Chapter 258 South Korean Company
Recently, the 3D giant screen movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons Strike Back in Heaven" invested by Star Film Company announced its director. Hong Kong director Soi Cheang will direct this real-life magical action blockbuster with an investment of up to 2.5 million RMB.

"We will learn from Hollywood blockbusters and strive to bring everyone a brand new visual feast, with the 3D blockbuster "Avatar" as our goal."

"The Monkey King role may be played by Li Lianjie or Zhen Zidan. The company is currently sending people to contact the experience companies of the two."

When Zheng Baorui was interviewed, he was also in high spirits. After all, being able to direct a blockbuster with a cost of 2.5 million yuan also represented the recognition of him by companies in the industry.

In addition to the Sino-US co-productions and several big directors, this investment amount is also considered to be one of the highest in the domestic circle.

But netizens have memories.

At the beginning, "Robot" and "Future Police" were both big-budget investments, but the results were hard to describe.

"It's another word game, bragging all day long."

"Compared to Avatar, the cost is not even a fraction of it."

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At 8:30 Los Angeles time, the crew arrived at the set.

A new day, and filming continues.

At the shooting site, all the shots in the studio have been completed, and now the shooting is all on location.

Liu Yifei doesn't have many scenes left, and it's not difficult. She can get through it in one or two takes. Even if she saves one more take, it won't take much time.

“It will probably be over around the end of the month!”

Except for a few scenes where the actors communicate with each other, the rest of the filming went smoothly.

On the other side, Song Ge called and said that the scene in the XZ area of ​​China has been built and the "Noah's Ark" model is now being made.

The crew of "2012" is very large, because the actors come and go. At the peak, there are more than a thousand people. Including various extras and logistics personnel, there are usually six or seven hundred people. Everyone has their own responsibilities, just like a production line.

If everyone cooperates highly, the shooting effect will naturally be good. Once one link fails, it is likely to become a vicious cycle.

Coupled with concerns about the film's final effect, as well as the pressure of box office and return on investment, Gu Wei did feel a little irritated when he was on the crew some time ago.

However, as the filming of Hollywood scenes went more and more smoothly, the pressure was gradually dissipating. It was also because after watching the special effects clips produced, it was confirmed that Gu Wei had achieved the effect he wanted.

As for the box office performance and cost recovery, there is basically no pressure. Although the investment cost of the film is huge, Gu Wei is confident that he can recover the cost, or at least not make a loss.

As for whether it can make a big profit, or even surpass the box office of "Avatar" as Matt Damon and others said, that depends on luck. In any case, once the movie is released and the box office is a hit, Gu Wei's position will only rise and become more stable.

After returning from Warner, Gu Wei felt more relaxed and did not have so many worries during the filming of the movie. Although the requirements were still strict, many people noticed that the director would smile from time to time when he was on the crew.

After the filming of the scenes in the plane was completed, the crew moved on to the next scene. In Gu Wei's filming plan, all scenes involving special effects must be directed personally, while some shots in other countries and regions were handed over to other executive directors and photographers in the crew.

Otherwise, if Gu Wei had to go and shoot the dozens of shots in other countries and regions in the film himself, what would be the point of hiring so many people?

...

There are quite a lot of movies in China in April. With both domestic and imported films, there are more than 20 movies squeezed into one period, which is completely different from the deserted situation in previous years.

Movie fans suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some “bad movies” among imported blockbusters.

"Clash of the Titans" is a typical example. This movie, converted from 2D to 3D, is said by movie fans to have only the subtitles in three-dimensional form.

Online, various movies are constantly breaking new box office records, providing journalists with a large amount of material for their reports.

At the same time, there is an endless stream of information about the start of filming of domestic 3D blockbusters. In addition to "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", Xu Ke's "New Dragon Inn" is also about to be filmed in 3D version.

"New Dragon Inn" is Xu Ke's masterpiece, but the 3D remake may be released next year.

Huang Shengyi, who has been silent for a long time, also announced that she would star in the 3D version of "White Snake". Her boyfriend even made a bold statement:

"White Snake will use the same production team as the movie Avatar, with no upper limit on the investment amount, to create a 3D masterpiece that belongs to the Chinese people."

"Nowadays, all we talk about is making 3D movies."

"Xu Ke's 3D shooting is acceptable, but can anyone else really shoot it well?"

There are mixed opinions online, mainly because there are too many movies that use the gimmick of 3D to make money, and many people went to see "Clash of the Titans" with great expectations without reading reviews, and then walked out of the cinema cursing.

Even so, the film earned 5000 million in the first three days, and won the championship last weekend without any suspense. 3D has become a golden sign at the box office, attracting various film companies to invest in it, all wanting to take a bite.

Xingchen Film and Television Company has been highly sought after in the industry and has received many orders recently.

The national movie box office figures for the first quarter of this year have also been released, and the domestic film market continued to maintain "explosive" growth, reaching 29 billion yuan.

The industry is booming, so much so that the valuations of major film companies have increased significantly.

The stock price of Huayi Company has increased significantly, and Gu Wei is now abroad, so his net worth has increased again.

Maybe Huayi has too much spare money and has recently set its sights on online games. I heard that it has invested a lot in them.

However, the company with the highest valuation is Xingchen Film and Television, but Gu Wei has no plans to go public for the time being.

Especially after this year's film industry plan came out, the film and television industry began to be closely linked with the financial industry, and capital has already set its sights on this piece of cake.

Accidents always happen unexpectedly. In mid-April, an earthquake occurred in the western region, and the scale was not small. Upon hearing the news, Xingchen Films immediately took action and various materials and donations were delivered simultaneously.

Actors and artists in the circle have started a new round of charity activities. Every time this happens, when the tide recedes, netizens can discover who is swimming naked.

In late April, the results of Hong Kong's Academy Awards were announced.

"October Besieged" produced by Chen Kexin became the biggest winner, winning eight major awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

But careful people have already noticed that this year's Hong Kong Film Awards has completely returned to the core values ​​of traditional Hong Kong films.

That is, the winning films and the winners are all from Hong Kong Island.

"Hong Kong people dominate the Academy Awards. Now it's popular for locals to win."

"Hong Kong films need to find their correct positioning before moving forward."

Some media have begun to criticize its boycott of mainland films, and the Academy Awards are at a crossroads.

Whether we should stick to local style and taste and continue to safeguard the interests of "Hong Kong films", or embrace the mainland, is indeed a question worth thinking about.

Not to mention the views of mainland filmmakers, two forces in Hong Kong are struggling between conservatism and stubbornness and openness and tolerance. This issue has cast a thick shadow over the Academy Awards.

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CJ Entertainment is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, which is also the headquarters of CJ Group.

At the end of April, Song Ge, along with his assistant and staff, came to CJ headquarters to discuss cooperation.

As the largest entertainment film company in South Korea, CJ not only has its own independent production qualifications, but is also responsible for licensing and distributing Korean films overseas.

从03年成立开始，每年在韩国发行22部到26部影片，其中包括11到13部韩国电影。

CJ Company is a local boss in South Korea. This time, Song Ge also attached great importance to the communication with the other party. After all, you need to pay a visit to the place first.

The head of CJ Company welcomed Song Ge's arrival. After all, the two movies he collaborated with Gu Wei both made huge profits, and people or companies that can bring profits will be welcomed wherever they go.

"Mr. Song, welcome to our company, smecta."

The head of the Xijie Company department, along with a group of male and female staff members, greeted Song Ge and his party at the company gate.

"Hello, Mr. Park."

Song Ge smiled and stretched out his hand to shake it.

After the greetings, both parties entered the company.

After staying in South Korea for about three days, Song Ge and CJ Company reached an agreement on cooperation.

The South Korean branch of Star Films Company was also officially established.

"In the next few years, we will recruit directors in South Korea, set up an artist management company, and produce movies and TV series..."

In the company, Song Ge held a meeting with more than 20 employees and set the future development plan.

In recent years, as Korean wave has become more and more popular, South Korean boy bands and girl bands have also gained considerable fame.

Some people in China come to South Korean boy bands to gild their reputation, and then return home to find out.

Just like Han Geng, who has been very popular recently, he has been sought after by many domestic film and television companies, including Huayi, Tianyu, Bona, Emperor Entertainment Group and other companies.

Emperor Entertainment Group, in particular, offered a signing fee of 100 million Hong Kong dollars, as well as two to three films a year, to partner with Jackie Chan to star in Hollywood movies.

Such a high price is beyond the market price.

"Mr. Song, we can refer to other companies. First, we can sign a cooperation agreement with the dance academy and select people from within the academy.

Secondly, we have a great advantage in recruiting externally in the name of the company. After all, the boss is very famous in Hollywood, and many people in South Korea also know him.

Third, screen resumes on a large scale through online platforms.

Fourth, set up a street scout department in the company to proactively discover people with outstanding looks.

But in the end, it’s hard to say how effective this method is, after all, there are too few people with outstanding looks.”

The person who was speaking was an old employee of Star Films. He was one of the veterans who came to South Korea in the early days. He had been in South Korea for several years and was relatively familiar with the entertainment industry system here.

Song Ge nodded slightly upon hearing this, but he was not too interested in artist management in the early stages. No matter where he was, as long as he had a group of directors and high-quality projects, he could have everything he wanted.

"First we need to find directors and film crews. Our company owns a lot of script copyrights, so we won't be short of artists if we have projects.

At that time, we can either train them ourselves or cooperate with other companies.”

After thinking for a while, Song Ge spoke.

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(End of this chapter)