China Entertainment 2000.

Chapter 124 It’s pretty disgusting anyway
Jiang Liu's sharp tongue matched the success of "Cell Phone" with a box office of 5100 million yuan.

In the end, China Film and Bona chose to continue to believe in and support Jiang Liu and his "Pirates".

While the three were simmering the mutton, they basically agreed that China Film and Yixin Film and Television would each invest 1000 million yuan, and Bona Company would invest 500 million yuan. The total production cost of 2500 million yuan would be used to compete at the box office of "Pirates."

2500 million yuan is not a small amount. The production cost of "Pirates" is already much higher than that of "Mobile Phone".

What makes Han Sanping and Yu Dong most anxious is that the main actors in "Pirates" are not big-name stars who are as famous as Ge You.

However, Jiang Liu, as the project initiator and director of "Pirates", insisted on focusing on special effects over special effects between big-name stars and special effects, which went against the rules of the market.

Han Sanping and Yu Dong were concerned about this, but they were unwilling to discourage Jiang Liu's enthusiasm.

First, the market is unclear and no one can truly understand and control the market.

Secondly, after all, Jiang Liu had proven his personal ability with "Mobile Phone", and Jiang Liu's vision was more professional than theirs.

Therefore, investing in "Pirates" involves a lot of gambling.

After determining the amount of investment, the next step is division of labor and cooperation.

After discussion, the scope of work of the three companies is exactly the same as that of "Mobile Phone".

Yixin is responsible for the pre-production and post-production of "Pirates" and part of the publicity.

Boehner was responsible for promotion and partial distribution of "Pirates."

Huaxia Film is responsible for the national distribution and copying of "Pirates".

The three of them ate the copper pot and decided on the general direction, leaving the details to their respective company personnel.

At this point, the dinner party also came to an end.

The next day.

After entering the company, Jiang Liu called over He Jing, Xing Aina, Han Li and Hou Xiaobao.

"He Jing, Huaying and Bona have agreed to jointly invest in "Pirates". You are responsible for keeping in contact with the two companies, urging production costs, and signing the contract."

"Xiaobao, please contact domestic and foreign special effects companies to see how much it would cost to create a special effect of a shark dragging a boat. Remember, the special effects budget of "Pirates" is 1000 million yuan. If it exceeds, there is no need to discuss it."

"Han Li, you and the art and scenery staff should hurry up and make costumes and props."

"Aina, you communicate with the crew of Qin Lan, Liu Tao, Sha Yi and others, and ask them to complete the shots as soon as possible and come back early to train for a while."

"Okay." Xing Aina nodded and asked, "When are you going to turn it on?"

"I did the math and decided to start filming in June at the latest, shut down during the National Day, leave three months for post-production, and release it on New Year's Day."

After a few people left, Xing Aina reminded: "In this period, last year I bumped into Feng Dapao, this year I might bump into Zhang Yimou."

"There is a road in Huashan. We have no choice except New Year's Day. We don't have to think about it." Jiang Liu said nonchalantly.

Zhang Yimou's "Hero" is indeed quite scary.

The main creators Li Lianlian, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen, and Daoming Chen are all well-known, and put together it looks like a legendary gathering of stars.

But there is only one Lunar New Year slot in the whole of China that has box office potential, so he has to do it if he doesn't want to.

"Okay, leave the "Pirates" matter to He Jing. Your main job in the first half of the year is to be responsible for the company's relocation. The co-writers will start adapting "The Fairy Sword" into a TV series, making "The Fairy Sword" another representative of Yixin. work."

"Also, by recruiting a few managers, you will still be suitable to take charge of specific projects."

Jiang Liu asked Xing Aina to go to Taiwan to purchase the copyright of "Sword of Immortality".

Xing Aina obeyed the order and flew to Hong Kong first, and then transferred to Taiwan.

When she arrived at Daewoo, the company that developed "Sword of Immortality", she initially had a good conversation with Daewoo.

Although Daewoo wanted to use the copyright as a price to jointly develop the film and television business of the game "Legend of Sword and Fairy" with Yixin, it did not insist on saying so, which was equivalent to a disguised price increase.

Xing Aina didn't like this.

She was unwilling to pay more than 100 million yuan in royalties for film and television adaptation rights.For this reason, he did not hesitate to stay in Taiwan for more than ten days, going to Daewoo Company every day to gossip with others.

It wasn't until Jia Xiaozhi from China Audio-Visual and Cai Yinong from Tangren Film and Television approached Daewoo that Xing Aina called back to the company in a panic to ask Jiang Liu's opinion.

Jiang Liu was a little angry at the time, but he didn't blame Xing Aina on the phone, and repeatedly told Xing Aina not to worry about small money.

In the end, Xing Aina paid nearly 200 million yuan more to snatch the film and television adaptation rights of "Sword and Sword" from Cai Yinong.

Back in Yixin, Jiang Liu chatted with Xing Aina.

Xing Aina is a nice person, with a good personality and everything.

The only thing that is too frugal is that you are always thinking about breaking off a penny and spending it as two cents.

As a film and television producer with this kind of personality, he can perfectly control project costs and avoid excessive squandering by the director.

But he is not qualified for the position of manager of Yixin Company, which is determined to make progress.

Since Xing Aina's character was more conservative than aggressive, Jiang Liu naturally took back the position of manager.

"Boss, this is a fax from the CCTV Science and Education Channel."

"Give it to me." Jiang Liu took the document, flipped it over, and nodded happily after a while.

The anecdotes and strange things in the document are all the materials needed for "Approaching Science", and the good ones couldn't be better.

"Hey, send a few people over."

"Send someone? Send whom? What you want has been passed on. What enlightenment can you get after reading it?"

"The content is in place. You can form a camera crew with four or five people for me. We will see the results in a month."

On the other end of the phone, Wu Daqi was silent for a while and said, "The film crew will be at Yixin tomorrow."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Liu didn't think of anything to explain, so he immediately got up and went back to the hotel to pack his luggage.

The addresses of the materials on the faxed documents came from all over the country. To go to the nearest place, they would have to go to more than ten or twenty provinces and municipalities.

The next day, I met the program team of "Approaching Science". After everyone introduced themselves, they went straight to the first stop, Hebei Province.

In the speeding car, the host Zhang Tengyue pointed to the first material and asked Jiang Liu for advice: "Director Jiang, this kind of material is worthless to put it bluntly. How can we make it attractive? Is it linked to science? I really don't understand. "

"You said it yourself, telling the truth is worthless, so if you don't tell the truth, wouldn't it be better to leave the answer to the end? Besides, there is also a gap in knowledge."

The material Zhang Tengyue pointed to was "god" ice dropped from the sky.

"God" ice is a bluff. To put it bluntly, it is human excrement processed into ice cubes on airplanes.

Not much material is introduced, the more important thing is to dig it out and how to shoot it.

Based on Jiang Liu’s experience, he would probably shoot:
One day, villagers in a village in Hebei Province were working in the fields when suddenly there was a loud noise not far away.

The villagers didn't take it seriously at first, until they heard a series of noises, and everyone went to check and found unknown blue ice cubes.

The news attracted many people to watch. Some people boldly picked up a piece and tasted it. Some said it was salty, some said it was sweet.

When the villagers were talking about it, a wise man from the village jumped out and said that blue ice cubes are called rootless water, and eating them will increase your health and prolong your life.

So, the villagers collected the "god" ice treasures and hid them in their homes.

At the same time, "God" Bing alarmed the column team of "Approaching Science".

After the column team visited planetariums and scientific research laboratories, during the process of repeated verification and pushing for answers, an airline stewardess jumped out to reveal the answer. The so-called "god" ice turned out to be nothing more than human excrement.

The only special thing is probably the poop and fart people poop on the plane.

"It's quite disgusting anyway!" Jiang Liu said.

In the car, Zhang Tengyue and others were already laughing so much that they and even producer Wu Daqi couldn't come up with such a story.

(End of this chapter)