Chapter 68: A Tale of Three Cities
"Charlotte's Troubles" is certainly a good comedy movie, both word-of-mouth and box office feedback.
If Liu Hongtao lets Shen Lin participate, he is sure that he will make this movie 2 billion box office.
It's a pity that Lao Liu Tie refused Shen Lin with all his heart.
Not only that, but he also deliberately moved the National Day, making it clear that he was fighting with "Hong Kong"!
Although Shen Lin did not participate in the investment of "Hong Kong", he is the second shareholder of Guangguang, and he should stand on the side of "Hong Kong".
The time is August 27th, the office of Light Media.
Shen Lin, Li Xiaoping, and Wang Changtian sat in the small conference room with serious faces.
Although Guangguang Media made a small profit in the first half of 2015, it could not cover up the major setback of investment failure.
A movie almost cleaned the bottom of the light - "Zhong Kui Fu Demon: Snow Demon Spirit" global box office: 400 million investment: 230 million loss: more than 300 million!
At the beginning, Shen Lin was not optimistic about this project, but the big boss Wang had to do it, and he felt that he could play a big production, and then he got rid of it!
Fortunately, Li Xiaoping took the initiative to persuade her, and the opinions of the two moved the big boss, and the light 'only' invested one-fifth and undertook the issuance, otherwise it would really become a laughing stock in the industry!
"Linzi, why don't we make a desperate point and put the high-definition version directly on the Internet?"
After watching the test screening of "Hong Kong Embarrassment" and "Charlotte", Wang Changtian realized that "Hong Kong Embarrassment" was very likely to lose to the latter, and after listening to Shen Lin's anti-marketing methods, he proposed another method to directly use killer moves!
That is, to expose the content of "Charlotte" to the Internet in advance, and the legendary piracy is killed!
There is no way, the overlap rate of the movie-watching groups of the two is too high.
If it was "Nine-Story Demon Tower", Wang Changtian would not be so worried.
"Don't, if you do this, if you are exposed, you won't be able to gain a foothold in the circle in the future!"
Shen Lin sighed, "I really didn't expect "Hong Kong Embarrassment" to be filmed like that! Can't you do a good comedy? I have to add some mid-life crisis, neurosis!"
"Xu Zheng has his thoughts..."
Wang Changtian sighed and looked at Li Xiaoping: "21 Holdings bought Xu Zheng's earnings, should we also sell the chips in our hands?"
Xu Zheng carefully made a box office prediction for "Hong Kong Embarrassment", and he estimated that it should be around 900 million, so he directly sold his income part to 21 Holdings for 150 million, of course, 21 Holdings also tested the idea of light.
"Don't, "Thai Embarrassment" is too popular, no matter how weak "Hong Kong Embarrassment" is, the box office is at least 1.5 billion, don't worry!"
Before Li Xiaoping could speak, Shen Lin grabbed Bai and said, "Also, the most commendable thing about our light is the distribution, you sold the distribution, how do your peers think of us?"
"So what now? Let the twist movie rise?"
"Don't worry, I said that it would be released on August 30th, and now it has been moved to the National Day, I have already hired a water army, and by the way, I also asked Zhuo Wei to buy Shen Teng's black history, and wait until a week before the movie is released, and we will release these again!"
Mixed in the circle, who hasn't had a scumbag time.
Shen Teng's straight male cancer was known to the whole network in 2017, plus he had an unclear relationship with a little girl.
Definitely going to have a big impact on Charlotte!
The film industry is so big, the competition is far more fierce than outsiders imagine, if it is not a friend, it can only be an enemy, there can be no third way!
"Okay, that's it. ”
The eldest king nodded.
Li Xiaoping looked at Shen Lin with a complicated expression.
It's more and more like a businessman than a director!
But that's fine!
"I'll go back first, by the way, aren't we going to shoot "Zhu Xian, Qingyunzhi", who are you going to look for to star?"
Guangguang has already invested in Huanrui as early as 2013, so Huanrui's investment in "Qingyunzhi" is equivalent to the decision made by Guangguang Media.
This is a big production, and the cost starts at least 200 million, so Shen Lin will ask.
"We are ready to use Huanrui's employees..."
Wang Changtian looked at Li Xiaoping, who stood up and explained, and asked by the way: "They really want Li Ying to play one of the roles, do you think it's okay?"
"Walter, don't you, I'm sure I'll get an Oscar nomination for Liying, or don't spoil her in the TV series. ”
Shen Lin directly refused.
It seems that he guessed correctly, "Qingyunzhi", Huanrui is still ready to shoot according to the original way.
Hey, a good IP, it was filmed as a piece of!
Even with Zhao Liying's Baguio blessing, it can't hide the fact that "Qingyunzhi" is a bad TV series.
“… Okay, let's find someone else, do you have any recommendations?"
"Well, Dirire, I think that little girl has a lot of aura!"
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The Chinese film market cooled down a lot in August.
The main decent blockbusters were all released in July.
The North American reputation of "Terminator: Genesis", which was originally pinned on by Paramount, has fallen, making it impossible to look at it directly.
They hired Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Taylor, the director of "Thor 2: The Dark World", and most importantly, this is one of David Ellison's most important plans to conquer Hollywood.
Who is David Ellison, just look at his surname, Larry Ellison's son, his father is the founder of Oracle and the third richest man in the world!
It is said that Larry Ellison gave David Ellison $500 million to work on his own!
In particular, it is exactly the same as our Chinese Wang Slenion, of course, we are RMB, and we are US dollars!
The $155 million blockbuster, the reboot of the "Terminator" series, was announced by Paramount to put the series on hold indefinitely just after its release!
Of course, "Terminator", as the first to enter the mainland market, still has a good market appeal in China, and actually won nearly 730 million box office revenue.
It's a pity that it still can't make up for its huge cost - Hollywood, not only Hollywood, but all movies in the world can only be accounted for by a quarter of the overseas releases, so don't look at "Furious 7" won a box office of nearly 2.5 billion yuan, and Universal can only get less than 100 million US dollars.
"Terminator: Genisys" is the only movie that is still hot in the entire August market.
Other movies such as "Breaking the Wind" and "A Tale of Three Cities" did not make many waves at all, and disappeared directly.
"Breaking the Wind" has a good reputation, but it's a pity that it is about the sports theme of bicycles, which is too niche, and the box office of over 100 million is already very good, so I don't evaluate it.
"A Tale of Three Cities" makes people speechless.
Before the release of the movie, many people expressed their anticipation, look at this lineup!
Zhang Wanting, who has filmed "City of Glass" and "The Thief of Time", Liu Qingyun, who has acted in "Dark War" and "Detective", Tang Wei, who has acted in "Lust Caution" and "Full Moon Hennessy", and Qin Hailu, who has played "Durian Piao", still tells the story of the eldest brother becoming a parent!
What a great lineup plus theme!
And then the eggs.
"A Tale of Three Cities", sleepiness is greater than poetry.
With such a strong lineup, the box office only reported 11 million!
Huayi is very painful!
An investment of 70 million or 80 million has been filmed in most of China!
If you have to blame the theater, it really makes people speechless, "A Tale of Three Cities" was released on the same day as "Scorching Sun" and "Assassin Nie Yinniang", and the number of films scheduled by the three is about the same.
In three days, the box office of "A Tale of Three Cities" was only 6 million.
Wang Zhonglei couldn't sit still.