How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 810: It’s been two years since the filming of [Avatar 2] started, and the male lead has not yet been cast.
2 month 19 day.

With the end of the Spring Festival, "The Wandering Earth 2" has also ended its exclusive status in the mainland film market.

However, it still occupies nearly 50% of the film schedule, with single-day box office data of nearly 100 million yuan, and the cumulative box office of the movie has exceeded 9 billion yuan, starting to charge towards the 10 billion yuan threshold.

As for the remaining half of the film schedule, it is divided by the newly released "Integrity" and "Peppa Pig Celebrating the New Year".

Then "Integrity", with a film schedule rate of nearly 5698.2%, grossed 1847.09 million yuan at the box office. The box office dropped to million yuan the next day, and the box office on the third day of release fell below million yuan. the point.

The performance was not as good as that of the animated film "Peppa Pig Celebrating New Year" which had less than 5882.89% of the film schedule but scored million yuan in the first day box office.

Of course.

The follow-up box office trend of "Peppa Pig Celebrating New Year" was also relatively low. On the third day of release, the box office dropped to 1309.54 million yuan, and on the fourth day of release, it also fell below the threshold of million yuan in single-day box office.

I can only say that the current Hong Kong film industry is really lonely.

then……

……

Immediately afterwards, [Green Book] and [How to Train Your Dragon 3] were scheduled for March 3st, and they will compete with [Alita: Battle Angel].

[Natsume’s Book of Friends] and [Captain Marvel] are scheduled to be released on March 3 and March 7 respectively.

Maybe there were too many complaints about the [Avatar 2] project, so James Cameron directly ignored the first question about [Avatar 2] in Zhang Nan's words, and started to answer the last two questions.

Zhang Nan, the male protagonist, has not yet received a notice from the crew to join the cast.

In the past, maybe because of the seemingly good relationship between the mainland and North America, we were a little bit reluctant to let go.

then……

"I only have the title of producer in name only. As for why I care so much..."

Longbow Film and Television City, inside the villa.

Because this is already 2019, but James Cameron started working on [Avatar 2017] in 2.

Without it.

Let's say that.

Since the turmoil broke out in September last year, Huaying's methods have become more and more sharp.

Zhang Nan never expected that James Cameron would come to him with the purpose of promoting the mainland project of "Alita: Battle Angel".

James Cameron hesitated for a while before continuing: "[Alita: Battle Angel] failed at the box office in its first week in North America, with less than 20 million US dollars in box office. It is estimated that the North American box office when the final movie was released The box office is hard to exceed 100 million.

Seeing that the current market environment in the mainland film market is so bad, China Film has directly scheduled one of its imported films, "Alita: Battle Angel", for February 2.

"James, haven't you been busy with [Avatar 2] recently? And in this movie, aren't you a producer? Why are you so concerned about it?"

As for the progress of [Avatar 2]...

Huaying has always been very dedicated in targeting the schedule of imported films.

Zhang Nan said that James Cameron is currently busy with [Avatar 2], which is a bit euphemistic.

However, the investment in this movie is as high as 1.7 million US dollars. It is the last film of th Century Fox Pictures before it was acquired by Disney Pictures.

If it completely fails, it will be difficult for Twenty-First Century Fox Pictures to negotiate the acquisition of Disney Pictures.

And 2st Century Fox Pictures saw that "The Wandering Earth " had such an explosive performance at the box office in the mainland movie market, so it wanted to save it one last time to see if it could revive the project's final box office, so it sent me Sent. "..."

Zhang Nan was speechless for a while, then recalled the mainland box office data of "Alita: Battle Angel".

The box office was RMB 1.26 million on the first day, RMB 4.36 million in the first week, and the total box office was RMB 8.96 million.

如果不是接连撞到了三月份10.35亿人民币票房的【惊奇队长】、9.58亿人民币票房的【比悲伤更悲伤的故事】，四月份7.99亿人民币票房的【反贪风暴4】和42.5亿人民币票房的【复仇者联盟4】。

Maybe [Alita: Battle Angel] might really make over one billion yuan in the mainland, which is about 200 million U.S. dollars at the box office.

And then factoring in the box office of other movie theaters around the world, [Alita: Battle Angel] might really be able to make back its money and make a small profit.

but……

"You are a producer in name only, but it has nothing to do with your movie box office failure!" Zhang Nan asked in confusion.

James Cameron was awkwardly silent for a while, and then added: "In fact, it is not only because of the sluggish North American box office of [Alita: Battle Angel], but also the production fee of [Avatar 2]. I It seems like it’s a bit over the top. Fox Pictures asked me to come here and ask you if the price for the special effects production of [Avatar 2] can be lowered.”

"..."

Zhang Nan was completely speechless this time.

That’s 400 million US dollars!

Even if half of it, that is, US$200 million, is spent on special effects, there is still US$200 million.

"James, when it comes to special effects production, it's not that I don't want to lower the price, but the profit is not big to begin with, and with your 10% rebate, if we lower the price any further, we will lose money." Zhang Nan found a reason and refused. James Cameron's price cut request.

James Cameron was silent for a while after hearing this, and said: "Then please waive my 10% rebate. Can this reduce the price?"

"Are you serious?" Zhang Nan's eyes widened and he asked in disbelief.

James Cameron nodded slowly when he heard this, "I really want to make a good movie."

"..."

Zhang Nan couldn't remember how many times he was speechless today.

But think back to what James Cameron has done in the past.

Zhang Nan understood that this guy could personally spend tens of millions of dollars to visit the Titanic ruins at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in order to make the movie more realistic.

And Zhang Nan is still a little lucky that the planet in [Avatar] is illusory.

Otherwise, the current Musk starship launch vehicle and Mars immigration plan are so popular.

Maybe James Cameron will have to repeat his previous operations in "Titanic" and give Musk money to send him to the planet Avatar for a field trip.

"Don't be ten percent, let's go five percent. It's not much less than ten million US dollars."

Zhang Nan consoled James Cameron for a while, and then said in a habitual smooth-talking way: "As for the screening of [Alita: Battle Angel] in the mainland, I will try my best to get the screening rate for you and China Film. There is no guarantee of a box office exceeding one billion yuan, but with a film schedule that can reach a box office of several hundred million yuan, it should be no problem.”

"That couldn't be better. If [Alita: Battle Angel] fails at the box office this time in the mainland movie market, Fox Pictures will be interested..."

"Changed you?" Zhang Nan interrupted James Cameron's words.

"..."

James Cameron: "Get me some more producers."

(End of this chapter)