my time as a director

"Sure enough!"

After reading the script, Zhang Zhao immediately gave a corresponding evaluation in his heart.

The theme of the story is similar to the core idea of ​​the Butterfly Effect, time and space travel against fate, but they are interlocking.

The theme of the story is commercial, and it contains ups and downs of crimes, suspense, brain-burning soft sci-fi themes with family elements, and has a wide audience.

The character setting is innovative, with opposite personalities, opposite surrounding environments, and two fathers and sons of the same age.

The story structure is reasonable, multi-line narrative, the story structure is unique and complete, but not complicated.

The pace of the story is tense, and the final climax is touching.

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Zhang Zhao, who graduated from New York University with a master's degree in film production, has also learned a little bit of the way of thinking of Hollywood producers.

Although the director's level is not good, the first film co-produced with Mi Lijian ruined his director career, but the professional level is still there.

Giving Wang Changtian a positive look, Zhang Zhao said with a smile, "With family affection as the core, Director Li's script style is rare in China."

Most of these domestic directors focus on love and national justice with emotion as the core.

For example, the core of Flying Daggers is free love.

Wuji is love and destiny.

The hero is like the title of the film, the core is righteousness.

Commercial movies with family as the core are extremely rare in China, but they are the most common in Hollywood.

Li Qian smiled and said, "Emotion is the thing that touches people the most. Whether it's science fiction, suspense, or crime, it's just an extra layer of skin to add selling points to the movie. The core competitiveness lies in the characters in the movie." Darling."

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After talking about the script, we began to discuss the details of the cooperation.

"If this movie is shot on film, the production cost is about 700 million. I can personally afford 80. The remaining 20 will be troublesome to Mr. Wang."

"In terms of distribution, your company needs to pay 360 million in advance for publicity and copying, and the distribution fee will be 10 of the normal amount. What does Mr. Wang think?"

Li Qian proposed an investment plan and only gave Guangxian 20.

Wang Changtian couldn't help laughing. Zhang Zhao said the last time he came back from Donghua that Li Qian wanted to take full control of his own project, but he didn't expect that he would be 80 directly.

But Wang Changtian doesn't care, there is not much difference between 20 and 30, and he doesn't care about his investment share.

After all, this is Li Qian's first movie in theaters. Even if there is a phenomenon-level Internet Jaws as the basis, the box office of the first movie will not be too high.

With a production cost of 700 million, 360 million publicity, and only 4000 million at the box office, it will not make much money.

The distribution company mainly earns the distribution fee.

On the big screen, fame is what matters.

Whether it's the fame of the director or the fame of the actors, only with fame can the audience enter the cinema. Otherwise, the producers would not use the first-line male actors in the mainland with less than 100 million yuan, and they would have to spend millions, or even tens of millions of dollars. Hong Kong Superstar.

After Li Qian's first movie is successful and he has truly established himself on the big screen, it's time to make money.

However, Wang Changtian also proposed to take a part of the share and exchange part of the advertising resources with the provincial optoelectronics.

Li Qian also has no objection, the optoelectronics in each province not only have TV stations, but the media in the whole province are basically owned by the local optoelectronics.

Moreover, the current theater chains are very regional. Most of the film market in this province is in the hands of local theater chains, and most of these local theater chains are owned by Optoelectronics.

For example, South Henan Oscar Cinemas, West Sichuan Pacific Cinemas and Emei Cinemas, Shonan Xiaoxiang Cinemas, Jiangning Happy Blue Ocean Cinemas, Jiangsu-Zhejiang Times Cinemas...

These local theaters, supported by the province's optoelectronics, basically account for about [-]% of the province's box office.

Replacing investment with promotional resources means that they also have a share in the box office, and they will also have a little advantage in film scheduling.

No matter how much, it's better than nothing.

So, first signed an investment contract between the two parties, Li Qian invested 80, Guangxian took 20, and after Guangxian and the provinces optoelectronics settled, Li Qian went to sign a contract to replace promotional resources.

Based on Guang Xian's relationship with local TV stations, there shouldn't be any problem.

In addition, Li Qian's director and screenwriter's remuneration is 150 million, which is already the price of a first-line director.

Li Qian will not be polite about taking what is due, and Li Qian will not haggle over other people's share.

In the end, Li Qian needed to transfer 560 million to the account of the project.

Guangxian paid 255 million yuan in advance for publicity and distribution of copies, plus 140 million costs.

Once the script is approved and the film is officially approved, the total fee of 955 million will be credited to the project account within three days.

All income sharing is calculated according to the investment ratio.

However, after entering 560 million yuan, Li Qian can immediately get 150 million yuan in salary.

Although it is possible not to take this account, but the procedures that should be followed still have to be followed, and the taxes that should be paid still have to be paid, so there is no need to save this little money.

A big company pays billions in taxes a year, and Li Qian doesn't feel bad about paying this tax. I haven't heard of anyone making a fortune by saving tax money.

Paying more means earning more, but Li Qian wants to pay 100 billion in taxes.

After the contract was negotiated, they had a meal together, and then each went about their own business, leaving the film review and project approval to Guangxian.

After negotiating the contract, the work at this stage is over, and the film can officially enter the preparation process.

However, the film industry is really unfriendly to the producers, even though this contract is already more beneficial to Li Qian.

The distributor is guaranteed to make a profit without losing money, all the risks are on the producer's head, and the share is still small.

Whether domestic or Hollywood, distribution companies are the most profitable. Regardless of whether the film can recover the cost, distribution will always make money, it's just a matter of earning more and earning less.

After the investment and distribution contracts are finalized, Li Qian will be busy writing storyboards.

But before that, it was time to start scouting locations and building a studio.

After discussing this with several artists that Zhang Zhonghua had recruited from Jiangsu and Zhejiang Film Studios, they were asked to act on their own.

The background spans as long as 20 years, which is definitely to highlight the gap between the two eras, but there are not many outdoor scenes, which saves the time of traveling back and forth.

Actors must be found first. Li Qian's ideal combination is two male actors aged 27 and 32 and [-] and [-].

It not only has the contrast impact caused by father and son of the same age, but it will not be too discordant.