The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

On the project of "Full-time Master", Dimension Entertainment and Lewen Group will no longer cooperate. It is hard to say what kind of impact it will have after the announcement.

But no matter what, this matter should be a headache for Lewen Group. Dimension Entertainment has withdrawn from this project, and will definitely not meddle in other people's business.

Time hastened to May, and the broadcast of "Full Time" was coming to an end.

At this time, the filming license for "Hell Apartment" was finally won.

A sum of money from a mysterious source entered the account of Dimension Entertainment, and the amount was three million. This money came from the investment of a newly established film and television company, Tang Zhiqi. At the cost of an investment of 3 million, they will get a 10% profit share of the movie "Hell Apartment".

Dimension Entertainment is not short of money, but this investment has to be accepted.

Otherwise, how could it be so easy to obtain a filming license?

In any case, Fan Zhe was very excited to hear the news from Tang Zhiqi.

The things that the project team has been preparing for a long time are finally available.

On Ye Jiayi's side, the investment budget for "Hell Apartment" has already been prepared.

The total investment scale will reach 30 million RMB, of which 3 million will come from others.

This investment scale is not high in the current domestic film market, and it can be attributed to low-cost production.

But 30 million is not particularly small.

Among them, 25 million will be included in the accounts of "Dimension Technology", which is an investment in technology and art.

But the money actually given to the crew was only five million.

This scale is an out-and-out small investment, and relatively well-known stars cannot be invited.

Fan Zhe didn't intend to invite either.

Dimension Entertainment is not without money. Even now that the company's scale is getting bigger and bigger, the cost of maintaining the company's operations has also become a lot. At the same time, "Taiwu Painting Scroll 2" involves a considerable amount of funds from Dimension Entertainment.

However, their last work, "Fantasy Three Kingdoms", made a lot of money. Dimension Entertainment has earned nearly one billion in revenue from online broadcasting copyrights, TV station broadcasting copyrights, and overseas copyrights. At the same time, the development of peripheral derivative copyrights is another income.

This money is enough.

Anyway, Fan Zhe is the boss, if he wants to spend a lot of money on "Hell Apartment", it's not impossible.

However, this is not stable.

All in all, "Hell Apartment" is a horror thriller, and the audience cannot be as big as comedies, emotional films, fantasy and magic themes. Many, many people, when they see horror, supernatural, and thriller movies, no matter how good the evaluation is, they will not consider watching them.

For example, Fan Zhe himself is such a person, he is scared to death.

But horror movies also have their horror movie benefits.

Precise positioning, certain fans, high loyalty, low degree of market competition, and it is very easy to fight big with small things.

Fan Zhe pays more attention to the last feature.

Anyway, it's only an investment of five million yuan, which is an insignificant amount of money for the current Dimension Entertainment.

If the movie hits the street, then hit it, five million, sprinkle water. What's more, 3 million of them were voted by others.

This movie, in his own mind, he wanted to make it himself.

The first movie, and there is no prior experience, so the risk of rushing to the street is very high.

If it is for practicing hands, there is no need to invest too much money.

The real investment is about five million, and now after obtaining the license and filing, the movie can be released in the future, and a wave of box office can be harvested in theaters, earning back five million, the problem will not be a big problem-as long as the box office gets Just ten million is fine, this is not difficult in the current booming film market.

What's more, there are later copyright operations, such as online broadcasting of movies and the like.

In short, the difficulty of recovering the cost is very low.

Don’t you see, the poorly made movies such as “Pen Xian” and “Die Xian” can’t even get a four-point score on Douban, they can be released, they can make money, and they can make sequels over and over again. , Why can't "Hell Apartment" work?

Now that the shooting permit has been obtained, the next thing is to set up the crew.

In this matter, apart from Ye Jiayi and the representatives of the administrative staff sent by her side, Fan Zhe, who is going to prepare himself to be a director, also has a lot of things that need to be done by himself.

The most important thing is to find a reliable assistant director.

Fan Zhe's own schedule is very tight, and he may not even be able to guarantee that he will be on the set all the time. Even for the courses at Shenghai Drama Academy, he can ask for leave when he has something to do, but if it is other important work in the company, he may have to temporarily withdraw from the crew.

This requires a reliable assistant director who can maintain the crew when he is not around.

At the same time, when Fan Zhe's own experience is not that rich, it is also very meaningful to find an assistant director who does not need to be too famous but has experience to assist him.

This matter, Fan Zhe communicated directly with the person in charge of 'Dimension Brokerage', that is, Dai Weidong.

His connections in the industry are quite extensive, and it would be no problem to bring in a reliable assistant director.

Of course, the final decision is still in the hands of Fan Zhe.

Lao Dai pulled out a stack of resumes, and Fan Zhe watched and screened them again, and then invited some of them to come over. Fan Zhe chatted with them one by one, and then saw if they had the willingness to act as an assistant director. duty.

Fan Zhe finally found two assistant directors as his assistants.

After the two experienced assistant directors arrived, Fan Zhe held a meeting with them, Ke Changxin, an executive producer sent by Ye Jiayi, and Wei Pingzhi, the screenwriter of the film.

Ke Changxin is an experienced administrative manager. Although he has the title of producer, it is obvious that he cannot have more power than the director in the crew - the director is the boss.

His main responsibilities will be to make the crew's budget, cooperate with the two assistant directors to set up the crew, maintain the entire logistics of the crew's operation, and also be responsible for equipment, venue rental, etc.

In short, chores.

This is not to belittle, in fact, these jobs are quite important.

In addition, Ke Changxin also has another responsibility, which is to supervise a little bit, um, or to remind Director Fan to control the length of shooting time and budget usage.

And the main content of their meeting discussion this time is how to set up the crew.

Fan Zhe basically handed over everything such as theatrical affairs, venues, and equipment. After all, a director can't do everything by himself.