China Entertainment: The happiness of being a director is as simple as that

Chapter 163 Planning
Shareholders are concerned about making money, and Lu Pingan is even more concerned.

When he came to Hollywood, Lu Pingan only did two things.

The first thing is to post money, and the rest is to make money.

At present, "Batman" is for him to hit the big director.

As for making money, that's what you've been doing.

The previous two horror films have achieved amazing revenue ratios.

The next step is naturally still the same, continue with low-cost horror movies, and then come to a big production with high scores and high box office from time to time.

In terms of low cost, there are too many films with low cost and high box office. As Guanglu Ping An knows, he can shoot five films a year for many years.

So he basically doesn't worry about whether he can make money in the future.

But that's just from his point of view.

For shareholders, every time is dancing on a tightrope.

For example, this time "Batman", everyone is not optimistic, and shareholders are optimistic, but in fact there are not many, and most of them are gambling.

The upcoming "Latent" will be better, but it is still a gamble.

After all, making a movie is a big risk.

"Dead Silence" was even worse. If it weren't for Lu Ping'an's face, they would not have much hope for Wen Ziren.

As a shareholder, at this time, we naturally have to give everyone a shot in the arm.

So Lu Pingan said directly:

"Regardless of the box office of "Insidious", after "Batman", "Chain Saw 2" and "Happy Death Day 2" will open."

In a word, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Compared with the films mentioned above, the sequels of the series that have already achieved success will naturally make everyone more at ease.

"Chain Saw 1" won a global box office of 1.1 million and gathered a bunch of horror movie fans.

"Death Day 1" won a global box office of 1.15 million, and it is still an excellent series seed.

Among them, you have already read the script of "Chain Saw 2", and you are full of expectations.

So if these two films start a series.

Several shareholders immediately felt that if Dingfeng was listed now, once the news was announced, the stock price would increase a lot that day.

With Lu Ping'an's guarantee, the atmosphere in the meeting room suddenly became much easier.

Lu Pingan also stopped first, and did not say that he would not direct the two films, let alone the rest of the low-cost film plans.

It won't be too late to wait until both "Latent" and "Dead Silence" reach the expected goals he said.

Then the shareholders chatted about other things.

For example, "Brokeback Mountain" and "He Comes Tonight" that Lu Pingan bought before.

Lu Pingan confessed: ""Brokeback Mountain" will be filmed this year, and I am going to compete for the Golden Lion Award in the Wisney Film Industry next year and the Oscar in 06."

As the first film of his artistic career honor journey, Lu Pingan still values ​​it very much.

The two leading actors have already greeted each other and let them start preparing after the year.

It is expected that the filming will begin in August and September.

Watts eyes suddenly brightened: "Are you sure?"

"of course."

Lu Ping'an is full of confidence.

After everyone heard this, expectations arose in their hearts.

The three shareholders are Wenqing, and they naturally know that an award-winning film can bring different benefits to the company than commercial films.

In terms of profit, the three major European films that have won awards can earn a lot from copyright alone.

In Oscar-winning films, even if they are literary films, the unspoken rule is that they can get more film scheduling bonuses.

In addition to profits, whether the company has won authoritative awards is also a criterion for distinguishing the company's grades.

From the perspective of literary youth, this is a manifestation of force.

From the perspective of capitalists, this is to lay the foundation for the company's future financing and listing.

Therefore, everyone expressed their support for Lu Ping An's award plan.

As for "He Comes From Tonight", Lu Ping'an also said: "It won't be shot so early, I think the cost of this film will not be small, let's talk about it later."

Everyone agreed.

Funding at Summit is relatively tight now.

The previous few low-cost films have earned big box office.

But it was Lu Pingan who made the big bucks, and Fengfeng didn't actually earn much.

Now that "Batman" is in production, everyone naturally dare not start other big projects lightly.

After talking about the matter, "Dead Silence" was successfully completed two days later.

The later stage of "Dead Silence" is expected to take two months, so if the file is finalized, it will probably look like May.

The schedule at that time was also more suitable for horror films. I hope that "Dead Silence" with a cost of only 230 million can achieve the box office of the original time and space.

In this way, the film can earn a profit several times the cost.

Then Lu Pingan stayed in Laomei for another day before heading back to China, this time the destination was Xiangjiang.

Before the call from Guorong, when the New Year was approaching, he invited Lu Pingan to go to Xiangjiang to get together, and Mei Gu also wanted to meet him.

Now that Meigu's condition is almost free, unless she relapses in the future, there will be no big problem.

Since Guorong invited him, Lu Pingan would naturally not refuse.

In the past six months, Duo Guorong has hardly been operating in the circle, either in Bashu, or taking care of Meigu.

I haven't seen him for more than half a year, and Lu Pingan also wants to see Guorong's current situation.

After landing in Xiangjiang, it was Xiang Guoqiang who came to pick him up.

Xiang Guoqiang has been dealing with the matter of investing in Golden Harvest recently.

Now Xiang Guoqiang reports that the situation is not bad.

Except for Boss Zou's shares, about 18% of the remaining shares have been acquired, which means that in the future, Lu Ping'an's films can already directly use Golden Harvest's distribution channels.

At present, Golden Harvest is discussing cooperation with China Film Group. The two parties want to establish a new company. The purpose of China Film Group is to use Golden Harvest to develop overseas distribution channels.

There is no conflict between Lu Ping'an's approach and China Film Group, and they will only cooperate more closely in the future.

In addition to Golden Harvest, Xiang Guoqiang's business in the Mainland has also made progress.

With the cooperation of Uncle Liao, he has now bought 8 theaters in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and the land in the capital is about to be auctioned.

Eight of these theaters were purchased separately, and the rest also negotiated several rounds of shareholding with several theater companies.

At present, the biggest obstacle in front of us is actually a policy issue.

But this kind of thing is also easy to handle, after all, there is already a private theater chain in China: Century Universal Movie Theater Company.

It’s just that this company is not dominated by private capital. Wanda was the first cinema company to be dominated by private capital.

Lu Pingan never thought of creating a cinema company bigger than Wanda.

But you must have a theater in your hand.

One is to increase the right to speak in distribution and lay a more solid foundation for the future in the industry.

The second is to land the technology in your own hands.

It's time for the filming technology obtained in "Wonderful Night" to be implemented, and Xiang Guoqiang has already registered a company in China.

Lu Ping'an's plan is to have at least three movie theaters that can support IMAX or 3D when "Wonderful Night" is released.

This will be a movie promotion point, as well as a promotion point for theaters and technology promotion.

In the future, Road Ping An will have theaters, content production, and high-tech.

At least in terms of commercial films, his domestic advantages can already be formed.

Of course, it will take time to achieve this step in the plan, and the plan is far more than this step.

Lu Ping'an is not in a hurry, anyway, there are still many years before the era of box office explosion, just take it slowly.

(End of this chapter)