At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 687 Co-production

"Ghost Blowing Lantern" series, at least three films must be filmed!
And because of domestic review requirements—later, they simply issued orders to strictly manage topics such as 'appreciating treasures' and 'tomb robbery'...

What counts as strict management?

Directly cut the most stringent!

I heard that it is because there are too many crimes with this thing: there is a fraud gang in BJ who defrauded nearly 3 elderly people by relying on the appraisal of cultural relics auction fees.

directly contributed to the ban...

Of course, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is strictly an adventure genre, starting with the curse of ghost eyes, the main line becomes the protagonist looking for Muchen Bead to lift the curse.

But... It can be predicted that once "Exquisite Ancient City" is successful, there will definitely be a bunch of followers of the same type.

There are many works that follow the trend, but shoddy production is the second best, I am afraid that they will all make money...

Once you make money, it will easily become a mainstream theme...

This type can exist, but it is not easy to become mainstream.

Once it becomes mainstream, the grave robber becomes a positive figure...

It's easy to be hated!
Therefore, Shen Xudong hopes to use three films to open up the international market, at least the Asian market.

He has investigated that the "Mummy" trilogy has a very high box office in South Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia, which shows that "The Ancient City" has a bright future in these two markets!

The first film was to test the waters. Originally he was thinking of half selling and half giving away, but CJ offered $300 million, and Toei asked $700 million...

That can only be reluctantly accepted!

Too expensive now?
Shen Xudong shook his head: "I actually prefer the agency + sharing model for overseas copyrights. It was you who asked to buy out the copyright at a price of 300 million US dollars! If you regret it, you can ask Zhong Lifang for advice... I heard that she discussed with Kim Tae-wook to create Two co-productions!"

"...What movies does Kim Tae-wook know...I mean, if you want to cooperate, you must find someone who knows..."

Kim Tae-wook is the producer of ShowBox. His masterpiece "Flying the Flag of Taiji" is also his main investment in "Red Cliff"...

The Korean film market is very competitive.

The Three Kingdoms series films produced by Timmy Company performed very well in the Korean market—not to mention creating a movie-watching frenzy, but they basically had more than 150 million viewers. Among them, "Cao Cao" won 210 million viewers, "Zhao Zilong 2" is 260 million...

Don't think that millions of viewers are easy.

The 2th rule of the Korean film market is particularly obvious. Generally, there are tens of millions of viewers in the head, and No.500 is likely to be [-] million viewers...

200 million movie viewers, this achievement is already very strong, enough to trigger competition among major film companies.

Yes, CJ is Techcomp's partner in Korea.

However, that doesn't mean you have to cooperate with them...

When Shen Xudong mentioned this, Zheng Taicheng understood...

After a brief chat, Shen Xudong talked about his Hollywood blockbuster project, and Zheng Taiguo became interested.

……

What South Korean filmmakers desire most is to let local films go global, especially to enter the American market.

Due to the political father-son relationship, it is considered a kind of honor to "counterattack" culturally.

This is also an important reason why they made friends with Shen Xudong - to cooperate with him and enter the US market.

In fact, Shen Xudong wanted to ask Xijie to produce "The Evil Man", but at that time the time was tight and he thought it was troublesome, so he invested directly!

Zheng Taicheng first asked about "The Evil Man", and Shen Xudong replied: "The cost of the American version of "The Evil Man" is 4500 million US dollars, which is a lot in RMB and Korean won, but it is at the middle level in Hollywood...Our box office is expected to be 6000 in North America. [-], over [-] million in the world... as long as you can pay back your capital!"

"you are too humble…"

"No, "The Evil Man" is a genre of suspense action movies, and the theme is a bit outdated... You can see that the box office of the "Die Hard" series is getting lower and lower..."

Zheng Taicheng shook his head: "There are no outdated themes, only filmmakers who don't understand movies! Can you talk about the Hollywood investment plan you mentioned in detail?"

Shen Xudong sat down: "There are three projects, one is a zombie film with a mature script..."

"Zombie movie?"

"Well," Shen Xudong explained: "From "Dawn of the Dead" and "I Am Legend", it can be seen that Lost movies have always had fixed fans and audiences. As long as the quality passes the test, there is absolutely no problem at the box office!"

"Then tell me specifically?"

"The story is very simple. The male protagonist is a lawyer with a successful career. In terms of family, the relationship between the husband and wife is broken, and they have a daughter... The male protagonist lives with his daughter in a small town. It just so happens that a company laboratory in the small town leaked and caused some kind of virus. Spreading, the symptoms of infection are zombification... The hero took the train to send his daughter to the city where his wife lives, but was ravaged by zombies and continued to spread to the whole train..."

Hearing this, Zheng Taicheng tactfully retorted: "Americans generally drive cars when they go out, right?"

Shen Xudong thought for a while: "Indeed, Americans don't like to take trains, so we can change the story to Europe, Germany or France!"

"If it happened in Germany or France, it wouldn't be called an American film!"

Shen Xudong was quite surprised...

Underestimated this Korean stick!
That must be serious: "Then change the story to take place in a supermarket...Anyway, it's a closed space..."

Zheng Taicheng has no objection this time: "Then... how much will it cost?"

"$2000 million or $6000 million!"

Zheng Taicheng was stunned for a moment: "Why is there such a difference?"

Shen Xudong shrugged: "We are in contact with Leonardo and Johnny Depp. If any of them agree, the cost will increase, at least it will be an A-level production!"

"...oh, that's understandable."

With superstars joining, the scenes, actors, and production must be upgraded...

Zheng Taicheng nodded, and then asked: "Aren't there three projects? How about two more?"

"A sci-fi movie and an action movie with Warner...the average cost is around $6000 million!"

"...Can I see the plan?"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "No, I didn't bring this thing... I came to Cannes to sell films..."

"Does Manager Zhong have a complete plan?"

Shen Xudong still shook his head: "This is a project independently operated by my company in the United States, Zhong Lifang and the others don't understand..."

"Okay, I'll go back and report to Director Li..."

Li Dong is Li Meijing, the entire helm of CJ Media.

"Well, feel free to discuss it. By the way, if "Exquisite Ancient City" has a good box office, CJ is welcome to invest in the next few films!"

"...Can we use our actors?"

"no problem!"

……

If the Ghost Blowing Lantern series is to be released simultaneously in South Korea, it must absorb investment from South Korea, and the same goes for Japan's Benzene!
Because these two countries have protective policies in terms of movies, Japan, no matter which country you are from, blockbuster movies will be delayed for a long time before they are released, South Korea is targeted, except for Hollywood movies...

And it is enforced by the government!
If they play against it, it's very simple, just delay the release for half a year, and the box office will collapse by half.

Korean piracy is more developed.

Therefore, it must become a co-production and an international production.

At the same time, it is also an insurance measure...

Co-production, you can't just ban it...

The zombie movie Shen Xudong was talking about was "Train to Busan". In the original time and space, the cost of this movie was 900 million U.S. dollars.

It sold 6800 million Hong Kong dollars in the Hong Kong market, creating the highest record for a non-Hollywood film, slightly better than the highest record for a Chinese-language film "Cold War 2" at that time...

Change it to an American film, add a little plasma, the probability of being a blockbuster is unknown...

That's why Shen Xudong wanted to raise funds!

(End of this chapter)