The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 157 "Signal" trio confirmed
The result of the first "Gravity" promotion meeting was an unhappy breakup.

Except for Qin Zhonghe, chairman of China Film Group, who stood by his side, Huanshi.com, Penguin Video, United Cinemas and Tianrun Pictures all expressed disapproval to varying degrees.

Among them, United Cinemas and Tianrun were the most vocal opponents. Not only were they unwilling to invest in the film, they even clearly opposed Chen Jingxing's continued promotion of the "Gravity" project as a shareholder of DreamWorks.

Of course, Chen Jingxing currently holds an absolute controlling stake in DreamWorks, and the voice of opposition has no real impact on him, but this also marks that the honeymoon period between DreamWorks and several production partners seems to be coming to an end.

From the first round of financing, the four shareholders of DreamWorks have money to contribute to the two projects of "Signal" and "Source Code".

It can be said that Chen Jingxing was able to make these two films when DreamWorks’ talent development was just starting, and it was able to survive the fierce ticket rebate battle in the National Day file, and it was able to initially establish Japan, South Korea and other countries without the cooperation of Hollywood distributors. The distribution network in Southeast Asia and the gradual release in various European markets, the four shareholders of DreamWorks have made great efforts behind the scenes.

Of course, this is also Chen Jingxing's original intention of introducing these four companies in the financing, otherwise, waiting for DreamWorks to build a sound organizational structure and a reliable crew, it will be the Year of the Monkey.

It can be said that most of the current employees of DreamWorks, as well as most of the talents in the cast and crew who are relatively happy with him, basically have the background of four shareholders. Even the director of the "Signal" TV series project that just signed with DreamWorks Tian Xinye was also recommended by Penguin Video Network, a director trained by others.

As a comparison, although the money is already in place, the filming of Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown" has not yet started.

His last film "Northern Love" was invested and produced by Beijing Film and United Cinemas. Although he wrote and directed it himself, he was still a laborer, and the crew was provided by Beijing Film.

The "Detective Chinatown" project is the first film produced by Chen Sicheng's newly established company, Chengya Films. It has attracted two investors, DreamWorks and United Cinemas, but the crew has not yet prepared it.

Huaguo film and television production practitioners have strong handicraft characteristics, and often use the relationship between mentors and apprentices and fellow villagers as the glue, and there is no perfect free talent market. It is not easy to really form a crew above the standard.

If there is no first-class film company to contribute, hunting for treasure in the market by oneself is like picking gold in the sand. If you don't pay enough tuition fees and don't have enough time to adapt, it is impossible to build a high-level mature team.

Not to mention that in addition to production and shooting, there will be more hurdles in the final release process.

DreamWorks was actually lucky enough to take every step just right, which allowed him to build such a big business in a year.

However, although he regretted that the tacit cooperative relationship was broken, Chen Jingxing did not have any doubts about himself or shrink back.

Anyway, the second round of financing has been fooled to get enough money - this is also the reason why United Cinemas and Tianrun are extremely dissatisfied.

"Gravity" is a project with a long production cycle. Of course, it's not that the shooting time is long, but the special effects production is long. It is basically equivalent to a large cartoon. The 8 million is not spent all at once. DreamWorks is definitely at the moment. Chen Jingxing is not worried about the funds if he is able to start this project alone, not to mention that the National Film Studio will also participate in the investment.

However, I am afraid that the possibility of Lianhe Cinemas and Tianrun participating in this project is extremely low. However, Huanshiwang and Penguin Video, the two Internet companies, are a bit ambiguous, and there is still a possibility of winning.

Chen Jingxing naturally hoped that more investors could help him share the financial pressure. Chen Jingxing's original plan for the "Gravity" project was that DreamWorks would invest half of the production costs, and other companies would share the other half.

After all, DreamWorks is not rich in funds. If all the money is put on "Gravity", it will affect the development of other projects and plans. As for the means of credit financing, he believes that once the "Gravity" project is announced , Banks may treat DreamWorks' credit financing with a very cautious attitude.

After all, a movie with a real cost of 8 million yuan, excluding the examples of money laundering, was definitely second to none even before Chen Jingxing traveled through time.

The production cost of "The Wandering Earth" is not more than 3.5 million yuan. "Tang Tan San" claims to invest 13 billion, but everyone knows how crazy this so-called water injection is. The cost of "Tang Tan Yi" is less than 8000 million. 2 million, the real production cost of "Tang Detective Three" will not exceed 5 million, but it is the sequel of the hit IP, which cannot be compared with the original script.

The reason for the lower cost of "The Wandering Earth" is that firstly, the domestic special effects team is mainly used; secondly, its special effects have not reached the international first-class level, and of course it is enough to reach the upper-middle level in Hollywood; Lower than Gravity.

The current domestic special effects technology has not reached the level that it will be in a few years, and the production difficulty of "Gravity" is actually more than that of "The Wandering Earth". At this stage, we can only turn to foreign special effects companies, and it is difficult to reduce the cost.

Although the project promotion of "Gravity" has reached an impasse, other projects of DreamWorks are still proceeding normally.

After the director of the "Signal" TV series was confirmed, the last protagonist who has been undecided has also taken shape.

Although Huanshi.com and Penguin Video have recommended a lot of young stars they are entraining, but DreamWorks wants to create a high-quality TV series. Even with Sun Li and Deng Chao joining in, Chen Jingxing does not want to let the protagonists of the TV series have the finale of the trio. There's a blemish on one corner.

With Chen Jingxing's support, Tian Xinye also had enough guts to send back all the traffic related accounts. After arranging several candidates for audition, Zhang Ruoyun was finally confirmed.

Although Zhang Ruoyun can be regarded as a resourceful man after a closer look, his father is a well-known producer in the industry and has a certain status in the TV drama industry, but his acting skills are above the standard, and his lines are good-this is a young actor. Relatively rare business ability.

Since the "Signal" TV series is known as a high-quality product, the filming plan is on-site radio, and Chen Jingxing does not plan to put it in a film and television studio for filming. On-site radio plus post-production can definitely be done.

Large-scale dubbing of TV dramas is purely limited to China, not to mention American dramas, Japanese dramas, Korean dramas, and even Thai dramas can be done. It can be seen that live audio recording is not a matter of any technical difficulty at all.

Although Zhang Ruoyun's performance in the audition was indeed good, his lines were indeed the highlight that Chen Jingxing and director Tian Xinye valued more.

Now that the actors have basically been decided, and the crew is also ready-made, the TV series "Signal" will soon carry out the opening ceremony.

(End of this chapter)