Chapter 149: It's My Turn (6/6)
To use an idiom to describe the situation of "The Little Fox and the Demon Hunter", it is called "surrounded by enemies".
You must know that of the several films released at the same time, none of them have an investment of less than 100 million!
"The Military Order of the Female General of the Yang Gate" cost $15 million to produce;
Although the cost of "East Becomes West 2011" is not high, this film has the IP effect of "East Becomes West"...
And when promoting, the main thing is Yang Xiaomi.
Stepping on a horse, appearing for two seconds, is embarrassed to pull it out for publicity?
Of course, the reason why Shen Mengxi was sure to release it at this time was because he knew that these movies were all big bad movies!
Including Spielberg's Tintin, this "Tintin" is very weak, with a production cost of $130 million, the North American box office is only 78 million, and the global box office is only $350 million...
Very rarely, Spielberg suffered a box office waterloo!
The original trilogy, the last two parts ended without a problem.
However, the lion fights the rabbit, and he still does his best, which is necessary for publicity!
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When talking about Sino-Japanese co-production, we must talk about Sino-Japanese relations...
Shanghai Film Academy, auditorium, Shen Mengxi shared and exchanged some film with teachers and students.
"Sino-Japanese co-production has a long history, in the 80s of the last century, there was a Japanese benzene film team, which went deep into northwest China twice, and the second time, stayed for five years! They restored the Chinese army's battle formations, costumes, armor, swords, guns, swords, halberds according to ancient books... It also spent 27 million to build an ancient city of Dunhuang. In 1988, this Japanese-themed Chinese film was released in Japan and earned 8 billion yen at the box office!
"I've met many times with the person in charge of Toei, and we've always worked together... As early as 08, he proposed to do "The Little Fox and the Demon Hunter". β
"But in the past two years, because of political relations, a lot of things are not easy to do... Last year, he came to China to see me and said that if it is a film with a huge investment, but it does not consider the overseas market, it is difficult to recover the money. Compared with the United States, Chinese films have a higher presence in Japan!"
"And we talked about the economies of the two countries, including the U.S. economy, and we think that Sino-Japanese relations will definitely develop in a good direction..."
Why?
Japanese benzene is really a part of the pure industrial chain: things come in, things go out, and make a difference.
There are no resources in China, there is no market in the market, and if the global industrial chain is gone, neon should be gone.
At present, in addition to the real industry, there is no other practical value that can support the huge excess capital!
The United States is now engaging in isolationism and undermining the current international order, which will have a serious impact on both industrial manufactured products and component supply chains...
Therefore, even if you bring a filial son, you will probably kill your father!
East Asia can't hold it down, so what can we talk about the rise?
What to talk about national rejuvenation?
The royal road is in me, sooner or later!
""The Little Fox and the Demon Hunter" will be followed by two movies: "Painted Skin" prequel and "Nine Tails"..."
"We have set up at least five films around the world of painted skin..."
"One of the benefits of mature magic movies is that you can stuff a lot of things into them, the core of "Little Fox and the Monster Hunter" is the friendship between two girls, and the core of "Nine Tails" is the birth of violence... Am I a spoiler?"
The student at the bottom smiled kindly...
After talking for half an hour, it was time for the question session.
"Many people say that you are afraid of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", so you will focus on "Little Fox and the Demon Hunter" to be released in November..."
"Not afraid, but... Have you ever seen "Batman" and "Spider-Man" be released on the same day? Why can the six major American companies sit down and negotiate schedules, and the blockbusters of Chinese films have to kill each other and make the whole world see the jokes?"
Zhang Weiping said that he wanted to increase the ticket price and the proportion of account sharing for the benefit of the producer, and some of his peers fell into the trap. What's your opinion?"
"I don't agree, don't look at what he says when evaluating a person, but look at what he does! When "Three Guns Shooting Surprise" was released, in order to compete with "Those Years" and "October Siege", the account was reduced by 5 percentage points to the theater chain, and the theater took two points, and the movie theater took three points, isn't this clearly encouraging the theater chain to win the box office with more rows of "Three Guns"?
Because of the low cost of "Three Guns" and basically no pressure to recover costs, he said today that he would increase the proportion of film accounts for the producer, and back then, he did a 5 percentage point reduction. β
When "Golden Armor" was released, Zhang Weiping signed a one-month exclusivity agreement with digital theaters across the country, not allowing other domestic films to be screened in his digital theaters. This is called bullying and dominating the market!"
Shen Mengxi added by the way: "Can you talk about "The Little Fox and the Demon Hunter"?
A girl stood up: "You seem to like fantasy movies very much." β
Shen Mengxi nodded: "Indeed, I used to think that there was science fiction in the West, and there should be a magic theme in the East!"
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The event ended, and Shen Mengxi hurried back to the car...
He felt...The Little Fox and the Demon Hunter didn't seem to have many points to discuss?
Why is everyone asking about Zhang Weiping?
took out his mobile phone and looked at the timely box office: 49 million...
It's okay...
After all, the easter egg effect of "Painted Skin 3", coupled with the publicity effect, the company's goal: more than 150 million in the first weekend!
After reading the comments:
For domestic blockbusters, what we have always criticized is not the technology, but whether the creator has the ambition to create a dream and the patience to tell a good story. "Little Fox and the Demon Hunter" is undoubtedly both!"
"The fights are amazing, the scenery is beautiful, the story is a bit far-fetched... However, the actors are beautiful!
"It really exceeded expectations. Although there are still a lot of problems, the story is a bit clichΓ©... Also, how do I feel that this film is a bit lily-leaning?"
Douban has a score of 7.8 points, and the "Painted Skin" series has the highest opening reputation...
Of course, the publicity team has slightly controlled the evaluation, and it is estimated that it will be a real word-of-mouth after a week, but at least 7 points or more.
With a score of more than 7, domestic movies are still in the field of oriental magic, which is very high.
I can finally rest assured...
By the way, I watched the box office of the first day of "Yangmen Female General": 6.6 million...
Tsk, this box office, it is estimated that even Zhang Baizhi's salary will not be recovered!
As for "East Becomes West 2011", it is not much better, the first day score is 7.2 million, the grapes are becoming more and more shameless, and they blatantly collect pensions.
It is said that during the movie roadshow, someone brought it up that it was not funny, and Grape said, 'Because you are not happy, you are not laughing!'
"Hey... Tong Bureau... I'm in Shanghai. β
The mobile phone rang, it was Tong Gang's phone.
"What time is it tomorrow?"
"Okay, I'm definitely here!"
The Film Bureau still appeared, and Zhang Weiping said directly: If you don't give me a share increase, if you don't increase the ticket price, "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" won't send you a copy!
It's the New Year, and many theaters are counting on the New Year's stalls to be full, "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", regardless of hundreds of millions of shots, is definitely a big one.
If he really doesn't give a copy, the movie "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" will obviously not be able to support the market...
Zhang Weiping really knows how to play, and the movie will be announced to be set for December 16, 2011 when the movie starts, just to let everyone avoid...
Now, most of the movies have been released, and even if they are in stock and rushed online, the audience may not necessarily buy them.
It's forcing the theater chain!