1990: Starting from Baojia Street

An Li's acceptance speech was not short, but there was not much content. He first thanked the organizing committee, producers, actors, etc., and then talked about the novel "Sense and Sensibility."

Finally, he looked forward to the future and wished the Berlin Film Festival better and better.

At this point, this year’s Berlin Film Festival Awards Ceremony is basically over.

The host came on stage and gave a closing speech, and then announced that the award ceremony had come to a successful conclusion.

However, everyone was not in a hurry, but waited for the staff to arrange an orderly exit from the film palace. Their next stop was to attend the film festival dinner.

While they were waiting to leave, the people around them exchanged pleasantries.

Everyone sitting near Zhou Yan, whether they knew him or not, congratulated him one after another.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that for Zhou Yan to win the Special Jury Award at such a young age, and to have three consecutive films so successful, his future is bound to be limitless.

Many of them are seniors in the film industry, and Zhou Yan responded to their congratulations very politely.

Xu Feng and the others were closer to the door, but they did not leave in a hurry, but waited for Zhou Yan to come with them.

"Here, show me the trophy." Xu Feng said with a smile.

Zhou Yan handed the trophy to Xu Feng with a smile. She looked at it up and down, then nodded and said, "An Li is right, this trophy has indeed not changed much. Come on, take a look at it too."

Xu Feng handed the trophy to Li Xuejian again.

Holding the little silver bear, Li Xuejian's eyes were filled with expectations and a little bit of regret.

He didn't win the Best Actor award this time, and he doesn't know when he will have another chance.

Of course Xu Feng knew that Li Xuejian was disappointed. She smiled and said, "Although Zhou Yan came on stage to receive this award, it does not belong to him alone. The special jury award is originally a group award. This award belongs to each of us. How many times will I do it later?" I’ll put one in each of your homes that are exactly the same.”

Li Xuejian was a little embarrassed, "Mr. Xu, let's forget it."

Although it is officially said that the special jury award is a group award, the award is usually given to the producer or director and has nothing to do with the actors.

Xu Feng waved his hand, "If you're sorry, I'll send one to each of the assistant directors, leading actors, and the children."

Zhou Yan joked, "Why don't you make a replica of Sister Feng in sterling silver, which will make it worth more money."

Xu Feng said nonchalantly, "Pure silver is not worth much. If you have the ability, win a Golden Bear Award in the future and let me bleed."

"I want to win the Golden Bear Award. Sister Feng, are you really using pure gold to make a replica?"

Xu Feng nodded, "Yes, of course, but it must be hollow."

Zhu Lin said with a smile, "The hollow ones cost a lot of money, right?"

"Then you underestimate the malleability of gold."

"How much gold does a solid gold trophy cost?" Zhu Lin asked.

Zhou Yan weighed it with his hands and said, "To make such a large piece of pure gold, it would probably cost three to four kilograms."

Whether it is the Golden Bear Award or the Silver Bear Award, the material inside is actually copper. The difference is that one is gold-plated and the other is silver-plated. Therefore, the weight of the Golden Bear Award and Silver Bear Award trophies are basically the same.

The Silver Bear Award trophy in Zhou Yan's hand weighs about two kilograms. The same volume of gold would weigh twice as much, which is about four kilograms.

The current price of gold is around 110, which means a solid gold Golden Bear trophy costs 400,000.

"Three or four kilograms, it's too heavy to hold in your hand." Zhu Lin said with a sigh.

Gold does not circulate much in the domestic market. Zhu Lin has never seen gold products in real life, let alone three or four kilograms of gold products.

A few people were chatting, and Han Sanping came behind. He happened to hear Zhu Lin's words and said in surprise, "This gadget weighs four kilograms?"

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "No, Zhu Lin was asking how much pure gold weighs."

"Haha, it's pure gold, and the organizing committee can't bear to part with it."

"Only one pure gold one is issued, but it doesn't cost much." Xu Feng curled his lips and said.

"If it's pure gold, it's easy to steal."

"That's true."

A few people walked out of the movie palace talking and laughing, and took a car to the dinner place.

……

The next morning, Zhou Yan got up very early and packed up to return home.

Last night, many people came to Zhou Yan to toast, but Zhou Yan didn't drink much.

The heads of many companies are interested in Zhou Yan. Before, they looked for Zhou Yan, maybe just to let him score the movie. But after "Spring of the Cowherd Class" won the Special Jury Award, most companies came here just to ask him to score the movie. Want to make a movie with him.

In fact, after "The Sixth Sense" was released, many companies approached Zhou Yan, but now these companies are obviously more enthusiastic.

After all, although the box office of "The Sixth Sense" is very good, there is still a gap between it and a movie that really does well at the box office, and the awards at the Berlin Film Festival are different.

Just like An Li has made several movies before, although the box office performance is also very good, these film companies are just willing to believe in him.

Herein lies the importance of awards.

But Zhou Yan has no worries about this at all. He has no plans to make movies in Hollywood for the time being. If he only makes movies in China, there will be no shortage of investment. Tomson can cover all his movies.

Now even if Zhou Yan wants to make a movie with a budget of 100 million yuan, Xu Feng will support it if he tightens his pockets.

Not to mention, Huo Siqi and Zhou Hong were watching from behind.

Once Zhou Yan is short of money for filming a movie, Zhou and Qizhi Company will immediately send the money.

Zhou Yan left alone, Xu Feng and Zhang Youan stayed to discuss cooperation with some copyrights. Han Sanping finally came here, and of course he had to seize the opportunity to build good interpersonal relationships internationally.

There are also Li Xuejian and Zhu Lin, who also went to participate in the event to make their presence felt.

Showing your face more often will be a good thing for them to win prizes in the future.

……

Before Zhou Yanren arrived in Yanjing, reports about the Berlin Film Festival had already come out.

Before going to Berlin, Tomson had already made arrangements. As soon as the results in Berlin came out, Zhang Youan notified the cooperating media as soon as possible, and then the articles were rushed out overnight.

Chinese directors stole the show at this Berlin Film Festival, winning four awards, including the Golden Bear and two Silver Bears.

[Two sides, three places, four trophies! 】

In the news report of Yanjing TV Station, the eight-character title was typed directly at the bottom of the screen in a very large font.

"Our news is that at the Berlin Film Festival Awards Ceremony on the 26th, Chinese directors from across the Taiwan Strait and three places won four awards in one fell swoop, one gold and two silver medals. Chinese directors shone brightly at this Berlin Film Festival... "

"It is worth mentioning that in addition to winning the Special Jury Prize for "Springtime of the Cowherd", Zhou Yan is also the soundtrack director of the Golden Bear Award-winning film "Sense and Sensibility". "Sense and Sensibility" was also nominated for an Oscar The Academy Awards have won multiple awards, including the Best Score Award. The awards will be awarded on the 25th of next month. Our station will continue to pay attention to it, so stay tuned. "Not long after Zhou Yan returned to Yanjing, the Berlin Film Festival was held. The news has been flying all over the sky.

In the past few days, his phone has been inundated with calls from various parties to congratulate him.

Directors who are familiar with Zhou Yan basically called, including Zhang Jianya, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou...

Most of the actors who have worked with Zhou Yan also called.

Zhou Yan spends a lot of time just answering the phone every day. The key is that the people calling are all acquaintances. Basically, after congratulations, they still have to chat for a while.

With the news of winning the Berlin Film Festival and the aftermath of the Spring Festival Gala, Zhou Yan's face has rapidly gained national fame, so much so that he now has to be heavily armed when going out to prevent others from recognizing him.

But there was one thing that made Zhou Yan feel lucky, and that was that the photos of Anoke hugging him twice in a row were not circulated, otherwise it would have been a lot of trouble again.

……

In the evening of March 1st, Zhou Yan received a call from Zhang Youan.

"We have already reached an agreement with Fox. We don't charge a dime for the film's salary. You will pay for the entire soundtrack before, during and after the film, and you will get a 1% share of the box office."

Hearing this share ratio, Zhou Yan was stunned: "Are you sure?"

Zhang Youan thought that Zhou Yan was dissatisfied, so he explained, "Fox is so stubborn that there is no way to raise the price. In fact, it is already very good. As long as the box office can reach 200 to 300 million U.S. dollars, the cost of this transaction will be It can earn two to three million U.S. dollars. In addition, the sales share of the film’s soundtrack will not be small, just like other movies.”

In Zhang Youan's view, neither remuneration nor box office share is the bulk of Zhou Yan's income. The most impressive thing is actually the sales share of the movie's soundtrack.

For example, for the movie "The Flying Piano Boy", Zhou Yan contracted the entire soundtrack for the movie, including creation and production, and the cost was only 400,000 US dollars.

But the soundtrack of this movie has sold more than two million copies, and Zhou Yan can get an average share of about one US dollar for every soundtrack sold.

In other words, Zhou Yan has received a share of more than two million US dollars from the "Flying Piano Boy" soundtrack, which far exceeds his production costs.

If "Titanic" can make two to three hundred million US dollars at the box office, then the soundtrack will definitely not sell poorly.

Of course, Zhou Yan didn't dislike the one percent low price. He didn't expect Zhang Youan to be able to talk to such a high price.

This is a 100% box office share, not a revenue share. If it is reflected in the revenue share, it will be at least doubled.

Although most Hollywood movies spend more than 2% on music, "Titanic" is in a special situation. After all, its budget exceeds 150 million US dollars.

With such a huge investment, if five percent or more is spent on music, that is really an exaggeration.

Zhou Yan doesn't know how well the soundtrack of "Titanic" has sold, but if the movie's box office is still the same as in its previous life, then just the 1% box office share will be huge.

This one made more money than all the movies he had acted in before.

After thinking about it, Zhou Yan said, "One percent is pretty good. I thought they would wait until the Academy Awards are over before deciding on this matter."

Before, Zhou Yan felt that Fox was on the official website and wanted to see if Zhou Yan could win the Oscar for Best Score. Unexpectedly, they had confirmed the award before it was announced.

"Of course it's okay to wait and see, but if you win the award, won't they have to spend more money? I heard that the salary they prepared for the composer was 800,000 US dollars, which was only responsible for creation, not including production. The conditions given to you are actually a little better, but the difference is not huge. ”

Zhou Yan nodded, and there was really not much difference. After all, the cost of music production was quite high, and Zhou Yan didn't charge any fees, which also reduced the pressure on Fox.

With a budget of 1.5 billion US dollars, even Fox is under great pressure.

"When will the movie start shooting?" Zhou Yan asked.

"It should be June or July. This movie has been in preparation for too long. Although Fox didn't say it, I can feel that they are under a lot of pressure. For a movie with such a high budget, if it is delayed for one more day, the risk will be greater. If we don’t shoot this year, I’m worried that this project will collapse.”

Indeed, although the previous budget was 1.5 billion US dollars, if it is delayed further, the 1.5 billion budget may not be enough.

Although the filming of the movie has not yet started, there are expenses in the preparation stage. Now Fox has to pay for these preparations every day.

For every day of delay, you will be given an extra day of money.

Fox must have been urging James Cameron to start filming as soon as possible, but according to James Cameron's character, as long as there is something that fails to meet his requirements, he will not be able to start filming.

This movie has been delayed in launching. The first thing that will collapse is the relationship between the producer and the director, that is, James Cameron. If it were a different director, Fox would have fired the director long ago.

Zhou Yan nodded and said, "Yes, I understand. Later I will find time to go to the United States and meet James Cameron."

"Okay, I'll arrange it later when you have time. Of course, after the soundtrack contract is signed, I think Cameron will contact you. But let me remind you, Cameron has a very weird personality. , you should be careful when talking to him."

"Anyway, I'm only responsible for the soundtrack. His eccentric personality has little impact on me."

Zhang Youan smiled and said, "Actually, it's just me worrying. No matter how weird his personality is, you can definitely handle it."

……

After hanging up the phone with Zhang Youan, Zhou Yan was in a good mood.

After taking on such a big job, you can imagine that Xiaoqianqian is waving at him.

He has no direct desire to make money per se, but the problem is that many of the things he has to do cost money.

For example, his studio was adequate before, but gradually, Zhou Yan felt that it needed to be upgraded.

This place was originally a warehouse, but there were still some limitations in the renovation. Zhou Yan thought it would be best to find a place nearby and simply build a modern multi-functional building, which would be able to meet his needs.

This building should include various styles of recording studios, practice rooms, and preferably a small and medium-sized concert hall.

He had probably estimated before that such a building, not counting the land, would cost at least tens of millions.

Key equipment is a bottomless pit. Throwing hundreds of millions into it may not even make a sound.

Zhou Yan can now take out so much money in his hands, but the problem is that he has to make a living, and he can't just throw in all the money he has on hand.

In addition, in addition to these, his film studio also costs money.

As the team gradually expanded, the cost of eating horse chews every day was also a huge expense.

Now both studios eat in the same cafeteria, and they spend more than 30,000 yuan each month on catering expenses.

Staff salaries, allowances and other expenses cost hundreds of thousands a month.

The loss of equipment and equipment, the purchase of consumables... Ren Hang calculated it for Zhou Yan. Now that the two studios do nothing every year, more than three million yuan will be spent.

If you do something a little bit, your expenses will increase a lot.

For example, before the Chinese New Year last year, Zhou Yan distributed New Year supplies to everyone in the studio. The standard for each person was 300, which cost 40,000 to 50,000.

Another example is that the studio will purchase several vehicles this year, including a bus, three cars, and two vans, which add up to nearly three million.

Zhou Yan makes money quickly and spends money quickly, so he must ensure that he can make money faster than he spends money.

He was unwilling to cut costs, so he had no choice but to increase revenue. (End of chapter)