Chapter 796: This Film Festival
Bai Lu's money is currently divided into three major pieces, the largest piece is in Liv's hands, that is, the offshore company, Bai Lu is too lazy to toss those procedures, and gives Liv full authority to deal with it, including the American film company, as well as the large sum of money that Sun Wangbei transferred over.
In order to avoid problems, Liv opened two more offshore companies and transferred the funds separately.
One piece is in the hands of Yangling, Taozi and Liu Wenqing, but the three strong women only have the right to operate a few companies, and the boss behind the scenes is Bai Lu. Among the three people, Yang Ling controls the largest number and is in charge of the Standard Building and the performance company. Peaches is second, managing the Zhongcheng Hotel. Liu Wenqing is the least one person who has passed the funds, but she has the closest relationship with Bai Lu.
There is a fund about the control of Peach and Yangling, which was originally under the control of the offshore company. Later, for convenience, another company was established in China and the two enterprises were transferred to the name of this holding company.
The third piece of funds is bank deposits, which are deposited in four domestic banks, each with deposits of more than 300 million yuan, with a total amount of about 1.5 billion yuan.
Now Bailu is very rich, and money can make money, and with Liv's help, the amount of that money has increased at a terrifying rate.
Seeing Liv hang up the phone, Bai Lu scratched his head, it was really troublesome to have money, and he had to worry about being stolen.
After he finished calling, He Shanqing came over and asked, "Who are you talking to so energetically?"
Bai Lu glanced at him and said disdainfully: "Poor." He proudly walked back to his position and squatted down, continuing the chic style of the street gangsters.
In the room, the girls had a lot of fun, and the small supermarket next door made a lot of money. Light yƬ sold out of beer in the store, and even small snacks such as popsicles were swept away.
It wasn't until two hours later that Yuanlong had the strength to squeeze out, squatted beside Bai Lu and said, "Take me away, these girls are too enthusiastic." ā
"Well deserved. "Bai Lu is very good at falling into the well.
No matter how lively the party is, there is an end to it, and after twenty minutes, the girls leave one by one, many of them are new waiters to the hotel, some go back to the hotel dormitory, and some go to the dormitory next door to the big house.
Like Feng Baobao and other girls. It's to go back to the big house.
When you get home. As usual, I went to see the tiger before going downstairs to sleep.
The next morning, Bai Lu explained a few words to Liu Wenqing, and went to the airport with Yang Ling, Ding Ding and others. He's going to the first film festival in his life.
The film festival is a lot of fun. A lot of people can't come if they want to. A lot of people don't want to come but keep inviting. Some film festivals are very hot, and the stars are crowded in, and some film festivals are very deserted. You can't afford to spend money and invite people.
There are many film festivals in China, including the particularly old Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Award, as well as pure award activities such as movie channels or Huabiao that only engage in award ceremonies, as well as a few film festivals with international influence. In addition, there are many college student film festivals, or what kind of event film festivals, etc., plus the two major film festivals in Hong Kong and Taiwan, in short, there are a lot.
A more tragic southern city once held a cool film festival, but it was only held twice, and many classic films such as "Changing Face" were promoted, and then they were gone.
To put it simply, the film festival is divided into two kinds, one is the government award, the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers are all watches, some are participated in by the film association, and some are organized by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, which is said to be the audience award. It is now declining.
The other is in line with international standards, which is becoming more and more popular, and will be awarded by the jury. Hosted by the local government, plus co-organized by some other units, a big world has been created.
Normally, the festival lasts for three days. However, large-scale international film festivals are basically about seven to nine days, which is really a long festival.
Since it is a festival, it will be vigorous. The local government will treat the film festival as a major event and will mobilize the whole city. All units in the city cooperate collectively, and public security, taxation, sanitation, and even the streets must join in the fun. Not to mention cinemas, which, depending on the festival and the host city, have several or dozens of cinemas involved.
For film companies, film festivals are a great opportunity to promote new films. And for the film festival organizers, they want to make money. In order to make money, they will spend a lot of money to invite celebrities and use celebrities to attract audiences to spend money. At the same time, it will collect money from all participating film companies, how much is a film.
There are many opportunities for the festival to make money, such as advertising sponsorships, charging a fee for using their drinks, wearing their clothes, wearing their jewelry, etc., at the opening or closing ceremony.
There is also ticket revenue, one is the ticket revenue of the opening and closing ceremonies, and the other is the ticket revenue of the film festival. At film festivals, many movie theaters are lined up to screen films, and tickets sell much better than usual.
Bai Lu went to participate in the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, which used to be two awards, and later merged together to become one of several major film festivals. The local government shall apply to the organizing committee, and the local government will take turns to hold it. The venue of this event is in Jicheng, a provincial capital city in the south. The time is three days.
This once the most cowish film award, as the back waves became more and more fierce, light yƬ filmed it on the beach.
The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is mostly held in September and October. This year, for some reason, it was postponed by a month.
At this time, it is a great opportunity for various Chinese New Year films to seize the market and make more money. There are many manufacturers who see this opportunity and pay money to participate in the exhibition.
In layman's terms, whether a film festival is successful depends on whether the organizer is willing to spend money. You can't just collect money, ask the film dealer to collect it, ask the audience to collect it, or even ask the reporter to collect it. One of the criteria for success is publicity, to promote the festival itself, but also to promote the participating films, and if you want to promote it properly, you have to spend more money.
The most intuitive expression is to invite celebrities, celebrities are always the darlings of the media, only when they come, will they attract audiences, attract reporters, and will have many more publicity opportunities.
There are exhibition halls in film festivals, like car shows, where a large number of film companies grab their positions and promote films. This location costs the same money.
In order to make the money worthwhile, there are always film dealers who invite celebrities to stand on the platform, such as Bai Lu performed "Wandering Fish", and if he wanted to introduce this film to the audience, Bai Lu had to come over to be interviewed by reporters.
When encountering that kind of big film festival, the exhibition hall is full of stars, and dozens of press conferences can be held in one morning.
It's a pity that it was another big film festival, not this film festival.
In this Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Award, the organizing committee did not invite too many celebrities in order to save money and reduce expenses as much as possible.
Bai Lu didn't know these things, Yang Ling didn't know these things, and Mingchen, Ding Ding, He Xiaohuan, and even Yuan Long, who came with them, didn't know about it.
In the entire film festival, Yuan Long is the biggest wrist. He didn't have a film to participate in the awards, and he didn't have a film to participate in the film festival, so he didn't want to participate. But for that reason, in order to get Bai Lu to go to the United States, he really gave face, and the committee members came casually with some money.
As for Bai Lu, although it has been a hot mess recently, because he is a newcomer in the film industry, and because this is the first time that a standard performance company has participated in a similar event, the price is very low.
Not only is the price of Bailu low, but Ding Ding, Mingchen and others are all invited at a low price, which is more friendly than the friendship price.
It's a pity that everyone didn't know about this situation and rushed here with great interest.
Fortunately, there was someone at the airport who picked me up and sent me straight to the hotel.
Because of the film festival, many reporters stayed at Jicheng Airport, and some reporters waited for two days and finally saw a group of big names, which were bravely grabbing the news.
Yuanlong always encountered such a thing, walked in front with a smile, waved to reporters as he walked, but resolutely did not speak. There were staff of the organizing committee in front of the road, until everyone walked out of the airport hall, Yuan Long waved his hand to everyone again, and then left.
In order to save money, the organizing committee only arranges three days and three nights of food and accommodation for Bai Lu and others, and the excess people and excess time are paid by each person.
Fortunately, I didn't bring any extra people here, so I didn't have to worry about it.
The general process of the film festival is like this, the opening ceremony on the morning of the first day, there will be a speech by the leader, and then the host will introduce the event, there will be some video materials, focusing on certain films or stars, and there will be some performance programs.
After the opening ceremony, it is the publicity and exhibition time of each film company.
Corresponding to it are some activities of film practitioners, such as holding a forum, inviting some celebrities to participate, everyone sits together and chats, and there will be reporters to participate.
In order to expand their contacts, many small stars will strive for every opportunity and have more relationships with the financiers and the big brothers and sisters in the industry.
During this period, there will be some new film press conferences, mostly in the exhibition hall, and the new film press conference is the best time to interview stars, stars come and go, and reporters also come and go.
During this period, there will also be some entertainment activities, such as the contestants of a certain talent show coming to promote something, mainly depending on how much money is given. This is an extra tidbit, a kind of non-business. The main theme of the festival is still film.
Because the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is a government award, there will be more activities organized by the government, such as the annual meeting of filmmakers or something, anyway, it is enough to toss for three days.
The third evening is the highlight of the festival, the closing ceremony, which is the awards evening.
When the night passes and the film festival ends, everyone goes back to their homes, and the rest is the matter of the organizing committee.
Leave the airport and rush to the hotel. In the car, Yang Ling, who came into contact with the film festival for the first time, talked to the staff, such as asking which star or something came.
The staff said: "Brother Yuanlong is the biggest star. ā
This guy is really good at talking, not only praising Yuanlong, but also covering up the fact that there are not many stars.
Yang Ling asked again, how are the participating films?
The staff replied that it was not clear.
Then it's not clear, let's talk more about what I don't have, and I really don't ask if it's content. Yang Ling began to look at his phone.
This film festival, they are the most relaxed team. There is no need to promote the film, no need to participate in the event, just make sure to appear at the opening ceremony.
The car drove for more than an hour to reach the guesthouse. There is a reception desk in the hotel, where celebrities go up to sign in, receive room cards and film festival activities, as well as souvenirs. (To be continued......)