Chapter 412: Guaranteed Distribution, 800 Million?

Quite a few people online are evaluating, saying that Angelababy has made great progress in *Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon*.

But how many viewers know that it was the result of Tsui Hark almost being exhausted to death.

Basically, all of the former's shots were only barely taught after the director taught her hand-in-hand countless times.

This is not it, even Tsui Hark himself is joking and mocking himself, saying that he is about to become Angelababy's "exclusive private tutor" for acting classes.

Lin Nan asked himself, if it were him, he wouldn't be willing to eat that "bitterness" and would directly replace the actor.

Jing Tian back then was much easier to teach than Angelababy.

"Time passes a bit fast; it's October 1st already."

Lin Nan stayed in the office, filling in the script while thinking about the evening's affairs.

It has already spread in a small circle in the industry that Han Sanping's retirement banquet is tonight.

And those who received invitations are the truly top-tier figures in the film and television industry; there will be no ordinary stars, at least they must be senior first-tier.

Lin Nan has a headache; he doesn't know whether to bring a gift or not?

It stands to reason that with Han Sanping's status, it is indeed inappropriate to receive gifts, but he has already retired.

After struggling for a long while, Lin Nan made up his mind. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, it would be better to bring nothing.

I believe that in the industry, there should be quite a few people whose ideas coincide with his.

"In the future, just take care of classmate Han more, that's enough."

Thinking of Han Jia'nu, Lin Nan couldn't help but sigh; where is this Han Sanping's own retirement banquet and birthday banquet?

This is clearly held for Han Jia'nu; even if it's not entirely for Han Jia'nu, it at least accounts for more than half.

Near noon, reports about *Swords of Legends* appeared in the media.

"The large-scale ancient costume fairy-xia drama *Swords of Legends*, starring Yang Mi, Li Yifeng, Gillian Chung, Ma Tianyu, Qiao Zhenyu, etc., officially wrapped up in Hengdian this morning after 3 months of filming."

"H&R Century stated that the drama has signed a first-round exclusive broadcast agreement with Mango TV..."

Not long after, Wang Changtian's call came over:

"Deng Chao's *The Breakup Guru* is preparing to start filming in these two days; come over to show your face when the time comes."

"Understood, just notify me when it starts filming."

How to say, Lin Nan himself also invested half of it; of course, he cannot refuse this kind of request to show his face and support the scene.

"That's good, see you tonight."

"Mm, see you tonight."

Just after hanging up the phone, Lin Nan thought of a matter.

"Variety shows and evening parties are businesses that Enlight started with and are their bottom-of-the-box business, right? The experience is absolutely rich!"

In a flash, Lin Nan already had a plan in his mind; he could completely cooperate with Enlight to make the mainland version of *Running Man* when the time comes.

A few days ago, the Golden Rooster just ended with a quite controversial award result, and the public opinion has not dissipated yet.

Today, on National Day, the Golden Horse nomination list was also announced at 12 noon.

Announced together were the complete jury list and the list of award presenters.

There are quite a few mainland films and actors nominated, but Li Bingbing and Lin Nan in the jury and award presenters are the most eye-catching.

Because one can influence the final result, while the other is the biggest star among the award presenters, and also last year's Best Director.

In less than two hours, the internet was discussing, guessing which important award Lin Nan would be arranged to present, or if it would be more than one.

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In the afternoon, Lin Nan didn't go to the company, because that guy Ning Hao flew back from the crew.

"Truly admire Qianqian for raising so many cats and dogs; that sister of yours doesn't have this hobby or leisure."

Looking at the kittens and puppies playing and fighting on the villa lawn, Ning Hao shook his head and said.

"So my usual work content has added one more item."

Lin Nan walked out of the villa carrying cat food and dog food, joking with himself.

A group of puppies and kittens all had a conditioned reflex and immediately ran to their "dining area".

After squatting down, they all wagged their tails or meowed at Lin Nan.

There were quite a few flashy, good-looking "dinner plates" there, all carefully selected by Liu Qianqian.

"The Television Association issued an initiative two days ago, asking everyone to lower their salaries; your company also makes TV dramas, did you receive it?"

"Received it, what's the use? There are more than thousands of actors and stars in the industry, and only eighty-some responded, which is no different from everyone resisting. Let them lower their own salaries? How is that possible!"

Lin Nan held a measuring cup in his hand, distributing cat food, and said lightly.

"Yeah, how many people are willing to voluntarily lower their income?"

Ning Hao sat in the pavilion and glanced at Lin Nan, "Hurry up, the two of us will go over together in the evening; I will return to the crew tomorrow."

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The venue for Han Sanping's banquet was chosen in a leisure villa in the suburbs.

Starting from six o'clock in the evening, people in the industry arrived one after another.

Lin Nan and Ning Hao set off at five o'clock, and were stuck on the road for more than an hour, arriving around seven-thirty.

"Is that Yu Pang... Yu Dong?"

Just after getting out of the car, he saw a man and a woman not far ahead being led by a waiter, walking inside.

Ning Hao asked a bit uncertainly.

"It's him." Lin Nan had better eyesight and confirmed.

"Not bad, this Peacock Princess is considered to have successfully ascended to the top?"

"Hehe, looks like she has ascended. Let's go, the two of us go in too." Lin Nan took the lead and walked in front.

Although sometimes Han Jia'nu is very unreliable and often leaks wind.

But in this kind of occasion, she performed like another person, and her words and deeds couldn't be picked out for any flaws; this is upbringing.

"Junior Sister Han, your 'welcoming' is done well."

In the banquet hall of more than two hundred square meters, the one standing at the door was Han Jia'nu; almost everyone who came, she could chat with for a few sentences.

"What 'welcoming'? This is the host's attitude of entertaining guests."

Han Jia'nu finally met Lin Nan, who could joke, so she didn't put on airs when speaking.

"Senior Brother Lin, Senior Brother Ning, hurry in; my dad asked me to welcome everyone here today, so I can't leave."

"Good, see you in a while."

Today, Han Sanping's guests were all big shots; the entry of Lin Nan and Ning Hao didn't cause much of a splash.

"Emperor, Bona, Enlight, Wanda, StarMe, H&R Century, Orange Sky, Bona... almost all came, even Wang Zhonglei came?"

Lin Nan looked over at a glance; Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, Gu Changwei, Jiang Wen, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Peter Chan, John Woo, Tsui Hark...

Directors who could be named basically didn't miss it; quite a few were like Ning Hao, coming from the crew.

Han Sanping was laughing and talking with the bosses of several state-owned enterprises, and couldn't see at all that they were once opponents.

Everyone knows that in this occasion tonight, those who came were top-tier figures in the industry, which also means connections and resources.

So quite a few big shots even brought juniors with them, such as Jackie Chan, Zhang Guoli, Gu Changwei, Wang Jinghua, etc.

"Go, find a seat and sit down?" Ning Hao suggested.

Lin Nan could see that Ning Hao was also not interested in today's social engagement, so he nodded.

"Over there."

Sometimes, this thing called social engagement cannot be avoided.

Even if Lin Nan and Director Ning and a few others sat there, intentionally avoiding the leisure, people still constantly came over to greet them.

It wasn't until around eight-thirty in the evening that the banquet officially started.

"Thank you all for coming to my retirement banquet today; we had more dealings at work before, and in the future, we can completely be friends..."

Han Sanping was speaking above, looking full of energy.

"I find Chairman Han's words quite sorrowful." Ning Hao whispered.

"It is quite sour; when have you heard him say soft words?!" Lin Nan followed everyone and applauded.

The wine banquet officially started.

Sitting at the same table as Lin Nan and Ning Hao were Yu Dong, Wang Zhonglei, Albert Yeung, and a few others.

Han Sanping is afraid he won't be able to enter the table tonight; he is wandering from table to table with Han Jia'nu, with a smile on his face all the time.

In Lin Nan's view, this is an old father using his retirement banquet to pave the way for his daughter.

"Lin Dao, that *The Taking of Tiger Mountain* of yours should be almost done, right?"

Wang Zhonglei suddenly asked Lin Nan, making quite a few people at the table prick up their ears.

Talking business at the dinner table is an old tradition of the Chinese people.

But in this occasion today, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, right? After all, there are so many companies here!

"As for the distribution, Chairman Wang, don't think about it; it was already decided with Chairman La before. Furthermore, the distribution of my company's films has always been done by China Film and Enlight." Lin Nan stopped at the point and smiled.

"Is Lin Dao interested in trying the guaranteed distribution model?"

Wang Zhonglei was like a fox, throwing out another bait.

"Guaranteed distribution?"

This term made several people at this table stunned, and even Qin Hong and Wang Changtian at the next table turned their heads.

"Yes, guaranteed gambling. Before the film is released, a box office boundary is drawn, and the distributor pays all the share of this box office to the producer at once.

If the box office doesn't reach that number, the deficit is borne by the distributor; if the box office exceeds it, the excess profit has nothing to do with the producer."

"If you say so, then Bona is also quite interested."

Yu Dong put down the chopsticks in his hand and inserted a sentence unexpectedly.

The way he smiled didn't look as "honest" as other fat people, but instead revealed craftiness.

Ning Hao poked Lin Nan's elbow and gave a wink.

"Hehe, how to guarantee, how much to guarantee? Let me listen to Chairman Wang's quotation for me."

Lin Nan asked with interest.

Sure enough, Wang Zhonglei's Yue Buqun-style smile became even stronger:

"Lin Dao's box office appeal has always been very strong. But you also know, looking at the box office history of so many years, the results of mainstream films are not very good."

"And then? What is Huayi's quotation?"

"800 million guarantee, how about it?"

Wang Zhonglei's words made the small area around them gasp.

If Lin Nan agreed, he could instantly take back more than 300 million, and the profit would be more than double.

Yu Dong opened his mouth and closed it again.

Although Bona is a listed company, it is the poorest listed company in the industry and simply cannot compare with Huayi.

"Isn't Chairman Wang slapping my face?"

"How to say this?"

"When I came back from wrapping up, I swore in front of the media that I would set a box office target of 1 billion first. Isn't your 800 million slapping my face?"

"But this is a mainstream theme; it cannot be compared with Lin Dao's previous commercial films."

"If Huayi can give me a guaranteed distribution based on a box office of 1.2 billion, I can consider signing the gambling agreement. How about it, Chairman Wang?"

At this, Wang Zhonglei looked like he had eaten a fly, and his expression instantly stiffened.

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(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 413 =====