I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 751: National Day No. 23 ()

The cost of "Keep You Safe" is 9000 million...

Most of the guest actors are paid at a friendly price, which refers to the production cost + publicity and promotion.

If the box office exceeds 300 million, the investment can be recovered, and a small profit can be made - streaming media, TV rights and even overseas rights are also considered income.

Over 500 million in four days~
The box office of "Keep You Safe" on the first day was 6500 million, the next day (October 10), 1 million, the third day 1.95 million, the fourth day, 1.87 million...

After four days of release, the cumulative box office reached 5.23 million!
It has been suppressing "The Journey Home" all the way. "The Journey Home" also performed well. After four days of release, the cumulative box office has reached 5.5 million.

There will definitely be no problem in making a profit.

The cost of "A Thousand Miles Home" was 2.5 million yuan - the cost of raising funds externally was 3.5 million yuan...

It has increased by about 25%.

Again, banks will not provide mortgage loans for this type of IP, so a certain price must be paid to attract investors.

Many of the investment shares are actually second- and third-round betting...

At that time, the industry estimated that the box office of this movie would be over 30 billion, making it the leader of the National Day holiday.

Maoyan adjusted its expectations: The box office forecast for "The Journey Home" is 18 billion...

Judging from this result, even peripheral investors can get returns...

Of course, the probability is not very high...

After all, the discussion about "A Thousand Miles Home" online is not high - the industry believes that "A Thousand Miles Home" can top 50 billion this year, but this year it seems that people are not in a high mood to watch movies, so the conservative estimate is 30 billion... Now it seems that it may be halved...

The most surprising thing is "Ordinary Heroes" - after four days of release, the box office of "Ordinary Heroes" exceeded 7000 million. According to the trend, the final box office will be between 1.4 million and 15 billion.

The cost was 2.5 million!

The most important thing is that the core competitiveness of "Ordinary Heroes" does not lie in the cast, but in the fact that the film is adapted from the true event of "XJ Hetian rescuing the boy with a broken arm."

A similar movie adapted from a "positive energy event that shocked the whole country" is "The Captain", a film of the same type invested by Bona Film Group. It was released during the National Day holiday in 2019 and grossed 29.03 billion yuan.

With the same investment, the same director and a similar cast as "Ordinary Heroes", "The Bravest", which focuses on "fire heroes", grossed 17.03 billion yuan.

It doesn't work this time?

We are all filmmakers, so when discussing the National Day film, we will naturally pay attention to "Ordinary Heroes"...

Cao Baoping sighed: "In recent years, the film market has been flooded with a large number of mainstream movies. It seems that mainstream movies will not be popular anymore!"

Shen Liang shook his head: "It's not that mainstream movies don't sell, it's that mediocre movies don't sell!"

“…Yes, the sales of “A Thousand Miles Home” are still quite good…”

"Since The Captain, Bona has started using the close-up + jib shooting method, which is the live broadcast shooting method for evening parties... It has been continued for four films, and the audience has long been fed up with it! They also think this is a weapon to attract box office! The film's creative team only cares about making money, and all kinds of empty talk and affectation."

……

"The Beast Clawing at Straws" was filmed in Chongqing, and Shen Liang quite likes this city.

The houses in the center of CQ are tall and dense, full of surprises and freshness everywhere, and turning a corner may lead you to another world.

Besides, the name of this place is too random.

"Five kilometers have arrived", "Six kilometers have arrived", "Lijiatuo", "Tang Guangtou", "Mao Ge Lao Yatou", "Pig Pen Hot Pot"...

Some people say Chongqing is a man's paradise...

I can only say that the prejudice is too deep. If you are a goblin, you are a goblin wherever you go. If you are a prince charming, you are a prince charming wherever you go!
A wolf travels a thousand miles to eat meat, but a dog travels a thousand miles and eats shit wherever he goes.

The biggest difference from BJ is that it’s hot and stuffy!
And it was very humid... Liang Ge wandered around for a few days, and on the first day, he had a bowl of Chongqing noodles. When he ordered the noodles, the boss asked him in Chongqing dialect, how many taels of noodles would you like?

I am very confused and have no idea how to measure the unit of "liang".

The boss saw his confusion and gave him a normal portion.

He just gave me a normal bowl of rice and kept chatting with me.

The noodles tasted okay, salty, spicy, oily, fragrant and cheap.

In the next few days, Shen Liang ate noodles every day.

The next day, I was strolling with Zhao Liying and met several elderly people walking on the street with baskets on their backs. I called out to them and learned that they were selling maltose in their baskets, which was quite sweet...

On the third day, Shen Liang went to Jiefangbei and Chaotianmen...

On the fourth day, we took a night cruise...

It’s really beautiful.

On the fifth day, the driver took Shen Liang to Ciqikou.

Every city has its own snack street, such as Nanjing Confucius Temple, Wuhan Hubu Alley, Beijing Wangfujing, and of course Chongqing Ciqikou.

It is a gathering place for food, with many snacks and specialties. The area is quite large, suitable for leisurely strolling and eating.

There is one thing: Mandarin is extremely unpopular.

Basically, they communicate in dialect.

……

On the evening of October 10, Shen Liang returned to the hotel and opened the live broadcast room:
"I'm in Chongqing... I shoot for half a day every day, and the rest of the time I let the driver take me around..."

“I’ve never been here before…”

"I can't tell you the exact address. I always wear a mask and sunglasses when I go out, and I put on makeup... Few people can recognize me!"

"...Yes, I'm filming "Beasts Clawing at Straws". I think my part will be over by the end of October... You can watch it like "Crazy Moneybags". The role I play is just a plot and I die miserably..."

"Zhao Liying's character died the most tragically, she was dismembered..."

"…This movie is quite bloody and also quite niche…Maybe many people won't like it. I can't reveal too much, you will know when you watch it."

"'Keep You Safe' grossed 10 billion... I saw it... 'The Journey Home' also grossed 8 million!"

"I invested in both films. I was the main investor in Keep You Safe and I invested 10% in The Journey Home... I won't tell you the total cost, but you just need to know that both films did not lose money!"

"The film "The Journey Home" was called "The Interpreter" during the project establishment stage. Director Rao Xiaozhi did approach me... But I can't play Zong Dawei. This character has a prototype. The prototype of Zong Dawei is a middle-aged man... I'm not old enough, so I didn't take the role..."

“I read the reviews of “Keep You Safe” and I feel that everyone thinks highly of this movie…”

The most liked comment in Douban's "Keep You Safe" section is 'How should I put it? If this movie was made in a foreign country, Lei Jiayin was white, and Naza was black, they would have won the Golden Globe Award in the same year as "Green Book"! '

"If Han Lu is really a prostitute... this might not be a good commercial film!"

"I've seen many people say that this subject is appealing... A commercial film cannot pass the review if it's not appealing. If it can't pass the review, then it's all over! Therefore, our victim must be a perfect victim!"

"Because imperfections must be explored in depth, and once they are explored in depth, the film cannot be controlled..."

After chatting for a while, Shen Liang's phone rang. He looked at it, then turned it over and said to the more than 30 million people in the live broadcast room: "Sister Liying asked me to have supper together... I asked her to wait a moment..."

"We were just having a meal together. And we weren't eating alone. There were many actors in the crew eating together..."

(End of this chapter)