The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

According to the plan submitted by Du Zhengde, all the shooting plans of "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" will be resolved before the Chinese New Year.

There is still one month left.

There is still about half a month left for the filming of the 'Tangcheng Film and Television Base'; in the remaining half month, they will go to some locations, and then they will announce the official completion.

At that time, the crew will be disbanded, and everyone will go back to their homes to find their mothers. The rest will be left to 'Dimension Entertainment' to solve.

In fact, once the crew is disbanded, the pressure on 'Dimension Entertainment' in terms of investment and economy will suddenly be much smaller.

The entire crew, including shooting, actors, and crew members... add up the mess, one or two hundred people, food and drink, salaries, shooting equipment, and the rental of shooting venues. Which one does not cost money?

Every day the crew exists, real gold and silver are burning.

According to the current daily budget, by the time the crew is disbanded, it will be a bit over budget.

Originally, the investment budget of "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" was 200 million. Among them, 150 million will be investment in special effects, instead of direct appropriation, it will be transferred internally, and will be tossed around from the 'dimension technology'. This operation is done by Ye Jiayi.

As for the 50 million that was actually invested in the crew, a considerable part of it was the actors' remuneration. Among them, Tong Liya alone accounted for a lot, followed by Jiang Jingfu.

Except for the two of them, the salaries of the rest of the crew are not high. But after all, there are many characters in the whole film, especially historical figures such as Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Guan Yu, Lu Bu... If you want to find actors, you must find some reliable actors.

Those middle-aged actors who are not well-known and have good acting skills do not have a high salary individually, but the sum is not low.

The one with the lowest pay is actually a lot of newcomers—for example, Chen Yu, who plays the protagonist Chu Ge, his pay is very little. After filming a whole movie, his pay may not be as high as Tong Liya's pay for an episode.

In addition to the film salary, the staff of the crew, the rental of equipment, and the rental of shooting locations... are all money.

The budget of 50 million was a little bit over the top, and the actual cost of the film was about 55 million.

After Ye Jiayi communicated with the director Du Zhengde for the extra 5 million, it was decided to solve it through additional investment.

After all, the quality of the finished film cannot be affected for this little money.

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After chatting with Du Zhengde about the crew, Fan Zhe asked his little assistant, Yu Xiaoyu to order, and it was delivered.

As an investor, you can't come to the class empty-handed.

On the second day of Fan Zhe's arrival, because the director was dragged by investors to a small black room for a meeting, the production crew rested for half a day. At noon, Fan Zhe even announced that everyone in the crew would be invited to have dinner together, and small gifts would be given after the meal.

At the dinner table, Fan Zhe, Du Zhengde, and the leading actors sat at the same table, drinking and drinking.

During the dinner, he frequently looked at Tong Liya.

Don't get me wrong, he doesn't have any extravagant thoughts, mainly because people who used to be seen only on TV, now actually appear in front of him, eating at the same table, this experience is a bit novel.

Moreover, Fan Zhe used to quite like the actor Tong Liya. How do you say that sentence... Passerby fans?

Of course, it's just a novelty.

"Yaya's professional level, director Du had a good chat with me yesterday, and said that it is a very good choice to ask you to be the leading role."

"Thank you Mr. Fan, I'll toast you with tea instead of wine." Tong Liya also responded to Fan Zhe's enthusiasm.

Her emotional intelligence is not low. In this industry, investors are the ones who sit at the top of the whole circle.

There is no other reason, money.

Didn't Fan Zhe invest in the money earned by the crew?

This kind of dinner table has a taste of entertainment, of course, there is not much friendship to talk about.

After finishing the work, take a lunch break, and the crew will continue to shoot in the afternoon.

And taking advantage of this time, Fan Zhe and Dai Weidong met Jiang Jingfu's team at the place arranged by Yu Xiaoyu.

Naturally, what they were talking about was that Jiang Jingfu's studio was affiliated with 'Dimension Brokerage'.

During the entire negotiation process, Fan Zhe didn't say much, but mainly listened from the side.

Dai Weidong has been following up on this matter for several months. Whether it is some general problems or some small details, he has actually communicated with Jiang Jingfu's team.

With the tacit understanding between the two sides, the meeting went quite smoothly, and many things were mentioned, and it was passed quickly.

However, these things are after all the communication between Dai Weidong and the other party, and the real boss of the company is Fan Zhe. This kind of thing always needs to get the boss to nod.

After talking about everything, Dai Weidong turned to Fan Zhe and said, "Mr. Fan, do you have any comments?"

"I have no objection." Fan Zhe took out a pen while speaking, and signed his name on the document in front of him.

After signing, Fan Zhe said: "However... just now, I heard you guys talking a lot about 'Datang Entertainment'. I think you don't have to worry about them so much."

Jiang Jingfu, who was also by the side the whole time and didn't say much, raised his head and looked at Fan Zhe.

Fan Zhe smiled and said: "After joining the dimension, the company's various resources will inevitably be more inclined to consider our partners. You don't have to worry about this. Although "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" is only our first work, but In the future, no matter TV series or movies, it will be the direction for us to vigorously develop, and there will be no shortage of various film appointments."

"No matter how powerful 'Datang Entertainment' is, he can't interfere with the films we invest in ourselves."

"Mr. Fan..." Jiang Jingfu took a deep breath and said, "I trust you all. I just want to film well and live my life well. I really don't like getting involved in those messy things."

"Well, it's fine for you to film well, and we will block other things for you." Fan Zhe said this very gently, but full of confidence.

Although he didn't have a deep friendship with this young man who was not more than two years younger than himself, but in the short contact, Fan Zhe found that he was a very peaceful person, a bit childish, and his psychological resistance ability was not good.

In fact, Fan Zhe thinks that this guy announced that he would quit the entertainment industry and go to Japan to study, and besides being persecuted by "Datang Entertainment", it is also possible that there are some problems in his own mentality.

Unable to bear such a great psychological pressure, I have some thoughts of giving up on myself.

It can be seen that when he went to study in Japan, he was sincerely happy.

From a complex and stressful environment to a more pure and simple school environment, it will indeed be very comfortable for him.

However, how many people can really be willing to be ordinary when they have experienced the peak when they debuted and became famous?