The director of the film project "Demacia: Glory" has not so high talent requirements, but on the contrary, this requires more execution.

Being able to strictly implement the shooting plan, shooting process, and complete the expected shots with quality and quantity. This is all Van Zhe's requirements for the director of the movie "Demacia".

And since that's the case, there is no need to choose famous directors.

Not cost-effective and inappropriate.

Famous directors are very expensive, and while they are expensive, general big directors have a relatively strong desire to control their own film works, and they will hope that the movie can be filmed according to their own ideas. This is especially true for domestic directors.

This is also the difference between the so-called "heavy industry films" in China and Hollywood. Hollywood commercial films are centered on producers, and the director is responsible for the studio work, and there is even no right to edit the movie. In China, the most popular one is still the big director system, and the director is the boss of the project.

"Demacia: Glory" does not require a big director, does not require a director who has many ideas, but has to put his own mark in the film.

Therefore, choosing a director with certain shooting experience, strong enough execution ability, and will not make trouble is relatively more important.

In the end, Fan Zhe chose the director named Liu Minghui, a young director, who is only 27 years old this year. He graduated from the Department of Directors of Beijing Film Academy. He started filming short films and had experience in directing feature films once. It was a small-cost movie.

Although his resume was average, he performed well during the interview, so Fan Zhe chose it.

Next, Liu Minghui will work with several producers sent by Weidu Entertainment to build the crew together.

So, in mid-December, that is, "Dimension Entertainment" and Penguin and Riot, the three parties signed the League of Legends film and television development contract together, and the first film project was already in full swing.

In the contract of Dimension Entertainment to Penguin, the total investment of this "Demacia: Glory" is 800 million yuan, about 117 million US dollars, an undoubtedly big investment movie.

Both parties followed the contract and raised the investment, each of which paid 400 million.

This time, the budget of "Demacia: Glory" and Dimension Entertainment made the accounts particularly clear, especially the "dimension technology".

"Dimensional Technology" is a skin of Fan Zhe, which is used to cover up his "Dimensional System".

At the same time, this is known as the most mysterious place in the company. Apart from Fan Zhe himself, only Ye Jiayi has done some accounting work for "dimensional technology". Apart from this, almost no one has ever contacted it.

In the past, since Weidu Entertainment's works were all self-invested and self-financing projects, they did not do particularly detailed accounts on special effects. Many places put a rough value to finish the matter. Anyway, the money paid to Weidu Technology will eventually return to the Weidu Entertainment's accounts in the name of investment.

Therefore, the related production costs, especially the costs in special effects and post-production, are not very rigorous, after all, they are just left hand and right hand.

But this time, it's different. The movie "Demacia: Glory" has half of the funds, and is produced by Penguin.

If this is to lower the production cost, it would be a loss.

So, Ye Jiayi also took out a detailed post-production cost calculation, analyzing the number, quality, time, etc. of the special effects, and in the name of "dimensional technology", he gave a quote that could be provided to Penguin for viewing.

Ye Jiayi dared to use the entire financial department of Weidu Entertainment to guarantee that Penguin could not find out anything just by checking the account.

In fact, there is no problem. The quotation is based on the market price, and the production level is much higher than the market level. What else is there?

Those special effects studios in the European and American world that provide technical support for Hollywood will be at the same level, and their quotations will even be higher than "dimensional technology" - they have always been like this, with one price for Hollywood companies and one price for foreign companies.

The budget given by Weidu Entertainment in the entire visual production reached 550 million yuan, which is about 80 million US dollars.

Zhang Yanping was shocked at the beginning of receiving this offer, but after careful calculation, he found that there was no problem with the accounts.

But this number still made him a little scared - the total budget is only 800 million, and even the actors have not been decided. The post-production has been 5.5 first?

Lao Zhang called himself: "That... Mr. Ye, is the special effects budget we made a bit too high?"

His tone was a bit tactful.

"Mr. Zhang, why do you think so?"

"The remaining budget is 2500 million. Apart from the expenses required for filming part of the movie, the remaining money should not be much. It is difficult to invite too many good star lineups..."

This is something that Zhang Yanping is more worried about.

In the current domestic film environment, the cast is a place where the cast is particularly expensive. Not only some money-making movies, but even some big productions like to spend a lot of money on the cast. It seems that if a single actor or a traffic star is not considered a domestic blockbuster.

On the contrary, there is relatively less that much money spent on making it.

Of course, Zhang Yanping knew that the main feature of this "Demacia: Glory" must be special effects, but it doesn't need to be that expensive, right? The remaining money, even if it uses a large number of green screen shooting, still has a lot of fine real-life scenes that need to be built and shot, a large number of equipment rentals, crew compensation, and a large number of extras required for war dramas...

How much money can you spend in addition to these? How many actors can you hire?

"We have a budget of about 80 million yuan for the three main actors. Including other supporting roles, it should not exceed 90 million in total." Ye Jiayi replied.

"...just this one thousand dollars? We hope to find some Hollywood movie stars to play the role..."

"We think the opposite." Ye Jiayi said, "We plan to find a certain domestic star."

"Clam?" Zhang Yanping was a little stunned: "But... LOL is a story with a Western background..."

"So what?" Ye Jiayi said relaxedly, "Hollywood can use white people as money-making works exclusively for the Chinese film market. Why can't we use Chinese people in the context of Western stories?"

"Is this... really suitable?"

"We have begun to actively communicate with many domestic first-line film actors such as Peng Yuyan, Xie Tingfeng, Deng Chao, and Chen Kun."

"No, Mr. Ye, I think I still have to talk about this matter." Zhang Yanping said on the phone, "Now, according to some of our analysis of the global film market, using white actors can gain a relatively strong acceptance globally, including in the domestic market; and if using yellow actors, the performance in the domestic market may be better, but in the global market, competitiveness will decline significantly..."

Ye Jiayi said: "We understand this truth too. However, we lack the budget to invite multiple Hollywood movie stars. If we only use ordinary white actors, there is no appeal. Secondly, instead of setting our goal in the global market, the first thing we need to do is to grasp the domestic market. Without the domestic market, the global box office will be cloudy."

The current Chinese film market is no longer what it used to be.

In recent years, the film market in China has flourished. From its initial lack of attention, it has quickly become an extremely important part of the global film market, rapidly surpassing Europe and becoming the second largest market after North America. In 2018, the box office of the mainland Chinese market surpassed North America and became the world's number one voter.

Obviously, it is a movie made by a Chinese company. If you don’t take into account the world’s first voting store and lick domestic audiences well, you just want to lick the European and American markets. Isn’t that bad?

"The Great Wall" is a counterexample.

In other words, for the movie "Demacia: Glory", its performance in the domestic market is the key to success, and the overseas market can only be regarded as the icing on the cake.

This is completely different from the environment faced by "Taiwu 2" this year. After all, domestic stand-alone gamers have a relatively obvious gap with the international market for temporary payment desire and ability.

Movies and games are two completely different situations. Although the domestic film market is always said to be not mature enough, it is much better than the game market.

According to the agreement, Weidu Entertainment has the final decision-making power in terms of content production, and Penguin only has the right to suggest. Ye Jiayi doesn't need to say so much, just tell the other party a tough result and it's all over.

However, after all, the cooperation between the two parties, and this cooperation on the film and television project of "League of Legends", will last for ten years without any surprise. Therefore, it becomes more important to explain well, maintain a good attitude towards cooperation, and have a relatively harmonious cooperative relationship.

In the end, the result of this communication ended with Ye Jiayi convinced Zhang Yanping.

"Come on your own ideas." Zhang Yanping said, "I just hope to succeed in the end, at least let us continue to do this series..."

He has been quite confident recently.

After the cooperation was negotiated and 400 million was spent on the first film project, they were looking forward to seeing the finished film. In two years, the film "Demacia: Glory" will be released, and then in the domestic market and even the entire global market, what kind of storms can it bring.

As long as the first work is successful, the subsequent series will keep up with a large number of projects and there will be more places to make money.

Even making a superhero series similar to Marvel is not something that cannot be imagined.

But at the same time, if the movie fails, it will also bring a heavy blow to the cooperation between the two parties.

Even Zhang Yanping, who is considered to be in a high position and has experienced many ups and downs, will feel both expectant and nervous.

But the force had not passed yet. Ye Jiayi's next words made his heart tremble.

"It's not just the project "Demacia: Glory". In March next year, we are also preparing to make another LOL movie, which is expected to be released within half a year after the release of "Demacia: Glory".

"What? In another two or three months, you will start a new project?"

On the phone, Zhang Yanping's attitude was a little out of control.

Ye Jiayi is normal: "Yes, it should be an independent movie of 'Dark Night Hunter. Vayne'. This project should not involve many original heroes, and the main characters are VN, but the investment amount should not be too small. 650 million should be needed."

"Is it too radical?" Zhang Yanping was a little worried.

He is still worried about whether the first hero movie will succeed and whether it will fail. Weidu Entertainment is already preparing to carry out two projects at the same time.

"We have full confidence in the works and the LOL series." Ye Jiayi said, "I asked you about this. Do you have any idea of ​​following up on this project?"

"A 650 million investment...let us consider it."

"Okay." Ye Jiayi said, "But I hope you can get it as soon as possible. Project preparations should start in January and will be officially launched after the New Year, so we hope you can give us a reply within one month."

Zhang Yanping said reluctantly: "Okay... then we... go and discuss it."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Yanping wiped his face.

Weidu Entertainment set up a VN independent film project. The news was a bit too sudden for him. Before that, he was not prepared at all.

For Penguin, this is not just news, but also an investment of at least 300 million yuan.

Three hundred million! This is not a small amount of money.

Before, Penguin had already spent 400 million on "Demacia: Glory". Before he could see the shadow of his investment, he would be about to spend 300 million?

This was completely unexpected by Penguin Pictures, so much so that they didn't prepare the funds at all.

Of course, Penguin Pictures is not short of funds if it wants to rely on the behemoth of Penguin. But the premise is that their backend support is supported.

If it is pure profitability, let alone 700 million, Penguin Pictures cannot produce the previous 400 million - from the perspective of "Penguin Pictures", their profitability is quite limited, and it is difficult to get 400 million cash.

But in contrast, if the Penguin Dad behind them is willing to give the money, let alone 700 million, 700 million can be easily taken out.

It just depends on whether they are willing to give it to it.

This is also a great pressure for Zhang Yanping. I don’t know if the previous work was successful or not, so I have to make the second one?

He thought for two or three days and chatted with his subordinates. In the end, he decided to keep up.

If you play, just play with a big pen. If you invest 400 million, you still have to invest another 300 million?
Chapter completed!