Tokyo Literary Godfather

An hour ago, Kei Fujiwara received a call from Eiji Shirai.

There is finally news about Kei Fujiwara’s new movie project.

The company's executives were terrified by the movie version of "White Night Walk". When they heard that Kei Fujiwara planned to make another suspenseful movie, their heads shook like rattles.

Even Kei Fujiwara, who has an undefeated record, is not enough to dispel the concerns of senior executives. After all, the profit models of movies, TV series, and novels are different. For movies, timeliness is very important. Generally, a movie will only be released in theaters for about a month. If it is not a special hit, it will not be postponed at all.

The period is shorter than that of TV series and novels. The broadcast time of TV series is calculated on a quarterly basis. The broadcast time of a TV series is usually about one month. Even if a drama is not favored in the early stage, after a month or two of word-of-mouth accumulation, Ratings will gradually rise. Some dramas even started with ratings in the early 10s, but by the time the final episode aired, the ratings were close to 25 or even 30.

Not to mention novels. Even if a book doesn't sell well, the bookstore owner will not burn it. At most, it will be placed in inconspicuous corners such as the top and bottom of the bookshelf. Some novels did not sell well when they were first released, but they became popular two years later due to some kind of opportunity. This kind of thing is also very common.

Compared with these two cultural products, movies have higher commercial risks. Therefore, production companies pay more attention to risk control and are more cautious in selecting themes, stories, creators and actors.

The failure of "White Night Walk" made Matsunichi Pictures instinctively reject suspense-themed films. As for Fujiwara Kei, although this guy is very powerful, "White Night Walk" is also a movie originally written by him. Could it be that he is not good at creating suitable movies at all? A story that was staged in a large theater?

Speaking of which, although this guy is very good at making TV series and writing novels, his resume is completely blank in the field of creating commercial films. This is not impossible.

After all, crossing borders is not easy, and it cannot be successful every time.

Don't take "Looking Back" as an example. The kind of short film that was piloted at a film festival is not comparable to a commercial film at all.

The concerns of senior management are actually also concerns of Eiji Shirai. However, as a senior executive of the production department, reducing the production plan is tantamount to restricting real power. Eiji Shirai also has plans to turn around.

Kei Fujiwara is one of the few people who can give him hope of a comeback.

Eiji Shirai thought about it all night and finally decided to take another gamble.

Eiji Shirai used his position as a special executive to finally convince the president at a high-level meeting that the four low-cost films originally planned to be produced this year were reduced to two, and the saved funds were used to invest in Kei Fujiwara.

However, there is only 120 million, and Kei Fujiwara needs to find the remaining money himself.

Eiji Shirai told Kei Fujiwara the news, and Kei Fujiwara thanked Eiji Shirai on the phone, and then made an appointment to discuss the project of the movie in detail.

After hanging up the phone, Kei Fujiwara pulled out a piece of white paper and used it as a ledger to calculate the cost of filming the movie.

He had been a producer in his previous life and knew how to calculate the production cost of a movie. The 200 million production cost he told Eiji Shirai was not a lie, but it was indeed a conservative estimate and more or less loss should be taken into account. The problem. Therefore, after Kei Fujiwara made a rough calculation, the cost budget was set at 300 million yen, which is relatively safe.

Matsunichi Pictures is willing to invest 120 million, so Fujiwara Keihao needs to get another 180 million.

Do you want to go out on your own? Fujiwara Kei thought.

Kei Fujiwara has kept about 60 million in cash in his account for a long time, and most of the other money has been handed over to the trust. Kei Fujiwara also made some stock investments based on his impression of the general development trend of the world. To be honest, he made a lot of profits. Some investments have even seen substantial returns within a year. However, even though he has the advantage of being a prophet, Kei Fujiwara remains cautious when buying and selling stocks or going short or long, and will only use part of his money to participate in such "speculative activities."

Most of Kei Fujiwara's choices in the securities market were correct. Even the professional managers of trust companies did not hesitate to praise him. They felt that Kei Fujiwara had a vicious vision. If he was engaged in the securities industry at that time, he could make a lot of money if he failed to protect everything.

Therefore, Kei Fujiwara's caution seems a bit redundant and delays making money.

Kei Fujiwara also knows that if you play roulette for one dollar, you can win the entire Las Vegas if you win twenty times in a row. Kei Fujiwara relies on his prediction of the future, so he might be able to complete such a sexy operation.

But Kei Fujiwara still chooses to stop when things are good, trying not to let the rate of return rise too high and attract the attention of big capital. After all, his main business is the cultural industry. In finance, he is just a layman with a prophetic advantage but poor knowledge. Because of this conservative style, in the past two years, it has only made a few billion in the market, which is equivalent to doubling its existing assets.

So let alone the remaining 160 million, which is the entire budget of the entire movie, Fujiwara Kei can also bear it.

However, I still chose to cooperate with a big film company like Matsunichi Pictures. Firstly, it is because of Matsunichi Pictures’ theater resources. Secondly, Fujiwara Kei does not have his own team yet. Thirdly, he also hopes to have a strong cooperation. Fang can make this movie go relatively smoothly from production to distribution.

Kei Fujiwara does not have the habit of eating alone because he knows that it is easy to choke when eating alone. If you want to make the cake bigger, you should not be afraid of dividing it. You know, the more people divide the cake, the more people will protect it.

Moreover, when making a movie or TV series, many emergencies and troubles often occur during the shooting process, which requires the help of a large enterprise background and a mature team with rich experience.

After all, the challenges of shooting a commercial film are different from those of shooting a non-profit short film. The financial pressure, the size of the crew, and the difficulty of work have all improved, like the young and immature filming of "Looking Back". The student team is absolutely not enough to handle it.

Regarding the difference between the newcomer crew and the mature crew, Kei Fujiwara had a deep understanding of it in his previous life.

When Kei Fujiwara was a junior in his previous life, he joined a senior's crew to help shoot his graduation film. They went to a village in the south for filming, and there was a big crew in that village besides them. The student crew is poor and often takes advantage of the crew's props and scenery. The director of the big crew is the senior's mentor and allows him to take advantage of this.

Things went smoothly when we first started shooting, but when we were shooting a wheat field, there was always an elderly man bending over and working in the field.

An assistant director of the big crew asked the senior to go to the village officials and ask the secretary to drive the old man away. After all, the crew paid a lot of money to shoot in the village. However, the senior thought it was troublesome for a while, and felt sympathetic. He felt that it was not easy for the old man to work in the field at noon, so he gave the old man 200 yuan to leave and cut the wheat tomorrow.

At that time, the old man took the money and left obediently, and the crew continued filming.

As a result, on the second day, there were more than a dozen old men harvesting wheat in the field. While cutting the wheat, he stared at the crew eagerly, waiting to receive the money.

The senior was dumbfounded. So many people appeared in the camera, which even affected the shooting plan of the big crew. After the assistant director of the big crew asked what was going on, he scolded the senior terribly.

The same thing almost happened when filming the rural scenes of "Suddenly Looking Back", but Keiichi Fujiwara was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of well ropes, so he stopped it in advance. This also made him realize the importance of a mature team. If not necessary, Kei Fujiwara tries to avoid using a team of mostly newcomers.