Actor: Thank you.

"congratulations!"

"Congratulations!"

"Young and promising..."

In the courtyard, guests arrived one after another.

Zhang Yuan led his assistant to personally receive everyone at the door.

Today is the celebration party for "Secret".

Just like the previous time with "Crazy Stone", he held the celebration party at home.

This is an informal celebration banquet, and there is also a formal one held in a big hotel with media reporters present.

Of course it’s a private party at home, there will be no outsiders, only friends in the circle.

As for "The Forbidden Kingdom", he had already finished filming last week.

Whether or not additional shooting will be needed later is another matter. Anyway, the main scenes have been filmed, and he has asked Yang Siwei to urge for the progress payment of the film's remuneration.

As for film remuneration, except for a few like Chow Yun-fat who demanded to be paid before filming, most of it is paid according to the progress, just like project payment.

One stroke before filming, one stroke when finishing, and one stroke after production is completed.

Therefore, it usually takes a long time to get the full pay.

But Zhang Yuan is now qualified to negotiate payment methods.

Only if an actor is popular enough and famous enough can he have the right to speak in the crew, otherwise he is just an employee.

He demanded that all remuneration be paid after the filming was completed. If the film is not released for two years, should I wait for two years?

There will be so many places to spend money later, I can’t wait.

He specially chose the crew's rest day to hold the celebration banquet, and invited Chen Long, Li Lianjie, Li Bingbing and the Liu family mother and daughter.

Robert and Michael also came over and said, "We don't discriminate against foreigners."

Old Han, who had been to the last wrap party, also arrived.

Zhang Guoli and Zheng Xiaolong arrived at the same time as last time.

Everyone in the company who could spare some time came.

In addition to these "old people", there are also many newcomers.

Wu Jing...he can't be considered a newcomer either.

Ever since he was caught for drunk driving, this guy has been coming to his house all day long.

He is most likely to be present at company dinners.

Huang Bo brought Gao Hu here together. They are old friends and are close.

But this time he brought another tiger with him.

Director Guan Hu also came with him.

Director Guan can be considered as a benefactor to Gao Hu and him.

"Director Guan, it's nice to meet you. Thank you for your courtesy." Zhang Yuan received him politely.

In fact, it was Guan Hu who came here on his own initiative, not because he invited him.

But after hearing what he said, Guan Hu immediately became polite.

At the same time, he glanced at Huang Bo and Gao Hu, thinking that what these two old friends said was right, this was a decent person who was easy to talk to.

Zhang Yuan asked his assistant to take them to the lounge for tea.

I glanced at the backs of these three people.

Everyone has his own destiny, and wealth lies in heaven.

Gao Hu's future is regrettable, while Huang Bo has become the overlord.

As for Guan Hu...this person is somewhat controversial.

To put it mildly, many people think that his stance is not firm.

First of all, this person is a member of the imperial circle, and a core member.

The source of his stance and identity are actually the same, both of which come from his parents.

His father was an old Eighth Route Army soldier, and he was the propaganda captain in charge of propaganda in the army. Later, in peacetime, he was transferred to the Beijing Film Studio and is a veteran filmmaker.

An absolute veteran in the imperial circle.

I also use Stancom... In this movie called "The Bao Family", the actor who plays Lao Bao is the one who scares his father.

Her mother is also a national first-class actor and a veteran filmmaker.

But the problem is that his mother was one of the first people responsible for cultural and artistic exchanges between China and Japan after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and later became a director of the island country's Art Research Association.

This is a semi-official organization of the island country.

On one side are the old revolutionaries, and on the other side are the deep ties with the island country.

So their family itself is very divided.

Ordinary works are fine, but once he starts working on works related to national history and values, he becomes obviously "schizophrenic".

But unfortunately, almost all tribute films are monopolized by the imperial circle.

If someone in this circle goes astray, there will be big problems at the top level of propaganda work.

Zhang Yuan didn't know why this person came, so he decided to take it one step at a time.

Apart from this person who came "uninvited", there are quite a few people who came here "for the smell of food" today!

"Hahaha, congratulations on making a big profit!" The short and thin Zeng Zhiwei laughed, put his hands together and apologized, congratulating repeatedly.

"Zhang Yuan, long time no see." Teacher He also came in person, followed by two others.

One of them is someone he is familiar with, Li Xiang, the former number one anchor of Mango TV.

And next to Sister Li Xiang, there was a fat middle-aged man.

Zhang Yuan could tell at a glance that this was her new lover and future husband, Wang Yuelun, whom she had met while filming a music MV.

"Those who come here are friends. Please come in."

Sun Honglei and Dongyang Qingyu also arrived.

"Lost" was filmed in less than two months with great efficiency, and it has now been wrapped up.

"Brother Honglei, you've been working hard lately."

"I'll pay my respects to you in a moment."

"It's not hard..." Sun Honglei was about to say something polite, but then he squinted and saw Jiang Xin and Zhao Liying in the yard: "It's not hard... That's impossible!"

"Let's have a few drinks later!"

Filming is okay, whether you are tired or not, it is all work.

What is unbearable is that Jiang Xin has a bad temper to begin with, and after playing the role of Cui Ping, her temper became even worse.

Sun Honglei was often overwhelmed by her.

It would have been fine if he just had a bad temper, but Zhao Liying next to him was cracking melon seeds and adding a few words with a smile from time to time.

The key point is that these two are not bad people, and they don’t have any bad intentions. They just have bad words. You can’t really turn against them.

It's hard.

"Brother Zhang Yuan, are there any other guests?" After the assistant brought Sun Honglei and others into the house, he ran back and asked.

"It should be about the same. There will be a few individual visitors at most."

"Oh, all right."

"what happened?"

Zhao Xinxin pointed to the yard and said, "There's almost no room left."

Zhang Yuan leaned over and looked.

indeed.

At the last celebration banquet, there were more than three tables of people, less than forty in total.

This time there are almost hundreds of people.

This house seemed quite big.

Now it seems a bit crowded.

Besides, the restaurant is full, so we have to set up a table in the yard for dinner tonight.

Fortunately, it is summer now, otherwise we would have to put up a shed again in winter.

Teacher He and Li Xiang were particularly polite. When they heard that it was going to be lively, they took on the hosting job.

“So many people came even though the box office was less than 100 million.”

"If the box office revenue is more than 10 billion or even several hundred billion in the future, we will have to book the Palace of Heavenly Purity for a banquet..."

Zhang Yuan thought about it and thought, you know what, there are people who can drive a G-Class into the Forbidden City, so maybe there are really people who can do such a thing.

"It seems that we need to change to a bigger one for entertaining."

"Zhang Yuan." One of the most important guests at the moment, Jiang Zhiqiang, the partner of "Secret", arrived.

"Mr. Jiang, congratulations."

"Congratulations." Boss Jiang was in high spirits.

Make money!
Their cheeks were rosy and they looked very happy.

However, amidst the joy in his eyes and brows, there was a hint of hidden sadness.

He personally led Jiang Zhiqiang into the house and then introduced his partner to everyone.

Zhang Yuan specifically praised Boss Jiang's contributions, especially in overseas distribution.

Jiang Zhiqiang is also an old hand who knows how to deal with people. He immediately started talking about Zhang Yuan’s contribution to the promotion of the film.

Although the two of them were flattering each other, most of what they said was the truth.

Overseas distribution really depends on Lao Jiang.

Without Zhang Yuan's efforts in the promotion, it would be impossible to get such a high box office. After the introduction, everyone returned to chatting in groups of three or four.

Any gathering of any circle is a large social occasion.

Everyone brings resources to each other and gets to know each other.

Therefore, Zhang Yuan believes that since so many people came here today on their own initiative, they must be here to "take advantage of the popularity."

But he still thought it was too easy.

These people are not here to take advantage of the popularity, in fact, they are here to take advantage of him!
"Wow, such beautiful armor."

Many people came to the living room and saw the suit of armor behind the glass cover.

“This is the armor I wore on the set of The Forbidden Kingdom.”

"Oh!" Han Sanpin and others nodded in praise.

"You're the only one who looks energetic when wearing this."

"Not bad, not bad. I look forward to the movie coming out so that we can all see how you look in his clothes in the movie."

"Brother, did you make a set yourself?" Maikou put his face close to the glass cover and looked at it carefully.

"Zhang, thank you for your comeback to this role." Director Rob was very satisfied.

He even made his own set of armor for his collection, which shows that he really likes this character.

And his performance in the film is really good, especially the fighting scenes, which are very exciting.

I had high expectations for him, but I didn't expect his performance to be better than expected.

"I didn't expect you to be a little narcissistic." Liu Qianqian looked at the armor and teased.

Having said that, he also stretched out his sleeve to help him wipe off the palm print left by Maikou on the glass cover.

"Xixi, this is not narcissism, this is nostalgia." Liu Xiaoli rarely spoke up for him.

"Well, it's good to be nostalgic." Xiao Longnu nodded.

After all, I have known him for many years.

"But the workmanship of this armor is really good. It's exactly the same as the one used by the crew."

"It's the same set as the crew." Zhang Yuan replied.

"Yeah, it's a really beautiful replica."

Zhang Yuan shrugged.

You see, I'm telling you it's the crew's set.

Just now in front of Rob, I said that this is the armor of the crew.

The answer lies in the riddle.

Typical black under the light.

Even if he were beaten to death, Robert would never have thought that Zhang Yuan had already swapped the set that he asked Xi Zhongwen to replicate with the one made of real gold by the crew.

And put it clearly in the middle of the living room for them to see.

People have blind spots in thinking.

When you are confident to a certain extent, others will only doubt themselves.

This is what is called when the truth is made false, the false becomes true, and when the false is made true, the true becomes false.

On the set, the warehouse is full of cameras, infrared sensors and safes.

but!

This armor is going to be packed up and shipped overseas!

So we packed it up early and prepared to send it to the transportation company in batches along with the rest of the props.

Then it is shipped to the other side of the ocean by sea.

There are no safes, infrared or cameras on the road.

Many of our country's cultural relics have been shipped abroad.

How many good things are rotting in the warehouses of the British Museum.

Moreover, this armor is made of domestic gold.

I am protecting national assets from outflow...

I'm worried about leaving him with you, so please leave him at my house. I will personally watch over him day and night.

I am not afraid of being tired.

After everyone left, Zhang Yuan clasped his hands together in front of his armor.

"Grandmaster of the Iron Thieves, we didn't lose face this time."

I didn't get the chance to join the crew of "Curse of the Golden Flower", so this time I'm trying to get the foreigners, it's not too much, right?

Return to the courtyard and chat with the guests separately.

Before dinner, he gathered everyone from the "Secret" crew together.

Jay Chou, the Liu family's mother and daughter, as well as him and Boss Jiang came into the small reception room.

"The box office statistics for mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan are now out." Boss Jiang took the file from his assistant.

"A total of 9200 million."

Clap, clap, clap...several assistants clapped their hands, and Jay Chou hooked his shoulder and smiled.

The male and female protagonists of this film both receive a share of the profits, so the higher the box office, the happier they are.

"The island nation won more than 900 million."

“Singapore 380 million.”

“There are less than 300 million in Malaysia.”

"South Korea..." Jiang Zhiqiang frowned.

The Korean film market is obviously quite developed, but it is the worst performing one among the overseas box office this time.

Boss Jiang hesitated and seemed a little hesitant.

The reason why he hesitated was that before the filming started, when discussing the shares of various places, Zhang Yuan surprised him by specifically asking for the copyright from South Korea.

He thought at the time that this guy must have made such a decision because he was optimistic about the Korean market and thought he could make some money.

He held the copyrights of the island countries and Singapore, which he was more familiar with, so he thought it was okay to give it to him.

But now the only region where he holds the copyright alone has the worst performance.

He was afraid that the other party would suspect that he had done something wrong.

"How much?" Zhang Yuan asked proactively.

"Less than 200 million."

"So many!" Liu Qianqian widened her eyes.

"Don't get excited." Zhang Yuan gave her a calming look: "The two hundred million should refer to Korean won, right?"

"Correct."

"That's about 100 million."

It was just as he expected.

The stick is still disgusting.

Zhang Yuan tried his best to make more money in the early stage of the release because he was afraid that someone would tamper with the film.

The source of his worries is South Korea.

Because "Secret" was deliberately ignored locally and had extremely poor screening schedules.

Anyone familiar with the country's early commercial history would know.

In the early days of market opening, a large number of Koreans took the opportunity to come to China and commit fraud under the pretext of trade.

He took away the hard-earned money of countless people and then went back to laugh at us for being stupid.

The style of their place is in some respects similar to that of its more populous neighbor to the south.

Jay Chou, nicknamed "Anti-Korean Pioneer", was one of the few musicians who could outperform early Korean groups.

Of course, it's not that simple.

But Zhang Yuan knew this situation would happen, but he still obtained the local copyright.

This is also what puzzles Jiang Zhiqiang.

He is usually a very smart person, but he miscalculated this time?

"Anyway, in total, the box office revenue in various places exceeded 110 million."

"There are also subsequent revenues from movie soundtracks, discs, and re-screenings..." Zhang Yuan did a rough calculation in his head.

What I can get is probably just under 20 million.

Already very good.

"Congratulations, little rich woman." Zhang Yuan turned and looked at Liu Qianqian.

Her contract was for 10% of the film's revenue.

For this drama, she will receive a salary of more than 500 million.

Jay Chou’s income is over 10 million!

Everyone in this house is rich.

"Mr. Jiang, I look forward to our next cooperation." Zhang Yuan smiled and shook hands with the other party.

"Sure." After a slight hesitation, Boss Jiang raised his wrist.

After talking about money, everyone returned to the courtyard with smiles on their faces.

At this time, the banquet has just begun... (End of this chapter)