September 13th, the day after the news of the domestic release of "Bring Her Eyes" was announced, was also Saturday.
Yu Hua and the others moved a square table to play cards under the shade of a tree in front of the apartment. Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu went back to Luoyuan. When they came back in the afternoon, they saw them gathered under the tree, so they joked: "You guys
People gather to gamble in broad daylight."
Bi Feiyu held the card and glanced at Yu Dong: "Your phone rang twice just now, but no one answered."
"Is it?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the phone rang from upstairs. It was his home phone.
Mo Yan said with a smile: "Really?"
Yu Dong curled his lips when he saw Mo Yan imitating his own tone, and then ran upstairs.
The call was answered and it was Zhang Yimou.
"It's really hard to call you." Zhang Yimou complained.
Yu Dong smiled and said, "Don't you have my mobile phone number?"
"Yes, I have your mobile phone number, but the question is, can you get through with your mobile phone?"
"Can't get through?" Yu Dong took out his mobile phone and looked at it. It turned out that the battery was out of power.
Today's mobile phones are much smaller than in previous years and have better battery life, but they are still not enough and they run out of power after frequent use.
"The battery life is not good, I will ask Motorola to improve it later."
Yu Dong just made a joke casually, but Zhang Yimou took it seriously, "If you mention it, let me mention this button by the way. It's too small and it's troublesome to press it."
"puff--"
"why are you laughing?"
"Why are you laughing? I will tell them your opinion later. Why are you calling me about something? You were also the one who made the previous two calls?"
"I did it. Teacher Guo's "Mansion Gate" will start filming in a few months. Do you want to go and play?"
"What are you kidding about?"
"Are you going to play a role? I heard that there are a lot of people there, including Jiang Wen and Li Xuejian."
"I can't, I'm different from you." Yu Dong smiled.
"It doesn't matter. Although you have no acting experience, you can play a small cameo role. No acting skills are required."
"You misunderstood me. I meant that I'm too good-looking to be a guest star. I'm too unobtrusive."
"I bother!"
Yu Dong laughed: "I'm kidding you, I'll go check it out when the filming starts, just make a cameo, I really don't have the talent."
"That's okay." Zhang Yimou didn't try to persuade him anymore. His original intention was to drag Yu Dong along to join in the fun. As long as Yu Dong was there, it didn't matter whether he played the role or not: "I'll tell you when the filming starts."
"Do I still want you to tell me?"
"Hey, look at my brain. This film was dropped from deep space. You are a big financier. You know better than anyone when it will be filmed."
Yu Dong smiled and asked, "How is "No One Less" going?"
"The film is still being edited."
"Slow enough."
Zhang Yimou chuckled: "Slow work can produce fine work."
"It's not you who is the editor. If you have time, come to Jinyi and tell you about "Golden Dreamland"."
Zhang Yimou muttered: "Okay, I'll keep an eye on you for a while and then I'll go find you."
Yu Dong had told Zhang Yimou about "Golden Dreamland" before, and Zhang Yimou was a little hesitant at that time.
Although Zhang Yimou also had the idea of ​​transitioning into commercial films, the sudden move to Hollywood really made him feel a little at a loss.
However, after this period of adjustment, he has calmed down and no longer has so many worries.
Since Yu Dong believes in him, let's do it. Whether it's good or bad, you won't know until you do it.
…
After hanging up the phone with Zhang Yimou, Yu Dong was about to go back downstairs to watch Yu Hua and the others play cards. Just as he turned around, the phone behind him rang again.
He thought Zhang Yimou had forgotten to say something, so he picked up the phone and was about to speak when he heard Yu Lili's voice.
"Boss, your phone is turned off?"
"Oh, there's still power left. My phone is out of battery. What do you want from me?"
"I have good news to report to you. The North American box office of "Men in Black" has reached 280 million US dollars, surpassing "Jurassic Park 2" and climbing to the top of the North American annual box office. However, the global box office has just
It's over 320 million, which is a bit behind "Jurassic Park". Of course, there is still hope to surpass it."
"Well, that's good."
"Men in Black" can achieve this box office, which has already met expectations. As for whether the global box office can surpass "Jurassic World 2", Yu Dong actually doesn't care anymore.
So what if it exceeds the limit, it will put a little more money in the account, but it still won’t top the global box office list this year.
Since you can't get first place, it doesn't make much difference whether you are second or third.
Compared to "Men in Black", Yu Dong is more concerned about another movie.
"How is the box office performance of "Fatal Identity"? It has been three weeks."
Yuliang said: "The data I got is that the box office has already exceeded 50 million. I'm afraid it will be a little difficult to hit the 100 million mark in the future."
"What about other areas?"
"It has not been released in other regions yet."
"Well, I understand."
"Fatal Identity" has already earned more than 50 million at the box office, and if it continues to do so in the future, including other regions, it should be able to exceed 100 million.
The cost of this movie is only 20 million US dollars. With such results, Universal has already made a lot of money.
At that time, for this movie, Deep Space only received 1.5 million U.S. dollars in film and television adaptation copyright fees and 300,000 in screenwriting fees. Speaking of which, the results are so good now that Deep Space is at a loss.
But there was nothing we could do about it. The company was small at the time and had limited liquidity, so it was not easy to get involved.
At that time, the 1.8 million was not put into Yu Dong's account, but was directly injected into the company, which helped the company solve many problems. From this perspective, there was no loss.
Of course, if we talk about it again now, even if Deep Space doesn't want to share a share, we will definitely have to charge more money for film and television copyright fees and screenwriting fees. If these two dollars are added up, it will definitely not be enough without five million US dollars.
After the box office of "Fatal Identity" comes out this time, it will be good for Deep Space, at least the IPs they have on hand will sell better.
…
It was a sunny day in Xiangjiang on September 14th.
Liu Dehua looked at his asset report at home and lit a cigarette for himself.
Although he learned to smoke before because of the needs of his role, when he is not filming, unless he is particularly bored, he will not smoke.
Now is the time when he is particularly depressed.
The year before last, his marquee company was unable to make ends meet, with a maximum loss of 40 million.
As a last resort, he had no choice but to start working part-time to pay off his debts.
In the past two years, he has filmed several movies one after another, but his accounts have still not been smoothed out.
When will it end? He doesn't know, but all he can do now is work hard to film.
Before he finished smoking a cigarette, the phone at home suddenly rang. He quickly put out the cigarette and went to answer the phone.
"Hello."
Chapter completed!