Chapter 935 It’s Difficult to Make a Sequel!

The "Police Academy" series is a very good series of movies.

In its previous life, it made 7 movies in one go, and all of them were popular, which shows its strong vitality.

Although Yin Jun only likes the first, second and last parts, in this life, he doesn't mind making the fifth and seventh parts.

After so many screenwriters and testing the market, Yin Jun now understands that whether a series of movies can be a blockbuster and whether it can continue to attract audiences does not depend on whether you shoot several movies in a row, but on whether you have Thoughts and new ideas.

Of all the 7 "Harry Potter" movies, none of them are bad, they are all so beautiful.

Even more outstanding is "The Lord of the Rings". The three films are truly classics among classics. Every shot is not superfluous. This is why Yin Jun likes the "Lord of the Rings" series so much. He is also wondering whether he should ask Peter Jackson to film it. .

The same is true for "The Matrix". The brothers simply considered art, philosophy, mystery, machines... and other factors to the extreme, so much so that such a set of movies almost exhausted all their talents, and they gradually became Mediocre.

Of course, there are even more negative examples, almost countless.

"Terminator", "Transformers", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Jurassic Park", etc. are all typical examples of ruining classics.

It clearly had an amazing beginning, but it turned out to be inexplicable at the end.

I spent a lot of money, but I was scolded bloody.

These movies that focus on special effects are okay. With so much money spent on special effects, they will definitely attract a lot of people to watch the special effects.

But those movies that rely on plot to win will suffer a lot relatively speaking. Once the content of your plot is not good, it will be over.

For example, "Night at the Museum", "Scary Movie", "Ghost Story", etc. are typical examples of this category.

Generally speaking, it actually depends on the sincerity of the script and production. These two points determine the quality of a movie, and also determine the quality of its subsequent development.

The first episode of "Police School" is about how to train police officers, and the second episode is about the various situations that are full of jokes when this group of rookie policemen officially go on duty on the streets.

The end of the first episode ends with how this group of students successfully graduated.

In the second episode, their story went from school to the workplace. It was the first time such a plot was written. Of course, the audience was full of freshness and kept thinking about it.

So this movie is usually prone to more box office results.

As for episodes three, four, five and six, these various work situations are constantly repeated, which naturally makes the audience feel tired easily.

Only in the last episode of the trip to Moscow, the director and screenwriter came up with another trick, which once again surprised the fans, thus giving the series the most perfect ending.

At least that's what Yin Jun thought.

Now that it's time to think about the next few episodes, Yin Jun can only think about the current second episode.

Yin Jun only wrote three episodes of the script for "Police Academy", but after the success of "Police Academy" last year, he couldn't help but add another episode in the middle, which was the one during the trip to Miami. The content of the episode, plus some scenes from the fourth episode of "All People's Police".

In this era, a four-episode "Police Academy" is almost enough.

Considering that the entire filming and release will span six to eight years, it is already a limit for the entire cast and production staff.

Now it's not like 30 years later. It's common to make a sequel every three years, and actors have long been accustomed to being tied to a series of movies for ten to twenty years.

In this way, you can not only get countless praises and remuneration, but also think about making new breakthroughs without any effort. It is really the best way to wait for death.

But now in 1981, the longest movie Yin Jun has ever seen is this "Police Academy", and they are basically one episode a year.

This is a good thing for the actors, as they can shoot continuously.

However, such an intensive release is a great test for the enthusiasm of movie fans, and it is easy to get bored.

This is also the reason why 30 years later, the movies will be released in at least one episode every two or three years.

Of course, if you have the ability of "The Lord of the Rings", not to mention one episode a year, but three episodes a year, each episode can still make a box office of one billion or eighty million US dollars.

"Police School" naturally does not have as much charm as "The Lord of the Rings". Considering various factors, Yin Juncai did not decide to let "Police School" be filmed and released this year.

Unexpectedly, Shao Yifu and Wang Jing were obsessed with it and finally came to the door.

In their opinion, after getting the script, they should make some preparations and plans, and finish filming and release it in three or four months at most. In this way, they can still make it in time for Christmas, and they can easily earn tens of millions or hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, etc. good?

Looking at Wang Jing who was full of expectations, Yin Jun asked him, "What are you going to do?"

"After I got the script, I thought about it for a month and tried to understand it thoroughly. During this period, I also contacted the actors and arranged the schedule. If Mr. Jun, you have new roles to join, I will follow your arrangements. , I am only responsible for directing." Fatty Wang's attitude is very correct.

"Then do you know how much remuneration is needed to assemble those actors now?" Yin Jun said.

"Of course I know." Wang Jing nodded, "Rowan Atkinson needs at least 2 million US dollars this time. Eddie Murphy needs a little less, but also needs 1 million US dollars. The two of them need a little more, and the rest , whether it’s Japan’s Matsuda Seiko, South Korea’s Lee Soo-man, Baodao’s Jin Shijie, or our actors in Hong Kong, it’s enough for me to increase their pay by 30%.

After such a series of calculations, the actor's salary is about 25 million. If we still follow the last investment ratio, it should be less than one-third of the total. The cost of such control is still acceptable. The remaining 35 million Hong Kong dollars for filming is more than enough in Hong Kong. We are telling stories, not special effects. "

Yin Jun nodded, but then shook his head: "You calculated the rest of the people very accurately, but Rowan Atkinson's salary may be more than that. I estimate that it will take 3 million US dollars to hire him this time."

"Why? Two million is not enough?" Wang Jing said in surprise, "This is the price of second-rate stars in the United States. The salary of British stars is much lower than this! It is equivalent to their first-rate stars. Got it!"

"But they wouldn't think so." Yin Jun recalled what Scade had talked about on the phone before, "Rowan Atkinson's performance in "Police Academy" was very brilliant, and the box office in Europe was so good. , his credit is at least one-third. Based on this, they want to get high remuneration."

"How can people do this? After we made money last time, we paid them dividends, right? I didn't even get the dividends, but they still got it!" Wang Jing said angrily.

Last time, because Wang Jing revealed the news about "Police School" to Shao Yifu, Yin Jun only gave him a director's salary of several hundred thousand, and canceled the bonus for him. As a result, Wang Jing lost hundreds of millions. Wan, it really made him feel distressed.

By increasing the budget by US$1 million, the shooting cost has been reduced by nearly HK$5 million. This is a huge amount of money! Inspired by "Speed ​​of Life and Death", he also wanted to shoot more accurately!

What makes Wang Jing angry is also an important reason why the cost of super-large productions in the United States will become higher and higher in the future, and they will be increasingly afraid to start filming.

After actors become popular, their remuneration will be increased at every turn. In the end, the remuneration alone will cost tens of millions to one hundred million U.S. dollars. Adding in the production costs, it will cost at least two to three hundred million U.S. dollars to be able to sustain the industry, and it will take a billion U.S. dollars to recoup the original investment. Above, this is worrying Hollywood producers and companies.

So usually they'd rather not think about the money-making sequel than reboot the series if it's not too promising.

After working for a long time, I asked the actors to earn the money, but I haven’t earned it myself, so what does that count?

Only a movie series with a strong ability to attract money can make production companies continue to make concessions and increase budgets.

For example, in "Avengers 3", the actors were paid 200 million U.S. dollars. Among them, Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. received 100 million U.S. dollars. The entire production cost was as high as 500 million U.S. dollars. It was really scary!

After turning his thoughts, Yin Jun said with a smile, "It's up to you to find a way. If you can convince him to accept the dividend method, then that's fine."

"Shall I go and tell you?" Wang Jing was stunned. "Young Master Jun, aren't you going?"

"Since you are going to do this series, you have to take on more responsibilities." Yin Jun said seriously: "Unless you are unwilling to do it anymore."

Wang Jing suddenly perked up and said, "Master Jun, can I be the director and also the producer?"

The last time Wang Jing filmed "Police School", the nominal producer was Yin Jun, and Yin Jun also controlled the overall style.

Wang Jing is still very convinced of Yin Jun, but if he can take control of him, it will definitely be a good thing!

"You try to make one episode first, and I'll just watch your editing in the end." Yin Jun nodded and said, "But you have to understand that if you don't do it well this time, there will be no future!"

"Don't worry! Don't worry!!" Wang Jing quickly assured, "I will do my best!!"

After a pause, he immediately said: "I will go to negotiate with them right away to finalize the overall matter and ensure that nothing goes wrong!"

"good!"

Yin Jun muttered, "But I still have a request."

"You say!"

“Let’s release it again next summer!”

"No problem... uh..." Wang Jing was stunned, "Does it take that long?"

"Firstly, you need to prepare well. Secondly, the interval is too short, which is not good for the series of movies, whether it is box office or word-of-mouth." Yin Jun said, "If you want to make a movie, especially a global movie, you must You have to be meticulous and conscientious, this is how you earn face for Xiangjiang Films, rather than just doing Kuaihe and making money, you know?"

"I see."

Seeing Yin Jun's persistence, Wang Jing could only agree.

Anyway, with Yin Jun in front, neither Shao Yifu nor Zou Wenhuai had any complaints.

"Oh, by the way, we should adopt the cooperation method as last time, right?" Wang Jing said cautiously, "The three companies will do it together?"

Originally he was very confident, and it was Shao Yifu who asked him to come over and ask for the script.

But seeing Yin Jun's current attitude, he was suddenly a little worried that Yin Jun would work for his own company and not play with the other two companies.

All the copyrights of "Police Academy" are in Yin Jun's hands!

For such a profitable movie, if another person were to come in, things would really be uncertain.

"Everything is business as usual." Yin Jun replied naturally.

"OK!"

Wang Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

Jun Shao is also very particular about it. Now that they have started to cooperate, it is impossible for him to abandon his partners midway.

That's good, I can finally do my job!