Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

Chapter 30: Still Three Scripts
During the summer season, after a month of competition, countless wonderful stories happened.

There are some excellent films that were highly anticipated when they were first released, but ended up being a disappointment and received a lot of criticism.

I'm talking about "Tai Xuan". The box office almost broke 100 million on the first day of its premiere, and it seemed that a brilliant movie king was about to emerge.

As a result, word of mouth was bad from the beginning, and it took a sharp turn for the worse, with a rapid backlash.

Starting from the second day, the box office was cut in half, and since then the criticism has become louder and louder every day.

In the end, this was the fate of the original novel's fans, who cursed out all the shit about "Tai Xuan".

"The screenwriter doesn't need to change it, thank you."

"Adaptation is not random editing."

"I've discovered that screenwriters in the film and television industry always think they are so awesome that they look down on those who write novels. They always want to add their own ideas and change other people's stories. It's fine if you say your changes are good, but look at what you changed. Now whenever I see a TV show or movie adapted from a novel, I feel a little traumatized. It's like panning for gold in shit."

"You look down on them, but you want to buy their copyright. Isn't it just for the traffic of us original fans? But you look down on the original fans. You always think you are better if you tell this story, but the facts prove that you are really not good enough!"

"I see you and the witch are in love. I might as well go next door and watch people eating beef joy. My conclusion is that you are not as good as Brother Tyrannosaurus."

"Your Tyrannosaurus is infinitely rampant."

In the end, the score of "Tai Xuan" on Doujia was as low as 2.1.

Even if the cat's eye stone scores 9.8 or 9.9 with its eyes closed, it cannot bring back the average score.

In the end, the daily box office of "Tai Xuan" was only one or two million.

At first glance, this number doesn't seem to be very low.

But you have to know that this is "Tai Xuan", a movie whose box office on its premiere almost broke 100 million yuan.

For some small-budget movies, a box office of several million a day is already a very good result. If they can maintain it, they will make a lot of money.

But after all, it was a big production with an investment of 16 billion yuan, and the total box office has not even recovered half of the investment.

The investors are so angry that they are almost losing everything.

The performance of other films is also quite satisfactory.

Except for one movie.

The current summer box office rankings are as follows.

NO.1: "Road God 2"

Average screening rate: 24.42%.

Average number of people per game: 146.

First release box office: 6461.52 million (Hanxia Mainland)

Yesterday’s box office: 3812 million (RMB).

Cumulative box office: US$13.74 billion (global).

Average rating: 8.1.

Director: Aplus Argyle.

NO.2: "Fly Man 3"

Average screening rate: 22.42%.

Average number of people per game: 162.

First release box office: 7461.52 million (Hanxia Mainland)

Yesterday’s box office: 2421 million (RMB).

Cumulative box office: US$10.24 billion (global).

Average rating: 8.3.

Director: Bill Thomson.

No.3: Goodbye, Youth

Average screening rate: 17.42%.

Average number of people per game: 118.

Box office for the first screening: 3461.52 million (Hanxia Mainland).

Yesterday’s box office: 1262 million (RMB).

Cumulative box office: 12.78 billion (Hanxia Continent).

Average rating: 7.1
Director: Wang Danlei.

No.4: Pulp Fiction

Average screening rate: 16.42%.

Average number of people per game: 178.

Box office for the first screening: 71.52 million (Hanxia Mainland).

Yesterday’s box office: 768.11 million (RMB).

Cumulative box office: 9.56 billion (Hanxia Continent).

Average rating: 7.8
Director: Xia Yuan's work.

NO.7: Taixuan

Average filming rate: 7.43%
Average number of people per game: 21.

Box office for the first screening: 8142.74 million (Hanxia Mainland).

Yesterday’s box office: 121.11 million.

Cumulative box office: 4.37 billion (Hanxia Continent).

Average rating: 5.1
Director: Zhang Zelin's work.

It has been released for a month and is almost closed now. In fact, the box office has shown signs of weakness.

When it comes to box office, the growth rate is the fastest in the beginning, and then it will decline further.

Leading the way were the two Hollywood giants. Without "Tai Xuan" as a stumbling block, those two blockbusters naturally unleashed their commercial potential with unstoppable force.

The second is "Goodbye, Youth", which maintains a stable level.

The most unexpected one is "Pulp Comedy".

Many people can be said to have watched it come from behind and become the only one among the hit movies in the summer season with such dazzling data that it blinded people.

The premiere grossed 700,000 and it is currently ranked fourth!
Total box office 1 billion!
For a small-budget movie, this result is already terrifying. The investment in this movie was only 1000 million!

As for not being first, or top three.

There is no way, no matter how good "Pulp Comedy" is, it can't beat them. After all, it has certain limitations, and the restricted level will still restrict some things to a certain extent. Secondly, it is still due to the subject matter, and the upper limit is definitely not as high as those big movies. In addition, the main creative team is full of newcomers, so it is already extraordinary to have such a result.

The industry is talking about it all the time now.

On the other side, in early July, in an office.

Huang Jingyuan looked at the data in front of the computer with hatred.

He clenched his fists, as if he was holding back a lot of anger.

Because as shown on the interface, what he sees now is a Weibo interface full of insults.

It has been so long now since the release of "Tai Xuan", and it has been criticized so much. Some things are bound to come to light. His information has still been dug out, and people already know that he was the one who changed the script and his relationship with his family and so on.

So in the eyes of those netizens and fans, he became the culprit who caused "Tai Xuan" to fail.

How could Huang Jingyuan, who was already extremely proud, bear this?

"I don't know how to appreciate it! I don't know what real art is!"

Does he think he is wrong?

No, in fact, he still thinks that his filming was very good and the story was wonderful, but netizens and the market just don't know how to appreciate it.

For this purpose, he even opened his own account and went to Weibo to confront netizens in person, saying bluntly: You know shit.

He just couldn't stand those haters saying that what he made was not as good as "Penny Dreadful".

He later went to see the film.

To be honest, it would have been better if he hadn't watched it. After watching it, he really felt that if he had lost to a normal movie, it wouldn't have been this bad.

This film is too abstract, and Huang Jingyuan is unwilling to lose to it.

What depth does it have? Does it deserve it?
But what he got was even more violent scolding.

The netizen responded like this: "Depth? Story? Don't be ridiculous. Let's not talk about you having none of these. Even if we put aside the facts, you have no right to belittle "Penny Dreadful". The plot and story are logically clear and well-structured. Who says that movies must be elegant? I came out to watch a movie after work, exhausted as hell. Do you want to preach to you? If you really want to say that, then aren't the first two popcorn movies on the list purely commercial films? Aren't they just for fun? Is this story profound? Is it artistic? Don't be silly. Movies are art, but they are also entertainment. Having fun watching them is more important than anything else. I just like to watch people blanching mules, and you are the mule, being blanched hard on the ground."

At the same time, what he couldn't stand the most was that Xia Yuan, this bastard, was just being unreasonable.

He was pretending to be dead, but this idiot had to go to the group and @ him one by one, including those classmates who had previously accused him.

Then one person sent a question mark.

The villain had such a smug look on his face that he wanted to crawl over along the Internet cable and slap the bastard to death.

It's just a thought.

The next moment, his office door was knocked open.

"Who is it?" Huang Jingyuan was still very impatient.

But the next moment, a middle-aged man with a gloomy face walked in.

It turned out to be his father, a director in July, who was the one who got him into the crew.

His father, the director, came in and started to scold him, "Look at what you've done! I asked you to come in just to gain experience! Do you really have to make it so obvious? Why don't you just behave yourself? Why are you trying to be a hero? Do you think you are so capable that you can do anything? It would be fine if you really succeeded, but look at what you have done now!"

"But is this my fault?" Huang Jingyuan felt that he was wronged.

Why is the whole world targeting him?

"Damn it, who else should I blame if not you?!" His father couldn't stand it anymore.

I'm so smart, how could I give birth to such a stupid thing?

Although he personally went through the back door to submit the film for review and had all the clips of his son edited in, after all, they are the film's producer and can decide what will become of the film.

but!
It's a failure, so the blame is on him, right?
When did he get in through the back door?

"Do you know what's going on now? I, your father, have been badly hurt by you! Because of you, the company has lost more than a billion! This is more than a billion! The money belongs to the investors! And you, can you give them an explanation? I have been held accountable and demoted! I have been fired to the bottom! And you, your contract has been terminated!!"

"what?"

Huang Jingyuan's mind buzzed, and he went offline: "Dad, you have to save me. You were also involved at the time, otherwise my clip would not have been accepted."

"There's no hope. Just wait to die. This matter has nothing to do with me." His father almost bit his teeth.

This is really going to kill his own father!
Huang Jingyuan felt dizzy.

If you ask why he is so arrogant, it is largely because of his father and his own background.

I never thought about the seriousness of the problem before.

But now that his father mentioned it, when the real crisis came, he realized how serious the problem was.

Done
This happened in July.

As for what Huang Jingyuan is like and what he will face, not to mention that Xia Yuan doesn't know, even if Xia Yuan knows, he may not take it to heart.

It has nothing to do with him. They are not the same kind of people. Anyway, he has already fought back. His main point is that he can't stand any grievance.

Otherwise, others are openly looking down on you. Do you still want to repay evil with kindness after you have turned things around? Help others up with a smile?
Why are you pretending? Xia Yuan is not into this.

Damn, you're so hypocritical. Why act so fake? Just be what you want to be. If you want to be petty, just be open about it.

For example, he directly @ed people one by one in the group, all of whom were the people who dissed him the most some time ago.

However, including Huang Jingyuan, everyone started pretending to be dead.

"Boring." Xia Yuan curled his lips and looked at the group chat.

On the contrary, those people who had followed him in criticizing him before have now changed their attitudes one by one.

"Congratulations to Director Xia on his hit movie!"

"You are indeed the best in your profession. You deserve the reputation, God Xia!"

"Congratulations to God Xia!"

"I've felt you can do it since the beginning. Can you take me to play sometime?"

"Is Xia Yuan in Xinhai now? Is he free to have a meal with me? I'll treat you so we can keep in touch."

The tone of voice was straight up.

The name became 'Xia Shen'.

Attitude, the main thing is to be flexible and happy to lick.

Fish more.

Xia Yuan curled his lips, feeling bored, and closed the group chat without paying any attention to anyone.

Instead of talking nonsense with these realistic fence-sitters, he has more important things to do now.

He looked at the three A4-bound books placed in front of him.

There is a name written on each book.

"Seven Swords", "Kung Fu Yoga", "Master".
(End of this chapter)