As early as a year ago, when "Smiling Proud Jianghu" was released, and finally achieved a box office result of more than 300 million, some people already called Xiao Ran a god-level screenwriter.

However, at that time, such a title was just a coaxing behavior of the media who didn't understand movies, and real filmmakers didn't take Xiao Ran seriously at all, but felt that he was just lucky.

But now, whether it is a big director or an extra, there is almost no one who doesn't know Xiao Ran's name, and the title of god-level screenwriter is even more well-known!

Of course, this title has been recognized by the entire film industry, in addition to the success of Xiao Ran's own screenwriting films, he also helped other film companies write several blockbuster scripts at the same time.

For example, Yida Cinema Line has a company called Colorful Film Company, which asked Xiao Ran to cooperate in March and hoped to buy a script, and Xiao Ran also asked for 30% of the film's share very directly, but after hesitating for a long time, the film company also agreed.

However, in the end, their source of funding is not exactly Yida Group, although they are the satellite company of Yida Cinemas, but they have the support of other consortia, so they finally took Xiao Ran's script called "Rich and Powerful", which is an urban comedy movie, the cost of shooting is very small, mainly in the salary of the actors.

This drama needs an old actor whose image is a little old-fashioned, but at the same time there are some cold and humorous old actors to be responsible, this requirement is easy to meet, Colorful Film Company invited a veteran host who specializes in hosting football programs from Yanjing TV to make a cameo, and finally spent 100,000 yuan to get it!

And although this host is not a figure in the film and television industry. But he has hosted football shows for many years, so the audience is very familiar with him, and his appearance has brought freshness to the audience!

And the acting requirements of this role are not very high. It's just the image of a small citizen who broadcasts the news on a TV station.

In addition, the role of the fat sister in the previous life was even more dramatic, they directly found an eldest sister in their film company who was responsible for cleaning, who also weighed more than two hundred, wore a pair of glasses, and was also very spicy and funny, which just met the requirements of the role in the movie, and the salary was less. It's just 10,000 dollars!

As for their three daughters and the boyfriend of the eldest daughter in the movie, as well as the other two kidnappers, they were even more economical, and they directly sent scouts to Sanlitang, the most prosperous place in Yanjing, to pick people on the spot. If you like it, you will sign a contract, these ordinary people would have a little star dream, and now they are looking for them to make movies, and it is estimated that they are willing to do it without paying.

As a result, a movie was made. The cost is frighteningly low. Together with the publicity fee, it does not exceed 10 million!

And it didn't even hold the premiere, it was released directly.

In order to balance resources, or perhaps because of the dissatisfaction with Xiao Ran's family, Yida Cinema also gave a good film schedule, and the box office was 8 million on the first day of release, and the release time was a few days earlier than Xiao Ran's "Corpse Home", although the box office was not as exaggerated as "Corpse Home". But after a month, it is estimated that the box office will exceed 100 million.

In other words, Xiao Ran can share tens of millions of script fees alone. It's a good extra income.

In fact, "Rich and Powerful" is a good urban comedy movie series, there are four in total, the first part is about Uncle Bi broadcasting the news on the TV station to support a family of five, and the wife is a bad gambling woman, often likes to play mahjong and buy Mark Six lottery, dreaming of making a fortune one day.

The success of this movie lies in its secularization, the characters in it are all flesh-and-blood citizen characters, although small, but warm and real, and it also caters to the windfall dreams of some audiences, portraying the bitterness of the little people to the core!

In the movie, Uncle Biu's family finally won the Mark Six lottery, and the family made a plan to use money to make money, so they put the money in the bank for foreign exchange investment, but the bank collapsed, and the family's dream was shattered, but at the same time, two bad people knew that they had a huge amount of money, so they kidnapped Uncle Bi's youngest daughter and wanted to extort them......

Although Xiao Ran can shoot this script by himself, after filming it, he will only earn an extra twenty or thirty million, but it will take a lot of trouble.

Now it is easier to sell it directly and share 30% of the profits, and you can also use your own resources to shoot more profitable movies.

In addition to making money, Xiao Ran's move also lies in the fact that he really wants to make the entire film industry more prosperous, which is also good for Xiao Ran, more audiences enter the cinema to watch movies, so Xiao Ran's movies are naturally the audience's first choice, whether it is his investment, his screenwriter, or his director and starring, they are the audience's first choice!

Of course, in addition to Colorful Film Company, there are also two other film companies that agreed to Xiao Ran's 30% share of the script fee.

One is called Huanyi Film Company, which is mainly an independent film company, mainly shooting black humor comedies, because it is backed by a strong official power, so the three major theater chains have to sell his face, and this small film company is also the only film company in China that can be released in all cinemas at the same time.

It is worth mentioning that the behind-the-scenes boss of this film company is surnamed Wang.

That's right! It was opened by an uncle in Wang Yundi's family, which is why Xiao Ran is willing to have a good relationship with the Wang family, precisely because of their strong family power!

However, the relationship is a relationship, and Xiao Ran still received enough script fees, and according to the consistent characteristics of Huanyi, Xiao Ran wrote a very black humorous script for them, that is, "The Birth of a Word".

This movie itself is the signature work of the Galaxy Company in the previous life, and after Xiao Ran wrote this script, he also specially explained when he handed it over to Huanyi that he must find the golden photographer Liu Zhengfeng to serve as the cinematographer of the movie.

Because the cinematography of this film is definitely not an easy task, and it is also one of the most commendable classics of the whole movie, whether it is overhead, upside, hand-held, inverted, wide-angle, spherical mirror...... All kinds of camera movements are absolutely unique in Chinese movies, and they are very grand.

This is a two-stage, reversed plot movie, at the beginning of the protagonist Huang Agou is fortune-telling, but he encounters two choices in life, the first story he and his friends stole a car to the north, and finally a group of rabble was poorly organized, and the whole army was wiped out, and the second story A dog because of the martial heroes, alert and decisive, began to dominate the party after coming to the treasure island as a killer......

And when the plot progresses to the end, the audience realizes that the original two stories are a dream, in the real world, Huang Agou is still wandering on the fork in the road of life and doesn't know how to choose, and the most important thing is not how to choose, but in your heart!

The difference in the endings of the two stories lies in the different personalities of the characters, and since ancient times it has been said that character determines fate.

What kind of character will choose what kind of path, this qiē can be said to be predestined, and such a narrative way, the audience only understands the whole story after 30 minutes of the whole movie, and gradually recalls the black humor of the whole story, and smiles heartily.

The most important reason why Xiao Ran wrote this movie to Huanyi is that this company is keen to make this kind of black humor movie, so there is a fixed audience and is willing to watch their kind of movie.

In the end, the film was released nationwide on August 16, with a box office of 14 million at the first time and 65 million in the first week, and it is still in theaters.

And the investment in the whole movie is only 20 million, which means that after the painting, Xiao Ran can get about 20 million again.

However, although there are surprises on Huanyi's side, there are also losses, originally they just hoped that Xiao Ran would create a new script and get rid of the inherent impression that the entire film company would only shoot black humor movies for the audience, who knew that in the end, the script Xiao Ran gave was actually this kind of black humor movie, and the most ironic thing is that the box office is several times higher than all they have filmed......

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"What's going on with Huayi's movie? I got the script first, but there is no movie released yet? ”

After reading the record of the text handed over to him by the secretary, Xiao Ran knew the box office situation of the movie after Huanyi and Colorful got their two scripts, and also knew that there was about to have at least 30 million script revenues, and now what made him puzzled was that another Huayi film company, which got his script from the beginning of March, had not released the movie for half a year, which was really slower than a turtle.

"Mr. Xiao, Mr. Wang of Huayi Film Company is said to be very satisfied with your script, so he used the resources of the entire film company to start filming this movie and release it on the New Year's Eve, so it is still in preparation, and I heard that the investment alone is at least 100 million!"

Xiao Ran had a headache, he didn't expect that a script he casually threw out was actually treated as a treasure by Huayi, and he was ready to make a big deal, it seems that this film company has been holding back long enough.

Huayi Film Company is the film company with the longest history in the entire film industry, founded more than 30 years ago, and it was naturally brilliant, but since the entertainment industry began to slump, the movies they made were basically loss-making, and the final scale became smaller and smaller, and even its cinema companies were dissolved, and many theaters were acquired by Yida Group, so its movies were basically released in the cinemas of Yida Cinema Line.

"Mr. Wang is really generous, I'm afraid that I won't be able to recover the script fee!"

Xiao Ran looked at the text handed in by the secretary, which said Huayi Film Company - "The Resurgence of the Undefeated Storm in the East", status: filming! (To be continued......)