Chapter 5: The First Objection (part 1/3)
The audience is very suspenseful.
Nowadays, all kinds of little flowers in the entertainment industry are endless, some of them became popular after shooting an advertisement, and some of them played the leading role several times but they were not well-known.
Some agents will give such a conclusion to girls who have just entered the circle: she can't be popular, and she doesn't have a protagonist.
In fact, in addition to having a protagonist, there are other conditions.
The first is that in a specific era, the characters created must meet the spiritual needs of the society at that time, each era is different, and the spiritual needs of the society as a whole will be replenished in the roles of film and television works;
This is called audience popularity!
The two complement each other to become popular.
The audience is very mysterious.
It has nothing to do with beauty and ugliness, it has nothing to do with style, and the saddest thing is that it has nothing to do with acting.
There seems to be no specific details and methods that can be described, just a feeling.
Bao Belle is such a typical case!
As an actor, what is remembered is the groomsman incident...
By the way, Sugar Candy hates him very much.
……
Zhong Lifang and Zhang Jin are thinking about the film to be released.
The North American release time of "The Great Wall 2" is October 19th, and it was decided to introduce screenings at the same time...
The problem is, on the 19th, four new works were released: "Baby", "Predator", "Kung Fu League" and "Writing Poems for You"...
There are so many new films!
The most important thing is that it is likely to affect the schedule of "The Nameless"...
Lu Xiaoran quickly entered the state: "What did Wanda say over there?"
The "Great Wall" series is still a Sino-American co-production, with Wanda and Orange each contributing 30%, and Orange Manufacturing and Warner responsible for the other 40%...
By the way, in this year's North American summer season, the other five major Hollywood players were defeated by Disney - "Avengers 3" and "The Incredibles 2" and "The Incredibles 2" together brushed down nearly 1.3 billion North American local box office...
Warner is fortunate to have orange manufacturing, and the latter has released five new works, "Human Clearance Project 4", "A Quiet Place 2", "Breaking the Door", "The Conjuring Universe - Nun" including "Crazy Rich Money", although only the latter two won more than 100 million US dollars, but the cost is low!
Five films, North America swiped $300 million, helping Warner to win the second largest share, surpassing Universal, which has "Jurassic World 2" in hand...
Disney's acquisition of Fox is a foregone conclusion, and Universal and Warner are getting closer and closer...
Back at the conference center, Zhang Jin: "They want to arrange "The Great Wall 2" into the National Day file..."
“… It can't be!"
"Wanda's several movies this year have not exploded... They're in a hurry, too!"
In the film market, there are winners and losers.
The biggest losers in this year's summer file are undoubtedly the two squares of "Asura": Ningxia Film and Zhenjian Pictures...
And then there's the Huayi brothers...
Or rather, there is no winner at all except oranges!
Three blockbusters took 70% of the box office in the summer file...
Lu Xiaoran shook her head slightly: "Wanda also participated in the production of "Touching the Golden Captain", and they produced and released "Take My Brother Away", which is quite okay!"
"Take My Brother Away", with a production budget of 35 million, in exchange for a box office result of nearly 400 million.
This is a small explosion.
"Maybe it's red-eyed..."
Lu Xiaoran was noncommittal...
is still the same sentence, the market is so big, you occupy it all, that is, you are ignorant!
The tree is a big move!
Any movie is a hit, and the box office starts at least one billion...
"Tang Detective 2", "Living Together in Time and Space", "I Am Not the God of Medicine", "The Richest Man in Xihong City", "Touching the Golden Captain", "A Good Show" By the way, "The Origin of the White Snake", which has broken 700 million at the box office...
How many?
18.6 billion!
"The Prequel of Warriors" is at least a work of 2 billion, plus "The Great Wall 2", "Walking with God", which are destined to be popular...
What do you want to do with oranges?
The maximum box office result is 65 billion a year, 40% of imported films are shared, and there is still 36 billion handicap left, do you simply account for all of them?
Lu Xiaoran doesn't care about these voices from the outside world...
This year and next year are the two years of harvest in the five-year plan.
……
"Next summer, the Fengshen Universe will officially kick off, in addition to animated movies, the Tang Tan Movie Universe will also take shape, and my current idea is to make a martial arts movie universe!"
"..."Rain of Swords"?"
"That's right!"
Lu Xiaoran was full of interest: "I'm going to connect with the Daming rivers and lakes..."
Zhong Lifang sighed: "Xiaoran, martial arts are not popular now!"
"There are always ups and downs in a genre film, and there are changes in popular fashions and interests. ”
Of course Lu Xiaoran understands this...
The decline of martial arts film and television dramas corresponds to the decline of martial arts and original martial arts scripts.
"Ancient Legends: Martial Arts Edition" won the last batch of original martial arts creators.
After the decline of physical magazines, the major original literary websites are lackluster in martial arts.
Without creation, there is no adaptation.
There are many costume dramas you watch, but they are not martial arts dramas. Including Jin Guliang, who has been remade countless times, has gradually lost the taste of martial arts, and has become a campus love story packaged by martial arts.
Martial arts are not happy, martial arts are not burning, the rivers and lakes of martial arts are a place full of romanticism on the surface but extremely realistic.
In good martial arts works, you may not find much sense of substitution.
Every decade has its own pop culture. Xianxia Xiuzhen Palace's fight for power and conspiracy counterattacked Mary Sue and Jack Sue, which is more in line with the leisure needs of the public in the atmosphere of fast food culture.
After being silent for a while, Lu Xiaoran asked, "... Then I shoot "Rain of Swords", why don't you object?"
"What are we against in your play?"
That's right, even if it's a boring story, Lu Xiaoran will be very interesting to shoot, at least one billion box office...
"That's it, I'll add an easter egg to "Rain of Swords", if the audience is interested, then I'll continue to shoot, how about it?"
Zhong Lifang looked at Zhang Jin and nodded, and the former then asked, "In terms of science fiction movies, what is our plan?"
"Didn't you say that you should build a few science fiction works around Liu Cixin first, and then consider changing the works of other science fiction writers!"
"I'm more worried that after the release of "The Wandering Earth", the original sci-fi books will be hoarded by other companies..."
"Love hoarding or not, science fiction movies are not ordinary works, and if you have IP, you have the ability to develop them?"
Lu Xiaoran doesn't care at all...
"Shanghai Fortress" is also a big IP in China's local sci-fi industry, and sci-fi fans may love it second only to Da Liu's "Three-Body Problem", and then what?
No matter how awesome the IP is, it needs to meet the right person before it can be developed!
Lu Xiaoran said so, Zhong Lifang, they shut up...
At the end of the meeting, Lu Xiaoran returned to his office and turned on the computer, he was still pondering the feasibility of the movie universe of 'Sword Rain + Daming'...
Zhong Lifang walked in with two cups of coffee, put one of them in front of him, and then asked, ""Li Cha's Aunt" was released on the same day as us, so you are not worried at all?"
“… You'll find out tomorrow by looking at word of mouth!"