Although Zhao Zhenghao has never rejected his idol identity, he is afraid of being simply defined as an "idol singer" and "idol actor"!

After crossing into this world, it took Zhao Zhenghao more than two years to finally remove the word "idol" from the "idol singer" on his head, and he is a singer!

Now, he wants to start working hard to remove the word "idol" from the "idol actor" on his head and become a real actor!

It even goes a step further and adds the label of "director" in front of the label of the actor.

Although, most people will not believe that Zhao Zhenghao can be a good director at his age, they will only think that this is a gimmick.

is like the music micro-film of "Thriller" that he launched, although it is clearly marked in the credits that Zhao Zhenghao is the director and screenwriter of that film, and he is directly involved in the editing work, but people only see his songs, his dances, and even his performances, and they don't pay much attention to him, let alone anything else, and they don't notice it at all.

Therefore, when Wang Yulan mentioned to the staff invited to participate in the crew of "A Chinese Ghost Story" that the director of this movie would be Zhao Zhenghao, everyone just smiled and showed a "I understand" expression, and there was no question.

Because no one believes that Zhao Zhenghao will be the director of such a theatrical film with an investment of at least 100 million yuan!

Although with Zhao Zhenghao's current financial resources, it is enough to support him to squander like this and play once!

However, cinema movies, as the highest-level existence in the entire entertainment industry, everyone's attitude towards it is still different.

You can play music, at most, for seven or eight hundred thousand yuan, to release an electronic album, and you can play entertainment programs, at most, like the first season of "Follow Brother Hao to the World", for a hundred thousand yuan.

You can also play TV series, it's a big deal to spend thousands of eight million, even if it can't be released on TV in the end, you can also choose to broadcast it online, plus product placement or something, it's not difficult to recover the cost.

But theatrical movies are not something that ordinary people can afford!

Especially in the theater film, the investment is rising, less than 10 million, it can't be done at all, at least 30 million to start, a little bit of well-known actors, plus some stunt shots or something, the cost will go straight to 30 million.

And like "A Chinese Ghost Story", the hero and heroine directly invited big stars of such magnitude as Zhao Zhenghao and An Shuyi, although they are not professional actors and have no outstanding achievements before, but based on their popularity alone, the market price of the salary will not be lower than 10 million!

In addition, the theme of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is a magic film, so there must be some special effects shots!

Also, this drama has many action scenes, which are also quite expensive - it costs a lot more than a fashion drama!

In this way, to finish filming this "A Chinese Ghost Story", the budget of 100 million can only be said to be barely enough, and no major accidents can occur during the filming process, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will exceed the standard.

Moreover, even if the movie is finished, the follow-up cost is still a lot, not to mention anything else, but the publicity cost, preparing 50 million can only be the foundation, under normal circumstances, in order to achieve a better effect, it is necessary to prepare money similar to the production cost of the movie for publicity!

In this way, "A Chinese Ghost Story" will cost at least 200 million from filming to launch!

And this film is a costume film, and there are a lot of restrictions in terms of advertising placement, and it is difficult to make any big achievements in this regard.

If this film wants to recover its costs, it can only rely on the box office!

For other people who play theatrical movies like this, most of the consequences are to play and take it off, lose a mess, learn a lesson, recognize themselves, and never dare to play movies casually anymore.

But Zhao Zhenghao is different from those people, he does have the capital to play!

Moreover, the people involved in the production of this movie are still quite confident in its box office, no matter how bad its story is told and how perfunctory the special effects are, just with the names of Zhao Zhenghao and An Shuyi, they can attract many die-hard fans of the two of them and enter the cinema.

Therefore, everyone doesn't have much expectation for the profitability of this "A Chinese Ghost Story", but they are still very confident in just recovering the cost.

The cost of 200 million will require the global box office to reach 600 million to recover all the costs!

Calculated at 30 Dragon Kingdom coins for a movie ticket, that is, it needs to attract 20 million people to watch the movie, and it can reach the standard.

The 1.4 billion population of the Dragon Kingdom, plus the six or seven billion in the traditional sphere of influence of Dragon Kingdom movies in East Asia and Southeast Asia, the number of fans of Zhao Zhenghao and An Shuyi is tens of millions, and it is not a big problem to attract one or two hundred million into the cinema.

In addition, Zhao Zhenghao and An Shuyi can be said to be two of the most influential people in the Dragon Kingdom, although the scope of influence is different, but at least the audience in Europe and the United States will not fail to recognize them when they see their posters.

However, for Zhao Zhenghao, recovering costs has never been his pursuit!

The purpose of his movies has never been to make money!

If you want to make money, there is a much better opportunity in front of him than making a movie - his "Dangerous Journey" world tour, if he follows the model of the first round, another round, even if the box office situation will not be as good as the first round, but to say the least, it can earn him two billion!

And he wants to earn these 200 million by making movies, and the box office of this movie must reach at least 500 million!

This is almost an impossible task for Zhao Zhenghao now!

Not only outsiders see it this way, but even Zhao Zhenghao himself is optimistic enough about the box office prospects of this "A Chinese Ghost Story", and he didn't dare to set such a high goal for himself!

Zhao Zhenghao really wants to make some achievements in the film and television industry and in movies!

So when the plan was finalized and Wang Yulan and the others began to be busy preparing for the crew, they also began to prepare in advance, while drawing sub-scenes, they constantly exchanged lines with An Shuyi, familiarized themselves with the characters, and did the work in front, so as not to panic when things came to an end.

Being your own boss has this advantage, you don't have to go around worshiping the dock, begging grandpa to tell grandma to pull investment, you can use all this social time on movies!