If you want to ask what a movie is, everyone will have their own answer.

Some people think that movies are art, some people think that movies are entertainment, and some people think that movies are lofty things that expose the darkness of society and show the truth of the world.

But here in Xu Nan, movies are a tool to make money.

As long as you can make money, you can make any movie.

In his previous life, he filmed the kind of anti-Japanese drama that was frantically complained about every day, but so what, at least he made money, and occasionally he could point out the actress's acting skills.

So how do you make money in this world?

Come to think of it, the best thing to do is to make movies, and to make those kind of movies that suck.

Some people may ask, how do bad movies make money, and shouldn't movies that can really make money be good movies?

This kind of thinking is actually very layman, good movies don't necessarily make money, and bad movies don't necessarily lose money.

Whether a movie can make money mainly depends on whether the audience is willing to pay.

Whether "Wolf Warrior" is a good movie or not, most people will only think that this movie is good, but it is definitely not a classic.

But the box office of "Wolf Warrior" far exceeded those classic movies.

"Little Times" is a downright bad movie, but this movie has made a lot of money, much more money than those classic movies.

In his previous life, Xu Nan, as a person in the entertainment industry, has always paid attention to the film industry, and as a TV series director, he has always wanted to step into the film industry with a higher standard and then make more money.

However, his focus is different from others, who focus on big directors, big companies, and big productions.

And he pays attention to partial directors, partial companies, and partial movies.

Don't look at those big companies and big directors are glamorous, but when it comes to return on investment, they are really not as good as those partial companies and directors.

In this regard, what Xu Nan admires most is Shelter Pictures in the United States, a film company that specializes in porcelain copycat films.

Other companies filmed "10,000 Years Before History", and they filmed "100 Million Years Before History"; When others shoot "Pacific Rim", they shoot "Atlantic Rim"; Others filmed "Spider-Man", and they immediately copied a "Dragonfly".

The most amazing thing is that this film production company, which specializes in copycat porcelain, is still living a very nourishing life, not only moisturizing, but also making a lot of money, and the profit margin is much higher than those big companies.

This company is Xu Nan's role model, he even thought about learning from this film company, copycat porcelain to make money by touching a movie, and even the script was written, just waiting to find someone to invest.

But then he found out that he couldn't do it at all.

The reason why the United States can give birth to a movie like Shelter Pictures that makes copycat porcelain, is because the entertainment industry system is more perfect, if you engage in this kind of copycat porcelain in Huaxia, the end will be a silver bracelet package.

After discovering this fact, Xu Nan was disheartened for a long time.

His dream of cinema was shattered before it had even begun.

After crossing over, he carefully studied the entertainment industry in this world and was surprised to find that the laws and regulations of the entertainment industry in this world are much more perfect than in the previous life.

In order to avoid the emergence of monopoly giants, a series of regulations such as the separation of production and broadcasting, the separation of artist management and film and television production, and the prohibition of cinemas from interfering in film production began to be implemented early.

The most important thing is that the cinema chain in this world is not strong, there are four or five large cinema companies with thousands of theaters, and there are more than a dozen medium-sized cinema companies with more than 500 theaters.

There are even more small and medium-sized cinema companies with only dozens or even a dozen theaters.

In the previous life, the most important reason why copycat porcelain movies could not appear was that the cinema company that controlled the cinema was particularly strong, directly intervened in the production of the movie, and became an upstream monopoly platform.

In this case, they will not allow copycat movies to affect their interests.

Chinatown is a good example, obviously the quality of the third part is not good, but in order to ensure their own interests, the theater chain has always let this average quality film occupy the largest schedule, so as to get the most box office.

Because the film is their stake.

In the previous life, several big directors and film companies joined forces to change this situation, increase box office share, and quarreled with the theater chain.

Then they were beaten up by the theater chain, and they no longer dared to provoke the theater chain.

Big directors and big film companies are like this, what qualifications does a director who shoots an anti-Japanese drama in Xu Nan District use a copycat movie to touch the porcelain theater line.

But this world is different, the cinema chain is simply just a cinema chain, a platform for showing movies, and there are special laws to keep an eye on them, so that they cannot interfere in the production of the movie.

It is even more impossible to form a cinema alliance like in the previous life, beat the director at the top, and bully the audience at the bottom.

In this environment, copycat porcelain movies are promising.

Xu Nan searched on the Internet and found that the movie "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" by the great director Zhang Yange was about to be released, and the first trailer had already come out.

Looking at this lineup, this investment, and this production company, Xu Nan was excited.

This doesn't touch the porcelain or people?

Decisively, he spent three hours creating the script of the movie "The Riverside Scene on a Sunny Day".

Generally speaking, after the first trailer comes out, the movie will be released within one to two months.

Therefore, Xu Nan's time is very tight, and he must finish filming "Sunny Riverside" in the shortest possible time, so that it can be released in front of them.

Yes, this movie will be released in front of Zhang Yange's "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival".

Liu Yang has been in the circle for a long time, but he has seen a lot of copycat porcelain movies, but he has never seen this kind of blatant copycat porcelain movie.

The most important thing is that the cost is only 200,000 yuan, what is this money enough for?

"Mr. Xu, why don't you add some money, this money is too little, and it's not enough to do anything." Liu Yang struggled to speak.

"There's no way, the company just makes so much money." Xu Nan spread his hands.

You think he doesn't want to make big productions, he doesn't want to be a big director, isn't it that he has no money.

After the money from the sale of the house paid off the loan, the remaining money was only enough for him to make bad movies.

"Or, find a way to find a few investors and let them invest some money." Liu Yang suggested.

This is also a common practice in the film industry, to make a movie, the film company itself only pays a small part of the money or even does not pay, and the majority of the money is borne by the investor, and the risk is also borne by the investor.

Xu Nan shook his head: "Our company just lost a movie, and no one will invest in our new movie." ”

"And the increase in investment means that it is more difficult to recover the cost, the cost of 200,000 shooting, the box office of 500,000 can pay back, if the investment increases, it will be difficult to make money."

"In addition, our film must be released in front of Zhang Yange's movie, and the time is very tight, so I don't have time to find investors."

Seeing the tangled expression on Liu Yang's face, Xu Nan patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, the film director and producer, all of them are in my position, and you are only responsible for shooting. There will be no less money to be given, and there will be bonuses after the movie is released. ”

"Okay..."Liu Yang reluctantly agreed.

Just give the money.

Bad movie?

Then it's a bad movie.