China Entertainment: The happiness of being a director is as simple as that

Chapter 26 Earning Blood Again, Returning to China

The dinner went on until the wee hours of the morning.

When they returned to the hotel, everyone was still so excited that they couldn't sleep at all.

Yan Danchen, who had been waiting at the hotel, was already impatient, and when Lu Pingan and the others came back, he took the trophy and touched it again and again.

Then everyone took a group photo in the hotel and continued to chat, until it was almost one o'clock before being ordered by Hu Qingquan to go to bed early.

After returning to their rooms, Lu Pingan sneaked into Yan Danchen's room.

When the two meet, they kiss passionately, undressing while kissing, however. . .

"Auntie..."

Depend on! ! !
Evil aunt!

Lu Ping'an softened instantly.

However, this is not over yet, Yan Danchen said with an apologetic face: "It will take at least two months before we go back."

"why?"

"Because I just received a call and I'm about to join the team when I get back."

"I'm going to act, what kind of play is it?"

"I don't know yet, the factory picked it up for me, with Mr. Tang Guoqiang as the protagonist."

That is "The Love History of the Tang Dynasty".

Lu Ping'an was very sorry, but he still endured it: "Then it will be over in two months. It's the first time for everyone, so you can't be casual."

"Xiao Pingan, you are so kind."

Yan Danchen kissed her after speaking.

"Don't, I'm afraid I can't help it, so I'm going to be a hungry tiger."

"Come on, hahaha."

"Wow, I didn't expect you to be so bad!"

"I just found out now, it's too late."

"Xiao Chenchen, please spare me, don't catch her..."

The two quarreled on the bed for a while, and then kissed deeply again. It was not until several minutes later that Lu Pingan couldn't bear the reluctance to get dressed and slipped back to his room.

And Yan Danchen looked at Lu Ping'an's way of leaving with his waist bent, smiled very happily, his face was full of happiness, and then began to fantasize about what would happen two months later, so his whole face became hot again, and he couldn't get rid of it kind of.

. . . . . . . .

Yan Danchen returned to China at noon the next day. She was not the main creator of "Black Hole", so the crew was pressing hard, so she had no reason to stay.

After Yan Danchen was sent away, the main creators of "Black Hole" were divided into two groups. Lu Pingan, Zhang Songwen, and Ning Hao dealt with interviews, while Hu Qingquan represented Lu Pingan and China Film to negotiate with the film studio.

After Lu Pingan solves the problem here, he will come over and meet the filmmakers.

In the end, after three days, the copyright was basically negotiated.

With the help of Palme d'Or, "Black Hole" sold the global screening rights for 12 US dollars.

In addition, the adaptation rights of "Black Hole" were sold to Summit Entertainment for US$30.

This price is the limit given by Summit Entertainment, and the reason is very strong, saying that the current budget still needs to be prepared to buy your big movie.

Lu Pingan was a little helpless, but still accepted it, because "Black Hole" itself didn't have a big movie template, and it didn't matter how much the adaptation rights sold.

In addition, except for Summit Entertainment, other film producers did not offer such a high price, so they had to sell it to him.

Calculated in this way, the income is only 42 yuan, which is a little less than the "Tuner" short film, but fortunately, on the third day, a printer company suddenly came to the door.

"We'd like to buy an ad in your film."

The other party got straight to the point and directly expressed their intentions.

It turned out that this was from Hewlett-Packard, and the requirements were very simple. Lu Pingan just needed to go back and reprocess the film, and put the HP logo on the printer in the film.

Of course, this has to be accepted, and if you don't make money, you don't make money.

"How much do you pay?"

"Five million dollars."

"I'll find another company."

"You tell me the number."

Lu Pingan said directly: "This short film is only more than two minutes long. It is not much longer than an advertisement. It is very suitable for broadcasting on TV, and it is also a Palme d'Or award. It will be broadcast on countless TV stations around the world. What do you think? Is this advertisement really only worth 10?"

The other party didn't insist anymore, and it took half a day to negotiate a deal of 35 US dollars.

In this way, the total revenue of "Black Hole" reached 77 U.S. dollars, and after tax, Lu Ping An could get a little less than 50 U.S. dollars, which is about 400 million yuan.

Compared with the cost of "Black Hole" which is less than 1 RMB, the profit has reached an astonishing 400 times!
Plus there's a Palme d'Or.

Oh, and the 10 euro dress advertising fee earned by face.

Lu Pingan once again made blood in Cannes!
After the copyright and advertisement were negotiated, Lu Pingan and his party returned to China the next day.

On the morning of May 5th, everyone landed in the capital.

After landing, Lu Ping'an turned on the phone, and text messages and calls came in one after another.

Gao Yuanyuan: Congratulations on winning the award again, remember to treat your guests.

Chen Kun: Congratulations on winning the award, let me know when the celebration banquet will be held.

Jiang Wenli: Congratulations. . .

Then there are some classmates, teachers and relatives, as well as some unfamiliar numbers.

Among them, Che Xiao also sent a text message: I am very glad to see you won the grand prize, remember to sign your old classmate when you come back, Che Xiao.

Lu Pingan shook his head slightly. The main reason was that Che Xiao took the initiative to send him a text message, so he was probably so happy on the spot, but unfortunately he was not the original owner.

Just as I was thinking, a phone call came in, and I saw that it was the original owner's sister-in-law.

Lu Pingan answered the phone, he knew that relatives are relatives after all, how could it be possible to hide for a lifetime.

After answering the phone, my sister-in-law expressed her congratulations, and then directly asked, "Ping An, when will your movie be released?"

"The short film will be broadcast on CCTV 6 in the next few days."

"No, I'm talking about your sound engineer's big movie."

"You know all of this?"

"I'm not old fashioned. After you win the prize, the newspapers will always mention it like this. If you don't know it, you already know it."

"Well, we are still working on it in the later stage, and it is still early to set the file. I will tell you when the file is set."

"Then come to my sister-in-law's place for dinner when you're free, and I haven't seen you for almost a year."

"Okay... Then what, sister, I'm getting off the plane, let's talk back."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Pingan sighed slightly, still feeling a little uncomfortable.

But he still decided to find some time to go for a walk. Now that his appearance has changed a lot, I believe they can understand the change in his personality.

At this time, Hu Qingquan came up and asked: "There are many reporters waiting outside, do you want to avoid this time?"

"No, just be high-profile if you want to be high-profile. Arwen and the others also need to be exposed. It's not good to avoid it."

Lu Pingan quickly made a decision.

So when they got out of the station, the group accepted interviews from airport reporters openly.

Among the reporters who came this time, the biggest one was from CCTV.

Lu Ping'an then looked serious, and his Mandarin became much more serious.

The content of the interview was also very simple, just a few sentences back and forth.

What mood?
how do you feel?
In addition to these there are some questions about how much the rights were sold for.

China Film once again used the copyright transaction as a publicity, but still did not disclose the specific amount, but only said that it "created a short film transaction record again".

Lu Pingan won the Silver Bear first, and then the Palme d'Or. This is a great leap in personal achievement.

Acting on his first film, it will have a good publicity effect.

If China Film Group does not understand this kind of publicity tricks, there is no need to do publicity.

Now, many people are guessing how much copyright has earned, and the media is also very interested. Money is the most vulgar thing, but it is also the most attractive in this era.

In order to prevent people from guessing, Lu Pingan appropriately disclosed: "It's about a hundred thousand dollars."

The amount is much less than 77, but it is indeed much more than the transaction amount of ordinary short films.

The most important thing is that the cost of the short film is very low. According to Lu Pingan, it is less than 5 RMB.

Nearly a million was earned at a cost of [-].

The reporters were surprised and wrote it down.

I believe it will be a big news at that time.

After the interview, everyone got on the bus. This time it was different from last time. This time, the school sent a minibus to pick them up.

"Oh, it's terrible, this is the minibus that only the leader can take when he comes."

Ning Hao could tell the weight of the minibus at a glance.

This has also been confirmed by Hu Qingquan.

"That's right, it's the Palme d'Or!"

Hu Qingquan was very proud, but at the same time a little dissatisfied. Who knew that this car was specially for leaders?So he felt that banners should be hung in front of the minibus, such as "Congratulations to Lu Ping An for winning the Palme d'Or". Now it is still low-key.

Soon the car stopped, everyone got on the car, and the car arrived at the school more than an hour later.

Still the same as before, a large banner has been hung on the school gate.

"Congratulations to Lu Pingan, an outstanding freshman student of our school's 00-level director department, who won the Palme d'Or Short Film Award at the [-]th Cannes International Film Festival with "Black Hole"."

This time, there is only one banner at the school gate, all of which belong to Lu Ping An.

Everyone is honored, because everyone is a participant.

Especially Zhang Songwen, he is ready to accept becoming a teaching material again.

Then everyone came to the teacher's building. This time, besides Deputy Secretary Dong, Principal Wang also came to greet them.

The gold content of the Palme d'Or is different after all.

Everyone took a group photo in front of the teaching building, and then moved to the large conference room.

Next is a commendation meeting.

All the teachers from the directing department, acting department, and photography department came.

In addition to the school, China Film, CCTV, and some big portals such as Sohu are also there. The advantages of higher education institutions like Beijing Film Group are reflected at this time. Everyone accepts the school's arrangements and will not mess around.

Then came President Wang's speech. At the meeting, he summarized some of the gains from Cannes, and encouraged the school to learn more from Lu Ping An, encourage innovation, encourage going abroad, and go global. . .

Then there was Lu Pingan's public interview with CCTV reporters.

This is just a brief talk at the meeting, and it will not be in-depth. The in-depth topic will be formally interviewed and discussed after a few days.

The commendation meeting lasted for half an hour. After the end, under the guidance of Hu Qingquan, Lu Pingan sorted out the things for the next few days.

Afternoon six princess interviews, CCTV interviews, appreciation classes in the evening, XX newspapers starting tomorrow, XX portal interviews, etc.

These things will take about three to five days, and then he will go to the Shanghai Film Industry on June 6th. He is now the winner of the Palme d'Or, and the day after he won the award, he was listed as one of the guests there.

When it was finally over and about to leave, the director of the director department caught Lu Ping'an again and said, "Ping An, last time you took the silver bear to hold an exchange meeting for director departments in colleges and universities, but later you pushed it away because of the film school. There should be time this time, right?"

"Can I not use it? I have to do the post-production of the movie."

"No, you are the winner of the Palme d'Or, and there are many things that cannot be shirked."

"Then you can arrange it a little later. You know that these days are very busy."

"Don't worry, there's no rush."

Lu Pingan had no choice but to accept it. He knew that this was the price of fame, and there would be more in the future. He had to get used to it as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)