At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 695 8200 million in the first week

Well, at this stage, capital has a lot of concerns about movies and the movie market, and they dare not enter rashly.

It is easy to understand that the profit is not enough.

You see, based on Tianmei's most profitable "Cao Cao", the cost is 2500 million US dollars.

Overseas rights sales of $4600 million -- including overseas box office splits.

The domestic box office is 2.04 million, and the TV copyright and audio-visual copyright add up to 3500 million...

After deducting the publicity and production costs, the net profit exceeded 1.5 million RMB!

It looks very high, but from production to release, the one-year cycle...

When it came to "Zhao Zilong 2", the profit dropped to 8000 million...

——Mainland box office 1.68 million...

No one can guarantee how much profit the follow-up "Guan Yunchang" will have!

Tianmei company is very powerful, it is said that it is produced by Tianmei, it must be a high-quality product.

But "Love Has an Afterlife" and "South Star Guest" both lost money...

This year's box office ranked third, "People on the Road" closed at 1.78 million. The box office looks high, but the profit is less than 7000 million!
Too much gambling, limited profit margins...

The reason: the mainland market is too small and the capacity is not enough.

Especially compared with Internet companies, it is not worth mentioning.

When people invest in Meituan and JD.com, they can earn hundreds of millions of dollars in one investment, and the income is also huge!
It took two years from the planning to the release of "People on the Journey" to the receipt of profits.

Hundreds of people worked hard for two years to earn 7000 million. This thing is still in the top three in terms of profitability!
The only one in China!

Later generations are different. In later generations, a film with billions of dollars can really make money.

The profit of "Manjianghong" is as high as 14 billion!
14 billion, many companies can’t even reach this amount in one year’s income.

Moreover, even if the movie box office does not make money, it can still make money off-site, so the film and television industry and capital have colluded and creatively proposed concepts such as finance + movies, Internet + movies, etc., to cut leeks together.

But not yet...

The volume itself does not meet the capital requirements...

However, Shen Xudong still kept contact information with Xiong Xiaoge, Shen Nanpeng and others. The next time they meet, they will probably seriously discuss building a building... No, it's about investment!

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"I think it's nonsense. The essence of a filmmaker is to serve the audience. How can you ask the audience to change? You can't let them watch art films. The audience has their own choices. If he wants to watch it, he will go."

In the film festival, there are still media concerned about commercial and literary disputes.

Then I asked Shen Xudong.

Recently, many experts have criticized Shen Xudong for being too commercial, vulgar and so on...

It's normal, "Back to 20" is a meaningless movie in the eyes of many experts!

A movie that doesn't make sense is a bad movie.

"Why should movies matter? What's the point of Pulp Fiction? What's the point of Raising Fame?"

"Movies are not fundamentally different from music, dance, writing, painting and other arts, but in different historical periods, they have become a posture for human beings to view the world. Sometimes I wonder, will there be any more in 100 years? Movies...maybe a new form of entertainment has replaced the movies!"

"Also, it's not that I haven't written more literary scripts. "Outstanding Citizen" and "The Aviator" are both very independent feature films, but they are too niche..."

The reporter who interviewed retorted: "Xu Jinglei said that the minority is also meaningful!"

"Yes, of course it makes sense, but commercial films are popular...Our main task at this stage is to serve the public, not to make movies popular..."

"In fact, I have always suspected one thing. Many self-proclaimed professional film critics, do they enjoy movies, or enjoy the feeling of two or three people sitting in the theater?"

"Then how do you evaluate "Back to 20"?"

"It's a new type of film. This Zhong Fanxi can add various elements to the setting, such as the male and female protagonists transforming into each other...or traveling through time and space..."

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Yes, "Back to 20" was once again criticized by many experts: lack of creativity, meaningless!

The lack of creativity refers to 'the creativity partly comes from Hollywood genre films "Return to 17", "Girl's Dream Thirty"...including "Children's Dream"'...

Uh, that makes sense!
The creativity is indeed the same, this thing can't be washed off, and it doesn't need to be washed.

At least people didn't directly label you as 'plagiarism'
Once the label of plagiarism is put on, many people will really believe it. So far, a bunch of people think that "Charlotte Annoyance" plagiarized "Peggy Sue is Getting Married", and that "I'm Not the God of Medicine" plagiarized "Dallas Buyers Club" "...

After the rapid development of the self-media, many people who watch too few movies and TV shows are often unable to recognize what is a plot and what is plagiarism. In their eyes, the first movie he watched was the beginning of this plot. originator.

I have little knowledge, but I still think I am righteous, idiot!
Shen Xudong specially posted a blog to explain: Actually, there is no story that has not been filmed until today.

Don't just look at the so-called "plot" in movies now, especially those minor details, the "plot" and pictures that will appear unavoidably in many cases. What constitutes a movie is not only the story, but more importantly, the way of telling the story.

PS: It is recommended that everyone who studies film buy a set of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", which is "Hitchcock Theatre". Each episode is a wonderful independent story.After reading it, you will find that you can find shadows in almost all stories!

In addition, thank you for your support. "Back to 20" had a box office of 8200 million in the first weekend, and the theaters gave a box office forecast of 2.8 to 3 million. My bragging is about to come true!

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The box office of "Back to 20" in the first weekend was 8200 million, which really surprised many people.

This is nonsense, after all, the company did not expect it.

The best expectation given by the publicity and distribution department was 5000 million in the first week, and finally broke through [-] million!
This data is based on the current environment.

Very realistic.

Moreover, the starring lineup of "Back to 20" is not strong, and the actor who plays the core heroine of the drama has only experienced a not-so-successful movie.

The only one who is a bit popular should be the supporting actor Jing Boran, the champion of last year's "Come on, Good Man", but his performance...is just that.

That's why Shen Xudong wants to promote it!

As long as Shen Xudong needs to be the main character, it is either a big production, or the behind-the-scenes creator is pulling his hips-the popularity is not enough.

Oh, the main actors of "Back to 20" are all familiar to the audience, Liu Yijun played the son, Yu Feihong played the daughter-in-law, and the housekeeper, who is the admirer of the heroine, found Teacher You Benchang...

All the members are familiar faces, but none of them are celebrities.

Therefore, the production cost is 1900 million, of which the actor's remuneration including behind-the-scenes remuneration is less than 600 million.

The implant revenue plus the patch advertising revenue is 2600 million.

Publicity invested 1500 million.

That's right, it's another classic case where a small story goes big.

The colleagues didn't know what kind of mood they should face Shen Xudong.

Especially the Huayi Brothers.

(End of this chapter)