Chapter 600: Prologue of 07
PS: It's the last volume, and after writing this volume, it's over, and I ask you to support the four seas.
In the third week of the Chinese local market, "Painted Skin" won the single-week box office championship with a weekly box office of 50 million; In the Japanese market, "Painted Skin" still holds the butcher's knife of "Gade War", receiving 500 million yen.
In the Korean market, "Painted Skin" dominated, "Machine Qì Love" was completely suppressed, and "Painted Skin" is still the single-week box office champion in South Korea.
In the fourth week, "Painted Skin" began to weaken rapidly, and it won a single-week box office championship with 36 million Chinese coins, and the total box office of the Chinese market officially exceeded 200 million.
In the Japanese market, "Painted Skin" showed exhaustion, falling from the top three positions in the Japanese market, and only collected 200 million yen at the box office; In South Korea, "Painted Skin" narrowly defeated the newly released Korean horror film "Suddenly One Day on February 29th" and continued to win the Korean weekly box office championship.
Coupled with the North American market, "Painted Skin" collected another $1.2 million, pushing the global box office of "Painted Skin" to a super high box office of 500 million Chinese dollars.
Moreover, although "Painted Skin" began to reduce the number of theaters released in the global market, it has not been painted, and according to expert predictions, the final box office of "Painted Skin" should exceed 700 million.
Receiving this good news, the stock of Gold Medal Group rose slightly, and the market value officially exceeded 160 billion Chinese dollars.
But that's not all.
When the momentum of "Painted Skin" was weakening, and other film and television companies were relieved and ready to put the works at the bottom of the box in their hands, "Red Cliff" came.
This film by Schindler's List screenwriter Steve Brown. The film written by Zanlin and directed by Zhang Yimou has just been released. It caused a sensation throughout Asia.
Xijie Entertainment, which has just cooperated with the Gold Medal Group, and Tokyo Takarazuka Cinema Line immediately came to the door.
At this time, the craze for the creation of "Painted Skin" has not completely passed, and Japanese and Korean fans have a special confidence in Chinese movies, and they believe it. followed the limelight laid by "Painted Skin", and the box office of "Red Cliff" will definitely not be much weaker.
You must know that the Three Kingdoms are much more familiar in Japan and South Korea than Liaozhai.
And "Red Cliff" did not disappoint them.
This historical masterpiece that invited industrial light and magic zuò special effects showed a different kind of attraction from the beginning. Although Zanlin is not the main screenwriter, he doesn't know much about the history of the Three Kingdoms. But he understands very well what it takes to commercialize a masterpiece of history.
Therefore, in the process of writing the script, it is the main screenwriter who writes the script and then gives it to him to revise, and he modifies the structure of the entire script on the part of the process that does not involve content modification. Make the script seem more compact.
This practice is called script doctor in Hollywood.
The so-called script doctors are a group of screenwriters who know the writing of commercial film scripts very well, and when any script is activated, the film and television production company will hand over the original script to the script doctor for revision.
This modification is called commercialization.
It's just that usually Hollywood's script doctors are written by some lesser-known screenwriters. A truly famous screenwriter wouldn't do it. The pay is too low.
But the gold medal group in order to impress this Steven. Zalin paid him $500,000 plus a 3% share of the global box office of "Red Cliff" at the price of a Hollywood screenwriter.
This is probably the only combination where the script doctor is paid much more than the main writer.
Break 100 million in five days!
"Red Cliff" was released in China for 5 days, directly breaking through the box office of 100 million Chinese coins, this dazzling result directly made all the film and television production companies waiting for "Red Cliff" to hit the street were scared back.
It's horrible.
This achievement is even more terrifying than "Painted Skin".
They seem to have foreseen the birth of the annual box office champion of Chinese films in 07.
"It's so good-looking, this time "Red Cliff" is really good."
On the Internet, many fans are commenting on the movie "Red Cliff". "There is no sense of drag that ordinary historical films usually have, and the plot of "Red Cliff" is very tight. is full of a sense of expectation, coupled with the picture that director Zhang Yimou is good at, this "Red Cliff" is simply a domestic masterpiece. ”
"In the past, it was often said that Zhang Yimou's movies were 'beautiful shells, empty souls', but today's "Red Cliff" tells us what is called 'beautiful shells and full souls', Zhang Yimou, let me ask you: Do you really not know how to write scripts as rumored by the outside world?"
"Upstairs, you look at the list of screenwriters, Steven. Zandering, he is a well-known Hollywood screenwriter, the screenwriter of "Schindler's List", and what he is best at is the script of historical masterpieces. ”
"Damn, it turns out that "Red Cliff" invited the well-known Hollywood screenwriter Steven. Zanlin, I said that the plot of Lao Mouzi's movie suddenly became full of a sense of expectation, not logical and chaotic at all, the feeling is that foreign aid was invited, and the gold medal group is really willing to pay, I'm afraid it cost a lot of money! ”
"I don't think it's much, look at the list of screenwriters, Steven. Zanlin doesn't seem to be the main screenwriter, so it shouldn't cost much, but it's hard to say about this kind of thing. ”
"Red Cliff" has a bumper harvest at the box office, whether it is the media or fans, this time there is no longer a complaint about Zhang Yimou's works, and the judges of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers even named "Red Cliff", saying that "Red Cliff" is very likely to win the 07 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Best Film Award.
In this special era when Korean films are sluggish and Japanese animated films are just rising, they directly won the box office championship in Japan and South Korea with a hurricane attitude, and beat the Japanese and Korean films in the same period.
You must know that at this time, the Japanese film master Hayao Miyazaki has just announced his withdrawal from the Japanese film and television industry, and the Korean film and television industry is about to explode its strength to "Monster of the Han River" and is at a weak time.
"Red Cliff" was a big hit in Asia, and it became popular with a series of actors under the Gold Medal Group.
Chen Zhiming, Huang Xiaoming, and Fan Binbin directly became popular.
They were already very popular, but this time, they were too popular, and their salaries were also rising, like Chen Zhiming's salary directly exceeded 10 million Chinese yuan.
Huang Xiaoming and Fan Binbin's salaries also began to approach the 10 million Huaxia yuan mark.
Their red, together with the gold medal group's stock price rose again, Li Lin saw this situation, and directly announced the investment plan of the gold medal group in 07.
"In 07 years, the gold medal cinema line will build 34 new multi-functional screening halls, which are expected to cover Harbin, Changchun, Wenzhou, these second- and third-tier cities, and it is expected that by the end of 07, the gold medal cinema line will have 92 cinemas in the country, and it is expected to have 941 fast screens, completely surpassing China Film and becoming the largest cinema in China."
"In 07, Gold Medal Film and Television Production Company will invest in and produce "World of Warcraft 2: Battle of the Ancient Gods", "Fengshen List 1: The Demon Queen of the Disaster Country", "Three Kingdoms 2: Thousands of Miles to Ride Alone", "Liao Zhai 1: Fox Immortal Retribution", "Journey to the West 1: Havoc in the Heavenly Palace".
Under the instruction of Li Lin, the gold medal film and television production company directly moved the ancient myths and stories to the big screen.
The reason is very simple, these stories have a great reputation in the entire Greater Chinese cultural circle, and they can be said to be familiar works, and no contemporary work can compare with these works in terms of influence.
It can be said that this is the cultural heritage left by our ancestors.
And because these works have expired the copyright protection period, they shoot without authorization at all, and they don't need to pay a lot of copyright fees, so what's not to shoot?
You must know that foreign film production companies have filmed all the myths and stories imaginable abroad, and Li Lin has no reason not to shoot his country's classical masterpieces?
He not only wants to shoot, but also shoots series, and wants to make these works a cash cow for the gold medal film and television production company.
To this end, he ordered all the Oriental Fantasy categories to be changed to Oriental Xianxia, and asked the novel website under the Gold Medal Group to cooperate with the promotion of the concept of Oriental Xianxia, and directly held an event - Oriental Xianxia Essay Contest.
The essay contest is also very simple.
The Oriental Xianxia Essay Contest will be held for four seasons, from January to March, from April to June, from April to June, from July to September, from July to September, and from October to December, Journey to the West.
In the specified month,The author of the novel website can participate in the essay collection when he opens the corresponding category of works,To make an analogy,In 1 to 3 months,The author of the novel opens the god list of fanfiction:Both cross into the god list,The power system is basically faithful to the god list,Then you will get a special reward of 800 fast every month provided by the website,This reward can be superimposed with the full attendance award。
In addition, the top three novels will be rewarded with an additional 50,000, 30,000, and 10,000 Chinese coins.
Not only that, the novels created in the corresponding season that meet the theme will also be tilted by the website in terms of recommended resources and recommended by other platforms of the Gold Group.
These rewards can be described as generous. "In '07, "Crossfire" and "Dungeons & Warriors" represented by Gold Games will hold closed beta tests in China, and are expected to be put into operation in the second half of '07."
"At the same time, the web games "Arcade Three Kingdoms", "Happy Farm", "Happy Ranch", "Happy Fishery" and "Happy Supermarket" developed by the gold medal game will be put into operation in 07."
"In addition, there are a total of 13 mobile games such as the large-scale stand-alone game "Plants vs. Zombies", "Fruit Ninja", and "Defending the Carrot" have been put into operation."
"It is expected that by the end of '07, Gold Games will operate more than 73 games worldwide."
That's the benefit of monopolies.
With Li Lin's stake in Apple, Gold Games has been frantically developing mobile games, and a large number of casual mobile games have been made and put into the market by Gold Games, all of which have achieved great results.
Judging from the last quarter of 06 alone, the overall contribution of mobile games of Gold Games Zuò exceeded 140 million US dollars, directly matching the operating performance of web games and moving towards terminal games. (To be continued......)