How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 253 Perfunctory Jiang Wen
"It's not too expensive, tens of thousands of dollars!"

Zhang Nan casually explained the price of the telescope, and then asked casually: "So you ran to me in a hurry just after I came back, what's the matter?"

Hearing the second half of Zhang Nan's question, Jiang Wen felt a little uncomfortable answering directly, so he asked Zhang Nan the first half of the question, "Can you buy such a telescope for tens of thousands of dollars?"

"The unit is US dollars!"

Zhang Nan also knew that Jiang Wen was pretending to be confused, so after answering his deliberate question, he didn't say anything, just stared at Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen, who had been stared at by Zhang Nan, felt a little stiff.

Because Jiang Wen also knew the relationship between himself and Zhang Nan, and he didn't have much acquaintance with him.

It’s just a little favor in [Jingcheng Martial Art Museum] at the beginning, and Zhang Nan also helped him come up with an idea to continue making movies, which has already consumed a lot, and it’s Zhang Nan who can make jokes until now. His face.

So Jiang Wen stopped hiding, and said bluntly, "Didn't you give me an idea to repair the plank road in the open and secretly save Chencang?"

Zhang Nan nodded when he heard the words.

Jiang Wen rubbed his hands in embarrassment, "I'm a bit heavy handed when it comes to darkening Chen Cang."

"I heard that Lu San was bullied and cried, and even made a scene of going home to sue." Zhang Nan said clearly.

"That was the situation before, and the situation now is..."

Jiang Wen paused, and said in embarrassment: "The movie is almost finished, but when it was time to get the bid, it got stuck again. Originally, the child director who made this movie was quite wronged, so he just wanted to get some experience after it was released. , but now it seems that it is difficult to even release the show, and it is a bit unacceptable there, and I feel a little bit sorry for it."

For mainland movies to be released, they must obtain the Dragon Label to be released.

"Stuck again?"

Zhang Nan was taken aback after hearing this. Although Lu San's butt was crooked, although his background in the film and television industry was not as good as Chen Wuji's, there were still some, so he would not be stuck.

Zhang Nan was a little confused, and asked in surprise, "What did you shoot?"

"I didn't shoot anything, it was just something that was not allowed to be said, written, or photographed..." Jiang Wen said disapprovingly.

"..."

Zhang Nan was speechless for a while, and asked with twitching corners of his eyes, "So, what do you mean by coming to me this time?"

"See if you can help with the activities so that the movie can be released." Jiang Wen spoke very straightforwardly.

Zhang Nan heard the words and thought for a while.

If he really makes a move, it will definitely be done.

But it took too much effort and too little gain.

But it's not good to refuse directly. After all, he gave this idea at the beginning, and Zhang Nan still wants to get a share of Jiang Wen's money-making masterpieces that consume his own fame in the future, so he must not let him go empty-handed this time. and go.

So Zhang Nan changed his mind and asked, "Tell me first, how big is the movie you made?"

Jiang Wen's face was a little ugly when he heard the words, and he couldn't give Zhang Nan a specific answer, but said with difficulty: "In terms of scale..., it's relatively large."

"You also know that the scale is relatively large, and it's not easy for me."

Zhang Nan first went against Jiang Wen's vision, and then turned around: "But it's not impossible to do it at all, we have to change the form."

Originally, Jiang Wen was quite disappointed to hear Zhang Nan's tone of refusal, but suddenly heard Zhang Nan's conversation changed, Jiang Wen hurriedly asked: "What form do you want to change?"

Seeing that Jiang Wen was in the game, Zhang Nan said slowly, "Go directly to publishing and sell discs."

Jiang Wen was stunned when he heard the words, and he stuttered, "No... If it doesn't show up, how can we get back the money without the box office?"

"Old Jiang, don't blame me for speaking too bluntly or too bluntly. The box office of literary and artistic films is average. The artistic accomplishments of your literary and artistic films must be in place, but in the eyes of the audience, they are a bit too cloudy. Even if it can be released, how much box office do you think it will have? Can it make up for it?"

Zhang Nan's rhetorical question was very heart-warming, but Jiang Wen was also powerless to refute.

Because the facts are there, from [sunny day] to [the devil is coming].

The films he made did not return their money at the box office.

Or to put it more bluntly.

Sometimes movies that are released lose more money than movies that are not released.

An example is [The devil is coming] Even if it was banned, I didn't even go to the cinema, and I didn't get any box office.

But compared to the unbanned [Sunshine Days], he earns more.

Or to be more accurate, it is less loss.

The reason for this situation is that if the movie is not released, it is at most that the investors have lost their investment money.

But if the movie is released, the distributor and theaters will also lose money.

Because distribution and release in cinemas cost money for publicity.

Especially when movies are shown in theaters.

Today's era is not the future, a USB flash drive or data transfer over the Internet will do.

At this time, movie theaters were still in the film era, and the cost of a set of film copies used to show movies in movie theaters had to be tens of thousands of yuan.

But whether Jiang Wen's movie can have a total box office of 1 yuan from the release to the next drawing is still a question.

"But, if you can't get the dragon label, is it easy to go through the publishing route?" Jiang Wen still wanted to struggle.

Zhang Nan waved his hand and said, "Lao Jiang, don't worry about this. At present, the mainland has relatively strict jurisdiction in terms of movie dragon label, but it is very loose in terms of video products. The movies you made are all pediatrics." exist."

Zhang Nan's words did not lie to Jiang Wen at all.

The control of video products in the Mainland is indeed very loose at this time.

Let's put it this way, as long as you don't learn from the romance movies over there, and focus on personal communication with sticks and seafood, you will basically have no problem.

After some rhetoric, Jiang Wen was dealt with by Zhang Nan and left.

Zhang Nan could see that Jiang Wen came to him this time, and he didn't have much hope for the movie's approval, but he just wanted to try his luck, and the main purpose was to make more friends with him. .

Seeing Jiang Wen leave, Old Luke, who had been waiting outside, walked in and asked, "Zhang, is such a small director and actor from the mainland worth your attention?"

There is quite a sense of decline in the words.

"Anyway, I'm fine now, I'm idle, I'm idle, talk to people about the cost-free days, if I can win a project with a net profit of [-] million US dollars for the future, if it's you, would you do it?" Zhang Nan asked.

Old Luke's eyes widened immediately, and he looked at Jiang Wen's back carefully, "Can he make a movie with a box office of [-] million US dollars in the future?"

Two hundred million dollars?

more or less!

[Let the Bullets Fly] had a box office of 6.76 million yuan, [Hidden Man] had a box office of 5.83 million yuan, and [One Step Away] had a box office of 5.13 million yuan.

The total of the three movies is close to 18 billion RMB, which is almost 2.25 million US dollars at the box office.

But at that time, the mainland film and television industry had already risen, and the competition was fierce.

Moreover, Jiang Wen's personality is just like the style of "Sunny Day" he filmed.

A bit of the arrogance of the old Beijingers and successors, but also mixed with the philistine and shrewdness of the old Beijingers.

And in terms of his own interests, he is very careful and budgetary, and he doesn't show the color of reciprocating kindness.

Zhang Nan reckoned that he would be able to take all the benefits of [Let the Bullets Fly] before Jiang Wen was completely famous.

Afterwards [Hidden Man] and [One Step Away], Zhang Nan reckons that if he wants to invest, Jiang Wen will definitely not refuse, but he will not let Zhang Nan fully invest.

Of course, Zhang Nan would not want to invest wholly.

After all, Jiang Wen was a good waste of money, and it got worse after he became famous, and the box office of these two movies was only barely worth it.

(End of this chapter)