Mr. Zhou covered the microphone, as if someone was around. After exchanging a few pleasantries, he took two steps and moved to a quieter corner before whispering, "Mr. Luo has confirmed the news. God's Redemption has been submitted to the 'Centennial Filmmaker' selection event."
He took a deep breath:
"It is said that he signed a betting agreement with Borgia and Roundabout Company, with the final box office of "Salvation of the Gods" as the stakes."
Zhou Sheng didn't know much. Although he could find out some internal information about Century Galaxy, he had no access to the inside information of large foreign investment companies.
He got this bit of news from within the company. He heard that Jiang Se received a call from Cesare and revealed it to her. Then Xia Chaoqun found out and it spread within a small circle within the company.
"If the global box office of 'God's Redemption' can reach 1.5 billion US dollars, he can get the remuneration he originally signed with the investors. If the global box office of 'God's Redemption' is less than 1.5 billion, he will not get a penny of remuneration, and he will not get a penny of the directing fee for the 'Lost City' trilogy that he signed earlier." Zhou Sheng did not care what Tao Cen thought after hearing these words, and continued: "At the same time, he has to sign contracts with Borgia and Roundabout, and at least make two more movies for free for the investors at zero compensation."
In other words, if the global box office of "Salvation" does not reach $1.5 billion, Cesare will have to work for the investors for free for at least five years without taking a penny.
"He will only get what he deserves if the global box office of 'God's Redemption' exceeds 1.5 billion. If it exceeds 2 billion, the share will be different."
This is an extremely bold and risky bet!
As a first-rate director, Cesare's remuneration for directing films can be said to be sky-high.
Although Tao Cen chose to reduce her salary to play the role in "The Lost City" in order to open her own international door, her actions at that time were completely different from Cesare's current "bet".
After she performed in "The Lost City", she successfully opened up the situation in Europe and the United States at that time. In recent years, she has also discussed some foreign investments and cooperation, and she has become a familiar face in the eyes of Europeans and Americans.
But Cesare himself is already very famous. Even if he is not as famous as the "above", he is more than enough compared to the below.
His current fame is enough to ensure that he can sit firmly in the position of a first-class director without any worries. Every year, many consortiums and investors pay him to direct the camera. There is no need for him to sign this crazy gambling agreement.
Regardless of whether he won the bet, if the global box office of "God's Redemption" reaches more than 1.5 billion, he will have fully proved his ability and is qualified to be on par with the famous directors.
But if he lost the bet, all the reputation that Cesare had accumulated in the first half of his life would be gone.
He will become a laughing stock in Hollywood and even in Europe and the United States, and his career can come to an end early.
If his current net worth is in the tens of millions of dollars, then after the box office failure of "Salvation", his price may drop by more than ten times.
The most troublesome thing is that after this gamble, good resources in the future may not fall into his hands first, and he will fall from the position of a selector to the position of a selected person.
Cesare has been in this business for many years and should know these situations better than Tao Zen.
If Tao Cen didn't know that Zhou Sheng would never dare to deceive him on such a matter, Tao Cen almost suspected that Zhou Sheng had said these things to him because he had already sided with Jiang Se and deliberately said these things to make him lose his composure.
"Did he really sign the 'bet'?"
She was still a little bit unbelieving, Zhou Sheng said with certainty:
"Yes. The news came from Xia Chaoqun. It is said that Cesare personally called Jiang Se and told her to prepare in advance."
Clothes, jewelry, makeup, and the best condition for walking on the red carpet are all things that Jiang Se needs to prepare in advance.
The news was passed to the company's chairman Luo Yin through Xia Chaoqun. Luo Yin kept the news secret until recently when the "Century of Filmmakers" event was about to kick off. Members of the "Century of Film Art History" have already received invitations to the event and are preparing to go to the Sacred Theater for a 15-day "movie viewing" and voting. The news leaked a little, and Zhou Sheng may still be kept in the dark until now.
The company's major shareholders should be aware of this matter. Zhou Sheng used to be Tao Cen's confidant in the company, but he only got the news now. This in itself is a sign that Tao Cen is losing power.
That's why he was so anxious after hearing the news and was eager to call Tao Cen to inform him, and even refused to let Song Yi pass on the message.
The Carolus shampoo endorsement is indeed very important, but for Tao Cen, the endorsement is just the icing on the cake for her. She was able to get the endorsement and become famous in China because of the movies and her works.
If she loses her advantage in the film industry, it will be unknown whether these endorsements will still favor her in the future.
After hearing Zhou Sheng's exact answer, Tao Cen was speechless for a long time again.
If she hadn't known that Cesare and Jiang Se were just friends, if she hadn't known that Jiang Se had a fiancé, if she hadn't dealt with Cesare before and understood that Cesare himself was an ambitious man who would never lose his mind for a woman, Tao Cen would almost doubt whether Cesare was destroying his own future and paving the way for Jiang Se by doing this.
While she was still feeling lucky that she had used the time of filming "Suspect" to pry open the contract between Jiang Se and the Carolus brand and found a way to compete for herself, Jiang Se was already preparing clothes and jewelry for the red carpet show of "Century Filmmakers".
All the glory and fame that made her complacent in the first half of her life could not help her at all in this embarrassing situation.
At this time in the imperial capital of China, after dinner in the evening, Shu Payen accompanied his wife for a walk, and it was already past eight o'clock when they returned home.
My wife likes to watch a family ethics drama broadcast on China Film Channel. She has been following it for more than two months. She knits a sweater while staring at the TV screen.
Shu Payen is not very interested in such TV. He sits on the sofa with his wife, scrolling through the news on his tablet and paying attention to the movies that will be released in the last few months of this year, trying to pick out the ones that interest him from a bunch of new films.
There weren't many movies worth watching in the cinema in October, but Huaxia had introduced several foreign commercial movies, and he noted them one by one. (To be continued)