Yan Yongi received a call from Wu Mu while she was arranging their team’s upcoming itinerary.
Although the movie’s box office had essentially entered a downward phase, the main key period for roadshow marketing is the first week’s hype explosion.
Still, even in the downward phase, for a film of their budget, it remained a significant number. Touring a few more tis might just earn back the cost of their movie.
So their upcoming task remained heavy, still needing to cover over twenty cities.
When she saw the phone ringing, she instinctively wanted to reject it, but upon seeing the caller ID, she was taken aback.
Wu Mu?
Why is he calling ?
And not contacting Director Lin.
She glanced at Lin Qingyue beside her, signaled everyone to pause for a bit, and then answered the call.
Of course, she couldn’t not answer a call from Wu Mu. Even without much sense, one could understand the role Wu Mu played in their movie.
But...when she answered the call and heard the words from the other side, Yan Yongi’s expression turned a bit peculiar.
Lin Qingyue had been observing her actions the whole ti. In their team, although general affairs were handled by Yan Yongi, the chief producer, the real decision-maker and boss was naturally Lin Qingyue.
She whispered, "What’s up?"
Yan Yongi was unsure how to start, "Wu Mu... asked if we needed additional promotional services. He said he’d offer us a discount."
The mont Wu Mu’s na was ntioned, it imdiately caused a small stir in the room. Liu Miao and Lou Ziwen imdiately focused their attention.
Lin Qingyue also seed montarily taken aback.
But what bewildered them more was what Yan Yongi said: Wu Mu asked if they needed promotional services? And he was charging?
The statent had too many issues. A lead actor not promoting the film for free and instead charging wasn’t unheard of, seeing as it’s Wu Mu. In the industry, it’s customary to pay him extra for offline effort.
But their movie’s first week had passed, so asking if they needed promotional services now was ludicrous. Wasn’t it too late?
If it were other celebrities in the circle, they would suspect soone was trying to cash in by hiking prices since the box office was high.
Switching to Wu Mu, there was no such suspicion; it was just...was he joking or serious?
Did he really think promoting at this stage could make a difference?!
Everyone had countless complaints to vent.
But as for Lin Qingyue, after a mont of haze, she didn’t hesitate much, "Give it to him."
Yan Yongi glanced at her. She hadn’t finished talking, yet Qingyue consented.
She scanned the others in the room, hesitated a bit, and said, "Wu Mu said the fee has to follow his comrcial market price, fifty million, and then deductions based on your investnt ratio in the project, your share gets deducted, and others pay as usual."
Fifty million!?
Everyone was stunned.
Wu Mu is crazy!!
Charging for promotion is one thing, but fifty million!?
Does he even know what this number ans!
The promotional expenses for their movie hadn’t even reached fifty million!!
Spending fifty million on promotion now, based on box office share calculations, would require at least an additional one hundred fifty million at the box office to break even.
Just to break even!
Without an extra two hundred million in box office revenue, the producers wouldn’t profit, and it would involve huge risks.
Wu Mu’s inflation has no limit!!
Is this promotion made of gold or silver??
If Wu Mu had been promoting from the start, they might have optimistically expected his promotional efforts could add to the box office, but now...
No one had anything to say, and doubts began creeping in. Was Wu Mu really here to squeeze money? He might not want to siphon money from Director Lin, but was he dissatisfied with Lin’s father for making so much money?
Everyone present, except Liu Miao, was mostly Lin Qingyue’s old team. At first, they might not have known the situation between Wu Mu and Lin Qingyue, but after spending so much ti together, hearing rumors and guessing, they could figure out a general idea.
Lin Qingyue was also surprised, as fifty million was beyond her expectations.
But hearing the latter part of the sentence, she couldn’t help but chuckle softly.
After being lost in thought for a few seconds, she didn’t hesitate, "Give it to him. It was ant to be his box office bonus."
Her agreent didn’t surprise Yan Yongi, but dealing with film promotion expenditure couldn’t be decided solely by Lin Qingyue like itinerary arrangents could be.
She lowered her voice, "I need to consult President Du and President Lin’s opinions."
This was basic protocol.
"Sure, ask them." Lin Qingyue was quite calm and didn’t specifically explain further.
...
Lin Xueming received the call with a furrowed brow.
Wu Mu wanted fifty million for promotional fees?
It wasn’t that he had any issues with Wu Mu or any particular opinion.
The conflicts between Wu Mu and Lin Qingyue had disappeared after their breakup.
It’s just that this matter was a bit too outrageous, why should Wu Mu collect this money?
But... after a mont’s hesitation, Lin Xueming sighed and said, "Let Qingyue decide on this matter herself."
If it were him, he definitely wouldn’t agree to this kind of thing, clearly a money-losing deal. But he had to consider his daughter’s opinion. It’s already difficult with both sides parted ways, causing trouble again over this would be too much.
Moreover, he couldn’t stop Lin Qingyue’s decision.
...
Yan Yongi’s side agreed to the conditions, and Wu Mu asked the equally bewildered Shi Wu to go discuss the details and sign the contract.
The film "Separation" doesn’t have a high production cost, so Lin Qingyue put up the most money herself. Plus, with her additional director’s cut, she holds over 60% of the shares.
Then her mother’s company, which took 25%, and Lin Xueming, in reality, has the least, only 15%.
So actually Wu Mu only received twenty million from the fifty million.
After the contract was signed.
Wu Mu looked at his remaining prop cards, pondering specifically how to proceed.
For this film project, he definitely couldn’t use a Performance Card; not only would it just be a drop in the bucket, but it would also completely an making money for the cinemas and distributors.
Typically, the production side of a film can only get about thirty to forty percent of box office revenue; the National Film Developnt Foundation takes five percent; various business taxes and additional taxes three to four percent; cinema chains approximately fifty percent; distribution agents two to eight percent.
So putting in ten million of Performance Card, Lin Qingyue’s side would only end up with three to four million in profit.
Thus, he could only use a Profit Card, and he couldn’t just directly apply the Profit Card to the film project, as he doesn’t have a box office share anyway.
He could only find a project to cash in a hundred million profit himself, then help Director Lin with so product placent.
After pondering for a while, Wu Mu first called Shi Wu, asking him to take another trip and connect with the ticketing website.
Once there was a result from that side, he opened Weibo and started typing.
His Weibo had always been a gathering spot for fun-loving people; whenever so news ca out, his fans would gather below his Weibo account to chat and exchange.
To know his latest moves within the circle, there was no need to specifically search; just check out what everyone was discussing under his Weibo daily to find out.
Currently, under his Weibo, there were many fun-lovers talking about his new movie.
"Wu Dog finally filled the last piece of the puzzle for himself; now he even has box office success."
"So disgusting, watching Wu Dog succeed makes more uncomfortable than my failed blind date yesterday."
"Wu Dog, co out and speak; why weren’t you at the movie premiere and roadshow! I was planning to see if you’re truly a succubus offline!"
"Did Wu Dog break up with Director Lin? Why aren’t you helping promote your girlfriend’s movie?"
There were quite a few people chatting, mainly focused on his movie’s box office and why he hadn’t co out to promote it.
Then, as they were chatting, everyone suddenly noticed that a new post had been refreshed on Wu Mu’s Weibo page.
[Wu Mu Evolved]: "Launching a joint promotional campaign for the movie ’Separation.’ My new ga ’Hunger’ is already in planning and ready to start developnt; it’s expected to be completed and released in early-access in six months, with an official ga price of 48 yuan."
"But now through the joint campaign, by purchasing a ’Separation’ movie ticket via the link and paying an additional 8 yuan, you can get an 18 yuan discount coupon to offset the ga price, and simultaneously gain the Pioneer Achievent title when the ga launches."
Hmm?
Hmm???
What kind of crap is this?
The people who just saw it were a bit unresponsive, but seeing the word "ga" still made them excited.
"Wu Dog is releasing a ga?"
"Damn, finally waiting for Wu Dog’s ga!"
"Aweso! Wu Dog, don’t go off becoming one of those celebrities again; making gas is your real path."
A significant portion of his fun-loving fans were also gars, and they were very supportive of Wu Mu making a ga.
But after the excitent, upon seeing the Weibo content clearly, everyone noticed sothing was off.
"Wait, the ga is now in planning to start developnt, so it hasn’t even started?"
"It won’t be online for another six months... and you’re already considering discount coupons and joint promotional activities??"
"Damn, Wu Dog, aren’t you just drawing a pie here! So, you’re saying the ga isn’t even developed, yet you intend to make everyone pay eight yuan, and buy a movie ticket, all for a ten-yuan discount and an achievent title?... The title is decent, but at least wait until the ga is nearly done!"
Wu Dog, don’t be too outrageous!
The fun-lovers who first noticed were already bewildered.
At first, they thought it was sothing good, but upon closer inspection, it was all just pie in the sky!
The content clearly showed that the ga hadn’t even started, yet the discount and joint activities were already arranged, attempting to fool people into buying a movie ticket for the ten-yuan discount and an achievent title.
Wu Mu’s Weibo, just after being posted, imdiately garnered hundreds of comnts, all exclaiming ’outrageous.’
Wu Mu didn’t mind too much while looking at it.
He initially planned to directly sell products, then bundle a movie ticket, covering the movie ticket cost with the Profit Card.
But thinking about how he had just sold products recently, he changed it to the ga joint activity instead.
To be fair, though the activity was a bit early in advance, it was actually not bad.
The activity is quite nice, especially for those gars who wanted to watch the movie anyway — they could directly snag a free ten-yuan discount coupon.
Hmm.
Originally, Wu Mu intended to directly sell products.
It’s all just pie! No, you haven’t even started making the ga, and you’re already considering discount coupons and joint promotional activities?? You’ve sketched out all the pies for the latter half of the year?"
"Ah?"
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