Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 3
"Big Diamond"?
When Chen Hao saw this name, he immediately thought of "Crazy Stone"!
I just picked it up and looked at it for a while, and found that it was not the same as "Crazy Stone" in my mind.

However, the script is obviously not finished yet, and it will continue to be revised in the future, and it should eventually become what it should be!
After putting down the script of "Big Diamond", Chen Hao came to his desk and sat down. While eating buns, he picked up the script on the desk.

These should all be scripts created by the predecessor, but they were all rejected by the school!

Chen Hao is a little curious, and wants to see how the scripts created by his predecessors are!
"****"!
Chen Hao saw the name when he picked up the first book, and almost choked. Is this a script written by himself?
He quickly opened the script and read it, but soon Chen Hao was disappointed. That's right, it's only 2001 now, and he was overthinking it!

This is a story about the police undercover entering the gang to collect evidence and trying to destroy the gang.

Because he has hidden all the secrets of the gang boss in a bible, so he got this imaginative name!
After watching it for a while, Chen Hao shook his head and closed the script. The storyline is too thin, the undercover career is not thrilling enough, and the forced conflict is a bit of a drama!
So, Chen Lin put down "****" and picked up the second one!

"**"!
Damn, is it so exciting?

3 minutes later, well, it's a crime thriller where a father pretends to be a ghost to avenge his daughter!

"****"!
The male protagonist is a doctor and the female protagonist is a patient. This is a healing love story!
Surprised? Unexpected?
……

Chen Hao no longer pays attention to the story of the scripts, because he found that these scripts are indeed a little naive, immature, and low in completion. It is no wonder that the school did not pass the funding application of the predecessor.

What supported Chen Hao to read on now was the shocking naming talent of his predecessor!

After closing the last script, Chen Hao sighed, and his half-excited and half-depressed mood relaxed a bit.

None of these scripts can be used, it seems that he still has to write a new one himself, but Chen Hao has to think carefully about which one is suitable.

Now Chen Hao, relying on Chen Lin's director ability in his previous life, shouldn't be a big problem in controlling any crew. What restricts Chen Hao now is the issue of money and fame.

Without fame, you will not be able to attract big stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan, powerful actors to join you, and you will not be able to attract audiences to buy tickets to watch your movies in theaters.

At the beginning of the century, the mainland film market was in a cold winter. Two years ago, in 2, the total box office of the whole year fell to the lowest point of 1999 million.

We must know that even in the late 80s, the total box office of the mainland film market exceeded 20 billion.

Since 1994, the mainland film market has deteriorated severely. In the second year, the total national box office fell below 10 billion, and the annual production of films was less than 100.

At the same time, the blockbuster films that were introduced from the United States continued to conquer cities and territories and became a box office panacea.

It was also because of the addition of blockbuster films from the United States that the total national box office increased in the following two years, but it still fell to the bottom unstoppably in 1999.

The total box office of the film for the year was 8.1 million, the number of viewers was less than 3 million, the audience was lost by hundreds of times, and the box office revenue fell again and again.

As a result, many projection units are unsustainable, and they can only use movie theaters for other purposes to pay employees' salaries and benefits.

In 2000, the total box office of movies nationwide was 8.6 million.

In 2001, when Chen Hao is now, the total box office of movies nationwide was only 8.9 million!
After years of film market regression and downturn, relevant departments have finally made a decision to integrate with international standards, and the film market will begin to reform the theater system next year.

This reform in 2002 is definitely a highlight in the history of Chinese film.

The original dispute over China Film's monopoly distribution rights was avoided by this market-oriented operation model, but it was not completely resolved.

The original intention of implementing the theater chain system is to reduce the distribution level.

But the actual effect is just that the original film arrangement method from province to city, city to county and then to theaters has been changed to the first round, second round, and third round of film arrangement in theaters.

It has not changed the unbalanced development in the distribution and circulation of Chinese films.

Most economically developed regions such as Imperial Capital, Nanyue, Jiangsu and Shanghai have established more than two theater lines, and local theaters have joined many theater lines outside the province, and many theater lines outside the province have built new theaters locally, which has intensified market competition.

Under the box office sharing model, the competition among domestic film theaters has begun to show the appearance of the law of the jungle, making the mainland film market gradually recover.

In the stalls that will be reformed, until the mainland entertainment industry enters a golden age, those who have box office appeal in the mainland film market are those well-known Hong Kong and Taiwan superstars and famous directors.

In the mainland, I am afraid that there are only three and a half directors who can attract the audience to the cinema.

But the only ones who can really sell well at the box office are Guoshi and Feng Dapao.

Chen Kaige's box office performance has not been good, but he is not short of investment.

Jiang Wen, if his temperament is followed, he can make good commercial films, but if he is allowed to play freely, it will be hard to say.

To be honest, until the mainland's entertainment industry enters its golden age, the mainland is in short supply of commercial film directors.

Therefore, even if many film companies in the mainland know that there are tricks, they can only turn a blind eye to cooperate with the director of Xiangjiang.

In the mainland, once a director with a big box office hits, he will be labeled as a "director wizard" immediately, and then he will be scrambled for by everyone.

There is no way, it is too scarce, and you can't get it with money!

As for Chen Hao at this time, his box office appeal is negative.

Now is the cold winter period for domestic films, and the distribution system has not yet been reformed. Chen Hao is not famous, and he doesn't even have money.

Therefore, what Chen Hao thinks now is not to make his debut work a hit at the box office, but to make a name for himself first.

Let’s develop obscenely first, wait until after the reform of the theater chain system, the film market will gradually pick up, and then the fame will also rise, and then start throwing king bombs!

Of course, it's too far to think about these things now. It's better to write a suitable script first, and at the same time earn enough funds for shooting.

Therefore, Chen Hao's debut must be a low-budget movie, or even an extremely low-budget movie.

Judging from Chen Hao's current situation, let alone a million, 30 is considered a high cost.

Chen Hao has a lot of low-budget movies in mind, such as "Nightclub", "On the Journey", "Crazy Stone" and so on, but the shooting cost exceeds one million.

As for the extremely low-cost movies, there are two that instantly popped into Chen Hao's mind.

"Spirit: Ghost Story" and "The Man From Earth".

Because the popularity of these two movies is very high, and the cost is really extremely low!

The shooting cost of "Spirit: Ghost Story" is only about 15000 US dollars, but what is even more exaggerated is its box office.

The global box office is as high as 2.02 million. This return on investment is indeed shocking and unique.

The cost of another "The Man From Earth" is only 20000 US dollars. Although the box office is not as amazing as "Spirit: Ghost Story", it can be called a science fiction classic.

However, the first half of the pseudo-documentary film "Spirit: Ghost Story" is a bit boring, and it should not be suitable for the national conditions.

There is no scientific explanation for the various supernatural situations in the film, and if you explain it, then this film will become tasteless, and it will not create such a sensational viewing effect at all.

(End of this chapter)