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Chapter 177 The first day price

"Congratulations... Zheng Qun, come up and receive the award. Zheng Qun, "A Lifetime Love", congratulations to you, the new best actor!"

Chu Yue was slightly stunned. Fortunately, he was mentally prepared before, otherwise he would have been hit hard! Looking at the expressions of the quasi-movie actors, they are all veterans of experts, and their expressions are perfect, but only Liu Qingyun couldn't laugh! He failed again, and was abandoned by the Golden Statue again!

Zheng Qun won the Best Actor, Lin Lingwei sighed softly. If Chu Yueyi was shortlisted last year, it would be safe! Then, she would probably be shortlisted next year and win the agreement. But now, she has to put her bet on next year, and Chu Yue must win the award next year!

Zheng Qun won the Best Actor Award, and the Best Picture was held in his hands by "The Moonlight Night". That night, "The Moonlight Night" became the biggest winner, and the other winner was "Kung Fu 2". He won the technical award. If it weren't for his drama, "Lost" might have won one or two more awards!

The worst thing is Chu Yue and "Lost". "Lost" was shortlisted for seven or eight items, but he only won one best edit. Isn't this awful? It's hard to say whether Chu Yue is miserable or lucky. He started well, won two consecutive games, won the Grand Slam, but lost three more important awards. However, now, winning the Best Movie Soundtrack may not be a compromise and comfort for the Academy Awards.

"Love Unfinished" is much luckier than Lin Rui. Lin Rui won two awards personally, one screenwriter and the other is a new director, which is much heavier than Chu Yue. Moreover, Chu Yue won two awards only after "Love Unfinished", which is really a failure. He couldn't help but wonder, are action movies really so unpopular?

The disastrous defeat of "Lost" did not bring too much unhappiness to Ah Hao and the crew. They were still young and had opportunities! Ah Hao worked harder and gave the script to Chu Yue, then gave him another action scene: "Look at this book, maybe you can use it!"

This book still continues Ah Hao's style, but the story lacks a little charm like "Lost". Chu Yue only read it for a moment and gave up: "This book is not suitable for me, you should do that martial arts. I want to do that martial arts first and try my control over martial arts, and then be that Ran Min!"

In fact, Chu Yue is still very eager to make an action movie, and he has some inspiration as if he is about to burst out. However, without a good script, it is meaningless to make it! Is it really only relying on his box office appeal?

As for Ran Min's book, he was very satisfied with it. While Gao Fei's crew had not started yet, he quickly went to meet the leader of the Light and Shadow Company and showed the script: "I want to shoot this movie, are you interested in investing?"

Light and Shadow dared not hesitate. After studying for a few days, Tenyue Pregnant told Chu Yue in a very regretful tone: "Sorry, KEVIN, we studied it. The budget for this drama is too large and we can't do it!"

I have been following this book for ten months of pregnancy and I have been very familiar with all this. First of all, this drama is extremely large in production, not mentioning the actors and production fees. Just computer special effects are just. According to Chu Yue’s highest requirements, at least hundreds of millions of computer special effects production fees are required!

According to the figures obtained by the Light and Shadow Company's regular budget, the investment in this drama is at least as high as HK$300 million, and it may require an additional budget of 100 million to 200 million at any time! It is twice as high as the 200 million that Chu Yue and Ahao speculated.

Three to five hundred million? Is it that exaggerated? Chu Yue himself was shocked. Could this be too much of a joke! Seeing that he didn't believe it, he asked him to sit down and poured him some water: "KEVIN, your requirement is that the minimum war scenes must meet the standards of "Crusaders". We contacted major computer special effects companies in the West, and the cheapest ones cost more than 10 million US dollars! Do you know how much special effects production of "Crusaders" cost? "40 to 50 million US dollars!"

40 to 50 million US dollars? Chu Yue was stunned. "The Crusader" was a very powerful war film in Hollywood last year. The most powerful one was the war scenes. Almost all computer special effects were used. The completely realistic battlefield scenes were shocking. If he wanted to do this drama, the special effects must be strong, and he must not fool around like "The Legend of Zhao Yun".

The production cost of "The Crusader" is as high as 140 million US dollars, and one-third of it is spent on computer special effects! Forty to 50 million, that is almost 300 million Hong Kong dollars. No matter how strong his appeal is, he will definitely not call for such a powerful investment. Cheng Long added N budgets to film "Thunder Fire" back then, and filmed hundreds of millions of movies from 10 million to 10 million, which is not that exaggerated.

When Chu Yue left, he was extremely disappointed. Such a drama that he was eager to do was unable to continue because of the huge production cost. Should he really reduce the level of special effects? It would be better not to do it. If you want to do it, you must be perfect. China can still have its own classic cold weapon war movie!

The reason why this drama's production fee reaches such a terrifying number is mainly because of computer special effects. In other aspects, it is far from spending so much money, but even so, the pure production fee is definitely likely to exceed 100 million. Which company is willing to burn such a lot of money? When he called to test it, almost every company immediately refused when he heard that number, even if it was director and starring Chu Yue.

These companies have no vision, but making such super production is a huge burden on any company. MGM has been declining since the super luxurious "Gate of Heaven" and almost went bankrupt because of "The Wind Speecher". China Star invested hundreds of millions of dollars to film "The Legend of Shushan" and was extremely embarrassed. Everyone saw these examples!

Locally, filming a drama worth hundreds of millions of dollars is equivalent to filming a drama with Hollywood that has invested more than 100 million US dollars, which is very risky. If you shoot a drama worth 500 million, then do you ask Hollywood if you dare to invest 500 million US dollars to film a drama?

In fact, Chu Yue also knew that if the movie only had 100 million yuan, there were many companies willing to invest in! With Chu Yue's box office appeal in Japan, it would be a bad movie, and it could be sold for tens of millions of dollars in box office!

It's a headache. Chu Yue wanted to rob the bank himself and then film the movie - he wanted to act on his own and then save enough money to film. Unfortunately, with his current speed of making money, it would probably take twenty years to earn enough HK$500 million!

He only mentioned this matter roughly to other shareholders of Hei and Bai, and was immediately rejected. They are not fools. The big companies of Light and Shadow dare not invest. How dare they, how can they get so much money to invest! Only Lin Ling and Lin Rui agreed to him filming this movie - but they don't have the money to support. Well, Lin Ling has, but she obviously cannot take it out now.

I don’t know which company revealed the news, and the media immediately screamed again. Oh my God, Chu Yue shouldn’t be crazy, he made a movie with 500 million Hong Kong dollars? Not only the media were crazy, but the whole industry was crazy. 500 million, not 5 million or 50 million!

Five hundred million, whether there is so much investment in Hong Kong films in a year is still a serious question, and the investment in a movie by Chu Yue will reach 500 million, which is so scary! Major media can’t help but watch Chu Yue’s jokes. It’s betting that Chu Yue will definitely not find investment in the Chinese film industry, and no one will be crazy to that extent - excluding overseas factors!

Even most of Chu Yue's FANS think that their idol is having a problem. It's okay to invest 500 million, but can we recover the investment? Some FANS made a calculation for Chu Yue, but suddenly found that a 500 million Hong Kong dollar investment may not be able to recover the investment, and there may even be a profit!

I won’t mention anything else. The global box office of Chu Yue’s two consecutive dramas last year exceeded the 100 million Hong Kong dollars hurdle, which is calculated based on one of the three points of the film company. In terms of box office alone, the film company can recover most of its investment, plus TV broadcasting rights and audio-visual publishing - I’m sorry, the main market has not yet been regulated, so I should not make much money in this regard!

By this calculation, this drama is indeed a loss. Unless the global box office is at a minimum of 1.5 billion, the film company will not lose money! At this point, all FANS are speechless. It seems that Hong Kong films have not reached such a terrifying box office number since they have been recorded, right? Besides, the investment risk is really amazing.

Chu Yue was depressed. FANS also felt it on his blog and official website, and was depressed. It seems that this drama is impossible, this is a huge loss - in FANS's eyes, this drama is likely to be another classic!

However, a few days later, the media broke a news that Chu Yue had a hardcore FANS rich man willing to invest 100 million Hong Kong dollars in this drama! This led to the influence of this news even greater. Even Chu Yue could not have expected that he had rich movie fans and was willing to invest in his drama! Of course, he refused without hesitation. The media was very regretful, but was also surprised by Chu Yue's current influence and appeal.

The outside world is still hyping up this matter. Apart from his hardcore, no one is optimistic about his drama. They all agree that a drama with such a big investment cannot be controlled by a Hong Kong director, and it is absolutely impossible. Moreover, Chu Yue is still a new director! If this drama starts filming, Chu Yue will definitely have a dead end.

The outside world was in a fierce hype, but Chu Yue was not affected much. He was busy with other things. His contract with Jiasheng was about to expire. Jiasheng wanted his fourth record and wanted to sign the contract now. For this matter, Lin Ling was busy for several days and was negotiating with Jiasheng - the feeling of negotiating with his company was really weird!

In the end, Jiasheng made some compromises and signed a contract with Chu Yue for three records. 150 million Hong Kong dollars, with an average value of 50 million per record - more than ten times that of an average popular singer. Moreover, Chu Yue also had a sales commission of 25%, which is the commission ratio of top singers! In Hong Kong, only one singer can reach 30% - Principal Tan.

Sky-high price! This bombshell made the Chinese media dizzy and all dumbfounded. 150 million yuan, three records mean 50 million yuan each, and this is not counted for sales commission. It is too terrifying. When did Chinese music reach the level of international music? Kelly set a sky-high price of 40 million pounds for two records. Although the price of Chu Yue is still a certain distance away from this price, it is definitely not out of reach.

The media was stunned by the bomb, and immediately came to their senses and quickly launched an analysis. Based on Chu Yue's value, the sales of each record must reach at least 100 million, so that the record company will not lose money.

There is no doubt that the first sky-high price for Chinese singers is also a sky-high price that sets records. There is no way, Chu Yue’s record sales figure is indeed worth this number!

Even so, this first sky-high price also shocked the entertainment industry and the media. Not long afterwards, Jiasheng threw out another bomb - Faye Wong joined Jiasheng at a sky-high price of 100 million yuan for three records (this price is considered appropriate)!

Jiasheng's move once again shocked the entertainment industry, and the whole circle quickly spread the idea of ​​re-signing contracts with record companies - unfortunately, most people who call this are not paid attention to. If they are truly capable and sales, they don't need to clamor!

As Chu Yue's value soared, all remuneration increased across the board. The price of participating in concerts or commercial activities surged again. The price of participating in a concert in the mainland was at least 1.5 million yuan, and there was no need to talk about it without this number. Even when participating in business activities, it still reached a terrifying price of 500,000 yuan!

What made the manufacturers vomit most was that Chu Yue’s current endorsement fee was once again loud, and it flew directly to 7 million TV commercials and 4 million print commercials. As well as his pay, another big step forward - 8 million!

Lin Ling obviously had a premeditation. A sky-high price has created a sky-high superstar who is in concerts, business events and endorsement advertisements. There is no way, Chu Yue has always rarely participated in concerts or business events. If he can invite him, it would be amazing. Therefore, those manufacturers still willingly waved their checks and shouted: "KEVIN, come and endorse my products!"

Faced with such a situation, Chu Yue was indifferent - it was not that he didn't want to move, but that all these things were left to Lin Ling, and his energy was focused on creation! Creating music, or movies, or creating characters! This is Lin Ling's request for him: "As long as you do your essential creation, I will help you with other things!"
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