After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 78 Wanda's Gambling Agreement

The next day, Li Mingyang came to school and went to Director Tian's office. Director Tian helped Li Mingyang organize and fill out the materials for review.

Submitting the film for review through the Beijing Film Academy can save a lot of trouble and get twice the result with half the effort. After all, there are two big guys at the Beijing Film Academy who are involved in the review.

In addition, Lao Zhang had a confrontation with the Central Academy of Drama and offended the Central Academy of Drama deeply.

The bigwigs at the Central Academy of Drama have long disliked Zhang and his gang, so it might not be a bad idea to do them a favor and give them some encouragement.

There is a big shot in the Central Academy of Drama who also participated in the review.

After completing the review process, Li Mingyang started to schedule the films.

Jing Tian was still filming the biography of her grandson, but she had already made arrangements with Lu Zhen in advance.

Lu Zhen was in Yanbei, but was attending a meeting at Wanda headquarters.

Wanda is quite interesting. It is Dalian Wanda, but its headquarters is in Yanbei.

In 2008, Wanda Group’s headquarters moved from Dalian to Wanda Plaza in Beijing, marking the beginning of Wanda’s entry into a stage of large-scale, rapid development.

In contrast, BAT is directly locked in Yanbei, Hangzhou and Yangcheng.

After waiting under the starry sky for most of the day, Lu Zhen finally came back at around three in the afternoon.

Lu Zhen looks very young, but he is actually nearly 40 years old. He has an ordinary appearance, but he is intimidating without even getting angry, and has the majesty of a superior.

Li Mingyang had met him several times in his previous life. The last time was at Yanbei Airport when he returned to China and Fang Run went abroad.

To be honest, Wanda is really unlucky.

Real estate and cinema chains, which were once the most profitable, later became money-losing properties.

"Let's talk inside." Lu Zhen pointed to his office.

Li Mingyang nodded and followed Lu Zhen to his office.

Lu Zhen searched on the bookshelf for a while, found a piece of information, and handed it to Li Mingyang.

Li Mingyang opened it and looked at it for a while. It was a gambling agreement.

"Isn't this an exaggeration?" Li Mingyang laughed after reading it.

"We are under a lot of pressure to help you schedule the film. The distributor has the right to choose the theater chain. Huayi and China Film Group don't want to see your film released this year, and most of the profitable films in China come from them." Lu Zhen said lightly.

Li Mingyang only spent 210 million to make the movie. According to the bet agreement, if the box office does not reach million, he will have to make up the losses.

The box office was one million, but he had to lose four million!
If that were the case, Li Mingyang would sign without hesitation.

But there is a big flaw in this agreement.

The so-called box office is not the total box office of the movie.

The agreement specifically notes the Wanda Cinema Line box office.

In other words, the box office at Wanda Cinemas has to reach five million.

Wanda is awesome, but it only accounts for less than 10% of the screens in the market.

There are about 375 screens in the mainstream cinema chains across the country, and Wanda has of them.

A rough calculation shows that if "Flowers" is released normally in all theaters and the total box office reaches 5000 million, the 500 million in the gambling agreement can be fulfilled.

Although now is not like the past few years when the domestic film market was vibrant and there were many films with annual box office revenues exceeding 100 million yuan, they were all big-budget films.

Movies with a box office of around 50 million are either imported or have stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The highly hyped "Crazy Stone" was released in 06 and the box office was only over 2500 million.

How can a goddess deserve a box office of 5000 million?
At most ten million.

"If you don't want to sign, forget it." Seeing that Li Mingyang was hesitant, Lu Zhen urged him to make a decision quickly.

Of course Wanda does not lack the five million, they just want Li Mingyang to give up.

For the stability and development of the market.

Feng Kuazi could listen to the advice and shut up, but if Li Mingyang didn't know what was good for him, he would have to wait for the debt! Li Mingyang had no confidence in Liu Yifei or the market, and felt that he was going to lose everything, so he withdrew decisively.

“Well… there won’t be a gambling agreement if the movie is released next year, right?” Li Mingyang closed the gambling agreement, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Lu Zhen.

Lu Zhen chuckled, "Of course not."

Li Mingyang nodded, said goodbye and left.

After Li Mingyang left, Lu Zhen's face changed. He picked up the gambling agreement with a gloomy look and threw it into the trash can like throwing away garbage.

"what!"

……

After walking out the door, Li Mingyang took out his cell phone and called Jing Tian.

Usually when she calls, she is busy and her assistant answers the phone. It takes a long time for Jing Tian to return the call.

Unexpectedly, the person who answered the phone was Jing Tian.

"You're lucky today! Are you taking a day off today?" Li Mingyang stopped, turned around and sat on the sofa, not moving.

"There are only three performances today, so I finished work early. I'm browsing the bookstore. I want to learn about the history of the Warring States Period. Which book should I buy?"

"The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period."

"anything else?"

"This book is very thick, enough for you to read."

"It's really thick, and heavy."

Jing Tian is very dedicated, so dedicated that the actors who have worked with her don’t want to work with her again.

Compared to her, those stars who bring screenwriters into the crew and add crazy amounts of screen time to themselves are nothing.

In the movies she participated in, the entire crew had to coax her, and the screenwriters of the crew didn't even listen to the director, but only listened to her.

She not only likes to revise the script, but also likes to participate in the editing.

That’s how “Jing Tian Warring States” came about.

After chatting for a while, Jing Tian suddenly remembered, "Did you go to see Mr. Lu? What did he say?"

"Yeah, I found it. I'm in Starry Night right now. He wants me to sign a gambling agreement before he schedules a movie for me." Li Mingyang raised his voice deliberately when he saw Lu Zhen coming out.

"What is the bet agreement?" Jing Tian asked.

"If the box office fails to reach the target, I will have to pay the difference myself. The gambling agreement requires the box office to reach 5 million. If it does not reach the target, I will have to pay the difference... Let's put it this way, the movie has not been released yet, but I will have to bear a debt of 5 million first."

"This is not bad. The female lead is Liu Yifei. It's impossible that her movie doesn't even have a box office of 5 million, right?"

Li Mingyang saw Lu Zhen looking at him and smiled. "If the total box office is 10 million, I will sign it, but the agreement specifically states that it is for Wanda Cinema Line! There are about 5000 screens in the country, and Wanda accounts for % of the total. Using the elementary school student's calculation, the total box office must reach million to complete the gambling agreement."

"Fifty million! Can your movie reach that amount?"

"It's impossible. I'm not shooting a commercial film. It only has love elements, no action, no special effects, and no Hong Kong or Taiwan actors. The only one who can carry the box office is Liu Yifei, and at best she can only carry 10 million box office."

"She's quite famous, it's not possible that she only has 10 million, right?"

Jing Tian is still filming a TV series and doesn’t know much about the film industry, let alone the movie market. Li Mingyang is not a person who likes to explain.

But right now, only if Jing Tian makes a fuss can he avoid signing the gambling agreement and get the screening schedule.

Li Mingyang explained for more than an hour. Later, people from the Starry Company gathered around. Lu Zhen even moved a chair and sat aside to listen carefully.

The domestic film industry chain is divided into three major links: upstream production, midstream distribution, and downstream theater chains (cinemas).

Wanda currently focuses on downstream cinema chains and theaters, making money without doing anything. It actually doesn't know much about the film market and just blindly follows the trend.

The upstream producers are the ones who understand the movie-watching market best, followed by distributors.

The leader among them is the future new king, Light Media, which focuses on the upstream and midstream and abandons theaters.

(End of this chapter)