I make a thriller, it's God chasing and feeding

Chapter 63 [Box Office Results]

"This god, the more you understand, the more unfortunate you will be."

"His power will be like a bug, eroding your body and spirit until it becomes his food."

"Fire Buddha repairs one, Xin Sa Moo..."

……

Tang Guo,

Taicheng,

The "Curse" crew has already decided to use the rental house as the filming location.

Lu Zhengyi, the director, and Zhang Yu, the assistant director, are looking at the actors in front of them, playing with each other through simple dialogues.

They are reading the script before shooting.

Generally, at this stage, the shooting list is basically selected.

Rarely, there will be a temporary substitution during the reading period.

"Ruo Nan, I think you should be more... more pitiful."

Chang Zhengwei held the script in his hand and reminded softly, "You are too deliberately expressing that bitter and cold image."

"Just imagine, facing such an aggressive image of you, would people feel pity for you, your children, and accompany you to carry out the so-called 'blessing'?"

"No matter how deep your understanding of this character is, I think you should focus on your weak appearance. As for what kind of person you are inside, that's what the audience should speculate on."

His role is Chen Letong's adoptive father, which occupies a very important part in the plot.

"Understood, often... I mean, Xie Qiming."

It seems that Yu Wenxiu hasn't experienced this kind of serious crew reading for a long time, and she seems a little unaccustomed.

"By the way, I suddenly remembered that Ruonan had no experience in filming before, right?"

Zhang Yu spoke suddenly.

"……Yes."

Yu Wenxiu replied, "However, micro-movies have been filmed."

"That's different."

Zhang Yu waved his hand, "The difference between microfilms and movies is quite big."

"Maybe when you were filming online dramas or TV dramas before, the director would get used to asking you to show all your understanding of the characters, in the plots of 24 or 36 or 48 episodes."

"Whether it is the external image or the internal psychology, they are all expressed for the audience to understand."

"But the movie is different. The movie is only about two hours long, and there is no way to convey it to the audience at once."

"So in this case, an actor must not only be able to act, but also be able to hide."

"Properly hiding the true heart of a character, and only expressing it in details, is also the difference between a good movie and a bad movie. It is obviously the same content, but a good movie can always allow the audience to interpret completely different plots from different angles."

Even though they are only two-hour movies, the details contained in some movies are enough for the audience to spend several days pondering.

"I should have learned this."

Yu Wenxiu listened and felt a little familiar.

She began to recall what she had learned in school.

But that was already ten years ago.

In the past ten years, if you don't need to use this knowledge in your work, you must have almost forgotten it.

"Having learned it and actually using it are two different things." Zhang Yu was not satisfied with this answer, "You should think about it more, I think, with your experience in acting, you should be able to do better."

Yu Wenxiu nodded silently.

The seriousness of the crew gave her a sense of freshness.

However, apart from this novelty, she was also a little puzzled because Lu Zhengyi, who was sitting next to Zhang Yu, had never spoken.

Now, Zhang Yu is completely acting like a director, directing their work.

But as a real director, Lu Zhengyi was a little silent.

The script was read throughout, almost without speaking.

And judging by his appearance, it seems that he is also listening carefully and studying, rather than saying... distracted.

Next to him, Li Zhenxi was also a little puzzled by the situation where the assistant director overtook the director.

"As for that, Le Tong."

Zhang Yu looked at Liu Baoning again. Similarly, he used her name in the play during the reading.

"You acted really well, and you acted so naturally."

"I think you may be the best-behaved child I've ever seen in so many years of on-set experience."

"I... Director Lu and I are very optimistic about your future."

He is not stingy with complimenting his children.

But in terms of expression, Zhang Yu still gave Lu Zhengyi enough face as a genuine director.

"I'll take a call, you go ahead."

Lu Zhengyi didn't care about this, but his cell phone rang.

"It should be about the "Village Old Corpse"."

He glanced at the caller's name, and whispered something to Zhang Yu.

"Speaking of which, it seems that it was released yesterday."

Speaking of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", Zhang Yu remembered that the film's theater time had come to an end.

This is really the first time.

Obviously, for a movie, the release period is a crucial moment. In the past, any crew he had worked on at this stage would focus on the box office data wholeheartedly.

That is to say, the director Lu Zhengyi is quite special, he doesn't even watch it, and directly starts preparing for the next movie.

"You go, leave it to me here."

Zhang Yu replied to him.

At the end, he added, "The content of the surrounding reading is captured by the camera, and you can watch it later."

He also remembered that this young man was studious.

Lu Zhengyi smiled and made a gesture of gratitude, and got up to answer the phone.

"Congratulations, Director Lu."

"With a box office of 830 million, I think you've had fun all night, right?"

"How's the deal with the copyright of the online screening on the Green Apple platform?"

Zhang Xueming's smiling voice sounded from the phone, "I provide after-sales service, and I have picked out the best platform for your promotion plan."

"As for the price, it depends on your ability."

The box office of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" was only 830 million.

For the film industry of the Tang Dynasty, this box office is absolutely pitifully low.

If calculated based on the lowest ticket price of 30 yuan, the box office of more than 800 million means that only about 27 people watched the movie during its release.

The population of the entire Tang State is 14 billion.

But if you consider it from the perspective of horror films and production costs, "Mountain Village Old Corpse" is a success.

Because the lower limit of Tang country's horror film career is too low.

As of now, the horror movie that can exceed 1000 million at the box office in theaters is still a big bad movie with traffic stars two years ago.

Especially last year, the theater box office basically fluctuated at the level of 500 to [-] million.

And the production cost of these films is either 1000 million or 2000 million.

The special effects are the same as not costing money, and they burn badly.

Those investors are losing money one by one.

This has also led to the production of horror films, from five in the previous year to only two in the previous year. Compared with other types of films, the output is really a sky and a ground.

What was the production cost of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village"?

43 million.

Most of them are the remuneration of the actors, the labor costs of the crew, and then the camera equipment for shooting, and then props, costumes...

And even if you add the cost of the finale banquet, post-stage publicity, and distribution, it is only about 150 million.

The actors in their entire movie are all new faces with relatively low pay.

What the hell, seriously, there is no need to pay for the most expensive special effects in horror movies.

Compared with the box office, this production cost is just a lot of money.

Later, there are also online copyrights, advertisements... various ways of earning money.

(End of this chapter)