Chapter 160 Counting Money

Du Xiao looked around furtively, and happened to meet Yan Ran's eyes on the sofa.

Yan Ran looked at her in confusion: "I heard you open the door, why are you so slow to come in?"

Seeing that the two were dressed properly and Xu Rui was lying on Yan Ran's legs receiving a head massage, Du Xiao felt that all her imaginations were in vain: "I'm just afraid of seeing something I shouldn't see!"

After saying that, she glanced at Xu Rui: "You are quite good at enjoying yourself!"

"Yeah, I think so too." Xu Rui agreed naturally, but Du Xiao came back, so he couldn't continue lying down, so he got up and discussed the script with Yan Ran.

Seeing Xu Rui get up, Yan Ran smiled and said: "How is my hand job, comfortable? Satisfied?"

Puff!

Du Xiao, who had just changed her clothes and was drinking water in the kitchen, turned into a spray bottle!

Yan Ran glanced at the kitchen: "She's crazy, don't pay attention to her, tell me about the script, do you have any good suggestions?"

Xu Rui leaned over and whispered: "Did you do it on purpose?"

"What did I do on purpose? No!" Yan Ran denied it flatly. Seeing Xu Rui staring at her, she muttered for a long time, "Well, there is one thing. Who told her to sneak in just now? I can tell she didn't mean anything good!"

Best friends pit each other?

Xu Rui thought about it and didn't dwell on it. He went back to the script: "It's difficult for one person to make a laugh alone. I think it's easy for two protagonists to play against each other. In addition to the wonderful performance of the protagonist, the performance of the supporting roles is also an important reason for many classic comedies. I think this principle is similar to crosstalk. Although there are stand-up crosstalk and group crosstalk, everyone's favorite is the crosstalk between two people, one supporting the joke and the other making the joke. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Yes!" Yan Ran clapped her hands, "It is indeed easier to make a laugh when writing two people playing against each other. For example, a quiet person and a noisy person will inevitably have personality conflicts, or a rich man and a Poor people, these are all common settings in comedies, I have an idea. "

"Yes." Xu Rui continued to guide her: "The plot can be that the two people have twists and turns along the way, take a plane, the plane is delayed, change to a train, and then there is a problem, and then take a bus, a ferry or even a tractor, etc. The two people have different personalities or identities, and when facing things, they will have different ways of dealing with them, and they will collide with each other to create laughs. "

"Now that you put it, I have an idea, for example..."

Yan Ran sat on the sofa and talked about her ideas, her spirits were high. Du Xiao knew that she couldn't stop talking about the play, so she slipped away quickly. She used to listen to it, but now someone finally replaced her.

Du Xiao had just come back from the gym, and she was a little tired after the exercise. She went back to her room and lay on the bed to sleep. When she woke up, she found that it was dark outside.

"I said, let's have dinner tonight..." Du Xiao fiddled with her hair, pushed open the door and wanted to ask about dinner, but found that the two were still on the sofa, "You haven't finished discussing yet?"

Yan Ran took a calculator: "Ah, we are calculating how much budget is needed to make such a movie."

The cost budget of "The Truman Show" is too high. Although they are open to other people's investment, the two do not know reliable investors at present. Cooperation without trust is easy to go wrong, so if there are other options, Yan Ran will not refuse.

The platform share of "The Night the Comet Came" is settled quarterly. It is not known how much money it is at present, but Xu Rui has not worked for nothing in the past few months. He earns hundreds of thousands every month.

In addition to the high quality of the work and the popularity of the work, he can earn so much because he signed a good contract. If he signed an ordinary newcomer contract, he might only have 18,000 yuan left out of the million sales.

He and Lu Ziliang have learned that the income of the limited male group artists under Shenghua Entertainment who went to the Seal platform for the audition is 30% and 70% with the Seal platform, Shenghua Entertainment gets the 30%, and then 70% with the male group artists.

That is to say, the notice fee for this limited boy group is one million, and the money that this boy group can get is about 90,000. There are nine people in the group, and each person can only get 10,000, and this is before taxes and fees are calculated. If value-added tax and so on are calculated, it may be only 5,000!

This is also the reason why Xu Rui is determined not to be a donkey in the production team. Just thinking about it makes me shudder.

At present, his income is just in the initial stage. After "Original New Generation", the copyright income of several of his songs is constantly increasing. If he arranges concerts, endorsements, commercial performances and variety shows after the release of the first album in the future, that will be the time for him to make money.

"How much did you calculate?" Du Xiao came over and asked.

"About four or five million." Yan Ran said with a calculator.

"That's not bad." Du Xiao also calculated, "If the effective playback share of "The Night the Comet Comes" on each platform is 0.5 yuan, it will be about 10 million playbacks... No, we have to pay value-added tax and income tax, so it will be about 20 million effective playbacks?"

"How much is it now? I haven't paid attention to it for a few days." Yan Ran asked.

"The total number of views on the three platforms is more than 8 million. Now that the popularity has passed, the daily increase in views is negligible. That means our movie earned more than 2 million in the first quarter after tax deduction?" Du Xiao was a little discouraged after the calculation, "It's too little."

Yan Ran was open-minded: "Not bad, the cost was 700,000, and the revenue was more than 2 million, which is very successful."

Xu Rui said on the side: "Why are you all entangled in the issue of money? Actors and scripts are the key. As for money, hehe..."

Xu Rui said, with his head held high. Yan Ran punched him with a smile. Du Xiao took out her phone and said, "I see. I'll place the order right now. Dinner tonight is yours."

Xu Rui said straightforwardly, "No problem!"

Yan Ran has always been a man of action. After making a plan, she spent the next few days polishing the script and writing a project plan.

She tends to continue to work with Yu Yisheng as a crew team. Having an experienced production director to help coordinate crew affairs will make her feel a lot more relaxed.

Because her idea was inspired by the "Confused Detective" mentioned by Xu Rui, Wen Zhaodong was the first choice.

Wen Zhaodong was very handsome back then, and now he looks a little vicissitudes, but his foundation is still there. He is suitable for the role of "boss". As for the simple "worker" image, he needs to be selected again. Although Xu Rui boasts that he is not short of money, they still can't afford to hire a star!

…

It’s almost the New Year. Wen Zhaodong has finished filming the scenes in “Dang Jiuzhou” and has been actively looking for his next job recently. However, after working so hard for so long, not to mention the male lead, even the second and third male roles don’t want him.

When they are prosperous, everyone is a brother. When they are down and out, it’s okay to shirk or perfunctorily do things. Some people simply pretend not to know them. For people like Peng Hai who are willing to give him a role, that’s already quite generous.

He was also a popular person back then. Fortunately, after so many years, he has adapted to this gap.