Since he is a film worker, he doesn’t want these niche genres to remain obscure and eventually lose their legacy. Any support he can provide, he’ll provide.
Plus, for this movie, the investnt wasn’t enough, so he had to pay out of his own pocket. As everyone knows, movie investnt can be as much as you want, it’s a bottomless pit. Bo Yan and the production team discussed for a long ti, but the amount still didn’t match up.
"How much is missing?" Xia Siyu asked directly.
Bo Yan turned to look at her.
"How much is missing?"
Bo Yan thought for a mont, "Currently, the estimate is twenty million. This doesn’t include marketing and promotion costs, just the production fee. If we add marketing and channel fees, we don’t know how much more it will cost."
Marketing aside, channel fees are about how they negotiate with cinemas. If they are willing to give up so profit and let the cinemas take the lion’s share, maybe they will give more screenings when the movie releases. Screenings are extrely important for a movie, as they basically determine the box office for the first few days. For this, they managed to secure a pretty good distribution company with decent relations with cinemas. As long as they don’t squeeze into major slots like sumr or Spring Festival seasons, there shouldn’t be a problem.
In any case, making a movie is like taking a big exam. But movie distribution is like filling out college applications. Everyone wants the best slots, just like students want to go to the best schools. But if you’re bounced, you might not even get into your second-choice school, and your box office might be worse than so movies of lesser quality.
But all these strategies are for later; everything has to be fild first.
Xia Siyu thought for a mont: "I can put up the twenty million."
Bo Yan imdiately stood up: "How can that be, I..."
Xia Siyu reached out to stop him: "I can put up the twenty million, but you still need to pay the full amount for my role. Let’s keep things separate; they’re different. I need this part of the salary for my studio staff. This is my job, and I won’t back down. But the twenty million will be considered my personal investnt."
Bo Yan was still a bit uneasy: "But you’ve already paid quite a bit in compensation, and you haven’t had much inco last year..."
Xia Siyu waved her hand: "Do you have so misunderstanding about ? I’ve been in the industry for eight years, you know. And in those eight years, I’ve always been at the top, do you think I’d lack money? Also, Qin Baizhou has been quite good to ; he helped cover so of the compensation, so even though I paid part of it, I’m more than fine. Most importantly, I haven’t bought many houses or cars. I don’t have a particular fondness for luxury goods either."
Of course, she did pay quite a bit in compensation, almost a quarter of her inco over the years, which was significant.
The reason she needed the fifteen million salary is, firstly, even a friendly price has its limits; she can’t keep lowering her fee indefinitely, or she’d have trouble pricing future roles. Secondly, while she still has funds, she can’t just sit and deplete them without any inco. There’s also the issue of so of her money being tied up in funds and fixed terms, so she can’t touch it. Liquid funds aren’t very abundant. But in a few months, when the fund money gets cleared, she’d be able to manage.
Bo Yan did not expect that sothing that had troubled him for nearly a month was solved by Xia Siyu in an instant. She even said, "Didn’t I say? If you run out of money in the future, I might just keep you."
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