"Sure enough, it's a genius!"

After reading the script, Zhang Zhao immediately gave a corresponding assessment in his heart.

The theme of the story is similar to the core idea of "The Butterfly Effect", with time and space traveling against fate but interlocking.

The theme of the story is commercial, and it contains ups and downs of crime, suspense, brain-burning and soft sci-fi themes with family elements, and has a wide range of audiences.

The characters are innovative, the personalities are opposite, the surrounding environment is opposite, and the two fathers and sons of the same age.

The story structure is reasonable, with a multi-line narrative, and the story structure is unique and complete, but not complicated.

The story is tensely paced, and the climax at the end is touching.

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Zhang Zhao, who graduated from New York University with a master's degree in film production, has also learned a little bit of the Hollywood producer's way of thinking.

Although the director's level is not good, the first movie co-produced with Mi Lijian ended his directorial career, but the professional level is still there.

Giving Wang Changtian an affirmative look, Zhang Zhao smiled, "With family affection as the core, Director Li's script style is rare in China." ”

Most of these domestic directors focus on love and national righteousness with feelings as the core.

For example, in "Ambush on All Sides", the core is free love.

"Boundless" is love and fate.

"Hero" is just like the title, the core is righteousness.

Commercial movies are extremely rare in China, but they are the most common in Hollywood.

Li Qian smiled and said, "Emotion is the thing that can move people the most, whether it is science fiction, suspense, or crime, it is just an extra layer of skin, which adds a selling point to the movie, and the core competitiveness lies in the family affection in the movie." ”

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After chatting about the script, we began to discuss the details of the cooperation.

"If this film is shot on film, the production cost is about 7 million, and I can personally bear 80% of the cost, and the remaining 20% of the gap will trouble Mr. Wang. ”

"In terms of distribution, your company needs to pay 3.6 million in advance for publicity and copying, and the issuance fee will be at 10% of the normal amount, what does Mr. Wang think?"

Li Qian proposed an investment plan and only gave 20% to Guangxian.

Wang Changtian smiled dumbly, Zhang Zhao said last time he came back from Donghua that Li Qian wanted to take full control of his own project, but he didn't expect that he would directly produce 80%.

However, Wang Changtian doesn't care, there is not much difference between 20% and 30%, and he doesn't care about his investment share.

After all, Li Qian is making a theatrical movie for the first time, and even if there is a phenomenal Internet University "Jaws" as the basis, the box office of the first movie will not be too high.

The production cost of 7 million, the publicity and distribution of 3.6 million, and the box office of only 30 or 40 million, will not make much money.

The main income of the issuing company is the issuance fee.

On the big screen, fame is the most important thing.

Whether it is the director's fame or the actor's fame, only with fame can the audience enter the cinema, otherwise the producer will not use less than one million first-line actors in the mainland, and will have to use millions, or even tens of millions of Hong Kong superstars.

When Li Qian's first movie is successful and he really makes a name for himself on the big screen, the next time is to make money.

However, Wang Changtian proposed to take out another part of the share to replace some advertising resources with optoelectronics in various provinces.

Li Qian also has no opinion, the provincial optoelectronics are not only only TV stations, but also the media in the province are basically local photoelectric cells.

Moreover, the regionality of the current cinema chain is very serious, and most of the film market in this province is in the hands of local cinema chains, and most of these local cinema chains are owned by optoelectronics.

For example, Henan Oscar Cinema Line, Sichuan West Pacific Cinema Line and Emei Cinema Line, Xiangnan Xiaoxiang Cinema Line, Jiangning Happy Blue Ocean Cinema Line, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Times Cinema Line......

These local cinemas, supported by optoelectronics in the province, basically account for about half of the box office in the province.

Replacing investment with publicity resources means that the box office also has their share, and they will also have a little advantage in film scheduling.

No matter how many, it's better than nothing.

So, first signed an investment contract between the two parties, Li Qian invested 80%, Guangxian accounted for 20%, and when Guangxian and the provinces were negotiated, Li Qian went to sign a contract to replace publicity resources.

With Guangxian's relationship with TV stations around the world, there should be no problem.

In addition, Li Qian's director and screenwriter's salary together is 1.5 million, which is already the price of a first-line director.

Li Qian will not be polite if he should take it, and Li Qian will not care about other people's shares.

In the end, Li Qian needed to put 5.6 million into the project's account.

Guangxian paid 2.55 million yuan for the publicity and distribution copy, plus 1.4 million yuan.

After the script is approved and the film is officially approved, the total cost of 9.55 million yuan will be credited to the project's account within three days.

All income is divided into a percentage of investment.

However, after getting 5.6 million, Li Qian can immediately get 1.5 million in salary.

Although you can skip this account, you still have to go through the procedures that should be taken, and the taxes that should be paid still have to be paid, so there is no need to save this money.

Large enterprises have paid billions of taxes a year, and Li Qian is not distressed to pay this tax, I have not heard of anyone who makes a fortune by saving taxes.

Paying more means earning more, Li Qian wants to pay 10 billion in taxes.

After the contract was negotiated, they had a meal together, and they were busy with their own work, and the film review and project approval were handed over to Guangxian.

Once the contract is negotiated, this stage of work is over, and the film can officially enter the preparations.

However, the film industry is really unfriendly to the producer, even if this contract is already more beneficial to Li Qian.

The distributor makes a steady profit, and all the risks are on the producer's head, and the share is still small.

Regardless of domestic or Hollywood, the distribution company is the most profitable, no matter whether the film can recover its cost or not, there is always money to be made from distribution, it is just a matter of making more and making less.

After the investment and issuance contracts are completed, Li Qian will be busy writing storyboards.

But before that, you have to start looking for locations and setting up a studio.

After discussing this with a few artists that Zhang Zhonghua found from Jiangsu and Zhejiang Film Studios, they let them act separately.

The background spans as long as 20 years, which must highlight the gap between the two eras, but there are not many location scenes, which saves the time of going back and forth.

Actors must also be found first, and Li Qian's most ideal combination is still two male actors who are twenty-seven or eighteen years old and thirty-two or thirteen years old.

There is not only the impact of the contrast caused by the father and son of the same age, but it will not be too discordant.

It took a day to go through all the information of actors aged 25-40 in the mainland.

My son is okay, I can find four or five suitable actors at this age.

The key is the father, the young man is too disobedient and can't play the father.

played the father, and he was too old.

It's okay to be bigger, as long as it's not too old, it's fine.

The key is that this father is a firefighter, and a firefighter is also half a soldier.

is equal to the role of a father, and he has to be a tough guy, otherwise how to track down serial murders.

A tough guy aged 35-40 years old has to be able to play the warm side of his father, which is a bit difficult to find.

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