Chapter 299: The Walking Money Printing Machine
"Hong Chen, good news, our movie is on fire!"
The next day, Hong Chen received a call from Wu Zhan.
"Haha, Brother Zhan is out of the horse, a top two. Hong Chen laughed and teased.
"Hahaha, that's a must. Wu Zhan said proudly, the two of them are friends, and they are used to saying this.
"Guo Fan is so excited now, he wants to invite the two of us to dinner, he is the east tonight, are you free?"
"No problem. Hong Chen readily agreed.
At this moment, Guo Fan was indeed very excited.
He paid too much for this movie.
From the earliest time to find actors, I ran into walls everywhere, and everyone said that movies with this theme were not suitable for the Chinese market, but fortunately there were people like Hong Chen and Wu Zhan.
and then the lack of investment, it all depends on the strong support of Hong Chen and Wu Zhan.
Finally, he worked overtime every night, staring at the post-production, and spread a cotton mat in the post-production room, and many times slept for two or three hours at night, just to get the best effect.
He knew that he was carrying hundreds of millions of assets, and he couldn't fail during the Spring Festival.
Fortunately, the emperor lives up to his wishes, and today's "The Wandering Earth", with a solid plot, gorgeous special effects, and warm scenes, the popularity continues to rise, and the scenery is unique for a while!
The audience was boiling.
They cheered in the circle of friends: "Little wrecking ball, rush for me!"
and called on their relatives, friends, and family to watch "The Wandering Earth" together.
Why?
Counting forward, that year, the big movie "Where Are You Going, Dad" became a dark horse for the Spring Festival, winning a box office of 700 million, successfully surpassing "Let the Bullets Fly", ranking eighth at the box office of Chinese films!
A year later, the big movie "Run, Brother" was released, and in the angry scolding of a bunch of people, it also successfully swept away 430 million box office.
At this point, the era of "traffic is king" in the Chinese market is coming!
Writers, actors, hosts, and singers have discovered that they can make money by making variety shows and turning them into movies?
The traffic actor won a lot of money with his clumsy acting skills.
"Little Times" has an average score of 4.5 on Douban, with a total box office of over 2 billion;
The "Ex" series has an average score of 5.5 on Douban, with a total box office of 2.2 billion;
A few years ago, Douban's 5-point "Kung Fu Yoga" even won the Spring Festival champion with a box office of 1.7 billion.
Capital carnival, traffic circle money, and the audience are becoming more and more numb.
The stars become hypnotists, feeding to the audience while telling the audience that the is delicious.
After that, "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Operation Mekong" were released, and the audience exclaimed: I X, can Huaxia still make such a movie?
"I Am Not the God of Medicine" was released, and the audience was excited with a handful of tears and movie tickets, we finally have excellent realistic movies in Huaxia!
Now, "Flow Earth" is here!
Sci-fi special effects movies, we have them too!
The audience in China has finally woken up, and the "quality era" is really coming!
And the reason why the audience is so excited is actually very simple.
"Because we want to see the next movie like this!"
"The Wandering Earth" is not perfect, but it has made a start for Chinese science fiction movies, if one is successful, there will be ten, and if ten are successful, there will be a hundred!
Moreover, in addition, the core of what "The Wandering Earth" really promotes is Chinese culture.
What happens when the planet is in crisis, according to Hollywood's movies of individual heroism?
Of course, heroes appear to save the planet!
If it is a disaster film, either the final outcome is that human beings are busy and the earth is destroyed, or the disaster is ended.
Only Chinese films will have a "local complex".
That is, the sun is going to explode, we can't abandon our earth, we have to leave with the earth!
The plot after that is even more so, the magma in the Hangzhou dungeon is poured out, and the protagonist group goes to the rescue. Just when the audience thought that the protagonist group would descend to the earth to save Hangzhou.
As a result, within 2 minutes, he directly told the audience that Hangzhou was gone, and no one ran away.
After that, what did the protagonist group go through, and what did Liu Peiqiang on the satellite experience?
The former unites countries around the world to save the planet. The latter entered the control room with the help of Makarov's life.
Hollywood's movie style will tell the audience that the government cannot be trusted, and that salvation depends on oneself and a certain hero.
But Huaxia's movies tell everyone: the way to save everyone, that is, everyone can participate in order to save themselves. Even if 100,000, 200,000 or even 1.5 million people sacrifice, as long as 3.5 billion people survive, it represents hope.
This is the cultural export of China, with the unique cultural charm of China.
Netizens were moved by this charm, one brush, two brushes, three brushes, and some even posted a Weibo of their own five brushes of "The Wandering Earth", which was praised by countless netizens.
The movie was a complete hit.
The box office broke 300 million on the first day, and the total box office predicted by Maoyan continued to rise, and within a few days, the final box office predicted by Maoyan reached 5.1 billion!
A very scary number.
On the other hand, "Pudong Fortress", after the release, word-of-mouth, box office, and film scheduling rate were all off the shelves, and the final predicted total box office was only 170 million.
You must know that the investment in this movie is 300 million.
The investor lost money to his grandmother's house.
And on the ninth day, "Pudong Fortress" was forced to be removed from the shelves because the film scheduling rate was less than 0.3%.
Movie theaters also have to make money, not to mention that it is a golden time like the Spring Festival, no one watches it, and this movie is naturally the same as those small-scale movies, like a passing cloud, and disappears directly in the Spring Festival.
"Pudong Fortress" became the first big-budget movie to be forced off the shelves during the Spring Festival.
On the other hand, Guo Fan was really grateful to Hong Chen.
During the banquet, I toasted desperately.
"Master Hong, I respect you for this cup, this time without you, there will definitely be no achievements of this movie today. Guo Fan is very polite, and now his title has changed.
In fact, it is true, Hong Chen, as a young actor and top star in the entertainment industry, temporarily firefights and takes on the starring role, and does not want to pay to make up the investment, which is of great help to this movie.
Now it is possible to achieve such results thanks to Hong Chen.
Of course, Hong Chen also made a lot of money from this movie.
Even because he invested the most, close to one-third, coupled with the box office share set by his starring role, the biggest beneficiary of this movie is Hong Chen.
After the box office of this movie came out, the people in the investment department of Hongchen Studio were stunned.
I still remember that when Hong Chen decided to invest in "The Wandering Earth" at the beginning, many people in the investment department were against it.
They are a professional evaluation team and believe that the film has no market and the return on investment is very low.
Moreover, the company's capital turnover was relatively difficult at that time, and it was very risky to take out 100 million directly.
Fortunately, Ge Chen persuaded everyone in time at that time, and Ge Chen said that the boss's vision would not be bad, and he had to believe in the boss.
Hong Chen has decided so much, they naturally can't oppose it anymore, but in fact, many people have a psychology of waiting to see the excitement.
Anyway, this 100 million is not mine, and if you lose it, you will lose it.
But now, after the box office came out, everyone in the investment department was stunned.
If nothing else, this will be the largest investment that Hongchen Studio has ever made.
It even exceeds the income of the Tang Detective series.
Moreover, the income brought by this film to the company exceeds the total number of film and television works that the investment department has worked hard to invest in in the past two years.
Hongchen is simply a walking money printing machine.
This vision, God!