For example, the box office of Lu Chuan's "Looking for a Gun" was 9 million, and China Film, as the distribution investor, got a box office profit of 2 million, but Han Sanpin made all the 2 million profits and also approved an additional 5 million budget to Lu Chuan to finance the filming of "Nanjing, Nanjing".

is because although China Film did not get very little profit at the box office, the group cinema chain got nearly 3 million because of "Looking for a Gun", and the real profit of the entire film industry is actually the popcorn sold in theaters, and then plus the broadcast fee of overseas copyright movie channels, although it did not make money at the box office, it still made money in the entire industry.

In fact, the so-called friendly film companies, in fact, most of them are privately listed in China and supported by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, Huayi, New Pictures, Xingmei, Poly, etc., although these companies will pinch each other's words on the table during the film promotion period, they are actually inextricably linked with China Film, and they can be said to be brother units.

This so-called financing only accepts investment from film companies, and major film companies share relatively large investment risks, which has a strong binding effect, which is also the best way to invest in the future, and China Film only needs to be responsible for part of the investment.

If the investment is made with an overseas company, such as Hong Kong or an American film company, it is the responsibility of the China Film Distribution Department, and it is not included in the production department's expenses.

What really interests Li Xiaole is the third one, which is called the factory director responsibility system.

This is the way that only the directors of more than a dozen studios under China Film have the power, which can be invested by the director himself, and then do responsible financing with China Film in his own name, after the filming is over, the director is responsible for the profit and loss by the box office, this kind of is not much in later generations, only Han Sanpin personally does large-scale financing, of course, it is not in his personal name, and he has not achieved a private account at the box office.

But Li Xiaole flipped through the old materials of China Film's Beijing Film Studio, and until now there are still many films in stock that have not been released, all of which are shot with this director investment system, so each studio loses money every year, this phenomenon is very strange, since the investment is losing money, the directors of Weishenme are still happy to do it?

Li Xiaole can't figure this out for the time being, but he understands one thing, originally as a Black Pearl company with no distribution and publicity strength, there is no channel to participate in account sharing, but if he can take the position of factory director, then he can let Black Pearl as an investor and share the box office with China Film in an open and honest manner, which is what he has dreamed of for a long time.

And what surprised him even more was that the director of the second studio is now vacant, and Han Sanpin is currently concurrently serving as the director, and he also checked the qualifications of the director, that is, he is selected from the production director, who has been engaged in the film and television industry for more than one year, is under the age of 40, and his performance appraisal is first-class throughout the year, and he can compete for the director of the studio.

What's even more interesting is that in the past few years, except for Han Sanpin himself, there has not been a director or production director in the entire China Film Group whose performance has been rated as first-class, which is simply a God's arrangement for haode positions.

After discovering this, Li Xiaole felt very excited, but he immediately calmed down, all the conditions for filming "Let the Bullets Fly" were not yet mature, and he still needed to make preliminary preparations, and now he must first get this first-class performance assessment within a year and shoot a few good works.

Now the situation is that the production department of China Film has only 30 million investment left before the end of this year, and it is expected that there will be 7 or 8 more films to be launched.

Because there is a clear provision within China Film Group, which is called the director's "return equals investment" strategy, the director is divided into three levels.

If the first-level director can get an investment of 60-800,000 films, China Film will explore their potential, if it reaches a certain level, it will be recognized as a second-level director, and the group will invest in a digital high-definition film of 2 million to 2.5 million yuan, which will be distributed in TV stations and theaters, and the most senior third-level director, China Film will come up with an investment of 600-10 million.

For directors who invest for the first time, China Film will not invest more than this amount, even if it is director Feng Xiaogang, who was already famous all over the world back then, plus "Party A and Party B" with big-name actors like Ge You, he only got an investment of 6 million.

In other words, it is almost impossible for him to get more than 6 million, and the question now is, is there an investment at this price that is suitable for the current theme? Li Xiaole asked himself in his heart.

In the future, there are many successful low-cost commercial films in the mainland, Li Xiaole's first thought is "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" with a return on investment ratio of 1:20, this film with an investment of 14 million and a box office of 300 million, the script is very well written, the two leading actors in it, Wen Zhang, Bai Baihe are now studying in Chinese opera, and his immature acting skills cannot afford the thickness of the male and female protagonists, of course, this is not the main problem, this drama has no harsh requirements for actors, and he is confident that he can find a replacement actor.

The real thing is that "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" is a film aimed at the female market, and now in 2002, the perennial movie audience in China is about 10 million, of which only more than 2 million are female audiences, and usually female audiences prefer to watch domestic films on DVD players or computers.

Even if this film is really made by itself, according to the current ticket price of 20 yuan for female movies, even if half of the female audience enters the cinema, it will be difficult to exceed the box office of 20 million.

This one doesn't work, but what about Far Cry, which has an ROI of 1:18? Frankly speaking, in Li Xiaole's impression, the filming of this movie is very ordinary, and it is only because of the commercial operation of Haode and the audience's desire for a thriller genre film at that time that it achieved a box office miracle, but regardless of whether he likes this genre or not, in 2002, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television was strict with film censorship, and it was difficult for this kind of thriller to pass the script review.

Li Xiaole thought again, if the star-studded "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic", which has a return on investment ratio of 1:14, it will definitely be a cow if it is filmed now, but the problem is that Han Sanpin is still only Mr. Han...... is not "Han Sanye" yet, he doesn't have so much energy in the Chinese film industry......

The return on investment ratio of 1:12 "Wulin Gaiden" mainly relies on the foreshadowing of the early stage of the TV series......

Li Xiaole counted with his fingers, all movies with a super high return on investment are actually specific products of a specific period, the right time, place and people, all of which are indispensable, and he, to put it bluntly, just has the condition of the time.

Now he needs a film with an investment of less than 6 million, and it will be filmed within two months and dare to be released in the Lunar New Year file, today is the year when Feng Xiaogang has taken a break from heart disease, there is no comedy in the New Year file, at least a comedy with excellent quality and a positive theme? Li Xiaole leaned on the bench and pondered for a moment, and immediately a name popped up in his mind...... "Crazy Stone".

The return on investment ratio is 1:8, 3 million investment, 23 million box office, the core of its script is very good, and more importantly, the most aura comedian in China has emerged in this movie, for a director, this is a very fulfilling thing, Li Xiaole realized that he had only controlled a few protagonist-based dramas before, and had not combined the strength of various excellent types of different excellent actors, and this movie was also a big challenge for him.

Of course, although most of the actors' performances in this "Crazy Stone" are wonderful, the filming by director Ning Hao is not very perfect, and there are many shortcomings, mainly due to the lack of good production, to put it bluntly, the quality of the behind-the-scenes personnel is too poor.

Li Xiaole thought of this, and quickly went through this movie in his mind, each shot reorganized the shooting process of each shot in his consciousness, unlike the previous only sporadic pictures that he could only remember, he seemed to know how to shoot just by thinking about it.

After filming two works, Li Xiaole already knows his strength very well, if he reorganizes some classic large-scale movies in his mind now, such as "Hero" and "Transformers", he still only has sporadic pictures, and he can't actually shoot them at all, these are movies that he can't control for the time being.

And when he thinks back to the smooth reorganization of the filming process of a movie, it means that he has the ability to control the film.

It was decided ~ the next work is "Crazy Stone".

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After deciding on the movie to be made, first of all, Li Xiaole was in a much more relaxed mood, one thing is to get the script, it is now 2002, of course "Crazy Stone" has not been filmed, but has Ning Hao written this script?

For this question, Li Xiaole felt a little headache, Chinese films have not been standardized in all aspects, and many movie scripts have not been registered, so he can't find it at all, so he asked Xiao Wang, who is always idle:

"Xiao Wang, I'm looking for a script to write haode, where is the most convenient?"

"Director Xiao Li~ You don't know this, of course it's in the archives of the factory, scripts from all over the country are generally mailed to the archives, you are the production director, and you have the right to call it out and read it." That Xiao Wang said in a mocking tone, without taking Li Xiaole, who looked like a child, in his eyes at all.

Li Xiaole didn't care, he went to the archives room in the factory, the archives of Beiying sounded very sacred, but as soon as Li Xiaole entered, he felt that this library-like building was very similar to an Internet café, but there was no computer in it, a single partitioned room, and the tables were all big-screen TVs and DVD players, and a group of directors sat in front of the DVD player next to them, watching various film and television dramas intently.

Looking at these little directors who are bored to study, Li Xiaole consulted column by column on the file shelf next to him, and finally found a script called "Crazy Racing" in the vast archives, which surprised Li Xiaole, and "Crazy Stone" is only a small half of this script.