"Lin Qingxia?" Li Xuechu looked at the list of actors submitted in surprise.

"Is Mr. Li dissatisfied with this candidate?" Lin Lingdong asked a little nervously.

"No, it's a good choice." Li Xuechu was only slightly surprised that he had met another 'acquaintance', and looked at the offer: "Well, she is also worth the price." ”

Lin Lingdong breathed a sigh of relief, since there was no dispute about the salary, then this matter was a certainty.

"Miss Lin is very popular in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and she is also very popular in Hong Kong, so I think this offer is reasonable."

"Then let's prepare for it and try to start filming before next month." DreamWorks doesn't have many works every year, so the staff is often idle, and Li Xuechu is also a little worried.

"The preliminary preparations are almost complete, and filming will start at the end of the month." Lin Lingdong replied. "However, Ms. Lin has other films to make, which may have a little impact on our film shooting cycle. Of course, the impact will not be great. ”

"It's nothing, you're in a bit rushed to shoot this plan. The film is planned to enter the European and American markets, and it is not good for the quality of the film to be shot too quickly. Li Xuechu handed the text back: "It's better to adjust the plan again, I'd rather shoot slower than ensure quality." ”

What's not to like about this requirement for a director? Lin Lingdong readily agreed. Lin Lingdong, who has just debuted in the director industry, is a little unconfident about cooperating with DreamWorks, and he can only please the other party in the shooting cycle. However, since the other party doesn't care about this, Lin Lingdong is happy to shoot slower, which is really convenient for himself to control the quality.

The rhythm of the Xiangjiang River is out of step with other regions. A director who shoots more than five works a year is the main theme here. Compression cycles are a must here, even in later generations. Shortening the cycle time maximizes cost savings. In a city with a population of only a few million, it may be a last resort.

However, Li Xuechu did not dare to follow this trend. There is no shortage of film resources at hand, but according to this degree, many good themes will be made into defective products. In later generations, Xiangjiang films were knocked down by Hollywood with a punch at their peak, and if they followed the crowd, they would also become one of the cannon fodder and be abandoned by the market.

As for the cost pressure brought about by the longer cycle, DreamWorks can only grit its teeth and endure it, who calls itself coveting the foreign market, foreign audiences, especially European and American audiences, are more picky than local. Especially in the face of Asian movies, a dissatisfaction will be all kinds of black, unceremoniously. It's no wonder that Golden Harvest can't get into it for ten years, not to mention the cultural differences, the quality requirements are not at the same level, Xiangjiang even uses film worse than others, the ordinary version to the high-definition version.

As the production cost of DreamWorks films is 30 percent higher than that of similar local counterparts, DreamWorks has become more dependent on foreign markets. OK. So far, the other cities have been eye-catching, and the pressure is not great.

After Lin Lingdong left, Li Xuechu rubbed the bridge of his nose. In this era, it's really not cost-effective to make movies. There are so many things to worry about, and there is not much money to be made. In the early 80s, there was no box office of hundreds of millions as in later generations, although the cost was much lower. But in the end, it still doesn't make a profit.

This Hollywood movie 12 years later was filmed in the current Xiangjiang. Li Xuechu is completely unpredictable about what the box office performance will be, but it is certainly not as eye-catching as later generations. In the context of the eighties. Movies that take too much effort usually don't do too well at the box office, not to mention Xiangjiang, this is the case all over the world. The choice of this theme may be a bit out of place.

Forget it, the cost is low anyway, so it's better to be an experimental movie. If it can have a good box office, then a large wave of soft sci-fi can follow up, and if not, it will return to comedy and action movies, but the special effects will not be of great use.

Li Xuechu is still most concerned about special effects now, spending so much energy and financial resources, it is impossible to let it sit idle. For this matter, the cooperation between DreamWorks and Ukraine is also in full swing.

The door was pushed open with a bang, and Tang Jingnian rushed in.

"Tang Sheng, what's wrong?" Li Xuechu was taken aback.

"Sorry, I forgot to knock on the door." Tang Jingnian said apologetically, and then immediately turned to the topic: "Mr. Li, I have seen your new film production plan, do you see if it is ......?"

"Oh, that's it." Li Xuechu pretended to be confused: "Is there any problem?" ”

Tang Fatzi wanted to take out a tissue to wipe his sweat, but he didn't touch it for a while, so he simply wiped it with his sleeve.

"Mr. Li, is your budget a pressure on it? You know, the highest box office in Xiangjiang is less than 30 million, is the 50 million production fund too old? Or give him a year or two to postpone? ”

"Well, isn't there a share of half of the cost? We only need to pay more than 20 million, which is not much pressure. ”

Tang Jingnian held back a smile that was more ugly than crying: "But the cost is still not low, and Wu's money is not so easy to get, in case the first cooperation is unpleasant, our future plans will not be easy to develop." ”

Li Xuechu hurriedly motioned to the other party to close the door. After signing the cooperation plan, Wu also sent personnel to stay there, and he heard that he might not know how to report to the past.

"Come, Tang Sheng, sit down." Li Xuechu beckoned the other party to sit down: "You see, 50 million miles and 20 million are special effects costs, and there are tens of millions of props made of zuò, but this money flows into our own pockets, really calculated, we didn't spend a few dollars, and if we work well, we make some money, and the pressure is someone else's." ”

"But if it fails, we'll offend Wu miserably."

Of course, Tang Jingnian would calculate this account, and because of this, Tang Fatzi decided that Li Xuechu wanted to cheat. In the current situation, it is extremely uneconomical to break with Wufu, DreamWorks is becoming more and more dependent on the European market, and Tang Fatzi does not want to lose this ally.

"This cost is quite large in Hong Kong, but compared to Hollywood, we are still small." Shao Yifu's investment in Blade Runner is 150 million, three times their budget.

"But Xiangjiang is not Hollywood." Tang Fatzi refuted with an extremely rare rebuttal.

Of course, Li Xuechu knows the difference between the two, and it is completely a dead act to operate in Xiangjiang according to Hollywood standards. There are no hundreds of millions of local moviegoers here. However, if you want to be at least the top in Asia, you can't do it without breaking the kettle.

"That's why we have to pull up the black, or what do we want them to do, share the money?" As long as Wu approves of the film plan, it will be considered to be on the ship of DreamWorks. More than 20 million people have been voted down, and they don't worry about hard publicity, so that at least in Europe, it can be regarded as clearing the obstacles.

Li Xuechu has high expectations for this movie, and the special effects company has relied on this movie to raise it in recent years.

Tang Jingnian hesitated and said: "But I don't think Wu may agree to this cooperation, or even if he agrees, he may not be willing to come up with so much money." ”

"Then find someone else, if Jiahe or Princess Jin is interested, pull them in. Even if no one is interested, let's do it ourselves. Rest assured, I can afford the money. DreamWorks invested half of the money, and the rest was really not interested, so I invested it privately. ”

Hundreds of millions of funds flow back and forth in the financial industry, and Li Xuechu has long been indifferent to 50 million, and he doesn't think it's a big trouble. Although most of the funds have been used to buy the bottom of the real estate, it is still very easy to take out 20 million or 30 million.

The boss said so, and of course Tang Jingnian had nothing to say. Holding the plan out of the office door, Tang Fat took a deep breath.

This is no ordinary big deal. If this plan is put into practice, it will be no less than a depth charge in the Hong Kong film industry.

Thousands of group performances, a budget nearly twice the cost of the current highest system, a large number of special effects and props, and a grand scale of shooting...... As long as it can be filmed successfully, this movie can really wrestle with Hollywood's big productions.

In fact, Tang Fatzi was also stimulated by such a big system, but he told him that he couldn't do it brutely. There are already a lot of companies that have gone out of business due to high-cost movies, and of course, those 'high-cost' are nothing compared to the one in hand.

Forget it, the boss has money anyway. In the case of DreamWorks itself, as Li Xuechu said, the special effects and props alone are enough to recover most of the costs. Even if the box office hits again in the future, it will be a great loss of 10 million, which is really affordable for DreamWorks, and it will not hurt its muscles and bones.

Anyway, the reminder is already in place, even if it is a loss, Tang Fatzi does not have much responsibility.

What he has to do now is to persuade the Wu company to invest, if Wu is unwilling or unwilling to invest so much, he will pull Jiahe into the shares, and Princess Jin will consider it as a backup, after all, his ability to do business in foreign cities is far inferior to Jiahe. If you can, Tang Fatzi doesn't want Li Xuechu to pay for it privately, in case the movie pounces, what should the boss do if he is angry? Although Li Xuechu had never done this, Tang Fatzi still didn't dare to take risks.

It's really tiring to follow a boss with a whimsical mind, and I can't say that the other party is messing around, and people have already 'messed around' two big companies, which makes everyone in Xiangjiang stunned.

Thinking of this, Tang Jingnian was slightly relieved. I've succeeded in tossing so many times, maybe this time it can be done?

"If it can really be a box office hit, it's really a big achievement." patting the plan, Tang Jingnian also has some expectations. Not to mention the big profits, as long as the costs can be recovered or even small losses, this plan is considered successful. Xiangjiang has never been on a horse of this scale, and compared with it, the legend of Shushan is not enough.

It's time to discuss it with Wu, and Tang Fatzi explained the plan to the following: "Ali, make two copies of this text, and I'll use it later." ”

"Okay." Ali took the text and looked at the title curiously: Resident Evil?

Is it a new movie that is going to be planned? (To be continued!)

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