Coquettish Rebirth

Zhang Yuan's films are miserable, although investors had confidence in him, although he himself felt that making a commercial film seemed to be without pressure or difficulty.But the iron-like reality slapped him in the face, and it slapped him in the face hard!Such a film was screened for four weeks, that is, it was pulled off the assembly line hastily after one month.The total domestic box office is really only a little over 4000 million RMB!Such a data is too embarrassing!Even now, Zhang Yuan still remembers that he attended the premiere happily and full of expectations, but who knows that before the film started, he still felt that how could he have a box office of over 2000 million domestically, how could he become a box office of [-] million yuan As for one of the members of the club, who knew that after such a movie was played, the box office would be so ugly!The box office for the premiere was only around [-] million RMB. Where does this make him face?

Even Zhang Yuan can still remember that after the premiere, the faces of those donors who came all the way over were so ugly that they could eat him up!Even Zhang Yuan could feel that some of those funders were definitely thinking about whether to find Hei Se and force him to pay back the money, forcing him to return all the 7000 million money to the funders!Seeing this situation at the time, and thinking of the possibility, Zhang Yuan immediately spoke up in a panic. "Bosses, don't worry! Didn't we agree before that no matter how high the domestic box office is, basically we can't make back the cost, and our bulk is still abroad, abroad! There are so many countries in the world, even if we Only 1000 million copyright fees were sold. Then we can still make a small profit! After selling 800 million US dollars, it basically pays back, right? Everyone, don’t worry, don’t worry..."

It was only by such quick-witted persuasion that the benefactors were persuaded.At this time, Zhang Yuanna was in a cold sweat. He really didn't expect this to be so dangerous!When he got home, he was in a cold sweat!At that time, he had the urge to pack up and run away, okay?On the other hand, after he calmed down, he thought about it again. The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't understand why he couldn't reach the level and achievements of Jia Hongjian and the others?In his opinion, Jia Hongjian's "Hero" is not a good film at all!In his opinion, it is simply something that can be photographed casually!Why did he give Jiang Wen the authority after he took the photo casually?Why haven't you finished filming yet?Could it be Jiang Wen's problem?

Not so much.In Zhang Yuan's opinion, the things that Jiang Wen photographed are indeed acceptable, otherwise he would not be happy to see Jiang Wen grab the class and seize power!The more he thought about it, the more strange he felt. Why did Jia Hongjian and his films look so silly and simple, and how could they make money?Like in Jia Hongjian's "Heroes".It's all a plot of mysteries.Isn't it just to scare the audience for a moment?Zhang Yuan also chose such a setting.Didn't he attribute the reason to the relic in the end? Didn't he make the relic seem to be awesome? Why didn't all of this please the audience?

It's time for this video to go offline.Looking at the box office of only a little over 4000 million, this yuan is really incomprehensible.He originally thought that with such a film he made, how could the box office exceed [-] million, and how could he earn at least half of the cost back, but now that he looks at it like this, he hasn't even earned one-third of the cost back? !Is it really possible to sell the copyright abroad later?Are you looking for Jia Hongjian and the others to help sell the copyright?Can Jia Hongjian and the others help sell it?no!Now that Jia Hongjian is asked to help sell it, isn't that a sudden surrender?Didn't they immediately admit that Jia Hongjian's level is good?

He has always refused to admit that Jia Hongjian and the others are good at it!He always thought that the things Jia Hongjian and the others photographed could be photographed by anyone!Under such a situation, how could he ask Jia Hongjian for help?Didn't he lose all his face?Then in the eyes of the funders, wouldn't it be unnecessary to look for Zhang Yuan in the future, and just recruit Jia Hongjian and Zhang Yimou?The so-called Buddha fights for a stick of incense, and people fight for breath. We haven't sold overseas copyrights yet, so why can't we fight for it?

He paid attention to the overseas situation of "Hero". The film made by Jia Hongjian and the others had a box office of 1 million US dollars in the United States. It has been screened in other countries, and it is said that Jia Hongjian and the others expect the box office of "Hero" to be around 90 million US dollars in other countries around the world!If the overseas box office is added to the U.S., then the global box office outside of China is a total of 3 million US dollars, which is more than 24 billion yuan, while the domestic box office is only 4 million yuan, which is only a fraction!According to this ratio, it shouldn't be a problem for Zhang Yuan and his films to earn 7000 to 1000 million yuan at the international box office?Divide it up in a mess, and it shouldn't be a problem to get 2000 million yuan by then?Even if it’s a sellout instead of a share, then take a step back and finally sell [-] million, plus the domestic mix of more than [-] million and nearly [-] million, isn’t this also making money for the donors?Can't this be explained?So all of a sudden Zhang Yuan gained confidence, and all of a sudden he felt that he must be another Chinese director after Zhang Yimou who could make big commercial films and make money!

With this thought in mind, he reported it to the various donors.I have to say that such a plan of his is quite capable of fooling the donors.For the sponsors, it’s okay not to trust Zhang Yuan now, but the sponsors have asked for more to join in the business of selling copyrights, they must supervise them, and they must lead!But the problem is, the domestic box office of their film is so poor in China, only one-tenth of that of "Hero". How can such a film attract the interest of distributors in other regions?What if people spend money to buy it and no audience likes to watch it?

So after Zhang Yuan and the others begged their grandpa to sue their grandma and invited the viewing managers of distributors from various countries, they hurriedly made a trial screening and showed them the film.Originally, they had great expectations, thinking that after watching their films, the other party would definitely like their films, and at best it would be a bargain!But who knows that no one really wants to buy this film!That's right, it's no longer a question of how much to charge, it's a question of how few people are willing to buy it!Just like a small distributor like Lionsgate Films in the United States, they simply gave up the bid and were not willing to buy at all!According to the people of Lionsgate, if this film is released in the United States, it is estimated that it will be released in 10 theaters.Although "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was screened on a small scale at the beginning, this movie couldn't be as popular as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Therefore, the people of Lionsgate judged that this movie is at most in the United States. It's a box office hit of $10!

The $10 box office, combined with 1 theaters, looks like a theater with $10. This should be a good result!But don't forget, this is not the result of a week's release!If it is worth $[-] in ten theaters in a week, then proper theaters will continue to show it in theaters.But the problem is that such a $[-] box office is the total box office in such a period of time from the release to the offline!Under such circumstances, why talk about adding theater release?This is just talking, okay?From the perspective of Lionsgate, this film is not worth importing at all. Not only will it not make any money, but it will also waste time and manpower!They even have to implicate their company in accompanying the publicity fee!

The Lionsgate business in the United States is unwilling to spend money, and not many other countries are willing to spend money. At most, Hong Kong and Taiwan are willing to spend a little money, that is, several million yuan to buy out the copyright. As for Japan and South Korea, although they are reluctant to buy it, the price is too low!In the end, they fiddled with each other and negotiated a copyright sales fee of 100 million US dollars worldwide! $100 million!This is more than 800 million RMB!What does this make them do?What is such a small amount of money enough for?Even if the so-called domestic DVD sales fee is added, even if there are "fool" consumers to buy, how much can they buy?Today, when piracy is rampant, if 1 people from all over the country can buy it with super high prices to deceive fans, it is not bad. Each person has 400 yuan, which is 400 million.In addition to the sale of the TV broadcasting rights of the CCTV movie channel, it is estimated to be about 400 million. This account can be 800 million plus 800 million overseas copyrights, which is 1600 million. There is about 4000 million, but in the end they can only get back 1600 million?But they invested 3200 million yuan?This is tantamount to making the bosses lose more than half at once!How can this be fixed?

At that time, Zhang Yuan's face changed, okay? When he turned around, he wanted to run away!But those rich bosses let Zhang Yuan run away?These people are all people who went through various illegal activities or walked on the edge of legality and illegality in the early days of reform and opening up. Isn't that how they can have so much money today?As a result, such a Zhang Yuan cheated them more than 3000 million?And still want to run?They can let him go?yes!Zhang Yuan is a celebrity, so he can't vent his anger by killing him, otherwise the police will definitely investigate.But not being able to kill him doesn't mean not being able to give him a good beating!At that time, a group of local tyrants, men and women, blocked Zhang Yuan in the corner of the office and kicked him!At the end of the kick, after Zhang Yuan was taken away by the 120 ambulance, he lay in the hospital for half a month before getting out of bed!At this time, Zhang Yuan finally understood that in China, not everyone can shoot commercial blockbusters.It is almost the patent of Jia Hongjian and Zhang Yimou that making commercial blockbusters can still make money!

However, after Zhang Yimou flies solo, can he really make money for investors?Or without Jia Hongjian? (To be continued..)