This phenomenon can be said to be very rare in the past.

Because in the past, when special effects movies began to be popular in China, the audience was very looking forward to and supported them in the early days, for example, among the earliest special effects movies, there was a director named Wang Jingwei, who filmed the first special effects film in China "Water Man Jinshan" based on the long-standing folk story "The Legend of the White Snake".

This movie only took 30 minutes to shoot the plot of White Snake and Fahai Fighting Method, but because there were few special effects movies even in foreign film markets at that time, Wang Jingwei set a precedent and filmed "Water Man Jinshan" at a cost of 180 million, and finally the domestic box office exceeded 900 million, including the box office after foreign release, with a total box office of 1.3 billion, which can be regarded as a big profit!

It is precisely because of if, it has also opened up the special effects film market of Chinese films, and all kinds of shoddy special effects movies have begun to appear, making a big profit at the box office, and some simply do not even invest more than 30 million, and dare to claim to be a masterpiece of special effects movies, and even through the audience's love for special effects movies, they have really made a lot of money!

However, after the real Hollywood special effects blockbusters enter the Chinese market, the good days of these Chinese directors who are keen on shooting special effects movies will come to an end!

Because their speculative psychology is too strict, many movies that claim to be masterpieces of special effects really use very little special effects, and there may only be a plot of a few minutes, which is a work of cheating money to put it bluntly!

So when faced with a real Hollywood special effects blockbuster, it was beaten to the north, and even triggered a boycott of special effects movies by domestic audiences!

Even Xu Guangwen, a previously famous director, tried to shoot a martial arts special effects blockbuster five years ago. With a total investment of 150 million, it can be regarded as a work of some sincerity. But in the end, the box office only recovered more than 9 million, and the boss and investor Lu Yuesheng simply killed him in the street!

And that's exactly what happened. It also made many directors dare not touch special effects movies again in the past five years, and although the resistance of the audience has gradually decreased, Cheng Dù's love for special effects movies has begun to decline.

The reason is that they found that domestic directors shoot special effects movies mainly to make money, and the special effects part is terrible, while Hollywood's special effects blockbusters are stronger, but the content is nothing more than superhero saviors, to be honest, it's not interesting to watch too much, so gradually the audience is not interested in special effects movies.

This is also why the movie "Storm and Storm Dominates the World" occupies the best schedule of the year even if it has done enough publicity. The box office still can't exceed 3 billion!

To be honest, being able to have a box office of more than 2.5 billion is already the result of many audiences giving Xiao Ran face, in fact, if it weren't for Xiao Ran's previous works being so classic, those audiences who were miserable by special effects movies would not necessarily be relieved to go into the cinema to watch "The Storm and the Clouds".

However, after the painting of "Storm and Clouds Dominate the World", it quickly landed on the major online online paid video websites, and the paid proportion of them was much higher than all of Xiao Ran's movies, which made Xiao Ran extremely surprised!

Because in the past, this was not possible. The resistance of many audiences to special effects movies is far from being that they will not go to the cinema to watch them, but that they will not accept the two-dollar to five-dollar charging model of online paid video sites online!

But now, it's only a week. The number of people who paid for "Storm and Clouds" online has exceeded 30 million, which means that the online box office has accumulated nearly 100 million!

And this 100 million online box office figure has shocked many film critics and filmmakers, far stronger than the box office of 2.5 billion. Because a movie ticket costs about thirty yuan, but watch a movie online. It only costs two to five dollars.

If you take a middle number and count it as three pieces of five to watch a movie, then this number is also very shocking. Because if it is counted as a movie ticket, it means that it will bring more than one billion box office to "Storm and Clouds"!

And this number also proves that although some audiences are reluctant to go to the cinema to watch "Storm and Storm" even if they have Xiao Ran's golden paint signboard as a guarantee, but it turns out that under a lot of praise, the movie "Storm and Storm" still attracted a lot of audiences who did not go to the cinema, and they spent relatively little money to watch online videos on the Internet, which still brought Xiao Ran box office income!

And Xiao Ran's online share is far higher than the share with the theater company, because the cost of the video website for online viewing is lower, only a few servers and reduced personnel are needed to complete the normal operation of the website, while the theater company needs to invest in a cinema and movie screen that covers a huge area, coupled with the loss of personnel, the proportion of a large share of the cost is naturally a little higher!

And now Xiao Ran's fame is so big, so the share ratio given to Xiao Ran by several major online paid video sites is naturally higher than that of ordinary movies!

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After the time entered April, Xiao Ran's movie "A Chinese Ghost Story", which brought the incomparably bright scholar character to the national audience in the Spring Festival Gala, finally completed the later production.

Many of the ghosts and fighting special effects that were originally completed in the most primitive way in the previous life have been completely replaced by modern high-tech special effects by Xiao Ran, so the fighting scenes of this play will become more exciting, but because of this, the production cost of the whole play is nearly 100 million!

However, Xiao Ran is very confident that the box office will bring him a surprise, just the stick in the stick country, Xiao Ran believes that it is not a problem to recover the cost at all, and other countries and regions and the mainland of China, as well as Baodao Xiangjiang and other regions, are the harvest places of Xiao Ran's box office.

In fact, the theme of the movie "A Chinese Ghost Story" comes from the folk classic weird novel "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", which impresses countless readers with its exploration of human nature and ghosts, so long before Xiao Ran, there have been filmmakers in this world who have filmed similar themes, and the box office is not bad, but there are few imitators.

Because this kind of movie is not made well, it will become a thriller horror film, so the taste is far worse, and the name and content of the version of the same theme before this world are not the same, the movie is called "Xiao Qian", and the finale is Xiao Qian returning to Yang, marrying and having children with Ning Caichen, but in Xiao Ran's version of "A Chinese Ghost Story", Xiao Qian is naturally reincarnated, otherwise she can't continue the plot of the second movie...... (To be continued......)