Chapter 777 Your Face Is Bigger than the Sky!

Literary and artistic films will be very happy to find a big Tsing Yi like Ming Xiaojing to play the leading role, but the investment in literary and artistic films is small, and the salary they can give is also small, and commercial films will be very happy to find her to support the acting skills of the whole film and boost the overall performance. No one dared to ask her to play the leading role in this movie, but no one dared to ask her to play the leading role—her acting skills, her fame, her commercial value, and her box office appeal were not enough to support a large-scale commercial movie!

For example, the simplest, but also the most realistic, happening right in front of your eyes: Even Qin Wei is going to make a big-budget commercial film, and he would rather find a popular little star like He Yingyu as the heroine than her!

For literary and artistic films, an actor who can produce a good show is a good actor. If he can produce a good show and is relatively cheap, then he will be a suitable actor.

But for commercial films, the actors who can win the box office, and the actors who can trick the audience into the cinema to listen to the director tell the story, are really good actors! Even if it's expensive to die for!

Therefore, He Yingyu just made a movie when she was a fledgling, and it has only been popular for less than a year, but she took on Qin Wei's "The Gate of Life and Death", and the film salary was already 4.2 million. After Zheng Yuan's "B Plan", the film salary It's 4.5 million! Among the current domestic actresses, the absolute highest salary.

And if it wasn't for a celebrity like Qin Wei or Zheng Yuan, if you wanted to find her to make a movie, the starting price would be 5 million, or even 6 million.

This quotation is at least the top three among domestic actresses.

Even if the male actors are included, she is expected to be in the top five, at least in the top ten!

At present, there are only three or five people in China who can actually get a drama worth six million yuan, Guo Yulong and Zheng Yuan. Zheng Yuan quoted an offer of 8 million yuan for an outside film, but like Guo Yulong, he only made films in which he participated in the investment, and it was difficult for outsiders to invite them. As for their film investment split, that's another matter. It's not a system with film remuneration, so they can't be counted together.

But looking at actresses on the other hand, He Yingyu was able to quote 5 million yuan and get more than 4 million yuan. Although Bai Yujing is also popular, her masterpieces are all TV dramas. She has never proved herself in the movie box office, so, Her film remuneration was quoted at around 2.5 million to 3 million yuan, but in fact she only got 1.5 million yuan for starring in Yuan Dacheng's low-budget film "Scar".

Ming Xiaojing is similar to her, both are very popular, but she has not proven herself at the box office, so she seems to be a little bit more aggressive, and the external offer is 4 million, but most of the people who invite her are small productions. Movies, under normal circumstances, can reach 2 million yuan, so she nodded - she just said that she likes the script and voluntarily lowered the price!

Not long ago, she played the female supporting role in Qin Wei's "The Gate of Life and Death", and her salary was only one million!

Of course, as someone who has experienced it, Li Qian knows very well in his heart: such a situation where the salary of the entire industry remains in the normal range and somewhat low, can't last long!

With the continuous development of the economy, the gradual prosperity of the literary and art industry, the gradual increase of large-scale productions and large investments, it is imperative to increase the price of movie tickets. Next, the domestic movie box office market is bound to usher in a new round of explosive growth-and this A single increase may scare many people!

By that time, the salaries of popular and box-office superstars like Guo Yulong and Zheng Yuan will soar all the way. It is estimated that it will not be a few years, let alone the 10 million mark, as long as they can continue to be popular. Well, 20 million is also very possible-now several top stars in Hollywood have already reported their remuneration to 10 million US dollars, and it may even reach 15 million US dollars for a movie in the future!

And in the history that happened in another time and space, some popular young actors in China dared to directly offer 150 million for a drama that was just a TV series!

Even if there is a strange exchange rate between two time and space, it is equivalent to more than 20 million US dollars!

The U.S. dollars in these two time and space are both hard currency U.S. dollars, there is no difference!

Of course, at least at the moment, especially after the film market fell off a cliff at the end of the last century, the remuneration of film actors has not increased for several years, and Ming Xiaojing is only worth this price!

So, she debuted for more than ten years and made a total of more than a dozen films. In the past few years, she has never been popular, and the salary is pitifully low. After all these years, how much money can she earn in total?

Kang Xiaolou... Don’t look at his own film and television company, but at most it’s one or two million. Follow other production companies to invest a little and get some dividends, and most of them are investments in TV dramas. Simply talking about the salary, He is a drama actor and TV actor, and he is not that high. When he played Zhou Yu in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", because it was a big drama on China TV, the price was kept low. After the settlement, he was less than 20,000 yuan per episode!

His price was not too low when he filmed "Princess Returning the Pearl" the year before last, 35,000 episodes!

And the same filming of "Princess Returning the Pearl", although it is a film of her own company, but Bai Yujing's salary is 100,000 yuan per episode - her salary alone is more than the salary of three Xiaohuadan plus three Xiaosheng together All high!

As far as internal affairs are concerned, her current quotation to external parties is starting at 150,000 yuan per episode!

The highest quotation for a single episode of a TV series in China is currently unavailable!

So, in fact, for Bai Yujing, making TV dramas is much faster than making movies!

A 40-episode TV series, with the heroine playing the leading role, will usually have 32-35 to 35-6 episodes in the final cut. Four to five million!

And filming a 40-episode TV series does not take much more time than a 120-minute movie, and the investment in energy is even slightly less!

Of course, the corresponding problem is - you are too expensive, and you are willing to hire your crew, not many!

Of course, "Princess Returning the Pearl" is popular now!

Even Kang Xiaolou had been half popular before, but now he has become popular after all! Then his salary for the second part must be going up!

Kang Xiaolou's role as the emperor was an important supporting role, and he was quite outstanding, so "Princess Returning the Pearl" became popular, and Kang Xiaolou's quotation for external TV series soared to 81,000 episodes! It is estimated that even if Minghu Culture wants to talk to him about the second part of "Princess Returning the Pearl", it will still have to give 61,000 episodes!

Moreover, with the popularity of "Princess Returning the Pearl", this veteran handsome guy has finally started to accept commercials and also has commercial performances-but even so, how much money can he have after all these years?

It is certain that the couple can add up to tens of millions of assets, but it is at the top!

For ordinary people, they are multi-millionaires, which is awesome, but for the film industry, especially when it comes to investment in movies and TV shows, they can't even start.

At this time, because of the sudden change of the script, they had to watch five million in vain all at once, and it would be nonsense to say that they didn't feel distressed!

But Ming Xiaojing insisted on this.

She looked at Li Qian firmly.

Li Qian rubbed his brows, thought for a while, and finally said helplessly: "Okay! I will call you sister, your face is bigger than the sky! I will accept your play. But... don't get excited, pay attention, I said but! But I don't have time between now and next year's World Cup, you have to wait!"

Ming Xiaojing nodded, "No problem, I'll wait for you!"

Li Qian said again: "The original investment of six million yuan will remain unchanged! I will let Sun Yuting accompany you to review the materials that have been shot before, and see what else can be used in the future. , you will bear all the losses caused to the crew by temporarily changing the script!"

Ming Xiaojing gritted his teeth, "Yes!"

Kang Xiaolou looked at the ceiling helplessly, wanting to cry but not crying.

Five million, even if it is sorted back and some of the available materials are kept, some of the main actors' remunerations do not need to be paid twice, but let alone the loss of three to four million!

The most important thing is that even if they have some assets in their hands, assets are assets, not cash!

Speaking of this, Li Qian hesitated for a long time, and finally sighed, "Forget it, forget it! You two don't have much money! Let's do this, temporarily set a loss of four million. According to this calculation, Minghu Culture will bear one The loss of one million will belong to you and Brother Lou's company. In addition, Minghu Culture will pay another two million to buy two million of the three million investment in your hands at the original price. In this way, even if Minghu Culture invests five million, The two of you invest one million! In addition, there is a gap of about one million that is missing, and you two are responsible for filling it, is that okay?"

Kang Xiaolou was overjoyed when he heard the words, and looked at Li Qian in disbelief.

Although in this way, the investment of my company is only one million, but it is the best way to use other people's money to make a movie. In the end, I just need to make what Ming Xiaojing wants to make!

To be honest, if it wasn't because this was Ming Xiaojing's first directorial work, it would be hard to say how to invest in foreign countries. To a large extent, they would have to ask for help. The couple are actually not willing to spend money to make a movie by themselves!

With regard to movies, don’t just see those who make money, you actually lose more!

What's more... This is the first time that Ming Xiaojing, a young literary girl, has directed a pure literary film!

Having been in the industry for so many years, Kang Xiaolou has long been familiar with it: if he invests 6 million yuan in a literary film, if he can't win an award, it will not be easy to get back his capital! But Ming Xiaojing was the director of her first film, who can guarantee that she will win any award? Speaking of which, when it is released in the future, it will be a big hurdle to pay back!

Although now that Li Qian joined the box office, the box office may be greatly improved, but because of this, it is more and more reasonable for Li Qian to ask for more investment shares.

You know, Guo Yulong and Zheng Yuan are worth 6 million for a movie, which is currently the top of the domestic film industry, but as long as Li Qian is willing to act, Hu Fei can give him 10 million on the spot, probably without batting an eyelid !

No way, his popularity is at least worth the price!

But now, he actually joined a play with a total investment of only 6 million!

This face is really bigger than the sky!

To put it bluntly, even if the film won nothing in the future, won't win awards, and lose money when released, and everyone's investment has been poured into it, at least Ming Xiaojing can successfully complete his first directorial work!

On the other hand, with Li Qian joining the cast, and this is the first starring role besides the "Red Sorghum" he directed and acted in, what are the chances that this film will lose money? It's only an investment of 6 million yuan. It is estimated that as long as the box office can get about 15 million yuan, the capital can be guaranteed, and if it goes up, it will be pure profit!

And if you can still win an award or something, publicity, publicity, the first directorial work of the top domestic actor Ming Xiaojing, the first starring role of the famous domestic director Li Qian, etc., all the tricks and slogans are thrown out. , Maybe it can get a box office of 20 to 30 million?

At that time, maybe he can earn back all the money that Ming Xiaojing tossed and squandered before! If the box office is higher, there may even be a profit!

This is tantamount to Li Qian taking his couple to check the box office and earn money!

You know, this is Ming Xiaojing's first directorial work!

If starting from the first work, making literary and artistic films can also achieve profitability smoothly, this word of mouth will rise, and in the future, if you need to attract investment for filming, it doesn't matter who you are looking for, it will be easy to talk to!

There's no way, when it comes to business, even if Ming Xiaojing is an actor, his acting skills are not as high as the box office! What's more, she changed her career to become a director, so her previous qualifications as an actor don't matter at all?

Only when the box office is up, and if you can make money, will you have the confidence and harden your back!

Of course, this is all for the future. At the moment, the most important thing is that in this way, the pressure on my own funds will be gone, and I won't have to sell my assets out of the market! The housing price has been rising steadily until now, and it is not worth selling it now, no matter how expensive it is!

At this time, Kang Xiaolou looked at Li Qian, and said involuntarily, "Qian'er, you are really..."

Li Qian waved his hands, sighed, and looked at Ming Xiaojing.

Ming Xiaojing was delighted, but then he started to worry again, and couldn't help but asked Li Qian timidly: "Then your salary...can you lower it? You can leave more money for my sister, When I spent money on filming, I was still a bit extravagant, the key is that I want to make something good..."

Seeing Ming Xiaojing talking to him in such a half-pleading and half-flattering way, Li Qian couldn't help but sigh, "Okay, sister, I don't charge money, zero pay, okay?"

Ming Xiaojing was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, then suddenly kicked the chair away, stood up, hugged Li Qian's head, kissed him hard on the forehead, and then held his face, his hands were shaking with excitement, emotionally Said: "Qian'er, you will be my real brother from now on!"