Chapter 1089 Surprise

"I'm not angry, I just think these people are quite funny..."

"funny?"

"Last year, Ali's Xu Yuanxiang said that 'Alibaba will not need professional screenwriters in the future' and firmly established the big IP + celebrity strategy. I thought this was a pure layman... In fact, in the investment circle in the past few years, I have seen many such self-righteous people. Investors, they firmly believe in certain concepts that they don’t understand well, such as big data, Internet+, mass entrepreneurship and innovation policies, etc…”

"How do you know they don't understand it themselves?"

"Nonsense, if movies are so simple, how can they be called a high-risk industry?"

"Yes…"

When it comes to risks, Yang Xiaomi has a say...

She has acted in six movies in the past two years, and Jiaxing participated in the investment in three of them. Except for the first "Mr. Heels" with a box office of more than 200 million, Jiaxing earned more than 10 million, and the next two movies, "Pride and Prejudice", "Thundering Stars" basically suffered losses.

As for the three movies he participated in, all of them were losses!

"City in Love", "The Vanishing Murderer" and even "My Early Girlfriend"...

Shen Xudong said casually: "Because movies are for C, and TV series are for B. How do movies make money? It depends on the box office. How does the box office come from? It depends on the audience going to the cinema to buy tickets..."

“But the tickets are very cheap now!”

"No matter how cheap it is, it still costs time. A movie takes two hours... Two hours of time cost, most people can't accept it!"

"Time costs…"

Yang Xiaomi was thoughtful...

"No one likes watching bad movies!"

While speaking, Shen Xudong took out his fingers and wiped his saliva on her fair face: "I'm not a child...why do you like to eat people's fingers? Who did you learn this from?"

"...Don't say it!"

It's rare that Yang Xiaomi's face turned red. She probably felt ashamed...

Shen Xudong sighed secretly, and then picked her up. The latter directly put her hands on her and sat down with a long sigh...

…

After the clouds stopped and the rain stopped, Shen Xudong sat back on the sofa and studied his opponents with his mobile phone...

In the two days of Christmas, "Total War: The Great Wall" took another 160 million in box office, bringing the cumulative box office to over 2.3 billion, surpassing last year's "Chinatown" and second only to the Spring Festival "Welcome to the Dragon's Restaurant"...

Maoyan predicts a total box office of 3 billion...

Shen Xudong thinks there should be more than one. The New Year's Day release will be "The King of Love 2". Although there are three Hollywood blockbusters, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story", "Passengers" and "Arrival", to be honest, these three are pretty good. of.

Many people say that Chinese audiences do not want to see the "Star Wars" series...

In fact, it’s really not the case. “Star Wars Episode II” in 1999, “Star Wars Episode II” in 2002, and “Star Wars Episode III” in 2005 all ranked in the top five box office of the year in China...

Especially "Star Wars Episode 2", which took in 45 million at the box office. You must know that "Spider-Man" in the same year only made 41 million...

The current situation is just a failure of Disney's filming.

Cultural differences, ideologies, etc. are all consequences, not causes. If you shoot well, the Chinese audience will naturally buy it.

Also, there is no George Lucas’ Star Wars, it’s just fan fiction!

I heard that for "Star Wars 7", Lucas wrote the script himself, discarded it, and insisted on making his own.

It's just like laughing at Lian Po for being old.

Ahem, "Passengers" and "Arrival"...

Shen Xudong likes "Arrival" very much. "Arrival" will be among the top five science fiction films in 10 years!

The interplay of light and shadow in the picture makes it feel like you are in a trance, and it exudes a strong literary and artistic atmosphere. Director Villeneuve really has a job on his hands.

But his movies are always unsatisfactory in handling the climax scenes...

The surging narrative tension could not find a outlet in the final stage of the film, and in the end it was inevitable that it would just "let it go" or be "no more than that".

That's what "Arrival" is - the purpose of alien arrival is simple: we help humans, and humans will help us three thousand years later.

"Dune" is still the same, exciting at the beginning, but nothing at the end.

Although it is understandable that there is a time limit to only shoot the first half of the novel, but is it really not possible to make the ending more ritualistic?

As for Passengers…

During space travel, the hero accidentally wakes up, and then wakes up the heroine...

Such a good subject has actually been made into a romance film?

Wake up a female passenger, find a young and beautiful one, try to seduce, date, and sleep with her within a week, then kill her, clean her wounds, put on her original clothes, and put her in her hibernation cabin. Wake up the second female passenger in the second week...

He deserves to be thrown into the street!

A medium-sized feature film will be released in the middle of next month. There are many police and gangster films in Jiahe...

While he was making plans, Yang Xiaomi came over and said, "What are you looking at?"

"Oh, let's also count the box office of "The Great Wall"..."

"I saw it, it's already 2.36 billion. Didn't Maoyan give a total box office forecast of 3.1 billion?"

"... 3.1 billion, which seems very high, but the cost is as high as 120 million US dollars... including publicity and distribution, it is 200 million US dollars at least!"

Yang Xiaomi asked casually: "Have you gotten your money back?"

"Well, I got my money back and made a small profit..."

"How much is the small profit?"

Shen Xudong did the math and then said: "We probably made two or three small goals..."

"Two or three small goals are just small profits?"

"...There are several investors, and we only count a small profit..."

"Is that big head Wanda?"

"I'm overthinking it. Wanda can keep its capital at most, and Warner has the lion's share. They have a global distribution network, a TV network..."

"Didn't you say that Wanda is the main investor?"

Shen Xudong asked: "The copyright is in my hands, the global distribution is in the hands of Warner, and the mainland distribution is owned by Maoyan. It belongs to me and I insist on getting on board... Why should I give it a big share of the revenue?"

"...You pay the most, but you are not welcomed?"

Shen Xudong shrugged: "No one asked him to pay for the ticket, he took the initiative to pay for it!"

"You are so domineering!"

Shen Xudong did not deny it, and said casually: "...I don't even take Wanda seriously. I really don't understand where Ari Pictures' confidence comes from..."

"The "Pulpitating Stars" we invested in suffered losses..."

"This is normal. Movie box office is not cost-effective for fans. The money paid for a movie ticket to support an idol can generate dozens of hot searches. Fans' money is also money, not pieces of paper blown by the strong wind. .”

After a pause, Shen Xudong continued: "Why do we need to do comments? Why do we need to do data? It is because the capital behind these traffics knows that with their ability and the ability of fans who appreciate them, they cannot make much money. Only Only when passers-by also spend money can we have enough money.”

"Then what should I do?"

"When you make a TV series...and participate in a variety show, don't think about film art. This thing has nothing to do with you!"

"But, I can't finish the bet!"

Shen Xudong was quite surprised: "Can the bet be completed? You have filmed twelve TV series and six movies in the past three years, and the bet has not been completed yet? How much was your salary?"