In February 2013, the domestic film industry was still immersed in the myth of "Thai Embarrassment". Another god film "Journey to the West" www.biquge.info "Journey to the West" is also beginning to be released!

Although Stephen Chow's company does not have a penny of capital, in fact, Stephen Chow himself is a director, and making movies in his name has already made the greatest contribution.

If the box office success of "Thai Embarrassment" is a surprising accident, then the success of "Journey to the West" is reasonable.

Many post-70s and post-80s grew up watching Stephen Chow's movies, and the vast majority of Stephen Chow's movies were not officially released in China at the beginning, so most audiences watched Stephen Chow's movies through video halls and pirated videotapes and CDs.

So much so that many viewers even said that even if Stephen Chow's movies are not good, they should buy tickets to cheer for it, because I owe him a lot of movies at the box office.

It can be said that the number of viewers who have watched Stephen Chow's movies is not less than the number of readers who have read Jin Yong's novels.

Memories of an era!

As a result, the vast majority of directors and actors in that era, none of them could reach the level of Stephen Chow in terms of box office appeal.

However, Stephen Chow is old after all, and he is tired of performing in front of the screen. Therefore, since "Yangtze River No. 7", he has begun to fade out of the screen, but has been a behind-the-scenes worker thoroughly.

Many people suspect that there is no Stephen Chow on the movie screen. So, can Stephen Chow's box office appeal be guaranteed?

No one can give an answer to this point until the movie is released.

However, Wang Qinian, as a prophet, can be sure. Stephen Chow's works, whether he performs them on the screen himself or as a director behind the scenes. All of them also have box office appeal.

"Hello, Brother Xing!" Wang Qinian and enthusiastically stood side by side with Stephen Chow.

"You're good. Boss Wang! Stephen Chow smiled.

"Don't hand it over to me Boss Wang, we're partners, right?" Wang Qinian said with a smile.

"yes!" Stephen Chow smiled.

"According to my opinion, "Demon Suppression Chapter" will be a big seller." Wang Qinian said with a smile, "If the box office breaks 500 million, the promised dividends will not be less." If it breaks 1 billion, in addition to the promised dividends, you can be given two rewards to choose from, one option is the share of 50 million small partner film and television investment fund. Another option is to get a free 500 million yuan equity call option of Golden Harvest Entertainment. The exercise price is 200 yuan. Now, Golden Harvest Entertainment's share price is far more than 200 yuan per share, close to 300 yuan per share, and can be exercised in 2014. ”

"I choose 50 million shares of my partner's film and television investment fund!" After Stephen Chow thought about it, he still chose the first one.

Because, if he gets 500 million options for free, he still has to pay for it and take 500 million to buy 2.5 million shares of Golden Harvest Entertainment. Then, whether it can successfully cash out at a price of more than 500 million yuan is still a bit questionable.

After all. The market hears that there is a huge arbitrage space in the market price of the company's option exercise price, so those who hold stocks will definitely sell. So as not to be exercised by the option after the investor gets cheap chips. Start smashing arbitrage.

Stephen Chow was poor when he was a child, and after his debut, he was even more afraid of being poor on the street for a long time. Even after getting mixed up, he is also very concerned about money, which is easy to make some insiders think that he can't be a person.

However, many people who can be human may not be able to do things. In fact, there are too many people in the circle, who can only be people and form gangs. The popularity is very good. But, in fact, most of them are in front of the times. can only be regarded as a mediocre.

Wang Qinian admires a director like Stephen Chow who can't be a person, and the ancient sages are all lonely. Those who are particularly talented are easy to be magnified and then excluded by insiders.

And Wang Qinian is the most generous boss in the entire circle. For example, for a director like Stephen Chow who has box office appeal, he is very generous, not only promising Stephen Chow not only to cover his income, but also promising to give dividends after the box office exceeds expectations.

That's not all, Wang Qinian gave an additional reward, that is, outside the contract, if the results are exceeded, he can take out another part of the profit as a reward.

This approach is mainly in the hope of tying more excellent creators to the chariots of small partners. The development of Chinese films is still in the golden stage, and to maintain an absolute advantage, Cai can maximize his interests.

Wang Qinian is not the first time to cooperate with Stephen Chow, but the scale of previous cooperation was relatively limited, but this time it is a blockbuster with an investment of more than 100 million yuan.

The real money taken out in cash is about 120 million yuan. Counting the 40 million yuan of the publicity budget, it is claimed that the investment is 160 million yuan.

In essence, "Demon Suppression" has been internationalized, and its shots and special effects may not be able to meet the standards of blockbusters. However, to give 100 million yuan in funds to make a decent movie, there are creativity and special effects. In addition, the feelings are a little, too.

It's not easy anymore!

In other words, if you are a director who cheats money, you can get a budget of 100 million, and you can give you a bad movie with five-cent special effects, and even the story can't be told well, and there are no highlights in the whole story.

In this increasingly impetuous year, film investment is becoming less and less valuable. A lot of money has been wasted.

For example, $30 million could have been filmed in "Hero" ten years ago, and now with $30 million, can you make a work of the same level as "Hero"? Strictly speaking, "Hero" is the work of Zhang Yimou's practice, and he is not very familiar with special effects operation. But even so, it is more reliable than many directors who cheat money.

To put it simply, both as an investor and as an audience. Wang Qinian thinks that in any industry, there are always a few who are reliable, and those who are unreliable are the majority. Therefore, a very small number of reliable ones, with a little support, can ascend to the altar.

There are also some unreliable, even if you spend more resources, they are unreliable in the past, and it will be difficult to be reliable in the future.

Basically, Wang Qinian thinks that whether a movie is good or not depends on the director's ability to control it, if a director's ability is to shoot a film with millions to tens of millions of yuan, there are not many special effects, there is no 3D, but the story is full of fun, for example, like "Thai Embarrassment", no 3D blockbuster, it can still be a blockbuster.

Or like Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West", although the use of special effects is not as high-end as Hollywood, it doesn't seem to be too peaceful and won't break the plot apart.

Special effects, 3D, etc., are just like the script, actors, music, and other elements, just one aspect of the movie, not the whole thing. Only by balancing all the elements of the movie well and solving the shortcomings in the barrel can Cai be able to make a blockbuster commercial film. (To be continued.) )