Zhang Huijun felt that "Time Prisoner" should be a typical Hollywood-style movie, and after watching it, he found that the narrative was indeed Hollywood, but with its own style. The whole movie takes place in an ordinary small hotel, and the overall style is more realistic, almost like a real thing happening around you.

What surprised him even more was that there were many details of life in the movie, which even people who have lived in Beiping City for many years may not pay attention to. Zhang Ran has only been in Peking for a few months, how did he find out?

This is a natural director with an eye that is good at discovering the details of life!

Zhang Huijun looked at Zhang Ran and said with a smile: "Zhang Ran, I used to know that you were doing well in acting class, but I didn't expect your movies to be better!"

Zhang Ran said modestly: "Dean, this is my first time directing independently, there are many immature places, please criticize more." ”

Zhang Huijun said: "You studied directing in graduate school, right?"

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "Yes, the director's department." ”

Zhang Huijun squinted his eyes and said, "Do you have any thoughts of teaching in the directing department?"

"Dean, Zhang Ran is the treasure of our acting department, can't you help Lao Xie poach our people!" Chen Jianfeng was a little nervous when he heard this, Zhang Ran was discovered by him, and he was still counting on Zhang Ran to make some achievements!

"No, although the directing department is good, I still like the acting department. Zhang Ran shook his head with a smile. At the beginning, he wanted to enter the directing department, and the acting department had more directing opportunities, but the directing department did not recruit people, so he entered the acting department. Now he doesn't need it at all, and he can't bear the students in his class.

"Why?" Zhang Huijun asked with a smile.

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "There are too few girls in the director department who are good-looking, and the little girls in our acting department are so beautiful, like flowers, they all make people feel happy to watch." Only when you have a good mood can you shoot a pleasant work!"

Everyone laughed when they heard Zhang Ran say this, and Chen Jianfeng was about to laugh out of tears, only Xie Xiaojing, the head of the director department, couldn't cry or laugh.

In the afternoon, in the conference room of the movie channel, the heads of various departments gathered together to discuss the scoring of "Time Prisoner".

After the film is filmed, the purchase price is evaluated by the movie channel, and the passing standard is 4 points in total. If the final rating is 4 points, then the movie channel will be executed at the price of the contract. If the score is exceeded, the movie channel will add an additional reward of 100,000 yuan to the filming party, and the bonus will be added to the score incrementally; otherwise, if the score is reduced, the filming party will be responsible for it and the cost will be deducted.

"Time Prisoner" is a project discovered by Yue Tao, and he naturally sang praises: "I really didn't expect to be able to shoot this quality, the whole movie far exceeded my expectations, if I don't know the cost, I believe it if it is 5 million!"

"The film is in cooperation with Qingying Studio, the equipment and labor are relatively cheap, and the special effects are made by Nortel School students, the cost is relatively low, the production cost of 1.2 million, all the money is on the filming! Zhang Ran is a sincere person, he doesn't have a budget for black movies, and he also posted tens of thousands of yuan to buy software in the United States!"

Some films in the domestic film industry have a very high investment, but the quality of the shooting is very poor and extremely rough. This is nothing more than two cases, one is money laundering and the other is that the budget is hacked.

There is a plot in the movie "Sister Peach", Liu Dehua and several of them teamed up to pit the money of mainland investor Yu Dong. Although it is the plot of the movie, it tells the truth, and many people know that this plot is alluding to Chen Kexin. Take Chen Kexin's movie "Martial Arts" as an example, the investment is as high as 100 million, but in fact, there are no big scenes, and there is not much place to spend money, how can the cost be so high? But when you know that a straw hat in the crew costs thousands of yuan, you will understand how the money is spent.

There are countless examples of this, "Confucius" and "Butterfly on the Shoulder" are typical of black budgets, and "Confucius" costs 1300w for the photography team alone, which is naturally like running water. The final result of this kind of movie is that the investors jump off the building at a loss, and the crew makes a lot of money.

Many mainland investors don't know anything about movies, and they have an inexplicable good impression of Hong Kong, and they don't consider the theme of the movie at all, and they don't consider whether the star has appeal, and often throw money into it as soon as they see that it is a Hong Kong star and the Hong Kong team. Such investors deserve to be trapped!

Of course, although the Xiangjiang team is making money, most of them are more serious in shooting, and the quality of the film is generally not particularly bad. Some domestic directors not only make money, but their minds are not on the movie, and after getting the investment, the movie has not started filming, so they buy themselves a car and a house first, and one bad movie after another is concocted in this way.

This kind of trick is also used in Hollywood, but domestic investors in the United States are too familiar with Hollywood to deceive them, and this method is mainly aimed at overseas investors, especially Germans.

According to German tax law, investments in films are not taxed income, while return on investment is treated as normal income. Germany's highest income tax is 51%, in other words, those who are doctors and lawyers, invest 10,000 yuan in the film, in fact, their real money is only 4,900 yuan, and the balance of 5,100 yuan will be paid to the IRS anyway; if the film produces double the return, then the investor can eventually get 9,800 yuan, that is, basically evading taxes, so Germans are particularly keen to invest in films.

Savvy Hollywood naturally has its eyes on the Germans, and some third-rate producers take garbage scripts that Hollywood doesn't want, find two out-of-fashion big stars, promise them high salaries, and then find Germans for financing. Germans have a lagging understanding of Hollywood, they don't know that these stars are outdated, they don't have any appeal at all, and when they see that they are Hollywood superstars, they don't hesitate to pay for it. These movies are basically very losing, such as Kevin Costner's "Dragonfly" and Stallone's "Vengeance of the Dragon". In the end, the Americans made a lot of money, and the Germans jumped off the building at a loss.

Later, more and more German investors realized that Hollywood was a fire pit and began to tighten their pockets. But then the Chinese market rose again, and Hollywood found that the investors here were even more stupid than the Germans, and they were targeting China again.

Of course, not all Chinese filmmakers are fools, and American companies have also been pitted very badly when they come to China. The reason why Colombia withdrew from China in 2005 was that it was pitted by Huayi and other Chinese companies.

The film company makes movies for the movie channel, the movie channel generally gives a budget of 1 million, and the film company generally takes 67000000 to make a movie, and the rest of the money is in his pocket, but Zhang Ran smashed all 1.2 million on the shooting, and also posted 100,000 yuan to buy software, which is indeed very sincere.

"Zhang Ran is a sincere person, he is sincere in making movies, and he didn't take any of the director's fees!"

"Yes, now many people have lost their money, and their minds are not on the movie at all. ”

"Honest people? This kid dug a pit and buried us, and you still said good things to him! What kind of advertising placement did he engage with Lenovo, that is, he used movies to advertise Lenovo, and he made a million, and he made a lot of money!" Chen Zhiqiang of the film purchase and sales department reminded. For the film purchase and sales department, it is natural to hope that the price is as low as possible, and it is better not to have money.

"Yes, Lenovo has saved all the ads, and we have suffered a lot!" someone added.

"That is, the movie is our money, the movie is also produced by us, and the advertising fee should be our income, but he swallowed it alone!"

Seeing the excitement of the crowd, Tao Hongbo, director of the advertising department, said indifferently: "Don't suffer a loss! Lenovo has decided to add 5 million advertising fees to our channel!"

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"In fact, this matter has to be thanked to Zhang Ran, the content of the movie is very closely combined with Lenovo's products, Lenovo believes that after the broadcast of "Time Prisoner", it will greatly increase the sales of Lenovo mP3, so they took 5 million out to cooperate with the publicity. ”

A few people who think that the movie channel has suffered are speechless.

Huang Heping from the International Department said: "Although the picture clarity of "Time Prisoner" is a little worse, the story is very exciting, I think it should be sent to the Fantasy Film Festival to participate in the competition, and there should be foreign TV stations to buy it." ”

Seeing that everyone was pulling the topic farther and farther, Yan Yueming reached out and knocked on the table to stop everyone from running farther: "Okay, back to the topic, how many points should "Time Prisoner" score?"

Yue Tao was the first to throw out his opinion: "Such a good film must be given 5 points, if you don't give 5 points, I will turn around and leave when I see Zhang Ran in the future, and I will have no face at all!"

"I also think I should give five points, 1.2 million can be photographed to this extent, which is already the extreme!"

"I give 5 points, this movie really doesn't say anything, it's so well made!"

The next day, Zhang Ran, who received a notice from the movie channel, found Yue Tao and went to the bank with the accountant of the movie channel to transfer money.

The remaining 50% of the funds for the film plus the bonus of 200,000 yuan are a total of 800,000.

came out of the bank, Zhang Ran came to Qingying Studio with a spring breeze on his face and walked into Qiu Yuanxu's office.

"Time Prisoner" is co-produced with the movie channel in the name of Qingying Studio, Qingying Studio has a work this year, and there is no need to hang zero for two consecutive years, and Qiu Yuanxu, the position of the director of the factory, is temporarily retained. He was very happy to see Zhang Ran: "Zhang Ran, it looks like the spring breeze is proud, is there anything good?"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "When I started the film, I said that if the rating of the movie channel can get 5 points, I will make up enough 500,000 yuan to give everyone a prize." Now that the movie channel has given 5 points and received a reward of 200,000, it is time to fulfill the promise. Director Qiu, please contact the production team and make a plan so that you can send the money to everyone!"

"You are so generous!" Qiu Yuanxu didn't expect Zhang Ran to really take 500,000 yuan as a bonus for everyone, which was a bit surprising.

Zhang Ran said seriously: "Our film budget is small, and the remuneration for everyone is very low, I have always felt ashamed in my heart, but now that I have money, I naturally have to share dividends with everyone." Making movies relies on teamwork, and if I take all the benefits alone, I'm afraid I will only be able to make movies alone in the end. If you are willing to give up, you will have to give to you!"

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