The director of the "Demacia: Glory" film project does not have such high requirements in terms of talent, on the contrary, it requires more execution.

Being able to strictly implement the shooting plan, the shooting process, and complete the expected shots with quality and quantity is all that Fan Zhe asked the director of the film "Demacia".

And since this is the case, there is no need to choose those famous directors.

Neither cost-effective nor suitable.

Famous directors are very expensive, and at the same time, general directors have a relatively strong desire to control their film works, and they will prefer that the film can be shot according to their own ideas. Especially domestic directors, this is especially the case.

This is also the difference between the so-called 'heavy industry films' in China and Hollywood. Hollywood's commercial films are centered on the producer, and the director is responsible for the work on the set, and he doesn't even have the editing rights of the movie. In China, the current more popular is the big director system, and the director is the boss of the project.

"Demacia: Glory" doesn't need a big director, a director who has a lot of ideas and wants to put his own stamp on the film.

Therefore, it is relatively more important to choose a director who has a certain amount of shooting experience, strong enough execution ability, and will not mess around.

In the end, Fan Zhexuan's director, called Liu Minghui, a young director, is only twenty-seven years old this year, graduated from Nortel's directing department, started making short films, and had one experience in directing feature films, which is a small-budget film.

Although his resume is average, he performed well in the interview, so Fan Zhe chose it.

Next, Liu Minghui will work with a number of producers sent by Wedo Entertainment to build the crew.

So, in the middle of December, that is, only half a month after the three parties signed the film and television development contract of League of Legends with 'Dimension Entertainment' and Penguin and Riot, the first film project was already in full swing.

According to the contract reported by Weiwei Entertainment to Penguin, the total investment of this "Demacia: Glory" is 800 million yuan, about 117 million US dollars, which is undoubtedly a big investment movie.

Both parties are in accordance with the contract, full of investment, each of which contributed 400 million.

This time, the budget of "Demacia: Glory", Dimension Entertainment has made the accounts particularly clear, especially when it comes to 'Dimension Technology'.

The 'Dimensional Technology' is a skin used by Fan Zhe to cover up his 'Dimensional System'.

At the same time, this is known as the most mysterious place in the whole company, except for Fan Zhe himself, only Ye Jiayi has done some accounting work for 'Dimension Technology', and other than that, almost no one has come into contact with it.

In the past, because the works of Wedo Entertainment were all self-invested and self-financing projects, the accounts on special effects were not particularly detailed, and many places put an approximate value to finish, anyway, the money paid to Wedo Technology will eventually return to the accounts of Wedo Entertainment in the name of investment.

Therefore, the related production costs, especially the cost of special effects and post-production, are not very rigorously estimated, after all, it is left-handed to right-handed.

But this time, it's different. The movie "Demacia: Glory", half of the funding, is from Penguin.

If the production cost is lowered, it will be too much of a loss.

So, Ye Jiayi also came up with a detailed cost accounting for post-production, analyzed the number of shots, quality, time, etc. of the special effects, and came up with a quotation in the name of 'Dimension Technology', which could be provided to the penguin side for viewing.

Ye Jiayi dared to take the guarantee of the entire financial department of Wedo Entertainment, this cost accounting list, Penguin can't find anything just by checking the accounts.

In reality, there really can't be a problem. The quotation is based on the market price, and the production level is a cut above the market level, so what's the problem?

The special effects studios that provide technical support for Hollywood, and the European and American worlds, do the same level, and the price will be even higher than that of 'Dimension Technology' - they have always been like this, one price for Hollywood companies, one price for foreign companies.

The budget given by Wedo Entertainment in terms of the entire visual production has reached 550 million yuan, about 80 million US dollars.

Zhang Yanping, on his side, was still taken aback at the beginning of receiving this offer, but after careful accounting, he found that there was no problem with the account.

But this number still made him a little frightened - the total budget is only 800 million, and the actors have not even been decided, and the post-production has taken 5.5 first?

Lao Zhang called by himself: "That...... Mr. Ye, is the special effects budget we are doing a little too high? ”

His tone was somewhat tactful.

"Mr. Zhang, why do you think so?"

"The remaining budget of 250 million, aside from the cost of some movie shooting, the remaining money should not be a lot, and it is difficult to invite too many too good star lineups......"

This is what Zhang Yanping is more worried about.

In the current domestic film environment, the cast is a special place to spend money. is not just some money-making movies, even some big productions, they also like to spend a lot of money on the cast, it seems that if they don't attract a vote of actors, traffic Xiaosheng, it is not a domestic blockbuster.

On the contrary, there is relatively not so much money spent on production.

Of course, Zhang Yanping knows that the main focus of this "Demacia: Glory" must be special effects, but it doesn't need to be so expensive, right? The rest of the money, even if it will be a lot of green screen shooting, there are still a lot of detailed live-action shots, which need to be built and filmed, a lot of equipment rental, crew salaries, and a lot of group performances required for war scenes......

Once these are removed, how much money will be left? How many actors are enough?

"Our budget for the three main actors has been agreed on 80 million yuan, and the total should not exceed 90 million if you count the other supporting roles." Ye Jiayi replied.

“…… Just 10 million dollars? We're hoping to find some Hollywood stars to play the roles......"

"We think the opposite." Ye Jiayi said, "We plan to find a certain number of domestic stars. ”

"Clams?" Zhang Yanping was a little stunned: "But...... LOL is a story set in the West......"

"So what?" Ye Jiayi said lightly, "Hollywood can use white people to make money-making works exclusively for the Chinese film market, why can't we use Chinese in the context of Western stories?" ”

"This ...... Is it really appropriate? ”

"We have begun to actively communicate with many domestic first-line film actors such as Peng Yuyan, Xie Tingfeng, Deng Chao, Chen Kun, etc."

"No, Mr. Ye, I think I still have to talk about this matter." Zhang Yanping said on the phone, "Now, according to some of our analysis of the global film market, using white actors can gain strong acceptance around the world, including in the domestic market; And if you use yellow actors, then the performance in the domestic market may be better, but in the global market, the competitiveness will obviously decline seriously......"

Ye Jiayi said: "We also understand this truth. However, we didn't have the budget to invite multiple Hollywood movie stars. If it's just ordinary white actors, there's no appeal to speak of; Secondly, instead of aiming at the global market, the first thing we need to do is to grasp the domestic market. Without the domestic market, the global box office is a floating cloud. ”

The current Chinese film market is not at all what it used to be.

In recent years, China's film market has flourished, from the initial neglect to an extremely important part of the global film market, quickly surpassing Europe and becoming the second largest market after North America. In 2018, the box office of the Chinese mainland market surpassed that of North America and became the world's No. 1 box office.

Obviously, it is a film made by a Chinese company, and it doesn't take into account the world's No. 1 box office first, lick the domestic audience, and think about licking the European and American markets, isn't that a bad pen?

"The Great Wall" is a counter-example.

In other words, for the film "Demacia: Glory", the performance in the domestic market is the key to success, and the overseas market can only be regarded as the icing on the cake.

This is completely different from the environment faced by this year's "Taigo 2". After all, there is still a significant gap between domestic stand-alone gamers and the international market in terms of their temporary desire to pay and ability to pay.

Movies and games are two very different situations. Although the domestic film market is always said to be immature, it is much better than the game market.

According to the agreement, in terms of content production, Wedo Entertainment has the final decision, and Penguin only has the right to make suggestions. Ye Jiayi doesn't need to say so much, and forcefully tells the other party that a result is over.

However, after all, the partners of the two sides, and this cooperation on the film and television project of "League of Legends", not surprisingly, will last for ten years. Therefore, it is more important to explain well, maintain a good cooperative attitude, and have a more harmonious cooperative relationship.

In the end, the result of this communication ended with Ye Jiayi persuading Zhang Yanping.

"Do what you think." Zhang Yanping said, "I only hope that it will succeed in the end, at least so that we can continue to do this series......

Recently, he has been quite ambitious.

After negotiating cooperation and spending 400 million on the first film project, they are quite looking forward to seeing the finished film, seeing what kind of storm this "Demacia: Glory" will be released in two years, and then in the domestic market and even in the entire global market.

And as long as the first work is successful, the following series will keep up with a large number of projects one after another, and there will be more places to make money.

Even, making a superhero series similar to Marvel is not impossible to fantasize.

But at the same time, if the film fails, it will also bring a heavy blow to this cooperation between the two sides.

Even Zhang Yanping, who can be regarded as a high-ranking person and has experienced many ups and downs, will feel both looking forward to it and apprehensive.

But this momentum hasn't passed yet, and Ye Jiayi's next words made his heart tremble.

"Not only the project of "Demacia: Glory", but also in March next year, we are preparing to make another LOL movie, which is expected to be released within half a year after the release of "Demacia: Glory"."

"What? In two or three months, you still have to start a new project? ”

On the phone, Zhang Yanping's attitude was a little out of shape.

Ye Jiayi is normal: "Yes, it should be 'Night Hunter. Wayne's independent films. In this project, there shouldn't be a lot of original heroes involved, and the main character is just one VN, but the investment amount should not be too small, 650 million should be wanted. ”

"Too radical, huh?" Zhang Yanping was a little worried.

He is still worried about whether the first hero movie will be successful and whether it will hit the street, and Weiwei Entertainment is already preparing to carry out two projects at the same time.

"We have full confidence in the work and the LOL series." Ye Jiayi said, "I mentioned this matter to you because I wanted to ask, does your company have any ideas for following up on investment in this project?" ”

"650 million investment...... Let us think about it. ”

"Okay." Ye Jiayi said, "However, I hope you can do it as soon as possible." The preparation of the project should start in January and will be officially launched after the year, so we hope that you will be able to get back to us within a month. ”

Zhang Yanping reluctantly said, "Okay...... So we ...... Let's talk about it. ”

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Yanping wiped his face.

The news that Dimension Entertainment had set up a VN independent film project was a bit too sudden for him, and he was not prepared at all before that.

For penguins, this is not just news, but also means an investment of at least 300 million yuan.

300 million! That's not a small amount of money.

Before, the penguins had already smashed 400 million on "Demacia: Glory", and this has not seen the shadow of the investment back, and it will be 300 million soon?

This was completely unexpected by Penguin Pictures, so much so that they simply did not prepare the funds.

Of course, after all, backed by the behemoth of Penguin, Penguin Pictures has no shortage of funds if it wants to. But only if that's their back-office support.

If it is pure profitability, let alone 700 million, the previous 400 million, Penguin Pictures can't take out - just from the 'Penguin Pictures' piece, their profitability is quite limited, and it is difficult to get 400 million in cash.

But on the other hand, if the penguin father behind them is willing to give money, let alone 700 million, 7 billion can be easily taken out.

It's just a matter of whether they are willing to give it.

This is also a lot of pressure for Zhang Yanping. I don't know if the previous work is successful or not, so I have to do the second one?

He thought about it for two or three days, talked to his subordinates, and finally decided to keep up.

Play, just play with a big pen. 400 million have been invested, and another 300 million is missing?

However, when he applied to the group's headquarters for more investment funds, he was denied.