Chapter 884: Capital Injection?
The complaints that Wu Ershan complained about were all real, and they were all prepared in advance.
After learning from Sang Lin that Wu Yuan was going to visit him on the set of "The Three Kingdoms of Gods" and visit him, Wu Ershan had this plan in mind to complain to him.
Not only because Wu Yuan and Wu Ershan are both directors, colleagues can complain to each other.
But also because Wu Yuan has one of the best film production companies in China.
Although, with the participation of Internet giants in recent years, Penguin, Alibaba, and Wanda Film have become new giants in the industry, killing a number of old film production companies such as Huayi and Bona, and 80% of commercial blockbusters are invested by the above three companies.
But Guangying Times is still a well-known big company in the industry!
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Although the market value may not be comparable to the Big Three, after all, the capital power behind the Big Three is strong, but in terms of influence, Light and Shadow Times is not inferior to the Big Three at all, and the cash flow is also very abundant.
Wu Ershan heard that Light and Shadow Times has reduced its investment in the past two years, so the funds on hand are very sufficient, and a few hundred million investment is nothing to Light and Shadow Times.
So Wu Ershan saw this point and hoped to bring Wu Yuan to invest in "The Trilogy of the Gods"!
There is no way. For Wu Ershan, "The Trilogy of the Gods" is his life. It is his dream work that he has been preparing for many years before finally launching.
Now the filming is almost over, but the capital chain is broken, and the money on hand is only enough to barely complete the post-production of the first part.
How can this be possible?
Although now there is money for the post-production of the first part, it can barely be done.
In this way, once the first part can be successfully released and sell well at the box office, or even without selling well, as long as it can make back the investment, he can use this achievement to lobby various capitals to pay for the post-production special effects of the second and third parts.
But to be honest, Wu Ershan himself is not 100% sure that "The First Part of the Conferred God" can make back the investment and attract capital to pay for the post-production special effects of the second and third parts.
This kind of thing is really hard to say, the film market has never had any rules.
If the film market had rules, the three giants would not lose so much money every year, after all, they have big data and can really calculate what movies movie fans like to watch.
But the movies made and shot according to big data will still flop.
Wu Ershan does not think that he is more accurate than the big data collected by hundreds of millions of people, and that the "The Conferred God Trilogy" he shot will definitely be liked by the audience.
So he hopes to get the post-production special effects funds for the last two parts before the release of "The First Part of the Conferred God", and then do the post-production together.
In this way, even if the first film fails at the box office, the next two films will have a chance to be released, and there will be a chance to turn things around.
Even if the next two films also lose money, at least they can be released, which is a success for Wu Ershan!
For a director, it is enough for the film he made to be released and meet the audience. As for the profit issue, it is really not the most important thing for directors.
Wu Yuan values this thing because his films are all shot with his own money and produced by his own company, so they must make money.
If he really makes a movie that does not require his own money, he does not care about the box office results, such as "Bruce Lee", he does not care so much about the box office.
Wu Ershan is even more so. Although "The Three Kingdoms of Gods" also has Wu Ershan's own investment, he did not invest much, only a small part, and he can really afford to lose.
Compared with caring about this, he cares more about finding a sucker to make up the funds and quickly do the post-production special effects of the next two films.
So, after pouring out his grievances to Wu Yuan, and seeing Wu Yuan's sympathy and a little curiosity, he immediately tried to test: "So, Director Wu, is your company interested in participating?"
"You also watched it on the spot. The "Fengshen Trilogy" is really a great movie, and we also invested very hard in the filming. The young men have invested two and a half years of their youth in this movie."
"There is no crew in the industry that is as serious about filming as we are now. You are also very clear about this."
"I always believe that the audience will like things that are filmed with heart."
To be honest, Wu Ershan's ability to deceive is still very powerful, otherwise he would not have deceived the so-called 3 billion investment to make this "Fengshen Trilogy", although the cost of the first part is only 800 million at most.
But after all, he is not facing a mature capitalist, but Wu Yuan, who is also a director, so Wu Ershan did not choose to talk from any commercial or profit perspective, but played the director card with Wu Yuan.
Hope to impress him with the director's belief.
Wu Ershan believes that any director will be moved by him when he sees him shoot a movie so attentively and even "devoutly".
In the market today, there is really no other director who takes two and a half years to shoot a movie like him.
These two and a half years refer to the time from training to shooting, and do not include the preparation period!
The last director who could shoot like this was the King of Sunglasses (referring to commercial films).
In this era, everyone shoots commercial films as fast as possible. After all, the shorter the production cycle, the shorter the capital return time, and the maximum profit in commercial operations.
Including Wu Yuan himself, when shooting commercial films, he also chooses to finish them as soon as possible and release them as soon as possible. Generally, the cycle is maintained at about one and a half years to complete all the work from preparation to release.
However, in the face of Wu Ershan's earnest expectations, Wu Yuan was not moved at all.
He pursed his lips awkwardly, "Such an important matter, I have to go back and discuss it with the general manager of the company before I can decide."
Want him to invest?
You're dreaming!
Although Wu Yuan did not see the release of "The Conferred Gods Trilogy" in his dream, he believed that this series was likely to lose money and gain publicity based on his own judgment.
He believed that Wu Ershan should be able to make three good movies, at least the reputation should not be too bad, or even quite good. After all, Wu Ershan did a good job in magic and fantasy, and his "Ghost Blowing the Light" is also the only highly acclaimed work among the adaptations of tomb-robbing themes.
But he did not believe that "The Conferred Gods Trilogy" could make a big profit.
The cost of this series is really too high.
Even though the actual production cost of the three films was not 3 billion, he also confirmed from Wu Ershan that the actual cost of the first film was expected to be 800 million, and the actual cost of the three films combined should be around 2.5 billion.
What a joke.
"The Wandering Earth" didn't even cost 800 million!
And "The Investiture of the Gods Trilogy" is simply impossible to reproduce the box office miracle of "The Wandering Earth", and it is destined to be a movie that loses money but gains publicity.
Penguin Pictures can afford to lose money, and even think it is worth it, because it has earned a good reputation and there is plenty of money to be made in the secondary market.
Light and Shadow Era can't afford to lose money, and there is no need to do so. Its own fairy-tale movie universe is enough.
So he can only find an excuse to shirk it first. As long as he doesn't agree to it in person, Wu Ershan will understand what he means. (End of this chapter)