Chapter 1588 Flooding of Low-Cost Movies

The box office of "Crazy Stone" continues to rise, giving too many people some illusions.

It turns out that China's film market has really revived. Not only have Zhang Yimou and other big directors with a box office of more than 100 million yuan appeared, but also many emerging directors have emerged, and Ning Hao is the most brilliant one among them.

What does this mean? It means that there are still many talented directors who have been buried.

They heard that the total investment of "Crazy Stone" was only 6 million, including the cost of publicity, so it could have such a high box office.

They don't ask for a high box office, just 10 to 20 million will do.

In the previous life of Huaxia, many film investors emerged during this period, among which a group of more famous people had a specific title, called Coal Boss!

Now that the price of coal keeps rising, the boss who invested in the coal mine at the beginning feels like investing in a gold mine. Coal prices are rising every month, and supply exceeds demand.

In fact, these people don't know much about other investments, and they are easily fooled into investing in the film industry, which seems to be very profitable.

They don't know that investors can only share about one-third of the box office, and they think it's all their own.

You see, if you invest 6 million yuan, you can earn back 60 million yuan, which is ten times the profit.

What's so difficult about making a movie? Wasn't Ning Hao not famous before? As long as you have money and keep advertising, can no one watch it?

So during this period, the higher-ups suddenly discovered that many films applied for project approval, most of which were low-budget films with an investment of two to three million yuan, and even films with an investment of less than one million yuan.

It doesn't mean that if the investment is small, the movie must be bad. But relatively speaking, the attractiveness will be relatively poor, and the box office is more likely to hit the street.

But these people don't know, they just think that if they invest in ten movies, they will not lose money if one succeeds, and if they succeed in two or three movies, wouldn't they make a lot of money?

And those directors who graduated from the film school and were depressed have become more active now. They went out to recommend themselves as assistant directors, but no one used them, but now a boss contacted them and asked them to be directors to make movies!

How could they not seize this opportunity? But when they wanted to invite their classmates to be assistant directors, they found that all of their classmates were also directors, and they all made movies.

Some second- and third-tier TV drama actors have also become popular at this time. For such a low-budget film like theirs, big stars definitely couldn't afford to hire them.

The remuneration of a movie star may exceed their production cost.

But those second- and third-tier TV drama actors are different. They only pay tens of thousands of yuan for an episode of TV series, and two to three hundred thousand yuan for a movie. Is this price still low?

And the acting skills of these actors are also good, much better than those newcomers. Because some actors are relatively prolific, the audience looks familiar, and they may be future big stars.

Xu Zheng's popularity in TV dramas is close to the first line. When he filmed "Crazy Stone", wasn't his salary only 100,000 yuan!

Ordinarily, among their low-cost movies, there are also high-quality ones. For example, "Waiting Alone" released last year was very popular.

But most of them have been lost in the long river of history, with disastrous box office failures and word-of-mouth failures.

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Wang Zhongjun discovered in the past few days that suddenly, many companies popped up out of nowhere, claiming to have made a movie and asked Chinese brothers to distribute it on their behalf.

It has to be said that after the release of "Crazy Stone" and created a miracle at the box office, the word-of-mouth of the Chinese Brothers skyrocketed, and more and more film and television producers began to seek cooperation with the Chinese Brothers.

The Chinese brothers have also gained a lot of benefits. For example, if a company has a good script and wants to make a movie, and the investment is in place, please ask Chinese brothers to distribute it.

At this time, the Chinese Brothers can add some hidden conditions, such as using Chinese Brothers actors, or for film and television episodes, and using Chinese Brothers signed singers to sing.

Even if this is a kind of package clause, neither party will actually suffer.

The film and television actors and singers of the Chinese Brothers are all very good in the mainland. After a big star joins the producer, it will definitely get more attention, and the acting skills will become more mature, which can improve efficiency.

The Chinese Brothers promoted their artists, gained real income, and expanded the popularity of their artists.

But this is the work of those high-quality scripts, well-known directors or producers. But many film and television works, from investors to directors to actors, and even screenwriters, are not well-known.

After reading the script, the Chinese brothers also felt that there was nothing bright about it. But the names of many movies can remind people of something.

For example, a certain movie is called "Crazy Emerald", and other movies are called "Crazy Onyx", "Crazy Amber", etc. People can immediately think of "Crazy Stone" as a sequel or a sister chapter.

But the real companion piece "Crazy Racing" has only just been approved, and the preliminary preparations have not been completed yet, and the actors have not yet been fully determined.

These companies are following suit. They watched "Crazy Stone" make money, and wanted to take advantage of this limelight to earn some attention, and even make money.

None of the Chinese brothers agreed to distribute these films.

Just kidding, let these shoddy follow-up movies be released, didn't they screw up the reputation of the Chinese brothers? And it will have a bad impact on "Crazy Stone", so next year's release of "Crazy Racing" will definitely be seriously affected!

On the contrary, there are a few movies that are obviously spoofs, which Wang Zhongjun finds very interesting. Basically, it is to magnify the slots in the more influential movies in recent years and turn them into jokes.

But there are too many low-cost movies, and the shooting speed of these movies is too fast. Could it be that the post-production speed is also fast? The shooting of the film is very important, but the post-production is also important.

It happened that Feng Yu had nothing to do today and went to hang around with the Chinese brothers, so Wang Zhongjun chatted with Feng Yu about this.

Feng Yu immediately understood what was going on. In his previous life, there were too many such movies on the Internet, and many of them really made money.

However, many of them are not earned through theaters, but sold to video playback sites.

"Let's have someone review these carefully. There may be some good ones, but most of them are just luck. Don't lower your figure just for the sake of a little profit in front of you, or you will lose even more in the future."

Wang Zhongjun nodded: "I understand, Mr. Feng. Then we have to review these movies carefully. The signboard of our Chinese brothers must not be smashed!"

At this time, good news came from the United States.

... (To be continued.)