Chapter 128: Income

"League of Legends" can't be in a hurry, and "Houyi Shooting the Sun" can't be delayed. Because the game is filmed, it is quite difficult to get it. Despite this, Lu Lin will still do it, after all, there are too few suitable and mass-based themes.

As the lines in "A Chinese Ghost Story in the World" say: The ancestors have no vision, let me pursue learning, and let me write books to pass on to the world. Who knows, when I write a travelogue, they say that I leaked state secrets, write history, say that I use the past to satirize the present, annotate the art of war, and say that I instigated rebellion, write stories about gods and monsters, and say that I lead people to superstition, and finally rewrite the biography of a celebrity, and as a result, this celebrity was wrecked and condemned as a rebel, and I was sentenced to life imprisonment with him...... Alas, life is a prison!

This line is a joke and exaggeration, but in terms of the theme of Chinese movies, it does make some directors feel constrained.

Lu Lin is not ready to make any films with artistic achievements when he was young, and it is his pursuit to make special effects commercial blockbusters and entertain the masses of people.

As for "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun", it is the most important part of building the "Flood Universe". Once it is filmed and is accepted by the market, there are too many wonderful stories that can be filmed in the personal movies that can be released later, so this is the focus of work in the future.

What's more, Bo Na and Guang Xian are also investors, and they will send people over from time to time to see the progress of the shooting. Dragon Scale Pictures did not hesitate to buy the film and television adaptation rights of "League of Legends", and it was Yu Dong and Wang Changtian who were worried.

In the impression of these two people, Lu Lin is a talented and radical person. Since the release of "The Return of the Great Sage" and its birth, most of the time has been busy with work. Even if I don't like to socialize, I don't participate in film festivals and various awards very much, and I seem to be thinking about special effects blockbusters.

This style of acting reminds Yu Dong of an ancient, Emperor Yang of Sui. In fact, objectively evaluated, the great things done by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, such as connecting the Western Regions, leveling Liaodong, building the eastern capital, and repairing the canal, are all great achievements in the future. However, he was too anxious for quick success, and he engaged in the great Sui Dynasty, and the second died.

Lu Lin's career is naturally not easy to compare with the emperor. But this style of acting seems to be in the same hurry! A blockbuster with a cost of more than 600 million yuan, if it is replaced by another director, he will definitely be busy shooting wholeheartedly, how can he have the time to think of anything else. Lu Lin is good, this movie has only been started for two days, and the news of the next movie has come out.

If it's an ordinary director, you have to nag well. But this matter can't be put on Lu Lin, it's too profitable.

"The Alliance of the Heavenly Gods" has already been drawn, with a box office of 1.59 billion in the mainland. After waiting for three months, the box office account attributable to the producer and distributor was transferred from the middle company to Bona's account, 620 million.

After deducting the distribution expenses of more than 74 million, the divisible income attributable to the producer is 546 million. In terms of total investment, the production cost plus publicity and distribution expenses is 300 million yuan. In this part of the funds, China Film only invested 30 million, but got more than 54 million account sharing income, which is a small profit.

For the rest of the investment, Longlin Pictures and Bo Na are all open. After all, at that time, the income of "The Return of the Great Sage" had not yet arrived, and Lu Lin was poor, and it was Bo Na's advance that the film was able to start.

The final result is that Longlin and Bo Na each received more than 245 million domestic box office revenue, not counting the overseas box office that is slower to recover, as well as the copyright income of TV and Internet.

Bona's investment income in "The Alliance of Gods" is more than 100 million, although it cannot be compared with Lu Lin's income in "The Return of the Great Sage", but it is enough to make countless people in the industry envious, jealous and hateful.

Therefore, for Bo Na and Yu Dong, Lu Lin's strategic partner is too important, and he can only be coerced and cannot be easily excused.

Although he complained about Lu Lin's distraction from "League of Legends", Yu Dong was not easy to say directly. With the help of box office sharing and class visits, they made an appointment with Wang Changtian, and the two drove from the capital to the set of "Houyi Shooting the Sun" together.

The crew of nearly 1,000 people is busy with work, and every day is a huge expense, and Lu Lin naturally will not stop work because of these two. Fortunately, the two of them are familiar with this, and they look like the producer inspecting the progress, and they stay from the afternoon until the crew finishes work at night.

Lu Lin changed his clothes and washed his face, only then came to these two and said with a smile: "I'm slacking, I'm slacking, the two bosses came to visit the class in their busy schedules, and I didn't even pour out the effort to receive them!"

Yu Dong smiled warmly, "Hey, as long as we can shoot the film well, it's a trivial matter for us to hang on the side!"

Wang Changtian lifted his glasses and said with a smile: "That's it, Director Lu, when will you let me experience the feeling of earning 100 million yuan with one film, even if you dry it for a day!"

The three of them laughed, got into a car, and went to a nearby hotel for dinner. After entering the box and ordering food, Yu Dongcai said after greeting for a while: "By the way, Director Lu, I heard that you bought the film and television adaptation rights of a game?"

Lu Lin knew the intention of these two people today, and said with a smile: "Well, I bought one!"

Wang Changtian said with a smile: "I also watched the news, and I learned that Director Lu has a new move, that is, he is more courageous than our older generation!"

Lu Lin smiled and said bluntly: "Don't worry, the two bosses, the adaptation rights were bought, but before "Houyi Shoots the Sun" is finished, I will definitely not be distracted to get that!"

These two were afraid that Lu Lin would be greedy for speed, but now they were broken, but they were not embarrassed. Yu Dong laughed, "Then I'll rest assured, Director Lu, the cost of more than 600 million yuan, I can't pay too much attention to it!"

Lu Lin smiled and said, "I know, not to mention our Longlin Pictures, but half of the investment!"

Wang Changtian said with emotion: "Director Lu is amazing, it's only been more than a year and a half! I founded Guangxian in 98, and it's been the fourteenth year, and I haven't made a blockbuster with an investment of more than 100 million yuan!"

Yu Dong smiled, "That's your old boy who is too calculating, and the company has just been established to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, isn't there a lot!"

Wang Changtian said: "Yes, yes, but those are all losses! There is only one successful example like Director Lu!"

Yu Dong nodded slightly, "The business field is like this, and it will be a success." I think that when Beijing Film Studio merged with China Film, my position as deputy section chief was taken away, and I had no way, I had to earn money to eat! I took 30,000 yuan of savings, plus 270,000 yuan borrowed, and made up 300,000 registered capital, and established Bona, which was 99 years!"

"It's a year later than me!" Wang Changtian replied as if pouting.

Yu Dong nodded and continued: "At that time, there was a film called "Tell Your Secret", played by Wang Zhiwen and Jiang Shan, and it was put in the warehouse for three years after filming. I watched the sample film when I was in Beijing Film Studio, so I went to find director Huang Wanxin, and I didn't know it at the time, so I asked a friend to see it, and told him that the film was very good, and I was willing to pay twice the price than others, and I will send it!"

Wang Changtian praised again: "It's all in one go!"

Yu Dong nodded again: "It was 99 years, the mainland box office was 10 million, and I earned 500,000!"

Lu Lin admired: "Amazing, 500,000 in 99, I made a lot of money!"

Yu Dong said with emotion: "Anyway, I personally think that people sometimes have to have a little bit of this courage, what to study and think clearly, just one word when you slap the table, do it!"