Chapter 43: Pretending to be a Quote +1 (1/8)
After the company went public, many things were not as free as before.
"Piano of Steel" is obviously profitable, but the stock price has fallen...
No way, who made "The Watchers" and "Twenty Years Old" too successful!
At this stage, film and television, entertainment stocks attach too much importance to the gains and losses of a movie.
The Korean version of "Twenty Years Old Again" was released for 27 days, and the number of moviegoers exceeded 8 million.
In this way, the decline caused by "Piano of Steel" is not a big deal...
You must know that after the release of "New Shaolin Temple", Huayi's stock price did not rise much...
But...
The producer of "Piano of Steel" is Mingxi Company!
Could it be that it was exposed?
Zhao Jinsong pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "... Maybe we've been keeping a low profile lately, so..."
"It's not low-key, the Sino-US co-production "The Great Wall" announced the establishment of the project, with an investment of more than 100 million!"
"Who knows... I can't understand the stock market, the only thing we can do is to grasp the content level!"
Shen Mengxi nodded: "This kind of thinking is right, our core competitiveness is always content, don't always think about taking some crooked ways..."
"Crooked?"
“... It's okay, I feel it, you go to Lao Song, I'll go to the studio first!"
The crooked way is Huayi's de-cinematization.
In the future, if it only does box office, I think this company will go astray - Huayi must not only make movies.
This point of view is right, only do box office, or only rely on Feng Xiaogang, Hua Yi can't fight Mengxi.
However, de-cinematization, directly marginalizing the film business, turning around and acquiring game companies, building film and television parks, and entering the world...
This is the same as 8848 network B2C doing well, and suddenly it is going to be transformed into B2B...
And then what?
Taobao has become.
......
The studio is the studio of the "Great Wall" project.
"The Great Wall", with an investment of up to 80 million US dollars - an increase of 40 million in the external announcement, which is not considered to be a blow, and 120 million US dollars is the total cost of production + publicity...
80 million dollars!
Of course, there must be a professional team to raise funds, preparation, personnel, shooting, advertising, sponsorship and peripherals!
At present, Mengxi's surviving project studios: "Painted Skin" and "Walking with God", "Heartbreaker", "Song of Life"...
The latter two are considered soft sci-fi, with little investment, no grand scenes, no action scenes, and are mainly composed of character dialogues and arguments.
The cost of each part is 40 million...
"Heartbreaker" is He Xi's work, and "Song of Life" is Wang Jinkang's work.
Mengxi Company has packaged the copyrights of many works of Da Liu, He Xi, Wang Jinkang, and Xinghe.
By the way, "Song of Life" is a Sino-German co-production - changing the identity of the son-in-law from Korean to German...
These two works are Guo Fan and Lu Yang are doing...
It's a trial-and-error stage - as soon as you come up, you can do Da Liu's work, and you can't bear it!
Da Liu's good works are all suitable for adaptation into movies: there is a mature and grand world view, unique and impressive characters, and a sense of genre narrative, and a plus: there is a good market sales or popularity!
The "Great Wall" studio is located in Mengxi Film Industry Park, located in Shijingshan District...
It's not an industrial park, it's mainly because of the warm invitation of the local mayor, Shen Mengxi and a few of them built the studio including the headquarters of the game company and the special effects company there...
"The Great Wall" is currently in the storyboard and storyboard production, and the special effects department is modeling...
By the way, the most difficult monster model has been solved - gluttonous modeling.
The main army of monsters in "The Great Wall" is gluttonous, and the setting is that monsters can not eat people, but once in 60 years, it is a survival experience!
As a festival that has lasted for 2,000 years, it has become an intangible cultural heritage of gluttonous populations.
The Gluttonous King led his people on a 60-year human hunt to show their bravery.
Isn't it just a life, in order to eat human flesh, this life is worth it!
Yes, the Predator...
The art design found Yu Jia'an, and the scene design found Mai Guoqiang...
These two have participated in a lot of films, most of which are above the passing grade, but their aesthetics are very oriental!
"Loyal Yang Jiajiang", "Di Renjie's Divine Dragon King", you can say that the film is very nonsense, but you can't say that art is not good...
Lao Mouzi's "The Great Wall", the armor worn by those people is really ugly!
It's ugly!
Get the monster shape of the main character, and the rest is much simpler...
"The Great Wall" has not been very shaken since the project was established, and it may not be too shaken outside the circle - it is just a Sino-US co-production movie, and everyone in the circle is staring!
It's a real big production, it's not Zhang Weiping who blew 100 million dollars...
And it is a budget made according to market expectations, the first round of budget framework of "The Great Wall", the script has not yet been completed, but a lot of work has begun in the early stage, which requires specific expenses, and then the investment company also needs this number to go through the financial process, so a budget must be made, the production team made a budget of about 80 million US dollars, but this budget is very clear and emphasized by the investor, it is not the final figure.
The industry knows all this!
The Great Wall studio has only been established for more than ten days, and contracts have been signed for photography, sets, lighting, makeup, costumes, art direction, etc., most of which are the top in the industry...
Xiangshan Film and Television Base strongly supported and directly helped build a super-large studio...
Wu Ershan has gone to shit luck, "The Great Wall" is not used yet, Wu Ershan's "Walking with God" is used first!
The whole project looks cumbersome, but it is being implemented in an orderly manner...
The funds have been put in place, and the six parties have invested: Tang Ren, China Film, Brun House, Universal, Starlight and Wanda...
In the early stage, 50 million US dollars were raised.
The rest will be officially funded when it is opened later...
Completely Hollywood industrial production mode!
......
Walking into the studio, Guo Fan and a young man were communicating with the special effects supervisor...
Shen Mengxi slapped him: "You're not busy with your "Heartbreaker", why are you running here?"
“... Study, learn..."
"Who is this?"
"Bid for the Olympics, our juniors..."
The director of "The Beneficiary"...
Shen Mengxi knew that he, the first batch of directors of the Bad Monkey Project, originally wanted to make a movie about cheating on the SAT and TOEFL exams, and then, "Genius Gunman" was released...
bumped into the subject matter, bumped into the creativity, had no choice, gave up the theme, and made "Beneficiary"...
"Director Shen..."
"Bid for the Olympics, do you want to make a movie too?"
This guy is very famous, advertising director, recognized as a good seedling.
The Olympic bid smiled bitterly: "I may not be able to make commercial films for the time being!"
Shen Mengxi shook his head: "You ask Guo Fan, do I understand commercial films? I don't understand either, all our movies are not shot at the box office!"
"How much box office can "Piano of Steel" and "Donkey Get Water" have?"
"I never take the box office as my frame of reference, just like I never care about how much money Li Bai makes, what I care about is whether your works are awesome or not, and I don't think making money is a particularly important thing, whether you have money or not, you are living!"