Super Zoo

Long Wu's proposal did make Su Ming's mind move.

Making a movie was just an idea that suddenly occurred to him. To be honest, it was because Jiaoshou kept talking in his ear every time he called, and he was particularly short of money recently, so Su Ming had this idea.

Of course, the film industry itself is indeed a highly profitable industry. The current common method of profit sharing in the mainland is that the total box office of a movie, after deducting about 5% of various taxes and fees, the remaining distribution and production parties account for 40-50%, and the theaters account for 50-60%, which is almost 55-50.

Apart from the mainland box office, if the film's response is good, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and even the West will have film companies buy local distribution rights, and this money is purely for the distribution and production parties. In the past, when Hong Kong movies had not yet been introduced to the mainland, the total box office of movies in Hong Kong was generally in the millions, and this overseas distribution even made more money than in Hong Kong.

In the past, the most popular films in Hong Kong only made tens of millions of yuan a year. With the opening of the mainland market, the market is getting bigger and bigger. Tens of millions of yuan is a complete failure. Any movie that can be put on the stage is considered a small amount of 100 million or 200 million, and 300 to 500 million is not uncommon.

Among them, there are many small wins with big gains. "Love Is Not Blind" cost less than 15 million yuan and raked in 300 million yuan at the box office. "Lost in Thailand" with an investment of 30 million yuan swept 1.3 billion yuan at the box office, which is more than ten times the profit.

Su Ming's idea is based on this. Anyway, the money he has is too little, far from enough to buy the zoo, and he can't find other ways to increase the value quickly in a short time. It's better to take a sum of money to try. Even if it fails, it won't hurt. If it succeeds, even if it can't make a profit of ten or dozens of times, at least it can open up a new way to make money.

But as Long Wu thought, Su Ming is almost a layman in making movies and knows nothing about it.

The five most critical roles in a movie are producer, director, supervisor, and screenwriter. He can only play one and a half roles at most. Not only does he not understand the rest, but no one around him understands them either.

The producer is the investor, which must be Su Ming, or Taoyuan Entertainment.

The producer is the on-site agent of the investor, who is responsible for the investor, equivalent to the supervisor in the construction industry, the independent director in the board of directors, responsible for safeguarding the interests of the investor. Long Wu’s so-called cooperation is that he plays this role.

The supervisor checks the artistic quality and market prospects of the entire film. Generally, he is a director who is very good in a certain aspect. For example, Johnnie To often serves as the supervisor of various gunfight films. You can say that he is the director’s deputy, but more like a ‘senior consultant’, who is not under the director’s jurisdiction and can in turn restrict the director.

Needless to say, Su Ming is definitely not a director. He doesn’t even know how to use a camera. A good director is not only responsible for shooting, but also for casting. Through experience and a keen sense of film, he selects the most suitable actors to play the roles.

Improper casting will also bring a blow to the film. For example, if the two roles played by Andy Lau and Chow Yun-fat were swapped in the God of Gamblers, which swept the Hong Kong box office, and Andy Lau played the domineering God of Gamblers and Chow Yun-fat played the cynical younger brother, the consequences can be imagined, and the whole film would definitely become extremely awkward.

Screenwriting is not as simple as writing a story, but also needs to change the story into a script suitable for filming. The same story, the scripts written by screenwriters of different levels will definitely have very different filming effects. This requires a very good familiarity with filming and shooting, and a deep foundation in writing.

Su Ming has a little story outline in his stomach, not even a detailed plot, let alone being a full-time screenwriter, so he can only be considered half a screenwriter at most.

In addition to these five key roles in filming the movie, the entire crew also has various people such as stage supervisors, props, special effects, etc. Every time the movie is over, several minutes of subtitles of the crew members can be printed out. Su Ming can't form this team at all now, and there is no way to form a team.

There is also the later distribution! Contacting major theaters, arranging screenings, and promoting the film, each link requires professional personnel to operate, and Su Ming himself can't take care of it, and can't do it.

If Long Wu comes to serve as the producer, these problems will be solved. With his connections and strength in the circle, he can pull up a team in minutes.

Of course, this will inevitably involve sharing money with Long Wu.

After calculating, after deducting all expenses, the box office in mainland China must be more than three times the investment before Su Ming can start making money.

The money in the world is never earned by one person. People who want to eat alone often end up with ****. Between friends, mutual benefit and win-win are the way to get along for a long time.

Moreover, Su Ming can see that Long Wu's request for cooperation between the two parties is actually very small in terms of business considerations. As a novice who knows nothing and rashly enters the film industry, Long Wu may not expect to make money. Anyone with a slightly normal mind probably thinks that this is burning money.

The other party's real intention is probably to help him set up a crew, which can be regarded as a small "favor" at the Hong Kong Jockey Club last time.

After only a moment's consideration, he agreed to Long Wu's request.

"Mr. Su, how are you going to play? Let's talk about it in detail." Long Wu asked on the other end of the phone.

"I... Brother Wu, do you have a camera? Can we talk over the video? It's hard to explain over the phone." Su Ming said.

"Oh...wait a minute..." Long Wu was stunned for a moment, then there were footsteps over there, and then two people were heard talking in Cantonese.

It seemed to be with his wife. Long Wu asked her not to post on Weibo because he had to do something. His wife said that he just stayed at home all day and had no business. She would scold him first. If Long Wu couldn't wait, he would go to the computer next door. Long Wu muttered something like "I don't know how to use these high-tech things. You have to stay and teach me..."

Su Ming was overwhelmed by what he heard. First it was Zhao Yun, then Long Wu. These iron-willed heroes all turned into little sheep after marriage.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Long Wu's voice sounded again on the other end of the phone. Both parties added QQ.

Long Wu's QQ was a ten-digit long number with only four stars. His avatar was a handsome guy with yellow hair and a pointed face from the earliest batch. Now almost no one uses this avatar.

There was also a signature file "Welcome everyone to travel to Hong Kong", which made him look like a small civil servant of the Hong Kong Tourism Bureau.

After a moment, his face with wrinkles like knife cuts appeared on the other side of the screen. I didn't expect that this guy would wear a neat suit at home. A chubby auntie next to him greeted the camera, "Hi, Su Sheng, long time no see."

"Hello, Madam Xiang!" Su Ming grinned.

"You guys talk, I have something to do, so I'll leave first." Madam Xiang nodded slightly and turned to leave the room.