"Borrow some people from your company to make movies!" Lin Qi said very seriously. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Who to borrow?" Lei Juekun was not surprised. It stands to reason that New Art City is a company that has not been established for a few years, unlike Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest that even have their own studios. At the same time, the scale of talents under New Art City is far from being comparable to Golden Harvest. It is precisely because of the lack of professional film and television stars in Xinyicheng that it attracts singers to make films on a large scale. In terms of effect, of course, it is quite good, the movies of the New Art City era are not only leading in creativity, but even the quality of music in the movie also surpasses its peers.

"Ready to borrow Huang Baiming and Gao Zhisen. Lin Qi said, "The script has been completed, and funding is not a problem." There is a shortage of directors and crews. ”

"There is a lack of director and crew ......" Lei Juekun was amused by Lin Qi's words.

has no director and crew, and is also confidently engaged in film and television companies, which has to say that Lin Qixin is really big, or rather, he is rich enough to do whatever he wants in the film and television industry.

"It's okay to borrow someone, but I also have one condition. Lei Juekun said.

"What conditions?" Lin Qi asked.

"The release of the new film is handed over to our Golden Princess Company. Lei Juekun said with a smile.

"The distribution rights of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia can be handed over to you. Lin Qi said, "We distribute the copyrights in other regions ourselves." As for the share ratio, I want 5% of the box office in Hong Kong, and 25% of the account share in other regions. ”

"Okay, then deal. Lei Juekun's eyebrows couldn't help but relax.

You must know that the distribution channels of the Golden Princess Cinema Line are mainly concentrated in Hong Kong, and in Hong Kong, it can be said that its channel advantages are not inferior to Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. But outside of Hong Kong, Golden Princess still needs to cooperate with local distribution companies, and at least half of the box office revenue will be handed over to feed the local distribution channels. The remaining half is the share between the Golden Princess and the film production company, and both sides get 25%, which is also fair. After all, the production company has made an investment, and Princess Jin has also contributed talent resources and distribution costs.

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Historically, "Happy Ghost" is a small-scale film that costs only 2 million yuan, but of course, its quality far exceeds its investment.

However, Lin Qi is still a little dissatisfied with some movie stunts that are not as good as many of his five-cent special effects. Therefore, during the filming of this movie, in addition to the traditional mode of Hong Kong films, Lin Chuangye Electronics will participate in the post-production and add special effects to it.

At present, the special effects technology of movies is still relatively simple, and there is no huge technological gap between the special effects that Hollywood burns money to do and Hong Kong's money-saving methods.

There was no comparison between blockbuster and small-budget productions, and that was after the mid-90s. A high-performance computer can operate better special effects software, so that the contrast between top-level special effects and five-cent special effects is becoming more and more stark.

In fact, for the special effects rendering of games, Xinchuang Electronics has also independently developed several computers with 100 million to 500 million floating-point operations. These computers are already supercomputers in this era, but Lin Qi is a scumbag in his eyes. You must know that in the future, 10 yuan to buy an eliminated garbage chip, floating point operations can also reach 1 billion times.

Some "garbage guys" even like to pick up garbage and assemble "100-yuan magic machines" for entertainment. What is called a "100-yuan magic machine", with a budget of less than 100 yuan to install a machine, specifically to pick up garbage. People don't want to buy motherboards, graphics cards, memory, CPUs, and power supplies together, and of course, assemble a machine that can be measured. Then, the effect actually reached the level of barely being able to play online games like "LOL", although the special effects were unbearable even if they were turned on to the lowest, but that kind of 100-yuan magic machine was now enough to be a few years ahead of the world's most advanced supercomputer.

The effect of an I7 computer in later generations can already reach the level of a supercomputer in the 90s. At that time, the machines used by Hollywood to make special effects for "Titanic" may not have the performance of an I7 computer.

But the level of domestic special effects still cannot satisfy the audience, and even feels inferior to "Titanic" in the late 90s.

That's why this gap is not a problem with computer hardware at all. It's software and people that don't. In the 80s, when computer performance was very poor, the United States was already using computers to make special effects, and accumulated decades of experience and talents.

Hong Kong's computer special effects technology was in the late 90s, when Hong Kong films were hit by special effects blockbusters, they began to decide to save the market by making special effects films. Although the special effects films such as "Chinese Heroes" and "Storm and Cloud Dominating the World" made by him were five-cent special effects, they were better integrated due to the rich experience of commercial films in Hong Kong at that time.

Domestic special effects, starting from "Hero" and "Wu Ji", learning special effects from behind the ass of Americans, and really engaging in computer special effects independently, is already the 21st century. It can be said that the Chinese special effects technology of later generations, the real talent training and technical accumulation, only ten years. The United States has accumulated more than 30 years, not only in terms of hardware technology, but also in software programming and skilled talents.

The level of special effects studios in the United States is to constantly develop new equipment and software programs for film special effects, and the level of special effects in China is only to learn to use the special effects software that has been eliminated in the United States. This level of non-level has caused the domestic special effects to be at the low end for a long time.

Since Lin Qi is making movies, of course, he wants to cultivate the film special effects industry by the way. In the future, only special effects blockbusters of the same level can compete with Hollywood blockbusters.

If we do not accumulate technology in a down-to-earth manner and try to rely on our cleverness and wisdom to resist the advanced productive forces brought about by scientific and technological progress, it is undoubtedly a mantis arm as a car.

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After communicating with Lei Juekun, Lin Qi borrowed from Xinyicheng without any worries.

Now the Seven Monsters and the Big Three of the New Art City are nominally partners. But in fact, Mai Jia is dominant, and the three giants hold the equity of Xinyi City, among them, Huang Baiming only has 9% of the equity, Shi Tian accounts for 19%, and the other 72% of the equity is owned by the joint venture between Golden Princess and Mai Jia, and the proportion of the joint venture holding company, Golden Princess accounts for 51%, and Mai Jia herself occupies 49%!

Therefore, the contradiction of Xinyicheng is mainly due to the fact that many other talented directors feel that they can't share the company's growth, so they leave one after another.

Including the Big Three, Huang Baiming's resentment is still relatively small, but later Huang Baiming's comedies have gradually risen, supporting a considerable amount of profits from Xinyicheng Company, but taking very little, so he is naturally very dissatisfied.

For example, a few years later, Tsui Hark was dissatisfied with the distribution of interests in Xinyicheng and felt more and more unhappy in Xinyicheng, but Lei Juekun retained and invested in its film studio, allowing Tsui Hark to operate independently. This Tsui Hark Film Studio, decades later, still exists, and although it does not create many works, most of them are masterpieces full of Tsui Hark's aesthetics.

The main focus of the new art city is comedy, and other non-comedy works are also endless, but what really supports the performance of the new art city is definitely comedy.

In the early stage, it was Mai Jia's work that carried the crown, but in the later stage, it was Huang Baiming's comedy that was better.

At this time, Huang Baiming was already a well-known screenwriter and actor in Hong Kong, and he created a large number of blockbuster movie scripts, and Gao Zhisen was Huang Baiming's apprentice.

Of course, during the cooperation period between Huang Baiming and Gao Zhisen, both were at their peak, and after the two broke up, their respective development was not as good as before.

The original script of "Happy Ghost" was Gao Zhisen's occasional watch of Hong Kong's Zhu Xiucai drama, which naturally has nothing to do with comedy, but it is a strange brain-opening, and the eerie ghost theme is compiled into a lively comedy. Moreover, after directing "Happy Ghost" for the first time, it was to show his directorial talent, and he has produced many "Happy Ghost" series of movies for many years. The entire "Happy Ghost" series, if it weren't for the disintegration of Xinyi City, would have continued to sell for many years. But after the disintegration of Xinyi City, it is difficult to say who owns the copyright, and later, Huang Gao's master and apprentice turned against him, including the factor of who owns the copyright of "Happy Ghost".

Although Huang Baiming is not too handsome, and he does not have the talent of Stephen Chow, he is surprisingly compatible with the characters in "Happy Ghost". Except for the "Happy Ghost" series, Huang Baiming's other works can only be regarded as decent.

The remaining eye-catching female students do not have very high requirements for acting skills, as long as they are young and beautiful, it is enough.

"Mr. Lin, did you create this script yourself?" Huang Baiming couldn't put it down after holding the script of "Happy Ghost". As a new art city in Hong Kong that attaches the most importance to scripts, especially in the early stage, scripts are created collectively and good scripts are completed, and neither the director nor the actors have the right to revise them. Of course, Huang Baiming knows how important the script is, especially comedy, which relies heavily on the script.

"Yes!" Lin Qi said, "What, are you interested in this movie?"

"Of course!" Huang Baiming said.

After Huang Baiming agreed, Gao Zhisen certainly had no opinion. The current Gao Zhisen is completely relying on hugging Huang Baiming's thighs to get along in the film and television industry.

However, this time Lin Qi asked Gao Zhisen to revise the script and become a director, which made him feel like a dream all of a sudden.