The first thing to do when the movie is launched is of course to calculate the cost and attract investment...

Movies are first and foremost business, but art!

Don't have money to make a porn movie!

In essence, investing in movies is a business operation, and it belongs to the category of art and entertainment under the commercial industry.

No one will make a movie with the original intention of losing money!

Even those literary schools that claim to be personalized in movies...

Hou Xiaoxian filmed "Assassin Nie Yinniang". In addition to showing his own movies, he also wanted to make money...

Wang Xiaoshuai cried and shouted for Mao, and he had to force the theaters to increase the screening schedule?

Don't you want to make money yet!

The budget of a movie can be divided into two categories: online expenses and offline expenses.

Online fees depend on the specific video, referring to the expenses that are naturally derived in the creation process.

The fees include the expenses for obtaining or writing scripts, the salary paid to executive producers and directors, and the salary and additional compensation of actors.

Most of the offline expenses are spent on technical performance, such as salary paid to staff, the use of equipment, the purchase of videotapes or films, plus the overhead of sets, props, clothing, makeup, transportation, food, sound effects, music and editing.

Insurance premiums, legal fees and licenses, etc.

If these fees are associated with the screenwriter, producer, director or actor, they can also be classified as online fees.

These expenses may be ignored, but they are also quite expensive if accumulated.

There is another one, the recurring fee.

It refers to some rents and water, electricity, and gas expenses, which must be included.

Recurring expenses account for approximately 15% of the total budget and are usually considered important expenses.

Also, generally, a good budget is determined, and an additional 10% of the amount will be allocated as a reserve on the basis of costs, which can be used to deal with some matters that are ignored but will seriously affect the progress.

Zhang Junsheng has made two short films, but the short films are different from movies, so the movie needs to be more accurate!

He can only estimate the cost...

As an actor, he plans to use a newcomer. To be honest, the rewards of actors these days are not very high. Think about Junqi Zhao, when she was filming "Painted Skin 2", her salary was only 3.8 million!

The newcomer is even lower!

Therefore, the maximum salary of an actor shall not exceed 2 million, and the salary of a staff is basically the same as the total salary of an actor;

Equipment rental costs plus props, on-site shooting, almost 8 million...

The most important expense is special effects and post-production!

No matter how no aesthetic concept Zhang Junsheng has no aesthetic concept, he also knows that the most amazing thing about Xu Laoqian's "A Chinese Ghost Story" is that it creates a feeling that is almost comic-like.

Of course, it is also important to choose a good role!

Zhang Junsheng directly received 25 million for special effects expenses...

Post-production costs at least five million...

Roughly calculated, it was almost 42 million.

In this era, the cost of more than 30 million is considered a big investment!

42 million means the box office is only 100 million, and it is difficult to recover the cost...

In addition to Yuehua Media, Huaying and Zhang Junsheng must join the company in Xiangjiang, such as Yongsheng or Yinghuang, there is no way, they have external channels!

...

Hearing Zhang Junsheng's budget, several people in the company's film department looked at each other...

Play so big?

What should I do if I lose money?

And the biggest difficulty of costume films is that it is difficult to implant advertisements!

In other words, if you want to recover your costs, you can only count on the box office of the movie!

However, there are too few tickets that can exceed 100 million yuan in box office now, and they don’t think Zhang Junsheng has such ability…

After all, he is just a freshman who has only been enrolled for half a year!

"Actually, most of the money is spent on special effects. For example, the part where the Thousand Years of Tree Demon appeared, not to look at the special effects for a few seconds, but if you really need to match the resolution of the cinema, as long as you need to render for more than ten hours, these are all costs!"

Seeing that a few people looked bad, Zhang Junsheng explained.

"Are you going to hand over the special effects to Junsheng?"

The person in charge of the film department is Zhao Yijun. It turned out that he was from the Bayi Studio and was poached by Tang Ningyu.

Having been filmmaking for many years…

"Well, I also invited Tiangong Quancai. With the Junsheng special effects alone, it is impossible to guarantee that the National Day will be released next year!"

“…This investment is a bit high…”

Zhao Yijun still talked about his concerns.

"It's okay, the first one is used to create reputation. Don't forget that we have "Painted Skin" behind us!"

"No, boss, it's hard for me to convince Huaying and Yinghuang Investment..."

What Zhao Yijun is worried about is this problem!

He is not stupid. He can only recover the cost if he invests more than 40 million yuan in a box office of over 100 million yuan!

Zhang Junsheng is not Ma Xiaokang or Lao Touzi, he is a pure novice in movies!

“…This is a problem.”

In fact, after this period of study, Zhang Junsheng became less confident the more he learned. The world of movies was big. The more he understood, the more he became afraid…

He also dared not guarantee the box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

He himself couldn't guarantee how to convince other investors?

"In this way, you say I'm going to create the first magic blockbuster..."

After thinking about it, he shook his head: "You go to Disney to see if they have any ideas for investment..."

Let’s just go and cheat foreigners!

The ceiling of the domestic film and television industry is too low...

Zhang Junsheng doesn’t know any local wealthy people, he has a mine at home...

By the way, when it comes to mines at home, the three guys in the dormitory seem to be quite rich!

...

In the cafe, Zhang Junsheng took out the script of "A Chinese Ghost Story" and sent it to three people.

After a while, Fu Guangsheng spoke first: "Boss, this script..."

"What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

Zhang Junsheng hurriedly consulted...

"…This seems like a pure commercial movie?"

"Nonsense, of course I'm making commercial films, and commercial films are the mainstream!"

Rolling his eyes, Zhang Junsheng replied angrily.

Chen Yu frowned: "But, if you take a photo like this, it's not cheap!"

"Yes, I calculated it. It requires at least 50 million yuan in shooting budget, cough..." After a fake cough, Zhang Junsheng said his purpose: "Who of you has money? Help invest a little!"

All three of them were silent...

A movie of tens of millions is far from what these three people can get in touch with...

Zhang Duolong glanced at Zhang Junsheng and asked, "Who are you planning to play?"

"I haven't thought about this yet. Ning Caichen, I want Zhou Xing to try it. Nie Xiaoqian, there are two options for the time being, Liu Yifei and Chen Yao..."

Chen Yu glanced at Zhang Junsheng with contempt: "Do you want to film or play unspoken rules?"

“…Is there any difference? Why should we distinguish things that can be done at the same time?”

Zhang Junsheng is so good, he rarely hides his true thoughts...

"Tsk tsk, Liu Yifei is not yet an adult, you are simply a beast!"

"…In ancient times, a fifteen-year-old woman and a hairpin knew what it means to be a hairpin? She means to get married and applaud!"

“It’s a pity that we are modern!”
Chapter completed!