Chapter 44: Crowd-Funding Plan

Julia couldn't help being surprised. She used to play a bit parts, so she knew a little about the market.

No matter how compressed the cheapest online drama, there were at least twenty episodes, each of which cost at least one hundred thousand dollars. Not to mention the remuneration for actors, just the props, equipment, and rent would cost at least a million dollars.

She was upset but she didn't show it. She calmly nodded her head and said, "Alright, I know. I'll go back and discuss with my manager first."

Andrew's expression was still indifferent. It seemed that he was used to it. After all, when he came, he did not have any hope.

Three hundred thousand.

He knew it was funny.

But he wanted to try it.

Julia looked at him at the door. Andrew's back was extremely thin, as if a gust of wind could bring this person into outer space. This intense sense of world—weary was too terrifying.

Andrew stopped and turned his head to look at her. His entire body looked so gloomy.

"Don't worry. We will make it." She smiled at him. The setting sun fell on her body, and her two dimples looked enchanting, pure and bright.

Andrew was stunned. His pupils seemed to have a little emotion as he whispered, "Thank you."

.....

Julia went back to the company and told Lily about it.

Lily instantly froze, "Are you serious?"

She nodded indifferently. Her calm and relaxed expression made Lily go crazy.

"Sweetheart, did you know that we have to pay the rent in two months? We only have 600,000 dollars on the public account. Do you know what 600,000 dollars mean?"

'Six....hundred thousand.'

In Julia's heart, sixty plus thirty was ninety.

Lily had no idea that Julia was thinking of the money. She continued, "Apart from necessary cost and rent, we'll be poor. You don't work hard to earn more money, but want to go to a zero—pay play? Are you crazy? I'm going to ask if the psychiatric hospital accepts any more people. I need to arrange an emergency treatment for you."

Julia ignored Lily's reaction and said, "I want to take this play. I want to invest 600,000 dollars in it … You lend me half of the money, okay?"

This time, Lily was really mad, "You want to invest the last money of our company in that movie?"

"Julia, can you wake up? Let's go step by step. We can't invest others now …"

"You haven't figured out the dramas. Now you want to make a movie …"

"It's good to have ambitions, but we should learn the word of day dream"

Julia was especially calm, "Trust me."

'It would be famous.'

Definitely.

"Just once," she said resolutely, "You can trust me this time. I will definitely turn this day dream into a beautiful dream."

Julia knew her best friend very well and so, she chocked her with a single sentence.

Lily seemed to see the determination in Julia's eyes. With their current situation, investing others to make a movie would probably be a laughingstock. No matter how she looked at it, it was a big joke, but she couldn't say anything to upset Julia.

Lily was hesitant for a moment, and then said, "Alright! If we lose, I'll go home and inherit the family property."

Julia looked at her eyes and said seriously, "I won't let you lose."

Lily snorted and said, "Whether I can continue to be an unmarried person is all on you."

"However, you really have to think about it. The controversy caused by this movie should not be small. I'm afraid that you will make things worse."

Julia understood what Lily was worried about. In the script, the female lead was a swimming genius. She was sent to the city team from school. The parents had great expectations of the female lead. They hoped that she could be a sports star, so that their son could live a better life.

When the female lead came to an unfamiliar environment, she was a little unaccustomed. Her performance was often poor. The coach found that she was in a bad mood, so he often comforted her.

The coach was married, and the female lead treated him as her teacher.

In the end, there was one time the coach got drunk and raped the female lead in the dressing room. The female lead was so scared and desperate that she called her parents to tell them about it.

At that time, there was still a week left before the heavyweight competition. Her parents came to the team to reason with the coach. Afterwards, they told the female lead to calm down first and help her get justice after the competition.

Unexpectedly, the female lead had already saw them accept 100,000 dollars from the coach and admit that their daughter was mentally ill. All of this was just her imagination.

She continued the training every day, as if nothing had happened. However, she had long collapsed. In the heavyweight competition, the female lead won the championship and became famous.

When everyone was celebrating for her, the female lead climbed up to the roof of the 30th floor and jumped off the building.

Afterwards, everyone was shocked when the female lead's diary was published in the world, but because of insufficient evidence, the coach was not punished.

Netizens also criticized the female lead for being a mistress. Because the coach didn't love her, she jumped off the building.

This was a tragedy. Black sarcasm ran through the movie, which made people very depressed. Her parents didn't understand her. They abandoned her. Everyone in the world cursed her, and she finally gave up in despair.

As Voltaire said, 'Not a single snowflake was innocent during an avalanche.'

When Julia saw the script, she was very shocked. After seeing Andrew, she was even more shocked when she heard that the female lead had a prototype.

It was unknown who this prototype was. In order not to disturb the female lead's family, the incident had been adapted, and it was unknown what role Andrew played in the incident.

Julia felt that the so—called capital chain breaking suicide might not be true.

Andrew had too many secrets.

Now, the first thing to consider was how to raise money. She was confident in the script, because it did became famous back then, but the rating wasn't too high. The main evaluation: [It was a good story, but the environment was too small to build the sense of reality, and the production and props looked not good.]

She discussed it with Lily and decided to set up a crowdfunding plan on the Internet. This would not only improve the popularity of the movie, but also provide financial support.

After getting Andrew's consent, the crowdfunding plan started. Julia set the amount of crowdfunding at four levels, 50/100/500/1000.

Netizens received dividends according to the amount of money invested, as well as souvenirs after the screening. They could also participate in the supporting cast audition first to fulfill their movie dreams.

They already had 900,000 dollars as starting capital. According to her plan, raising another million dollars would make the movie even more perfect.

When the idea was posted online, the netizens went crazy.

There was a bloody storm on Twitter.

Netizens: [Julia even wanted to get money from us?]

The Delicious Life's group chat.

Lucas: [Are you crazy?]

Shawn: [This was the first time I had seen someone begging online. You were awesome!]

Mark: [Sister, I was going to participate in the audition.]

Maureen: [Two people went crazy in the group.]

Julie: [Would you like to invest?]

Everyone in the group suddenly fell silent. This weird plan made Julia a trending topic on Twitter again.

The official account of Heaven couldn't stand by anymore. They lost their topic again. They directly posted a sharp message on Twitter.