At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 333 Running Issue (13)

According to the signed contract, Shen Xudong can get 8% of the profit...

In other words, the total profit is 6000 million!
The company invested 40% and got 2400 million...

It stands to reason that the money should not be settled until at least half a year later - this is the case with the theater chain's settlement, and it will be transferred to the issuer after three to half a year!

But... Tang Ren directly remitted the money belonging to Shen Xudong in one lump sum after getting the audio-visual copyright account.

It's normal, after all, we will continue to cooperate with Xudong in the future!

In addition to "Sanxian Village: Beauty in the Underground Palace", Shen Xudong also wrote three scripts, "Longyun Town Strange Talk", "Ghost Stories and Strange Talk: Xiangyun Temple", and "White Yu Town"...

They are all about the same way.

Shen Xudong provided the general idea, and then the company assigned a few people to complete it—it is impossible for him to write it alone, and he is not a machine, so he can achieve accurate memory.

Well, Tang Ren and Tianmei Media co-produced it.

Horror and thriller films, as long as the cost is controlled, the income is still very stable!

"Legend of the Xing'anling Hunter" is like this - pre-roll ads + audio-visual copyrights and overseas copyrights directly accounted for 4400 million, after deducting costs, the profit exceeded 4000 million!
Of course, the publicity expenditure is as high as 800 million...

In fact, Shen Xudong thinks that the domestic box office of "Legend of the Xing'an Mountain Hunter" should not exceed that of "The Fox Wife in the Mountain Village"...

The first bite of crab is already full, and the audience should not be so interested in the second bite.

It is estimated that it is just over 2000 million...

But even if it is in the early 2000 million, there is something to make!

The good news is that there are no heavyweight blockbusters in April, and the bad news is the same-the absence of heavyweight blockbusters means that the market is cold, and the audience is too lazy to go to the cinema...

Therefore, publicity is needed!

But this time, Shen Xudong will not go to Hong Kong to promote.

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"The horror movie I want is the kind of weird and chilling feeling when we watched "Liaozhai" when we were young or listened to old people telling stories about Huang Daxian."

"Folklore tales and country tales...my classification of "Legend of the Hunter in Xing'an Mountains" including "The Fox Wife in the Mountain Village" is this type."

The movie was released, Shen Xudong accepted the interview, the interview of "Popular Cinema"...

"Popular Movies", "Global Screen", "Movie World", and "Watching Movies" are among the movie magazines with very good sales nowadays.

In particular, "Popular Movies" created a single issue of 947 million copies that year, maintaining the world record for the highest sales volume of a movie magazine.

Back then, being on the cover of "Popular Cinema" was the honor second only to the "Hundred Flowers Award" for every star!

At this stage, it still maintains a sales volume of more than 50 per issue, which is still very valuable for publicity.

The authors of the articles in "Popular Movies" are generally film critics and ordinary movie fans, and the readers are a large number of movie fans and movie viewers. The articles are mainly information, movie reviews, columns, celebrity interviews, etc.

Such magazines are also one of the targets for filmmakers to advertise, and have a certain influence on the box office of new films.

Later, I subscribed to a large number of movie-related official accounts on my mobile phone, and I can see the latest movie information anytime, anywhere, diluting these paper media carriers...

Everyone is lonely!

"Of course, when implementing it in the script, we must pay attention to four words: simple and direct! "Legend of the Xing'an Mountain Hunter" actually expresses a truth: In front of human nature, there is no distinction between rich and poor..."

"Cao Langzhong, who is so poor that his pockets are more clean than his face, seems cowardly, and he will betray his promises and even kill people because of money; the village chief who only wants to sell his land for money, but he also looks simple and honest on the surface; he walked out of the mountain village , A young man who grew up eating a lot of food can also grow into a ruthless, scheming careerist..."

"Did you consider censorship when you created it?"

"Of course!" Shen Xudong nodded: "I made up a bunch of lines, like 'There are no ghosts in the world, there are only people', 'Looking at people with the eyes of ghosts, there are ghosts everywhere; looking at people with the eyes of Buddha, all living beings are Buddhas.' Actually It is telling the person in charge of approval that there are no ghosts in this movie!"

"So, there is no way to do this?"

"Yeah!" Shen Xudong nodded: "It doesn't matter who the movie maker is, they must hate reviewing... I am the same, in fact, cultures are diverse, and mainstream values ​​are very important, but sometimes we can also think about marginal cultures... Of course, I know it's not easy..."

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Shen Xudong was simply talking about his thoughts.

Of course he knew it was impossible.

According to memory, until 30 years later, the higher authorities treated movies very harshly.

In fact, the early film studios were all state-run. At that time, they basically shot their own films and reviewed them themselves. Of course, they also included superior reviewers. However, a complete film review system has not yet been formed.

Movies are gradually being marketed and commercialized, and the review system has gradually developed accordingly.

To put it bluntly, those in charge of the review don't care about the economic benefits and commercial returns of the film.

The development of the film market has nothing to do with me. There is only one standard, that is, "three views must be correct, and no mistakes should be made."

But this standard is actually vague.

There is only one big framework, and under the premise of a few absolutely untouchables, there are still some unknown requirements.

This is very embarrassing!
Because you are facing the fear of the unknown.

Why do you say this?
Want to make news?
In fact, he asked the question, and he answered it...

To sum it up, after the promotion started, Shen Xudong ran more than a dozen interviews in three days, including five TV stations...

Also shot a few magazine covers.

No way, the biggest selling point of "Legend of the Xing'an Mountain Hunter" is him.

The most important thing is to run the distribution!
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The release of mainland movies is going through a transition stage—from the unified order and distribution in the planned era to the free sale under the market economy.

But the diversification of products has not yet been realized, that is, no matter which theater you are in, the movies released at the same time are the same!
Therefore, competition is often just competition between filmmakers.

Film producers and theaters cannot form a game, and theaters are the dominant party!

Therefore, one of the issuing business of the issuer is the maintenance and operation of various relationships.

Tang Ren's distribution channels are very weak, and Tianmei Company can't even talk about distribution channels...

You make two or three movies a year, and you want the theater to support you no matter the cost?

Do you think you are Mou?
Shen Xudong is still a bit short. Although "Legend of the Hunter in Xing'an Mountains" looks very good, it still has to be published. Yu Dong also ran away with "With You" by the little poet in his hand. Most of the theaters in the country have sold copies...

——In the past, it was enough to distribute and sell copies. At that time, it was the era of unified purchase and marketing. When a film was shot by the producer, copies were sold, and those who did not participate in the share would get as much as the number of copies sold. The box office had nothing to do with the producer. One copy sells for 1.05, and the national income is 10 for selling 10.5 copies, and 100 million for selling 105 copies.

It doesn't work now, the cost of copying is paid by myself, and the settlement money is only box office dividends!

But everyone is very realistic. Movie theaters are not interested in movies. Even if you drink to death, people will not buy your copy!
But if it's a movie that the cinema wants to buy, drinking is just a formality.

Therefore, Shen Xudong's release went very smoothly, just to meet up, have a meal, and chat a few words...

Of course, I also met people who wanted to enter the industry...

(End of this chapter)