Don't call me Master, call me Director

Chapter 39 Third Brother, As Worthy of You

Of course, the nurturing that Cloris mentioned does not refer to nurturing Shinji alone, but the entire team including Shinji.

"Lissie, you are not only beautiful in appearance, you are also beautiful in thinking."

Shinji shook his head.

In the short term, it is a good thing for Xingyue Film Company to be acquired by industry giants like Times Group, which can bring a broader platform to the company.

But in the long run, this has buried huge hidden dangers for the future of Xingyue Film Company.

The acquisition of a company is based on the comparison of the strengths of both parties. Xingyue's current size cannot be compared with that of Times Group. After being acquired, Shen [-]% will lose the right to speak.

Don't talk about what power agreements can be signed, Erye Shen has seen a lot of situations where big companies turn their faces and deny people after they take over.

If Shen Er just wants to make money, then it is not a problem for him to sell the company and team to Time Group.

But Shen Er in this life is a person with dreams, how could he be willing to die halfway through starting a business.

"Impossible, don't think about acquiring a team, Lizzy, if you keep messing around like this, I'll just switch to another company."

Cloris didn't care about Shen Er's tough words, she said with a smile: "Shen Er, do you leave some room for our future cooperation? Just sign a movie, isn't this just letting our Times Group sing for you? After shouting, will you let you harvest leeks by yourself later?"

Shinji didn't answer what Cloris said, but just touched his nose.

Cloris frowned, deliberately pretending to be very embarrassed: "I admit that this FSN movie will be a big hit, but as you once said, Shinji, we need to invest a lot of publicity."

"so?"

Cloris narrowed her eyes and smiled, "So, Shen Er, you should leave room for us to make a profit, right? If there is no profit, any commercial company would not invest in it."

Shen Er pointed with his hand: "I have already given in the share."

"This amount of money is not enough. No matter how high the box office of a movie is, it's only that small. You should give your sister a little more room to make money."

"Aha?"

Shinji made a confused sound.

"After all, the cost of film distribution is very high."

Cloris counted with her fingers.

"Movie Advertisement."

"Isn't your family running a TV station?"

Not to be outdone, Shen Er replied directly.

"The cinema is divided into divisions."

"Isn't this included in the cost from the beginning?"

"Rating submission fee."

"Do you even care about the cost of the fly's legs?"

"Others include printing fees for promotional materials, promotion fees for magazine soft articles, movie copy fees... From movie promotion to release, my sister and I have to spend too much money."

Every time Cloris said something, she patted the table lightly with her hand, as if to remind Shen Er how important what she said was.

"Lissie, what you're talking about is basically the necessary expenses for the normal distribution of movies, so stop messing around."

Shen Er gritted his teeth, and his tone seemed to be cutting flesh: "Since you are so persistent, then I will give you 0.2% of the profits."

"Shinji..."

Cloris wanted to speak again, but was interrupted by Shinji.

"Lizzie, don't forget. Film and television copyrights are not limited to theater screenings, but also TV rights and videotape rights!"

At this moment, Weber suddenly stood up, walked behind Shen Er a few steps, supported the back of his chair, and said loudly: "If Miss Flora is not willing, our company is willing to give this guy to you, as a contract." Head added."

"Weber! You kid is going to rebel!"

Shen Er immediately objected, he did not expect that he would become a bargaining chip in the negotiation.

"Shinji, for the sake of all of us, why don't you sacrifice yourself."

"Damn sacrifice!"

If it weren't for the inconvenience of turning the wooden conference chair, Shinji would have kicked Weber.

"Lissie, I want to remind you a little bit."

Shen Er put his hands on his knees, and said in an ultimatum tone: "My film only took 20 billion yen in Japan in one month. Based on the analysis of Japan's normal box office curve, my film can have at least 100 billion at the box office. .”

"But the box office in Japan is hard to count, isn't it? Everyone knows the wonderful box office in Japan."

Cloris narrowed her eyes, staring fixedly at her former acquaintance.

By this time, it means that the negotiation has entered the final stage, and the two sides are fighting for momentum. If anyone fails, all previous efforts will be wasted.

Shen Er calmly accepted the coercion from Cloris without wavering.

"How about this?" Cloris said, "Except for FSN, Time Group has the priority investment and distribution rights for the next five films of Xingyue Company, and the share ratio is the same as FSN, but Time Group owns its global distribution film and television copyright."

Cloris leaned forward with a triumphant smile on her face.

"3, and the copyright period is only 10 years. And..."

Before Shen Er finished speaking, Cloris interrupted him by slapping the table.

"Deal! Negotiation established!"

Cloris grabbed Shinji's hand forcefully.

"That's the general direction. Let our subordinates discuss the rest."

"Don't break the contract, Shinji~"

Cloris smiled triumphantly.

She held the documents in both hands and hummed a ditty to the door of the conference room, leaving Shinji sitting there blankly.

"Ah, that's right. Shinji."

Cloris, who walked to the door of the meeting room, suddenly turned her head: "The rumor about you in the clock tower... Hey, where are you?!"

Cloris noticed that Shinji who was sitting at the conference table a second ago had disappeared.

"He has left."

Waver, who stayed where he was, said calmly.

"Tch, I thought I could take advantage of him to relax."

Cloris curled her lips and left the meeting room unwillingly.

"People are gone."

Waver said to the seat beside him.

Shinji's figure appeared from his original seat.He squeezed the center of his brows in distress: "Cut, that girl Rin really exposed me."

"Nice invisibility magic."

Weber commented in an academic tone.

Shen Er responded in a nonchalant tone: "It's just a cover-up that can last up to 5 minutes."

Waver didn't delve into Shinji's magic, but shifted the topic to the agreement.

"I didn't expect that she would agree to the conditions you gave." Weber joked, "You miscalculated."

These words made Shen Er snort coldly: "Lissie probably wanted to reach this agreement from the very beginning, and deliberately used conditions that I couldn't agree to as a cover."

Weber cast a glance at Shinji, which clearly meant "You agree after seeing it?".

Shen Er briskly shrugged his shoulders: "I don't want to cooperate with Times Group because I'm afraid that Lissie will use her relationship with me to make Times suffer. Since Lissie doesn't have this plan, then I have no reason to reject Times Group. .”

"What's more..." Shen Er raised the corners of his mouth proudly, "Lissy didn't mention peripheral products. Bandai has been eyeing the European and American markets for a long time."

Shen Er didn't know whether Cloris really missed it, or if she didn't like the money and gave it to herself on purpose.

But since the other party didn't want it, Second Lord Shen said that he accepted it bluntly.

Even if there is no precedent in this era, there are many examples of peripherals making more money than box office before Shen Er crossed.

Weber complained: "Hehe, maybe that's the dowry left to you by Miss Flora. Don't you think...huh? People?"

Now, Shinji really disappeared into the conference room.

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In the following days, Shinji and Webb participated in more negotiations, during which they reached agreements with more overseas publishers.

Although Times Group has strong distribution channels around the world, it has not been able to cover all places after all. The most obvious is that the Asian region is almost blank.

Therefore, Xingyue had to negotiate with publishers in these countries and regions individually.Fortunately, the film markets in these countries and regions are usually not large, so you can just let the opposite side buy them out.

With more and more publishers negotiating cooperation, the selling price of FSN through the buyout system has far exceeded Xingyue’s book investment in the production of FSN projects.

It can be said that Shen Er's purpose of participating in the screening at the Cannes Film Festival has been fully achieved, and at the same time, he has a better understanding of the current situation of the world film market.

Although most of the professional word-of-mouth reviews, including the French local media, were extremely mediocre, and only the British media helped to say good things, this did not affect distributors rushing to snap up the film.

Obviously, those who are most sensitive to the box office in these industries have directly seen through the essence of the box office is the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies, not a few words from film critics.

I just don't know when the film critic group will wake up from their dreams.

However, Shen Er has seen the harbinger of the rise of special effects movies through the crazy fans in Cannes, and the enthusiastic pursuit of FSN by distributors...etc.

What made Erye Shen even more excited was that he was the one who caused this monstrous tsunami in the film industry!

Of course, not all publishers are interested in FSN.

For example, the distributor from Xiangjiang gave up introducing FSN because he didn't think the movie would sell well locally.

The other party has a reason for choosing this way. You must know that in Shen Er's last life, the audience in Xiangjiang didn't like watching imported films very much, thinking that foreign films were not as good as their own.

It was not until the release of "Jurassic Park" that this situation was broken, and then Hong Kong films suffered a drastic decline, and they were never able to stand up in front of foreign films.

In this world, there are no Hollywood special effects blockbusters such as "Jurassic Park", and the mainstream of Hong Kong's film market is still its own Hong Kong films.

Therefore, faced with Xingyue's quotation, Xiangjiang publishers who felt that it was too high chose to give up.

Another publisher who is not interested in FSN is an Indian publisher. The other party bluntly said that FSN neither sings nor dances, and there must be no one in India to watch it.

To this, Shen Er could only say: "Third brother, you deserve to be the one."

Chapter 40 On that day, people recalled the glory of the curry stick...

As the 56th Cannes Film Festival came to an end, Shen Er's FSN publicity team received an invitation from the organizer for the closing ceremony.

Unlike the opening ceremony where no one cared about it, the popularity of FSN during the screening period of the film festival made the organizers very concerned about the crew, and the staff who came to send the invitation letter were also respectful to Shen Er and the others.

This significant difference in attitudes before and after made Shen Er truly understand what is meant by the coldness of the world in the entertainment industry.

For FSN's publicity needs, Shen Er did not embarrass people by slapping people in the face, but took Weber and Rin to the closing ceremony of the film festival.

But for Mr. Shen Er, the closing ceremony was just as boring as the opening ceremony. Apart from the host thanking FSN for adding luster to the popularity of this film festival, there was nothing else that could attract Shen Er's attention.

As for the awards ceremony, which was supposed to be the highlight of the closing ceremony, anyway, Shinji and his FSN were spectators from the beginning to the end.

Unlike the Oscars, which may have grand slams, the jury of the Cannes Film Festival prefers to have a fair share of rain and dew. The award arrangement is basically divided into fruit and fruit, and there is rarely a situation where one company dominates.

But what does this have to do with Shen Erye?

Anyway, it is impossible for FSN to win any awards, and Shen Er did not know any of the nominated movies at the same time. Shen Er, who had no sense of participation in the whole process, only felt that sitting in the auditorium would be better than going back to the hotel to sleep.

If I had to say it, Shinji thought the closing film was much more interesting than the closing ceremony, at least it was Chaplin's classic film "Modern Times".

After experiencing the closing ceremony like being in prison, the 56th Cannes Film Festival officially ended, and Shen Er, who successfully completed the task, can finally go home happily.

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Japan, Fuyuki City, the gate of Matou House.

Emiya Shirou, who was holding his sister Illya's hand, pressed the doorbell helplessly.

"Brother, Second Brother Shen, he came back today, right?"

While waiting for the door to open, Ilya raised her head and asked obediently.

"Yeah, to celebrate the big money he sold for the film at Cannes, we're all going to celebrate tonight."