Chapter 307: The Market Is Quietly Changing
"So many, all of them are characters that fit my schedule?"
Liu Dong looked at the thick pile of documents in front of him, at least there were more than 10 copies.
"You look at the top one, the others are some movies that have been recently established, collected and analyzed. Li Manyu pointed to it and said.
"Analyze what?"
Liu Dong took the top document and put it in front of him, but instead of looking at it, he opened the one below.
"The market in the coming year, the investment direction of major companies, and the trends of some actors and directors!" Li Manyu said.
"What did that lead to?"
"The market is now slowly changing, in previous years, the main goals of major companies were on costume productions, but now the proportion of costume blockbusters is slowly shrinking, and the three major companies of Bernard, Huayi, and New Picture are expanding other types of films!"
Li Manyu analyzed slowly and methodically, "With an investment of up to 300 million, Li Lianjie, Liu Dehua, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Xu Jinglei co-starred in "Casting Names", which lost to "Assembly Number" in a head-to-head confrontation, "Jiangshan Beauty" Berner barely made a profit with the income from distribution and theaters, and the situation of "Three Kingdoms: Seeing the Dragon Unloading the Armor" is not much better. ”
"Last year, except for Zhang Yimou, only Huayi's "Night Banquet" made a lot of money by pitting Colombia!"
"On the contrary, Li Lianjie's "Huo Yuanjia", Liang Chaowei's "Wounded City", Li Press's "Lust Caution", Liu Dehua's "Disciple", plus "Slam Dunk" and "Yangtze River No. 7", which have been released this year, have all achieved good results!"
"Although the mainstream of the domestic film market is still dominated by large-scale costume productions, some far-sighted producers have gradually shifted their direction!"
Li Manyu rubbed her forehead with some distress, originally Liu Dong's appearance and specialties were very suitable for costume films, if major companies changed their investment directions because the income did not meet expectations, it would not be good news for her.
Either change your acting path, or go to modern action movies!
Neither is a good choice.
Liu Dong quietly listened to Li Manyu's analysis, and thought back to the movies in the next few years.
It seems that costume blockbusters have indeed decreased a little since the past two years, and there will be at least one costume film in the top three box office in the past year, or even all three.
After that, it was "Tangshan Earthquake", "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", "Let the Bullets Fly", "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love", "Eavesdropping", "Thai Embarrassment", "Cold War" and other different kinds of movies appeared on the box office charts.
Even Zhang Yimou, who opened an era and let costume blockbusters dominate the screen, has quietly transformed.
"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", and "The Surprise of the Three-Gun Shooting", it seems that the national teacher has not made any costume films except for "The Great Wall".
"Changes in the market are inevitable, the audience will always get tired of watching one day, next year major companies have determined, in the optoelectronic record projects, there are only "Silver Empire", "Fengyun 2" two costume films, plus the second half of "Red Cliff", there are only three movies with medium investment or above!"
Li Manyu said the data under his statistics.
"And "Fengyun 2" is still a sequel!" Liu Dong added.
"Yes, and Zhang Yimou's new film is said to be not a costume film!"
"Berner will launch a blockbuster film with a background in the Republic of China next year, as well as two small and medium-cost productions of "Very Perfect" and "Eavesdropping", the former is a romantic comedy, the latter is a typical Xiangjiang police film, and the real costume film is only "Silver Empire" starring Guo Fucheng!"
"A blockbuster with a background in the Republic of China?"
Liu Dong knew after a little thought, this should be "October Siege".
"That's right, the title of the film is currently tentatively set as "October Siege", the specific details are not clear, Chen Kexin will be the producer!" Li Manyu explained.
""The Petition for Fame only took 200 million, and Berner is still relieved of him?" Liu Dong was puzzled.
Although 200 million is a lot, plus the overseas copyright has made Berner profitable, but after all, it was suppressed by "The Assembly", and the cost of the latter is less than 100 million!
Li Manyu shook his head, "It's not him who is the sole producer, but Huang Jianxin!"
"But director Chen Deshen and Chen Kexin have a good relationship, which can be regarded as a balance!"
Liu Dong is speechless, making a movie and engaging in internal division, shouldn't we work together to make a good movie!
Li Manyu continued, "Huayi's director of the production department, Chen Guozhang, has launched a spy war drama, and Huayi's two leading actresses Zhou Xun and Li Binbin, as well as Huang Xiaoming, Zhang Hanyu, Su Youpeng, etc., will participate! There is also a romance film starring Liu Dehua and Shu Qi "Dragon and Phoenix", and he has not set foot in the production of costume films!"
"This is to gather all the first-line stars of Huayi together, what is the origin of this Chen Guozhang, can he hold it?" asked Liu Dong.
Li Manyu sighed, "Chen Guochang is a very capable person, it only took one year to go from a film critic in a small magazine to the editor-in-chief of "Impact" magazine. ”
"He doesn't make many movies, but it's either a box office harvest or a high reputation, "Assembly Number", "No Thieves in the World", "Ke Ke Xili", "Li Mi's Conjecture" are all produced by him, Huayi has Feng Xiaogang's box office guarantee, and now there is a gold medal producer, it is estimated that it will soon threaten Berner's status in the film industry!"
"Is it so powerful?" Liu Dong exclaimed, he was very familiar with this person's name.
Li Manyu smiled and asked rhetorically, "Why do you think Feng Xiaogang asked Zhang Hanyu to star in "Assembly Number"?"
Liu Dong said without thinking, "Zhang Hanyu meets the requirements of the character, and he is Huayi's own family, and with Feng Xiaogang here, it is better to worry about no exposure, and there is no need to invite any big-name stars." ”
Li Manyu shook her head, "How can there be such a simple thing, Feng Xiaogang invited Liu Dehua to play Guzidi, but Chen Guofu vetoed it, so he chose Zhang Hanyu from the inside!"
"He has such great ability, can he get rid of Feng Cannon's candidate?"
Liu Dong obviously doesn't believe it, even Wang Zhongjun, a director of this level is unlikely to refute his face.
"Why can't he, he is the producer of "Assembly" and the director of Huayi's production department, there are legitimate and reasonable reasons!"
"When he didn't join Huayi, he arranged Liu Luoying into the crew of "No Thieves in the World" to play the heroine, and Huayi's Li Binbin could only play the second female lead!"
Liu Dong suddenly became interested, although milk tea has later become the exclusive title of the proprietress of Goudong, but in the hearts of slightly older people, Liu Luoying is the real "milk tea"
"What is the relationship between Liu Luoying and Chen Guofu?"