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"Well, I see, so how do we do it?" Although Lei Ting has a superhuman IQ, she doesn't know much about financing operations in the Hollywood circle, how can she make a movie without taking a penny?

"It's a bit complicated, Sister Tingting, you have a good brain, but I'm afraid you still won't understand me just by saying it." Li Xiaole spread his hands: "I want to charge tuition~"

"Say it! It's my business to understand if you don't listen, I'll pay you tuition at night~" Lei Ting kicked his leg coldly.

"Okay, that's exactly what it is......" Li Xiaole imagined in his mind how Lei Ting would scout himself to "pay tuition" at night, before swallowing his saliva and saying slowly: "The process of starting a movie is that we set up our own project to recruit actors to sign a contract, and then take this project book to find a theater, go to a DVD company to negotiate pre-sale, or negotiate sponsorship with advertising brands, and sign a contract of intent with them, for example, we got a budget contract of 3 million from them, right?" Then through a professional film loan company, we can borrow 40% of the 3 million by using these contracts as evidence, that is, 1.2 million, and then we can also apply for a certain tax rebate according to the California film tax rebate policy, which together is about 5 million pre-sales.

zuihou we only had to hand over the 5 million pre-sale to Sony, and the budget he got by contacting his investors was double the amount of our pre-sale, that is, 10 million, and we Zuihou can take the 10 million to start making a movie, Sister Tingting, do you understand? ”

"Of course I do." Lei Ting said with a disdainful face: "In other words, according to the system of the big leagues, in fact, the amount of investment is not decided by Sony or us, but by how much pre-sale can be obtained in advance for the film project we established, and the pre-sale multiplied by three times is the cost of the film we can get from Sony, which is the same as that of South Korea." ”

"Sure enough, it's Sister Tingting, it's a cow~" Li Xiaole stretched out his thumb in admiration: "So the key to the amount of film investment lies in whether the actors we find have market prospects and how much pre-sale money they can get." ”

"Then you're still pretending to be handsome and refuse Tom Cruise to find you a big-name actor!? Don't you know that we need to hurry up and make a box office haode film to survive! Lei Ting was stunned for a moment, and suddenly scolded, thinking of the scene where Li Xiaole played handsome with Tom Cruise, and felt that Li Xiaole was playing with her......

"A good knife should be used on the blade, there is no point in a cannon to fight mosquitoes." Li Xiaole pursed his mouth disapplauded.

"What's your attitude?" Lei Ting took a sip of coffee to calm down her emotions, then looked at him and asked, "Do you already have a plan for the next step?" ”

"I'm still thinking about ......" Li Xiaole pinched his chin painfully, looking sad.

"That'...... Think about it slowly, don't worry too much, anyway, at worst, we will go back to China with our tails between our legs. Lei Ting looked at him for a while, and didn't want to put any more pressure on him, sighed, paid the bill and left.

Looking at Lei Ting's charming back, Li Xiaole drank the coffee in the cup in one gulp, but he also shook his head, he was very annoyed, but unlike Lei Ting's imagination, he was not worried about not being able to find a money-making movie theme, but ...... There are too many choices of subject matter......

He can't find first- and second-tier actors, and if he can't get a huge investment, it doesn't mean that he can't make money-making movies, although today's Hollywood major leagues are a series of blockbusters, but there are also many small costs that are blockbusters, think about it, there are a lot of films with a box office of over 100 million in 2006.

With an investment of 15,000 US dollars, he got a 200 million global box office pseudo-documentary "Ghost Shadow", which cost 1.8 million US dollars, and got a whopping 67 million in the world, the creepy "Zuihou An Exorcism", and the R-rated film "Human Removal Jihua", which cost 3 million US dollars and earned 89 million US dollars worldwide......

In addition, there are wonderful feature films such as "Juno" costing 7.5 million and a box office of 2.3 billion, "This Man is from Earth" costing 200,000 and a global box office of 3.5 billion.

If it is just to make box office, then Li Xiaole believes that he can achieve his goal by picking out one of them at random, but he does not need to worry about livelihood now, but to establish his own film career in Hollywood, first of all, he is a Chinese, to maintain Chinese demeanor and image in the United States, and then establish his own unique film temperament in the director's business card on this basis.

"Ghost Shadow", "Zuihou An Exorcism", "Human Removal Jihua" are all thriller horror films, this is not his style at all, his movie dreams contain mostly aiqing, inspirational, moving, humor These positive factors are incompatible with horror films.

As for "Juno", the film is purely female...... He doesn't have the same ability to figure out the psychology of women as Jason Reitman.

To say that among these films, the most suitable for him is the sci-fi literary drama "This Man is from Earth", which is used in two or three scenes from beginning to end, a group of people chatting in the room, but it has a very profound humanistic connotation.

From the heart, this movie has a great temptation for him, but what makes Li Xiaole feel tricky is that this movie involves an extremely sensitive topic - religion, and the plot in the movie even denies the biblical doctrine that Jesus Christ is God.

Li Xiaole's attitude towards religion has always been to maintain a respectful and awe-inspiring attitude, and he even distinguishes between Catholicism and Protestantism, let alone make a movie to cause an uproar in Western religious circles, which may be like a South Korean making a movie about Confucius's birthplace is actually Seoul......

Li Xiaole looked at the glass coffee cup, gently hit his edge with a spoon, and hesitated for a while before finally giving up his plan to shoot this movie, damn, since you came to the United States, why do you have to choose these low-budget movies, if you want to shoot it, shoot what you are best at, comedy!

As soon as he thought of comedy, Li Xiaole's mind immediately jumped out of the name of a script he had always cherished before-"Life Remote Control", this comedy can impress him so deeply not because it is the best comedy he has ever seen, but because the spirit of this film is different from typical American humor like "The Hangover", and is more inclined to Eastern ideas.

After the release of this film, although the response in China was ordinary, it became a Chinese film imitation and became a fixed genre film - "XX Call Transfer", and the box office reputation was very good.

Considering all this, as his first shot in Hollywood, "Life Remote Control" is undoubtedly the best choice, after thinking about this, Li Xiaole immediately jumped up from the bench, went home as soon as possible and printed out the script, ready to hand it over to MGM for approval.

In the next few days, while Li Xiaole and Marvel quietly signed a cooperation agreement, MGM's film review department was also reviewing the new script submitted by Luen Mei Company layer by layer.

Many ordinary people may think that the establishment of a film project at this stage can only be laborious until the stage of finding actors to attract investment, but in fact, in the film kingdom of Hollywood, the establishment of a project is a difficult process.

In the film company, dozens or even hundreds of new scripts appear on the desk of each project manager every day, and their job is to review whether these scripts can become real film projects.

Generally speaking, all the green light committees of major Hollywood companies to review scripts have eight project managers, seven of whom are responsible for reviewing scripts at all levels, and thousands or even tens of thousands of scripts are reviewed every year, of which only a few can be very start-up.

The reason is that their standards are extremely strict, and each project manager is in charge of different reviews, such as the film must be 110-130 minutes, the male and female protagonists must have more than 75 scenes, and the script type must be a best-selling genre in Hollywood within ten years, and it must be 40-60 events...... Wait a minute.

Until a script meets all these requirements and is approved by all 7 managers, the script will be handed over to the chief project manager for decision.

After calculation, there are only about 50-60 scripts that can be obtained in the hands of the chief project manager every year, and he will pick out one-fifth of them as a preparatory project for approval, and after these projects are approved, they will not start immediately, but ask a professional "screenwriter doctor" to polish and edit, until every line and each character setting has been changed to the point that there can be no more haode, and the project will be officially established, and this time is usually about one to three years.

Just like Tom Cruise's "Lion into the Sheep's Mouth" submitted by MGM, although it passed MGM's review, the script will not be polished until next year at the earliest.

When Li Xiaole first applied for the review of the script, no one at MGM thought that he could pass the preliminary review of the 7 green light committees, but to everyone's surprise, he not only passed the preliminary review, but also entered the final review in an instant......

At this moment, in Leigh Canon's office, he was facing a group of MGM screenwriters with an expression of disbelief on his face and asked sharply:

"What the hell is going on? How can there be a script submitted and you can't change a word? ”

Canon held the script aloft in the air, hoping that someone would refute him, but to his disappointment, the 11 of MGM's best "screenwriter doctors" fell silent.

"Talk back!" Canon said viciously, even if it passed the review of 7 project managers, it directly met the standards of filming, which did not happen in MGM's long film calendar, after all, a screenwriter is excellent, he also has logical negligence in details, he doesn't believe that so many screenwriters at MGM can't change one place! This is simply ridiculous!?