On January 16, 2009, and on December 21, 2008, the first big movie of the cartoon "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Boss" was officially released in China.

On New Year's Eve, Wan Xiaohu specially put a three-day holiday on the crew and rushed back to Beijing from Canada to spend the Spring Festival with his family. Now Wan Xiaohu has a lot of wives and children, and his parents have no further expectations for him, so they began to turn their attention to his younger brother and sister.

After having the New Year's Eve dinner at home, Wan Cishan and Li Cuiping began to preach to Wan Xiaobin and Wan Xiaolan. Wan Xiaobin has now grown into the deputy general manager of Time Technology Group, responsible for the development of market business. He seems to be more busy than Wan Xiaohu every day, and his marriage with Li Miaomiao has been delayed again and again.

However, it can't be delayed any longer. Li Miaomiao is also pregnant. In order to get married before showing off, the wedding date has been set in March this year.

"Huzi, you must have time to help with the marriage between your brother and Miaomiao at that time. Don't say there is no time to film." Li Cuiping, like the Supreme Commander, ordered.

"Don't worry, my brother, can I not do my best to do my job with my mother, Xiaobin and Miaomiao? Then we will ensure that we will be lively and prosperous, and we will take into account the inner and outer face." Wan Xiaohu hugged Wan Chengyang and kept teasing him while nodding in agreement.

"You are the director, you deserve it." Li Cuiping nodded naturally.

Li Miaomiao said a little embarrassedly: "Brother, you don't need to be more lively. Just do it simply and ask the two families to sit down and have a meal together, and that's fine."

Wan Xiaohu laughed and said, "You are so irresponsible. If you don't tell the truth to me, you really won't make a big scene for you."

Li Miaomiao blushed, then pinched Wan Xiaobin, and Wan Xiaobin laughed: "Brother. If you don't help us, Miaomiao will have to make trouble for three months when she goes back. Is my life heaven or hell? It's all in your control of your brother."

"So you two are still dependent on me."

Su Ya took Wan Chengyang from Wan Xiaohu's arms and said, "Is it so easy to sit in the boss's position?"

Wan Xiaolan came over to tease the child, while also sang: "I haven't been a big brother for many years."

"You are still in the mood to sing, Lanlan. Your elder brother and second brother have started a family and started a business. You are a girl, who is busy doing charity all day long and doesn't look for a partner, which is like saying anything." Li Cuiping turned to preaching Wan Xiaolan.

"Mom, I'm so old, I'm only 22 years old, okay? I'm just graduating. What's the hurry?"

"To be precise, after 12 o'clock tonight, you will be 22 years old. After two months of your birthday, you will be 23 years old, and after silence, you will be 24 years old. It's not a young girl, it's time to find a partner." Wan Xiaohu revealed Wan Xiaolan's old background.

"No, no hurry. My sister-in-law got married only at the age of 25. I still have two years to go."

"But your sister-in-law and I were hooked up when we were just 20 or 18." Wan Xiaohu said, hugging Su Ya and showing off her love.

Su Ya hit him: "What kind of hookup is it, it's so ugly."

"Hehe." Wan Xiaohu laughed dryly, then stood up and said, "My parents, please educate Lanlan. Su Ya and I went there to pay New Year's greetings."

"Driving slowly."

"knew."

At this time, Wan Xiaobin and Li Miaomiao also stood up: "My parents, we are going to pay New Year's greetings, okay, repeat what my brother said, you can continue to educate Xiaolan. Bye bye, sister."

"Brother, sister-in-law, second brother, second sister-in-law. You are not righteous!"

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When he drove to the military compound, Su Zhicheng's family had many guests, all of his comrades and subordinates who also lived in the military compound.

"Xiaohu and Xiaoya are here, hug Yangyang quickly, you can say hello to the uncles and aunts." The mother-in-law hurriedly took Wan Chengyang away.

After saying hello, the New Year greetings left with tactful departure. New Year greetings are a sign of sincerity, and it will be annoying whether they should leave or not. Of course, there are also several officers and their families who did not leave, all of whom were friends with Su Zhicheng's family.

After a while, he talked about interesting things from all over the world, and then he got to Wan Xiaohu. It was mainly because Su Zhicheng wanted to listen to his work progress. After all, a son-in-law is half a son, Su Zhicheng and his wife have only one daughter, Su Ya, and Su Ya became Wan Xiaohu's wife again.

Now even his grandson is born, and even if he doesn't want to care about Wan Xiaohu, he can't do it.

"The day before yesterday, Su Ya sent a disc over here, which was "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". I finished watching it and it was very good, with this depth. And the special effects were very good. Many people say that you can only shoot such a film in China. In terms of directorial talent, the Chinese people are afraid that there is no one who can do it."

"It's okay to grasp the market, but it may be a little less artistic." Wan Xiaohu was embarrassed to brag about himself in front of his father-in-law.

"Art depends on people. Some people appreciate art, while others don't. After filming movies, others think it's good and are willing to pay for tickets. This is the bottom line." Su Zhicheng seemed to be a market theory view.

A major general on the side asked: "I often hear that a Hollywood movie invests hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is only tens of billions of yuan in China. Does a movie need to be made so much money? It is said that Zhang Yimou and his friends made a movie, and two or three hundred million were the best."

Wan Xiaohu smiled: "The market determines investment. Domestic movies are aimed at the domestic market. The highest box office record in the domestic market is "Kung Fu Panda" I filmed, with a total box office of more than 420 million yuan. In other words, the highest box office revenue of a domestic movie is 400 million yuan, so his cost must be controlled below 150 million yuan to ensure profitability. If the cost exceeds 200 million yuan, it needs to rely on overseas box office revenue. However, there are not many domestic directors who can get box office overseas, so the cost is limited."

"Then how much does it cost to make movies? How is it sold in overseas markets?"

"My cost is gradually increasing now, and basically the box office also increases with the cost, because most of the movies I shoot are close to Hollywood, and most of them are for North America. So when the box office is expected to be high, the cost is dare to invest. The investment is more than 90 million US dollars, plus the promotion is about 120 million US dollars, and the final global box office is 630 million US dollars. If you include subsequent audio-visual and peripheral sales such as DVD, the market will be leveraged to reach about 1.5 billion US dollars. If you make another sequel, it may be more extensive."

"So much?" The Major General was a little surprised.

People who are not in the film and television field generally rarely pay attention to the overall marketing of a movie. They probably know a box office. In Hollywood, the box office revenue of a movie generally only accounts for 30% to 20% of the total revenue, and the development peripheral revenue is the real big deal.

As for the fact that the surrounding area has not been developed in China, it is still mainly based on box office. Therefore, even if Hollywood can make super-cost blockbusters, "Avatar" dares to invest 500 million US dollars, but there is not a movie in China that costs 100 million US dollars, even movies with a cost of more than 50 million US dollars are rare.

Even Wan Xiaohu has successively filmed many Chinese-language films co-produced by China and the United States in recent years, and the cost is rarely more than 60 million yuan. The cost of "Source Code" is $20 million, "Never End" is $20 million, and the Time Planning Bureau is $20 million, and only the cost of "Wanted Order" can barely reach $60 million.

Faced with the major general's surprise, Wan Xiaohu was inevitably a little proud, but he still pretended to be very modest: "This is quite a bit small. "Titanic" directed by James Cameron in the past has reached more than 1.8 billion US dollars in box office alone. His new movie "Avatar" will be released at the end of this year. The only investment in this movie costs $500 million. It is estimated that 100 million will have to be used for publicity."

"That's the cost of $600 million?"

"Yes."

“Can this recover the cost?”

"Of course, we all have confidence in this movie, which will be an epic movie that will bring about a 3D technological revolution, and I also invested $85 million in it."

Su Zhicheng interrupted and asked: "I heard that Inception also invested $160 million. Where did you spend all this money on your movies?"

"Actors paid 25 million yuan after the pay. Hollywood actors all have millions of identities. I personally get paid because I was filming for myself, and I only got a pay of 10 million yuan. The producers and crew members paid about 30 million yuan, the shooting and production cost was expected to cost 45 million yuan, and the post-production cost was 50 million yuan. These are the costs, 160 million yuan, and the publicity is about 40 million yuan, and the total is $200 million."

The major general asked: "How big is your company? I know that Su Ya is running Jiahe Entertainment now. Your father-in-law also said that you have a large company outside. This is an investment of more than 80 million US dollars, and an investment of 200 million yuan is a car. My uncle's salary has not reached a fraction of the past few years."

Because everyone here is intimate with the Su family, Wan Xiaohu didn't hide much: "If you only count domestic entertainment companies and Internet companies, in terms of famous capital, it is probably possible that the richest man in China can win, and then the company should be able to produce one or two billionaires."

"Capitalist, capitalist!" The major general shook his head and sighed, and said to Su Zhicheng, "You don't have to worry about retirement anymore, there is a capitalist who will be his son-in-law."

"Children do it themselves, but who knows it's so large. Sometimes I worry that the more money you have, it's easy to get jealous." Su Zhicheng's mood is a bit complicated, and it's naturally good to have more money, but sometimes it's not necessarily a good thing.

The major general shook his head: "Old Su, don't worry, your daughter and son-in-law are making money just because they are making money. Who can say "no"? Other people's children resell approval documents, poach the country's corners, smuggling and speculating, and making such money should be worried."

Su Zhicheng actually pretended to be modest, and his daughter and son-in-law were capable, and he was more proud than anyone else: "Okay, Xiaohu, you and Su Ya take Yangyang to your uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings and talk to your grandfather." (To be continued...)

ps: I haven't said a few words for a long time ~

I originally wanted to finish it early, but later the editor hoped to finish it again in September. So I continued to accumulate the new book, so I will outline it in detail.

As for the situation of one update a day...were ashamed!
Chapter completed!