What can you do for an animated movie in half a month?

Little, but also a lot!

A lot of the premise is that the funds, manpower, and resources are all in place, and there is a good helmsman to grasp the direction.

There is no shortage of funds for Xizi Films, not to mention how much money Penguin Animation Network, 8 stations and Shanhai Animation Studio can use, just knowing that Xizi Pictures is going to start making animated films, investors from all walks of life are endless, if you are willing to eat these investments in this half month, it will be more than the total funds of the cooperation projects reached by all parties in the entire Shanhai Animation Festival, conservatively speaking, it can exceed 300 million!

What is the concept of 300 million production costs?

In recent years, there have been few animated films with a high box office and a good reputation in China, even if the publicity and distribution fees are included, there are not many that exceed 100 million.

The production cost of large-scale animated films in China is basically maintained between 20 million and 50 million, and more than 30 million accounts for a small proportion.

A few more years further on, even less!

The animated film crew is so poor, so poor that all the practitioners are used to it.

Take "Big Fish" as an example, the reason why it took 12 years for a pigeon to really get on the big screen is not that the production cycle needs to be so long, but most of the time is spent on all kinds of running around looking for investment.

The most interesting and ironic thing is that "Big Fish" took 12 years to produce with 30 million, and then invested in, and the money spent on the promotion and distribution of the film far exceeded the production fee.

What does this mean?

It's not that Chinese filmmakers or investors don't have vision, but it's so poisonous that you don't see a rabbit or an eagle until the last step!

Why did you go earlier?

People don't need to spend money to buy risks, bet on whether you can make money, after all, there are more types of Chinese movies to make money. I'm not an animation lover, so I won't take your dreams to fight at all.

Even if it's an animated movie, invest in projects like bears and sheep that don't lose money.

Comparatively speaking, the first reason why foreign animated films, especially Hollywood, do well is that they really dare to throw money, and hundreds of millions of dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars of production costs are thrown at it. It is true that they have a more mature film industry and technology, but they didn't have the guts to spend money at the beginning, and the film industry and technology will not be so good.

Of course, there are many, many reasons for the quality of the film.

However, if you have money, you can really solve a lot of things, especially for Huaxia animated films, if you have money, you can already solve a lot of things.

Xizi Pictures is one of the biggest rabbits in the Chinese film market for investors in the industry, everyone wants to scatter a little eagle even if they can pick up a little hair, money, less money is also earned, the key is that there is a second time if there is a first time, and there is more than the second time.

For investors, the most important thing about a movie is the box office.

Where did the box office come from?

One is brought by people with box office appeal, and the other is brought by word of mouth.

Word-of-mouth is inaccurate, but the box office appeal is accurate, otherwise there will not be such a high-quality garbage but find some actors or traffic with box office appeal to make a wave of money and leave. Don't think that there is a small wave, it is quite high compared to the production cost.

There are too many components of box office appeal, such as traffic stars, such as feelings, such as filmmakers who have had good reputation movies, and so on.

Well, after some painful and embarrassing experiences of too high quality, traffic stars can no longer deceive people, and the number of people who pay IQ taxes in movies is decreasing year by year.

But the latter two are still very popular, feelings have always been a big IQ tax, and what about good word-of-mouth filmmakers, this is a bit of a lottery, you don't really know the quality if you don't walk into the cinema, or you don't believe that the movie score must be seen to be determined.

Xizi Pictures or Meng Fan belongs to the combination of traffic and good reputation, and the traffic reaches the traffic idol side, and he has indeed produced good works - although it is not a movie, he can't stand the previous works have a good reputation.

Not to mention anything else, after the release of Xizi Pictures' movie, the enterprise announced that the sentence "We all owe Iron God a movie ticket" can attract countless audiences.

What, Meng Fan hasn't made a movie before?

Isn't his game even more exciting than the movie?

There is nothing wrong with this corporate slogan!

So in the end, do you want all these investments that you send to your door?

Of course you won't have to do it, but it's not good to have any.

The first is that this line of work is deep, even if the three companies have some distribution bigwigs who have become shareholders, they still can't turn away all the investment; second, Meng Fan's original intention of establishing a film company is not all to make money, and he is willing to share part of the profits to make the animated films produced by his company more smoothly produced, distributed, released and expand their influence.

In the end, it absorbed an investment of almost 100 million yuan and injected it into the production costs of the three animated films.

Of course, in addition to the requirements of attracting investment, in addition to the investor's own resources and platform, the most important thing is that you are only responsible for investing money and cannot interfere in other things.

However, even so, the pace of progress is still very slow, mainly because it is too difficult to build a team, or it is too difficult to pull up a team that can match such an investment, let alone three.

After the establishment of Xizi Pictures, both the subordinate studio and the fraternal strategic partner Shanhai Studio have recruited a large number of people, and now the subordinate studio, that is, Xizi Animation Studio, has more than 200 members, including 150 technical members, and the staff of Shanhai Studio has also expanded to nearly 500 people, and then counting other cooperative studios and outsourcing studios, there are more than 1,000 practitioners serving Xizi Pictures.

In the past half a month, in fact, most of the time has been spent on team building, and it can even be said that the main energy in the next few months will still be on this.

"No hurry!"

Meng Fan also knew the difficulties involved, and said at the meeting with the person in charge: "Although you can do things at your own pace, you can even slow down the pace appropriately, you don't have to worry about other things, there will be administrative staff to coordinate." These three animations are important, but in my opinion, it is more important to polish a qualified team through these three animations. “

"Also, there's one more thing I have to say, one thing that was decided a long time ago. My animation of "Stranger in the Mountains and Seas" has been approved in Neon, and according to the contract, I can deploy a team to Neon to participate in the production, and the first phase will last about one to two months. Originally, this team was also determined to be drawn from the Shanhai Animation Studio, and now part of the quota can be given to Xizi Animation. It's an opportunity to work with Neon's top animation production team, and now the task of film production is relatively heavy, how to coordinate with you to decide, and then give me the list. After two months of cooperation with Pixar, this is almost the same model. “

"Again, team building is the top priority, and it must be mastered. “

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