Chapter 415: See the Penguin Again
"The best villain hero in history!"
"Evil Venom Landing on Earth!"
"The second superhero of the Grand Slam actor is coming!"
"Ding Cheng's biggest challenge ever!"
Half a month later, Venom made its global debut, and Ding Cheng returned to the capital and began to promote it.
The reason why I didn't choose the United States is that it is not a big production in Hollywood after all, and the publicity is limited.
On the contrary, it is better to use Southeast Asia as a breakthrough point, use its box office appeal to break out of the encirclement, and drive the box office in North America and even the world.
It doesn't matter, it's more comfortable to return to his hometown, this time Ding Cheng didn't ask his friends for help with great fanfare, Aquaman already owes a lot of favors, this time I want to see how much Venom box office can have?
I don't mobilize my connections, but Yu Fatzi and Yao Zai will not be idle, two or three hundred million will be smashed down, and it will be another round of overwhelming, plus all kinds of rubbing heat, not to mention that there is also the support of Penguin Dad, this schedule is completely dominated by Venom.
Even found the hottest rocket 101 to run and jump?
When I was idle, I went to South Korea for a spin, cooperated with CJ propaganda and momentum, helped Lee Jae-hyun stand on the platform, and shouted twice to canvass for votes.
No matter where you go, there are crowds of people, and there are thirty or forty security towns, but there is no way, but you can't interact with fans at close range, which is also a pity.
On the day of the premiere, I had dinner with Yu Fatzi Wang Tian and a few people, as the only two distributors in China, Warner was too tough last time, and this time Columbia was a few orders of magnitude worse after all, so he could only cooperate with Bona obediently, and Yu Fatzi can be described as proud.
"Hmph, I'll see how hard Warner can be!" Yu Fatzi said disdainfully: "The second king is over, Han Laosan's ass must sit upright, I think who else can they find?"
Ding Cheng couldn't help but joke: "After all, it's a giant, you always have to be arrogant a few times, don't want to lose face?"
"Let's not eat that!"
"You're not trying to pretend?"
"Waiting for Venom to come out at the box office?"
"Lao Tzu doesn't dick you!"
Everyone laughed, Ding Cheng also had the same attitude, Lao Mei is this urine, worships the strong, and the weak will never have the right to speak.
The reason why I chose Columbia this time is also to show the strength of several veteran brands of Warner Disney, even if I don't have you, I still get mixed up.
When the time comes, you will rush to me!
If Aquaman is to prove to Hollywood his box office appeal in Southeast Asia,
That venom is knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger,
Let the so-called veteran hegemons see,
What is called!
"Penguin finally made the right bet this time?" Wang Tian teased: "How many bad movies did you use money to smash a few days ago?"
Ding Cheng smiled and shook his head, to say that the relationship with penguins is quite early, I still remember that one-seventh of me was the online drama they invested in.
It's also the lowest-rated work since his debut!
"Every few years, there is hot money from different corners of the world that wants to enter Hollywood, and who makes the name on the Walk of Fame bring huge brand value and influence. ”
Yu Fatzi said: "Rich people everywhere want a piece of the pie, the first island countries, Germany, and then India and the Middle East have entered the game. This money is regarded as stupid money by Hollywood, and after 15 years, it is finally our turn in China. ”
"I still remember that in the first year or so, all kinds of domestic companies waved the dollars that were not restricted at that time, looking for everything that could be bought, from theaters, to small and medium-sized film companies, and even the Big Six seemed to be no longer for sale. ”
"At that time, the richest man Wang personally flew to Los Angeles and wanted to use the money to educate Hollywood on how to make movies!"
Everyone burst into laughter again, and Ding Cheng recalled that when he first met Yu Fatzi, it was also 15 years ago, and Tencent Pictures had just been established. Because of the word Tencent, and because of the argument that movies had to work for BAT at that time, everyone was in awe of it, expecting it to also wave money, participate together, and buy Hollywood.
Times have changed, the country has reduced leverage and tightened capital outflows in the past two years, and the crazy rich people who are rampant in Hollywood have scattered in an instant, of course, they have no impact on Hollywood, but they are just another financier who comes and goes in a hurry, and even many people secretly rejoice that they finally don't have to worry about guidance from laymen.
After all, the penguin has a big family, and the pony has become the richest man for two consecutive years, but it is getting closer and closer to Hollywood. Participated in "Warcraft" for 16 years, showing the industry the resources that a trillion empire can mobilize, and shocked the audience. ”
Then he worked on "Wonder Woman", "Ready Player One", "Bumblebee", ...... Including Venom this time, almost all of them were the most popular imported movies of the year. ”
"I heard that it has announced that it has announced its investment in the new "Terminator" and "Top Gun", and will also jointly develop "My Name is Bai Xiaofei" with STX, and the original work comes from the comic IP of the animation platform. ”
"Last time I had dinner with Vice President Chen Hongwei, I kept saying that I wanted to be a partner of Hollywood's Huaxia?"
Yu Fatzi snorted coldly: "Don't ask if we agree or not!"
Ding Cheng shook his head, in fact, Tencent's early release list did not have much of a shadow of Hollywood, and he may have felt that he was not ready at that time, whether it was making movies or cooperating with Hollywood, he was still a recruit.
With the team, I started to visit Hollywood. At that time, Hollywood was full of Chinese faces, and many people had been in Hollywood for a long time, and things didn't get done, but there were some ways, so they matched the domestic team and the Hollywood team, regardless of whether the project was successful or not, and then mixed up the intermediary fee.
People who are stupid and have a lot of money often sign cooperation intentions for avatar teams, famous directors and other famous names, some are really deceived, and some return to China with empty contracts to continue to deceive new investors.
At that time, Tencent was also very smart, not looking at these cooperation projects, and even not going to negotiate with the Big Six first, making a list of hundreds of independent production companies and studios, and screening the remaining thirty or forty by itself, and making appointments one by one.
The purpose of meeting is not to talk about cooperation, but to have a contact and get to know each other, in order to slowly establish a relationship of cooperation and trust.
Although the Chinese film market is large, it was already the second in the world at that time, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes the first in the world, but just having a large market or being rich cannot be exchanged for respect.
Just as the old aristocracy looks down on the capital tycoons, in the eyes of the producers, similar tastes are more important than money. Because I feel that Hollywood, which is rampant with blockbusters, has no taste, many originals have flowed to Amazon and Netflix, which has also led to a creative crisis in Hollywood today.
To tell the truth, compared with Hollywood, people are more worried about Chinese taste!
In Ding Cheng's view, the word Tencent is not only a strong endorsement and resource support, but also a heavy responsibility. With them in the game, it means that there is the convenience of knowing almost all Internet users, and it means that there is the maximum social platform support.
With social attributes, you can know what users like and don't like, and all precision marketing publicity, I don't know how much money to save and how much more can be done.
In all fairness, Penguin is more suitable for publicity channels, or light investment does not participate in the creation, if you participate in the script, Venom itself will definitely not dare to take it!