Chapter 230: Movie Special Effects

Meng Chao served as the starring and producer, and "New Love" directed by Er Dongsheng was in the process of being filmed in an orderly manner.

At the same time, a number of films under Genesis Films have also started shooting plans at the same time.

For example, Gao Zhisen, who is good at family comedy, continued to shoot the Nirvana series, and now he has filmed the last "Fugui Happy Ghost", and the story of this movie has completely departed from the framework of the original four.

The role played by Dong Bi has also been changed to Ling Haoxi, who has a wife who loves money extremely and is mean, and she is also played by the fat sister Shen Dianxia, and she also has two beautiful daughters.

The original actor Meng Chao did not use it, but continued to use Alan Chen and Li Lizhen, and their temperament and image also fit well with the characters in the movie.

And because Xiao Zhao Wei's popularity is very high, Meng Chao added another role to Xiao Zhao Wei when he wrote the script.

This is done in order to completely restore the actors of the rich series, because since the first "Rich and Powerful", this series of movies has been well received, although it is not a big production, but the real description of the small citizen family in the movie with a touch of warmth and rich jokes still makes countless audiences like it very much.

For this reason, this series can be said to have made a lot of sequels, but the audience still never gets tired of watching it, and the global box office of each sequel is more than 100 million yuan!

Although it is only about 100 million yuan at the box office, the production cost of the Fugui series is much smaller, and each movie can net more than 30 million yuan, which can definitely be regarded as a cash cow.

The same money-making series also has the Happy Ghost series, this series has been the fourth since the first filming, and now "Happy Ghost Saves Happy Ghost" has begun to be officially released.

The box office number returned to Meng Chao was quite good, with a box office of 17 million on the first day.

The main thing is that the reputation of this series is very good, and in the fourth part, several members of the Happy Girl Group and the four sons of the BEYOND band performed together, so it is very attractive to some young audiences.

Like the Nirvana series, the Happy Ghost series starts with the second sequel, and the global box office of each of them is more than 100 million yuan, and the cost of making zuò is also not high, so each of them also makes a net profit of more than 30 million!

It is the so-called thin water and long flow. A movie earns tens of millions of dollars, and it only takes about half a year from shooting to release, which is not a small amount of time!

And the most important thing is that these two big-hit series of movies with a knife and a big tree can bring a lot of loyal audiences to Genesis Films. Many audiences will now recognize the productions of Genesis Film Company, Golden Harvest Film Company and Debao Film Company, and it can be said that these three film companies in China can be regarded as a three-legged stand!

In addition to these two blockbuster series, Meng Chao also invested in Wang Jing to shoot "The Gambler", and now the movie has been completed, and the release date is April 8.

And after filming this movie. Wang Jing took Meng Chao's investment non-stop and started filming the gambling film "Supreme", Wang Jing personally attaches great importance to this movie, plus the box office of the movie in the parallel world is very good, and there is a box office of nearly 20 million in one area of Xiangjiang!

For this reason, Meng Chao has no reason to refuse Wang Jing, this hard-working little bee has always made movies very quickly, of course, many movies are not made with care, but this "Supreme" is obviously a piece of careful shooting.

On the other hand, Zheng Zeshi also discussed with Meng Chao the idea of continuing to be a director, and the two conceived a new script together, called "Rich Corps".

This is a typical movie that follows the style of Hong Jinbao's big brother and the stars of martial arts, and even the movie is ready to invite Hong Jinbao to play one of the roles. After all, the relationship between Hong Jinbao and Golden Harvest Film Company is getting worse and worse, so he has agreed.

In addition to Hong Jinbao, this movie also has many big names such as Tan Yonglin, Chen Baixiang, Liu Dehua, Anita Mui and so on, and even basically more than half of the actors of Genesis Film Company will make cameos in this movie.

With a complete story, beautiful martial arts scenes, and stars starring, although the cost of this "Rich Corps" is as high as more than 20 million, it is estimated to be more than 40 million if you count the publicity expenses.

But Meng Chao is confident that the box office can at least exceed 150 million, and it may even be a little higher. For this reason, Meng Chao did not refuse Zheng Zeshi's request, but decided to invest in the filming of "Rich Corps".

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A month ago, director Xu Ke, who established a film studio with Meng Chao's funding, also mentioned to Meng Chao that he wanted to make a sci-fi movie.

Because the box office of "Sword and Horse" and "A Chinese Ghost Story 1: The Demon Road" was good, Xu Ke has now proved his strength. For this reason, I also have some confidence to speak.

Soon Meng Chao saw the script, which was basically the first version of the script of "Iron Armor Invincible Maria" starring Ye Qianwen in the parallel world, and the box office of this movie in the parallel world in Meng Chao's impression was not high, more than five million.

This movie is obviously what Xu Laowei wanted to shoot after seeing the Terminator sell well, but in the parallel world, because there is not enough money. The effect of this movie is very average.

It can be said that the plot is quite funny and smooth, but the special effects are really a bit scum!

For this reason, after Meng Chao planned to start filming "Titanic" this year, he also began to think about special effects, and Xu Ke happened to be a technical controller, so Meng Chao decided to invest tens of millions of dollars to test the water.

Although with the current level of science and technology, the effect that can be shot by tens of millions is also very average, but Meng Chao does not expect "Iron Armor Invincible Maria" to be a big hit, but hopes to use Xu Ke's film to consider domestic special effects companies.

Xu Ke himself is a fanatical film technology controller, and he has been moved by a "Star Wars" since the early eighties, and he also tried to spend tens of millions of dollars to shoot a special effects Xianxia movie "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", but he couldn't even recover half of the cost, and Boss Zou of Jiahe Film Company was afraid of him.

Because of Xu Ke's obsession with movie special effects, the director is very professional, so Meng Chao took advantage of Xu Ke's "Iron Armor Invincible Maria" to pay Xu Ke to choose which company is qualified enough to make film special effects with the current development of Huaxia Technology.

If he finds the right company, Meng Chao may take control of the company in the form of acquisition or shareholding, so as to cultivate a high-level special effects film company in Huaxia, so that it can compete with Hollywood movies when special effects movies are popular in the future! (To be continued.) )