Now, whether it is a box office forecasting agency or the producer and distributor of "Psychological Crime" itself, their expectations for the box office of the movie are only on the basis of 500 million.

Because the restrictions on the subject matter are too great, there are no more than 500 million films of the same type, and the audience prefers Hollywood blockbusters and domestic comedy movies!

Many people think that gunfight movies, spy movies, and police movies are nothing to watch, and if you want to watch them, you can watch them on video websites or TV set-top boxes after screening, and there is no need to spend money to go to the theater.

There are not a few people who have such thoughts, just look at the box office rankings of historical movies, most of them are movies that can make people laugh easily, even if the reputation is very bad.

It is very difficult for a good movie to survive, and the phenomenon of whether it is popular or not will appear every schedule.

Zhang Chu knows that the prediction of Maoyan Movie is only 480 million yuan, which is still for the sake of top directors, top actors, and top distributors, otherwise it is only two or three hundred million.

He actually doesn't know why he has so much confidence, after all, the readership of "Psychological Crime" is actually not large, compared to "Sou Shen Ji" and "The Legend of Wukong", not to mention "Ghost Blowing the Lantern"!

So in the face of Tu Qiwei's inquiry, Zhang Chu could only smile mysteriously and did not react too much.

Fortunately, at this time, Director Xu Ji, who was old and strong, walked in in a Tang costume and focused the focus on him alone, which made Zhang Chu breathe a sigh of relief.

When the director appeared, several actors also appeared, and the reporters on the red carpet also moved to the auditorium, and the premiere was about to begin.

Zhang Chu sat in the center of the second row, and on both sides were the behind-the-scenes production team of the program group, these people had little reaction to the premiere, but Zhang Chu endured his curiosity and looked at the two leading actors on the stage.

Liao Chao is dressed very handsomely today, full of masculine mature manhood, which makes the female fans in the back row shout frequently.

However, these programs and interactions made Zhang Chu yawn a little, originally thought that the premiere was to answer the questions of reporters and audiences after watching the movie, but he didn't expect that there would be various processes.

"It's boring, right?" Jiang Hua, the assistant director of the crew, muttered quietly, this rough man in his thirties had a thick beard on his face, and he could barely see what his face looked like.

Zhang Chu nodded approvingly, "What's the point of these activities?"

"It's probably on the webcast, it is said that the webcast rights of the premiere were sold for 1 million, and they can make money on anything. ”

This made Zhang Chu a little surprised, he thought that this Tencent Video was a cooperative relationship, but he didn't expect to collect money!

With such a strong ability to make money, he is happy to get the dividends, although the 1 million will not be given to him at all.

The agreement signed by Zhang Chu only included box office dividends, and the rest of the income was not counted.

Jiang Hua is also a self-acquaintance, in fact, he doesn't know Zhang Chu at all, he has never talked before, and now he can't stop talking like a chatter: "I'll tell you, our Director Xu will praise you if you have something to do on the set, so that we are all very familiar with the name Zhang Chu." You're too good at writing books, and I've heard that they've all been sold to Hollywood, right?"

"Yes, there is no domestic film company that is willing to ask for it, only to hand it over to Hollywood. Zhang Chu said helplessly, the special situation of "Youth School" is here, and domestic companies are unprofitable.

"I may have to come out to work alone this year, and when the time comes, I will come to you to buy copyright cooperation, I don't know if Huan is welcome?"

Jiang Hua has been Xu Ji's assistant director for a long time, and now Xu Ji only makes a movie every two years, and he obviously plans to go out!

With Xu Ji's connections, it is not too difficult for Jiang Hua to find a film with small and medium-sized investment as a director, and he will move forward to a big production after practicing his skills with this type of work.

This is the advanced route of most directors, and it is almost impossible to become fat in one go, unless it is a rebellion or its own resources, or it is a scapegoat for a bad movie.

Zhang Chu was curious, "The film and television copyrights of the works in my hands have been sold almost, which one do you fancie?"

"Wukong Biography, this book shouldn't have been sold, right?" Jiang Hua had already prepared, he didn't have the luxury of expecting to get the copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", "Sou Shen Ji" looks like the scene is so grand, and the filming of the TV series is almost the same, and the movie can't accommodate the things in it at all.

""The Legend of Wukong"? Are you sure you want to shoot it?" Zhang Chu showed a strange face, the film and television adaptation of this work is too difficult, even if the author is a screenwriter for "The Legend of Wukong" in his previous life, he can't shoot it!

Jiang Hua rubbed his hands, didn't care about the rest of the people around him, and said directly: "Of course, but I don't have the money to buy your copyright now." Don't you know, now your copyright fee has been spread all over the industry, saying that if you don't have 10 million, don't do it, and if you do, you will be asked to get box office dividends. ”

Zhang Chu did not make a defense, "BBC and Warner Bros. have taken dividends, why don't the rest of the companies give them?"

It's just that the film and television adaptation of "The Legend of Wukong" is too difficult, and the plot of the whole work is relatively scattered.

If you only shoot one of the episodes, it will be too fragmented!

In addition, readers like the dialogues in Wukong's biography, but if you want to put these dialogues in the movie, the long dialogue between Wukong and Zixia in Pan Taoyuan is estimated to take a few minutes, and the pace will be extremely slow.

If you think about a sequel, you can divide Wukong's biography into a trilogy and talk about it slowly, so that there is more wonderful content retained, but the battle line is too long.

If you don't think about sequels, then there are very few things to keep, and unnecessary things have to be deleted!

With such a difficult film and television adaptation, Zhang Chu really didn't dare to hand it over to a fledgling person, and he didn't even have the director's microphone, so he wanted to adapt "The Legend of Wukong", which was too risky.

So he shook his head and said: "The Legend of Wukong is too difficult to adapt, unless I give me a complete script, I will not sell the film and television adaptation rights to any company!"

If it is destined to shoot a bad movie, it is better not to shoot it, leaving an obsession and beauty in the minds of readers, so as not to be crushed by bad movies.

Jiang Hua was a little stunned, "Wait, I'm not a white wolf with empty gloves, but I really want to make this movie." Actually, I've read you over and over again in the last two days, and now I have a vague idea. ”

"If you have an idea, send the script to my mailbox in two days, if the script is good, I can sell it to you cheaply, and even give you a part of the investment!"

This premise is based on the fact that the script is excellent, and Zhang Chu does not think that Jiang Hua has this ability.