Chapter 536: The Low-Cost Dilemma
For the drama "Romance of the Dragon and Snake", Lu Lin has now completely regarded it as a "hobby", and has not thought much about profit. Participating in various activities and seeing star artists, the first reaction is: can you come to my play, how can I fool him to come over and make a cameo!
is either favors, or a low salary, in short, to make "Romance of the Dragon and Snake" an all-star lineup. Imagine a TV series starring as many as 100 popular or out-of-fashion stars, including stars from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Hollywood, it is estimated that the application for the next Guinness World Records will be successful!
Of course, you can't play too unhappily, after all, the favor is not good, and it is not a small amount to make up a low-cost cameo, and the current plan is to pick the right one first.
And the birthplace of kung fu films, Hong Kong, has many artists who he thinks is suitable. For example, Zheng Yijian, who played the role of "Chinese Hero", and Zhang Yaoyang, who was in the limelight in "Crazy Boy".
But many of them have never dealt directly with Lu Lin, so they naturally invite "friends" to agree.
Andy has always been kind to people in the entertainment industry, and he agrees.
After a while, the host invited the main creator to appear, Andy and Zhen Zidan left together, and Yu Dong came over from the side door.
When they met, they sighed, "You kid, you really hurt us old guys!"
Although Lu Lin knew the meaning of his words, he couldn't come up and respond, and said, "How can I say this, why did I harm you again?"
Yu Dong complained bitterly: "You haven't harmed us yet, you have four blockbusters this year, three of which are in the summer, so that domestic small and medium-cost films are crowded into the National Day file, do you know how many new films will be released in the past two days? Ten films, how many films are only divided into one family?"
Lu Lin smiled when he heard this, what Yu Dong said was true, but it was not easy to deal with. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm squeezing you into the cold schedule, or who made you afraid to go to the summer!
"Hey, don't you catch up with this year's big outbreak? Guo Fan and Wu Jing's films are all scheduled for the summer, which is also a coincidence!"
Yu Dong's expression was complicated when he heard this, and he didn't know what to say for a long time, and he paused for a long time before patting Lu Lin on the shoulder and said, "You, give others a way to live! Now many CEOs and directors of small companies are calling for a boycott of you!"
Lu Lin couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Boycott?"
"That's right, your three blockbusters this year have a mainland box office of 14.7 billion, right?"
Lu Lin frowned slightly, "Yes, I didn't calculate it either!"
Yu Dong was depressed again, the box office and income of the three blockbusters couldn't be more than Bo Na's three years. No, counting the overseas box office, Bo Na has struggled for three years, and he doesn't make as much money as the three films of Longlin Pictures.
"It is said that the film industry is seven losses, two draws, and one profit! And when a hit comes out, it is an unknown number of low-cost films as cannon fodder, how many cannon fodder you have stepped on in the past few years!" Yu Dong said, and patted Lu Lin on the shoulder again.
The latter thought for a moment and said secretly: "Fortunately, it is in the country, if it is outside, it may be called to shoot a black gun!"
But he said: "Don't you think I'm going to rest in the second half of the year? Next summer, there will be no blockbuster film directed by me!"
"Hey, this should be the biggest benefit in the mainland film industry in the near future!" Yu Dong joked.
Lu Lin laughed, but Yu Dong suddenly said again: "By the way, I heard that "Fanghua" is going to be withdrawn!"
Lu Lin was stunned, "Withdraw, where is he going?"
Yu Dong said: "Where can he withdraw, I guess I don't know, mainly because there are too many films to be released on the National Day file, and I can't tell the difference between the films." Huayi has also known in the past two years, there is no film that supports the scene at all!"
"That's right!" Lu Lin replied casually and didn't say anything more. Although I know that this year's most tragic National Day file is caused by Longlin Pictures having three special effects blockbusters in a row, crowding out the living space of other films. However, shopping malls are like battlefields, and the schedule is occupied, and I haven't heard that there are people who go back and apologize.
After a while, the reporter came over for an interview, and Lu Lin rarely told the media that the movie was good and recommended everyone to watch it, which surprised the main creators.
The main reason is that Lu Lin's routines for participating in the premiere in recent years have been known to everyone, and when the media asked, they said that it was difficult to say that they had not seen the film. And this time I really haven't watched the feature film, but Lu Lin took the initiative to recommend it.
After that, he participated in the premieres of "British Showdown" and "Sewing Machine Band" one after another, and the sound heard was much the same. For example, Brother Cheng Long is more daring to speak, and Director Da Bulge is relatively modest in front of Lu Lin, and he looks very grateful for the support.
As for "Iron Fist of Shame", because of my busy work, I don't have time to watch it.
In fact, although the schedule at the beginning of October is crowded, it is not that there is no room for survival, such as around Friday on the 6th, there are no decent new films released. If "Fanghua" chooses this day, the box office should not be too bad. It's a pity that Hua Yi and Director Feng had too many concerns, so they were temporarily withdrawn.
Huayi Company, Wang Zhongjun, Wang Zhonglei, Feng Xiaogang, Ye Ning and several others rarely gathered in the Huayi conference room, all of them were in a daze at the printed 2017 Chinese New Year finalized film list, obviously thinking about choosing a new schedule for "Fanghua".
"Why don't we take a break in the cold and get to November?" suggested Wang.
Director Feng snorted, shook his head and said, "This year's audience has chased a lot of popular models in a row, and there will be a period of exhaustion." November is sandwiched between the National Day and the Chinese New Year, and there have been no good films in previous years. Many viewers are habitually reluctant to come out to watch movies, and it's not easy to publicize it!"
Wang Zhongjun suddenly said: "Let's look at December first!"
The beginning of the month is too early, and there are Hollywood movies "Vikings: War of Kings", "Doomsday Restart", "Padding Bear", "Shark Sea" and so on.
The fifteenth is Lu Lin's "Havoc in Heaven", although it is difficult to say how the box office is, but according to past experience, it is better to stay away.
On the 22nd, three new films "The Legend of the Demon Cat", "Blood of the Machine", and "Psychological Crime City Lights" were released, and "Fanghua" was not easy to choose this day.
On the 29th, seven new films such as "The Second Generation of Goblins" and "Anxiety Relief Grocery Store", and four new films on the 30th, which were also extremely tragic.
It can be said that after picking and choosing, you can't find a suitable schedule.
If you want to retreat to next year, the competition will be more intense, at least five new films will start every Friday in January, and the most twelve good will be as high as eleven, how to divide this row of films?
The same is true in February, when nine films are released at the same time on the first day of the Lunar New Year. No matter how you look at this, I can't choose a schedule suitable for "Fanghua".
The more Director Feng looked, the more depressed he became, slapped his hand on the table, and snorted: "Forget it, I'm a director, after this movie is finished, there will be nothing to do with me, the specific release matter, it's up to you to decide!"