Chapter 54 Who the hell is he looking down on?

Because he returned home late for the Spring Festival this year, Lin Yicheng stayed at home for a few more days and did not leave until after the 15th.

He had originally planned to stay for a few more days, but there were too many people coming to his door and Lin Yicheng was annoyed.

For example, Deputy Director Qin of Shaanxi TV came twice, trying to cooperate with Lin Yicheng in filming a TV series in a roundabout way.

Lin Yicheng was speechless. Don’t you know what’s going on at Shaanxi Provincial TV Station?
Which one has advantages: funds or platform?
Cooperation is mutual benefit and win-win for both parties, but the Shaanxi Provincial TV station is obviously here to fleece Lin Yicheng, so of course he can't agree to it.

A director from the Xi'an Film Studio also came to him and asked to invest in Lin Yicheng's next movie, or for the Xi'an Film Studio to invest and invite Lin Yicheng to direct a movie.

In other words, Lin Yicheng was well-mannered and did not show any disapproval at that time.

Yes, your ancestors at the Xi'an Film Studio were indeed wealthy, but you can't keep citing old calendars as an excuse.

In terms of power, it is not as powerful as Zhongying, and in terms of relationships, it is not as close as Qingying.

Lin Yicheng himself has no shortage of people or investment, so there is no need for him to help this sinking ship.

Although to outsiders, Lin Yicheng seemed to be a person of the Northwest circle with a good family background.

But Lin Yicheng himself doesn't think so. From the source, he has no connection with the Xi'an Film Studio, and he doesn't know the core figures in the Northwest circle such as Zhang Yimou and Gu Changwei.

Although Lin Yicheng admires Zhang Yimou very much, he still insists on making movies even when he is over 70 years old.

Knowing that the two Zhangs would split up in a few years, Zhang Yimou later switched to LeTV.

But Lin Yicheng never thought of recruiting Zhang Yimou under his wing in the future.

There is no other reason. This kind of successful director has his own persistence, especially Zhang Yimou. It is too difficult to ask him to make a film according to Lin Yicheng's instructions.

You can see this from Zhang Yimou's future film projects.

Therefore, for Lin Yicheng, the cost-effectiveness of investing in Zhang Yimou is not high enough.

Xinghe Film and Television Company will also recruit or cooperate with some directors in the future, but the prerequisite is that they must shoot the films according to Lin Yicheng's requirements.

To put it bluntly, what Lin Yicheng needs is someone who is obedient and can make money for him.

……

After leaving Shaanxi Province, Lin Yicheng did not return to Beijing directly, but first went to Shanxi Province, which is adjacent to Shaanxi Province.

With the warm hospitality of several coal bosses, Lin Yicheng reached a cooperation with them.

Lin Yicheng originally proposed two ways of cooperation.

One is that they invest in Galaxy Film and Television's projects, and they cannot guarantee the profits or losses.

If you make money, you divide it in proportion. If you lose money, there is nothing you can do.

The other option is that they just pay the money and don’t care what Galaxy Film and Television shoots, and they get a fixed 15% profit return every year.

Although coal bosses are ridiculed by the film and television circles for being stupid and rich, they are not really stupid. After being cheated so many times and eating so many beans, they already know what the bean smell is.

So they all chose the second way of cooperation.

A 15% rate of return is already very high. Not to mention the interest from bank deposits, even many physical industries may not have such high profits in a year.

And they don't have to do anything, and Lin Yicheng's reputation is the best guarantee, which is simply wonderful.

Of course, Lin Yicheng also specifically stated that he would not accept coal bosses adding actresses to his projects.

Although the coal bosses' aesthetic taste has never been problematic and the actresses they support are all extremely beautiful, the gap is even more obvious when compared with those "ordinary women" more than ten years later.

But Lin Yicheng still pointed this out specifically.

Cooperation is formal business investment cooperation, don’t involve anything else. If you insert a honey in, how will the crew treat her?
If you praise it, others will have opinions; if you treat it normally, the coal boss will probably be unhappy again.

So just keep it simple so everyone can have less worries.

The coal bosses also knew that Lin Yicheng was not a makeshift troupe and he had no shortage of actresses, so they readily agreed to the request.

After politely declining the coal boss's special hospitality, Lin Yicheng boarded a flight back to Beijing.

On the plane, to be honest, Lin Yicheng still felt a little regretful.

Every young lady hired by the coal bosses is pretty and has a good figure. They all started out as department beauties when they got admission into Beijing Film Academy and Central Academy of Drama.

But boys still have to protect themselves when they go out. They are on someone else's territory and they are meeting each other for the first time. Who knows if any accidents will happen?
Which one of these coal bosses is the innocent and kind little white rabbit?
Lin Yicheng doesn't want any negative events to affect his future and development.

However, the coal bosses were indeed generous and non-meddlesome, no wonder people in the industry miss them in the future.

This time, the first phase of investment is 5000 million yuan.

It’s not that they can’t give more, but Lin Yicheng only needs this much for the time being.

Xinghe Film and Television Company is limited in scale and can only undertake a few projects, so 5000 million is enough.

No matter how much money you have, it won’t be used at all, but the 15% profit you give to others will remain unchanged.

If he took 10 billion from them, he would have to give them 1.5 million. In this way, Lin Yicheng would not only not make any money, but would even lose money.

……

After returning to the company, I first held a meeting to summarize last year and look forward to this year.

As the company expanded, the original location was no longer sufficient, so Lin Yicheng rented two venues next door, which together covered an area of ​​more than 400 square meters, enough for a period of time.

After the meeting, Lin Yicheng asked someone to bring the recently collected projects.

First came the TV drama project, which Lin Yicheng quickly looked through.

Good projects are basically not short of investment, and have long been divided up by the big film and television companies. Although Xinghe Film and Television has successfully produced two TV series, it is still a small player in the industry.

Naturally, most of the projects that can be invested here are of poor quality.

After thinking about it, Lin Yicheng called Zhou Chenggong and his apprentice Wang Zhihang, took out one of the documents and handed it to the two of them.

"This is a project of the North Central Television Art Center. I think it's worth investing. Lao Zhou, please talk to them about the specific investment amount. It doesn't have to be too much, between 300 million and 500 million will be fine."

"Then Lao Zhou, you can be the supervisor, and Zhihang can be the producer."

The play is called "The Secret History of Kangxi" and is directed by You Xiaogang.

Lin Yicheng had some impression of this play, but not a deep one.

However, Qing Dynasty palace dramas have been very popular in recent years. After "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo", "The Yongzheng Dynasty" and "The Secret Visits of Kangxi", Qing Dynasty palace dramas have appeared in large numbers.

Ordinary people love to watch it, and TV stations love to buy it. Even if it cannot be broadcast on satellite, it can still be broadcast on local TV stations.

Although the drama "The Secret History of Kangxi" is not an outstanding project, it still has some investment prospects, at least it will not lose money.

After Zhou Chenggong and the other person left, Lin Yicheng started looking at movie projects again.

The situation is similar to that in the TV series, there is nothing worth Lin Yicheng's investment.

Among them, he was invited to star in the film "Detective" co-directed by Johnnie To and others, and was "generously" given 20% of the investment.

Lin Yicheng was so angry that he almost laughed. Not to mention that this was a loss-making movie, he would not star in it, let alone invest in it.

He said that the other party asked him to play the second male lead and play a supporting role to Liu Qingyun. Who is he looking down on? Do you have any idea? He played a supporting role in "Crazy Stone" because it was his own movie.

Or do you think you are superior and that as long as you throw out a project, mainland actors will rush to take it?
Those are others, Lin Yicheng is not included!

What made Lin Yicheng even more angry was that they thought he was just a somewhat famous director, actor or singer, and was only worthy of being a supporting role to their movie king?
Have you learned your lesson from the criticism that "Seven Swords" received last year?
Dogs can’t change eating shit!

Lin Yicheng secretly decided that in the future, he would release his own movies together with theirs as much as possible, and keep an eye on them!
I threw the document into the trash can and picked up another one to look at it.

"Love Has Next Life", directed and acted by Yu Feihong, is here to attract investment.

Lin Yicheng remembered that Yu Feihong filmed this drama for several years. After the first filming, it was all done in post-production. But this sister was not satisfied and re-filmed it!

In the end, it cost 30 to 40 million, but the box office was only 2 million.

Even with such huge losses, no one cares, they just want to satisfy their own desire to be a director.

In this regard, Lin Yicheng can only say that he admires him.

Although Lin Yicheng admits that this sister is beautiful and has good temperament, so what?
Lin Yicheng is not her bootlicker, so why should he spend real money to play with her?

It would be better for Lin Yicheng to give this opportunity of being a sucker to those old men in the Beijing circle who treat her as a goddess.

……

Having said that, since the establishment of Xinghe Film and Television Company, Lin Yicheng has set two rules for himself and the company.

First, do not shoot or invest in art films.

Second, don’t invest in Jiang Wen’s films.

In this life as well as his previous one, Lin Yicheng never liked art films.

There has never been any so-called art film in the world. It is just a way for those who cannot make money and have no ability to save their reputation.

As for movies, no matter whether they originated from street shadow puppet shows or not, they are naturally commercial in nature from the moment they are born.

It’s just that later on, a small number of people who didn’t make money from making films coined the term “art film” to deliberately distinguish it from commercial films.

In this way, even if the film they make does not make money, they can comfort themselves and the investors that this is an art film, made for art!

This way, it looks taller and more majestic.

When this term arrived in Hong Kong, it was evolved into "art film", which forcibly defined some concepts for it.

In fact, no matter how you cover it up and dress it up, in the final analysis, whether it is called an "art film" or an "artistic film", it is nothing more than that this person is called Zhang San, nicknamed San Pangzi, and it is essentially the kind of film that does not make money.

It claims to have a good plot, but most of the time the audience is confused. It claims to have a profound meaning, but most of the audience will just find it boring.

For example, "Dying to Survive", according to their definition, it is undoubtedly an art film.

But after it became a box office hit, it was kicked out of the category of art film.

Of course they have to be kicked out. If they are not kicked out, what excuse will they use to explain that their films are not only not good but also lose money?

Lin Yicheng's wish has always been to build his own film and television empire, so he must go the mainstream commercial route. He would stay as far away from such unprofitable films as possible!

Lin Yicheng has never thought about winning the three major European awards. Although his bottom line is not high, he still has some.

At the very least, he would not do such a thing as using the nation's suffering and the grief of the people to please foreigners!

Those sixth-generation directors always lose money on their films, but they can still keep making films. Where do they get the funds?

Europe has specially established this kind of foundation just to support this group of people.

Use awards and money to lure them into making this kind of film to achieve those ulterior motives!

Therefore, Lin Yicheng looked down on these sixth-generation people from the bottom of his heart!

A bunch of pure lackeys and scum!

(End of this chapter)