Chapter 293: Post-Production
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This year-end summary was done by someone in December, but during that time, Su Li was filming, and he only roughly browsed some content. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Now, Su Li has the mood, the time, and the need to take a good look at this report and see some of the things that have happened to Li Guang Entertainment Company in the past year.
There is no doubt that in 2009, the only thing that made "Li Guang Entertainment Company" the most profitable was "Source Code", and it was precisely because of this movie that Li Guang Entertainment Company finally established its current status and was able to spend 500 million to make "Inception".
There are some other trivial incomes, but they are nothing in front of Source Code.
In 2009, the income of Li Guang Entertainment Company was divided into three categories, that is, TV dramas, movies, and variety shows.
The first is the TV series.
In 2009, the most profitable TV series launched by Liguang Entertainment Company was "Love Apartment 2", which had an investment of less than 5 million, but earned more than 30 million profits for the company, which is really a crazy TV series.
The success of "Love Apartment 2" is basically the big one among all TV series, this TV series has just premiered and has been widely acclaimed, and "Love Apartment 3" is currently being prepared intensively.
"Love Apartment" has a great impact, which is also the source of "Love Apartment 2" can be filmed, which has formed a certain degree of scale efficiency of Liguang Entertainment Company, and "Love Apartment" is very promising to become a long-term financial line for Liguang Entertainment Company, which will increase profits for the company in the future.
After the news that "Love Apartment 2" was not directed by Su Li, some love apartment fans felt regretful, but they did not give up their attention to "Love Apartment 2" because of this, after all, this TV series was written by Su Li himself, and it was also rave reviews after the premiere. Some of the characters in the play still continue the hilarity of the first part, and some of the new additions can also make everyone laugh off their big teeth.
"Love Apartment" and "Love Apartment 2" together have earned more than 50 million yuan for the company, which is a very profitable series. Several actors in "Love Apartment" also became one of the first actors to sign a contract with Li Guang Entertainment Company, and they also played a certain leading role.
"Love Apartment" has brought a lot of money to the company, and more than 50 million yuan is naturally not worth mentioning compared to the hurricane-like "Source Code", but this is also a big income for the company. The most important thing is that the company can't just rely on the "source code" to survive, otherwise the development will be too out of balance, the whole company will develop abnormally, and the follow-up work will be quite difficult.
In the 2009 TV series, the most profitable was only "Love Apartment 2", and the others also made some money, but compared with "Love Apartment", the money was a little worthless.
Other TV series, such as "Marriage Defense War", currently earn 7 million for the company, which is also a small amount of money compared to "Love Apartment". There are also many other TV series with a lot of investment, Su Li knows that it should be a big hit, but it will not be officially released until 2010, such as "Snow Leopard" in the article, "Beauty Scheming" by Ruby Lin and others.
Some other small-scale investment TV series have also made a certain profit for Liguang Entertainment Company, but not much, plus the entire "Love Apartment", the total profit is 60 million.
Some of the TV series invested in occasionally lost some money, but the losses were all small money, and there were still more than 60 million in TV dramas.
In terms of films, Li Guang Entertainment has invested in many films during the year, and several have made some money so far.
Among them, the movie that finally reached the hands of Liguang Entertainment Company with the most profit was "People in Embarrassment", a small-budget comedy that finally earned the company a profit of 25 million, which was the first profitable film of Liguang Entertainment Company.
Other movies have also earned some one after another, such as "The King of Guns", from this movie, the company earned more than 5 million.
"October Siege", which was released on December 17, 2009, has been released in the first round of screenings so far, and from this movie, Li Guang Entertainment Company is expected to earn more than 3 million. After adding the trivial income of some other films, the film department of Li Guang Entertainment Company has a profit of about 36 million in addition to "Source Code".
TV series plus movies other than "Source Code", Li Guang Entertainment Company has earned more than 96 million, and the profit has been close to 100 million yuan.
Variety shows are also an important income, this year, Li Guang Entertainment Company is mainly responsible for the two programs of "Olympic Rush Forward" and "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", and now "Olympic Rush" has been completely bought out by Shonan Satellite TV, plus the income of "Do Not Disturb", Li Guang Entertainment Company earned more than 130 million yuan on variety shows, so, in addition to "Source Code", Li Guang Entertainment Company earned a total of 220 million profits. (You may think that the data on variety shows is a bit exaggerated, but after I checked a lot of information, I found that this figure may be too conservative, "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb" has absorbed 1.8 billion advertising fees, which is a more reliable number.) Variety shows are the biggest way to attract money, but Su Li doesn't have any good ideas, and now the company will also absorb some talents who can come up with good planning.
The company's profits, naturally, can't help but say "Source Code", the film swept the whole of Asia, and after adding DVD rights in Asia, it received a total of 750 million in revenue, and this income may increase, because now DVDs are selling quite well in Yuben and South Korea.
From the North American market, after the second round of screenings of "Source Code", a total of $102 million was collected at the box office, and according to the sharing agreement with the theater chain and the distributor, Zuli and they could get a profit of nearly $40 million, which is 300 million yuan. Then, according to the agreement, the DVD of "Source Code", the sales and development of some peripheral products were also handed over to the United States, and some money was received in this regard, and at the beginning of 2010, there was still 150 million yuan left after coming to the company from these peripheral products and DVDs released in the United States.
After the fire of "Source Code" in North America, some American bosses proposed to let the movie be released in Europe, and Europeans are also very concerned about North America.
"Source Code" has received more than 30 million euros at the German box office, and the country loves "Source Code" the most, although after all kinds of deductions, there is still some considerable surplus.
There are also certain repercussions in other countries, but "Source Code" was released relatively late in Europe, and now some box office data needs to be further updated, but according to some current estimates, in European countries, this movie can bring a total of about 180 million revenue to Liguang Entertainment Company, which is mainly due to too many things deducted in the middle, in fact, the box office and audio-visual products in Europe are quite good. By the time of "Inception", the amount of money deducted will be less, which has the factor of its own strength and progress, and some of it is because the distribution channels will be further expanded, and even directly with Europe, so the money deducted will be much, much less.
Now the company is already doing this, but it doesn't want to give money to others in vain.
And now it has more than 50 million dollars from Europe, and when all these revenues are added up, the current revenue of Source Code will be a number that makes other companies drool: 1.25 billion!
A single "Source Code" is enough to make Li Guang Entertainment Company wait to die, and the role of a good movie can also be seen from it, and the speed at which the money arrives is absolutely jaw-dropping!
Therefore, within this year, Liguang Entertainment Company earned a total of 1.53 billion yuan after counting movies, TV series, and variety shows!
This is already a very terrifying number, although it is not comparable with those large companies that can easily tens of billions of dollars, but for a company like Liguang Entertainment Company, which has not been established for a long time, has no backstage, and its business is not very good, 1.53 billion yuan is already a very fantastic number.
This also provides a strong impetus for the continued development of the Le Kwong Entertainment Company, and in the coming time, they will have greater capital to do something. to do a lot of big moves, such as the current "Inception" is in it.
Of course, this year, there is naturally not only income, but also a lot of expenses.
In terms of expenditure, the first thing is the investment in some movies, TV series, and variety shows, in this regard, the total investment in films in 2009 is 420 million yuan, the total investment in TV dramas is 180 million yuan, and the total investment in variety shows is more than 50 million.
Among them, movies occupy the mainstream position, after all, Su Li has a system that can know the future, and knows what movies to invest in to make money, so the movies, TV series and variety shows invested in are generally not loss-making.
The second is the investment in hardware, among which, the improvement of the equipment of Li Guang Entertainment Company, including the studio, shooting equipment, etc., has spent a total of more than 60 million, and the investment in this area has to be carried out. In 2009, Liguang Entertainment invested a total of 110 million yuan, some of which were acquired shares, but most of the purposes were to update the equipment of the Burning Effect Studio and equip it to the world's top level.
Now that the Burning Shadow Special Effects Studio has strong technical force and hardware facilities, some technical advantages have been able to dominate the world, and it is more than enough to make a movie like "Inception".
At present, the company's mobile funds are still hundreds of millions, and some things can be done, but what to do will be done slowly.
—————— "Inception" soon began post-production, and the official editing and production began directly at the end of January.
When editing, Su Li mixed with the people in the editing studio for many days, staying in the studio almost every day, watching this movie, not wanting to have any failures.
Every knife is very distressing, especially those wonderful action scenes, every cut is a hammer in the heart, Su Li looks at a movie Although it is being cut and simplified, it is slowly taking shape, but when he sees that there are many scenes that are helplessly disappearing, the regret in his heart is still unavoidable.
Su Li himself has learned a lot of editing techniques, and now these techniques can also allow him to form some general judgments about the whole movie, and occasionally put forward his own opinions on some key issues of editing, so that editors can edit more in line with their own requirements.
In the midst of such hard work, Su Li got out of some relaxed state after the finale, he soaked with a group of editors every day, and after so many days of hard work, he didn't want to make any mistakes in editing and post-production.
After nearly two weeks of hard work, Inception had been cut, and the cut version had a total of two hours and ten minutes, which was about the same time as the original Inception, and some shots could now be used for the final render.
The film was soon sent to the Burning Shadow Effects Studio, where more than 200 people were working on Inception.
The temporary cut out of Inception begins with a special effects rendering of the trailer, which is scheduled to launch its first version in February.
The first version didn't require too many shots, and by the time the trailer for the final version was made, the special effects that made people feel overwhelming at first glance would actually be used. Now the first version of the trailer is mainly about putting some of the wonderful shots of the main actors on it, putting some blood-pumping action scenes on it, and that's it, more things can only be shown in the ultimate version of the trailer.
The main purpose of the first version of the trailer now is to maintain everyone's attention to Inception, to be able to pay attention to the official release of the film, and when it comes to the final trailer, that is what really attracts everyone to the cinema to watch.
However, this trailer also needs a lot of special effects shots, and it also needs a lot of special effects to help.
Yao Qi and Li Xian's master and apprentice have officially served as the chief special effects designer of the entire "Inception", most of the special effects of "Inception" are here in the Burning Shadow, only some of the more trivial and undemanding ones are handed over to the crystal stone, and the Burning Shadow is the backbone of the entire "Inception".
On this day, Su Li saw that the entire special effects studio was busy nervously, and Li Xian in front of Su Li was also paying attention to everyone in the host, and at the same time, he was also responsible for a kind of general work.
The software they use is dizzying, and a lot of the work is spread out to more than 100 people, which is amazingly efficient, otherwise one person has to deal with so many special effects, layer by layer, and it can drive people crazy.
Now, the whole team is a well-run precision machine, and everyone shows what they are responsible for, and finally synthesizes the exquisite movements.
(To be continued)