I didn't want to be an actor

In addition to Sha Yi, Shen Liang also saw Ning Li...

"The Wandering Earth 2" has a coherent plot and was filmed in two parts.

Because the first part was the foundation, the total cost of the two parts is close to 700 million!

Not as high as 1.3 billion...

700 million is the budget of the main controller. During the actual filming, in order to make a good film, the share will be continuously released for financing. Because banks do not provide mortgage loans for this kind of IP, investors must be attracted at a certain price.

This price is based on your potential box office. For example, if your estimated box office is 3 billion, you cannot sell more than 1 billion times the percentage.

Investors, that is, buyers enter the market in stages. The earlier a large buyer enters the market, the cheaper it will be. The later a retail investor enters the market, the more expensive it will be and the higher the profit line will be.

"Walking Alone on the Moon" did the same thing. It is said that the final retail investors who entered the game had to wait until 3 billion to make a slight profit. Counting the capital cost, it means they made no profit, but the early investors definitely made a lot of money.

The same goes for "The Wandering Earth 2"...

The 1.3 billion cost reported online must be the price of the last buyer, because they estimate that the ball 2 can sell for 40+, and for them, it may indeed be 3.3 to 3.5 billion to recover the cost.

But early buyers like Shen Liang, Wu Jing, Guo Fan and China Film Group have already made profits.

The same goes for "Man Jiang Hong". Judging from the financial report released by Huanxi Entertainment, the production cost was only about 150 million. Director Zhang has super scheduling skills and has very good cost control.

The final selling price was probably around 500 million because the market was not very optimistic about it, which means the market estimated its box office to be around 1.5 billion.

Therefore, the figure we hear about the cost of online transmission is different from the real cost!

The profit line of each investor is also completely different. Therefore, in the original time and space, there will be big Vs who said that "Ball 2" must enter the top ten to ensure that all investors can make profits. Pay attention to the adjective "all". This is definitely not to say that the production of "Ball 2" cost 1.3 billion...

This thing is just like finance, it is divided into level 1 market and level N market...

For the first batch of investments, there were retail investors in the secondary and tertiary markets, and their shares were sold at a premium.

Earnings are diluted, but the pressure to repay capital will be reduced...

Shen Liang didn't play like this. He didn't care much about the money - he invested 70 million, accounting for 10%. Besides, based on the finished film of "The Wandering Earth 2", the cost recovery is still guaranteed!

…

When Wu Jing saw Shen Liang, he directly joked: "You came to visit the class without buying a drink?"

"…I bought it and will deliver it later!"

"...A visit cost 5,000 yuan!"

Shen Liang waved his hand: "I not only bought drinks but also burgers."

"The Wandering Earth 2" has nearly 2,000 permanent staff.

Guo Fan interjected: "There are not so many people now. Now that we are in the later stages of filming, there are basically only four to five hundred people here..."

"That's not a big deal, I'll treat you all to drinks and burgers!"

Gong Geer immediately took out the loudspeaker and shouted: "Brother Liang invites everyone to drink and eat burgers. They will be delivered shortly!"

"...I asked them to directly bring the materials over and make them on site..."

"That's better!"

Shen Liang asked Guo Fan: "What difficulties did you face in the later stage?"

"Special effects...I still feel like it's almost boring..."

"Brother, our special effects are already very good. Don't get it wrong. If you want the audience to pay for it, the most important thing is the plot. The rhythm of the plot must be controlled well!"

Wu Jing was confused: "What's wrong? Are you stimulated?"

"Yeah," Shen Liang nodded: "The day before yesterday, I watched the finished version of "Assassination of Novelists"... the plot is a mess! I'm really sorry for the special effects!"

"Is it bad?"

"It's either bad, just mediocre... I don't understand the logic! The main story is too simple, has no beginning and no end, and cannot stand up to scrutiny..."

Guo Fan: "No, I think the special effects part is really amazing! And Lao Lu's hair turned white for this movie... he worked for more than two years!"

Shen Liang shook his head: "Special effects alone are of no use. What kind of movie has the current audience not seen? If the plot is not good, no matter how awesome the special effects are, the audience will not buy it... Lu Yang is attentive. Of course I know his attentiveness. But you can’t sell a movie if you put your heart into it... I estimate that "The Novelist" will only earn a little over 1 billion at the box office..."

"That's not bad..."

"His last movie was "Earthfire"!"

Guo Fan was silent for a moment, and then asked: "Did you tell him?"

"No...but before the filming of "The Novelist" started, I advised him to either abandon the fantasy part or only shoot the fantasy part...He didn't listen!"

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"Assassination Novelist" can really represent the level of the Chinese film industry!

Especially compared with "Fengshen", it feels like it's not from the same era.

Its film and television industry is really a new high in China's special effects blockbusters. There is no sense of falseness or discomfort at all. Even if it is placed in Hollywood, it is still above the average level.

After all, movies are an art of sight and sound. This movie is considered a heavy industry movie. It is very rich in audio-visual and other special effects and has no obvious shortcomings.

The problem is that the script is so bad!

Lu Yang is a very romantic person. He felt that the misty mountain city was very romantic, so he filmed it in Chongqing;

He felt romantic about the idea of ​​one stroke and one world, and he felt romantic about walking toward God in a mortal body.

Even the name "Assassination Novelist" is romantic.

Therefore, he must shoot!

Therefore, "Novelist" doesn't care much about logical motivation and character design.

When the writer stood on the rooftop, the whole world was under his feet. The mountains in the distance looked like the city in the clouds. The city was full of strange lights, people were fighting in the drums and dances, the red-armored warrior was alive, and it was absurd and bizarre when he raised the Gatling gun to shoot at the god. He screamed, "Dad is here to save you!"

Yes, this thing is not logical, but it's really romantic.

This feeling... is very similar to the first time I watched Jin Hezai's "The Legend of the Sea".

In fact, compared with Jiangnan's "The Legend of the Sea", "The Legend of the Sea" is quite thin in plot and character setting, but when I finished watching it, I really felt that world - it is completely different from reality, and there are things that are not in reality.

In a sense, "The Novelist" is pretty awesome. Movies are an experience, an art of dreaming, and the plot is only a part of the film.

The excellence of a movie is not only about how exquisite the plot logic is, but also about whether the dream itself is awesome.

But... the tone of the movie changes too quickly, and the rhythm is not well handled.

The six years of searching at the beginning, the Aladdin Group's all-powerful hands and eyes, and the various mutant high-tech equipment will make the audience mistakenly think that this is a Hollywood-style movie.

But in fact, from the novelist wearing a fox mask appearing in the live broadcast to the description of him as a lazy guy, the audience gradually felt that the main theme was absurd and bizarre.

So with the expectation of watching a serious drama, it was definitely a joke in the end!

This is also the main reason for the polarized evaluation of "The Novelist".

Shen Liang still likes "The Novelist" very much, otherwise, he would not have invested 72 million, accounting for 20% of the investment amount.

Oh, Shen Liang talked to Wu Jing about "Nine Thousands of Miles to Anxi"...

To be precise, they talked about the cooperation with Jackie Chan and the fact that Hollywood asked him to film.