The investment cost of 15 million would definitely not be enough if an ordinary director were to shoot "A Chinese Odyssey".

You can't have an ordinary person play the leading role of Zhizunbao, right? You have to at least have a first-tier star, and one who has good acting skills and has the potential to win an award...

How much do stars like this get paid now?

It’s not expensive, maybe more than 10 million…

If you choose those best actor winners.

Hehe, without 20 million, you don’t even need to talk about it…

And the key point is that even if you find those movie kings, they may not shoot it according to your wishes, right?

After all, those who really won the Best Actor award all have their own ideas...

Putting aside the male lead, the next issue is the female lead. Lu Yuan plans to shoot the first and second parts of this movie together.

We can't have people with poor acting skills play the heroines Fairy Zixia and Bai Jingjing. If we really want to keep the story authentic, we have to find some talented and obedient actresses.

Putting aside other things, the pay for these two heroines alone must be at least tens of millions, right?

There are also other important supporting roles in the movie, other characters, special effects production, and a series of money-burning stuff...

With all this going on, how could they have filmed this movie with a total investment of 15 million?

How to shoot?

Take a picture with your head?

This is simply an international joke, okay?

Even if it is really filmed, it will have the effect of a bad domestic movie!

However, these things are not a big problem for Lu Yuan. He can take care of the male lead himself, and let Xu Lu play the Fairy Zixia. After working with Xu Lu once on Groundhog Day, Lu Yuan felt quite satisfied. This girl has explosive acting skills and is very obedient. At the same time, the salary is easy to negotiate. Lu Yuan estimated that it would be at most one or two million. The other female lead, Bai Jingjing, is a little more difficult to deal with. Lu Yuan plans to listen to Yanying for any good recommendations. He plans to use newcomers and estimates that it will be at most one million...

The lead actor's pay is zero, while the lead actress's pay is three million!

The most important thing has been solved, aren’t the other things enough?

supporting role?

Besides, isn't Fatty Wei very free recently? Is it okay to ask Fatty Wei to come over and play a guest role for free and provide lunch for Bodhi Patriarch? Although Lu Yihong is a bit busy, it's okay to ask him to take time to play a guest role. Besides, his company also has artists like Shen Zhiwei and Wang Long...

Wang Long looks silly, but in a sense he is also quite funny. If his acting skills are up to par, it wouldn't be a problem for him to play the role of Tang Monk...

These are all resources, and they are all resources that need to be integrated!

Other extras?

nonsense!

Do the other extras need to worry? So many people are waiting in Hengdian.

Lu Yuan dared to say that he provided free meals to act in "A Chinese Odyssey" and the queues of these extras could stretch from Hengdian East Street to West Street.

After Lu Yuan made this plan in his mind, he instantly completed the basic team planning for "A Chinese Odyssey".

So if you calculate it this way.

Fifteen million is indeed about the same, except that the special effects cost a little more.

However, Lu Yuan's plan was far behind the changes!

When Lu Yuan saw countless people holding tens of millions of dollars, ready to buy his advertising sponsorship...

Lu Yuan felt lost in an instant.

Yes!

It is indeed very sad to have your driver's license suspended, but...

This is no match for the golden glow and the feeling of happiness that comes from the faint fragrance in the air from time to time.

"Mr. Lu... I am Li Cheng from Weimeng Sanitary Ware Company. Mr. Lu, I sincerely want to establish long-term cooperation with your company..."

"Mr. Lu... I'm Liu Shaoan, the deputy general manager of Changtong Industry. Mr. Lu, I want to use 10 million to buy an advertising space for your movie screening. Is that okay?"

"Mr. Lu...we are also very sincere. We are willing to pay 10 million to buy..."

“…”

When everyone outside of Remote Entertainment saw Lu Yuan coming, they were all extremely excited...

Countless investors.

Countless reporters.

And countless...

banknote!

…

In fact, these investors actually want to invest in the film itself.

After all, after investing in this movie, with Lu Yuan's current popularity and appeal, combined with the impressive box office performance of the "Remote" company in recent times, they feel that they will definitely not lose money, and may even make a fortune.

pity……

As soon as Lu Yuan posted on Weibo, they consulted Wu Tingting to see if they could inject capital into the company, but Wu Tingting's reply was very disappointing...

It is impossible for the company to share the box office revenue of the movie "A Chinese Odyssey" itself. There is an unwritten rule in "Remote" that the movies that the company is currently going to make are basically funded by Mr. Lu himself, and no other people's investment is accepted for the time being...

After receiving this notice, the investors immediately cursed and said things like this small shabby company is more arrogant than Tianyu and Joaquin, and only a fool would invest in your movies in the future.

But when they woke up the next day and heard that a group of people were going to sponsor the advertising space for "A Chinese Odyssey", they rushed to the entrance of "Remote" Entertainment, nervously and expectantly waiting for the auction to begin...

Yes, bid!

There were dozens of people competing for the tens of millions of advertisements, including the second-generation rich Chen Cong and Qian Fuqiang, the deputy general manager of Duole sports equipment, who was endorsed by Lu Yuan...

Although……

Chen Cong doesn't seem to be here today...

But this is also an invisible pressure.

In short, this auction is full of gunpowder. I just don’t know how many advertising spaces “remote” entertainment will offer…

afternoon.

"Remote" entertainment conference room.

Although the air conditioner and the ceiling fan were working hard, everyone present felt the stuffiness.

Yes, it's hot and humid.

More than a dozen people are squeezed into a 30-square-meter conference room, and it's the middle of summer, who wouldn't feel hot?

Many people were sweating profusely and felt uncomfortable, staring at the air conditioner from time to time...

They even suspected whether this air conditioner was second-hand. After all, the performance of this air conditioner was too bad, right?

Of course, this is just their suspicion.

They didn't think Lu Yuan would install a second-hand air conditioner in his conference room.

After all, does Lu Yuan need this little money?

"Thank you all for supporting my new movie. I'm really grateful to you all, and at the same time I feel flattered. In fact, I'm surprised that you all came. To be honest, I didn't consider putting advertisements in the movie. After all, as a real filmmaker, I have always focused on pure movies... But, your enthusiasm and sincerity really touched me. Well, after my team and I considered it again and again, we decided to insert two advertisements in the beginning of the film this time..." Lu Yuan came in from the house and looked at the dark crowd with an expression that was very difficult to make, as if he had made a decision with great difficulty.

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up, and then they felt some pressure.

Two ad spots?

So many people...

How to divide this?

In fact, this is indeed the case with the advertising space in Lu Yuan’s movie.

Each movie only has advertisements for "Newback" suits, and the others don't even have any news about sponsors in the end credits.

They didn’t understand “Newbuck” before, but after Lu Yuan’s deputy general manager was exposed, these people understood it and showed a hint of ambiguous expression.

"Boss Lu, I, Wei Meng Sanitary Ware, am willing to pay 10 million to buy your advertising space!" As soon as Lu Yuan finished speaking, a middle-aged man with a Mediterranean look rushed in and said, "We, Wei Meng Sanitary Ware, are well-known throughout China, and we also have a certain degree of popularity overseas..."

"Mr. Li... your Weimeng Sanitary Ware is so famous, but do you still need publicity? Mr. Lu, we at Guangliang Clothing are willing to pay 11 million! At the same time, we are willing to provide the crew with all kinds of clothing at cost price..."

"Mr. Lu, I'm Xu Fu from Zhongshan Trade. Mr. Lu, Zhongshan Trade covers a lot of resources in various fields, and we also have certain connections in various countries... I came here very sincerely this time, and I am willing to pay 15 million on behalf of the company..."

"What? Fifteen million? Old Xu, you have to think carefully about whether it is worthwhile for Zhongshan to invest this money. You might as well use this money for your retirement... Anyway, um, Mr. Lu, we at Huaning are also willing to pay this price. Mr. Lu, our Huaning Cable is actually..."

“…”

Lu Yuan looked very calm and unmoved on the surface, but in fact, he was dizzy.

Yes!

He could hardly stand.

Just choose an advertising sponsorship and you won’t need any money to make this movie. You can just shoot it for free!

What the hell!

How could he not feel dizzy?

At this moment, he realized that the advertising industry was actually so profitable, it was actually...

So hi!

In the future, can I make a movie with built-in advertisements everywhere?

At this moment, this idea came into Lu Yuan’s mind!

"Boss Lu, we are also very sincere. I am willing to pay 16 million..."

"I'm willing to pay 17 million..."

“…”

Lu Yuan felt even more dizzy after hearing this voice.

Yes!

He originally thought that the advertising sponsorship would only be a few million, or at most ten million...

but……

Now the price for an advertising spot is 17 million!

What the hell!

Wouldn't that make you crazy?

Lu Yuan only felt his head buzzing, as if...

It feels so unreal, like a dream!

"Mr. Lu... I am willing to pay 20 million in sponsorship and advertising fees!" Qian Fuqiang stood up with his chubby body and looked at Lu Yuan with a determined look without saying a word.

Through his understanding of Lu Yuan these days, he knew that Lu Yuan liked to be straightforward and didn't like to do anything pretentious.

So he directly quoted his lowest price!

When he finished speaking, everyone fell silent...

Yes, silence!

20 million for a sponsored ad space...

This is really...

It’s a sky-high price.

Even if these people are very capable, their investment would be around 17 million at most.

Although 17 million is only 300 away from 20 million...

But in fact the concepts are completely different.

Lu Yuan's expression remained calm, but his heart skipped a beat and the feeling of unreality became even stronger.

When he decided to make the final decision on Mr. Qian, the door to the conference room opened.

"Sorry, I'm late, Mr. Lu... Although I don't know how the meeting went, I plan to exchange 30 million for an advertising space with you..." Young Master Chen took off his sunglasses, smiled slightly on his face and looked at Lu Yuan.

Thirty million is like a small amount of money in his mouth.

At this moment, he looked extremely pretentious.

This moment...

His body seemed to emit a golden glow again...

“…”

silence!

At this moment, the entire conference room became even quieter!

Thirty million!

A sponsorship ad for a movie?

You must be crazy!

This is not the way to spend money, you are so pretentious...

“…”

boom!

Lu Yuan’s head exploded!

Yes!

Exploded.

When he looked at Young Master Chen again, he actually felt that Young Master Chen was so handsome that he couldn't resist him at all. If she were a woman, he would have immediately stuck to her...

Thirty million!

Damn...

Make a fortune!

Lu Yuan looked at Young Master Chen silently...

He is irresistible to the extent of his good looks, his handsomeness, his charm.

However, he felt that he was a person who treated money as dirt.

"Mr. Chen, actually, I am a pure filmmaker..."

"I know, but making a movie always requires investment. I am just contributing to our Chinese film industry... I hope the special effects can be better and live up to the classics..."

"Well, Mr. Chen's passion for the film industry really touched me..."

"This is what I should do. After all, I am also Chinese..."

"I am deeply moved by what this young master said!"

“No, no…”

"Mr. Lu! I also support Chinese films very much. I especially like those fantasy films!"

At this time, Qian Fuqiang also dragged his fat body over with a serious expression on his face.

Although……

This guy never watches movies.

But at this time, I have to say something to show off, right?

"Yes...Yes...Thank you both...By the way, I also want to thank you all...Thank you all for your support. I appreciate all your kindness..."

“…”

“…”

…

Venice International Film Festival.

The lights are bright.

Attracting everyone's attention!

Li You stared at the stage, at everything...

"Congratulations to Director Li You for winning the Grand Jury Prize for "17 Years Old Bicycle" at this year's Venice Silver Bear Awards. Congratulations!"

Li You widened his eyes!

Trembling with excitement!