In fact, there is no problem with Shigesuke Nobi's judgment, it is true that this is not a fertile ground for the development of the film industry, and in the final analysis, South Korea is not either.

Because the population of these two countries is not too large, unlike China and the United States, there is no way to make the entertainment industry a profiteering industry in the short term.

In the 15 years or so of China, the entertainment industry developed rapidly and became an invincible money-absorbing machine, and the famous "fresh meat economy" was started at that time. A young idol with many fans, the money earned in a year is the revenue of a listed company for two years. A drama can get a salary of one to two hundred million yuan at most, and there are countless advertising endorsements. It's almost comparable to Hollywood.

This caused a lot of dissatisfaction with the opinions of the people at that time, thinking that it was a waste to make a windfall, so they often compared Japanese and Korean artists, and the ultra-low salaries of Japanese and Korean artists can often shock many domestic audiences, and they are also popular idols, almost less than one-twentieth of domestic artists.

Many people use this to explain that the development of the domestic entertainment industry is deformed, but it is actually biased. It's not that Japanese and Korean artists don't want to pay high salaries, but the market is limited and they won't be allowed to do so at all. And once they have a market as wide as China and the United States, they will not be polite when they open their mouths.

For example, after "Squid Game", the salary of the male protagonist Lee Jung-jae directly reached 1 billion won per episode, equivalent to about 5 million yuan. In South Korea, this is an unimaginable astronomical number, even in China and the United States, this number cannot be underestimated. Mainly because under the impetus of Netflix, his audience has expanded from South Korea to the world.

Why do you want to pay artists so highly? Is the filmmaker stupid? Of course, the filmmakers are not stupid, and there is only one reason why employers are willing to pay high wages, and that is that they can earn more. So as long as the market is big enough, the entertainment industry is a terrifying money printing machine. However, Japan and South Korea are not born with the raw materials for this money printing machine, and the local region is destined to not be able to give birth to such monster-level film and television companies (such as Disney).

Shigesuke Nobi recognized this, so his mentality was also a little rotten, he had no ambition to expand, and he didn't have the confidence to defeat Dongzhen to become the No. 1 film and television company, just maintaining the smooth operation of the company.

However, there are also those who don't seem to recognize this, such as Eiji Shirai, such as Kei Fujiwara.

As the special manager of the production department, Eiji Shirai has done his best to discover film talents over the years, and he has been present at almost every newcomer film festival. Although Kei Fujiwara was not excavated by him, the first movie he made chose Matsuri Pictures, which also has something to do with him.

Shirai hopes that the local film industry can also replicate the glory of the animation and game industry, and the first step is to defeat Dongjin and become the No. 1 local film and television company. However, if there is no self-made film and television company, what kind of film and television company is it? If it is true that from now on it is only responsible for distribution and not production, then what is the difference between Matsunichi and an OEM factory?

Kei Fujiwara let him see this hope, but due to the limitations of his position, he was unable to realize his ideal after all.

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The box office statistics report of "Confession" is also presented to Kei Fujiwara's desk, during this time he has been constantly showing and giving interviews, almost so busy that his feet do not touch the ground, his daily work schedule is jammed, and he has been solving lunch in the back seat of the car for several days.

At the beginning, the promotional activities were deliberately arranged by him, in order to keep the popularity of the movie from dissipating, but after a week, the box office of "Confession" reversed, and then it began to rise all the way, and more and more media took the initiative to come to the door.

The crew no longer needs to deliberately create publicity heat, the fire is already burning, and those media will take the initiative to gather like nocturnal moths.

The entertainment pages of some newspapers also predicted the box office of the movie "Confession", which achieved a box office of about 800 million in a week, and the final box office of this movie will be about 2.5 billion.

The editor in charge of the forecast is a veteran film critic with more than a decade of experience, and this is the conclusion he came to through the box office of the first week. For most movies, the box office in the first week tends to be the highest, and it is impossible to maintain the high level of the first week every week, so this number is in line with the law.

And this movie is on Saturday and Sunday

The reversal is also not sustainable, and this is the first weekend after the film is released, and it is normal for the audience to be larger. By Monday, the box office will fall again, and the second and third weekends may not be able to reverse the decline again.

The prediction for the film was written by the editor on Monday morning and sent to the editorial office for co-ordination, with the intention of publishing it in the newspaper the following day.

However, at midnight, I got a new piece of news. According to real-time statistics, the box office of "Confession" reached 150 million today...... The weekend's reversal was not accidental, and the upward trend managed to be maintained.

And that's Monday's box office...... What day is Monday? It is not only a weekday, but also a day when the nine dramas of the month are broadcast.

As a miracle phenomenon in the broadcasting industry, the influence of Yuejiu drama has even spread to the film industry. People in the film industry have long discovered that no matter which movie it is, when it comes to the day of the moon and the ninth day of the moon, the box office performance of this day will be greatly reduced. Because many viewers don't want to go out this day, they stay at home and watch TV series.

Therefore, many filmmakers sigh when they talk about "Moon Nine", and Kei Fujiwara, the initiator of this phenomenon, does not seem to have been affected much......

In fact, there must be an impact, and it is precisely because it will affect the box office to a greater or lesser extent, so the editor predicts that by Tuesday, the box office may be higher......

I didn't expect to maintain such box office vitality on weekdays, so it seems that the final box office of this movie may be much higher than the previous prediction.

Thinking of this, the editor instantly shook his spirit, quickly grabbed the telephone receiver, and called the editor-in-chief.

"Hey, Murakami, it's me, I'm Takagi. Did newspapers start printing? I wanted to revise the article I wrote about box office prediction in the entertainment section before, yes, urgently! There was a data error in it, and it couldn't just be posted."

"Dude, make no mistake, what time is it? Modify now? I remember you were writing movie reviews, entertainment section...... That's pretty much it. It's not about political and economic news."

"How's that going to work? I'm responsible for every word I write!"

"It's going to be printed soon, so it's really inconvenient to change it! I've read your article, and most of them are subjective judgments, and if it's wrong, it's wrong, it's okay."

"My wife's sister just graduated from college, and her boyfriend just broke up last month, and she asked me to introduce her to a boyfriend."

"Ugh...... How does it look?"

"When I was in college, I used to dress up as a model."

"What do you want to change in that article, hurry up!"

The editor thought for a moment, then said, "Just change the number, that article has my box office prediction for the movie "Confession", and the number I wrote before was 2.5 billion, you change it to ......."

How much should it be changed to? The editor couldn't help but think about it seriously, he suddenly felt that he was too conservative before, maybe he was not optimistic about this kind of original live-action movie in the local market, so he kept guessing low when guessing the box office.

This conservative attitude has never been wrong in predicting the results of other films, because the film market is really sluggish. But he ignored that the director of the movie "Confession" was Kei Fujiwara.

Who is Kei Fujiwara, a mudslide in the cultural industry, and a strange person who has not failed since his debut. Regarding his works, we cannot speculate with common sense......

Thinking of this, the editor suddenly had a bold prediction, it is better to abandon the previous conservative thinking, and be more daring.

Thinking of this, the editor said word by word into the receiver, "It's good to double, 5 billion, change to 5 billion."

(End of chapter)