The total investment in the movie *Catch the Spy* is between 270 million and 300 million RMB, including 50 million for distribution and promotion costs, 100 million for actor salaries, and 150 million for production costs.


The total investment in the movie *Love Letter to Grandma* is 14 million RMB, including 5 million for distribution and promotion costs, actor salaries of about 700k, plus an estimated 1 million for things like roadside extras, and around 8 million for production costs.
*Catch the Spy* took 99 days to film; there were no special effects, no filming locations or scenes in any other regions—just renting a siheyuan (courtyard house).
*Love Letter to Grandma* needs to go to Malaysia, Thailand, and other overseas locations for filming, and it also requires a large amount of outdoor shooting. After stripping out actor salaries and distribution costs, it’s clear that the outdoor scenes for *Love Letter to Grandma* are more complicated—one costs 120 million, and the other costs 8 million.
Is there a possibility that movie investment simply doesn’t need that much money?
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