At first, I just wanted to make money

Many people say that Hong Kong is a bridgehead...

East-West exchange point!

In fact, no, Daiying never regarded the colony of Xiangjiang as a bridgehead for the interaction between the Western world and the East, at most it was an intelligence station or a trading point!

The elites of Xiangjiang never regard strategic thinking, especially geopolitical and economic thinking, as the fulcrum of their own interests, but only regard Xiangjiang as a post station for making money.

This "fast food" pattern is unsustainable, especially when the environment has fundamentally changed...

Therefore, in a few decades, the concept of Xiangjiang may disappear, and when it is mentioned again, it is just a piece of land in the Greater Bay Area.

However, what happened to Xiangjiang had nothing to do with Shen Xudong, and he would not make his home here.

"Mom, I'm going to America after the Chinese New Year, why don't you go together?"

"You go to work?"

"Well, there is a movie casting, I have to control it!"

Hearing this, Shen's mother shook her head: "...you go to work, we won't go..."

"You can go on a trip."

"Forget it, your dad and I don't understand English, and we don't even know how to ask for directions if we get lost!"

"...That's fine, I'll go by myself...By the way, do you want to go to the movies? Our company's blockbuster "Zhao Zilong" is released..."

Shen Mingguang was very interested: "The one played by Andy Lau?"

"Hey, how do you know?"

"I went shopping on Temple Street two days ago, and I saw posters of the three movies "Zhao Zilong", "Night at the Museum" and "The Disciple" hanging at the entrance of the theater..."

Shen's mother hurriedly joined the chat: "The competition is so fierce?"

The two of them have always wanted to know about their son's work. They only knew that he made movies, but they were pure outsiders and really didn't understand how to make movies.

Shen Xudong smiled and said: "The Spring Festival is a big time. In the past, every company would put their head works on the Spring Festival."

"But I think that "Night at the Museum" was not released in the mainland..."

"Well, the Hong Kong film market keeps pace with North America...the mainland is different..."

Father Shen then asked: "Will "Zhao Zilong" lose money? I read reports that the cost was 4000 million US dollars... so much money, it must be difficult to recover the cost!"

"Why do you care about this?"

Father Shen said: "I read Zhang Weiping's report, he said that the mainland market of "Golden Armor" only collected 3000 million refunds..."

"...3000 million? How is it possible?" Shen Xudong wondered, "Where did you get the news?"

"As far as the information on the Internet..."

"Online?" Shen Xudong immediately Baidu 'Zhang Weiping's "Golden Armor" has 3000 million views', and then a bunch of news popped up, and indeed there was related news:
Zhang Weiping made a calculation to the reporter: According to the ratio of 2.56% to 1% between the producers and the theaters, they only got more than 1280 million yuan for the 844 million yuan of domestic tickets, and excluding the 6000 million yuan of the film special fund of 3000 million yuan. Sales tax, and more than [-] million yuan in promotional copy fees, the company that produced the new screen was left with only a "fraction" of [-] million yuan...

"He's talking nonsense. According to his calculation, no one will invest in movies!"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "The promotion of "Golden Armor" has business cooperation, and the posters are laid out with brand names... The business cooperation income of "Manslaughter" is close to 4500 million, and "Golden Armor" will only be more."

"...Then why did he say that?"

Shen Xudong pondered for a while, and then said: "Maybe it's a set up of people, bragging about forcing myself to lose everything for art; on the other hand, it's also fooling Zhang Yimou, you see, he doesn't make money as a producer, and then gave Zhang Yimou 150 million yuan Isn't Zhang Yimou grateful for the director's fee..."

"Too wicked!"

"He has no money and no power, why should he cooperate with Zhang Yimou? It's because of his mouth..."

Mother Shen returned to the original topic: "Aren't we talking about "Zhao Zilong"?"

Shen Xudong said truthfully: "In fact, the cost is not that high. We spent about 1600 million US dollars..."

"Then why $4000 million?"

"For publicity, we must blow it up, usually about three times." After thinking for a while, Shen Xudong continued: "The investment in "Zhao Zilong" is mainly divided into three aspects. South Korea's CJ Film Company invested 600 million U.S. dollars, Japan Benzene's East Zhu Film and Television invested 800 million US dollars, but we didn't actually pay for it, even with the promotional costs, it was only about 200 million US dollars..."

Shen Xudong patiently analyzed the box office prospects of "Zhao Zilong" with Father Shen...

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"Zhao Zilong" was released on February 2. Before the Spring Festival, it surpassed the crowd with a success of 14 million yuan without any suspense, and together with another "Disciple" accounted for 3200% of the market share——"Disciple" was released on February 80 , as of February 2, the cumulative box office was 13 million.

During the Spring Festival, "Zhao Zilong" won 7200 million box office results, and "Disciples" had 3000 million...

Both films performed well, of course, "Zhao Zilong" was even better!
According to the estimates given by the theaters, if "Zhao Zilong" is released, the box office will be around 2.3 million...

"The Disciple" is almost 5000 million...

That's right, as soon as the New Year arrives, the theaters will get off to a good start!

In the Hong Kong film market, "Night at the Museum" occupies the first place - 1900 million Hong Kong dollars, "Zhao Zilong" is also good, with 1600 million Hong Kong dollars, and "The Disciple" is much worse, only 900 million.

In the Asian market, "Zhao Zilong" is very popular... Of course, the box office is not as good as "Night at the Museum".

"Night at the Museum" has a global box office of 5.75 million US dollars.

Of course, "Zhao Zilong" is not bad, after all, it is about the theme of the Three Kingdoms, and Andy Lau is the leading actor.

Liu Dehua's ability to sell ports is quite strong, plus the theme of the Three Kingdoms is still Zhao Zilong...

In Yuanshikong, "Seeing the Dragon Unloading Armor", a movie related to the Three Kingdoms, sold 800 million US dollars in Southeast Asia, and "Red Cliff" even received 2500 million US dollars...

Even "Guan Yunchang" has 700 million US dollars.

The theme of the Three Kingdoms itself is a legendary story familiar to the public. In addition, the script is good and the cast is also very good. There is no reason why it should not be a blockbuster!

Oh, although the title of "Zhao Zilong" is Zhao Yun, it seems to tell about Zhao Zilong's life, but the climax of the story is the battle of Changbanpo - riding a horse and holding a gun, rescued Adou from a million-strong army...

The reference is "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", four chapters of adventure, courage, voyage, and homecoming...

Of course, just for reference.

The first person to join him was Gongsun Zan, who showed his talent and was valued by Liu Bei, and later followed Liu Bei...

Therefore, the candidates of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei including Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao will be very important. Liu Bei chose Yu Hewei, Guan Yu chose Yu Rongguang, Zhang Fei...Mr. Jin Song, Zhuge Liang, and Shen Xudong deliberated for a long time, and finally chose Mr. Wang Jinsong...

There is no way, the appearance of other actors looks more like ordinary literati, rather than Zhuge Kongming who is strategizing.

Cao Cao chose Teacher Heizi...

Originally, I wanted to choose Teacher Weizi, but he is over fifty years old, and he is still a bit old.

Shen Xudong didn't mean to reverse the case, so he filmed it according to "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!
He is not a historian. "Zhao Zilong" is a commercial film, and there is no need to challenge the audience's inherent cognition.

What is the truth of seven in and seven out: at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang fought in Poyang Lake. Chen Jun’s general Zhang Dingbian once broke into Zhu Yuanzhang in a lonely boat, and broke in several times...

What's the matter with you?
It has been rumored for hundreds of years that Zhao Zilong Changbanpo rescued Adou, what case are you overturning?

are you crazy?

In March, "Zhao Zilong" was released in South Korea, directly attracting 3 million moviegoers, with a cumulative box office of 110 million U.S. dollars. It was released simultaneously in Japan and Benzene. It was the box office champion for three consecutive months.

This is something later, it is the end of February.

Gao Fenfen called Shen Xudong excitedly: "Will the Five Tigers series continue to be developed?"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "...Let's continue working on "Zhao Zilong 2"..."