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The total budget of the entire movie "Hell Apartment 2" is 30 million RMB.

'Dimension Entertainment' has acquired 'Xinmo Media', which means that they have their own distribution channels and no longer need to look at other people's faces.

Of course, this means that the cost of publicity has to be borne by yourself.

The publicity budget prepared by the company for "Hell Apartment 2" is about 20 million yuan.

In this way, the cost of Dimension Entertainment's investment in "Hell Apartment 2" may reach 50 million, which means that they must at least obtain a box office of more than 120 million in the market before they can win at the box office. After the account is divided, it is guaranteed not to lose money.

Perhaps, for ordinary low-cost movies, it seems not easy to reach the box office of over 100 million, but "Hell Apartment 2" will obviously be an exception.

Apart from the fact that it is the easiest horror film to fight big with small things, the most important factor is that it is a sequel movie.

In today's film market, a sequel film is a very special existence. Just hearing it will make investors feel that the project is stable. In contrast, original movies are not so reassuring.

At present, the country may be fine, but Hollywood is really the hardest hit. Non-adapted works and non-sequel works are generally less likely to receive large investment. Even if it is a big director of Nolan's level, successive original films have received high investment, and regardless of the quality of the films, at least in terms of box office, they are still dwarfed by the blockbusters adapted from comics and novels.

There is also a trend in this area in China, especially commercial films with large investments.

For "Hell Apartment 2", the previous work can be regarded as a success. Although the total box office of 360 million is not a big number, low cost is very important.

What's more, the largest audience of "Hell Apartment 1" is not in the cinema, but offline.

For the vast audience, perhaps very few people will choose to go to the cinema to watch a scary horror movie,

However, there are many people who are willing to turn on the computer at night or at a certain time, log in to the Internet, and then find a scary horror movie to watch.

This can also be seen in the background data of the 'dimension platform'. Among the many contents in the 'Dimension Platform', "Hell Apartment" is actually the most played in terms of movies.

Although the 'Dimension Platform' has not introduced many film copyrights, there are not many films that have a stronger box office than "Hell Apartment", but none of them is higher than "Hell Apartment" in terms of playback volume.

Moreover, I don't know if it's because of gender or what. According to the background data, women obviously like watching horror movies more than men.

In the case that the previous work has a certain audience base, "Hell Apartment 2" does not ask for more, and it is not a big problem to achieve a box office of more than 200 million.

This can almost earn a small goal, and the most important thing is that the investment risk is small.

The film production budget is 30 million, and the publicity budget is 20 million. The total is only 50 million, and there is no possibility of losing money.

What's more, the 20 million yuan in the movie budget is going to be spent on post-production.

As for the rest of the 10 million miles spent in the filming, most of it is the salary of the actors.

Li Ze, the leading actor, performed very well in the first part of "Hell Apartment". For a sequel movie, maintaining the original lineup is very important, but the actors also have to eat. If the last movie was a success, it will no longer be possible to get a small salary for this movie.

Adding money is inevitable.

Not only Li Ze, but also many of the actors in the first part have demands for a salary increase.

Fortunately, Dimension Entertainment had considered this when signing contracts with these actors earlier. These actors all signed three film contracts at one time, and stipulated that for each sequel filming, the actors' remuneration should not increase by more than 20%.

Ever since, the room for actors' remuneration to rise can still be controlled.

Of course, when the three films of "Hell Apartment" are all filmed, if the results remain good and the fourth film is to be filmed again, I am afraid that all the actors' salaries will have a huge increase.

At that time, it will depend on the situation. If you still maintain the desire to shoot at a low cost, then it is definitely impossible to afford such a high cost. The best option is to directly replace a group of actors, such as in the third part. Sometimes, the plot will kill a group of people, or they won't shoot at all, that's the big deal.

"Hell Apartment 2" was finally handed over to the young director Ji Jiaxin.

Of course, no matter what, this is a project involving tens of millions of dollars, and it is impossible for such an inexperienced director to be in charge of it all by himself.

'Dimension Entertainment' transferred six producers from within the company and put them into this project. Among these six people, some are responsible for controlling the shooting progress to prevent the filming work from being completed on schedule; some are responsible for financial review; some are responsible for the administrative work of the crew; some are responsible for the construction and recruitment of the crew; Logistical work; some are responsible for the rental of venues and shooting equipment...

One of the chief producers, named Wang Zhixin, is a person who has worked as a producer. He originally belonged to a middle and high-level manager of "Xinmo Media".

These producers cover almost all aspects of the filming work of the entire crew, in order to prevent the project from encountering additional risks, and the ultimate goal is to ensure that the film can be completed in a timely manner with high quality.

As for the post-production special effects and editing work, it has nothing to do with the crew.

At present, the construction of the crew has already started. Fan Zhe's task for Ji Jiaxin and chief producer Wang Zhixin is to complete the formation of the crew before mid-November, and then start filming. All pre-shooting tasks must be completed before mid-March next year.

In this way, including the time of post-production, it is estimated that the movie will be released around April next year, which will be around the time of Tomb-sweeping Day.

Dimension Entertainment's publicity plan for "Hell Apartment 2" basically follows this path.

After tossing about all this, Fan Zhe turned his head and started to pay attention to the project "Ruzidi".

The filming work of the crew of "Ruzidi" was a little later than that of "The Master of Martial Arts", and the entire filming process was also longer.

Dimension Entertainment invested almost 200 million in this film and television drama, and it is a serious 200 million, because there are very few special effects in this film, and the main attraction of the work lies in the plot and characters.

This is the first time Dimension Entertainment has made such an attempt.

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