Xu Wenhui's new film is to enter the global market, so it is natural to choose a film with a high box office and internationalization.

And the movie Xu Wenhui chose has a well-known name, it is called "Home Alone"!!

Home Alone is a family comedy directed by Chris Columbus and starring child star Macaulay Culkin. From 1990 to 2012, it was released in five parts.

Interestingly, the production company is the 20th Century Fox Company, which has been working with Xu Wenhui before.

The reason why I chose to shoot this movie is because, in 1990, the film recovered nearly $480 million at a cost of 18 million, 285 million at the North American box office, and nearly 200 million at the overseas box office. In total, it has brought more than 800 million yuan to the 20th Century Fox Film Company in the United States.

With a total global score of $533,000,000, the film became the highest-grossing comedy film in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The box office decided that Xu Wenhui chose this movie!

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If you want to be popular in the global film market, and more importantly, to recruit fans in the United States, Xu Wenhui's first choice is to make commercial films first, and with the help of the high box office, he will gain a firm foothold first.

and then make literary films to improve their style.

Thinking back to the original director Steven Spielberg, he first made commercial blockbusters such as "Jaws", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "ET", and saved enough capital for himself before he began to make literary films such as "The Color Purple", "Empire of the Sun", and "Schindler's List".

There is an advantage to doing this.

Even if one or two of his new films fail, he can still gain the trust of the producers and have enough capital to make a comeback.

However, if you start making a literary film, it will be difficult to start all over again if it fails at the box office.

The film industry is a vanity fair, extremely realistic.

Your film can make money, so you can have the right to speak.

Otherwise, one or two films will fail, and there may be no power to make films from now on.

For example, John Woo, who once developed in Hollywood, is the apprentice of Zhang Qu, the hated ghost in Xu Wenhui's eyes.

He first made high-grossing commercial films such as "Broken Arrow", "Changing Face", and "Mission Impossible 2", which made him the darling of Hollywood, and naturally became the guest of countless movie giants.

However, after a "Wind Whisperer" made MGM lose a lot and went bankrupt, the director Wu Da no longer won the favor of Hollywood studios, and finally could only return to the Chinese film market in disgrace.

This is not the reason for the disagreement, but more because the results determine everything.

There are many such examples, like Kevin Costner, who once filmed "Dances with Wolves" and then won seven Oscars, this director, I think he was also the most powerful person in Hollywood back then!

It is a combination of writers and directors, so bright and dazzling.

But can you imagine?

The fiasco of "Future Water World" made him bleak in an instant.

In an instant, he went from a box office darling loved by everyone to a plague that everyone hid in.

Although Xu Wenhui does not need investors, but distributors, etc., will also consider the director, the director is not famous, or a loser, they will not be happy to accept you, do not schedule the film for you, even if you are scheduled, I am afraid there will not be a good time period, and the canvas is pitiful.

Therefore, Xu Wenhui will never allow his new movie to fail, no, it can't be a single one!!

Therefore, Xu Wenhui chose "Home Alone", the most popular theme in the United States and will never go out of style, is undoubtedly action movies and comedies.

In another time and space, the popular Marvel movie, although it is in the name of science fiction, is actually an action movie in essence, and the basic selling point is the fight and special effects.

Even the sci-fi masterpiece "The Matrix" series, the reason why it can take the world by storm is inseparable from its gorgeous fights.

And the cost of action movies has always been relatively large.

If the medium production is in the United States, it will cost 10 million or 20 million dollars casually. Even if Xu Wenhui shoots in Xiangjiang, if he still shoots it at a cheap cost, the Americans will not accept it, and the cost is bound to be very high.

In this way, even if the box office can be over 100 million in the end, the return does not look amazing, you must know that Xu Wenhui still has to share with the theater businessman, etc., considering the cost and other issues, the profit is really not large.

In comparison, choosing to make a comedy film has a much better effect.

A medium-budget comedy is only more than $10 million.

And if it can get more than 100 million dollars at the box office, the return ratio is quite amazing.

No matter where you are, as long as you can make money, you have the right to speak. can bring huge benefits to publishers with small and large, and Xu Wenhui can undoubtedly become the group of people who control and have the right to speak.

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Then again.

There are also many kinds of international comedies, including romance comedies, such as "Love Actually", "Heartbeat", and "Two Little Guesses"; there are also family comedies, such as "Meet My Father-in-law", "Little Sunshine Beauty", and "Home Alone"; there are also spoof comedies, such as "Screaming", "Detective Baldhead", and "Ace Spy"; or erotic comedies, such as "The Hangover", "Mixed Dormitory", and "American Pie"; in addition, there are also many black comedies, such as "Truman's World", "Double Treasure Fighting Demon", " Murder of Green Toes and more.

After Xu Wenhui thought about it, he finally decided to put "Home Alone" on the screen because the movie cost was not large.

Only 18 million dollars in history!

But the price in 1990 at that time, and now it is only 1978, a difference of more than ten years, the price will definitely not be so high.

That's about eight million dollars, and that's still the cost of shooting in Hollywood.

In Xiangjiang, Xu Wenhui, judging from his own experience, should not exceed eight million, well, Hong Kong dollars!!!

Because of the cost in Hong Kong and the United States, the gap is too big.

And the main part of this cost is not in the props or special effects, what really matters is the remuneration for the actors and directors.

"Home Alone" is 18 million US dollars, and most of the money is actually given to the actors and directors.

You know, the pre-production of this film: This project is a script by American filmmaker John Hughes, who originally wrote the script for Warner Bros., and Warner has also started pre-production, but when it was ready to start filming, the filmmaker suddenly changed his face and reduced the budget to $1 million to $2 million.

Later, through a producer, it was transferred to 20th Century Fox, and Fox was very optimistic about the film and began to shoot it step by step, and it was only 18 million after filming.

And the remuneration of Hong Kong actors and directors.

Not even one-tenth of the United States, it is still calculated in Hong Kong dollars, and the natural cost is reduced.