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"So many?" The major general was a little surprised.

People who are not in the field of film and television generally pay little attention to the overall marketing of a movie.Probably also know a box office.In Hollywood, the box office revenue of a movie generally only accounts for 30% to 20% of the overall revenue, and the revenue from developing peripherals is the real big one.

As for the domestic market, the surrounding area has not been developed, and the box office is still the main focus.That's why Hollywood can produce super-budget blockbusters, such as "Avatar", which dares to invest 5 million U.S. dollars, but there is not a single movie with a cost of 1 million U.S. dollars in China, even a movie with a cost of more than 5000 million U.S. dollars.Not many.

Even Wan Xiaohu has successively made many Chinese-language films co-produced by the United States in recent years, and the cost rarely exceeds 6000 million. "Source Code" cost 2000 million US dollars, "Never Ending" cost 2000 million US dollars, and "Time Planning Bureau" also cost 2000 million US dollars. Only "Wanted Warrant" barely reached 6000 million US dollars.

Facing the major general's surprise, Wan Xiaohu was inevitably a little proud, but he still pretended to be very modest and said: "This is not too small. In the past, "Titanic" directed by James Cameron only reached 18 at the box office. His new movie "Avatar" will be released at the end of this year, and the investment for this film alone is 5 million US dollars. It is estimated that 1 million will be used for publicity."

"That's the $6 million cost?"

"Yes."

"Will this pay for itself?"

"Of course, we are all full of confidence in this movie. It will be an epic movie that will bring about the revolution of 3D technology. I also invested 8500 million dollars in it."

Su Zhicheng interjected and asked, "I heard that "Inception" also invested 1.6 million US dollars. You made a movie, where did you spend the money?"

"The actor spent 2500 million yuan after the salary. The actors in Hollywood are all in the millions. I also get paid personally, because I made the film for myself, and I only got a symbolic salary of 1000 million. The salary of the producers and crew members It is about 3000 million, the cost of filming and production is expected to be 4500 million, and the post-production is 5000 million. These are the costs. 1.6 million, and the publicity is about 4000 million, a total of 2 million US dollars."

The major general asked: "How big is your company? I know that Su Ya's Golden Harvest Entertainment is very big. Your father-in-law also said that you have a big company outside. This is an investment of more than 8000 million US dollars. It's just 2 million cars, old uncle and my salary over the years are not a fraction."

Because everyone here is close friends with the Su family, Wan Xiaohu didn't hide too much: "If you only count the domestic entertainment companies and Internet companies, in terms of nominal capital, you can probably win the richest man in the country. Then the company should be able to produce ten or twenty billionaires."

"Capitalist, capitalist!" The major general shook his head and sighed, and then said to Su Zhicheng, "You can take care of your old age and have a capitalist as your son-in-law."

"The children are doing it by themselves. Who knew it would be on such a large scale. Sometimes I worry that a lot of money is easy to make people jealous." Not necessarily a good thing.

The major general shook his head: "Old Su, don't worry, your daughter and son-in-law are earning money legitimately, who can say 'no'. Other people's children reselling batches, poaching the country's corners, smuggling and speculating, you should be worried about making such a fortune."

Su Zhicheng is actually pretending to be modest. His daughter and son-in-law are capable, and he is more proud than anyone else: "Okay, Xiaohu, you and Su Ya will take Yangyang to uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings, and to talk to grandpa."

ps: I haven't said a word for a long time~

I originally wanted to end it early, but later the editor hoped to finish it in a month.So the new book continues to be drafted, and this book will outline it in detail.

As for the situation of changing every day... shame!

0360【In full swing】

For Wan Xiaohu and Su Ya, New Year's Eve is to take their children to meet relatives and friends and ask for some lucky money.The next day, the two discussed activities were to take Xiao Yangyang, invite younger siblings, and go to the cinema to watch "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Bullish".

This Spring Festival, for children, the most hopeful thing is to go to the cinema to watch the joyful show accompanied by their parents.

Wan Chengyang may not know any movies, and his eyes are not fully developed, so he can't see objects clearly.But Wan Xiaohu and Su Ya hope that they can take their children to the cinema every Spring Festival and watch a cartoon until they grow up.

Wan Xiaohu is definitely not a qualified husband, and there are many women and busy careers, so he doesn't have much time to spend on his children.So it is particularly important to be able to insist on accompanying the child every year and do one or two meaningful things.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year after the Spring Festival, Wan Xiaohu left the capital and returned to Banff National Park in Calgary, Canada to continue filming "Inception".

At the same time, the 36th Annie Awards were presented in Los Angeles.

The second animated feature film "Robot Story" produced by Abao Animation copied the miracle of "Kung Fu Panda" without any accident, and once again won most of the Annie Awards related to animation films, becoming the number one Oscar favorite.In addition, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" directed by Wan Xiaohu also won the award.

The award went to Best Live Action Character Animation for the success of the film's chimpanzee Caesar.

Shortly after the Annie Awards, the 81st Academy Awards were held at the Kodak Theater, and Sasha Entertainment became the biggest winner again after the 2007 "The Departed" won the best picture award."Slumdog Millionaire", which was released last year, has a special theme, the legendary story of a poor boy's wealth.It fits the minds of Americans who are currently affected by the subprime mortgage crisis.

Sasha Entertainment took home the Oscar for Best Picture for the second time, along with Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Original Song, Best Soundtrack, Best Sound Effects, Best Cinematography and Best Director, a total of eight awards.In fact, throughout the entire awards season, "Slumdog Millionaire" received a total of 105 nominations and won 79 awards.

A veritable awards season "millionaire."

As you can imagine, the day after the Oscars ended.How much media hype Sasha Entertainment has received.

A famous film company that has been involved in film production for less than a year has won two Oscars in 2007 and 2009. This is the rhythm of becoming the next Miramax.Miramax Films was once a legend in Hollywood. Under the leadership of the Weinstein brothers, it dominated the Oscars and won numerous award-winning films.

Compared with distributing art films, Sasha Entertainment takes making money as its own responsibility. In just a few years, blockbuster movies followed one after another.

A great company on the rise.

……

Cardington is a suburb of North London, England.Since the last world, it has been the airport of London. Later, due to urban planning, some airports have been abandoned.Now it has been transformed into a photography base, which contains the world's largest photography stage.

Any set can be modified on the stage. Since the old airport has enough space, all-round tests can be carried out at will to ensure that all angles of up, down, left, and right can meet the shooting requirements. "Inception" crew.Just saw the benefits.

Bang Dang, Bang Dang.bang.

The sound of machinery running resounded throughout the set.

In the greenhouse on the stage, workers are debugging a very strange device.

"What is the material for the set, and can it guarantee safety?" Standing under the steel bar equipment, Wan Xiaohu touched the material inside with his hands.this set.It is actually a hotel corridor, wrapped in a steel frame and placed on a pulley brush system.

After filming in Canada, the crew officially moved to Cardington, London.

Now in front of Wan Xiaohu is a huge pulley brush system.

As the name suggests.The pulley brush system is a large support frame that can rotate, like a huge barbecue grill.The hotel corridor built inside is a scene of weightless fighting in the movie.In the second-floor dream, affected by the upper-floor dream, the gravity is disturbed and upside down.In order to create a scene where the actors are standing and fighting on the roof, the center of gravity has to be changed constantly, so a corridor that can be rotated can only be built here.

A 30-degree bar and an upside-down hotel room will be built one after another.

"Our original idea was a 40-foot-long corridor, but because of the angle and depth, the final build was 100 feet long. Outside the wall of the corridor, 8 rings concentric with the corridor were placed at equal distances, so that the corridor can be Suspended and capable of rotation. Outside the walls of the corridor, these rings are operated by two gigantic motors."

Special effects director Triss Kobold explained: "The speed of this rotating set can basically reach the speed of 1 minute and 8 weeks. It can ideally create the effect of weightlessness. But to ensure the actors' actions, we need a lot of wires. Fix and lift."

Even in the pulley brushing system, there is not much guarantee for the stability of the actors' movements.Although computer special effects can make up for it, it is not as good as using wire to fix the body, which brings more realism.

What "Inception" wants is real audio-visual shock, and if it can reduce such unnecessary special effects, it will try to reduce it as much as possible.

"It's a good way to hang the wire, but we must ensure the safety of the actors, and don't get hurt!"

"Don't worry, director, because the actors will be bounced around in our scenes, we use soft materials to build our sets. Fortunately, when many modern hotels are decorated inside, the walls are made of Covered in leather or textiles. We just need to mimic the upholstery and replace the bricks in the back with soft padding.”

Wan Xiaohu nodded in satisfaction: "Nevertheless, we still have to pay attention, such as whether the door handles and lamps are 'fragile', and whether they can be broken smoothly under strong force. In short, the safety of the actors must be ensured."

"Ok."

Filming of the hotel hallway began the next day.

Early on, the crew began to tease the actors for Wia.

"Bob, when you push the gyroscope out of the guide rail, remember what I said about the depth of the lens. Don't push it too fast. I will look at the monitor later and tell you to move forward and backward." Wan Xiaohu told the photographer Group tasks.Because it is a pulley brush system, in order to keep the shooting picture stable, the camera is still fixed with a gyroscope.

Gyroscopes are fixed camera rigs that can rotate, and when the pulley brushes turn the top of the hallway down and a person stands on it, the gyroscope turns the lens upside down.Change the direction of gravity, presenting an inverted visual effect.

"Then, for the placement of the No. [-] seat, shall we adopt a fixed arrangement?"