Behind the scenes of the movie "Changjin Lake"——
Financial "Timely Rain" Helps Create Giant Blockbuster
The movie "Changjin Lake" is still in theaters. Last Saturday, on the 24th day of its release, the box office exceeded 5.2 billion yuan.
Up to now, more than 100 million viewers have entered the theater to experience this epic of war.
Behind the scenes of such a "popular and popular" gift-giving blockbuster, the capital's financial enterprises are active.
As the bank financial institution that has the closest cooperation with Bona Pictures Group, the leading film production company, Bank of Beijing has issued two loans totaling 240 million yuan, which has solved the urgent needs of enterprises and used financial power to help film and television companies speak "China "Story" and spread the "Voice of China".
Hong Pian giant system has encountered financing problems
"Even if the scale of the 500-person studio is very large, the filming team of "Changjin Lake" is at most 7,000 people, which will consume a lot of money!" Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Qi Zhi is still impressed.
"Changjin Lake" recently broke the box office record in succession, but the filming process was called "one twists and turns". The start of the film was interrupted due to the epidemic; after the official start of filming, a huge investment in human and material resources made it one of the films with the largest investment in Chinese film history. .
The difficulty of epidemic management, extreme cold weather, and high requirements for details such as costumes and makeup props have greatly extended the film shooting cycle, and with it, the shooting cost has risen sharply.
For example, the tanks that appear in the movie are all American tanks, but there are no ready-made American tank props in the country. The dozens of tanks needed in the film have to be remade, and one will cost hundreds of thousands of yuan.
"The film and television industry has a characteristic. Once the project is launched, it cannot be stopped. We must insist on completing the shooting with high quality!" Qi Zhi said.
When the capital flow is most tense, the film party plans to obtain financing through bank channels.
However, industry insiders are well aware that most private film and television companies have always faced difficulties in financing and expensive financing due to factors such as light assets, no collateral, and high industry risks.
Two bank loans became "timely rain"
As a leading company in the industry, Bona Film Group has relatively smooth bank financing, but in the face of the "ceiling" level of investment in "Changjin Lake", the film team is not 100% sure about bank financing channels.
Li Ang, assistant to the president of the Chaowai Sub-branch of Bank of Beijing City Sub-Centre Branch, is an "old friend" of Bona Pictures.
He introduced that Bank of Beijing and Bona Film Group have cooperated for more than 20 years, and the credit business cooperation has been for more than 10 years. The cooperation between the two parties has been upgraded from the initial single-chip review to the packaged credit.
Before the launch of "Changjin Lake", the Bank of Beijing completed the approval of the green channel for withdrawals for Bona Film Group.
After knowing the financing needs of the film, the staff immediately started a special connection with Bona, and completed the approval and issuance of 140 million yuan special credit loan funds in the fastest time. The entire process is less than two weeks and the loan interest rate is also low. Based on market conditions.
This is the earliest and largest loan fund provided by the bank since the filming of "Changjin Lake". This fund was later used for the filming and production of the film.
In the mid-stage of film production, the increase in total investment put great financial pressure on Bona Pictures Group.
The branch insisted on serving “not withdrawing files”, redesigned its exclusive plan, and added 100 million yuan in credit support.
"We are willing to support films like "Changjin Lake"." Li Ang said that in view of the main theme of the film, corporate professional capabilities and past performance, the Bank of Beijing Chaowai Sub-branch fully understood the reasons for the increase in total investment in the film during due diligence. After full communication and discussion, the business and credit departments unanimously decided to add 100 million yuan in financing support.
"For us, this is the real'giving charcoal in the snow'!" Qi Zhi sighed.
A total of 24 billion yuan in loans to film companies
In the end, the film "Changjin Lake" broke through the many difficulties in the filming and production period, and finally was screened in theaters and became a phenomenon-level film. The "transcript" of Bank of Beijing's film and television investment field added a strong touch.
Since Bona Films Group started its cooperation with Bank of Beijing in 1999, Bank of Beijing has successively supported the production and distribution of dozens of films of Bona Films.
It is understood that Bank of Beijing has granted loans of 24 billion yuan to more than 1,000 film industry companies, supporting the main themes of "Wolf Warrior 2", "Operation Red Sea", "Operation Mekong", "Captain of China", "My Motherland and Me". The production of classic films helped the smooth release and release of phenomenal films such as "Send You A Little Red Flower", "Hello, Li Huanying" during the epidemic, and supported the rapid growth of film and television companies such as Bona Pictures Group, Maoyan Films, and Light Media .
The relevant person in charge of the Bank of Beijing said that it will continue to deepen multi-party cooperation, continue to strengthen financial innovation in terms of film and television copyright value mining, film and television talent support, and construction of film and television resource gathering places, and contribute financial strength to the capital's cultural and creative industry.
Reporter Pan Fuda