Chapter 958: Movie Empire (12,000 per day, please subscribe~)
Wu Jianye's words made Jiang Zhiqiang a little surprised, he knew that Wu Jianye had always attached great importance to the domestic film market, so in the past two years, he had stopped the road of Fengge Cinema Line to continue to expand in Xiangjiang, and operated more of his existing theaters in Xiangjiang.
But Xiangjiang Film can be said to be at its peak at this time, and he doesn't understand why Wu Jianye suddenly thought of shifting the commercial focus of Fengge Pictures.
"Director Wu, I admit that the domestic film market is on the rise now, but Xiangjiang's films have not declined either, is it a little early for us to start shifting positions?"
It is not unreasonable for Jiang Zhiqiang to say this, last year's movie box office champion in Xiangjiang was Cheng Long's "Drunken Fist 2", with a box office of 51.32 million!
In fact, this box office is nearly 10 million higher than that of another time and space, this is because of the emergence of Fengge Cinema, and at the same time, Zhou Yanfa's "God of Gamblers 2" has been released in advance, so "Drunken Fist 2" will become last year's box office champion.
Wu Jianye shook his head with a smile and said, "By the time Xiangjiang's movies really start to decline, it's already too late to start the layout!"
"There's always nothing wrong with planning ahead!"
With the development of the domestic film market at a speed that surpasses that of another time and space, the film market in Xiangjiang is no longer so important, but it is still the same sentence, Wu Jianye does not plan to give up the Xiangjiang market, after all, in the next few years, the film market in Xiangjiang is still the bridgehead of domestic films in Southeast Asia!
At this time, although the domestic film market has developed, the popularity of domestic films for the whole of Southeast Asia is still very low, that is to say, domestic films are still only in the nest, and there is basically no box office appeal when they go abroad!
The film market in Xiangjiang is different, although the film market in Xiangjiang itself does not contribute much to the box office of the movie itself, but the audience in Southeast Asia actually uses the box office of Xiangjiang movies in the city as a reference to decide whether to watch this movie!
To put it simply, in addition to those actors in Xiangjiang who have the appeal of ticket sellers, such as Zhou Yunfa, Cheng Long, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Dehao and other superstars, their movies, even if they hit the street at the box office in Xiangjiang, will not be too bad at the box office in Southeast Asia.
Other actors and starring in movies all need to watch the box office of the movie in Xiangjiang City.
A movie that is not starring the above, if the box office in Xiangjiang is not high, the box office in Southeast Asia will not be too high!
As for domestic films, if they want to go abroad and go to the film market in Southeast Asia, then they must be released in Xiangjiang first, if this film can achieve a high box office in Xiangjiang, then the box office in the entire Southeast Asia will not be too bad.
If the box office of Xiangjiang movies is not high, the box office in the whole of Southeast Asia will not be very good.
It is precisely because of this truth that when Fengge Media and domestic film companies discuss distribution, they will first release the film in Xiangjiang to test the success of the film in the hearts of Xiangjiang audiences, and then decide whether to take the cinema route to release it in Southeast Asia.
If the box office of Xiangjiang's movies is not satisfactory, you can only go through the videotape policy!
Of course, this policy is not valid for Wu Jianye!
Now Wu Jianye's movie is a golden sign in the global film market, and there is no need to worry about the box office.
In fact, at this time, even if Wu Jianye is no longer a director, even if he ends the court culture, Wu Jianye still has a pivotal position in the domestic film circle.
Because as long as domestic films want to go abroad and want to get better film scheduling and box office, then they have to cooperate with Wu Jianye.
If you want to be released in Asia and Europe, you need the distribution of Fengge Pictures, Fengge Cinema release, and if you want to release it in North America, then you have to talk to Phantom Pictures about distribution and release it in Oceanwide Cinemas!
From rebirth to the present, Wu Jianye has built his own global film empire!
Tangting Culture, Fengge Media, Phantom Media!
At this time, they have taken control of the global film distribution and release business, plus they are the most powerful film production companies in the region!
At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, when the Phantom incident occurred, some independent production companies in Hollywood clamored for the monopoly of Phantom Media, and as a result, they were taught a hard lesson by Wu Jianye, and now even a month has passed, they have found out that after losing the support of the Phantom, they are already unable to move an inch!
In North America, they have lost the support of the largest cinema companies in North America and Canada, and they have also lost the channel to release in Europe, which is already a catastrophe for them.
During this time, Matthew Murphy was constantly rejecting the invitations of these people, they knew that they were wrong, and they wanted to ask for forgiveness from Phantom Pictures, but the mistakes were not so easy to bring over!
Wu Jianye continued: "I know what you're worried about, what I'm talking about changing the focus of Fengge Pictures' development is not to give up the Xiangjiang market just like that, but to let Fengge Pictures pay more attention to co-productions from this year!"
Co-production!
This is the most important reason why Wu Jianye is looking for Jiang Zhiqiang this time.
Although Fengge Pictures has begun to shoot co-productions a few years ago, for example, in the past two years, Chen Hong has become the queen heroine of Xiangjiang and domestic co-productions!
However, there is only one Chen Hong, which is obviously not enough.
Let's take Fengge Pictures as an example, last year Fengge Pictures made 28 films, which is already a very terrifying number, in the entire Xiangjiang, except for Fengge Pictures, no film company dares to do this.
But even so, how many co-productions did Fengge Pictures have in the past year?
There are only three of them!
It's not enough!
What Wu Jianye has to do is to increase the number of co-productions, and with the help of Xiangjiang stars, to raise the popularity of domestic filmmakers in Southeast Asia, only in this way can domestic movie stars quickly go abroad and become Asian stars!
At the same time, as Wu Jianye said, it is impossible for him to give up Xiangjiang's films, because the domestic film policy will only become more and more stringent in the future, and some movie themes must not be touched!
Only one can't be refined after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is enough to kill a large part of the movie, and there are also detective dramas, although some detective dramas have been opened in China in later generations, but there are still too many restrictions, which are not enough to make movies with this theme really shine.
There are also Xiangjiang's characteristic movies, gangster movies, such movies are even more unlikely to be released in China, and they can only recover their costs and benefits with the help of the box office of Xiangjiang and Southeast Asia!
With the development of the movie, the, pee, and fart movies represented by Wang Jing will slowly lose the local audience in Xiangjiang, and will be replaced by gangster movies led by Du Dacang!
In the future, Xiangjiang Films will be like an extremely important branch of Wu Jianye's film empire, presenting more themed films.
After hearing Wu Jianye's account, Jiang Zhiqiang also had a clearer understanding of Wu Jianye's plan.
So he asked: "Then how much of the company's film share should be accounted for in the proportion of our co-productions!"
Wu Jianye said: "Ten films, starting from this year, Fengge Pictures will produce ten co-productions every year, and the model adopted is the model of Xiangjiang actors and domestic actors, such as the cooperation between Zhou Xingchi and Chen Hong, or the model of a domestic actor and an actress from Xiangjiang!"
On the whole, compared with Xiangjiang movie stars, domestic movie stars still lack popularity abroad, except for some movie stars who participated in Wu Jianye's movie!
Especially in terms of actors, because Wu Jianye's recent movies are all actors from Xiangjiang, Liang Jiahui in "New Dragon Gate Inn", Zhou Xingchi in "The World of Chu Xing", and Principal Gu in "Eternal Night".
Any insider knows that male actors have more box office appeal than actresses, and Wu Jianye's use of Chen Daoshu as the starring role in his new film "Inception" is actually to increase his popularity abroad.
Let some people become famous first, and then take the rest to become famous, this is Wu Jianye's strategy.
Although some people may be famous, they are a little fluttering and don't know why, and there may even be white-eyed wolves and the like, but Wu Jianye is confident that as long as he is still here, no one will be able to make any waves.
Even if he is a white-eyed wolf, he has to honestly pretend to be Erha in front of him......
What's more, the first to be famous is Chen Daoshu, if it were someone else, Wu Jianye might still be a little worried that the first person would become a white-eyed wolf, but Chen Daoshu has spent more than 20 years proving to Wu Jianye what an actor is and what is a star!
Then use the actors of Xiangjiang to drive the domestic actors, so that if the good cycle continues, the domestic filmmakers will soon get up!
At that time, it will be the era of a hundred flowers blooming in the entire Chinese film!
Subsequently, Wu Jianye and Jiang Zhiqiang finalized the first batch of actors to co-produce films.
The first thing to determine was the three actors. Li Lianjie, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Dehao!
Li Lianjie naturally doesn't need to say much, in fact, he has been focusing on co-productions in the past two years, such as "A Letter to Dad", which will be released in March this year, this is a co-production in the strict sense, although Li Lianjie has been filming in Xiangjiang, but in fact, at this time, Wu Jianye still has a domestic passport, and he has not joined the nationality of Singapore.
At the same time, there are also many domestic actors in the starring roles, Yu Luguang who plays the big villain, Xie Miao who plays his son, and there are also Xiangjiang actors, female No. 1 Mui Yanshu, and Mei Yanshu's admirer Liu Songren.
When Wu Jianye asked Zhou Yunfa and others to go to Hollywood for development, he deliberately left Li Lianjie for the current plan.
Zhou Xingchi also doesn't need to be elaborated too much, in another time and space, Zhou Xingchi is the first Xiangjiang actor to enter domestic filming, and in another time and space, there are many star girls.
For example, Zhang Min, Qiu Doudou, Zhu Xiao, etc., but there must be one more in this time and space, and that is Chen Hong.
In the past two years, Chen Hong has participated in many movies of Zhou Xingchi, and has become one of the most popular actresses in China in Xiangjiang and even Southeast Asia with the help of Zhou Xingchi's fame!
This year, Zhou Xingchi will also cooperate with Tangting Culture to shoot the classic "Journey to the West" series in China.
In order to avoid the situation that this movie is the same as another time and space, with word-of-mouth and box office hitting the streets, Wu Jianye has decided that after the film is finished, it will be taken to the film academy for everyone to watch.
After the release of "Journey to the West" in another time and space, word-of-mouth and box office hit the streets, until the film was seen by the teachers of the film school and interpreted a different concept, which made the film glow with a second spring, but for the film company, such a second spring actually has no benefits.
More is to improve Zhou Xingchi's fame.
It is precisely because of the double fight on the street of this movie that in order to prove his popularity, Zhou Xingchi and Wang Jing filmed the, pee, and fart movie "Changing Stars", which was a box office hit.
It proves that Zhou Xingchi is still Zhou Xingchi!
As for Liu Dehao, in fact, it is also out of consideration for Liu Dehao's fame.
Although in the film market in Xiangjiang, Liu Dehao has always been some distance behind Zhou Xingchi, Cheng Long, Zhou Yunfa and others, but Liu Dehao himself has super popularity in Southeast Asia because he is a multi-habitat star.
In another time and space, why can Liu Dehao make so many movies, one is that he has to repay his debts, and the other is that those associations and others know Liu Dehao's influence in other cities, and with his name, movies can be sold for money!
At the same time, Liu Dehao also has super popularity in China, because of the relationship between the Spring Festival Gala, Liu Dehao's popularity in China has always been the highest among Xiangjiang artists.
This year, Liu Dehao will also participate in the Spring Festival Gala, and he will sing his own classic song "Forget Love Water".
Basically, these three have a very high box office appeal whether in Xiangjiang, at home, or abroad.
With them, there is basically a guarantee of the box office.
As for the actresses, the two also selected some people, among which the representatives are Mui Yanshu, Guan Fairy, Qiu Doudou and others!
As the highest-paid female star in Xiangjiang today, Anita Mui is naturally popular, as for Guan Fairy and Qiu Doudou, they are also the favorites of Xiangjiang movie lovers, among which Guan Fairy has participated in many co-production movies!
Wu Jianye thought for a moment and said, "Add Lan Jieying too!"
Lan Jieying's encounter in another time and space made many people sigh, to be honest, her character is not suitable for the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang, and in fact, it is not suitable for the domestic entertainment industry in later generations, but now the domestic entertainment industry is not as dirty as in later generations, but it can allow her to play a little.
As for whether he can come out of a different path from another time and space, Wu Jianye has no way to guarantee it!
Let it be!
Jiang Zhiqiang also had no opinion on Wu Jianye's instructions, and said: "I'll let the company's screenwriting team, director team, and the actors you said prepare now!"
Wu Jianye said that except for Lan Jieying, who is not an actor from Fengge Pictures, the others are, and they are easier to arrange!