Chapter 799 Refuse to cooperate (24)

The box office of "The Lover" is expected to be over 1 billion.

It's not that these people are greedy. Think about it, "The Winner" created by the same behind-the-scenes team has a box office of over 900 million. "The Lover" is an extra step. In addition to the starring actors of "The Winner", they also invited Happy Twist. Several gold medal supporting actors and Xiao Shenyang...

The cost has risen to 85 million!

Shi Shi is complaining about the film schedule...

"'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' is, after all, a spin-off of 'Harry Potter'. The fan base is here, and it is normal to schedule 50% of the films... As for the schedule, we can't compete with 'The Iron Fist' or 'Lord of the Rings' Are you going to fight for the schedule of "Mysterious Cave"?"

Shi Shi shook his head: "I went to see "Fantastic Beasts" and it was not interesting..."

Shen Changlin thought for a while and said: "...'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' is different from what the audience expected. The audience expects to see magic and the wizarding world. The audience likes watching 'Harry Potter' and not only cares about Harry and him." The fate of his friends is that they want to follow him back to that wonderful magical world, and look forward to it bringing us more surprises and touches.

After the release of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", this expectation was shattered from the beginning, because the battlefield where the main characters fought was not a specific divided magical area, but a real city!

Moreover, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" goes beyond the scope of campus and fairy tales, and exposes big problems in the world view. I estimate that the reputation of the next few movies will be even worse at the box office!"

"That can still crush "Love Saint"..."

"It is a global IP. The Harry Potter novel series has sold a total of 450 million copies worldwide, making it the world's best-selling novel. Eight movies have earned a box office of 7.8 billion US dollars, and derivative revenue has reached more than 30 billion. The U.S. dollar... only reached 280 million yuan in the first weekend, which is already considered a failure!"

Hearing this, Shi Shi quickly asked: "What is the box office forecast for "Fantastic Beasts" in China?"

"I heard them say it was around 800 million to 1 billion, but now it seems almost impossible!"

Shi Shi was convinced: "This is true!"

Shen Changlin smiled: ""The Lover" has already made money and has a good reputation... Do you know how difficult it is to make a comedy with a good reputation now?"

"The Lover" is adapted from Gene Wilder's 1984 comedy film "The Lady in Red". Tracing back to its roots, there is also the original French version of "The Elephant"...

In fact, there is no "Love Saint" in "Love Saint", there are just middle-aged men who are timid and confused...

Cooperate with a group of good friends to help...

The reason for the controversy is very simple. Wrong views - a middle-aged middle-aged man with a happy family and a well-fed family is completely unfaithful. Instead of reining in the trouble, his friends are adding fuel to the fire. The male protagonist even regards this attempted mental and physical infidelity as a serious matter. After a long drought, there is a true love, and for whom is Xiao Shenyang's sentence "Return to play, or go home" to?

Why should a wife who has no fault at all accept a prodigal husband without any knowledge?

What a big face!

Politically incorrect!

This kind of core is actually leftover from the American games thirty years ago...

Therefore, when Korean movies and TV dramas encounter incomprehensible situations, they will always say, "So this is American life"!

Shi Shi sighed: "That's all I can do to comfort myself..."

"Both "The Caller" and "The Lover 2" can be approved..."

"Okay..."The Caller" is almost in preparation. "The Lover 2" is lacking a love killer role. We want to find Wu Xiubo..."

"Don't..." Shen Changlin quickly stopped him: "Liu Yijun or Liang Jiahui, Gu Tianzhu can come too!"

Shi Shi didn't hesitate and nodded directly: "Okay, let me talk to Li Xiao."

While they were chatting, Shen Changlin's phone rang.

"Who?"

"Huang Zhonglei..."

Shi Shi was confused: "He? Why are you looking for him? Are you related to Huayi?"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "Maybe it's about Gongzi's new movie... On the day of the Golden Horse Awards, I was a little drunk, and then I started talking wildly about jointly releasing Gongzi's new movie..."

"...Director Feng's new movie? Do you want to take it?"

Shen Changlin thought for a while and connected...

After three minutes, he hung up the phone: "...let's go, let's go together!"

"Where to go?"

"Let's talk about things..."

…

The movie "Youth"...

It can be regarded as a willful act by Director Feng, with a fragmented plot, a symbolic era, and a chronicle of youth.

In fact, I can understand the weak old man’s obsession with youth and his self-absorption.

To put it bluntly, there is actually no essential difference between a successful director spending tens of millions to build a set for a cultural troupe and a five-year-old child building a beloved castle with building blocks.

"Youth" is quite divisive. In the first half, he has been successfully portrayed as a perpetrator who harms the bad guys. In the second half, he tries to impress the audience with the nostalgia and friendship of farewell...

Regarding the tragedies of the two characters Liu Feng and He Xiaoping, this group has always had no sense of guilt...

The attitude of the entire movie has also become ambiguous.

In fact, purely from the perspective of the movie itself, whether "Garland", "Blood Romance" or "Youth" are all good works, it's good that they were made...

It’s easy to pin people down, but if you have to pin down even “Youth”, then only eight model dramas with “three outstanding features” will be left.

But again, Shen Changlin doesn’t want to have anything to do with the tank!

It’s only been a year and a half since the big earthquake in the entertainment industry...

The tank is the one that bears the brunt!

Let’s forget it, just say a few words, make a few promises of ‘next time’, and just leave!

This was Shen Changlin's thought before meeting him.

…

Got to the place…

It was a little embarrassing. Huang Zhonglei probably didn't expect that Shen Changlin would bring his girlfriend over, so he arranged a few girls in advance...

All the roots are smooth and the legs are 36E long...

Shen Changlin didn't squint as he greeted Huang Zhonglei, Ye Xuan and Guanzi, and then said with a smile: "Shi Shi happened to be promoting "Love Saint" at BJ. I heard there was a dinner party, so I came over to have a meal."

"This is our honor," Huang Zhonglei motioned to the girls to step aside and said casually: "We have always wanted to meet Miss Shi Shi. She is an ace producer."

Shi Shi was very embarrassed and waved his hand: "No..."

Ye Xuan stroked his glasses and said: "...We have statistics. Although Shi Shi Studio controls and invests in a few projects, the profits are very large. It can be said that the annual profit exceeds most of the film and television production companies on the market. , including several companies that have gone public!”

Well, he told the truth.

Shi Shi Studio produces three movies and two to three TV series every year.

Let’s talk about TV series first. The TV series invested by the studio are guaranteed to make a profit. On the one hand, the scripts selected by the studio are all high-quality products from Changlin Film and Television, and the quality is guaranteed. On the other hand, TV stations and video websites are also very enthusiastic about it.

Since last year, I have switched to online dramas. "The Next Us", "Suddenly This Summer" and "To Our Simple Little Beauty" are all produced by Shi Shi Studio;

In terms of movies, this year the main producer has invested in three movies: "With Heart and Fear", "The Saint" and "The Deserted City", and has also co-invested in the "Detective Chinatown" series, "The Eight Hundred", and "The Vengeance 2"

》, all are hot hits!

Although the box office of "A Heart and a Tread" did not meet expectations, the cost of 32 million was exchanged for nearly 500 million in box office, which can be regarded as a model of high returns!

On the other hand, Huayi…

Huayi's 2016 was really miserable, in terms of movies...

Except for one joint production, "Warcraft", which did well at the box office, other works suffered losses to varying degrees!

However, they don't care, they made billions by selling Zhangqu shares...

Everyone has said: 'For BJ Palm Technology Co., Ltd., the investment of Guangzhou Yinhan Technology Co., Ltd. not only allows the company to obtain generous returns, but also provides the company with more possibilities for resource integration in the field of Internet entertainment.'

Stick to this style of play...

Not counting the heavy bet on Hero Interactive Entertainment, they also invested 200 million in Weiying Times, holding 1.73% of the shares...

However, after Ye Xuan became CEO, his focus turned to film and television production.

That’s why you made an appointment with Shen Changlin!

Thinking of working together...

Tank's "Youth" is the breakthrough!

…

Halfway through the meal, Huang Zhonglei started talking: ""Youth" is a script written by Yan Geling..."

If you want to cooperate, of course you have to brag about what you have in hand first.

In Huang Zhonglei's view, Yan Geling is certainly worthy of praise.

Participated in screenwriting, and adapted works such as "Thirteen Hairpins in Jinling", "Mei Lanfang", "Happiness Comes to Knock on the Door" and "Aunt Duohe", etc., which have received great response.

However, it is doomed to draw water from a bamboo basket in vain!

Shen Changlin scratched his head: "Actually, I don't know much about that era... and I confirmed with Lao Guo the film schedule for next year. There are two movies to be released by the main control in the Lunar New Year period..."
To be continued...