Chapter 921: Pit after pit
"Flying Tiger Pioneer" didn't have much competition before it was released, and there was the tilt of theaters such as Tianchen, so the results were okay.
But there is no harm without contrast.
As soon as "Home Alone" was released, "Flying Tiger Pioneer" was directly cool, not only the box office was cool, but the word of mouth was also cool.
What is particularly interesting is that "Home Alone" has an obvious Hong Kong Island film style, but it turned out to be by Lin Xiao.
I have to say it's a kind of irony.
There is nothing more tragic in life than when someone beats you in your way where you are most proud.
"Home Alone" and "Flying Tiger Pioneer" were not originally the same grade films, and they were compared, mainly because the two films collided and were released together.
Then "Flying Tiger Pioneer" is the first film to guarantee a successful case of completion, and "Home Alone" is also called the first domestic all-age film in the true sense.
The box office of "Home Alone" naturally needs not be said, the box office on the first day was nearly 200 million Chinese dollars, although this number cannot be said to be Lin Xiao's highest-grossing film, but it still makes countless people covetous.
"Flying Tiger Pioneer" was unlucky, the first-day box office of nearly 50 million on the first day looked very good, but the second day was directly due to the impact of the film schedule and "Home Alone", coupled with the word-of-mouth hit the street, it was directly stopped and broken, only more than 20 million.
In the end, the box office should be able to exceed 100 million, but it is basically impossible to recover the "cost" with the box office, and the loss is already doomed.
Of course, this is nothing for the Tianmeng guarantee, after all, the completion guarantee of the Tianmeng guarantee has ended after the release of "Flying Tiger Pioneer".
Therefore, in terms of the guarantee of the completion of the film, "Flying Tiger Pioneer" can indeed be regarded as the first successful case of Tianmeng's guarantee.
Although Chen Zhengmeng was a little depressed, he was still quite satisfied with the result, anyway, he had already earned the money, and the market performance was not good, which was not something he could guarantee.
Then, bumped into Lin Xiao's "Home Alone", which is not a crime of war. Investors can't say anything, can they?
However, at this moment, Yang Tianqi was frowning and looking at the information in his hand.
This material is a new project of Chen Zhengmeng's Zhengyang Film and Television.
Why did it appear in Yang Tianqi's hands? Of course, it was because of the guarantee for the completion of the film.
That's right, Zhengyang Film and Television's new project still comes to Tianmeng Guarantee to do the completion guarantee, according to reason, this is a good thing for Tianmeng Guarantee, but Yang Tianqi doesn't want to take over this business of completion guarantee.
Why? Because of this project with a total investment budget of 250 million!
"The Legend of the Devil" is a new project of Zhengyang Film and Television, the script of "The Legend of the Demon" is decent, based on Chinese folklore, the story of Zhong Kui.
This is not the point, the point is that the investment budget of 250 million!
Although the first "Flying Tiger Pioneer" was also as high as 130 million, at that time, Tianmeng Guarantee urgently needed heavyweight business to open up its popularity, so even if he knew Chen Zhengmeng's past, Yang Tianqi still took it in the end.
But now, Chen Zhengmeng's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, which makes Yang Tianqi also begin to hesitate.
It seems that Tianmeng Guarantee seems to have gotten a lot of business before, but in fact, Yang Tianqi himself knows what level these projects are.
The point is that so far, there is still no giant film to buy this guarantee of completion.
However, before Yang Tianqi could make a decision, there was a problem with the project guaranteed for the completion of the film.
Lou Yue is known as the representative of the sixth generation of directors in China, in the early years, Lou Yue's works have won many international awards, but the sixth generation of directors have one thing in common, that is, the films they like to shoot are a little over-lined.
Lou Yue has been banned for many years, and it was only thawed two years ago.
Nowadays, hot money enters the film market, but most of the favors are commercial films.
In the past two years, it has been difficult for Lou Yue to fool those rich people to invest, because facts have proved that literary films, especially those made by Lou Yue and others, will still lose a lot even if they win awards, the key is that European film festivals have paid less and less attention to Chinese films, and the awards have not fallen on the side of Chinese films for many years.
And Lou Yue's movies are basically difficult to release in the mainland.
At this time, the guarantee of Tianmeng appeared, and Lou Yue knew that the opportunity had come.
Lou Yue is still a little famous in the film industry, after all, he has won a lot of awards, but he has one of his biggest problems is that many times, his movies are freewheeling, and it is easy to cross the line, but he is unwilling to change and compromise.
Therefore, as a result, Lou Yue's movies have a very low real "completion rate".
This completion rate does not mean that Lou Yue did not finish filming the movie, but that it could not be released.
The guarantee for the completion of the film is to guarantee that a film will be released from the establishment of the project to the release, and if the last movie cannot be released, then everything will be cool.
Lou Yue played a trick this time.
The movie "Murderer" is Lou Yue's new project, and when he first pulled the investment and investment guarantee for the completion of the film guaranteed by Tianmeng, the script he gave was a good suspenseful crime film.
Although this kind of theme is relatively niche, "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "The Last Bone" have achieved good results before, so it proves that it is still very marketable.
And Lou Yue learned to be obedient this time, and his script was reviewed before it was given to Tianmeng to guarantee it.
In the end, he still got the completion guarantee guaranteed by Tianmeng, and then, Lou Yue took the completion guarantee contract to attract investment.
When others saw Lou Yue's name, their first reaction was whether this girl should make a banned film again, right?
Then, Lou Yue took out the qualification certificate that the script passed the review, and took out the completion guarantee contract guaranteed by Tianmeng.
In addition, the script of "The Murderer" is indeed created according to commercial films, which is indeed a little inconsistent with Lou Yue's style in the past, but according to Lou Yue's words, he also has to keep pace with the times, so he wants to try commercial films.
The investment budget for "Murderer" is 38 million!
This number is not too high, but it is definitely not low, but there is a guarantee for the completion of the film from Tianmeng, and the script has been reviewed, so Lou Yue still got the investment.
It's just that those investors don't know that after Lou Yue got the investment, he didn't shoot according to the script at all, but kept changing the script and carrying private goods.
There is a very criticized thing about the sixth generation of directors, that is, most of the time there are large-scale scenes in their movies.
They call it "art"!
In commercial movies, even if the hero and heroine roll the sheets, at most they will undress and get up, but Lou Yue and his group will never do this.
They will shoot from beginning to end, and according to them, if they don't shoot like that, they lose their artistic atmosphere.