Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 230 You eat spicy food, I can't stand it (Happy New Year, brother and sister-in-law!)
Autumn Pictures doesn't necessarily need Media Asia's funding, so isn't this just in time?

Qiu is not very short of money now, but money is something that the more the better. Take it if you have it, and take it if you don’t need it.

Why 70%? Because 80% or 90% looks like robbery.

If you don't agree, you can bargain. Bargaining is not prohibited in business negotiations.

This is also the reason why Zhu Renzhi did not turn around and leave. Cooperation is achieved bit by bit.

In addition to its parent company, Hong Kong Begonia International, Autumn Pictures also has a relatively stable source of funding.

Apart from anything else, the works shot with funds from coal bosses will be broadcast one after another in the next two years, and almost all of these works will bring in considerable profits.

These profits are enough to gain the trust of the coal bosses, and by then autumn the film will surely receive a larger investment from them.

Apart from the coal bosses, Autumn Pictures has good relations with China Film, Guangxian and Yanjing Television Art Center, and they are also happy to invest.

Zhu Renzhi's autumn trip this time focused on inspection and preliminary negotiations, and he did not have the final say.

He had no say over 7% of the costs and said he would go back to Hong Kong to let the bosses make the final decision.

But he also said that Media Asia would not agree to the ratio of 70%.

It doesn’t matter if you disagree. Li Qiutang asked Zhu Renzhi to take back the message that he welcomes Media Asia to continue negotiations, as business is achieved through negotiations.

So it makes sense that he now appears at the premiere of "Ip Man 2: The Legend of Chen Zhen", a joint production of K-pop and Media Asia.

With Liu Yifei.

Reporters who saw this would simply think that the two were taking the opportunity to promote "In Time".

This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day coincide with each other, so the schedule is very good and there are many blockbusters competing.

"Under the Hawthorn Tree", "Fist of Fury: The Chen Zhen", "Sword Rain" and "Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame" are all scheduled during this period.

All are worth watching.

It must be said that Zhen Zidan has been really popular in the past two years, and is showing signs of becoming the number one Chinese action star.

At the premiere, Li Qiutang also said: "I am looking forward to seeing a different Chen Zhen."

It is indeed difficult to innovate in Kung Fu movies, and shooting them in the direction of superheroes is also a new angle.

At the event, the second female lead Huo Siyan even came over to talk to Li Qiutang.

Although the box office of "Love Announcement" was not good enough, with only a little over 4000 million, it had little impact on her. The promotional focus of the entire movie was on Wang Lihong, and she was just an actor who worked for money.

According to industry practice, whoever is the focus of publicity should be responsible for the film's performance.

Just like "Bureau 749", the director jumped out to take charge of the publicity. If the film flopped, the director should be held responsible, and the actors should not be blamed.

Huo Siyan was able to play the role in "Love Announcement" thanks to Li Qiutang who portrayed her as pitiful in "No One in My Eyes", otherwise she would not have been able to get this movie.

As the leading actress, she also took advantage of Wang Lihong's popularity and made some money from commercial performances and endorsements during this period.

However, Li Qiutang did not take credit for it: "They asked you to act, it has nothing to do with me."

Huo Siyan said she was still willing to act in Li Qiutang's movie and asked him to find her when there was a suitable opportunity.

Of course Li Qiutang agreed.

Liu Yifei came to find Zhou Yang. She knew that Zhou Yang also acted in this drama and heard that he had a very important role.

But Zhou Yang was not seen at the premiere.

Zhou Yang appears in the main film, but his role is very small.

"Yangyang told me that she was the second female lead, so why did she only have so few scenes? If you don't look carefully you can't find her. Was her role deleted?" Liu Yifei asked Li Qiutang quietly.

"I don't know about this, and don't ask Zhou Yang. It makes me sad when I mention it."

02The relationship did not end after graduation, and Liu Yifei still got together with her classmates from time to time.

02The director class had already disbanded.

The action scenes in "Ip Man: The Legend of Chen Zhen" maintain Zhen Zidan's usual high standard - Zhen Zidan's literary scenes are a mess, but his fighting scenes are indeed impeccable.

But there are problems with the filming of this movie. The Jingwu spirit is patriotism and self-reliance, but Liu Wei's filming is too superficial. Shouting slogans and beating a few Japanese devils is not the Jingwu spirit.

It's obviously not as good as "Ip Man".

Moreover, the audience seemed to be unimpressed by the superhero version of Chen Zhen, thinking that since it was the Black Knight of Tianshan, there was no need to use Chen Zhen's name to sell tickets.

It has to be said that kung fu movies are really hard to make. In the post-screening interview, Li Qiutang praised Zhen Zidan's fighting scenes: "The fighting is really beautiful and the innovation is very bold."

After the screening, Liu Yifei went home, while Li Qiutang and Media Asia CEO Zhuang Cheng had things to discuss.

Zhuang Cheng is one of the few bosses in Media Asia who can decide to cooperate with Autumn Films.

Of course, Zhuang Cheng did not agree with the 70% shareholding ratio and felt that Qiu was not qualified to make such a harsh condition to Media Asia.

The negotiations that night were not smooth. Zhuang Cheng rejected this almost robbery-like cooperation method and proposed another plan: Media Asia and Autumn Films would each contribute 50% to make a co-production.

But Li Qiutang was not interested in co-productions. Firstly, the profit ceiling of co-productions was not high. Secondly, Autumn Pictures lacked experience in co-productions. If it co-produced with Media Asia, Autumn Pictures would most likely lose to the other party.

Both Qiu Tian and Media Asia want to expand their cooperative business into areas that they are familiar with and good at.

The two sides talked until two in the morning, but failed to reach even a preliminary cooperation intention.

Qiu Yi softened the investment ratio, but required the two companies to produce mainland Mandarin films in a 50:50 ratio. Qiu Yi could make some concessions on the profits in Hong Kong, but Media Asia insisted on making co-productions.

This round of negotiations failed, but another round was scheduled for a week later.

Before leaving, Li Qiutang took the initiative to reveal an important piece of news to Zhuang Cheng: "Our company will start negotiations for Series A financing next month."

It doesn’t mean anything, I just want to let Media Asia know.

Li Qiutang returned home late at night and found Liu Yifei sitting at the table eating barbecue and drinking beer.

Li Qiutang was stunned for half a second, then asked: "You're still eating at this time?"

"I'm a little hungry. Thinking that you'll be back soon, I'll eat something first. Come and sit down." Liu Yifei invited Li Qiutang to sit down and poured a glass of wine into his glass.

Li Qiutang washed her face and came out to drink with Liu Yifei.

"You can't handle spicy food, but you ordered something this spicy."

"It's okay, I can bear it."

"You can bear it, but I can't."

Ok?
"You hooligan!" Liu Yifei spat at him.

"I didn't say anything." Li Qiutang smiled ambiguously, "I just said that I can't eat spicy food either."

"How can I not know what you are thinking?"

"You tell me what I'm thinking."

"It's not a good thing anyway." Liu Yifei didn't say anything.

Liu Yifei drank one glass, moved her chopsticks twice and stopped eating, saying that it was enough to just taste something late at night.

Then he went to wash up, and Li Qiutang shouted to the bathroom: "Brush your teeth twice!"

Liu Yifei's voice came from the bathroom: "What do you care!"

Liu Yifei brought a very cute suspender nightgown today. Li Qiutang didn't even clean up the table and went up to hug her.

"Oh, let's take a shower!" Liu Yifei pushed Li Qiutang away.

Li Qiutang patted his girlfriend's butt: "Wait for me."

Five minutes later, Li Qiutang came out after washing. Liu Yifei was sitting in front of Li Qiutang's desk, reading his manuscript: "So soon? Did you wash?"

"It's washed and clean now. Go to bed quickly." As he said this, he was about to pick up Liu Yifei from the chair.

Liu Yifei refused and asked him first: "What is the relationship diagram of the characters you drew?"

Li Qiutang glanced at it and said, "This is a character relationship diagram for a suspense film that I thought of. It's not finished yet." After that, he picked up the girl and walked towards the bed.

Liu Yifei hugged her boyfriend and said, "My mother will be back tomorrow at noon. I'm going to pick her up."

I thought I could achieve perfection today, but it’s ruined again.

Li Qiutang said: "Then you should be like last time."

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes shyly: "Hateful."

"Turn off the lights."

(End of this chapter)