The reason why the North American box office of 300 million is so important and can become a glimmer of life to break the deadlock lies in the difficulty of achieving this goal, so far, in the long century of film history in North America, only 21 works have crossed the threshold of 300 million, even after ten years, 300 million is still a benchmark to measure the huge box office success of a work, which shows how difficult it is. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

One of the most intuitive examples is that in 2005, only one "Star Wars Prequel 2" reached 300 million at the North American box office, and this year's current box office runner-up "World War" North American box office is only 230 million.

What's more, "Star Wars Prequel" is not only a sequel work, but also a work of major film companies! Among the 21 works with a box office of 300 million in the long history of film history so far, only five works have been produced by independent film companies, DreamWorks' "Shrek 2", New Line Pictures' "Lord of the Rings" series trilogy and Idol Pictures' "The Passion of the Christ", if you put aside the chain effect caused by sequel movies, then there are only two works, "Lord of the Rings 1" and "The Passion of Christ".

All the facts are illustrating one thing: 300 million in North America is difficult for Chaos Pictures to reach the sky.

Creating a work with a box office of 300 million is only the first problem; For Chaos Pictures, the bigger problem is the strapped liquidity.

How much does it cost to shoot a North American 300 million movie? According to the summary of historical experience, 100 million to 150 million is the highest success rate, except for the "Alien E.T" and "Star Wars 1" filmed in the late 70s and early 80s, the investment cost of 15 of the other 19 works is within this range. A work like "The Passion of the Christ" that has obtained 370 million works in North America with only 30 million investments is unprecedented.

This is determined by the development of the market, especially after entering the 21st century, computer special effects have matured, the audience's aesthetics have evolved, and genre films have been developed and perfected.

Therefore, if Chaos Pictures wants to shoot a work that breaks through the barriers, an investment of 100 million to 150 million is the most reliable. Moreover, this is just the production cost, the investment in the publicity stage is still immeasurable, and it is not surprising that the final investment exceeds 200 million.

Here's the problem, Chaos Pictures doesn't have $200 million right now! As a medium-sized film company, they are not local tyrants who can come up with 100 million at hand, even if they invest in the production of a 40 million "Sin City", it is carefully scheduled. Although the huge success of the two productions "Murder by Knife" and "Sin City" has completed the rapid original accumulation of Chaos Pictures, and Chaos Music's copyright income has increased significantly this year, it should not be forgotten that Ian has already begun to launch, and the real estate shorts will hold back most of Chaos Pictures' liquidity, and this money will be locked up until the second quarter of 2007, and that is a full eighteen months ago.

From the perspective of history, eighteen months will only pass in a blink of an eye, and at that time, Chaos Pictures will also complete the original accumulation, which is enough to hold part of the voice in Hollywood, but the current situation of Chaos Pictures cannot afford to wait for eighteen months.

Therefore, this is the current situation of Chaos Pictures, there is no funding, but it has to challenge the moat; embattled, but to be broken. That glimmer of vitality is more like a vague and unattainable extravagance, which is difficult to ascend to the sky.

"Do you have a plan?"

"No, of course not."

Lance's dignified answer made Theo and the three of them look at each other, which was really a little embarrassed. Lance shrugged, "I mean, I have an idea, but I don't have a plan, I don't know if it's going to work, I need to get my thoughts straight." "As a reborn, Lance's greatest strength lies in his prediction of the future, which will also be the greatest advantage of Chaos Pictures.

Maybe they're underfunded, maybe they're facing challenges, but Lance will be the most important and critical part of the whole plan, not only to reverse their disadvantage, but to turn that disadvantage into a potential advantage! What he wants is not to break through the encirclement, nor to turn over the salted fish, but to soar into the sky!

Since you have chosen to give it a go, why not go for a big one? Maybe Chaos Pictures doesn't have the ability to overthrow those giant crocodiles in the near future, after all, the opponent this time is not Diorama Pictures, but if these large film companies led by Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures can be ruthlessly planted, Lance will definitely not let go of the opportunity easily.

"However, I need the company to come up with ......," Lance thought about it seriously and considered it, "150 million funds for this project." At worst, I need 100 million too. Raising his head, Lance saw Gawain's surprised expression, he looked at Ian and pouted, "I mean, you can pay in installments, you don't want it in one go, the filming process may be relatively long, you can ...... It is also barely acceptable to give me six installments, or eight installments. You know, I'm a very compromising person. However, if it is only 100 million, the publicity cost is calculated separately! ”

Ian was amused by Lance's tone, chuckled, stunned, and then laughed heartily and shook his head helplessly, "Lancelot, if you were to get revenge on me for what happened at Napa Valley Villa last time, I must admit that you won this time." ”

"Napa Valley, it's not you ......" Gawain was stunned, he didn't seem to understand what was going on, he remembered, in Napa Valley, it was Lance who tricked Ian and made Ian smash him up, why is things reversed now, "Wait, what's wrong with Ian, what's wrong with him?" Why don't I know? Gawain shook Lance's shoulders and said curiously.

Lance also gave up resistance, allowing Gawain to shake, but he never paid attention to him, just looked at Ian with a smile.

Ian turned to look at Theo, "I'm a madman, I'm not an alchemist, I can't turn a stone into gold, and if we need to support Lance's crazy idea, I need your help." After saying that, Ian couldn't help but shake his head again, no matter how he thought about it, he felt that they were too crazy, "Now, we finally have a bit of Wall Street." ”

The corners of Theo's mouth hooked slightly, "Is it still this far?" Ian nodded in the affirmative, and Theo turned to Lance and Gawain, "We're going to take out a loan in the name of the company." "Until then, Chaos Pictures has avoided going into debt, but the reality is that the big companies that go public, the big guys who play on Wall Street, are more or less burdened with debt, so once they go bankrupt, these debts will have a terrible domino effect, and even the country will run like this.

"Now that it's decided, we're going to invest more." Theo continued, his eyes looking deeply at Lance, and said lightly but in a deep tone, "If we lose, we're really bankrupt." ”

Lance understood what Theo meant, since they decided to take out a loan, they decided to challenge the limit, at present, the four brothers have real estate in their names, the bank credit of the four people is very good, and the current market value of Chaos Pictures is also booming, they can borrow a large amount of money, not only to support Lance's project, but also to continue to increase the investment in real estate short. That's the real gamble! Either win the whole world, or you will have nothing at all.

Even if Lance III was a human being, it was inevitable that his palms would be a little slippery at this time, and the tension, excitement, and trembling sensation that had reached the peak of his strength continued to accelerate in his blood, and then accelerated, and the excitement was extreme, and his muscles began to tremble slightly. "Believe me, I'm not ready to lose everything."

He has faith, absolute confidence!

In fact, what Lance didn't say was that if Chaos Pictures wanted to fight its way out, in addition to 300 million moats and financial difficulties, it also had to face one of the biggest problems: there was no script.

Counting the 300 million productions in North America in the next few years, almost 90% of the scripts were in the hands of the six major studios, which is not only not declining compared to the past, but showing an upward attitude with the decline of DreamWorks and the merger of New Line Pictures into Warner Bros.

In other words, even if Lance knows about projects that can exceed 300 million at the box office in the next few years, it is very likely that these projects are in the hands of the six major film companies. Judging from the current blockade of Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures, it is almost impossible for Lance to take advantage of the tiger's mouth. This is the real skillful woman who is difficult to cook without rice.

Script, script, no script means no project, it means that all ideas are utopian, it means that all counterattacks are in the air, it means that there is no place to show one's strength.

However, Lance didn't mention it, not because he was scared, not because he didn't want Theo to worry them, but because he had other ideas. If there is no way to solve this problem, then he is in vain. He just needed a little time to reclear his mind, and then start to make waves and sands, looking for a way that could really cash in on that glimmer of life.

At the moment, Lance has an important chip in his hand, the blacklist!

The value of the list goes far beyond digging up the award-winning season's much-appreciated titles, in fact, many of them have gone on to box office success once the blacklist has been developed. What Lance needs to do now is to slowly dig out of the blacklist, and then diverge his thinking, and find another way to achieve this Jedi reversal in the chaos!

So, in the next ten years, in a long and distant ten years, which work can be the starting point of this miracle? It's an interesting topic, and things are starting to get interesting before we get out of it. (To be continued.) )