The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 22
Fantasy World Network.

A small-scale high-level meeting with only five participants.

But the things to be decided are related to the strategic direction of Huanshi.com's content creation in the future.

Ren Bowei, the senior vice president of Huanshi.com, presided over the meeting. He is responsible for a series of mid-stage businesses such as Huanshi.com's external cooperation, content marketing, production management, promotion and operation.

The meeting room was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

Huanshi.com has been dormant for two years, and is no longer content to be an ATM machine in the film industry. It has a sense of presence in titles. It wants to set foot in the production and distribution of screen movies again, return to the table, and share the cake.

Of course, this time Huanshi.com is not as reckless as it was when it was first launched, claiming to create a mythological blockbuster in Huaguo, but wants to launch a few small and medium-budget movies first to test the waters.

It stands to reason that Zhang Jingyan should be happy. In this way, the next screen movie project of Huanshiwang and DreamWorks can be said to be a certainty. Since leading the online movie "Comet" and achieving unprecedented success, Zhang Jingyan not only It proved that she was worthy of Huanshi.com's high salary poaching, and her position in Huanshi was also more stable. In a sense, she and Chen Jingxing already had some common interests.

Even if Chen Jingxing didn't prepare the script for the next movie, she still wanted to try her best to cooperate with DreamWorks again, not to mention that after reading the script of "Fatal Identity", she had already decided to bet on Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks. Just as Chen Jingxing wants to take advantage of the Internet capital of Fantasy World to take off, Zhang Jingyan also wants to use the rise of Chen Jingxing, a talented director, to realize the double improvement of his own value and status in Fantasy World.

However, the strength of the competitor somewhat exceeded her expectations.

"Merry Poppins"

A film written and starring a well-known comic actor.

The competition between "Fatal Identity" and "Le Man Renren" is not Huanshiwang's investment. After all, both are small and medium-budget films, Huanshiwang can't afford it.

What Zhang Jingyan and the other party are fighting for is the distribution and finalization.

"Teacher Luo and the Qi Wen Society he founded have created a craze for cross talk across the country. Its sales have even surpassed several classic plays of the Wuyi Theater. The income of a single show easily exceeds 200 million. These regular fans are our movie. We made a rough estimate, based on Qi Wenshe's basic market alone, there will be at least 4000 million box office bases. In addition, Mr. Luo himself has a relatively high degree of nationality, and with the blessing of the Spring Festival stalls, I can't think of it. The possibility of this film failing at the box office, Mr. Zhang, it is true that "Comet" is a successful online movie, but online movies and screen movies are two different things."

Zhang Jingyan refused to give an inch: "Mr. Dai, cross talk and movies are two different things. It's not that Luo Wenshun has never made movies, but none of these movies made any splashes. Why didn't Mr. Dai pay for the basic set of Qiwen Society before going to the cinema to support it?"

Dai always is a gentle middle-aged man wearing glasses. He shook his head when he heard Zhang Jingyan's doubts and retorted: "Mr. It is the first time for the teacher to play the leading role in a movie, and many of the roles will be played by other cross talk actors from Qiwenshe. This movie is equivalent to the debut of Qiwenshe's film. It will mobilize the audience of Qiwenshe.”

"We haven't seen the script of the "Music World" that Mr. Dai said so conclusively. It is less than four months away from the Spring Festival in 14. Can the quality of the movie be guaranteed?"

"The script has been basically completed, but some details are missing, which is normal. This is a low-budget comedy movie. The more baggage and plots of comedy movies are often produced in the chemical reaction of comedians colliding with each other. , and I would like to ask everyone here to consider that what we are discussing is the Spring Festival file!"

Zhang Jingyan's heart began to sink.

"We are now almost certain that China Film's "Spring and Autumn Forges the Sword", Jingying and United Cinemas' "True and False Monkey King", Jianghe Culture's "Double Dragon: Blood Sword Warriors" and Tianrun's leading production "Gambling "City Storm II" may have announced that it will be scheduled for the Spring Festival, or it will definitely be on the Spring Festival. These are all heavyweight opponents, with ancient costumes, historical wars, martial arts, myths, and comedies all available."

2013 was the year when the Spring Festival film was on the rise, officially becoming a big-ticket warehouse second only to the summer film. The industry reacted very quickly to this change.

"Why do we grab a share of the big powers? Is it because of a low-cost movie with police, suspense, Oh, and sci-fi labels? I also read the script, and I admit that the script alone is It is a very creative movie, even without precedent in domestic movies, but on the day of Chinese New Year family reunion, do we let the audience go to the cinema to watch a bloody movie with a murder plot? And there is something in the script I think It is not easy to pass the review, once you get stuck in the review, can you catch up with the Spring Festival? Mr. Zhang, I sincerely suggest that this movie is best to consider the issue of whether it is scheduled or not after it gets the Dragon Award."

Zhang Jingyan wanted to refute, but sadly found that even she strongly agrees with this point of view. In fact, when she knew that her competitor was a comedy movie, she didn't have much hope for today's debate.

Chen Jingxing was unaware of the debate that took place on Huanshiwang. Objectively speaking, Chen Jingxing was present, so he might not be able to utter any strong rebuttals, even though the plane of his previous life has proved that the audience's taste is tolerant.

In fact, domestic audiences have always been tolerant of excellent commercial films.

Even the happy Spring Festival file can make sci-fi films and even bloody war films win box office championships, but suspense films do have a ceiling in terms of market performance over the years, and the ceiling is not high. This is the subject matter itself. The only limitation is that the quality of suspense-themed movies is not strong enough, and Chen Jingxing is unable to make a judgment. There may be two reasons, but Chen Jingxing cannot refute the saying that comedies are more likely to succeed.

Mr. Dai is already crazy: "I don't think the company will try it lightly for ancient costume productions and mythological blockbusters, and the production cycle of blockbuster films is very long, and they can't catch up with the Spring Festival. Fight hard, we have only one choice, and that is comedy."

"Mr. Zhang just said that cross talk is different from movies. I can only agree with half of this. Cross talk itself is a form of comedy performance. I think he must have something in common with comedy movies. Qi Wenshe can be funny on stage. The audience laughed out loud. It doesn’t make sense that it can’t be done in movies. Comedy baggage and jokes are often used in many comedy movies? I don’t believe in a successful cross talk actor, but also a comedy content creator , will not make a good comedy movie, the sense of humor is common."

"Besides, the Spring Festival is originally a form of family reunion through watching movies. The few movies in the Spring Festival this year are not highly rated by audiences. None of Douban has a rating of more than six, but the box office is good. This shows that the current movie Quality itself and word of mouth are only things that a small number of fans care about. More audiences in the film market actually come to the theater to watch the excitement. I believe that as long as the final quality of this "Music Man" can reach the average level, it will be able to be released in the Spring Festival. Grab a piece of meat."

……

The meeting draws to a close with Mr. Dai and his comedy movie Slasher.

Ren Bowei, senior vice president of Huanshi.com, finally set the tone.

"Then it's settled. The two films "Le Man Ren Jian" and "Fatal Identity" will start as soon as possible. We will wait for other projects. Be patient with the projects that come down, and don’t expect to succeed just once.”

"Mr. Dai, please urge Qi Wenshe again. The script still needs to be completed as soon as possible. Qi Wenshe has its own traffic, which creates favorable conditions for our publicity. I will lead the team myself.”

"Mr. Zhang, I hope you can understand the company's decision, and at the same time, I would like to convey the company's apology to Director Chen of DreamWorks. After all, we are not the top five studios. We are a new force in the film industry. We want to push two films into the Spring Festival file at once. The first is that it is very difficult, and the second is that the gains outweigh the losses. If a company has two films on the same schedule, isn’t this internal friction? In the end, it is likely to be a lose-lose.”

"If the project "Deadly Identity" has time and can catch up with the Lunar New Year file, we will try our best to arrange a Lunar New Year file release. If it can't catch up, then it will not be too late to release it after the Spring Festival file."

(End of this chapter)