The Director of Music Department

With the project of "Hitching the Wrong Car", the negotiations went very smoothly under the extremely relaxed conditions and extremely positive cooperation attitude of Haixi City.

Li Mingjuan will be the director of this film, Wang Yifan will be the named producer, and several well-known companies in Haixi City will jointly sponsor "The Wrong Car" for 40 million.

Of course, the sponsorship of these well-known companies is in the name of Haixi City, not themselves. However, when the movie is released, the final thanks will definitely appear from Haixi City officials and these companies.

As for the story script of "Hitching the Wrong Car", Wang Yifan also made it after revising and modifying it.

"As for actors, what do you think?" Wang Yifan asked.

For a movie like "Hitch the Wrong Car", if you find some relatively ordinary actors to act in it, it will cost less than 40 million at all, but the help to the box office is also very limited.

Although the response of "Hitching the Wrong Car" in the previous life was very good, but it is too old and not very convincing.

And the box office of "Grateful Heart" also proved that the movie does not mean that well-known actors are not needed.

At least if those more famous actors star in, it will still have a great impact on the box office.

However, since Li Mingjuan is the director, Wang Yifan naturally still respects Li Mingjuan's opinion.

Moreover, "Hit the Wrong Car" is actually profitable before the filming starts, not only because of those sponsorships, but also because it is a modern film. Such a film naturally has advantages in advertising placement. natural advantage.

"Hitch the Wrong Car" is different from "The Martian". Although "The Martian" also has advertisements, but there are not many, because the main plot takes place on Mars, and some daily necessities of the space agency are special. , specially customized, so it is difficult to have any implanted value.

Therefore, most of the places where advertisements are placed are on the ground, such as banks, such as stores, but because of the proportion of the plot and the few shots, there are not many advertisements.

But "Hit the Wrong Car" is different. According to Wang Yifan's idea, this movie can be bigger and invite first-line stars to act. Many advertising companies, when placing advertisements in movies, the price is often the same as the movie's director, starring lineup, etc. Wait, they are all closely related.

If the director of this movie is Wang Yifan, then the price will at least be raised a lot.

However, Wang Yifan didn't plan to shoot this movie by himself, and Li Mingjuan herself was more suitable. The difficulty of shooting this movie was actually not that high.

Therefore, if you want to increase the price of advertising placement, then for sure, you need some star actors who can fight accordingly.

Li Mingjuan also thought so: "Director Wang, I want to find first-line stars to play the leading role, and several companies in Haixi City also have the intention of sponsoring and placing advertisements. I wonder if some roles can Are you considering an actor from Fujian?"

"You are the director, as long as it is suitable, you can make your own decision. Do you have a candidate in mind?" Wang Yifan asked.

Li Mingjuan nodded and said, "I want to find Chen Bu or Li Junsheng to play the leading role or leading role. Xue Bing is quite suitable."

Wang Yifan pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Li Junsheng's salary is inappropriate. Besides, he may not be able to watch this movie."

Although "The Martian" has not yet been released, but with Li Junsheng's current status, if he is allowed to act in "Hitchhiking", the cost of the film will be pushed up to at least 100 million.

And the point is, Li Junsheng may not be willing to accept this film.

"Hitching the Wrong Car" is actually more artistic. It is not impossible to use Li Junsheng, but if he plays, the salary alone is estimated to be more than 30 million, and it is not enough, and the post-production share of the film needs to be at least 20%.

Although Li Junsheng's popularity and popularity can bring good publicity effects to the film, Wang Yifan still does not recommend using Li Junsheng, because the price/performance ratio is too low.

"Then Chen Bu?" Li Mingjuan nodded. It is true that Li Junsheng's box office appeal is much higher than Chen Bu's, but his salary is indeed high. The key is that "Hitching the Wrong Car" is not that kind of commercial blockbuster. So it's really hard to say how much this kind of appeal can be realized.

And Chen Bu's box office appeal is actually not bad, and he is also a top-notch. The key is that Chen Bu is cheaper, and purely talking about acting skills, Chen Bu is really more powerful than Li Junsheng.

"You can arrange an audition first. The role of the dumb father has high requirements for acting skills. Let's see the audition results."

"OK, by the way, what about the singer? How to solve it?" Li Mingjuan was a little confused.

Speaking of this, Wang Yifan also has some headaches. There are several episodes in "Hitching the Wrong Car", the three songs "If the Wine Dried If You Sell Nothing", "The Same Moonlight" and "Please Follow Me", Wang Yifan's idea is to find a singer from Fujian Province Come to sing, but to be honest, these few songs seem to be sung by anyone, but they can be sung well and are suitable. So far, there is really no one that is particularly suitable.

"If it doesn't work, it's not limited to singers from Fujian Province. Anyway, "Hitch the Wrong Car" is only a sentence in Hokkien. There's no rush. The filming hasn't started yet anyway, so you should prepare first." Wang Yifan thought for a while and said.

"That's the only way to go." Li Mingjuan nodded.

In fact, if it is another movie, it doesn't matter, but the episode and soundtrack of "Hitchhiking" can be said to be very important to the movie, which is why they are so embarrassed.

In fact, Wang Yifan didn't need to worry too much about the matter of "Hitch the Wrong Car". The producer was only a name producer, and Chen Hanming and Li Mingjuan had to deal with the main issues.

His current work is still "The Martian"!

In a blink of an eye, the filming of "The Martian" came to an end. In fact, the filming of "The Martian" is really not difficult, mainly in the pre-production and post-production aspects. Compared with filming, it takes more time.

During this period of time, the film industry was also surging, and New Star Entertainment once again became the focus.

Up to now, New Star Entertainment has released three movies in total, "127 Hours", "Sniper Phone Booth" and "The Dark Side" which was just released.

As a result, "127 Hours" earned over 50 million at the box office at a cost of 2 million (excluding publicity).

The cost of "Sniper Phone Booth" was 1.5 million (not including publicity) and got nearly 50 million at the box office.

And if the first two are not enough to impress people, then the box office of "The Dark Side" exceeded 100 million Chinese dollars when it was released at a cost of 5 million. Three movies, three of them were big hits, and the return on investment can be called scary. .

In this way, even though New Star Entertainment is just a shell company, it still makes people jealous.

And the most important thing is that these few movies have a small investment and are all directed by rookie directors. There are no big-name stars to join them, but the shooting cycle is short. From the start of filming to the release of the film, basically it is rare for more than 3 months.

As a result, amazing results were obtained, and the success rate of the three films was 100%! The ratio of cost to box office is more than 10 times!

Therefore, several giants couldn't sit still.