What kind of bad thoughts can the director have?

Chapter 151 From Langya to Lanling
The script of "The Beginning" is not easy to write, Yang Shu can only find time to save it slowly. There are so many things this year, I am afraid it will be too late to start filming.

That's good too. In the future, it would be nice if the studio can make one movie and one series a year, and there's no need to keep running around.

Yang Shu is only 23 years old, a lot of life is worth savoring slowly, don't worry.

In this way, Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu could go to Tokyo for a few days at the end of the month to promote the release of "Love Letter from Heaven" as planned, while Yang Shu left for Zaozhuang to watch the location.

Originally, he considered going to Tokyo for a run. He had never been abroad in two lifetimes, but later he gave up. The reason is simple: "I don't want to go, I have more important things to do."

President Hua and Director Huang of Tiange Media both persuaded him: "The Japanese market is very important, and women are the main audience. They should like our film very much."

"Will they buy a ticket because they saw me?"

"This... If you go, media coverage will increase, which is good for the promotion of the film."

Yang Shu didn't believe this, just like not many audiences in mainland China rushed to see a movie after seeing a report about a Japanese director. If "Love Letter from Heaven" became a hit at the box office in Japan, it must be because of the reputation of the movie itself.

As for Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu to cooperate with the publicity, the main reason is that they want to travel, but they may not really care if they don't go to Japan.

The distribution and theater chains in Japan are owned by Toho Co., Ltd. Yang Shu learned that there are only 410 movie theaters in Japan, and Toho owns 350 of them, accounting for more than 80.00%, almost monopolizing Japanese film screenings. market.

As for the other 51 theaters belonging to several different institutions, they are very small. For example, several theaters in the Bunkamura system only show high-level art films from all over the world. Don't consider the rest of this.

Although it is called a small Japan, Japan is actually not small. Its area is equivalent to the sum of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anwei and Shanghai. There are only 410 theaters, which is obviously too small. Japan has a population of more than 500 million and more than [-] people. Towns, on average, every three towns are allocated one movie theater.

Yang Shu checked the data and found that two-thirds of the towns in Japan, that is, more than 1000 towns, do not have movie theaters. People in these places need to go to other cities to watch a movie, or even take a tram across two or three cities.

There are more than 4000 movie theaters in the mainland, but it may be unfair to compare the national data. As far as Yang Shu knows, there are more than 360 movie theaters in Shanghai alone, and there are even more movie theaters in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It is too little in Japan.

However, movie tickets in Japan are very expensive. The ticket price for ordinary adults is generally about 130 yen, which is equivalent to RMB 20. The film screening period is also relatively long. In North America or the mainland, it usually only lasts [-] days, and popular films are doubled. It is not surprising that it was released in Japan for three consecutive months.

Moreover, the attendance rate of Japanese movie theaters is also very high, even on weekdays, it seems that there are many idlers.

As a result, the average box office revenue per screening is relatively high, twice that of North America and five times that of mainland China.

Therefore, among the major film markets in the world, Japan’s theater system has the highest rate of return. It is because of this that it has maintained its position as the world’s second largest film market until 2015. This year’s scale is not far behind that of the mainland.

And this time, the partner Toho Cinemas occupies 80.00% of Japan's movie screening market, and its total box office can reach 80.00% of the mainland market.

So is it possible for "Love Letters from Heaven" to be a huge success in Japan and earn a box office of RMB [-] or [-] million in proportion?

Yang Shu believes that it is possible to get good results, but it is impossible to replicate the results of Continental.

Japan's film market is deformed. Since the formation of the archipelago, six of the top ten box office films are cartoons, and the rest are either "Titanic" or "Harry Potter" series.

Zooming in to inspect the top 2, the layout is similar, either animation or European and American blockbusters, the only movie starring a real Japanese person is "Jumping the Big Search Line [-]: Blocking the Rainbow Bridge", which seems to be a movie other than the Japanese. A movie that not many people know about.

Ranked No.10 is "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" in 2003, with a box office equivalent to nearly [-] million yuan.

"Love Letter from Heaven" wants to win [-] to [-] million box office, which is tantamount to competing with "Harry Potter" at the box office, this is just a joke.

Therefore, literary and artistic films may be less popular in Japan. The so-called literary and artistic love belongs to Ye Gonghaolong at least in terms of the film market.

Therefore, Yang Shu judged rationally that it would be good if "Love Letter from Heaven" could earn one billion yen in Japan, which means more than 6000 million yuan.

In his memory, the original film caused a sensation in the Japanese film industry as soon as it came out, and is regarded as one of the most important works in the Japanese New Film Movement. It's much better to win hundreds of millions of box office within a few days of screening.

"Love Letter" has a box office of nearly 8 million in mainland China. According to the current data, it can rank among the top [-] box office in Japanese film history, and "Love Letter from Heaven" can be ranked No.[-]. After "Princess Mononoke", Before Howl's Moving Castle.

From this point of view, it is obvious that there are still a lot of audiences in mainland China who love literary films.

Everyone is snobbish, so Yang Shu doesn't want to run publicity after such an investigation.

Besides, he is indeed very busy these days. First, he entrusted Junqi Feiyang to contact Ou Hao, Zhang Zhijian and many other actors he had selected, and set a cooperation intention, signed a contract, and coordinated the schedule.

After confirming the list of main creators, the "Warrior" project was set up around the 20th, and then entrusted to Tiange Media for review together with the script outline.

This movie is very positive from the theme to the three views, and it has not stepped on any thunder. It is not a problem to pass the review, and it is expected to be confirmed within a month.

Now it is easier to pass the review than before. In the past, the script had to be reviewed, and if the content was not good, it would not pass. If the film was different from the script, it would not be approved for public screening.

Now you don’t need to read the script as long as you just have a story outline. There are not many restrictions. What’s more important is the review of the public release license.

Also on the 20th, "Heavenly Love Letter" was officially released in theaters and transferred to iQiyi and Penguin Video.

There is no such thing as Tiange Media broadcasting on the platform, and the wonderful studio is connected by itself. Yangshu symbolically invested 100 million in advertising fees on the two platforms.

As for the out-of-print third season of "Wonderful Events in the World", it won't be broadcast until early July when "Warrior" starts filming.

On the same day, Yang Shu gathered the leaders of Ning Song, artist, blasting, engineering and other teams to form a location inspection team with 19 people.

After a meeting and discussion, it was decided to leave for Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang on the 25th, and search for suitable locations along the way. The journey was two thousand miles and took half a month.

On the second day of his departure, Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu will go to Tokyo.

The day before leaving, the three of them got together to watch TV. This time it was not the election campaign on the other side of the ocean, but Sister Tao's "Ode to Joy".

Jiang Shiyu said to Liu Man appreciatively, "I think your sister looks better in "Ode to Joy" than in "Langya Bang."

Yang Shu doesn't really want to watch this movie, and when he hears the name Andy, he thinks of some very exciting games.

He changed the topic: "You know Langya in Langya List, where is it now?"

Liu Man knew: "I heard Brother Hu say it when I was filming "Langya Bang", it seems to be Linxin today."

(Xin is Yi, I don’t know why this place name doesn’t display Chinese characters.)
"Then do you know that Linxin and Zaozhuang are next to each other?"

"I'm not good at geography, so I don't know much about these things, so Zaozhuang used to belong to Langya?"

"No, Zaozhuang used to have a nice name called Lanling."

"I know the name Lanling. Li Bai has a poem 'Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls filled with amber light', which is really artistic."

Yang Shu added with a smile: "There is also Xiao Xiaosheng from Lanling who wrote about Jin Ping Mei."

In fact, it is not quite accurate to say that Zaozhuang is the former Lanling. Lanling is located between Linxin and Zaozhuang. It used to be a part of Zaozhuang. Last year, the place name was restored, but as a county, it belongs to Linxin. Meng Lianggu is also in Linxin.

This time Yangshu inspected the location and took the route from Linxin to Zaozhuang. According to the ancient place names, it was from Langya to Lanling.

After hearing this, Jiang Shiyu yearned: "If I had known earlier, I would not have gone to Tokyo. It would be more interesting to go sightseeing with you."

(End of this chapter)