Huayu special effects started in 97

At the celebration banquet for "Don't Panic, Your Majesty", the news that Jiang Heng gave Ning Hao a "big red envelope" of 60 million yuan quickly spread throughout the Chinese entertainment industry and really stimulated many directors.

Because even in the entire Chinese entertainment industry, no director except Jiang Heng can get such a high dividend.

Sixty million! Even Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang and others didn’t get that much for a movie.

The former made little money in art films in his early years.

Later, he made commercial films such as "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers" and "Curse of the Golden Flower". Although the box office was not low at the time, he actually did not make much in the past ten years.

The reason is simple: allocation problem.

During that period, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping did not even have a contract, and their cooperation depended entirely on their personal relationships.

Whether to give, how to give and how much to give are all decided by Zhang Weiping, and Zhang Yimou has no say in anything.

Otherwise, the two would not have gone to court over the profits of "Three Guns".

How much is it? Fifteen million.

Compared with the 60 million that Ning Hao got, it is really too little!
The cooperation between Feng Xiaogang and Huayi is more formal.

In addition to a fixed director's salary, the producer also receives a share of around 15% of the net box office revenue.

Although the proportion is higher, the box office of Director Feng's films in recent years has not been particularly high, so the total revenue of a single movie cannot be compared with Ning Hao.

The income of other directors can hardly compare with that of Zhang and Feng, not to mention Ning Hao.

Now, stimulated by the 60 million red envelopes, a number of directors in the circle have become "restless".

Zhang Yimou was originally just nervous about The Great Wall which will be released during the Lunar New Year holiday, but now he feels a little more excited and expectant.

Because his share of the profits is even higher than Ning Hao's, reaching 15%.

If the box office of "The Great Wall" can also exceed 2 billion, the money he earns this time will probably be more than the total income he earned in the past ten years!

For several days, Zhang Yimou seemed full of energy and was very active when discussing the film's promotion with Du Huan and Yu Dong.

In comparison, Xu Ke was much calmer.

The main reason is that he doesn't know whether "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" will be accepted by the audience and become a hit.

But no matter how popular the film is, in Xu Ke's opinion, it would be amazing if the film could gross over 1 billion.

Due to the limitations of the subject matter, it is destined to be difficult to become a big hit.

Huairou, China Film Digital Base.

Guo Fan drove a Toyota Prado to the entrance of the studio, got out of the car and waited for a while before he saw Liu Cixin slowly getting out of the passenger seat.

Guo Fan laughed and said, "You need to exercise more. It's hard to even get out of the car!"

Liu Cixin said slowly: "The main reason is that your car is too high, I'm not used to sitting in it!"

"This is still amazing. Wait until we build a heavy-duty transporter and you'll see how amazing it is!"

The two of them came here this time to prepare for the new film.

After Guo Fan joined iQiyi, he first served as an assistant director for Jiang Heng. Later, he directed "A Chinese Ghost Story" starring Jiang Heng and Liu Yifei. The box office was okay, but the reputation was average. After that, he started to shoot small and medium-cost movies.

But in his heart, he has always had a dream of making a big movie, a science fiction dream.

As "The Three-Body Problem 2" is about to be released, iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Pictures invited Liu Cixin and his wife early on and arranged for them to stay in a five-star hotel, which can be considered a preferential treatment!

After hearing this, Guo Fan went to find Liu Cixin to chat and think about which work would be suitable for film or television adaptation.

Originally, the idea was just to give it a try, but when the news came out that Ning Hao had received a huge red envelope of 60 million, Guo Fan became a little restless.

Who wouldn’t want to gain both fame and fortune in the entertainment industry? Guo Fan also wanted to become famous and get more dividends!

However, when he was filming "A Chinese Ghost Story", he was a fledgling new director, and the film was able to sell well because of the starring roles of Jiang Heng and Liu Yifei, plus the cool special effects.

It cannot be said that there is no relationship with Guo Fan, but it is really not that important.

So he could only take a lower director's salary at that time, let alone think about any share of the profits.

In the following years, he made several small and medium-budget films, but the pay was not that much.

Compared with ordinary people, he is considered a high-income earner.

But in the entertainment industry, he is a bit poor.

The only way to change the status quo is to make a special effects blockbuster that shocks everyone.

As for the subject matter, Liu Cixin's science fiction novels are undoubtedly the most suitable.

iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Pictures have bought the film and television adaptation rights for many of Liu Cixin's novels, and Jiang Heng has also promised that he would let him direct "The Wandering Earth" when the "time is right."

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But many years passed and Jiang Heng did not mention it again, and Guo Fan did not know when the "time" would be ripe.

Otherwise, if you tell Director Jiang about filming other works by Liu Cixin, maybe he will remember it?
But after chatting with Liu Cixin for a long time, they both felt that "The Wandering Earth" was most suitable for film and television adaptation.

Speaking of this, Liu Cixin seemed even more anxious than Guo Fan.

The main reason was that Jiang Heng had too many films to shoot, and there were several years between "The Three-Body Problem 1" and "The Three-Body Problem 2".

How many years will it take for Jiang Heng to film "The Wandering Earth"?
Anyway, Guo Fan's level is pretty good, the investment is also from iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Pictures, and Jiang Heng will help to review it, so the box office should not be too bad.

If "The Three-Body Problem 2" and "The Wandering Earth" are released one after another, his works will sell well again in the next few years.

Although intellectuals have a noble side, they also need money!
The two hit it off and chatted for several days, first revising a first draft of the script and drawing a lot of concept drawings.

It’s just that the novel is too broad, and there are too many things that need to be solved if we want to adapt the story into a film or TV series for the big screen.

For example, can 10,000 planetary engines push the earth? What will this thing look like? How high should it be built?

There are too many things related to world views that need to be supplemented and improved, and it is definitely not enough to rely on Guo Fan and Liu Cixin alone.

Even if we want to seek help from some academicians, Jiang Heng or Du Huan and others will need to come forward.

The two men drove to the crew of "The Return of the Great Sage" and told them that they wanted to shoot "The Wandering Earth".

"That's easy. I'll call the Chinese Academy of Sciences and ask them to help improve the world view of the movie!"

Guo Fan was overjoyed when he heard this, "So, I can film The Wandering Earth?"

"of course can!"

Jiang Heng actually always remembered this incident. He didn't let Guo Fan shoot too early because he was afraid that the scale of the film market had not yet developed and a good film would be wasted.

Today, the box office record of mainland China’s film history has exceeded 4 billion, so there will be no problem in filming "The Wandering Earth".

Guo Fan had no idea what Jiang Heng was thinking. He thought it was because he had been honestly and diligently making films for the company and making money over the past few years, and that he had gained recognition.

He stammered, "What about investment?"

"One hundred million US dollars!"

The original history of "The Wandering Earth" had a total investment of only 300 million yuan, so it can be said that they saved wherever possible.

In order to use the limited funds for special effects, they even tricked a male lead from Hengdian! (End of this chapter)