In 2018, China's box office exceeded 60 billion, and the top three movies accounted for 16% of the total box office.

One asks: Do you think the 84% of the money-losing goods are fools?

The water in the industry is indeed very deep, but in the eyes of insiders, it is not so complicated: what kind of cast, who is the director, which distributor is, who is the publicity...

If these are confirmed, both investors and producers can roughly estimate the profit ratio.

In other words, those works that lose money can also be estimated at the beginning of the project.

So the question is, why are there still a large number of works on the road to losing money every year?

2.8 billion guaranteed release of "Crazy Aliens", do you think the amount is very high and the risk is very high?

In fact, people are not worried at all, it's just a matter of making hundreds of millions of dollars more. In the same way, there are still people who are willing to vote for those films that lose money when they hear it, what's the trick in this?

If an investor tells you that the budget is far more than you need to shoot yourself, don't be happy!

Another contract also needs to be signed: the publicity and expenditure of the film, the use and construction of the filming scenes, the costumes, props, makeup and even photography, etc., all need to be handed over to him for 'distribution of contracts', and the price is set by him.

For example, the other party can invest 200 million, take out 20 million to pay for the director and actors, and the remaining 180 million for the cost of the film's execution and shooting, but this expenditure can be 'left hand to right hand', and the actual cost may be less than 10% of 180 million.

If this is the case, more than 150 million black money can be laundered.

If in the past, there would have been many producers and directors who accepted the investors' proposals, and they could even give you the basic profits in advance.

But after the 'back tax' policy came out, few people did it anymore.

What does 'back tax' mean?

It means that the relevant functional departments will give unprecedented monitoring to the source of funds for film and television projects, especially the process and traces of 'accounting'.

Once it is found out, it will be dealt with directly and will not be tolerated!

But there is still a long way to go to completely get rid of this cancer, after all, the problem of "opaque production costs of film and television dramas" is difficult to solve overnight...

Yuehua is the leader, a bunch of attention, stepping on the line, can't do it!

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On September 13th, Suzhou * Zhou, there was rain...

The crew of "Inception" arrived at Suzhou *zhou Film and Television City and started filming in China.

First of all, "Inception" is definitely a Sino-US joint venture, and the Chinese side accounts for more than one-third of the funds and actors...

In order to attract the crew of "Inception", he directly invested 30 million US dollars, not only that, but the crew in China for expenses, accommodation, and food, he contracted all of them!

Big guy, ▄█▀█●...

Zhang's father never thought of making money through the box office of "Inception", he simply wanted to make a name for himself in Su*zhou Film and Television City!

Is there any effect?

Hehe, when "Inception" is released next year, everyone will know!

Zhang Junsheng came to the crew of "Inception", in addition to learning the orthodox shooting techniques of Hollywood, there is also a party...

This scene is going to shoot a rain scene, and the rainfall in the sky is not enough, so it must rain artificially.

But there will be a color difference between the rain on a cloudy day and a sunny day, which may not be obvious at first glance, but it is obvious on the big screen.

If Zhang Junsheng was filming this scene, he might move the crew into the factory and spray water guns, so that the effect would be closer to the real rain scene...

What would a director like Nolan do?

Zhang Junsheng was still pondering, and then he was stupid.

A few prop masters held a super large flag, and the whole thing was blocked over the set...

Immediately, the set became cloudy, and as soon as the valve opened, the holes in the pipes around it began to spray.

"Whoa!"

The sudden downpour, both in terms of water and light, is extremely real.

There are two points in filming rain scenes: one is water pressure, the crew must finish work before the peak of public water use, otherwise the water pressure is insufficient and will not be effective. The second is the light, the light should be behind the rain, so that you can see the rain dripping.

The crew was busy and prepared to start filming immediately.

Looking at these prop masters, Zhang Junsheng was very envious...

The behind-the-scenes personnel owned by Yuehua are basically the highest grade in the entire Chinese film industry!

Of course, they can do the scene just now, but they can't think of it!

When he walked into the studio, the swarthy roof seemed to stretch infinitely, enveloping this magical area.

The set is divided into three pieces according to the scale of the set, with the smallest on the left, the larger on the right, and the most eye-catching in the middle.

What looked like an iron box hung in the air, several meters high and tens of meters long, surrounded by several large rings, as well as countless brackets and bases.

Zhang Junsheng raised his head slightly and looked at this big guy carefully, from head to toe, from top to bottom, there was a cold and mysterious sense of science fiction.

To be honest, there are really not many Chinese filmmakers who have contact with Hollywood, and the few who are successful may not have the opportunity to understand it in depth.

Zhang Junsheng has been in Hollywood for a while, but his "Vulgar" belongs to a typical story stream and has nothing to do with props!

At this time, looking at the layout of the studio, he was a little dumbfounded!

At the same time, I also realized that the gap between the five mao special effects and the fifty thousand special effects is here!

Calling Chen Junning, the Chinese person in charge of the studio, Zhang Junsheng asked, "You built all this?"

"No, it's a bunch of Brits!"

The other party was silent for a moment before replying: "We will follow to do some auxiliary work, and we also participate in the creation of entities..."

"You... Tell me what this thing is!"

Pointing to the huge palace on the right side of the studio, Zhang Junsheng asked.

Chen Junning was a little proud: "This is the scene where Domm Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, was pushed into the bathtub and triggered the first dream crossing!"

"Daum's feelings of water in the upper world are transmitted to the dreams in the lower world, with a surreal effect: the entire palace is flooded. ”

"We stored a total of 5,000 gallons of water in 26 tanks that were carefully arranged at the windows of the scene. These tanks are opened in sequence under the drive of the mechanism, and the scene of "water flooding the golden mountain" is created. ”

The other party said very carefully, and Zhang Junsheng listened in a daze...

But he knows that he can't shoot this realistic sense of special effects!

"How do you know so well?"

"Director Nolan told us a long time before the start of filming, and it was specific to each scene! Moreover, he gave us half a year to prepare ......."

“… Okay, I got it..."

After turning around, Zhang Junsheng turned around a little depressed and stood in the corner to watch the gang debugging Weiya.

I suddenly feel that I am really cute, compared with the big director, I don't know what is worse...

This may be the gap between Chinese filmmakers and the world's top filmmakers!