my crew is not human

Chapter 186 Commercial Pursuit of Literary Films
"It's not surprising. When the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds."

Sitting opposite Li Xianyun, Xuan Dong smiled unsurprisingly.

"Is there? I don't think Yisheng Media is a big forest now." Li Xianyun was puzzled.

Xuan Dong spread his hands: "It depends on who you compare with. Those who can mass-produce movies, even if they are Internet universities, can be regarded as big companies."

"Success, the problem now is how to solve it." Li Xianyun leaned back on the boss's chair and said, "Jiangcheng Film and Television is dissatisfied with our film and television base, and has already started to stumble. The daily business of Yisheng Media's post-production department has been affected. , if it weren't for the old ghost's Tong Tian Ji, it would definitely still be losing money this year."

"We can't blame them all, they did a lot of things for us in the later period." Xuan Dong said.

"But you can't always rely on your own products to live." Li Xianyun rubbed his temples: "The film and television atmosphere here in Jiangcheng is not as good as that of the capital and Shanghai. What do you think? In the capital and Shanghai Set up two offices to undertake business over there."

Xuandong thought for a while and said: "The first phase of the ghost town will be completed by the end of the year, and then we can start a trial operation. With the help of our own film and television base, we can also contract business. Is it necessary to do so?"

Li Xianyun shook his head: "I think it is necessary. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the ghost city has just started, and it is not easy to make a name for yourself. What the old ghost told me at the beginning, although there is a purpose to lower prices, is generally correct. In the capital and the magic city By setting up an office each, you can not only take over the post-production business, but also take over the ghost town business, and you can also strengthen cooperation with other film and television companies to further sell special effects."

At this stage, special effects are the main profit of Yisheng Media, and the decisive battle against Sky City and God Killing can easily get 6000 million.

Now that they have decided to sell special effects, of course they have to sell them openly.

Is Jiangcheng Film and Television blocking me?It doesn't matter, I won't argue with you, the south is not bright but the north is bright, not to mention the north is even brighter.

Good opponents are used to squeeze one's own potential, without them, Li Xianyun would not have thought of this.

Xuandong listened and nodded: "That's right, after all, we should do it first, and there is no time to cancel it when it is no longer needed. I have no objection. How about leaving it to Dou Lingling?"

"No!" Li Xianyun immediately objected: "Dou Lingling is very capable, but she is unreliable. Now she controls the artists, if she is allowed to control the business again, then Yisheng Media will have to look at her face."

Hearing this, Xuandong smiled.

He laughed because Li Xianyun has become more and more like a boss, his thinking is more mature, and his ideas are more insightful.

Xuan Dongdao: "That's the job, just recruit people locally. It just so happens that I know a few friends in Huayou, so I just recruit them here."

"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Li Xianyun continued: "By the way, I am also responsible for Liu Li's matter. Zhao Yunyang asked Liu Li to dictate, which is very bad. This time Liu Li admitted it. Change the person this time, just say something directly: I didn’t know this happened, I didn’t hear it, what should I do?”

Xuandong nodded: "We still need to strengthen the process, some things must have written reports."

"But it's not good to rely on procedures for everything." Li Xianyun said.

The more intensive the process, the less efficient it becomes.

A problem that can be solved verbally, if you have to make a report, isn't that a toss?There are a lot of things in the company, and everything is reported and submitted. Do you want to do this job?
Do you want to go through a process for you when you go to the toilet?

But the company can't always rely on self-consciousness. Stupid people will make mistakes, and smart people will also make mistakes.The mistakes of smart people are harder to detect and have more serious consequences than the mistakes of stupid people.

At this moment, Li Xianyun and Xuandong discussed for a while, and finally Li Xianyun said: "For such a simple matter, there is no need to go through the process, but the communication link must be strengthened."

Xuandong asked: "Isn't there already an enterprise group?"

"The problem is that they didn't say this in the group, maybe they have scruples." Li Xianyun discovered that the aftereffect of Dafa Dafa is that employees dare not say some things.

This is a contradiction.

The boss is too polite, people are not afraid of you, no one will listen to what you say; if you are too aggressive, you are so scared that no one dares to talk about the problem.

Thinking of this, Li Xianyun said: "We need to give them a platform to speak freely. Enterprises must have a system and humaneness. Tell me, how about setting up an intranet?"

Large companies generally have an intranet, mainly to facilitate employees to open their hearts, and to put it bluntly, it is to allow superiors to better obtain information at the grassroots level.

"Do it now? Isn't it a bit early?" Xuandong disapproved.

Only large companies need to do this, and small companies don't need it.

But Li Xianyun didn't think so, he shook his head and said: "It doesn't mean that there is an intranet, and there will definitely be many problems. It's better to start it now and find out earlier. The company is now profitable enough, and this cost is no problem. In addition Tell Zhao Yunyang that Te Niang's boss didn't speak, so he won't ask again? He's a department manager now, so cowardly, no wonder the director didn't do a good job back then."

Zhao Yunyang is a little weak in character, and Zhao Yunyang is indeed responsible for this matter - Boss Li himself began to feel that his subordinates were too weak when he first showed his arrogance.

Selective forgetting - the one who is not cowardly has already been fired by him.

"That's fine, I'll make arrangements later and talk to Zhao Yunyang." Xuandong nodded.

"Don't blame you, let Lao Liu come, he is still very good at enlightening people."

"As long as you don't drink." Xuandong laughed.

The two discussed the company's current problems for a while, picked up the omissions and made up for the omissions, and then went about their business.

Today, there is news from Huayou.

The theater they agreed upon can start.

This theater was an appointment made by Huayou and Li Xianyun last time. The director's fee of 100 million plus 5.00% of the box office, along with the initiative to repay the remaining 1000 million debt.

But because of this, Li Xianyun did not have the right to choose the script.

The content is determined by Huayou, and he can at most suggest revisions, just like a real director, working with money and doing his duty.

Li Xianyun is very accepting of this.

His status was lower than this when he was in the God Killing crew.

Leaving the company in charge of Liu Yijiang and Xuandong, Li Xianyun started to make trouble for the Chaoying series——you can’t do it if you don’t. When will the boss start work?

Li Xianyun can't always say: You wait, boss, I will work for someone else first.

That's okay, let's improve the quality.

Li Xianyun is full of enthusiasm and looks forward to showing his talents and applying the aesthetics he learned from Zhang Damou.

Two days later, I finally waited for Huayou's script.

When Li Xianyun saw it, his nose turned out of anger—he finally understood why Huayou was so generous this time.

Picking up the phone directly to call Yang Yuan, Li Xianyun said bluntly: "Old Yang, isn't that how you cheat people?"

Yang Yuan chuckled: "Have you read the script?"

"Nonsense!" Li Xianyun scolded directly: "I said, why are you so generous, giving me such a rubbish script? Let me guess, this time is pure foreign capital, right? How much money have you cheated?"

Li Xianyun was angry because this script turned out to be a story about the inner journey of a mental patient.

Listen to this theme, a proper literary film!
The problem is that if you really want to make a literary film, you can forget it, but what you actually want to make is a commercial film.

This is nonsense.

Commercial films are meant to make money, who will read stories about psychosis?
Especially since the script is so bad, it can only be repaired minorly but not majorly.

Yang Yuan called Qu: "The conscience of heaven and earth, we just sell a resource, we don't make any money, people are supervising it, and the script is also required by the management."

it is as expected.

Li Xianyun guessed it right away.

It can be said that this matter is the same as Rong Dasheng's filming experience back then, it was all led by the will of the investors.

What Li Xianyun didn't expect was that he would encounter such a story.

It is also a large company in Nanhai Province, willing to spend 4000 million to make a story about a mental patient.

The world has the largest investors. No matter how awesome Huayou is, they can't beat the investors. In the end, they can only choose to accept this book.

Of course, in order to coax investors, they actually accounted for 15.00% of the shares.

Among them, 5.00% is for Li Xianyun.

This also explains why they are so generous.

Such a film, with 4000 million investment, can sell 400 million, which is considered to be of the director's level, and it is not surprising to sell 40.

If the theater chain is forced, it is not surprising that it cannot sell online, after all, it costs money to enter the movie theater.Once the threshold is high, the lower limit is lowered, and a theater can sell hundreds of dollars at the box office.

Most of the most rubbish websites are not like this.

The lower limit of the Internet is higher than that of the theaters, but the upper limit is not enough for the theaters.

Huayou just took 15.00% of the shares to appease the capital, saying that we share the honor and disgrace with you, and we also hope to make the film well. In fact, these fifteen points are worthless, and it doesn’t feel bad to give them all away.

They also didn't want to make too much trouble with Li Xianyun, so they gave Li Xianyun 100 million director fees.

As for why Li Xianyun was asked for this matter, to put it bluntly, it was the same reason.

A commercial film with a literary theme is like a BMW car with a Mercedes-Benz logo. The director of a literary film does not like it, and the director of a commercial film does not care.

The employers look down on the small directors, and the big directors look down on the employers.

No up, no down, no left, no left, no right.

Huayou measured and measured, and found: Huh?Li Xianyun is very suitable.

He is suitable not because he has good skills, but because he is the boss of a film and television company.

Generally, if a director makes a bad movie, he may lose his job for the rest of his life.

Li Xianyun is not afraid, as long as his company makes money, he doesn't have to worry about failing ten movies.

But it is one thing not to be afraid of losses, but another to be willing to lose.

It won't ruin Li Xianyun's job if it's shot badly, but it has a bad reputation!
I'm already a big boss, why should I make a movie?

Because of art!
Because of fame!
Who doesn't have a need for pretense these days?

The bigger the person, the higher the psychological needs.

So when Li Xianyun saw this script, his lungs exploded. You didn't come to co-author because of my director level, but because you are not afraid that my filming will fail.

No wonder the script was delayed until now.

No need to ask, they are also afraid that the director's affairs will not affect the plan. They will definitely get the money from the management first, and then hand over the script to the director. Just change the director after the money.

normal operation.

Confidence vanished into thin air, and Li Xianyun spoke in a bad tone: "Go away, I won't make this film, it's wasting my time."

"Don't." Yang Yuan shouted, "Didn't we return the 1000 million to you?"

Li Xianyun was delighted when he heard it: "What's the matter, have you paid off your debts and made contributions? I should thank you all?"

(End of this chapter)