After Shuguang Film Company moved to a new office, it finally didn't have to crowd Lin Yuquan's former small office for meetings.

In the new and spacious conference room, Lin Yuquan and Ding Zhizhi and other Shuguang film management, as well as Ning Hao and Xiao Yang, each have a financial statement, which is the cost list of the three film and television dramas "Red Cliff", "Crazy Stone" and "Happiness Like Flowers" given by Fang Qing of the Administration Department.

In the first half of this year, Shuguang Film Company invested in a total of three film and television dramas, of which "Crazy Stone" has the lowest cost, in terms of actors' salaries, Xu Zheng 300,000, Guo Tao 200,000, Lin Yongjian 200,000, Huang Bo 50,000, Liu Hua 100,000,,,,, plus sets, props, crew expenses, post-production zuò, a total of nearly 5.5 million has been spent. Previously, Lin Yuquan allocated 8 million to Ning Hao at the beginning, plus 2 million sponsored by Zhou Sheng Jewelry, so there is still 4.5 million left for distribution and publicity expenses, which is definitely more than enough for a small-budget film with little investment.

As the first TV series invested by Shuguang Film Company, "Happiness Like Flowers" naturally refers to the top TV drama standards in China, with a total investment of 25 million in 27 episodes of TV series.

Among them, in terms of actors' salaries, Liu Ye is a popular first-line actor in the mainland, with a salary of 50,000 yuan per episode, and Jiang Yan, Wang Luodan, Zhu Yawen, and Luo Jin range from 15,000 to 10,000 yuan per episode depending on the number of scenes. In addition, for the quality of the drama, Gao Xixi also invited Wang Liyun, Bai Zhidi and other old actors, plus other supporting actors, as well as Gao Xixi's 1.5 million director's salary, Wang Wanping's 1 million script adaptation fee, and Shi Zhongshan's 1 million novel authorization fee, all of which add up to a total of about 7 million.

As a result, the remaining production costs account for almost 70% of the investment in the entire series, which is a very rare situation in the entire TV drama industry.

In Gao Xixi's words, he almost couldn't find a place to spend money, but he didn't save money for Lin Yuquan, in terms of camera equipment, props, and scenery, he definitely kept improving, and strived to make the TV series well-made.

As for Lin Yuquan's own "Red Cliff", it is undoubtedly the largest investment in the three film and television dramas, and even in terms of real investment, it can be said to be the highest in front of the Chinese film industry.

Although Liang Chaowei does not have many roles, his worth is there, and Liu Dehua's salary is the same as 10 million, Zhen Zidan 6 million, Chen Daoming 2 million, Zhou Xun 2 million, Fan Binbin 1 million, Liu Yifei 800,000, Chen Jianbing 800,000 plus Nie Yuan, Tong Dawei, Gao Yuanyuan, Huang Xiaoming and others who were invited to make guest appearances in "Red Cliff", plus a huge number of extras' salaries, the salary alone has reached about 46 million.

And this time in "Red Cliff", Lin Yuquan also received a remuneration, originally he himself felt that it was unnecessary, but according to Fang Qing, because it is a sole proprietorship, many costs and expenses are deducted when paying taxes, and wages and advertising expenses that do not exceed the standard are included, and business promotion expenses are included, so you can pay less tax. And doing so can also make Lin Yuquan no longer too prominent on the Forbes China Celebrity List, after all, the income counted in the Forbes China Celebrity List is related to performing arts and advertising, but the operating investment is not counted.

Therefore, Lin Yuquan, who is also a director, screenwriter, starring actor, and martial arts instructor, finally received a remuneration of 25 million, ranking first among all the people in "Red Cliff", but this remuneration is actually not high, not to mention the director, starring actor, and screenwriter, the remuneration he gets as a martial arts instructor alone is already quite expensive, you must know that at present, domestic figures at the level of Hong Jingbao and Yuan Heping are generally paid about 1 million US dollars when they serve as blockbuster martial arts instructors. Although Lin Yuquan only has one work "Huo Yuanjia", he is recognized as the top martial arts instructor. Therefore, if he responds to the request of Zhang Yi and Feng Xiaogang, it will definitely not be a problem to get this amount from them.

The cost of props and scenery such as warships, weapons, costumes, and armor is also about 50 million, plus a total of about 30 million yuan for film costs, accommodation costs, salaries of Tan Dun, Tim Yip's team and crew staff, etc., the cost of shooting alone reached 151 million yuan.

Coupled with the post-editing, special effects, especially special effects, because I am looking for a large special effects company in the United States, the special effects cost is about 10 million US dollars according to the quotation of the other party.

That's an absolutely staggering number. And if it weren't for Lin Yuquan to provide detailed special effects descriptions and effect displays according to the cultivator's memory, so that the other party could save a lot of time and workload, the cost might be as high as 15 million to 20 million US dollars, let alone in China, even in Hollywood, only blockbusters with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars can afford such high special effects.

In this way, the production cost of "Red Cliff" will rise to 240 million yuan, which has exceeded the original expectations.

And learning the lessons of "Huo Yuanjia" last time, this time "Red Cliff" will definitely have more vigorous publicity, and it is foreseeable that the publicity cost will also be a huge number.

Of course, this is already a later story, as of now, the total investment in the three film and television dramas alone has reached 273 million yuan, such a huge amount of money, among the domestic film companies, it is absolutely unique. And unlike companies such as Huayi Brothers, all the funds of Shuguang Film Company are company funds, without any bank loans or copyright pre-sales.

At the same time, despite such a huge investment, the funds of Shuguang Film Company are still quite sufficient.

According to the financial statements, in the first half of this year, in addition to investing in three film and television dramas, Shuguang Film spent $6 million on capital injection and acquisition of YouTube, $5 million in Facebook, 10 million yuan in Shuguang brokerage company, plus other scattered expenses, the total expenditure so far is 380 million yuan, of which Lin Yuquan's previous gambling stone embezzlement expenses were immediately re-recorded after gambling stones.

In terms of income, the biggest income is the DVD and audio-visual products of "Huo Yuanjia", thanks to Lin Yuquan's current popularity in North America, the DVD and audio-visual products of "Huo Yuanjia" have achieved gratifying sales in North America. Moreover, under the intensive reports of media magazines, some time ago, Lin Yuquan was always in the center of focus, attracting the interest of a large number of fans, so the domestic sales performance was also quite good, ranking first in audio and video sales for two consecutive months in April and May, far ahead of the second place.

After deducting the share with Fox Searchlight and the share of domestic partners, in just two and a half months, the company's net income from audio-visual products alone was 15 million US dollars.

And according to the sales evaluation of the marketing department, due to the short launch time of "Huo Yuanjia" audio and video products and the upcoming launch of audio and video products in Europe and other parts of Asia, it is conservatively estimated that it will bring no less than 15 million US dollars in revenue in the second half of the year.

At least $30 million in income, Lin Yuquan smiled on his face, and among the other people in the conference room, except for Fang Qing and Ding Zhi, who knew the number of jù for a long time, they were all shocked, if this income figure came out, it would definitely make all the domestic film companies blush.

You must know that almost all of the current domestic film investment return comes from the box office share after the release of the film, and the income from other channels is simply pitiful, and the record cost of the mainland audio-visual copyright of "Hero" VCD\DVD is only 17.8 million yuan, which is too much worse than 30 million US dollars, of course, this has a lot to do with the cheap sale of overseas copyrights of "Hero".

Compared with China, in Hollywood, unlike the domestic film revenue structure dominated by box office and advertising revenue, in the Western film industry, box office revenue often accounts for only 20%-25% of a film's overall revenue, and the rest of the revenue comes from different types of copyright and digital media markets.

The life cycle of a film that can generate revenue can range from two or three years to more than ten years and decades, just like Disney, which can bring in nearly $200 million in revenue every year just by making audio and video products into audio and video products for rent. Such figures are not comparable in China, where piracy is prevalent.

And "Huo Yuanjia" has such a high income, mainly due to its popularity in North America, in fact, if it were not for the fact that it had to share accounts with Fox Searchlight, which was responsible for the distribution, this figure would be much higher.

In addition to the income of audio and video products, another income is the box office share of the follow-up release of "Huo Yuanjia", since "Huo Yuanjia" landed in 12 countries such as France, Spain, Mexico, Greece, and Italy at the end of January, the box office performance has been very good.

But as he expected, although there was a promotional highlight of excellent results in North America, Lin Yuquan himself was not as favored as Zhang Yi in the West, so the box office was only worth more than $10 million, plus the sporadic box office in other places, the final box office definition of "Huo Yuanjia" was $170.73 million, which was still $5 million short of the box office record of "Hero". And after paying taxes, this brought Shuguang Film Company a net income of $3 million.

In this way, counting the income of 19 million US dollars, and deducting the expenditure of 380 million yuan, the account of Shuguang Film Company is estimated to have 187 million yuan, even if Shuguang Film Company makes a big move in the second half of the year, it is enough to support, and this is the result of quarterly prepayment of taxes, and part of the expenses will be refunded in the annual accounting.

"It seems that we are not too poor to uncover the pot, everyone, let's talk about the schedule and publicity plan of "Crazy Stone"! Manager Ding, do you have any specific arrangements in this regard? Lin Yuquan put down the report with satisfaction, such funds can already ensure that his plan is implemented smoothly.