Chapter 32: The Record of Pretending to Be Forced at the Last Film Festival (I) (1/5)
Orange Cinema schedules films, usually giving itself a little resource tilt to the company's films.
When "Lunar 2" was released, Orange Cinema gave 10% more films than the market - at that time, it was when "Super 8" swept the film market.
But it also has to be regulated according to the movie itself, the online ticket sales of "The Great Protector" are too poor, even if you give a few more halls, you can't sell it...
The story of "The Great Protector" is a bit cruel, and the poster has made it clear that 'children are not suitable for watching movies', and these words are also written in online sales...
But many people turn a blind eye ...
Lu Xiaoran likes "The Great Protector" very much, and has asked them to hurry up to do the next two.
Anyway, I didn't lose anything, so I kept doing it.
It can be regarded as an organic supplement to the 'Fengshen series'.
As for "Flash Girl", its first-day film schedule was 18%.
Don't think that 18% is very little, on the 20th, although "Transformers 5" has not been released, "Alien Contract", "New Mummy", "Wonder Woman" are raging in the market...
- "Transformers 5" will be released on the 23rd...
"Flash Girl" opened three days early.
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The Shanghai Film Festival is getting more and more presentable, many movies have come to promote, and many people have come to oranges.
Lu Xiaoran led the crew of "Wushuang" off the red carpet - Zhou Yanfa, Liang Jiahui, and Zhang Ziyi are all here...
By the way, "Wushuang" is scheduled for September 29.
"It should be five years ago, when I wanted to find another crime theme to shoot, when I searched for information on the Internet to do research, I unexpectedly found a lot of cases about counterfeiting money. I'm watching the process of those people making counterfeit money, and it feels very similar to making a movie, that is, we are all fake, and what we pursue is how to make the fake very real.
Then we collected information on these counterfeit cases, and saw several characters from them, and found that they all have a great passion for counterfeiting, that is, everyone wants to make "super dollar bills". What is a "super dollar bill"? It is a kind of counterfeit dollar bill that even the person in charge of the banknote in the central bank of the United States cannot tell whether it is real or fake. I saw their motives in these cases, and I felt a little touched by it, so I wanted to write a story like this. ”
"When I was younger. It should be said that our generation grew up with Zhou Yanfa's movies, I watched "The True Colors of Heroes" for a summer, and then I watched "The True Colors of Heroes" countless times, and I also watched the "True Colors of Heroes 3" that everyone thinks is not so good-looking, and one of the things I often want to do is to use the theme song of "The True Colors of Heroes 3" to write a movie. So cooperating with Fa Ge is like a fate that you can never escape. ”
"We decided on Brother Fa first, and then found Ziyi, and then Boss Yang proposed why not find Liang Jiahui to play a rival role?"
"I took the script to Mr. Jiahui, and he only read it once, and he said that he must act..."
"It just so happens that my favorite Hong Kong film is "Prison Storm", you see, isn't it a coincidence?"
"The greatest happiness of being a director is to be able to work with the actors you want to work with!"
After saying a bunch of propaganda words, Lu Xiaoran took the car to the forum unit.
He came to the film festival just to pretend to be forced and listen to others pretending to be forced...
Sometimes you can still hear some insightful theories!
Lao Yu is one of them...
Jianghu people are known as "the king of strong mouths", leaving behind "film companies will work for BAT in the future", "Little fresh meat can't save Chinese films", "Bona will sell it to Wang Jianlin if it doesn't work", "80 million US dollars invested in "Midway""...
The last one was announced in Cannes!
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It's a pity that Lao Yu didn't come this year...
Let's be busy raising money with CAA - an investment of $80 million is enough for him to drink a pot!
This year's theme is: Chinese cinema is taking off...
Take off your sister!
Didn't you see the defeat of domestic films in the first half of the year?
Yu Yongfu, chairman of Ahri Pictures, said first: "The three high-tech industries are highly capital-intensive, talent-intensive, and high-risk. This industry is a combination of rationality and emotion, but our ultimate goal is to reach users through good content. The final decision on the industry is in the hands of users, who vote with their time and money. ”
Wang Changtian: "This industry has suffered serious losses, but the industry has taken the most first-class cabins, stayed in the most five-star hotels, held the most parties, posted the most photos, and posted photos when discussing a project, as if doing something great." Many people have an annual salary of more than 1 million yuan, and how many industries can support it? There are 14,000 film and television companies in China. It's too much!"
Lao Wang is a very idealistic, ambitious young man...
The main reason why he chose to resign from the TV station back then was that the program "Beijing Express" he produced criticized XX Dafa in an episode, and then was protested by thousands of people in a sit-in...
At that time, the policy was not clear, and the station gave him a treatment to stop introspection, and he stopped for two months as soon as he stopped, and simply resigned directly!
Ye Ning: "Chinese directors are now the most enjoyable directors in the world, they have less and less budget constraints, and they don't have to listen to producers anymore, because there is more money now. It's not right that the directors are sitting in the bank, holding the script and the idea to finance. ”
All right...
"I don't think the same as you, I think the Chinese film market is currently ushering in its first big crisis!"
Lu Xiaoran took the microphone: "The sign of the current crisis is that the film industry has seen a significant reduction in funds, many film companies are experiencing financing difficulties, film listed companies cannot issue additional issues, it is very difficult to issue bonds, loan interest is constantly increasing, and social capital is unwilling to invest money, because your return on investment is low, production costs are rising in this process, and copyright sales are declining. ”
"In the next year or two, maybe thousands of film and television companies will go out of business!"
"Our biggest problem is information lag, or the biggest difficulty in the far left of the movie is the information lag, because it takes at least a year to make a movie, so how will the market information change in this year?
"It's like a fan movie, which reached its peak in 2015, just find a little fresh meat, and shoot a MV blindly can get hundreds of millions of box office, and then, a large number of shoddy movies with the purpose of harvesting fans fill the screen. This situation continued until the 2016 National Day file, and the box office experienced negative growth for the first time in nearly a decade. ”
"The high-profile fan harvester "Jue Ji" failed miserably at the box office, and was replaced by "Iron Fist of Shame", and the fan economy suffered an unprecedented impact, but there is also a saying that fan movies with nothing to show have entered a bottleneck period. ”
"When several of our producers chatted, they all said that this is a good thing, and it is precisely because of the "adjustment period" of domestic films from 2015 to 2016 that more and more filmmakers return to the creation of film itself, respect the laws of film creation and art, and make quality and content the main theme of film creation. ”
"The problem is, many investors think that they are just looking for the wrong actor, would it be better if I was replaced by Lu Han?"
“... Of course, more investors simply choose to say goodbye to the film industry!"
"But it's also the best opportunity, including Hollywood movies today, to be the world of professional managers. One of the most resolute things these professional managers do is to keep making sequels, non-stop shooting sci-fi heroes, anime heroes. You can't make a mistake that way, because these IPs are mature. But at the same time, it will cause a lack of creativity, and I think that what domestic films at this stage need is good ideas and a mature industrial production base. ”