Although "Infernal Affairs" and "Crazy Stone" are both plot-based, with more literary dramas, no big actions, big scenes, and no high-end special effects, relatively speaking, the investment amount of "Infernal Affairs" is almost five times higher than that of "Crazy Stone".

The final total investment budget for "Infernal Affairs" was set at around 40 million.

Among them, actor Chen Hui's personal salary is nearly 10 million, which is still because Chen Hui himself likes the role in the film very much, and for the sake of Zheng Yugang's face, it has decreased a lot, otherwise, if he goes to shoot some pure commercial blockbusters, he may get about 15 million or even 20 million.

This is the value of actors.

As for other actors, although they also initially planned to invite some powerful actors, their salaries are generally not as expensive as Chen Hui.

Among the 40 million investments, Chen Feng personally invested 20 million, Tailang Entertainment invested 10 million, and the remaining 10 million was to be put in the market for some related companies in other industries to share.

For example, some influential publicity and distribution companies, and even some film and television investment companies under cinema cinemas, etc., these companies will only help to do a good job in the publicity, distribution, and filming of the film while sharing the profits, so the investment share of 10 million yuan allocated is still very valuable for the final box office of the whole film.

And the films invested by Chen Feng will naturally be sought after by many companies.

After all, the first film he invested in "Crazy Stone" has earned 250 million, and even Tailang Entertainment and director Ni Hao have also made a lot of money, turning over in one fell swoop, and no one is not blushing at such an opportunity.

So when Chen Feng was preparing to make a movie for the second time, many people in the industry wanted to get a piece of the pie together.

Chen Feng and Xu Tailang can also understand this kind of thing, after all, everyone earns money together, and if they eat meat, they always have to distinguish people from a little soup, if they really don't pull out a dime, I am afraid that they will slowly become the mortal enemy of the entire industry.

As for Chen Feng, he took this opportunity to finally register and set up his own investment company, after all, it is more convenient to operate many things in the form of a company, and Chen Feng's personal accounts cannot always be hung on Tailang Entertainment, so it is the wisest way to directly set up his own company.

Chen Feng didn't know much about the company, so An Ruohua took the initiative to take on most of the work.

After returning from Longtan Town, An Ruohua has already begun to work hard to learn about the operation and management of investment companies and other related knowledge, no matter what, she has to help Chen Feng share some of the pressure, anyway, she doesn't want to film much recently, and she just has time to deal with these things.

As for the name of the company, Chen Feng directly took the most cheesy word Ping'an, anyway, now his biggest wish is to let himself and the people he loves the most be able to enjoy a safe and happy life.

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After Mai Zizhao came to Kyoto City, he discussed with Chen Feng about the movie script a few times, and also made some more reasonable plot optimizations, and the whole script became more perfect.

In the last few times, even the leading actors Chen Hui and Lin Zhehua also participated.

When he saw Chen Hui for the first time, Mai Zizhao was excited, in his words, when he wrote this script, the image of the protagonist in his mind was based on Chen Hui, but he didn't expect that now his dream has come true.

And Lin Zhehua's appearance also made Mai Zizhao very satisfied, although I don't know how the other party's acting skills are, but Lin Zhehua is still very famous recently, he is a star who is not famous accidentally, with him and Chen Hui, the quality of the film is at least seven or eight points guaranteed.

When Lin Zhehua finished reading the script of "Infernal Affairs" and learned that he was going to play one of the protagonists and play a lot of rivalry with Chen Hui, he was nervous and speechless.

Although Chen Feng had already said that he would let him play an important role in the new movie, he didn't expect that he would be such an important starring role.

After all, he originally played a supporting role in "Crazy Stone", but now he has risen directly to the protagonist?

This kind of leap is inevitably too big.

Seeing Lin Zhehua's nervous appearance, Chen Hui on the side comforted him first.

"It's a pleasure to work together. ”

As he spoke, Chen Hui stretched out a hand at Lin Zhehua.

Lin Zhehua shook hands with Chen Hui a little confused, and it was only then that his heart finally calmed down a little.

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In the end, with everyone's efforts, the script was completely finalized, and then it was time to build the crew, but Chen Feng, as an investor, did not want to participate in the specific details of the operation, and these things could be handed over to the director and production-related staff.

Liu Qiangwei and Mai Zizhao are together, and they have also talked to Chen Feng in detail a few times, seeing that the script has been decided, the two leading actors have also been finalized, and one of them is an actor-level actor like Chen Hui, Liu Qiangwei finally put his mind at ease and began to devote himself to work seriously.

In the end, the director of the film was finalized to be co-directed by Liu Qiangwei and Mai Zizhao, after all, Mai Zizhao himself is a screenwriter, and he and Liu Qiangwei have been friends for many years, and the two of them will work together, and the effect will definitely be better.

As old fritters who have been in the film and television industry for many years, they have even more experience than Ni Hao at the beginning, many things can be completed easily, and the construction of the crew is very fast.

In terms of actors, Chen Feng recommended two more people, one is Wang Xu of Tailang Entertainment, who plays Lin Zhehua in his youth, not to mention, if the two of them wear makeup, they look quite similar.

After all, most handsome people are similar, and people who are not handsome have their own ugliness......

Another actor recommended by Chen Feng is Fan Weide...... Brother Biao...... Since the first time I saw him, Chen Feng has always felt that this actor is very good, and Chen Feng has also seen his films, he is the kind of old actor with good acting skills, and the most important thing is ...... Chen Feng can always see the shadow of Brother Chen in the film in his dream world from Fan Weide.

The role of Brother Chen is a very important character in "Infernal Affairs", and he must be supported by an old drama bone.

After all, the first scene of the opening is Brother Chen's personal performance show, and if this character stands, the whole film can unfold more smoothly.

Liu Qiangwei and Mai Zizhao soon worked hard to hire people according to Chen Feng's requirements.

Wang Xu is okay to say, after all, he is a person from Tailang Entertainment.

As soon as Fan Weide heard that it was a new film invested by Chen Feng, and Chen Hui was involved, he didn't hesitate to respond.

It seems that the crew's progress is still going well!