Chapter 47: I'm Not Interested in Making Money
Zheng Zhihao left, Gao Fenfen frowned: "Is he not suitable to be the principal of Maoyan?" ”
Shen Xudong waved his hand; "He's the top professional manager, and professional managers don't think about things like us."
"What's the difference?"
"We think about whether the market is whether the audience likes it or not, and when a professional manager faces a project, his focus is on profit... Even if you can't make a lot of money, at least you have to guarantee a return on your capital! ”
Gao Fenfen scratched his head: "But investing and making movies is gambling... No one can guarantee the market performance of the film after its release. ”
"yes... So, I don't like Hollywood movies more and more now! ”
"How?"
"Hollywood has now fully entered the era of professional managers, and almost every one of the Big Six in Hollywood is backed by bankers and public companies, and the chairman adopts a rotation system. When all decision-making direction falls into the hands of professional managers, most people are reluctant to take risks, and making a sequel is the best way to ensure that no mistakes are made..."
After a pause, Shen Xudong continued: "They only improve special effects!" ”
"Not really..."
"Not really?" Shen Xudong shook his head: "The movie "Edge of Tomorrow", you know, right? ”
"You know, I heard that the cost is $170 million!"
"Well, if you compare the landing operation, it is compared with the landing operation in the second episode of "Band of Brothers" and the landing battle in "Saving Private Ryan", the chaos is visible to the naked eye..."
"Why?"
"The 90s were the most awesome years for the United States, and the fresh flesh and blood of the Soviet Union fed the United States up and down to the top and bottom, and the whole people prospered. Everyone has a lot of time and a lot of money to entertain and fantasize about a new world without the shadow of communism.
In 10 years, "Avatar" sounded the death knell for all this, and from then on, all blockbusters played special effects, because the fall of the Soviet Union made ordinary Americans poorer and poorer, wealth was further concentrated, and capital became more greedy.
Movies are also chasing more profits, and special effects are getting cheaper.
The various miracles that Industrial Light and Magic racked their brains to do back then are now self-taught in 3 years of animation. In the past, directors were all over the world to select and shoot, but now a piece of green cloth has been done, and making movies has changed from an artistic act to a purely commercial act..."
Gao Fenfen glanced at him: "What about you?" ”
Shen Xudong waved his hand: "I'm different, I'm not interested in making money!" ”
“… It's true? ”
"Really, I just want to crack it right now... No, it's art! ”
……
After the release of "Earth Fire", it quickly formed a dimensionality reduction blow to other types of films!
It's really a dimensionality reduction blow, and it's really shabby compared to other movies like "Earth Fire", especially in terms of scene creation...
Then, "Earthfire" had a group of fans... They use forums, post bars, including Weibo, WeChat, Moments, various Amway "Earth Fire"...
The company is very happy, these belong to die-hard fans.
Judging from the development history of many overseas sci-fi IPs, the degree of audience participation is directly proportional to the vitality of the IP, the most typical being "Star Trek" and the Gundam series...
It is also because of the existence of these fans that these works can be renovated again and again...
Then, these people began to attack the same schedule movies on the Internet...
Normal, after all, it has a shell called 'China's first heavy industry blockbuster', many people hate it when they see this shell, but when more audiences see this layer of things, they immediately break away from the movie itself and become a business card IP that can represent China's cultural strength and export foreign culture.
Hope it wins!
The problem is, the box office prediction given by Maoyan: 1.035 billion...
Well, it's over a billion, but the box office of "Charlotte" is 1.426 billion!
Everyone is unhappy - why can a low-end comedy movie get a high box office?
The box office of the high-cost, big-budget "Earth Fire" can't compare to it?
The target of their attack is Charlotte's Troubles...
Who made "Charlotte" cost 50 million and the box office 1.4 billion...
This thing is mainly because of self-media and marketing account publicity.
In fact, according to the current box office trend of "Earth Fire", it can obviously break one billion!
This data is already very good for Tianmei Company, including Shen Xudong - the previous prediction was at most 7 or 800 million, and the extra 200 million or 300 million was considered a profit...
As for the remarks of many people online...
Actually, it's quite a fan circle, but everyone didn't interfere - anyway, there hasn't been any entertainment news lately.
……
"I think the movie "Earth Fire" can not only drive the overall improvement of the film industry, the film industry, and the film industry, but also drive the attention and confidence of the whole society in domestic science fiction films, China's science and technology, and China's comprehensive national strength, and its political, social and cultural significance is significant and prominent."
Oh, and another symposium on Earthfire...
Shen Xudong... The expression remained the same, he... I'm used to it.
At first, he was very uncomfortable - a group of people complimenting you in front of you, digging deep into the meaning of the work...
Before, Gao Fenfen and Chen Xi were asked to participate in place of him, but "Earth Fire" was basically named by Shen Xudong above.
It's finally over.,Say goodbye to a bunch of bigwigs.,And... I was ready to get into my car, and before I got in the car, my phone rang... looked at the caller ID, it was actually Shen Haobo...
Shen Haobo hasn't taken the initiative to contact Shen Xudong for a long time!
He's busy doing things... Grinding iron culture is bound to a bunch of Internet gods, although the third uncle of the southern school has set up his own portal, but the world has new books every year, as well as Ma Boyong, Yi Zhongtian... Zhang Jiajia!
After three rounds of financing, the valuation of Motie Culture exceeded 4 billion...
The most important thing is that they have Shen Xudong in the list of shareholders - Shen Xudong's celebrity life effect is very strong!
Emulate film and television companies, bind well-known writers...
In addition, Motie Culture has participated in many movies led by Shen Xudong, including "Earth Fire" this time...
Of course, Shen Haobo said, 'Film and television investment belongs to the feathers on the hat, and it is the least important thing, and doing a good job in books is still the most important business of grinding iron culture. ’
So what are you calling now?
Don't... He's here to urge the draft?
“… Dinner appointment? Right now? ”
"Okay... I'm fine anyway..."
Hanging up the phone, Shen Xudong asked the driver to drive to the agreed hotel...
Shen Haobo also put away his mobile phone, turned his head and asked his friend on the side: "He'll be there soon... You talk about the plan in detail! ”
“… I don't have any plans, it's just that Han Han wants to make a movie, I don't know much about this thing..."
The man who spoke was a man with glasses, his name was Lu Jinbo...
Lu Jinbo is actually also a publisher, signing contracts with Han Han, Baby Anne, Cai Jun, An Yiru, etc., to establish Guomai Culture.
He came to Shen Haobo just to ask Shen Haobo to introduce Shen Xudong, after all, Han Han's movie needs a mature producer...
If... If Shen Xudong also joins and serves as a producer, then the gimmick of Han Han's first movie will be big enough...
Shen Haobo looked at Lu Jinbo suspiciously: "Han Han is also going to make a movie?" ”
Take a break today, there's another chapter in the evening...