Director’s Legend

The new film plans to invest 900 million yuan. Shao Shuaijun and Dream Chasing Company can spend 500 million yuan for investment, but they have to reserve 100 million yuan for capital turnover. Therefore, in the end, there is a gap of 500 million yuan for other companies to invest.

"Mr. Shao, this script seems to have a lot of selling points. It has revenge, superpowers, and the analysis of justice and evil. It should be a hit if it is done well. But, is the investment too big, 100 million US dollars, 900 million US dollars?" Renminbi, here are several companies with a total capital of less than 10 million U.S. dollars. Isn’t the risk too great?” The boss of Century Hero knocked on the table, a little apprehensive.

"Why, Lao Wang, you are a coward. You are willing to pay for "The Promise" by Brother Chen Kai, but now you are reluctant?" Wang Zhongjun despised Lao Wang, and then looked around, "We Huayi Brothers have cooperated with Mr. Shao for many years. Continue to cooperate, just for Mr. Shao, we will invest 50 million!"

Wu Kebo of Dengtian Entertainment also said: "I regret that I didn't drink the sweet soup of "Painted Skin" with you, this time I can't fall behind anymore, 30 million, we will also join in."

Shao Shuaijun chuckled: "I'm very confident that this movie will be wonderful, but you also know that it's impossible to make a movie without making a loss. You need to be cautious in investing. There are risks in it. If you lose or make a profit, you are responsible for it yourself." on."

"This is inevitable. There is no good thing that only makes money but does not take risks. We will also pay 50 million." Yu Donghao of Polybona said proudly.

In the end, the financing in the capital was determined to be about 200 million yuan, and together with the 400 million yuan for chasing dreams, it has successfully attracted 600 million yuan in investment. Then Shao Shuaijun came up with another idea. Went to Hong Kong. Lin Jianyue of Media Asia has been plotting against Golden Harvest. After being robbed by Dream Chaser, his personal relationship was almost broken, but when it came to making money, Media Asia had no reason to refuse, and directly invested 50 million.

Lin Xiaoming of Huanyu and another American-Asian film invested a total of 50 million yuan, raising the total capital of the film to 700 million yuan. With 700 million, Lions Gate Pictures soon responded with an investment of 28 million US dollars. That is more than 200 million. The film's cost of 900 million yuan was successfully achieved.

In mid-July, in Hollywood, USA, Summit Entertainment held a press conference, announcing the official launch of Shao Shuaijun's latest movie "Night Watchman". The movie "Night Watchman" will be shot in a mixture of 3D shooting and imax shooting. The total investment is 150 million US dollars.

"The Chinese director has started his way to Hollywood."' - "The Hollywood Reporter" covered the press conference in its entirety.

"Give up directing "The Twilight Saga: Twilight". Shao Shuaijun chose a blockbuster superhero model. "Night Watchman" is a big launch, let us look forward to it together." ——The red letter Tu version of the film website gave high attention.

After the news was sent back to the country. It even caused an uproar, and Shao Shuaijun's fans naturally celebrated by playing the crown, telling each other, posting posts on major websites and communities to show their congratulations. "People's Daily" made an exception and gave a small section to report this news, which is much higher than the standards for another Chinese-US co-production blockbuster "The King of Kung Fu" that was approved this year.

Because it is a Sino-US co-production, the review process has been delayed. Shao Shuaijun is going to take advantage of the review time to improve the script for the scenes and actors. Although this idea looks cool, it is not easy to fill the characters and plot. Fortunately, the goal of "Night Watchman" is to compete for next year's summer slot, and he still has a lot of time to prepare calmly.

In China, Shao Shuaijun rarely accepted interviews from several media.

"From the 500 million cost of "Painted Skin" to the 1.5 billion cost of "Nightman" (it is said to be 150 million US dollars), the cost has tripled. Do you think you can manage such a large investment? This is also very huge in Hollywood. For you who have never tried to make a film in Hollywood, will it be a lot of pressure?"

Shao Shuaijun said confidently: "The pressure is never less, but I can't stop trying because of the pressure. The size of the investment and where to make a movie are not important. The important thing is that you make it well and sell well. Will suffice."

"Then have you ever considered, what if the movie doesn't sell as well as you imagined?"

"Any movie has the possibility of losing money. Of course I thought the movie would lose money, but I believe, and our investors also believe, that "Night Watchman" will be a big hit."

"The total investment of "Night Watchman" is 150 million US dollars. Once such a large investment is lost, it will be a big loss for all investors, but for you and Dream Chaser, it is like a house collapsed in half. Do you think that with the current development momentum of chasing dreams, it should be more steady and steady?"

"Are you so sure that "Night Watchman" will lose money? Anyway, I think it makes a lot of money, at least the movies that I thought made money before, all made money." Shao Shuaijun spread his hands, thinking that these media are really ridiculous.

Before the filming of "Source Code", all the media ridiculed him. As a result, "Source Code" almost exceeded 100 million US dollars worldwide. Once it is released in Europe, it is inevitable that it will exceed 100 million US dollars. Before "Painted Skin" started filming, they were not optimistic about him. As a result, "Painted Skin" has a global value of 1.4 billion yuan, and Europe has recently begun to release it.

Now that "The Night Watchman" started filming, I came to ask him again, what should I do if I lose money!

Although this is his original work, Shao Shuaijun has the confidence and confidence to make it a success. If he can make "Painted Skin" a success, he can make "Night Watchman" a success.

"It won't be long, maybe a year, and we will be able to figure out what's going on with "Night Watchman". Alright, that's all for today's interview. I still have something to do, let's go first."

...

The next day, just as he was about to go out to the directors' association to drink tea with some directors, Shao Shuaijun's cell phone rang, and it was from home.

After the connection, Dad's voice came from inside: "Junzi, if your mother and I don't ask you, you won't tell us? "Night Watchman" is a cost of more than one billion, such a big production , have you considered it carefully?"

"Dad, I'm too busy to tell you guys." Shao Shuaijun felt a little guilty. Recently, he only cared about having fun and imagining the global popularity of the movie after its release, so he forgot to call home.

"If it wasn't for Xiuxiu's call, we wouldn't know that you are so capable now, and you are going to make a movie in Hollywood. You have indeed achieved achievements that your parents dare not even imagine in the past two years, but you also have to remember, You are still young, you have to think about things before you make a decision. Dream chasing has a total of capital, and you have lost, what will you do in the future?"

Shao Shuaijun smiled wryly: "Dad, I have thought about it carefully."

"I'm not asking you for anything. You are now in contact with a higher level than your parents, and understand the problems deeper than us. But we are also older people, and the salt we have eaten is worse than the rice you have eaten. There are many, look at the recent news about you. The reporter smashed the microphone at the airport, dealt with fan autographs hastily, the hotel was drunk, yesterday, there was another one, talk nonsense, don’t think about failure. Confidence is a good thing, but you can’t be blind I think anything can be done.”

"Dad, those are all scribbled by reporters. Don't you and mom know what kind of person I am?" Shao Shuaijun called out.

"Dad is not a fool, knowing news and facts are two different things..." (to be continued...)

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