Dai's Restaurant!

Wu Jianye and Han Heping sat together again, this time still discussing Wu Jianye's new film investment.

When Han Heping first became the deputy director of Yan Film Studio, Wu Jianye had already told him that he would support his work, but after hearing about the investment in his new film, Han Heping also needed to discuss with the management of Yan Film Studio.

Now that Wu Jianye's new movie is ready to start the project, it is natural to ask Han Heping what he means!

"Director Wu, isn't this investment a bit exaggerated?" After seeing the investment in Wu Jianye's new movie, Han Heping was still frightened by this investment even though he was fully prepared!

100 million!

It's not RMB, it's USD!

Nowadays, the highest production cost of the recorded film in the history of China is "Eternal Night", which is now being screened nationwide!

Even so, the investment in this movie is just over $500,000 for "The Last Emperor"!

The investment in "Eternal Night" has been increased in the later stage, and the final shooting cost is fixed at 26.5 million US dollars.

However, this is a two-part movie, in fact, the most expensive film in the country before this is still the 26 million of the movie "The Last Emperor"!

Although the publicity in the later period has also increased a lot of funds, it is still far from the 100 million US dollars that Wu Jianye said now!

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "When the investment in this film is filmed later, I can't be sure if there will be additional investment, but now this investment is these, it depends on whether you Yan Film Studio is interested!"

After entering 1995, the central bank adjusted the exchange rate between the RMB and the US dollar again, which was somewhat higher than last year, 8.351 RMB to 1 US dollar!

In other words, Wu Jianye's new film investment will exceed 800 million yuan!

What is the concept of 800 million yuan in China at this time, the 70-story Giant Building in Baidao, the total cost is only 1.2 billion yuan!

Now Wu Jianye is going to use 800 million to shoot a movie!

Not necessarily enough!

If this data can't give everyone an intuitive understanding, then you can refer to the film production cost of Zhang Yimou who opened the blockbuster era in the future!

The production cost of Zhang Yimou's first real blockbuster "Hero" in China is about 250 million, while the production cost of Chen Kaige's "Wuji" is 340 million......

Han Heping smiled bitterly: "Director Wu, you really gave me a problem!"

Wu Jianye smiled, didn't say anything, and waited for Han Heping's answer, for Wu Jianye, whether Yan Film Studio invests or not, it doesn't mean much at all, he just agreed to Yan Film Studio's investment to help Han Heping.

After thinking for a while, Han Heping said: "Director Wu, according to the news I have gotten, as of now, the box office of "Eternal Night" has exceeded 120 million in China, and the global box office has exceeded 50 million US dollars!"

"Eternal Night" has been released in China for more than two weeks, and the box office has officially exceeded 120 million, and the global box office has also increased significantly because the movie has been released in North America.

But it is undeniable that the Chinese culture of the movie "Eternal Night" is too strong, so the box office in North America has set a new low for Wu Jianye in the first week since the release of the movie "Ghost Love".

But even so, the global box office revenue of 50 million dollars is already a very substantial box office receipt.

According to the data released by Tangting Culture, Tangting Culture's domestic box office account sharing is 5:5 with Fengge Cinema and other theaters, while the overseas box office, Tangting Culture is mainly a distribution contract signed with Fengge Media in Xiangjiang and Phantom Pictures in North America, and the box office sharing model is also 3.5:6.5!

According to the calculation of this account-sharing model, in more than two weeks, the box office share between Tangting Culture and the domestic Fengge Cinema Line is 60 million, and the overseas box office share is 17.5 million US dollars!

Total: RMB 261.4 million.

The actual production cost of "Eternal Night" is 221.3 million.

The release cycle of a movie is two months, plus the movie "Eternal Night" is still two up and down, if you add the income and peripherals of the next movie, "Eternal Night" will bring at least 500 million income to the court culture!

Wu Jianye nodded and said, "Anyway, I have already given you the investment share, whether you add it or not, it depends on your Yanying Studio!"

Han Heping gritted his teeth and said ruthlessly: "Investment, even if you smash the pot and sell iron, we also invest, you are already very unoptimistic about the last movie, the return on investment ratio is twice as much, this time we will keep up with whatever we say." ”

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Okay, since you agree to invest, then let's find a time to sign the contract!"

Han Heping sneered: "Mr. Wu, didn't you say before that you could contact Standard Chartered Bank to provide a loan for our Yan Film Studio?"

Yanying Studio itself will definitely not be able to take out this investment, and it happened that Wu Jianye promised Han Heping before that if Yanying Studio needed it, Standard Chartered Bank could provide a loan.

This is also the back road that Han Heping is preparing for!

Wu Jianye nodded indifferently and said, "Yes, but how much are you Yanying Studio going to invest?"

Even if Wu Jianye fell in love with the resources of Yanying Studio, it was impossible for Standard Chartered Bank to open up a loan to Yanying Studio.

Han Heping was not greedy, and said: "10 million US dollars, as I said before, use the film library and land of Yanying Studio as collateral!"

Wu Jianye smiled, the land of Yanying Factory will be a golden egg in the future, and said with a smile: "No problem, you can contact Standard Chartered Bank in Yanjing tomorrow!"

After talking about this matter, Han Heping asked Wu Jianye some questions about the new movie, the most important thing is that the unprecedented $100 million was spent there!

Special effect!

It's still a special effect!

After listening to Wu Jianye's description, Han Heping looked at Wu Jianye with some suspicion and said, "Mr. Wu, will movie special effects really play such a big role in the film industry in the future?"

Wu Jianye nodded, and said firmly: "The use of special effects will become the mainstream of the film market in the future, if our country's film industry can't seize the time to invest in special effects research, it will be impossible to overtake in corners!"

"If you look at the current Hollywood movies, they can basically be divided into two kinds of international success, one is their action blockbuster, and the other is their science fiction film, which is put in our country, in fact, it is science fiction and Xianxia movies, and the Xianxia movies here include the previous "Eternal Night" and also include movies like "New Dragon Gate Inn". ”

"Xianxia movies are the bottom line of Chinese movies, and science fiction films represent the upper limit of Chinese movies!"

In the end, Wu Jianye concluded.

"What about mainstream movies?" Han Heping asked.

For Han Heping, mainstream movies mean a lot of things!

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "Mainstream movies mean the conscience of Chinese films!"

"The conscience of Huaxia movies?" Han Heping repeated, and then looked at Wu Jianye suspiciously.

"Yes, there are many kinds of mainstream movies, there are those prepared by Yan Film Studio now, and there are also military-themed movies, in the future, movies will become one of the most mainstream pastimes for ordinary people, whether you want to admit it or not, when the future life is filled with more and more things, ordinary people will no longer be like now, willing to understand the things of our nation, they may have more, in their eyes more practical pursuits. ”

"At this time, the film actually took on a part of the general audience's understanding of our country's history and culture, such as our country's soldiers!"

"I remember when we were young, everyone was proud to be a soldier, but now? Although there are still some people who have such ideas, but more young people no longer have such ideas, at this time their idols have become those successful businessmen, and the status of soldiers has a different view in their hearts, if we filmmakers, can make excellent military movies, war-themed movies, we can better shape the image of those excellent soldiers for young people......”

"Even some university professors no longer believe that our soldiers can be the best soldiers in the world, do you still think they can better educate their students?"

Wu Jianye's words are not untargeted, in fact, in the later life, only when disaster strikes, ordinary people will think of our troops, but in ordinary life, few people mention it anymore.

In 2004, when Super Girl was at its most popular, there was a girl who thought she had become a high-ranking artist and looked down on the people's soldiers.

Later, when Wu Yan filmed "Wolf Warrior 2", many public and university professors also jumped out to express their opinions, thinking that there were many unreasonable places in the movie and a series of news.

Here Wu Jianye very much agrees with what Wu Yan said in an interview, why can the American soldiers of Hollywood blockbusters be omnipotent in movies, and they have to have so many sayings when they are replaced by Chinese movies!

Sometimes, the more knowledgeable a person is, the more his knees are bent!

This is also why in the history of China, every time there is a change of dynasty, the first to kneel are often those civil servants!

"Just like the movies we are shooting with the main theme now, although there is no problem with the quality, it is impossible to compare with a movie like "Eternal Night" at the box office!" Han Heping said.

Wu Jianye nodded and said: "Yes, in the final analysis, movies still have certain limitations, for example, the most important thing in movies is entertainment, and the movies you shoot, entertainment is often the most scarce, now the Chinese people have fewer choices, they will still watch such movies, once the lives of ordinary people become colorful, and there are more optional entertainment activities, the living space of such movies will be smaller!"

Han Heping smiled bitterly: "No wonder you say that mainstream movies are the conscience of a country's film industry, it turns out that such a conscience means making less money!"

makes little money, and may even lose money, how many people are willing to invest in such a movie!

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "It's not that mainstream movies necessarily make less money or lose money, as long as you can tell the story well, then even mainstream movies can create box office myths!"

A movie like "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic", which is piled up with stars, cannot be counted as this rank.

However, the later "Wolf Warrior" series, "Operation Red Sea", "Operation Mekong" and other films can actually be classified as the main theme films, but these movies have also achieved unprecedented success at the box office.

Han Heping smiled: "Then Director Wu, are you interested in making a movie like this?"

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Maybe there will be such an opportunity in the future!"

The two chatted for a long time, and when they left Dai's Restaurant, it was already more than ten o'clock at night.

The next day, the leaders of Yanying Studio found Standard Chartered Bank and applied for a loan.

With Wu Jianye's greeting, the $10 million loan was quickly approved.

This batch of loans went directly to the independent account of Wu Jianye's new film, and Tangting Culture also transferred its investment share to the account of the new movie.

As for the share of the movie "Eternal Night", we have to wait!

In the absence of an online payment platform, all audiences who want to watch movies must go to the theater to buy movie tickets.

In terms of theaters, they will choose half a month, or once a month, and hand over the special fees and taxes to the state, and then keep their own part, and hand over the rest of the money to the theater.

After the cinema chain gets the money, at a fixed time every month, it will leave the money belonging to the cinema chain, and then hand over the remaining money to the settlement center of China Film, as for why it was handed over to China Film, it is because the main distribution company is China Film, because China Film starts with the national character and has enough authority, which is equivalent to finding an authoritative third party to do the settlement work.

If ordinary distribution companies don't want to sign a contract with China Film, it's actually no problem, but it will be a very troublesome thing to sign a separate settlement contract with the theater companies of all the film companies in the country.

However, for this kind of trouble, Tangting Culture is not worried, and at the same time, there are not as many domestic distribution companies as in later generations, only Tangting Culture, but now the country is ready to launch another issuance license.

If it is Tangting Culture, at this time, Tangting Culture has actually gotten the money, but for other film companies, there are still several processes to wait.

Because when the money arrives at the settlement center of China Film, it will be settled, and a trace of settlement fees will be charged at the same time, but this money will be kept here for a long time.

Because the current film release time is basically more than two months, it may be that the money has arrived in the first ten days, and the money in the last twenty days will only arrive in the account next month, and there will be some box office reports one after another in the middle, so the settlement center will not settle with the main distributor immediately, and the money will not be paid to the account of the main distribution company until six months after the film is released.

After the main distribution company gets the funds, there will also be many steps to go, as Tangting Culture takes the promotion of the film as an important form in the film industry, some companies do not have money to do promotion and publicity after smashing the pot and selling iron to make the movie, and then at this time, the main distribution company will bear the cost of promotion and publicity, and this money will be paid to the main distribution company first.

This includes both the publicity costs paid by the main distribution company and the distribution agency fee, which is why if the film loses money, the production company loses the most money.

By the time the final money arrived at the producer, it had been six months since the film's release, not including the time spent preparing and filming the previous crew.