The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

The rough-cut version still needs further fine-cutting, and finally a version that can be launched in theaters is definitely necessary.

At that time, this version will have to be submitted for review.

With the current situation of Dimensional Entertainment, there is basically no problem in passing the review.

This is a serious domestic film, and there is no problem with the content. The two most deadly problems involving pornography and politics do not exist. The bloodiness may be a little bit, after all, it is a fantasy battle theme, but the scale is still controlled within the acceptable range of the big screen, and basically there will be no problems.

Fan Zhe is still very confident that the film will be screened without any editing.

As for the special effects of the movie, he is more concerned.

I believe that every audience who enters the cinema to watch "Demacia: Glory" will absolutely not tolerate this film with poor special effects.

It is conceivable what kind of expectations a large number of audiences have before entering the cinema. And when the finished product they saw didn't match what they had expected, then there would be as much anger as there was expectation, and all of it would be thrown on Dimension Entertainment's head.

Generally speaking, audiences have a more tolerant attitude towards the special effects of domestic films. Don't you see, the special effects of "The Wandering Earth" are still relatively mediocre on a global scale, and even have obvious flaws in many places, but they are still well received.

But if "Demacia: Glory" is made to that level, I'm afraid it won't be scolded to death.

Imagining the result, Fan Zhe shivered.

After "Demacia: Glory" entered the 'dimension' system and started the calculation, Fan Zhe was diligently watching the progress of the entire calculation. Moreover, from time to time, after completing a part of the calculation, he will look at the effect combined with the special effects and the lens, and dare not be careless.

For the entire calculus level, he directly drove to the B level.

There is also an A-level on it. It’s not that he doesn’t want to open it, but with the current computing power of Dimension Entertainment, the calculation speed of the A-level is a bit too slow to catch up with the release.

But grade B is enough.

According to the B-level calculation results, it is no worse than most mainstream Hollywood commercial blockbusters, and even surpasses them.

Now, the "Dimension Supercomputing Center" has been established, and the entire factory has entered the final stage, and it is estimated that it will be available by the end of this year.

At that time, the pressure on B-level calculations will not be as great as it is now, and some key works can also be awarded A-level calculations.

...

While most of the energy of the Dimension Entertainment production department has been devoted to the post-production project of "Demacia: Glory", other departments of the company are also not resting.

At present, the film is scheduled for October 1st, the day of the National Day holiday, and it is time to start the promotional work on a large scale.

In fact, a year earlier, when Dimension Entertainment and Penguin Pictures reached an agreement to announce that they would develop the movie "Demacia: Glory", the announcement caused a stir.

The main influence must still be among the game player group. However, the influence of the game LOL in the country is ridiculously large, and there are many players, so it has become a thing all over the Internet, and it has been on the hot search for a long time.

Everyone discussed frantically and was extremely excited.

Of course, it’s not that there are no one who disagrees, saying that things like LOL must have awesome special effects to look good on balabala. As a result, they were educated: Can the special effects of things made by Dimension Entertainment be worse?

At present, Wu Jingtong is still responsible for the propaganda work in Dimension Group.

He has also been promoted recently, from the director of the marketing department of Dimension Entertainment to the general manager of Dimension Entertainment, and is responsible for all external publicity work within the group.

This is also the pinnacle of life.

He is extremely fortunate now that he made the right choice back then.

At that time, after a careful analysis, he believed that the company Dimension Entertainment had great potential for development, and joining in would have a great chance to take his career to the next level. But at that time, no matter how imaginative he was, he would never have imagined that he would be able to reach his current position.

An annual salary of one million? It doesn't matter anymore. Bonuses, dividends... After these things are taken down, it is difficult for him to tell his parents about his annual income, for fear of scaring the two of them.

His contribution is also worthy of these things.

In the past, he participated in the external promotion of most of the content produced by Dimension Entertainment, and won many battles.

He is the veteran of the group, and he is also a hero.

However, this time, he felt a little meaningless.

It's so easy.

The promotion of "Demacia: Glory" hardly encountered any difficulty. The external publicity was slightly increased, and the public opinion field immediately gave a very good response. Later, once the release time was confirmed, he didn't need to use much effort, and there was natural running water everywhere, which helped Dimension Entertainment spread the word.

Originally, he had made a lot of plans and was always ready to fight with some competitors. It turned out that all his eyebrows and eyes were thrown to the blind man.

No one jumped out at all.

After Dimension Entertainment becomes more and more successful, it is inevitable that there will be direct conflicts of interest with many people, companies, and forces, and many of them are even purely pink-eyed.

These guys are not something to mess with, and they will come up and take a bite if they seize the opportunity.

In the past, these people annoyed Wu Jingtong very much.

But this time, all these ghosts and monsters disappeared without a trace.

That's true, the momentum is coming, the wheels are rolling, and the fool is at the front when "Demacia: Glory" is so powerful.

As for talking about some clowns, there is no reason at all.

On the contrary, Wu Jingtong felt uncomfortable.

"It's not challenging at all..."

He muttered rather dissatisfied.

...

There is really no one in the industry who dares to jump around at this time.

At the beginning, when the "Demacia: Glory" project was first established, the reaction in the circle was quite violent. These people were quite surprised: Why are Dimension Entertainment and Penguin Pictures so courageous?

In the current domestic film market, if you dare to spend 800 million yuan on a film purely for film production, it is really insane.

Isn't this sick? That's not how big investments work!

At the beginning, "Legend of the Cat Demon" claimed to have an investment of one billion yuan, but most of it was actually invested in the construction of the venue, and a Datang film and television base was built. That was not only used as a shooting location for "Legend of the Cat Demon", the local government had a lot of involvement, and finally developed it into a film and television base, plus a tourist attraction, which is still 5A level.

This kind of investment is reliable. Anyway, the land and buildings are there. The follow-up profit does not depend on the film, but on the tourism industry. Or it can be said that it is a real estate project, and the film has become A means of propaganda.

But "Demacia: Glory" is not, with a capital of 800 million, it was really poured into the movie.

800 million funds, plus the publicity and distribution budget, how much does this movie need to sell at the box office to pay back? Even if the film is distributed by Dimension Group under its own "Dimension Media", without being deducted a sum of money by the distribution company, the box office will have to sell at least more than 2 billion, or even 2.5 billion to pay back.

It's just a payback.

If you want to have a barely acceptable profit, the minimum box office standard is 3 billion; if you want to earn more, or to be a successful work and a benchmark of success, it must exceed 4 billion.

This is horrible.

In the film industry, it doesn't mean that there will be corresponding returns for how much money is spent. In this market, it is a miracle to mobilize hundreds of millions or even billions of funds with negligible small costs, but there is also the desolation of losing a lot of money when a large amount of money is thrown down.

If you want to make a good profit and hit the 4 billion box office, that's not easy? What is the concept of four billion box office? At present, it can be ranked in the history of Chinese film history!

At that time, many people were watching the jokes of Dimension Entertainment and Penguin Pictures, and there were even many voices who thought that this film might become the Waterloo of Dimension Entertainment, and believed that this new and bold company would contribute to It is normal to pay a heavy price for one's own aggressiveness, and it is even normal for him to be devastated because of it.

However, these thoughts disappeared a lot in an instant after the release of "Martial Arts Master: Flame of War" some time ago.

The box office of "Martial Arts Master: Fire of War" exceeded 3.5 billion, which scared many people.

Many people no longer dare to blind BB. "War" has slapped countless people in the face, and no one wants to be slapped again on "Glory".

I have already had a big investment in exchange for a big success, who would dare to say that Dimension Entertainment's second big money will hit the street?

Even if you are cursing in your heart, you'd better be more careful with your mouth.

What's more, sometimes this kind of thing is not just as simple as a slap in the face.

If you are slapped in the face, you will be slapped, and the loss of money is really distressing.

Earlier, "Deadly Action", a movie that was favored by many people beforehand, was blasted into scum under "Fire of War", which is still vivid in my memory.

...

In the midsummer of July, a private party somewhere in the capital.

The people gathered here are the top managers of many companies in the Beijing circle, as well as some well-known directors, people from powerful brokerage companies, and a small number of artists.

It can be said that this is a high-end gathering of the Beijing film and television circle.

In previous years, at gatherings like this, the focus of discussion should be on the current summer vacation, talking about secrets in the industry.

Only this time it's different.

The current popularity of the summer file is like a fake. Everyone's attention has been drawn away by the movie "Demacia: Glory".

The 800 million investment, the top-notch IP, the special effects of Dimension Entertainment, and the emotions inherited from the success of "Fire of War"...

All these add up to a big change in people's expectations about the success of this movie.

Perhaps the only thing that is relatively confusing is how successful "Glory" can be.

Of course, there are still some people who still hold on to some past ideas, thinking that the investment cost of "Demacia: Glory" is too high, the risk is too high, and it might hit the street. But most of these thoughts are caused by one factor: acid.

This kind of mentality is normal, no matter whether you succeed or not, anyway, others will feel uncomfortable when they succeed, and feel that this is an accident, and he will definitely fail next time.

And people with a normal mentality have clearly realized at this time that there is a high probability that "Glory" will not be able to catch it.

"Old Zhen, is your movie going to be postponed?" A potbellied businessman asked next to someone.

"Yeah." The person called Lao Zhen nodded with a bitter expression on his face.

"As for..." A man with long hair and a full beard appeared next to him, "Old Zhen, your movie has been scheduled before, and the publicity seems to have started, right? Such a sudden change of schedule will cost a lot of publicity funds It's all in vain!"

"If I had a choice, how could I want to change the schedule?" Lao Zhen said angrily, "But what can I do? The release time of my film coincides with "Demacia: Glory" on the same day! What else can I do without changing gears?"

"What are you afraid of?" said the long-haired guy, "I treat Dimension Entertainment as a man-eating tiger every day. Isn't your movie a comedy? The genre is different from "Glory". "

"That's right." The fat man also chimed in, "Dimension Entertainment is just a new company. It's a rookie in the film industry, and it doesn't contact us. Lao Zhen is in the same period as him. Fuck them! Don't be afraid! "

"Hehe." Lao Zhen sneered and said, "Don't you be afraid, don't you also have a movie? It's only three weeks late, so it's the same time as "Glory" earlier, and suppress them!"

The fat man shrank his head and said, "My...uh... is an action movie, do you know what an action movie is? It's the kind that can't be opposed to Dimension Entertainment...Your comedy movies are still okay..."

"Hehe." Lao Zhen sneered again.

The long-haired one shook his head and said, "You two, you really lost the ambition of our group!"

Lao Zhen turned his head and looked at him: "Whatever you say now, anyway, you haven't released a movie recently. However, Director Lei, you are currently working on the film in the later stage, isn't it going to hit the Spring Festival? During the Spring Festival, there is also a film called "Taiwu Painting Scroll", and then I will see how Director Lei suppresses Wei Wei's gang."

"...I will study it when the time comes." Director Lei choked for a moment, then said with a dry smile.

"Tch..." Lao Zhen sneered.

Not far away, Peng Zhili, who was listening to this group of people chatting, snorted disdainfully.

"It's all a bunch of eggless things!"

I used to think that this regular meeting was a very high-end place, and the people who came here were quite energetic, but I didn't expect that when everyone really needed to contribute, everyone would be so cowardly.

Hmph, if it weren't for our Huayi movie, the summer file has already been released, and if there is no movie on November, I would just go and do it myself!

But... Even so, it seems that there is no way.

No, is there an imported Hollywood blockbuster recently?

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After finishing writing at night, I simply put together and send it out early in the morning.