"The Saint of Gambling" and "The Supreme" have their own wins and losses, the former is strong enough to be funny enough for the public, and there are two theaters to be released, and the box office is 20 million higher than the latter. However, the latter is much stronger in the reputation of film critics, and it can be regarded as indistinguishable.

It's just that this time, as Xiao Ran expected, for a while, "Gambling Films" emerged in an endless stream, and all the gambling demons, gambling bullies, and gambling ghosts appeared in an instant. It's hard to describe what kind of pomp and circumstance it was, but the box office of these films is quite right.

Xiao Ran quietly looked forward to the first round of gambling films following the trend to pass, and he would launch the prequel to "God of Gamblers" at the end of 1988. Wait until everyone is tired of gambling movies before launching it, and then you can establish the status of Phantom Company in the eyes of the audience in one fell swoop.

Since Xiao Ran is currently only responsible for providing the development direction and strategy of the Phantom Company, plus he is in charge of film affairs, he is basically having a headache for Chinese New Year films now. The reason for the headache is not that there are no suitable options, but that there are a few too many options.

In front of him and Lin Qingxia were three books, three quite good scripts. Two of them are contracted writers of the Phantom Company, and the other is not. Xiao Ran frowned, these three stories are very good, and it is really not easy to choose.

However, what made him happy was that none of the three screenwriters were anyone he remembered, and he had never seen these three scripts. Lin Qingxia glanced at it and said with a secret smile: "These are all very good, you see this is about a stupid underworld!" I think it's pretty good. ”

Xiao Ran shook his head slightly, the book is good, and the bridges are good. The problem is that these are not so easy to choose. After thinking about it, he thought of a previous market research report from the marketing department. The report categorized audiences who frequented the cinema and those who rarely went to the cinema, who went to the cinema occasionally, and who never went to the cinema.

Most of those who never enter are over 50 years old, and most of those over 30 years old occasionally go to the cinema. And basically, the main audience of a film is the audience in their twenties. And if it is a film that the whole family can watch together, the audience level is more extensive, because many parents will take their children to the cinema together.

This means that the first-level films under the classification system have the most box office potential, while the second-level films are relatively limited to some children's and other audiences, and as for the third-level films, they are basically aimed at adults.

Xiao Ran also remembers that a professional movie book mentioned that Hollywood can often make a lot of money every year, basically G-rated movies (that is, they can be watched by all ages). Even the 20 highest-grossing films in Hollywood history account for the vast majority of G-rated films. Therefore, this first-class film is obviously impossible to ignore.

Especially during the Spring Festival, this is definitely the biggest time for a family to go to the cinema to watch a movie together. Thinking of this, he chose one of the family comedies. This year, the Phantom is definitely having a hard time in the Lunar New Year market, and the opponents it faces are extremely strong.

You must know that except for last year, basically every year's box office champion is born from the Spring Festival. And this year, the three giants are even more energetic, and Xinyicheng will strive to win the championship for a second time, and push "The True Color of Heroes 3" in the New Year, and they are determined to win the box office championship.

Golden Harvest also postponed the release date of "Police Story Sequel", and put the star-studded "Flying Dragon" in the Chinese New Year file, trying to win back the championship with Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao's box office appeal. And Debao also released the sequel "Rich and Powerful" this year, trying to get a piece of the pie.

Regardless of the size of the company or its market influence, the Phantom Company, which can gradually stand shoulder to shoulder with the three giants, has no advantage in the Lunar New Year market, and at first the three major companies thought that Xiao Ran would shoot "God of Gamblers 2" as soon as possible to catch up with the Lunar New Year file. Seeing that Xiao Ran didn't have this plan, he let go of his thoughts.

Xiao Ran didn't have this mind, because the signboard of "God of Gamblers" still has a series of potentials to be tapped, and he doesn't want to mess up the brand. Besides, who said that "God of Gamblers" can't compete with them if it doesn't come out. Just kidding, Xiao Ran has a lot of good ideas in his head, but the key is that he doesn't want to cultivate lazy surnames, so he doesn't use them much.

However, for Xiao Ran, there is not much of a problem. With a box office of 41 million, "God of Gamblers" basically ranked as the champion of the year. If the three giants want to push "God of Gamblers" down, unless there are big variables.

"Alright, that's it!" Xiao Ran finally chose a family theme, which is somewhat similar to a happy family event. Lin Qingxia's eyes fell on the notebook flickeringly, and then fell on Xiao Ran's face: "The box office statistics of the Film Association are about to come out, and this time the company is really famous!" ”

Xiao Ran smiled, there was a lot of smugness, such a look he would only show among Lin Qingxia and Fa Ge and Ah Dong, a few friends. Although this year's top ten box office lists have not yet come out, it is impossible to have any more variables now.

"God of Gamblers" is firmly in the champion position, while "Saint of Gambling" is in second place, slightly higher than the next "Eight Star Annunciation". The fourth place is "Prison Storm", the fifth place is "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother", the sixth place is "Plan A Sequel", the seventh is "Rich and Powerful", and the eighth is "The True Colors of Heroes Prequel", all of which have a box office of up to 30 million. The ninth is "Autumn Fairy Tale", and the tenth is the small production "Fierce Ghost Mission", which has been released in November, both of which are more than 25 million.

As for "One House, Two Wives" on the original box office list, "Ghost Bride", "Oriental Condor" and "Jianghu Love" and so on have all been knocked off the list. In the top ten box office lists, Xiao Ran's works written by screenwriters account for another half, and the five films that Phantom has released this year are all on the list, all of which occupy a dominant position.

After deciding down, Xiao Ran suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, now is the early stage of the development of the Phantom Company, which determines the right to open a certain film, and he still doesn't dare to release it for the time being. However, he still cultivated Yu Jiayu and several other producers, hoping that they could help in the future.

After finishing this, Xiao Ran continued to write the script with a pen. Lin Qingxia poured a glass of clear cold water for Xiao Ran, and stared at Xiao Ran's back quietly. What Xiao Ran is writing now is not any script in his memory, but a script with a secret agent, and now it has reached the end.

The agent theme was created by Xiao Ran alone, and it is completely his own work. The story is about a CIA Chinese agent who defected to China and gradually found his sense of belonging to his homeland (hehe). In fact, Xiao Ran thinks that this may be a better effect when made into a TV series, after all, it is not easy to transform this thing.

However, he still chose to continue writing, 1989 is almost here, and it is better to show goodwill to the mainland political axe as soon as possible. And after writing this script, Xiao Ran also plans to use another script to hint at what happened in Yanjing in 89.

The story of the agent theme is actually not a big problem, Xiao Ran originally wanted to write the script of "Lifetime Career" that he saw at the starting point Chinese station in his dream. Because from any point of view, this agent theme is undoubtedly better than the previous one.

But Xiao Ran still didn't do it, because he really wanted to write a script that was completely his own. Of course, "The True Colors of Heroes" doesn't count, after all, it is a work born out of the first episode, and it is not too difficult to write. The most important thing is that businessmen always promote products first, and then take out the good ones to try their best to use the market, Xiao Ran certainly knows this.

This agent script named "Spy Change", Xiao Ran took time to write it intermittently, and wrote a total of three, and it is still three. It's just that Xiao Ran was a little hesitant about whether to still make it in a prequel or something like that.

There are still a lot of trilogies nowadays, and if another trilogy is launched, I am afraid it will be easy for the audience to get tired. Besides, if this film still doesn't follow the order, I'm afraid that many viewers won't be able to understand it.

Thinking of this, he immediately decided to shoot in the order in which the script developed. I wrote the word end in the notebook, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and sat down down. Seeing this, Lin Qingxia said happily: "It's written? Let me see! ”

When Xiao Ran was resting, Lin Qingxia held the script, and the more she looked at it, the more solemn her face became, especially when she saw one of the agent characters looking for death, she was even more tearful. She didn't dare to read it anymore, Xiao Ran couldn't help but smile and took the script and sat next to her: "How do you think it's written?" ”

"Great, I'm sure I'll win the prize!" Lin Qingxia wiped a handful of tears, and Xiao Ran gently took out a tissue to help her wipe her reddish eyes, with gentle and delicate movements. Lin Qingxia felt Xiao Ran's gentleness and thoughtfulness, and her heart was warm: "However, wouldn't this be too cruel?" The audience may not be able to accept it! ”

Xiao Ran shrugged helplessly, this book was originally so cruel, if it wasn't cruel, then there really wouldn't be any selling point. Next, Xiao Ran lay on Lin Qingxia's bed and conceived the next work, which is a work that hints at the major event in 89. Of course, there can be no irony in this.

Xiao Ran had a rough story, but after thinking about it for a long time, he never dared to write it. Because that would involve too many things that he would not dare to touch, although he just wanted to lay a foreshadowing in advance to let Hong Kong and the world understand how difficult the high-level choice is when the country is in danger, and can only start from the overall situation.

In the end, he decided not to do it himself, but to leave it to the other screenwriters in the company to do it, whether he was lazy or didn't want to get involved, in short, he found a suitable reason to escape from it.

The next day, Xiao Ran called all the company's screenwriters to the conference room, which was really a great lineup. Now there are only nine contracted screenwriters in the Phantom Company, and the rest have been terminated from their contracts because of their unqualified performance and have become freelance screenwriters.

Looking at the ten screenwriters in front of him, including Wei Jiahui, Xiao Ran secretly hated, if it weren't for Jiahe's crazy poaching, there would definitely be more talents here. This was some time ago, and since the iron dragon was poached, Xiao Ran still didn't think so.

But after that time, Xiao Ran found that among the many scripts sent to him, once he thought which one was good, then Golden Harvest would definitely be able to pull the screenwriter away before him. Three of them have been taken away intermittently, and Xiao Ran was very depressed by Jiahe's hand. But everyone knows this kind of thing, even if the hand is fast and the hand is slow, Xiao Ran has no way to ask the guilt.

Since then, Xiao Ran has been much more cautious, and he also remembered that Hollywood would not dare to read other people's scripts at will like him, otherwise if any of the Phantom's films is similar to a plot in this script in the future, he may be sued in court. Fortunately, that is the rule of Hollywood, but in order to prevent trouble, Xiao Ran still issued a statement after seeking the advice of a lawyer, if the Phantom's future film is similar to the bridge in a certain book, the Phantom Company will not bear any legal responsibility.

Sure enough, there are a lot fewer scripts sent after that, but those who really have some strength and self-confidence still appreciate this kind of advancement. Don't underestimate it, although there are only nine screenwriters contracted by Phantom Company, there are as many as seven other screenwriters promoted in this way, but they have not signed a contract.

In addition to artists, there are very few Phantom companies who are eligible to sign a contract. Although many of them have not yet come out, they are already quite famous in the industry, at least everyone agrees on one thing: being favored by the Phantom means surpassing the ability of most of their peers.

The current nine screenwriters, except for You Naihai, are all newcomers, and one of them is a Baptist graduate. sighed for a while, no wonder there is a lack of good screenwriters in Hong Kong, it turned out that it was because there was no chance to get ahead, Xiao Ran told the story about it, and then asked: "Which of you wants to make this script?" ”

After glancing around and seeing that there were whispers below, Xiao Ran smiled and said what he wanted to express: "The theme of this story is very simple, that is, to express that when a political axe or a nation is in danger, it must take into account the overall situation to make decisions that harm a small number of people. What I want is understanding, an understanding of the audience's morphological consciousness in the film. ”

This is obviously a huge challenge for every brilliant screenwriter here. No one dared to agree to come down, only to go back and think about it. Xiao Ran smiled slightly, thinking that this was the right thing. If he can really give a definite answer immediately, then he doesn't believe that there are filmmakers in Hong Kong who have such a sense of the overall situation.

After the meeting, Xiao Ran kept Wei Jiahui and another screenwriter named Gan Xingfan, he needed Wei Jiahui to prove the value of the script of "Spy Change", and Gan Xingfan was used to revise the script. This person is good at scripts that pay attention to logic, and his creation is very rigorous.

Xiao Ran first gave the copied script to Gan Xingfan, and explained solemnly: "Afan, you try your best to make a certain increase according to your own ability, and then check the information to add the weapons and other things in the book, and I will introduce a monkey to assist you later, he is a weapon expert." ”

In fact, Xiao Ran's approach is very simple, that is, he writes the story. Because it is a secret agent's story, it must involve quite professional things, so Xiao Ran handed these things over to other screenwriters without having time to check these materials.

In fact, Hollywood does this what it does, but they do countless processes in the script and grind out the sharp plot in the script. After the hands of more than a dozen screenwriters, no matter how good the script is, it has been polished into an ordinary script.

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My new book will be officially launched at the end of October, so stay tuned......

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