The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

On behalf of Penguin Pictures, Zhang Yanping decided to keep up with Dimension Entertainment's "Night Hunter" movie.

The story told in "Night Hunter", according to Ye Jiayi, should be an independent film of Wei En (VN), a shooter hero in LOL.

VN is a very popular character in League of Legends, and her background story is quite characteristic.

According to Zhang Yanping's judgment, after the release of "Demacia: Glory", if the results are satisfactory, then "Night Hunter", which is released immediately after the release, as a film under the same IP series, should have good results.

Although the movie "Demacia" doesn't even have a shadow yet, Zhang Yanping is still very willing to take such a gamble considering the IP of LOL and the past success of Dimension Entertainment.

However, there were problems with funding.

His application was rejected by the group headquarters.

The answer given by the headquarters probably means that too much money has been invested in the entire series, and it is not appropriate to invest further until the first film has not yielded results.

Zhang Yanping was a little stunned.

But fortunately, the time Dimension Entertainment gave him was about a month, so he managed to meet some big bosses of the group and talked for about an hour.

Unfortunately, in the end, he still failed to convince the boss.

However, the one-hour interview was not fruitless. Although he didn't get any money from the group, he was allowed to raise funds in the name of 'Penguin Films'.

According to the contract with Dimension Entertainment, the cooperation between the two parties is exclusive, and third parties are not allowed to directly intervene in investment and share profits, let alone enter the copyright sharing pool to share copyright interests.

However, if debt financing is carried out, it is possible to invest the money in the movie "Night Hunter" in the name of "Penguin".

At that time, Dimension Entertainment will normally share accounts with 'Penguin', so how Penguin will distribute benefits with their creditors will have nothing to do with Dimension Entertainment.

Taking the IP of "League of Legends" and Fan Zhe, the boss of "Dimension Entertainment", creating it himself, these two titles are enough to bluff people, so it is not a big problem to find some investment.

It can even be said that all parties are rushing to vote.

However, there is also a saying of voting.

In the next period of time, Zhang Yanping will be looking for external sources of funding. Those who want to invest have broken through the door, but most of them want to directly get the box office share, and there are even many wishful thinking people who want to get a sum of money and enter the copyright sharing field.

This is definitely impossible, not to mention that Dimension Entertainment can't agree, even Zhang Yanping himself can't agree.

He gave a condition for external funds:

"Financing 300 million, for a period of three years, promises a certain rate of return, can be negotiated, but will never accept negotiations on box office share or copyright interests."

The meaning of this is obvious. I borrow money and give good interest. If the film loses money, investors will not lose money. Anyway, it is borrowing money, not entering the market; but if you make money, don’t expect to get extra dividends.

Under such conditions, a large amount of external funds immediately cooled down.

Everyone is waving banknotes, hoping to come in and make a lot of money, but not many people are interested in using their own money to help penguins make money.

Some other funds that still maintained their enthusiasm continued to inquire about the return rate of debt financing, and the result...was not high.

In order to control the cost of capital, and more importantly, control the risk, the rate of return they give is actually relatively low.

At least not that attractive.

This also led to Penguin's financing, which was not smooth.

Zhang Yanping had no idea how much money he could raise after the one-month deadline.

But for him, no matter how much money he got, he had to get in. Even if you can't fill in the investment amount of 300 million, you can invest as much as you can, at least keep up with the car.

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While Zhang Yanping was busy with financing, Fan Zhe was still working hard to advance the progress of the film project "Demacia: Glory".

At present, the contact with film actors is relatively smooth.

Domestic actors still have considerable interest in such a movie with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. The news had just been released, and before Dimension Entertainment began to actively contact actors, many brokerage companies and star teams had already come to the door automatically, and there were some relatively prosperous traffic stars among them.

But Fan Zhe is basically useless.

Even after thinking about it for a while, he didn't use Chen Yu and Li Ze from his company. Chen Yu is popular enough, but to be honest, his acting skills are still a little immature, and Fan Zhe feels a little unstable when he plays the leading role in such a movie. Li Ze is the opposite. His acting skills are good enough, but his popularity is much lower.

The manager of the two of them, Dai Weidong, the person in charge of 'Dimension Brokerage', felt a little reconciled, so he personally came to find Fan Zhe once, saying, "It's fine if you can't get the leading role, and the supporting role is better." "Give me one or two" and the like, Fan Zhe slammed it back.

The two of them, plus Wu Na, are the three most famous stars signed by 'Dimension Brokerage', and they are their own family members. The "League of Legends" series will have many chapters in the future, and there will be many heroes appearing on the stage, so I don't worry about missing opportunities.

Moreover, as long as there are a few works with relatively good results, the following series of movies will not be so dependent on the fame of the actors, and they can even be used to praise newcomers.

It is not suitable to do so now, after all, it is the first movie of the LOL series, so we should be more or less cautious.

Pressed a large number of second- and third-line actors who came into contact, and some first-line actors also fell into the sequence to be determined. The main targets of the project team were still the ones that had been booked before.

In the end, the prince, one of the two male protagonists, was basically settled——Peng Yuyan.

This movie star from Taiwan was a bit like a little fresh meat at the beginning, but his subsequent development path is obviously different from those fresh meat stars who are pure idols and pure traffic. , the level of acting skills has gradually improved, and he has cooperated with many big names, and in the end he can single-handedly fight the box office of a movie.

Along the way, he can almost be said to be one of the best among the new generation of Chinese film stars.

In addition, an important supporting role has also been decided, and it is still a well-known star-Xie Tingfeng.

This second-generation Hong Kong star, debuted as a singer, and later turned to be an actor. His grades are considered good, but I don’t know what to think. In recent years, he has switched to being a chef...

But no matter what, both of them agreed to Dimension Entertainment's invitation, and their remuneration is relatively good.

The former is 25 million yuan, and the latter is 15 million yuan. The total remuneration is 40 million yuan, which is still within the acceptable range.

In the hotel, I also faced a chapter of sleepiness~