Chapter 425: Human Nature
It is common to change the script when making a movie, and no director will make a film exactly according to the script. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
During the filming process, various problems may be encountered, such as actors being injured, location destruction, uncooperative weather, lack of funds, etc., and the director needs to make temporary adjustments and adapt to the situation.
As long as the whole story is not overturned and restarted, the general plot direction can be guaranteed.
In the circle, big directors often like to change the script, which can prove their creative ability.
Lin Zixuan has worked with many directors, and he has no opinion on changing the script, as long as it is reasonable, it can't be changed randomly.
The domestic implementation is a director-centered system, and a drama should be dominated by the director, since Lin Xiaoling wants to link the prisoner's home with the Chinese New Year, it is necessary to adjust the shooting plan.
Shoot the plot of 1997 first, take advantage of the Chinese New Year to finish filming, and wait for the story of 1980 to be filmed later.
In other words, Lin Xiaoling has had a bad year.
The showbiz is like this, filming is no matter the time, everything is in the service of the plot.
Fortunately, this film was filmed in Beijing, and it is convenient to go home, otherwise Zheng Xiulian should have an opinion again, and parents are more worried, not really want to quarrel.
Approaching the end of the year, the people are preparing for the New Year, and the film company has to settle the year's earnings.
This year's Lunar New Year stalls are highly competitive, and there are five Beijing-style comedies released at the same time, and the audience is happy to watch it, but the box office of the film has been shared, basically around 10 million.
For low-budget comedies, studios still make money, just not as much as they think.
"Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" has achieved a box office result of 12 million in Guangdong Province, and less than 5 million in other regions, ranking among the best in this batch of Chinese New Year films.
The investment in the film is only two million, and after calculation, Chen Changle earned about four million, and Haomeng Company earned one and a half million.
It's a pretty good investment.
With this successful operation experience, it is estimated that Chen Changle will not cooperate with Good Dream Company in the next movie.
This is human nature, and it is necessary to distinguish between human feelings and interests in doing business.
If Lin Zixuan feels that he has helped Chen Changle once, and every film will have to share the profits in the future, then I am afraid that he will not even have to be a friend, and he will turn against him.
Such examples abound in shopping malls.
After "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" was released, Chen Changle first held a celebration banquet in Huacheng, and then came to Beijing and hosted a banquet for Lin Zixuan and the employees of Haomeng Company at the Beijing Hotel.
He also gave red envelopes to the employees of Good Dreams who participated in the production of the movie, but there was no mention of making a sequel from beginning to end.
This shows that Chen Changle will be a man, and there may be a place to use Lin Zixuan in the future, and this relationship needs to be maintained.
Lin Zixuan also wants to have a partner in the south to prepare for entering the film market in the south, and the cooperation between the two sides can bring benefits, which has the basis for cooperation.
After eating, the two drank tea and reminisced.
"Brother Lin, your stall is getting bigger and bigger, I can't catch up, as long as I can do the current thing well." Chen Changle said with emotion, "Think about it a few years ago, we were still filming the "Alien Girl" with an investment of only a few hundred thousand yuan in Huacheng, and the world is changing too fast. ”
This year, Good Dream Company has become the focus of the entertainment industry many times.
"Spring in a Small Town" won the Golden Lion Award, Good Dream Company is ready to cooperate with Li Yu to make a film, and Feng Xiaogang's new film is about to be released.
Chen Changle could feel that Lin Zixuan was no longer playing with him at the same level, he envied Lin Zixuan, and at the same time was very practical, he wanted to grab what he had in his hand.
The series "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" can make him eat and drink for the rest of his life, as for winning awards abroad and cooperating with Hollywood, it is not in his plan at all.
Lin Zixuan looked at Chen Changle with a lot of thoughts.
Chen Changle is a shrewd businessman who has his own set of methods in the market, otherwise he would not have achieved his current success.
But like most businessmen in China, they don't think long enough and only look at the present.
If Lin Zixuan can't see the future development prospects, he may be like Chen Changle, satisfied with everything he has now.
However, the world is developing too fast and if it does not move forward, it will soon be eliminated by society.
After sending Chen Changle away, Lin Zixuan returned to the Good Dream Company.
At the end of the year, the company took stock, to be honest, this year, the company did not make much profit, mainly because many projects did not reach the harvest time.
"A Sigh" was not released, and the film is roughly estimated to bring in more than four million in revenue.
"Spring in a Small Town" sold overseas rights and earned about one million.
The two TV series, "Carry on Love to the End" and "Latent", may be able to earn more next year.
These film and television dramas can probably bring tens of millions of net profits to the good dream company, and a lot of the income will be counted until next year, and the good dream company only has a profit of about two million this year, which is the lowest income in recent years.
Since he didn't make any money, Lin Zixuan didn't plan to hold a year-end celebration banquet.
He will invite the company's employees to have a meal together, this time there are no outsiders, only the company's own people, at present, the company has hundreds of employees, and it has begun to take shape.
Good Dream Company has been very high-profile this year, and now it is more low-key.
This period is a high-profile time for other film and television companies, and those film and television companies that make money in the Chinese New Year have held celebration banquets, which is the focus of recent entertainment media reports.
The media believes that this is a sign that domestic films are out of the trough and moving towards prosperity.
Several films can get tens of millions of yuan at the box office, which shows that the audience recognizes this film model.
We can't make the kind of high-investment commercial blockbusters, but this kind of down-to-earth low-cost comedy is not a way out, and the media is optimistic that domestic films have found a new direction.
At the same time, in North America, the box office of "Titanic" is rising in an unusually stable trend.
"Titanic" did not do well at the box office at the beginning of its release, with a cumulative box office of only $27 million over the weekend, far worse than the box office results of other blockbusters released in the same period.
This is by no means good news for a film with an investment of more than $200 million.
Everyone was waiting to see Cameron's jokes, and even Cameron himself was prepared for the worst.
But week after week, instead of falling, the box office of "Titanic" bucked the trend, drawing an incredible curve.
Generally speaking, a movie has the highest box office in the first week and will gradually decline later, which is the law of the film industry.
The so-called miracle is to break the general rule, and a month after its release, the weekly box office of "Titanic" still did not fall, which surprised Hollywood and Wall Street financiers.
They wouldn't have imagined that this box office miracle had just begun. (To be continued.) )