China Entertainment: Director’s Happiness Is so Simple

Chapter 94 A Gentleman Takes Revenge From Morning Till Night! (The Tenth Update!)

After finishing the work on "Chainsaw", Lu Pingan returned to New York the next day and prepared to transfer back to China.

David didn't come to see him off this time, he was sleeping soundly on the woman's belly.

On the 29th, Lu Pingan landed in Beijing, and the first thing he did was to go back to the company.

The company will hold an annual meeting today. Before that, Lu Pingan wants to confirm the revenue of "The Source".

He arrived at the company soon, and after checking with Wu Guohua, the data came out.

The revenue sharing, various copyright revenues, and advertising sponsorship of "The Source" totaled 39.9 million US dollars.

15% will be deducted from the overseas revenue sharing, which is for the other two producers.

Half of the North American DVD copyright will also be deducted for the remaining producers.

This is in the contract. The revenue sharing is different from the DVD copyright, and it must be given to them. Lu Pingan will not ruin his character over such a small matter.

In the end, Xingchen Film and Television can get: 20.48 million US dollars in overseas revenue sharing, 2.8 million US dollars in copyright revenue, 42 million RMB in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan revenue sharing, and 16 million RMB in all advertising sponsorship according to the sharing.

In this wave, a total of 240 million RMB was obtained before tax.

Among them, the 20 million RMB for special effects is not included.

Total expenditure: 6 million RMB.

All the revenue sharing income did not arrive so quickly, and half of the tax was deducted after it arrived. Lu Ping'an did not take all the half that Wattsberg gave him back to China, but directly let Xiang Guoqing throw it into the stock market, leaving a million US dollars to subsidize domestic expenses.

So in general, Lu Ping'an does not have much money available now, only about 15 million RMB.

But this is enough to make people happy.

Han Sanpin knew that he could get more than 2 million RMB from the revenue sharing and DVD copyright, and the first 50% was received today, and he laughed so hard on the phone that he coughed.

Huayi and other producers knew that Lu Ping'an had directly paid the North American DVD copyright fee, and they were also very happy. They invited Lu Ping'an to dinner and then continued to discuss projects.

They regretted not sharing the revenue, and they would definitely continue to follow next time.

But Lu Ping'an would naturally not give it so easily at that time, at least the resources to be exchanged would be doubled! .

After settling the bill, Lu Pingan called the team far away in Bashu.

The Bashu team was established before the New Year, and Xiang Guoqiang was in charge. Lu Pingan had not been there yet, but was going to go after the New Year.

Half of the Bashu team did not go home. Everyone was familiarizing themselves with the software and preparing to start making the Venice short film next year.

Lu Pingan's salary was paid as usual, and various subsidies were given. The small team has stabilized.

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and Lu Pingan can't go there, but various New Year's goods and supplies have already arrived.

Then the company held an annual meeting.

Lu Pingan paid everyone 5 months' salary, and spent 100,000 yuan to buy New Year's goods, air tickets, etc., including a latest model of Bird mobile phone for each person, which was free, given by Bird, so that everyone can have a good New Year this time.

The annual meeting was very lively. After "The Source", everyone learned a lot, and the cohesion was unprecedentedly strong. It will be much smoother to do big projects in the future.

The day after the annual meeting, Lu Pingan attended the annual meeting of the fried chicken shop, which was mentioned by Xiao Li in the middle of the year.

Now Lu Ping'an has 7 fried chicken restaurants, with a total of four names, which is a bit messy, but the staff is all the same.

Everyone gathered at the hotel and was excited to see the great director Lu Ping'an. Of course, the most excited was when talking to the superstar Guo Rong brought by Lu Ping'an.

Guo Rong's movie this year was a big hit, he is a superstar himself, and he has never been on the Spring Festival Gala. This year, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala director team took the opportunity to invite him.

Guo Rong was also very happy, and he is in a very good mental state now.

Guo Rong's Spring Festival Gala program is basically set, and it is basically impossible to be cut on New Year's Eve.

Guo Rong said that the program is confidential, and we will know when the time comes.

However, the specific time of the appearance has not been determined yet. These days, the fifth and sixth rounds of rehearsals are in progress.

This is also the reason why he came here to join in the fun today. The rehearsal is boring, and there is nowhere to go after playing around, so he just came to Lu Ping'an's small business to take a look.

Let the superstar rehearse so many times, it seems that the program is not a simple solo, and there must be a bunch of dancers.

Guo Rong is in good condition now. His agent Chen Shufen said that he still has painful symptoms occasionally, but it has not deteriorated much in a year, which is good news.

After having dinner with more than 30 employees, Lu Pingan raised everyone's salary for the next year, and gave each person three months' salary as a bonus, as well as a bunch of prizes. He covered the air tickets for outstanding employees, reimbursed the rest of the train tickets, paid social security for the next year, upgraded the dormitory, and took care of water, electricity, gas and other things.

The slogan is: "Hey, Famu Lei!"

Such high welfare is not seen in other places, and everyone is very happy.

Of course, if you want to keep your job, you have to abide by many rules, including various health inspections, training, customer satisfaction assessments, and the most important confidentiality principle, which are not available in other places.

Fortunately, these are all trivial matters in front of Famu Lei.

The annual meeting ended successfully, and Lu Pingan sent Guo Rong back to the hotel.

The two agreed to part ways after going to Bashu a few days later.

After returning home, he talked on the phone with Yan Danchen for a long time, and chatted with Dong Xuan for a while about text messages, and Lu Pingan fell asleep.

The next day, New Year's Eve, at 2pm, all the friends came.

"Ping An, come and get the food!"

Zhang Songwen came in with several large bags of food.

"Brother!"

Baoqiang also came in with a box of wine, and greeted Lu Ping An when he saw him.

He had a mouthful of big white teeth and a silly smile.

During the road show of Source Code, Lu Pingan and this guy had established a good relationship. Now Baoqiang has become accustomed to calling him brother, and he really recognizes him as his brother.

During the Golden Rooster Awards, Li Yang, who had met him before, talked to Lu Pingan about shooting a new movie.

After asking, it was indeed Blind Shaft, so Lu Pingan simply introduced Baoqiang.

When Li Yang saw Baoqiang, he was indeed the actor he wanted to find, so Baoqiang embarked on the same road as in the original time and space.

Now Baoqiang has returned from shooting Blind Shaft, and he immediately found Lu Pingan.

Lu Pingan asked with a smile: "Is it fun in the mine?"

"There is nothing fun in the mine. Acting is interesting."

"Oh, I heard that you were fucked by a woman?"

Baoqiang was embarrassed immediately, Lu Pingan laughed, and Baoqiang said: "It was all acting."

"Hahaha."

Everyone laughed.

Then Zhou Yiwei came in: "Ping An, I have some unfortunate news to tell you. The car's rearview mirror was smashed by Awen."

Zhou Yiwei came in and told the bad news.

Lu Ping An laughed: "Sui Sui Ping An! Come in quickly, it's cold outside."

This year, Zhang Songwen will not go home, Zhou Yiwei will not go home, and Baoqiang, the new brother he met this year, will not go home either. In addition, Guo Rong will be on the Spring Festival Gala. He called early in the morning and said that the show was at 9 o'clock, so Lu Ping An simply invited him to join Lu Ping An's "wreath". Or call it "Ping An circle".

So this year's New Year's Eve is many times more lively than in previous years.

Starting at 5 o'clock, several people began to prepare ingredients for New Year's Eve, making dumplings and wontons.

Zhang Songwen is the best cook among the group, so his work is also the heaviest, and it is definitely not because the rearview mirror was broken.

Baoqiang can also cook, but he is not good at it, but he is still very good at killing chickens and fish.

Zhou Yiwei can't do anything, but he can do some food processing work under Zhang Songwen's instructions.

Lu Ping An is not easy either. It is also very tiring to take out fruits and vegetables and clean the house.

The busy work lasted until 7:30 in the evening.

The four sat on the sofa, eating melon seeds and waiting for the Spring Festival Gala.

At 8 o'clock, the Spring Festival Gala began.

The first few programs were not interesting.

Singing and dancing, just for the New Year atmosphere.

At 9 o'clock, Guo Rong's program came on.

As a result, it was originally thought to be a large-scale program, but it was just a solo + a dozen dancers.

There was no panda element as expected.

The song he sang was also a relatively ordinary song "Thousands of Songs".

Overall, it was quite standard, as if it only highlighted Guo Rong and sang a nostalgic golden song.

So everyone quickly discussed that this was definitely not the program that was decided at the beginning.

Everyone discussed and drove to the studio building.

After picking up Guo Rong and others, Guo Rong said with some regret: "Originally, I was performing with more than 20 children, but the duration was a bit too long, and the theme was not quite consistent with the Year of the Sheep. In the end, it was changed to a simple solo, and it was lip-syncing. Oh, those children cried so hard."

Everyone then blamed the director team.

But everyone also knows that these things are beyond people's control.

And now Guo Rong's solo, in fact, the effect is really good.

At least it was Guo Rong's first time to perform on the Spring Festival Gala, and he sang a well-known golden song. I guess it will be praised by everyone when the report comes out tomorrow.

Back in the courtyard, everyone started cooking.

The New Year's Eve dinner began.

Chicken, duck, fish, seafood, hot pot, a large table full of them.

Everyone watched the Spring Festival Gala and spent the last day happily.

The New Year's bell rang.

Firecrackers roared in Beijing.

It's the New Year!

Don't be surprised if the article doesn't match the title, because it has been revised and does not affect the reading.

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