Tang Ze did not answer. It was not that he was in a hurry, but that time did not wait for us. It was already close to 2008. Wanda would enter the film and television industry next year, and six years later the three Internet BAT giants would also participate.
This circle is not big even though it is big, but in the face of capital, directors are just parts that can be replaced at any time. Even famous directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige cannot go against the trend of the times.
If he wants to truly dominate the entertainment industry, he must rely on the support of capital, and for this he needs to become capital himself.
So he made two big plans for himself:
The first is to compete with Xinlang on Weibo, which is the key to mastering the right to speak in the entertainment industry.
The second is to hatch Douyin as soon as possible. This is the fundamental way to compete with the Big Three, and it is also an indispensable part for his movies to enter Europe and the United States in the future.
He cannot be slow and wait until the time is right before pursuing and investing.
It was still four or five years before Zhang Yiming started his business, and less than two years before Weibo was born.
So he needs to raise funds as soon as possible. These two things are money-hungry, and there is no way they can afford it without tens of billions.
Seeing that Tang Ze didn't answer, Ning Hao didn't ask any more questions, and then said:
"Even if it doesn't work out, you can accept other investments. I heard that Huayi values your project with a budget of 10 million, but you seem to have refused. The risks of online movies are still too great, and your efforts may be in vain."<
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Hearing this, Xu Zheng was a little envious. He had directed the TV series "Li Wei is an Official 2", but that drama did not bring him much help.
After that, he recommended himself as a director many times, but no one was willing to use his film project.
And top students are so good, as soon as they return to China, various big names in the film and television industry take the initiative to invest in his projects.
Tangze still didn't explain. Indeed, many big names in the film and television industry heard about his project and wanted to invest, but he isolated most of them by demanding a share of the investment.
The new director asked for a share. I'm afraid that in the eyes of others, he is already an arrogant guy.
Even in the next ten years, only those directors will always be able to get director's share, let alone newcomers who have no works?
However, Han Sanping did not reject him and could sign a tiered share-sharing agreement with him. However, Zhongjing was a state-owned enterprise after all, and it did not dare to invest rashly until his nationality conversion review was completed.
However, the higher authorities attach great importance to Chinese people who voluntarily return to their motherland, and the review can be completed in up to half a year.
During this period, Han Sanping arranged for him to come to Ning Hao's crew to wait for review and get familiar with the filming matters.
After all, you are still poor!
Old Williams was the only person he could borrow capital from, but he has passed away and the Williams family has nothing to do with him anymore.
It’s not that he has any objections.
The other party has done enough, and even put himself in the position of a servant. Just like his ancestors, he prepared various professional identities for him if he was able, so that he can take over at any time after he wakes up.< /p>
If it weren't for Old Williams' help, he would have become a completely rootless person after he woke up, and would definitely be suspected.
As for the person whose identity he has replaced, Tang Ze can only say sorry, but I believe the Williams family will arrange everything, and the future will not be too bad.
And Wu Jianming... let’s call him Lao Wu from now on, after all, he is 50 years old.
A university art teacher is not considered wealthy. Not counting the old house next to the tomb where Tangze sleeps, his total net worth is less than 100,000 yuan.
"I have my own considerations." Tang Ze replied succinctly.
"OK, I won't ask anymore." Ning Hao shut up at the right time.
Although they only got along for half a month, Tangze's shooting theories still gave him a lot of help. It's not bad to have such a talented director, but it's not too bad to go too far.
Bao Qing was relatively honest and rarely spoke to people with whom he was not close, but he was also keen on opportunities. He said, "Um, Director Tang, do you think I can play the role in "This Man Comes from Earth"?"
Ideally, "This Man Comes from Earth" would be best to use actors who are capable of acting and aged in their thirties or forties but have low salaries. However, if he has a certain reputation, he will not refuse, so he laughed:
"Yes, but I only plan to invest less than 100,000 yuan for this movie, so I will reduce the actor's salary to 10,000 yuan or even less. If you are willing to reduce your salary to star, I have no objection."
Wang Baoyi immediately shut up. He was used to being poor in the past, so it was impossible for him to take the initiative to give up profits. In the future, he would even "break up" with Xu Zheng because of the uneven distribution of interests.
According to his current net worth, he doesn't want to hear about projects with a salary of less than 500,000 yuan, unless he is willing to share it, but the Internet is full of pirated copies, and he can't figure out how to make money from online movies.
Hearing that the budget was only 100,000, Xu Zheng immediately said: "Director Tang, I don't need investment. Although I can't come up with 10 million, 100,000 is nothing."
Tang Ze refused with a smile, and Xu Zheng didn't force it. He didn't even discuss whether he could star in the role. We are all poor people, and we know how to make money when we should make money, and we can't give in.
Huang Bo currently has no idea of becoming a banker or a director, and is focused on acting. Therefore, in order to participate, he analyzed the role in "This Man Comes from Earth" and talked about his opinions.
After dinner, we went back to the hotel and parted ways.
Tang Ze called Lao Wu, who was far away in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, and discussed the official decision to prepare for a second movie project. He asked him to see if he could find an actor to star in. If there were no actors, just find someone.< /p>
Tang Ze has not told Lao Wu yet about another RMB 10 million project that has been registered with Rangdian, so this counts as the first one.
As for the shooting equipment, it can be rented.
Tang Ze then faxed the script of "This Man Comes from Earth" to Lao Wu.
Originally this movie was adapted from a novel and should be available in major DVD stores and some small websites in November this year.
However, Tang Ze couldn't find this novel at all on the Internet, so Wu Jianming asked his overseas friends to check various publishing houses, but there was no information about this novel, so he naturally knew that it was gone.
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There are really not many choices for 100,000 yuan. Fortunately, maybe because of time travel, or maybe because the original owner's memory is extraordinary, he can recall the movie he originally watched frame by frame.
At present, in addition to this one, he can think of "The Night the Comet Came", "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity". As for those one-man movies, they barely meet the standard, but the actors alone can't pass it.
The pay cannot be low.
It is unrealistic to direct and act by oneself. This would test the overall level of the crew. With him as a team member, if there are more action scenes, the shooting time will be extended indefinitely, and what he lacks most is time.
Among the low-cost one-man movies he has watched, they all tested the crew's photography skills, such as "127 Hours", "Buried Alive", etc.
When choosing, the horror film clicked first. The domestic release harmony rate is as high as 99%, leaving only one of two choices. Unfortunately, both of them are movies that cannot be safely released in theaters and have certain viewing thresholds.
Although there is all kinds of praise for both on the Internet, "The Night the Comet Came" was released in 2013 and ultimately only had a box office of 140,000 US dollars.
"This Man Comes from Earth" was even worse, with major movie theaters directly refusing to show it.
And when the sequel came out in 2017, due to the fan base of the first film, it was finally screened on a small scale. As a result, the final box office was only US$5,472, the lowest in history.
Why is this happening?
Because to put it bluntly, a movie theater is a visual projection hall, for sensory experience and entertainment. If you are not satisfied, there will be many people who will leave the movie theater on the spot.
These two sci-fi classics need to be watched with complete concentration to understand why they are classics. The most suitable soil for them can only be the Internet or DVD.
Although it is unrealistic to make paid movies in the current Internet environment, he originally planned to earn a share by advertising.
Don’t ask for more, just a few hundred thousand is enough. As long as word-of-mouth spreads, there will always be people taking a look at the free stuff on the Internet.
If the review is not over by then, hundreds of thousands will be enough to make a low-cost theater movie.
And then he chose "This Man Came from Earth" without much hesitation, which had some overlap with his experience and made the film more realistic.
Of course, he can actually be original, but he is self-aware. Even though he has countless years of experience, those are more like databases to him and cannot bring him any substantial increase in ability.
Moreover, the original owner has been derailed from modern times, which has the fastest technological development, for too long, and there is no information related to the movie in his memory.
Wait until his status in the film industry is completely unshakable in the future before he can consider whether it is original or not.
Not long after, Lao Wu called again. He seemed particularly excited with his unshaven beard: "Master, are you finally planning to take action on this world? Our Wu family has already made preparations!"