Film tax rebates are the rise of the last decade...

However, as other countries other than the United States, mainly Canada and the United Kingdom, have gradually increased tax rebates related to film production, in order to reduce production costs, more and more American companies choose to shoot and produce films and television overseas.

This unique phenomenon is known in the Hollywood industry as "production emigration"!

It should be 97 years, the Canadian government officially launched the film production tax rebate program, and Canadian provinces, including British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, etc., have launched their own film tax rebate programs.

Combined, Hollywood studios that shoot in Canada can get a total tax rebate equivalent to 37%-70% of labor costs and 25%-30% of consumption.

Several other states in the United States have sensed the opportunity - since you can go abroad to shoot, why don't you come to us?

As a result, as of 2009, 44 of the 50 states have passed similar refund laws.

To what extent does Massachusetts support film: The government pays for all the police, firefighters and other public services that need to be deployed to make a film on public land in Massachusetts.

And the more big names in the crew, the greater the strength!

Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, 007, Team America, these two are really big stars!

Especially Daniel Craig, don't think he can only play Bond, he has worked with David Fincher, Spielberg, and Sam Mendes.

Of course, the $15 million salary is still too high...

Fortunately, the Massachusetts tax refund has saved a lot of money, and it can be done for about $55 million.

Most importantly, Daniel Craig took a step back - he took "Knives Out" at the price of a literary film...

Hollywood stars take over different films, and the salaries are not the same, and the salaries of literary films are much lower than those of commercial films - 6 million US dollars...

The U.S. team also lowered their salary to $4 million...

First of all, the story of "Knives Out" is a typical ontological reasoning - restoring the case bit by bit from the perspective of a detective, and finally deciphering it.

The story is very simple: Howard Slumby, a wealthy family, was found to have committed suicide on his estate the day after his 85th birthday, leaving behind a billionaire inheritance.

Detective Blanco is hired by an anonymous person to investigate the truth of the case.

At the same time, Howard's grandson, Ranson, is also secretly investigating the case. When Blanco talks to the rest of the Howard Slumby family, he discovers that things are not as simple as he imagined.

The Howard family is not as harmonious as it seems, everyone has a secret secret, and everyone wants an inheritance...

The American team was busy filming "Avengers", and it still took five weeks to do so, just because the script moved him.

The discrimination against immigrants, right-wing ideology, and political satire in the film are actually very straightforward, completely copying reality, without any fiction:

The family has everything to say about Marta's origin, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, but in the end, they don't give a clear answer, because in reality, anti-immigrant Americans will not figure out where immigrants come from, as long as they are uniformly called Mexicans from Latin America;

And the most important irony: I started from scratch.

Originality, detective, ontological reasoning, Agatha style...

None of them belong to the blockbuster label!

But both of them liked the script, so they lowered their salaries...

Lu Xiaoran still has a card in Lao Mei, but it is not as good as Quentin - "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", Xiao Li Zi and Brad Pitt both lowered their salaries and took over the filming for $10 million...

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At the door of the premiere, I met Ah Lang, the editor-in-chief of "Watching Movies" magazine.

In recent years, he has also started to run self-media, published several books, and Lu Xiaoran also wrote a preface to a book "What to Do to Cherry Trees in Spring"...

It's a good book, a serious introduction to a lot of cyan movies...

The two had a brief chat about "Knives Out".

"I'm a big admirer of Agatha Christie, and my favorite is 'The Mystery of Roger,' which sets the background in a large family that is superficially warm but actually falling apart, with the mysterious death of the patriarch and the intervention of a detective in the case, through a series of questions and flashbacks, and finally making a closing statement to find out who is the real murderer. ”

"This kind of story is not suitable for taking place in China, the definition of private detectives in our country's law is very vague, at least they can't touch criminal cases, so..."

"Oscar, I've never made a movie for the sake of an award... At least not now!"

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The industry, including many friends of Lu Xiaoran, are very concerned about Lu Xiaoran's trip to North America.

Some media used: Conquest of Hollywood to describe Lu Xiaoran's trip to North America...

In Hollywood, he just wants to shoot "Knives Out", just when he has time.

The Chinese market is booming, at this time, do you want him to give up the mainland market and specialize in North America?

Sick?

But some media didn't know whether to praise him or hurt him, and used words like 'the mainland market is lonely and seeks defeat, so I went to Hollywood'...

His every move now represents oranges, the secondary market fluctuates greatly, Lu Xiaoran specially issued a statement: The story of "Knives Out" has been written a long time ago, and there has been no time to shoot, this year I just had time, so I completed it, why went to the United States to shoot, because the setting of this story is not suitable for taking place in China...

By the way, he announced his next stage of development: "Sword Rain", "Courageously", "Ice Blood Changjin Lake"...

"Ice-blooded Changjin Lake", as you can see from the name, this is a movie of the Volunteer Army...

But how should it be filmed?

If you know a little bit about history, you know that it was a terrible war...

Before netizens could discuss the fermentation, Lu Xiaoran had already packed up and went to the United States...

Then, for the next few days...

No, it should be said that the next two months are all about the sound of "Wolf Warrior 2"!

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According to the process, let's first take a piece of media coverage of "The Great Cause of the Army":

'The bloody war masterpiece "The Great Cause of the Army" premiered in Beijing on the 25th, with chief planner and artistic director Han Sanping, director Liu Weiqiang, and producer Huang Jianxin bringing actors Liu Huohua, Zhu Yawen, Huang Zhizhong, Ou Hao, Zhang Xincheng, Ma Tianyu, Zhang Yixing, Dong Zijian and other 31 actors appeared, and the unprecedented lineup made the on-site media boil!

And it was announced that it would be raised to two o'clock in the afternoon on the 27th.

Directly eight hours in advance...

"Wolf Warrior 2" was announced before the official release at 20 o'clock, and "The Great Cause of the Army" came to this point...

The media asked Xiao Xianrou, and they praised it in various ways: there were only 5 rest RVs, and no one asked for any needs. We've also heard some rumors, but none of us have come across them. They don't ask for any salary, just some living allowances.

Liu Weiqiang also said: There is nothing bad to shoot, and I don't know why I am very obedient when I come to us.

Then, the next day, "Wolf Warrior 2" was officially released at 8:01 pm on July 27, 2017: the box office exceeded 100 million in 4 hours;

Over 300 million in 25 hours;

Over 500 million in 46 hours;

It has exceeded 1.2 billion yuan in 5 days after its release.

In its first weekend of release, it grossed $127 million worldwide and became the number one film at the global box office.

On July 30 alone, it won 359.7 million, setting a new record for the single-day box office in Chinese film history.