Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 130: Let’s not talk about work today, let’s talk about romance

Recruiting partners for "In Time" is much more difficult than you might think!
The cost of 1 million is actually not high for a blockbuster, but the market now recognizes costume blockbusters. People will invest in costume blockbusters even if the cost is 5 million, but not in science fiction blockbusters.

No one has ever done it!

But precisely because no one has done it before, someone needs to create this precedent.

Li Qiutang's reputation has a certain effect, but the companies currently recruited are all small companies, which invest one or two million to take a share and take a small gamble. Even so, five or six co-producers have been recruited, and a small amount of 1000 million has been raised.

I haven’t found anyone who is willing to spend more than 10 million to join China Film Group and Li Qiutang in a big gamble.

Li Qiutang waved his hand and Autumn Pictures spent 5000 million to become one of the main producers of "In Time". Correspondingly, Autumn Pictures also became the main producer of the film.

In theory, Li Qiutang didn't need to take risks with his startup company, but since it was a startup company, how could it succeed without taking risks!

Li Qiutang converted his own director's fee into investment, took another share, and went all in on "In Time" to show his determination.

Li Qiutang joked, "If In Time fails, my small company will go bankrupt."

To start a business, you need not only money but also people.

Even if Li Qiutang had three heads and six arms, he could not manage a startup company by himself.

He offered Cao Ping an annual salary of 300 million yuan plus a number of shares to recruit her from the Yanjing Television Art Center. Li Qiutang clearly understood that the shares of a startup company were worthless, and entrepreneurs had to use shares to exchange for all resources.

This elder sister is a well-known strong woman in the industry and a gold medal producer of Yanjing Television Art Center. "The Wrong Car", "Happiness is Like a Flower" and "Golden Wedding" are all produced by her.

Cao Ping serves as the president and artistic director of Autumn Pictures, and Li Qiutang serves as the chairman of Xiangjiang Haitang International and CEO of Autumn Pictures.

The company had just been established and although it was not large in scale, Li Qiutang called them chairman, president, and CEO without any hesitation.

After Cao Ping changed jobs, she also brought a group of her old subordinates with her. Li Qiutang naturally welcomed them. As a startup company, it was in the period of hiring people and could not consider forming cliques for the time being.

Although Cao Ping did not particularly agree with Li Qiutang's behavior of going all in on "In Time", she also expressed her understanding. After all, it was a startup company and the boss could take any risks he wanted.

If you don’t dare to gamble, what business are you starting?

Cao Ping works in TV dramas. She brought her team to Autumn Pictures and naturally started with TV dramas.

She has extensive connections in the drama circle, and after starting a business with Li Qiutang, she can put the resources she had accumulated before to use.

The first project she brought for Autumn Pictures was called "The Good Times of Daughter-in-law". Yanjing Television was one of the producers, and she secured an investment for Autumn Pictures.

After knowing this, Li Qiutang was not satisfied. "The Good Times of Daughter-in-law" was certainly a high-quality project, but what he wanted was not just an investment.

It is impossible to take control of the film now. Hualu Baina is willing to give a share which is already a face to Cao Ping. Li Qiutang has never thought about taking control of "The Good Times of Wife". What he wants is the online and overseas copyright of "The Good Times of Wife".

He knew that "The Good Times of My Wife" was doing well overseas, especially in Africa. Although the amount was small, it would add up to a considerable income, not to mention the online copyright. He didn't remember how "The Good Times of My Wife" was doing on the online platform, but now the copyright was free, so he just bought it.

"You go and negotiate, they should be willing to sell it. We've put in an investment, and it's not too much to ask for the Internet and overseas rights."

"What's the use of this kind of copyright?" Cao Ping did not understand Li Qiutang's behavior.

No one wants copyrights now. The rights to broadcast a film online only cost about 10,000 or 20,000 yuan per film.

“Who would still watch movies online?” This is Cao Ping’s judgment on future audiences’ viewing habits.

"Hey, you're wrong. I'll watch movies online from now on."

The impact of the development of the Internet on people's lives has begun to emerge, but the film and television industry seems to have not responded so quickly. Li Qiutang made a bold prediction: "The Internet will definitely change the film and television industry. In the future, audiences will watch movies on their mobile phones and computers."

One of the advertisements for 3G promotion is the ability to watch videos on mobile phones, but it doesn't seem to be working well at the moment.

"I'll give you another task. Buy copyrights. I don't want anything else but internet copyrights. Movies and TV series are fine. If any company sells a library of films, it would be best to buy them all."

Cao Ping said: "We don't have a broadcasting platform, where can we put all these films?"

"We do distribution. We sell to whichever platform wants to broadcast it." Li Qiutang's behavior is called copyright dealer.

There is no technical content, but being a copyright dealer is very profitable!
Boss Li first asked his employees to imagine the future: "Think about it, the Internet is developing so fast now. It may be possible to watch TV on your mobile phone in the future. It is not possible now, but what about five years later or ten years later? Technology will develop very quickly."

Boss Li then began to paint a rosy picture: "In the future, I will make tens of millions every year just by distributing copyrights. You are all my founders. If each of you earns less than two million a year by then, it will be considered incompetence on my part." Everyone laughed at this.

Many people eat Boss Li's cake.

Because they know that Li Qiutang, as the most popular director in the film and television industry today, has a terrifying ability to make money. According to gossip among employees, the director has prepared 2 million yuan for this venture, and "no more, no less."

With this money as a foundation, many people believe that there is a future in following Li Qiutang.

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Li Qiutang became even busier. The post-production of "The Sound of Wind" was at a critical stage, and he had to check it from time to time; "In Time" was still moving forward, and he also had to keep an eye on it; plus, the company was just starting out, and a lot of things were waiting for him.

But Li Qiutang seems to like this busy life very much. She only sleeps for 5 hours every night and takes a half-hour nap at noon, so she can work energetically all day.

He even had time to "date" Liu Yifei.

He shamelessly called this a date, but Liu Yifei refused to admit it at all. This was just normal communication between an actor and a director.

"This is for you." Li Qiutang pushed a small box over. "I bought it when I went to the United States."

Liu Yifei really couldn't ask why Li Qiutang gave her a gift for no reason.

When I opened the box, I saw a crystal bracelet inside.

"It's very expensive. I can't accept it." Liu Yifei declined.

"It's not expensive, take it." Li Qiutang also made an excuse, "This is a benefit I give to our company employees. They all have one."

What a bullshit benefit! This is what he bought specially for Liu Yifei in the United States.

This means Liu Yifei can accept it.

Liu Yifei was about to speak when Li Qiutang interrupted her and said, "If you want to talk to me about your understanding of In Time and Lan Xin, don't worry. We can talk after you finish reading the books I mentioned."

"why?"

"You have to finish reading the book, understand that era and that society, and digest this knowledge before you can have your own understanding. If you tell me one sentence and I tell you another, the understanding you get in this way is too shallow."

"Then what shall we say?"

Li Qiutang smiled and said, "Tonight we'll only talk about romance, not work."

Liu Yifei smiled and thought to herself, "What about romance? Who will chat with you about romance?"

(End of this chapter)