Chapter 302: I'll Give You Money, You Can Spend It!
Chen Xi is no stranger to these two cartoons, especially "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage", which is simply a cartoon full of YY spirit......
Of course, this is not the content of the animation, although the content of the cartoon does have a bit of YY, but Chen Xi means that the situation encountered in this movie is indeed too YY.
From less than 10% of the film schedule at the beginning to the highest 30% of the film schedule, from the beginning of the single-day box office because of the impact of the film schedule, it can even hit 60 million box office in a single day...... and finally broke all domestic animated film release records, ending with a horror box office of 950 million.
No matter whether such a movie itself is wonderful or not, what happened after its release was wonderful.
Therefore, Chen Xi is also deeply impressed by this film.
In fact, to be honest, this movie is indeed quite good in many places such as technical means, and it is the way forward for the advanced productivity of domestic cartoons.
From this point of view, "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" does have quite good things, and all the results obtained after that can actually be regarded as iron-striking or hard.
However, "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" also left regrets at the end due to lack of funds, but it came to an abrupt end when the Great Sage was the most handsome. In fact, for many people, this paragraph is unfinished, and there will be some regrets after reading it.
And even if it is such an ending, the funds are only obtained after the production team begged grandpa to sue grandma.
Cartoons still cost a lot of money, and the requirements of the movie itself are very high, and even forced many people away...... As a result, the funds for "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" are also terrifying to the extreme.
Now Chen Xi has received a lot of requests for funding in cartoons, but Chen Xi is really interested in only a few limited films.
"Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" and "Kuiba" are one of them, the movie "Kuiba" is actually remarkable in terms of the concept of the world view, and many things can barely justify themselves, and even get the attention of Japan, a big animation country. It is conceivable that the expressiveness of this movie is indeed good, but the problem is that the rhythm of the film "Kuiba" is too slow and too slow, and the amount of information shown in one episode is too little.
The total box office of the third part of this film in later generations is more than 20 million, and there is no way to continue filming, but fortunately, after "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage", the Chinese animation industry seems to have ushered in a spring. So the project was restarted...... But from Chen Xi's point of view, this movie is very problematic, the slow pace and the like are actually okay, but there are big problems in publicity, maybe there is no money, anyway, when the third part of this movie was released, many people thought that this film jumped tickets or something because they didn't see the publicity......
In addition, many cartoons take the route of accumulating popularity on TV and then cashing out on the big screen to recover the value of IP, such as "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", "Bear Infested" and the like. After all, "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" does not have this problem of accumulating popularity because Journey to the West is originally a super IP in China, but in the completely unfamiliar worldview of "Kuiba", it is too unrealistic to show it in several movies.
Therefore, Chen Xi has to give guidance.
After a period of consideration, Chen Xi decided to intervene in "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage". In terms of funds, Deep Space Film and Television can come up with an investment of 50 million, which can also enable those who wanted to withdraw from this film investment before to successfully exit.
In this way, for the main creative team of "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage". The appearance of Chen Xi now really made them overjoyed, and gave them some good things that they had not imagined before - once the 50 million funds were injected, it would be a great supplement for the entire dying cartoon. A lot of the money will be there for the next day.
Chen Xi is now bringing them an experience of sending charcoal in the snow, and not only sending charcoal in the snow, but also giving them a shelter from the wind and rain, in this regard, what Chen Xi has brought to them has indeed far exceeded these people's expectations.
"Thank you! Thank you so much! For Chen Xi, seeing this group of people, there is also a sense of relief in his heart, after all, seeing people who make movies with heart, as the same kind of people who like movies, of course he will be happier in his heart, at least compared to those who have only wanted to use movies to make money, I don't know how much better.
Chen Xi smiled at them and said, "As long as you can contribute the best "The Return of the Great Sage", for me, this is the best thank you!" I won't interfere with the plot content of the movie, but I hope you spend every penny in the most suitable place and give a complete ending, what I hope is that you don't be disturbed by the funds, concentrate on making movies, as long as the funds are really used on the movie, you can rest assured, I will take it out. ”
Hearing this, these people really have a kind of gratitude for the death of a confidant.
However, in fact, Chen Xi also dared to make such a promise because he knew the true level of the movie "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage", not to mention, Chen Xi couldn't really tell him that he would be a hands-off shopkeeper like this, and he still had to test many things, and he couldn't let these people give up their original intentions because of the entry of funds.
There are a lot of Chinese filmmakers who are really prone to making good works when they are poor and have problems in all directions, and when they really become famous, and when too many people are waiting to give you money, they will lose their way and fall into a strange narcissism, and turn to make a bunch of disgusting things.
Chen Kaige is like this, Lu Qi is like this, and even Jiang Wei after "Let the Bullets Fly" is like this...... The ones who can really hold it may be Feng Xiaogang, Ning Hao, Guan Hu and so on, Zhang Yimou can actually hold it, but Zhang Guoshi is born in a camera after all, and he is congenitally deficient in things like the narrative of movies.
Therefore, Chen Xi is worried that they will also have problems in some places because of the money......
As for Kuiba, Chen Xi's conditions are far less generous, but there are some supervision measures, but in any case, this can be regarded as a good governance, and the two dying cartoons were held up by Chen Xi. (To be continued......)