In fact, Rongguang gained more than this.

Due to the popularity of the North American version of "Juno", Hollywood's doubts about a certain Chinese screenwriter have been completely dispelled. The script written by Rong Guang has currently cost as much as 34 million U.S. dollars, and it is still priceless.

There is no shortage of smart people anywhere. CAA introduced a Hollywood trader to Rong Guang. He is the kind of person with great energy and wide connections who can mobilize resources from all parties and organize new projects. This kind of person is also the same in the Chinese entertainment industry

There are quite a few, and it is generally called in the circle - organizing games!

The trader devised such a plan - find one of the six major Hollywood companies (the original seven majors have become six majors, and will be merged into five majors in the future) to take charge of projects, Rong Guang will provide scripts, and CAA will provide packaging services. Anyway, everyone gets what they want.

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So where will the funds for the project come from? I heard that the leeks in Germany have been growing vigorously for a long time, and it is now the harvest season. There is nothing to say, so I decided that it was them!

Each country has its own local film support projects. Some will subsidize films or new directors, usually art films, such as France. But there are also more direct ones that provide tax rebates and tax exemptions.

In the past few years, the German government has been relatively tough. Their conditions are the most relaxed. As long as a film company registered in Germany, they can make any film. No German actor can do it, and there are a lot of tax rebates, including those German investors.

The invested capital can also be fully deducted from income tax.

Isn’t this forcing the rich to have fun? Everyone on earth knows that in welfare countries like Northern and Western Europe, the income tax for the rich is so high that it can make people cry. So special private equity funds have emerged to package and invest in Hollywood movies.

To take a step back, even if the investment fails and the loss is 20%, it doesn’t matter. At least you have reasonably avoided about 50% of the income tax, right?

In this plan, there is such a star team, a first-class Hollywood studio is in charge of the project, a first-class screenwriter provides the script, and a first-class agency assembles the crew. What else is there to be dissatisfied about? German leeks are also explained.

Right? Maybe, not only can we avoid taxes reasonably, but we can also make a little money for those German leeks?

Of course Rong Guang would not object to such a plan. Anyway, he has a lot of scripts in his hands. Some of them are not suitable for the domestic conditions and cannot be adapted at all. Some of them are tasteless and it is a pity to discard them. To put it simply, they have been

Not worthy of Rong Guang's strong character and status, all he can do now are those big head movies.

The more important reason is that I gave too much!

Rong Guang is the screenwriter and art director, and the commercial film scripts are worth 5 million US dollars each, and the art film scripts are 3 million US dollars each! And all the income... note: it is all! It is still income, not profit, Rong Guang can get 3%. Including

Box office, merchandise, everything.

In addition, everyone in the industry already knows about Xiongbaizhi's persistent attitude towards copyright. The long-term copyright simply belongs to Xiongbaizhi, and the six major Hollywood companies can share half of the profits.

If it were the parent company of the Big Six in Hollywood, of course they would not give up the copyrights they had acquired. But among their subsidiaries, there are still many independent film production companies, large and small, so it doesn't matter. Anyway, they just use a parent company.

The name of the company.

As for short-term copyright operations? Projects like this usually involve one company. Of course, the company will be registered in Germany. After the short-term operation of the project is completed, the company will be deregistered and go out of business.

And Rongguang doesn’t want to care about the flowers and flowers here, and he can’t control them. Anyway, in every project, except for Rongguang’s share, at least 10 million US dollars will be divided among all parties. If the results are good, then continue to box office

Make money from the surrounding areas; if it happens, we will also make that 10 million!

This should all be familiar, right?

This is indeed the case. Later, online P2P crowdfunding for film production was based on this model of harvesting leeks. Why buy a share of the equity in investing in the film and wait for the box office to be divided?

Anyway, there is nothing new in the world, it’s all about virtue!

Of course, at least Rong Guang still pays attention to people, and he will not go too far. Therefore, the two commercial films and one art film that were released, based on the original historical line, the North American box office of the commercial films was basically 80 million to 100 million.

In US dollars, art films have also reached about 50 million. Moreover, art films have reached the qualifications to be nominated for the three major European films or Oscar nominations.

In addition, Rong Guang is the artistic director of the film, and small directors in Hollywood cannot get the editing rights. After all, the quality of the final film can be guaranteed. If this is not possible, Rong Guang can only do one more thing - rely on

It’s just fragments of my own memory that I personally directed and edited.

Wouldn't an independent film like this have an investment of 100 million US dollars? We can't treat all German leeks as idiots. It should be able to make a little profit.

No matter how shameless those people in Hollywood are, they should leave German leeks with a 10% to 20% return on investment...right?

Okay! Let’s not discuss the ethics in Hollywood.

In fact, this kind of trading method has been able to exploit loopholes in recent years. The German government is not stupid, they will modify the policy soon. In addition, those German leeks have been shaved bald by Hollywood, so it is not so good.

Cheated.

However, it doesn't matter. There will never be enough leeks in the world! It won't take long for a batch of leeks from the mainland to come to Hollywood to be harvested? How about letting several domestic female stars come in as freebies?

Euphemistically called: To promote the prestige of our country?

There’s no need to say more, just be happy!

Back to Rong Guang. He also has the peripherals of the novel "The Martian". This novel will be released simultaneously with the movie. No matter what, this novel can sell at least 1 million copies worldwide.

The original novel of "The Martian" is indeed very hardcore. As for hardcore science fiction novels, there are a large number of die-hard readers all over the world.

This is also a huge amount of income!

Therefore, Rong Guang was not too worried about the huge investment in "The Martian". Even though the investment was almost all his own, he never thought that he would not be able to recover the cost.

Having said that, creators who have reached the level of fame will generally never be short of money.

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After the exchange, a few people returned to their seats in the front row. The film soon started showing:

Fast forward a few years. Juno (played by Yuan Quan) has graduated from college and found a job as a reporter for a television station. She is living with her boyfriend (Rong Guangkequn) and they are about to get engaged.

But while she was busy preparing for the engagement, the TV station leader suddenly approached Juno and asked her to go to a remote mountain village to interview a rural female teacher who had taken root in the local area to collect material for a "heart-touching" program.
Chapter completed!