Chapter 131: If you do it, do it as a boutique!

Saturday, November 2, 2002, Beijing Wenjie Culture Media Company.

Boss Lu is holding a regular meeting with all core management.

What, today is Saturday?

Hehe, Saturday is guaranteed not to rest, Sunday rest is not guaranteed.

Yang Yang Siwei, Lu Yao, Sun Sun Wenwen, and Li Xiao, the CFO who was newly recruited recently, you guys at this age are probably unable to sleep, right?

Seeing Lu Kuan first listened to the financial report in his president's office.

"The North American copyright revenue for *Whiplash* is 23.17 million yuan."

This was sold to the Jewish An Lushan Harvey.

"European copyright revenue is 12.4 million yuan."

This was later introduced by Kitano Takeshi and sold to France's EuropaCorp.

The boss of this company is Luc Besson, the director of *Léon: The Professional*.

"Mainland box office share is 13.9 million."

Li Xiao paused when reading here, the boss's face was obviously not very good.

It is indeed too shabby. No wonder no one is willing to make movies in the mainland in this era. *Whiplash* can be said to have stacked all the buffs, and the producer's share of the box office is only that much.

This was still when he was swinging between China Film and Bona, and finally set the 10-point distribution fee with Fatty Yu.

The box office share of 13.9 million is not low compared to the 35.5 million+ revenue from selling overseas copyrights.

"Continue."

"DVD and other channel revenue is 1 million, advertising revenue from Starbucks, Motorola, etc. is 2 million."

"President Lu, the current box office in Hong Kong and Taiwan is a total of 32 million yuan, and there is less than a week left before it goes off the screen."

"Well, handle the taxes properly."

In addition to the "special funds" prepaid when calculating the box office, the producer also has to pay a 6% value-added tax.

The 2 million advertising revenue also has a 6% value-added tax rate, plus a 3% cultural undertaking construction fee, and other corporate income taxes, etc., naturally need not be mentioned.

Even if the estimated box office in Hong Kong and Taiwan is around 42 million yuan, calculated at a cost of 6.2 million.

After the whole film is operated and taxes are paid properly, the final net profit to Wenjie Culture is around 53 million.

Is it a lot? Not at all.

It is just due to the limitations of the era and the limitations of the subject matter of *Whiplash*, many benefits of film derivatives cannot be obtained. That is the main source of revenue for Hollywood film companies in later years!

It is also the direction of Boss Lu's efforts, so he reached a deal with An Yixuan's father, Wu Wu Anguo, in Taiwan and began to plan to form his own special effects company.

This is an important link for building sci-fi film IPs and earning derivative revenue in the future!

The conference room was full, and in addition to Wenjie's own employees, there was also Hunan TV's filming team, led by Yao Jia.

"President Lu!"

"Director Lu!"

Greetings and salutations came one after another.

If the employees who had just joined a few months ago were still uneasy and doubting Wenjie's development prospects.

But after Seeing Lu Kuan personally led them to formulate the distribution plan for *Whiplash*;

Led Yang Yang Siwei to create an internet persona for Liu Liu Yifei;

Led Lu Yao to negotiate the development of *Chinese Paladin*, retaining the copyright while also having a certain casting right;

Led Ning Hao, who is not present today, to transform the script, scout locations, and make budgets according to Hollywood's film industry.

And there is also the Blog website that they don't know is Boss Lu's handwriting.

What is the best team building? It is winning battles.

A leader like Seeing Lu Kuan led the team to break through thorns and thorns, creating the prototype of a future entertainment empire from scratch, making the morale and cohesion of Wenjie Culture's current team unprecedentedly high!

"Okay, everyone, please sit down."

Boss Lu adjusted the microphone in front of him.

"First of all, let us welcome Director Jiang Wei of *Chinese Paladin*, as well as Director Yao and business elites from Hunan TV who have come from afar with the warmest applause!"

"Clap clap clap clap!"

This is applause.

"Thank you, Director Lu."

Yao Jia smiled and nodded.

Jiang Wei is Seeing Lu Kuan's director instructor. He is now a freshman at the Beijing Film Academy, but he has already asked for leave until next year...

The director that Seeing Lu Kuan fought for with Hunan TV is the screenwriter and director of *Don't Talk to Strangers* and the later *Lurk*.

Of course, in this life, *Lurk* has been written earlier than the novel author Long Yi, and Jiang Wei no longer has the opportunity to write the script himself.

Pulling his own director instructor to be a director, it is hard not to make people suspect Boss Lu's intentions.

To make it easier to ask for leave and skip class.

"Okay, let's get to the theme. As a producer, I have made the following deployments and requirements for the production of *Chinese Paladin*."

The sound of turning pages was uniform, and all relevant employees took out paper and pens, ready to listen to the instructions of the Golden Lion-winning director.

Of course, there were also some unconvinced foreign monks at the scene, mostly staff from Hunan Economic TV.

Later audiences know Hunan TV from the satellite TV, which is the satellite TV station with the Mango logo.

But in the 80s-90s of the last century, the Economic Satellite TV led by Ouyang Ouyang Changqing was the boss of the provincial TV stations.

Their personnel configuration, team scale, and profitability were all much higher than the satellite TV station.

After the reform of the provincial TV station, Ouyang Ouyang Changqing led the team to enter Hunan TV (Mango TV), which created the later brilliance.

Many of the people who came to the meeting with Yao Jia today were the filming staff who had collaborated with the Taiwanese crew on *My Fair Princess*.

This group of proud soldiers and fierce generals had created divine dramas and ratings myths several times.

Even if you, Seeing Lu Kuan, are a Golden Lion-winning director, everyone still holds a reserved attitude about what level you are in the field of TV dramas.

Boss Lu didn't realize this. People who do things can always get more recognition. It is useless to talk too much, and you will see the truth in your hands.

"First, the costumes, makeup, and props must be perfect. Producer Director Yao and the assistant producers are responsible for this. No shoddy work, inconsistencies with the game's original background, or amateurish continuity errors will be allowed..."

"Secondly, I have read the script. There are many places that need to be sent back for revision. Here I will make a positioning: *Chinese Paladin 1* is a fairy-xia drama. It can have idol drama elements, but it cannot be rotten and vulgar."

"Script writing and character shaping must be grounded, not ethereal. If we want to do it, we must do it as a boutique!"

The logic of the screenwriter team of the previous life's Tangren was broken. For example, it was set from the beginning that Baiyue was omnipotent, so why did he let Zhao Linger be captured for so many years?

Why not destroy the protagonist group earlier?

And the inexplicable appearance of the Sword Saint to capture Zhao Linger, including the very brilliant Lock Demon Tower plot in the game, was skipped, full of thunder points.

"Although the script does not have to be completely faithful to the original, it must put an end to childish lines, paper-like character images, and low-intelligence villains. Don't learn the idol drama style of Taiwan!"

The screenwriter team nodded frequently. This is the screenwriter and director of the Golden Lion Award. Although it is not necessary to blow every sentence as a golden rule, it is always the top voice in the industry.

Yao Jia couldn't help but sigh in her heart. A young genius like Seeing Lu Kuan is really not successful casually.

Just this guidance to the screenwriter is very grasping, high-level, and fundamentally positioned the style of the play.

Don't want the rotten and vulgar costume idol style. To use later words, what you want is that little bit of fairy spirit and style!

After arranging everything from clothing, makeup, and props, actor selection, filming guidance, and location budget, everyone, whether it was Wenjie's employees or the original Economic Satellite TV team of Hunan TV, was convinced.

Golden Lion-winning director, really not given in vain!

The next chapter is sealed, wait for prison release. 2024.9.12/21:00

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