Chapter 119 Pull Investment

Zhang Li has watched the two movies "The Avengers" and "The Grim Reaper 2", and it cannot be said that the movie "The Grim Reaper 2" is worse than "The Avengers".

After all, "Death is Coming 2" is much better than the original version after Zhang Li's modification and Yang Qing's modification, but this kind of movie still relies on the plot after all. Everyone already knows that after dying by various accidents, there is actually a lot less expectation.

And Marvel has been in the layout for ten years, and there are movies like "Iron Man" in the middle, which are not bad in quality, with various marketing methods, and all kinds of special effects in it are cool.

A sci-fi blockbuster or a thriller, I think many people will choose "The Avengers".

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"Well, that's pretty good. Although it met "The Avengers", it still doesn't look too bad at the box office. Looking at Yang Qing, who was a little depressed, Zhang Li comforted.

"It's okay, the movie has a good reputation now, and the box office is acceptable. Yang Qing said reluctantly.

For Yang Qing, this is really an extraordinary battle, and the last movie let insiders know him. But there is still no one who appreciates and invests in him, and this time he signed with Zhang Li's studio to make a sequel to a blockbuster movie like "Death is Coming 2", in fact, I am very excited.

After all, this kind of sequel movie is generally very high at the box office as long as it is not too bad. As long as you shoot well, you may be able to become a new director of more than 100 million yuan when the time comes.

It's a pity that I ran into a movie like "The Avengers". Except for a few movies this year that can compete with the Avengers, there is really nothing to fight.

Feng Cannon's "1942" and "Batman: The Dark Knight Rise", one of the DC leaders of the Bald Eagle blockbuster, can't do it.

The box office of "The Avengers" in the first week was 119 million, although it cannot be compared with the previous blockbuster movies. But it's already good, at least for now.

And "Death is Coming 2" is 102 million, the first week box office that has just broken 100 million, closely chasing the tail of "The Avengers".

Seeing this data, Yang Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief on the big stone in his heart, "Death is Coming 2" finally relied on the popularity of the first part, and Zhang Li's publicity and word-of-mouth on Weibo barely kept up with "The Avengers".

may not be able to surpass "Death is Coming 1", after all, the first domestic box office has a box office of more than 600 million. There might be hope without Avengers now, but forget it for now.

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In fact, the most uncomfortable thing about seeing the current "Death is Coming 2" is the flower arrangement.......

There's no way, if those things hadn't happened back then, Zhang Li would have been a flower artist a long time ago, wouldn't this big-selling movie be theirs?

Last year, in 2011, Feng Dacang was absent from the Lunar New Year file for the first time, and there were works basically every year before. Last year, because of the filming of "1942", Feng Dacang did not have a movie released.

This movie is a good movie, but after investing 200 million movies, the box office turned out to be 364 million box office, which is really a big loss.

There was no way, Feng Dacang, who was losing money, could only continue to fry cold rice and shoot "Private Custom", and then won 713 million box office, winning the third place in the annual box office list.

This can be regarded as a blow, he is only really good at comedy in the field he is most familiar with, and the result is that there are no movies for two or three years.

The total number of cinemas as of the end of 2012 was 3680, an increase of 880 compared with last year, and an increase of 803 over 2011, according to the data released this year, the total number of screens this year reached 13118, an increase of 3030 screens compared with last year, of which the number of screens this year increased by 10.5 per day, still exceeding last year's increase.

When it comes to the specific increase in theaters, the construction of theaters in 2-3 tier cities and towns is still accelerating, but many large-scale modern theaters are concentrated in economically developed regional cities, and the entire film market is seriously unbalanced.

Moreover, the current mainland film market has begun to explode this year, and movies with more than 100 million yuan are no longer as rare as they were at the beginning.

The era when the box office exceeded tens of millions of dollars was hyped has passed, and now the really popular movies, if there are no more than 10 million on the first day and 100 million in the first week. None of them can become the top 10 existence, and a lot of data that was unimaginable before has been completed this year.

In 2012, the tenth-ranked movie "Adventure in the Center of the Earth 2: The Mysterious Island" grossed 388 million, nearly 400 million at the box office. If it's in 09, it's the top three, in 10 it's the top five, and even last year it's the top seven. So far, it can only be in last place, and next year, it will not even be in the top 15.

said so much, in fact, the current film market can already exceed 1 billion domestic movies this year, Zhang Li may not be able to drink the first soup, but he wants to gnaw the biggest piece of meat.

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After meeting Yang Qing here, just after returning to the crew, before filming started, Xu Han came over with a phone call.

Xu Han called and said that someone had approached him and hoped that he would invest in the movie, so he wanted to ask Zhang Li's opinion.

"What kind of script? What type of thing can you call the shots?" Zhang Li said hello to Sanlian, Xu Han is also very important in Zhang Li's studio now. As long as it is not a large investment, there is no problem, so there is this question.

"It's a martial arts movie, and the other party was introduced to me through a friend of mine. I've read this script, it's very good, and I like it too. But this director is a WW person, so I just wanted to ask. Xu Han explained that the leading actor still considers the relationship between Zhang Li and WW.

"What's your name?"

"Su Zhaobin. ”

“..... You bring him to Hengdian, I'll see what the script says. ”

The first thing he thought of when he heard this name was Wu Baige,

If Zhang Li is not wrong, this movie should be "Rain of Swords". It is the movie that damaged Wu Baige's reputation and Su Zhaobin took the blame. Anyway, that's what it was reported at the beginning.

In fact, the current Zhang Li studio has five signed directors Yang Qing, Lu Yang, Wu Ershan, Xue Xiaolu, and Guo Fan, and Zhang Li is the director. There are a total of 6 directors, which is already a large number.

Of course, this is certainly not comparable to some large companies. But the quantity can't be compared, and the quality is not to be said.

None of these people are simple masters, and which movie hasn't been a big hit. With the addition of Zhang Li, a desperate existence, it is completely self-sufficient.

Although Zhang Li's studio is also investing in movies now, it is investing in small movies, and many of them are still that kind of literary films.

That's right, it's a literary film.

Of course, the investments are all in the kind of literary films that are still good, not those that are going to be banned at first glance, or the kind of movies that invest tens of millions or hundreds of millions.

The literary films invested by Zhang Li's studio are all the kind of movies that cost millions, and they will not exceed eight million at most. These movies can't be said to be profitable, but most of them can pay off.

It's not that Zhang Li wants to support literary films, he is really not that powerful. If you say that you want to support literary films, even if the investment is small, once the number increases, Zhang Li will not be able to hold it.

So now Zhang Li only invests in two or three films every year, and these movies are all selected by Zhang Li. He can't make much contribution to the Flower Planter film, but some films by good directors are still supported.

To get back to the point, Zhang Li's studio generally doesn't invest. In other words, investing in movies is relatively strict.

However, if this movie is "Rain of Swords", Zhang Li is still willing to think about it.

This "Rain of Swords" is a good martial arts film, and it can even be regarded as an excellent martial arts film. At least it's much better than Zhen Zidan's "Martial Arts".

It's just that this movie, shouldn't it fall into the hands of Wu Baige? Why is it running to Xu Han's side now, isn't Su Zhaobin a very famous screenwriter of WW?

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Zhang Li immediately crewed for a few days, and naturally couldn't let the crew stop these days. This not only delays the time of the big guys, but also how much money is lost every day.

So in the few days he was away, he asked Urshan to shoot on his behalf.

Although Wuershan was very frightened, in the end, Zhang Li still made a decision to let Wuershan shoot, and when he came back, he checked that if it was not good to reproduce the shooting. Isn't that the responsibility of an assistant director? And if according to the original situation, "Painted Skin 2" filmed last year was shot by Wuershan, and now because of the signing of Zhang Li's studio, this opportunity is gone. But the strength of the people is still there, after all, the box office of "Painted Skin 2" is more than 700 million, and the director's skills are still indispensable.

When Zhang Li returned to the crew, not only Wuershan breathed a sigh of relief, but even the other main creative actors or other members of the crew were relieved.

It's not that Wuershan can't do it, in fact, in Zhang Li's absence, Wuershan managed the crew and filmed movies quite well. The crew is also moving away as usual, but everyone always feels like they are missing the backbone.

There is no way, Wuershan's current status is still not comparable to Zhang Li's, and the difference in the hearts of this group of people is more than a star and a half.

The most obvious point is that when Zhang Li was there, whether it was Li Zhongzhi's action design or the performance with several leading actors, these people didn't dare to jump.

But as soon as Zhang Li left, and Wu Ershan directed and took charge of the camera, these people couldn't help but feel a little arrogant in their hearts.

After all, although this Wuershan is an assistant director, Li Zhongzhi is an old seniority and has many works before, and Li Bingbing and others are even more senior and big flowers in the entertainment industry. A director like Wu Ershan sometimes unconsciously feels a little weak when facing it, so that the other party overpowers him.

Although Wu Ershan also saw the problem, he was not the chief director but the assistant director after all. To make Li Bingbing and others completely obedient, this is really a bit difficult.

If he is a director, as long as the actors in the crew are not the kind of people with special qualifications and achievements, he can hold it down.

Therefore, after seeing Zhang Li come back this time, Wuershan was relieved as if he had unloaded Mount Tai from his body.

Wuershan stood on the side, and Li Bingbing and the others were a little farther away.

Zhang Li looked at the shot and looked very carefully. On the other side, Urshan is very nervous like a child who asks the teacher to check his homework.

"Lao Wu, this shot is very good. It seems that after the filming of this drama is completed, you will be able to direct it independently!"

After watching the scene directed by Wu Ershan, Zhang Li said directly. There's no exaggeration, it's true.

In fact, Wu Ershan's directing skills have long been able to direct independently, but he just wants to serve as an assistant director in Zhang Li's movie. After watching these shots this time, Zhang Li found that he shot very well, even Zhang Li had no flaws to find. After filming this time, it is really necessary to let Wuershan direct independently, otherwise it will be really too wasteful.

"Thank you, director!" Urshan said gratefully, with excitement.

Listening to such excited words, Zhang Li couldn't help but glance at Wuershan. It's just a boast, there's no need to be so excited.

However, Zhang Li didn't say much, it was getting late today. It's not suitable for filming, just let everyone go back and rest.

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In the next few days, the weather in Hengdian is still good. The sky was cloudless, and there were white clouds floating in the blue sky.

Hm, that feels weird, huh?

Although the weather was good, the sun was a little hot at noon, so Zhang Li had to wear a sunhat.

The scenes filmed in the past few days are all scenes of Xiaoqing, Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian, the main thing is that Xiaoqing wants to tease Xu Xian. And this Xu Xian is also a person who can't be tempted, and soon he and Xiaoqing got hot, and then Bai Suzhen caught the current on the spot.

Zizi, this Xu Xian is playing, it's not a loss to be a reader.

However, at the beginning of this movie, he also educated his student Qin Song to write obscene poems and hook up with Wanhualou women, which was disappointing.

As a result, this and Xiaoqing and Bai Suzhen both wanted, this is really a reckless hero. Children know how to choose one, and adults know that they can't bear it, this Xu Xian is really very mortal.

Ordinary people can't accept it at all, admire and admire!

"The lights are in place!"

"Camera OK!"

“Action！”

After Zhang Li shouted this, he immediately disappeared behind the camera.

Xiaoqing and Bai Suzhen are on the verge of breaking out!

This is one of the few action scenes in this, after all, everyone else does it directly with spells or summoned beasts.

Zhang Li had already drawn down how the two would fight and the environment, and then Li Zhongzhi came to perfect the drama for Wan Qian and Li Bingbing.

Although Zhang Li's painting work cannot be compared with Xu Laogui, he can still see people.

This scene was probably filmed for a morning, after all, it was almost run-in now.

In the afternoon, Zhang Li directly announced his rest.

This time, it was not to leave Hengdian to visit other crews, but Xu Han brought Su Zhaobin here.

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In recent years, the mainland has been rich, especially in terms of investing in films, which is almost the idea of many WW and HK filmmakers.

So many times, even if you don't like it, you will lower your head.

Without him, there is money to be made!

No one is at odds with money!

So sometimes I see a lot of artists with problems with their butts going to the mainland to make money shamelessly, just make money, and the attitude is not bad.

It's that some people have made money, and TMD turns their heads and scolds. This makes people get old.

So Zhang Li hates these people very much, but because of the exaggeration of the media and the number of WW and HK, it has caused Zhang Li to hate HK and even the entire WW entertainment industry. This time, Xu Han brought Su Zhaobin here because of this relationship.

After Su Zhaobin wrote the script of "Sword Rain", he carefully calculated that if this movie is produced, it will need to cost at least about 12 million. Well, here it is said that RMB is not NT$, if it is NT$, it is about 50 million.

This is not a small number for Su Zhaobin now, and this also invites some ordinary stars, if you choose a few popular stars, it will be more expensive.

Although Su Zhaobin is a little famous, he is just a screenwriter. If he wants to direct and write his own words, it will be difficult to attract investment.

Others don't care what your previous works are, if you are a director now, you are a newcomer.

In fact, if you really look for someone in WW, it's not impossible. As long as you find some bigwigs to be producers or co-directors, investment can still be attracted.

But Su Zhaobin wants to direct this movie independently, otherwise he can sell the script.

And if he really co-directs, I don't know what this movie will become at that time, if it is a big hit at that time, this movie will be someone else's, and if it loses, it will be his pot.