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Chapter 355 My heart skipped a beat

Fan Binbin would be nervous, not because Mu Xiaoguang was nearby and worried about being caught. He felt guilty inside.

Instead, she was worried that Mu Xiaoguang would be jealous after seeing her, and then develop a quarrel and stop helping her.

I was mainly worried about the impact on my career, rather than caring about my relationship with Mu Xiaoguang.

Now that she is leaving Huayi to set up a studio, she needs to rely on Mu Xiaoguang's connections and doesn't want things to go wrong.

Fan Binbin opened his mouth, wanting to stop it, but he didn't know how to stop it.

To the outside world, she and Mu Xiaoguang only have a cooperative relationship and have no other involvement.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, what Wang Shu saw was that Fan Binbin and Mu Xiaoguang were just artists and managers.

It’s just that Fan Binbin knows her own family affairs well. She and Mu Xiaoguang are not simply cooperative, but
In particular, it was precisely because of this relationship that Mu Xiaoguang spared no effort to help her.

If Mu Xiaoguang were to encounter this scene, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Can you let go?"

She wanted not only Mu Xiaoguang's connections and career help, but also Wang Shu's connections and career help.

But she happened to be in the middle right now, making her in a dilemma.

After saying this, without waiting for Fan Binbin to answer, he turned around and left the private room gracefully.

She was not struggling because there was someone next to her who couldn't let go, nor was she struggling because she felt guilty in front of Mu Xiaoguang.

At the moment, she is worried that Mu Xiaoguang will see her fall out with her and lose Mu Xiaoguang's help.

Fan Binbin quickly stood up and chased after him. When he saw Wang Shu's unyielding figure, he opened his mouth, wanting to say something to persuade him to stay, but he didn't know how to speak.

Fan Binbin was startled and struggled in panic.

When Wang Shu heard this, he looked around and pretended to be confused and said, "Isn't it just your manager here?"

Afraid of being discovered by Mu Xiaoguang.

When Wang Shu heard this, a smile appeared on his face, and he kissed her again without saying anything.

Seeing Wang Shu's reluctance, Fan Binbin became angry at this moment. In addition, she also drank wine, her head was hot, and she immediately scolded with a dark face and dissatisfaction: "Why are you like this? I said no, you are still here Where to pinch?”

Wang Shu was not drunk, he was just pretending to be drunk, so he didn't believe Fan Binbin's lies at all, and said with relief: "No, this is a private room, no one comes in."

This makes sense, and Fan Binbin is speechless.

Fan Binbin didn't expect Wang Shu to stand up and leave without saying a word. Knowing that he just said the wrong thing, he stood up and shouted in a hurry.

She was worried that being bumped into by Mu Xiaoguang would affect her career, and she also didn't want to fall out with Wang Shu and lose Wang Shu's connections.

Fan Binbin had no intention of kissing Wang Shu at this moment, so not only did he not respond, he was also thinking of ways to stop Wang Shu's behavior, and his body subconsciously made some resistance.

In my heart, I was nervous and anxious.

She pretended to feel aggrieved to Bala, hoping to make Wang Shu pity her and stop caring about her like this.

Wang Shu felt Fan Binbin's resistance, stopped kissing his upper hand, and asked with doubtful eyes: "You don't want to?"

"And he drank too much and fell asleep."

"If someone sees me, I...I won't be ashamed to see anyone in the future."

"What's there to be afraid of?"

She explained hesitantly: "But...but there might be other people coming in?"

"If someone else comes in and sees Brother Mu sleeping here, and the two of us are making love to each other."

Seeing this, Fan Binbin's heart skipped a beat again. Before Wang Shu could finish speaking, he panicked and aggrieved and quickly explained, "There is someone here, I'm scared."

Just when she was anxious about how to reject Wang Shu, Wang Shu took advantage of Fan Binbin's hand to pull away and kissed her suddenly.

"Tree"

"How could he wake up when he's drunk? Not to mention he's your manager and not an outsider." Wang Shu didn't answer the words sympathetically, and the movements of his hands didn't stop.

"What should I do if Brother Kekemu wakes up?" Fan Binbin noticed Wang Shu's restless movements and resisted with a sad face.

He looked back at Mu Xiaoguang, who was already drunk and lying down in the private room. He couldn't just leave this dragster with him, so he could only watch Wang Shu leave in a depressed mood.

Only children make choices, she wants them all.

However, Wang Shu was unmoved and had already left the private room.

Fan Binbin's heart skipped a beat when he saw Wang Shu's surprised and horrified eyes.

When Wang Shu heard this, he paused with his hand, then let go of his hand pretending to be resentful, and then stood up pretending to be embarrassed and said: "It's getting late, I'll go back first."

This is the reason for panic and struggle.

"No, no." Fan Binbin glanced at Mu Xiaoguang next to him, and when he saw him sleeping soundly, he reluctantly replied with a sigh of relief.

Anyway, he is in a "drunk" state at the moment, and any behavior he performs can be explained.

Wang Shu saw that Fan Binbin was obviously resisting, and then he stopped and looked at her with a steady expression: "You"

She was just worried that being caught by Mu Xiaoguang would affect her career.

If she were alone with Wang Shu, she would not act like this.

At today's dinner, I came with Mu Xiaoguang. I originally planned to discuss the movie role with Wang Shu at the wine table.

Unexpectedly, stealing the chicken will end up losing the rice.

"Ugh."

Fan Binbin lamented, and the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became.

It's New Year's Day in a blink of an eye.

2007 passed and 2008 came.

During the New Year's Day holiday across the country, the number of people in theaters also experienced a surge.

In fact, by mid-December 2007, it has already entered the New Year period.

In this period, the first film to hit theaters is "The Movie".

This movie is an action movie jointly produced by China Film, Media Asia and other film companies, directed by Chen Kexin, starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Jin Chengwu.

The production cost is 4000 million US dollars, and the global box office is 4288 million US dollars.

According to the rough calculation that the box office is three times higher than the production cost, that is, a profit of 1.2 million US dollars is considered to be a breakeven, "The Letter of Investment" lost a lot of money.

Although the mainland box office of "The Certificate of Investment" was 1.8 million yuan, this box office was far lower than the production cost. Even if the overseas box office was included, the producer was still losing money.

In fact, the box office of mainland theaters with a box office of 1.8 million yuan has already ranked among the top three in the box office list of mainland theaters for Chinese-language films in 2007. In terms of this box office performance alone, it did not fail in the mainland market.

It can only be said that the mainland's film market has not yet been fully formed, and there are not many screens. Unless big-investment movies can find box office success in overseas markets, they will suffer nothing but losses.

The mainland film market alone will not be able to recover the cost.

For example, this is the case for "The Movie". It has a luxurious cast, high investment, and also achieved the top three box office results of Chinese-language films in mainland theaters in 2007. It is already considered a success. However, due to the bleak overseas market, the producers Loss of blood.

This living example shows that in this era, it is impossible to blindly shoot a big-budget movie with huge investment and naively hope to recover the cost in the mainland market.

That’s right, let alone making money, it’s impossible to recover costs.

For example, if Wang Shu invests 3 million to make a movie, no matter how high the quality of the movie is, he will still be able to achieve a box office of million in mainland theaters.

The investment is 5 million yuan, and the box office is 3 million yuan.

Of the 3 million yuan, Wang Shu, as the producer, could only occupy 41% of the share, and of this share, there was about 15% of the distributor. In the end, it was only tens of millions in Wang Shu's hands.

In other words, if you invest 3 million, even if you get a box office of million, regardless of the efforts of the people, you will still lose more than million.

If you want to avoid losing money on these 400 million yuan, you have to get it back from overseas markets.

If the box office in overseas markets is bleak, then it will be like "The Movie", which will suffer a loss.

Don't look at the investment of "The Investment Certificate" of 4000 million U.S. dollars and the global box office of 4288 million U.S. dollars. Adding and subtracting the two results in an extra 288 million U.S. dollars.

In fact, not all of the global box office of US$4288W belongs to the producer. After deducting all the twists and turns, the producer's share is only about 25%.

In short, with a global box office of US$4288, the producers will probably get a box office share of US$1100.

An investment of 4000 million US dollars resulted in a profit of 1100 million US dollars and a loss of 2900 million US dollars.

Although this data is not accurate, the truth is this.

At this stage, the ceiling of the mainland film market is obvious to all. This is a hard factor, not a question of film quality.

In this era, if Wang Shu dares to invest in big-budget Chinese films such as "Interstellar" and "The Wandering Earth", he will definitely lose money.

Even if he makes these movies extravagantly high, he still makes a loss.

Because the reality is that no matter how good a movie is, it is impossible to achieve a high box office in the mainland where the number of screens is limited in 2007 and the economy has not yet begun to take off.

More than 300 million is already a top box office result.

This is a box office ceiling determined by rigid conditions and cannot be broken by the quality of the movie.

Although "Titanic" achieved good box office results when it landed in mainland theaters, the mainland box office of "Titanic" accounted for one-fifth of the total box office of mainland movies that year.

Nowadays, unless certain departments make movie viewing compulsory, it is simply not possible to achieve this level.

As long as this level is not reached, the box office ceiling of mainland theater chains will be more than 300 million.

In the original time, in 2007, there was not a single movie in mainland theaters with a box office of over 3 million, whether it was a Chinese-language film or many popular Hollywood blockbusters.

Nowadays, even with Wang Shu's "Horror Cruise", the box office of mainland theaters has only exceeded 3 million due to the overwhelming publicity and hype, as well as China Film's cunning manipulation.

As for the overseas box office results, it was only over 4000 US dollars.

The total overseas box office of more than 4000 million US dollars may not seem like much, but it is actually a very good figure.

Because the total overseas box office of "City of Gold" is only over 2.9 million US dollars. Adding in the million yuan box office in the mainland, the total global box office is over million US dollars.

As for Chinese-language films, the reality is that except for kung fu films, which can achieve decent box office results overseas, other films cannot be sold at all.

Therefore, another hard factor is that it is difficult for Chinese-language films to achieve excellent box office results in overseas markets.

Despite the fact that in this era, Chinese-language films targeting overseas markets appear every year, in fact, there are very few Chinese-language films that can achieve excellent box office results overseas.

It is precisely this period of history in mainland film history. As the mainland film market grows in the future, few producers will gradually set their sights overseas.

Basically, the focus is on China. If you can make money overseas, you can make money, and if you can't, you can make money.

Unlike this era, if you want to make a Chinese-language film with a high box office, the mainland market is not enough, so you can only look overseas.

It's just that in this era, many filmmakers naively believe that Chinese-language films can go global and achieve excellent box office results overseas.

In fact, he was slapped in the face again and again.

It was not until many years later that I learned through bloody facts that Chinese-language films had a limited audience overseas and could not be sold at all.

Of course, the limited audience is one reason, and another reason is that the quality of the film is too poor, or it does not meet the taste of overseas audiences.

After all, since kung fu movies can come from scratch and have a certain market overseas, this shows that Chinese-language movies are not absolutely incompatible with the tastes of foreigners.

But
All in all, in an era when the domestic economy had not yet taken off and the number of screens was not large, it was not impossible to make big-budget movies.

Rather, it’s 100% a waste of money to make a movie like this.

For example, Wang Shu made the Chinese version of "Interstellar" in 2008, which took a year or two to polish. When it was released in 2010, the box office could not even sustain a profit, let alone make a profit.

And if this movie is shot in Hollywood, relying on the European and American markets, as long as the audience buys it, it will make a lot of money.

The size of the market determines the upper limit of the box office.

At the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008, in the New Year period, in addition to the first appearance of "The Call to Action", there were also "Bangzi Tiger Chicken", "Movie 2.0: The Ridiculous Affair of Two Idiots", and "Blueberry Nights" , "Assembly" and other Chinese-language films.

Among them, "Tiger Stick Chicken" is a comedy romance film starring Zeng Zhiwei, Xia Yu, Liang Yongqi, and Tang Yan.

Tang Yan plays "Tangtang" in it. This role is a typical "post-80s".

Her character treats relationships as greedily as a child buying candy. She is a girl who wants a charming horse and a prince, and she has a serious tendency to worship material things.

With her own cleverness, she can navigate between two men with different styles and temperaments, Brother Hu and Qiao Bang. Her appearance will constantly change, and she has obvious Gemini characteristics.

In 2006, Tang Yan graduated from the Beijing Theater Academy and signed with Chengtian Entertainment in 2007.

The movie "Tiger, Stick, Chicken" is produced by Orange Sky and American and Asian Culture.

After Tang Yan signed with Chengtian, her resources have been good. She first participated in this movie produced by Chengtian, and then co-starred in "Modern Beauty" with Huo Jianhua and Yang Christine.

In 2009, he co-starred in the famous TV series "Legend of Sword and Fairy 3" with Brother Hu, Huo Jianhua, Yang Mi, and Liu Shishi.

Compared to other actors in the industry, this girl has had a smooth journey since graduating from the Beijing Theater Academy.

"Tangtang, this time Director Wang is planning to make a new film with China Film Group, auditioning for castings."

"Boss Wu of our company has a good relationship with Director Wang. If Mr. Wu comes forward, Director Wang will definitely invite our actors to audition."

"Do you have any ideas?"

Tang Yan's agent asked.

(End of this chapter)