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Chapter 961 The verbal swords at the press conference ([-] updates per day, please subscribe~)

No matter how those filmmakers criticize the movie "Eternal Night", when Wu Jianye's new movie held a launch conference, it still attracted the attention of media magazines and TV stations all over the country.

But there are always some exceptions, such as CCTV and Yanjing TV, the contradiction between the two TV stations and Tangting Culture is not so easy to solve!
But at this time, it is impossible to see the impact of the absence of these two TV stations.

On this day, Zhu Xinzhuang Tangting Cultural Filming Base still gathered a lot of people.

Wu Jianye and the movie "Inception" were all present. For this press conference, Tangting Culture specially set up a small press conference here.

Sitting on the stage are the front and backstage of Wu Jianye and other movies, while those sitting off the stage are reporters from TV stations and media magazines.

And the host of this press conference is Zhang Guoli, who just finished filming "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview", because Zhang Guoli has just finished filming "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview", at this time Zhang Guoli is still a big bald head
Zhang Guoli's witty remarks on the stage drew out all the main creators of the whole movie, and at the same time let the reporters in the audience see Zhang Guoli's eloquence.

"The most regrettable thing is that I was not able to participate in Director Wu's film. After working with Director Wu last time, it inspired me a lot of creative inspiration. It can be said that Director Wu made my acting skills improve again."

Zhang Guoli first praised Wu Jianye, and then said: "Director Wu, I am here to ask for my life. Don't always be the host looking for me in the future. My acting skills are still good!"

Zhang Guoli's self-ridicule once again aroused applause and laughter from the scene.

However, the reporters in the audience still don't want Zhang Guoli to say too much. They have too many questions and want to ask Wu Jianye. The situation is, so to speak, ignorant.

This time Wu Jianye held a press conference with such great fanfare, they naturally have a lot of questions to ask, and there are still many historical questions left over from Wu Jianye's last movie "Eternal Night". While the movie "Night" is still in theaters, Wu Jianye has already held a press conference for the new movie. The hot topic of the previous movie has not yet receded. You still want to ask many questions if you seize this opportunity!

Zhang Guoli seemed to have heard everyone's inner voice, so his opening remarks ended soon, and it was time for the reporters to ask questions!

"Director Wu, can you tell us about your new movie? What kind of story is it?"--The reporter of "Popular Movies" opened with a face-to-face, and didn't ask other messy questions, but asked The case of the new movie.

"Of course, everyone should know that this is a movie related to dreams. In fact, this movie tells a story about dreams and reality. I hope that after the movie is released, people who watch this movie The audience can ask themselves a question, am I in a dream or in reality!" Wu Jianye's answer was also balanced.

"Then Director Wu, we all know that you have always made big-budget movies, so can you disclose the production cost of "Inception"?" --The reporter of "Popular Times" continued to ask.

"It's a bit of an exaggeration for you to say that, not all of my movies are big productions!" Wu Jianye laughed.

Among the films directed by Wu Jianye, it is true that not every film is a big production, but in the view of the environment at the time, it is indeed not a small investment.

For example, although the production cost of director Wu Jianye's first film "Raise the Red Lantern" was only 100 million yuan, it was in 1982, and the highest domestic film investment at that time was only 100 million yuan!
However, by the time of the second "The Last Emperor", the production cost of the film had already skyrocketed, reaching as high as 2600 million U.S. dollars. At that time, it really shocked the film industry across the country. It was also from that time that everyone knew that Wu Jianye made films Never short of money!
The third film is "New Dragon Inn". Although the investment of this film is not as high as "The Last Emperor", the production cost has already reached 2000 million Hong Kong dollars!
Because the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the RMB was different at that time, if it was converted into RMB at that time, it was only a few million RMB more than the highest domestic investment line of 130 million RMB.

After finishing the filming of "New Dragon Inn", Wu Jianye filmed a TV series "Legend of the New White Snake", and then went to Hollywood to shoot two blockbusters "Ghost Love" and "Jurassic Park" !
When Wu Jianye returned to China, the investment of his first film "The World of Chu Xing" was only more than 1000 million RMB, which was almost the third lowest production cost among Wu Jianye's films.

When it comes to "Eternal Night", which is currently being screened, the investment exceeds that of "The Last Emperor", allowing Chinese people to see once again how rich and arrogant Wu Jianye is!

But no matter which movie Wu Jianye directs, the investment is higher than the current highest level of domestic movie investment!
Now that Wu Jianye has released a new movie "Inception", the production cost of this movie is naturally the most concerned issue of the media people!

After laughing, Wu Jianye explained: "The investment of this movie should be the largest in the history of domestic movies. Now it is estimated that the investment is 1 million US dollars, just like the movie "Eternal Night", there is no upper limit!"

1 million US dollars was thrown into the group of reporters like a depth bomb.

Everyone was shocked instantly. They thought that Wu Jianye's film production cost should be very high, but they never thought it would be so high!

1 billion dollars?
How many people in the country can take out this money now?

Maybe some state-owned enterprises have this ability, but if you want to talk about domestic individuals who have this ability, they really have to think carefully about who has the ability to spend [-] million US dollars.

And now Wu Jianye wants to spend [-] million US dollars to make a movie?

Some reporters still remember that when Tangting Culture invested in the filming of "Eternal Night", someone already questioned Wu Jianye's need for such a high investment to make a movie?
This was still a very sensational news at the time!
Well now, Wu Jianye's new movie not only didn't hold back, it even got worse, [-] million US dollars!
Like the reporters who were blown up, they stood up and asked questions, but at this time, Zhang Guoli's hosting skills can be seen. He first asked everyone to keep quiet, because such questions would not let them get the answers they wanted. .

After some reassurance, Zhang Guoli signaled to the reporter of "Popular Cinema" who had not finished asking questions just now, to continue asking questions.

"Director Wu, with an investment of 1 million US dollars, are you not worried that you will not be able to recover the cost? At the same time, is this movie still independently invested by Tangting Culture? Does Tangting Culture have so much money?" --Reporter of "Popular Movies" Obviously also very excited, asked three questions in a row.

Wu Jianye sat there with a microphone in his hand, and said, "Investing in movies is a business, but fortunately, none of my movies have ever lost money. This should be the reason why I'm not worried!"

"This film is not independently invested by Tangting Culture, but has undertaken an investment of 9000 million US dollars, and the remaining 1 million will be invested by Yan Film Studio."

"As for whether Tangting Culture has the money, I don't think I need to answer this question. If not, we have no way to invest in such a big movie!"

Do film companies make money like this?
The reporter at the scene once again had this thought. In the past, everyone knew that Tangting Culture was the largest film company in China, but they never thought that Tangting Culture would be able to spend 1 million at one time, and pay back his mother. What's more, such a huge investment in US dollars comes out.

Everyone is aware of the domestic movie account sharing model, and everyone is also clear about the method of film payment. Now that the movie "Eternal Night" has just been released for a month, it is impossible for Tangting Culture to get it so quickly. Movies are divided into box office.

The reporters at the scene didn't know the relationship between the domestic Fengge Cinema Line and Tangting Culture. They calculated it according to the box office share time of ordinary movies.

That is to say, after Tangting Culture invested nearly 3000 million U.S. dollars in the film "Eternal Night", when it did not get the box office share of this movie, it took out 9000 million U.S. dollars again to invest in "Inception" this movie!
Is Tangting Culture so rich?
Tangting Culture is naturally not so rich!

Tangting Culture now has a film department, a TV drama department, a music department, an animation department, and its wholly-owned subsidiaries Tangting Special Effects, Girls Props, and Hengdian Film and Television City, which it has invested in.

The other groups under Wu Jianye never announced their economic status because they were neither listed nor planned to be listed.

But Tangting Culture is different. Tangting Culture was originally built by Wu Jianye to set up a benchmark for the domestic capital that wants to enter the film and television industry, so Tangting Culture will announce its financial report every year!

Last year, Tangting Cultural Film Department produced a total of 12 films. Excluding "Eternal Night", which was released at the end of the year, the other 11 films were the most profitable. !
Among them, "Sunny Day" later called Jiang Yun to make two additional investments. The production cost was as high as 650 million, plus the distribution cost of 350 million. The total cost was 1000 million, but the national box office exceeded 7000 million. The copyright income of Europe and North America is 200 million US dollars, and the copyright income of Asia is 70 US dollars!
After deducting the theater's box office share, the cost of production and publicity, as well as taxes, plus a series of costs such as exclusive fees, Tangting Culture has earned about 4000 million yuan in revenue!

The combined income of the other 10 movies is about 7000 million, and there are two movies that lost money
As for the income from video tapes, which are extremely important for Hong Kong and Taiwan movies and European and American movies. In the domestic piracy industry, even after more than 20 years, it is a stubborn industry, which is almost negligible.

The film department earned 1.1 million yuan last year.

The TV drama department produced a total of 8 TV dramas last year, sold the copyrights of the first and second rounds of TV dramas, and sold the copyrights to Hongkong ATV. At the same time, after deducting all costs, necessary expenses and taxes, the income is about 0.9 million.

This is not to say that the copyright of the TV series is valuable. In fact, the right to broadcast the TV series at this time is not as expensive as it is in later generations.

Among the 8 TV dramas mainly produced by Tangting Culture, 4 are modern dramas, and in these TV dramas, there are advertisements placed. This is the main source of money for Tangting Culture TV Department!
The situation in the animation department is more complicated. Last year, an animated TV series and an animated film were produced, and the combined revenue was about 0.5 million!
Among them, the music department of Tangting Culture is the least profitable. Because of the rampant piracy, the albums of singers have also encountered such a situation. If it weren't for the two shows of New Rock and Strawberry Music Festival, they would probably have to lose money.

The overall income is only 0.3 million!

All the dividends from Hengdian Film and Television City were used to continue to invest in the construction, but it was a very good thing that Tangting Culture did not continue to invest last year.

Girl props earned more than 1000 million yuan for Tangting Culture last year, but they are all self-sufficient.

As for the special effects
Last year, adding equipment, recruiting new talents, and a series of operations, not only did not make money, but also lost tens of millions
After adding up these funds, Tangting Culture's annual income last year was around 2 million yuan!
But Tangting culture is not just income but no expenditure, the salary expenditure of the staff, as well as the investment in movies and TV series.

For example, last year Tangting Culture's biggest project "Eternal Night" was an investment of nearly 3000 million U.S. dollars, which already exceeded Tangting Culture's annual income last year. The proceeds of the blockbuster movie "The World of Chu Xing" filled the gap, and there is still a lot left.

But even so, when this financial statement appeared, it still caused a huge sensation.

But the reporters on the scene were all veterans. Even if the movie "The World of Chu Xing" was at the bottom, the investment in the movie "Inception" was still not enough.

So the people at the scene were excited, because Wu Jianye said they had money, but after the calculation of the reporter, Tangting Culture should not be able to spend so much money.

"Director Wu, may I ask if you have taken a loan from the bank?"

"Of course not. What makes me very proud is that Tangting Culture has not owed any debts!" ​​Wu Jianye said with a smile.

Such an answer made the reporters depressed for a while. At the same time, they remembered the giant in Baidao, and his business philosophy was not lending.
It's just that now everyone knows that the life of the giant is not very easy!
But now they don't have time to care about the giant's future, what they care about is how Tangting Culture will spend the money!

"If there is no loan, how did Tangting Culture come up with this fund?" The reporters finally asked the question they were most concerned about.

(End of this chapter)