Jiang Wen came to the premiere of the movie. In addition to being invited by Han Sanye to support Liu Hao's movie, the more important reason was to take this opportunity to see if he could attract some investment in Liu Hao.
Director Jiang Wen's first film "Sunny Days" achieved a box office of 50 million yuan, which is the highest box office achieved by a purely mainland film in recent years.
This movie seemed to have a good reputation and box office success, but in fact it did not bring much profit to the movie investors. When the movie was first released, the movie lost more than 10 million yuan.
Why is this? Because the investment in this movie is too high, the production cost alone exceeds 2 million US dollars.
Why does the production of a movie without big scenes cost such a high investment? It’s not that Jiang Wen tricked investors by offering a hat worth thousands of dollars, it’s actually that Jiang Wen’s filming is too “strict.”
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It's such a serious waste of film when making movies.
When he made the movie "Sunny Days", he used more than 250,000 feet of film, and the film ratio reached 1:15. At that time, the average film ratio of mainland movies was 1:3, and those with a film ratio of 1:5 were benign.
Big production.
The cost of using film to make a movie is inherently high, and it costs money like water. Jiang Wen was the first in China to waste so much film when making a movie.
Oh, there is also such a thing in Hong Kong City, that is, Wang Sunglasses, who has been making movies for several years and has tricked investors into giving away their money.
They are all masters of cheating investors to achieve their own success.
When Jiang Wen directed his first movie, he had actually been in the film and television industry for almost ten years. He was still wasting such a high amount of film when making movies, but what about ordinary people?
Many people mean that if you are born again, you can be a good director and make good movies?
Even for later generations of professional film industry professionals, without a system or a golden finger, if you want to be a good director, it is just a dream.
Why filmmaking in the film era can be called art is because filmmaking is a very high-level way of making a living, a real technical job!
There are equipment limitations, film limitations, and complex technology. It is a real industry choice!
Film cameras are huge, extremely complex to operate and cumbersome to use.
How to cut each shot, how to handle the camera position, how to handle the scene, how to handle the shots according to the environment, script, character's mind, lighting, etc., are all tests of real skill.
You won't be able to figure it out unless you spend a few years.
Brother Liu Hao is a director of a serious Chinese drama class. Although he did not have the opportunity to be a director at Beijing Film Studio, he also accumulated a lot of shooting experience when he assisted in filming at Beijing Film Studio. It took four years of preparation and he was fully prepared.
Started directing his first film.
And Yu Feihong, why Liu Hao could easily persuade her to postpone the preparation of the film project "Love Is Afterlife" and persuade her to go to the crew to gain experience as a director without any effort, it is because Yu Feihong herself understands,
How difficult it is to make film on film these days.
With her immature film shooting techniques now, the waste of film film produced now is definitely much more serious than that of later generations. Although the cost of cooperation is relatively cheaper than that of later generations, the final cost will probably not be much lower than that of later generations.
It’s a bit far-fetched. In a nutshell, in the era of film movies, making movies is much more difficult than imagined. Without being able to provide investors with income, even if Jiang Wen has such a famous name, he still wants to make movies as a director.
Investing is also difficult.
Jiang Wen wanted to direct his second movie. He had actually prepared the plan for a long time and was now taking action. However, after several attempts to attract investment and hit a wall, he turned his attention to Liu Hao.
It's simple, because Liu Hao is rich.
The success of the TV series "Love Through Time" will bring Liu Hao several times the income. At present, part of the income has been accounted for. Liu Hao has just released his fourth album. The sales situation of the original album is very good. No surprise, it will be even better.
Lou, the ongoing Asian concert tour will also provide tens of millions in revenue.
A large amount of income will be recorded in a short period of time. Many people in the industry know that Liu Hao is rich.
Moreover, after Liu Hao received part of the proceeds from "Love Through Time", in order to express his gratitude to China Drama, he injected nearly half of the proceeds into the "Chinese Drama Rising Star Director" fund.
At present, the "Chinese Theater New Star Director" program has been launched. Liu Hao gave China Theater the right to select a director. Now China Theater has also selected a young director. Liu Hao has kept his promise and invested one million in him with money from the fund.
This incident has made many people think that Liu Hao is not stingy about investing in movies, so Jiang Wen is not the first or the last person to ask Liu Haola to invest in a movie.
At the premiere of the movie, Jiang Wen took the opportunity to ask Liu Haola for investment. In fact, Liu Hao was quite interested. After all, "Let the Bullets Fly" directed by Jiang Wen was so classic that Liu Hao later watched it several times.
, is still fresh in my memory.
But when he heard about Jiang Wen's movie plan, Liu Hao suddenly lost interest.
Because the second self-directed film Jiang Wen is preparing is to adapt writer You Fengwei's "Survival", which is also called "The Japanese Are Coming".
Liu Hao didn't know how much box office the movie had achieved, but he knew one thing clearly: the movie was not released in the mainland at all and was directly banned.
When a movie is banned, not only does it have no box office in the Mainland, but video tapes and DVDs cannot be sold, and there will be no peripheral income. In other words, the money invested is basically wasted, and the amount of investment is a loss.
With Jiang Wen's style of wasting film when making movies, and the way he seemed a bit embarrassed to discuss investment with Liu Hao just now, it can be seen that the investment for the second movie he plans to direct himself will not be low.
At least make sure you go up.
More importantly, this movie was not just banned. As a director, Jiang Wen did not take the helm for several years. Later, when filming "The Gun", he even hired Lu Tailang as the director's stand-in.
This led to the famous scene where director Lu Tailang was cried by actor Jiang Wenxun.
Investing in this movie may even be implicated, which is a fire pit.
"I see that you and Jiang Wen have been chatting for so long. It seems that they are very happy with each other. Are you planning to invest in a new movie directed by him?" Yu Feihong asked curiously when he saw Liu Hao thinking.
"I do have this idea, but I have to be cautious when investing in movies. It can't be decided in just a few words. I have to be cautious and save money to invest in your movie..." Liu Hao smiled at Yu Feihong.
Said so.
Although he knew this was a fire pit, Liu Hao did have the idea of investing in Jiang Wen's second self-directed film. He mainly wanted to sell Jiang Wen a favor and wondered whether Jiang Wen could follow him when he was preparing for movies such as "Let the Bullets Fly" in the future.
Invest and get a share of the pie.
The investment is definitely not all-inclusive, an investment of tens or nearly one million is enough.
However, in order to prevent the investment from being affected by this movie, Liu Hao would say hello to Mr. Han before investing, and he would only invest a little bit if he agreed to Liu Hao.
Liu Hao is very disciplined.
As soon as he heard Liu Hao say that he was saving money to invest in his own movie, Yu Feihong felt much better and his jealousy gradually disappeared.
At the premiere of the movie, Xiao Wang from Huayi Brothers was always paying attention to Liu Hao's movements.
He also noticed that Liu Hao, Jiang Wen and others were chatting happily.
Xiao Wang quietly sent someone to find out that Jiang Wen and Liu Hao were talking about film investment.
The information Xiao Wang learned was that Jiang Wen approached Liu Hao to get investment for his second self-directed film, and Liu Hao was very interested and intended to invest in Jiang Wen's new film.
Thinking of Feng Xiaoan before, Xiao Wang's heart immediately became active.
"If you want to intercept the people I want to poach, then I won't let you succeed in the movies you want to invest in. I will also intercept them..."
Of course, Xiao Wang is not just motivated. In his opinion, the most important thing in film and television is the director. Huayi Brothers are also short of directors now.
And Jiang Wen has already proven his directorial ability in "Sunny Days".
Whether it can make money for investors has been ignored by him.
He was confident that his second brother, the King, would be the first to invest in Jiang Wen's new movie.