My wife is in my arms

Chapter 1449 Fear of Five
Although Director Zhang is very capable, this is not China.

The largest audience of a program is the fans of the artists. Director Zhang is a superstar in China, and no one can match his influence and appeal, but not many people know him abroad.

Even though some of Director Zhang's instrumental music is very popular, that kind of popularity is for instrumental music, which doesn't depend on looks.

Whether "Special Voice" can achieve good results, regardless of the whole picture, the use of personal connections plays at least one-third to one-half of the key role.

According to her plan, Director Zhang might negotiate a price of six million US dollars per episode. In that case, even if she finished three episodes, she could still earn eighteen million US dollars. After paying taxes abroad, she would still have half left, which would amount to at least fifty or sixty million US dollars, which would be quite good.

But Director Zhang changed his approach. While this approach seemed to be more lucrative, and he could potentially earn over 70 million US dollars just for appearance fees if he completed all the rounds without being eliminated, which translates to nearly 600 million, he still had to finish the rounds.

Anyway, Song Lan personally felt that Director Zhang had acted somewhat irrationally this time.

Confidence is not for this situation.

The risk is too great. It's better to just accept the appearance fee of five or six million per episode. That way, it won't be much less. Even if it's only five million, it's only a little over ten million US dollars less than the nearly eighty million.

There's absolutely no need to take that risk.

If we're talking about six million US dollars per episode, then the difference isn't that big; it's just a few million.

Where is Director Zhang?!

Lin Bao'er asked hurriedly.

"After the meeting, he left with a few foreigners from CB TV; I guess he invited them to dinner."

Song Lan replied.

Lin Bao'er didn't say anything more. She directly took out her phone and sent Zhang You a message, asking, "So you really want to go abroad that badly? This isn't like your negotiating style!"

Just when Lin Bao'er thought it would take some time to get a reply, she was surprised to find that Zhang Xiaoyou replied very quickly, saying, "Song Lan definitely didn't tell me that if I win the championship of the international 'Special Voice,' there will be an additional reward of 20 million US dollars."

Lin Bao'er waved her phone screen at Song Lan and asked, "Is that so!?"

"Yes, but I think..."

Song Lan wanted to say something more, but then heard Chairman Lin say seriously, "This is your dereliction of duty."

"I'll write a self-criticism in a bit."

Song Lan replied immediately.

She didn't really believe that Director Zhang could win the championship of the second season of the international "Special Voice" competition, which is why she didn't say that. However, as an assistant, it was indeed her dereliction of duty and a rather basic mistake not to explain the specific details of the negotiations between Director Zhang and the people from CB TV.

Her main concern was that Chairman Lin would persuade Director Zhang to participate with an appearance fee of over five million US dollars, because this tiered appearance fee was too difficult to obtain.

The chances of getting it are almost zero.

However, dereliction of duty is dereliction of duty, and there's no point in explaining it. After Song Lan went to attend to her own business, Lin Bao'er sat in her chair and pondered for a moment. She also felt that it was unlikely that Zhang Xiaoyou could get all of it.

His singing and songwriting abilities are not a problem, but he suffers from a lack of popularity abroad. If "Special Voice" were a show for amateurs, and Zhang Xiaoyou participated, even if he was from abroad, it wouldn't be too difficult for him to enter the finals. But this is a competition among top singers.

The first season was similar to the domestic season when it was first recorded, with some second-tier singers and singers who were just approaching the threshold of first-tier participating. But after it became a hit, its significance changed.

Just like the second season of "Special Voice" in China, which drew out singers like Liu Fei, Zheng Tiannan, and Xue Linchao, the second season of "Special Voice" abroad will definitely be the same. Top-tier and even super-top-tier singers will participate.

Competing against these people, it would be several times more difficult for Zhang Xiaoyou to reach the finals than for anyone in China. However, after thinking about his creativity, Lin Bao'er wasn't so worried.

Who knows, this guy might just create a miracle.

If he's eliminated after only two or three episodes, that would be even better, saving her the trouble of going abroad to see him!

After working for a while, Lin Bao'er saw that it was almost time, so she went to the company cafeteria for lunch. Since she couldn't stop Zhang Xiaoyou, she let him do as he pleased; after all, she wasn't Zhang Xiaoyou's wife.

Lunch is over.

Lin Bao'er continued to work. At 2 PM, Song Lan announced that the meeting was about to start. She got up and walked into the meeting room. Today was February 25th, and there were still a few days left before "Crazy Stone" was taken off the screens.

The daily box office has now dropped to around 30 million, while the cumulative total box office is higher than the expected 4 billion. As of yesterday, it has exceeded 4.2 billion, which is a very impressive result.

Simultaneously.

This film has already entered the top ten of the all-time box office charts for domestic films, with "The Truman Show" at number fifteen and "Goodbye Mr. Loser" at number thirty-six.

Two of the top fifteen films on the overall list were produced by Tianyu Entertainment, which is quite an achievement. The production cost of "The Spy" was calculated to be nearly 150 million.

Originally, it shouldn't have cost so much, since the film didn't have many scenes. But after Jin Kai won the Best Actor award and made a cameo appearance in the box office hit "Crazy Stone," his appearance fee has risen to 18 million.

This is a project produced by the company itself. If it were a project from another entertainment company, it would cost at least 25 million. In addition, director Chen Binglin's fee has also increased to 15 million.

Then there's Yuan Hong. Zhang Xiaoyou insisted on giving him a 10 million appearance fee. According to Yuan Hong's normal market price, even though he is a TV King, this is his first movie, so 8 million would be about right. But Zhang Xiaoyou insisted on giving him so much.

The salaries of these three alone amounted to nearly 50 million yuan. The remaining amount was used for the salaries of other actors, and less than half of that was actually spent on film production.

However, this is also a very normal situation in the film industry now.

There are even more outrageous examples. In better cases, the cost of film production and actor salaries are split equally. In worse cases, actor salaries account for two-thirds of the total production cost of a film.

The meeting ended.

Lin Bao'er returned to her office.

Around four o'clock, a figure walked in from outside. Lin Bao'er didn't even need to look up to know it was Zhang Xiaoyou. She asked directly, "So confident!?"

"If you want to earn more, you can't avoid taking some risks."

Zhang You pulled out a chair and said with a smile, "The main thing is that I heard from people at CB TV that they didn't just invite me. They also extended invitations to Lee Jung from Hancheng and that diva named Bin Bu from Ilseong. With these two around, what am I afraid of? I can't be the first to be eliminated!"

"whatever"

After finishing processing a document, Lin Bao'er looked up at Zhang You and said, "I have a house in Foley Hill. Since you're going to participate in the international 'Special Voice,' you can stay in my house."

As she lowered her head, Lin Bao'er whispered, "It's convenient for me to go over there too."

Zhang You was startled.

(End of this chapter)