Chapter 256 Those Pitfalls
After almost a year of tempering, Hui Tianci lived up to expectations. After the plot of "The Change of the Silkworm" changed, he replaced Xu Shaoqiang and won a lot of applause as soon as he appeared on the stage.
In the film industry, Hui Tianci is also a soy sauce.
But in the TV drama industry, for more than half a year, Hui Tianci's reputation is only ranked third under Zheng Shaoqiu and Wei Xiaofan.
Especially in Southeast Asia, Yu Zhanzhao's image has long been ingrained, and "Legend of Bao Zheng" is still being played hotly.
Everyone saw that "The Change of the Silkworm" was actually performed by Zhan Zhao, and they were born with a little more intimacy.
In addition, the structure of the plot is also sophisticated enough, at least it is reasonable and passable, so after only two or three days of fluctuations in the ratings, the ratings in the out-of-town areas have actually increased by two or three percentage points compared to before. .
For Xiangjiang, the public has some opinions, and feels that such a sudden change is a bit uncomfortable, so the ratings have dropped to about 54%. Although it still beats TVB's TV dramas, the gap between the two is about ten percentage points.
Keli's is already very satisfied with this. The most important and life-saving thing for them now is to sell goods in other places. The audience in Southeast Asia is very satisfied, so they have successfully completed the task, and at least they have not been cheated by wireless. arrive.
But this time, even the good old man Huang Xizhao got angry, and said directly that he was willing to spend 100,000 yuan to break Xu Shaoqiang's legs. Xu Shaoqiang, who was hiding in the countryside in the New Territories, was too scared to show up.
However, he didn't regret it either. The 500,000 Hong Kong dollars that TVB gave him was enough for him to live in style for a year or two. How could it be beautiful, only a few hundred thousand dollars for a play?
To be honest, Xu Shaoqiang's appearance and acting skills are all first-class. If he acts well, he can't enter the top line, but it is more than enough for a TV star to enter the top line. From time to time, he can still To play the first and second protagonists in the movie.
But the point is that there is a problem with this person's character.
Needless to say, beating his wife and abandoning his wife and children, after all, it was his family business, and Xueli was too stupid and blind to find such a man to give birth to him.
His attitude towards acting is even more problematic.
There is no spirit of contract, only looking at money, everything is related to money, which makes people very annoying.
He can do such things as taking TVB's money and abandoning the TV series he is acting in. It is reasonable for Huang Xizhao to find someone to clean him up.
The ratings of "The Change of the Silkworm" are considered trivial in Xiangjiang's entertainment industry recently.
The biggest news is that "Laughing Fist Strange Tricks" starring Cheng Long was operated by Golden Harvest to the United States, and the copyright was actually sold for 1 million US dollars, and more than 2 million US dollars were obtained in the first week of its release on more than 300 screens in the United States. At the box office in US dollars, it is appropriate to recover the cost and make a small profit. This also made the company that bought the copyright praise Cheng Long, saying that he has the potential to develop in Hollywood.
1 million dollars!
This is the second highest price that Xiangjiang filmmakers have received in the United States.
The last time was Li Xiaolong's era, and he made more money that time, but the fledgling Cheng Long and Li Xiaolong at his peak were simply incomparable.
It was the first time he acted in a film in Golden Harvest, and Cheng Long was already proud of such an achievement.
Needless to say, Cheng Long was very excited. In the TV interview, he was so red that he couldn't even speak, and he even made slips of the tongue several times.
Not only him, but even Boss Zou aroused the spark of fighting and strengthened his ongoing plan.
Yin Jun shook his head and smiled when he saw Jiahe's proud look.
Today's Hollywood is a pit, a huge pit, if Jiahe steps into it, he will definitely fall down.
Come to think of it, now in Zou Wenhuai's heart, he has already started his big plan to venture into Hollywood, right?
Knowing that Zou Wenhuai would fail in a mess, Yin Jun would not tell him.
It's not because Yin Jun wants to see Zou Wenhuai and Cheng Long unlucky, but because Yin Jun knows that there are some things that one cannot learn from experience without suffering a painful failure.
If there is no failure this time, Cheng Long will not be able to make movies in a down-to-earth manner, and he will try his best to stabilize his basic market, laying a foundation that no one can shake in Xiangjiang, Japan, South Korea, and even the whole of Asia.
Otherwise, why do you think Cheng Long's "Jedi Escape" can get the treatment of "1 billion packs"? Except for Cheng Long, who can still have such a super high salary in their 60s? ——1 billion packs, it means that this movie is produced, and several companies will join forces to sign a contract to ensure that the box office of "Jedi Exodus" will reach 1 billion. If it fails, the crew will also follow the 1 billion box office To share the profits, the lack of money will be subsidized by the issuer; if it reaches 1 billion or more, then the issuer will earn a lot more.
In fact, this is a kind of gambling agreement in terms of movies.
When the movies of big stars are very popular, they can only rely on this method to obtain distribution rights.
So in fact, since Cheng Long started in 2013, his films have been contracted in this way. There is no talk of salary plus dividends at all, and the money is directly divided according to the package price, and his work arrangements are all 70 years old! Many film companies can't snatch the rights to his film blockbusters by spending a lot of money.
Of course, such an achievement is also a reward for Cheng Long's hard work for more than forty years.
It's just that now, Cheng Long's hard work has just begun, and there is still work to be done.
Cheng Long's films are very profitable, and here will be the super-class director Xu Ke, old monster Xu, but the first film was not so successful.
17 days after its release, "Butterfly Change" has already been drawn, and the box office score is fixed at around 1.9 million, not even 2 million.
But the total cost of "Butterfly Change" is only 540,000 yuan, a little more than in the previous life, but it also made Wu Siyuan earn about 400,000 yuan, which is not a small profit compared to the investment amount.
So Wu Siyuan also had high expectations for Xu Ke, praised him greatly, and promised to invest more money in his next film.
Hearing that Wu Siyuan was so generous, Yin Jun couldn't help laughing.
Before Mr. Xu was completely finalized, he was still a big pit.
After he finished filming "Butterfly Change", he started to deceive people. Several films made Wu Siyuan dumbfounded and lost money repeatedly.
Now that Wu Siyuan is proud of himself, he will suffer a lot in a short time.
Unfortunately, Wu Siyuan is not the kind of person with great perseverance.
After Xu Ke's consecutive failures, he didn't dare to persist anymore, and gave Xu Ke to the newly established New Art City in vain.
As a result, Mr. Xu was super successful in making his first movie in New Art City, and he almost didn't piss Wu Siyuan to death. He thought, buddy, you did it on purpose, right? Leave me a few big pits, and when you arrive at your new employer, you will rise up in no time! ? Isn't this playing with me! ?
In fact, this is also a common problem of small companies. Because of the cost and strength, they can't bear several failures, so they can't wait for the day when all the hardships will come.
Yin Jun doesn't care about these things, whether it's Cheng Long, Xu Ke or Wu Siyuan, they are all going through the ups and downs they have to go through in their film career.
If Yin Jun took action to block these arduous failures and difficulties, they would not be able to succeed in the end without going through wind and rain.
Speaking of martial arts movies, talking about Xu Ke, and talking about pits, Yin Jun thought of another famous pit king.
He is Wu Yusen.
The pinnacle director of Xiangjiang shootout films is actually very talented.
But he is also a pit king.
For example, the famous "Windtalker" almost created the pinnacle of Chinese directors - MGM directly declared bankruptcy again because of this.
Such a huge failure destroyed all the fame and prestige he had accumulated with successful blockbusters such as "Broken Arrow", "Face Changing" and "Mission: Impossible 2", leaving him completely without a future in Hollywood , can only return to Xiangjiang in despair.
The biggest feature of Wu Yusen is his control over gunfight films, which is what we ordinary people call the aesthetics of violence.
That kind of film art full of strength, violence, chic, iron blood, friendship, confrontation between good and evil... and so on, only Wu Yusen can do the best and the best.
At the beginning, Tom Cruise took a fancy to him, so he asked him to direct "Mission: Impossible 2". He only used a big motorcycle to express Tom Cruise's handsomeness to the fullest, and let "Mission: Impossible 2" Mission: Impossible 2 became his pinnacle.
But Wu Yusen is still too narrow, he uses this set of violent aesthetics repeatedly, without thinking about how to make breakthroughs and innovations, or how to add more abilities to himself.
He is not as good as Li Wei, who knows when to study, when to expand his horizons, and when to devote himself to further research and breakthroughs.
Therefore, even though Li Wei had a masterpiece of the pit king - "Hulk", but he was not abandoned by Hollywood, and later won two Oscars for Best Director in one breath, which is the highest honor a Chinese can get in Oscars.
In particular, Li Wei's "Fantasy Drifting of the Youth Pi" broke through the aesthetics he expressed in the past, and directly reached another peak, which is really amazing.
Wu Yusen did not have this kind of continuous learning and progress, so Wu Yusen came back disheartened after his big failure, but Li Yu quickly stood up again after his big failure, standing at the pinnacle of his life.
But Yin Jun is not worried that he will not be able to use directors like Xu Ke and Wu Yusen, nor is he worried that he will not be able to use superstars like Cheng Long.
Being good at making use of these actors, directors, and those staff members, being good at guiding them to play to their strengths, avoiding exposing their weaknesses, or making up for their weaknesses, this is one of the important things that Yin Jun needs to do in the future.
Only in this way, Yin Jun's entertainment kingdom will succeed!