Robert Jr. has been confined by Wang Shang for three weeks, and then slowly relied on his own willpower and the coercion of two big men to slowly overcome that dependence on drugs.

In the end, Wang Shang finally untied the rope that bound him and let him go.

For all this, Robert Downey Jr. was quite resentful of Wang Shang at the beginning, scolding every day, but after a few days, he became grateful, and he became much more cheerful, chatting and farting with the people of the inspection group every day, and chatting very highly. I have to say that he is a person with a great sense of humor and a deep understanding of the performing arts.

On January 26, after almost a month of study and investigation, Wang Shang and his team of 100 people finally got on the plane and flew back to the magic capital.

In a few days, the Spring Festival will begin.

If it weren't for the Spring Festival, it is estimated that Wang Shang and they would have stayed longer.

After I go back, it's time to sort out the materials.

As the Spring Festival approaches, more and more companies are starting to take holidays, and more people have time to watch movies.

The major movies in the Chinese New Year file continue to appear, and every few days are staged to grab the beach.

However, "Fast and Furious" is still eye-catching, and it has been on the air for a month at this time, but the major cinemas still welcome many fans who watch it, which is in stark contrast to other movies released at the same time. At present, the total box office of Huaxia has reached a height of 950 million!

Breaking through 1 billion is just around the corner!

In the history of the Chinese film box office, the box office record has not exceeded 1 billion movies, and "Fast and Furious" will be the first film to cross this gap! It will definitely leave a strong mark in the history of the Chinese film box office.

And "Death is Coming 3" has gradually begun to be low, although it is already holiday time, although it is more evening than "Fast and Furious", but the box office ability is even worse. Quite a few movie theaters have painted it to make way for other new films. So far, the total box office of Huaxia is 470 million.

470 million, for other films, this belongs to the upper middle level, but for Wang Shang, it is a low-box office movie.

The box office of "Guwu Future" is similar to what Wang Shang expected, the response to overseas releases is average, but the results in China are good, and the box office has accumulated 680 million yuan in less than 1 month, which really surprised Tang Zongshi. In terms of evaluation, although there are praises and disadvantages, most of them are liked, and the score is stable at 7.0 points, which is much better than "Xiuzhen Fengyun" and "Guwu Future".

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After celebrating the Chinese New Year with his parents, Wang Shang participated in meetings organized by the three companies non-stop to discuss the gains of his investigation/study in Hollywood.

After discussion, they found that the gap between Chinese films and North American Hollywood films was at least a few decades old.

In Hollywood, although the entire industry loses money every year in terms of the profitability of movies, they can turn losses into profits through non-stop capital operation.

In terms of external support, Hollywood is favored by big capital and political axes, and they continue to invest, even if they lose money, and they want the kind of publicity that breaks through national boundaries of movies.

There are also talents in terms of talents, there are a lot of talent reserves, fierce competition, and commercialization is extremely obvious. Huaxia Huaxia does not yet have such conditions.

In addition, Hollywood has many advantages, such as 'the punishment can go to the doctor', and the movie can create a depraved character image of a power figure [***]; For example, the universal idea of advocating heroism and despising bad people can easily conquer audiences all over the world.

There are many advantages, and the three companies have also invested a lot of energy to discuss, and at the same time invited experts and professors to come in to discuss together, and finally brought in the three film and television universities in the magic capital (Huaxia Film and Television University/Magic City Film and Television University/Magic City Drama Academy).

The outside media and the film and television industry are naturally very concerned about the trends of the three companies, and they have explored what Wang Shang is doing......

However, the contents of the meeting have been kept confidential.

"The gap is too big!!" That's what everyone thinks.

Tang Zongshi spoke directly: "I think we can't do it behind closed doors anymore, we must be more bold, establish a perfect mechanism for attracting and accepting foreign stars, build a good atmosphere, and absorb more foreign stars and filmmakers to join in the construction of Chinese films. ”

"I think if you want to attract those foreign filmmakers, the most important thing is the salary level here, now Huaxia is several times different from Hollywood in this regard, and the big stars are even more ten times different, so much difference, it is estimated that those filmmakers will rarely consider this." A professor said.

"It is necessary for celebrities to raise their salaries, but now that the film market is not as developed as Hollywood, the result of the salary increase will make us production companies more pressured." Huang Jiaqi, as the boss, knows his own pressure.

Wang Shang said at this time: "Going around, in fact, it is still a matter of film profitability, and there are currently three ways for us to improve the profitability of films, one is to continue to reduce the share of theaters, and increase the share of distribution and production." The second is to broaden the film market, our population in China is several times larger than that of North America, but the box office contribution capacity is only one-tenth, and the market potential is very large. ”

Other experts, people from film companies, and university executives couldn't help but nod their heads after hearing this.

Anping Shi couldn't help but say: "When you say this, I think it is beneficial for us to increase the introduction of Hollywood movies last time, at least it can allow more people to be attracted to the cinema because of good movies, and then ...... for fans."

The others nodded yes.

"There's a third way, what's it?" Tang Zongshi asked Wang Shang.

Wang Shangyang raised the information in his hand and said: "The third method is to develop film peripheral products, when investing in films, we need to take into account the future film peripheral products, and make these peripheral products the profit of the movie." According to the information provided by an employee of Tianwang Studio, the way to make money from movies in the United States has gradually shifted from the box office to movie peripherals, such as comic book production, game development, toy mold sales, clothing printing, and tourism...... There are many ways to increase the profitability of your film......"

As soon as Wang Shang's words came out, the eyes of more than a dozen people present immediately lit up.

"Yes, why didn't I think of it......" Tang Zongshi and Huang Jiaqi couldn't help but glance at each other and saw each other's surprise.

"At present, Tianwang Studio has two profitable movies around **Chengcheng, the first is "Death is Coming", at present, its game version has been sold in Europe and the United States, and Tianwang Studio can get a profit of 100 million yuan every year. And the second part is Transformers, whether it is a toy or an animation product, it is sold in China, Europe and the United States and other regions, and its profitability is stronger than "The Grim Reaper". ”

Wang Shang's words naturally aroused the envy and jealousy of Tang Zongshi and Huang Jiaqi.

At this time, President An mentioned: "And the domestic market is not big enough, it is estimated that most filmmakers would rather struggle in Hollywood than come here to waste." ”

Wang Shang said with a smile: "As long as we have a few more films that can enter the international market and prove our strength, we will naturally attract some foreigners to come and ......."

Everyone nodded yes......

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Subsequently, Wang Shang has been at this meeting, discussing with several film companies and universities. Later, he gradually pulled into the Magic City Media University, Mickey Toys and Flying Dragon Comics......

The meeting gradually shifted the center to the Alliance.

Everyone is working in the direction of the alliance, and although Modu Media University has a grudge with Wang Shang, they don't dare to make small moves in this kind of matter, for fear of being excluded from the alliance, and it will definitely be very unfavorable to their school at that time.

For the joining of the Modu Media University, Wang Shang has an attitude of not objecting, but also not approving, adding it can increase the resources of the alliance, presumably the Modu Media University does not dare to do anything that damages the alliance.

Wang Shang's current situation, although it is said that he has made brilliant achievements in movies for the time being, but when it really comes to the entire industry level, Wang Shang is just a person with a small company and a little better at making movies.

In terms of influence, Wang Shang is completely inferior to Tang Zongshi, who has a lot of capital, and has very high popularity, connections, and influence.

So at this level, Wang Shang has little right to speak.

Therefore, what Wang Shang has to do now is to find his own position and obtain a seat of voice when the Modu Film Alliance is formed. In the future, with the continuous improvement of his career, he will increase his right to speak.

Subsequently, as the discussion continued, the other two large film companies in the magic capital also began to join in, the Hanhai Group, which has a certain grudge against Wang Shang, and the magic city film and television art production center, and now, the four major film companies and four film and television universities in the magic capital have joined in. There is also an animation company, a toy company, and Wang Shang's Tianwang Studio.

And Wang Shang's Tianwang Studio is the smallest company.

However, because Wang Shang is the initiator, he also has a voice seat in it.

One day, after the meeting ended, Tang Zongshi and Huang Jiaqi secretly invited Wang Shang to dinner.

"Now it's getting bigger and bigger, no matter how big it is, it's a little uncontrollable......" Huang Jiaqi's words were meaningful.

Tang Zong was actually more direct: "There is no way to pull them in, if you want to establish an alliance in the Demon Capital, you can't bypass them, so please forgive me." ”

Wang Shang looked calm and said with a confident smile: "It's okay, there is no eternal enemy in this world, and their addition can better integrate the resources of the entire Demon Capital." ”

Another point that Wang Shang did not say is that the more people there are, the more resources he can use......

After chatting for a long time, the three of them dispersed.

Wang Shang believes that with the wisdom of these people in the alliance, they will definitely not bring people in again, because they will share the right to speak in their hands.

It is believed that after the establishment of the Modu Film and Television Alliance, other places will soon respond quickly, and gradually form alliances based on regions.......

(To be continued.) )