Chapter 9: The embarrassment of not having a starring role
ACGN。 This is what Peng Hui has been striving for in his dream a long time ago.
Compared with the inaction in his previous life, lying on the golden mountain and waiting for death, Peng Hui in the dream is more in line with Peng Hui's appetite.
But obviously, people are inert.
When a person has eyes that can see through the future, will he still work hard to fight for it?
Apparently not.
The copyist is not just talking.
Again......
How can copying oneself be called copying?
Isn't it normal for me to copy myself?
So I really can't blame Peng Hui for being shameless, I can only say that Peng Hui in my dream is really a little too powerful.
But now, after Peng Hui came to such a world without piracy, Peng Hui's mind inevitably broadened all of a sudden.
If you want to say the most profitable business in the previous life, it is naturally movies.
It's the truth.
Don't you see that all the industrial tycoons have entered the entertainment industry?
Every year, the total output value of the movie box office is gradually increasing.
It has even been raised to 60 billion in 2019!
And this number was later increased to 100 billion!
What is the concept of 100 billion red banknotes?
More than 14 billion American knives!
What a huge market is this?
But under such a huge market, it is a very helpless fact.
That is, the industrial chain of domestic films is broken.
This is not a joke.
Take "The Wandering Earth", which is known as the beginning of the domestic sci-fi industrial blockbuster, in fact, the global box office is less than 700 million US dollars.
In fact, if you want to shoot such an industrial sci-fi blockbuster, the time and experience it takes are definitely not as easy as you imagined!
In the dream, Peng Hui completed it by himself, but in reality, if it weren't for Guo Fan's help, Peng Hui would not have been able to complete it independently.
Strictly speaking, there is indeed a lack of a qualified industrial systematic film and television drama production model in China.
It's the truth.
The biggest problem is that, on the one hand, there is a cost gap between domestic and foreign countries.
After deducting the actors' salaries, the highest production cost in China is only 500 million red money.
And abroad it is 500 million American knives.
According to the original exchange rate of 1:7, it is equivalent to Hollywood's production cost is equivalent to seven times that of China!
Not to mention the details.
Of course, the national conditions are different, and it makes no sense to compare them according to the exchange rate.
But the other most serious and critical problem is......
There is not an adequate consumption environment and concept in China.
Here's a very simple example.
Is there any piracy abroad?
Some.
For example, the well-known game platform Steam has a service called purchasing recharge cards.
This service is to sell the same prepaid cards from different countries to people in other countries.
Thus earning the difference.
Overall, this is also the equivalent of piracy.
Is it genuine?
It is genuine.
Because this platform is a series of recharge cards issued every year, except for a few countries that do not support this platform.
But when you buy a cheap recharge card from another country and then sell it to a more expensive country, this is a kind of piracy.
And if this kind of behavior is put in the Chinese film market.
Then the most obvious example is that a movie with an investment + promotion of hundreds of millions of dollars, as a result, the next day, there will be a high-definition copy of the remastered!
What does this mean?
You must know that movies require real money to be able to watch.
But if the audience has already watched the high-definition pirated version on the Internet, will they still enter the cinema to support the movie?
There were too many situations in previous lives.
Even if it weren't for Peng Hui's good relationship with Penguin and Wanda, the box office would have been stolen a long time ago.
Even so, because piracy is rampant, the added value of many films cannot be reflected.
Of course, the situation improved after 2020.
But even if it improves, it can't stop pirates from making a profit.
Today, however......
Peng Hui fell into deep thought.
Initially, he didn't have a lot of money in his hands.
There are not many online dramas that can be filmed in one million.
But the most well-known of them are none other than "Never Expected" and "Report to the Boss".
Among them, the cost of the first season of "Never Expected" is only 100,000 yuan.
So how much value does this IP create?
According to incomplete estimates, the commercial profit of this IP exchange is as high as 300 million!
Of course, the profit of 300 million is to include games, movies, and other types of situations.
Purely in terms of that web drama, it only made a profit of several million.
But that's pretty impressive!
You know, in that era when online dramas were just starting, they were already dozens of times profitable, so what about now?
But there's another problem.
Actor.
The core actor of "Never Expected" is Wang Da Hammer played by Bai Ke.
However, Peng Hui searched the entire entertainment industry, and did not see an actor similar to Bai Ke.
It's really ......
Peng Hui was a little helpless.
He can't play Wang Da Hammer.
It's the truth.
There was too much light in his eyes.
It is not suitable for a typical sling temperament.
Some people, like fireflies in the night, can't hide themselves at all.
Don't look at Peng Hui's lack of money now, but the experience of two lives in his dream and reality makes him unable to be like an ordinary sling at all.
The temperament of being in a high position and controlling power is always revealed inadvertently.
Peng Hui also knows this.
But he couldn't change it.
Some habits are innate.
And his habits were cultivated by people in two lifetimes.
Habits can be changed at will, then it is not called habits.
So he can't play the role of Wang Da Hammer.