Chapter 53: Solicitation (2/4) (Happy New Year, I wish you all a lot of money)

"Ambush on All Sides" can be regarded as the existence at the bottom of the Amou movie sequence.

In the 2015 "Mainland Director's Works Rating List", A Mou's debut film "Red Sorghum" scored more than 8 points on Douban and Time.com, and the highest-rated "Alive" reached 9 points.

"Ambush on All Sides" and "Three Guns Shooting Surprise", both of which did not exceed 5.5 in ratings...

After time precipitation, "Ambush on All Sides" has risen to 6.4 points, and it is still ranked last...

A lump of gorgeous!

Of course, the current Amou doesn't care about this, the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics is enough to worry him...

There are also good things, "Heroes" is about to be released on a large scale in North America...

The scale here refers to logging into mainstream theaters, at least 2000+ canvases!

Well, Miramax bought the rights for $15 million, and the snow has been hidden to this day...

In fact, it's not hidden, just in time for Miramax to break up with Disney, all kinds of tearing, Harvey has no time to pay attention to a Chinese movie.

I heard that it was Quentin's strong recommendation, and even signed the name of the executive producer of "Hero"...

In addition, it's not that Feng Xiaogang or Shen Xudong want to compare with "Ambush on All Sides", it's that the media always compares these two films...

What is the comparison of those who ride horses?

The overseas copyright of "Ambush on All Sides" sold for nearly $40 million, and the box office of Japanese benzene was close to $22 million...

On the other hand, "Orphaned", its out-of-town box office is negligible...

Feng Xiaogang is not a Mou, let alone overseas, Hong Kong and Taiwan are not well-known...

After the unpleasant quarrel with Colombia, there is almost no need to talk about overseas markets!

Of course, the score of 67 million is enough to share the account!

The specific account sharing has nothing to do with Shen Xudong, and he doesn't have a box office share or anything...

……

Huayi Brothers' 2004 was a year of great strides, investing in Lu Chuan's "Ke Ke Xili", winning Zhou Xingchi's "Kung Fu", and by the way, he also went online with Zhang Jizhong, and decided to become the investor of "Condor"...

But Huang Zhongjun was always uneasy, because Feng Xiaogang left!

Feng Xiaogang is Huayi's cash cow, starting from "Endless", the two sides have cooperated in five movies: "Endless", "See You or Leave", "Chicken Feathers", "Big Names", and "Mobile Phone", each of which has made money!

In today's movie environment, it is more difficult for some people to earn three words than to ascend to the sky!

But Feng Xiaogang just did it...

Of course, the two sides still maintain close contact, "Orphaned", "Party A and Party B 2", "No Thieves in the World", Huayi is a co-producer, accounting for 40% of the investment share...

"Orphaned", Huang Zhongjun is not very optimistic.

This theme, plus there is no star lineup - I didn't see Ge You and didn't star!

It is estimated that the box office will be more than 10 million at most...

This prediction is very scientific, after all, there was "Ambush on All Sides" before, and there were Hollywood blockbusters later, and the living space was only 15 days...

Of course, Huang Zhongjun still fully supported the release of "Orphaned"...

After all, you still have to show your strength!

I never thought that "Orphaned" would explode...

What is the concept of 67 million box office?

surpassed "Mobile Phone" and set a new record in Feng Xiaogang's film career...

This result really exceeded everyone's expectations, because Feng Xiaogang is known as the king of the Lunar New Year file, and he feels that he should not do anything big in the summer file...

As the first play after leaving Huayi, it fought a beautiful battle.

Huang Zhongjun was both happy and a little frustrated...

I am happy that as an investor in "Orphaned", the box office hit means that Huayi can recover its costs and make a lot of money;

Depressed... Leaving Huayi, Feng Xiaogang's movies are still making money!

The so-called winning is not terrible, who is embarrassed to be missing, and Huayi will be tried out at one time!

It turned out that Feng Xiaogang left Huayi, and he could also succeed himself.

It's embarrassing...

But... No matter how embarrassing it is, you have to pick it up.

Wrong, it's not a pick-up, it's a confluence, a small celebration banquet inside the whole house...

……

There are about five waves of investors in "Orphaned", Zhang Guoli and Feng Xiaogang's Taihe people voted 30%, Forbidden City Pictures invested 15%, Huayi Brothers invested 40%, the remaining 25%, China Film invested 10%, Gao Jun of the New Film Association, and Wu Hehu of Shanghai United Cinema shared the remaining 15%...

It has to be supported by theaters!

Now that the box office is a big hit, it stands to reason that the whole celebration banquet should be celebrated, isn't this the special theme of "Orphaned"...

So, I had no choice but to celebrate it publicly.

The people involved are here...

Plus a piece of nearly thirty people!

Most of Shen Xudong knew him, except for the heads of those theaters, Feng Xiaogang led him to have a special opinion on Gao Jun.

Gao Jun really watched the birth of "Party A and Party B", and has always supported Feng Xiaogang...

"This high boss is my benefactor!"

Shen Xudong decisively changed his words: "... Uncle Gao..."

"You wrote 'Orphaned', right? It's so well written! ”

“… Thank you... The main director has the ability..."

"Then there has to be a story to build on!"

After chatting for a while, Wu Hehu also joined in...

Gao Jun, Wu Hehu and Zhao Jun, the general manager of China Film Southern Film Shinkansen, are the major distributors at this stage, codenamed the Three Musketeers of Chinese Film Distribution...

Wu Hehu is the general manager of Shanghai United Cinema Line...

"I read the script of "The Fox Wife in the Mountain Village" and "The Legend of the Hunter in Xing'anling"... I can responsibly say that these two films will be able to pay for themselves in Shanghai! ”

"Really? Thanks to Uncle Wu's support..."

Gao Jun asked: "What "Mountain Village Fox Wife"..."

"He wrote two folk tales to Tang Ren, with some horror elements, and when the time comes, the new film association will also support it!"

“… Horror movies? ”

"The script is very good, you will know it when you read it!"

Wu Hehu has no doubt that "The Fox Wife in the Mountain Village" can be a big hit...

"What horror movie?"

Huang Zhonglei walked over with a cup and naturally joined the topic.

Wu Hehu originally wanted to explain, but he couldn't remember the script, so he simply pointed at Shen Xudong: "Ask him, he wrote the script!" ”

“… Xiao Shen? You also wrote horror films? ”

Zhang Guoli saw Huang Zhonglei walking over, hurriedly followed, and when he heard this, he immediately interjected: "This kid is very powerful, he analyzed the blockbuster record in film history by himself, and came to the conclusion that comedy and horror films are most likely to be small and big..."

Huang Zhonglei immediately asked: "Then why don't you do comedy?" ”

"Comedy needs comedians..."

"Isn't it okay for Ge You?"

“… I wrote a script for the kind of comedian who doesn't care about the image... And for the time being, I don't have a pure comedy script..."

"If you have a book, we Huayi want it!"

Zhang Guoli smiled: "If you have a book... I want it too! ”

This is a bit of a point-in-the-counter...

It's also normal, "Orphaned" earned at least 20 million, and "Party A and Party B 2" have little profit problem...

It can be said that after the battle of "Orphaned", Shen Xudong is already a hot screenwriter!

"Two uncles, wait a minute, I have an idea..."

"What thoughts?"

“… It's a costume film, I found it by looking at the history of the Tang Dynasty, the iron-blooded Anxi Army, alone in the Western Regions for 40 years... After countless battles in the middle, I plan to call it "Glory of the Tang Dynasty"..."

"How are you going to write it?"

"The story begins with a group of veterans sending military money from Qiuzi City to Xizhou... On the way, there was a robbery by horse bandits, and there was only one old man left in the team... A homeless man passed by the robbery site, thinking of picking up something that could be used from the corpse..."

(End of chapter)