The news of "The Pianist at Sea" being shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival soon spread like snowflakes across the country, and the entire industry was shaken, and the work "Flying Over the Slum" by the top domestic director Qi Wen was also shortlisted, which tells the story of a group of young people living at the bottom of the society who struggle to get rid of the harsh environment and move towards a better life.

Unlike the fledgling Liao Yuan, Director Qi Wen is a veteran director who has debuted in the mainland for more than 20 years, and has been nominated and awarded Best Director many times, and is second to none in the whole country.

But it did happen.

"Liao Yuan is not yet thirty years old this year?"

"The Pianist of the Sea is his second film work, right?

"This is the best pianist I've ever met, it's so unprofessional!"

"A pianist who can't make a film is not a good director. ”

"The box office of "The Pianist at Sea" 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, whether it won the award or not, it was already very powerful if it was nominated. ”

"It can't be said that the Berlin Film Festival is different from other film festivals, there are many films shortlisted for the main competition unit, there have been more than ten in the past, and there are many in this year, and there are 14 shortlisted films in the main competition unit that have just been announced. ”

""The Pianist of the Sea" is not a commercial movie, and 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, and people's aesthetics are in the literary film, can't make a commercial film?"

"Liao Yuan can't make commercial films? What are you kidding! Have you seen "The Tuner"? Have you watched "Signal"?"

"I have to admit that Liao Yuan does have the potential to shoot commercial films, "The Tuner" is just a short film, and it has a high score of 9.4 on Douban, and there are hundreds of thousands of evaluations, and the script "Signal" written by Liao Yuan has also been filmed into an online drama and has become a hit that year, even now, on major video websites, the score of "Signal" is as high as 9.2, and some even score 9.5 points......"

"Liao Yuan's products are all high-quality products!"

"No wonder someone calls him the godfather of entertainment, where to play, invincible in the piano world, invincible in the composition world, this came to the film industry, and immediately won the rhythm of the best director and actor, who is not convinced?"

On Weibo, major social networking sites, and forums, a wind of "Liao Yuan blowing" gradually began to surge, and 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 the banner of the leader of the new generation of directors, not only in the field of literary films, but also in the commercial field and so on.

Of course, Liao Yuan also heard the news, he scoffed at it, if it weren't for the conditions, the Liao Group has a weak foundation, and he would have recruited troops to prepare a series of commercial blockbusters by now.

Literary films are not the focus, commercial films can make a lot of money.

Of course, after the mainland box office won 1.1 billion box office, the company will soon be able to get a share of the box office, and the harvest of 200 million yuan is enough for Liao Yuan to start shooting a commercial blockbuster.

And such as "The Pianist", "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", "Green Book" and other literary films, Liao Yuan will not touch it for the time being, he now urgently needs funds to develop the company, and even has the idea of going public, but the current economic environment is not good, Hong Kong stocks and A shares are turbulent, even the US stocks have an irresistible trend, so it is not a good time to go public. Seeking from 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 at Sea" is now nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

So if it can win the award, it will definitely have an unnatural impact on the foreign box office of "The Pianist at Sea".

At that time, I am afraid that there will be another box office harvest.

Even if the final income is not worth the box office in the mainland, no matter how little mosquito meat is, it is still meat, not to mention that it is still a piece of fatty meat, which can also greatly alleviate Liao Yuan's financial constraints.

And now with the fresh and hot 200 million funds in hand, Liao Yuan did not engage in infrastructure construction according to his previous ideas, but decided to start filming the next movie.

The so-called striking while the iron is hot, now is 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.

The new film is a key factor in establishing Liao Yuan's influence, so Liao Yuan must be very cautious.

This 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 look back like a dream now.

So a lot of fragments are fragmented.

Liao Yuan had to work hard to remember in order to get bypassed, so he needed to be extremely focused.

Now there are 200 million idle funds, and if you add some advertising revenue, you can probably have 300 million or 400 million funds.

Three or four billion, it sounds like a lot, but investing in commercial blockbusters can't make too much splash, especially to compete with commercial blockbusters produced by Hollywood, you must invest more money, if it is a special effects blockbuster, then you need a strong capital investment, at least one billion yuan to lay the foundation.

This aspect is actually very easy to solve, the name Liao Yuan is a kind golden signboard, and many capitalists are willing to enter to support.

But what is the number of admission support, it needs to be supported by the magical item of the script.

A good script is the foundation of the building, which determines how high the building should be, so Liao Yuan must carefully screen it.

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First of all, the preparation time is too long, and the plot in 2024 is now a little old-fashioned, so it is excluded.

The most important thing is that Liao Yuan feels that this milestone film of Chinese science fiction was able to win a box office of 4.6 billion in his previous life, relying on elements from all sides.

"Wolf Warrior"?Emmm......

"Nezha's Demon Boy Descends" is a good choice, but Liao Yuan's company does not have the technology in this area, and the script can be written, but he can dub at most.

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 aesthetically fatigued, and this film is not a commercial film in the strict sense, at least not the kind that Liao Yuan wants to make.

"Happiness Knocks on the Door"?sad and bitter drama, literary film, now Liao Yuan doesn't want to touch it at all.

Just thinking about the huge worldview, Liao Yuan was a little speechless.

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As for the Marvel series, the Superman series, and even the famous Harry Potter series, Liao Yuan ignored them all, he didn't have the energy to do this, just thinking back to the relationship chain of the Marvel Universe, etc., he would feel that his head would blow up, so he retreated.

In the end, Liao Yuan decided to write the names of seven movies on the list.

They are "Shutter Island", "Truman's World", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Interstellar", "Inception", "Independence Day", "The Martian".

Among them, "Shutter Island", "Truman's World", and "The Shawshank Redemption" are movies that Liao Yuan remembers more deeply, although they are not commercial films in the strict sense, but the box office can reach the scale of commercial films, of course, the most important thing is because the script is relatively simple and smooth.

And "Interstellar", "Inception", "Independence Day", and "The Martian" are all relatively money-burning movies, and they are also so-called sci-fi blockbusters.

Among them, "Independence Day" has the lowest production cost, and 500 million yuan can probably be completed.

"The Martian" needs 700 million.

The most expensive are Inception and Interstellar.

These two movies, each of which is a money-burning work, with an investment of at least one billion yuan to start, and the script is quite brain-burning and complicated to write, but if it is made, Liao Yuan is confident, these two movies will not be outdated even if they are put ten years later.

Because regardless of the creative or story line, both films are undoubtedly at the top level.

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Thanks to Shan Qingying's reward, I asked for a monthly pass recommendation ticket