Chapter 134: The Unknown Box Office Rankings
In this world, no film company dares to give power to Yue Song, and his age is the biggest obstacle!
Yue Song is planning to delay for a while, and after the first part of the martial arts trilogy is released, he will prove his ability with box office results, and it will be logical to propose to be the director at that time.
At the same time, in the name of "CG special effects" in the film, the post-production rights of Rogue Kenshin can be asked for and handed over to Liu Xin, who is far away in North America, to complete it, which is more or less fertile and does not flow into the fields of outsiders.
All in all, the directing power must be obtained, otherwise as a Chinese, he ran to play a swordsman in the last years of the shogunate, which is destined to cause an uproar in China.
Just like the memoirs of a geisha that will be released at the end of the year, the international chapter plays the role of a geisha, and the result is that her reputation has been ruined, and now her popularity and fame can be described as shining.
And once Yue Song gets the directing rights, he will fully participate in the adaptation of the screenwriter, and strive to create an anti-war idea in the film - in fact, this is the connotation that the comics once tried to express.
Just like Kiyojuro, the master of Kenshin in the Scarlet Village, this is an out-and-out war-wearyer.
is the only way to keep his reputation from being ruined.
Unlike those artists who are bent on pursuing popularity and prestige, Yue Song's first consideration is reputation, once an artist's reputation is notorious, it is not so easy to redeem it.
The International Chapter is an example, and Zhao Wei, who wore a military flag and wore a magazine a few years ago, is also an excellent example. It's been a few years, and I haven't slowed down.
In this way, what Yue Song and Takai Hideyuki discussed was basically all related to other aspects.
For example, the investor - this must be dominated by Dongbao, but Yue Song is also very confident in his ability and vision, so he also wants to invest a sum of money in.
A similar agreement had been reached at a short meeting held by Toho's top management before, and as compensation for Yue Song - he did not have his share of the box office of the hurricane rescue - Toho was willing to make huge concessions with sincerity, all just to be able to cooperate with him.
In this case, Takai Hideyuki immediately verbally agreed to Yue Song's request for capital injection, which also made Rogue Kenshin not officially start filming. has become a co-production that spans two countries.
Further calculations are yet to be made on the budget. However, according to Takai's estimates, it should not be less than 1.5 billion yen - more than 200 million yuan in yuan.
Yue Song's plan was to vote half, but Takai refused to agree, claiming that doing so would make him removed from the board of directors.
The floor limit given by Dongbao is 50 million yuan. That's more than 360 million yen. It accounts for a quarter of the total investment.
The amount of investment seems ridiculously high. But this is Japan, which is the most expensive place in the world to make films, and it is by no means a good place to make movies.
The same 1.5 billion yen. If it is handed over to Yue Song and placed in the mainland of China to shoot, he can at least make more than a dozen movies on the same level as the hurricane rescue, and if he changes to Japan, he can only barely say that it is enough.
In addition, the disagreement between the two sides is mainly focused on the selection of actors.
In addition to the protagonist's master, the three most important characters in the book are undoubtedly Kenshin Shimura, Kamiya Kamiya, and Yukidaiba - the latter two are Kenshin's second wife and ex-wife who was mistakenly killed by Kenshin.
Kenshin Kazumura was recommended by Yue Song to be played by Masami Nagasawa, but Hideyuki Takai disagreed, and even Masami Nagasawa herself was a little hesitant.
In her words, with her current acting skills, she can't deduce the characteristics and character image of Kenshin Kinkmura.
It is a very strange thing for a woman to act in a man's costume, and if you don't play this role well, it is easy to mess up.
On the contrary, she is very optimistic about the role of Xuedaiba, although she did not say it explicitly, but she also clearly expressed her thoughts through watery eyes.
As an avid fan of Rogue Kenshin, it is not easy to say that he can resist such a temptation.
Yue Song pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement with Masami Nagasawa's choice.
As long as Masami Nagasawa can be arranged, Takai Hideyuki doesn't really care which role she plays, what really matters is the cooperation between Toho and Yue Song, so after getting Yue Song's approval, Takai Hideyuki also agreed to the matter.
The role of Kenshin Kazumura has been temporarily vacant, but Kamiya Xun has already had a candidate - there is no doubt that this belongs to Rio Ishiguro, and Yue Song can't think of anyone more suitable for this role than her.
With a small melon seed face, big eyes like a comic girl, a small and erect nose bridge, ruddy and playful lips, a cute and moving appearance, and a hot and attractive body, it is simply a copy of the comic character Kamiya Xun!
After Yue Song's description and description, Takai Hideyuki finally nodded and agreed to Kamiya Xun's role after pondering repeatedly.
Anyway, it's not the actor, so it's better to sell Yue Song a face.
Only the role of Kenshin in the Scarlet Village, the two have always been at odds, Takai Hideyuki took into account the problems of the market audience and insisted on choosing a male artist to play Kenshin, while Yue Song started from the characteristics of the original character, and the stubborn requirement must be played by a woman.
What are Hideyuki Takai's concerns, Yue Song doesn't need to think about it, he just feels that there is a problem with the image setting of the character Kenshin of the Scarlet Village, who is too short, which seriously affects the image of today's Japanese.
In this regard, Yue Song slandered in his heart, the prototype of Kenshin in the Scarlet Village was originally a skinny little man, could it be that if you find a tall and burly male artist to play it, you can change the outside world's evaluation of the Japanese "Little Japan"?
In the end, Yue Song was angry, and he simply had a showdown.
"Chairman Takai, if you have to stick to your opinion, then I can only say sorry. Rogue Kenshin is attractive, but I don't have to choose it. It's just that I have three films waiting to be made at my right now, and then there are more scripts that the studio has selected for me, and if this collaboration is not successful, I don't know when the next one will be. ”
Hideyuki Takai's heart trembled, and his mood instantly dropped by three points.
As Yue Song said, he doesn't have to choose Rogue Kenshin, and he doesn't have to cooperate with Toho, with the hurricane rescue to lay the foundation for him, in the future, with his popularity and appeal among young women in Japan, some film companies are willing to cooperate with him.
Being able to drive the entire market with a movie is an incredible strange thing in itself, which in itself is enough to prove Yue Song's commercial value, if he really can't reach an agreement with him, no one can afford this consequence.
It's true that Hideyuki Takai is the president, but he is still pressed by the chairman and the board of directors, and then there is the parent company!
As soon as he thought of this, Hideyuki Takai immediately calmed down, and at the same time put on another face, posing as a typical businessman - no face and no face, no skin and no face is better!
"Yue Songjun, please don't misunderstand, and please believe that our Dongbao Co., Ltd. has enough sincerity to cooperate with you. It's better to do this, whether to choose a man or a woman to play the male protagonist is up to the audience! ”
"What do you mean...... Market research? Yue Song understood as soon as he heard it, it was nothing more than a variety of questionnaire surveys, here in Japan, especially in some downtown areas and commercial areas, there are too many people holding questionnaire cards in the streets and alleys to count.
This is also a good way, anyway, with Yue Song's thoughts, as long as you have read the original comics, there is no one who does not understand the truth, unless it is those who have not read the comics, they will have an indifferent attitude towards it.
But any movie based on a manga, there is almost no one who respects the original work, and as long as the person who investigates is a real fan of the original manga, it will never be as Hideyuki Takai wishes.
So at Yue Song's request, Takai Hideyuki agreed to add a few questions to this market survey.
To put it simply, this is a two-tier survey, the first questionnaire is to check whether the respondent has read the original manga, if it is someone who has read it, even if it is only a rough one, you can accept the second questionnaire.
On the contrary, if you are someone who has not read the manga, there is no need to investigate further.
Takai Hideyuki hadn't realized the purpose of doing this, he thought that Yue Song might be out of respect for the original author, so he nodded without much thought.
Later, the two sides completed some detailed exchanges, and finally agreed that after Yue Song returned to China from South Korea, he would immediately send his agent over and sign more detailed agreements with Dongbao.
In this way, Takai Hideyuki's mission can be regarded as completed, and he congratulated Yue Song with a smile, "Congratulations to Yue Songjun, as of yesterday, the total box office of the hurricane rescue has exceeded one billion yen!" There are still ten days left before the next painting, and according to our statistics and calculations in the past few days, the final box office of this movie is probably between 15 and 1.7 billion. In terms of the screening results of Chinese-language films in Japan, this number can be ranked before the fifteenth! ”
"Oh? What are the films in the top fifteen? Yue Song was a little curious, and couldn't help but ask.
Takai Yingyuki said happily: "The first place is a hero, Zhang Yimou is worthy of being the leading film master in the Chinese world, and he is deeply admired!" The total box office of Heroes in Japan is four billion ......"
With the introduction of Hideyuki Takai, Yue Song also learned about the achievements of some Chinese films, such as the second place is Shaolin Temple, an old antique about 20 years ago, but the box office is scared to death - 3.6 billion!
Not to mention more than 20 years ago, even if it is placed in the present, it is definitely a box office bomb.
In addition, the list of the top 15 movies is almost all covered by three people - Bruce Lee four, Jack Chen seven, and Xing Ye two.
said almost, because in addition to being a hero, Lao Mouzi also had a movie that mixed into the top ten, and the ten-sided ambush released last year ranked seventh, with a box office of 2.2 billion yen. (To be continued......)
ps: Yesterday a monthly pass was wooden, and I was in tears~ Anyway...... If there is a wood, even if it is a bird, I don't expect to earn that monthly ticket money, mainly because I am unwilling, anyway, this month's 10,000 words per day guarantee is certain, and I don't say much else, just ask the bigwigs to see the performance