The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 116 Qin Zhonghe's Concession
The Huaguo film market will maintain rapid growth in the next few years, which is the consensus of industry insiders.

Many people even believe that the Huaguo film market will surpass the North American film market in the future.

But even if it grows at a high speed, this growth rate is only more than 30%.

As the water gets deeper, how big will the biggest fish be?
This is very unpredictable.

In 2014, the movie box office record in the Huaguo film market was one billion, but if someone said at this time that the box office record for next year would double, and the year after that, it would even reach more than 50 billion.

Even those who are optimistic about the Huaguo film market will say: "Is it true? I don't believe it."

Because in North America, a market of tens of billions of dollars, a movie with a domestic box office of more than 3 million dollars is also the top-ranked film of the year.

At present, the scale of Huaguo's film market is only one-third of that of North America, and it is already remarkable to be able to produce films worth one billion yuan.

Therefore, Chen Jingxing did not say that the production cost of "Gravity" may be close to [-] million, which may scare Qin Zhonghe out of the game. Anyway, "Gravity" will actually start production next year, and by then his film The results and the achievements of the Huaguo film market will give Guoying and other investors greater confidence.

In addition to the sharing of production costs, it is also necessary to consider the special status of Guoying in the Chinese film circle.

In Huaguo's movie review mechanism, some movies with special themes have to be handed over to the corresponding department for review.

For example, women’s themes must be reviewed by the Women’s Federation first, and military war themes must be reviewed by the military department. Projects such as the Mekong River must be reviewed by the Ministry of Public Security. Similarly, such as "Gravity" that involves reality The aerospace department also has a say in the near-future space disaster movie planned by the space station.

The good thing is that after the review by these departments, the film bureau will generally not raise other opinions.

Therefore, most of the movies that can break through the scale in the end come from these special themes.

Moreover, the movie also involves Tiangong-[-] and the final large-scale space station, and these two projects have not yet been completed, so the cooperation of the aerospace department and even the military industry department must be needed.

For example, how to design the space station model?Will the one-to-one restoration of the space station involve the issue of leaks?What needs to be changed, etc., these problems can be solved faster and better only if the National Film Group takes the lead.

In addition, Chen Jingxing's introduction of "Gravity" is not only to explain to Qin Zhonghe, but also to dispel his intention to direct the Mekong River project by himself.

More importantly, "Gravity" is used as a bargaining chip in exchange for the leadership of the Mekong project.

Although he provided story ideas for the Mekong project, Qin Zhonghe also promised that DreamWorks could participate.

But what is the percentage involved?

Chen Jingxing's goal is to co-produce with National Film, and he will cut half of the Mekong River project.

He was sure that the cake Qin Zhonghe cut for him was definitely not that tall.

This move is not clever, but it is especially effective against Qin Zhonghe.

This person has a fanatical obsession with promoting the development of commercial films in Huaguo, perhaps because of his feelings, perhaps because of his responsibility, or perhaps because of his own conclusion.

Most of Huaguo's main theme commercial films are produced by him or are closely related to him.

If it is other film tycoons, they may not be moved by his grand blueprint of space sci-fi giants.

Low-cost, low-risk (low cost itself means low risk) high-yield films like Fatal Identity are the most ideal film projects in their minds.

The risk of investing in a big film is too high, and most film companies will be tempted but not persistent.

After Qin Zhonghe gradually calmed down, he frowned and thought: "Guo Fan...he is also a director who went to Hollywood with you to study. What's the name of his film? It seems to be doing well at the box office."

"'You at the Same Table' has a box office of 4.6 million, which is a bit higher than 'Fatal Identity'." Chen Jingxing added.

Qin Zhonghe looked at Chen Jingxing, and laughed twice: "You remember clearly, but the box office is indeed not low, anyway, it is an industrial movie, and there is nothing wrong with it, but you can't just sit idle, since Dreamworks is going to invest, You, the boss, also have to make some contributions, why don't you name yourself as a producer."

"Wait..." Liu Changhong suddenly recalled: "Guo Fan is the one you told me, the one recommended by Director Xiao Chen? Didn't he make a youth romance film? No matter how high the box office is, he made a film with the theme of the Mekong River Is it a little bit cross-border?"

"Liu Ju, you're an outsider, so what's the point of being a director?
They are all commercial films, and the core is the same. Those fifth-generation directors are still making literary films. Didn’t they all make great achievements when they switched to commercial films later?

…Don’t worry, there’s still me here, I’m the chief producer, I’ll take care of it, and there’s Director Xiao Chen as the producer. Guo Fan, a young man, went to the United States with Xiao Chen and the others to study and exchange. Yes, it is based on the experience of industrial films, and we still have to trust young people, the ones who have made commercial breakthroughs in the past few years are all young directors..."

Chen Jingxing couldn't help laughing in his heart, Qin Zhonghe hired a big boss from the Ministry of Public Security as a lobbyist to let him take over the Mekong River project in today's situation.

Now it was Qin Zhonghe who tried to persuade the lobbyists.

"Didn't you tell me before that if you really can't do it, you should contact some Hong Kong filmmakers or invite a director from Hollywood to shoot?" Liu Changhong answered Qin Zhonghe's old background without any politeness.

Qin Zhonghe's face was a little embarrassed, and he immediately said seriously: "I was just talking nonsense, think about it, our country's film market reform has been reformed for so many years, and it seems to be the second largest film market in the world. To invite filmmakers from Hong Kong Island or even foreign directors to make the film, isn’t that a clear statement that Huaguo film has not cultivated any talents in the past few decades? I can’t afford to lose face.”

This is actually what he said from the bottom of his heart. During the Spring Festival at the beginning of the year, the ancient costume epic blockbuster "Spring and Autumn Forging Swords", which was highly valued by him, failed in word of mouth, and the box office was not satisfactory. It was suppressed by films produced by Tianrun, Jingying and United Cinemas. .

Many people attributed the failure of the film to the fact that he asked a commercial filmmaker from Hong Kong Island to film the story of Qi Huangong, the five tyrants of the Spring and Autumn Period. The result was that the film was completely different, with modern popular words emerging one after another, and even some lines were quite shocking. It reflects the historical weight of that era.

This indeed changed some of Qin Zhonghe's thoughts.

Especially this year, whether it is Chen Jingxing, Chen Sicheng or Guo Fan, regardless of the reputation of the movie, the box office results are quite impressive.

These have raised his emphasis on young domestic filmmakers to another level.

Even Chen Jingxing, the director of the Mekong River project, and insisted on letting him direct came from this idea.

"Director Xiao Chen, you have also seen that Director Liu has reservations about this. He has a lot of say in this project. You and Guo Fan are also classmates, so you can tell Guo Fan about it. Let him come to Guoying, Liu Ju and I will seriously investigate him, as long as he passes Liu Ju's test, he must be the director of the Mekong River project."

Liu Changhong is not only the leader of the Mekong River case task force, the director of the Narcotics Control Bureau, but also the general counsel of the Mekong River film project, with a considerable say.

In addition to Qin Zhonghe, the producer, these are two big mountains that weigh on the director's head. Oh, I forgot, and he, the screenwriter and producer, is also added.

Three big mountains.

While Chen Jingxing agreed, he also silently shed tears of sympathy for Guo Fan.

(End of this chapter)