In June, a company called NetEase was established and launched a full-Chinese search engine service.

The Internet model has changed from forums to web pages, and Internet companies have gradually become reality from virtual discussions, and a group of trendsetters of the times have emerged.

These people are not as vigorous as the national businessman went into business, nor have they caused too much response from the media.

Or if the media does not pay much attention to this virtual industry, the rise of Internet cafes will attract the attention of the media because it is a real industry and you can see how much money you make every day.

Internet companies are investing money in it, and they can't even hear a sound. The media doesn't know where the money has gone.

No matter what, a great era kicked off so quietly.

After several months of development, the Time Forum has gathered thousands of netizens. This number does not seem to be large, but in this era, it is already quite impressive.

Most of these people are film lovers, and there are professionals in the circle, and the rest are tourists.

Since Lin Zixuan wants to professionalize the Time Forum, he needs to attract more people in the circle to participate in the discussion. They are originally film and television companies, so there is no need to worry about professionalism.

Occasionally, Feng Xiaogang and others would write some unsigned articles on it, all of which are their opinions on domestic movies.

Or it is a remark that criticizes the management system of the General Administration. Such remarks are not easy to talk to the media, but they don’t matter on the Internet.

For example, Feng Xiaogang was upset about revising the script of "A Sigh" recently, so he denounced that he could not film in China.

Some of these insights are complaining, while others are quite insightful. They are all difficulties encountered during filming. They are very representative and reference-based, and resonate with people in the circle.

Lin Zixuan also published several articles under the pseudonym, his views on the future of domestic films.

This kind of high-quality post is the reason why Time Forum can gain popularity, and it is also the inquiry about movie information.

You can check the information of domestic and foreign films on the forum. It is not complete at the moment. After all, there are only two people collecting information, and the film has a history of hundreds of years.

Seeing that Internet companies were established one after another, Lin Zixuan had plans to build a website.

Maintenance forums is very little, and building a formal website requires a lot of money, but compared with the profits of Haomeng Company, it is completely affordable.

After Mark Muller returned to Italy, he introduced European film investors to Jiang Wen.

Mark Muller highly praised the script, believing it is a film that is no less than "Living".

Moreover, these two scripts are written by the same writer and have guaranteed quality.

Under such circumstances, European filmmakers came to China and negotiated with Jiang Wen about the investment and copyright issues of "Xu Sanguan Blood Record".

According to discussions with Lin Zixuan, Jiang Wen offered a high price of 3 million US dollars, equivalent to 25 million RMB.

Among them, Ge You's pay is 1 million, Jiang Wen's pay is 500,000, Lin Zixuan's script adaptation fee is 300,000, etc.

"Brother You is the Cannes movie star. One million is definitely not much. If you put it on actors of the same level as Xiangjiang, you will not be able to pay 6 million yuan." Lin Zixuan said indifferently, "Anyway, it's foreigners' funds, so we don't have to save money for them."

When Ge You filmed "Living", he was not the best actor and only received a pay of more than 100,000 yuan.

Jiang Wen received 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in filming "Sunny Days". At that time, he mainly had no money and no capital for negotiations.

It’s different now. Jiang Wen is also a famous director after all. He won the Golden Horse Award. The director’s film is definitely not much. Zhang Yimou has won one million.

Lin Zixuan is an internationally renowned writer. At least there are translations in France and Italy. Is it a lot of 300,000?

Different identities and value are naturally different, so it is not considered a cheating foreigners.

If you follow the domestic price and Ge You's salary is 500,000, maybe foreigners think we want it too cheap.

Of course, the most important thing is to look at the story. European filmmakers have to read the script and have their own calculation method for the investment amount.

Zhang Yimou's investment in "Living" is three million US dollars. The plot of "Xu Sanguan Blood Record" is not that complicated, but the time span is quite long, and the funds spent should be similar.

Jiang Wen's team made a detailed shooting budget, the salaries of actors and behind-the-scenes staff, machine film props, etc.

List one by one, and European investors will check it item by item to calculate the total investment.

They have no objection to Ge You's pay for the film. Unlike in China, they believe that excellent actors have their corresponding value.

This movie mainly looks at Ge You's performance. As the top actor in China and the best actor in Cannes, this pay is a bit low.

Finally, they made a request, that is, the heroine should be best known to Gong Li to play. With Gong Li's popularity in Europe, this film should be big.

Jiang Wen did not agree with this. This is not to say that he has any objections to Gong Li. The two have worked together to make movies and are considered friends.

He felt that if Gong Li was asked to act, it would be like a copy of "Living". As a director with personality, Jiang Wen was unwilling to repeat Zhang Yimou's routine.

If you can't mention the movie "The Blood Record of Xu Sanguan" in the future, everyone thinks it is no different from "Living".

Jiang Wen wants to shoot his own story, which is why he opposes Gong Li as the heroine.

Besides, Gong Li’s pay is too high. She is taking the international route and filming in the United States, so she may not necessarily take on this role.

He convinced the Europeans and promised to choose a suitable heroine.

In this way, Jiang Wen's film company finally opened and received investment from European filmmakers.

"The Blood Record of Xu Sanguan" will be a co-production film, and the next step is to find a way to make the script pass the review and obtain a filming license.

Back then, Jiang Wen could get filming licenses, but he didn't believe he couldn't do it. He made a lot of revisions to the script, downplayed the historical background, and focused on the matter of Xu Sanguanxue.

In this way, the whole film is a sad past of a peasant family.

After the setbacks of the script being killed one after another in the past two years, Jiang Wen has a deep understanding of how to make the script pass the review.

After Lin Zixuan received the news, he was happy for Jiang Wen on the one hand, and on the other hand, he observed silently for the Europeans. They may have never heard of how Jiang Wen wasted film.

When filming "Sunny Days", Jiang Wen used several military vehicles, tanks and planes. The scene was so grand that it was rare in domestic movies.

In the end, this large scene that consumes a lot of money is left with only a few shots in the movie, which is basically wasted.

Jiang Wen wanted Lin Zixuan to be the producer of the movie, but Lin Zixuan refused without hesitation. It was not that he was unfaithful, but that this kind of experience would be enough for one time, so it would be better to make foreigners trouble. (To be continued.)
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