China Entertainment: Director’s happiness is so simple

"Lu Ping'an's new film wrapped yesterday, and the lead actor Guorong toasted with the creators"

"Lu Ping An's new film will be produced in two lines, with shooting and special effects happening simultaneously, and may be released at the end of this year."

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The day after "Source Code" was finalized, the media released the news.

The popularity of the second blockbuster has exploded slightly due to the heat of the World Cup.

Of course, in addition to those who are optimistic, there are also those who are bearish.

The biggest controversial point is that the filming of a blockbuster only took a month, which is a bit suspected of fraud.

Lu Ping'an ignored it for the time being and focused on doing his own business.

In the afternoon of the next day, he and everyone in the company sent Guorong to the airport.

Guorong still has to make an album next, so he won’t be able to take any time off.

Lu Ping'an and his assistant will always be in contact.

Now that we have become friends and have decided to do something, we must always keep in touch.

After seeing Guorong off, Lu Ping'an returned to the company and started a summary meeting.

A big production cannot just be completed in such a hazy manner.

There are too many shortcomings and gains that need to be summarized, and now is the right time.

At present, the production costs of "Source Code" have been released.

After final calculation, the final production cost of "Source Code" excluding special effects, totaled 16.9 million, including 1 million for Lu Ping'an's director's salary. This price is only 200,000 lower than the market price of the director of The Great Poet.

Not bad, the overall cost overrun was less than 7 million.

In addition, two advertisements at the station were sold, earning 3 million yuan, and the Trade City also gave 500,000 yuan in advertising fees.

In total, there aren't many super lands.

So so far, the total cost of "Source Code" has reached about 37 million. Later, the media quotation will be quoted at 50 million. This is a unanimous decision of the producer.

The rewards are high and the gimmicks are more abundant.

In fact, everyone has already seen it after watching the filming.

This film is still different from the films made by Feng Dapao and others in China, and even different from the films in Xiangjiang.

This is a film with very Hollywood characteristics, with a clear structure and full of commercial elements. In China, it is a North-South killing, and even a Central-West killing. With the support of theaters, the box office is expected to be higher than what it was at the beginning. a bit more.

In addition, because advertising sponsorship has also increased, reaching about 24 million, the actual cost of the film is still about 35% of the book, which is 13 million.

Excluding publicity and distribution fees, this cost can be recovered with a final box office of 40 million. If it reaches a box office of 100 million, it will be a huge profit.

Excellent money view!

The only question is whether China can handle a commercial film worth 100 million yuan.

There is optimism and there is pessimism.

This is normal. The blockbuster era has not yet begun, and everything is unknown, but the work has been done, and the next step is to work hard to promote it.

On Lu Ping'an's side, 20 million has been transferred to the account for special effects.

Lu Ping An will use all this money on his books.

The special effects that are promised will never be compromised.

In addition, Lu Ping'an also earned two additional fees, one of which was Youngor's clothing design fee. The clothing styles in the film, such as the female officer's suit, caught Younger's fancy and spent 15,000 on the model.

The other was Bird’s design fee. The internet phone used by the protagonist in the film was a fake Nokia N97, which is not available yet. Bird praised Lu Ping An’s creativity and spent 50,000 yuan to buy the appearance.

I don't know if they can build it in the future. Anyway, Lu Ping'an took the money, so it's none of his business.

In fact, they don't need to give it. After all, Lu Pingan has not applied for a patent or anything.

But giving it now only shows that the person's conscience is there, or that Lu Ping'an is worthy of being taken seriously.

It is a good sponsor and we can continue to cooperate in the future.

Then comes the rest.

The filming of the film lasted a full month, and the total preparation time was two and a half months.

For a blockbuster, this time is indeed too little. This is why some outside media are currently questioning it. They say that filming was completed just one month after filming started. Is this still a blockbuster?

But in fact, a movie like "Source Code" that makes efficient use of scenes really won't take too long.

The outside world doesn't know the content of the film, so let them discuss it. In the end, it all depends on the quality of the film.

Lu Ping'an knew clearly, so there was no disturbance.

Having said that, the preparation for this project was indeed a bit rough.

A lot of time and money are wasted on useless things, commonly known as: paying tuition.

Fortunately, this is true in all walks of life. Paying tuition a few times and learning lessons will be good for the future of Star Film and Television.

Everyone expressed their opinions, and everyone reflected on themselves one by one and proposed the shortcomings of each link, and made a summary to ensure that they can do better next time.

In short, it is a big project. The personal improvement is obvious, but many shortcomings can also be realized.

Overall, the good outweighs the bad.

Lu Ping'an himself is the same.

In fact, he himself knows that all the movies he has made so far are copying.

In the eyes of outsiders, Lu Ping'an is a "genius director", "quick shooter", "sensitive camera sense", "genius screenwriter" and so on.

Just listen, Lu Ping'an won't take it seriously.

From his own point of view, he actually still feels that he is an ordinary person and there are many things he has not done well.

So far in the filming project, all he has done is "study".

How to schedule, how to adjust the camera position, lighting, and how to train the actors, every step is clear and efficient.

He looks awesome, but outsiders think "this kid is so scary".

But there is nothing of his own, they are all just imitations and imitations.

To put it bluntly, without the homework template given by Goldfinger, he would have lost at least half of his skills.

But then again, he has indeed grown a lot now compared to 2000.

Practice makes perfect, and now he has begun to "familiarize" it. "Practice makes perfect" is only a matter of time. It may take a long time to achieve this step. Lu Ping'an is not impatient.

For this reason, many actors with high scores could not come during the filming of "Source Code", and he did not strive for it, because training director skills and improving one's abilities while trying to restore the quality of the work is the most effective way at this stage. important.

When he is really confident that he can move from "restoration" to "transcendence", he will naturally strive for perfection in all aspects of the work.

At the end of the summary, Lu Pingan confirmed that he was mediocre and felt much more at ease.

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After summarizing and explaining the good things, Lu Pingping returned home and received an email from Hu Qingquan.

Recently, Hu Qingquan has submitted "Time and Space Crime" to the Venice Film Festival. Currently, Hu Qingquan will focus on the Olympic competition process of "Memory Block House".

Hu Qingquan has already rented a place in Lao America, and Lu Ping'an will meet Hu Qingquan in Lao America when the time comes.

He said that he learned a lot about the Oscars this time and met many people, which was very interesting. He would discuss the details when they meet.

The magic of the Oscars is even more magical to the Chinese people whether they can win the award.

Lu Ping'an was mentally prepared for whether he could win the prize.

It's best to win a prize. It's difficult for Chinese people to win prizes, but that doesn't mean the probability is 0. It's okay if you can't win a prize.

But he is still prepared to raise the budget, at least the problem cannot be about money.

Do what you should do well. In this way, good works will not win awards, and everyone will be able to understand the situation more clearly and receive less scolding. Hu Qingquan will not be disappointed when the time comes.

Of course, the most important thing is that through this short film competition, you can accumulate experience for future feature films.

The nature of Olympic PR for short films and feature films is different, and the money spent is also very different, but the process is similar.

It is not impossible for the Chinese to win Oscars, but they have come and they have to give it a try.

I have several Oscar-winning films in my hands, and if I can get more money from them, why not rush for them?

After replying to the email, Lu Ping An began to count the assets.

Of the previously calculated 25 million in cash, 15 million was invested in the "Source Code" project for temporary storage. After the completion of the project, there was an additional 20 million in the account of Akers Special Effects. The 20 million depends on the taxation of the special effects company, a high-tech enterprise. Extremely low, you can operate it yourself. After tax, you can pay taxes according to the most fool-proof way, and you will lose up to about 25%. Xiang Guoqiang will figure out how to maximize it. The bottom line is compliance and legality.

The box office dividend of "Comet" has reached 3 million yuan after tax.

The actual cash available to him is about 28 million, which is almost 3.4 million US dollars.

Guo Qiang and Uncle Liao have also been working on foreign exchange matters, and a few months ago they retained about 500,000 US dollars overseas for Hu Qingquan's funds. What was actually used in the end, according to the average number of short film public relations, Maybe only a little over 100,000 will be used.

However, even if it is more than 100,000, the 500,000 Hu Qingquan is currently useless, because since the "Hired Life" tour, more than 20 film festivals, large and small, have contributed nearly 100,000 US dollars in bonuses to overseas accounts. In addition to the issuance rights fee of more than 200,000 US dollars, only more than 40,000 US dollars have been spent so far.

This is the additional distribution fee after Berlin. In other words, Hu Qingquan has a lot more film studio resources, which is not bad!

The next step is to take stock of your own "film library."

Goldfinger is very powerful. Just write an outline of the story and you can produce a script.

But this does not mean that Lu Ping An’s “film library” is inexhaustible.

First of all, he is not going to collect Chinese-language films, at least not many of them. There is no point in collecting bad foreign films unless they are used to practice "beyond", but training costs money! It may also damage your reputation.

In addition to these, as time goes by, some films can no longer be made, some films also involve copyright, and even if some films can be produced, they cannot be made without money.

Therefore, his "film library" can be seen at a glance, and the only short film that can be used is the Venice short film that has not been made yet.

Now his total assets are less than 5 million US dollars. Even if he has special effects software, it is still too little.

Therefore, Lu Ping'an felt that the money-making plan still had to be mentioned.

With this in mind, Lu Pingan took aim at the last golden finger of quick money: NetEase.

This is the only prophetic information he has left that can make quick money, and with his current strength, he won't be able to make much money, and it won't take very long, it will take a year or two.

Fortunately, this is enough. When the time comes, he will be able to do more things with the money, such as making blockbusters, buying copyrights, making various arrangements, etc.

I don’t know how much I can do, but I can certainly achieve my goal of leaving a brilliant mark on this world before the film library is exhausted.

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