Chapter 333: "Inception" is finished
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Chapter 333 "Inception" is finished. "The Hangover" was highly praised by everyone at today's screening.
In fact, basically, most of the film festivals in the world are still more inclined to be literary and artistic, even if the legend of Venice likes heavy taste, but it also likes the heavy taste with some connotation. So at the Venice Film Festival, everyone basically saw some of the same styles...... And now "The Hangover" is almost different from all movies, this movie is funny, the idea is good, the structure is strange, and there are many strange guys in it......
So when you see "The Hangover", everyone will feel very novel, their eyes will light up, and they will also think it is very good-looking. The promotional purpose of "The Hangover" has gradually been achieved......
After the screening of "The Hangover", the response was very good, and some people immediately began to plan to buy the rights to "The Hangover". In fact, there were many film companies that wanted to buy European rights before, and since the Asian box office was a hit, there were many film companies who wanted to do that...... Later, when the North American box office of "The Hangover" also became a hit, the European rights of "The Hangover" became more and more sought-after. However, Luo Mo and they have been delayed until the current release at the Venice Film Festival, and after some praise for the release, the copyright price of "The Hangover" has also been speculated higher.
However, these are all professionals to negotiate, of course Luo Mo himself is not good at negotiation, he just expresses a little opinion on the side, and when necessary, he can make a final decision.
In short, the harvest of "The Hangover" in Europe this time is bound to be not too small.
It is even possible that in terms of pure economic benefits, the revenue of "The Hangover" will even exceed the income of North America, after all, the DVD copyright and the release right are sold together in Europe. On the European side, Luo Mo's main focus is still a full copyright buyout......
The dream of European reunification began a long time ago, and many legends have been generated, but it is a pity that the process of European reunification has not been particularly smooth. Even though the EC now seems to have a growing voice, it has been economically half-dead by the United States, and many of its internal tastes are completely different. So Luo Mo wouldn't want to let his movies be released in the form of account sharing here like in the United States......
Split accounts can exist, but there can't be too many countries that will be released in the form of split accounts...... If there are too many, the first is that the box office cannot be guaranteed, and the second is that I don't have so much energy to promote in these places...... Propaganda and other things should be left to the people in Europe. Through "The Hangover", Luo Mo hopes that he will initially have some influence in Europe, paving the way for the release of his "Inception" here, although Luo Mo does not dare to hope that it will be released simultaneously in the world, but at least there must be people waiting in these places.
Under such a guiding principle, the negotiation of "The Hangover" is also relatively fast, because there are no details such as the form of account sharing, and "The Hangover" directly negotiates the buyout price with them, and the negotiation is very fast. More than a week after the end of the Venice International Film Festival, the film release rights of "The Hangover" in Europe, plus the DVD rights, were basically sold, and a total of 23 million euros were sold, which is indeed very amazing, and Luo Mo Studio can get about 20 million euros from the middle.
The euro is worth more than the dollar, which is close to 200 million when converted into RMB! It can be said that by now, there is no problem with the funding of "Inception", and in this way, the funds of Luo Mo Studio have increased to more than 500 million and close to 600 million. This time, he may have to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in publicity funds in overseas markets.
Luo Mo is making a lot of money now, but a lot of his money is going to be spent before he gets hot, and the money he got from "The Hangover" this time is like this from Asia to America to Europe. Inception is now starting to cost money, and in addition to the first round of investment, the second round of investment has already arrived.
The second installment of Weta Digital's payment has already been paid, as well as some other venue usage fees, equipment rental fees have also begun to be paid, and then, at home and abroad, although there is still a distance from the official production and release, "Inception" has also begun to spend the first round of publicity, and in some places have also begun to spend money, such as the public relations fee for participating in some film festivals...... In short, the combination of bits and pieces of money is also a large investment. But now that The Hangover has sold out in Europe, the money is easy to get.
However, now that the investment in Inception is getting bigger and bigger, the budget is getting higher and higher.
Last time, Luo Mo was ambitious at the meeting at the Beijing Film Academy, and vowed that he would be able to make "Inception" surpass "The Hangover" at that time, and was accused by many people of being a mouth cannon at the time, and was waiting to see his jokes. However, more people chose to pay attention to "Inception" and pay attention to the shooting dynamics, but the tone of this movie is very strict in terms of shooting, and everyone almost has no stills on the set or anything, at most it only reveals some marginal topics such as the progress of the completion of the filming.
After all, some of the ideas in "Inception" are better kept secret, and the principle of confidentiality also helps everyone maintain some of the necessary mysterious expectations for this movie...... Therefore, in such a situation, although "Inception" is still criticized by some people, especially the director of this movie, Luo Mo, is still criticized by some people, but at least, everyone's interest in this movie has been mobilized, and many people are looking forward to the official production of this movie, and then the official release.
And at this point in time, "Inception" has issued its own latest news - Luo Mo Studio has made additional investment, and the total investment of "Inception" may reach 700 million yuan! After hearing the news, the Chinese film industry was almost boiling.
So far, there has been no investment of more than 700 million yuan in Chinese-language films...... And now Luo Mo really dares to do this! This guy is simply crazy and has no scruples! 700 million, is this another big gamble for him? Previously, Luo Mo Studio released "Inception" and invested 30 million US dollars in special effects, and it will also take the form of 3D real shooting and 3D production. At that time, it had already caused a huge sensation, and people felt that they couldn't understand what Luo Mo was going to do at all...... And the impact of that incident has not stopped, and now this guy has come to such a bombshell again!
700 million yuan!
Of course, there are also people who question it, mainly questioning these two points of view, the first is strange where can "Inception" spend 700 million yuan? Will he spend the 700 million yuan elsewhere in the crew? He wants to use 700 million yuan to make some golden toilets and build a golden scenery in them? This really quickly resonated with everyone - yes, 700 million yuan, and they claimed to have invested 30 million US dollars in the previous special effects, which is more than 200 million ...... There are still more than 400 million funds to make movies in China, what did he use the more than 400 million for? It is very likely that Luo Mo's studio is bragging.
However, Luo Mo's studio quickly replied to this, and the content of their reply was very simple - 700 million yuan does not belong to the production fee, of the 700 million yuan, the real production should be about 400 million yuan, and 300 million yuan is the publicity budget. At this point, everyone finally suddenly realized, but at the same time, there was a feeling that Luo Mo was crazy - this is really a person who hurts the egg, and half of it is used for publicity, which still wants to replicate the legend of "The Hangover...... Oh yes, he himself said that he wanted to make "Inception" more than "The Hangover".
Thinking of this, everyone also understands his approach, but in their hearts, most people think that this guy is too dangerous, if "Inception" hits the street at the box office, it will be a bloody mess, and his studio may have to suffer unprecedented heavy losses.
The second question is that Luo Mo's studio really has 700 million yuan invested in "Inception"? Where did he get all that money? There is no need for Luo Mo's studio to reply to this, and soon many enthusiastic netizens helped Luo Mo's studio reply to such a question - everyone knows that "The Hangover" has made Luo Mo's studio make a lot of money, and recently there has been news that the global copyright of "The Hangover" is almost sold out, and the global copyright includes DVDs and peripheral products, and there are very broad sales channels in the United States. And Luo Mo has a lot of contracts in the past two years, as well as the accumulation of "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love", so Luo Mo's studio has invested 700 million, maybe there will be some water, but the water should not be too big.
After solving these two doubts, although many people no longer question Luo Mo, they began to worry about Luo Mo, an outlier in the Chinese film industry...... Will he really be able to do what he wants? Is he really that confident in his Inception?
Among everyone's many different ideas, Luo Mo did not respond too much, but was still filming "Inception".
After the whole of November, "Inception" has begun to shoot almost completely, leaving only some of the final finishing shots. In the past few days, the entire crew is busy filming the scenes of the fierce battle in the snowy mountains, and in the more difficult shots, this can be regarded as the finishing touch.
“1、2、3! Begin! ”
In the huge studio, among the green screen and the miniature model of the house on the snowy mountain, Luo Mo began to run out of the front after hearing 3. Wearing snow-white snow camouflage on his body and goggles on his head, he rushed towards a martial artist, and then put him down after two tricks with him, and the role of the dream builder played by Zhang Mengya followed closely and quickly followed. Then when he encountered the second attack, Luo Mo was also clean but very beautiful and put him to the ground.
Just after this shot, Yuan Kui came up and patted Luo Mo's arm and said, "Not bad!" Very good skills! It seems that after you recover, you can still play. ”
"Thanks to you." Luo Mo said with a smile that after the scene of bone cracking, Luo Mo has not filmed action for two months, and now he is re-shooting the action scenes, which are still clean and neat, and his skills are concise.
“1、2、3!” It's another scene, this is a scene of a fierce skiing battle on a snowy mountain, Zhang Hanyu rushed down from the green curtain, and then turned around and shot......
After a few months of filming, Luo Mo has slowly become familiar with the control of many big scenes, which is a basic skill. Although the foundation doesn't sound very high-end, many high-end skills are composed of the foundation, and Luo Mo relies on his extraordinary talent, after the training of the three movies, many shooting scenes of the movie can be said to have begun to reach the first-class level.
In this way, he has his own basic skills, and if he also has his own ideas, he has a good script...... That movie that really belongs to Luo Mo will be born.
On December 8th, the last shot of "Inception" was completed, and the crew was finished!
The movie is finished...... But thinking of the time of December 2009, Luo Mo also remembered that there was going to be a movie that swept the world and was about to be released, and its box office was like a flood of beasts, destroying all defenses.