This director only makes bad movies.

Chapter 2 As long as you give money, bad movies will be made

If you want to ask what a movie is, everyone will have their own answer.

Some people think that movies are art, some people think that movies are entertainment, and some people think that movies are something that exposes the darkness of society and shows the truth in the world.

But for Xu Nan, movies are a tool to make money.

As long as you can make money, you can make any movie.

In his previous life, he filmed the kind of anti-Japanese drama that was crazily complained about every day, but so what, at least he made money, and occasionally he could give pointers to actresses in acting.

So how do you make money in this world?
After much deliberation, the best way is to make a movie, and it is to make a bad movie.

Some people may ask, how do bad movies make money? Shouldn’t a movie that can really make money be a good movie?

This kind of thinking is actually very layman. A good movie does not necessarily make money, and a bad movie does not necessarily lose money.

Whether a movie can make money depends mainly on whether the audience is willing to pay.

Whether "Wolf Warrior" is a good movie, most people will only think that this movie is good, but it is definitely not a classic.

But the box office of "Wolf Warrior" far surpassed those classic movies.

"Tiny Times" is a completely bad movie, but this movie made a lot of money, much more than those classic movies.

In his previous life, as a person in the entertainment industry, Xu Nan had always been concerned about the movie industry. As a TV drama director, he always wanted to step into a higher-quality movie industry and earn more money.

However, his focus is different from others. Others focus on big directors, big companies, and big-produced movies.

And what he pays attention to are all the directors, companies, and movies of the side.

Although those big companies and big directors are glamorous, but in terms of return on investment, they are really not as good as those partial companies and partial directors.

In this regard, what Xu Nan admires the most is Sanctuary Films in the United States. This film company specializes in making knockoff movies.

When other companies filmed "1 Years Prehistoric", they filmed "[-] Million Years Prehistoric"; when others filmed "Pacific Rim", they filmed "Atlantic Rim"; Dragonfly Man".

The most amazing thing is that this film production company, which relies exclusively on Shanzhai Pengci, is still living a very healthy life. Not only is it moist, but it also makes a lot of money, and its profit margin is much higher than those of those big companies.

This company is Xu Nan's role model. He even thought about learning from this film company and copying a movie from Pengci to make money. He even wrote the script and was waiting for someone to invest.

But later he found out that he couldn't do it at all.

In the United States, Sanctuary Films produced knockoff movies like this one because the entertainment industry system is more perfect. If you do this kind of knockoff in China, you will end up with a silver bracelet package.

After discovering this fact, Xu Nan was disheartened for a long time.

His movie dream was shattered before it even started.

After traveling, he carefully studied the entertainment industry in this world, and was surprised to find that the laws and regulations of the entertainment industry in this world are much more perfect than those in his previous life.

In order to avoid the emergence of monopoly giants, a series of regulations such as the separation of production and broadcasting, the separation of artist brokerage and film and television production, and the prohibition of theaters from intervening in film production have been implemented early.

The most important thing is that the theater chains in this world are not strong. There are four or five large theater companies with thousands of theaters, and there are more than a dozen medium-sized theater companies with more than [-] theaters.

There are even more small and medium theater companies with only dozens or even a dozen theaters.

The most important reason why Shanzhai Pengci movies could not appear in the previous life was that the theater companies that controlled the movie theaters were particularly strong and directly intervened in the production of movies, becoming an upstream monopoly platform.

In this case, they will not allow copycat movies to affect their interests.

Chinatown is a good example. Although the quality of the third movie is not good, but in order to protect their own interests, the theaters have always allowed this movie of average quality to occupy the largest number of films, thus getting the most box office.

Because this movie is their shareholding.

In the previous life, several big directors and film companies joined forces to change this situation, increase the box office share, and quarreled with the theaters.

Then they were beaten up by the theater, and they never dared to provoke the theater again.

Big directors and big film companies are all like this. A director in the Xunan district who is making an anti-Japanese drama has any qualifications to use copycat movies to hit the porcelain theaters.

But this world is different. The theater chain is simply a theater chain, a platform for showing movies, and there are special laws staring at them, preventing them from intervening in the production of movies.

It is even more impossible to form a theater alliance like in the previous life, to beat the director up and the audience down.

In this environment, there is a lot to be done for Shanzhai Pengci movies.

Xu Nan searched the Internet and found out that the film "Surfing the River During the Qingming Festival" by the great director Zhang Yange is about to be released, and the first trailer has already been released.

Seeing the lineup, the investment, and the production company, Xu Nan couldn't be more excited.

Is this a person without touching porcelain?

Resolutely, he spent three hours writing the script for the movie "On the River at Qingming".

Generally speaking, after the first trailer comes out, the movie will be released within one to two months.

Therefore, Xu Nan's time is very tight, and he must finish filming "A Picture of Shanghe on Qingming" in the shortest possible time, so that it can be released ahead of them.

Yes, this movie will be released ahead of Zhang Yange's "Riverside During the Qingming Festival".

Liu Yang has been in the industry for quite a long time, and he has seen quite a few knockoff movies, but he has never seen such a blatant knockoff movie.

The most important thing is that the cost is only 20 yuan, what is this money enough for?
"Mr. Xu, why don't you add some money, the money is too little, it's not enough to do anything." Liu Yang asked in confusion.

"No way, the company only has this little money." Xu Nan spread his hands as a bachelor.

You think he doesn't want to make big productions or be a big director, because he doesn't have money.

After paying off the loan with the money from selling the house, the remaining money is only enough for him to make bad movies.

"Or, find a way to find some investors and let them invest some money." Liu Yang suggested.

This is also a common practice in the film industry. To produce a film, the film company itself only pays a small part of the money or even does not pay, and the investors bear the bulk and risks.

Xu Nan shook his head: "Our company just lost money on a movie, and no one will invest in our new movie."

"Moreover, an increase in investment means that it will be more difficult to pay back. If the filming cost is 20 yuan, the box office of 50 yuan can be paid back. If the investment is increased, it will be difficult to make money."

"In addition, our movie must be released ahead of Zhang Yange's movie. The time is tight and we don't have time to find investors."

Seeing the tangled expression on Liu Yang's face, Xu Nan patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, I will be the director and producer of the film. You only need to be responsible for the filming. The money that should be given will not be less, and there will be bonuses after the film is released."

"Okay." Liu Yang reluctantly agreed.

Just give money.

bad movie?

That's a bad movie.

(End of this chapter)