Chapter Seventy-Five: Suzhou
At ten o'clock in the morning, Lu Xiaoran came to the company.
After "Border Storm", there is less than one million money left in the orange imaging account - it will take time to recoup the funds, normally it should be a month after the movie is released.
However, Lu Xiaoran became famous in a fight, and Zeng Guangxian still has no big problem if he wants to attract investment.
"What's the box office?"
“... It's only been one night. ”
"Is it..."
It feels like I've already written four chapters, how can it only be one night...
"You help me shoot and contact the review teacher, I want him to help me change the script!"
"What script? 'Rain of Swords'?"
“... Do you think I dare to shoot it?"
Zeng Guangxian smiled: "You still have to consider the market..."
"Okay, I know, the new script is called "Rescue Mr. Wu", which is based on Wu Ruofu's kidnapping incident, and I have written the outline..."
"The kidnapping case is good, continue to do crime themes, you can find a few big stars this time!"
Xiao Luzi didn't want to talk about this topic for the time being: "Is the money for "Nightclub" enough?"
"Enough is enough... It's that if we invest on our own, it's a bit risky. ”
Making a movie is definitely risky!
Even if the investment in "Nightclub" is up to three million...
Crucially, Orange Images didn't have any work to prepare for the release, let alone experience...
"There is no distribution channel, you can find an agent, give them the film, and let them help distribute it. ”
"People charge at least 15 percent of the agency fee, and it's hard for us to make money..."
"So what?"
"How many partners would you like?"
The shooting plan for "Nightclub" has been written...
The biggest advantage of this movie is that it is cheap, rent a supermarket, and you can start filming directly.
Therefore, the place to spend money is mainly in terms of actors, Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, Lu Xiaoran, Tangtang, Cao Binkun, normal salary, the lowest Lao Cao has to get 80,000 yuan...
Lu Xiaoran is the most popular now, his salary is the highest, a movie, don't want him to nod if you don't have 800,000!
Bo Ge and Xu Zheng's salaries are close to 300,000, plus 200,000 from Tangtang.
If the market price is used, the salary of these people in a piece directly exceeds 1.5 million...
Xiao Luzi will definitely not ask for a salary, provided that "Night Club" is produced by Orange Images.
Now looking for other producers, he is a little unwilling.
After thinking about it, he said, "In this way, you wait for me to deal with the drama at hand, and then we will bring everyone over and discuss it together!"
Zeng Guangxian's eyes lit up: "Are you saying that actors don't receive remuneration, and the remuneration is included in the total cost?"
"That's what you said, not what I said!"
......
Today's domestic film industry has basically reached a consensus: if a movie wants to have a high box office, it must have a big star, and it is not enough to have a big star, but it must be a big production with large-scale publicity.
What Zhou Runfa, Andy Lau, Liang Chaowei, all who can be invited are invited!
Special effects also cost money, what Vita, industrial light and magic, everything that can be used is used by him!
You have to understand: what do audiences pay for tickets to go to the theater?
Look at the stars, look at the special effects, this can be worth the ticket price.
The box office is guaranteed to exceed 100 million!
You say you don't make money?
Movies are art, and it's good to talk about money?
This logic is not wrong, but unfortunately the most important link is missing: a good story.
"Night Banquet", "Wuji", "Ink Attack", and "The City is Full of Big Breasted Girls" have four blockbusters in a row, with special effects production and star lineup, which can be described as luxurious, but they have almost smashed the reputation of big productions.
On the contrary, it is a small-budget comedy like "Crazy Stone" that has won a bumper harvest of word-of-mouth and box office.
Ning Hao was born in commercial films and fought his way out, which is why he is highly regarded.
The most important thing in this industry is smart people, and a bunch of people have found a 'rule': comedy + small cost + ugly actors = word-of-mouth and box office.
Forrest Gump's "Big Movie" and "Happy" are created according to this mold!
Yang Qing's "Nightclub" is also this model, which is also the reason why Lu Xiaoran is optimistic about this drama, control the cost, make more efforts in publicity, and it is still very promising to win 20 million box office!
Therefore, he is reluctant to bring in more investors - why should the profitable business be divided?
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The Golden Rooster Award was founded in 81, it should be the twenty-sixth, but it was merged with the Hundred Flowers Award in 92, according to this is the fifteenth, but it was separated in 05, so that the media don't know what to use...
It can only be reported like this: The 16th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival (the 26th Golden Rooster Award)...
This year's host city is Suzhou.
There were a lot of people who came, Cheng Long, Li Lianjie, Liang Chaowei, Hou Xiaoxian, Wang Jiawei, Ge You all came, plus Chen Kun, Li Bingbing, Yuan Quan, Xia Yu, and Liu Ye voted for the Mesozoic actors, and they were stunned to make the scene prosperous.
Among all the awards this year, the most uninteresting is the best actress - ironclad to Liu Jialing!
As we all know, Liu Jialing was born in Suzhou and moved to Hong Kong at the age of fifteen.
In order to congratulate Suzhou's daughter on her coronation, Liang Chao, the prospective son-in-law of Suzhou, specially drove back to Beijing from the crew of "Red Cliff" in Y County, Hebei Province, but unfortunately caught up with the fog and was delayed at the airport for 7 hours, and was exhausted when he arrived in Suzhou.
This is the news published in the newspaper "Suzhou Daily" that Lu Xiaoran saw in the hotel.
Li Dawei: "... Why aren't you nervous at all?"
"Huh?"
"Won't you look forward to winning the prize?"
“... I won Best Newcomer. ”
“... You... Did you get the message?"
"I got the news a month ago!"
"It's not bad, you win the best new actor, I win the best new director... It's a pity that it's a little scorched!"
Li Dawei glanced at Jiao Junyan a little apologetically, and the latter smiled: "It's okay, I'm only a sophomore, it's already good to be able to come and see it!"
Lu Xiaoran put down the newspaper and suddenly smiled: "Next year will be more intense!"
“... How so?"
""Stone" signed up for the Hundred Flowers Award, and it is estimated that there will be a bunch of nominations..."
"What? "Stone?" "Crazy Stone"?"
"That's right!"
"Isn't this last June's movie?"
It's completely messy, and "Crazy Stone" won't be awarded until next year?
“... Once every two years, you care about him, if there is a prize for you, you will receive it!"
That's the case, "Stone" has applied for all major awards, what Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, Golden Horse, Chinese Film Media Awards, College Student Film Festival...
I don't know what the situation is, anyway, the judges of the Golden Rooster Award directly passed "Stone", probably because they felt that the level was not enough.
As for why it wasn't ranked for last year's Hundred Flowers Award?
Who knows about this horse?
Obviously the name was reported within the registration date...
"Let's go, it's time for us to enter..."