The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

There are ready-made songs, so Yang Dongxu doesn't have to worry about it. In addition, he used to make up for Anxi's professional knowledge. Whether it is the score or the use of instruments, he doesn't have to hum the tune for others to compose, so it was done quickly.

MV is even easier, after all, he was a director before, shooting a MV with a template already in his mind is easier than singing a song.

The song doesn't have much depth, mainly because there are some requirements on emotion and intonation, which can be refined slowly. Anyway, other songs in the album also need to be recorded slowly.

So first record the MV, and when the time comes, just add the recorded songs to it. Then the promotional MV for the title song of the album was all done. As for the need to sing live when filming the MV, that doesn't exist at all.

After all, the shooting scene is a noisy bar. Besides, if the live recording is just dealing with the noise, it will be a headache, and many sound quality cannot be grasped. So ten out of ten MVs like this are lip-syncing. How can the sound quality be compared with the sound recorded in a professional recording studio in such a spacious space.

So after shooting the MV, Yang Dongxu is basically fine. The recording of the song is a matter of the record department. It is impossible for him, the boss, to keep an eye on it all the time.

So he began to focus on selecting films for the company's film department. This selection does not mean that all movies that can make money by remembering their names are screened out.

Instead, it is necessary to choose a big production, making money is second, the main thing is to have influence, it is best to be able to win international awards, so that people in the industry can take a good look at what Heiner wants to do is still so awesome.

Of course, if the movie can make money while winning various awards, and crush its opponents at the box office, then it would be perfect. However, this is the most ideal scenario. Winning awards for big productions is the premise, followed by the box office. This is Yang Dongxu's purpose when screening the box office.

It took more than an hour for Yang Dongxu to read more than a dozen scripts. In other people's eyes, one script may need a day of study. After all, it is necessary to study the characters and content in it, and then build a rough model of the movie in your mind, and then use your own experience to infer whether the movie will be popular after it is shot.

This is a job that many people need to do when screening scripts, but Yang Dongxu obviously doesn't need to be so complicated. When he reads the script, he first checks whether the name is familiar, if he doesn't have any impression of the name of the movie. In order to prevent a good script from being missed due to a different name from the script after it was released, he will read the content.

But instead of delving into the content, I just take a look at the setting of the characters inside, and then look at the general story content. There is no need to complicately build a movie model of the script and then use rich experience to make judgments. Take a look at the story to see if you are familiar with the script, whether to keep it or throw it aside will have the result.

Therefore, the speed at which he reads the script will definitely make his colleagues dumbfounded, and in order not to be too evil. Although he finished reading the script in an hour, he spent half a day in the office dealing with other things.

Then after I came out, I took out the scripts I had chosen, and said that I had just read a few scripts, and the scripts felt good, so I could shoot them, and I would think about most of the rest later.

In fact, most of the remaining scripts will be thrown aside after being brought home, and then after ten days and a half months, the previously selected scripts will be taken out, and the rest will be eliminated directly, so the performance is very simple and unpretentious.

I left two scripts on the side, which belonged to the "reading" of this half-day, and the other scripts were piled up and needed to be read later. Then he was holding in his hand the script he was interested in, one of the three he was lucky enough to choose, and then the general manager of the company, Liu Zongsheng, sat across from him when it was almost lunch time.

"This film has been in preparation for a long time. Didn't it mean that the filming is about to start? Why are you still looking for investors?" Yang Dongxu pushed the script in front of Liu Zongsheng.

Liu Zongsheng picked up the script and glanced at the name, his eyes showed a clear look without looking at the specific content. He obviously knew the script well.

"The situation is like this."

This script is no other script, but Lao Mouzi's another milestone work "Hero". The reason why I am familiar with this script is not because Liu Zongsheng also feels that this movie will be a big hit, the box office and word of mouth, as well as the three harvests of awards.

Of course Liu Zongsheng doesn't know this now, this is something Yang Dongxu knows. He is familiar with this script because the film's investment is well-known in the industry.

Although the domestic film market is becoming more and more popular, the mainstream cost of filming is still hovering in the millions, and those that can reach tens of millions are basically big productions that need to be bragged about.

The shooting budget of Lao Mouzi's "Hero" reached 26 million, and the word US dollars was added after it. According to the current exchange rate between the RMB and the US dollar, this investment will go directly to 200 million RMB.

And this is only the budget before the shooting. According to the information collected so far, there is a high chance that more money will be needed later. Maybe the final shooting cost will exceed 200 million. Such a high-cost investment is definitely a big production, and it is also a big risk.

After all, although the first person to eat crabs is likely to make a lot of money, he may also lose everything with him. Make you unable to turn over for the rest of your life.

Therefore, when the film was being prepared, many film companies were found on the New Screen side to jointly produce it, but there was very little response. In addition to the fact that the investment is too high and the risk is high, there is another reason why there is no one to support this phenomenon. This script is not an adaptation of a famous book, but written by Zhang Yimou himself.

Although compared to others, Zhang Yimou, who is the representative of the fifth generation of directors, started with a rich and handsome protagonist line, just like God's own son.

After graduating, he worked as a photographer for the first time and won the China Film Outstanding Photographer Award. The first film "Blind Well" won three Best Actors, and among them was the Best Actor at the Tokyo Film Festival. Not only did he achieve success in China, but he also won the limelight abroad.

The first film "Red Sorghum" directly won the Golden Bear Award at China's first international film festival. After that, Lao Mouzi's award-winning route became unstoppable, and he became a frequent visitor at international film festivals. A benchmark figure for domestic directors.

But such an awesome old Mouzi, although he is ruthless and favored by various stars and film companies, as long as there are a row of new movies and various roles to be scrambled for, after all, Mou Girls can really gain fame and international fame.

But every investment of capital has to be carefully considered, because the movies that win awards have one thing in common-losing money!

Therefore, Lao Mouzi and Feng Xiaogang can be said to be two extremes among the great directors in China. Lao Mouzi was called a national teacher after he was a master of art, while Feng Xiaogang was a great director of commercial films. Don't worry about how many people criticize the movies he made, how many people say that the logic is messed up, but he can make money.

Therefore, if you say to make a movie worth tens of millions, investors may still think about it, and think of it as a sponsorship fee for their own stars to go to the international arena.

If you spend more than 100 million filming capital all at once, the cost may exceed 200 million after the filming is completed. This sponsorship fee is too expensive. At the same time, if you are an adaptation of a famous book, you can still have some references for measuring risks.

The shooting cost of the script written by you is nearly 200 million yuan, and there are really few people who dare to play with it. After all, how can you win prizes, Lao Mouzi? What others see is your ability as a director, not your ability as a screenwriter. Even the screenwriters of the successful films he shot before have his name in them.

But everyone knows this, just like old professors will put their names on their students' papers. Maybe you, Lao Mouzi, are different. You really put forward various constructive suggestions on the script before, so you added your name to the screenwriter. But that's just an opinion, not the editor-in-chief.

Therefore, the preparations for this film were very lively, because countless stars competed for the casting. After all, this is a film produced with a huge investment of over 100 million yuan, and there is still a chance to win international awards. As long as there are no ideal stars, they don’t want to join. of.

Contrary to the seemingly crowded casting, it is natural to find investors. Basically no one is willing to pay, and even most of them ask their own actors to lower their pay, or if there is no pay, it will be regarded as sponsorship. The real money is the leading new picture of the film and Hong Kong. a company.

But even so, he was very supportive of Lao Mouzi's new picture, and he couldn't come up with so much money at once, so the film preparation couldn't wait any longer, and he could only start preparing for the shooting while still looking for investment.

In fact, this script was sent to Haina early in the morning. After all, Haina seems to have kept a low profile in recent years. But when it comes to wealth and wealth, even China Film Group has to be courteous, and the newly emerging film companies are simply not enough.

It's just that the investment is too big, and Liu Zongsheng has been thinking about it, and he hasn't given an answer until now. This time, my big boss was going to personally screen the script, so he sent it along with other scripts.

"How much investment do they need?" Yang Dongxu asked while rubbing his chin with his fingers.

"It's still more than half, because his protagonist chose our company's Jet Li. So I'm going to invest 5 million yuan to see it." Liu Zongsheng said.

The 5 million is obviously RMB not US dollars, so it is a bit stingy. But in addition, the other party's approach to Jet Li is obviously because of the domestic and international box office appeal of his company's superstar. Jet Li also made a statement by lowering his salary, and this in-and-out sponsorship is not too small.

"Dare to shoot with less than half the money?" Yang Dongxu was stunned.

"The boss at New Screen seems to be very optimistic about this drama, so if you really can't find a partner, you are going to fight hard and pay the rest of the money by yourself." Liu Zongsheng said.

Yang Dongxu nodded. It was obvious that if he could find a partner, he would find a partner to share the risk. If you can't find a partner, go all out on your own. So it made sense to start shooting directly before the money was in place.

"About their boss and director to have a meal." Yang Dongxu ordered the table with his hand.