"Brother Hao, have you brought your movie script ready?" After the preparations for "Red Cliff" were discussed, Lin Yuquan asked Ning Hao again.

"Hmm." Ning Hao nodded, then took out the bound script from a shoulder bag in front of him and handed it to Lin Yuquan and a few others, and then introduced: "My film is called "Crazy Stone", and the story starts with a valuable jade found in the toilet. Unexpectedly, it attracted the covetousness of the international thief Mike and the local thief trio led by Brother Dao, and then faced Bao Shihong, the head of the security section of the handicraft factory, and the three gangs launched a fierce open and secret battle"

"The clue of the story actually revolves around Jadeite", Lin Yuquan secretly laughed, he and Jade have a deep relationship.

In the process of reading the script, Lin Yuquan nodded secretly from time to time, Ning Hao's storytelling ability is very strong, and this is also perfectly shown in "Crazy Stone".

This multi-line comedy film, borrowing from many classic films, is quite cleverly designed to tell a rather absurd story completely, meticulously, interlocking and ups and downs, and the details and jokes come from commonplace life scenes, so that the audience can empathize and maintain a relaxed state of mind from beginning to end.

Although the theme reflected under the black humor of "Crazy Stone" is not very profound, but for a comedy movie, it is already the greatest success to amuse the audience, in this regard, Ning Hao has done it very extremely, and this style is completely different from Feng Xiaogang's Feng's comedy, which is unique in China at present, and has huge box office potential.

Lin Yuquan immediately asked, "Brother Hao, have you conceived the cast of this movie?" ”

Unlike other types of movies, the most important thing in comedy movies is the actors, and a good cast has already represented more than half of the success of this movie, especially the leading actor, whose role in it is irreplaceable.

"I've roughly thought about it, among them, Bao Shihong, the head of the security section, I am going to find Guo Tao to play, his image and acting skills are in line with my vision for this role, and I basically have a score for other actors, but I am ready to ponder it again, and it will be finalized after the year." Ning Hao nodded.

Guo Tao, Lin Yuquan's mind subconsciously flashed some of his information, he was born in the acting department of Kyoto Comedy Academy, he is a drama actor with a very solid foundation, and has performed well in several drama works, and he is also good in movies and TV series.

Of course, as a former film and television lover, Lin Yuquan himself is most familiar with the TV series "All Angels Cause Trouble", this TV series starring Li Xiaolu and Ren Quan was very popular in 2000, among which Li Xiaolu, the youngest actress in the history of the Golden Horse Awards, finally became famous with this drama, and in this TV series, Guo Tao played Ma Rulong, who was insidious and bullied, quite in place, which is hateful, and his acting skills can be seen.

There is no problem with him starring, Lin Yuquan no longer hesitated at the moment, and immediately said: "Prepare to prepare, how much investment do you need?" ”

This is also because Lin Yuquan is the boss, otherwise the process of reviewing the script alone will take a long time, just like Warner, it has 8 vice presidents, 7 of whom have the budget for several plays, but they can't decide the script, only the 8th person can decide.

Under his hands, there will be a group of people who strictly implement the script review and decision-making process, generally speaking, first the first person looks at the length of the film being reviewed, and then counts whether the male and female number one reaches 75 scenes (the big star does not act in less than 75 scenes). After confirming that there is no problem, he hands it over to the next person. The next person checks the genre, and he has 3 years of numbers in his hand, such as horror films, psychological horror films and sci-fi horror films, etc., and these small genres have a number of jù. He only looks at the trend of the number of jù in the past 3 years, analyzes the attendance rate of a type, and passes the test if it is feasible. Further down, there are "several things", there must be 40~60 things, and the positive and negative things must be equally distributed. After the review is completed one level at a time, it is handed over to the eighth VP, and then this person is handed over to other VPs who have a budget, and it is up to them to decide whether to shoot or not.

This is the cautious and harsh attitude of world-class film companies towards films, and only in this way can they avoid risks to the greatest extent, after all, Hollywood films often invest tens of millions of dollars, plus marketing and distribution costs, etc., and the failure of any film is a heavy loss.

Relatively speaking, Shuguang Film Company is more like Lin Yuquan's personal film studio, and like the style of countless start-ups, the will of the founder directly represents the will of the company, so at the moment, he only needs to make a decision, and others have no opinion.

"3.5 million is enough." Even if he knows that Shuguang Film Company is not bad for money now, for Ning Hao, who knows that it is difficult to pull investment, every penny he makes when making movies definitely needs to be carefully calculated, and 3.5 million is just right for him to shoot the effect he wants.

"Brother Hao, am I such a stingy person? You need to save me money like this. Lin Yuquan teased himself.

Directors and producers like Ning Hao and Zhang Jizhong are the most popular among investors, because they can always save money for investors in the most reasonable way without affecting the filming of the film.

But such a film is definitely not the best, take "Crazy Stone" as an example, although the scene of this movie is not complicated, and special effects are not used, the biggest expense should be the expenditure of actors and crew, 3.5 million can indeed be filmed, but it will inevitably look rough, and if you invest more, the effect will naturally be very different.

Ning Hao smiled, this is his own habit, not everyone is James. Cameron's kind of perfectionist, for him, as long as it is enough, really give him hundreds of millions of investments, he can't find a place to spend it! And comedy movies have always been small and medium-budget movies, aren't they? Those comedy movies with a high investment are actually mainly spent on actors' salaries.

But he can't use too big comedians in this movie, so he really wants Zhou Xingchi, Wu Mengda, and Feng Heng to play, is it not suitable?

Of course Lin Yuquan knows this, but he is a director himself, of course he knows the role of investment in the quality of the film, under appropriate circumstances, he is willing to invest more to make the film well, as for whether Ning Hao accepts it or not, in fact, the best way to deal with this kind of behavior is to impose it on him, so that he has no way to refuse.

"So be it! With a budget of 8 million, the core of this movie is the actors and the jadeite, the actors should not be reluctant to spend the salary, although they do not seek the most expensive, but they must be good, as for the sky-high jadeite, for a better sense of realism, and publicity gimmicks, it must not be passed off as low-grade jadeite or handicraft props, I will find a way in this regard, maybe I can take the opportunity to pull a sponsorship? Well, don't look at me like that, and I don't need to say words of gratitude. ”

Ning Hao is not a hypocritical person, he just nodded solemnly, and the words of gratitude are good in his heart, rather than saying a bunch of unnutritious words, it is better to prove it with practical actions.

Speaking of this, Lin Yuquan paused, looked at everyone and said: "There is another thing, when "Huo Yuanjia" was released, we used the Internet to promote it and achieved remarkable results in China and the United States, especially in the United States, the effect is simply amazing, so I want to come up with a sum of money to invest in projects that can bring convenience to the promotion and development of our films, I don't know what you think?" ”

"Of course, it couldn't be better, if we have our own online publicity channels, we can not only save publicity costs, but also maximize the transmission of movie information to the current most spending power, but also the main force of watching the movie." Xiao Ran said excitedly that since experiencing the glory of "Huo Yuanjia", his publicity ideas have almost completely leaned towards the online platform, and he is extremely in favor of it.

"After the box office share of "Huo Yuanjia" is fully received, our funds will be very sufficient, excluding the investment required for two movies and a TV series prepared in advance, and it is conservatively estimated that our remaining funds are more than 100 million. Next, the audio-visual products of "Huo Yuanjia" and other channels can also bring us a lot of money, and according to the arrangement of our film and TV series, since the middle of the year, our filming funds have been able to be withdrawn one after another, so we can fully allocate enough funds for investment, as long as we grasp the risk of the project. "As a director, Ding value is considered from the company's financial situation.

Ning Hao and others also expressed their opinions and agreed.

In recent years, the network has developed very rapidly, and the average film and television company may not have the strength to invest, but at the moment they are not short of funds, so they should naturally invest appropriately.

Lin Yuquan nodded and said with a smile: "Since everyone agrees, Director Ding, it is better for you to be responsible for contacting investment institutions in the United States and China, and let them pay close attention to Internet media of the nature of online videos or blogs. In addition, we have decided on two movies and a TV series in the meeting just now, I think the movie is basically enough, but only one TV series is definitely not good, except for Xiao Yang and Ning Hao, no one else is clear, next, I am going to open another brokerage company, and then there will be a group of new actors to join in, if you want to train them in a short time, it is estimated that you will need two or three TV series. Later, Manager He was responsible for the collection of scripts. ”

"Okay." Ding Zhi and He Liwen nodded.

Regarding Lin Yuquan's decision to set up a brokerage company, the four of them have no reason to object, not only because Lin Yuquan's own brokerage needs to be taken care of, but also because cultivating actors belonging to his own company can also bring a lot of convenience to the company.

"Finally, it's almost the New Year, and the company is still making money, so we definitely need to give year-end bonuses to employees, otherwise everyone won't say that I'm the boss in private! Manager Fang, you are responsible for formulating a reward plan with a total amount of 2 million, and in addition, New Year's gifts and New Year's dinners should also be implemented. ”

"Okay." Fang Qing replied succinctly.