Even if the actors' remuneration is pure film salary, investing US$30 million to shoot "Source Code" is definitely a lot. After all, this movie does not require many actors.
Shen Kong wanted to praise Louis Koo, but since this was his first film in Hollywood, it was definitely impossible to give him too high a salary.
As for Jennifer, Jimmy is confident that he can keep the salary down.
Kevin Hoving thought for a while and asked again: "Who are you going to hand over to shoot the movie this time?"
Jimmy shook his head, "It hasn't been decided yet."
Kevin Hoving blinked, a little disappointed. If Jimmy could hire a big director to shoot, he would now decide to give Jennifer the heroine's role. If the director is different, the result may be different.
Probably sensing Kevin Hoving's thoughts, Jimmy smiled and said, "Kevin, what I want to tell you is that you are just here today to read the script. As for the specific cooperation matters, we can't decide. If Jennifer
Once I decide to play the heroine, I will find time to arrange an audition, and Jennifer needs to perform a scene opposite the male protagonist."
"Are you going to audition even if you don't even have a director yet?"
"Don't worry, as long as it's decided, no matter who the director is, it won't affect it."
Kevin Hoving nodded to express his understanding: "I understand, let's do this. You can arrange an audition for us first, and we'll talk about the rest later."
"No problem." Jimmy smiled.
In fact, Kevin Hoving also wants to see how the audition went. After all, the male protagonist is a Chinese, and they don’t even know what the male protagonist looks like yet. If the actor is very bad, or if Jennifer and this actor are different,
If it doesn't match the acting at all, then they will definitely hesitate.
…
Jimmy invited Kevin Hoeven and Jennifer Aniston to have dinner, and after that, he contacted Yu Dong.
On the phone, Jimmy told Yu Dong about the casting matters in recent days.
After listening, Yu Dong pondered: "As far as I know, Jennifer is America's sweetheart, very popular with male viewers, and she has an official partner in Friends. Now let her play the male and female lead with Louis Koo, will it be okay?
Cause dissatisfaction among her fans?"
Jimmy laughed and said: "I didn't expect you to pay attention to American sweethearts. As for whether Louis Koo playing the male and female lead with her will cause dissatisfaction among some people, that's for sure. But what does it matter? No matter how dissatisfied they are,
, will also buy tickets to go to the cinema to watch the movie, and will also help us promote the movie for free. Since you want to praise Gu Tianxue, you can’t worry that he will be under pressure.”
"That's right, I'm overthinking it. You can discuss this matter. I don't have any requirements in terms of casting."
In fact, when Jimmy listed the four candidates, Yu Dong's favorite was Sandra Bullock, but there was nothing he could do if she didn't have the schedule.
As for Angelina Jolie, even if she agreed, Yu Dong probably wouldn't choose her because her image is not suitable for starring in "Source Code".
"Let's let Louis Koo and Jennifer co-star for a trial first and see how it goes. In addition, the investment for this movie may not be as easy as our other previous projects."
Yu Dong nodded, "I'm mentally prepared for this. It doesn't matter. Even if we can't get investment, let's just spend more money ourselves. Didn't we borrow a lot of money from Amazon? We should still have plenty of money in our account."
"We are still very comfortable for the time being, but our company has invested too much money in the past two years, and the risks are still quite high. However, it is precisely because our company has spent too much in the past two years that cashing out from the stock market has not caused too much
The response was huge, they all thought we were indeed short of money.”
In fact, deep space is really short of money to get to this point.
This is the disadvantage of not being listed on the market, and it is easy to be short of money.
However, even if they are short of money, Yu Dong and Jimmy are not worried because the company has too many backup options.
Apart from anything else, if there is any special situation in the future, Yu Dong's personal account also has a lot of money, which is definitely enough for the company to deal with emergencies.
Over the years, the company's business has continued to grow, and the amount of cash on hand has remained constant, neither too much nor too little.
However, the money in Yu Dong's personal account is increasing every year. After so many years, even if it is not as much as reported in the news, it is basically the same.
Jimmy stares at Yu Dong's account every day, thinking about spending the money.
The two invested in Yunfan Shoes together, but they didn't spend much money, and the money in Yu Dong's account wasn't much less at all.
Some time ago, Jimmy has been studying the LCD display industry.
After a long period of research, Jimmy came to the conclusion that the LCD screen industry was very good and would definitely have unlimited prospects in the future, but it was not suitable for their investment.
The LCD industry is too asset-heavy and will take up too much of Deep Space Company's funds, resulting in high risks and little profit.
So Jimmy finally decided to give up the LCD screen industry.
Yu Dong also knew this.
Yu Dong is more optimistic about the LCD screen industry than Jimmy, but since Yu Dong himself does not understand technology, he has no advantage in entering this industry and is likely to fall into it.
If there is too much money in deep space now to be spent, Yu Dong doesn't mind spending some money on it. Even if it can't make money, it can boost the domestic technology industry and at least provide jobs for Chinese people.
After giving up the LCD screen, Jimmy turned his attention to the mobile phone industry.
In fact, Deep Space has been involved in the mobile phone industry before. It not only has a strategic partnership with Motorola, but also holds a small amount of shares in Motorola and Apple.
However, starting in July this year, Deep Sky Company began to gradually sell off the shares of these two companies. Now, Deep Sky Company no longer holds any of their shares.
Jimmy is targeting China's domestic mobile phone market.
Domestic mobile phones have developed well in the past two years, and the annual sales volume of waveguide mobile phones, the leading sales company, has exceeded one million.
Although it is not as good as mobile phones from foreign brands such as Motorola, its development momentum also makes Jimmy very excited.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Waveguide mobile phones do not have too high technical content. They can achieve today's sales mainly by marketing methods. In this aspect, Deep Space Company can be said to have completely crushed Bird Company.
The key is that for a mobile phone company that focuses on the domestic market, the investment required does not seem to be particularly high, and now is a good time to enter the market.
Jimmy hasn't told Yu Dong about this yet, because he hasn't thought about it himself.
…
Yu Dong had just hung up Jimmy's call and was about to go back to have breakfast when the phone behind him rang again. He had no choice but to turn around and pick up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Is this Teacher Yu?" There was a young girl on the other end of the phone, her voice sounded a little surprised, "I am an employee of Alpha, and I would like to find Teacher Cheng Yanqiu."
"Oh." Yu Dong nodded, turned to look at Cheng Yanqiu, "I'm looking for you, a colleague of Alpha."
Cheng Yanqiu wiped his mouth and came over to answer the phone with a big belly.
After saying a few words to the other end of the phone, Cheng Yanqiu hung up the phone, and then said to Dong, "Come and ask me about the title song."
“What title song?”
"The title song of Xiao Zhou's new album "Fantasy"."
Yu Dong was a little surprised and said: "The album will be released in November, but the title song hasn't been decided yet?"
"Okay, it's still close to two months away. The first wave of title songs are usually released a month to a month and a half in advance. Now that it's decided, it will be released in a week. The process is not complicated."
"So that's it, then what's the title song of "Fantasy"?"
"The company wants to use "Love in BC" as the first hit song. I feel good about it. What do you think?"
"'Love in B.C.' is good. It's good as the main hit. But if it's the first hit, I think it can be changed to another song."
Cheng Yanqiu blinked, "Which song should I change?"
""Nunchaku" or "Dad, I'm Back", the first hit song of "Fantasy", will be played globally this time. Although "Love in BC" is good, it is not as good as "Nunchaku"
"Dad, I'm Back" has two distinctive songs."
Cheng Yanqiu thought for a while and said: "If we want to consider the market, it is better to separate each country and region. Europe and the United States will focus on "Dad, I'm Back" or "Nunchuck", and Neon will focus on "Ninja" or "Nunchuck".
"William Castle" is the main hit, while Korea and Southeast Asia can use songs like "Simple Love" and "Quiet" as the main hit."
Hearing that Cheng Yanqiu divided the title song so specifically, Yu Dong couldn't help but laugh and said: "If that's the case, then I think it's better to get a separate title song for Shanghu."
Cheng Yanqiu immediately understood what Yu Dong meant, "You mean "Shanghai 1943"? Don't tell me, this is really okay."
"I'm just kidding you, but you still take it seriously."
…
In the end, Cheng Yanqiu did not divide the title songs into such details, but unified them globally. There were three waves of title songs in total. The first wave of title songs was "Dad, I'm Back", the second wave of title songs was "Nunchaku", and the third wave of title songs was "Dad, I'm Back".
The title song of Bo is "Love in B.C."
Starting from September 25th, each wave of title songs will be spaced two weeks apart.
The reason why three waves of title songs were released was also because Cheng Yanqiu had confidence in Jay Chou's album.
Each of the twelve songs in the new album has the potential to become a title song, so even releasing three songs in advance will only increase the enthusiasm of subsequent listeners to buy it.
To sum it up in one sentence, Ge Duo has the confidence to be willful.
…
On September 25th, Saturday, Hacohen went to the Werewolf Club early in the morning.
Hacohen is a loyal Werewolf game enthusiast, but usually he is too busy at work and has no time to go to the Werewolf Club to kill people in person.
After holding it in for five days, he even went to the club before it officially opened.
Charles, the manager of the club, didn't find it strange at all when he saw Hakohn. He smiled and said, "I knew you would come early, so I came here early. I didn't expect you wouldn't be early. What do you want to drink?"
"A cup of mocha." Hacoon smiled, "Are there any group activities today?"
"Two companies have made reservations for group activities, and the other reservations are for individual travelers. What game do you want to play today?" Charles said while making coffee for Hakorn.
"It depends on the situation. There's no rush."
"There's no rush now." Charles turned on the TV hanging on the counter again, "No other customers will come over until at least nine o'clock."
"There's no rush." ​​Hakohn said again, "There's no rush."
Charles nodded, adjusted the TV channel, and then continued busy making coffee.
Hacohen sat in front of the counter, looking boredly at the TV hanging on the counter, which was playing a morning music program.
In fact, this kind of program is not divided into morning or lunch, and basically loops all day long.
"Why don't you show the videotape of the game today?"
Normally, the TV in front of the counter would play high-end game videos recorded by the club, or some videos related to Werewolf Killing. Today, it suddenly played a music program, which made Hakoun feel a little strange.
"It's what the boss ordered." Charles shrugged, "Always play videos for a change. Don't you like listening to music?"
"I listen to it occasionally."
The host on the TV was introducing a singer from China, and Hacohen raised his eyebrows. He had never heard of Chinese songs... Oh, that's not right. He had heard YU sing before, but only to
this.
Although YU is from China, Hacohen's impression of China is still poverty and chaos. He believes that the emergence of YU in China is definitely an exception, so he is not optimistic about the Chinese singer on TV.
After the several-minute introduction, the song officially started playing on TV.
Hakoun withdrew his gaze and concentrated on dealing with the mocha that Charles had brewed for him.
He had just taken a sip of mocha when he suddenly heard a tense cello sound accompanied by drums coming from the TV. The melody and combination gave people a very special feeling.
Hacohen looked up at the screen again. There was no music video for this song. There was only the song title and the artist's name on the screen.
The song is called "Dad, I'm Back" and the song is called Jay Chou.
Then the song title flashed, and two lines of subtitles appeared on the screen, one in English and one in Chinese. After the subtitles became clear, the human voice came.
"I heard that usually after war comes peace..."
"Why do you see my father beating my mother all the time..."
When he heard the first two lines, Hakoun was stunned. Is this what Chinese songs are like?
It is indeed very different from European and American songs, but it is completely different from the kind of song Hacohen imagined.
The first two lines sounded like rap, but not like rap. Hacohen didn't know much about rap songs, but he could tell that this song was very different from ordinary rap songs.
But they have one thing in common with Eminem's rap songs, that is, the rhythm is very strong, and the phrasing is very powerful.
Even if Hacohen doesn't read the English subtitles, he can still feel the strong accusation in the song from the rhythm and melody.
Especially when he heard the line "Ni Zuokai" in the middle of the song, Hacohen felt his scalp numb. He didn't understand Chinese, but he could feel that the pronunciation of the three words "Ni Zuokai" was different from other lyrics.
Chapter completed!