China Entertainment: Director’s happiness is so simple

Shareholders are concerned about making money, and Lu Ping An is even more concerned about it.

When you come to Hollywood, Lu Pingping only does two things.

The first thing is to give money, and the rest is all about making money.

The current "Batman" is for him to challenge the big directors.

As for making money, that’s what I’ve been doing.

The previous two horror films have achieved astonishing revenue ratios.

Naturally, the next step will be the same, just continue to make low-budget horror films, and then from time to time, come up with a big production with high scores and box office.

In terms of low-cost, there are too many low-cost and high-box-office films. Guanglu Ping An knows that if you make five films every year, you can make them for many years.

So he is basically not worried about whether he can make money in the future.

But this is only from his perspective.

For shareholders, it's a tightrope dance every time.

For example, this time around "Batman", no one is optimistic about it. Shareholders are optimistic about it, but in fact it's not much. It's mostly a gamble.

The next "Insidious" to be released will be better, but it is still a gamble.

After all, making a movie is a big risk.

"Dead Silence" is even worse. If it weren't for Lu Ping'an's sake, they actually didn't have much optimism for Wen Ziren.

As a shareholder, I naturally have to give everyone a shot in the arm at this time.

So Lu Pingan said directly:

"No matter how the box office of "Insidious" is, after "Batman", "Chainsaw 2" and "Happy Death Day 2" will open."

In one word, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Compared to the films mentioned above, sequels to series that have already achieved success will naturally make everyone feel more at ease.

"Chainsaw 1" won a global box office of 110 million and attracted a lot of horror film fans.

"Death Day 1" took in 115 million at the global box office and is still an excellent seed for the series.

Among them, everyone has read the script of "Chainsaw 2" and is full of expectations.

So if these two films start a series.

Several shareholders immediately felt that if Summit was now listed, the stock price would rise a lot as soon as the news was announced.

With the assurance that the road was safe, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became much more relaxed.

Lu Pingan also stopped for now, not saying that he would not direct the two movies, let alone other low-cost movie plans.

It won't be too late to wait until both "Insidious" and "Dead Silence" achieve the expected goals he said.

Then the shareholders talked about other things.

For example, Lu Ping'an bought "Brokeback Mountain" and "He Comes Tonight" before.

Lu Ping'an confessed: "Brokeback Mountain will be filmed this year, and I'm preparing to compete for the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award next year and the 2006 Oscar."

As the first film in his artistic career, Lu Pingan still values ​​​​it very much.

The two leading actors have already said hello, and they will start preparations after the new year.

Shooting is expected to start in August or September.

Watts' eyes suddenly lit up: "Are you sure?"

"certainly."

Safe road and full of confidence.

After everyone heard this, expectations arose in their hearts.

The three shareholders are all literary youths, and they naturally know that an award-winning film can bring different benefits to the company than commercial films.

In terms of profit, the three major award-winning films in Europe can make a lot of money just from the copyright.

Films that win Oscars, even if they are literary films, have an unspoken rule that they can get more film scheduling bonuses.

In addition to profits, whether the company has won authoritative awards is also a criterion used to distinguish the company's grade.

From the perspective of literary youth, this is a manifestation of strong character.

From a capitalist's perspective, this lays the foundation for the company's future financing and listing.

Therefore, everyone expressed support for Lu Ping An’s bonus plan.

As for "He Came From Tonight", Lu Ping'an also said: "It won't be shot so early. I think the cost of this film will be high. Let's talk about it later."

Everyone agreed.

Funds are relatively tight at the current peak.

Several previous low-budget films have made big box office hits.

But it was Lu Ping An who made the big bucks, and Summit actually didn’t make much.

Now that "Batman" is in production, we naturally don't dare to start other big projects easily.

After talking about the matter, "Dead Silence" was successfully completed two days later.

The post-production period for "Dead Silence" is expected to take two months, so if it is scheduled to be released, it will probably be in May.

The schedule at that time was also more suitable for horror films. I hope that "Dead Silence" with a mere cost of 2.3 million can achieve the box office of "The Original Time and Space".

In this way, the film can still make a profit several times the cost.

Then Lu Ping'an stayed in the United States for another day before setting off to return to China. This time the destination was Xiangjiang.

Guorong called before. As the New Year was approaching, he invited Lu Pingan to a gathering in Xiangjiang. Aunt Mei also wanted to meet him.

Now Mei Gu is almost free to move around. Unless she relapses in the future, there won't be much of a problem.

Since Guorong invited Lu Pingan, he would naturally not refuse.

Duo Guorong has hardly been doing business in the industry for more than half a year. He is either in Bashu or taking care of Aunt Mei.

Not seeing each other for more than half a year, Lu Pingan also wanted to see how Guorong was doing.

After landing in Xiangjiang, Xiang Guoqiang was picked up.

Xiang Guoqiang has been dealing with the matter of investing in Jiahe recently.

Now Xiang Guoqiang reports that the situation is not bad.

In addition to Boss Zou's shares, the remaining shares were acquired about 18%. In other words, Lu Ping An's future movies can already directly use Golden Harvest's distribution channels.

Currently, Golden Harvest is negotiating cooperation with China Film Group Corporation, and both parties will establish a new company. China Film Group's purpose is also to use Golden Harvest to develop overseas distribution channels.

There is no conflict between Lu Ping An's approach and China Film Group, and they will only cooperate more closely in the future.

In addition to Jiahe, Xiang Guoqiang's business in the mainland has also made progress.

He and Uncle Liao have cooperated and have now purchased 8 cinemas in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and the land in Beijing is about to be auctioned.

Eight of the theaters here are purchased individually, and the rest have been negotiated with several theater chain companies for several rounds of investment matters.

The biggest obstacle currently facing us is actually policy issues.

But this kind of thing is easy to handle. After all, there is already a private theater chain in China: Century Universal Cinema Line Company.

But this company is not dominated by private capital. The first theater chain company dominated by private capital was Wanda.

Lu Ping An never thought about building a theater chain company larger than Wanda.

But you must have theater lines in hand.

The first is to increase the right to speak in distribution and lay a more solid foundation for the future in the industry.

The second is to implement the technology in their own hands.

It's time for the photography technology acquired by "Wonderful Night" to begin to be implemented, and Xiang Guoqiang has also registered a company in China.

Lu Ping An's plan is to have at least three cinemas that can support IMAX or 3D when "Wonderful Night" is released.

This will be a publicity point for the movie, as well as for theater chains and technology promotion.

In the future, Lu Pingan will have theater chains, content output, and high technology.

At least in terms of commercial films, his domestic advantages have been established.

Of course, it will take time to achieve this step in the plan, and the plan is much more than this step.

Lu Ping'an is not in a hurry. Anyway, there are still many years before the box office explosion, so just take your time.