Chapter 784

In the reception room, Chu Yu and Song Gangchong had a dull atmosphere for a while!

Song Gangchong himself was uneasy, because he also felt that his behavior was like an idiot, a rich man who could spend 7.8 billion dragon national currency funds to make animations, and he came here rashly without saying please An old friend in the industry will convey the news first, and then make an appointment to have a meal together somewhere to discuss the matter in detail!

Just like that, it's really impolite to come here with some cigarettes and alcohol!

But Matsuoka Mitsuya? He asked a group of friends in the circle last night, but the problem is that the boss of the gt animation company is in the animation industry in Tokyo, and no one knows his contact information!

Matsuoka just knows that gt animation company was acquired last year, and the company is now in a state of vigorous development. The two animations produced, Slam Dunk will be broadcast in April next year, and Spirited Away will be released in July next year.

He guessed that the company was short of people, because the company he stayed in back then also went through this period, how could there be an experienced director who could hold such a large-scale animation in the company at this time!

They have money, but they are short of people, and it is already November, and their production cycle is very tight. If there is a shortage of people, they will definitely fill in the production team members this month

Just a very simple reasoning, Matsuoka Chong judged the news through the narration of friends in the industry and the information about this company collected on the Internet!

That's why he made such a risky move. After all, although he is famous now, no one wants to use him!

After all, Mitsuoka Matsuoka has never been a low-cost animation director. He is famous for being a big hand in animation production. Although there are many examples of failed works in the later stages of his career, no media will ever criticize his works for painting, rhythm, etc. The reason why his works hit the street is very simple, that is, the plots of the works are obscure and difficult to understand, and the thinking is too advanced. For people of his age, the plots of these works are very good!

But he ignored a problem back then. The investors behind him wanted to make money, and he went to make literary animation films. Who among the teenagers who are the main force in animation is in the mood to watch the director's self-proclaimed works?

In recent years, many anime lovers have re-watched his works, and have commented that those hit the streets in those years actually had profound connotations, but people at the time couldn't understand them!

Just like the Legend of Shushan and Journey to the West movies in the parallel world, they were afraid that the box office would be dismal when they were released. Zhou Xingc lost money because of Journey to the West, and the company went bankrupt. use?

Song Gangchong has now become a famous director that no one dares to use because investing in him is not cheap! He doesn't make low-budget movies! What if it flutters again?

Investors whose money is not blown by the wind are also very cautious!

But Chu Yu is obviously not in this list. He has never been afraid of taking risks. Songgang puts his personal strength there, and Chu Yu is basically satisfied. He already has the script and so on. As long as he is not given the right to change the script, He can't make up for his Wenqing disease.

"I generally understand what you think, but this kind of thing is too sudden for me!" Chu Yu pretended to be embarrassed.

Originally, I was going to look for him, but he ran to the door on my own initiative, how could I let him go!

But now... the situation is a bit different!

If you find the other party by yourself, it is your own side to beg him, and when he comes to the door, the situation is reversed. In short, it is a matter of negotiating cooperation conditions.

Song Gangchong's past works, Chu Yu, have already looked through them today. Regardless of the plot, just judging from the effect of the production screen, the vocal music, and the rendering of the atmosphere, it is worthy of being a master-level existence, so Chu Yu is not a master now. The paranoid entanglement immediately started the negotiation mode.

While arguing with Song Gangchong that he already had a very good director candidate, he quickly chatted with the software to arrange for Huang Ming to come back quickly. Negotiation is not Chu Yu's strong point. What is the market price of such a person and what conditions should be discussed with him? , Huang Ming understood far better than Chu Yu.

So for the next hour, Chu Yu and Song Gangchong practiced Tai Chi throughout the whole process, and did not make a clear statement on key issues. The attitude of being interested in post filling business ability!

The old man opposite him was also very puzzled and felt that the atmosphere was weird, but this situation was much better than the situation he expected when Chu Yu directly asked the security guard to cross him out!

He clearly smelled the breath of opportunity

He has no interest in long-form animations like Slam Dunk, but considering the 400 million investment cost, it's not like he can't lower his stature to be in charge of this kind of work!

But just like a movie director going to shoot a TV series, it’s okay to feel awkward, but he also knows that there is no room for negotiation in his current situation, as long as the other party is willing to direct the 450 million Spirited Away animation movie for him If everything is ok after reading the script, he can lower his face, and even the salary can be reduced to a very low level!

The problem is how to convince the young man on the other side.

When both parties were thinking about how to continue the follow-up conversation, at this moment, after getting out of the car and trotting all the way, the panting Huang Ming finally arrived

When Songgang Chongzhen came to the company to talk with Chu Yu, his expression was dazed!

In general, Chu Yu has already sent a message to tell him!

The next thing Chu Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead!

"Hello, Senior Songgang, this is the person in our company who is responsible for the production of this piece, and he is also my partner. If you have any questions or demands in the future, just talk to him!" Chu Yu said quickly, and quickly And left the reception room.

In the room, Huang Ming and Song Gang stared wide-eyed.

Substitution?

Matsuoka was in a state of collapse, was it a waste of time to talk for more than an hour before co-authoring?

After returning to his office, Chu Yu rested for a while and continued to work!

For a work like Spirited Away, a good director is essential, but when it comes to the cost of the director, Chu Yu doesn't care too much. Saving money on this often ends up being counterproductive!

From three o'clock until six o'clock in the afternoon, Huang Ming and Song Gangchong chatted dryly, but they could talk for so long. This can also explain a lot of problems!

"Director Huang is really young and promising, a man of talent!" Song Gang walked out of the reception room with a smile.

"Where, Senior Matsuoka is old and strong. I have always been your fan. I think it is a huge loss to the world's animation industry that people like you disappear like this."

"Where, where!"

"you are welcome."

After rejecting Huang Ming's dinner invitation, Chu Yu and Huang Ming met.

"What's the matter? We talked all afternoon, how is the situation?" Chu Yu asked curiously.

"It's nothing, I just told him about our company's situation, the script can't be changed, and in many cases Zhao Qinyin may make a request for the style of the work, if Song Gangchong has obviously better suggestions, we will adopt them, but other than that Besides, all the production is based on us," Huang Ming said calmly.

"Although he is very conflicted, it doesn't seem that he can't accept it. After all, he also knows that if he misses our village, he won't have another store. He has waited twelve years for this opportunity. I guess he has no patience to wait any longer. !"

"He said he would go back and think about it, but I think there should be news in the next two days!"

"On the premise that he agrees to join our company, what I want to talk about is the fee for inviting him. Although he can be forced to a very low price when he is weak now, if he is expected to If you continue to cooperate with us, there is no need to save too much!" Huang Ming said!

"Animation directors of Nihonjima's level generally cost more than 10 million yuan to direct a work. Of course, those people rarely encounter animation films with an investment of 450 million yuan, so I also decided to follow this Of course, you can give him the standard salary, and you can also give him a guaranteed salary and part of the box office dividend, but the specifics depend on what you think?" Huang Ming said in one breath!

"Ten million? That's not a problem!"

Chu Yu doesn't think much of this money at all now. After all, judging from his income this year, because Shui Xin's large-scale works poured into the Japanese islands, and Zhao Qinyin's trumpet blossomed in two places, a bunch of proceeds piled up into the account Well, the number of 10 million seems huge, but in fact...it's less than his average two-day income!

Chu Yu is not interested in spending too much time on it. Even Chu Yu thinks the price is too low. For live-action movies, many well-known directors account for about one-tenth of the total investment, and international directors can even take up Twenty to thirty percent of the total investment, and box office dividends!

After all, an animation director is a small category in the film industry, and the salary is not so high, but in fact, if the other party is good enough, not to mention that he can make a breakthrough in Hayao Miyazaki's original version of Spirited Away, making the quality of the work even higher!

As long as he can present this work in this world as similar to the original version, or lower the requirements a little bit, and have more than 90% of the artistic level of the original version, Chu Yu feels that if the director's fee is increased a little, 20 to 30 million There is no problem paying the other party!

However, the sharing problem mentioned by Huang Ming made Chu Yu vigilant. There must be such a system to prevent the director from taking advantage of the production of the work. Will come up with 120% strength!

Although Chu Yu doesn't think that the other party is in the current situation, he will waste this possibly the last chance in his life, but it's always good to be careful!

Chu Yu pondered for a moment.

"You haven't talked to him about the director's fee yet!" Chu Yu asked.

"No, I'm just planning this way. This kind of thing will only be discussed in detail if he really intends to join our company!" Huang Ming said.

"Then how about this, if he can really accept our request after he goes back and thinks it through, the fixed salary, the salary level of 10 million can be floated upwards, and you have the authority within the total salary of 15 million, you can do it yourself Decided, anyway, talk to him yourself, it is best to be low, but money is definitely not important to anyone!"

Although Chu Yu doesn't mind spending more money to hire talents, he still has to follow the market price. A director of Song Gangchong's current market price is only about 10 million yuan per work, and it may even be lower. After all, animation films have always had a high rate of return generally! This situation naturally leads to the average salary level of employees!

Chu Yu's upper limit salary is already beyond the market price. Of course, in practice, he can't find another person at the Songgang level with this price. After all, the liquidated damages for these people's contracts with the original company may The price is the same as this price, so looking for Songgang Chong is currently the most economical and the fastest choice to form a production team! Otherwise, even if Chu Yu is willing to spend money to poach people, who knows how long it will take until the contract disputes between those people and the original company are resolved?

"If he is interested in the dividend model, then five million plus 3% of the income of the work, no, 2%!"

"Two models, the first one, after the negotiation, the upper limit will not exceed a fixed salary of 15 million! The second, a fixed salary of 5 million plus 2% of Spirited Away's box office revenue, you let He chooses himself!" Chu Yu said after thinking about it.

Hearing this, Huang Ming lowered his head and made a rough calculation.

If Matsuoka finally chooses to join gt animation company and choose the second income method, then the total box office of Spirited Away must be as high as 2.8 billion, and it will only be 15 million after deducting the cost. Income of more than ten thousand!

Of course, 15 million fixed income is the upper limit given by Chu Yu. If Huang Ming can negotiate Songgang at a price of 10 million, there will be a difference of 5 million in income between the two ways of income. , Spirited Away only needs 2.1 billion at the box office to make Songgang Chong's total revenue reach more than 10 million!

My brother lowered the dividend from 3% to 2%. Huang Ming has already felt Chu Yu's confidence in Spirited Away! If he didn't really think that Spirited Away's box office would exceed two or three billion in the end, he would never be entangled in this issue!

But this is outrageous!

The highest box office of Longguo live-action movie is only 7.7 billion, and the highest box office record of animated film is only 2.8 billion

In the world of live-action movies, the world film box office record is a work of the United States, which translates to 8.6 billion Helong national currency, and the box office record of animated movies is also the United States, with Helong national currency 3.6 billion! After all, the United States in this world is not a superpower, but one of the top four. Its national power and influence are not as good as those in the parallel world, so the influence of these entertainment products will naturally decline!

At least the people of Longguo and the people of Southeast Asia are not interested in the movies and animations in the Omi region. Without these countries with large ticket warehouses contributing too much box office, this is a matter of course!

Brother's attitude is directly aimed at Spirited Away breaking the box office record of the Dragon Kingdom animation movie? Do you even think you can go up to the world record?

Is it confidence or something else?

Huang Ming didn't bother to think about it. It wasn't that he didn't have confidence in Chu Yu. The main reason was that Chu Yu's thinking was too out-of-the-ordinary. It was unacceptable to have such an idea in the first animation film he made! Anyway, he thinks he is Matsuoka Chong, and he will choose to ask for a fixed salary of 10 million without hesitation!

At least Huang Ming thinks that Tianxing has a lower limit for the box office of Bookland, with an investment of 400 million, it may be around 600 million or 700 million. In this way, the box office revenue plus the sales of peripheral products, and the subsequent online broadcast revenue should be no problem to pay back! As for the upper limit, Huang Ming thinks that the people on Tianxing may only dare to think about 1.5 billion, so that the work can make a lot of money!

In the animation industry, apart from Chu Yu who is a pervert, how can there be such a high rate of return? The purpose of Tianxing's actions is to enhance the company's reputation and expand the Japanese island market. As for making money, it is still under consideration!

The conversation between Chu Yu and Huang Ming ended here

In the next few days, Huang Ming and Song Gangchong met many times!

Restaurants, bathhouses, and custom venues. Of course, the two of them just meet up for drinking and entertainment, which is very formal! After all, although the two are flirtatious, they are not slutty!

However, these two people still have similar tastes. Although Song Gangchong is twenty years older than Huang Ming, the two became brothers within a few days.

As for the matter of cooperation, it is easy to negotiate at the wine table. After all, a man is affectionate and a concubine is interested. The superficial hesitation is just to strive for greater benefits, and it is just a means of negotiation! Just tell the aunt in the vegetable market that cabbage is not sold for less than two yuan. If you really say that you are leaving, she will probably ask you to come back to discuss it!

Matsuoka knew his own situation, and he was willing to join GT Animation Company even if the minimum plan in his heart was a fixed salary of 5 million. He mainly wanted a chance, and investors like Nihonjima who looked down on him proved that he would lose what he lost with his own hands. Take it back, just six or seven failures can't defeat him! Instead of coming here to find Chu Yu to make money, so as long as the salary is not insulting, he won't think too much about it!

But who knew that Huang Ming gave two options of a fixed salary of 10 million and 5 million plus a 2% dividend

For a moment it really brought tears to his eyes!

He was extremely grateful to the young man whom he only met once. From the fixed salary of 10 million yuan, he could feel the young man's fancy to him.

As for the dividend of 5 million plus 2% of income, he did some calculations. If he wants to earn more than 10 million yuan, the conditions are too harsh. He thinks that the other party believes in his ability and can produce more than 2.1 billion at the box office. The work is published. Do you want to accept the other party's trust in you?

Matsuoka Mitsuru fell into confusion

But in the end. He still chose the first model, a fixed salary of 10 million.

After all, although he mainly wants to get this opportunity, he has nothing against money!

The other party has confidence in him, but he himself is really guilty. After all, apart from the hit of the top film Red Paradise, the box office results of subsequent works are really dismal.

However, when I finally signed the contract, I felt a faint feeling that I had lost money.

However, under Chu Yu's generous handwriting, Song Gangchong also had other ideas, and introduced many senior talents in the industry to meet with Huang Ming as a reference for the members of the production team. This surprised Huang Ming.

After all, in addition to lacking big men like Songgang Chong, the company also lacks mid-to-high-end talents at the next level

Compared with Huang Ming, who has only been in the Japanese island for less than two years, Song Gangchong's personal connections are much bigger!

Although many companies are unwilling to invest in him, Songgang Chong's disciples and grandchildren are everywhere!

The colleagues and subordinates of those years have also grown into a new batch of big bosses in the Japanese animation industry!

It is easy for him to find talents that GT Animation Company lacks, and they happen to have the idea of ​​changing jobs.

This helped a lot!

This is something Chu Yu and Huang Ming didn't expect. If nothing else, just go here. Chu Yu feels that his 10 million salary is worth it. After all, the other party is mainly responsible for the production of Spirited Away, and secondarily responsible for the production of Slam Dunk. Also help poach people!

There is indeed something!

So in the next week, gt animation company started a vigorous poaching battle in the Tokyo animation industry