Chapter 55: The Crazy Stone
This summer is very lively in the domestic film and television circle, a magical masterpiece film "Fox Fairy" adapted from "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" won the first place in the mainland box office list, followed by "Future Soldier" starring the famous actor Wang Dongcheng won the second place in the mainland box office list, and an American Hollywood science fiction film "Iron Hero" won the third place at the box office, and the fourth to tenth place in the box office is half of its Chinese films and American films.
The most eye-catching thing this summer is a movie called "Neural Swordsman", funny and nonsensical to create an example of not making a profit at a small cost, and the cost of millions to get hundreds of millions of box office, which makes many filmmakers envious and jealous, temporarily ranked sixth in this year's annual box office list, known as the strongest dark horse of the year.
Writing novels, playing music, and making games can make money, but the most profitable thing is to make movies, watching Hollywood blockbusters that sweep hundreds of millions, billions of dollars at the box office all over the world, plus peripherals, advertising or something to make a lot of money.
For example, in the past, the film company in Xiangjiang could not offend Taiwan Island when making movies, and could not make movies in the mainland, otherwise it would be banned on Taiwan Island, Liang Jiahui won the actor at a young age, and suddenly became the target of the Taiwan authorities.
Taking advantage of the good film market, Chen Dong thought about making a movie and entering the film and television industry.
Chen Dong has a script, and if you send some points, you can exchange it for excellent movie scripts in the original time and space from the light brain, and there are also funds, the manuscript fee for the second month of "Eternal Life" has reached more than 200,000 yuan, and the manuscript fee for "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is divided into more than 1 million, I believe that this number will increase to 200w in another month, which is enough to make a small-budget movie.
In the original time and space, when Chen Donggang graduated from college, he didn't find a job, and he went to Hengdian/Dian Film and Television City with a friend to work as a handyman, and he was very familiar with the routines of making movies, and it was enough to be a producer.
The director can invite one, it is difficult to invite a famous and capable director, and he can't afford to invite him, a large number of directors who are not famous but very capable, just like Ning Hao in the original time and space, are he famous for shooting crazy stones? is not famous, Ning Hao has played painting, formed a band, worked in a bicycle factory, engaged in graphic design and other professions to make a living, and later, filmed "Thursday, Wednesday", "Incense", "Green Meadow", and won awards, but except for people in the circle, few people have watched these movies and know Ning Hao. Is it capable before shooting crazy stones? Yes, how can you make a movie that makes the audience laugh if you don't have the ability.
Many directors are not incapable, but they just lack an opportunity to make them famous.
Chen Dong made a decision and planned to make a movie.
He opened the light brain, clicked on the entertainment list, clicked on the movie exchange catalog in the entertainment list, and looked for a movie with a cost of several million and a box office of more than tens of millions from the movie exchange catalog, and made a big profit at a small cost.
There are many abroad, such as "Blair Witch" cost only 60,000 US dollars, but the box office took 140 million, and the cost was even less "Ghost Record", which was only 15,000 US dollars, which was equivalent to about 100,000 yuan at the time, and the box office took 107 million US dollars, but these two movies were given up by Chen Dong for the first time, whether it was "Blair Witch" or "Ghost Shadow", during which a lot of viral pyramid schemes were done on the Internet to attract the curiosity of the audience. to achieve such great success.
In fact, the picture quality of these two films is very poor, and the actors are not famous, such as "Ghost Shadow" is only filmed with a camera record, the picture is blurry, the camera is shaky, and the actors in it are not famous at the time, and the success of the two films lies in the use of the Internet to spread like a virus to attract the audience into the cinema.
In China, the movies that fight for big profits at a small cost are "Crazy Stone", "Nightclub" and so on, the most outstanding of which is "Crazy Stone", with a shooting cost of more than 2 million, creating a box office income of more than 30 million, although the imitation is "Two Big Smoking Guns", the narrative structure is the same as the two big smoking guns, but Chen Dong believes that what is wrong with imitation, it is a successful movie to shoot a local comedy effect, it has been proved that "Crazy Stone" is very successful, and the audience enters the cinema and laughs. Rave reviews.
More than 2 million in 06, calculating the reasons for currency depreciation, it is now more than 4 million, and the whole movie is close to more than 5 million.
Chen Dong calculated, he only has more than 200 w, and he is still 3 million short, looking for investment, it is impossible, no one will invest in him, play music, write novels, and play movies? He is a person outside the film industry, and no one will believe that he can make a movie that makes money.
Fortunately, the money of the actors and crew can be given after filming, more than 200w is enough in the early stage, and it is almost the end of the year after filming, I believe that by then, the manuscript fee for "Eternal Life" and "Those Children of the Ming Dynasty" will be more than 3 million, which is enough.
At this moment, the phone rings.
Chen Dong took out the phone and looked at the caller ID, which was a call from Du Wenhai of the Yangtze River Publishing House. "Hey, Mr. Du, is there something wrong?"
On the other side of the phone, Du Wenhai said with a smile, "Please have a light meal, and I'll talk about it later." ”
Now Chen Dong is equal to a cash cow of their publishing house, and it is a cash cow that can be shaken for a few years.
Many times Du Wenhai and Chen Dong talk in a low and kind voice, "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" has a total of seven, the first part will sell more than 500,000 copies, and it is expected to sell 1 million copies, and the seven books can sell more than 10 million copies, which can bring hundreds of millions of profits to the publishing house within a few years, this is just the beginning, and Chen Dong's new books will be given priority to be published by the Yangtze River Publishing House in the future, which is definitely a cash cow full of gold ingots.
I heard that the editor-in-chief of the Yellow River Publishing House heard that "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" was on fire and sold more than 400,000 copies in a month, and he was so angry that he smashed all the vases in his office, and a big gold mine that could bring huge benefits to the publishing house slipped out of his own hands and into the hands of his opponents because of his own will.
This time he called Chen Dong to have a light meal, firstly, to chat about his feelings, and secondly, he knew that Chen Dong had a serialized hot book "Eternal Life" on the Qidian.com, which was very suitable for publication, and this time he wanted Chen Dong to hand over the simplified publishing rights of "Eternal Life" to Changjiang Publishing House.
Chen Dong said, "Okay, when, that place." ”
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