How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 799 [White Snake: Origin]

Since 2015’s “Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage”, it has made 9.54 million.

With a box office of nearly one billion yuan, it broke into the top ten box office rankings of the year (although it was ranked tenth) and ranked seventh in the box office rankings of the annual domestic films.

The mainland animated film industry, which had been in slump after the decline of the Magic City Film Studio, suddenly attracted attention.

Without it.

In terms of live-action movies, the competition is so fierce that even if many investors have money, they cannot squeeze in.

no way.

There are 365 days in a year in the Mainland Film Market (of course, film markets around the world also have this many days), which seems like a lot of time.

But if you really count it out.

A movie that is a hit at the box office has to occupy at least a month's schedule.

As for live-action film and television projects, what kind of harm and critical blow can it cause to small and medium-sized investors?

Among these 44 movies with a box office of over 100 million yuan, there must have been huge investments and losses, and there were quite a lot of them.

In one year, there are only thirty-six box office hits.

Even within a one-month period, three box-office hits can be released at the same time.

But the amount of large capital attracted is more than that.

There are far fewer tricks that can be done in animated films.

And not to mention the amount of large capital, the amount of small capital coveted in the film and television industry is even more numerous.

Here is an example - Wu Moubo, who just overturned in September 2018, put aside the experience of the "Grand Military Division Sima Yizhi Military Division Alliance" project in 9.

However, those movie projects that have a high probability of becoming popular based on the cast lineup, director selection, and IP popularity are simply not enough points.

In other words, there are only forty-four film projects worthy of investment in Mainland China in 2018.

And compared to live-action film and television projects, there are weird and magical operations that can cause various damages and critical hits to small and medium-sized investors.

The initial investment cost of the [Great Military Advisor Sima Yizhi Military Advisor Alliance] was more than 200 million yuan.

Under such circumstances, naturally a lot of capital chooses to jointly bet on animated films, so there is often a long list of investors in animated film projects in mainland film and television.

And since everyone has become a capital, they naturally have good vision.

Even in 600, when the cumulative box office for the whole year reached a new high, exceeding 2018 billion yuan, there were only 44 movies with a box office of over million yuan in a year.

After all, there are no male or female stars in animated movies, and most of the directors are not well-known.

But even assuming that none of the forty-four films lost money.

But take a closer look at the box office results of domestic films.

And don’t look at the current booming film market in mainland China, which will bring in box office sales of hundreds of millions, billions, or billions of yuan.

For those movie projects that will make you crazy at first sight, you may invest a small amount of money to take a gamble, but you will never spend a lot of money.

But not all of the twelve months and three hundred and sixty-five days of the year are popular.

But the money was not enough, so it was doubled.

However, the original investors were unwilling to follow the investment, so Wu Moubo naturally found other investors to fill the funding gap.

Then [Grand Military Advisor Sima Yizhi Military Advisor Alliance] went online and became a big hit, earning one billion RMB in revenue from its sales.

Then the original investors came and asked why there was less money allocated to them.

Wu Moubo said: Since you didn’t follow the investment, after diluting the investment amount, the money divided will naturally be less? And we have signed the agreement not to participate in the investment. The other party said: Agreement? What agreement? Who did you sign the agreement with?
In fact, there are many contracts for signing agreements for film and television projects like this.

And after the situation changes slightly, more contracts need to be signed.

As for the official seal and chairman of a large capital, there are many things to deal with every day. It is impossible for every contract to have a real official seal, signed and stamped by the chairman.

When everyone is an old acquaintance, it will be much more convenient for the assistant to basically do it with the imitation stamp.

And generally speaking, nothing happens.

Even if the project loses money, big capital will admit it, after all, the money has been invested.

But if the project makes money, then there will be a lot to talk about.

Of course.

The most important thing is that Wu Moubo stopped eating by himself.

People's big capital naturally holds the idea of ​​​​utilizing waste, and finally squeezes out a handful of money.

Therefore, the final result of [Great Military Advisor Sima Yi's Military Advisor Alliance] is that the original investors made a wave of net income several times without risk.

But the more real situation of investment in mainland film and television projects is that many small and medium-sized capital parties are "lucky" to join a good film and television project investment bureau.

Then the money was invested and the project became a big hit after it went online, but the profits were delayed and would not come back for several years.

This situation happens frequently. Investment in live-action film and television projects has naturally gradually turned into an investment black hole, while investment in animated films has slowly climbed up.

Plus 2015’s [Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage].

Then there were "Big Fish and Begonia" with a box office of 5.73 million yuan and "Bear Bears - Fantasy Space" with a box office of 5.21 million yuan.

As a result, more and more investors began to focus on animated films, which led to the film "White Snake: Origin" being released on the second day of the first week of "Big Shot", and its publicity was even greater than that of "Big Shot" Both are much bigger.

obviously.

The producers behind [White Snake: Origin] want to make [White Snake: Origin] replicate the success of 2015's [Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage].

After all, the popularity of the IP of "The Legend of White Snake" is comparable to that of "Journey to the West" and "Monkey King".

Even from certain angles - such as the love angle.

[The Legend of White Snake] even surpassed [Journey to the West] and [Sun Wukong].

Without it.

The eighty-one difficulties in the entire "Journey to the West" are almost one hundred if rounded up.

The only thing that can have a little love element is the difficulty of the daughter country, which has a little love.

As for the other difficulties, basically all of them were killed by those who didn't follow, and those who did followed blamed the parents for their worldliness.

And the love element in Sun Wukong?
All I can say is, how can a monkey who keeps the Seven Fairies live but only cares about eating peaches have any love elements?
It's hard to find any ambiguous elements.

You know, those are the Seven Fairies!

In terms of status, they include textile maids, maids, princesses, and married women in [The Fairy Match]... The seven fairies come in all kinds of colors and styles.

But maybe the love story of the cartoon paper man is really touching the real young people, and it lacks a lot of sense of substitution. Even with today's technological upgrades, it has become 3D modeling, which cannot completely make up for it.

Therefore, [White Snake: Origin] faced huge publicity momentum and was released during the Lunar New Year period, but in the end it failed to make much of a splash.

The box office revenue on the first day was only RMB 1028.42 million, which was even less than the RMB 1480.15 million of "Big Shot".

At the same time, [Big Shot], with Bao Beier's crazy image of Mr. Zhao becoming a hot topic, directly scored 2935.29 million yuan at the box office the next day.

(End of this chapter)