"If there is any director whose appeal can surpass Cameron, it is Skye Wu, at least in China, Skye Wu's brand appeal must far exceed Cameron's, so this time the box office of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" surpassed last year's "Avatar", which is not ......surprising at all."

In the back garden of Xishan Villa, Zhang Ximeng read a movie review in the newspaper, but unfortunately the one who listened to it did not have the slightest sense of being praised, so he just lay on the recliner with half-squinted eyes, looking like he was about to fall asleep. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Hey, are you listening?" After Zhang Ximeng finished reading a paragraph, he couldn't help but slap Wu Tian's thigh with a newspaper and shouted.

"Be careful, the consequences of shooting the wrong place are too serious." Wu Tianyi shuddered and said.

"Hmph, it's just right to shoot it badly, so you don't have to bully me!" Zhang Ximeng didn't have the slightest awareness of doing something wrong, and said angrily, "Why didn't anyone in the newspaper say anything bad about you, none of them knew about "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", you haven't been to the crew a few times at all, okay?" ”

"Hehe, no matter what you say, it can't change the fact that I am the chief director." Wu Tian said with a smile.

"Then why aren't you the chief director of "Returning the Pearl"?" Zhang Ximeng asked.

"I'm a principled person, I didn't make much effort to "Returning the Pearl", so naturally I can't take advantage of it in vain and grab the title." Wu Tian said with a smile.

Originally, when planning "Returning the Pearl", Wu Tian was also ready to follow the example of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and personally participate in the creation, but later saw that the book made by Xinru and Sister Wei was not bad, Wu Tian simply gave up the title of screenwriter and chief director, and only served as a producer.

However, as long as Wu Tian's name is hung on the film, it doesn't matter whether it is a director or a producer, it will inevitably attract attention anyway.

"Hmph, I think you're just lazy and don't want to help us!" Zhang Ximeng was dissatisfied and slapped Wu Tian with the newspaper again, and said, "You don't know what Sister Xinru and Sister Wei are tired of in order to film this drama, and you can't bear not to help!" ”

Wu Tian naturally knows how hard the filming of "Returning the Pearl" is, on the one hand, Sister Wei and Xinru have no relevant experience, they have to learn a lot of things from scratch, and they don't have their own team to use, so filming will definitely be half the effort. In addition, there is also "Gege is out of the palace", which needs to run to record an issue from time to time, and the level of annoyance is really not affordable for ordinary people.

"Well, it's okay to be tired, and when you make a sequel next, it will be much easier." Wu Tian smiled faintly.

"Returning the Pearl" is a full three, although the third part is no longer starring Sister Wei and Xinru, but after all, it is also the original work of Grandma Qiong, even if it is exhausted compared to the first two stories, it does not prevent it from becoming a good movie after adaptation.

Of course, whether it can be compiled or not depends on the level of the two main creators......

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At more than ten o'clock in the morning, Xinru and Sister Wei, as well as Ziwen and Gao Yang, rushed to Xishan Villa, and all the main creators of "Returning the Pearl" arrived this time.

This time, the new and old Gege gathered in the capital, in fact, because the filming of the film had been transferred to the interior, and it only needed to be completed in the studio of the Tianzheng Film and Television Base in the capital. Of course, everyone came to Wu Tian, mainly to ask Wu Tian, the anonymous chief director, for his opinion, and to bring the content of the previous film to him for review.

Fortunately, Wu Tian's villa is large enough, and there is a small screening hall on the third floor.

In fact, watching film and television materials is a very boring thing, even if Sister Wei and Xinru have screened all the material clips, eliminated the ng content, and some good quality slightly worse, dispensable content, the remaining material is nearly ten hours.

According to the plan, the time of this movie should be controlled at about 110 minutes, and the opening and ending credits should be ensured to be within 120 minutes. This means that at least 80% or 90% of the footage taken in a movie is useless!

It doesn't matter, I'm shooting with a digital camera anyway, so I don't have to worry about wasting film.

The key is that these nearly ten hours of material are not a complete story, and some of the content that needs to be filmed in the studio has not yet been filmed!

Therefore, it seems that it is all kinds of intermittent shots, if you are not in the industry, you can't bear it at all - for example, Gao Yang, who only started to watch a few sections excitedly, commented on the appearance of the protagonist and supporting roles, and then got bigger and bigger, and simply ran out under the pretext.

Even Wu Tian didn't finish watching the ten hours of material, and only saw 10 o'clock at noon, so he paused the review in the name of eating.

"Overall, it's not bad, from the costume styling to the photography and lighting, but as for the director's skills and the acting skills of the two of you, I can only score seven points." Wu Tian gave the answer with a smile.

"Huh? Only seven points? I always thought it should be nine! Zhang Ximeng shouted.

"Well, you can get nine points for your temper!" Wu Tian said, which immediately attracted good-natured laughter from everyone.

"Then tell me, where we didn't shoot well." Zhang Ximeng pouted.

"Well, there are a lot of problems, but the biggest problem is that it is too similar to the TV drama version." Wu Tian said, "This is a movie, the expression of the movie is different from the TV series, the TV series can tell the story slowly, you can tell it very carefully, but the length of the movie is limited, which requires the director to tell the story with the fastest reaction speed, not only the rhythm must be fast, but also to grasp the logic, so as not to cause the audience to look confused and lose logical rationality." ”

"These materials seem to be a bit dragged, ten hours of material is almost enough for the length of a TV series!" Wu Tian said, "Therefore, in the next step of cutting, there are too many contents that need to be cut out of these materials." Wu Tian said.

When Wu Tian was a director, this would never happen, it can be said that Wu Tian is one of the most film-saving directors, he may shoot several times on a scene, but he will never shoot a lot of additional branches, only to find that these branches are ultimately in vain.

This is where the director's skills are tested the most......

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Anyway, it's not a bad thing to shoot too much, at least in the future, you can have more choices when editing, so that you don't end up with a hundred and twenty minutes.

However, filming too much is quite tiring, which means that the workload of the entire crew will be expanded several times, and the investment will increase a lot. Although Wu Tian didn't care about the investment amount, Xinru was uneasy, and took the time to say to Wu Tian privately: "This time the budget may be much more than ......."

"Well, how much?" Wu Tian asked.

"There are still a lot of shots in the studio that have not been filmed, and the original budget has basically been used up, plus the post-production and publicity, it is estimated that on the basis of the original budget, there will be an additional 50 million or so." Xinru said with some embarrassment.

Originally, the budget of "Returning the Pearl" was 1.5 billion, except for buying copyrights and pre-publicity, so far, the crew has burned at least 100 million yuan, it's really not an ordinary toss, you must know that this drama is different from Wu Tian's previous big productions, the set and everything are quite expensive, this time it is purely a palace drama, the scenes of going out to hunt and going to the dynasty are bigger, and the others are small scenes, and they don't cost much at all.

It seems that Sister Wei has really tossed a lot in the past few months, looking at the speed of spending money, I am afraid that there will be more waste shots.

"Well, I have a friend who is quite interested in our play, why don't you bring him to invest and share the risk?" Xinru said.

Wu Tian laughed and said, "How much do you think this drama can reach at the box office?" ”

"Huh? That's not good......" Xinru said.

"Then let's talk about it." Wu Tian said, ""Ghost Blowing the Lantern" has been able to reach the domestic box office of 1.52 billion, is there any hope that "Returning the Pearl" will surpass it? ”

"It's a little hard, isn't it?" said with a weak heart.

"Okay, let's not say 1500 million, just 100 million, is there any hope?" Wu Tian said.

The heart is like a smack of the lips, but I still don't dare to pack the ticket.

"Alas, why are you such a confident girl?" Wu Tian said, "Let me give you an analysis, the audience base of "Returning the Pearl" is deeper than that of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", after all, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is just a novel, and the readership is relatively limited, but "Returning the Pearl" was a well-known drama back then, even if only one-tenth of the audience entered the cinema that year, the box office was only more than one billion. In addition, this drama was created by you and Sister Wei, which is called feelings. and "Gege is Out of the Palace" has gathered popularity and paved the way, do you say that this drama will not get a box office of one billion? You have to be the most unconfident in your creative skills. ”

Xinru embarrassed hehe smirked.

"With a box office of one billion, how much is the net profit?" Wu Tian said, "Then do you think I will find someone else to invest?" That's just giving money to people. Unless, of course, that friend of yours is your boyfriend, I don't mind letting him make some money. ”

"Where do people have boyfriends," Xinru glanced at Wu Tian with a little blush, and said, "Okay, 50 million, hurry up, otherwise the crew will run out of food, and we will all kill your family!" ”

Wu Tian smiled, patted Xinru's head, and said, "I'll call you in a while, but you have to keep an eye on me, and if you spend it again, I will punish you, the producer." ”

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For the movie "Returning the Pearl", Wu Tian didn't care whether it was a profit or a loss, and it was to find a suitable role for Zhang Ximeng that he made this film.

Even for "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", Wu Tian didn't think about how much money he made, but more wanted to use "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" to attack the ministry and promote the film classification system.

But "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" not only excellently completed the implementation of the system of promoting film classification, but also made Wu Tian make a lot of money.

According to the statistics of Tianzheng Film and Television, the current domestic box office record of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" has surpassed last year's masterpiece, Cameron's "Avatar", which has exceeded 1.5 billion. Moreover, this number is not the final number, and there are still some theaters that have not been offline, and it is estimated that this number should be fixed at about 1.6 billion in the end.

This number will set a new Chinese box office record!

Of course, such a huge amount of income is not all owned by the investor, but to be shared by the distribution theater. The normal cinema line party has a commission of about 50 percent, and then there are distribution companies that have to share a few percent, and then the remaining 40 percent or so is the producer's income.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the film must ensure that the box office is at least twice as high as the investment, plus foreign copyright licensing fees, in order to barely equalize.

However, with a total box office of 1600 million, there are 800 million that can be obtained in the end, and excluding the final investment cost of less than 300 million, that is a pure profit of 500 million or 600 million!

The key to such a crazy ability to absorb money is that the investment is not large, and it is estimated that only the financial industry can think of it, but in terms of investment risk, it has thrown off a few streets in finance!

No wonder so many people are willing to invest in the film and television industry.

People live for a lifetime, what they pursue is fame and fortune, and investing in this industry is really fame and fortune!

Of course, in addition to fame and fortune, Wu Tian pays more attention to the cultural influence that the film and television industry can bring.

The overseas distribution of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is basically synchronized with the domestic one, and the current box office results in the Asia-Pacific region are also quite gratifying, especially in the island of Japan, which is simply touted as a masterpiece, and people all over the island are amazed that Chinese movies have also made such wonderful good films. On the other side of the stick country, there are indispensable people clamoring for a lot of antiques, culture and other content involved in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", in fact, after research, they will all originate from the stick country.

As for Europe and the United States, the response of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is a little worse, after all, the cultural atmosphere is different, and they can't understand the miraculous skills of Captain Jin, at most, they just watch the excitement and marvel at the development of the level of special effects in Chinese film and television......

Wu Tian is quite dissatisfied with this, and it seems that he has to think about it again and make a Chinese film that can go to the international screen......

[Bow and thank Andiliu for the tip!] (To be continued.) )