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Chapter 59 Overachieving
"Huang, hello!"

The visitor shook hands with Huang Ze, and then began to introduce himself, "My name is George, and I'm a film selector for Warner Bros."

"Your movie, one million dollars, the U.S. copyright and the remake rights, we want it!"

George seemed confident.

In fact, this is also related to the company he works for.

Although Warner is a big company, records and movies are both considered entertainment industries, and he also knows several friends at Warner Records.

I've heard several people talk about Huang Ze.

"Right Here Waiting" from his English EP also topped the Billboard singles chart. With one EP, three songs, and two number one singles, he became an extremely popular figure.

With his good height and good looks, his number of fans is growing rapidly.

His new album, which has not yet been released, has left several of his friends speechless, saying that the quality of this album is too high. If he were an American, then his album "Thriller" released in 82 would be a rival to Michael Jackson's.

Thinking of the future popularity of this young man, and knowing that Huang Ze's directorial debut had entered the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival, he decided to take this work.

Yes, the music industry and the film industry are not the same thing. There are popular singers who act in movies, but none of them are box office hits.

But this is different!

That requires a box office hit.

For a popular singer, his/her acting salary alone may be over a million dollars, plus the cost of filming, so it is certainly difficult for him/her to make money.

Huang Ze's film was made with one or two million yuan, and the film was tried out in dozens of theaters. If that didn't work, it would be put into the video tape market. Just relying on the words "film directed by Jerry Huang" would be enough to attract many fans to buy it, thereby recovering the cost and making a profit.

Therefore, he is bound to succeed in this line of work.

This idea became even stronger after watching the entire film.

He has watched countless films and can tell that "Good Will Hunting" is a movie of extremely high quality. It is hard to believe that it was made by a singer.

More importantly, if this story is told in another country and the story is slightly modified, it seems that it can also be filmed in the United States. There will be no cultural barriers and the cost will not be high.

If you buy it and put it into operation, it will definitely be a movie that can bring you good results.

"I'll offer one million and ten thousand." The flesh on Harvey Weinstein's face trembled, but he really wanted to remake it, so he chose to bid with Warner Films.

"..."

Huang Ze was speechless when he heard this number.

Why don’t you pay one million and one yuan?

For every price George offers, you add one dollar.

But the price was raised after all, so Huang Ze couldn't say anything and just responded with a smile.

"I'll give you 1.1 million!"

"I'll give you 1.11 million."

"1.2 million."

"One million, two hundred and one million."

The two started bidding, and when George offered $2 million, Harvey Weinstein licked his lips, seemed to think for a while, and then shook hands with George, "Congratulations, the film is yours."

"Huang, I will come back to buy your next movie!"

After shaking hands with Huang Ze again, Harvey walked away with his fat brother.

"two millions?"

"Two million!" Huang Ze nodded and agreed directly without negotiating the price.

It can be imagined that since he offered such a high price, he must want to use his identity as a singer for marketing purposes. Maybe we can still negotiate.

But now there is not even a single bidder, and the negotiations might just fall through.

It’s better to cash in the money early.

If it were someone else, they might not be willing to pay this price!
"Don't worry, the money will be in your account within two days." George smiled and gave Huang Ze some confidence. "A big company like us won't ruin our reputation for such a small amount of money. But that guy just now can't be sure."

"Okay?" Huang Ze did not respond and looked at the representative of China Film Corporation.

"Of course!" The representative of China Film Group hurriedly went to sign the contract with George.

When George left, he was almost dancing. Looking at Huang Ze, the smile on his face never disappeared.

"The United States alone sold for two million dollars. When I left, the target given was one and a half million dollars. Who would have thought that a country would be sold for that!"

"We can double our mission targets!"

"Speaking of which, Brother Huang, they must have offered such a high price because of you, right? Isn't that person signed with the same record company as you?"

"I'm not that shameless." Huang Ze smiled and shook his head.

"If I really want to say who I'm doing this for, it's Franklin's sake."

"My songs are selling well, and since this is my first film as a director, it's easy for them to make back the two million."

"So that's how it is!" The China Film representative suddenly realized, "Then we need to be more demanding next time."

"After the other party introduces himself, you can make an offer. You know the minds of these foreigners better."

"Besides, the targets have been met, so we shouldn't feel burdened and just try to sell as much as possible."

"Okay." Huang Ze did not show any modesty and acted as the guy selling movies.

Huang Ze is also very principled when it comes to selling films. He sells them to small countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America whenever possible, just as a token of his appreciation. He usually sells them to them after a slight bargaining.

France, Germany, Italy and other countries with a little more money, their records haven’t been sold yet, so they can go a little higher.

The highest prices are charged by English-speaking countries.

Who makes their songs the best-selling in these countries?

In this way, sales of US$500,000 were negotiated gradually.

More than half of the distributors were obviously just asking for prices and would wait until after the awards ceremony before selling. That was not something Huang Ze could control.

……

9 month 6 day.

The group who received a call from the organizer were invited to attend the award ceremony.

However, unlike last time, Huang Ze walked on the red carpet as a film director.

What was even more different from last time was the reporters’ enthusiasm in taking pictures of Huang Ze.

Huang Zeyi appeared.

There was a burst of "cracking" sounds.

Huang Ze also cooperated by posing a few times.

Of course, he also knew that the reporters took pictures of him like this more because of his identity as a singer.

So I secretly said in my heart, "Sooner or later, you will film me like this because of my identity as a director!"

After walking the red carpet and entering the theater, the "Good Will Hunting" crew sat in the designated area.

Huang Ze stayed with Wang Zhiwen.

"Brother Huang, this is too exciting!" Wang Zhiwen looked around, took a deep breath, and felt as if he had entered another world.

I couldn't help but feel fortunate that I had filmed the movie "The Underachievers".

Otherwise, he wouldn't have known Huang Ze, and wouldn't have been able to star in a movie so early and come to the Venice Film Festival.

Maybe I will just have to wait until graduation to become an acting teacher.

It’s not that being a teacher is bad, the key is that he wants to act more!

"Look at you." Huang Ze gave Wang Zhiwen a contemptuous look, "If I let you win the Best Actor award, you'll have a heart attack!"

"Hey, stop teasing me. You have a much higher chance of winning the Golden Lion than I do."

"you……"

Huang Ze glared at Wang Zhiwen and said, "You said it very well, don't say it again in the future."

"It's time to start awarding the prizes."

(End of this chapter)