Now the No. 1 single-film box office record is "Golden Armor", and the horror box office of 4.3 billion has directly discouraged most directors. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIf anyone can break this record, many people think that Duane has the most hope, after all, he is the only director who has ever broken the box office record of "Hero", who can guarantee that he will not break a new box office record again?

But that was before the release of "Truman's World".

After the release of "Truman's World", the box office did not break the record, but it did not even reach half of "Golden Armor", and Duane, who left Zhang Yimou, returned to his essence - a 2 billion director, a very talented 2 billion director.

He is indeed quite talented artistically, "Flying Over the Asylum" that once swept the Huabiao Awards and now "Truman's World" all illustrate this, but commercially, he is a 2 billion director, a 2 billion director who can only break through his box office bottleneck with the help of many super directors such as Zhang Yi and Xie Jin and many heavyweight actors, and a 2 billion director whose strength even Zhou Xingchi is not enough to pull him out of this bottleneck.

This was certain until Duane did not achieve more outstanding results on his own.

And it is such a person who actually said that his next movie will exceed 7 billion box office?...... Although she still translated Duane's words truthfully, the female translator couldn't help but roll her eyes after translating.

Please, are you a little more reliable to brag? If you blow 5 billion, we won't say anything, and it's more or less close to 43, but if you directly blow 7 billion, you will directly throw out the current box office number one more than 2 billion and nearly 3 billion......

Isn't this a loss of mind?

"Good, good,"

After Richard was silent for a while, he nodded again and again, as if he was comforting a small child, "I'm looking forward to this movie." But listening to his tone, he didn't hear the slightest expectation, it was completely perfunctory, and the next words also showed his true thoughts.

"I believe this will definitely be a wonderful movie, from my point of view, I also believe that this advertisement is worth the price of 300 million yuan, but I hope you can also understand one thing, that is, IMAX is not mine, I am just a CEO, the amount you asked for is beyond my ability, this needs to be discussed by the board of directors to decide, I can't give you a response immediately, but I think we can continue to keep in touch, everything must have its solution......"

Duane's toughness suddenly interrupted his rhythm before, and from the moment the 300 million report came out, the conversation between the two sides completely followed Duane, but here Richard finally found his rhythm again. As for what Duane said before, there is no need to leave it unnecessary...... Except for the wording of the contract, there is nothing that cannot be changed and does not need to be taken too seriously.

This time, Duane finally spoke a little bit of quality, and did not interrupt Richard's words again, and waited until the other party had finished speaking before he spoke: "I wonder if Mr. Richard knows anything about what has happened to me in the past few years? ”

Richard didn't follow his rhythm, and he didn't follow Richard's words, the two of them were stunned and said their own things, chickens and ducks.

However, what Richard said just now were some declarative words, and Duane would not respond if he did not respond, and Duane was now using question-style content, and if Richard continued to act as if he did not hear it, it was obviously inappropriate, so he could only nod and reply: "Of course." ”

As the most popular figure in the entertainment industry in recent years, Duane's deeds have long been familiar to people in the industry.

Duane said, "Then let me mention a few things, and I don't know if you have any impressions, Mr. Richard." The first thing is that before the release of "Liberation Day", I had asserted that the global box office of this film would exceed 3 billion, and the global box office of "Liberation Day" did exceed 3 billion. The second thing is that before the release of "Truman's World", I said at the press conference that the global box office of this movie will be more than 1.5 billion, and it is unlikely that it will be more than 2 billion. In fact, there is one more thing, that is, before the release of "Pretty Woman", I once predicted to Qi Sheng of Pony Film and Television that the global box office of "Pretty Woman" would be more than 1 billion, and I did it, if you are interested, you can ask. ”

Richard listened silently as the interpreter translated Duane's. He knew what Duane was talking about, and he also understood that these two things had indeed happened, after all, the two things happened at the time when everyone knew about them, but what he didn't understand was what Duane meant by suddenly saying this.

"When I judged that the global box office of "Liberation Day" would exceed 3 billion, the vast majority of people, including professional analysts of various companies, thought that it was unlikely that "Liberation Day" would exceed 3 billion box office, and when I judged that the box office of "Truman's World" would be between 1.5 billion and 2 billion, the vast majority of people also thought that the box office of this movie could not be so low, and I judged "Pretty Woman" When the global box office will exceed 1 billion, Qi Sheng of Pony Film and Television even thinks I am farting at all, which shows that my judgment is made independently. ”

"I'm the director of these films, no one knows them better than me, and unlike the market analysis models used by most professionals, I have my own unique set of market analysis models, which are the basis for my unique and accurate market judgments. And the results of two things also proved that my judgment was amazingly accurate, more professional and more trustworthy. The 7 billion I just mentioned is also based on my knowledge of my own films and my market analysis model, so I think you can think about this number. ”

Richard's face remained unchanged, and he said: "Director Du, you should also understand that your words are not convincing, because the numbers you cite do not have real mathematical significance......

The sample size is so small that it can be explained by coincidence, and the so-called accuracy and professionalism that Duane refers to is obviously bullshit.

However, although Richard denied it, he was moved in his heart, and a faint thought came to him: What if what Duane said was true? What if his model was indeed more scientific and reasonable, and indeed incredibly accurate? What if these two things were not a coincidence? What if Duane really had an amazingly accurate judgment of the market?......

And these ifs, the final result is only one: the next movie that has not been seen by this shadow may indeed have a box office of 7 billion.

If that's the case, especially since Duane also said that the film will be a science fiction film - this is the type of film that best reflects the advantages of IMAX - and especially emphasized that it is a film that makes a lot of use of computer special effects and even makes computer special effects the main character, if everything is as Duane said, everyone is crazy about it......

That will indeed have a historic effect on the development of IMAX.

The result of the terrifying super-profits, which are faster than arms and drugs, is likely to be the explosive growth of the IMAX volcano, after all, capital is profit-seeking.

Of course, this is just a faint idea, and the possibility is very small, but Richard finally began to think of this possibility under the guidance of Duane, and thought about it deeply, but the result was negative after all.

There are almost no possibilities.

Richard's attitude Duane saw it in his eyes, obviously his example did not convince Richard, and Duane was also mentally prepared for this: he is not a magic stick, how can he just say a few words and people believe it? At the same time, a trace of hesitation that flashed between Richard's words was also captured by him, which showed that his goal had been achieved, that is, to plant a seed in Richard's heart.

That's enough.

Richard repeated his words, and the central idea was that he did not agree with Duane's fallacies and heresies, to which Duane's response was to bring the topic to a new place.

"Does Mr. Richard know anything about what I'm doing this year, and did you know that I've been producing four films this year?"

Duane's thinking was wild, and Richard couldn't keep up with it, so he nodded after a moment's pause, "Yes, I know." ”

This thinking is also too jumpy, making Richard feel like he is facing a catfish that has escaped, too difficult to catch, and the rhythm is out of order.

Without giving Richard time to think, Duane said directly: "These four movies will all be released this year, why don't we predict their box office? When the results are in, it's not too late for you to think about what I just said, Mr. Richard. ”

Richard was interested, "Tell me, I'm sure they're all going to do well at the box office under your supervision, even though I've heard that all of them are newcomers I've never heard of before. ”

Although all of them are newcomers, although there is only one year from project establishment, shooting, production to release, although no matter how you look at it, it looks like a work that uses Duane's name to make money, although it is ...... But Duane always hangs the name of producer, for Duane's sake, for Duane's sake, I believe that the box office of these movies will not be very bad.

Maybe 1 billion in total?

If these newcomers do have some talent, then 1.5 billion is not impossible......

"I think, 4 films...... A total of 1.5 billion at the box office?"

Richard speculated boldly - in fact, anyone who could sit in such a position was a bit adventurous.

According to Richard's prediction, on average, the box office of each of these four movies will be a little less than 400 million, which is a very scary number for the crew, which is basically all newcomers, which means that these newcomers will become famous overnight! Duane is the best example, and the global box office of "Chainsaw" that year was less than 500 million.

Richard felt that his guess of 1.5 billion was already bold, but he knew right away that the guess was still too conservative.

"2 billion,"

This is Duane's answer, 500 million more than Richard's speculation, very confident.

But that's not the end of the story.

“…… each. ”

Duane said lightly, seemingly completely unaware of how explosive his words were, "According to your method, if you say the total box office, that is, a total of 8 billion upwards." ”

Poof

Because I sat for too long and moved, my butt hurt a little, and the female translator who had just moved her butt forward accidentally sat on the ground with her buttocks, and forgot to translate this sentence for a while.