Chapter 259: Super Blockbuster
The next day, Hong Ben gave the list to Zhou Yan.
This time, Zhou Yan transferred a total of 12 people from the Chang'an factory, but only six people expressed their willingness to stay in the Yanjing factory.
This result was a bit unexpected by Zhou Yan, he thought that of these twelve people, at least eight or nine people would decide to stay.
He is not fully confident in his personal charm, but because coming to Yanjing Factory should be a very good opportunity for these filmmakers.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the current development of the Chang'an factory is not as good as before, and the Yanjing factory is in the capital, and the resources in all aspects will not be bad. After coming to the Yanjing factory, their development will definitely be better.
But if you think about it, it's really normal, these people are all dragged with their families, and if they are really seconded to the Yanjing factory, it means that their lives will have a huge change.
It's just that it's transferred to the crew, and it only takes a month or two to go back, so it's a business trip.
But if they are really seconded, there will be fewer opportunities to go home in the future, the key is that they are seconded, and the relationship is still in the Chang'an factory, and the uncertainty of the future is relatively large, and it is really not easy to plan.
Zhou Yan pondered the list for a while and called Han Sanping.
Han Sanping heard that there were six people who were willing to stay, which was very different from Zhou Yan's reaction.
"So many people want to stay?"
Han Sanping knew deeply that secondment was a big deal for many people, and the Yanjing factory did not give any better conditions.
In this case, half of the people are willing to stay, which shows how high Zhou Yan's position is in the hearts of these people.
"These people were basically the first to follow me."
Hong Xin, Lin Juan, Jiang Mengfei, Liu Qing, these four people were the first to know Zhou Yan, and they were together when "The Red Lantern Hangs High" was filmed.
Later, Zhou Yan directed the short film "Antlacewing" himself, thanks to Liu Qing's help.
"That's better, it's reliable." Han Sanping said with a smile, "Okay, I'll follow this list to ask for someone from Chang'an Factory." ”
"Will there be any difficulty in asking for six people at once?"
"It's not a big problem, I still have a little face, and now there are no projects in the Chang'an factory, and the wages of so many people are also a burden."
Now that the policy has changed, the major film studios are responsible for their own profits and losses, and everyone's pressure has suddenly increased.
Especially like the Chang'an factory, which was so brilliant before, there were many people in the factory, and the consumption of people eating and chewing every day was huge, and at this time, the Yanjing factory helped them solve the salary of some personnel, which was actually a good thing for them.
Not to mention six people, even if all twelve people are transferred, there will not be much difficulty.
Han Sanping dares to transfer people, he is confident, and with the cooperation of Tomson, their film studio is really not particularly short of money now.
Huo Jianqi has a new project here, just this project, it is no problem to raise a crew for a few months.
As long as Tomson is stabilized, there will be no shortage of projects in their future.
Regarding Han Sanping's words, Zhou Yan did not doubt at all that Han Sanping was quite sure of doing things.
"Okay, third brother, then this matter will trouble you."
"When you say this, I should thank you."
……
The next morning, as soon as Zhou Yan was about to leave home, he received a call from Xiao Can.
"Director Zhou, I have something to report to you."
"Well, you say."
"Jiangjuntuo Primary School, want to rent our school."
"Jiangjuntuo Elementary School? How do they want to be grouped? ”
"What they mean is, let's make a price, and they don't see if it's a good fit."
Zhou Yan frowned and said, "It's not for them to decide this matter, right?" Does the relocation of the school site require the approval of the higher authorities? ”
Xiao Can said with a smile, "I inquired about it from the side, and this matter should have been instructed by the superior leader, otherwise, they probably wouldn't dare to mention this matter in elementary school." ”
Zhou Yan nodded, and it could be explained in this way.
It is estimated that Junjuntuo's side has been eyeing their school building for a long time, otherwise it would not have been as soon as the movie was completed, and Junjuntuo Primary School would have come to mention this matter.
The school has been built, and it is a waste to put it there, if it can really be used, it can be regarded as a good thing, but Zhou Yan was a little hesitant, that is, when this school building was built at that time, it was a bit of a prison style, and it was completely useless with a normal school building.
If students go to school there, will it be affected?
Except for the architectural style of the school, the school building is very good in other aspects, the location is excellent, and there is a road at the door, and the traffic is relatively good.
Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "I know about this, I will discuss it with the company, and give them an answer when there is a result." ”
"Okay."
Chidi Middle School belongs to Tomson's company, Zhou Yan naturally can't be the master, he needs to talk to Xu Feng.
Zhou Yan talked to Xu Feng on the phone, and when he talked about it, Xu Feng was very atmospheric at first, saying that he didn't need to rent it, and donated it directly to them.
But after Xu Feng thought about it, he changed his mind and decided to rent it to them, even if he didn't need money. The effect of renting and donating is actually the same, but the nature is different, and after donating, they have little initiative.
To put it mildly, if this school building is donated, it is unknown whether it can be used by Jiangjuntuo Primary School in the future. When the time comes, the good thing will be half-done, and it will be disgusting.
Xu Feng slapped the board, and the matter was settled, and finally the school building was rented to Jiangjuntuo Primary School, with a tentative lease period of fifteen years, and the annual rent was one dollar.
Xu Feng wanted to keep a low profile and act silently, but the local government disagreed, so he deliberately held a very lively signing ceremony, and also asked the news media to report the matter.
Originally, Tomson didn't do any publicity for the completion of the movie, but now because of this, the movie has been promoted.
Many news media realized it later, only to know that Zhou Yan's new movie had been completed.
"Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" was very low-key when it was launched, there was no ceremony, and the media didn't even know that Zhou Yan's new movie had been made.
Although the box office record of "The Sixth Sense" in North America did not last too long, and it was broken by "Police Story 3", it was really hot before, so now all walks of life are paying more attention to Zhou Yan's new movie.
All media wanted to know about Zhou Yan's new movie, but after exploring around, they found that there was very little information that could be found.
The only thing I know is the name of the movie, which is still written in the report that the school building was rented to Jiangjuntuo Primary School.
Seeing the name "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", many people are more strange, because listening to the name, this movie seems to focus on the theme of the countryside, and the word cattle herding is easy to think of the countryside.
But the three words "cattle herding class" are very puzzling, because everyone has never heard of what a cattle herding class is.
But soon everyone knew the meaning of "cattle herding class", the news still came from Taiwan Island, it turned out that there was a saying on Taiwan Island, "cattle herding class" generally refers to those classes composed of poor students, that is, garbage classes.
Now people understand that Zhou Yan's new movie is probably related to education, so it's no wonder that he will rent the building to other primary schools.
Tomson saw that the media was very concerned about Zhou Yan's new movie, so he simply took advantage of the situation to make a wave of publicity, first announced some actors who participated in the film, and then revealed some of the process of preparing for the film.
Colombia did not miss this opportunity either, taking the opportunity to announce that they had won the rights to remake "Sixth Sense".
Originally, Zhou Yan's new movie was just a little hot, but now after Columbia entered the market to promote it, the popularity suddenly rose.
[Defeating Warner, Columbia finally won the right to remake "Sixth Sense"! ] 】
Columbia, of course, will not let Warner go, and in the announcement, it also stepped on Warner. But Warner can't argue with that, because Columbia is telling the truth.
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This is not the first time that Zhou Yan's movie has been remade abroad, "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" has been remade before, but this time the situation is different, because when the remake rights were purchased, the Hollywood major Columbia, and watching the news Warner also participated in the competition.
Two major Hollywood studios came to grab the remake rights of "The Sixth Sense" at the same time, which shows that this film is highly valued.
The remake of "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" has achieved very good results, with a global box office of 40 or 50 million US dollars, and it is a low-cost, high-income movie.
This time, everyone is curious about what good results can be obtained from the remake of "The Sixth Sense", and whether it can surpass "Flying Piano Boy".
After all, Colombia is a big factory and has rich experience in publicity, and when they saw that the heat had risen, they began to brag.
The first awesome thing they brag about is the budget of the movie.
Although they set a budget of $20 million, they announced that they planned to pay more than $50 million for the remake of "Sixth Sense," which is more than double their real budget. They even say that if necessary, they will increase investment on this basis.
And the second awesome thing they boasted about was the director of the movie.
Colombia has announced through many media outlets that they will choose big-name directors such as Spielberg, James Cameron, and Martin Scorsese are their targets.
There are also actors, what Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and even Schwarzenegger are mentioned.
A lot of news is very serious, if Zhou Yan didn't know the inside story, he might have to be fooled.
I have to say that Colombia's trick is really useful, as soon as these news spread, some media reporters ran to ask the actors and directors who had scandals with "The Sixth Sense".
Most of the directors and actors said that they had not been in contact with Columbia, but some people did not say it directly, but only expressed their willingness to accept the challenge, or said a few polite words, what "The Sixth Sense" is a good movie, and if they were lucky enough to participate, they would be very happy.
Although only a small number of people say this, it also gives the media something to write about.
Seeing such a development of the situation, Zhou Yan also had to sigh, not to mention these big factories, their publicity ability is indeed very strong, and a remake with a budget of 20 million US dollars can be created by Colombia to create a blockbuster momentum.
unknowingly, I thought that the Colombian version of "The Sixth Sense" would be a blockbuster with a super high budget and a large number of big names.
Even Han Sanping was fooled.
One day, Zhou Yan went to Chang'an Factory to watch the editing, and was caught by Han Sanping, and congratulated Zhou Yan vigorously, "The Sixth Sense" was remade into a blockbuster.
"Fifty million US dollars, tsk, this money is enough for our factory to make many movies."
When he said this, Han Sanping's eyes were full of envy.
Even if the cost of a movie is 3 million yuan, 50 million US dollars is enough for their factory to make one or two hundred movies.
With so much money, they don't have to worry about it for a long time behind the factory. I have to say, the Yankees are really rich.
Zhou Yan said with a smile, "The news is too exaggerated, but in fact, the budget is only 20 million US dollars. ”
"Twenty million dollars...... That's a lot, but 20 million dollars can get a director of Spielberg's level, and Tom Hanks? ”
"That's all fake, too."
Hearing that these news were all fake, Han Sanping couldn't help sighing, "It's still the Yankees who can play, I thought that some of these news were true, but all of them were fake." ”
"It's okay, at least the remake isn't fake."
"If it's fake, what's it? Is Warner's participation in the competition also fake? ”
"Oh, this is true, and Colombia doesn't dare to step on it."
"Fortunately, it's not too outrageous, there is news that the remake rights of this film cost Colombia 2.5 million US dollars, how much water is this?"
"There's close to a million moisture."
That's more than 1.5 million US dollars, which is a lot, and this movie cost more than 10 million yuan at the time, right? The copyright fee for a remake alone was earned. ”
Zhou Yan nodded, "Almost." ”
"I don't know if "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" will also be remade later."
"It's hard to say."
Zhou Yan knew that Han Sanping attached great importance to this movie, after all, this movie was led by him after he came, and he definitely hoped that the movie's performance could surpass "The Sixth Sense".
But the final result will probably disappoint Han Sanping, because the movie "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" is not as commercial as "The Sixth Sense".
Maybe "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" will get a better reputation, but it is difficult to sell at the box office.
Although the probability of losing money is not high, it is basically impossible to sell "The Sixth Sense".
In fact, Han Sanping doesn't know that he is a director himself, and he also has a keen sense of smell in the market, and he must know that "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" can't sell "The Sixth Sense".
But there is always hope, and the market sometimes surprises.
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In the next few days, Zhou Yan would go to the editing room of the Yanjing factory every day and stay for most of the day.
In fact, the editing of this movie doesn't cost much, there are few negatives, and the editors don't have many choices, basically according to Zhou Yan's storyboard.
And for "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", the Yanjing Factory has fully opened its way and prioritizes the editing of this movie, unlike other movies that still need to queue up.
According to the current progress, it is expected that the existing film will be cut in more than three weeks. (End of chapter)