The rights to adapt Japanese novels are not expensive...

Especially "Meet in the Rainy Season" mentioned by Shen Changlin, which is the work of Ichikawa Takuji, a best-selling author who started out as an Internet writer!

As for online novels, their status is slightly lower.

Even for Keigo Higashino's works, the adaptation rights are mostly around seven figures...

Because Japan's domestic movies are in a sluggish state, except for two-dimensional, drama, and other types of works, every one of them is dead. Even Keigo Higashino's "White Night Journey" only had a box office of 500 million yen...

Therefore, they welcome foreigners to come and buy the adaptation rights!

The price is not high either…

As for the eight-digit number of Keigo Higashino's adaptation rights reported online, they are basically all hype - more than twenty works have been sold the adaptation rights, and many of the people who bought the adaptation rights were second-hand dealers. After they bought the rights, there was a wave of hype. , find someone to take over at a high price!

Ichikawa Takuji is not very well-known, and "Meet in the Rainy Season" is not a big IP in China. He won it with an offer of 500,000 yuan...

Yang Fan went directly to apply. After completing the application, he got on the plane to New York...

Although he didn't agree with Shen Changlin's sudden decision to make a foreign language film, he knew his identity - a worker!

Whatever your boss asks you to do, just obey him.

It's just a copyright purchase, it's not like letting him go up the mountain of knives or into the sea of ​​fire...

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The post-production work of "The Thieves" has begun in an orderly manner.

Countless special effects companies in the country have received orders, and these people have put down their work. "The Thieves" is the focus right now!

It's normal. Shen Changlin's past films have fully proved that he is now coming with a huge production costing over 100 million...

And he is willing to give time and trust the domestic special effects team...

This is proactively giving them a chance.

No kidding, at this stage, most of the special effects teams used in large-scale domestically produced movies are from South Korea - Huayi is off to a good start!

Feng Pants has been working with the Korean team since "Assembly", and Xu Ke is the major shareholder of Korean special effects companies Mofac Alfred and Dexter...

It's Shen Changlin. The special effects director of "The Thieves" is Xu Jian. He used to do advertising special effects. Last year, he established MORE VFX special effects company. "The Thieves" is the largest order they have received so far!

You must work hard to do it well...

In post-production, Shen Changlin has relatively more time - he doesn't need to keep an eye on it all the time!

The soundtrack was composed by Brian Taylor, the original composer. He is very good at electronic soundtracks and has a strong sense of rhythm.

Specializes in modern symphonic music scores.

Brian Taylor is not cheap, charging nearly $1.5 million for a movie...

He is already a famous scorer for the "Fast and Furious" series, "The Expendables" series...

Later, he also took over the soundtrack work for "Avengers 2"!

Of course, the box office and reputation of "Age of Ultron" did not meet Disney's expectations, and Aaron Schwescha was replaced again...

It’s not that Shen Changlin worships foreigners and favors foreigners. Indeed, no domestic composer is good at this type of music!

Music is also a part of the movie, whether it is sad or happy, elegant or vulgar, or various regional customs and cultural backgrounds.

Sometimes you can clearly feel the content of the movie through the music without even looking at the picture.

Images are relatively objective. In the absence of dialogue, the audience often may not be able to understand the emotions expressed in the movie. The existence of soundtrack is very helpful for ordinary audiences to understand image expression and story narration.

There are many horror movies in B-War that have been replaced with cheerful soundtracks...

As for, will Brian Taylor adapt the soundtrack style because of Shen Changlin?

If you think too much, the style of the movie has already been set by the director from the beginning. What the musician has to do is to amplify this emotion through music, and even promote the emotions that are not directly expressed in the picture to match the plot. In development, it is rare that the music is released first, and then the director makes a film based on the music. In that case, it becomes a MV...

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The National Day stalls are on.

"Tai Chi 1: Starting from Scratch", "Tongque Terrace", "Dangerous Liaisons", "Double Exposure" and "Looper" are five blockbusters.

Some media have previously described this year's National Day holiday as the most tragic in history...

It's really tragic, and they're all pretty cool...

Five blockbusters plus one, the total box office for the seven-day National Day period is only 380 million!

Not to mention comparing it with April when "Titanic" was released, just say that the week "Painted Skin 2" was released, the market sales in a single week were close to 450 million!

The reason is simple: the audience is not very interested in these five movies.

There are no works that are eye-catching...

Before, when I was still in theaters, I was worried, 'With so many blockbusters, there don't seem to be enough screening rooms!'

Then, the audience solves the problem for you - don’t watch any of them!

At this point, a group of people were still tearing apart. "Tai Chi: From Scratch" was the most anxious. Chen Guofu rarely boasted, and Huang Zhonglei also publicly stated that "Tai Chi" is a subversion and breakthrough of traditional kung fu movies. .'

After all, 200 million yuan was built...

By the way, the promotion of "Tongque Terrace" was outsourced to other companies by Changchun Film Studio, and no light was provided, which is outrageous...

I didn't see the premiere of "Tongque Terrace", and Wang Changtian didn't make any bold statements!

Shen Changlin was not even invited...

"Fist of Fury" and "Xiu Chun Dao 2" were not full of heroic words!

"Double Exposure" focuses on Weibo...

But these things have nothing to do with Shen Changlin. The excitement belongs to them. I have nothing and I don’t want to have anything!

…

When Yang Xiaomi came to see Shen Changlin, he was discussing Toutiao's plans with Zhang Yiming at the company...

It was Zhang Yiming who took the initiative to find him - he had no money.

In the early days of the Internet, money was basically burned...

Shen Changlin spent another 8 million US dollars and gave some advice: benchmark Baidu and find allies!

In the PC era, Baidu was invincible in the search field, but now is the mobile Internet era, and Baidu's response is a step slower...

"In the traditional PC era, Baidu search engine was the main entrance for people to enter vertical domain websites to obtain content. However, in the mobile Internet era, APPs in each segment have mastered more valuable information and formed an ecosystem. Previously, Baidu search The role of irreplaceability is increasingly weakening.”

"I firmly believe that recommendations are more useful than search itself, because when I go online, although I use Baidu, I mostly click on the search rankings and look at topics that interest me!

Zhang Yiming understood instantly: "No wonder, you want to invest in me."

"Baidu's model is not suitable for the mobile Internet era...and Baidu itself has many enemies, such as 360, Sohu, and Sina. You can give up profits appropriately..."

"I only have 55% of my shares left..."

"It's okay, I agree with the dilution..."

Well, the angel round, the first round of financing, was basically paid for by Shen Changlin alone, so his personal shareholding is as high as 45%...

While we were chatting happily, the staff came over to inform Shen Changlin that Yang Xiaomi was visiting.

"Then let's talk about it next time. We can benchmark against Baidu in the early stage..."

After seeing off Zhang Yiming, Shen Changlin returned to the office. Sure enough, it was Yang Xiaomi. She was sitting on the sofa bored!

"Why are you here?"

"...Isn't it welcome?"
Chapter completed!