Chapter 108 Emperor Huo Wenxi

When Zhang Chen rushed to the company, it was already past the morning rush hour, but the traffic in Beijing was still congested.

The license plate lottery system had not yet been implemented at that time, and Zhang Chen was considering whether he should buy a car.

When I returned to the company, there were quite a few people there. The promotion of "The Shallows" had already begun, and most people were busy with it.

When they arrived at Dong Jianqiang's office, the latter was looking at a report. When he saw Zhang Chen come in, he made him a cup of tea.

"The offer for the distribution rights in Hong Kong has come out. There are three companies in total: Media Asia, Golden Harvest and Emperor Entertainment Group."

"what's the result?"

"Media Asia's bid was the highest. They were willing to pay HK$1400 million to buy out the distribution and DVD rights. Emperor Entertainment Group and Golden Harvest were similar, willing to lower the distribution fee to 12%."

Zhang Chen pondered for a moment and said, "Forget about Emperor Entertainment Group. I just complained about their artists before, so there's no need to continue the cooperation."

Dong Jianqiang nodded. He knew that Zhang Chen was talking about the incident in which Xie Zhang beat someone up. Xie Tingfeng was a male artist that Emperor Entertainment Group was promoting, and he was a little worried about handing over the distribution to them.

"As for Golden Harvest, is Golden Harvest the distributor of The Dark Invasion?"

"Yes, I was the one who contacted them. They made a fortune. The box office of The Dark Invasion in Hong Kong was 2200 million Hong Kong dollars, the highest box office of the year. They charged a 15% distribution fee, which means they earned 300 million Hong Kong dollars for one movie."

As a general rule, issuance fees are generally between 12% and 15%, but are usually charged at the highest rate.

For Hong Kong movies, any movie with a box office of over HK$1000 million is considered a big hit and is generally ranked among the top ten of the year.

Even Jackie Chan’s movies rarely make over 2000 million.

"Darkness" can really be said to be a miracle.

Therefore, in order to continue cooperating with Star Entertainment, Golden Harvest is willing to reduce the profit sharing ratio to the minimum.

Today's Golden Harvest is no longer one of the three giants of the past.

Zou Wenhuai is over 80 years old and has long lost his former passion. Moreover, since the death of the second largest shareholder, Golden Harvest has fallen into acquisition crises several times. Although it has survived each time, it has also suffered serious consequences.

Nowadays, Golden Harvest can only produce a few films a year, and its work focus has long shifted from production to distribution.

"Who do you lean towards?"

Zhang Chen didn't quite understand this and wanted to hear Dong Jianqiang's advice.

“Media Asia, the price they paid to buy it out is still very good.

In fact, their initial offer was not like this. It was similar to Golden Harvest, charging a 13% distribution fee and 700 million to buy out the disc copyright.

But after thinking about it, I didn’t trust them, so I asked them to change it to a one-time buyout.”

"why?"

“Although Media Asia has distribution business, their biggest business is actually the disc business. Compared with distribution, disc business is their main business.

What I fear most is that after they take over the distribution business, they will release movies and DVDs at the same time. The box office will definitely be affected, but it will not have much impact on them.

Although the probability of this happening is not high, unless they don’t care about The Darkness 2, Peter Lam should not be so short-sighted, but no one can say for sure, so I asked them to change it to a one-time buyout..."

"Well, let's just sell it to Media Asia. This will save us the trouble of having to sell the DVD rights separately."

Since Dong Jianqiang thinks it's okay, he also thinks it's okay.

"Also, your incident has happened~"

"?"

"See for yourself~"

Dong Jianqiang took a newspaper and pointed to the entertainment section and asked Zhang Chen to look at it. Zhang Chen took a look and saw that it was about what happened last night.

[New director meets mysterious girl at night]

[The Shallows director finds a new love]

[Xu Qing suspected to make a comeback]

The titles are all very explosive, and there are pictures to prove the truth. The photos are all the same, one showing Zhang Chen and Xu Qing coming out of a hotel, and one showing Chen opening the car door for Xu Qing.

Damn, I don’t even need to guess to know that the photo must have been taken by those two brothers last night.

But he was not angry, this was already expected.

Those two brothers were quite trustworthy, at least one of their articles mentioned "The Shallows".

"Let them be."

Dong Jianqiang came over and said, "Come on, tell me, did you succeed?"

Zhang Chen said with disgust: "You will die if you eat less melon."

"Hahaha~" Dong Jianqiang left laughing.

In the afternoon, Zhang Chen and Fan Binbin carried out the pre-release promotion of "The Shallows" as usual. As the release date approaches, such activities become more and more frequent, almost every day.

In other words, Zhang Chen and Fan Binbin meet every day.

"Would you like to make a date tonight?"

"Forget it. I'm quite tired recently. I'll take a few days off."

The two of them were already very familiar with each other, and discussing this topic was as natural as asking whether someone had had breakfast.

Fan Binbin seemed to be hesitant to speak, Zhang Chen glanced at her and said, "Just ask whatever you want to ask. I can see you're making me uncomfortable..."

Fan Binbin simply said: "I saw in the newspaper that you had a night out with Xu Qing, is that true?"

"Yes, we had dinner together last night."

"How do you know her?"

"My teacher introduced her to me. She wanted to make a comeback, so she asked if there was any chance for cooperation."

"Did you guys go to bed?"

"Ok?"

Zhang Chen gave the other person a look, meaning, you are not my girlfriend, why do you have to care about this?

But I answered it anyway.

"Of course not. How can you be the same as the reporter, believing everything you hear? We just had a meal together and got to know each other, but you associate it with going to bed. In two days, the child will be three years old." Fan Binbin also knew that he was not in the right.

She just felt the crisis.

Zhang Chen was the first potential stock she spotted and the first one she had in-depth communication with. For this reason, she deliberately built a closer relationship with him and made appointments with him from time to time.

This Xu Qing who showed up now was obviously here to pick peaches.

We are all women, and the vixen scent on our bodies can be smelled through the newspaper.

Of course, Fan Binbin would not allow this situation to happen.

But she couldn't stop him openly, because she was not Zhang Chen's official girlfriend.

Fan Bingbing is not the type of person who would just sit there and wait for death, so she immediately started to persuade him.

"I heard that she has a bad reputation. It seems that she was a mistress..."

"Hmm~"

Seeing that Zhang Chen didn't respond, Fan Binbin continued to add more information: "She has had several sponsors, and she is known as the "big sweetheart" in the Beijing circle. Do you know what "big sweetheart" means?"

"what do you want to say in the end?"

Seeing that Zhang Chen didn't seem to care, Fan Binbin was still unwilling to give up: "Last year, it seems that her sponsor had an accident. It must be because of this that she made a comeback. To put it bluntly, no one supports her. By the way, I heard that she is missing a breast..."

"Don't talk nonsense..."

This time Zhang Chen finally reacted.

"That's all deliberate smearing. How can anyone believe such a thing when the person is fine?"

"Ah, you said you didn't sleep with her? You really..."

Fan Binbin looked as if he had been discovered by me, and Zhang Chen quickly covered his mouth.

"Auntie, you can't talk about this kind of thing carelessly. There's such a big age gap between us."

Fan Binbin looked over suspiciously, and seeing Zhang Chen's reaction, it seemed not to be the case. Now she was a little unsure.

"Anyway, remember, this woman has a very bad reputation. It will do you no good to get involved with her."

Zhang Chen was also a little unconvinced, "Okay, stop thinking about her and think more about yourself, okay?"

Now Fan was a little defensive.

Her reputation is not good now, to be more precise, she is almost being criticized to death.

The mistress, being kept, sleeping with someone from the script supervisor to the producer...

All kinds of scandals are spreading around, and she is undoubtedly the number one scandal queen in the country.

“I was deliberately slandered. Some people thought I was blocking their way, so they made up all kinds of rumors to discredit me.

The media is also hateful. Last time I was at the airport, a paparazzi held a camera to my face and took a picture. I got angry and kicked him, and then…"

"Then the media reported that 'Fan Binbin has low moral character and kicked a reporter'..."

Zhang Chen continued, of course he knew all this, and 20 years later, people would still dig up this negative information from time to time.

"Yeah, but can you blame me? It's too disrespectful for a reporter to take a photo of me in the face."

Zhang Chen was a little speechless: "If you know you are attracting bad publicity, don't mess with reporters anymore. Otherwise, when will you be able to clear your name? Over time, even if it's not true, it will become true. You have to maintain a good relationship with reporters.

Oh, your character, forget it, what do you think about what I told you?"

Zhang Chen changed the subject, and Fan Binbin stopped dwelling on what had just happened and immediately said, "I've already contacted Mu Xiaoguang..."

Zhang Chen nodded: "Well, it would be much better for you to have a professional team with your physique."

Fan Binbin was curious: "What's my physical condition?"

"A physique that attracts scandals and negative comments..." Zhang Chen replied unhappily.

Zhang Chen received a call from Dong Jianqiang just after finishing the event.

"Huo Wenxi from Emperor Entertainment Group wants to meet you to have a chat~"

"Huo Wenxi?"

"Yes, she is the artist director of Emperor Entertainment Group."

"What are you talking about? Publishing? Didn't you tell her about Emperor Entertainment Group's exit?"

"She did, but she still wants to see you. Maybe she has something else to discuss."

Zhang Chen thought about it and said, "Okay, let's arrange it in the evening."

After hanging up the phone, Fan Binbin next to him cast an envious look. She had been in the Hong Kong circle, so of course she knew who Huo Wenxi was.

However, he became more and more certain that his vision was correct. Emperor Entertainment Group even took the initiative to come to him, so Zhang Chen was indeed a potential stock.

In the evening, the group met as scheduled.

The venue was arranged at Dadong Roast Duck Restaurant. It was the first time I met Huo Wenxi. This was also the home venue of Xingchen Entertainment, so Dong Jianqiang was the one who arranged it.

Among the several famous roast duck restaurants in Beijing, Dadong is not the best, but its prices are the most expensive because its main customer group is foreigners.

Several people met and greeted each other.

Huo Wenxi was dressed like an elite woman, and her blazer fit her perfectly.

There was also a female artist traveling with her. I don’t know her name, but she looked familiar.

"Minyi, say hello to Director Zhang..."

"Hello Director Zhang, my name is He Minyi. It's our first meeting. Please take care of me."

"Director Zhang, Minyi is the person that our company is promoting. This time I brought her here mainly to meet Director Zhang..."

"Ms. He is naturally beautiful, no wonder she is favored by Emperor Entertainment Group."

He had heard of the name He Minyi, but he didn't seem to have any impression of her, and she probably hadn't starred in any famous dramas in later years.

As for promoting someone, just listen to it. Everyone knows that the only male actor promoted by Emperor Entertainment Group is Xie Biwang, and the female actors are Twins.

(End of this chapter)

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