After filming the martial arts drama he was responsible for, Lin Yuquan returned to Kyoto on January 3, and there was almost no rest, so he sat in the conference room of Shuguang Film Company with the management of Shuguang Film, Shuguang Network, Yuquan Family, and Shuguang Cinema Line to discuss the work plan for the coming year.

The first thing to discuss is naturally Shuguang Films, last year, Lin Yuquan and others planned to invest in three films this year, four to six TV series, and as of now, Shuguang Films has invested in five films this year: "Painted Skin", "Love Call Transfer", "Painted Wall", "Dream into Reality", and "Crazy Racing", of which two are released, two are post-production, and one is being filmed.

In terms of TV series, Shuguang Film invested in the production of five TV series, "Shanghai Tang", "Soldier Assault", "Sweet Honey", "Deer and Ding Ji", and "Ice is Sleeping Water", two of which were broadcast, two were post-production, and one was about to be completed, and also participated in the investment of "Golden Wedding" and "The New Biography of Jigong" directed by Zhang Guoli, the former was broadcast after the year, and the latter was just broadcast a few days ago, which was considered to have exceeded the planned task.

In terms of revenue, the biggest income is, of course, "Painted Skin", the total box office of "Painted Skin" is 461 million US dollars, of which 313 million yuan in the mainland and 421 million US dollars overseas, according to the sharing agreement signed at the beginning and the RMB exchange rate at the time of settlement, Shuguang Film received a total of 1.294 billion yuan in box office sharing, and in terms of cost, "Painted Skin" The cost of the production is 251 million yuan, the publicity and distribution expenses are 60 million yuan, the total cost is 311 million yuan, and after deducting taxes, the net profit is 660 million yuan.

This number alone is enough to kill other domestic film and television companies in seconds, in addition, the investment system of "Shanghai Tang", "Soldier Assault", "Love Call Transfer" and "Jigong New Biography" can all achieve profitability, although it is not clear the final profit figure, but it must not be a small number, and other post-production zuò or the film and television drama in the shooting shì is also a good piece, overall, the development of Shuguang Film this year can be described as leapfrogging.

However, in the next year, because Lin Yuquan went to Hollywood to develop, Shuguang Film will face an extremely grim situation, after all, in the past three years, it is Lin Yuquan's film that has allowed Shuguang Film to obtain sufficient funds and achieve leapfrog development.

Fortunately, in terms of TV series, Lin Yuquan did not intervene much, and Shuguang Films has also formed a relatively stable mechanism, and there are currently four films that have been completely set to start filming, "Latent", "Tianya Mingyue Knife" and "Wang Gui and Anna" and "Double-sided Tape" developed by Qiu Qingyi in the company's acquisition of novel copyrights, both of which are written by an author of Liuliu, and the theme is a family drama that Shuguang Film lacks now, with these four TV series, There is no difficulty in completing the investment system of 6-8 TV series this year.

In terms of films, it is not so smooth, it is about to encounter an unprecedented crisis, so far, Shuguang Film Company has not had any clear start of filming, maybe after "Love Call Transfer" became popular, the development of similar themes can be regarded as one, but the other films are completely gone, as far as possible to find a suitable film is something that Shuguang Film must immediately solve.

In terms of other companies, Yuquan Family relies on Shuguang Film to develop steadily, and this year's plan is to attract more influential or potential artists. Shuguang.com has become a well-deserved video website in China, and this year's plan is to continue to purchase high-quality film and television copyrights, and explore in business to find a suitable profit model. The theaters built by Shuguang Cinemas last year will open one after another after the year, and while operating these opened theaters, this year's plan is still to build about 15 new cinemas, and strive to form a scale advantage as soon as possible. The Shuguang base continues to invest funds and expand its scale.

After making a plan, Lin Yuquan, a competent manager, flew to the United States on January 6.

As soon as he arrived in Los Angeles and checked into the Hilton Hotel, Lin Yuquan immediately called Chris. Anderson, schedule the next day's meeting, the first formal meeting since the acquisition of Summit Entertainment, it's time to start working on your growth plan for the year.

The next morning, Lin Yuquan came to Summit Entertainment early, and Chris. After Anderson chatted for a while, the two walked into the conference room together.

In the conference room, Lin Yuquan sat in the center of the conference table, and on either side of him were the six executives of Summit Entertainment.

Lin Yuquan's eyes swept over everyone's faces, and said with a smile: "Everyone, this is the first formal meeting after our acquisition of Summit Entertainment, this meeting is mainly to formulate this year's development strategy and task plan, from today onwards, we will really work towards the future of Summit Entertainment, I hope that when a similar meeting is held at the end of this year or the beginning of next year, looking back on the achievements of the past year, all of us can have no regrets, and we are proud of what we have done." Okay, since it's a film company, our focus is definitely on movies, and in terms of movies, apart from the movies I made, what are your plans for other films? ”

Chris. Anderson helped his glasses: "In addition to boss your "Savage: The Rise of the Ape", we have two movies that we have clearly started shooting, one is "Twilight", the script of this movie is currently being created, and we have invited two senior screenwriters to assist Stephanie. Mel, in addition to "Fatal Bend 2", is the sequel to "Fatal Bend" released in 03, the copyright of this movie, Patrick. Watzberg and the others didn't take it with them, and after the first conversation with the boss, Kevin and I started to hire someone to write the script.

Of course, this is not enough, we are bound to start in other aspects, on the one hand, the development of script sources, starting from novels, script collections, cooperation between famous directors and screenwriters, and on the other hand, buying high-quality films at major film festivals, our previous "Two Smoking Guns", "Memory Fragments This is how it came about, it just happens to be the Sundance Film Festival soon, we are going to go there first. ”

Lin Yuquan nodded, "Fatal Bend" he knows, this is a bloody horror movie released in 03, the cost is not high, the box office is good, if the box office of horror films in the United States is good, basically a sequel will be developed, like "Chainsaw", "Death is Coming", "Scream" is the case, and buying films at film festivals is indeed a good way, Summit Entertainment also has excellent experience in this area.

""Fatal Bend" can be filmed, I only have one request, to make it a classic horror movie series, at present, it seems that there is still a big gap between it and the "Chainsaw" series that has been filmed three times in a row, so "Fatal Bend 2" Don't be stingy with investment, since you want to shoot it, you must shoot it well, look at "Chainsaw", the first part invests 4 million, The global box office is 103 million, the second part has an investment of 4 million, the global box office is 150 million, the third part has an investment of 10 million, the global box office is 160 million, and there are also amazing DVD sales. ”

Lin Yuquan exuded an inexplicable momentum, which made the hearts of everyone in the conference room feel terrified. Anderson nodded solemnly: "Yes, boss." ”

"In addition, it doesn't have to be limited to movies, TV series can also be expanded, of course, our Summit Entertainment is currently in the stage of restarting, and we don't have too much energy now, but you can pay attention to it, prepare early, not this year, but next year may come in handy." Lin Yuquan said slowly.

"We'll keep an eye on that later." Chris. Anderson nodded.

"Then there's my film, and now I'm almost done with the script, and here's my plan."

After formulating the development plan of Summit Entertainment, Lin Yuquan immediately worked with Alex. Kuzman was busy with the script, of course, face-to-face cooperation is much more efficient and convenient than communicating through guò email, the script of "Wild Story: The Rise of the Ape Race" was almost completed, coupled with the high efficiency of the two, it only took four days to declare the end, and the next thing is the storyboard script, especially the special effects script, but this is not any difficulty for him, it took less than a week to complete it all.

Lin Yuquan also breathed a sigh of relief, it was not easy to shoot the first Hollywood movie, but now he has finally taken the first step. R1152