The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 119 Chen Jingxing's "Intuition"

"3000?"

"That's right, United Cinemas is only willing to pay 3000 million, and Chen Sicheng's own company can also give 2000 million. According to his estimated production cost, there is still a gap of at least 3000 million."

Xu Wenshen said categorically: "3000 million is definitely not worth it. Among his estimated cost of 8000 million, the cost of publicity will be 2000 million, right?"

Chen Jingxing put on an expression of listening attentively.

Xu Wen took a deep breath: "The cost of publicity and distribution in the domestic film market is inflated too fast, not to mention online marketing and offline promotion, these can be reduced, but ticket subsidies cannot be too much.

As long as other movies are engaging in ticket supplements, you have to keep up. There is no choice. If you don’t keep up, your schedule will be eaten up. "

Chen Jingxing picked up a grape and put it in his mouth. He knew that this was the prelude to Xu Wenshen's "persuasion".

"Boss, I'm afraid we won't be able to spend so much money." Xu Wenshen felt a headache for Chen Jingxing who seemed to be throwing money out without any plan or purpose during this period of time. As the number two person in DreamWorks, he had to stand up and step on it. brakes.

"It's not just Chen Sicheng's film project that needs ticket supplements, "Signal" and "Source Code" also need it. We are targeting the National Day file. The competition for this schedule is expected to be very fierce. situation is completely different.

If the Mekong River project is officially launched, hundreds of millions of funds will be filled in immediately, so that DreamWorks will not be able to spend a penny for ticket supplements on "Signal", and we will have no funds for this project directed by Chen Sicheng. invested. "

Of course, ticket supplements can also be paid by Huanshi.com, United Cinemas and other producers, but in that case, DreamWorks' production ratio will inevitably be reduced, and the share of the account will also be reduced at that time.

This is Xu Wenshen's long-standing confusion. He has no objection to Chen Jingxing's investment in the Mekong River project. After all, it is the main theme film led by the National Film Studio.

However, Chen Jingxing tried his best to fight for the position of joint production with China Film, and even wanted to reach 50% of the share in this project. DreamWorks is just a film company that has been established for less than a year. At best, it can only be regarded as a newborn in the film industry. In such a big project, nearly [-] million yuan was spent without blinking an eye.

Xu Wenshen once wondered whether Chen Jingxing had misunderstood [-] million.

This kind of investment can only be decided after several rounds of discussions and demonstrations in any film company, and it will inevitably conduct multiple investigations on the main creative team of the film, and even issue countless reports to demonstrate the feasibility and predict the final market prospect. Let's not talk about it.

As for Chen Jingxing, besides being too "sloppy" in his investment decision, he also tried his best to ensure that Guo Fan, a rookie in the film industry, became the director of this project. Xu Wenshen could not understand Chen Jingxing's brain circuit at all.

National Film Group is willing to bet billions of dollars on this project because it is an essay written by the above, and National Film Studio specializes in this. Hairy hair, if someone releases a Hollywood blockbuster at will, the money will be earned back.

Regarding Xu Wenshen's "crying poor", Chen Jingxing can only spread his hands: "The Mekong River project may have to wait for a while to start, let's see if we can wait until "Signal" is released to return the funds. If we really can't solve the problem, we can only ask the bank for a loan gone."

Xu Wenshen couldn't help it: "Boss, why are you so optimistic about Chen Sicheng's project?"

Chen Jingxing pretended to ponder for a while: "After "Fatal Identity", it proved that suspense themes also have market prospects, and it is a comedy suspense film. Comedy has always been an excellent theme in the Huaguo film market. Two buffs Stacked together, is there any reason not to look good?"

Xu Wenshen's expression of "you're fooling the devil" made Chen Jingxing feel guilty.

"It's not intuitive again, is it?"

This is what Chen Jingxing once said in front of Xu Wenshen about the reason why he invested huge sums of money in the Mekong River project.

Chen Jingxing could only brazenly continue his metaphysics: "My intuition tells me that this project of Chen Sicheng will definitely achieve great success in the market."

Xu Wenshen could only surrender to this: "Okay, anyway, a director of a youth romance film can make a war action film with an investment of hundreds of millions, and it's normal for another director of a romance film to suddenly start making suspense films."

However, he was still half admonishing, half complaining, "Boss, if you make a decision after careful consideration, I naturally support it, but I still hope that you will not make important decisions at the wine table in the future."

Chen Jingxing hurriedly complained: "I just drank some red wine last night. Believe me, I'm not drunk at all. I made the decision completely in a sober state." If you want to catch it, who knows if you will meet the "prey" who actively throws the net next time?

Xu Wenshen had reservations about Chen Jingxing's grievances. Anyone who knew that the boss had only chatted for less than 10 minutes at the party made a decision on the spot and spent tens of millions of yuan to invest in a project.

Xu Wenshen wondered if Chen Sicheng had poured some drug into the wine glass last night.

But after all, Chen Jingxing was the boss of DreamWorks, and the company did not have any debts so far. Although it might soon be burdened with debts, before Chen Jingxing made a major mistake in his decision-making, Xu Wenshen had no determination to oppose it.

As a senior producer who has been in the film and television industry for many years, he understands that there are indeed geniuses in this industry. Some people have this kind of talent and can accurately judge the market prospect of a project. Maybe... maybe Chen Jingxing is such a person ?
After all, this boss has achieved remarkable achievements with only two low-cost movies. As long as he continues to be so successful, successful people will be right in everything they say.

Xu Wenshen quickly changed the subject: "Boss, what do you think about the award I mentioned earlier?"

What Xu Wenshen mentioned was the Hundred Flowers Award for the popular film.

As one of the most famous awards in the domestic film industry, the Hundred Flowers Awards and the Golden Rooster Awards are held alternately. Unlike the professional judges of the Golden Rooster Awards, the Hundred Flowers Awards are selected through audience votes.

"Fatal Identity", as a film that performed extremely well in theaters this year, has naturally entered the preliminary list, and it is not a big problem to enter the final shortlist, but it is difficult to grasp whether it can win several nominations and win awards. Xu Wenshen The proposed rush award is for these two purposes.

As the closing ceremony of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, the Hundred Flowers Award has the same rules as the film festival.

That is to say, the ten candidate films finally selected compete for all nominations. Of course, some candidate films may have only one nomination, such as Best Picture, while some candidate films can participate in multiple nominations.

As far as Xu Wenshen's analysis is concerned, the film "Fatal Identity" still has a lot of awards that can be impacted, and there is a lot of room for operation.

　That's it for today's update...it's really gone
　　Tomorrow's update time will be in the evening, about nine or ten o'clock.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)