At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 768 Change of sky?

Look at the definition: Fan movies are a new type of film, focusing on fan groups, and generally have a low production cost. In short, movies made to cater to fans of a certain idol are only meaningful for certain groups of people.

Fan movies used to be called idol movies.

Back then, those bad movies that Zhou Jielun maxed out his fan credits to act in had let us know one thing: no matter how bad the movie is, as long as the starring person is popular, it will be fine.

It was originally a niche thing, but...many fans overlooked it: the time and space of movies are highly bound, and there is no separation of time and space.

That is to say, there are six halls in a theater. If your idol's movie is lined up, it will inevitably reduce the lineup of movies of the same period!

in addition…

With the advent of the traffic era, fan movies will definitely appear!

Because it is really profitable!

And... well produced, this type of movie generally doesn’t need to care too much about word-of-mouth, as long as it’s bad, it’s going to be bad, and it can make money anyway!

So, jump on it!
Squeezed directly from the minority into the mainstream.

Because of the film industry, regardless of whether it is a mature market or a non-established market, no more than 5% can make money, but...fan movies basically make money!
Investors are not fools, so they quickly figured out a set of formulas: small fresh meat + youth IP = small hits.

Therefore, domestic youth films and fan films are ingeniously integrated, such as "Little Times", "Left Ear", "To Youth 2", "Gardenia Blossoms" and so on...

Doesn't matter whether it's bad or not, you just say that it's making money?

Shen Xudong doesn't hate fan movies...

He doesn't think it's a scourge, he even thinks movies like "Little Times" are quite interesting, at least very delicate, Guo Jingming is really willing to spend money on costumes!

Especially after experiencing the Edinburgh incident, I really feel that "Little Times" is not dreamy at all, and it is even very documentary. After all, the story takes place in a place where foreigners come to have good wine and foreigners come to have guns...

……

"The Great Wusheng", Han Gen + Wu Zun, the director is short and tight...

No matter which level you judge from, Han Gen is more popular than Yang Xiaomi. After returning to China in 08, he directly served as the Olympic torchbearer, sang "BJ Welcomes You", and was even a Chinese astronaut in the US space training camp. …

Last year's album "Geng Xin" sold over one million!

It's so red...

But... "The Great Wusheng" Han Gen is the second fan, and my buddy directly rejects all promotional activities!

In addition... when the movie was released, it happened that Ai Dasong was enlightening in Longchang—drunken driving went in and reformed.

So, not a player at all.

"The Great Wusheng" and "The Grandmaster", which many colleagues have placed high hopes on, were released on the same day. The box office of the former was 384 million on the first day, and the box office of the latter was 4470 million!
That's right, 4470 million, but it failed to break the first-day box office record for domestic movies-the holder is "33 Days of Broken Love" with 4760 million on the first day!
But that's Valentine's Day.

Therefore, the media reports are "Shen Xudong's new work continues to shine after two years of sharpening" or "4500 million on the first day, setting a new box office record for award-winning movies!" "

That's right, the results on the first day set a new box office record for overseas award-winning films in the mainland...

In terms of word-of-mouth, Douban scored 8.8 points, and Mtime.com gave it 8.9 points...

"After watching "The Grandmaster", I said in my heart: "This is a movie! "

"Forgive my wild speculation about Shen Xudong before, thinking that "The Great Master" is a work that relies on narrative to win. This time Shen Xudong completely abandoned the narrative, or chose an extremely simple story, and then focused on carving the sense of form...It’s so beautiful !"

"After watching it, I sweated for Wang Jiawei. I feel that no matter how much he shoots, he probably won't be able to surpass it!"

"It's hard to imagine that this is Shen Xudong's first time shooting an action scene. Several action scenes are very good-looking. Chen Shijin broke into the hall, the funeral, the cotton wadding lined up under the knife at the train station, and the final breakthrough. They are both imposing and visual. beauty..."

Of course, there are also many people who think this story is too simple~
During the road show, Shen Xudong answered this question head-on: "I am a screenwriter, of course I know the story weight of "The Grandmaster"... But the more formal things are, the more they should be packaged in a simple story. Once the story becomes complicated, Movies will inevitably lose sight of one another..."

"Let's make the next one. Recently, I'm thinking about making a comedy + action + detective movie. It must rely on the story to win!"

……

In Hong Kong, after "The Grandmaster" was released, the box office on the first day was 220 million Hong Kong dollars. In the first four days, the cumulative box office was 980 million Hong Kong dollars. 190 million Hong Kong dollars...

But everyone seems to have little discussion—mainly this year's Hong Kong movie box office went to Nian Guanshi's "3D* Futon".

The first tertiary film that focuses on pornography, the local box office exceeded 4000 million Hong Kong dollars...

Overseas copyright income is close to 800 million US dollars...

It must have made a lot of money!
Therefore, it was exposed that "3D Jin Pingmei" and "3D Yan Tan" were snapped up by a bunch of companies...

Even McDangjie came out and said he wanted to make a film, and Liu Weiqiang also said, "It doesn't matter what type he is if he can sell well"...

Why didn't you shoot?

I don't know, maybe it's because I can't find an actor who is willing to play the role!

Well, it’s actually not selling out!

What Wang Jing said was right: the market for cyan films is too narrow, everyone can download them online, there is no need to specialize in shooting.

To put it another way, there is another reason why many Hong Kong filmmakers are excited about the box office of "3D* Futon": this is not a film produced by Golden Harvest!

Since 06, the films produced by Golden Harvest have been firmly occupying the top three in the box office list of local movies in Hong Kong. Last year, seven films produced by Golden Harvest took up the top ten. In addition to "7 Tenants" and "The Informant", there are "Happy Events in Flower Fields 72", the rest are like "Ip Man 2010", "Ip Man: Zhang Tianzhi", "The Thief of Time", "Eavesdropping on the Wind and Cloud", "The Big Brother Gets the Wrong Body", "The Great Wish", "Di Renjie: Reaching the Heavens" "Empire", all ranked in the top ten, and from 2 to 11, are all Golden Harvest's movies, "Break Up and Say I Love You", "Keep Loving You", "Want to Be With You", "Words of Back in Time", by the way , ranked 15th is "Su Qier" co-produced by Golden Harvest...

It can be said that it dominates the Hong Kong film industry.

During this period, have you resisted?
Of course, "Seeing the Dragon Unloading the Armor" resisted once. In 09, Jiang Zhiqiang and Zhang Jiazhen (Wu Yusen's queen producer) wanted to use "Red Cliff" to attack "Taking Tiger Mountain by Outsmarting". As a result, Jiahe directly Refused to release "Red Cliff" in theaters under Golden Harvest. In the end, the box office of "Red Cliff" in Hong Kong was 1700 million Hong Kong dollars, and the box office in Southeast Asia was less than 1000 million US dollars...

Golden Harvest Cinemas refused to show it!

It's even useless for them to ask China Film to intercede. The Southeast Asian market manager of Golden Harvest Cinemas didn't dump him at all...

It was blocked for two weeks!
In the end, the Film Bureau came forward to unblock it, but within two weeks, high-definition pirated copies of "Red Cliff" were already everywhere!

Then, Jiang Zhiqiang and Zhang Jiazhen were honest for a while.

But now, Shen Xudong has returned to China, and he has more than 10 billion US dollars in his hands. What does he want to do, what is he going to do?
(End of this chapter)