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Chapter 589 Preparations for "Wandering Earth"

The autumn tigers in the capital will still be raging for a few more days before the weather will gradually turn cooler.

Cheng and Liu returned to the capital, and their schedules were not tight. Cheng Yu'an would go back to the academy in a few days to give a speech at the opening ceremony for this year's freshmen, and then stay in the capital to supervise the production of "Legend of the White Fox" with Guo Fan. In the later period, Cheng Yu'an only assisted in this aspect of work, and Guo Fan himself took the lead.

His main work is in the preparatory stage of "The Wandering Earth".

He had to use the energy and stamina he had for "The Martian" in 07, and get up to 120 points.

This time, he has more funds, more advanced technology, and a more professional team. He is confident that he will make "The Wandering Earth" better.

And Liu Yifei's main work is concentrated in "Get Out!"In the preparation of "Tumor Lord", she recruited Hu Ge to play the leading role, Dr. Liang, and Su Lun directed the play.

For this drama, Liu Yifei postponed all the announcements that could be pushed, and several jobs that could not be pushed were also postponed or advanced according to her schedule.

Cheng Yu'an was talking to Ye Ning about the investment in "The Wandering Earth".

According to the agreement, the main producers of "The Wandering Earth" can only have a maximum of 4, and currently only three companies have been identified, namely Remote, China Film and Wanda.

Each of the three invested 32.5 million, accounting for 16.8%, 15.7% and [-]% of the investment share respectively, and the investment share cannot be changed hands again.

Cheng Yu'an's personal film director's remuneration is a friendly price of 4400 million + 12% of mainland box office dividends.

Although this offer is still the highest among domestic directors, it is really a friendly price.

Otherwise, according to the normal quotation, in addition to the 12% box office share, Cheng Yu'an's fixed salary would be 7000-8000 million.

Don't think that Cheng Yu'an deliberately quoted a high price to stop outside scenes. In fact, even at this price, it's not like no boss asks Cheng Yu'an to make a film every year.

One is that Cheng Yu'an's director position is here, and the company refused to accept the low offer.

The second is that Cheng Yu'an is not only a director, but also the chairman of the largest film company in China. He represents the face of the entire Long-distance Media Group. Naturally, the quotation will not be low, and it is impossible to be low.

Cheng and Ye listened to the report of the preparatory team together.

"We made a preliminary budget. The most expensive part of "The Wandering Earth" is the production of special effects and props in the early and late stages. We estimate that these two items will cost 3 million yuan, which accounts for more than half of the total budget.

"It has already cost almost 2000 million before it even started."

Cheng Yuan asked: "How much is the budget now?"

"5.4 million, Director Cheng."

Cheng Yu'an thought for a while, and felt that the money should be enough, and signaled the production team to continue reporting.

"This budget is still generously quoted by Tiangong Yicai, but the post-production cloud rendering is too expensive. Even if a discounted price is quoted, it is still more expensive than ordinary special effects production."

Xu Yao of Tiangong Yicai said with a smile: "The special effects are like this, and I can't help it. Tiangong Yicai has 7 R&D and production centers around the world, and more than 1000 employees have to support them. If the report is low, it will lose money."

Then he said another reason: "We have our own cloud rendering center. This system is hundreds of times faster than the rendering system of the general architecture. Even if we have a cooperative relationship with the supercomputing center, the negotiated price is not high. It will be low, and it will start at hundreds of thousands per hour."

Ye Ning said with a smile: "Okay, it makes you nervous. We know the importance of special effects to this movie, and we didn't say we won't let you make money."

Cheng Yu'an also laughed and said, "The main reason is that our Tiangong Yicai was afraid of poverty a few years ago, and we have been losing money. We finally made a profit this year, so we can't perform well?"

"We asked Deloitte to conduct third-party supervision and audit of the filming funds."

"The space agency has already negotiated. Like "The Martian" before, the space agency, as a consultant and technical support unit, assisted in the whole process of filming, and will also give us some help in the post-publication."

The space agency was very active this time, and took the initiative to contact and cooperate without waiting for the production team to come to the door.

"The dozens of co-producers on "The Martian" basically want to cooperate with us for the second time this time, and we are still selecting high-quality partners. It's just..."

"Just what?"

"Huayi, Bernard, Shanghai Film Group, and Ahri Films all intend to win the fourth producer qualification, and each offer is not low."

"What is Hua Yi doing next? Isn't he going to make a film, and is he still willing to invest in us with the money in his hand?"

Ye Ning said with a smile, "Huayi is willing to vote for Director Cheng's film even if it's a bad idea."

Ye Ning was very glad that Wanda had signed a cooperation agreement with Long-distance in advance, otherwise, as a novice in the production industry, Wanda might not be able to vote for Cheng Yuan's movie if he had money.

Mr. Wang personally gave instructions on the project of "The Wandering Earth", saying: "You can give him as much as he wants. Oriental Movie Metropolis will speed up the project. I will see at least 10 studios by the end of this year. Before the movie starts, what he wants All equipment must be ready."

"How much is Huayi willing to pay?"

"1.2 million, only 11%." The later you enter the market, the less you get. Huayi is ready to be slaughtered remotely.

"Berner offered 1.27 million," Ye Ning snorted coldly after hearing the offer, Yu Fatty was really stingy, and only offered 700 million more, "Shangying offered 1.8 million, Ahri is willing to offer 4 million to round up the rest of us All credits."

"Excuse me—" Cheng Yu'an laughed, "This group of Internet people are still rich. Didn't he ask for anything else?"

The preparatory team leader smiled and said, "They don't dare to make your film."

"Is there anything in this world that he dare not do?" In the domestic production environment, the major investors really dare not judge Cheng Yu'an's film.

He was not short of money at all, and you threatened him with divestment, and there were [-] investors behind him waiting to enter the market to take over the deal.

You have to dictate to Cheng Yu'an's crew, he can scold the eighteen generations of your ancestors all over.

You told him about big data, and Cheng Yuan said to you: "Do you understand movies or I understand movies? I don't want to vote and get out!"

Ari also knew that Cheng Yu'an didn't like them, at least in the field of film production, so Ari was also smart and only offered money, not BB, and offered a price that they thought Remote could not refuse.

To be honest, both Cheng Yu'an and Ye Ning were moved by Ari's offer.

It was 4 million at the first shot, and the funds were fully replenished in one go, and there was even a lot of surplus.

Ye Ning really wanted to agree to Ahri's capital injection on the spot, but she still had to go through remote approval.

Cheng Yu'an didn't like Arigui, but who would have trouble with real money.

But he didn't immediately agree to Ahri's investment: "We'll investigate and investigate the matter of the investor."

"it is good."

"How about the machine I want?" Cheng Yu'an wanted to play something he had never played before on "The Wandering Earth" - 4K 3D IMAX.
"It's difficult." The preparation team leader said, "We communicated with IMAX a few days ago, and their latest set of equipment is only for sale, not for rent."

Ye Ning used Wanda's banknote ability: "Then buy it!"

"It's not worth buying." The preparatory team said, "One camera costs 400 million US dollars. We need at least five cameras of this specification for this movie, and the cost here is more than 2000 million US dollars."

"That's not expensive." Ye Ning said.Worthy of being the boss of Wanda, he doesn't care about more than 2000 million US dollars.

Cheng Yu'an thought for a while: "Talk to IMAX again."

"Talk, they said, even James Cameron only sells and not rents. We were blocked at the time."

Cheng Yuan frowned, this high-spec camera is essential to present the best visual effects of "The Wandering Earth".

The most exasperating thing is that this camera is only available in IMAX, and Sony has no substitute.

Sony has approached the crew and expressed its willingness to support "The Wandering Earth", but their camera is not what Cheng Yu'an wants.

"In this way," Cheng Yu'an thought of a way, "If IMAX can't be rented, you can buy it in the name of the company, buy five, buy six, and don't take the account of the crew, but calculate the investment in equipment. These equipment will also be used in the future. Useful."

"we can only do this."

(End of this chapter)