No matter how many filmmakers criticize the film "Eternal Night", when Wu Jianye's new film held a launch conference, it still attracted the attention of media magazines and TV stations across the country.

However, there are always some exceptions, such as CCTV and Yanjing TV, the contradiction between the two TV stations and Tangting culture is not so easy to solve!

However, at this time, I can't see the impact of missing these two TV stations.

On this day, Zhu Xinzhuang's Tangting Cultural Shooting Base still gathered a lot of people.

Wu Jianye and the film "Inception" in front of and behind the scenes, all present, for this press conference, Tangting Culture specially built a small press conference site here.

Sitting on the stage are the front and back of movies such as Wu Jianye, and under the stage are reporters from TV stations and media magazines.

And the host of this press conference is Zhang Guoli, who has just finished the filming of "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview", because he has just finished the filming of "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview", Zhang Guoli is still a big bald person at this time......

Zhang Guoli's witty words on stage led to all the main creators of the whole movie, and at the same time, the reporters in the audience saw Zhang Guoli's eloquence.

"If you want to say that the most regrettable thing is that I was not able to participate in Director Wu's movie, after cooperating with Director Wu last time, it inspired me a lot of creative inspiration, and it can be said that Director Wu made my acting skills improve again. ”

Zhang Guoli first praised Wu Jianye, and then said: "Director Wu, I'm going to ask for my life here, don't always be the host looking for me in the future, my personal acting skills are still okay!"

Zhang Guoli's self-ridicule once again aroused applause and laughter at the scene.

However, the reporters in the audience still don't want Zhang Guoli to say too much, they have too many questions to ask Wu Jianye, after all, before this, they only knew that Wu Jianye was auditioning for various actors, but they could be said to know nothing about the situation of the new movie.

This time Wu Jianye held a press conference with such fanfare, they naturally have a lot of questions to ask, and Wu Jianye's last movie "Eternal Night" still has a lot of remaining historical questions that have not been asked, and now that the movie "Eternal Night" is still in theaters, Wu Jianye has already held a press conference for the new movie, and the hot spot of the previous one has not yet receded, everyone still wants to ask many questions when they seize this opportunity!

Zhang Guoli seemed to hear everyone's heart, so his opening remarks ended quickly, and then it was time for reporters to ask questions!

"Director Wu, can you tell us all about your new movie? What kind of story is it?--The reporter of "Popular Film" was still very face-saving at the beginning, and did not ask other messy questions, but asked about the situation of the new movie.

"Of course, looking at the name, everyone should know that this is a movie related to dreams, in fact, this movie tells a story about dreams and reality, I hope that after the movie is released, the audience who watched this movie can ask themselves a question, whether I am in a dream or in reality!" Wu Jianye's answer was also flat.

"So Director Wu, we all know that you have always made movies with big productions and big spends, so can you reveal the production cost of this "Inception"?--The reporter of "Popular Times" continued to ask.

"It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that, not every movie of mine is a big production!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

In the movies directed by Wu Jianye, it is true that not every one of them is a big production, but in the eyes of the environment at the time, it is indeed a big investment.

For example, although the production cost of director Wu Jianye's first movie "The Red Lantern Hangs High" was only 1 million, it was in 1982, and the highest domestic film investment at that time was 1 million!

However, by the time of the second "The Last Emperor", the production cost of the film had skyrocketed, as high as 26 million US dollars, which really shocked the country's film peers at that time, and it was also from that time that everyone knew that Wu Jianye was never short of money when making movies!

The third film is "New Dragon Gate Inn", although the investment in this movie is not as high as "The Last Emperor", the production cost has been as high as 20 million Hong Kong dollars!

Because the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the renminbi at that time was different from now, when converted into renminbi, it was only a few million yuan more than the highest investment line in China, which was 1.3 million yuan.

After finishing the filming of "New Dragon Gate Inn", Wu Jianye filmed a TV series "The Legend of the New White Lady", and then went to Hollywood to shoot two blockbusters, "Ghost Love" and "Jurassic Park"!

When Wu Jianye returned to China, the investment in the first film "The World of Chu Xing" was only more than 10 million yuan, which was almost the third lowest production cost among the films shot by Wu Jianye.

When it came to the movie "Eternal Night", which was being released, the investment exceeded that of "The Last Emperor", allowing the Chinese people to see Wu Jianye's wealth and arrogance again!

But no matter which movie directed by Wu Jianye, the investment is higher than the highest level of film investment in China!

Now Wu Jianye's new movie "Inception", the production cost of this movie is naturally the most concerned issue for media people!

After laughing, Wu Jianye explained: "The investment in this film should be the largest in the history of domestic films, and now it is expected to invest 100 million US dollars, which is the same as the movie "Eternal Night", there is no cap!"

$100 million, like a depth charge, was thrown into the group of reporters.

Everyone was shocked in an instant, they thought that Wu Jianye's movie production cost should be very high, but they never thought that it would be so high!

$100 million?

How many people in the country can come up with this money now?

Maybe some state-owned enterprises have this ability, but if you want to talk about domestic individuals, who have the ability to come up with 100 million US dollars, they really have to think about it.

And now Wu Jianye is going to spend $100 million on making movies?

Some reporters still remember that when Tangting Culture invested in the filming of "Eternal Night", some people had already questioned whether Wu Jianye used such a high investment to make a movie?

This was a very sensational news at the time!

Well, now Wu Jianye's new movie has not only not converged, but even intensified, 100 million US dollars!

Like the reporters who have blown up the pot, they have stood up to ask questions, but at this time, it can be seen that Zhang Guoli's hosting skills are good, and he first asked everyone to be quiet, because such questions will not let them get the answers they want.

After some reassurance, Zhang Guoli motioned to the reporter of "Popular Film", who had just finished asking questions, and continued to ask questions.

"Director Wu, don't you worry about not recovering the cost of the $100 million investment? At the same time, is this film still an independent investment by Tangting Culture? Does Tangting Culture have so much money?" -- The reporter of "Popular Film" was obviously very excited, and asked three questions in a row.

Wu Jianye sat there, holding a microphone in his hand, and said: "Investing in movies is originally a business, but fortunately, none of my movies have lost money, which should be the reason why I'm not worried!"

"This film is not independently invested by Tangting Culture, but undertakes an investment of 90 million US dollars, and the remaining 10 million will be invested by Yan Film Studio. ”

"As for whether Tangting Culture has this money, I don't think there is any need to answer this question, if not, we would not have been able to invest in such a large movie!"

Do film companies make so much money?

In the past, everyone knew that Tangting Culture was the largest film company in China, but they never thought that Tangting Culture would be able to take out 100 million at one time, and pay back such a huge investment as US dollars.

Everyone knows the domestic film account sharing model, and the way to collect the money for the movie is also clear to everyone, and now that the movie "Eternal Night" has just been released for a little more than a month, it is impossible for Tangting Culture to get the box office of the movie so quickly.

The reporters at the scene did not know the relationship between the domestic Fengge Cinema Line and the court culture, and they calculated it according to the box office sharing time of ordinary movies.

In other words, after investing nearly $30 million in the "Eternal Night" movie, Tangting Culture once again took out $90 million to invest in the movie "Inception" when it didn't get the box office share of the movie!

Is the court culture so rich?

Naturally, the court culture is not so rich!

Tangting Culture now has a film department, a TV drama department, a music department, an animation department, as well as its wholly-owned subsidiary Tangting special effects, aunt-in-law props, and Hengdian Film and Television City.

Wu Jianye's other groups have never announced their economic status because they have not been listed and have no plans to go public.

But Tangting culture is different, Tangting culture was originally built by Wu Jianye to set up a benchmark for domestic capital that is interested in entering the film and television industry, so Tangting Culture will announce its financial report every year!

Last year, the Tangting Culture Film Department produced a total of 12 films, excluding "Eternal Night" released at the end of the year, the other 11 films, the most profitable are Jiang Qian's "Sunny Day" and Feng Pants's "Never Lose My Love"!

Among them, "Sunny Days" later Jiang Qian called to make two additional investments, the production cost was as high as 6.5 million, plus the distribution cost of 3.5 million, all the costs added up, 10 million, but the national box office exceeded 70 million, and at the same time, the copyright income of Europe and North America was sold for 2 million US dollars, and the copyright income in Asia was 700,000 US dollars!

After deducting the box office share of the theater, the cost of production and publicity, as well as taxes, plus a series of costs such as special fees, Tangting Culture has received about 40 million in revenue!

The combined income of the other 10 movies is about 70 million, and there are two movies that lose money......

As for the income from videotapes, which are extremely important to Hong Kong and Taiwan films and European and American films...... In China, the piracy industry is almost negligible even after more than 20 years.

The film department earned 110 million yuan last year.

The TV drama department produced a total of 8 TV dramas last year, selling the first and second rounds of TV drama broadcast rights, as well as the rights sold to Xiangjiang ATV, while deducting all costs and necessary expenses and taxes, the income is about 90 million.

This is not to say that the copyright of the TV series is valuable, in fact, the broadcast rights of the TV series at this time are not as sky-high as in later generations.

Of the 8 TV series mainly produced by Tangting Culture, 4 are modern dramas, and in these TV series, there are advertising placements, which is the majority of the money made by the Tangting Culture and Television Department!

The situation of the animation department is more complicated, last year produced an animated TV series, an animated movie, and the total income is about 50 million!

Among them, the music department of Tangting Culture is the least profitable, because piracy is rampant, and the singer's album has also encountered such a situation, if it weren't for the two shows of the new rock force and the Strawberry Music Festival, it is estimated that they would have to lose money.

The overall income is only 30 million!

All the dividends of Hengdian Film and Television City were used to continue to invest in construction, but it was a very good thing that Tangting Culture did not continue to invest in it last year.

The aunt's props earned more than 10 million yuan for the court culture last year, but they were all self-sufficient.

As for the special effects......

Last year, a series of operations such as adding equipment, recruiting new talents, and so on, not only did not make money, but also lost tens of millions of ......

After these funds are added, the annual income of Tangting Culture last year was about 200 million!

However, the court culture is not only about income but also about expenses, staff salaries, and investment in movies and TV series.

For example, last year's largest project of Tangting Culture "Eternal Night" The investment in the movie was as high as nearly 30 million US dollars, which has exceeded the income of Tangting Culture last year, but this movie used the income of the previous year, and the year before last, Tangting Culture had a blockbuster movie "The World of Chu Xing", and the income of this movie filled this vacancy, and there are still many leftovers.

But even so, when this financial statement appeared, it still caused a huge sensation.

But the reporters on the scene are all old fritters, even if there is the movie "The World of Chu Xing" at the bottom, the investment in the movie "Inception" is still not enough.

So the people at the scene were excited, because Wu Jianye said that they had money, but after the reporter's calculations, Tangting Culture should not be able to come up with so much money.

"Director Wu, are you taking out a loan from the bank?"

"Of course not, what makes me very proud is that Tangting Culture has not had any arrears so far!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

Such an answer made the reporters depressed for a while, and at the same time they remembered the giant in the hundred islands, whose business philosophy was also not to take out loans......

It's just that now everyone knows that the giant's life is not too easy!

But now they don't have time to care about the future of the giant, what they care about is how to come up with this money!

"If there is no loan, how did Tangting Culture come up with this fund?" the reporters finally asked the question they were most concerned about.

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