Rebirth 96: Begin the life of a monster from kindergarten

Chapter 212 Box Office Released
Because they are both in the Chinese cultural circle, Southeast Asia, the Bangzi Kingdom, and the Japanese Kingdom have relatively high awareness of Chinese culture compared to Western countries, and have always been important target markets for Chinese novels, films, and TV dramas to go overseas.

There is a joke that when a member of a certain Southeast Asian country is arguing, he will directly call his opponent Yue Buqun.

Since the establishment of Dreamweaver Culture, Zhang Yixing has been focusing on exporting his novels overseas. After all, almost all of his novels are copied overseas works, and he needs to seize the opportunity to gain recognition.

Art and cultural works are different from ordinary commodities. If one inspiration is taken away, the probability of generating another inspiration is not high.

Although there are many excellent works that can be copied in China, foreign works are enough to last a reborn person. Since there are choices, it is better to copy more foreign works.

If there is a charge for this kind of behavior, it would be to plunder capitalism.

After years of cultivation in overseas markets, Zhang Yixing's identity as a writer has gained a high reputation overseas.

Especially the hot sales of "Twilight" made him famous in Western countries.

"A Little Thing About First Love" was originally an adapted and copied version of the Shemale Kingdom movie. After being released in Southeast Asian countries, Bangzi Kingdom, and Japanese Kingdom, it became a hit in just a few days.

In Western countries, especially the ugly film market, the performance of "A Little Thing About First Love" is not too dazzling compared to some big productions, but considering its cost, it is still shocking.

The movie's marketing in the Ugly Country directly influenced the foreign classic novel "Flipped", and relied on the influence brought by the authorship of "Twilight" and the popularity of the song "Baby" to attract a lot of people. A large number of audiences entered the cinema.

One week after the movie was released, the total overseas box office of "First Love" reached US$3200 million in one week.

By the time the movie was released, "First Love" had grossed 8100 million yen at the Chinese box office and 7400 million US dollars overseas. The Japanese box office was particularly impressive, earning nearly 15 billion yen, equivalent to about 7000 million yen.

In the end, the global box office + DVD and other revenue, the total revenue data exceeded 6 million soft sister coins. Even if the theater chain's share, investors' share, shooting and publicity costs are removed, Dream Entertainment can still earn more than 2 million.

In the Mainland, the box office of "First Love" was not as good as last month's "The City of Gold," which released nearly 3 million, and not as good as last year's "The Banquet," which was 1.3 million.

However, these two large-scale productions aimed at overseas markets both encountered waterloo abroad. Golden Armor cost 3.6 million and the overseas box office was less than 5000 million US dollars, while The Banquet only received 2200 million US dollars overseas.

During the same period, the total box office of "Happy Birthday" in Mainland China and Hong Kong was 1100 million yuan, while "The Talented Man and the Beautiful Woman" directly hit the street.

Chinese-language films are among the top ten at the overseas box office. Since then, there have been two works by Zhang Yixing, one is "Kung Fu Panda" which ranked first, and the other is "A Little Thing About First Love" which ranked sixth.

The box office results of "First Love" once again shocked the domestic media because the production ratio is so high!

Having become famous at a young age and relying on popular works, Zhang Yixing is like a huge IP in his own right, with high national popularity and many loyal fans abroad, which has translated into real box office revenue.

But the main reason is that the quality of the movie itself is good enough to arouse people's emotional resonance and continue to attract people to the cinema.

There's nothing too profound about this movie, it's just a portrayal of common human emotions.

"Yixing, in the past few days, many film and television companies have been seeking cooperation, hoping to purchase the film and television rights of your novels!"

When Hu Weishi talked about this matter, Zhang and his party were not surprised.

Just like after "Kung Fu Panda" became a hit at the box office, a number of animation movie projects were immediately approved, and almost all of them were targeting domestic and foreign markets at the same time. If nothing else happens, many film and television companies will launch youth film projects in the future to pay tribute to youth and miss the rush of those years.

And "A Little Thing About First Love" set a pattern for future youth movies:

A good youth movie doesn’t necessarily have to use abortion as a gimmick!
Zhang Yixing thought for a while and said to Hu Weishi: "We can select film and television companies that are sincere and have high-quality work cases to cooperate, and participate in the development of film and television series by investing in copyrights and controlling production. As for outstanding new directors, for example, through " The group of short film directors that emerged from "The Birth of an Actor", in addition to owning copyrights and controlling production, can also provide financial investment when necessary. Compared with mature film and television companies, these new directors just lack money and opportunities. As for new directors, they are short of money. The problem of lack of experience can be solved by Mr. Huang Lei. He is a good teacher. He must have tasted the benefits of working with him this time, not to mention that many of the participating directors are students from his school! "

Although "A Little Thing About First Love" was a box office hit, it was impossible for Zhang and his team to film so many novels one by one by themselves.

Even in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse, I can’t finish filming.

In Zhang Yixing's eyes, directing is just a profession similar to that of a contractor.

What Zhang Yixing owns are endless copies of foreign works. When the time comes, he only needs to sit back and control the quality of film and television dramas, and he can completely let others shoot.

There is no shortage of directors in China. Every year just the directing class of Beijing Film Academy graduates many students.

However, there are very few directors who have the opportunity to direct film and television dramas as soon as they graduate, and there are also many graduates who are forced to work as advertising directors or even change careers due to pressure to make a living.

Zhang and his party may be able to bring new vitality to the film and television industry by helping new people along the way.

When Huang Lei, who was recording the "The Birth of an Actor" program, heard Zhang Yixing's proposal, he agreed without hesitation.

In the past, I taught people how to act, but now I directly teach directors in batches, and they are very impressive when it comes to speaking out.

At Huang Lei's suggestion, "A Little Thing About First Love" was selected for the Hong Kong Film Awards in April this year.

Zhang himself is not interested in participating in such ceremonies, and the fairness of the Academy Awards has always been controversial.

A gold cup or a silver cup is not as good as the audience’s reputation!

However, Huang Lei, Shu Chang and others all attached great importance to this kind of award, so Zhang and his party gave Huang Lei full authority to lead the team to handle this matter.

Huang Lei had previously made two movies in a row, so he was naturally particularly concerned about this movie that could almost help him avenge his shame, even though he only had the title of assistant director.

Not long after agreeing that Huang Lei would lead the team to participate in the Academy Awards, Shu Chang called: "Are you really not going to attend the Academy Awards ceremony in April?"

"I don't plan to be a director or actor all the time, so I won't participate. You and Mr. Huang will be the representatives. Come on, be optimistic!"

"Well, if you win the prize, I'll get it back for you!"

"it is good!"

(End of this chapter)