Chapter 522: The filming of "Chainsaw" and so on
Li Chencan's several small-budget films, the cumulative investment is only about 20 million US dollars.
These low-cost films, the results that can be obtained at that time are estimated to be difficult for those who shoot here to imagine.
Li Chencan actually admires these movies very much, but his current positioning is not suitable for making such films.
In such a movie, the requirements of each film are different.
For example, "Saw Horror", which requires a good grasp of the plot of the movie and various main lines and branches, and uses a lot of shooting methods to show the complex relationship between the characters in it, and it also needs to slowly throw out a topic worthy of discussion through the movie.
This movie was also a small and broad model at the time, which was very amazing after it was filmed, and it also brought many people's love, and "Saw Horror" was also regarded as a classic after that.
Before "Saw Horror" was really reduced to a plasma film, this was indeed a movie with a complex plot but capable of turning around and making people shine, and the issues discussed in it could also cause many people to think deeply, so Li Chencan needed to find the most suitable photographer for this movie.
Of course, the script of the movie will be written by a good screenwriter, but the screenwriter will inevitably be Li Chencan's name at the beginning, and the producer of the movie will also be Li Chencan's name, and as for the producer of the movie, he will also be named Li Chencan. It's not entirely because of vanity, but because the idea and script for this movie came from him, and he can't be too cheap for these people......
For example, when filming the film "Chainsaw", Li Chencan will hand over the filming rights of this film to a director named Davis, who has made a thriller before. But they will also sign a contract with this Davis director, and they can't let him leave Pyrotechnics Films casually...... After all, Li Chencan asked him to shoot such a film, so he definitely can't let this person make a movie and make capital. also got the necessary salary......
These are all things that need to be prescribed.
"Chainsaw" is the first film, the first in Qianmo Entertainment's small-budget film plan.
There are a few other pieces to follow.
For example, "Death is Coming", the encounter of this film is similar to "Chainsaw", the first part is the same as "Chainsaw", it is directed by Chinese, it is not selling plasma, it is a plot...... the plot of "Chainsaw" is mainly strong in the complex relationship between the characters behind it, and the plot of "Death is Coming" is mainly shown in complexity and unpreventable. At the same time, it also preached an oriental fatalism.
However, after the second part, this film was still reduced to a plasma film that sold meat......
The director of "Death is Coming" is another director of a thriller, and he also has a strong ability to control the plot, but this is called White. Since this guy White received the notice of approval of the application and saw the planning of "The Grim Reaper", he wanted to meet Li Chencan all day long, because he wanted to know what Li Chencan did have such a magical idea, and Li Chencan was impatient with him to meet him. But this White is still quite easy to get along with. Li Chencan didn't care too much.
The director of "Spirit: Ghost Shadow" is the director of "Ghost", this film can be said to be the pinnacle of psychological horror, and it is also something that Li Chencan thinks is particularly suitable for him to direct "Spirit: Ghost Shadow".
The other movies are "Buried Alive" and "The Hangover".
These movies are all very classic, and they all have a huge popularity in another time and space, and of course they have brought a lot of income and follow-up income to those film companies.
Li Chencan has to keep his name on the names of the film's producers and screenwriters for these movies, and external publicity will also make them keep saying that the movies come from their own creativity......
At the same time, for these directors. Li Chencan must also ensure sufficient binding force, and he can't let them climb another branch because of the fame of this movie.
These directors. Everyone almost gasped after seeing the movie plan and script outline in front of them...... Because the planning and creativity of this film really amazed them, especially "The Hangover" and "Death is Coming......
The next thing is to invest in these films, and then start to select actors and so on, and it's time to officially prepare for filming.
These days, the fireworks film company is gradually becoming more and more perfect, various institutions and personnel inside are becoming more and more perfect, some of the old employees in the past are slowly being called back, and there are some new employees, some are recruited, some are found by headhunting companies, anyway, a fireworks film company has been set up. It's just that Li Chencan also knows that if the film company's shelves are propped up, the next thing is to spend money like water...... If you can't find a profit point as soon as possible, you will have to throw in hundreds of thousands of dollars every month......
After all, such a large film company, there are dozens of employees alone, which is completely different from Li Chencan's personal studio in China.
In such a film company, if you just rely on Li Chencan's movies alone, there is naturally no way to support it, this is not to say that the money made by Li Chencan's movie box office is not enough to support the film company, but because if you just shoot one of your own films, the structure of such a large film company is too wasteful, and many people have nothing to do.
But now that there are so many movies being made at the same time, things are much easier.
With so many movies being shot at the same time, there is no doubt that many people have to be occupied in specific shooting.
When these things are done, Fireworks Film Company is also officially established in Los Angeles!
The rented office buildings, employees' salaries, water and electricity bills, etc., cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions of dollars a month, plus some investments from other places, and the current fireworks film company has consumed a lot of Li Chencan's funds at once. Li Chencan brought a lot of money with him when he came to the United States, but now a lot of money has been consumed, especially after he has dealt with all the big and small affairs of the fireworks film company, and now he has almost consumed 50 million US dollars on hand, and when these movies start shooting, the number of funds consumed will increase.
The next step for Fireworks Films is really a lot of money......
Next is the shooting of medium-sized investment films, but the shooting of medium-sized films, from Li Chencan's point of view, should still be cautious and cautious. This kind of medium-sized investment in movies, on the one hand, costs a lot of money, on the other hand, most of the ideas of these movies are quite good, once the movie messes up this idea, others can draw strength from it, and when their own film company messes up the movie, other film companies are popular with such creative borrowing, which is also a depressing thing anyway.
Therefore, Li Chencan needs to be very cautious in the choice of medium-sized movies......
Li Chencan has also carefully selected these medium-sized movies, including "Source Code", which are basically movies like this...... Pretty creative and pretty good.
In fact, "Source Code" in another time and space is based on an excellent idea, but in fact, the idea of this movie was born out of "Butterfly Effect" a few years ago, and the director of "Butterfly Effect" is also a talented person, but in any case, whether it is the current "Source Code" or the later "Edge of Tomorrow", as long as these movies are well made, the plot will also be very powerful.
Li Chencan planned to shoot "District 9" before, but after thinking about it carefully, forget it, this kind of film is particularly sensitive, when Li Chencan opened a company in the United States, he broke his name here, but he satirized the US government here...... This kind of playing with fire is still forgotten.
As for the big movies...... In fact, there are too many large-scale movies that Li Chencan wants to make...... It's just that he has so many memories of big movies, and now to copy them, it takes a huge amount of money, and it may take tens of billions of dollars to copy so many big movies in his head......
Now he can only take his time and copy it little by little.
Now that he is handing over large-scale films to others, he will mainly focus on some super commercial blockbusters, such as "Transformers", "Fast and Furious" and the like, as for some commercial films that still have great artistic achievements in them, Li Chencan plans to come by himself. For example, films such as "The Matrix" and "Inception", Li Chencan will not let go of others.
He should be even more cautious about large-scale films, and the directors required for large-scale films are very demanding, because the attainments have not reached that level, it is difficult to really control a large-budget film, and there will definitely be all kinds of problems in it at that time.
In terms of large-scale films, Li Chencan doesn't plan to pay attention to it for the time being, and now it is mainly a few small-budget movies.
After June, these small-budget films began to shoot one after another, especially films like "Smart: Ghost Shadow", which is particularly simple to shoot, the original Tsunami Film Company was already a film company with a lot of experience in the distribution of small and medium-cost films, and now it is revitalized, and it is still such a good movie, naturally, they will also have a high efficiency when they start working.
At this time, the award notice of the Golden Dragon Award at the Yenching International Film Festival also came to Li Chencan and them, and "Truman's World" finally won several awards...... (To be continued......)