year that we can practice!At the same time, you can also issue jointly with other publishing companies, and develop while learning, without delaying making money at all! "

Longqi Film and Television wants to develop and go public in the future, not to mention theater chains, it must have distribution capabilities!
Now it’s just one or two movies a year, what if there are more in the future?How much money do you distribute every year?
If you use this money to establish distribution channels, you will have a lot of money left over!

拿《唐人街探案》举例，它的总票房是10.2亿；发行代理费一般是分账票房的5%-15%左右，一般不会超过15%。这里先按照10%算好了。

片方分账一般占38%（3.876亿），那发行代理费就是3.876亿*10%=0.3876亿。

Almost 4000 million distribution agency fees!
If it is calculated according to 15%, this number will directly reach 6000 million!
They worked so hard, spent tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, how much did they get for taking such a big risk to make a movie?

Of course, when the ability is small, you must cooperate with the distribution company, and they should take the money.

But when the ability is strong, it is not too much for the producer to want to have his own distribution channels, right?

And this is just the distribution agency fee for a movie. The number of movies produced by Longqi Film and Television will increase every year in the future.

For example, a company of the size of Zhongyi and Guangzhi, they produce about a dozen films a year, even if each film does not make that much money, the cost is sky-high!
Relying on the company's own works alone can support and enrich a distribution company!

Therefore, the answer is obvious whether to always rely on others for distribution, or to have your own distribution department.

The question now is whether to buy or build your own.

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After talking about the release, the next topic is about the release schedule of "Hummingbird".

After discussing for a while, it was initially decided to release it in the summer vacation-the distribution company is still Huaying.

And "Suddenly This Summer" received most of the money back this year, plus the income from "Detective Chinatown" and "Hummingbird" in the summer vacation, this year's profit is at least [-] million yuan, and then look up It depends on the strength of other projects.

However, the topic of the two films during the Spring Festival has not completely dissipated, especially "Journey to the West: Conquering the Devil", which has recently had a lot of trouble with Zhongyi, and the subsequent lawsuit will take a while.

And because of several projects, Li Jingkun also has a lot of information and phone calls recently.

However, if there is a suitable partner, they will still cooperate. Long Qi really needs to maintain a relationship with some companies.

It's just that the movies he directed haven't revealed much yet, and he doesn't plan to co-produce them.

Because it is a small and medium cost movie, it really doesn't need too many investors.I plan to make it myself for Longqi Film and Television.

And after this series of actions for a while, the effect has obviously come out.

Except for pure black fans, there are basically not so many netizens on the Internet who attack Li Jingkun or Gu Xiaona.

On the contrary, more and more companies have contacted Longqi Film and Television recently, basically wanting to seek opportunities for cooperation; even if there is no opportunity this time, it's okay to get acquainted first.

Moreover, Mr. Chi, the founder and chairman of Perfect Group, the head office of Perfect Planet, also invited him to lunch.

Yes, although we have been working with Perfect Planet for several years, Li Jingkun and Mr. Chi have not actually met many times.

It's not that the other party holds on to its own identity because it's too big; it's mainly because the other party's company is too big, its business involves too much, and there is a specific general manager in the film and television industry who is in touch with Long Qi, so most of the time he really doesn't need him as a director grow up.

The businesses involved in Perfect Group include education, film and television, games, and commerce. The current market value of Perfect Group is actually much lower than that of Zhongyi, but in the long run, it is actually much stronger than the latter.

Mr. Chi invited him to dinner, of course, because of the growing relationship of Longqi Film and Television, and some plans recently revealed by Li Jingkun, so he, the chairman, must come to make connections in person.

Then Master Han Shan of Huaying saw the news, and then met with Li Jingkun in a relatively high-profile manner.

Of course he knew that Li Jingkun made these movements deliberately to show off his muscles, and at the same time to take advantage of their momentum, but they really had to cooperate, not for anything else, but because of their growing strength.

If you want to make friends with Longqi Film and Television and Li Jingkun, it must be when they haven't really taken off.

Besides, he has been in contact with Li Jingkun a lot, and he knows that he really doesn't have so many messy things, so he is willing to cooperate in the long run.

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"No way? Are you kidding? We haven't been in touch for a long time recently, and we don't know him very well—I thought he was busy with other people's lawsuits."

A while ago, Li Jingkun made a lot of moves, and as a result, many bigwigs in the industry asked him out for dinner, wanting to get more and deeper cooperation, these are understandable, after all, this is the result he wants.

But he didn't expect that there was a big guy who was ingenious and unconventional, and made a show operation for him, which really shocked him.

It turned out that Tianliu Tianxian suddenly called him this day and said a very surprising thing.

Zhongyi actually handed her the script!

This is the first surprise point.

The second one is even more astonishing: the script wants her to play the heroine, and then the male lead plans to invite Li Jingkun!

Li Jingkun was quite speechless, and he guessed what Wang Zhongshi meant after thinking about it for a while: Is he afraid of being rejected by him?But want to collaborate again?
Then he knew that he was interested in Liu Tianxian, and he thought she was difficult to deal with last time, so he created a chance for him?
Liu Tianxian also thought it was strange, but she couldn't figure it out; so after receiving the invitation, she quickly called to ask Li Jingkun about the situation.

There are two aspects to her strangeness: 1. Why she was suddenly invited to act as the heroine, you must know that her relationship with Zhongyi is not so friendly.

And it's also impossible that they couldn't find suitable actors. In fact, this is a modern love drama, and any female artist under their banner can be suitable.

2. Why did you invite Li Jingkun to play the male lead?Li Jingkun's first impression should be a director, right? ——Although the previous "Positive Physique" was also very good.

So he should know why?

Or is it that he is promoting this matter?

"I really don't know about this. I haven't seen him in this period of time. Who knows what he means..."

I don't know, I don't know, I don't understand!Li Jingkun said in his heart.

"Then do you accept it?" Liu Tianxian said.

"I didn't even know about it, and I didn't send me the script, so what should I accept?" Li Jingkun said, "Then will you accept it?"

"I don't know either, I haven't read the script carefully..."

"Then what does your mother or your team mean?"

"My mother... She didn't think about it, and she was also asking others about the situation, to see if anyone else knew about this matter or this project."

"What's the name of the script?"

"I'll watch it...it's called "Predecessor Raiders", a modern romance movie."

"..."

Of course Li Jingkun knew about this movie, but he didn't expect that Zhongyi was actually working on it sincerely, and he didn't just fool around with a script for them—even though the quality of the movie wasn't very good.

But later it was considered to be a series, and it made a lot of money.

Li Jingkun said: "Then you should read the script first and then talk about it. It should mainly depend on your own opinion. If you think the script is good, you can accept it if you want."

Liu Tianxian said: "The script is a consideration, but it is not the main factor now. Now we are worried whether this is a pit or something, after all, you know our relationship..."

"You shouldn't have to worry about this. Zhongyi is a company after all, and they also want to make money. This should be one of their key projects this year. It's impossible to do so many complicated things just to deceive someone, right?
And in addition to production costs, there will be publicity later, and a lot of money will be invested.There is no need to do this.And didn't they invite me too?It's impossible to even cheat me, right? "

"It seems to be oh..."

Liu Tianxian still felt very confused.

Planning to reconcile out of nowhere?

They have so many female artists under their umbrella, is there still one missing for me?Now that their market value is so high, is there no need to sign me again?
But this time it seems that they didn't ask to be signed with them?
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After hanging up the phone with Liu Tianxian, Li Jingkun immediately called Wang Zhongshi.

"Hello, Jing Kun."

The phone rang several times before it was connected, and then Wang Zhongshi's voice came over.

"President Wang, what do you mean?"

"what do you mean?"

"..."

Li Jingkun could hear the suppressed smile in his voice, still pretending to be stupid?

"The script for Liu Tianxian, "Predecessor Raiders"."

"Oh, that is one of our projects this year. I think the role is quite suitable for you, so I want to cooperate with you."

"..."

As far as ordinary urban love scenes are concerned, what is appropriate or not!

Isn't it enough to have hands?

How many roles in this play, how many actors in the circle can't play?
Just find a few handsome guys and beautiful women and you can get on it!
But Wang Zhongshi didn't joke anymore, he said: "I want to cooperate with you once, but you refuse every time, so I have nothing to do here.

I just remembered talking about Liu Tianxian with you earlier, so I want to help you.I just don't know if it will be superfluous. "

After all, Li Jingkun himself is a director and the owner of a film and television company. If he wants to invite Liu Tianxian to come over to film a movie, it's not that he doesn't have a project.

But after Wang Zhongshi thought for a while, he still made this move.After all, it is proposed by a third party, so it will not appear too deliberate.And it's better to invite them to act as a couple than Li Jingkun invites her to be the heroine, right?
Wingman!
And they also have an advantage, that is, there is a disagreement with Liu Tianxian himself, and now it is up to them to come up with the attitude and method of reconciliation, and it depends on whether she accepts it or not.

Li Jingkun said: "Liu Tianxian is not a fool; even if she is a fool, her mother or people in the company can see it. There is no reason for the two of us to play the hero and heroine."

Wang Zhongshi said: "How can you tell? No matter what you say about a movie, it costs tens of millions of production costs. Who would make a joke out of it? And the cost of publicity is at least close to [-] million. How could it be missed? Make a decision without words?

Besides, what if we see that we mean it?Unmarried men and women who are unmarried are just creating opportunities.

And didn't you say you couldn't make an appointment before?So what about trying again this time?If she doesn't agree, there is nothing to lose; if she agrees, doesn't that prove that she is also willing to give each other a chance? "

"..."

Li Jingkun had to admit that what he said was also reasonable; after thinking for a while, he said: "You really want us to act in this movie? Every work of a listed company is very important, are you afraid of losing money when the time comes?"

Wang Zhongshi said: "Even if it is not a listed company, every movie is important. But we are quite optimistic about this script, and we planned to find big-name actors to star in it.

But if you can agree to participate, the topicality and popularity will be even higher, and with your identity and vision as a major director, you can agree to act, so you are afraid that the quality will not be good? "

Li Jingkun said: "Maybe I agreed to pick it up because I had the opportunity to get in touch with her more."

"It's okay, I'm not afraid to shoot directly according to the script. It's our first cooperation, let's get acquainted with each other first."

Li Jingkun paused for a while, and then said: "Let's see what she means first. I don't know if she likes this script—she may want to make one or two literary films in the next year or two."

"...A literary film? The box office of a literary film is not high."

Maybe you still have to lose money, brother!
"Every actor has his own pursuit, and she has made a lot of commercial films. It's normal to want to make one or two literary films."

"Want to win a prize?"

"There must be an idea."

"Then what do you mean?"

"I will contact her. If she doesn't like this script, or is a little hesitant, maybe I can produce a script here-of course, we can still develop this project together."

It worked!
Wang Zhongshi felt that his operation was unique enough!
People may not believe it when you tell it, but it’s good enough if it’s effective.

"But literary films... don't make much money at the box office, do they?"

"You don't want one billion or eight hundred million, and no one can guarantee it—if you think it's less, maybe we can talk about other projects later, would you consider joint issuance?"

"Distribute your other films? Do you even need to ask! But why do you have to co-release? With whom?"

"Follow us, Longqi Film and Television will also start to establish its own distribution channels."

"..."

Why did Wang Zhongshi feel that he didn't take much advantage?
I'm afraid I will help them lead a new team by then?

(End of this chapter)