How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 671 Mainland Film and Television Circle: Film and Television Companies Sprung Up Like Bamboo Shoots After a Rain

mid-November.

The box office performance of "The Wandering Earth" in major movie theaters around the world has been very weak.

Seeing this situation, various new films have been released in major movie theaters around the world.

For example, in mid-November, the North American Film Market released three new films: "Maze Runner", "Interstellar" and "American Sniper".

Among them, the one that has the greatest relationship with Zhang Nan is of course "Maze Runner" starring Hu Ge and Da Tiantian.

But to say that Xuanfa has gained the most limelight, it must be [Interstellar].

Because this is director Christopher Nolan's latest masterpiece after "Inception" and "Batman 3", many people have become a little superstitious about the continued success of Christopher Nolan, who has been successful one after another.

Some people even think that Christopher Nolan is the next Zhang Nan in the director's position.

The result~
[Interstellar] used its first-week box office to severely prove the authenticity of that statement.

After all, the screenwriter of this film is his brother.

On the first day of release on Friday, it took in a box office of 1126 million U.S. dollars, and on the next day it took another 1346.9 million U.S. dollars. Finally, although the single-day box office on Sunday fell below the threshold of 778.2 million U.S. dollars, it dropped to Ten thousand dollars.

In the first five days, [Interstellar] finally reported a box office of nearly 50 million US dollars.

But no film will have a contemptuous attitude towards "The Wandering Earth".

Of course.

This result cannot be considered bad, after all, the subject matter of "Interstellar" is a science fiction film that is more literary and artistic.

Especially for someone like Da Tiantian, who has been in the industry for many years and whose movies have never had a box office hit.

[Interstellar] only received a box office of 135 million U.S. dollars. Under such circumstances, the box office the next day plummeted by nearly 80.1% to a box office of U.S. dollars.

However, it grossed US$3251.1 million in its first week. For a movie that has few fans of its predecessor and which premiered in the same week as Christopher Nolan’s latest masterpiece “Interstellar” after “The Wandering Earth” crazily swept the global movie market, the results are quite good.

Of course.

This wave of box office success of "Maze Runner" made him feel the joy of success for the first time. He only felt that the money he spent on jobs before was really worth it, and he even felt that he spent less money.

Fortunately, in the last three days of the weekend, "Interstellar" performed normally, taking in box office receipts of US$1687.1 million, US$1829.2 million, and US$1234.6 million.

Without it.

First day of release on Wednesday, November 11th.

Although movie theaters in North America and even around the world are releasing new films one after another, they took advantage of the weak box office trend of "The Wandering Earth" to strike hard.

Then the box office of "Maze Runner" in its first week seemed much more satisfactory.

If nothing else, Christopher Nolan can accept it.

But for Christopher Nolan, this result is very disturbing.

Directly tied to the popularity of the six nominations for the 87th Oscar, the film grossed more than million, nearly million U.S. dollars, in its first week.

The most unexpected thing is the box office performance of the film "American Sniper" in its first week.

The global cumulative box office of "The Wandering Earth" has exceeded the threshold of US$4 billion.

With its current results alone, "The Wandering Earth" has topped the global box office rankings in film history, raising its revenue by more than one billion U.S. dollars from "Avatar"'s 29.5 billion U.S. dollars.

And if nothing else goes wrong, the cumulative box office of "The Wandering Earth" can continue to rise, touching the threshold of US$5 billion in box office. After all, the box office trend of "The Wandering Earth" is weak, but the foundation is still there.

However, Zhang Nan's recent focus has not been on North America or other film markets around the world, but has been limited to the mainland film market.

It’s not that Zhang Nan wants to be limited.

But the box office figures of "The Wandering Earth" in the mainland are so appalling that there are too many people and capital who want to make money in the film industry, and too many people come to visit Zhang Nan Wharf.

Most importantly.

When people come to pay homage to the pier, they don’t come empty-handed.

The lowest level of portable gifts is 4% of the shares of the newly established film and television company after joining the circle.

The reason why it is 4% of the shares is because the rules in the stock market are that if you have 5% of the shares, you have to raise your sign, and your identity cannot be hidden.

Hiding your identity is illegal. (This is the rule for raising cards in the stock market, but the author is not sure about the actual situation. I just borrow this rule to rationalize this number.)
"Ali Pictures, Like Pictures, Penguin Pictures..." Zhang Nan murmured.

At the same time, Zhang Nan also had some doubts in his heart.

If nothing else, it was only in 2015 that Xu Zheng found several capital investors and directors such as Ning Hao to take the lead in establishing Like Pictures.

Later, it developed very well and made a lot of money, which made Ning Hao covetous and started Bad Monkey Pictures.

Penguin Pictures was only established in 2015.

It's all ahead of schedule now.

"I guess I was stimulated by [The Wandering Earth]." Zhang Nan could only give this explanation.

but……

Zhang Nan kept looking at the equity authorization letter that had been stamped and signed by Party A, and was very excited.

Because as long as he signs his name, he can get 4% of the equity of these film and television companies, and the price he pays is just to support them, which is almost free of charge.

But Zhang Nan knows one thing deeply, that is, there is no such thing as a pie in the sky.

He can imagine it as soon as he signs it.

Then these film and television companies will inevitably use various means to pull them into the chariot.

"Ali Pictures can rule it out on its own. Dad Ma has not had a good life for a few years, and the water is very muddy."

"Then Penguin Pictures can also be ruled out. The parent company is very interested. The film and television department has produced a movie adapted from the game [Warcraft] in the past few years, but there is no profit."

"It's okay to like the film industry. In the future, we will successively produce [Crazy Alien], [I'm Not the God of Medicine], [My Motherland and Me]... and other projects that will be big hits at the box office, so I'll sign it. .”

"Eh? Why do you still have a job in Mahua Pictures?"

Zhang Nan turned to ask Old Luke.

Old Luke looked at the document in Zhang Nan's hand and explained: "This was recommended by Mr. Chen of Wanda Pictures. Originally, Wanda Pictures planned to have a joint cooperation with Mahua Pictures. , but after speeding up and raising the pace and price of longbow issuance with us, the energy and funds are no longer able to bear it."

After listening to Old Luke's explanation, Zhang Nan looked at the equity authorization letter of Mahua Pictures, and there was also a project investment letter called "Charlotte Troubles".

Zhang Nan could only sigh slightly: "No wonder Wanda Pictures will withdraw from the film and television industry in the future. With such luck, there is no way not to quit!"

(End of this chapter)