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Chapter 409 "Edge of Tomorrow" trial meeting! (The third update asks for a subscription! Ask for a monthly pass!)

Time has entered the National Day file, and with the increasingly fierce competition in popular time slots, "Painted Skin" hit the box office of 2 million in the National Day file last year.

The love movie "Love in the Hawthorn Tree" directed by Zhang Yimou was released half a month earlier, on September 9.

It may be that the producer is not confident enough, so he chose to release it half a month earlier.

After all, last year's "Three Shots Surprise" made a lot of money for the new picture, but it also ruined Zhang Yimou's character.

The box office of this movie is also very bad, the box office on the first day is rarely less than [-] million!

This is Zhang Yimou's movie, the box office on the first day is less than 1000 million!

Although the box office predicted by people in the circle was not high, after all, it is a love movie, and "Three Shots Surprise" still made the audience feel lingering.

But it was less than [-] million on the first day, and I was still stunned.

This is Zhang Yimou. After "Hero", which movie has a box office of less than 1000 million on the first day?
In this era when the box office can easily reach 3000 to 1 million in a single day, as the No.1000 domestic film director, the box office on the first day was less than [-] million.

This also shows how deeply Zhang Yimou hurt the hearts of the audience last year. No matter how loyal a movie fan is, he dare not walk into the cinema easily, for fear of being stimulated again.

But Lao Mouzi is Lao Mouzi after all. This movie, which is called the cleanest love in history, has a good reputation, and finally got 1.5 million box office.

This good-quality love movie also helped Zhang Yimou restore his character, and then won the annual box office champion next year with "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" in one fell swoop.

At the end of September, Wu Yusen's martial arts movie "Sword Rain" and Xu Ke's five-year-old costume martial arts blockbuster "Di Renjie: Tongtian Empire" were released one after another.

"Sword Rain" is Wu Yusen's first film under the supervision of Galloping Pony, but the box office is quite poor, less than 500 million on the first day, and just reached 6000 million in one month of release.

And "Di Renjie: Tongtian Empire", a martial arts film that Xu Ke is good at, performed well, approaching 2000 million on the first day.

Just because it was released during the National Day holiday, it got a high box office of 5 million in the first 1.2 days. This first week alone is much higher than the box office of the "Seven Swords" he made five years ago.

Then in the second week, it will take another 9000 million, 2.1 million in two weeks, and the box office will be fixed at 2.8 million in one month of release.

Xu Ke swept away the decline of the year and became the seventh domestic director with a box office of over [-] million!

In October, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was also screened on the terrestrial channels of three TV stations in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anwei, and Beijing to test the waters. It achieved quite good ratings in these three places, even second only to the local satellite channels.

A week after it was released, a gun version has been circulated on the Internet. Although it is not very clear, it has caused a lot of repercussions on the Internet.

The three major TV stations also made statistics for the local area, and even before the broadcast was over, they sent people to discuss the right to broadcast the first round of stars.

At this time, Tang An was not in a hurry anymore, these three TV stations just wanted to win the broadcasting right before the other TV stations could react.

After four or five days, other TV stations also heard the news, and basically all the first- and second-tier TV stations sent people to come.

After two days of negotiations, the price of the first round of copyright was finally determined on November 11th.

Jiangsu-Zhejiang Satellite TV and Dragon TV each bought the right to broadcast the first round at a high price of 105 million per episode.

Beijing Satellite TV and Anwei Satellite TV, two ground-testing TV stations, failed to compete with these two major first-line satellite TVs.

At present, these two TV stations can be regarded as the first-line satellite TV after CCTV and Shonan TV.

After two hours of difficult negotiations, the contract was signed. Tang An breathed a sigh of relief, shook hands with the directors of the film purchasing departments of the two major TV stations, and invited, "Director Liu and Director Zhao, it's a happy cooperation. I've already made a reservation at the Four Seasons Hotel next door. location, let’s have a light meal together.”

"Tang Dong is too polite, I have to go back to work, when the time comes, let's have a good drink at the celebration party."

"Alright, then I'll just wait."

The two directors didn't stay too long, the contract had already been finalized, and then the two satellite TV stations had to discuss the broadcasting time and other specific matters.

210 million episodes, 76 episodes are nearly 1.6 million, and they can share 70%, which is 1.12 million.

And the cost of 5000 million was borrowed from the income of "Tai囧", which has been repaid long ago.

This also means that the group's liquidity has increased by 1.12 million!
In addition, the income of "Painted Skin 2" has also arrived in the account. After removing the cost of 3500 million, there is still 5500 million in profit.

Adding in the 2.67 million cash on the group's books, there are now [-] million available funds.

Money is meant to be spent, and it is useless to hold it in your hands.

The group now has 5 directors, except for Xu Zheng, there are four more, two of them are newcomers, without any ability to direct alone.

But it doesn't matter for newcomers, they have proved their abilities later, what they lack is just a little bit of experience.

As for TV dramas, as long as the script is OK, there is a professional crew, and the director's ability is above the pass line, the things produced are not bad.

The company's screenwriter, Curry, currently has more than a dozen adapted TV drama scripts. Yang Wenjun took a fancy to Gu Man's "Why Shengxiaomo" and wanted to make this movie.

The script of this film is only 32 episodes, which is actually not worthwhile in this era when online copyrights have not yet exploded.

Even if there will be a wave of peaks in online copyright fees next year, there are a lot of single-episode million-dollar episodes, and there are many more than 150 million, but they are still low.

It's just a matter of earning less, Tang An didn't care, so he approved Yang Wenjun's project and asked the TV drama business department to check the cost of the single integration. Yang Wenjun would choose the actors himself, and the artists of the group would be given priority.

The other two new directors Lu Xing and Wang Wei also asked them to choose the script by themselves.

Both of these two people have experienced Yang Wenjun and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" for half a year before, so there should be no problem.

Which of the young directors who were able to achieve great success in the future is not a genius of the genius breed. Since they are geniuses, let them do it.

As long as the script and crew are okay, the resulting film will not be bad.

For the time being, the plan for the three TV series for next year has been determined first. Now that there is money in hand, it will be spent immediately. Tang An asked all departments to come up with any ideas, and use the money as soon as possible to create greater value.

On November 11th, all the post-production of "Edge of Tomorrow" had been completed at this time, and Optoelectronics took a copy to submit for review. In the morning, Tang An made an appointment with Yu Dong, Wang Changtian, Qin Hong, and more than ten theaters in China to operate it. The head of the department went to a Xingmei Cinema in Chaoyang District to try it out.

I didn't choose IMAX3D, just ordinary Dolby dual-camera 3D, the projection equipment and screen quality are above average, and the effect of the movie can be seen more intuitively.

(End of this chapter)