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Chapter 1007: Film and Television Secondary Market
"'The cherries are red, the banana leaves are green', I remember this is from the poem "A Cut Plum Blossom: Boat Passing Wujiang" by Jiang Jie, a poet in the late Song Dynasty. Logically, this poem should have been written after the background of the film's story."

Li Mu flipped through the script and said casually, "Since it is a story about the Song Dynasty, Song poetry is indispensable, and he happened to know a little about this sentence."

"Director Li, you also know this." Wang Changtian was obviously surprised.

"Didn't I ever go to school?" Li Mu responded unhappily.

"Hahaha"

Everyone laughed, and Chen Yu took over the conversation:

"Junior brother, you have done a lot of research. In fact, I have discussed this with Director Zhang and Professor Zhao Dongmei.

Teacher Zhao Dongmei is an expert on Song Dynasty history at Peking University and also a consultant to the crew. She raised this question when she was revising the script and doing rigorous research.

I don't want to present a real historical process, I want to generate an imagination that can be positioned as a legend.

At this time, we knew that this was an original legendary story. We wanted to evoke everyone's feelings of family and country through such a chivalrous and secret action to punish evil, and create further on the basis of the grand background.

This poem expresses a kind of emotion and creates an atmosphere. This atmosphere is a symbol of the yearning for a better and happier life in the sense of wandering after losing one’s country. The cherry is this symbol. After our discussion, we finally kept it.”

Several people nodded, obviously agreeing with this explanation. In fact, even after the film is released, ordinary audiences may not be so meticulous.

"Brother, how much share of 'Man Jiang Hong' is left now?" Seeing that everyone had almost finished their discussion, Li Mu got to the point.

"50% that can be given out." Zhang Yi calculated carefully and said, "The total investment is about million. It shouldn't exceed. Even if there is an overspending, it won't exceed million. Let's just say it's a million investment."

"One hundred million?" Wang Changtian shook his head and smiled. "I guess it's okay to say five hundred million. With the shares being transferred back and forth, it's hard to say how many hundreds of millions of investment there are in the end."

“The secondary market is really a bit crazy.”

Li Mu couldn't help but chuckle when he heard this.

In fact, what Wang Changtian meant by "going around in circles" actually means that the film shares have flowed into the secondary film and television market. This also causes some film investments to appear large, and people thought they were laundered.

Even some people who don't know much about the industry always think that bad films are produced because of washing.
In fact, regardless of whether the movie is difficult to wash, it does not meet the three principles of washing at all:
The first is low loss, to put it bluntly, the handling fee cannot be too high. The second is fast repayment to avoid unnecessary dreams. The last is sufficient concealment, of course, for safety.

It just so happens that movies and TV do not conform to these three principles at all.

Because the cost of making a film or TV show is so high, overspending is common and you might end up running out of money.

Secondly, the payment cycle is terribly long. It takes one or two years from the project establishment to the final payment of a movie, and it can be as short as two or three years or even five or six years. The money may not be returned yet, and the people may have already finished their work.

Of course, the most important reason is that the film and television industry is too high-profile. Moreover, the supervision of the film and television industry is among the highest among many industries. It is subject to key supervision by many departments, and even the funds have to be deposited into a special account and supervised throughout the process.

Moreover, foreign investment is not allowed in film and television companies, which is almost the same as water conservancy and electricity, and even stricter than communications and banking. You should know that foreign investment in banking and communications businesses is already being studied.

After the Horgos incident, taxation in the film and television industry has been under strict supervision.

With all these factors added up, one would have to be crazy to think of using film and television to do this kind of thing.

"Five hundred million?" Zhang Yi couldn't help but smile and shook his head. "It's hard to say. With the popularity of the secondary market and your reputation, I don't know how many shares have been transferred."

Chen Yu thought about it and said slowly, "Maybe 500 million may be an underestimate in the end."

"It's hard to say, but I don't plan to sell my shares in the secondary market, and there's no need to do so."

Li Mu was too lazy to split the shares and recover the funds in advance through the secondary market, because Mengying Media did not need to recover the cash in advance.

However, just because Mengying Media does not do this does not mean that other production companies will not do so.

Today's secondary market is already quite mature. For example, if Zhang Yimou is now shooting a movie called "Man Jiang Hong", based on various data analysis, it is possible to roughly determine the final box office range of the movie and how much money the movie can make.

Because the current mainstream distribution platform has long been the Internet.

Traffic can be calculated. Which actors are used, which director shoots the movie, what IP is used, how much this traffic is worth, and what resource package it is worth, all of these have long been digitized in this era.

For people at the level of Li Mu and Zhang Yimou, the movie will undoubtedly only be an S-level resource package.

Therefore, the premium for movies of Li Mu and Zhang Yi's level is the highest, and the prices that several people are talking about now are the initial prices, similar to the original shares of stocks.

Of course, it is impossible that only a few of them are investing. Zhang Yimou also has to take care of many producers, and they will all get a little bit of the profit.

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It is common for producers who have obtained shares to split up their shares and sell them to the next buyer in advance in order to recover funds and make profits in advance, abandoning the idea of ​​uncertainty.

This will also result in the total investment of this film actually continuing to increase until the last stick approaches the profit limit or someone is still willing to continue betting on the box office ceiling.

In the eyes of several people, it is actually very possible that 80 million can be turned into 500 million, because the box office of Zhang Yimou's movie is likely to be worth this multiple.

"How about this, Mr. Wang, our two companies will split the 50% in half, do you think it's okay?" Li Mu didn't want to force anyone to take a certain share of the movie, which would cause any grudges between the two parties.

Although "Man Jiang Hong" is very tempting, especially with an investment of 2 million, but with "The Wandering Earth " around, Mengying Media will not have to worry about the Spring Festival schedule next year.

"Okay, then thank you Director Li." Wang Changtian was extremely happy when he heard that.

"Okay, let's eat. If we don't eat now, the food will get cold." Seeing that the matter was settled, Zhang Yi invited everyone to start eating.

"We really have to try it to see if the taste of the dishes here is worthy of the environment." Li Mu picked up a piece of fish and said with a smile.

"Not bad, I've eaten here several times." Chen Yu said happily, "I heard that the chef here's ancestor was an imperial chef!"

"Is it true?" Wang Changtian couldn't help but look up and ask while drinking his soup.

"It's hard to tell whether it's true or not, I just heard it."

"Hahaha, when you go out, you give yourself an identity."

“That’s right, that’s right.”

(End of this chapter)