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Chapter 799 Refused to cooperate (24)

The box office of "Love Saint" is expected to exceed one billion.

It's really not that these people are greedy. Think about it, "Big Winner" created by the same behind-the-scenes team has a box office of over 9 million. Several gold medal supporting actors and Xiaoshenyang...

The cost has risen to 8500 million!
Shi Shi is complaining that there is still a schedule for filming...

""Fantastic Beasts" is an extra episode of "Harry Potter" after all. The fan base is here. It is normal operation to arrange 50% of the films... As for the schedule, we can't compete with "The Iron Fist of Shame" or "Dragon Ridge" Are you competing for the schedule of "Magic Cave?"

Shi Shi shook his head: "I've watched "Fantastic Beasts", it's not interesting..."

Shen Changlin thought for a while and said: "..."Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is not what the audience expected. The audience is looking forward to seeing the world of magic and wizards. Audiences like to watch "Harry Potter" not only because they care about Harry and his friends. We 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 broken from the very beginning, because the battlefield where the main characters are fighting is not a specific divided magical area, but a city in reality!
Moreover, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" jumped out of the scope of campus and fairy tales, and exposed a big problem with the worldview. I guess the word-of-mouth and box office of the next few films will be even worse! "

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

"He is a big IP at the global level. The "Harry Potter" novel series has sold a total of 4.5 million copies worldwide. It is the best-selling novel in the world. Eight films have won a box office of 78 billion US dollars, and the revenue from derivative products has reached more than 2.8 billion. U.S. dollars...only [-] million yuan in the first weekend, which is considered a failure!"

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

"I heard from them that it seems to be around 8-10 million, which is basically impossible now!"

Shi Shi deeply agreed: "This is true!"

Shen Changlin smiled: ""Love Saint" has already made money, and its reputation has passed... Do you know how difficult it is to make a comedy with a good reputation?"

"Love Saint" is adapted from Gene Wilder's 1984 comedy film "The Lady in Red". Tracing back to the source, there is the original French version of "Elephants Deceiving"...

In fact, there is no "Love Saint" in "Love Saint", there are only middle-aged men with gold bugs in their brains, but timid and entangled...

With a group of good friends to help...

The reason for the controversy is very simple. The three views are not correct-the cheating of a middle-aged middle-aged man with a comfortable family and a happy family is completely insignificant. Not only do the cronies not refrain from the precipice, but they even add fuel to the flames. The male protagonist even regards this attempted mental and physical cheating as a The true love of the long drought meets the rain, and who is Xiaoshenyang saying "after playing, I still want to go home"?
Why should a wife who has no faults accept a husband who has a prodigal son without knowing it?

What a big face!
Politically incorrect!
This kind of core is actually left over from playing in the United States 30 years ago...

Therefore, when Korean film and television dramas encounter incomprehensible situations, they will always say "It turns out to be an American life"!
Shi Shi sighed: "I can only comfort myself like this..."

"The projects of "The Incoming Call" and "Love Saint 2" can be approved..."

"Okay... "The Incoming Call" is almost ready, "Love Saint 2" lacks a love killer role, we want to find Wu Xiubo..."

"Don't..." Shen Changlin hurriedly stopped: "Liu Yijun, Liang Jiahui, Gu Tianlei are fine too!"

Shi Shi didn't hesitate, and nodded directly: "Okay, then I'll talk to Li Xiao."

While chatting, Shen Changlin's phone rang.

"Who?"

"Huang Zhonglei..."

Shi Shi was puzzled: "He? Why are you looking for you? Are you connected with Hua Yi?"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "Maybe it's about Guzi's new movie... I was a little drunk at the Golden Horse Awards that day, and then I uttered wild words that I would jointly release Guzi's new movie..."

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

Shen Changlin thought for a while, and connected...

Hang up the phone after 3 minutes: "... let's go, let's go together!"

"Where?"

"Let's talk about things..."

……

The movie "Youth"...

It can be regarded as director Feng's waywardness, with fragmented plots, symbolic eras, and youthful journals.

In fact, I can understand the weak old man's obsession with youth and self-indulgence.

To put it bluntly, there is no essential difference between a well-established director spending tens of millions to build a scene of an art troupe, and a five-year-old child building a beloved castle with building blocks.

"Youth" is quite fragmented. The first half has been successfully portrayed as a perpetrator who entraps good people. In the second half, it tries to infect the audience with the nostalgia and friendship of farewell...

For the tragedies of Liu Feng and He Xiaoping, this collective has never felt guilty...

The attitude of the whole movie has also become ambiguous.

In fact, purely from the point of view of the movie itself, no matter "Garland", "Blood Romance" or "Youth" are all good works, the good thing is that they were filmed...

It is still easy to label "Fanghua", but if this continues, there will only be eight model plays that are "three outstanding".

But still the same sentence, Shen Changlin doesn't want to have anything to do with Muzi!
It's been a year and a half since the big earthquake in the entertainment industry...

The jar is the first to bear the brunt of the existence!

Forget it, say a few words casually, promise a few 'next time', and just leave!
This was what Shen Changlin thought before meeting.

……

to the place...

A little embarrassed, Huang Zhonglei probably didn't expect Shen Changlin to bring his girlfriend over, and arranged a few girls in advance...

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

Without squinting, Shen Changlin greeted Huang Zhonglei, Ye Shun and Guzi, and then said with a smile: "Shi Shi happened to be promoting "Love Saint" in BJ, and I heard that there was a dinner, so I came over to grab a meal."

"It's our honor," Huang Zhonglei motioned for the girls to step aside, and said casually, "We've always wanted to get to know Miss Shi Shi, she's an ace producer."

Shi Shi was quite embarrassed, waved his hand and said, "No..."

Ye rubbed his glasses and said: "...We have statistics. Although Shi Shi Studio's main investment projects are not many, but 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 listed companies!"

Well, he was telling the truth.

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

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

Since last year, he has switched to online dramas, "Later Us", "Suddenly This Summer" including "To Our Simple Little Beauty" are all produced by Shi Shi Studio;
In terms of movies, this year the main control has invested in three movies: "Holding the Heart", "Love Saint" and "Desolate City", followed by the "Chinatown Detective" series, "Eight Hundred", "The Wronged Man 2" ", all of which are hits!
Although the box office of "Carrying the Heart" did not meet expectations, the cost of 3200 million was exchanged for nearly 5 million at the box office, which can be regarded as a typical example of high returns!

On the other hand, Huayi...

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

Except for a co-produced "Warcraft" that did well at the box office, other works lost money to varying degrees!

However, they don't care, they made a billion profit by selling the palm stock...

People have said: 'The investment in BJ Palm Technology Co., Ltd. and Guangzhou Yinhan Technology Co., Ltd. not only made the company get rich returns, but also provided more possibilities for the company's resource integration in the field of Internet entertainment. '

Stick to this style of play...

Not counting heavy bets on Hero Entertainment, they also invested 1.73 million yuan in Weiying Times to hold [-]% of the shares...

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

That's why I made an appointment to meet Shen Changlin!

Thinking about working together...

Guzi's "Youth" is a breakthrough!
……

Halfway through the dinner, Huang Zhonglei started talking: "Fang Hua is a script written by Yan Geling..."

Cooperation? Of course, you must first brag about what you have in hand.

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

Participated in screenwriting and adaptation of works such as "Jinling Thirteen Beauties", "Mei Lanfang", "Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door", "Little Aunt Duohe" and so on have received a lot of response.

However, it is doomed to empty the bamboo basket to fetch water!
Shen Changlin scratched his head: "Actually, I don't know much about that era... And I confirmed with Lao Guo about the film schedule for next year, two films that will be released under the main control of the Lunar New Year file..."

"Two?"

Shen Changlin nodded: "A "Nine-story Demon Tower", directed by Xu Ke, has already finished filming and is in post-production; there is another science fiction film, "The Wandering Earth"...the scene of the space station is being filmed, and it is estimated that it will be completed by the end of the year... These two films are big investments, and we also want to arrange their release as soon as possible, so that we can get back the money quickly."

Huang Zhonglei looked at Ye Shun, who frowned: "...It must be the Lunar New Year festival?"

"I can't eat it in other schedules... During the Spring Festival, "Tang Detective 2" is arranged..."

"What about the summer vacation?"

"Summer vacation... There are other arrangements."

There will be "Wolf Warrior 2" in the summer file next year, but Shen Changlin didn't say...

Ye Shun hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Actually, we hope to cooperate with Mr. Shen in movies..."Youth" is the first one, and there will be many movies in the future...We can also cooperate with the "Di Renjie" series! "

"No need," Shen Changlin shook his head: "Next year, our work will focus on large-scale industrial production, and we won't be able to spare any energy to invest in other films..."

"Big investment? How big?"

"The cost of "The Wandering Earth" is 4.5 million, the cost of "Earth Cannon" is 5 million, and the cost of "Crazy Alien" is 4.8 million...Three sci-fi films started construction one after another!"

Ye Xuan really wanted to say, 'do you need funds', but he didn't dare...

Although he is the executive CEO, he knows that the Huayi Brothers are always surnamed Huang...

Huang Zhonglei is not optimistic about sci-fi movies at all. There is a famous saying, "Can China make sci-fi movies, yes!"But don't worry, you will definitely not be able to pass the application for science fiction films. '

Noticing Ye Ting's eyes, Huang Zhonglei said, "Boss Shen likes science fiction movies?"

Shen Changlin nodded: "...Well, I think it's about time. It's not interesting to always look back on the past. The stars and the sea are the pursuits that human beings should have."

After saying this, Gu Zi, who was chatting with Shi Shi in a low voice, was a little unhappy...

But he didn't speak, after all, it was Shen Changlin who said that!
(End of this chapter)