I Have Achieved A Lot

half a month, what can you do for an animated movie?

Small, but many!

Many premises are that funds, manpower, and resources are all in place, and there is a good helm holding the direction.

There is no shortage of funds for Xizi Pictures. Let’s not talk about how much money Penguin Animation, 8 Stations and Shanhai Animation Studios can use, just know that Xizi Pictures will start to make animated films. , Investors from all walks of life are in an endless stream. If you are willing to spend all of these investments in this half a month, it will be more than the total funds of the cooperation projects reached by all parties in the Shanhai Animation Festival. To be conservative. Can exceed 300 million!

What is the concept of 300 million production cost?

In recent years, domestic animated films with high box office and good reputation, even if the announcement fee is included, there are not many that exceed 100 million.

The production cost of domestic large-scale animated films is basically maintained at 20 million to 50 million, and more than 30 million accounted for a small proportion.

Push forward a few years, less!

The animation film crew is too poor, so poor that all practitioners are used to it.

Take “Big Fish” as an example. The reason why it took twelve years for each pigeon to actually get on the big screen is not because the production cycle takes so long, but most of the time. I spent all sorts of running around looking for investment.

The most interesting and ironic thing is that “Big Fish” took 12 years to complete the production with 30 million, and then the investment came in. The money spent on the film promotion and distribution far exceeded the production cost.

What does this mean?

It’s not that the Chinese filmmakers or investors have no vision, but it’s too poisonous. Don’t act without some incentive before the last step!

Why did you go?

People don’t need to spend money on risks to bet whether you can make money. After all, there are more types of Huaxia movies making money. I’m not an anime hobbyist, so I won’t take your dreams to fight it.

Even if it is an animated movie, it also invests in projects like bears and sheep that are not losing money.

Comparatively speaking, the reason why you did good foreign animation films, especially Hollywood movies, is that you really dare to spend money, hundreds of millions of dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars in production costs. . They have a more mature film industry and technology, but they didn’t have the courage to spend money at first, and the film industry and technology will not be so good.

Of course, there are many reasons for the quality of movies.

However, if you have money, you can really solve a lot of things, especially for China Animation Movies, money has already solved many, many things.

For investors in the industry, Xizi Pictures is currently one of the biggest rabbits in the China Film Market. Everyone wants to sprinkle some eagles, even if they get a little hairy, it’s money, it’s a profit if you make less. The key is that there will be a second time if there is a first time.

For investors, the most important thing about movies is the box office.

Where did the box office come from?

One is brought by people with box office appeal, and the other is brought by word of mouth.

I’m not sure about word-of-mouth, but the box office appeal can be accurate, otherwise there will be no such quality rubbish, but find some box office appealing actors or traffic to make a wave of money and leave. of. Don’t think that a wave is small, it is quite high compared to the production cost.

There are too many components of box office appeal, such as traffic stars, feelings, such as filmmakers who have had good reputation movies, and so on.

Well, after some tragic and really embarrassing experiences of too high quality, traffic stars have gradually been unable to deceive people. The number of people paying IQ taxes in movies is decreasing year by year.

But the latter two are still very popular. Feelings have always been a big seller of IQ tax, and good word-of-mouth filmmakers have a lottery meaning. You don’t really know the quality if you don’t go into the cinema. It’s good or bad, or I don’t believe that movie ratings must be determined after watching.

Xizi Pictures, or Meng Fan, is a combination of traffic and good reputation. The traffic reaches the side of traffic idols, and it has indeed produced good works-although it is not a movie, it can’t stand the previous works. All have a good reputation.

Don’t say anything else, after the movie of Xizi Pictures is released, the company announced that “we all owe Iron God a movie ticket” can attract countless audiences.

What, Meng Fan hasn’t made a movie before?

Isn’t his game more exciting than the movie?

There is nothing wrong with this corporate slogan!

In the end, are all the investments that I sent to my door?

Of course not all, but none is bad.

One is the depth of the industry. Even if the three joint ventures have some big distributors to buy shares, they still can’t shut out all the investment; the second is that Meng Fan’s original intention to establish a film company is not all for Make money and be willing to share some of the money to make the animation film produced by my company more smoothly produced, distributed, released and expanded.

In the end, it absorbed almost 100 million investment, which was injected into the production cost of three animated films.

Of course, in addition to the investor’s own resources and platform, the most important thing to absorb investment is that you are only responsible for investing money and not intervening. If this is not possible, then more The big bosses who invest more than ever have to refuse.

However, even so, the speed of progress is still very slow, mainly because the team building is too difficult, or it is too difficult to build a team that can match this kind of investment, let alone Say three.

After the establishment of Xizi Films, both its affiliated studios and its brother-based strategic partner Shanhai Studio have recruited a lot of people. Now the affiliated studios, namely Xizi Animation Studios, have more than two hundred members. Among them, the number of technical members has reached 150, and the staff of Shanhai Studio has expanded to nearly 500. When other cooperative studios and outsourcing studios are included, there are more than 1,000 practitioners serving Xizi Pictures.

This half a month, in fact, most of the time is spent on team building, and it can even be said that the main energy in the next few months will be on this.

“No hurry!”

Meng Fan also knows the difficulties involved, and said at the meeting with Chief-In-Charge: “You can do things at your own pace, You can even slow down the tempo appropriately. You don’t need to worry about other things. Administrative staff will coordinate. The three animations are important and important, but in my opinion, the more important thing is through these three animations. To polish a qualified team.”

“In addition, there is one more thing I have to say, one thing that I decided a long time ago. The animation of my “Fantastic Man in the Mountains” has already According to the contract, I can deploy a team to participate in the production of Neon. The first phase will last about one to two months. Originally, this team was determined to be drawn from the Shanhai Animation Studio. Now You can give up a part of the quota to Xizi Animation. It is an opportunity to work with the top neon animation production team. Now the task of film production is relatively heavy. How to coordinate you to decide, and then give me a list. Just two more The cooperation with Pixar in May is almost the same model. “

” Again, team building is the top priority and must be grasped. “