Entertainment, I only like to make movies

Chapter 213 The Five Great Directors of Hengyu
Hengyu Media General Manager Office.

Fang Ziheng crouched on the bank of the table, with a concentrated expression, and was drawing the sketch of the tomb palace in "Looking for the Dragon" with a pencil.

He is the director, so the setting of the film naturally needs to be given full play to his imagination and style first. After he sets the requirements, the original work Tianxia Bachang and Hengyu Literature's screenwriter office will refine and refine it according to the complex of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

After the script has been refined twice by everyone, it has been finalized and submitted to the Film Bureau for approval.

Speaking of which, if Chinese-style movies want to be sold overseas or even globally, there are not many types to choose from.

Counting from the source, there are costume blockbusters, kung fu movies, martial arts movies, and now there is an additional sci-fi war movie, "Edge of Tomorrow", which focuses on Chinese soldiers.

Among the four genres, there are traces of the storylines of ancient costume blockbusters, and the simple and rough war scenes. Even if foreigners do not understand the history of China, they will like and even pursue the big battle scenes.

Kung Fu movies need innovation, and they also need superstars who can resist the box office to participate.

The plot of the martial arts film is compact and smooth, and the fighting scenes are full of expectations and incredible.

Science fiction war films are even more difficult. Not only do they need big scenes, but they also need top-notch shooting techniques and super high production costs.

One is literary films, several films made by Lao Mouzi and Wong Kar Wai have sold millions of dollars in the United States.

Judging from the production cost alone, it is indeed profitable, but literary films are niche films, and no matter how good the film is, the box office will not be much higher.

Ten or 20 years ago, the box office of several million dollars may have been awesome.

It’s different now, the mainland market can easily generate hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, so who cares about millions of dollars overseas.

"Looking for the Dragon Tactic"!
A generation of proud Genghis Khan, buried in the thousand-year-old tomb under Lake Baikal.

Bizarre and weird plot, adventure and treasure hunt, mysterious and unpredictable!
The combination of the two is also a very attractive subject film.

After all, movies are an audio-visual art. The atmosphere created on the big screen is very important. It can easily make the audience feel emotional and follow the plot of the screen to be on the scene.

Just like horror movies and suspense movies, as long as they are scary enough, the audience will buy them.

Every episode of the story of "Ghost Blowing Out the Lantern" has a market, and there is no cultural barrier to release it overseas.

Even foreigners will be particularly interested.

Back then, the Eight-Power Allied Forces rushed into the imperial capital and looted all the treasures in the Old Summer Palace. So many national treasures are now living overseas, hidden in the hands of countless capitals and families.

In the 80s and [-]s, several major overseas countries also formed archaeological teams to explore tombs in China, looking for the so-called source of a certain story or a certain treasure.

The ancient tombs in Huaguo, like the Egyptian pyramids, have an extraordinary appeal to many upper-class elites and middle-class mainstreams in North America and Europe.

The tomb of Genghis Khan has always been an unsolved mystery through the ages. In the eyes of many overseas archaeologists, it is full of mystery and endless legends.

This kind of mystery and legend, as long as it is publicized a little bit, it will cause a huge topic of discussion on the Internet and in society.

For example, in the tomb of Genghis Khan, there is endless gold that he brought with him when he brought his cavalry and swept across the Eurasian continent.

For another example, in the tomb, there are supreme gods and elixir that can prolong life, cure diseases, and even rejuvenate people and make them live forever.

Coupled with a millennium conspiracy, a trio of money-making trio employed by overseas capital, and a vast and mysterious underwater tomb complex.

It's just living together.

Fang Ziheng's thoughts were wandering, and the pencil in his hand was flying around, presenting the thoughts in his head on the A4 paper with all his strength.

dong dong dong..
"Please come in."

"Old Fang, this week's box office is out."

The offices were pushed away, and Concubine Lin came in with a smile and twisted waist, holding a data report in her hand.

"Oh, let me see."

Fang Ziheng stopped writing, got up and did two chest expansion exercises, and took the data sheet while walking out of the desk.

Today is October 2th.

The weekly box office in the mainland market from the 14th to the 20th last week can be said to be the last battle during the Spring Festival.

On the data table, there are a total of 12 movies that are currently released.

No.1: "Youth Campus", released for 20 days, with a weekly box office of 1700 million and a total box office of 2.8 million.

No.2: "New Shaolin Temple", released for 20 days, with a weekly box office of 1000 million and a total box office of 1.85 million.

Among the two films, "Youth Campus" broke [-] million is a certainty.

Director Su Lun has risen from obscurity to become the first female director of the new generation, appearing in the field of vision of major film and television companies.

The three of them, Da Tiantian, Da Mimi, and Song Yi, also became popular again with their movies, and officially established themselves in the field of movies.

2000 million low-cost movie, 3 million box office!
As main stars, the three of them are also praised by the media as the only three female artists born in 85 who can carry the box office alone after Liu Qianqian.

Especially Da Tiantian and Da Mimi, one is the first female lead, and the other is new to the film industry. It is really not easy to achieve this result.

Needless to say, Da Tiantian first had "Four Famous Catchers" and "Edge of Tomorrow" as the foundation, and now has "Youth Campus" as a booster. She has become a new generation of female movie stars born in 85. Her career path is better than her previous life. Several.

Da Mimi needs "Youth Campus" even more.

In her last life, she starred in her first movie "Fairy Tales of the Imperial Capital" in 05, followed by "The Door" in 07, and "Far Cry" in 11.

None of the three movies were splashed, and they were completely smashed.

After the "Palace" became popular, she has either starred in or participated in many movies, one after another hitting the street.

In the end, relying on "Little Times", the transformation from a TV cafe to a movie cafe was abruptly completed.

In this life, "Youth Campus" was released a full two years earlier than "Little Times".

In the past two weeks, Damimi has been extremely happy, as if she had eaten honey, and harassed Fang Ziheng from time to time.

He wants to gear up to overthrow Liu Qianqian, but also wants to monopolize him, the best high-performance stock in the Chinese entertainment industry.

Then there is Song Yi. There are "Ode to Joy" and "My Love from the Star" for TV dramas, and "The Unknown" and "Youth Campus" for movies.

The little girl walked the most steadily. After two years, she has firmly established herself in the entertainment circle and became one of the most popular florets.

Among all the female artists of Hengyu Media, her rank is only lower than Liu Qianqian and Yang Mi, comparable to Zeng Li's sister, and overwhelming other female artists.

In the current situation that Liu Qianqian and Yang Mi have not joined Hengyu publicly, the little girl is the number one favorite.

No.3: "Carry Love Through to the End", which was released for 9 days, with a weekly box office of 1 million and a total box office of 1.34 million.

This film is adapted from the TV series of the same name, directed by Zhang Yibai, and starring Xu Jinglei, Li Yapeng, and Wang Xuebing, one of the four female roles, and is also a romantic drama about urban college students.

cough cough.

Sister Xu is still very attractive. She has scandals with two leading actors in a movie, and she is a proper goddess-level winner.

No.4: "Deadly Companion" was released for 8 days, with a weekly box office of 6860 million and a total box office of 8220 million.

No.5: "The Green Hornet" was released for 13 days, with a weekly box office of 4330 million and a total box office of 1.2 million.

Among the two Hollywood movies, the superhero "Green Hornet" attracts the most attention.

The second male lead in the film is Zhou Milk Tea, the meteor king of Chinese music. This name alone can attract the entertainment media to shout.

This is also the best resource that Zhou Milk Tea has won in Hollywood. It can be said that it is very rare to have the second male lead in a major A-level commercial film production.

But big productions belong to big productions, Fang Ziheng couldn't figure out why a superhero movie was made into a comedy.

Zhou Milk Tea, who is in charge of the fighting action, doesn't have much room to play in the movie. Most of the shots are the funny plot of the actor Seth Rogen.

In one, the character played by Zhou Milk Tea is the name of a small day.

The result is that mainland audiences don't buy it. Relying on the fame of Zhou Milk Tea, it barely managed to earn 13 million box office in 1.2 days of release.

Some people on the Internet have already scolded Zhou Milk Tea, scolding him for not doing good music, but going to Hollywood to play a little day, which is really stupid.

Fang Ziheng browsed the news on the Internet, and compared the box office on the data sheet to analyze the word-of-mouth of the movie.

There is only one conclusion.

In the Spring Festival file of 2011, "Youth Campus" is invincible!
3 million cannot be broken, and more than [-] million is also a good thing.

There is also an eye-catching news on the Internet, "Edge of Tomorrow" has been released, and the global box office has been exploded by the media.

The mainland market is 13.62 billion, about 1.821 US dollars.

The North American market is $1.62 million.

In Asia and Europe, $6100 million.

"Edge of Tomorrow" grossed $4.05 million worldwide.

4.05 billion!
Equivalent to 30.37 billion soft sister coins!
But this time the netizens are not as crazy as before. When "Edge of Tomorrow" surpassed "Avatar", some good media broke the overseas box office.

Netizens and movie fans with great powers estimated the global box office of "Edge of Tomorrow" as early as that day.

Not bad, 30 billion!
The box office split didn't come down so quickly, at least it would have to wait for a month.

With the release of the movies in February, the box office war for the Spring Festival stalls is coming to an end, and the dust has settled.

With the start of the new year's work, major film companies have started a new round of competition projects.

Fang Ziheng held the annual meeting of Hengyu Media's middle and high-level executives to summarize the past and look forward to the future.

I have affirmed everyone's efforts and gains in the past year, and I hope that all Hengyu colleagues will continue to work hard this year, continue to contribute to the Chinese film and television industry, and build their own beautiful life.

After the meeting, Fang Ziheng personally distributed annual bonuses to more than 100 participants, including 30 yuan for executives and 10 yuan for middle managers.

There are also ordinary employees below, each with [-] yuan.

Concubine Lin, Andy, Wen Muye, and Hao Yi each have 200 million yuan each.

Artists under Hengyu, Deng Chao, Wu Jing, Liu Ye, Liu Qianqian, Zeng Li, Song Yi also have 200 million each, and the rest of the artists have 100 million each.

After all the calculations, Fang Zihengguang paid out 4000 million yuan in bonuses.

This must be given. Your boss can’t eat meat alone, with a mouth full of oil, while the employees below stare and drool.

After entering 2011, the Chinese-speaking entertainment circle has become more and more prosperous, and everyone in the circle counts as one. As long as they are a little bit famous, talented and skilled, they can almost eat everything.

If you are not satisfied with your employees, they will dare to jump jobs for you to see. Most of them are film and television companies who use high salaries to poach people.

On this point, Fang Ziheng was very clear.

In the entertainment industry, profit is eternal!

2 month 27 number.

Fang Ziheng invited Lao Mouzi, Wu Jing, Wen Muye, Hao Yi and Su Lun to a banquet at home.

Andy, Concubine Lin, and Zeng Li, three beauties, helped cook in person and prepared a large table of delicacies.

Well, there are also Liu Qianqian and Song Yi.

The two oil bottles called early in the morning, muttering that they had to eat a meal and toast the old man with a cup.

Lao Mouzi finally made up his mind.

He visited the screenwriting department of Hengyu Literature twice, and joined Hengyu Media after typing "The Year of Chasing Dreams" with the screenwriter.

Fang Ziheng was also unambiguous, and immediately took the lead for Lao Mouzi, and injected capital into his studio, with 50% of the shares.

For the movies made by Lao Mouzi, the director gets 20% of the investment, and the studio can also take 20% of the investment.

Of course, half of the 20% here belong to Hengyu Media.

In other words, for a movie, Lao Mouzi's 10% investment, plus the director's share, can account for 30% of the box office revenue.

Moreover, Lao Mouzi can shoot as much as he wants without any restrictions. In terms of remuneration, he is definitely the best in the industry.

Of course, if Lao Mouzi doesn't want the director's share, that's fine too, based on the total production cost of the film.

For a movie, Hengyu directly pays cash for the director's fee, which is also the top in the industry.

But these are just the basics. Lao Mouzi is really willing to join Hengyu because he values ​​the atmosphere of Hengyu.

He only realized now that with a huge team of screenwriters behind him, it was so easy to set up a project.

Wu Jing, Wen Muye, Hao Yi, and Su Lun, Fang Ziheng plans to set up a film company for them.

Hengyu's capital injection accounted for 60% of the shares, and each of them invested a part, accounting for 10% of the shares.

This company is a director-centered system. Hengyu Media provides the script, and they can also provide the script themselves.

As long as the movies made by the four of them are approved by Fang Ziheng and Hengyu Media's literary and screenwriting department, the company will share the benefits and risks with them.

In addition, each of them can also invest in the films they make, and obtain investment shares based on their achievements, which cannot exceed 20%.

Of course, the films shot by this company must be distributed by Hengyu Media.

To put it bluntly, each of the movies they shoot is controlled by Hengyu, including themselves, and they are recruiting one or two other film and television companies, or looking for backers like China Film and Poly to endorse.

Fang Ziheng is very reasonable, not only binding the four people, but also giving them a lot of freedom.

This treatment is only worse than that of Lao Mouzi, and it is similar to the cooperation between Feng Trousers and Hua Yi.

On the sofa in the living room.

Everyone was talking and laughing, discussing four scripts.

"Slaying Wolf 2"!
"Manslaughter 1"!
"33 Days of Broken Love"!
"Embroidered Spring Knife"!
Wu Jing, the director of "Slaying Wolf 2", has already decided to write, direct and act on his own.

Wen Muye, the director of "Manslaughter 1", this guy has always wanted to hold the camera himself.

Fang Ziheng once tested Wen Muye, told him the outline of the plot of "Manslaughter 1", and asked him to work out a detailed script.

Needless to say, this guy is pretty good, and he came up with a complete script in three months.

(End of this chapter)