"Boss, the initial investment budget of "Bloody Battle of Changle Village" and the investment ratio of all parties have come out, I just sent the specific plan to your mailbox, and now just wait for the boss to nod your head, we will immediately start preparations for filming, and what do you mean, boss, several scripts under discussion were sent over at the same time." Qiu Qingyi's voice came from the phone.

"Good." Lin Yuquan smiled, compared to how high the box office of the film was, he was more concerned about the company's script reserves, because that is the foundation of a film company, and soon he will be involved in the filming of "Wild Story: Hundred Clans", and before that, he hopes to set the film production projects of the two companies at the end of this year and the beginning of next year.

As soon as he ended the call with Qiu Qingyi, Lin Yuquan opened the mailbox with anticipation and clicked on the email sent by Qiu Qingyi.

As a World War II film that strives to build a domestic film and is also the most visually shocking in the history of Chinese films, the investment budget of "Bloody Battle of Changle Village" is undoubtedly extremely high, and after careful planning by everyone including Qiu Qingyi, He Liwen, and Guan Hu, the initial investment budget of the film was finally finalized at 250 million.

Although this investment is far less than "Immediate Rescue" and "Immortals", as long as you open the investment record of this Chinese World War II-themed film, you will know what kind of energy the investment of 250 million yuan has.

Not to mention the previous movies, Feng Xiaogang's 254 million "Assembly" investment is only 80 million, while Lu Chuan's "Nanjing!" which won a box office of 172 million in this summer! Nanking! It claims to have a total investment of 200 million, but according to Huayi Brothers, the actual cost of its production will not exceed 80 million, because Lu Chuan, who signed a contract with Huayi Brothers, was the first to find Huayi Brothers to invest.

Compared with "Assembly Number", it stands to reason that "Nanjing! Nanking! to make a truly decent World War II war disaster film. And all the costumes and props are required to be realistic, everything must have a provenance, and the production cost of less than 80 million is completely insufficient, but not everyone in this world has the courage of Lin Yuquan. Although Lu Chuan has proved his ability as a director, his box office appeal is far inferior to Ning Hao, who is younger than him, not to mention Lin Yuquan, and it is too risky to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to make a Nanjing-themed movie for him; The second is that war films are cost-effective and not so easy to shoot. After all, the audience has been nourished by Hollywood blockbusters, not to mention anything else, the picture and sound effects, as long as they are slightly worse, they will be sprayed on Weibo and the Internet, and the first condition for making a big scene is to be willing to spend money, but there are not many powerful film companies in the Chinese film industry, and there are even fewer who are willing to spend money.

Lin Yuquan is naturally well aware of the risks of investing in war movies, but his views are slightly different. In his opinion, small and medium-cost war films will definitely lose, you don't have a star lineup, you don't have grand war scenes, who will watch the fans and audiences who are fed by Hollywood blockbusters, but big-scale zuò, especially super-large zuò, are not necessarily, "Assembly" and "Nanjing! Nanking! has amply proven that there is a market for this type of film, and "Saving Private Ryan", which is talked about by fans of war films, cost $70 million to produce. Converted into RMB, it is undoubtedly quite amazing, but just Steven. Spielberg's director's remuneration and Tom Birberg's salary. Hanks's remuneration for acting in a film will not be a small number, you must know after the success of "Forrest Gump". Tom. Hanks entered the $20 million salary club, and the basic labor cost in Europe and the United States is much higher than in China.

So aside from the director's level and script quality, in other aspects, can Chinese films really not reach the level of "Saving Private Ryan"? The answer is clearly no, and according to the plan. In the investment budget of 250 million yuan in "Blood Battle Changle Village", there will be more than 120 million funds for special effects production, and the leading work of special effects production is naturally responsible for their own rhythm and color, rhythm and color will be responsible for grasping the overall production of special effects, and is responsible for most of the design work in the early stage of the film, and the specific project work will be handed over to special effects companies in China, South Korea and Hong Kong, the labor cost in Asia is much lower than that in Europe and the United States, and the effect that can be achieved by the cost of 120 million special effects is absolutely beyond imagination.

Out of trust in Lin Yuquan, and he is not short of money now, even if he knows the risk of investing in war movies, after receiving the mention of Shuguang Films, Warner Brothers, Poly Bona, and Guangguang Pictures have determined their respective investment ratios in the shortest possible time, and they are about to go public, and Huayi Brothers, who are in need of momentum, once again became the one with the highest investment among the three, and did not hesitate to claim 20% of the investment ratio, and Guangguang Media and Poly Bona each claimed 10% of the investment ratio.

According to the plan, after he agreed, Qiu Qingyi will contact the Jiangnan Military Region, which has close cooperation, to seek support from the troops' manpower and equipment, and then set up a team with Guan Hu, and then the two of them will communicate with the rhythm and color of the special effects team about the special effects system, and when the special effects are ready, they will start casting, and then shoot, due to the many special effects involved, and the huge set, it is expected that filming will not start until after next year.

After watching the project of "Bloody Battle Changle Village", Lin Yuquan began to read the script sent by Qiu Qingyi without stopping.

There are a total of four scripts, the first is Xu Anhua's new work "Sister Peach", but it is not a complete script, but only a script outline, the specific script is still in full swing of creation, telling the story of a young master who grew up in a big family and Sister Tao, a domestic maid who has taken care of herself since childhood.

As soon as the filming and post-editing of "Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai" ended, Xu Anhua began to create a new script for cooperation with Shuguang Films, but was later vetoed by Qiu Qingyi, on the grounds that the story was flat and had no strength, bluntly said that Shuguang Cinema was not worried that the film was too literary and had no box office, and now the membership mechanism of Shuguang Cinema is becoming more and more perfect, as the most popular cinema in China with tens of millions of members and more than 60 theaters, as long as the film is of excellent quality, Shuguang Cinema is fully capable of allowing more audiences to see the film, Let Xu Anhua not have to worry about the box office, and try his best to tell a story that can shock people's hearts.

Later, Xu Anhua began the creation of "Sister Peach", adapted from real people and true stories, Sister Tao is the old maid of the screenwriter Li Enlin's family, she was sent to the Li family when she was a girl, and took care of five generations of the Li family in her life, and died in 2006.

When Xu Anhua first saw the script, the script was just a stage play or a TV unit play, and the reason why it was in this form was because screenwriter Li Enlin thought that the commerciality of the story was not good, and the hope of making it into a movie was very slim.

Xu Anhua himself said that he was moved when he saw the script, but he was also worried about commercial expectations, and he didn't plan to make this movie from the beginning, until he saw Qiu Qingyi's attitude, and then began to adapt the script of "Sister Peach", which was written as a TV unit drama, into a movie.

The second script is "See You in Heaven", which is an autobiographical film created by Jiang Wenli, yes, it is the well-known Jiang Wenli, from the perspective of a child, telling the touching story of a little girl and her grandfather who depended on each other at the end of the seventies of the last century.

The third script is the script "True and False Suspects" created by Yang Qing, which tells the story of twin orphan brothers who have been adopted since childhood, and neither of them knows each other's survival, one of them later went to the United States with his adoptive father and adoptive mother, and 25 years later, he returned to China after the death of his adoptive father and adoptive mother, who knew that he was used as a trafficker as soon as he returned to his hometown. Drug suspect.

The fourth script is "33 Days of Broken Love", which is a script adapted from an online novel, similar to "Sister Peach", the script is still in creation, in addition to the outline, the original novel is attached, telling the story of Huang Xiaoxian from the 33 days of falling out of love to getting out of the psychological haze.

The fifth script is "Very Son-in-law", which tells the story of Fan Jian, who is a lawyer, when he proposed to Shen Mengjie, who had been chasing for a year, he learned a bad news, Shen Mengjie's sister Shen Mengchen's marriage broke down two years ago, due to the obstruction of the other lawyer, he lost the custody of the child, Shen Mengjie's father became extremely disgusted with lawyers, he wanted to marry Shen Mengjie, and he had to get the future father-in-law.

Should I invest in the system? After reading all the scripts, Lin Yuquan's fingers tapped rhythmically on the table, with a deep groan.

Don't think that the cost of special effects production of more than 100 million yuan for Chinese movies is less, the cost of special effects production of "Looking for the Dragon" is only 60 million, the cost of special effects production of "Nine-Story Demon Tower" is 45 million, some say 60 million, and the total cost of "Journey to the West" is only 106 million, you can imagine how awesome a Chinese movie with more than 120 million special effects costs is in 09 and 10 years. (To be continued.) )