Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 330: Stars Are Not Interesting

The box office performance of "The Shallows" seems to be not very ideal, which makes Yu Xian quite worried. After all, he has just become a house slave.

If the flower-growing family doesn't make money, he can't maintain his extravagant lifestyle. After all, in addition to the mortgage, his monthly expenses for maintenance fees, special event fees, entertainment fees, etc. are all huge expenses.

According to domestic standards, he is now a billionaire after all, and he has to maintain his dignity, so he called Fang Hong to discuss plans for a few films.

The filming plans were all designated by Fang Hong, and since all the copyrights were in his hands, Yu Xian only had to execute them and win without having to use his brain.

Now he switches back and forth between producer and director, so he can shoot more.

Most of the time he looks for European and American directors to shoot his films, and he often plays the role of producer. In Hollywood, producers are the big guys.

"Don't you always complain that I treat you like a dog? You also say that you don't want to be so tired and want to enjoy life. Why do you want to make a movie again?" Fang Hong said.

"Damn, it's because I feel bad about you not making any money." Yu Xian made up a lie.

"Hehehe!" Fang Hong laughed.

"Don't laugh. If you have any plans to make a film, come to me quickly." When Yu Xian heard him laugh, he felt like he was seen through.

"Do you make horror movies?" Fang Hong asked tentatively.

"I'll shoot any kind of movie. As long as I can make money, I'll shoot it." This time, Yu Xian realized how good money is and how great it is to have money.

My life was simpler before and I didn’t have such big expenses, so I didn’t feel that I had more money than I could spend. But since I fell into extravagance, my expenses have increased.

In the United States, the life of rich people and the life of poor people are truly like heaven and hell.

"Well, the Flower Farm family doesn't have much money in their account right now, so they can only make some low-budget movies."

Fang Hong had punished the flower-growing family too harshly before, so he couldn't make a movie with such an investment as "Fifty Shades of Grey".

It's like having to work hard again. It's really difficult to maintain an industry.

The filming of "Fifty Shades of Grey" was the result of a long period of accumulation. Money was spent continuously. It does not mean that you will have as much money as you earn.

Flower growers also have costs. They have to pay wages and a small amount of tax. No matter how they avoid taxes, they still have to pay some and cannot be completely exempted.

Moreover, employees like Liu Tianxian still need to be paid a symbolic salary, with the minimum standard being US$7.25 per hour, based on eight hours, which is US$1737 per month.

Give her a monthly salary of $1800.

In other words, Liu Tianxian has to be paid so much salary every month, and the other four employees get paid a little more. After all, they really work, just doing the accounting and sweeping the floor, while Liu Tianxian just eats for free.

"It's okay, go ahead and shoot." Yu Xian said firmly.

Fang Hong opened his notebook, pointed at the screen and said, "How about "Get Out", "Hold Your Breath", and "The Nun" from the Conjuring universe?"

He makes movies just like ordering food, he orders whatever he wants.

"The Nun" belongs to the Conjuring Universe series. After filming this one, the Conjuring Universe movies are basically complete, and the second and third movies in the series will be released later.

"Okay." Yu Xian read these scripts first, and he read all the scripts and scripts that Fang Hong gave him.

It's just scary, and "Get Out" is quite innovative.

"Don't do it all at once. The order should be staggered. If you do it all at once, the flower growers' funds won't be able to keep up." Fang Hong warned.

If all of this were done at once, a film or television project would be cut off from funding, which would be equivalent to a complete funding cut off, and funds would have to be mobilized from the domestic side.

Yu Xian asked, "So which one do you want to shoot first and which one next?"

"Let's start with 'Get Out', which cost 500 million U.S. dollars to produce; 'Don't Breathe' cost 990 million U.S. dollars to produce; and 'The Nun' cost 2200 million U.S. dollars to produce. Let's start with the lowest cost," said Fang Hong.

The budgets for these films have been prepared, and Yu Xian only needs to mobilize the production team and find a director to shoot them.

I started by shooting low-budget films and then high-budget films. After the release of "The Shallows", "The Purge 3", and "The Fault in Our Stars", I basically had enough money to shoot blockbusters.

"Moonlight" was made to win awards, it wasn't intended to make any money.

Of course, it is not easy to make a high-cost movie without Fang Hong's funding.

"OJBK!" Yu Xian agreed.

"Are you so short of money now? I remember you have appearance fee now!" Fang Hong asked about his financial situation.

If the situation is not going well, help him solve it.

Now Yu Xian is a big director after all. He gets a certain amount of appearance fees for attending events and interviews, which brings him extra income.

Once you become famous, you can make money in any way.

"It's just a joke. The appearance fee is only about 10,000 or 20,000 US dollars. I'm not a professional star. I can't sing or dance. How can so many people invite me? Besides, many of them are for charity purposes. I just want to show my face."

Yu explained first, then said: "You said you are short of money, but it's not that you are short of money. You just got a supermodel girlfriend recently, so you have to work hard."

"Fuck, you're not playing with celebrities anymore, you're playing with supermodels." Fang Hong was speechless. "Celebrities are boring, they just have pretty faces and average bodies, while supermodel bodies are the best."

Yu first became interested and shared with Fang Hong: "Let me tell you, that peach butt is very elastic and can bounce back when you have sex. It's very exciting. You should find a girlfriend in the future. You already have a girlfriend, so you don't need to look for one anymore."

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The two chatted for a while, and Fang Hong was so excited about that bastard, but it was a pity that Liu Tianxian joined the crew of "A Bouquet of Love", so he couldn't touch her butt anymore.

Liu Tianxian’s butt is not bad either, and it’s very elastic!
After hanging up the phone, Fang Hong asked someone to import the movie "The Shallows" and prepare to release it in domestic theaters.

No matter how much the box office is, we can make some money!

Private enterprises can import foreign films, but there is a limit of 20 films a year, so it just takes some time.

Now Yutu also has connections, and with some face, this movie was introduced.

The movie "The Shallows" doesn't have any ghosts or anything, it's just quite thrilling. If some bloody scenes are deleted, it can still be released in China.

After the release, it will be broadcast on Chang'e Video, and no copyright fees need to be paid. No copyright fees need to be paid for the movies produced by Flower Growers to be broadcast on Chang'e Video.

You can just take it and broadcast it online, just delete some shots to avoid trouble.

At this stage, online broadcasting is not that strict, and anything like ghosts can be broadcast. Network management is very loose, otherwise Qvod would not have survived.

It can also be provided free of charge to UP hosts on the small station for slice commentary, without having to pay additional copyright fees.

In the past, when UP hosts wanted to slice movies, they had to package and authorize some copyrights from copyright service providers to explain the slices. This is why most of the commentaries are old movies or foreign movies.

The copyrights of old movies are cheap, and a bunch of authorizations can be packaged for a few hundred dollars; the copyrights of foreign movies are difficult to maintain.

There are no copyright disputes for these two categories, that's the reason.

Of course, copyright management is still immature, and any movie or film can be sliced ​​and interpreted.

If there is any dispute in the future, we will talk about it later!
The Chang'e video software is not yet ready. It is estimated that a simple interface will be made and launched online for testing in May, and then it will be gradually improved.

This thing is very server-intensive. The thousand servers in the current data center are obviously not enough, so we need to build more.

Now we can only rent it and build it when we have money. Money needs to be spent everywhere in the early stages of development.

It was late April, and just when the promotion of "Partners" was in full swing, the American 4th Century Fox animated film "The Croods" was released on April 4.

It earned 1.25 million US dollars on the first day in China and million US dollars in other parts of the world, making it very popular.

When will Jade Rabbit's animated film be released worldwide? It has been almost two years in the making.

I don’t know if it will cause any response after it is released!
If you can't make money, several years of time, hundreds of millions of funds, and the efforts of thousands of people will all be wasted, which is very unbearable.

Fang Hong didn't want to rush for anything, as doing so would put pressure on people and lead to shoddy work.

But we cannot not invest. If we don’t invest, the money spent before will be wasted and all the efforts will be in vain, so we can only hold on.

There is no other way. He has to compete with Hollywood. It is time to train his team. Once a film is produced, it will have a considerable number of experienced elite producers.

In addition to the movie, the TV series "Legend of Lu Zhen" will also be broadcast exclusively on Mango Golden Eagle Theater on May 5.

The copyright fee is 2 million yuan, which is equivalent to about 444 million yuan per episode. Only Mango TV can broadcast it. Other TV stations cannot broadcast it, and if they do, it will be the second round.

In addition to Mango TV, Golden Eagle Network can also broadcast it without paying.

The 2 million is equivalent to the package price, and the entire Mango TV platform will be broadcast!

Mango TV is very wealthy, and 500 million is a sky-high price these days. There's nothing we can do about it, since Chen Xiaohong and Zhao Xiaodao are not bad either.

But the online copyright is not exclusive, and iQiyi wants to spend 2.88 million to buy the exclusive online copyright.

Except for Mango TV, other platforms cannot broadcast it.

But Fang Hong didn't sell it, and wanted to give the video to Chang'e, which made Chen Zhixi unhappy. Why give the video to Chang'e? They didn't have money.

One TV series costs more than 2 million, which is really unaffordable. Ten or a hundred series would cost tens of millions, who can afford it? And it will get more and more expensive.

Apart from players like BAT, fewer and fewer people can afford to play the game.

This is also the reason why iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video are losing money every year!
But this is related to Fang Hong’s self-circulation strategy, that is, self-production and self-sales, and it cannot be avoided.

In the future, the TV power-on rate will decrease year by year. It will no longer be important whether it is satellite or not. Online video platforms will be the main force in broadcasting movies and TV shows.

"Hey, Mr. Chen, this is the entire film and television strategy, you have to help me." Fang Hong stood up and walked behind Chen Zhixi to massage her shoulders.

"Do you know that this concerns the interests of the entire team, the screenwriters, the people behind the scenes including me, and other board members? You want to support Chang'e Technology and use Yutu for blood transfusions. I understand you, but can others understand it? How are you going to explain this to others?" Chen Zhixi looked back at him.

(End of this chapter)