The autumn tigers will still rage in Beijing for a few more days, and then the weather will gradually turn cooler.

Cheng and Liu returned to the capital. Their schedules are not tight. Cheng Yuan will go back to the college in a few days to give an opening ceremony speech to this year's freshmen. After that, he will stay in the capital to supervise the production of "The Legend of the White Fox" with Guo Fan.

In the later period, Cheng Yuan only assisted in this aspect of work, and Guo Fan himself took the lead.

His main work is in the preliminary preparations for "The Wandering Earth".

He must use the energy and endurance he had when working on "The Martian" in 2007, and must be 120 points spirited.

This time, he has more sufficient funds, more advanced technology, and a more professional team. He is confident that he can make "The Wandering Earth" even better.

Liu Yifei's main work was focused on the preparation of "Get Out! Tumor King". In this drama, she recruited Brother Hu to play the leading role for her, Dr. Liang, and Su Lun directed the drama for her.

Liu Yifei pushed forward all the notices that could be pushed for this drama, and several tasks that could not be pushed were postponed or advanced according to her schedule.

Cheng Yuan is talking to Ye Ning about the investment in "The Wandering Earth".

According to the agreement, there can only be a maximum of four major producers of "The Wandering Earth". Currently, only three producers, namely Yuan Yuan, China Film and Television, and Wanda have been confirmed.

The three companies each invested 100 million, accounting for 32.5%, 16.8% and 15.7% of the investment shares respectively. The investment shares cannot be changed hands twice.

Cheng Yu'an's personal directorial remuneration is a friendly price and % of the mainland box office revenue is divided into dividends.

Although this price is still the highest among domestic directors, it is really a friendly price.

Otherwise, according to the normal quotation, in addition to the 12% box office share, Cheng Yuan will receive a fixed salary of 00,000.

Don't think that Cheng Yu'an deliberately quoted a high price to block outside filming. In fact, even at this price, there are still bosses who ask Cheng Yu'an to film movies every year.

First, Cheng Yu'an's position as a director was offered here, but the company refused to agree to the low offer.

Second, Cheng Yuan is not only a director, he is also the chairman of the largest film company in the country. He represents the face of the entire Long-distance Media Group, so the price will naturally not be low, and it cannot be low.

Cheng and Ye listened to the report of the preparatory team together.

"We made a preliminary budget. The most expensive part of "The Wandering Earth" is the pre- and post-production special effects and prop production. We estimate that we will spend 300 million on these two items, which accounts for more than half of the total budget.

"This has already cost nearly 20 million before it even starts."

Cheng Yu'an asked: "How much is the budget now?"

"540 million, Director Cheng."

Cheng Yu'an thought for a while and felt that the money should be enough, so he motioned to the production team to continue reporting.

"With this budget, Tiangong Yicai's quote was kind, but the post-production cloud rendering is too expensive. Even if we quote a discounted price, it's still more expensive than ordinary special effects production."

Xu Yaoxiao of Tiangong Yicai said: "The special effects are like this, and there is nothing I can do about it. Tiangong Yicai has seven R&D and production centers around the world and more than a thousand employees to support. If the quotation is low, we will lose money."

Then he mentioned another reason: "We at Tiangong Yicai have our own cloud rendering center. This system is hundreds of times faster than the general architecture rendering system. Even if we have a cooperative relationship with the supercomputing center, the negotiated price is not

It will be low, starting at hundreds of thousands an hour.”

Ye Ning smiled and said, "Okay, look how nervous you are. We know the importance of special effects to this movie, and we didn't say we wouldn't let you make money."

Cheng Yu'an also smiled and said: "The main reason is that our Tiangong Yicai was afraid of poverty in the past few years and has been losing money. We finally made a profit this year, so why don't we perform well?"

"We asked Deloitte accounting firm to conduct third-party supervision and audit of the filming funds."

"The space agency has already reached an agreement. Just like the previous "The Martian", the space agency will serve as a consultant and technical support unit to assist in the entire filming process, and will also provide us with certain help in post-production publicity."

The space agency was very proactive this time and took the initiative to contact us for cooperation before the production team even came to visit.

"The dozens of co-producers on "The Martian" basically want to cooperate with us a second time this time, and we are still selecting high-quality partners. It's just..."

"Just what?"

"Huayi, Bernard, Shanghai Film Group and Ali Pictures all intend to win the fourth producer qualification, and each offer is not low."

"Why is Huayi getting involved? Isn't he going to make movies? Isn't he willing to invest the money in us?"

Ye Ning smiled and said: "Hua Yi is willing to invest in Director Cheng's film even if it means selling everything."

Ye Ning was very lucky that Wanda had signed a cooperation agreement with Yuan Yuan in advance. Otherwise, as a newbie in the production industry, Wanda might not have been able to invest in Cheng Yuan's movie even if she had money.

Mr. Wang personally gave instructions for the "Wandering Earth" project, saying: "You can give him whatever he wants. Oriental Film Capital will speed up the project. I will see at least 10 studios by the end of this year. Before the movie starts, he wants

All equipment must be ready.”

"How much is Huayi willing to pay?"

"120 million, only 11%." The later it enters the market, the less it will get. Huayi is ready to be slaughtered remotely.

"Bernard offered 127 million," Ye Ning snorted coldly after hearing the offer. Fatty Yu was really stingy, only offering 7 million more. "Shanghai Film offered 180 million, and Ahri was willing to offer 400 million to cover the rest of us.

All shares."

"Huh..." Cheng Yu'an smiled, "These Internet people are still rich. He didn't ask for anything else?"

The preparation team leader smiled and said: "They don't dare to make your movie."

"Is there anything in the world that he doesn't dare to do?" In the domestic production environment, major investors really don't dare to point fingers at Cheng Yu'an's movies.

He is not short of money at all. If you threaten him with withdrawing capital, there will be 10,000 investors waiting to come in and take over the deal.

If you want to give directions to Cheng Yu'an's crew, he can scold your ancestors for eighteen generations.

When you tell him about big data, Cheng Yu'an scolds you: "Do you know movies or do I know movies? Get out of here if you don't want to!"

Ahli also knew that Cheng Yu'an didn't like them, at least not in the production field, so Ahli was smart and only offered money, not money, and also gave them a price they thought Yuanyuan couldn't refuse.

To be honest, both Cheng Yu'an and Ye Ning were moved by Ah Li's offer.

The initial purchase price was 400 million, and the funds were fully replenished immediately, and there was even a lot of surplus.

Ye Ning really wanted to agree to Ahri's capital injection on the spot, but she had to obtain remote consent.

Cheng Yu'an doesn't like Ah Li Gui, but who can't get along with real money?

But he didn’t immediately agree to Ali’s investment: “We’ll look into the investor’s affairs later.”

"good."

"How about the machine I want?" Cheng Yu'an wants to play something he has never played before in "The Wandering Earth" -.

"It's difficult to do," said the preparatory team leader, "We communicated with IMAX a few days ago, and their latest set of equipment is only for sale, not for rent."

Ye Ning used Wanda's money-making ability: "Then buy it!"

"It's not worth it," the preparation team said. "One of his cameras only costs 4 million U.S. dollars. We need at least five cameras of this size for this movie, which costs more than 20 million U.S. dollars here and there."

"That's not expensive," Ye Ning said. As expected of Wanda's boss, he didn't care about more than 20 million US dollars.

Cheng Yu'an thought for a while: "Let's talk to IMAX again."

"We talked about it, and they said that even James Cameron would only sell it but not rent it. We were blocked and had nothing to say."

Cheng Yu'an frowned. If you want to present the best visual effects of "The Wandering Earth", this high-standard camera is indispensable.

The most annoying thing is that this camera is only available in IMAX, and Sony has no substitute.

Sony approached the crew and expressed its willingness to support "The Wandering Earth", but their cameras were not what Cheng Yu'an wanted.

"In this way," Cheng Yu'an thought of a way, "If you can't rent IMAX, you can buy it in the name of Tiangong Yicai. Buy five or six units. You won't be charged by the crew, and you can count Tiangong Yicai's investment in equipment.

These pieces of equipment will also be used in the future.”
Chapter completed!