"Come, Director Wu, drink tea."

In the office of the vice chairman of China Film Group, Han Sanye poured a cup of tea for Wu Yuan with a smile.

The Sitges team for "The Night the Comet Commet" went home with the trophy.

When Wu Yuan returned to China, it was Han Sanye who personally picked up the opportunity.

You can't do it if you don't come in person!

"The Night the Comet Comed" sold the copyright of $2.55 million abroad, and the box office in China has exceeded 10 million in one week.

This sum of the inside and the outside, but the cost of 300,000 movies has created an income of 40 million!

Although 20 million of them have to be shared with the theater chain, the rate of return is already frighteningly high!

Before the front foot went abroad, Wu Yuan was still Xiao Wu in Han Sanye's mouth, and now he has become "Director Wu".

It can't be said that Han Sanye is too realistic, it can only be said that Wu Yuan showed his ability, which made Han Sanye have to be impressed!

"Director Wu, your movie is really good!"

Holding a cup of tea and taking a sip, Han Sanye said with a slurp: "Among the domestic directors, except for Feng Xiaogang, your movie is now the highest-grossing one." ”

"It's a pity, you don't have the same high appeal as Director Feng, otherwise I believe the box office would be even higher now!"

Wu Yuan smiled, picked up the tea and did not answer.

He understood the meaning of Han Sanye's words.

After the release of "The Night the Comet Comed", who made the most money?

Cinemas?

Medium Shadow?

Neither!

The ones who make the most money are all kinds of piracy vendors all over the country!

On the fourth day of the movie's release, when the news of Wu Yuan's award came back, pirated discs of "The Night the Comet Comed" had already appeared all over the country!

And this kind of pirated disc is not the kind of gun version pirated recording, and the definition is not much different from the genuine DVD disc!

You have to ask them where they got the resources?

Laughing to death, the major movie theaters across the country are the partners behind all kinds of piracy dealers!

When the first day of the copy disc arrives, you can start burning pirated discs on the second day, and ship them on the third day!

There is no mature cinema line yet, and the state will approve private capital to enter the cinema industry next year!

On June 1, 2002, the first batch of 30 private cinemas in the country was officially established! Cross-city and cross-provincial cinemas will be born!

05 years before private capital has been invested in succession!

It can be said that the reform of the cinema system is an important part of the development of the Chinese film industry, and it is also a window for the reform of the industrialization of the Chinese film!

Before this reform was implemented, mainland cinemas didn't really care much about the box office of the movies they released.

Because before that, the cinemas were all non-private.

It has little to do with them that they make more money from movie screenings, and they won't get more money if the box office of the movie is high, and the movie theater industry is a pool of stagnant water!

So now the nimble minds in the cinema are eyeing the pirated disc industry!

Movie theater employees everywhere, as long as they cooperate with local dealers who engage in pirated discs, they can take a considerable share of the pirated disc sales and leases!

So much so that in the 90s until around 2008, the pirated disc market was very rampant!

It's usually released in movie theaters, and before it gets released, pirated discs are already flying all over the sky.

Wu Yuan's "The Night the Comet Commet" naturally could not escape the clutches.

He doesn't have the appeal of Feng Xiaogang, and he can make the audience willing to go into the cinema to pay for his movies in an era when pirated discs are flying all over the sky.

You must know that the ticket price of a movie is now about 50 yuan, and a pirated disc can be bought for only 10-20 yuan, and the price is even lower if you rent it!

When you go to the cinema to watch a movie, you can't pause the playback, and it's gone after watching it once.

Buy a disc and watch it at home, you can watch it up and down, left and right, watch it for as long as you want, watch it a few times if you want to watch it a few times!

The traditional beauty of the Chinese people includes frugality.

Not to mention now, even after 20 years, people who choose to wait for the movie to be launched on the online platform to watch it again will grab a lot of it!

There are high-quality and inexpensive pirated discs to watch, unless there is really some reason to have to go to the cinema to watch them, otherwise most people will choose to buy pirated discs and go back to watch.

Not to mention that "The Night the Comet Comed" is still a brain-burning movie!

Watching it in the cinema in a hurry can't understand and see all the foreshadowing details clearly, and it is destined that this movie will have to be brushed twice or three times to fully understand!

Such a movie is more suitable for the pirated disc market!

Now the pirated disc dealers all over the country love Wu Yuan to death, and even after the reporter broke out that Wu Yuan had also sold pirated discs, many pirated disc dealers also praised him as their grandfather!

Just like Guan Erye, you have to bow down before doing business every day, begging for blessings and prosperity!

No wonder Wu Yuan can make a movie that is so suitable for the piracy industry!

It turned out that he was his own person, who was born in the pirated disc business, and knew that the pirated disc market was not easy, so he came to be a savior!

No kidding!

The movie "The Night the Comet Comed" is the most suitable for the DVD rental and sales market in the United States, otherwise Fox Searchlight would not have been able to buy the copyright for more than a million dollars!

In China, the box office of this movie exceeded 10 million, but in the pirated disc market, it has created at least 20 million sales!

Wu Yuan does not have Feng Xiaogang's ability and charm to make everyone willing to go to the cinema to watch his movies just by one name!

Even if the newspapers are praising him and praising "The Night the Comet Comed", most ordinary people still prefer to buy a disc to watch it instead of spending money to go to the cinema to enjoy a one-time service!

Now most of the 10 million box office is contributed by young people, and they have generally watched it more than once, and they have gone to the cinema for two or three times, which has contributed so much to the box office!

This is also why "The Night the Comet Comed" broke 10 million at the box office in a week, and the gap with Director Feng's 15 million in ten days is not big, but the estimated total box office is only 20 million.

This movie is congenitally lacking in the basic market of the public, and the box office is concentrated in the early stage of screening, and the stamina will be insufficient!

Han Sanye didn't think there was anything, and smiled: "It's very good to have a box office of 15 million in the end." ”

"Except for the movie directed by Zhang Yimou at the end of the year, it is estimated that this movie is the second and third highest box office this year."

The problem of piracy industry in these years cannot be changed by one or two people, and it is difficult to eradicate it even with the power of the state administration!

This is a problem of the times!

It is necessary to go through a series of reforms, and then increase national income and curb industrial collusion, so that there is hope for improving the environment.

This is also the reason why the pirated disc market has slowly withered after 2010.

Private theaters in various places have risen, and the habit of watching movies has also been cultivated.

Private theaters can rely on the box office to eat, and they will pay close attention to the problem of internal leakage, coupled with the evolution of film technology from film to digital, controlled by keys, which also reduces the risk of leakage from the source.

This is what led to the destruction of the film piracy market.

The current Han Sanye, even if he is the vice chairman of China Film Group, is powerless in the face of the rampant piracy market.

Of course Wu Yuan can't do it, he even sold pirated copies himself...

didn't want to stay on this topic any longer, Han Sanye changed the topic and said: "Director Wu, listen to Xiao Chen, there is a film company over there that wants you to make a movie?" ”

"This is a great opportunity!"

"Our Chinese directors just want to go out more, now Hollywood is the most powerful place in the world to make movies, young talents like you should go to break through, even if you fail, it doesn't matter, you can also learn a lot of knowledge that can't be learned in China!"

"I know that your Beiying directing department is more strict with the management of students, but I believe that Professor Xie will also support you to go to Haolaiwu!"

"Of course, if you have any other difficulties and concerns, you can come to me, and I will help you solve them!"

Wu Yuan smiled, put down the teacup and coughed lightly: "Han Dong, I'm already preparing the next script." ”

"But it's not certain if Fox Searchlight is willing to cooperate, I'll tell you when I have definite news."

"Okay!" Han Sanye's face was as smiling as a chrysanthemum, and he was happy: "I'll just say, how can any director refuse an invitation to come to the dock." ”

It really can!

Wu Yuan secretly rolled his eyes.

That is, there is a lack of opportunities to make a lot of money in the domestic film market!

Otherwise, how much money is used to hit him, he is too lazy to go!

In Haolaiwu, who has solidified his class, he is a Chinese director without any background, not even Chinese, and no matter how good he is, there is a ceiling above his head.

NextAng Lee?

No matter how powerful Li Yu is, he is just a dispensable Chinese director in Hollywood.

There is no shortage of good directors in Hollywood, and there is no Li Eucalyptus in Hollywood, and there will be no changes.

Go to Hollywood to be a big chess piece, how can you deeply cultivate the domestic market that will take off in the future?

At least Wu Yuan, who is well-rooted, works hard in China and has the opportunity to become one of the chess players in mainland films, instead of just being a chess piece.