The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

After being silent for a while, Ye Jiayi said slowly, "The scale of the project is about the same as "Fantasy Three Kingdoms"?"

"Almost." Fan Zhe said, "However, the investment will definitely be much higher, mainly in the remuneration of the actors."

When filming "Fantasy Three Kingdoms", Dimension Entertainment didn't have that much funding. It is said that it is an investment of 200 million yuan, but in fact only 50 million yuan was used for shooting, and the rest was thrown into the "dimension technology" for special effects.

But this time, things will be different.

"The amount of investment this time, I estimate it will be around 400-500 million. The special effects are actually not too different. The extra funds are mainly used to hire a more powerful action design team and the actors' remuneration. Especially for the latter, the prices of the actors I'm thinking of should be somewhat higher."

"Except for the special effects part, how much is the estimated investment?"

"Uh... the specific budget is waiting for you to make, but... I think it's almost... 200 million?"

"...Who is the director?"

"me."

"Too big to play?" Ye Jiayi asked while holding his forehead.

He filmed "Hell Apartment", which can be said to be training. It claims to have an investment of 20 million, but it was actually 5 million, of which 2 million was given by others. Dimension Entertainment paid 3 million for serious reasons. come out.

That's okay, three million yuan is a bit expensive to play with, and the boss of Dimension Entertainment can afford it.

This is a good thing, after a film is finished, the whole person is too bloated, and directly starts a TV drama project, with an investment of 500 million, and the cost of filming directly goes up to 200 million.

For the current Dimension Entertainment, if this level of investment fails, it will not hurt the muscles and bones, and it will be uncomfortable after all.

"Hey..." Fan Zhe smiled a little embarrassedly, but he didn't intend to take back his thoughts.

Ye Jiayi looked at him, finally sighed, and said, "I'll do the budget. By the way, you said that there are two new projects, besides "Martial Arts Master", which one?"

"Emperor Ruzi."

IP copyright is an important part of the company's assets. In addition to what has been developed, what is lying in the copyright library is also very important.

As for the copyright she owns, Ye Jiayi remembers it clearly in her mind, including the content summary and content type.

Hearing the name "Ruzidi", Ye Jiayi quickly remembered what kind of story it was.

This is an overhead historical theme. The main highlight of the content lies in the characters and tactics. It is not suitable for animation IP, and it does not even need to do too many visual effects.

In other words, "Ruzidi" may not be able to take advantage of its own company's strong technical capabilities.

"Does it fit?"

"I think I can do it, but I won't do this one. I'll ask Director Du if he's interested."

"Okay." Ye Jiayi paused, and then added: "If you want to shoot "Martial Arts Master", you can start the project now; but if "Ruzidi" is to be promoted, it will take at least three or four months, otherwise our pressure will be overwhelming. Too big."

"No problem, I understand."

...

If it was a month or two ago, Fan Zhe wanted to be his own director and start a work with a total investment of 500 million, Ye Jiayi would not agree.

She would feel that Fan Zhe's reckless and impulsive disease had occurred again, and she would feel that he was joking.

However, things are not the same today.

If Fan Zhe wants to start this project, let's do it.

However, the company is currently a little tight on funds.

"Fantasy Three Kingdoms" made a lot of money, of course. However, after "Fantasy Three Kingdoms", Dimension Entertainment also started many projects.

Two seasons of "Amber", one season of "4.6 Billion Ensemble", one "Hell Apartment" movie, the biggest head is of course the game "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2".

This involves too much money.

Although "Amber" made a lot of money in the first season, the domestic accounts arrived very quickly, but it takes time to distribute the overseas income. The same situation also happened in "Hell Apartment". The box office profit is profit, including the subsequent copyright operation, which is also promising, but the money will take a while to arrive.

Coupled with the gold-swallowing beast "Taiwu Painting Scroll 2", if Dimension Entertainment wants to start a new project, the amount of funds will still be tight.

Not to mention opening two projects at the same time, in fact, it is quite stressful to spend 200 million for just "Martial Arts Master".

However, these days, business fools use their own cash flow to do it.

With the current strength of Dimension Entertainment, a company of such a large size and strong ability to make money, the company's financial status is extremely healthy... Under such circumstances, Dimension Entertainment is starting a new project and wants to start debt financing. A lot of banks , investment institutions, rushing, or even kneeling to give them money.

This aspect of operation is exactly what Ye Jiayi is good at. With the proceeds of the "Martial Arts Master" project as a guarantee, there should be no problem at all to settle the funding gap.

On Fan Zhe's side, with Ye Jiayi as his escort, he can naturally go forward with confidence and boldness.

The project team was formally established, and Fan Zhe took the woman Luo Qi to lead the preliminary work of the entire project.

The main background of the work "Martial Arts Master" takes place in a modern city, but this is a very special modern world. Martial arts are flourishing, and when they enter the so-called 'inhuman' stage, they can really step on the void and be invincible with one punch and one kick. And these powerful warriors, either combined themselves, or inherited from ancient sects, formed modern martial arts clubs one by one, and formed leagues, in which top warriors fought in the form of rings.

This feeling of martial arts is a bit like the King of Fighters.

At the same time, this work is nicknamed "The Master of Dog Food" by book lovers, because the emotional drama between the hero and heroine is so sweet!

From all aspects, this is a work that is very suitable for adaptation. Therefore, Fan Zhe set his sights on it.

Let's not rush to set up the crew. Fan Zhe has to do some preparatory work first, including a lot of visual design. In addition, the script is also required.

The person in charge of script adaptation is Li Qingzhao who has joined 'Dimension Entertainment' for more than a year and almost two years.

That girl made Fan Zhe very satisfied when she wrote the script of "Fantasy Three Kingdoms", and "Martial Arts Master" can be handed over to her.

However, what Fan Zhe didn't know was that when he was immersed in the preparatory work of "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts", the news that Dimension Entertainment had approved a new play had already spread throughout the film and television circles.

And it caused an uproar.