"Boss Wu, I think what you said makes a lot of sense about this matter." Pang Mu was a little hesitant. The contract was right in front of him waiting for his signature. Pang Mu was really speechless.
"Yeah, right."
Wu Changyun handed the contract to the other party.
"Take it, and let me sign it for you."
"That's not necessary."
Pang Mu looked at the place where he needed to sign. If he put his signature on it, four hundred thousand would be gone.
"Actually." Pang Mu gritted his teeth and hardened his heart. What the hell is there to care about face at this time? I won't force myself to stay in this situation.
"To be honest, Boss Wu, our funds are quite tight, so we may not be able to come up with the 400,000 yuan."
"Can't get it out?"
Wu Changyun thought about it for a while. Although Golden Princess is just a rising star film company now, if we look at historical development, Golden Princess will also sweep the entire market for a period of time in the future.
However, it cannot be ruled out that Princess Golden did not have the opportunity to rise as she should have because Qi Ji Film Company over-squeezed the market.
"How about this? The remaining portion will be paid out in the form of dividends. I'm setting a precedent for you. After all, we're all in the film industry, and I know it best."
Wu Changyun thought that since he was present today, he might as well set an example to his brothers from other security companies. People should be flexible and not necessarily obsessed with money.
"I know firsthand the necessity of security. Otherwise, I wouldn't have founded this company. So, in this current environment, I have to focus on making movies. Otherwise, one day this industry won't make any money and everyone will be roasting sweet potatoes."
After Wu Changyun finished speaking, he suddenly felt that what he said was biased. What about roasted sweet potatoes? Roasted sweet potatoes are very profitable if they are made well.
"Uh, is this really okay? Our movie hasn't even been released yet, and I'm worried that Boss Wu will lose money."
After hearing this, Pang Mu suddenly felt a little embarrassed. According to their expectations, the box office of this movie would probably reach about four million. With such a large base, no matter how much dividends were distributed, Pang Mu felt that it was a bit of a loss.
"How much can you afford?"
"Huh? About 150,000."
Pang Mu was stunned and answered the question like a machine.
"Fifteen thousand is indeed a little less. So you go and withdraw the money first," said Wu Changyun.
"ah?"
"Withdraw the money! Pay the down payment first so we can start business." Wu Changyun saw Pang Mu was a little dazed and wondered what was wrong with this guy. Was this his first time doing business? He shouldn't not understand this.
"All right."
Pang Mu had no choice but to go to Wu Changyun to withdraw money. He thought he had already discussed the dividends, but Wu Changyun actually wanted him to pay the down payment himself. It seemed that he had to pay a down payment first for the installment plan.
In Wu Changyun's opinion, of course a down payment is required for installment purchases. This is no nonsense.
But in Pang Mu's opinion, he was giving Wu Changyun enough face by distributing dividends to him. If they were to distribute dividends, they would probably have to take out at least 10 percentage points of dividends to pay for this remuneration. In addition, the movie has not yet been released, so the dividends may be reduced to about 12 or 13 percentage points.
This instantly reduced their profits from the film by a large margin.
Pang Mu couldn't help but complain in his heart. The smaller shareholders among them probably wouldn't get more than ten percentage points of the profits, and Wu Changyun was just providing security.
Just security, real bad luck.
Pang Mu felt extremely depressed. He had lent out so much money before the movie was even made. If other people knew about this, how would he explain it?
Pang Mu paced back and forth in front of the car, thinking about how to avoid this disaster.
After much thought, Pang Mu obediently gathered the money, because what Wu Changyun said was indeed reasonable, but it was too expensive. At most, they would make less money if the dividends were lower, but if they got into trouble now, he would be the only one to bear the responsibility.
Wu Changyun has explained this to Pang Mu countless times. It doesn't matter if you make less money, at least everyone makes money.
If something goes wrong, you are the only one who has to pay for it.
"Boss Wu, let's do this. I'll pay you 200,000 first, and the remaining amount will be paid in 5%."
“Five percentage points?”
Wu Changyun originally thought it was not bad. Five percentage points would be at least 200,000.
But if you think about it carefully, the person in front of him is Princess Jin, who is not yet a big shot, so he is at a slight disadvantage.
"Which play did you appear in?"
"Actually, it's not really our film. You know, our company has many film companies under it. This time, we're just investing in a director from one of our subsidiaries, and I'm in charge of the entire project."
Pang Mu is actually a supervisor, that is, a producer. Of course, there are many shareholders behind Pang Mu, and they are all the big bosses of Princess Jin.
"Then can you please ask who the director you invested in is?" Wu Changyun asked curiously.
"It's Mai Jia, do you know him?"
"Mai Jia? I don't know him."
Wu Changyun quickly waved his hand, pretending not to recognize him, and then said, "He's such a completely unknown director. Those five percentage points do seem a bit low."
"Yeah, I think so too." Pang Mu felt a little ashamed, because no one can predict the success of this kind of movie. If it sells well, then everything will be fine, but there is also a high chance that it will fail at the box office.
"How about this, I'll give you 8 percentage points."
"Eight?"
Wu Changyun said in surprise.
"No, then 10, that's my limit."
Pang Mu gritted his teeth and said cruelly that he had thought about it before and there was a high probability that 13 to 15 percentage points would not be enough to get rid of Wu Changyun. After all, this was not something done directly by their headquarters.
"Okay, it's a deal then. Sign it."
In just these five minutes, Wu Changyun was sweating profusely. Princess Jin really treated herself as a treasure.
Wu Changyun knew very well that the subsidiary of Golden Princess mentioned by the other party, plus the name Mai Jia, must be the powerful New Art City.
When talking about Cinema City, we have to mention three people, namely Michael Hui, Raymond Wong and Shek Tien. Among these three, Shek Tien is the one that Wu Changyun doesn't know very well. In Wu Changyun's childhood memory, Michael Hui is the mean bald guy, and there is also Raymond Wong with an honest look.
What did Cinema City film in 1982?
"Best Partner" and "The Hard Times", no matter which of these two films can get 10% of the dividends, that's amazing.
It can be said that the remaining 200,000 is completely incomparable to the dividends.
Pang Mu didn't know that they only did investment and had no idea about the film industry. Wu Changyun had known Mai Jia and Wong Jing since the 1970s. These two were the panaceas besides those legendary figures.
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