Chapter 220 Drastic, Film Fund
Early the next morning, Li Mingyang called Zhang Zhao, Dapeng, Wu Zhikui, as well as the leaders, screenwriters, and photographers of each production team into the office.
"Dapeng, please tell me about the progress of Far Cry first."
"Hey, okay, Far Cry has been sent for trial now..." Dapeng stood up and opened his own Work notes, a somewhat listless introduction to the progress of Far Cry.
Far Cry officially started filming at the end of February, wrapped up at the end of March, and was officially submitted for review at the end of April.
The first draft that Dapeng and Wu Zhikui cut took more than five hours. Li Mingyang spent two days and only 110 minutes were left.
Sent to Raytheon, which gave Far Cry a second review and cut another five minutes.
We haven’t played it yet. Zuo Shandiao took the time to take a look and made no comment on the content of the movie. Instead, he picked out a few clips and asked for them to be cut.
The final cut left only 95 minutes.
The review of movies in the Mainland always makes people confused.
How to distinguish between passion and art.
This is a very competent question and no movie can be used as a reference.
For example, the city is full of big waves.
During the review of "The City is Full of Golden Armor", more than a dozen reviewers participated in the viewing party, and they were very concerned about the blood and exposure in it. footage, a heated argument broke out among the committee members.
Some people think that these scenes should be deleted, while others think that Lao Mouzi handled it technically cleanly and that the film can represent China in its bid for Oscars.
The result of the controversy was that after scoring, the big bobo passed the review without being cut.
The film is rated R in North America.
The signs of film censorship are the dragon mark at the beginning of the film and the technical review certificate at the end. The whole film is blocked from one end to the other. Only two certificates can be released before it can be released.
After the film studio submits the film for review, there will usually be two rounds of review.
The first round of review generally only reviews the content and controls major aspects.
Because the whole process is very long, many foreign blockbusters that want to be released simultaneously in China are often sent for review before the post-production is completed. The reviewers see the green-screen and blue-screen Wia cuts that have not been removed.
After the first round of review, if there are no problems in principle, you can get the Dragon Label.
The film studio can use the dragon mark and the "technical examination certificate" to make the master disk of the digital projection medium.
The accounting and audit certificate here is just affixed first, and has not actually undergone technical review.
In the second round of review, the technical review is the most stringent!
Many movies fall here.
What the technical reviewer has to face is the final version of the film, which is exactly the same as the film the audience saw without Wia and green screen.
Only after passing the technical review can the film be finally released.
If the technical review fails, it will directly affect the final schedule of the film. Thousands of hard drives of the film produced in advance by the film crew will cause huge material losses.
"One Step Away" and "I'm Not Pan Jinlian" both suffered waterloos in the technical examination.
The former can also make temporary changes and work overtime to ensure that the movie is released on time.
"I'm Not Pan Jinlian" was not so lucky, and in the end it had to be postponed.
Generally, delays and extensions are caused by problems in the second instance.
Far Cry is essentially a sideline movie, without so much connotation and innuendo... There is no problem with the dragon label, but the biggest problem is actually the technical review.
Prolonged bikini exposure and astringent feelings will make the reviewer feel vulgar and in a bad mood. They will directly give you a low score and then send it back to you for correction.
You can have astringent feelings, and the old literary and young people like this tune very much, but there is a time limit.
Just enough is enough...
Enough is a very subjective matter.
Other people take pictures of big waves all over the city, and I don’t even know the ones that can be deleted.
But Lao Mouzi could not cut it with a knife.
In Far Cry, many scenes of Yang Mi were deleted, many of them, including several scenes that were originally intended to be used as promotional selling points.
Especially the scene where he is wearing a coffee-colored large-size T-shirt, running and rippling with the waves, was also deleted.
I am quite speechless.
If you don’t delete it, there is a risk that it will not be reviewed. Please call it back to make changes and review it again.
"Dokdo" is released in the summer, and it comes and goes every two or three months.
If you don't succeed the second time, it will be great fun.
We can only wait until next summer to harvest the bees.
When making a movie, the most important thing is to pass the review. Everything else is trivial.
As for sidelines, they can be made up during promotion to attract the audience.
Dapeng was originally very confident in the "Far Cry" he directed, and his voice was three times louder than before.
Ever since I was deleted, I have no confidence and am listless every day.
After listening to Dapeng’s work report.
Li Mingyang did not have anything planned in advance and said directly: "Starting from today, all the production teams of the company, including Dapeng and Wu Zhikui's production teams, will all be transferred to the Film Center and will be managed by Zhang Zhao."
As soon as he finished speaking, many people were dissatisfied.
"I am too old to control so many young people." Zhang Zhao said quickly before anyone else could speak.
"There's less than a month left before June 1st. I'm going to shoot a movie soon, so I don't have much time to care about you." Li Mingyang glanced at Dapeng and the others.
"You are really capable. You even opened a bet on when Mr. Zhang will run away. I will reiterate here today that Mr. Zhang was specially invited by me. Don't think that you are very close to me. If you are familiar with it, don't take Mr. Zhang seriously. From today on, you will be under his control."
"But..."
As soon as Wu Zhikui said no, Li Mingyang rolled his eyes. , he smiled bitterly, lowered his head, and said no more.
"Mr. Zhang, these people have been with me for a long time. I am nostalgic, so the company does not plan to find any foreign aid in the future and will only train its own people. What do you think?" Zhang Zhao asked from his pocket. Take out a cigarette.
"Stop smoking. There are so many people. You should smoke less. You see, I haven't smoked recently."
"Just one."
After taking a few puffs of cigarette, Zhang Zhao regained his energy and said with a smile: "I have no objection. Anyway, you have the whole story."
"What about you, do you have any objection?" Li Mingyang looked to the other side and said.
"No objection, I listen to Director Li." Wu Zhikui was the first to say.
"From now on, I will listen to Mr. Zhang and Director Li."
"No objection."
......
The production team who just felt resentful The team members all said they had no objections.
What they need is an opportunity. As long as there is an opportunity, they are willing to accept it even if they are not satisfied with the airborne leadership.
Li Mingyang nodded, "I will transfer 100 million to Mingyang Entertainment's account tomorrow. This 100 million will be used as the film's start-up fund. You only need my consent and Mr. Zhang's signature to use this fund. "
"You can all apply for the 100 million film start-up fund, I will treat you equally."
"It doesn't matter if you lose, I don't have that high requirements for you, but you have to be right. Starting from myself... of course my reputation is too bad, so I will prepare to work behind the scenes for the rest of my life, or work as a photographer in a photo studio, or write essays for TV stations."
"Brother Li, I have a question, you can apply for 100 million in one go. Come down?" Dapeng raised his hand and said.
"Yes, but you must have this ability."
Everyone started talking about it and started to join the group again to keep warm.
Li Mingyang has finally discovered that every time he asks a question, these people subconsciously think of blaming the public...
But it doesn't matter, the 100 million movie start-up fund is actually based on One Punch Man Start-up capital for this IP.
No matter what plan others propose, he will deny it and let everyone complete One Punch Man.
The era of hero movies has begun.
The most profitable movies in the future will be Marvel’s hero movies.
He wants to create his own Marvel.
One Punch Man is a big IP that is popular all over the world. In terms of commercial value, it is still higher than Three Body.
As soon as the anime version was aired, it became popular throughout Asia. Later, with its explosive animation effects and fascinating plot, it broke into the European and American circles. In just three years, its influence has surpassed that of Dragon Ball.
Whether a work is popular or not depends most directly on the fans.
In the European and American fandom, basically European and American fans have beaten everything the Big Devil can hit.
The fighting objects include many characters from Dragon Ball, characters from One Piece and many Marvel heroes, which shows how crazy European and American fans are for the bald devil.
It is difficult for domestic movies to break the circle, even small breaking balls cannot break the circle.
The popularity of hero movies is the best time for domestic movies to break out of the industry.
It is also his best chance.
"Okay, you can go out, Mr. Zhang, you stay."
After the others left in a noisy manner.
Zhang Zhao said slowly: "I heard someone said that you sold all your shares in Youku and the copyright of Running Bar to Alibaba?"
"Yes."
"It's a shame. I see Ali is going for six billion US dollars." Zhang Zhao shook his head and said: "To be honest, I thought you and Mr. Wang were just showing off, but I didn't expect that he was just showing off. You are Really sold.”
“The bloody storm in the video world has just begun, and I don’t want to play with them anymore,” Li Mingyang said.
“How much did it cost?”
“More than 400 million.”
“You can’t use this money to make a movie... You got so much cash, are you going to do it? What?”
"In addition to the 100 million film start-up capital, I will also give you the 10 million US dollars mentioned last time. You can withdraw the money by going to Sister Zhou's place to sign... I don't want to waste my time managing Mingyang Entertainment I have never thought about going public with this company, so I will do my best to dismantle the people and things I can from Three Body Pictures. "
"In fact, it is better to annex it than to dismantle it."
"I said, the opportunity is left to them. I didn't fool them. Please remember this, Mr. Zhang."
Zhang Zhao was stunned and looked at Li Mingyang with complicated eyes. In fact, from a business perspective Generally speaking, apart from Li Mingyang, Mingyang Entertainment no longer has a qualified film director candidate.
Training a group of fresh graduates is time-consuming and laborious. Even if one or two succeed, they will not have the influence of Hong Kong directors.
Just finding their own path is enough for these newcomers.
"Mr. Zhang, you have worked at Shanghai Film Group before. How is your relationship with Shanghai Film Group Chairman Ren Dong?"
"One of the few good friends."
"I'm going to open Three-Body Pictures in Shanghai."
"You want to cooperate with Shanghai Film to develop Three-Body Pictures? From what I know about him, he is not a person who likes taking risks, unless he is sure of it. He will only invest in profitable projects.”
"There are no movie projects that are guaranteed to make money. Shanghai Film Group invests in a lot of movies every year."
"There are more TV series... In addition to Allen's liking to cooperate with big directors, he also has a habit, that is, he likes to watch Samples. If the samples don't satisfy him, he will re-evaluate the filming crew and decide whether to withdraw funding."
"..."
"We can't get into the Beijing area. , there is a lot of capital in Shanghai, but they focus too much on profits, from top to bottom... Instead of going to the Magic City, it is better to stay in Hengdian. The Hengdian Group’s investment in movies is second only to China Film Group, and they also dare to take risks.”< br>
"That's okay... you find a new office location in Hengdian, I'm going to demolish the film center."
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(End of this chapter)