At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 739 Big Winner?
Compared with Marvel, Warner Bros. with DC in hand is really a crazy start!

Nolan's "Batman" trilogy directly made DC famous, and was overtaken by Marvel!

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the number one classic business plan in the entire business history, with long-term planning and precise execution, from character setting to plot arrangement, from burying eggs to selling peripherals, from inside to outside the show, every step is on point, just to make you like it, so that you can pay for it;
In fact, Warner also wanted to do this at the beginning, but instead of finding a project manager like Kevin Feige, they found a video artist who loves symbols...

And Warner Bros. really used to meddling in projects!

DC is only treated as an IP under Warner, and Warner has to get involved in everything from director to editor to actor...

With such a major premise, it is strange to be able to sell blockbuster works!

It doesn't matter, anyway, Warner still has Harry Potter and Middle Earth...

Speaking of "The Wicked Man", Warner Bros. is so good that it actually got a PG-13 rating. You must know that the original version of "The Wicked Man" is a proper R rating!
Warner helped win the opening of 3500 theaters!
It set a record for the opening of works by Wonderful Studio. You must know that the number of "Twilight Saga" is only 3400...

Then, the box office was 1523 million US dollars on the first day, 1868 million the next day, and 1684 million US dollars on the third day...

The three-day box office in the first weekend exceeded 5000 million US dollars!
And the word-of-mouth is overwhelming: Rotten Tomatoes is 95% fresh, Rotten Tomatoes popcorn index is 95%, the average audience score is as high as 4.7 stars (out of 5 stars), the MTC comprehensive score is 78, and the IMDb average score is as high as 8.5 points. CinemaScore Audience Rating of A…

Anyway, a bunch of messy data are proving that "Biography of the Wicked" has great stamina...

But for Shen Xudong, the most important thing was over on the first day of the release of "The Evil Man" - the movie sold well, proving that there is a market for the American version adaptation!

Then... Can the follow-up "Hot Detective", "The Guy Inside Me" including "Lucky Key" be made into an American version?

……

"Painted Skin" was released on September 9th, and the distribution company, Tianmei, simply released "Hard Detective" directly...

The release time is 35 days.

The cumulative total box office is 2.25 million, surpassing "The King of Kung Fu", temporarily ranked No.4 in the year, second to "Cao Cao", "Returning to 20", and "The Ancient City", which is just about 1000 million more than "Red Cliff"...

That's right, the top four are all films produced by Tianmei Company.

A bunch of media outlets made stocktaking, among which "Southern Weekend" was the most widely circulated, summarizing from the beginning of the year to "Hard Detective":
At the beginning of the year, "Cao Cao" swept across Asia and won a global box office of 1.45 million US dollars. It is reported that the production cost of "Cao Cao" was 6000 million yuan. Among them, the Japanese box office broke the Japanese box office record of Chinese-language movies, reaching 5500 million US dollars;
"People on the Journey", released at the end of February, continued the path of low-budget comedy, and surprisingly launched the combination of Xu Zheng + Wang Baoqiang. The two of them, together with Huang Bo and Shen Teng, formed the comedy team of Tianmei Media...

At the beginning of April, "Zhao Zilong 2" competed with "Jianlong Unloading Armor", Shen Xudong once again proved that he is the real helmsman of the Three Kingdoms series. The most critical factor for the success of the first "Zhao Zilong" is him!

"Southern Stars" in May [-]st was unlucky to meet two super-producers "The King of Kung Fu" and "Iron Man". In addition, "Southern Stars" cast is too weak. Even with good word-of-mouth blessings, it still failed at the box office...

At that time, many people in the industry bad-mouthed Tang Yan, and then, "Back to 20" starring her set a box office record of 2.85 million, which was surprising-it is reported that the cost of "Back to 20" was less than 2000 million!
Moreover, "Back to the Age of 20" is a book with two shoots, and the Korean version is also a big hit, with the Korean domestic newspaper closing close to 6000 million US dollars. I heard that the Vietnamese, Japanese and Thai versions are all under planning!
We have all foreseen the big hit of "The Ancient City of Essence", after all, the original work of this film is too popular.

But we are still gratified by the scale of "Exquisite Ancient City", but I am also worried for "Exquisite Ancient City"-such a scale will make it difficult for future bad movies to be played by the General Administration...

The final box office score of 3.92 million not only broke the box office record in mainland film history, but also told all investors that the mainland market is enough to accommodate a major production with an investment of over [-] million.

In addition, the overseas score of "The Ancient City" is close to 4400 million US dollars. The staff of Tianmei revealed that they have received overseas advance payments for the last few films in several countries and regions...

Finally, there is "Hot Detective".

Jackie Chan said that when he was promoting "The King of Kung Fu", he said, "Actually, "The King of Kung Fu" is a film for Americans, and Chinese audiences may not like it." '

He was right.

Therefore, even with Jet Li + Jackie Chan, the box office of "The King of Kung Fu" is still not as good as "Hot Detective"!
Chinese audiences are growing rapidly. Xudong said that in the future, if a theater film wants to succeed in the market, it should have one of the following two characteristics: one, it can reflect the strength of the strong film industry, and the immersive audio-visual experience cannot be replaced by watching TV at home;

The value of stars and casts is gradually weakening until they disappear completely.

Well, the "Southern Weekend" article mainly analyzes the movies themselves. Although there are views, they are only among readers. On the Internet, people discuss more about Shen Xudong or how much money Tianmei Media has made through these movies!

It's strange, many times people are very concerned about the profitability of the movie, they won't give you money if they make money, and it's not your money that loses money...

In fact, it is easy to explain: the economic base determines the superstructure.

If the movie business was completely unprofitable, we wouldn't see as many good movies.

Not every good movie is for the purpose of profit, but the overall profitability of the film industry determines the height that a movie can reach.

To put it another way, the official website of Tianmei Media does not have the cost information of specific projects, but only an approximate figure. For example, "Hard Man Detective" writes that the total cost is 3500 million US dollars.

This is the result of adding the publicity cost and then ×3.

After all, exaggerate a little, it's good for publicity!
A movie with a cost of 3000 million or a cost of 300 million, which one would you choose?
Therefore, it is difficult for netizens to calculate the specific data... But the netizens who are very powerful can't help but calculate the cost and profitability through Golden Harvest's financial report...

Golden Harvest invested 25% of these projects.

It must be included in the financial report - in September, the financial report for the second quarter will be released, and the film's investment and profitability will be clearly written.

Among them, "Back to 20" invested 500 million yuan, accounting for 25% of the investment, and made a profit of more than 4000 million yuan, a small part of which was the distribution commission;

They concluded that the total cost of "Back to 20" was 2000 million and earned 1.6 million...

"Exquisite Ancient City" invested 3000 million, accounting for 20% of the investment share. After deducting the 2500 million publicity expenses in Southeast Asia, "Exquisite Ancient City" made a profit of nearly 2000 million...

Plus there's stats from Twilight, Saw the Devil...

Taken together, Golden Harvest’s total revenue in the second quarter was close to 19 billion, with a profit of 1.3 million—the main expenditure was too high, and 12 theaters were planned for construction and 10 theaters were renovated…

It doesn't matter, the public is more concerned about the data of a few movies, and after doing various calculations, they come to the final conclusion: Tianmei Media made more than 3 million dollars in one summer, and Shen Xudong made more than [-] million dollars...

(End of this chapter)