How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 517 Chen Wuji broke his defense

So Zhang Nan continued to give instructions to the phone: "[Laughing Rivers and Lakes] The screening scale is only temporarily reduced. Don't tell the outside world. Just tell the outside world that it is the final operation before the normal filming."

The purpose of Zhang Nan's instructions was simple, to see if he could deceive [Zhao's Orphan] into drawing a picture, so as to create a strong contrast between the two distribution situations.

But it's not over yet.

Zhang Nan then continued: "Then you can talk to China Film, Bona, Enlight... and other film and television companies to see if you can reduce the filming rate of [If You Are the One 2]."

[Jurassic World 2], [Let the Bullets Fly], [Laughing Rivers and Lakes], [New Shaolin Temple], [The Orphan of Zhao], [If You Are the One 2].

The first three are Zhang Nan's own projects, the fourth [New Shaolin Temple] is another big bad movie, and the fifth [Zhao's Orphan] has already begun operations, so Zhang Nan will naturally not let go of the last one [If You Are the One] 2].

There is only so much market share. If Zhang Nan wants to earn more, he must let others earn less. This is also the cruel nature of the business world.

"Okay, Director Zhang, I understand." The response from the head of Mainland Longbow Distribution came over the phone.

……

The evening of June 1.

Shaolin Group invested a large amount of its own money.

Then it attracted the mainland's long-established private film and television company Hua Yi, the established Hong Kong film and television company Yinhuang, the mainland's leading film and television industry leader China Film Group, and the new mainland's big capital Bona Pictures to jointly invest.

The [New Shaolin Temple] basically integrates various forces in the mainland film and television industry, old or new, domestic or Hong Kong, people or countries...etc.

So [New Shaolin Temple] directly landed in the mainland film market with the momentum of dominating the front pages of major entertainment sections.

The benefits are considerable.

That is to say, publicity is easy to do and covers a wide range of areas.

But it also allowed mainland audiences to understand something for the first time.

That is, Shaolin Temple is actually a group company, and it is quite rich!

The first step is to invest hundreds of millions of yuan in a movie.

So proud.

……

On its premiere Wednesday [New Shaolin Temple] took in a box office of 1913.06 million yuan, which can be said to be a passing performance.

After all, it was won under the pressure of [Jurassic Park 2], [Let the Bullets Fly] and [If You Are the One 2].

But the quality is generally average.

So the next Thursday, the box office of [New Shaolin Temple] began to drop, with only 1824.98 million yuan in box office reported in a single day.

Fortunately, there are three days off on the weekend, and the film market's market data has rebounded.

Therefore, the single-day box office of [New Shaolin Temple] began to decline again.

RMB 2225.23 million, RMB 2362.23 million, RMB 1726.41 million.

After three days, [New Shaolin Temple] directly reported a box office of more than 6200 million yuan.

Including the cumulative box office of more than 3700 million yuan in the previous two days, [New Shaolin Temple] has achieved a hot achievement of over [-] million yuan in box office in its first week.

Hu Ge relied on the achievement of "New Shaolin Temple" to exceed 80 million in the first week, which can be regarded as welding to death his identity as the leading brother of mainland post-[-]s movies.

At the same time, the box office performance of [New Shaolin Temple] in its first week has also added fuel to the hearts of capital investors who are keen on the mainland film market.

Because this "New Shaolin Temple" is different from the previous "Let the Bullets Fly", "If You Are the One 2" and "Jurassic World 2".

Those movies were all produced by professional film companies in the original film and television industry.

But this [New Shaolin Temple] is completely a project led by capital parties outside the film and television industry.

…… at the same time.

The first-week box office performance of "New Shaolin Temple" not only affected the hearts of various capitals in the mainland, but also affected the Modu Film Group, which produced and distributed "The Orphan of Zhao".

The Magic City Film Group saw that the single-day box office was less than 1.9 yuan, and the cumulative box office was comparable to "Zhao's Orphan" with [-] million yuan.

Silently he made a calculation in his mind.

The production cost of "The Orphan of Zhao" was more than [-] million.

According to the current situation of the mainland movie market, the peripheral income of the movie is approximately zero, and the cost can only be recovered by sharing one-third of the movie's box office.

Then "The Orphan of Zhao" will need a box office of about 2.1 million yuan to make back its money.

Fortunately, the distribution of "The Orphan of Zhao" was also done by the Mordu Film Group, and the Mordu Film Group can also make some profits from the film's distribution.

Therefore, the 1.9 million [Zhao Orphan] is barely a return on investment for the Magic City Film Group, which has also given up on Chen Wuji, the former great director.

I also saw that [Laughing Jianghu], which was on the market at the same time as [Zhao’s Orphan], has also begun to enter the drawing stage.

Therefore, Modu Film Group did not hesitate to cancel "The Orphan of Zhao" directly, and chose to show more profitable movies such as "Jurassic Park 2", "Let the Bullets Fly", etc. in its own theaters. .

Then--

The situation has changed.

The week after [New Shaolin Temple] was released, its reputation collapsed.

The single-day box office began to plummet.

Then the film placement rate began to be reduced.

Then its reduced film schedule was added to [Laughing Rivers and Lakes].

So the weekly box office situation of the mainland movie market has become like this:

The top three remain unchanged.

[Jurassic World 2] continues to lead the way with powerful special effects.

Then came "Let the Bullets Fly", which has a lot of connotations, and then Feng Xiaogang's comedy series sequel "If You Are the One 2".

Following closely behind "If You Are the One 2" is not "New Shaolin Temple", but "Laughing River", which was half dead before but is now booming again, with a box office of 3000 million yuan in a single week.

Then this wave of "New Shaolin Temple"'s box office collapse the next week and the rise of "Laughing Rivers and Lakes" directly put the main investors of "New Shaolin Temple", Shaolin Group and Chen Wuji, completely out of control.

The main investor behind [New Shaolin Temple], Shaolin Group, had a simple way of breaking the defense - the movie's box office crash was too fast and outrageous.

Although the Shaolin Group is rich, it cannot afford to invest [-] million yuan and lose tens of millions of yuan!

Chen Wuji's defense breaking was a manifestation of incompetence, rage and blame-shifting.

Without it.

After "The Promise" and "Mei Lanfang", this "The Orphan of Zhao" can be regarded as his last attempt to regain his status in the mainland director circle.

If it fails again, it will basically be inactive for several years.

But he is already in his fifties, and if he has been inactive for several more years, he will be almost sixty. How the hell can he become a director?

Originally, Chen Wuji was a little frightened by the failure of [Zhao's Orphan], but he couldn't find an excuse to blame others.

After all, if a movie doesn't do well at the box office, it's hard for the director to blame it.

But this wave of "The Orphan of Zhao" has been released, and "The Great Laughter", a movie that was not as good as "The Orphan of Zhao" at the box office before, has been rectified by the current situation and the strong manipulation of the distributor.

Then how could Chen Wuji endure it?

(End of this chapter)