The news that "The Pianist" was shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival soon spread like snowflakes across the country, shocking the entire industry. Also shortlisted was "Leap Over the Slums", a work by top domestic director Qi Wen, which tells the story of a group of people.
The story of young people living at the bottom of society trying to escape from a harsh environment and move towards a better life is a literary and artistic film shot for the first time in a documentary.
Unlike the fledgling Liao Yuan, director Qi Wen is a veteran director who has been in the Mainland for more than 20 years. He has been nominated and won Best Director many times. He is the leading director in the country. Liao Yuaneng and Qi Wen were nominated together.
The Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival is incredible news for everyone in the industry.
But it happened.
"Liao Yuan is not thirty years old yet?"
"The Pianist on the Sea is his second film, right? My mother-in-law!"
"This is the most awesome pianist I have ever seen. He is so unprofessional!"
"A pianist who can't make movies is not a good director."
"The box office of "The Pianist" can only be said to be average! It can't be compared with those blockbusters released on New Year's Day. The gap is too big, but I didn't expect to be nominated for the Golden Bear Award. Regardless of whether it wins or not, it is enough to be nominated.
Awesome."
"You can't say that. The Berlin Film Festival is different from other film festivals. There are many films shortlisted for the main competition. There have been more than ten films in the past, and there are quite a few this time. There are 14 films shortlisted for the main competition just announced.
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""The Pianist" is not a commercial movie. The box office of 1.1 billion is already very good. You can't expect a literary film to surpass the box office of a Hollywood blockbuster, right?"
"Yes, Liao Yuan is a pianist after all. His aesthetics is in literary and artistic films. Can't he make commercial films?"
"Liao Yuan can't make commercial films? Are you kidding me? Have you seen "The Tuner"? No? Have you seen "The Signal"?"
"I have to admit that Liao Yuan does have the potential to make commercial films. "The Tuner" is just a short film, which received a high score of 9.4 on Douban and hundreds of thousands of people commented on it. There is also the script "Signal" written by Liao Yuan.
It was filmed into a web drama and became a hit that year. Even now, on major video websites, the rating of "Signal" is as high as 9.2, some even 9.5..."
“Liao Yuan’s products are all excellent!”
"No wonder some people call him the godfather of entertainment. He is invincible in the piano world and invincible in the composition world. Now when he comes to the film industry, he immediately wins the title of Best Director and Best Actor. Who doesn't agree with him?"
On Weibo, major social networking sites, and forums, a trend of "Liao Yuanchui" gradually began to surge. Countless people praised him as the godfather of entertainment, invincible in the entertainment industry, etc. The most acute question is whether Liao Yuan can carry it.
To raise the banner of a new generation of director leaders, we must not only blossom in the field of literary and artistic films, but also in the commercial field, etc.
Of course Liao Yuan also heard about this news, and he sneered at it. If it weren't for the conditional restrictions and the weak foundation of the Liao Group, he would have recruited troops to prepare a series of commercial blockbusters by now.
Literary films are not the focus, only commercial films can make big money.
Of course, after earning 1.1 billion at the mainland box office, the company will soon be able to get a share of the box office revenue. The harvest of 200 million yuan is enough for Liao Yuan to start filming a commercial blockbuster.
As for literary and artistic films such as "The Pianist", "Springtime of the Cowherd" and "Green Book", Liao Yuan will not touch them for the time being. He now urgently needs funds to develop the company and even has plans to go public because of it.
Thoughts, but the current economic environment is not good, Hong Kong stocks and A-shares are in turmoil, and even U.S. stocks have a tendency to be unable to withstand, so it is not a good time to go public. Furthermore, Liao Yuan is not solely seeking funds. The funds he needs
, he can completely rely on his own potential to seek help from banks and the capital market, and with his current worth and strength, many capitalists are willing to cooperate with Liao Yuan.
In addition to the 200 million Mainland box office share, "The Pianist" has now been nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
So if it wins the award, it will definitely have a huge impact on the overseas box office of "The Pianist".
By then, I'm afraid there will be another box office harvest.
Even if the final income is not equal to the mainland box office, no matter how little mosquito meat is, it is still meat, let alone a piece of fat meat, which can greatly alleviate Liao Yuan's financial constraints.
Now that he had received the fresh and hot 200 million yuan, Liao Yuan did not follow his previous ideas to build infrastructure, but decided to start shooting his next movie.
The so-called striking while the iron is hot is now the time when Liao Yuan's influence in the film industry is at its peak, so the sooner the next movie is released, the more advantageous it will be.
New movies are a key factor in establishing Liao Yuan's influence, so Liao Yuan must be very cautious.
That night, in the dead of night, he came to the study alone, sat in front of the computer, and began to sort out the gradually blurred memories in his mind.
The memories of my past life are like dreams when I recall them now.
So many of the fragments are fragmented.
Liao Yuan had to work hard to recall in order to draw parallels, so he needed extremely concentrated mental power.
Now there are 200 million idle funds. If some advertising revenue is added, there will be about 300 to 400 million funds.
Three to four hundred million sounds like a lot, but if it is heavily invested in commercial blockbusters, it will not make much of a splash. Especially if you want to compete with commercial blockbusters produced by Hollywood, you must invest more money. If it is a special effects blockbuster, then
It also requires strong capital investment, at least one billion yuan.
This aspect is actually easy to solve. The name Liao Yuan is a golden sign of kindness, and many capitalists are willing to come in and support it.
But the number of admission support depends on the magical item called the script.
A good script is the architectural foundation, which determines how tall the building can be, so Liao Yuan must carefully select it.
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"Titanic"? First of all, the preparation time is too long, and the plot is a bit old-fashioned now in 2024, so it was ruled out.
"The Wandering Earth"? It can indeed harvest a huge box office market in China, but it seems to be a bit unworkable abroad. The most important thing is that Liao Yuan feels that this landmark movie of Chinese science fiction was able to win forty-six in its previous life.
The box office of 100 million depends on various elements. If it were put now, Liao Yuan is not sure whether he can achieve such results, because domestic science fiction films have still achieved good results, and he wants to mobilize the power of the whole people to support
, seems a bit difficult? So it is also excluded.
"Wolf Warrior"?emmm......
"Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World" is a good choice, but Liao Yuan's company does not have the technology in this area. The script can be written, but the most he can do is dub it.
"I'm Not the God of Medicine"? The subject matter is a bit sensitive. The most important thing is that there have been too many such films recently, and the audience may be a little tired of it. Moreover, this film is not strictly a commercial film, at least not what Liao Yuan wanted to make.
kind.
"Happiness Knocks on the Door"? It's a tragic drama, a literary film, and now Liao Yuan doesn't want to touch it at all.
"Avatar"? Just thinking about the huge world view makes Liao Yuan a little speechless.
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As for the Marvel series, Superman series, and even the famous Harry Potter series, Liao Yuan ignored them all. He didn't have the energy to do these. Just thinking about the relationship chain of the Marvel universe, etc., he felt that his head would explode.
, so stay away.
Finally, Liao Yuan decided to write down the names of seven movies on the list.
They are "Shutter Island", "The Truman Show", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Interstellar", "Inception", "Independence Day", and "The Martian".
Among them, "Shutter Island", "The Truman Show", and "The Shawshank Redemption" are the movies that Liao Yuan remembers deeply. Although they are not commercial films in the strict sense, their box office can reach the scale of commercial films. Of course, the most important thing is
Because the script is relatively simple and smooth to write.
"Interstellar," "Inception," "Independence Day," and "The Martian" are all relatively expensive movies, and they are also so-called science fiction blockbusters.
Among them, "Independence Day" has the lowest production cost, and can probably be produced at 500 million yuan.
"The Martian" requires 700 million.
The most expensive ones are "Inception" and "Interstellar".
Each of these two movies is a money-consuming work, with an investment of at least one billion yuan to start, and the script is quite brain-intensive and complicated to write, but if it is made, Liao Yuan is confident that these two movies, let alone now,
Even ten years from now, it will not be outdated.
Because regardless of creativity or storyline, both movies are undoubtedly top-notch.
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