The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 466 "Avatar" broke the record

Lee Sheng Yew handed over the soundtrack of "Sicario Sicario" to Chen Guangrong, and this matter did not cause too many disturbances in the entertainment industry.

At this time, most people are discussing "October Siege" and "Three Shots".

Movie fans are more appreciative of "October Besieged City". This movie has a good reputation and praises a lot.

However, the word-of-mouth of "Legend of Three Shots" naturally collapsed, and this movie has more negative reviews.

But Lao Mouzi deserves to be called Lao Mouzi. His fundamentals are still very stable, coupled with the appeal of Zhao Jiaban.

Even if the reputation is bad, it can still make more than 8 billion at the box office.

Although "October Siege" has a better reputation, its box office is slightly worse than "Legend of Three Guns".

You must know that "Legend of Three Guns Shooting Murder" only used Sun Honglei, Yan Ni, and a few actors from the Zhao family class, and the production cost was very low. This movie must have made money.

Although "October Siege" has a better reputation, the investment cost is high. The movie has accumulated a box office of [-] million, and it is still in a state of loss.

This is reflected in public opinion, which is that "October Siege" has a large audience. However, many people in the industry said that they are studying "The Legend of Three Guns" and want to make a similar historical comedy.

At this time, everyone didn't realize that there would be a super movie coming soon.

Regarding the fact that "Legend of Three Shots" did not exceed [-] million yuan, some media ridiculed Lao Mouzi, saying that he could no longer keep up with the times.

Soon New Year's Day passed, and 2010 came, and then "Avatar" was released grandly.

This movie, which claims to be the first 3D blockbuster in movie history, broke the box office record of mainland movies just after it was released.

First day box office records, first week box office records, and total box office records.

Many people think that "2012" can get a box office of [-] million, which is already a very incredible achievement.

However, "Avatar" reached [-] million in just four days.

This movie swept the box office with an extremely incredible attitude, and also dug out the box office potential of the mainland market.

Originally, "2012" and "Jianguo Daye" received more than 4 million. Everyone thinks that next year, a single film may have a box office of more than 5 million, and the year after that, it may reach more than 6 million.

However, "Avatar" broke this rule. "Avatar" really exploded, with a single-day box office exceeding [-] million, and it rushed forward crazily.

Don't say that [-] billion can't be stopped, even a billion can't be stopped.

Really too strong.

By the end of January 2010, the total box office of "Avatar" in the mainland had reached 1 billion, which means that this movie has almost 13 million US dollars in the mainland.

This is the achievement second only to the beautiful country in the global market.

In established film markets like France, Great Britain, and Italy, the highest box office in Hollywood is only about US$[-] million.

Now the maximum limit of a single chip in the mainland exceeds that of these countries.

A Hollywood film company executive said, "This is an obvious thing. The Chinese film market will surpass Japan and the United Kingdom, becoming the second largest film market in the world after the United States."

"This incident is really surprising, but it did happen. We realized that the middle class in China may be larger than the population of the beautiful country."

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Hollywood film companies were surprised by the performance of "Avatar" in the mainland market, not to mention the mainland film and television industry.

Just a month ago, everyone thought that the upper limit was "2012", and they thought it could be [-] million at most.

Unexpectedly, "Avatar" directly pushed the box office of a single film in the mainland to 13 billion.

It turns out that mainland audiences like watching movies so much.

It turns out that mainland audiences are so rich.

It turns out that our film market is no worse than that of island countries.

For a while, the entire Huaxia entertainment circle was boiling, even more excited than when the coal boss entered the scene before. It seems that making movies has become a very promising investment.

After the turn of the millennium, the Hong Kong Island film circle, which had always been stagnant, became much more active at this time.

At the end of January, "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger's Might", "The Armored Warrior: The Emperor's Hero", "The Legend of the Rainbow Cat and the Blue Rabbit", and "Confucius" were released successively.

Except for "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger's Might", the box office is not bad, and the others have become blockbusters.

At the beginning of February, it was the time for Hong Kong comedies to show their strength. "Happy Event in the Flower Fields 2010", "72 Tenants", "The God of Wealth", "Love in the City", and "The Perfect Wedding Dress" were released in sequence.

At this point in time, there are only two non-comedy movies-"Jinyiwei" and "Su Qier".

"My Girlhood" co-produced by Lee Shing Yew and Chai Zhiping was also released on February [-]th.

There is no difficulty. With the basis of the special romantic movies for Valentine's Day in the past few years, "My Girlhood" quickly broke out from all the messy movies, and it was the first to break through [-] million.

Now that Lee Shengyao has a big family and a big business, he doesn't care much about ordinary movies that exceed [-] million yuan.

"My Girls' Generation" exceeded [-] million, but he didn't get carried away, he was still very calm.

In particular, the fluctuations "Avatar" brought to the Chinese film and television industry did not change Lee Sheng-yao's mentality.

In the morning of this day, the cold wind continued in Yanjing, and Li Shengyao met Huo Wenxi at the headquarters of Fenghua Film and Television Company.

Compared to the last time Li Shengyao saw Huo Wenxi, he felt that this Hong Kong Island agent was more attractive at this time.

He was wearing a small khaki suit on his upper body, a pair of black jeans on his lower body, and a pair of small high heels. He looked very casual and handsome in casual, very eye-catching.

He felt a little regretful, Chen Xun is currently in Yanjing, otherwise, he could take Huo Wenxi home to exchange skills.

"Director Li, I haven't seen you for several months, but you are still handsome."

Li Shengyao smiled, "Did you come to look for me to praise me for being handsome?"

The assistant stepped forward to pour tea for Li Shengyao and Huo Wenxi.

Huo Wenxi shook his head, picked up the teacup, and took a sip of the tea, "Director Li, I still want to discuss cooperation with you when I come here this time."

"The mainland film market is so big now that many people want to invest. We at Yinghuang have seen a lot of big water pipes. I wonder if you are interested in working together."

Huo Wenxi was telling the truth. When the mainland film market exploded and shocked the entire film and television industry, the first to get hot money was not the mainland film and television companies, but the group of people on Hong Kong Island.

The sources of funds for these people are relatively mixed and they are not very popular.

But they did have money during this time.

Huo Wenxi went on to say: "Cooperating with us is definitely beneficial. We are wholly owned by Yinghuang, and you don't need to invest a penny. After the movie is released, we will give you [-]% of the profit and [-]% of the copyright."

"In addition, we are responsible for the release and publicity, and you don't need to spend on any projects."

"We can also give you 3000 million director's salary, how about it? You can earn tens of millions just by using your talent."

Hearing this, Li Shengyao looked at Huo Wenxi in a daze, inexplicably embarrassed.

"what's wrong?"

Huo Wenxi didn't understand the question.

She felt that those conditions were really very favorable, and anyone else would definitely agree.

In the past, when she approached Li Shengyao, she was always rejected by Director Li.

This time, she really wanted to see Li Shengyao's expression of accepting her.

Li Shengyao came back to his senses, and then said: "For any movie, the director's salary is 3000 million, and then [-]% of the profit is divided into dividends, and [-]% of the copyright?"

"That's right, Director Li, aren't you very sincere?"

Li Shengyao rolled his eyes a little speechless.

He thought of Uncle Ge.In his previous life, that is, in 2010, Ge You dominated the Lunar New Year file with "If You Are the One 2", "Let the Bullets Fly", and "Orphan of Zhao", becoming the most popular male star in this schedule.

There has always been a tradition in the mainland that acting well leads.

Ge You also had this idea, Hua Yi couldn't trust him, and China Film was unwilling to let him be the director. At this time, Yinghuang entered the game and signed a five-year contract with Ge You, saying that he would invest [-] million to make a movie for Ge You.

At that time, the news was widely circulated, but Yinghuang did not give Ge You any chance to direct in the past five years. They just used Ge You to make a few bad movies.

Such as "Decisive Battle of the God of Cookery", "The Dangerous Way to Win the Treasure of Fragments", "Two Tigers", and "Middle Game in the Antique Game".

When Ge You was dominant in the mainland film industry, were Wu Jing and Xu Zheng still acting in TV dramas?

In the end, he signed with Yinghuang during his peak period, which was a disaster.

When Ge You escaped from this deep pit, Wu Jing, Xu Zheng, and Wang Baoqiang had risen, and the audience no longer recognized Uncle Ge.

Once one of the most charismatic actors in the Mainland, he quickly declined.

Li Shengyao believed that Yinghuang could get hot money. After all, Hong Kong Island is known as the city with the most free capital in the world, and there is a lot of money from unknown sources there.

But he couldn't trust Yinghuang. Apart from being kind to Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung, Yang Shoucheng was very ruthless to everyone else.

Not to mention that the copyright of Director Li's movies is in his hands. He will not make movies for other people and then give up the copyright.

Unless the movie is really good enough.

Yinghuang obviously didn't have such a movie in his hands, let Nicholas Tingfeng play a cook, "The Battle of the God of Cookery" is already their top production.

"It's okay, I'm not interested."

When Huo Wenxi heard this, his eyes widened, full of doubts, and he was silent for a moment before he came back to his senses.

"I see, you can't trust Yinghuang."

Talk to smart people to save trouble.

Li Shengyao nodded, "Half right."

Huo Wenxi thought for a while, and then said: "If you cooperate with Yinghuang, we can help you find a building on Hong Kong Island, and then sell it to you as a movie theater."

"Well, China Film doesn't even have a cinema on Hong Kong Island."

Hearing this, Li Shengyao felt a little moved in his heart, just like Huo Wenxi said, China Film Group does not have a cinema in Hong Kong Island, if Fenghua can build a cinema in Hong Kong Island, it will be of great significance.

However, he then thought of the high housing prices on Hong Kong Island, and immediately understood that this matter was not worth it.

With this kind of money, it is better to build a movie theater in the mainland. It is cheaper to buy a property in the mainland, and the market is developing rapidly.

"I am not interested."

Huo Wenxi crossed his arms and looked puzzled, "You are unwilling to cooperate. You have a deep prejudice against Yinghuang."

……

Not only Yinghuang came to seek cooperation with Lee Shengyao, but also many people wanted to cooperate with him, including Hong Kong Island, Wanwan, and mainland film and television companies.

These people all saw the success of "Avatar" and wanted to make money in the film industry.

Li Shengyao's reputation was well known, so many people naturally sought him out.

However, when faced with such things, Director Li refused them all. He didn't even bother to meet those people.

Li Shengyao knows very well that in the mainland film market, it has never happened that any film can make money.

The mainland film market is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more movies are produced every year, but there will always be a small number of people who make money, and this has never changed.

Now that hot money is pouring in, these people think that it is easy to make a lot of money by making movies, but that is wishful thinking.

Movies are not that easy.

It wasn't until that night that Xu Zheng called Li Shengyao and asked him to go for a massage, and then Li Shengyao agreed to meet.

Director Li soon arrived at the place and saw Xu Zheng and a boy.

Xu Zheng was still the same as before, thin, with a self-deprecating wry smile on his face.

He has always had the temperament of a failed middle-aged man.

The boy next to him is very young, he looks less than 30 years old, has long hair, looks very good, and looks like a literary young man.

This person is Yang Qing, and he and Xu Zheng worked together to create the script of "People on the Journey", and later he also directed "Hot Pot Heroes".

"Come on, let's have a complete massage."

Li Shengyao actually has a lot of time, and he also likes massage.

But he never went to a massage alone.

He still likes to massage while chatting, just like Xu Zheng and Ning Hao.

It's probably more atmospheric this way.

Ning Hao and Xu Zheng completed the filming of "No Man's Land", and Ning Hao was in post-production and was very busy.

After Xu Zheng made "No Man's Land", he thought about making a new movie. This time he wanted to make a movie he liked, so he found Li Shengyao.

An hour later, Li Shengyao, Xu Zheng, and Yang Qing lay on the massage table together, and the three elder sisters massaged them.

"Director Li, Xiao Yang and I used our brains together and came up with a very interesting comedy."

Li Shengyao nodded, "What type of comedy?"

"A road comedy that tells the story of a successful urban man who travels thousands of miles from north to south with a migrant worker."

Isn't this "People on the Journey"?

"Okay, bring me the script some other day."

Xu Zheng didn't expect Director Li to agree so quickly, and he still has some words to say.

"Director Li, regarding this movie, our budget is 3000 million. I want to be the leading actor in this movie. Xiao Yang and I are very confident. We hope that the film's final box office will exceed [-] million."

Hearing this, Li Shengyao couldn't help frowning, and looked over in confusion.

"The budget is 3000 million."

In his previous life, "Unfortunately" had a very good reputation, but the box office was actually not very high, only 3000 million.

However, this movie has no big stars, no big scenes, and the cost is only 700 million. Even if the box office is 3000 million, the producer still makes some money.

Xu Zheng nodded, with anticipation in his eyes, "Director Li, with a cost of 3000 million, the movie can be paid back if it exceeds [-] million."

Li Shengyao was stunned for a moment, and then reflected that the high box office of "Avatar" really affected everyone in the film and television industry.

Xu Zheng has always starred in movies that have exceeded [-] million yuan, and he feels that it is easy for a movie to exceed [-] million yuan.

He smiled, and then said: "Xu Zheng, give this movie to director Yang Qing, and you should be an actor honestly first."

When Xu Zheng and Yang Qing heard Li Shengyao's words, they both looked over with blank expressions.

Li Shengyao understood the meaning of the two people's looks, but his decision would not change.

Xu Zheng's ability as a director is far inferior to that of a producer. He doesn't have the ability to be a director. The main line of his works as a director is very noisy, and the editing is unnatural, which makes it awkward to watch.

Xu Zheng is suitable for producing and acting.

If he invests in "On the Journey", and invites other people to be the director, Xu Zheng will not be the director.

(End of this chapter)