Chapter 284: Filming a TV series
This crazy momentum made Xiya and Yang Tian's popularity explode in Southeast Asia.
In other words, in just two weeks after its release, the cumulative box office of "Summer Ink Lotus" has reached 613 million, and the box office is directly approaching 150 million US dollars.
As soon as this conclusion came out, it immediately made countless media fall through their eyes, "Summer Ink Lotus" before the release, no one was optimistic about it at all, but I didn't expect it to be so strong, it has reached 1.5 billion US dollars, you must know that among the domestic films that are being released now, there is no film that is really close to 100 million US dollars, although it is added to the box office in Southeast Asia, but it can be regarded as breaking the current domestic box office record, and breaking 200 million US dollars in the future is simply a joke, Although there is also an element of the inflation of the Chinese currency.
The Chinese dollar began to rise gradually under the pressure of the United States this year, but the common people did not really feel the benefits of making money more valuable, but only felt that prices were soaring, and after being made money by the government and foreign forces, domestic prices would not rise.
This is definitely a historic moment, if before "Summer Lotus", some people put blockbusters such as "Summer Lotus" and "The Adventures of Sinbad" together, and many of them ridiculed that "Summer Lotus" was beyond its means, but after the release of "Summer Lotus", it became, it is indeed enough to compete with "Sinbad's Adventure", especially at the box office, "Sinbad's Adventure" has now been released for the third week, and it will be offline soon. But the current box office is only more than 200 million, and in the end, even if the release time is extended, it will be about more than 200 million, close to 300 million box office.
But "Summer Ink Lotus" did it in two weeks, and that's not even counting Southeast Asia!
In the past, it could be said that it was evenly matched, but as the stamina of "Sinbad's Adventure" slowly faded, the stamina of "Summer Mohe" slowly came up. Like most blockbusters, "Sinbad's Adventure" is very good at creating eyeballs, so it was able to gain great attention and box office at the beginning, and it is for this reason.
But the same "Sinbad's Adventure" is also like almost all blockbusters, with that superhuman light and shadow effect, but the same is also like most blockbusters, there is not much to watch in the plot, especially since it is adapted from a famous story in the West. This story has long been familiar and can not be more familiar, and few people will want to watch it a second time after reading it once, so after the initial ferocity, it quickly declined. But "Summer Ink Lotus" is different, because it is a work that can move people's hearts, and when the audience watches it, it is for the plot, not for any light and shadow effects.
Therefore, the stamina of "Summer Ink Lotus" is far more sufficient than "Sinbad's Adventure", and "Summer Ink Lotus" has a very big advantage over "Sinbad's Adventure". That is, "Sinbad's Adventure" is an allegorical drama, and generally speaking, this kind of allegorical drama has a market in China and some Omi. Others are culturally different, so it is basically difficult to open markets in other parts of Asia. Moreover, the release of "Sinbad's Adventure" in the Omi region did not receive much attention from local audiences. Because there are so many movies of this genre, it can be said that there are so many every year. As a result, the market for Sinbad's Adventures is even narrower.
But "Summer Lotus" is different, the problems in "Summer Lotus" are quite common, not many, and there will not be much cultural hindrance to the release of "Summer Lotus" in various parts of Asia, even if it is released globally. …,
This is similar to DreamWorks movies, and DreamWorks movies are also like this, removing those obvious cultural barriers, and then vigorously promoting the commonalities of those cultures, such as enthusiasm, positivity and other factors.
The so-called national is the world, in fact, it is a nonsense, the national is the nation, it is impossible to become the world, as if there are often people who take what national style of performance in the world has been widely praised to illustrate what national is the world, but in fact, that is really nonsense, and very nonsense, in fact, it is just foreigners joining in the fun, we can't understand it ourselves, let alone those foreigners, just like a certain ballet to perform in China, there are many people who go to vassal elegance, A few of them really understand this!
Therefore, Chen Feng has always thought that this sentence is very nonsense, and this is another place where "Summer Ink Lotus" has an advantage over "Sinbad's Adventure" at the box office.
The box office of more than 600 million has plunged the company into a boil, but they have not been happy for a long time, because there are too many things to be busy with in the company, and the first thing is that Huayu is going to shoot a TV series again.
Although there is no movie to make money by making TV series, Chen Feng did not give up the TV series, not to mention that he himself started from TV series, because his first real directing was to shoot "Love Apartment", and then to shoot "The Best Family", which made him an instant hit and became a well-known director. Moreover, the most important thing is that Chen Feng's purpose is to build an entertainment empire and become the entertainment overlord of China and even the world, if he wants to achieve this goal, of course he will not give up the big cake of TV series.
"Mr. Chen, with the current strength of our company, we don't need to rely on TV series to make money anymore, why do we still want to make TV series?" Li Haitao frowned and asked suspiciously, he really couldn't understand why Chen Feng did this.
"I know what you mean," Chen Feng said with a smile while sitting comfortably in the swivel chair, "According to your idea, we can make a movie with the money from making a TV series, just like "Summer Ink Lotus", an investment of more than 20 million yuan can make hundreds of millions of profits, fast speed and more profits, isn't it?" ”
Li Haitao nodded, he did think so.
"But, have you ever thought about what if one of our movies does a bad box office?" Chen Feng suddenly put away his smile and said seriously.
Li Haitao was stunned, he didn't expect this, but in the past few years, Huayu can say that everything has gone well, what is the fire, and the box office failure has not been considered for a long time. Thinking of this, Li Haitao couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, as the president of a company, even the most basic considerations were almost forgotten.
"Mr. Chen, it's me who didn't think it through." Li Haitao stood up and solemnly apologized to Chen Feng.
Chen Feng waved his hand to let Li Haitao sit down, "You can't be blamed for this, in the past two years, we Huayu can say that everything is going well, and the people below are a little flustered, and they have ignored the possibility of failure." Although the profit of filming TV series is small, it is stable, at least it will not lose money, and it has a main purpose. ”
"Oh, for what purpose?"
"You say, how many people in China often watch movies." Chen Feng said.
Li Haitao lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "There are probably more than 300 million. ”
Chen Feng nodded, although there are far more people in this world who watch movies in China than in their previous lives, there are more than 300 million Chinese people like Americans who take watching movies as a daily habit, and as for the remaining billion, they may watch it once a week, maybe once a month.
"That's right, there are only more than 300 million, which means that there are still a billion people who don't watch movies regularly, and how many of these billion people do you think will watch TV series." …,
"At least not less than 500 million." Li Haitao said without thinking.
"We at Huayu are not only to be a first-class film company, our goal is to be the entertainment overlord of Huaguo and even the world, so this market cannot be given up." Chen Feng said.
Li Haitao was stunned, he didn't expect Chen Feng's ambition to be so big, the entertainment overlord of China and even the world, this kind of idea is estimated to be only Chen Feng dare to think of it, you must know that even the top film companies of DreamWorks dare not say such a thing, because it is too difficult. In this world, the entertainment industry accounts for 70 percent, and if you want to become an entertainment hegemon, you need to be strong. Li Haitao hadn't calculated, but he knew that this must be an astronomical amount that he didn't dare to imagine.
"I see." Now that you know that Chen Feng's goal is this, you can also guess why Chen Feng didn't give up the TV drama market.
"I know, this goal is too whimsical, but it doesn't matter, I'm still young, I have time to work hard," Chen Feng said with a smile, seemingly not worried about his goal at all, "Actually, it is not as difficult as imagined to become the entertainment overlord of Huaguo, we just need the audience to think of our company as soon as they want to watch movies, and also think of our company when they want to watch TV series." In some ways, impression flow is important. ”
"But we don't have a script right now?" Li Haitao has a problem.
"Hehe, don't worry, I'll solve the script, you go out first."
After Li Haitao left, Chen Feng began to think about what TV series to film. After thinking about it for a while, I finally set my sights on "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "Latent".
Chen Feng was a little hesitant about which one to shoot first, to be honest, these two TV series are very good, and they have their own uniqueness. In the previous life, when it comes to "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", there should be few people who have paid a little more attention to TV series in recent years. "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", as the first TV series adapted from a computer game in China, created a ratings myth that year, and once won an average rating of 11.3%.
After it was broadcast in 05, it became popular with a large number of characters in the play, which can be said to be a rare hit work, which basically captured the preferences of young people nowadays.
In the past few years, idol dramas have sprung up, there are Korean dramas abroad, and there are also idol dramas in Taiwan, rolling torrents, sweeping the mainland, and the Tang people have also seized this popular trend and created many costume idol dramas, in addition to the costumes, they are roughly the same as the main points of idol dramas, handsome men and beautiful women, bloody plots, but there are still many people who like it. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )