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When "Huo Yuanjia" entered the fourth week of release and was about to end, Lin Yuquan was not idle, and at this time, the new film and television shooting plan was naturally included in the next schedule of Shuguang Film Company.

In fact, this is also the characteristic of small and medium-sized film and television companies, or the characteristics of the current domestic film production companies, because of the shortage of funds, so they often plan and prepare for the next film and television drama after the filming of a film and television drama is completed and the funds are returned.

Unlike many Hollywood film companies that will take the pre-sale of international distribution rights, the pre-sale of the distribution rights of the film in North America, the United Kingdom and countries outside Latin America before the start of filming, usually after the pre-sale income can cover 30% of the investment before starting production, and after getting the pre-sale money from the pre-sale party, the producer will go to a special bank for a loan, and the bank will give 60% of the pre-sale money, plus sometimes there will be a tax refund fee, at this time the budget has basically solved 50%, reducing the need for funds.

Lionsgate didn't even start filming until it had budgeted to cover 60-75 percent of its investment, a percentage that often allowed them to get enough money before filming without having to pay out of pocket.

It's different in China, basically relying on their own funds or pulling enough investment to shoot, the difference is that big film companies such as Huayi Brothers and China Film have complete film and television production centers, and they are almost always screening and planning films ready to invest.

Although after half a year of development, the company has sufficient talents in production and distribution and publicity, but it is very lacking in other aspects, of course, this is also a problem that Ding Wei and others will set out to solve.

In Lin Yuquan's office, in addition to the arrival of all four people, Xiao Yang attended as Lin Yuquan's deputy director, that's right, assistant director, after the experience of "Huo Yuanjia", now Xiao Yang has the ability to serve as an assistant director, in the case that Ning Hao is about to direct his first commercial film, with the success of "Huo Yuanjia", it is natural to promote him from assistant director to assistant director.

Ning Hao naturally came, and his new film needed to be discussed at the meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, Fang Qing first summarized the company's current financial situation.

Shuguang Film Company invested in a total of two films in 04, of which only Lin Yuquan's "Huo Yuanjia" was released in cinemas and brought huge profits to the company, while Ning Hao's small-budget film "Green Meadow" is a literary film because it is a literary film, it is a major film festival participating films, and the income from it is minimal.

In the new year, of course, Lin Yuquan is no longer satisfied with such a small fight, but is ready to do a big job, and with the share of the box office in various places one after another, Shuguang Film Company definitely has enough funds to support his ambitions.

When it was Lin Yuquan's turn to say his plan, Lin Yuquan took a deep look at the people in the office, and said slowly: "I am going to make a movie and a TV series this year, the movie has been planned, I believe that no one here should not know the Battle of Chibi of the Three Kingdoms, my movie is "Red Cliff", which is based on Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms", combined with my own story concept, the story starts from the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao basically pacified the north, in order to conquer the south, Open up the Xuanwu Pool to train the naval army began, after the abolition of the three dukes, since the Han Dynasty prime minister, Cao Cao's ambitious southern expedition to Jingzhou Liu Biao, all the way like a bamboo, the defeated Liu Bei and the deep sense of the threat of the rule of Sun Quan then formed the Sun Liu coalition army, with Zhou Yu as the commander of the coalition army, together against the Cao army, and then around the grass boat borrowed arrows and the story of the two sides before and after the battle of Chibi to tell the story of the Three Kingdoms era of power and politics and hegemony. This epic war movie is expected to invest about 200 million yuan due to the magnificent scenes involved. As for the TV series, I still only have ideas and are ready to solicit scripts. ”

"200 million", everyone didn't speak, all their minds stayed on the number 200 million, even if everyone who had already experienced the brilliant box office table of "Huo Yuanjia" suddenly heard this number at this time, and couldn't help but gasp.

This is also crazy, the last "Huo Yuanjia" production zuò publicity cost of 65 million yuan, which is already the current domestic film blockbuster, and 200 million yuan is definitely a super luxury movie masterpiece.

And now Lin Yuquan is talking about a real investment of 200 million yuan, not a figure that is generally exaggerated by film companies.

Even if you count all the exaggerated film investments, at present, there are only Zhang Yimou's "Hero", "Ambush on All Sides" and Chen Kaige's "Wuji", which is now in post-production, and the investment of more than 200 million yuan in China is only one after filming last year.

But only they know how much they invest in these three films, but it is certain that these three films deliberately exaggerate the investment.

"Wuji" has not been released for the time being, but look at the star lineup in "Ambush on All Sides" and the scenes and special effects in between, how can it be possible to invest 250 million, or the so-called 270 million, people in the film industry understand that it is just equivalent to unspoken rules, and no one debunks it, after all, almost all film companies like to exaggerate numbers, and if you expose him, it will naturally be debunked by others.

Lin Yuquan saw everyone's reaction in his eyes, indeed, in the eyes of the current film and television circles, this is an unusually large and terrifying number, and the vast majority of domestic film and television companies have not reached this level of assets, but for Lin Yuquan, 200 million is actually a minimum investment amount, which is mainly due to the specific situation of the Three Kingdoms period.

And even if it costs 200 million, it's really not much, if he hadn't had the memories of cultivators in the relevant scenes as a reference, if he was a different director, not to mention the quality of the film, just shooting such a big-scene movie, because all the scenes were completely on his own exploration and conception, the shooting time would be at least twice as long as him, and there would be a lot of unnecessary waste, not to mention that he would have to invest 4 or 500 million.

"You must think that the investment is huge, right, this is indeed a big movie, but you still can't believe me? I've been planning this movie for a long time, and now it's almost all in my head, and I'm sure that if I make it, I'll be blown away by everyone. Lin Yuquan smiled confidently, paused, and said humorously: "And everyone can rest assured, even if this movie fails, I will continue to invest, and I will not make you unemployed and sleep on the road." ”

Ding Wei smiled and said, "Boss, of course we know your strength, but we just thought that this number was amazing for a while." ”

"Yes, how can we not believe you, to be honest, I am now starting to imagine what kind of sensation such a movie with an investment of 200 million will cause at that time, it's really exciting to think about." After filming "Huo Yuanjia" with Lin Yuquan, Xiao Yang knew Lin Yuquan's toughness and couldn't help jumping up excitedly.

Several others also recovered from the initial shock, out of trust in Lin Yuquan, everyone did not question the feasibility of the plan and the necessity of the investment amount, and as Lin Yuquan said, this is his company, it doesn't matter if it fails, as long as he continues to inject capital, the company will not go bankrupt.

Lin Yuquan looked at everyone's expressions with satisfaction, he didn't think anyone would object at the beginning, and after giving the script to everyone, he began to explain his idea for the movie.

Unlike Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is completely on the side of Liu Bei of Shu State, regards Cao Cao as a great traitor and evil, and ignores Sun Quan of Wu State, in Lin Yuquan's conception, he will restore the more real Battle of Chibi.

What is the real battle of Chibi, it is Cao Cao who led an army of 300,000 to attack Jingzhou after basically unifying the north, intending to pacify the south. Under its overwhelming offensive, Liu Cong of Jingzhou surrendered without a fight, and Liu Bei was defeated and fled. In such a situation, Sun Quan listened to the persuasion of Zhou Yu and Lu Su, decided to fight Cao Cao to the death, and formed an alliance with Liu Bei, commanded by Zhou Yu, and led 50,000 troops to defeat Cao's army in the area of Chibi on the Yangtze River.

It is not difficult to see from here that compared with Liu Bei, Sun Quan's side was the main force to resist Cao, and most of the coalition forces at that time were Jiangdong naval forces, and Zhou Yu, who had Wen Taowu, was the commander of the coalition forces and played a decisive role in the victory of the Battle of Chibi.

Although Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei and others are still the focus of the film, the absolute protagonist Lin Yuquan returns it to Zhou Yu, the commander, and will be played by himself.

And the theme of the film, of course, he will not be idiotic to Cao Cao's southern expedition for Erqiao, the struggle for power and hegemony is the main theme of his film, and it is also the main theme of the Three Kingdoms era.

Of course, due to the cultural differences between China and abroad, Lin Yuquan conceived two versions, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and other countries and regions that are familiar with the culture of the Three Kingdoms will be directly edited and released with this theme, while countries such as Europe and the United States that are not familiar with the culture of the Three Kingdoms, in order to avoid the bad influence of the idea of hegemony, he will deal with it like "Troy", and it will become the form of the Sun-Liu coalition army to defend their homeland, fight for freedom and peace, resist Cao Cao's aggression, and finally defeat the invaders.

The two versions will also be targeted at different regions in two ways of publicity.

After elaborating on the idea, Lin Yuquan then discussed the preliminary preparations with everyone.