Let you invest, you support half of the entertainment industry?

March 1st, Qingdao.

Originally, Xu Jia was going back to the capital directly, but when he heard that the team from "The Wandering Earth" was in Magic City, he made a special trip to take a look.

The emotion was created for the scenes of the frozen magical city in the movie.

In fact, in the previous life, the Magic City didn't care about the crew of "The Wandering Earth". The latter basically didn't receive preferential treatment if they wanted to shoot scenes.

Before this, no one believed that a Chinese science fiction movie could be successful.

At that time, Guo Fan had not had any works of his own for a long time and was not well known because he had stayed in the United States for too long.

But this life is different, with Jiaxing's endorsement.

The city welcomed "The Wandering Crew" to film the scene, and even closed the streets to give the crew plenty of time to shoot.

This is also a reciprocation for Jiaxing's establishment of a branch in Shanghai.

At least in terms of Jiaxing's layout, the Magic City branch is no less important than the capital.

DJI also provided the highest level of support, dispatching thousands of drones to help the crew shoot.

After Xu Jia learned about it, he thanked them one by one, and then thought that since they had encountered each other, it would be better to follow the location team back to the main crew to see the shooting situation.

This brings us to Qingdao, the Oriental Movie Capital where the crew filmed.

The first person to greet him was not someone from the "Wandering Crew", but Wanda's young master Wang Shicong.

"How did you know I was coming?" Xu Jia looked at the other party in confusion.

Logically speaking, this guy shouldn't know about his itinerary. Even if he knew, he wouldn't bother to come over in person and just say hello.

"If you come to our property, I can't come to receive you in person."

Wang Shicong's face was full of pride. This was at the peak of his career, and although his father's Wanda Group had suffered a certain crisis, it had not completely exploded yet.

He has always been regarded as uneducated and unskilled, but now he has become a young talent.

There is no way, Pulse Capital's achievements are too dazzling, whether it is e-sports or live broadcast, it proves that this guy still has a unique vision, and as a former national husband, his personal influence and traffic are still of great value.

The reason why he is said to be the former national husband is naturally because the Xu Jia in front of him took his title and became the current national husband.

"Your family's property?"

Xu Jia was stunned for a moment, and only after hearing the introduction from the entourage on the side did he realize that this Oriental Movie Theater was invested and built by Wanda Group in 13 years.

It claims to have invested 50 billion to build the world's largest film and television industry base.

It was just completed this year and has not even opened yet. It can be said that "The Wandering Earth" is the first crew to take advantage of it. It is true that it is an industry of Wang Shicong's family.

"Then you should thank me. The crew of "The Wandering Earth" came to your place to shoot, which is enough for you to leave your name in history."

Xu Jia is not hypocritical at all. Are you kidding me? There are so many film and television bases in China.

On the contrary, these film and television bases have to find ways to beg well-known crews to come over, otherwise their industrial chain will not be able to turn around at all.

Even in Hengdian, they spent real money earlier to invite the crew of "The Opium War" directed by Xie Jin to Hengdian and promised to help them build Guangzhou Street for free. Only then did they fully establish their reputation and attract crews from all over the country.

On the other hand, Oriental Movie Capital seems to have a Wanda background, but in fact it has no appeal at all to the majority of the crew.

And with "The Wandering Earth" as a pioneer, as long as it can achieve good results, it will directly revitalize the entire film and television base.

Apart from anything else, in the future, for any movie with a touch of science fiction, this will definitely be the first choice.

"That's true. I won't argue with you. Come on, I'll take you in for a walk?"

Wang Sicong got an advantage, so he naturally stopped being good. He didn't believe in Chinese science fiction movies, but he believed in the projects produced by Kejiaxing.

Even if it was a type that was not favored by the industry, he believed that with Xu Jia's level, he would never hit the target without aim.

What's more, he also got so much benefit from Jiaxing's "Produce 101" that he was willing to bet heavily on the other party.

"Okay, then I'll ask you, the eldest young master, to show me your family's property." Xu Jia nodded.

Although they are currently in the honeymoon period with Hengdian, where film and television projects are usually placed, he doesn't mind having an alternative to facilitate competition between the two parties and get more affordable conditions for himself.

After entering, I discovered that this place had tens of billions of investments, even if it was not as much as the 50 billion advertised by Wanda Group.

Moreover, the land provided by the Magic City is quite large, covering an area of ​​3.76 million square meters. According to Wang Sicong himself, the construction area has reached more than 5 million square meters.

What was allocated to Jiaxing this time were eight studios in the industrial park, with an extended area of ​​nearly 100,000 square meters.

"Scenes such as the carrier vehicle, underground city, and space station were all built on real scenes. This was also in line with the needs of the crew of "The Wandering Earth." The long shot of the entire underground city at the beginning of the movie was shot in Studio No. 20, and the other scene was shot on 10,000 sets The shot of the wandering journey started with the help of a planetary engine, those visual elements of the planetary engine were shot at Studio No. 12."

This is what Guo Fan came to report to Xu Jia after hearing the news. He was very excited that his boss came to visit the class in person, "In order to present the wonder of the earth wandering in space, our art team designed a There are more than a dozen versions of the plan, and the details of the setting workshop are also carefully crafted.”

"In terms of props, I personally tested and adjusted the details before handing them over to the special effects team for completion. In addition, I specially invited the Weta Special Effects Studio in New Zealand. After this project is completed, our special effects team should be able to work on it again. One floor.”

The reason why I was excited to see my boss was of course related to money.

At first, he thought that the funds provided by the company would be enough, at least much higher than what he had previously estimated.

But after Xu Jia promised him that there would be no limits, the trouble with being a director started to arise. He became more and more obsessed with details and perfection. The cost kept rising, and the money in his pocket was leaking out.

Guo Fan was still worried about how to explain to the company and ask for money by the way. Now that the boss is here, he has omitted many steps. As long as he can convince Xu Jia, it is enough.

"We currently plan to have more than 6,000 visual effects shots, which is basically more than the total number of shots in all domestic movies. We also challenge a large number of full CG shots, such as building the entire magic city into an ice wall. In order to ensure Realism, the crew insisted on real-life UI shooting throughout the whole process..."

Guo Fan kept talking, and a lot of professional terms came to Xu Jia.

The latter directly waved his hand to indicate a pause, and said angrily and amusedly: "You said so much, just say how much funding you need to increase."