The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 88
After Chen Jingxing, Xiao Yang and Chen Sicheng chatted for a while, Guo Fan, Lu Yang and Ning Hao also arrived at the venue one after another.

Among the six people, except for Chen Jingxing who graduated from university not long ago, the others are all "old fritters". They have been in the entertainment industry and film industry for so many years, and they have all achieved a lot of career. No matter what opinions they have on each other, on the surface they are all polite, kind and friendly. After a while, they exchanged warm greetings like old classmates they haven't seen for many years.

"Brother, when will your movie be released?" Chen Jingxing knew that "The Heart Blossoming on the Road" directed by Ning Hao had finished filming in January.

"It should be in the summer vacation." Ning Hao blurted out, this movie is the first movie produced by the company he controls, and it entrusts him with great commercial ambitions, so naturally he has to choose a timetable that can maximize the box office.

Chen Jingxing seemed relieved: "That's good, there is no need to crash the car."

Ning Hao became interested: "Your schedule is fixed? I heard that your new movie has just been prepared. Is it a low-budget sci-fi movie? Can it be released within this year?"

If it is a big production, the production cycle will be relatively longer, and you will be more picky about the schedule and competitors. It is best to avoid colliding with other blockbusters on the same schedule. This requires a lot of coordination and negotiation work, and it also requires patience. Wait, it's not easy to finish filming and release that year, and it takes some luck.

"It can be regarded as a medium cost. It has basically been set, and it will be released on National Day."

Lu Yang on the side couldn't help asking: "Your movie hasn't been shot yet, so you set the schedule?" His movie "Embroidered Spring Knife" was finished in August last year, but the release date is still far away. Push and push.

Chen Jingxing looked puzzled: "Is there any technical difficulty in setting the file?" If "Fatal Identity" is still worried about the issue of review, "Signal" has no such worries at all.

Everyone was speechless.

There is indeed no technical difficulty in setting the file itself, and there is no threshold, but which film production company and distribution company does not think carefully and repeatedly?I can't wait to ask a mathematician to build a mathematical model and do a few rounds of calculations.

To consider the subject matter, consider the quality of the finished film, consider what schedule is suitable, consider that your own films cannot collide with each other, consider who there are already competitors in the schedule, which movies may be added to this schedule, and the distance between several movies in the same schedule In a few days, what impact will these have on the box office, the distributors and producers behind each film have an advantage in theaters, and so on.

There will even be encounters where the bigwigs behind the film ask each other about the schedule, whoever withdraws and who stays will affect the whole body. The more commercially valuable a movie is, the more difficult it is to determine the schedule, because there are only a few popular schedules. They all get together and squeeze in, and you don’t care about the actual situation. If you squeeze in, you will only hurt others and yourself. If you make a mistake in setting the file, you will lose real money. On the contrary, the low-budget movie itself has low box office expectations, and there are much fewer worries.

And the film is still in preparation, and the schedule is set before the finished film is released. What a bold move. The subtext is that I am the champion, and I don't choose opponents.

Ning Hao shook his head and smiled wryly: "I can't compare with you, Guoying and I are still worrying about the schedule." Although "Heart Blossoming Road" is produced by Ning Hao's company, but the distributor is Guoying. Xu Zheng is two first-line actors with the best box office appeal. Both Ning Hao and Guoying have great box office ambitions for them. They want to replicate or even surpass the miracle of "Lost in Thailand". Be extremely cautious.

Chen Jingxing heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. In fact, he was a little cautious. Telling the schedule of "Signal" on this occasion can be regarded as a preemptive opportunity to exclude competitors from the National Day file as much as possible, even if other directors are right. It's good to have a little more concern about the possibility of their own films being released on National Day.

There are not many movies in the world that really don’t care about their opponents. A good movie can make a big cake and improve the market, but it also has a limit. Two movies with box office potential in the same schedule are likely to lose both sides, and neither can reach it. My own upper limit, after all, the "capacity" of the National Day file is still much worse than that of the Spring Festival file.

Especially his senior brother, Ning Hao's "Heart Blossoms on the Road", even if you don't look at the director, you can imagine the terrible box office appeal just by looking at the name of the leading actor, and Lu Yang's "Embroidered Spring Knife" is also uncertain. files.

"Eh? Speaking of which, Xiao Chen's box office is about the same as yours. Lao Ning, Lao Lu, Lao Guo, Ao Lao Guo, your "You at the Same Table" has already been set, you two, you should be careful, don't It's against Xiao Chen." Chen Sicheng said half-jokingly.

Both Chen Jingxing and Ning Hao were taken aback, as if... It seemed that Ning Hao's box office was not much higher than his own?
"I have benefited from the benefits of the times, and I can't compare with Brother Ning." Chen Jingxing quickly waved his hands modestly.

Ning Hao's fame, status and qualifications are the highest among the six, but the box office is not that high, but in Chen Jingxing's view, this is indeed a problem of the times, and "Fatal Identity" was released 5 years ago The box office may not be comparable to "Crazy Racing", and "Stone" and "Racing" are likely to achieve good box office if they are released now.

The key is word-of-mouth and audience expectations. With these two things, you can grab the biggest box office in the era of box office explosions. This is the case with Master Xing, and so is Ning Hao. Appearing at the right time can create a box office miracle. Before the audience's sense of expectation is exhausted, it will be a walking box office bomb. This is why Chen Jingxing took the initiative to inquire about the schedule of Ning Hao's new film. interference.

After several people praised each other for a while, the leaders of the Film Bureau came to the venue one after another, and the film channel also sent hosts and photographers to set up a stand.

It was a bit of a symposium. After the host Li Miao finished the opening remarks, the leader of the film bureau also made a speech. Except for some formal content, the rest were commercial films and industrial films.

It surprised all the directors except Chen Jingxing. The other directors have more or less participated in similar official meetings. Screenwriters are still celebrities, and they are all literary and artistic workers here, and the works they produce are also literary and artistic works, and literary and artistic narratives run through.

Never before has film products been placed under the narrative framework of industry and commerce so blatantly. The gist of the whole article is one sentence: The Film Bureau has paid a lot of money to organize everyone to go to the "Western Paradise" to obtain "the true scriptures of the film industry."

(End of this chapter)