In addition, what you need to know is that in general, our film cost includes four parts: production cost, actor's pay, director's pay and publicity cost.
A. Production cost: Production cost generally refers to equipment cost, personnel cost, transportation cost, art cost, special effects cost, etc.
B, actor pay: domestic first-line actors, the price is more than 20 million, and the high price is 30 million; The price of domestic first-line actresses ranges from120,000 to 25 million. If the script is good, the director is good, and the actor's salary is low, it may be more than 5 million, because as an actor, if he is a director who can impress him and make him trust, he is very willing to participate, and even will invest rather than get paid.
C director's pay: the price of domestic first-line directors ranges from 5 million to100000, which fluctuates violently, but it will not be less than 500000 dollars, which is stipulated by the global directors' association. In addition to the remuneration of actors and directors, all kinds of ideas are also expensive.
D. publicity expenses: publicity expenses generally include making posters and trailers, tidbits, hard advertisements, cinema terminal materials, media promotion, ground activities, premieres, hiring the navy and bribing film critics. Distribution costs mainly include copy production costs, cinema public relations and negotiation costs. Strictly speaking, the box office share of cinemas is also part of the distribution cost.
Film shooting and distribution process: mainly divided into preparation stage, shooting stage, post-production, review, trailer release, pre-release publicity, news publicity of major websites, premiere and release. Post production is the most expensive.
A. Preparatory stage: sign scripts, find investors, find directors, screenwriters, etc. Form a team.
Script: adaptation or originality. (1) adaptation, both novels and scripts need copyright, and an adaptation fee needs to be paid. This part of the cost ranges from 3 million to 8 million. A good novel has high copyright and a good screenwriter has high remuneration. (2) originality, this incubation period is relatively long, ranging from one year to five to eight years. From the beginning of finding a screenwriter or setting up a screenwriter group, it is necessary to pay remuneration, which ranges from 2 million to 5 million.
B, shooting stage
This stage is not particularly expensive, as long as you follow the shooting plan, the risks mainly come from the director's shooting, the delay and the penalty for the actors are not small. All kinds of photographic equipment, lighting equipment, staff expenses, various group performances.
C. post-production: this stage is particularly expensive. For example, there is a scene in "Red Cliff" in which soldier A pokes soldier B and soldier B sprays blood to the ground. About 1 second, about 40 frames, a spear armor-piercing bullet, blood spray special effects, spent 20 thousand.
D. We won't explain the review, trailer, publicity before release, and news publicity, premiere and release released by major websites.
I hope the above answers are helpful to you. I wish you a happy life and a smooth investment! !