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Text 452 The Crazy Showbiz Stars and "Taken" (Update 2/6)

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    Regarding Fan Xing's next movie, most of the outside world is paying attention to "Painted Skin".

    This "Liao Zhai" movie, which cooperates with Hollywood, Japan and other companies for special effects, not only has a strong lineup, but also has the most investment in Fanxing's productions over the years.

    Although it has not been confirmed yet, the roughly estimated total production and distribution budget is about 65-80 million. It is said to be 100 million. It will be a big production next year. There is no way.  Crazy money.

    Lao Mouzi's "The City Is Full of Golden Flowers" claims an investment of 300 million yuan, and Feng Xiaogang's "Night Banquet" also claims to have invested 120 million yuan.

    Li Lianjie's "Huo Yuanjia" and Liu Tianwang's "Mo Gong" are all invested over 100 million yuan. I don't want to discuss how much water is in it, but the key point is that Fanxing, as the leader in the industry, used to be "stingy", but now he can't be weak.  Momentum.

    Although Cao Xuan would not slap a swollen face to support a fat man, making money and shouting at a loss, he still has the ability to follow along.

    Another aspect is that large productions are conducive to publicity and selling prices.

    Your typical shooting cost is 20 million US dollars, and the asking price must be more confident than the cost of several million yuan.

    Before Cao Xuan sold movie copyrights, the cost data listed in the negotiation were several times higher than the actual cost, and some even doubled directly.  Trick, now I have already learned the essence, and I will not be easily deceived.

    Due to various reasons, Fanxing, who hadn't been too concerned about cost before, had to keep up. The cost of "Painted Skin" also skyrocketed, successfully "over 100 million".

    With such a high cost, even if he was confident in the profitability of "Painted Skin", Cao Xuan did not eat alone, but took out 35% of the share.

    China Film received 15%, Huayi received 5%, Xingmei received 5%, and Inphoenix, Bona and other companies and individual investors who came late received the remaining 10%.

    Fanxing himself took 50%, and Cao Xuan took 25 million remuneration + 15% of the share as dividends. "Painted skin" The special effects of this film are too much invested, and a lot of money is needed. If Cao Xuan takes the film remuneration completely, he will use up the crew's funds  , so the dividends were converted from the remuneration.

    Similar to Cao Xuan is Li Lianjie, his film salary is even higher than Cao Xuan's, and he puts a lot of pressure on the "Fearless" crew, so he also chose to convert part of the film salary into the investment share.

    The conversion here is much more complicated than direct remuneration. Sometimes the crew suffers, and sometimes the actors suffer. It mainly depends on the project prospects and who holds the initiative. There is no specific measurement standard.

    But no matter what, with such a high-cost production, Cao Xuan's signboard is just as popular, which naturally attracted all kinds of attention in the industry.

    In particular, Mr. Xu was interviewed and talked about the set love scene of "Painted Skin", and the role of the female lead is even stronger than that of the male lead!

    There are too few major commercial productions in the entertainment industry that focus on female characters. "Painted Skin" is already well-qualified, not to mention there is a director who is good at shooting women, Mr. Xu.

    Lin Qingxia, Zhang Manyu, Wang Zuxian, Guan Zhilin, etc., many screen classics of the Hong Kong beauties were born from the hands of Old Freak Xu.

    It is recognized in the industry that Mr. Xu is one of the best directors in the industry who can shoot women. Naturally, he has a special aura to attract many female stars.

    So, those popular actresses in the entertainment circle went crazy because a certain Zhao, who had just made a comeback in "Moment in Peking", directly shouted to the public that he wanted to cooperate with Cao Xuan and Old Freak Xu.

    International Zhang Mingming has already decided to star in Feng Xiaogang's "Night Banquet", and regardless of other things, he told the media that he liked watching "Liao Zhai" since he was a child.

    Mr. Zhou was originally in contact with "The Banquet", but now he has temporarily put it aside, and all the teams are doing their best to publicize "Painted Skin"

    Li Bingbing and the sisters didn't care whether the Wang brothers would think too much, they asked Wang Jinhua to meet directly, and wanted to use Sister Hua to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao.

    Hairun's grandson Zhang Yunv from Xiangjiang, sister Zhiling from Taiwan, and even older Ning Jing, Xiao Tao Hong, Xu Qing and others have ideas, and even actresses from Japan, Korea, and Singapore came to join the crew  touch.

    There are constant internal disputes in Fanxing, Fan Xiaopang looks like he is doing his part, Gao Yuanyuan is not behind, and even Dong Xuan, who is from the Buddhist family, came out to show his presence this time.

    If it weren't for Liu Tianxian's age being unsuitable, and there is another movie hanging up, he probably would have to show his face.

    The turbulent exposure and the help of major actresses have brought "Painted Skin" a high exposure.

    But in fact, what many people don¡¯t know is that Cao Xuan actually values ??another movie more

    "Taken"

    To be honest, "Painted Skin" is a female drama to a certain extent, Wang Sheng is not weak in this role, but the degree of excellence is still inferior to that of the two female protagonists?So, Cao Xuan hesitated for a while, and still sent people to Malaysia and the Philippines to select locations and investigate the security. If it was suitable, he would shoot in these two countries. If not, he would shoot in Thailand or Japan and South Korea.

    The investment in "Taken" is not high, mainly due to overseas filming and Cao Xuan's salary. Fanxing can easily bear it alone, but Cao Xuan's goal is to enter Hollywood, so he still gave up a part of the share. Originally, he planned to pull Warner Bros.  industry, but I didn't expect New Line Films to value it.

    This company is also a branch of Warner Group, but it is highly autonomous.

    New Line Film Group has produced and participated in a large number of films, many of which are low-budget horror films, but there are also large-scale productions. The classic masterpiece is the "Lord of the Rings" series.

    Cheng Long's "Red Fan District" and "Rush Hour" series are also dominated by this company.

    It is also because of the sweetness of Cheng Long, New Line Film Company wanted to see if Cao Xuan could reproduce it.

    Not one of the six major Hollywood giants, but it is also a well-known film company, and to a certain extent, it can borrow part of Warner's channels, which is a good starting partner for Cao Xuan.

    Cao Xuan can catch up with the lines of Universal, Columbia, and Warner, but they may not pay much attention to his movies. Even if they cooperate, they will not be regarded as some key projects. Instead, it is better to cooperate with the weaker new lines. Cheng Long's success  For example, the other party will also be more interested in "Taken" and wanted to win the distribution rights of "Taken" in the United States at one go, but Cao Xuan disagreed. Even if the share can be lower, he still wants the American box office and  Copyright points should be known, the global box office of "Taken" in the original space-time is 226 million US dollars, and various channels and copyright income are more.

    Cao Xuan can't guarantee that this movie will be the same as the original time and space, but even if it wins 1/3 of the score, it will be considered a big profit, and he will definitely gamble for a dividend.

    After a series of wrangling, the two parties finally reached an agreement to divide the total income by region and divide the dividends in various proportions.

    New Line who has mastered the distribution channels in Europe and the United States will definitely have a lot of money, but the stars are not bad.

    ? Not only won the profits in Asia, but also bit a piece of meat in the largest North American market, which can almost get the North American box office and the net profit of copyright channels

    25-30

    Capital is negotiation.  Fanxing Jinran is very strong.  But I have to say that the initiative is in the hands of Xinxian. If Cao Xuan has other options, I am afraid that Cao Xuan is not in a hurry. It is not the first time he and the Yankee have cooperated.

    Wasn't Warner also a group of high-profile and high-profile people at the beginning, but now they beg him to release records.

    It doesn't matter if you suffer a little bit now, if "Taken" is famous and shows its ability to make money, how proud these Yankees are today, they will be more humble in the future, and Fanxing can control more initiative.

    In a capitalist society, whoever can make money is the master!

    ps: Just to mention briefly, although some friends think the plot of the first two chapters is bloody, they are indeed the most subscribed in the past few months.  I won¡¯t have too much pen and ink to describe the book friends circle and the relevant opinions mentioned in this chapter. I have read it, and I understand the thoughts of some friends. But in order to attract new readers, I will still delete some book reviews in the book friend circle. See you
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