Chapter 42 Process (1/5)
Movie tax refunds have emerged in the past decade...
However, as other countries except the United States, mainly Canada and the United Kingdom, gradually increase tax refund subsidies for film production. In order to reduce production costs, more and more American companies choose to shoot and produce movies and TV overseas.
This unique phenomenon is called "production outward migration" in the Hollywood industry!
It should be in 1997 that the Canadian government officially launched a film production tax refund plan, and Canadian provinces, including British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, etc., launched their respective film tax refund plans.
Adding up the two, Hollywood film companies that shoot movies in Canada can get a total tax refund equivalent to 37%-70% of labor costs and 25%-30% of consumption.
Several other states in the United States have noticed the opportunity - since you can go abroad to shoot, why don’t you come to us?
Therefore, as of 2009, 44 of the 50 states in the United States had passed similar tax refund laws.
How much does Massachusetts support for movies? The government will pay for the relevant expenses when shooting movies on Massachusetts public land.
And the more big names there are in the crew, the greater the intensity!
Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, 007, Captain America, these two are really big-name stars!
Especially Daniel Craig, don't think he can only play Bond, who has worked with David Finch, Spielberg and Sam Mendes.
Of course, the $15 million pay is still too high...
Fortunately, Massachusetts tax refunds saved a lot of expenses, which could be handled with about $55 million.
Most importantly, Daniel Craig took a step back - he took "The Knife Out" at the price of the art film...
Hollywood stars take on different films, and their pay is also different. Art films are much lower than commercial films - $6 million...
Captain America also reduced his salary to $4 million...
Let me first talk about it, the story of "The Knife Out" is a typical natural reasoning - the case is restored bit by bit from the perspective of a detective and finally decrypted.
The story is very simple: On the second day of his 85th birthday, Howard Slobby, a rich man, was found committing suicide in his own manor, leaving behind hundreds of millions of inheritance.
Detective Blanco was hired by anonymous person to investigate the truth of the case.
Meanwhile, Howard's grandson Ranson is also secretly investigating the case. When Blanco talks with others in the Howard Slobby family, he finds that things are not as simple as he imagines.
The Howard family is not as harmonious as it appears. Everyone has an ulterior motive. Everyone wants to get the inheritance...
Captain America was busy filming "Avengers" and still spent five weeks on it because the script impressed him.
The discriminatory immigrants, right-wing thoughts, and political satire in the film are actually very straightforward, and they are completely copying the reality without any fiction:
The family members of the family said everything they said to Mata, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil, but in the end they didn't give a clear answer, because in reality, anti-immigrant Americans would not figure out where the immigrants came from. As long as they were unified from Latin America, they were called Mexicans;
And the most important irony: I started from scratch.
Original, detective, natural reasoning, Agatha style…
None of them belongs to the top label!
But both of them like this script, so they reduced their pay...
Lu Xiaoran still has a good reputation in the United States, but she is not as good as Quentin. "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", both Little Little Little Brad Pitt reduced their pay and took on the filming for $10 million...
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At the door of the premiere, I met Alang, the editor-in-chief of "Watching Movies" magazine.
In recent years, he has also started to run self-media and published several books. Lu Xiaoran also wrote a preface to a book called "What to Do to Cherry Trees in Spring"...
That is a good book, and it seriously introduces many blue movies...
The two briefly talked about "The Knife Out".
"I admire Agatha Christie very much. My favorite is "Roger's Mission". The background is placed in a big family that is warm on the surface but actually falls apart. The parents died mysteriously. A detective intervened in the case and finally made a summary statement through a series of questions and flashbacks to find out who is the real murderer."
"Such a story is not suitable for happening in China. Private detectives have a vague definition of laws in our country. At least they cannot touch criminal cases, so..."
"Oscar? I never did shoot a movie to pursue awards...at least not now!"
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Many friends in the industry, including Lu Xiaoran, are very concerned about Lu Xiaoran's trip to North America.
Some media used it: to fight in Hollywood to describe Lu Xiaoran's trip to North America...
He is fighting in Hollywood, just wanting to film "The Knife Out", and he just has time.
The Chinese market is booming. At this time, do you want him to give up the mainland market and specialize in North America?
Are you sick?
But some media don’t know whether to praise or harm him, so they used words like “The mainland market is Dugu Qiubai, so I went to Hollywood”…
His every move now represents orange. The secondary market fluctuates greatly. Lu Xiaoran specially issued a statement: The story of "The Knife Out" has been written for a long time and has not been available for filming. This year, I just had time, so I finished it. Why go to the United States to shoot? Because the setting of this story is not suitable for taking place in China...
By the way, I announced my next stage trends: "Sword Rain", "Road Forward", "Ice Blood Changjin Lake"...
"Ice Blood Changjin Lake", as you can see from the name, this is a Volunteer Army movie...
But how should I take pictures?
Anyone who knows a little about history knows that it was a tragic war...
Before netizens could discuss it, Lu Xiaoran had already packed up and went to the United States...
Then, the next few days...
No, it should be said that the next two months will be about the voice of "Wolf Warrior 2"!
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According to the process, let’s first take a media report on “The Founding of the Army”:
‘The hot-blooded war masterpiece "The Founding of the Army" premiered grandly in Beijing on the 25th. The chief planner and artistic director Han Sanping, director Liu Weiqiang, producer Huang Jianxin and actors Liu Huohua, Zhu Yawen, Huang Zhizhong, Ou Hao, Zhang Xincheng, Ma Tianyu, Zhang Yixing, Dong Zijian and other 31 actors appeared. The unprecedented lineup made the media on the scene excited!’
It was also announced that it would be upgraded until 2:00 p.m. on the 27th.
Directly eight hours in advance...
"Wolf Warrior 2" was announced to be officially released at 20 o'clock, and "The Founding of the Army" has made this move...
The media asked the young man, and they praised it in various ways: there were only 5 RVs on rest, and no one asked for any demand. We also heard some rumors, but we did not encounter them. They did not ask for any compensation, just some living allowances.
Liu Weiqiang also said: There is nothing that is difficult to take, and I don’t know why I am very obedient when I come to us.
Then, the next day, "Wolf Warrior 2" was officially released at 8:01 pm on July 27, 2017: The box office exceeded 100 million in 4 hours;
Over 300 million in 25 hours;
Over 500 million in 46 hours;
It has exceeded 1.2 billion yuan in five days of release.
The first weekend of release became the champion of the global box office list with a total of $127 million.
Chapter completed!