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Chapter 209 Accident
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Du Gaoxiang couldn't help but sigh when he recalled the past.

In 2014, Lemon Entertainment had the opportunity to initiate the production plan of a big movie "Big Talk".

At that time, there were four film investors attracted, namely Hualong Films, Donghai Films and Yinshan Films, and the largest investor introduced at the last minute, Donghai Xihe Financial Investment Co., Ltd.

The five film companies invested a total of 2.6 million yuan to develop the big movie "Big Talk".

However, as the film was filmed, the news that the director of the film crew was constantly crying for poverty was constantly exposed on the Internet.

For example, American actor Richard Donne, who was one of the leading actors at the time, took a private jet to Donghai, but the crew only had less than 2 yuan, and the hotel deposit was 10 yuan, so the director paid for it out of his own pocket.

In addition, props such as trucks driven in the play were also bought by the director with advance money.

As for why there is no money, of course it is because no one approves.

The management has a multi-level system for reporting. If they want to get money, they have to go through layers of review, and they can't do without a person who approves.

According to what the director later said, the actual production cost of the crew was less than 8000 million.

So, where did the rest of the money go?
The answer is to invite celebrities.

The budget for the whole film is divided into two parts. The film crew manages the expenses during the filming process, and Xihe Film and Television is responsible for the money for the main actors and special appearances.

But the director realized something was wrong while shooting the film. There had been a steady stream of stars suddenly joining the set. The roles of these actors were all added by the screenwriter, the costumes were made on site, and the scenes had to be newly built.

The whole group of more than 1500 people were all busy. After the final rough cut, the whole film was as long as more than 5 hours. It was such a good movie that it was almost made into a series.

Why invite so many stars to help out?
This involves unspoken rules in the industry, and it is said that it is possible to manipulate the salary.

Then use this to launder the money that should have been the cost of the film into his own pocket.

One of the methods of manipulation is the yin-yang contract.

The studio pays the star a certain amount of remuneration, but the actual salary of the star is only half, and the remaining half is missing.

At that time, Yinshan Pictures was the first to discover something was wrong. Wang Rui, the person in charge, stopped the project and immediately withdrew the capital when the filming was less than halfway through. Wang Rui was furious.

"Big Talk" has a good script, a good filming team, and an excellent cast, coupled with a huge investment, all of which can demonstrate the great potential of this film.

But what Wang Rui never expected was that Lemon Entertainment would cooperate with Xihe Films to use this movie to launder money.

Almost all of Xihe's money, the film's investor, comes from selling financial products.

In other words, Xihe earns money from the common people by selling wealth management products, and then invests in "Dahua Jianghu".

This money laundering model makes Wang Rui quite disgusted, but whether it is Lemon Entertainment or other investors, they turn a blind eye to this phenomenon, because part of the money laundered by Xihe will flow into the pockets of these investors through various methods .

If Yinshan Pictures is willing to join forces with others, then everything is easy to talk about, and everyone makes money, but Yinshan Pictures is an outlier. At that time, it was even close to exposing this scam. Later, after many parties jointly exerted pressure, the matter gradually faded away. go down.

Since then, no one is willing to play with Wang Rui anymore, and even many companies have joined forces to boycott Yinshan Films.

It's just that the golden carp is not a thing in the pond.

In just seven years, through Wang Rui's precise investment, Yinshan Capital has continued to grow and has become a unicorn in the entertainment industry.

The projects invested by Yinshan Capital have formed a high-quality brand, and many actors and directors have joined in by reducing their salaries.

Under such circumstances, Lemon Entertainment and other companies also gradually abandoned their previous suspicions, and with a shy face and a contemptuous smile, they took their artists to get announcements about the other party's works and programs.

And Wang Rui didn't seem to want to become stiff either. Over the years, they had turned a blind eye to each other and lived in peace with each other.

After that, whether it is Han Yu or Zhou Tingting, the first girl in the draft, they can continue to be popular, which is not unrelated to the projects invested by Wang Rui.

Now, knowing that Wang Rui is the person who controls all of this behind the scenes, the entire senior management of Lemon Entertainment instantly thinks of these things that happened seven years ago.

"Big Talk" took five years to produce, and the box office claimed to reach 14 billion after it was released, but people with a discerning eye can tell that the box office is too fake, and it is already very difficult for the entire movie to recover its cost.

Therefore, the score on the film review website is as low as 3.5 points, and there are countless bad reviews.

If it weren't for the participation of many celebrities at home and abroad, the star effect is obvious, and a large number of fans pay for it, this kind of bad movie may not even have a box office of [-] million.

For the general public, this movie can be called a phenomenal blood loss.

But for the investor, it is a steady profit without loss.

The losers are only those ordinary people who buy and sell wealth management products.

It's just because of the huge amount of transactions and the large number of people, and after apportioning them, the accounts of each ordinary person seem to be indifferent.

Although this matter was criticized for a period of time, it did not make any waves in the end.

But for Yinshan Capital, this is probably the first time that Wang Rui stumbled on such a project. Although the capital was withdrawn immediately at that time, the loss of Yinshan Films was as many as several million. This account seems to be settled now. Do the math.

"It was already seven years ago. Over the years, we have cooperated with Wang Rui many times. We are good partners for mutual benefit. Don't talk nonsense."

Du Gaoxiang reprimanded the chest-beating member of the board of directors, and said solemnly: "This time, it's just Han Yu's personal situation that has affected the company, and it has nothing to do with Wang Rui..."

Even though he said that, Du Gaoxiang knew in his heart that this reason was somewhat untenable.

Not many people in the industry know about the relationship between Wang Rui and Fu Yuntao, but those who are careful can find that behind all of Fu Yuntao's works, there is a shadow of Yinshan investment.

And Du Gaoxiang knows better that Yinshan Capital can continue to grow in the past seven years, and it also has a great relationship with Fu Yuntao, the godfather of variety shows.

For Du Gaoxiang, if Han Yu offended Fu Yuntao, he offended Wang Rui. Therefore, asking Han Yu to kneel down in front of Fu Yuntao to apologize is the best solution.

But so far, it seems that the effect is not ideal.

Du Gaoxiang looked at the mobile phone on the table, lost in thought, this Wang Rui didn't answer the phone, what on earth did he want to do?
At this moment, the mobile phone on the table buzzed again.

Everyone in the conference room looked over.

Du Gaoxiang answered quickly: "Did you get through the phone?"

"No, no..."

After a pause, the operator on the other side of the phone stammered and said in a trembling voice: "However, Director Du, there is something I must remind you... something happened to our company! Something big happened! Please go online and check it out Bar!"

(End of this chapter)