Chapter 990 "Your Name"
The prototype design can even be said to be very rough. His best part is his grasp of the story and the description of details, which is his expertise.
But this time, he gave him a surprise that was so big that he could not be more great in what he was once the worst at!
The picture is beautiful and natural insolent and soft, like an illusory reflection of a girl's emotional world, combining the aphrodisiac and weakness of the beginning of love, combining the innocence and purity of being far away from the world, and combining the delicate and moving emotions in the plot.
The beauty of the painting style is not just a form used by the film to please the audience, it is also an externalizing the inner theme of idealized pure beauty love and teenage emotional growth!
"Uncle Youze, this is for you, and the details are still left to you. If I suggest, try to be as close to reality as possible... If the scene is filmed, this may be troubled."
“No problem at all.”
Luo Yueyou nodded secretly while watching. Although it was not a long anime, the theme was clear. As long as you paint some effort, it would be enough to make this work on the big screen. However, if you want to pursue quality, the production speed may not be as fast as An Xi's other works before.
"So, what about its name?"
"Your name."
Shinkai Makoto and Cheng Ge are also one of the cartoonists that An Xi admires the most. "Your Name" is also his work. His works can always form the external fresh and refined beauty of his animation with a fine, realistic, beautiful and bright picture style. At the same time, he is good at combining narrative themes such as separation, barriers, waiting, and search, and emotional expressions such as longing, melancholy, loneliness, and loss into the inner innocent and romantic feelings of the film.
This complementary "external beauty" and "inner feelings" run through his entire animation creation career, allowing all his works to maintain a high degree of unity in style, theme, and even story structure.
However, in this style of inheritance, the prose narrative constructed by relying on the inner monologue of the characters did not reach the realm of the author's film of "the form is scattered but the spirit is not scattered". Instead, his film presents a loose story structure, which is suspected to be greater than the content.
After many animation short films and feature films, Mako Shinkai finally overcomes the narrative flaws that have been criticized, so he has this masterpiece "Your Name" that combines the beauty of the picture, the purity of emotions and the full plot.
An Xi, based on Shinkai Makoto, combined with some wonderful film reviews he has watched and the experience he has accumulated over the years.
A new story created around the theme of "Your Name".
"Your name?" Combined with the comic I just read, Luo Yueyou seemed to be touched by the name at this moment. "It's very suitable, An Xijun, so how much do you plan to invest this time? The company's funds have been a little tight recently. At the same time, my employees can't finish working overtime."
"Five million."
"This... is a little less." Luo Yueyou was also a little embarrassed. He subconsciously thought it was five million yen. To be honest, if it was only five million yen, he could take it out himself. However, An Xi's next look stunned and asked carefully, "USD?"
An Xi nodded. He was already accustomed to using US dollars now. "Well~~~ it should be... enough?"
"Enough is enough, completely enough, An Xijun, you have become rich and powerful recently."
"Because this is my anime share last month."
“…”
Well, this is really speechless, but Luo Yueyou smiled helplessly. A-1pictures is now like working for An Xi. Among the several animes that are being vigorously promoted, An Xi's anime is the most popular and has also achieved very high returns.
However, the work pressure is also very high, so that Luo Yueyou had to expand his enrollment. However, An Xi didn't care about this income, and he would charge as much as he should. The risks were basically borne by him. It was helpless, but it was also very realistic.
However, in terms of calculation, Luo Yueyou is actually worthy of it. With An Xi's anime, a-1pictures is almost almost becoming the largest and most famous anime production company in Japan, and even Studio Ghibli is slightly inferior!
"So, what are you going to do with him?"
“I want to make it a movie that can set a new record in the box office of Japanese anime movies.”
"The ambition is really not small. The investment is 5 million US dollars and the funds are sufficient. But I'll introduce you to the box office sharing model of Japanese movies. Suppose you bought a movie in the movie theater in Tokyo, 1800 yen, the movie theater will get 900 yen, 630 yen to 810 yen, and the yen will get 810 yen, and the remaining 90 yen will be obtained by the publisher Matsutake."
"There are also some small movies that adopt a non-share model and directly purchase theater release schedule. As large film companies like Toho, they not only lead the production committee themselves, but also have their own theaters in Japan. As mentioned above, moviex The theater is actually Songzhu's own theater, so most of the box office share of "Shape of Voice" should also be obtained by Songzhu. The film company can only set up a cinema chain to ensure that its box office revenue is maximized."
"So what you mean is that if we don't have theaters, the profits will be divided a lot?"
"In terms of theaters, the price can be negotiated, but it will not be divided into many categories. As a publisher and producer, you can at least get 30% of the box office revenue."
"Thirty percent?"
"It's already a lot. If you eat meat, you can't even let others drink soup. Our company also wants to survive." Luo Yueyou said with a wry smile. After deducting the cost, a-1pictures will have to be divided at least 10% of the box office profit, and theaters and others will have 60% of the profit. This is roughly the case.
"No, I just think it's a little too much."
30% local Japanese?
That's enough!
What An Xi values in "Your Name" is not only the box office in Japan. Although the Japanese market is also very broad, compared to it, An Xi pays more attention to the Chinese market, which is a huge market that can make a movie ticket impact Hollywood blockbusters. However, the share of movies in the Chinese local market is almost the same.
Chapter completed!