Chapter Seventy-Seven: Money
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That is, the separation of production and broadcasting.
Many film and television production companies have separated out special variety show departments, but this does not include light.
"It's so easy to say, how can it be so easy? The director, the set manager, the cameraman, you have to find people, and besides, how can you be sure that you will move the people you are talking about?"
The idea is good, but it's a bit difficult to implement.
"Deyun Club, I can ask Ma Dong to help persuade me, I know a few people in Happy Twist, as for Benshan Media, there is no Qiao Shan, let him take a line. ”
"As long as these three are solved, the rest will be easy to handle!"
These three can be called half of the Chinese comedy industry.
"What about the TV station?"
"Looking for Bao Ye, you don't know his relationship with Beijing TV!"
“…”
Nima, you've thought it all through, so what else do I have to say?
Although Li Xiaoping thinks that she has a head, she is the head of the film and television department after all, and she really has no experience in variety shows.
"I'll go back to the next big king and ask his opinion. ”
After pondering for a long time, Li Xiaoping still didn't make a decision immediately.
"Who's that?"
"Wang Changtian, it's all your fault for "33 Days of Broken Love", only after the movie was released, we all called Wang always Wang. ”
Wang Changtian, the big boss of the light.
Well, I carried this pot.
"By the way, Sister Xiaoping, are you on the set today?"
Only then did Shen Lin react.
Li Xiaoping must have something, otherwise she would definitely not appear on the set for no reason.
As mentioned earlier, although Li Xiaoping is the producer of "Those Years", she is almost invisible, and she has not been seen since the start of filming, and even many of the actors in the crew have met her for the first time.
"Stinky boy, can't I come to see you if you're fine?"
Li Xiaoping deliberately rolled her eyes, and then asked mysteriously, "Why do you guess I'm here today?"
"Don't fix those useless things, let's say, how much money did I make for our light this time?"
In fact, at the first glance of Li Xiaoping, Shen Lin knew that the box office must have been divided.
This is here to send money!
Sure enough, Li Xiaoping's next sentence was "You're really amazing, oh, this is a bonus for you, and there's a lot of money in it!"
"What money is not money?
Shen Lin took the bank card handed by Sister Xiaoping, and complained in a tone that regarded money as dung.
"Then don't take it!"
Jia Ling on the side couldn't stand it anymore.
"This is the income of my labor, why can't I take it?"
Shen Lin glared at Jia Ling and said solemnly.
"Director, tell me, how many?"
Everyone has curiosity, but there are really not many who can ask such a face-to-face question.
It's Johnson.
This guy is a shameless person even in life!
"I don't know, at least 300,000 anyway. ”
300,000 is the director's remuneration.
Shen Lin is not a celebrity in the director industry, when he started filming "33 Days of Broken Love", he was a rookie director, not even a first-line director, even the thirteenth line.
The director's salary of 300,000 yuan is already very powerful!
Qiao Shan and Jia Ling are both insiders, of course they know this.
The two nodded, but did not speak.
"300,000 yuan? You underestimate our big king! At least eight figures!"
Li Xiaoping sneered twice.
"Eight-digit? Lao Wang Zhente is willing to spend money!"
Shen Lin sighed.
Qiao Shan and Jia Ling were completely stunned.
The box office sharing of domestic films is complicated.
First of all, you have to pay 3.3% business tax and 5% special funds for the film industry.
The remaining 91.7% is the "divisible box office" of a movie
The cinema chain includes 57% of the movie theaters, 1%-3% of China Film Digital, and the remaining 40%-42% goes to the film producer and distributor, because the distributor and the producer are mostly the same company, so in most cases it can be regarded as 40%.
The distributor of the film will charge 5-15% of the box office attributable to the producer and distributor as a distribution agency fee, that is, 2-6% of the splittable box office as a distribution agency fee.
There are also some films that are at a competitive disadvantage in terms of schedules, and for the purpose of increasing the number of film screenings, they promise box office rebates to theaters and theaters. Rebates generally account for 3-5% of the box office that can be shared.
All in all, under normal circumstances, the actual income of the producer is 33% of the total box office, and if the distribution agency fee of the contract is slightly lower, the actual income of the final film can reach 35%.
35% is the basis for the vast majority of production companies to share accounts with producers.
If that's not clear enough, there's a simpler algorithm, which is that when you invest in a movie, if the final box office of the movie is 3.3 times the cost of the movie, then your investment has just paid off.
Many high-grossing movies, in fact, the production company did not make much money, and even lost money to make money.
Take "West Wind Spirit", which was released in 2010 and is known as China's first hard-core police blockbuster, as an example.
"West Wind Spirit" is directed by the famous director Gao Qunshu, and actors Duan Yihong, Ni Dahong, Wu Zhenyu, Wu Jing, Yu Nan, Yang Caini, Ma Su and other big names joined.
The box office reached 68 million, which is not bad.
But the producer is at a loss, and the cost alone is close to 40 million!
Despite countless patch ads, "West Wind Spirit" still lost nearly 10 million!
To give another example, the master's "Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire", with dazzling special effects and exciting fights, is definitely the top product in the Chinese film industry.
The box office was close to 300 million yuan, and it also won the Best Film at the 30th Academy Awards.
But what about its cost?
Liu Tianwang, Liu Jialing, Liang Jiahui, Li Bingbing, Deng Chao, these are all first-line or second-tier big names, among which Liu Tianwang's salary alone has reached 10 million, and other actors can be imagined.
"Di Renjie" has a lot of special effects shots, what is the floating slaughter of the sky, spontaneous combustion of the human body, etc., as we all know, the special effects are to put it bluntly, it is to throw money!
In addition, in order to pursue the realism of the lens, the master even 'built' a real Chang'an City!
Do you know how much this thing costs a day?
With such a conversion, you will find that the producer of the movie "Di Renjie" actually did not make much money.
Even lose money and make money!
is still the old man's movie, "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", with a box office of 560 million.
It's high, but do you know how much it costs? I don't know exactly, but I can probably guess it.
Let's put it this way, the star-studded "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" alone has Li Lianjie's salary of 90 million yuan!
Therefore, low-cost and high-box office are the favorites of major production companies.
This is also the biggest reason why a large number of youth films and domestic comedies have emerged in the film market in recent years.
The investor also wants to make money, right?
Big production means big risk, in the entire Chinese film industry, how many directors can make film and television production companies believe that his big production can make a lot of money?
The master almost broke the game, let alone others!
Therefore, it is impossible for Shen Lin to play big productions in the initial stage, he can only choose movies that can make money but do not fall off!