Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 503 Magnificent Waves
In addition to the movie "My Lucky Star", this National Day movie has a strong rival "Dear".

This movie is a combination of Yan Zi and Huang Bo. Ali is of course indispensable behind this combination. Those who understand will understand.

In addition, Guangguang is also involved. It can be said that the combination of two strong forces is invincible in this era.

Alibaba has money, people and resources, but it’s just that Alibaba is not familiar with this market yet.

There is also a movie called "The Golden Era", directed by Xu Anhua, and it is a combination of Youku, Enlight, LeTV, and Baidu. Baidu also used its big data to predict that the box office of this movie will exceed 3 million.

This company just makes a few random predictions and accomplishes nothing!
Another one is "Black and White 2", a production from Taiwan, and Huang Bo also stars in it.

Huang Bo has endless resources. If Fang Hong hadn't replaced the actors in "My Lucky Star", he would have had three movies released during this National Day period.

He is simply the darling of all major capitals and film and television companies. There is no other way, in this era, he is the only one who can carry the box office.

Zhang Songwen is still a little worse than him, whether in terms of emotional intelligence or personal ability, he is far behind him.

Apart from these movies, there are only some unremarkable movies and cartoons.

The investors behind this National Day slot indicate that major capitals are beginning to test the waters in the film industry and are starting to deeply participate in film projects.

Because there are more and more investing capital institutions and Internet companies.

In order to cope with the competition, Tu Piaopiao discussed with the main creators such as Yutu Han Jianv and launched a ticket subsidy campaign for "My Lucky Star", once again offering the ultra-low price of 9.9 yuan for watching movies.

It has to be shown that about 30% of moviegoers buy their tickets online, which means that another 70% buy their tickets offline.

It needs to be expanded again to bring those people online.

Of course, the main reason is that the competition in the current ticketing market is extremely fierce. It is at a white-hot stage and other competitors need to be eliminated.

We also have to deal with the pursuit and blockade of the giants.

It’s just because the giants are getting involved in the film market from all areas, not only through investment and acquisition, but also through the cooperation between Tencent and Wanda to create an era of micro-films.

He even bought Guevara with great generosity!

Guevara used to be able to compete with Tu Piaopiao and was Tu Piaopiao’s biggest competitor, but now he has been swallowed up by capital. He is so plain and simple.

Of course, in this market, countless companies go bankrupt every day, and countless companies are established every day.

Take Wanda for example. It not only invests, but also sets up its own Wanda Cinema APP ticketing platform.

Tencent has also set up its own QQ ticketing service, the main focus of which is to cultivate the Gu and emphasize participation.

Even if you fail, you are still alive from your investment.

In fact, one of them is the largest cinema entity and the other has the largest traffic. Logically, they should have been successful, but they failed one after another.

This fully demonstrates that strength is not enough to enter this market. Strength is just a threshold. If the product is not good, it will not work.

First of all, we must make good products and provide good services. Unfortunately, neither Tencent nor Wanda has such genes.

Fang Hong also knew that Wanda and Tencent had always been dishonest and had never thought of betting on his Tu Piaopiao, so he had always held the controlling stake.

Of course Fang Hong himself was not honest either. The Tu Piao Piao was given to him for personal use, a link in the chain.

Not only Wanda and Tencent participate in this film market through ticketing platforms, but Alibaba also got involved and launched Taobao Movies, which was the predecessor of Taopiaopiao.

In addition, Huayi, Bona and others have also started to develop ticketing platforms, which can be described as very chaotic.

Bigwigs, institutions, and capital are all pouring into this industry, which is a manifestation of the influx of hot money.

It's true that as one group dies, another group comes.

All aspects of the current Internet market are competing and expanding, not only the ticketing platforms, but even the taxi wars are competing.

The two major players, Didi and Kuaidi, are spending money like crazy.

The mobile phone industry is also not peaceful. Lenovo spent 29 billion US dollars to acquire moto, trying to replicate its successful path in the PC industry.

Huang Zhang announced his return and vowed to lead Meizu to a great comeback.

360 and Coolpad formed a joint venture company, Qihoo, to re-enter the mobile phone market, intending to compete with Xiaomi, which was at its peak at the time.

Boss Jia, who is a man of many talents, announced the "SEE Plan" in a high-profile manner. In simple terms, it means he is going to build cars and enter the automotive industry, and FF is stepping onto the historical stage.

New car-making forces such as Xiaopeng, Weilai, Youxia, and Singularity have also been established one after another, and the Internet car-making craze has begun to spread.

This is truly a magnificent era, but Fang Hong cannot afford it and does not have the funds. He now just wants to make his own short videos.

Accumulating cloud computing and AI is what he should do. Cloud computing is helpful for videos and special effects.

It can speed up computing efficiency. For example, a special effect rendering takes ten days, but with cloud computing, it can be completed in one day.

This is the kind of calculation his field needs.

The ticket subsidy for "My Lucky Star" is in full swing, and Tupiaopiao announced: "The pre-sale box office of "My Lucky Star" has exceeded 1.1 million yuan."

They even posted a picture of the cinema seats, which were all red. This news made the film market very hot again.

The last time there were such hot pre-sales was when the film Bouquet was released, also without regard for cost.

Of course, Dear was not to be outdone, not only was it released ahead of schedule on the 25th, but the publicity was overwhelming. Even China National Radio, Beijing Times, Yangcheng Daily, Yanzhao Metropolis Daily, and NetEase Entertainment publicly supported it.

The first-day screening share was as high as 36.78%, ranking first.

This was a treatment that Fang Hong had never had before. When his movie was at its peak, it was a great achievement to have around 20% of the screening time.

Of course they have the power and status that other forces cannot compare to.

Of course, how much the box office will be depends on how the audience votes with their feet. It doesn't mean that you will definitely get a high box office just because you are awesome.

On the other hand, "The Nun" is still very popular around the world. It has been released for three weeks and has achieved three consecutive championships overseas.

This weekend, the film grossed another $80 million in 3540 overseas markets, bringing its cumulative total to $1.92 million. Together with North America, the cumulative box office in three weeks totaled $1.008 million.

The global total is US$2.928 million.

It has become the highest-grossing film in the Conjuring Universe in 32 overseas markets and Warner's highest-grossing film of the year in 26 markets, including Colombia, Sweden, Romania, etc.

The global box office has surpassed the previous final global box office of "Annabelle" of 2.57 million.

The North American box office will soon surpass "The Conjuring" and "Annabelle" to become the second highest-grossing film in the history of the Conjuring Universe's North American box office.

Such a result can be described as terrifying. The Conjuring series is really powerful.

Of course, this is in the category of horror movies, and cannot be compared with those science fiction, IP, and superhero movies.

This movie had a huge impact, not only in terms of box office. Some people even complained on YouTube that the pop-up ads for this movie were too scary, and it was collectively complained by a large number of users.

“You can’t skip the ads while watching a video, and you can’t choose whether to watch it or not.”

“Almost had a heart attack from a pop-up ad for The Nun.”

After controversy and user complaint letters, YouTube banned the pop-up ad and said: "This ad violates the terrorist content policy! It will no longer appear in ads."

Of course, the reputation of this movie is still bad, with a Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating of 26% and a CinemaScore rating of only C.

This is normal. Horror movies never have a good reputation. They are just scary but lack plot logic.

"The Nun" has not been taken off the screen yet, and it is still able to reap some box office revenue, and it will have no problem making over 300 million US dollars.

Currently, the flower growers can get about 7320 million US dollars. The exact amount will have to wait until after the next release.

Let’s not spend the money for now. Use all the remaining money to pay the film and television base. If there is not enough, Yutu will make up for it. We don’t have hundreds of millions left.

Basically, all the construction costs for the film and television base have been received, and the next step is to wait for the construction to be completed.

It has been under construction for more than a year and is almost finished.

Constructing the basic building is not difficult, but the troublesome part is the debugging of machinery and equipment and the installation of the system. Decoration and painting are not technical matters.

Of course, there will be maintenance costs in the future, but given Yutu’s current size, it is affordable.

If you don't have money, you don't have to think about anything. Once you have money, you spend it like water. After the film and television base is built, you have to set up a cinema chain, which is another huge expense.

In addition, there were expenses for the wedding, so I only bought one gold coin for Liu Tianxian, and the remaining four gold coins were not bought.

We still have to keep working hard to make money; the revolution has not yet succeeded.

The movie "The Nun" also has the online broadcasting rights for $3000 million. Of course, the actual number is more than this. It was authorized to Warner and they also need to share the profits.

After all, this movie is so popular and the overseas market is large enough, so the copyright fee is still very high.

Later, Netflix successfully bid for a movie with a box office of 4.5 million US dollars, "Knives Out", at a high price of million US dollars.

Think about how high Hollywood's copyright fees are.

Of course, for 4.5 million, Netflix not only purchased the broadcasting rights of this movie, but also bought all the subsequent IP copyrights.

Not only are domestic film and television copyrights rising in price, the same is true abroad. This is also the reason why Netflix wants to create original works, as it really cannot afford the copyrights.

In fact, the paths for film and television are the same both at home and abroad, it’s just that other countries’ markets are large enough.

The revenue of 30 million US dollars from the online broadcasting rights was basically all given to Yu Xian.

If he made a few more movies like this, he would be able to achieve financial freedom sooner rather than later.

Now he cannot achieve financial freedom yet, he is still a house slave and still working. Who made him buy such an expensive house?

But it would be worth a lot of money if he sold it.

In addition, there are other income expenses such as DVD and TV payments, and game peripheral development, which are not calculated at this time.

It is said that the sales of all categories of derivative products such as dolls, clothing, decorations, etc. from the movie "The Nun" have exceeded 1 million US dollars.

The sales of a single portrait, which is the scary portrait of the heroine who looks like a "ghost", reached more than 50 million US dollars, which is still very profitable.

Foreigners are also perverts, they like to buy those scary things, but there are all kinds of people in this world.

(End of this chapter)