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"Escape" grossed more than 116 million in its first week.

Although, starting next week, the May Day holiday will end, and the box office of "Escape" will definitely go down.

But even so, the final box office of "Escape" will definitely exceed 200 million.

Usually investors can get one-third of the box office, that is, if the final box office of "Escape" is really 200 million, then the investors of "Escape" can get 66.6667 million.

Don't think that's the end of it.

Wrong.

In addition to the traditional cinema income, the investor also has some platform income.

Unlike in the early years, producers could only rely on theaters to make money, now, for some films, platform income is the bulk of the investor's income.

(This also leads to the fact that many movies that are not competitive in theaters are now, and now they can only be released on the platform if they give up the theater chain directly, and they can still make a lot of money.) ）

And if a movie is popular in theaters and has a good reputation, then usually, it can sell a lot of money on the platform.

Judging from the current trend of "Escape", it will definitely be no problem to sell another 100 million on the platform.

The investor and the platform are usually split 55/5.

In other words, the investor can also share at least 50 million from the platform.

Added together, "Escape" can recover at least 110 million, 20 million.

Remember, that's just the minimum!

If the situation is a little better, removing the cost of more than 30 million, the investors of "Escape" should be able to earn at least 100 million!

It's definitely a big money!!

"Escape" can even be said to be a model of a small cost and a big counterattack.

Let's put it this way, if you invest 200 million to make a movie, 500 million box office, after removing a lot of expenses, you may actually lose money when you get one-third.

And "Escape" has a small profit and has earned several times.

Wang Bin and other investors of "Escape" can now wake up with a smile when they sleep.

It is precisely because of the success of "Escape" that Wang Bin and others have accelerated the pace of preparing for "Escape 2".

According to the meaning of Wang Bin and others, since "Escape" is so successful, it must be tried to use the original crew to shoot "Escape 2".

But the idea is plump, but the reality is skinny.

Although because of the success of "Escape", Wang Bin is willing to ask Linda, well...... More precisely, a willingness to make concessions to money.

However, this is just wishful thinking on the part of Wang Bin.

Because of the unpleasant cooperation, Linda is no longer willing to cooperate with Wang Bin and them, even if Wang Bin and they are willing to give Linda a boost, and even willing to pull Linda into the shares.

Of course, the reason why Linda is so resolute is not only because he and Wang Bin get along really unhappily and everyone has different attitudes towards movies, but also because "Escape" was a great success, and Linda is now rising, and some people are begging Linda to be a director, and the conditions are casual Lin Da, Linda really has no need to cooperate with Wang Bin, who always want to force him to use Pan Xiaowei, Ren Lili and others, and always want to dictate his works.

failed to persuade Linda to cooperate with him again, Wang Bin was a little regretful, but at the same time, Wang Bin was also secretly relieved.

In Wang Bin's opinion, Linda is really stubborn, brainless, and doesn't know how to be flexible at all, and it's too tiring to cooperate with Linda.

To be honest, if it weren't for the success of "Escape", Wang Bin would definitely not want to cooperate with Linda again.

Now Linda's resolute attitude of not cooperating anymore just makes Wang Bin no longer have to be entangled.

In fact, Wang Bin has had enough of these so-called big directors.

Therefore, Wang Bin, who consciously occupies more weight in the success of "Escape", has a bold idea, that is, to cultivate a director who listens to himself.

Moreover, Wang Bin already has a suitable candidate.

This person is Zhang Hongbo.

Wang Bin's hobbies are a little different, that is, he loves his wife alone.

It's pretty much an open secret in the circle.

But Wang Bin is a very measured person, he never has to be strong, it is all voluntary, so no one says anything about him.

Zhang Hongbo's wife Zeng Xiaohui was a well-known star, and later Jinpan washed her hands and married Zhang Hongbo, who was only a photography assistant at the time, which can be regarded as marrying love.

Later, relying on Zeng Xiaohui's relationship and personal efforts, Zhang Hongbo climbed up step by step and gradually became a director.

When Zhang Hongbo was a director, he was a famous Kuaishou director, at that time, he was really executing filming, handing over all big and small scenes to him, not exceeding the budget, worthy of the boss, not losing his temper, worthy of the actors, not picking the script, worthy of the screenwriter, if nothing else, the filming was over.

Zhang Hongbo has four or five films a year in the days when there is filming, no problem. Kuaishou play will be handed over to him, and he will give you a 70-point work every minute, no matter how high it is, no matter how low it is. Take the money and do things, filming is like flowing water, the author's spirit? I'm sorry, Zhang Hongbo may not know that there is such a thing in the world.

To put it bluntly, Zhang Hongbo's biggest advantage is obedience.

However, Zhang Hongbo also has a problem, that is, lustful.

When filming in Hong Kong Province a few years ago, Zhang Hongbo molested an actress and was slapped in public by the actress.

And that's not the end of the matter, that actress turned out to be the mistress of a very powerful bigwig in Hong Kong Province.

It is said that Zeng Xiaohui accompanied the big guy for three days, and Zhang Hongbo lost a lot of money to the big guy, and the big guy let Zhang Hongbo go.

But even so, because of fear of that big guy and disdain for Zhang Hongbo's character, no one uses Zhang Hongbo anymore, so that Zhang Hongbo has no drama to shoot for four or five years.

In those years, Zhang Hongbo and Zeng Xiaohui lived very poorly.

It wasn't until he met Wang Bin and the big guy passed away not long ago that Zhang Hongbo was able to come back to filming.

It can be said that Wang Bin has a great favor to Zhang Hongbo.

As for why Wang Bin reused Zhang Hongbo, of course, it was also because of Zeng Xiaohui's relationship.

But—

It doesn't matter, it's a big deal, Wang Bin broke off with Zeng Xiaohui.

Zeng Xiaohui is a popular star.

Moreover, the few times Wang Bin and Zeng Xiaohui were also bridged by Zhang Hongbo, can Zhang Hongbo still care about this?

The key is Zhang Hongbo's performance during the filming of "Escape", Wang Bin sees it in his eyes.

In Wang Bin's opinion, Zhang Hongbo can do everything that Linda can do.

In addition, it is cheaper to use Zhang Hongbo.

Anyway, Wang Bin felt that Zhang Hongbo was better than Lin Da anywhere.

In fact, when considering the filming of "Escape 2", Wang Bin had already thought about using Zhang Hongbo as a director.

Of course, this is also because the wind blows well on Zeng Xiaohui's pillow.

All in all, after many reasons such as the general trend, personal efforts, wife efforts, cost performance, etc., Zhang Hongbo came and became the director of "Escape 2".

After Zhang Hongbo came to power, the first idea he gave Wang Bin was: "Boss, if we want to replicate the success of "Escape 2", we must be inseparable from one person. ”

"Who?" Wang Bin asked.

"Yu Qingyun." Zhang Hongbo said a name that was both unexpected and reasonable for Wang Bin.

Wang Bin asked quietly: "Is Yu Qingyun so critical?" ”

"It's too critical, Yu Qingyun is a natural action superstar, if I had to choose, I would rather let Yu Qingyun be the hero of "Escape 2", and even the synopsis of the story I have already thought about, let's just say that Yu Qingyun is Yu Lianying's younger brother, different from his brother's ambition to break the law and discipline, my younger brother is naturally honest and kind, and he is a rare good policeman......"

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