Chapter 494: Script Review
Hearing the busy tone on the phone, Lu Deshuang smiled, it seems that he has succeeded, Wang Yu was bluffed by him, so he hung up the phone with a weak heart, although the source of Wang Yu was solved, but for the magazine that published this news, Lu Deshuang would not show mercy, otherwise, any cat and dog would dare to provoke himself, so would he do anything else?
"Liu Daxian, give you a task to help me investigate the people in this magazine, especially the editor who wrote this news. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Understood!"
At this time, there was a knock on the door of the office, Lu Deshuang told Liu Daxian a few words, hung up the phone, shouted to the people outside the door to come in, and saw Liu Dong walking in with a stack of documents, and said to Lu Deshuang: "Chairman, here is the script that has passed the review." ”
If a film and television company has been shooting big productions and ignoring small-budget films, it will only follow the old path of MGM Pictures, one of the five major Hollywood film companies in the previous life, going bankrupt!
As we all know, MGM in the golden age was known for its many stars and extravagant filming, and this habit of "big spending" has not been changed by MGM, and even after the deep debt crisis, it will cling to big productions like "The Hobbit" until the last moment.
Going back further, this tendency to "grasp the big and let go of the small" will be even more obvious.
After losing money for the first time in 34 years in 1957, MGM remade Ben-Hur just two years later, and fortunately the big investment made enough money to keep the company afloat for at least a decade, but the downside was planted, and MGM began to make a big mistake in concept, and every year since, they bet on a blockbuster.
This is something that is rare for other Hollywood studios that have experienced a downturn, such as Warner, which chose to shoot a large number of civilian grassroots themes with less investment after its financial crisis in the 1920s.
Compared with MGM, which began to pay attention to blockbusters in the 1930s, Chinese films have not entered the so-called blockbuster era for a long time, but judging from the data of all parties, the trend of relying entirely on blockbusters is quite obvious, and all theaters are more willing to leave enough screens for blockbusters, first of all, limiting the income of low-budget films from the screening channel.
Huayi Brothers, a Chinese box office giant in the previous life, also said at the beginning of the release of "Tangshan Earthquake" that the success or failure of the film will have a significant impact on the company.
At the current stage when the domestic film market is still immature, blockbusters can basically make profits, but if this situation continues, it will not be individual companies, but the entire Chinese film market, which will face MGM's dilemma. Even in Hollywood, where there are deep pockets, there are only a dozen movies like "Avatar" and "Transformers" every year, and few companies will be on the verge of bankruptcy just because of the failure of "Wind Whisperer" like MGM, and the healthy development of the film market is still maintained by low-cost films.
Even if he took out a big-budget movie in Lu De's hands, he was sure that he would definitely make money, because in his previous life, these works had already proven himself, he was completely fearless in one year or two, and he could persist in eight or ten years, but twenty years later, Lu Deshuang still dared to say that the big-budget movies he took out would definitely be able to make money?
Therefore, Lu Deshuang can't rely too much on the memory in his head, even if he knows that big productions make money, he won't ignore small production movies, not to mention, the cultivation of talents, especially those directors, which are not cultivated by several small-budget films, if you really want to shoot big-budget movies as soon as you debut, you really want to open a bank at your family.
"Take it, by the way, this is the outline of the script I wrote, take it to the screenwriting department to improve, and after passing the review, give it to me!"
Even if Lu Deshuang can write the movie script in his memory in his previous life by himself, he still won't do it, not to mention that this is a tiring job, Lu Deshuang, who has been pampered, naturally can't have the patience to complete something that seems to him to be very boring.
Moreover, like cultivating directors, if you want to train a good screenwriter, you also need to provide opportunities for practice, he estimates that only writing the outline of the script is to give the screenwriters in the company a chance to practice, anyway, even if you pass the review, you have to get his consent, Lu Deshuang is not worried that things will be messed up.
"Okay!"
Liu Dong took the order and left, the office was quiet again, Lu Deshuang opened the folder, and what appeared in front of Lu Deshuang's eyes was not a script, but a detailed outline of the script, with comments from the review department and market research below, which greatly reduced Lu Deshuang's pressure, after all, he is a human being, not a god, and he will feel tired, and because of his appearance, which led to the occurrence of the butterfly effect, even Lu Deshuang did not dare to easily judge the success or failure of a movie that did not appear in his previous life.
Lu Deshuang did not follow the rules and read page by page, but stayed on each page for less than ten seconds, and then turned to the next page, and just like that, the thick stack, almost as high as a fist, was quickly read.
The reason for this is not that Lu Deshuang is not serious, but the works that can pass the review, so even if they are not excellent works, at least they will not be big bad movies, in terms of the efficiency of the review department in recent years, the works that can pass the review are made into movies and released, 85% of the movies have made a profit, and only 15% will lose money, and most of these 15% are literary films, only a few bad movies, and these bad movies are not just the reason for the script, Most of them also have problems with the director himself.
Therefore, on this premise, Lu Deshuang's review attitude of casually looking at it will naturally not worry about any problems, but can improve efficiency, no, from dozens of scripts, Lu Deshuang found a lot of familiar scripts.
"Waiting Alone", a romantic comedy movie written and directed by Wu Shixian in his previous life, starring Xia Yu, Li Bingbing and others.
"Crazy Stone", a Chinese film with a black humor style directed by Ning Hao in the previous life.
"Carla is a Dog", a movie that should have been released last year in her previous life, is a drama film directed and written by Senior Lu and starring Ge You and Ding Jiali.
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Behind these scripts, Lu Deshuang wrote an excellent, which originally meant excellent, but here in Lu Deshuang, it became an explanation of priority shooting, anyway, in his memory, after these scripts were made into movies, there was no situation of being scolded for bad movies, so naturally there was no need to worry about losing money.
After checking it again, after seeing that there was no omission, he was about to call Liu Dong outside, and when he asked him to come in and get it, the mobile phone he put on the desk vibrate, and when he picked it up, he saw that it was Li Bingbing's sister Li Xue calling, so he connected, and before he could speak, he heard Li Xue's anxious words.
"Brother-in-law, come to the People's Hospital, my sister is injured!"
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