The first thing to do is to calculate the cost and pull the investment...

Cinema is first and foremost a business, and then an art!

There's no money to make a hairy movie!

In essence, investing in films is a commercial operation, and it belongs to the category of art and entertainment under the commercial industry.

No one will ever make a movie with the intention of losing money!

Even the literary school that claims that movies should be personalized...

Hou Xiaoxian filmed "Assassin Nie Yinniang", in addition to showing his own movies, he also wanted to make money...

Wang Xiaoshuai cried for Mao and shouted that he had to force the theater to increase the film schedule?

It's not like you want to make money yet!

The budget for a movie can be divided into two categories: online and offline.

Online fees vary depending on the film, and refer to the costs that are naturally derived from the creation process.

Fees include expenses incurred in obtaining or writing scripts, salaries paid to executive producers and directors, and salaries and additional remuneration for actors.

Offline costs, most of which are spent on technical performance, such as salaries paid to staff, the cost of using equipment, the purchase of videotapes or films, plus the cost of sets, props, costumes, makeup, transportation, food, sound, music and editing.

Insurance premiums, legal fees, licenses, etc.

If these fees are linked to the writer, producer, director, or actor, they can also be classified as online fees.

These expenses may go unnoticed, but they add up to a significant expense.

And one more, recurring expenses.

Refers to some rent and utilities expenses, which must also be included.

Recurrent costs account for about 15 per cent of the total budget and are generally considered important expenditures.

In addition, when a budget is generally set, an additional 10% of the cost is usually set aside as a reserve for overlooked matters that can be significantly impacted on schedule.

Zhang Junsheng has made two short films, but short films are not the same as movies, and the movies need to be more accurate!

He can only get a rough estimate of the cost...

actor, he plans to use newcomers, to be honest, the salary of actors this year is not very high, think about Junqi Zhao, when she was filming "Painted Skin 2", her salary was only 3.8 million!

It's even lower for newcomers!

Therefore, the salary of actors does not exceed 2 million at most, and the salary of staff is basically the same as the total salary of actors;

The equipment rental fee plus props and on-site shooting is almost 8 million...

The main expenses are special effects and post-production!

No matter how much Zhang Junsheng has no aesthetic concept, he also knows that the most powerful thing about Xu Laowei's "A Chinese Ghost Story" is that it creates an almost comic-like feeling.

Of course, it is also important to choose a good role!

Special effects expenses, Zhang Junsheng directly took 25 million...

Post-production, at least five million...

Roughly calculated, almost 42 million.

In this era, the cost of more than 30 million is already a big investment!

42 million, which means that the box office is not more than 100 million, and it is difficult to recover the cost...

In addition to Yuehua Media and Huaying, Zhang Junsheng must pull up the company in Xiangjiang, such as Yongsheng or Sakura Emperor, no way, people have external channels!

……

Hearing Zhang Junsheng's budget, several people in the company's film department looked at each other...

Playing so big?

What should I do if I lose money?

And the biggest difficulty of costume films is that it is not easy to product placement!

In other words, if you want to recover your costs, you can only count on the box office of the movie!

However, there are too few tickets that can break 100 million at the box office now, and they don't think Zhang Junsheng has such ability...

After all, he's just a freshman who has only been enrolled for half a year!

"In fact, most of the money is spent on special effects, for example, the part where the Millennium Dryad appears, don't look at the special effects for a few seconds, but it really has to match the resolution of the cinema, as long as you need to render for more than ten hours, these are costs!"

Seeing that the faces of several people were not very good-looking, Zhang Junsheng explained.

"Are you going to hand over the special effects to Junsheng?"

The person in charge of the film department is called Zhao Yijun, who turned out to be from Bayi Studio, and was poached by Tang Ningyu.

Years in film production...

"Well, I also invited Tiangong Chongcai, with Junsheng's special effects alone, it is impossible to guarantee that the National Day file will be released next year!"

“… That's a bit of a high investment..."

Zhao Yijun still expressed his worries.

"It's okay, the first part is used to build word of mouth, don't forget, we still have "Painted Skin" behind!"

"No, boss, it's hard for me to convince Huaying and Sakura Emperor to invest..."

Zhao Yijun is worried about this problem!

People are not stupid, with an investment of more than 40 million, the box office can only recover the cost if it exceeds 100 million!

Zhang Junsheng is not Ma Xiaokang or Lao Mouzi, he is a pure novice in movies!

“… That's the problem. ”

In fact, after this period of study, the more Zhang Junsheng learns, the more he has no confidence, the world of movies is very big, the more he understands, the more afraid he becomes...

He also did not dare to guarantee the box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

He himself can't guarantee it, how can he convince other investors?

"So, you say I'm going to make the first magic blockbuster..."

After thinking about it, he shook his head: "You go to Disney and see if they have any investment ideas..."

Just go and deceive foreigners!

The ceiling of the domestic film and television industry is too low...

Zhang Junsheng doesn't know any big money, and his family has a mine...

By the way, when it comes to having a mine at home, the three guys in the dormitory seem to be quite rich!

……

In the café, Zhang Junsheng took out the script of "A Chinese Ghost Story" and sent it to three people.

After a while, Fu Guangsheng spoke first: "Boss, this script..."

"What's wrong?

Zhang Junsheng hurriedly consulted...

“… This seems to be a purely commercial movie?"

"Nonsense, of course I make commercial films, and commercial films are the mainstream!"

Rolling his eyes, Zhang Junsheng replied angrily.

Chen Yu frowned: "But, if you shoot like this, it's not cheap!"

"That's right, I calculated, I need at least 50 million shooting budget, cough..."

All three were silent...

Tens of millions of movies, eh, are far from being accessible to these three people...

Zhang Duolong glanced at Zhang Junsheng, and then asked, "Who are you going to find to play?"

"I haven't thought about this yet, Ning Caichen I want Zhou Xing to try, Nie Xiaoqian, there are two options for the time being, Liu Yifei and Chen Yao..."

Chen Yu glanced at Zhang Junsheng with disdain: "Do you want to film or do you want to play with unspoken rules?"

“… Is there a difference? Things that can be done at the same time, why should there be a distinction?"

Zhang Junsheng is good at this, and rarely hides his true thoughts...

"Tsk, Liu Yifei is not yet an adult, you are simply a beast!"

“… In ancient times, a fifteen-year-old woman knew what she meant by a fifteen-year-old woman, who could marry and applaud!"

"It's a pity that we are modern!"

“… Ahem, tell me, do you want to invest?"