Chapter 576 Signing a Long-Term Contract

Li Mu very simply agreed to Teng Huatao's approximate budget of 3 million, and allowed a 30% overrun in the actual shooting, which made Teng Huatao feel relieved. The investment of 3 million, up to 3.9 million The budget for this film was quite enough for him.

In fact, when Nine Swords made "Those Years", a total of NT$50 million was prepared. Converted to RMB, it would be about 10 million. That was 10 million in 2011. In terms of purchasing power, it is the same as today's. The difference of 3 million is not big, and this cost does not include the actor's remuneration. If the actor's remuneration is also included, then the total investment of 5 million is definitely there, so the production cost is already very sufficient.

After confirming the production cost, Li Mu asked Teng Huatao what requirements he had for his director's salary. After thinking for a long time, he asked for a hundred thousand.

Compared with Teng Huatao's current reputation, 100,000 yuan is neither high nor low. Li Mu's director fee of 500,000 yuan to Ning Hao is sky-high, and 10% of the net profit is even more scary. One is rich and self-willed, and the other is simply appreciating Ning Hao. As for Teng Huatao, he generally doesn't have too deep feelings for this director, but if he can really enter the state of shooting commercial romance films earlier, maybe in the future He was also able to make several high-box-office movies, so Li Mu also had the intention to sign him to Muye Technology.

If you want to sign it, you have to do it as soon as possible. If you really wait for him to finish filming "Those Years", I am afraid his worth will rise a lot, so Li Mu immediately said to Teng Huatao: "Well, if you are interested in Muye Imaging, Just sign a long-term contract with us, starting from this film, the director fee for the first film is 200,000 yuan, and each subsequent film will increase by 50% on the basis of the previous film, and I promise to give you one film every year. Movies, as for your TV series, we will not interfere, you can make your own films, what do you think?"

Li Mu suddenly doubled Teng Huatao's director's fee, which immediately shocked Teng Huatao, but the most important reason that made him overjoyed was not that the director's fee had doubled, but Li Mu's willingness to spend every year Cast him for a movie.

In general, directors who mainly focus on TV dramas will inevitably have less influence in the film circle. For directors like Teng Huatao, who are partial to TV dramas, it is very good to have the opportunity to make a big movie in two or three years. It's not necessarily a good book or a big production. However, every director's ultimate dream is to shoot a big movie, because this is the highest level in the field of film and television entertainment. As a director, who doesn't want more Chance to make a movie? Moreover, directors who are a little more famous will almost never take on TV dramas. Even those directors who were born in TV dramas and later made great achievements in the field of film directors will never go back to make TV dramas. The reason is very simple, they look down on them. .

Zhang Yimou has never filmed a TV series. Although Feng Xiaogang was born in a TV series, he has never touched a TV series since 1997. All of them are rooted in the big screen. The reason is that every director regards film as the ultimate pursuit.

The same is true for Teng Huatao. He also hopes to have more opportunities to make movies and to become a first-line film director.

But opportunities are hard to find, and now Makino is throwing an olive branch to himself. Facing the strong attraction of a movie every year, he agreed without hesitation and asked Li Mu, "Mr. Li, how many years can we sign?"

Teng Huatao can't wait to sign for as long as possible, but he also understands that Li Mu has a 1.5 times increase factor for his director's fee. Sign for too long.

Li Mu did some mental calculations in his mind. With a factor of 1.5 times, Teng Huatao's first film director fee was 200,000 yuan, the second film was 300,000 yuan, the third film was 450,000 yuan, the fourth film was 675,000 yuan, and the fifth film was 101.25 yuan. Wan, if you factor in inflation and the continuous improvement of his reputation, the overall growth rate is not high, or even a little low, but this is also the benefit of signing a long-term contract. At least for Teng Huatao, the price is still high. Very tempting.

So Li Mu said to him: "Well, let's sign for five years first, and after five years and five films, if everyone cooperates happily, we will set the standard again."

Teng Huatao said immediately: "Okay! President Li, I signed it!"

Teng Huatao has heard about Li Mu, and Ning Hao also introduced Li Mu's current wealth and industry to him. Behind Muye Imaging is Muye Technology as a strong backer and support, which is also an excellent opportunity for him. The director of movies and TV series, he has a very, very sensitive sense of smell at the box office, ratings, and the number of people covered. If he signs Makino Imaging, it is equivalent to finding a strong potential user group for future movies. In the future, if Makino Technology uses YY helps Makino Imaging's film to promote, it can be said that it is in no way unfavorable.

Speaking of YY, Teng Huatao is also amazed at this artifact. Now he is one of the most loyal users of YY and a loyal YY member, because he has established several working groups in the industry to communicate, consult, recruit, prepare The formation of a group can be solved in the group. It is the best choice to improve work efficiency and promote resource integration. Therefore, he also highly respects YY itself. Signing up with Makino Imaging also brings a strong feeling to his heart. A sense of belonging and platform pride.

After chatting with Teng Huatao about the long-term appointment, Li Mu was also in a good mood. He said to Teng Huatao: "My goal for this film is to make it a masterpiece of Chinese campus romance, and it will become a youth campus. The benchmark and beacon of the film make it impossible for all subsequent films of the same type to catch up, so you must pay more attention to shoot the purest, most natural, and most resonant youthful love for the audience, and you must not fall into cliches."

Teng Huatao nodded understandingly and said seriously, "Mr. Li, don't worry, I understand."

Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "You don't have to worry about the music of this movie. Both Simple Plan and Du Wei will sing a theme song for this movie."

Teng Huatao asked happily: "They will all contribute to this movie?"

Li Mu said with certainty, "That's right."

Teng Huatao naturally knows the simple plan and Du Wei's reputation. If nothing else, it can be seen from the popularity of the micro-movie "Old Boy". The original soundtrack of "Old Boy" is still very good. The popularity is also a great boost to the movie itself.

Li Mu's idea is to give the song "Those Years" to the simple plan, and Zhang Kexuan will sing it as the first theme song of the whole movie, because there is no more suitable song to be the theme song of this movie. .

In addition, Li Mu also wanted to bring in "The First Day" for Du Wei, because the lyrics of that song were also very beautiful and simple. The lyrics not only fit the atmosphere of the movie, but also fit the filming in the summer. The keynote, "Those Years" was originally a love story that happened in summer, the rain in summer, the cicadas in summer, the men and women who were ignorant in the summer, and the pure and beautiful love in the summer, perfectly fit the theme!

As for the other episodes, it's easy to say, either find two more suitable songs for Zhang Kexuan or Du Wei, or directly find a few songs from the ready-made songs, and get some copyright royalties.

Teng Huatao's five-year contract with five films was signed on the second day of the meeting, and then began to enter the preparatory stage. Li Mu didn't ask too much, but just reminded him that he must find the most beautiful middle school and university as a shooting location. , Li Mu personally prefers Lu Island in southeastern Fujian, where summer is beautiful, and to put it mildly, even the air is full of romance, especially a few schools, which are famously beautiful all over the country.

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After Li Mu settled on "Those Years", Du Wei was finally willing to come back from Hong Kong.

This time Du Wei stayed in Hong Kong for more than a week. During this more than a week, Zhang Guorong and Mo Wenwei took her to meet a lot of influential people in the Hong Kong entertainment and music circles. The future development has laid a solid foundation. It is said that she has also auditioned several times in the recording studios of several music producers, which amazes a large number of people.

It was almost enough to see everyone that I could see, so Zhang Guorong was willing to let her come back. These days, Zhang Guorong and Mo Wenwei had a strong love for Du Wei, so much so that Mo Wenwei was sending Du Wei back. When I was in Beijing, I was in tears at the airport because I was reluctant to part with her.

On the night she came back, Du Fei called Li Mu out, and the two sisters invited Li Mu to have a meal together. For Du Fei, Li Mu's help was almost entirely due to her sister's success. Quite grateful, and Du Wei, not to mention, almost regarded Li Mu as her own parent, and listened to her parents' words, not as obedient and obedient as Li Mu's words.

At the dinner table, Li Mu listened to Du Wei talking about the people he had met and the things he had encountered in Hong Kong these days, and he was also happy for her, and said to Du Wei, "I wrote two new songs for you, a Cantonese song. , a mandarin song, you can see when you have time in these two days, let's sort out these two songs and try to record them as soon as possible."

Du Wei was dumbfounded and said, "Brother Li Mu, have you written me a new song again? And Cantonese songs? Did you write them too?"

Li Mu nodded: "You have to release your first album within this year, and you have to prepare at least eight songs, and I even arranged a movie for you during the summer vacation, which is the campus I told you about before. Romance."

Du Wei put on a look of shyness and admiration, and said, "Brother Li Mu, you are so kind to me... better than my sister..."

Du Fei on the side was unhappy, and hummed: "Little white-eyed wolf, every day I say how good your brother Li Mu is to you, you have forgotten all the good things I have been to you for so many years?"

Du Wei smiled and said, "How could it be, sister, you are also very good to me, just different from brother Li Mu."

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