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"Boss Wang, Wishing you prosperity!" Lin Jianyue, the boss of Media Asia, said with a smile, "I'm miserable, the box office of "Dragon and Phoenix Fight" in Hong Kong is only one-third of that in the mainland, and now the cost is recovered overseas!" ”

"Boss Lin estimates that he can make more money, the interests of the overseas market are all your company!" Wang Qinian said with a smile. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lin Jianyue also nodded when he heard this, "Dragon and Phoenix Fight" has begun to be released in the Taiwan market and Nanyang, and it is expected that this part of the market can recover its costs. In addition, Media Asia's video disc distribution and TV broadcasting rights can be profitable. If it can be a box office hit in the Korean, Japanese and European markets, it may become a blockbuster.

There are more than 100 countries in the global market, who can say for sure that market is inexplicably popular?

This is precisely why Media Asia is not jealous of the small partner company's earnings, because no matter how much the partner company earns, it will end here. Because, the small partner company only gets the cake of the mainland market, and now the cake is almost eaten. And Media Asia thinks that if she eats a few small cakes, she will have the opportunity to eat a lot of big cakes!

Next, the two sides quickly got down to business and began to negotiate for further implementation of the co-production cooperation!

A year ago, the partner company signed a contract with Media Asia to co-produce ten films, and "Dragon and Phoenix Fight" is only the first co-production.

After the happy cooperation in the film "Dragon and Phoenix Fight", the partner company and Media Asia continued to execute the contract and co-produced three films: "Initial D", "Children's Dream" and "Hancheng Raiders".

Each of these three films has superstars, but they are not blockbusters.

Strictly speaking, it can't be called a blockbuster with the public standard of small partners. The definition of a blockbuster by a small partner company is 100 million yuan! Only with a budget of hundreds of millions of yuan can it be called a blockbuster.

The budget of "Initial D" is 40 million yuan, the budget of "Children's Dream" is 30 million, and the budget of "Hancheng Raiders" is also 30 million yuan.

The combined budget of the three films is 100 million yuan. The small partner company and the media Asia are still in accordance with the principle of each contributing half, and the distribution of benefits is naturally based on the domestic box office revenue belonging to the small partner company, while the box office of Hong Kong and the global market is owned by the box office of the world.

Under this distribution mechanism, the partner company does not suffer a loss.

Overseas distribution is actually thankless, and if overseas distribution were so easy, Hong Kong films would not have fallen to the point they are now.

And the mainland market is not just growing rapidly. Moreover, it can also cooperate with the theater expansion strategy of the partner company. There are both theaters and enough film sources, which is why partner companies are willing to vigorously cooperate with other companies to make films.

In particular, the cost control of the films made by Media Asia is okay. It seems that Hong Kong is expensive, but star directors have tasted the pain of the collapse of Hong Kong films in the 90s, at present. Compared with the mid-90s, the salaries of many celebrities not only did not rise, but some of their salaries even declined.

In the future, the salaries of most stars in Hong Kong films have not risen sharply, and the salaries of non-first-line popular stars have even fallen repeatedly. In the 80s and 90s, it was the remuneration of Hong Kong stars that the mainland envied. But in a few more years. It is Hong Kong stars and directors who are envious of the salaries of their mainland counterparts.

So. At this time, investing in Hong Kong films may be a cheap and beautiful choice. Hong Kong directors and actors have more experience in commercial films than their mainland counterparts. At the same time, the budget of Hong Kong films is relative to Hollywood. It's also very inexpensive.

In a few years, it is expected that investing in Hong Kong films may save more money than investing in domestic films. However, at that time, there were outstanding talents in Hong Kong films. Most of them have been diverted to the mainland and have become the mainstay of domestic film creation in the mainland, and the real creative talents of Hong Kong films have become very few.

Of course, in the future, as the mainland market becomes more and more popular, it is expected that Media Asia will gradually not accept this kind of cooperation.

After all, the future Media Asia is also one of the Hong Kong film giants that are most actively involved in cooperating with mainland film companies. Sooner or later, Media Asia will directly participate in the mainland box office market!

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Entering November, the cold wind in the north is a bit sluggish.

However, Wang Qinian was holding a laptop early in the morning and was writing hard.

"What are you writing about?" Xiao Xiang took breakfast and looked at his computer curiously.

"About the script of a science fiction movie." Wang Qinian said.

"Drone Wars?" Xiao Xiang looked at Wang Qinian's newly written script and felt very surprised, "The name seems to be an article in a war magazine!" ”

"It's science fiction, but I think it's not too far in the future, a fantasy of war that can be realized." Wang Qinian said with a smile.

This script is mainly about a Chinese boy in the 21st century who travels to a future earth on another world line. In addition to increasing the sense of substitution, it is more important to show that the story takes place in another world, not the real world.

On the earth of the parallel world, because of the problems of population, resources, territory, etc., wars became more and more frequent, and finally the third world war broke out.

Due to the progress of science and technology, the mode of war is no longer dominated by the traditional large number of soldiers charging into battle, but dominated by drones in the sky and war robots on the ground.

A swarm of drones and war robots remotely controlled by soldiers effectively kill the enemy's targets on the battlefield.

The Chinese boy is involved in a war in South America and is hired as a soldier against the army of a Dominion. The minor warlord of the local Dominion is a mixed-race Chinese, so the protagonist has a crush on him at first.

Because he used to be a real-time strategy player before he crossed over, and the control mode of the game is similar to commanding drones, he began to gain the approval of the team and manipulated more and more drones to kill.

UAVs are mainly composed of quadrotor, hexacopter, octocopter and other aircraft that can be stable in the sky and even stay in the air. Due to the remote control of the wireless network. Depending on the size, drones can crash into machine guns, rockets, missiles, and other weapons.

Basically, it is a strategic operator who controls a large number of drones. The test of the efficiency of the UAV is often the remote control system, as well as the quality of the UAV operator. The operator who controls the drone is equivalent to a general, who remotely controls thousands of troops.

And the army is being formed. Give him a different number of UAVs according to the strategic and tactical level of the operator. As few as a few drones, as many as 10,000 drones can be operated at the same time.

At first, the protagonist thinks that the war is only to defend the peace, but as the Dominions defeat the hostile forces. Began to expand and kill.

Seeing the cruel and dark side of war, the protagonist begins to complain to the warlord. However, the answer was that it was World War III and there was no peace.

The protagonist is dissatisfied, and only keeps a drone and control platform. All the other drone permissions were handed over, and he left the territory alone, taking a cruise ship to go to other countries to have a look, looking for a relatively peaceful one. There is no pure land of war.

Encountering pirates on the way, the protagonist is forced to maneuver a drone and drive the pirates away. The ship meets the heroine, a drone programmer who hopes to end the war that has spread around the world by creating a peaceful drone fleet, but she lacks a good strategic drone operator.

The hero and heroine began to form a team and create a DJ drone company. They looked at smart production plants. In the factory, intelligent robots can repair and produce and assemble drones and robots by themselves.

Because of their idea of stopping the war and restoring peace. It has been recognized by more and more people, so it has received a lot of resource support. Finally...... They have created hundreds of millions of drones, overwhelmingly destroying the war machines in the world's major battlefields, and the Third World War was forcibly suspended by them.

But...... I never expected that. A drone actually generated intelligence and invaded the entire drone network, and humans have been caught in a battle with intelligent machines......

The protagonist is forced to operate an unintelligent drone and engage in a life-and-death battle between humans and computers with intelligent drones. Of course, that's how it ends up. It is also a foreshadowing for the sequel of the entire series, if this movie has a head, the sequel will continue to be filmed.

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"This story is very emotional!" Xiao Xiang showed a hint of excitement.

"The product of a big brain." Wang Qinian said with a smile.

Although self-depreciation is a brain-opening work, Wang Qinian is actually quite proud. After all, it is difficult to find the shadow of this pure drone war in the past, present, and future film and television works of this work.

This idea alone has made this movie a work that can surprise the market. Even if it hits the streets, the audience can still recognize the creativity contained in it.

It's like the early zombie movies, it's not that hot. But then a lot of zombie movies, one after another. Finally arrived in "Resident Evil", and the zombie theme began to become very popular.

People joke that the top four box office charts for live-action films based on Japanese video games are "Resident Evil 4", "Resident Evil 3", "Resident Evil 2" and "Resident Evil 1".

After the fire of zombie films, people often have to pay tribute to the originator of "Night of the Living Dead" with reverence - this movie of the 60s is the main elements that laid the foundation for later zombie films:

First, unexplained factors bring zombies back to life. The zombies themselves don't have any consciousness or thinking ability, and they are completely instinctive. (In "Nightofthe Living Dead", it is resurrected by the radiation of the universe)

Second, zombies like to eat human flesh. Attacking humans in search of live human flesh is the only instinctive purpose of zombies. (This has something to do with cannibalism)

Third, zombies can be infected. If you are bitten by a zombie, you will become a zombie after death. The family or relatives and friends who acted with him a second ago slowly turned into zombies to attack them because they were bitten, and this is how the bottomless pit of fear came.

Fourth, zombies don't die. Because he is already dead, no matter how he hurts his **, the zombie will continue to move. If you want to stop a zombie, just smash your head or set it on fire. There is also a group of zombies who slowly move forward with their hands raised in groups, and then drive the living into a confined space, and the panic and inner entanglement of Kudzu. Such scenes have also become a must-have scene for all zombie movies in the future.

Wang Qinian hopes that his film will create a drone war theme, which will be imitated and paid tribute to by countless directors in the future.

"Drone Wars" is clearly a science fiction film!

The reason why I want to make science fiction films is also because Chinese science fiction movies are too weak, so that the comedy science fiction film "Yangtze River No. 7" made by Stephen Chow later is relatively low. are all more qualified science fiction movies.

If you want to make a science fiction film well, in addition to having money, you also have a certain amount of scientific thinking, in addition, your imagination is also magnificent, and your brain hole is also relatively large. Like what. "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park", "Terminator", "Transformers" and the like all belong to the genre that has both imagination and brains.

Wang Qinian's script is also because he wants to make a sci-fi blockbuster that is easy to stand out from the crowd in terms of theme innovation. This kind of creative sci-fi blockbuster is naturally relatively difficult. However, it is challenging, and it is fashionable.

Drones are nothing new, but for years to come. With the increasing number of civilian drones, news events caused by various drones have made drones attract much attention and are full of compelling.

Wang Qinian is ready to make such a science fiction film on the theme of drones, in fact, not only movies, in fact, he is also very interested in drones. Preparing to work on a drone project.

At present, the main civilian use of drones is as toys and aerial photography. Agricultural use, fire extinguishing. And later, some express companies experimented with the use of drones to deliver couriers, but it seems that it is just an experiment.

Drones are used for delivery of express delivery over a large area. Obviously, ten years later, it's just a gimmick. Major express delivery and e-commerce companies have used drones to deliver express delivery for publicity. However, the publicity effect is greater than the practicality.

Well, there are also those who propose with drones, which also increase the attention of drones.

In a sense. Ten years later, drones have become a very fashionable toy. It's not like a smartphone that has been cabbage, so that the effect of drone pretending to be forced is much stronger than that of Apple's mobile phone.

In the future, China's drone companies will almost monopolize ninety percent of the low-end UAV market. Although this cannot be said that China is the country with the strongest UAV technology, it at least shows that China is a big country in UAV mass production.

Two years later, in 2006, DJI, the future hegemon of the civilian drone market, was about to be founded in S City. And at this time, there are already many enthusiasts of drones at home and abroad. There are also a lot of teams that can develop drones.

When Wang Qinian threw the movie script of "Drone War" to the company and asked the company to hold a meeting to discuss. The executives of the entire company are a little dumbfounded, it's just a matter of making a science fiction movie, and in order to make a movie, they have to develop their own drones, which ...... What is called spirituality.

"It's called dedication to excellence!" Wang Qinian said, "James. When Cameron filmed "Titanic", he also spent a lot of money to restore and rebuild the cruise ship of the year. I want to learn from him, make a good movie, and make solid preparations! ”

"How many years does it take to develop a drone?" Du Jie asked suddenly.

"I don't know!" Wang Qinian spread his hands and said.

"......" Everyone was stunned.

Although Wang Qinian often makes some decisions that no one understands, because many decisions are proved to be right after the fact, they are beneficial to the company, shareholders and employees.

A bunch of past achievements are in front of you, so that although everyone does not understand, but estimate, at least it is not a desperate adventure, and you can generally agree.

After all, the small partner company's current family business is not small, and some small setbacks are only used as tuition payments. But for the sake of the longer-term future, companies need to take risks. Otherwise, it is easy to suffer from the ills of rigid and bureaucratic big business.

After the meeting, the company sent people to consult experts to investigate the UAV market. It was found that UAV research and development is not necessarily very expensive, and there are already many UAV research teams in China, many of which only have a few million funds and can already be invested in research.

In the end, the small partner company began to take out 20 million funds and established a small partner UAV company, which is responsible for the research and development of a complete set of systems for quadrotor and multi-rotor UAVs. The UAV not only includes the aircraft itself, but also the control system that controls the UAV.

In the future, drones will not only have a dedicated remote control and remote control platform, but can even be remotely controlled directly with the app of the mobile phone.

And after the drone of the small partner company has produced results, the movie script of "Drone War" is estimated to have been further improved under the guidance of a bunch of industry authorities.

As for the cost estimate of this movie, Wang Qinian personally thinks that it will not be too cheap. If you really invest in filming, in terms of budget, special effects and technology, it will surpass Zhang Yimou's "Hero". "Hero" is a blockbuster with a budget of 30 million US dollars, so once Wang Qinian's "Drone War" officially starts filming, the budget will be at least 300 million yuan.

More money may not be the decisive factor in the quality of the movie, but sometimes, in order to achieve the desired effect, burning money is also an inevitable choice. For example, "Titanic" has a budget of 200 million US dollars, and if you save a little, it may only take 20 million US dollars to shoot, so with Cameron's ability, it can still be made into a blockbuster movie, and a box office of hundreds of millions of dollars is not a problem. However, then "Titanic" will definitely not be recorded in history!

Wang Qinian's expectation for the movie "Drone War" is that it will either not be filmed, and once it is made, it will not only have influence in China, but also cause a sensation around the world. This requires not only being creative, but also making the scene look the way it intended.

Of course, incidentally, the drone project itself has been concerned by many Internet companies in the future, and it is also one of the possible future industries. Lay out this market in advance, and the small partner company can also have one more trump card in its hands! (To be continued......)

Chapter 329: A Brain-Blowing Science Fiction Script:

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