Chapter 150: My Own Swordsman

Chapter 150: My Own Swordsman

Chapter 150: My Own Swordsman

The movie is already released.

Apart from recording his second album and continuing to work on the script, Fan Wumian doesn't have much on hand.

During the daytime from Monday to Friday, I am mainly busy studying hard to prepare for the upcoming Hong Kong City College Entrance Examination.

He publicly signed Zhuang Muxi through Hong Kong's Bandit King Media.

If two people occasionally meet at school, there is no need to pretend that they are strangers. There is nothing wrong with just chatting and saying hello.

After signing Zhuang Muxi.

Ji Qiao claimed that she gave tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, but in fact it was just a deposit for the salary of "A Quiet Place 2", and she only paid 200 million Hong Kong dollars temporarily.

The two parties signed the contract based on a 2:8 split ratio.

In the future, when Zhuang Muxi makes money, she can take 80% from the company, and the remaining 20% ​​will be used to support her team, do publicity and promotion, pay part of the taxes, etc. There is really no intention of exploiting her.

On the contrary, it was Zhuang Muxi who squeezed a lot out of Fan Wumian.

That's all I can say about this.

Mr. Cai Lan, whom I met some time ago, was absolutely right.

When you meet a girl from Taiwan with such a stunning appearance and figure, it's really hard to resist and it's easy to act impulsively.

Even though there was a risk of capsizing the boat and being caught alive by Miss Zuo, Fan Wumian still went against the wind and invited Zhuang Muxi to meet him at the apartment on the weekend.

Both of them were sneaky and their hearts were beating fast the whole time.

Fortunately, no accidents happened in the end.

Afterwards, I received a text message from Zhuang Muxi, which said, "It was so dangerous, I can't come here again."

This made Fan Wumian start to consider arranging a private and safe place specifically for trysts.

Unfortunately, the prices of large houses with good privacy in Hong Kong are ridiculously expensive, often costing hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars. The taxes and fees are also relatively high, and the room for appreciation is far less than that of first-tier cities in the mainland.

Considering that there will be few opportunities to live in Hong Kong City in the next few years, Fan Wumian does not plan to buy a big house in Hong Kong City at a bargain price.

The villa in Shenzhen has just started to renovate the water and electricity lines, and it is still a long way to go before the decoration is completed.

Both of them are very famous, and it would be easy for them to be captured alive if they went to the hotel.

For a while and a half.

It was really difficult for Fan Wumian to find a safe place, so he could only act according to circumstances.
This year.

The cinema market in the north is not yet mature.

Some small cinemas accept cash and allow audiences to enter directly without any ticket checking.

There are also other ways to steal box office revenue. In order to make money, there are so many tricks that it is difficult to guard against.

In order to prevent box office loss, the mainland has just begun to promote a computer ticketing management system for cinemas. In total, only a few hundred cinemas have joined it, and the effect is not very good yet.

In addition, the cinema chains and distribution agency channels are not open and transparent enough, so Fan Wumian is not sure how much box office dividends he can get.

but.

The telecommunications operators have been transferring money over continuously, and there is currently a total of more than 5700 million yuan in the corporate account of the mainland Bandit King Media.

The number of mobile phone ringtone downloads exceeding tens of millions is no joke, it's almost like a money printing machine.

This only counts the revenue up to the end of January. His mobile phone ringtones are still on the best-selling list, and almost half of the top 1 songs are Fan Wumian's songs.

According to this trend.

Once the second album is released, maybe the sales of ringtones can be further increased, and there is hope of achieving two small goals of making money a year.

He became wealthy again.

July 3nd.

Fan Wumian considered the issue from the perspective of "capital" and was preparing to invest in some overseas projects through Shanzeiwang Media. When reading the news, he accidentally found an article related to "Wulin Waijia".

The reporter mentioned in the article.

It is said that the crew is currently filming an 80-episode small-scale ancient costume martial arts comedy. The highest pay for the main actors is only 2000 yuan per episode. The total investment is expected to be 1000 million yuan, and the filming will be completed at the end of May.

From between the lines, Fan Wumian could sense the flavor of "advertisement".

For example, when talking about the actors' pay, he also said that all the money was spent on content production. When talking about the location, he also said that in order to film, everyone in the crew lived frugally and tried their best to make this TV series well.

The total investment of 1000 million RMB is enough to cover the expenses of dozens of people for half a year, and the average production cost per episode is 12 RMB, which is indeed very cost-effective.

Considering that "Wulin Waijia" is about to be completed, it seems that the investors have begun to warm up in advance and make plans to find buyers.

More than ten years have passed.

When Fan Wumian saw the name "Wulin Wai Zhuan", it still echoed in his head——

"Hey, brother! We haven't seen you for a long time. Where are you?
Hey, friend! If it's really you, please say hello..."

I had a keen sense that this was an opportunity to pick up a bargain. I had the impression that after the show became popular, it also spawned peripheral games, theater movies, cartoons, comics, etc. Rather than saying that "Wulin Wai Zhuan" is a martial arts drama, it is better to say that it is a situation comedy dressed in ancient costume martial arts.

Apart from the controversial "Love Apartment", Fan Wumian's favorite is this one. For a long time, it has been his best TV series to watch while eating, and he has watched it over and over again two or three times.

The mainland market practices separation of production and broadcasting, whereby companies usually shoot and produce TV series before selling them to various TV stations for external broadcast.

Since the filming of "Wulin Waijia" will not be completed until the end of May, it means that it has probably not been sold to the public yet and the copyright is still in the hands of the investors.

I quickly searched for relevant information online and found that the company that invested in it, "Ally Pictures", was registered in 2002.

Like most of the current film and television investment companies in the mainland, its strength is mediocre. The boss initially opened an advertising company, and later made some money by running a chain of steak restaurants. Then, by chance, he entered the TV drama investment industry.

Nothing to think about.

Fan Wumian took out his cell phone and called Director Lu Hao, asking:
"Last time I heard you mention that you went to Yanjing to find someone to polish the script and prepare a filming team? Are you still there now?"

".I'm not being lazy, boss. Yesterday, I helped your agent and went to your newly purchased old house to have the construction team come in and demolish it."

Like other employees who were checked by their boss, Ma Yingjie's tone was a little nervous.

Fan Wumian smiled and said:
"The sooner you finish filming, the sooner the movie will be released. If you want to make more money, just work harder. I won't rush you."

"I'm calling you because I want to ask you to do me a favor. There's a company in Yanjing called Alliance Films that invested in a TV series called "Wulin Wai Zhuan". A friend told me that this show is very interesting."

"Think of a way yourself. Make friends with the boss of this company and see if you can get him to sell the copyright of this drama to me. The budget should be controlled within 1500 million RMB."

Although he didn't know which friend it was, Ma Yingjie didn't think much about it.

He only said to Fan Wumian:

"Wulin Wai Zhuan, right? OK! I'll ask my friend to find out about it later."

Fearing that Ma Yingjie lacked experience, Fan Wumian also specifically reminded him:
"Well, it's better not to be so deliberate. If the investors know that I want to buy this drama, they might ask for a high price."

Director Lu Hao replied:
"That makes sense. Now everyone knows that you are rich, boss. When we demolished the old courtyard house covering more than 3000 square meters yesterday, many reporters came to the scene to interview us. Some reporters asked if it was in compliance with the rules and whether it was a protected old building. The design company explained it to them and told them that the area nearby was included in the demolition and reconstruction scope of old houses, so there shouldn't be any problem."

Fan Wumian has been in contact with the design company recently.

During the visit, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that since it is not within the protection scope of the cultural relic protection unit, I can think of a way to increase the height to about six or seven meters, separate it into two floors, and add a basement.

In this way, the usable area can be much larger.

After the discussion, it seemed that the design was based on a new classical villa rather than a traditional courtyard house. Fan Wumian even wanted an antique little attic.

Yanjing.

I chatted with Fan Wumian for a while and introduced the progress of the "Crazy Stone" project.

Ma Yingjie was massaging his friend's feet. After hanging up the phone, he turned around and asked:

"Lao Wang, you have been hanging around in Yanjing since graduation. Have you ever heard of a TV drama project called "Wulin Wai Zhuan"?"

"I don't know which company invested in it. There are 500 to 600 TV series produced in various parts of the country each year, with a total of tens of thousands of episodes. Many of the series cannot be sold to TV stations and are simply thrown into warehouses. The directors and actors are all pitiful. Several of our classmates have fallen into this trap."

Old Wang’s name is Wang Lifang, and he is a classmate of Lu Hao.

After graduation, I didn't make a name for myself, so today I specially asked Lu Hao to massage my feet, hoping that Lu Hao, who has already got close to me, can help me fly.

Ma Yingjie was worried that the news would leak out in advance, so he made up a lie:

"A friend recommended it to me. He said I could go to that crew and pick out some good actors. If I don't know, forget it. There's no need to bother."

Wang Lifang was thinking about how to reminisce about the past and get closer to someone, so he took out his cell phone without saying a word, and while saying it was no trouble, he called people everywhere.

The whole circle is neither small nor big.

After making a few phone calls, a friend of Wang Lifang told him that his colleague was working as a lighting technician on the set of "Wulin Waijia".

With this relationship.

After massaging Wang Lifang's feet, Ma Yingjie took a taxi to the film and television base on the outskirts of Yanjing.

When the two found the crew, they were filming the 68th episode "Zhu Wushuang sincerely seeks his sweetheart, Simpson plans to marry a virtuous wife."

Director Lu Hao was instantly shocked when he saw a "modern man" in a tuxedo and a white shirt suddenly appear in the crew of a costume martial arts drama.

All I could think about was which bastard was cheating his boss by recommending such an unreliable TV series.

Ma Yingjie's fame wasn't that great, and no one recognized him at all.

After being led into the crew by a lighting technician colleague of Wang Lifang's friend, Lu Hao stood in the crowd and watched the leading actors filming. He found that their style was quite humorous and funny.

And I unexpectedly felt that the image and temperament of "Li Dazui" was very consistent with the stupid thief role in my own script, who didn't look very smart.

I need to report and discuss this with Fan Wumian again.

There was no rush to give a quote for the time being. Director Lu Hao was first busy finding out more about the company.

Upon learning that only about 800 million RMB had actually been invested so far, he felt that the price could be lowered further and that the budget of 1500 million RMB might be less than that.

"The profit margin of the TV drama industry is about 30%" was what Lu Hao told Fan Wumian.

If the film is completed, it will cost 800 million RMB. Even if the investor earns 40%, it will only cost 1120 million RMB.
(End of this chapter)