"Teacher Su Yu, please speak!" Director Zhao Xiaolu cautiously began.
"I've already decided on the lead actor and actress for the film: Liu Ruyan for the female lead and Li Enjun for the male lead. I won't interfere with anything else! If you don't see any problems, then go ahead and create a budget. Once that's done, we can directly greenlight the project and start filming."
Upon hearing Su Yu's follow-up, Zhao Xiaolu was not surprised but delighted!
As a relatively unknown director, how could she have the qualifications to choose her preferred actors?
Even if she invited them, would they pay attention to her?
Take Li Enjun, who is currently very popular; how much would it cost in remuneration to get him to join?
Zhao Xiaolu felt that only if Su Yu spoke, could people like Li Enjun and Liu Ruyan directly join the crew.
Moreover, even if the project her company gave her was approved, the budget provided would definitely not be high!
Could she afford them?
Now, if Su Yu was funding it, then all of this was clearly no longer a problem.
"For the remuneration of Teacher Li Enjun and Teacher Liu Ruyan, will it be based on market price?" Zhao Xiaolu asked again.
Actor remuneration accounts for a significant portion of a film's budget. She planned to make a low-budget romantic comedy, with an original estimated cost of only around 25 million chinese yuan.
Now she needed to know the two actors' remuneration to calculate the production cost.
"Give Liu Ruyan 3 million, and Li Enjun 4 million," Su Yu said after thinking for a moment, giving the remuneration he had in mind.
"Alright! The cost of this film will likely be around 29 million."
Zhao Xiaolu stated the final budget.
She had dreamt of directing and writing this film herself, and the budget was already more than familiar to her.
"Don't make it so tight. Set the budget at 50 million! Improve the overall quality! Also, I'll be responsible for the film's theme songs, so you don't need to worry about that."
Su Yu said somewhat speechlessly. Zhao Xiaolu's budget probably didn't even include her own director's fees or editing fees!
"Also, your director and scriptwriter fees won't be calculated separately. Just take a direct share of the box office. I'll give you 6% of the box office share, no objections, right?"
Su Yu's subsequent words directly flustered Zhao Xiaolu.
She indeed hadn't calculated her own director and scriptwriter fees, after all, the film wasn't even guaranteed to be made.
She worried that if her requested fees were too high, she might scare away the investors, and then she wouldn't even have the chance to make a movie.
It was very humble.
But her thoughts seemed transparent in front of Su Yu; Su Yu had guessed them all.
Not only did he guess, but he even gave her an exceptionally high treatment that other directors and scriptwriters wouldn't even dare to dream of!
At this moment, Zhao Xiaolu was so moved she almost cried. Even well-known directors like Hao Ren at the company couldn't get a 6% box office share.
As a small director who hadn't made any big productions, how could she be so deserving?
"Alright, let's hurry up and film the MV!" Su Yu directly spoke, cutting off Zhao Xiaolu's attempt to refuse.
Actually, if he wasn't afraid of being too shocking, Su Yu planned to give Zhao Xiaolu 10% of the box office share.
But if he did that, the other directors in the company would truly have no way to conduct themselves.
So Su Yu didn't make too much of an exception!
He would just increase her share when the second film was made.
"Good! Good! Let's start filming!"
Zhao Xiaolu's voice was a little choked up. She suppressed the tears that were about to fall from her eyes and instructed the crew to prepare to start.
Throughout the afternoon's filming, Zhao Xiaolu was full of combativeness, as if her entire being had been revitalized.
And the efficiency of the filming was astonishingly fast, leaving everyone dumbfounded.
One more morning tomorrow, and this fourth MV could be ready for filming.
In the evening, Su Yu sent the script for "beautiful fate" to Liu Ruyan and Li Enjun separately, and finally created a four-person group chat.
Liu Ruyan and Li Enjun both knew Zhao Xiaolu, a director from Tianxing Entertainment's Film and Television Department, they just weren't very familiar with her.
However, since she was a director favored by Su Yu, both Liu Ruyan and Li Enjun treated Zhao Xiaolu with great politeness.
Su Yu briefly explained the film's matters, then went offline.
And Liu Ruyan and Li Enjun officially began reading the script.
The result was that both of them, upon seeing the script, were filled with black lines and question marks!
Especially Liu Ruyan! She felt that this time she had been a bit too hasty.
It was one thing to play a pregnant woman, but why was she also a gold-digger character?
And in most of the plot, she was on the run while pregnant? This was truly too subversive.
Li Enjun was also a bit overwhelmed. Playing a divorced dad with a child was no problem for him.
He was like that in real life.
But to make him fall in love with a materialistic and feisty pregnant woman? This was truly too challenging!
If this script hadn't been given to him by Su Yu, he wouldn't have taken it even if it killed him!
Alas, he was still not steady enough~
How would Su Yu know what they were thinking? At this moment, he was at home entertaining Han Jianhua.
"You're very optimistic about this script?" Han Jianhua sat on the sofa, looking at Su Yu with a hint of helplessness.
He had just finished reading the script and felt that its taste was indeed a bit unique.
No wonder Ren Nanbei of the Film and Television Department hadn't approved the project.
However, since Su Yu had picked up this script and even decided to invest independently, he couldn't afford not to take it seriously.
So, after hearing about it from Han Jiangxue, he came over directly.
"It's alright. I think it should have a good market. Anyway, the cost isn't high, so let's just film it and see," Su Yu said.
Could Su Yu directly tell Han Jianhua that this film earned 520 million at the box office on Earth? Of course not.
So he could only be a bit more subtle.
"How about this, let's invest and greenlight it under the company's name. The company will put in 56% of the funds for a 50% investment share, and you make up the rest, how does that sound?"
Han Jianhua was trying to provide a safety net for Su Yu.
And 56% of the funds for a 50% share also meant that Zhao Xiaolu's 6% share was allocated to the company's side.
It was clear that this future father-in-law was still very considerate of Su Yu.
"Uncle Han, how about this: this time, give the company a 20% investment share. That way, you'll have an easier time reporting to the company's board of directors. Even if an investment of tens of millions fails, it won't affect the company's stock price, right?"
Su Yu smiled and politely declined, offering the share he found acceptable.
The company didn't belong solely to Han Jianhua, Li Xing, and Wang Tianfeng; there were still many large and small shareholders.
Su Yu felt there was no need for Han Jianhua to argue with that group of people over a matter of tens of millions.
Moreover, this was a profitable project, so there was even less need to do so.
For Su Yu, who knew the outcome, there was even less need to be as cautious as Zhao Xiaolu.
Su Yu's goal was that for the next project, the company's shareholders would beg him to let them join in.
Of course, Su Yu couldn't tell Han Jianhua such thoughts.
"Alright, then let's go with what you said!" Han Jianhua also felt that it wasn't worth making a big fuss over such a small matter.
Anyway, Su Yu already had a lot of money, and even if this failed, it wouldn't cause any significant damage.
It would just be considered paying for a lesson.