Entertainment tycoon who started out as a director

Chapter 223 Add another fire
"Ah? You want to invest!"

Gu Ming couldn't refuse, but it didn't stop him from making ugly remarks.
"I didn't come to you just because I was afraid that China Film would make money."

"But Jiang Wen has a big problem with being a director."

"It costs money." Han Sanpin answered before Gu Ming could say anything. "In addition, there is too much uncertainty about him."

"The investment of 3000 million yuan is most likely an initial investment, and additional investment will be required in the end."

"I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up costing 4000 to 5000 million."

"So, you still want to vote?" Gu Ming smiled. It seems that everyone is still very clear about Jiang Wen's problem.

"Yes!" Han Sanpin nodded.

"Even if I knew he had this or that problem, I still wanted to vote."

"I've always thought he was a gifted director."

"Everyone is happy if they make a profit."

"If you lose, we will treat him as a director trained by China Film Group. As long as he is trained to the end, if his commercial film attempt can succeed, we will have another commercial director in the country who can sell box office."

"This is good for the development of the film industry."

"Okay, just tell me how much you want to invest." The other party made it so clear that Gu Ming would naturally not refuse.

Qiming could still get the role he was supposed to get.

We can also ask China Film to help Daystar share the losses.

"40.00% five?" Han Sanpin did not try to seize the leadership of Daystar.

"Then it's settled."

"it is good!"

After just sitting and talking for a few minutes, the investment share of Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises" was decided.

Originally, Gu Ming thought that people from other film and television companies would come to him and Li Xiaoping to ask for investment.

As a result, after two days, there was no movement from others.

It made Gu Ming couldn't help but laugh.

"Jiang Wen, Jiang Wen."

"Look at how you've tricked everyone else into doing this?"

"Even those who have never been tricked by you will be frightened."

"For Daystar's other films, they all want to pay a premium of 50.00% to get the investment amount. When it comes to you, they don't even think about investing."

Jiang Wen's face flashed through Gu Ming's mind, and Ying Huang and Yang Xuancheng's face appeared in Gu Ming's mind.

If it weren't for Ying Huang's unswerving investment in his previous life, I'm afraid there might not even be "Let the Bullets Fly", right?

With the exception of "Let the Bullets Fly", every one of his movies has lost money. The difference is just a big loss or a small loss.

As expected, I heard someone ask on the show, "Whose advice do you listen to when a movie goes over budget, yours or the investors?"

Immediately replied "What is a budget?"

"Hehehe..."

Gu Ming couldn't help but laugh again.

"This guy is really interesting."

……

You can't always stay in China for too long.

After drawing the scenes, we assembled the crew and asked the assistant director and others to go to Hong Kong Island to find relevant filming locations.

Gu Ming boarded the plane to the United States again.

In a few days, "Dance My Life" will be released, and You Jinsuo keeps calling him to ask if he can go, because he has to show up no matter what.

In addition, it’s time to take a closer look at the special effects production of “Kingsman: The Secret Service”.

However, I haven’t started worrying about these two things yet.

As soon as she arrived at Beidou Star Entertainment, Sophia reported something to Gu Ming with a serious face.

"Boss, the situation is not good!"

"What's wrong?" Gu Ming's heart skipped a beat.

He was sure to control Venus' situation, but Beiduxing was really walking on thin ice, and he was a little worried.

"Let's have a look."

Sophia handed a stack of newspapers to Gu Ming with a sad look on her face.

Gu Ming flipped through it casually.

These newspapers are entertainment newspapers.

And in every newspaper, there are three people mentioned.

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston.

It is said that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had a romance while filming a movie, and Brad Pitt cheated on our American sweetheart Jennifer Aniston.

And also divorce Jennifer.

However, as he watched, Gu Ming discovered a question, "Why don't any of these reports say that they fell in love on the set of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"?"

"Ok?"

Sophia's face was filled with confusion.

He thought about Gu Ming's reaction in many ways, but he did not expect that Gu Ming would be dissatisfied with the lack of clear coverage of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith".Seeing Sophia's expression, Gu Ming knew, "Are you afraid that their affairs will affect the film?"

"Yes, Boss."

"There's no need to worry." Gu Ming smiled and waved his hand, "Everyone hates Brad Pitt cheating and Angelina Jolie being the third party."

"But what is the content of our "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" movie?"

"Are you talking about how loving and harmonious the two are?"

"There are quite a few scenes of two people fighting inside, so what are you afraid of?"

"The audience might even want to go into the theater to watch the two of them fight each other."

After saying these words, Gu Ming leaned back on his chair and let out a long sigh of relief.

I thought it was something.

Co-authoring is such a thing.

Can this be considered a bad thing?

This is simply a good thing!

If other reporters hadn't dug it out, Gu Ming would have wanted to find some familiar memories from the United States and dig deeper into the two of them to see if they had changed their nature.

Now it seems that neither of them let themselves down.

"I understand." Sophia's eyes became excited, "I will immediately go to publicity and make this matter popular."

"Don't be stingy. I'll give you 1000 million to add to the fire. Remember, let everyone know what happened between them in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". By the way, let me tell the audience that this couple had a great fight in the film." .”

After all, it is a film with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.

If it were a company like the Big Six, it would probably have to spend another $[-] million on publicity and distribution expenses.

Gu Ming is also prepared to spend 5000 million on publicity.

Try to make this film reach the level of its previous life.

$1000 million is just the appetizer.

"Okay." Sophia nodded.

"By the way, has the theater schedule been released? I want to choose a release date for "Rescue 3"."

"Part of it has already come out. I'll go get it." After a while, Sophia came back with the latest theater film schedule.

Taking it over, Gu Ming set his sights on the hottest summer season.

This year's summer season is also packed with blockbusters.

America's super IP, "Star Wars Episode 3".

Johnny Depp starred in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" after the popularity of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

There’s also Nolan’s first Batman film, “Batman Begins.”

DreamWorks Animation's "Madagascar" and "Fantastic Four" starring the male and female protagonists of "Kingsman".

However, there is no need to make a special selection this time.

You even have to avoid the kind of first week where you lose a lot of money to avoid being crushed by its opening and affecting the box office.

Who allowed this year to have a masterpiece that will leave its name in film history?

This film is called "Kingdom of Heaven".

Ridley Scott, the great director who directed "Gladiator", will once again make an epic film.

The starring role is Orlando Bloom, the elf prince in "The Lord of the Rings", and Edward Norton and others are also joining the cast.

It looked awesome, but in the end, the North American box office was only over 4000 million.

In his previous life, Gu Ming went to the cinema to watch it. After watching it for 144 minutes, he was completely confused.

What is this all about?

How can I not understand?
Many places are simply baffling.

Later I found out that the producer felt that the duration was too long and the audience couldn't bear it, and the theater would not be willing to schedule more films and cut it like this.

The original film is 192 minutes long.

Three hours left.

To be honest, Gu Ming didn't think the three-hour version would become popular.

Your time is about the same as "Titanic".

But without the groundbreaking visual effects of "Titanic" at all, epic films have not been very popular in recent years.

Therefore, the final probability is also a pounce.

"Just May 5. Try to release it at the same time as possible. If not, the closer the release date is to it, the better." Gu Ming pointed to "Kingdom of Heaven" on the film schedule.

"Oh?" Sophia was surprised for a moment, but nodded her head the next second, "Yes, I understand."

Although she was very worried that Gu Ming would choose to confront "The Kingdom of Heaven" head-on.

But Gu Ming's judgment rate in film arrangement in recent years is really terrible.

Every time Gu Ming's film is released, the films around it, without exception, are sold out at the North American box office.

This made it impossible for her to question it at all.

You can only choose to do it.

After dealing with Beiduxing's affairs, Gu Ming came to his mansion in Beverly Hills and called Jin Suo.

(End of this chapter)