"Cloud Atlas"?

Bad movie...

Amount, or a film with serious losses!

Produced by Warner Bros. and starring Big Tom.

With an investment of 100 million, the global box office is 130 million US dollars...

Shen Mengxi hasn't seen it, but I've heard it, this film is very famous:

Zhou Xun seems to have participated!

There was a report back then: "Chinese actresses have continuous overseas blockbuster films, and they will run when they enter Hollywood"

Among them, Xu Qing joined "Ring Messenger", Yu Nan was invited to "The Expendables 2", and Zhou Xun starred in "Cloud Atlas"...

New Plains Entertainment invested $10 million in the sci-fi film "Cloud Atlas", becoming the second largest investor in the film, obtaining the distribution rights in Chinese mainland, and creating a precedent for Chinese investment in Hollywood blockbusters.

Of course, now it was done in advance by Shen Mengxi...

But do you think, is New Wilderness Entertainment famous?

is not famous, why can you invest in "Cloud Atlas"?

Because Warner Bros. is not very optimistic about this film, the investment given is not very much, and the crew needs to fool people all over the world to invest...

This movie, like "Dune", is an adaptation of the original book, and the original book is very famous, and it was shortlisted for the Booker Award, Nebula Award, and Clark Award at the same time...

The problem is that the original book is too mysterious and not popular enough...

In addition, the directors are the Wachowski siblings, and these two sisters have no blockbuster works except for "The Matrix"...

Even "Super Sense Hunting", the masterpiece in many people's minds was cut by Netflix because of high investment and low return.

A bunch of people blow about a $9 million episode, thinking that high investment is the guarantee of the quality of American dramas, but in fact, on the contrary, this is a huge commercial bubble.

The investment in any TV series needs to be based on returns!

In addition to political tasks, the Jin Yuan crew is bound to be eliminated, which is the mainstream of world film and television!

They are the most interesting thing about Nolan!

The Wachowski sisters are essentially niche independent film directors, so it's not right, they should be independent big-budget film directors who cheated the money of big studios, their status in the directing industry may be more embarrassing, and they must be compared, they may be closer to Jarmusch, Nicholas Wendin Nifrey, PTA and the like, Lanaw Wachowski has also expressed his love for PTA;

PTA: Paul Thomas Anderson, representative works: "Magnolia", "Blood is Coming", "Unruly Night"...

Nolan is still a very popular commercial film director in nature, you can see a lot of flattering settings and bridges in Nolan's works, many people say that Nolan's "Inception" is brain-burning, but eighty percent don't understand what brain-burning is.

If you want to watch brain-burning, I suggest you watch "Cloud Atlas", "12 Monkeys", "Shutter Island", "Fight Club"...

Or turn Nolan's "Memory Fragments" out and take a look!

If you're looking for a challenge, check out David Lynch's films, Mulholland Drive, The Inland Empire...

Back to director Wachowski, although the two reached the pinnacle of their careers during the "Matrix" period.

But it can be seen from many of its subsequent works that the two have been trying to innovate and break the boundaries of film art, such as "Speed Racer", such as "Cloud Atlas"...

It's a pity that their attempt has not been accepted by the industry and most audiences.

Anyway, the two don't care, as long as they shoot in their own way - if they care about the outside world, they won't change from brothers to sisters!

Wachowski was tired of the media and reluctant to expose his life, rarely giving any kind of interview, except when he had to participate in the promotion of his new film.

Lana Wachowski once said: Celebrities don't make your life better, on the contrary, they make your life worse!

That's the kind of person, they don't have the slightest gratitude for the producer's money, but feel that it should be - I'll help you turn money into art.

You say you're losing money, what should I do?

Rest assured, there are always fools willing to throw money!

David was well-intentioned...

"I have analyzed, "Cloud Atlas" is an adaptation, the original work itself is more influential, directed by the Wachowski sisters and brothers, starring Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant..."

Shen Mengxi interrupted him and said bluntly: "I'm not optimistic about this film!"

“... Why? I think if we invest in it, there's a good chance that this film will pay for itself..."

Shen Mengxi tilted his head to look at him, and then asked rhetorically: "Why do we invest in movies to recover costs? Isn't it to make money?"

“... Money-making projects, people won't let us get involved casually!"

"Warner Bros. has such a good relationship with Wachowski, they are not willing to control the investment, and they use this drama invested by the platter fund... I don't think we'd better follow suit..."

David shut up...

He's really kind...

After all, "Inception" looks much more suspenseful, and Shen Mengxi dares to spend $60 million.

Unexpectedly, he pushed out the investment opportunity in "Cloud Atlas".

......

In the afternoon, at the airport, Nancy sent the girls away.

Before leaving, she explained:

"In recent years, China's film market has grown rapidly, with films such as Avatar, Transformers, Inception, and The Expendables ranking second highest in the world at the box office, and savvy Hollywood businessmen will not turn a blind eye. In this case, adding a Chinese character makes it easier to enter the Chinese market. In the past, the Chinese market was very small and the degree of openness was very limited, so it didn't matter whether it used Chinese actors or not, but now the situation is different. ”

According to Hollywood rules, as long as the actor's last work is a box office hit, the next one will not worry about no investment or lack of roles. ”

"The projects we selected are either well-known on a global scale in their own right, or they are blessed by heavyweight stars, so they don't have to worry about not selling!"

"But our English is very poor..."

It was Yang Xiaomi who spoke.

She's okay with Nancy...

Probably she is more in line with Nancy's taste.

That's right, Nancy is crooked...

"There's no hurry, language needs a process..."

Nancy comforted, then she approached Yang Xiaomi, and said in a low voice: "The "007" series is going to find a Chinese actress to serve as a new generation of Bond girls, there is new progress, I will contact you, don't tell them!"

Yang Xiaomi understood and said goodbye to her with a smile.

I didn't pay attention to Liu Shishi next to him, and his face was very wrong!

......

Massachusetts, that is, Massachusetts, where Harvard University and MIT are located.

Very famous.

The location of the movie "Hunting" is actually not so difficult, just a decent town!

Then, Worcester, Massachusetts, strongly invited the "Hunt" crew to travel to Worcester for filming...

There was even a 40% tax rebate – the Massachusetts tax rebate for movies was 25%...

The City of Worcester actually issued a 40% tax refund...

And very sincerely, 15% of the share was directly given to the crew of "Hunting" in the form of cash...

The reason is simple, after the release of "Manchester at Sea", this year, the town received more than 300,000 tourists, most of whom came from China!

The direct drive to the town's GDP rose by 80%, and by the way, housing prices doubled...

The economic benefits and housing price benefits are so obvious.

"The Hunt" also has a lot of visual images, and Worcester wants to emulate "Manchester at Sea"...

Shen Mengxi, including Xiao Lizi, felt that it didn't matter, where to shoot or not.

And then they came.

Speaking of which, the production cost of "Hunting" is 32 million US dollars, and Xiao Lizi signed 15 million + 20% profit sharing...

The other actors are paid very low, and they add up to less than half of the production budget.

How low...

Let's put it this way, the second paid part of the crew is Matthew McConaughey invited by Leonardo, with a salary of $80,000 - the father of the little girl, the first one who believes that he did not molest his daughter, because he is a good friend of the male protagonist;

This is the most common operation of independent films: in addition to super-A-list stars who can participate in part of the box office sharing, mid-range stars are being greatly reduced in salary...

Of course, if the movie sells out and the producer makes money, he will make up the salary...