Chapter 289 Two Super Directors

The next day is the 23rd, which is Sunday.

Tang Shuxuan took Yin Jun, Huo Jianning and Tian Jiachun to play in downtown Los Angeles.

After parking the car, Tang Shuxuan took Tian Jiachun to the store to buy things, while Yin Jun and Huo Jianning went to see Huaguo City.

There are two Chinatowns in Los Angeles, one of which is relatively small in the urban area.

After looking at it for a while, most of them are businessmen from the eastern Guangdong area. Their words made Huo Jianing feel a little bit of hometown, but the things they sold made Huo Jianing feel a little deceitful.

At noon, the two of them were not picky and went into a tea restaurant casually.

The business of this tea restaurant is not very good. Even during the peak dining period, there are only a few guests at six or seven tables.

Yin Jun and Huo Jianning chose a window seat near the inside, and ordered sandwiches, wonton noodles, and two glasses of Coke.

"You just eat such a simple thing?" Huo Jianning asked in surprise.

In his opinion, Yin Jun is young and ambitious, so he should enjoy life very much, instead of eating simple food like himself.

It is not surprising that Yin Jun asked him this sentence.

Like Huo Jianning's high-profile, earnest and aggressive work, Huo Jianning's life is high-profile and full of luxury. He bought three sets of luxury houses worth hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars. In addition, he eats the best and uses the best. He is more luxurious than his boss and his little boss, even the little superman Li Xiaochao can't compare to him.

Therefore, what Huo Jianning said now fits his character very well.

Habits can be cultivated, but character cannot be changed.

Yin Jun didn't think there was anything wrong with Huo Jianning's doing this. It would be great if he could finish his work. Who would care about his private life?

With a smile, Yin Jun replied: "Otherwise, what do you think of me? I have earned more than 200 million yuan now, and I have only been in Xiangjiang for less than a year and a half. But I think there should be better ways to spend the money , not for momentary enjoyment... Just wait and see, the current 10 million or 100 million will become one billion or 10 billion in ten years."

"A person like you really didn't come from a monk?" Huo Jianning asked.

After getting along well, Huo Jianning was not so taciturn.

And he was not a man of few words.

Last night, he specially went to ask his little cousin Tang Shuxuan for advice. He couldn't believe Yin Jun's experience of becoming famous, and his low-key, self-modest, and self-disciplined life. Today he specially came to try Yin Jun's life outside Consumption attitude, but it really is not what Auntie Xiaobiao said, it is no different from a frugal poor person.

But because of this, Huo Jianning became more optimistic about Yin Jun's career.

Only such people will gain a firm foothold when they first start doing business.

The kind of person who spends money lavishly from the beginning must not work.

Although small money depends on saving, and big money depends on earning, but if you don’t have the accumulation of small money, how can you have the opportunity to make big money later?

Yin Jun shook his head when he heard the words, "The life of a monk is not suitable for me. I want to do a lot of things, and I worry about not having enough time to do one by one, so I work harder and hurry up on weekdays. It can be used well. efficiency."

Huo Jianning nodded slightly. Although Yin Jun's personality is very calm, he is not conservative in his work. In more than a year, he produced more than a dozen TV dramas at one go. The worst ratings were top-notch, and the best ones were even broken. It has broken all the ratings records of TV dramas in Asia, which is not something ordinary people can do.

Although a genius is easy to fall, a genius like Yin Jun definitely has all the elements for success.

Huo Jianning heard a sentence.

If you are not a natural winner, then please side with the natural winner, and you will follow suit.

If I go to Yin Jun to work by myself, will I get the success I want?

During the meal, Huo Jianning kept thinking about this question.

Originally, his plan was to go back to Xiangjiang to find a job in a British-funded consortium, no matter how bad it was, they would be the best ones in the Chinese-funded consortium. He never thought of working in Yin Jun's small comic company—don't look at Huo Jianning's reputation now. He is not obvious, but he knows that he has the ability to be respected and get the status and wealth he deserves.

But now, he has a slight hesitation.

Yin Jun is 10 years younger than him, but Huo Jianning feels that this man is a natural success, his wisdom and attitude towards people are definitely not inferior to a 40-year-old mature man.

Since Huo Jianning was constantly thinking, there was no second sound at the dinner table other than the sound of eating.

This also gave Yin Jun the opportunity to hear the fierce quarrel between the two Americans behind him.

"No, no, no, George, we can't do this, you are one of the writers, you know how good it is, we shouldn't give it up!"

"God, Stephen, don't I know this? But these damned vampires, the conditions they give are so harsh, you can see it! Pay such a little money, let me give up 50% of the interest, I absolutely can't do it! I'd rather it be a script locked in a cupboard!"

"Can't you think of a way? Paramount, we can try again. Their conditions are the most lenient, aren't they?"

"It's just not that harsh, but they want to monopolize the distribution rights of this series and pay them a high distribution fee, so what can we get?"

"But, if you don't do this, what do you get? At least the copyright is still in your hands, and you can still control how to make it. Isn't this the happiest thing? Think about it! Indiana Jones Mister appeared in front of everyone, just like a cowboy 007, our American 007, isn't this the best?"

"Hey! Unexpectedly, everyone is not optimistic about it. Could it be that my Indiana Jones has no chance for the audience?"

Hearing this, Yin Jun couldn't help but finished eating wonton noodles in two or threes, stood up directly, walked around behind him, and greeted two men in their thirties who were chatting: "Both, I'm sorry , can I say a few words to you?"

The two Americans who spoke were wearing hats, one was wearing glasses and looked elegant, the other had thick hair and beard, and was slightly fatter.

They thought they were making a lot of noise and disturbing others, so they quickly raised their hands and said, "I'm sorry, we will speak in a quieter voice."

"No, it's not this." Yin Jun shook his head and said, "Because you spoke a little louder just now, I heard what you said...Although it's a bit presumptuous, please, you are Lucas, the director of "Star Wars" Sir, are you Mr. Spielberg, the director of Jaws?"

Both of them were wearing baseball caps, they just didn't want people to recognize them, but at this moment they could only nod their heads in acknowledgment.

"Yes, I'm Lucas."

"I said Spielberg."

The two nodded one after another.

"Then, if you are talking about a new movie, can you let me know the content and preparation status of this movie." Yin Jun stood there and said, "My name is Yin Jun, and I am from Xiangjiang. I have a sum of money in my hand, and I want to invest in the American film industry. I just heard the two talk today. With the outstanding abilities of Mr. Lucas and Mr. Spielberg, I think , maybe we can work together.”

"You?" Lucas was a little confused, he looked at Yin Jun, "Do you know how to invest in movies?"

Spielberg also wanted to laugh, this kid doesn't think that a few million can invest in a movie... Oh, I don't know what the currency value in Xiangjiang is, if he hears the amount George wants, he will Won't you jump up in fright?

They were talking here, and Huo Jianning, who was next to him, also reacted. He didn't follow, but just pricked up his ears, wanting to hear how Yin Jun and the two big directors discussed business.

From Huo Jianning's point of view, Yin Jun is messing around, how could he go to discuss film investment with two big directors after meeting by chance?

You don't even know what the script is like, how much it costs, what other requirements they have... It's like those stupid nouveau riche who send money to spoil the movie director.

It's a good thing that you want to invest, but you can't lower your shrewd mind to calculate as soon as you see a big director!

All of a sudden, his perception of Yin Jun dropped a notch.

Among the four people, only Yin Jun didn't smile.

Of course, this was the surface, and he had already started laughing in his heart.

The protagonist Indiana Jones, two years later, is there any movie fan who doesn't know this name?

And the name of this movie is even more impressive.

it's called

Raiders of the Lost Ark.

This eternal adventure movie classic, even if you watch it 40 years later, it is not so outdated, it is still so funny and thrilling, and even many movies after the bridge have been used.

What Yin Jun valued about it was its incomparable ability to make money.

The total cost of filming and publicity is 22 million US dollars, but the global box office is as high as 384 million US dollars, and the input-output ratio has exceeded 15 times!

How many movies out of the world can make more money than this one?

The key is that Yin Jun still met it.

at the most appropriate time.

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" is a very good movie. Its script was formed in 1973, so when Yin Jun wrote his own script, he didn't think about it at all.

But Yin Jun also knows that when "Raiders of the Lost Ark" came out, no one was optimistic about this 007-style movie with a western cowboy style, and even Spielberg didn't like it very much.

In order for his friend to take over the film, Lucas had to change the script in many places according to Spielberg's intention, and changed Indiana Jones' 007's suave and suave character into an adventurous one. The scholarly demeanor-how does this look like Spielberg's own character.

Therefore, after one or two years of hard negotiations, in September 1979, in the face of Lucas and Spielberg, Paramount gave them 18 million US dollars for production funds, and then spent a lot of money on publicity. 4 million US dollars, a total of 22 million costs.

Now Lucas is in the darkness before the light, and in more than two months, he will be able to usher in investment.

I want to explain here that it is not that Lucas and Spielberg have no money. On the contrary, the two of them have long been billionaires. There is no pressure at all to invest in a movie of about 20 million.

After all, the production and publicity cost of Lucas' "Star Wars" did not exceed 20 million U.S. dollars, but in exchange for a super box office of 780 million U.S. dollars worldwide, he received more than 50 million U.S. dollars in dividends.

In order for him to continue filming the sequels of "Star Wars", 20th Century Fox not only gave him an unlimited budget, but also directly gave him a director's remuneration of 20 million US dollars, plus a 5% box office dividend. ——This is a box office dividend, and the box office is counted as much as the sale price, which is completely different from those falsified profit dividends!

The same is true for Spielberg. The production cost of "Jaws" was 9 million US dollars, in exchange for a super high box office of 470 million US dollars, which also brought him more than 20 million dividends.

But every film industry, um, it can be clearly said that the director industry has an unwritten rule.

Never invest in a film you direct, no matter how good it looks.

This is the experience summed up by countless directors with bloody facts over the past few decades.

Lucas and Spielberg are believers in this saying.

Therefore, even if they are rich, they will not invest in the films they produce-of course, Lucas himself is the owner of the film company, which is a bit of an exception, but the only exception to him is the "Star Wars" movie, The rest, even if it was a magic movie like "Raiders of the Lost Ark", it wouldn't move his heart.

Speaking of which, Lucas is definitely Yin Jun's idol.

He is a movie series that ate his whole life.

"Star Wars" first made a trilogy, then a prequel trilogy, and then there are follow-ups, and there are also episodes... After such a set, Lucas made a lot of money, and finally paid 4 billion U.S. dollars to make Lucas The studio was sold to Disney.

Such a series of movies, plus peripherals, etc., have made him tens of billions of dollars. There is really no small film company owner and director who can make more money than him, even his old friend Spielberg Nor did Greg, and that crazy truck driver.

For Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lucas planned to produce it with his own company, but he wanted to find a big film company to pay for the production costs, and then everyone would share the box office profits proportionally.

In this way, although Lucasfilm will share less, it is very safe.

But other film companies are not fools, you let us bear all the risks, how can I not take more?

So they not only want more dividends, but also want to have more rights and interests of the film itself, including copyright, peripheral rights and so on.

But how could Lucas let them have so many benefits?

He and those film companies have been in such a stalemate, until now there is no result.

Yin Jun knew that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was a very good movie, and it made a lot of money, but he came to see the two big directors, and the more purpose was for them.

Needless to say, the first Spielberg, Yin Jun is about to publish "Jurassic Park", who else can direct better than him?

The second Lucas, Yin Jun is not interested in this fat man who has no pursuit, but Yin Jun is determined to win the small animation production studio that he sold in order to pay for his ex-wife's alimony.

because this animation studio

later name

called

Pixar.

Pixar Animation Studio, the overlord of the absolute peak of the animation industry, how could Yin Jun not take it into his hands?

Now that we have established a good relationship, when there is a chance in the future, we will not be taken advantage of by Qiao Gangzhu.

Lucas felt that Yin Jun was joking, so he asked shallow questions like "Do you know how to invest in movies?"

But Yin Jun said solemnly: "If the script is suitable, I am willing to invest no less than 10 million US dollars. For the rest, Lucasfilm should have enough money to invest? When the time comes, we will directly find a A company with the ability to distribute is fine. Do you think it’s better to face those greedy old foxes, or to be with me, an investor who doesn’t know much about movies?”

"10 million dollars?" Spielberg was taken aback, "Young man, where did you get so much money?"

Yin Jun doesn't look like he's over 20 years old anyway. It's easy for such a young man to think he's joking.

It's just that Spielberg doesn't think Yin Jun is joking now.

Lucas also looked at Yin Jun with questioning eyes.

"Give me a day." Yin Jun said leisurely, "When we meet again tomorrow, I will show you a certificate of funds... What do you think about the guarantee issued by Citibank?"

Lucas couldn't bear it anymore, and blurted out: "Are you still telling the truth!?"

"Every word I say is very serious." Yin Jun said, "The same sentence, if you give me a satisfactory script, I am willing to invest... Forgot to introduce myself, my name is Yin Jun, one of my professions is A screenwriter for a TV movie, you can go to Xiangjiang to find out what kind of person I am."

Lucas looked at his old friend.

Spielberg gave him a wink, which Lucas immediately understood.

The old friend said, aren't you just short of funds? If what this young man said is not false, why should such an investment be rejected?

As he said, private funds are much more convenient than those of film companies. All they ask for is the return of funds, and the benefits of copyright derivatives have nothing to do with them.

Such a pure investment, why not take advantage of it?

After understanding Spielberg's meaning, Lucas immediately made a decision, "At noon tomorrow, at this time, you can come with the proof of funds from Citibank, and we can have a good talk!"

"It's a deal."

Yin Jun smiled and nodded.

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(The two updates are 9500 words, not considered a burst, but I still work hard. Thank you for your rewards in the past two days!)