Li Mu very simply agreed to Teng Huatao's approximate budget of 3 million, and allowed a 30% overspend during the actual shooting. This made Teng Huatao feel relieved. The investment of 3 million, with a maximum of 3.9 million The budget used to make this movie was more than enough for him.
In fact, when Nine Knives was filming "Those Years", they only prepared a total of NT$50 million, which is about NT$10 million when converted into RMB. That was NT$10 million in 2011. In terms of purchasing power, it is the same as now. The difference of 3 million is not big, and this cost does not include the actors' salaries. If the actors' salaries are also included, then the total investment of 5 million is definitely there, so the production cost is already very sufficient.
After confirming the production cost, Li Mu asked Teng Huatao what his salary requirements for the director were. He thought for a long time and asked for one hundred thousand.
RMB 100,000 is neither high nor low compared to Teng Huatao's current fame. Li Mu's director's fee of RMB 500,000 to Ning Hao is sky-high, and the 10% net profit sharing is even more shocking. Nothing else. One is that he is rich and willful, and the other is that he simply admires Ning Hao. As for Teng Huatao, he generally has no deep feelings about the director, but if he can really get into the state of shooting commercial romance movies early, he might He could also produce several high-grossing movies, so Li Mu was also interested in signing him to Makino Technology.
If you want to sign, you have to do it as soon as possible. If you really wait until he finishes filming "Those Years", I'm afraid his net worth will rise a lot, so Li Mu immediately said to Teng Huatao: "Well, if you are interested in Makino's image, Just sign a long-term contract with us. Starting from this movie, the director's fee for the first movie will be 200,000 yuan. Each subsequent movie will increase by 50% based on the previous one. And I promise to film one movie for you every year. As for movies, as for your TV series, we won’t interfere and you can take over the films on your own, what do you think?”
Li Mu suddenly doubled Teng Huatao's director's fee, which immediately shocked Teng Huatao. But the most important reason that made him overjoyed was not that the director's fee had doubled, but that Li Mu was willing to do it every year. Cast him in a movie.
Generally speaking, the influence of directors who focus on TV dramas in the film industry will inevitably weaken. For directors like Teng Huatao who prefer TV dramas, it is already very good if they can have the opportunity to make a big movie in two or three years, and they can find It may not necessarily be a good book or a big production, but every director’s ultimate dream is to shoot a big movie, because this is the highest level in the field of film and television entertainment. As a director, who doesn’t want to be more Opportunity to make a movie? Moreover, directors who are slightly famous will almost never take over the filming of TV series. Even those directors who started out in TV series and later made achievements in the field of film directing will never go back to make TV series. The reason is very simple: they look down upon them. .
Zhang Yimou has never acted in a TV series. Although Feng Xiaogang started out in TV series, he has not been involved in TV series since 1997 and has all taken root on the big screen. The reason is that every director regards movies as his ultimate pursuit.
The same is true for Teng Huatao. He also hopes to have more opportunities to make movies and become a first-line film director, but opportunities are hard to find. Now Makino Image is throwing an olive branch to him, facing the power of one movie a year. Attractive, he agreed without hesitation and asked Li Mu: "Mr. Li, how many years can we sign the contract?"
Teng Huatao wished he could sign the contract as long as possible, but he also understood that Li Mu’s director fee for him had an incremental factor of 1.5 times. If he signed the contract for too long, the later director fee would be sky-high, so Li Mu would not agree with him. Signed too long.
Li Mu did some math in his mind. Using 1.5 times as the coefficient, Teng Huatao's directorial fee for his first movie would be 200,000, 300,000 for the second, 450,000 for the third, 675,000 for the fourth, and 101.25 for the fifth. Ten thousand, if you include inflation and his growing reputation, the overall increase is not high, or even a bit low. However, this is also the benefit of signing a long-term contract. At least for Teng Huatao, this price is still Very tempting.
So Li Mu said to him, "Let's do this. Let's sign the contract for five years. After five years and five movies, if everyone is happy with the cooperation, we will reset the standards."
Teng Huatao immediately said: "Okay! Mr. Li, I signed it!"
Teng Huatao had heard about Li Mu, and Ning Hao also introduced him to Li Mu's current wealth and industry. Behind the image of Makino, there is Makino Technology as a strong backer and support. This is also an excellent opportunity for him. As a As a director of movies and TV series, he has a very sensitive sense of box office, ratings, and number of people covered. If he signs with Makino Imaging, it will be equivalent to finding a strong potential user group for future movies. If Makino Technology uses YY helps promote Makino Imaging's movies, which can be said to be a success.
Speaking of YY, Teng Huatao is also filled with admiration for this artifact. Now he is one of the most loyal users of YY and a loyal member of YY because he has established several industry-leading job flow consultation, talent recruitment, The preparation and establishment of the team can be solved in the group. It is the best choice to improve work efficiency and promote resource integration. Therefore, he also highly respects YY itself, and signing the contract with Makino Image also brings a strong feeling in his heart. A sense of belonging and platform pride.
After chatting with Teng Huatao about the long-term contract, Li Mu was in a good mood. He said to Teng Huatao: "My goal for this movie is to make it a masterpiece of Chinese campus love movies. It wants to become a youth campus." The benchmark and beacon of the film makes it impossible for all subsequent films of the same type to catch up with it, so you must work harder to make the purest, most natural and most resonant youth love, and don't fall into clichés."
Teng Huatao nodded in understanding and said seriously: "Don't worry, Mr. Li, I understand."
Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "You don't have to worry about the music of this movie. Both Simple Plan and Du Wei will sing a theme song for this movie."
Teng Huatao asked happily: "Will they all lend their voices to this movie?"
Li Mu said firmly: "That's right."
Teng Huatao naturally knows about Simple Plan and Du Wei's fame. If nothing else, it can be seen from the popularity of the "Oldboy" micro-movie that the original soundtrack of "Oldboy" is still very popular. The popularity is also a great promotion for the movie itself.
Li Mu's idea was to give the song "Those Years" to Simple Plan, with Zhang Kexuan singing the lead, as the first theme song of the entire movie, because there is no more suitable song to serve as the theme song of the movie. .
In addition, Li Mu also wanted to bring in "The First Day" for Du Wei, because the lyrics of that song are also very beautiful and simple. The lyrics not only fit the atmosphere of the movie, but also fit in with the filming in the summer. In terms of tone, "Those Years" is originally a love story that takes place in the summer. The rain in the summer, the cicadas in the summer, the ignorant men and women in the summer, and the simple and beautiful love in the summer perfectly fit the theme!
As for the other interludes, it's easy to say, either find two more suitable songs for Zhang Kexuan or Du Wei, or just find a few songs from existing songs and get some copyright royalties.
Teng Huatao's five-year, five-movie contract was signed on the second day of the meeting, and then the filming process began. Li Mu didn't have many requirements, but only reminded him to find the most beautiful middle schools and universities as filming locations. , Li Mu personally prefers Ludao in southeastern Fujian. The summer there is extremely beautiful, and to put it bluntly, even the air is full of romance, especially several schools, which are famous for their beauty throughout the country.
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After Li Mu settled everything in "Those Years", Du Wei was finally willing to come back from Hong Kong.
This time Du Wei stayed in Hong Kong for more than a week. During this time, Leslie Cheung and Mok Wenwei took her to meet many influential people in the Hong Kong entertainment and music circles, which was considered as a great opportunity for Du Wei in Hong Kong. She has laid a solid foundation for future development. It is said that she also auditioned several times in the recording studios of several music producers, surprising a large number of people.
After meeting almost everyone he could see, Zhang Guorong was willing to let her back. These days, Zhang Guorong and Mo Wenwei developed a strong love for Du Wei, so much so that Mo Wenwei was sending Du Wei back When we were in Beijing, we hugged her and cried at the airport because we were reluctant to leave.
The night she came back, Du Fei specially called Li Mu out, and the two sisters treated Li Mu to a meal together. For Du Fei, her sister's success today was almost entirely due to Li Mu's help, so for Li Mu She was quite grateful, not to mention Du Wei, who almost regarded Li Mu as her own parent. She was not as obedient and obedient to her parents as she was to Li Mu.
At the dinner table, Li Mu listened to Du Wei talking about the people he had met and the things he had encountered in Hong Kong these days. He was also happy for her and said to Du Wei: "I wrote two new songs for you, one in Cantonese." , a Mandarin song, please see if you have time in the next two days, we will sort out these two songs and try to record them as soon as possible."
Du Wei was stunned and said: "Brother Li Mu, have you written a new song for me? And a Cantonese song? Did you write it too?"
Li Mu nodded: "You have to release your first album within this year, and you have to prepare at least eight songs. And I also arranged a movie for you during the summer vacation, which is the campus I told you about before. Romance movie.”
Du Wei put on a look of shyness and admiration and said, "Brother Li Mu, you are so kind to me...better than my sister is to me..."
Du Fei on the side was not happy anymore and said with a snort: "Little white-eyed wolf, you tell me every day that your brother Li Mu is so good to you, but you have forgotten all the good things I have done to you over the years?"
Du Wei chuckled and said, "How could it be possible? Sister, you are also very kind to me, but you are just different from brother Li Mu."
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