"Wow, hot news, I'll read it to you, Jiang Wen's new film is officially confirmed, Emperor Film and Joyful Film Company will cooperate to start filming the Chinese masterpiece "Let the Bullets Fly", the movie is directed and acted by Jiang Wen, with an investment of up to 150 million Hong Kong dollars, at present, Ge You has been confirmed to star, it is rumored that Fa Ge is also very likely to join, Ge You and Fa Ge have met in the international club some time ago, Fa Ge is basically ready to enter the crew, once it is completed, the three major actors will be on the same stage for the first time." At breakfast time, Xiao Yang, who was reading the newspaper while eating breakfast, suddenly raised his voice.

"It's really fierce enough, the combination of the three is almost an extremely rare top actor lineup in Chinese films, and there are only a few films that are capable of being overwhelmed, but the Chinese giant is a little unworthy of its name, the investment of 150 million Hong Kong dollars a few years ago is naturally well-deserved, but with Yuquan's "Immortals", "Immediate Rescue", "Painted Skin" and other films, how can the investment of 150 million Hong Kong dollars be called a giant, and the investment of 150 million Hong Kong dollars is estimated to have a lot of water." Ning Hao shook his head.

"Then how much do you think the real investment in "Let the Bullets Fly" will be?" Lin Yuquan smiled at the corner of his mouth, although the investment of 150 million Hong Kong dollars is no longer a Chinese masterpiece, but such an investment scale is obviously not something that any movie can achieve, "Let the Bullets Fly" will have an investment of 150 million Hong Kong dollars, in the eyes of industry insiders, this is definitely a joke.

That's right, the cast composed of Zhou Yunfa, Ge You, and Jiang Wen is extremely luxurious, but precisely because it is a lineup of three people, it is destined that it is difficult for a film company to be willing to give "Let the Bullets Fly" a super high investment, for a very simple reason - box office appeal.

Zhou Yunfa is naturally a well-deserved Chinese superstar. has enough international popularity, mainly his name appears in a movie, which can make the film widely noticed. There was a time when Zhou Runfa was known as a fairy hair, but for a longer period of time, he was saddled with the title of box office poison.

Since 1995, Zhou Yunfa has released a total of 11 films, but only two films have made money. The rest are all at a loss, to the point that every film must lose, and there are many of them that are at a loss.

1999 "Anna and the King". The production cost was $90 million, the global box office was $114 million, and the 2003 "Bulletproof Monk" cost $52 million to make. $37 million at the global box office. In 2008, "Children of Yellowstone" cost $40 million and the global box office was $3.57 million, and in 2006, "Auntie's Postmodern Life" cost 45 million yuan and the global box office was 6 million yuan.

And Zhou Yunfa's only two movies that have made money in recent years, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", the former mainly lies in the freshness of Li Yu and costume martial arts, and the latter is Johnny. Depp's main resistance film. Zhou Yunfa can only rank seven or eight in the cast and crew.

Looking at Ge You again, Ge You has been considered the only actor in China who really has box office appeal for a long time. But in fact, Ge You must partner with Feng Xiaogang to attract audiences enough, and his works that break away from Feng Xiaogang often do not perform well at the box office, such as "Carla is a Dog", "Suffocation", "Butterfly's Smile", and "Peach Blossom Luck".

As for Jiang Wen, his talent is undoubted, but since the marketization of Chinese films in the 90s, the films in which he has served as the director, starring role, and even supporting role, except for "Something to Say", have not lost money at the box office, and the rest have all lost money.

"The Great Eunuch Li Lianying", "Qin Song", "The Devil is Coming", "Sunny Days", "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", "Green Tea", "Looking for a Gun", "The Sun Also Rises", "Heroes on the Narrow Road", "Song Family Dynasty", "Jasmine Blossoms", "Letter from a Strange Girl", this is definitely a tragic loss history.

Among them, movies with huge losses abound, "The Great Eunuch Li Lianying", which invested more than 10 million at the time, is an out-and-out costume historical blockbuster, starring Jiang Wen and writing the screenplay, during which Jiang Wen drove away the original director, Tian Zhuangzhuang temporarily went to the rescue, and finally lost tens of millions of dollars, eliminating several state-owned film companies in one fell swoop.

Although "Sunny Days" was the annual box office champion of the year, Jiang Wen's inefficient shooting and acting methods, as well as his own waste, made the film still lose money, so that Wen Jun, as an investor, later had to return to his old business and act in color. Romance films make money to pay off debts.

After "Sunny Days", Jiang Wen immediately starred in another movie that made investors lose their money - "Qin Song", a movie with an investment of up to 40 million at the time, its scenes and sets have nothing to say, but it is such a movie, the final box office is negligible, and the loss is equivalent to an astonishing 250 million in present value. How much impact this movie has on investors, it can be clearly seen from Zhang Weiping's words, according to Zhang Weiping, when the launching ceremony of "Qin Song", investors came in a Mercedes-Benz car with an entourage. When the premiere was held in Shenzhen, the investors of "Qin Song" came to see him by taxi.

Then "The Devil is Coming", which invested more than 20 million, was directly banned, and even if it was released, it is believed that the performance of the film in black and white will be difficult to win a good box office.

The director of "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" is He Ping, but the drama bully Jiang Wen is mainly responsible, the film invested 20 million US dollars, and finally the global box office was 6 million US dollars, and the loss was as high as 17 million US dollars. It is said that after the investor Sony Pictures saw the movie, he wailed, and immediately announced the dismissal of He Ping, and then had no intention of releasing the film at all, until 04 "Hero" was released in the United States after the great success, and then it was released in the United States, but in the end the North American box office was only 80,000 US dollars.

The subsequent huge loss movie is, of course, "The Sun Also Rises", the film invested more than 60 million, but in the end it only recovered more than 20 million box office, at that time Yu Dong was regarded as "the person who may become Jiang Wen's Zhang Weiping", but with the box office failure of "The Sun Also Rises", Yu Dong immediately withdrew.

With such a box office history, it is too unlikely that either Emperor or Marco will invest HK$150 million in "Let the Bullets Fly". The risk factor is too high.

"I haven't even read the script, how do you let us evaluate it." Xiao Yang didn't have a good airway.

"We haven't seen it, but we have seen it!" Ning Hao smiled slightly. It is not a secret that Jiang Wen's new work found Dawning Film to attract investment before, and then turned his head to look at Lin Yuquan: "Yuquan, briefly talk about the situation of "Let the Bullets Fly", otherwise we will not be able to evaluate the investment it needs. ”

"Ok, "Let the Bullets Fly" is adapted from "The Story of the Thief" in Ma Shitu's novel "Ten Tales of the Night", which mainly tells the story of the bandit leader, the landlord bully, and the charlatan, who are fighting openly and secretly in Goose City, according to the reported situation. Jiang Wen should play the role of a bandit leader, a landlord bully of Fa Ge, and a charlatan of Ge You. In addition to the three of them, there are more than a dozen main characters, and there are no big scenes in it, and there is no place where special effects are needed too much. Even the extras don't need a few. In addition to the actors' salaries and the production team's remuneration, the production costs are mainly spent on the sets and costumes and props of period dramas, but they don't cost much. Lin Yuquan briefly introduced,

"If you look at it this way, the investment in "Let the Bullets Fly" is really not high, the main thing is to see how the actor's salary is discussed, and the box office appeal mainly falls on Fa Ge, and his salary of 30 million is definitely indispensable. Ge You's salary is very variable, and it was not high before. But last year's "Do Not Disturb" made his worth soar, if he is starring in Director Feng's movie now, the salary plus dividends will definitely be more than 10 million, and the movies of other directors should be about 5 million-8 million, starring Director Jiang Wen, but he is an investor, he should directly participate in the sharing, and the remuneration is estimated to be about 10 million, and then it depends on which other actors are looking for, so calculated, the investment in "Let the Bullets Fly" is higher than 80 million, but it will definitely not exceed 100 million. Of course, this is just an investment budget, Jiang Wen is too capable of spending money, and he always spends money meaninglessly, with a budget of 80 million to 100 million, no one knows how much it will spend in the end, if Jiang Wen does it like "The Sun Also Rises" this time, it will definitely be a disaster. Ning Hao shook his head.

"My opinion is similar, the normal investment is 100 million or less, mainly depends on whether Jiang Wen can control himself, in other words, Yuquan, you gave up your investment in "Let the Bullets Fly" because of the script problem, or is Jiang Wen more willful?" Xiao Yang asked.

"What do you think? Of course, it's because Jiang Wen's character is too reckless, and it's right to be serious about movies, but as a director, when you need someone else to invest in you, it's impossible not to pay attention to what the cost of creation is, and it's impossible to waste money in order to pursue what you want, it doesn't matter how much money you waste, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with yourself, and the pursuit of quality to spend money on the blade is benign. Lin Yuquan shook his head.

"This is indeed the way Jiang Wen makes movies is the envy of every director who has a film pursuit, but envy is envy, making movies, especially big-investment films, must return to rationality." Ning Hao smiled and shook his head.

"Yes, sometimes you have to be rational, it's actually nothing if the film investment is high, if "Let the Bullets Fly" is operated by our Dawning Films, in order to ensure the commercial effect, I will add one or two big scenes to it, and I will also do enough in terms of special effects, but Jiang Wen's waste of money is really unacceptable, and I can only give up if I can't talk about it." Lin Yuquan spread his hands.

"I think Yuquan, you may miss a great opportunity to make money if you give up, and you have failed twice in a row, in order to attract investment in your film in the future, Jiang Wen will definitely restrain himself this time." Xiao Yang smiled thief.

"Maybe, there is nothing to regret, others let us occupy 20% of the investment ratio at most, unless "Let the Bullets Fly" can break out of the Chinese-speaking market, how much money can be made, why take a huge risk for this small profit? In my opinion, if you want to make money, it's best to stay away from Jiang Wen, if you invest in art films, I hope it will be an art film that can move and impact the audience, rather than a story that tells a very mysterious story. Lin Yuquan smiled: "Don't talk about this, the most important thing for us is to be ourselves, you two hurry up and get the script out, especially you Xiao Yang, how long has it been, your new movie hasn't come out yet." ”

"Hey, I'm not striving for perfection, and I promise that I won't hurt Yuquan and you lose money, right?" Xiao Yang smiled.

"Heh, just be kind, hurry up and get it, okay, it's almost time, it's time to shoot the show." Lin Yuquan stood up as he spoke.

"Oh yes, I'm here for the famous Hunan cuisine!" Xiao Yang shouted.

Jiang Wen's new work, the three major actors are on the same stage, "Let the Bullets Fly" has undoubtedly caused a lot of shock in the Chinese film industry and the public, and has become one of the most anticipated Chinese films at present.

For such a situation, Lin Yuquan will not regret it, but he also thinks that Shuguang Movie must do something.

"Tsing Yi, you must have seen the news of "Let the Bullets Fly", as a film company that once refused to invest in "Let the Bullets Fly", once "Let the Bullets Fly" makes a lot of money in the future, we will definitely be considered to have eyes and no knowledge of gold and jade, so we must make some big moves to let everyone know that it is nothing but a pity to give up a "Let the Bullets Fly" for Dawn Films." In between the filming of the noon program, Lin Yuquan dialed Qiu Qingyi's phone.

"Understood, but even if we don't deliberately make some big moves, with your boss and your movie, and Ning Hao directing their movie, we don't need to care too much about "Let the Bullets Fly", not to mention that we also have TV series and variety shows." Qiu Qingyi said with a smile: "Of course, if "Let the Bullets Fly" can really make money, it will indeed have a more or less bad impact on us, it is necessary to completely overwhelm "Let the Bullets Fly" with another new movie, according to our existing script reserves, the new film that director Xu Anhua is creating obviously does not have such an ability, and the several movies we have discovered on the Internet that are being adapted are estimated to be a bit enough, mainly because it is difficult to reach the heavyweight of "Let the Bullets Fly", and it is most likely to overwhelm " Let the Bullets Fly" is "Bloody Battle of Changle Village", whose script is about to take shape.

"You're almost done with the script? Very good. Lin Yuquan had a smile in his eyes, since he had the idea of making a war movie with international standards, the script quickly entered the development stage, during which it was overturned again and again, reimagined again and again, and finally locked the story background as the battle of Changle Village.

When it comes to the outstanding achievements of the Eighth Route Army in the anti-Japanese battlefield, people's subconscious reaction is the Battle of the Hundred Regiments and the Battle of Pingxingguan, in fact, in addition to the well-known two battles, there are also many wonderful battles that can be sung and cried, such as the battle of Qiqian Village, such as the battle of Yangmingbao, such as the ambush battle of Shentouling, and the battle of Changle Village.

The background of the battle of Changle Village is that the Japanese army mobilized more than 30,000 troops in 1938 to launch the nine-way siege of the 129th Division and the Taihang base area, in this thrilling battle, the battle of Changle Village can be called the most decisive battle to smash the Japanese army's "nine-way siege", the 129th Division invested a total of four regiments of troops, killing and wounding more than 1,800 Japanese soldiers, which was the largest battle in the single operation of the Eighth Route Army in the 8-year war of resistance against Japanese aggression.

"Yes, it is expected to be completed soon, and I believe that as long as we shoot "Bloody Battle of Changle Village" well, we are fully capable of completely overpowering "Let the Bullets Fly" in terms of box office and momentum." Qiu Qingyi said confidently.

"Okay, I'll wait for the script to come out." Lin Yuquan smiled with satisfaction, it is difficult for ordinary main theme movies to get a high box office in today's domestic market, but the Shuguang movie will naturally not be a shoddy main theme movie with a small and medium cost, and "Bloody Battle of Changle Village" will be an unprecedented Anti-Japanese War movie.

However, "Bloody Battle Changle Village", "Bloody Battle Changle Village", Lin Yuquan couldn't help touching his chin, this title seems to have to be changed. (To be continued.) )