Things can go so smoothly have a lot to do with the Academy Awards.

The Xiangjiang Film Awards are not just an award ceremony. During this period, most of the film practitioners in Xiangjiang will participate, including big directors and big stars.

This is naturally indispensable for movie investors in Xiangjiang and Baodao, who will come to find investment opportunities.

A movie won an award and the value of directors and actors doubled. It is very beneficial to have a good relationship with these people. Perhaps it will also discover some promising young people, and it will also give you a sense of accomplishment to train these young people into big stars.

The Film Award is not just a film award, but also a grand event for the film industry exchanges, which can drive the development of the entire industry.

This is why the domestic market is hosting an internationally influential film festival.

Wen Jun was able to find investors in such a short time and finalize this investment was precisely because of the holding of the Xiangjiang Golden Star Awards.

These investors are in Xiangjiang and are looking for investment opportunities. After hearing Wen Jun’s introduction, they decided to do so.

These people are the driving force behind the film industry. They can invest in movies or filmmakers, it depends on whether you are qualified to invest in them.

They invested in Zhang Yimou because they thought that Zhang Yimou's films could make money, and investing in Jiang Wen was optimistic about Jiang Wen's future potential.

After all, Liu Xiaoqing is a mainlander and an actor. She knows only a limited number of investors in Xiangjiang and is not very reliable.

Therefore, professional matters should be left to professionals, and they have made the right move to Wen Jun.

In a high-end restaurant in Lan Kwai Fong, Lin Zixuan and the other two had lunch with investors. During the meal, these investors were very interested in the Beijing entertainment industry and asked indirectly.

Since these three investors were so generous, Lin Zixuan and Jiang Wen accompanied them to chat half-truely.

Living in Beijing, who doesn’t know a few department leaders? Even if you don’t know, you have heard some anecdotes and interesting things. It’s enough to pick a few to talk about them and fool these people from Xiangjiang.

After all, Lin Zixuan has also been accepted by the national leaders, he still has this confidence.

In this era, the people of Xiangjiang have very limited understanding of the mainland, especially in the capital, which always gives them a feeling that the water is too deep.

After dinner, everyone talked about the main business, and Lin Zixuan was responsible for this.

Jiang Wen and Liu Xiaoqing are both actors and are not very familiar with this aspect. Lin Zixuan has been a producer and knows how to operate it.

When he was in China, he asked Zhang Yimou.

Investors have great power for such co-productions. The director is only equivalent to working for them. They will appoint someone as a representative to supervise the entire crew, that is, the producer.

Zhang Yimou is a big director and has great autonomy, but the producer has the right to make changes to the script for the sake of the market and to have the right to final editing in post-production.

In the mainland, it is a director-centered system, mainly directed by directors.

In places like Hong Kong and Hollywood where commercial operations are operated, the director has very little power, and the investor is the leader. Unless you have enough capital to make the investor concessions, Jiang Wen obviously does not have such conditions.

Lin Zixuan had no intention of changing this pattern, and he couldn't change it either.

This is a commercial society. If domestic films want to go out and align with world movies, they must first learn to adapt to the rules.

What he has to do is to try his best to win the dominance of filmmaking for Jiang Wen, make a movie he wants to make, and of course the director's reward, which must be fought for.

As a novice director, there is no need to talk about box office share, which is unrealistic and investors will not agree. Art films like this sell copyrights, and no one will be optimistic about box office results.

In this era, domestic directors receive fixed pay.

Zhang Yimou won 800,000 Hong Kong dollars in filming "Alive", but "Alive" is a big investment, and Zhang Yimou is a big director. It is normal to get such a reward. For Jiang Wen, Lin Zixuan thought 150,000 Hong Kong dollars was very suitable.

This is the market, and pay can reflect the value of a director.

Jiang Wen didn't care much about the pay. He thought that the movie could be put into filming as soon as possible. After negotiations with investors, he finally set Jiang Wen's pay at 100,000 Hong Kong dollars. Lin Zixuan, as the screenwriter and producer, received 60,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Wen Jun agreed with this, and he understood that the mainland was not Xiangjiang.

As a producer, he can manage the crew and formulate shooting plans, but he cannot coordinate the relationships between all aspects of the capital. This kind of work can only be done by locals in the capital.

Lin Zixuan was responsible for a large project worth 1.5 million US dollars, and there was no problem as the producer of this movie.

These investors did not have much hope for the film, but wanted to establish a good relationship with them. In this case, the differences between the two sides were not big and they soon reached an agreement.

This negotiation only reached a preliminary intention and signed a cooperation agreement.

The first $300,000 will be in place soon. Wen Jun will go to the capital to assist the crew in preparations.

After the negotiations, Lin Zixuan and the other two returned to the hotel and ordered a bottle of expensive red wine. They went to the room to celebrate.

"cheers!"

Three wine glasses clinked together, and the red wine in the wine glass exuded an attractive fragrance.

They looked at the afterglow of the sunset outside the window and the skyscrapers in Xiangjiang under the sunset, tasted red wine, and talked about the future. It seemed that a beautiful life was coming.

Before this, although Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen had acted in many movies, they had not been involved in behind the scenes. Lin Zixuan was also just in contact with the film industry, and all three of them were novices.

It was the three of them who had a not very reliable script and fooled the investment of $1 million.

This is the result of many factors working together.

Anyway, they got the investment and had a good start, and the film was finally about to start filming.

The three of them drank a lot of red wine last night. Lin Zixuan got up a little late. Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen had already gone out. They probably went shopping. They were going to attend the Golden Star Awards ceremony tonight and return to Beijing tomorrow.

Lin Zixuan was staring blankly in the hotel alone, thinking a lot of things in his mind.

Through the window, you can see Lan Kwai Fong not far away. Whether it is day or night, people come and go. His experiences over the past few days have allowed him to see the bright lights and wine of Hong Kong, and his debauchery of luxury and wealth.

Do you want to live such a life?

Lin Zixuan thought about it and shook his head. Life is not only a distant field, but also a bond of home.

In the afternoon, Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen came back. Jiang Wen changed into a new suit and looked much more energetic.

The Academy Awards require formal wear, which is best to wear suits and ties. Lin Zixuan brought a suit, which was bought by Mu Shanshan for him when he was in New York, and it cost a lot of money.

Wearing a suit and looking in the mirror, I remembered the scene of the two arguing when they bought clothes, just like yesterday.

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