1474: 5 million for a script doesn’t make you feel guilty!
The movie produced by Ran Keqing is called "The Devil", and it is also scheduled to be released on January 26th, which will coincide with the Spring Festival schedule of "Shendu: Youth Journey"!
The announced production cost of "Tian Mo Bian" is as high as 120 million.
The production cost of "Shendu: Boy's Journey" was only 60 million, which was exactly half of the other party's.
Of the 60 million costs, 5 million were purchased for Wen Ying's script. The male lead Yun Chen's salary was 2.4 million, the female lead Xu Mei's salary was 1.8 million, and the female supporting actress Zhang Yangning's salary was 1 million. These three can go anywhere
Acting in a TV series doesn't mean you get more than this amount of money. You are willing to do this just to use the salary to promote your status. After all, acting in movies and acting in TV are not the same thing. In addition, this is a movie that the company participates in investment. Yun Chen and
Zhang Yangning's salary was discounted.
On Xu Mei's side, "Jiaxin" has no investment, but Xu Mei is not a fool. The future boss lady will be a movie screenwriter, so Xu Mei will not ask for such a high salary!
These three leading actors can save money on their film pay, but other actors who are not under the company's name cannot save on their film pay. Someone as stingy as Mr. Zhang has to pay them according to the going rate.
After deducting these unavoidable expenses, the remaining money can be used for filming and production.
Mr. Zhang is a well-known iron rooster in the industry. He is very good at controlling shooting costs. He will not spend a dime if he can. Even so, after the production of "Shendu·Youth Journey" was completed, he would not spend a dime.
Nearly 50 million.
Mr. Zhang can cut off the daily costs and exploit the service, but he cannot cut off the special effects costs.
Domestic special effects technology is very immature. Mr. Zhang hired foreign special effects companies. Every frame of the movie that requires special effects is burning dollars——
The more than 10 million that Iron Rooster Zhang dug out from his teeth cannot be settled in his pocket. This is the publicity and distribution expenses that Mr. Zhang saved for the movie.
"My heart hurts!"
Mr. Zhang’s eyes were filled with water: “Special effects are really expensive, and capital is really bullying!”
Wen Ying was speechless.
‘Liansheng’ is also capital, but it is not as rich as ‘Huanyu’. ‘Huanyu’ is rich, so Ms. Ran can spend more money making movies, which is very reasonable!
Seeing Mr. Zhang's indignation, Wen Ying was curious: "Can "Tian Mo Bian" really cost 120 million?"
Ten years later, 120 million yuan to make a movie is not uncommon. It is not even 2009 yet, and the 120 million yuan shooting cost is terrible.
Maybe it’s because actors are paid so much?
Mr. Zhang pouted: "No matter how high an actor's salary is, there are many. Ran Keqing's cost of 120 million is very high. I guess their cost is around 80 million at most... of which at least 20 million is publicity expenses!"
The external publicity cost of 80 million is 120 million investment, which is a publicity strategy in itself. Once the audience heard that the movie cost 120 million to shoot, they inevitably wanted to go to the cinema to see it with their own eyes to satisfy their curiosity.
There is also a possibility that 120 million was really spent, at least on the books, and some funds were deducted from the crew's accounts and then flowed out.
Wen Ying and Yuan Fenghui looked at each other, and they both understood Mr. Zhang's subtext.
It's not easy to talk without evidence. It's not just the "One World" family that would do this in the industry... Wen Ying and Yuan Fenghui's focus is still on the announcement of "Shendu·Young Xing".
Wen Ying's appeal is already very strong.
Together with Yun Chen and Xu Mei, Zhang Yangning has many fans.
But Ran Keqing's "The Devil" invited actors and actresses to star in it. It can be said that half of Mr. Zhang's estimated cost of 80 million was spent on the actors' remuneration. Together, these big names have a strong box office appeal.
Moreover, "Huanyu" has the support of theaters, so "Tianmobian" is destined to have more films in the initial schedule than "Shendu: Youth Journey"!
Film scheduling is an important factor affecting movie box office.
For movies released on the same schedule, whoever has more movies scheduled will have higher box office. Cinema lines are not random when arranging movies. From the movie schedule, you can basically see the box office estimate of the movie theater chain for a movie.
Works by famous directors, starring famous movie stars, large investments, etc. are all reasons for high-ranking films.
In comparison, the investment in "Shendu·Youngxing" is not as good as that of "The Devil", the actors are not as good, and the director is not as famous. In addition, Ran Keqing is backed by "Huanyu"... You can think of "Shendu" with your toes
·The film schedule of "Youth Journey" will be lower than that of the other party!
If you can't compare with the film arrangement, you will lose in the first step.
However, none of Wen Ying, Mr. Zhang and Yuan Fenghui wanted to admit defeat.
Not being able to match the film schedule does not mean you are doomed. There is another situation that can counterattack, that is, if the film schedule is not as good as it is, you can catch up at the box office, so that the theaters can see the box office potential of "Shendu·Youngxing", and when the movie is released
Later, I took the initiative to increase the film schedule!
"I have confidence."
When it comes to the promotion battle, Mr. Zhang wants to scold me. When it comes to the quality of the movie, Mr. Zhang's indignation turns into elation: "Those people are so short-sighted. They question why I spent 5 million to buy the script. They don't know the movie."
The most important thing is the story, and I can’t wait to see what the faces of those who criticize me will be like after the movie is released.”
This is the first time in his life that Mr. Zhang, a shrewd person, has been questioned as a fool. He has been holding back this tone for a long time!
Yuan Fenghui smiled: "Mr. Zhang, you are an old man in the industry, don't you understand what those reporters say? When we succeed at the box office, they will immediately change their tone. By then, everyone will praise you, you
But you have to be mentally prepared in advance!”
When Yuan Fenghui said this, Mr. Zhang became even happier.
The movie hadn't even been released yet, but the two of them were already confident that it would be a hit at the box office. Wen Ying was made to feel itchy by these two.
"When can I watch the film?"
Both Yuan Fenghui and Mr. Zhang have watched the finished film, but Wen Ying has not.
The arrest of Zhuo Jinxin some time ago affected Wen Ying's mind. Finally, Zhuo Jinxin made a breakthrough. Ding Chao, the editor-in-chief of Magic City Literature and Art Publishing House, arranged several book signings for Wen Ying.
Wen Ying has been flying around the country in the past few weekends. The only weekend she had free time was to watch the idol drama produced by Peng Guoqing. She didn't even have time to watch the finished film of "The Journey to the Divine City", which she was the screenwriter of.
!
Tsk, thinking about it this way, she is really worthy of Peng Guoqing!
"You can see it now."
Yuan Fenghui raised her eyes and smiled: "You were born to be a screenwriter and write stories."
This was a big compliment, but Wen Ying didn't take it seriously. After all, Mr. Zhang was still here, and he couldn't let Mr. Zhang feel that the 5 million spent on buying the script was not worth it.
Wen Ying went to the screening room upstairs alone to watch "The Journey to the City of Gods".
The company's projection equipment is not as good as that of professional cinemas. The screen is much smaller than that of cinemas, and the visual effects are much weaker.
Besides, Wen Ying is someone who has watched IMAX giant-screen movies after all. The special effects cost that made Zhang Tiegongji heartbroken cannot visually shock Wen Ying.
But it's not bad either.
The visual aesthetics of a movie does not only refer to special effects. Before special effects technology was applied to movies, directors could still impress the audience by telling stories using pure lens language.
Wen Ying sees it from the perspective of more than ten years later, and the visual effects of "Shendu: Boy's Journey" are passable. If only based on current standards, "Shendu: Boy's Journey" would have been placed in the Chinese film market at the end of 2008
In horizontal comparison, Wen Ying felt that the visual effects of this movie were not only passable——
The visuals are good, the story is smooth, and the post-editing is not awkward.
Yun Chen's face is particularly impactful on the screen. He is so handsome and heroic. No wonder Yun Chen is so popular.
Xu Mei is really suitable for the big screen. It doesn't matter if she is not very beautiful. Movie actors don't need to be too beautiful. Xu Mei is just right for this level of beauty and is very malleable!
Even Zhang Yangning and Wen Ying didn't know that each other's acting skills were so good before!
With Shui Mingyue and Mu Fan's post-filling, the plot of the movie is smoother compared to Wen Ying's version. The overall framework is very solid and the details are rich. Mu Fan is good at writing suspense, and Shui Mingyue is the most delicate in writing emotional scenes. The two help
Wen Ying optimized the script again.
The most amazing thing is that these two people neither wanted compensation nor authorship rights, so Wen Ying persuaded them to give them the title of "script consultant".
When Wen Ying wrote the script, she had the picture composition in mind. When the script became a movie, Wen Ying still had a sense of novelty.
This is not her first time as a screenwriter, but movies are different from TV series. Movies are more compact. In the limited time, enough content must be conveyed, every frame cannot be wasted, and the language of every shot is meaningful.
At first, Wen Ying was still comparing the script with the final movie. As the plot progressed, Wen Ying slowly became immersed in the story of the movie.
Wen Ying didn't come back to her senses until the movie was over.
Hey, time flies so fast?
Wen Ying went downstairs and returned to the office. Yuan Fenghui and Mr. Zhang had already negotiated the promotion of the movie.
Wen Ying suddenly felt very hungry. I wonder if it was her imagination, but she smelled the aroma of rice in Yuan Fenghui's office.
"Screenwriter Wen, you are spending all your time watching a movie!"
Yuan Fenghui teased Wen Ying for being so focused on watching movies that she even missed lunch time. She originally wanted to ask Wen Ying about her experience of watching movies, but Wen Ying was too hungry to talk.
Yuan Fenghui was always meticulous and had already prepared a work lunch for Wen Ying.
Wen Ying sat down and ate a lunch box. The hunger in her stomach was relieved, and her brain could direct her mouth to speak again: "I only have one feeling after watching it. The script is the core of the movie. I can make quotations without any guilt in the future."
5 million for a script."
A good story may be shot badly, but the story is inherently bad, and no matter how great a director is, he can't make a bad story look good!
Wen Ying's words made Mr. Zhang laugh: "I also feel that my 5 million is not in vain, but we are so familiar with each other, can I get a discount when I buy scripts from you in the future?"
"Mr. Zhang, you are truly the smartest person I have ever met..."
Mr. Zhang will never give up any advantage he can take.
Yuan Fenghui was not really angry.
It's an illusion for one person to think the movie is good, but it can't be an illusion for all three of them to think it's good.
No matter how fierce the promotion of "The Devil" is, the quality of the movie will still have to speak for itself when it is released!
