Lu Kaiming was very interested: "What gambling agreement?"
"My future directing contracts will be determined based on the return on this movie," Wei Lan replied.
After listening from the side, Wei Lan already knew the current predicament of the Wei family and the difficulties faced by Wei Mingjie.
Chen Yuanhang should have been the face of Wei's directors and originally belonged to Wei Mingjie's faction. Unexpectedly, the other party stabbed him in the back and jumped to a rival company, making it difficult for Wei Mingjie to take a step forward in the board of directors. Zhou Wei now wants to support a director to replace Chen Yuanhang's position in Wei's and use it to enhance his own voice in the group.
Wei Lan herself is the director, so naturally she has to stand on Wei Mingjie's side. She had no concept of family affection in the past, but the Wei couple gave her unconditional support and trust, so she was willing to support them unconditionally.
As for becoming the second Chen Yuanhang?
Wei Lan never thought about it. She had seen Chen Yuanhang's movies, and judging from his performance in "Star Wars (Part 1)", he was not qualified to be her goal.
It is just the object that needs to be surpassed at the moment.
Wei Lan's goal has always been to surpass himself rather than to catch up with those who came before him.
Of course, if anyone could hear Wei Lan's inner thoughts at this moment, including Wei Mingjie, they would probably think she was daydreaming. After all, with the 2 billion box office of "Star Wars", Chen Yuanhang's status in the current entertainment industry can basically be said to have reached the top. If you randomly grab anyone on the street and make a list of big directors, you can count Chen Yuanhang's name on the list.
The only thing he lacks now is a work that will go down in film history. Although "Star Wars" has high box office revenue, its score on Guangying.com is 7.3, which is considered good but by no means excellent. Most of the positive reviews are praising the grand interstellar scenes.
Judging from Chen Yuanhang's move to poach a number of Wei's superstars, he may want to achieve this goal in the next "Star Wars" movie.
Lu Kaiming glanced at the gloomy Wei Mingjie and the expressions of the other shareholders in the room, knowing that he should give in on this issue, otherwise they would be embarrassed: "Of course no problem, let's put it this way, as long as the investment return rate of your movie can reach 20%, we will sign a normal B contract, if it reaches 40%, we will sign the terms mentioned by President Wei, and if it can reach 60%, we will directly give you an S contract!"
Speaking of the last S signature, Lu Kaiming couldn't help laughing. He obviously thought it was a joke that Wei Lan could get the S signature. He looked at the other shareholders present and said, "I think everyone has no objection to this, right?"
"That's right." The other shareholders thought about it and nodded in agreement.
The return on investment of movies mentioned here does not refer to the total box office, but the ratio of the net profit that the producer can obtain after deducting the theater share and distribution costs to the investment. Movie investment is inherently a high-risk industry. Although there are many box office myths with amazing returns, in fact, less than 10% of movies in the entire industry can finally get a positive return.
The regular cinema share is 55%. The condition of the agreement proposed by Lu Kaiming is that the total box office revenue of this film must be at least more than twice the investment funds.
Lu Kaiming looked at Wei Mingjie, waiting for him to bargain. In fact, his conditions were still too high for a new director who had never been involved in the film industry.
Before Wei Mingjie could say anything, Wei Lan on the other end of the phone had already replied: "I accept this condition."
Lu Kaiming was stunned. He was really a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers! He shouldn't have said that this director was bold or naive.
"I have a question." Wei Lan's voice sounded again: "I want to know what happens if it exceeds 60%... or even more?"
Lu Kaiming was stunned for a moment. It just happened that a TV series became popular in the market. He really didn't know where this new director got the confidence from. He immediately slammed the table and said:
"Over 70%, you can set the contract terms!"
The other shareholders obviously regarded Wei Lan's "shameless words" as a joke, and the shareholders from Lu Kaiming and Zhou Wei's faction even rolled their eyes.
Wei Lan waited for a few seconds and saw that no one expressed any objection: "It's a deal."
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Seeing this, Wei Mingjie stopped paying attention to the other people in the meeting room and stood up from his chair: "That's all for today, the meeting is adjourned."
…
After dealing with company matters, Wei Mingjie got off work at 8 o'clock in the evening.
There were corresponding crisis public relations strategies for what happened later, and the company’s stock price quickly stabilized. The book loss would not be too large, but the negative impact on Wei’s subsequent development is difficult to estimate.
After returning to the villa, Wei Mingjie did not forget to find Wei Lan.
At this moment, she was using her mobile phone to check the news released by Chen Yuanhang about the sequel to "Star Wars". The name of the sequel has been decided, it is called "Star Wars (Part 2)". The original plan was that there should be only two parts, but now a group of superstars who jumped over from Wei have joined, it seems that they want to make it a trilogy.
Seeing Wei Mingjie coming over, Wei Lan put down his phone and they both spoke at the same time.
"Dad, you said you don't want Wei's investment..."
"Lanlan, that gambling agreement..."
The two of them stopped at the same time. Wei Mingjie looked at Wei Lan's dark and clear eyes and his adult-like demeanor. The frustration and depression in the conference room seemed to be swept away by something, and he showed his first real smile of the day.
"The achievements of Sword and Fairy 4 are obvious to all. You deserve the A-level director contract. You don't need to propose any gambling agreement with them for me. It doesn't matter if you don't sign it. If you want to make a movie, we will invest ourselves." He is not a fool. Of course he can see that Wei Lan would propose a gambling agreement today to support him.
Wei Lan waved her hands and said calmly, "I just don't want to surrender without a fight."
Wei Mingjie was amused by her arrogant look.
"Okay, this movie will definitely be a big hit, and they'll be begging you to sign it!" As he said that, he thought of what she had said before: "Is the 8 million investment you mentioned enough?"
Wei Lan's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Is it okay?"
She didn't dare to ask for too high a price at first. Her ideal was eight million, but if she worked hard to cut the budget, five million should be enough to film it.
"Sure, if it's not enough, you can add more." Wei Mingjie said this with an embarrassed look on his face: "But..."
"What?" Wei Lan asked quickly.
Wei Mingjie lowered his voice and moved closer to Wei Lan, winking at her: "Tell your mother that only five million was used. The extra money was your father's and my private money. She doesn't know about it..."
Wei Lan was stunned, and his big eyes curved into crescents.
"Okay! It's a deal."
After thinking for a moment, she stretched out her little hand and made a movement that matched her current appearance.
“Let’s make a pinky promise!”
Wei Mingjie also laughed, stretched out his right little finger, and hooked it with Wei Lan's little finger.
The father and daughter, one big and one small, smiled at each other.
'Wei Mingjie Favorability 5'
'Ding! Wei Mingjie's favorability has reached 80 or above. The emotional feedback section is opened. The host can view Wei Mingjie's current emotions and historical positive emotions.'
Wei Lan blinked in surprise, and when she looked at Wei Mingjie again, she immediately sensed his emotions at the moment - full of warmth.
'System, what does this historical positive sentiment mean?'
The system replied: You can now see all the scenes in Wei Mingjie's past that produced positive emotions.
It turns out that this system is not just a death warrant, it also has a cheat code. However, judging from its functionality, it seems to be designed to better gain the favor of others.
Wei Lan tried it and chose to view Wei Mingjie's happiest moment from birth to now, and then a dynamic picture appeared in front of him:
Wei Mingjie, who was still a child, was held in a chair behind an old-fashioned camera by a man who looked 70% like him now. He put his face behind the camera, observing the set through it, with a big smile on his face.
Through this smile, Wei Lan suddenly understood why Wei Mingjie was so open-minded and supportive about his filming.
Because some things may not have anything to do with money for Wei Mingjie.
According to her understanding, in addition to the entertainment industry, the Wei Group also has many other industries, all of which are Wei Mingjie's sphere of influence. They are doing better than the film and television industry, but he has never given up control of this business. However, he has not made any significant achievements in recent years and was tricked by Chen Yuanhang. This is also the reason why he was targeted by the other two directors.
Wei Lan continued to ask the system: Can only people with a favorability of 80 see it?
System: No, for other objects whose favorability does not meet the requirement, the host can choose to spend points to view them.
As expected...
"Have you thought about the subject of the movie?"
Wei Mingjie's voice brought Wei Lan back to his senses.
"I've thought about it." Wei Lan recalled the news he had found on his phone before. "Star Wars (Part 2)" is expected to start filming in October this year and will be released around March of the following year. The production cycle is medium to long on average. One reason is that holographic movies save on special effects and set designs, and the other is that the sequel saves a lot of time in scene construction.
“I want to make a science fiction film.”
Wei Mingjie was shocked and looked at Wei Lan in disbelief:
"You, you don't want to?"
"It's just what you think." Wei Lan nodded in acknowledgement.
Yes, not only does she want to target Chen Yuanhang with the subject matter, she also plans to coincide the release date with "Star Wars (Part 2)".
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