During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 62 Box Office and Filming

On September 9, "Dead Silence" was officially released. Thanks to the fame of "Latent" and the publicity effect of Wei and Jin, the film opened more than 16 times on the first day, with a box office of 2500 million, and the three-day box office of the first weekend reached After raising an exaggerated 870 million, the executives of Summit Entertainment were ready to open champagne to celebrate.

But Wei Jin knew that this was just a curiosity. He was not particularly optimistic about movie tickets. Without him, it would be too scary.

Sure enough, the box office in the second week of release was 1600 million, which was cut in half, and the direction of public opinion began to change. Some media accused such a terrifying movie that it should not be released. Some media even reported that some viewers fell into fainting in the theater and demanded compensation from the producer.

After emergency public relations from Summit Entertainment, the matter was quickly calmed down, but the prospect of the movie was always cast a shadow.

However, these have little to do with Wei Jin. He has already joined the filming of "The Conjuring".

The biggest feeling that Wei Jin felt when filming a movie in North America was that it was boring, because the entire crew was formed temporarily, and neither the staff nor the actors were familiar with it, and the filming process was simply lackluster.

Fortunately, James Wan is here, so he can chat with Wei Jin about movie ideas and some interesting things in Hollywood.

James Wan was also impressed by the Eastern director who has a common ancestor with him. He originally thought that he was just creative in his mind, but after joining his crew in person, he discovered that Wei Jin seemed to have the finished film in his mind, and his shooting accuracy was extremely high and his efficiency was terrifying.

At the same time, after reading the sequel scripts of Wei and Jin's "Dead Silence" and "Latent", James Wan also officially agreed to become the director of the sequel. As for the specific cooperation method, he still needs to discuss with Summit Entertainment.

After finding a qualified tool man, Wei Jin was in a very good mood. It seemed that under the influence of the director, the entire crew ran faster, and the filming progress even exceeded Wei Jin's imagination.

The movie "The Conjuring" tells the story of Roger and Caroline, a couple who moved to an old house in Harrisville, Rhode Island, with their five lovely and beautiful daughters in the 20s.

Although the house is old and has a long history, it allows the Perron family to experience the joy and joy of returning to the countryside.

Unexpectedly, the good times did not last long. One after another, strange incidents occurred one after another, causing the girls to scream and making the Perrons' nerves stretch to the extreme. For this reason, they searched for the most famous Warrens at the time, which triggered a series of strange incidents. After a series of horrific conflicts, the house eventually became their nightmare. Ten years later, everyone became distraught and finally decided to move away from Rhode Island.

This time, Wei Jin directed the film with a budget of 1000 million US dollars, which is much larger investment than the previous films. Of course, Wei Jin and Summit Entertainment have greater ambitions. They hope to use this film to achieve a global box office of 2 million or even 3 million. .

Wei Jin's salary for this movie reached 300 million US dollars plus 5% priority box office share. Public is public, private is private. Wei Jin will not treat himself badly in this regard. Summit Entertainment executives have no objection to this. Wei Jin has proven own strength.

During the filming, Scarlett also came to visit the team. She was busy filming the movie "Match Point", which is a criminal love movie about extramarital affairs. The widowed sister has not yet found her own way and is more interested in this movie. It's a movie with some literary and artistic attributes.

After the filming, I learned that Wei Jin was filming a new movie in North America, so I put aside all my work and came to the set to visit.

The two hadn't seen each other for almost half a year, and when they met, they naturally became very passionate.

In order to express her gratitude to Wei Jin for the song, Scarlett almost unconditionally met all of Wei Jin's requirements. For such good things, Wei Jin naturally did not reject anyone who came and tried many new ways of playing, including but not limited to various Postures and scenes that will get 404.

For several days in a row, Wei Jin felt refreshed, but the good times did not last long. After all, Scarlett had other schedules and could not always discuss the true meaning of sex and love with this strong man. A week later, Scarlett left. Wei Jin made up his mind to recruit a bed-warming assistant this time when he returned to China.

During the period when Wei Jin was filming his new film, news came from home from time to time.

"Bright Sword" premiered on CCTV in mid-September. It received rave reviews as soon as it aired. The peak ratings reached 9. Many media predicted that "Bright Sword" would be the ratings champion in 13.7. All major TV stations were competing for it. Grab the rights to play the second and third rounds.

Wei Jin knows that this is just the beginning. This drama will remain on the broadcast schedules of major local satellite TVs for many years to come. The long tail effect is really powerful. This can be regarded as the most successful investment of Wei Jin Fengliu Film and Television Company. , invested 500 million, accounting for 30% of the shares, and will bring tens of millions of profits to the company in the future.

In addition, thanks to the dazzling performance of "Bright Sword", "Latent", which has been in the company's backlog, was also successfully spotted by Mango Channel. It was purchased at a price of 80 per episode and is expected to be broadcast in November. It is obvious that it wants to take advantage of the war of resistance. The popularity of period dramas.

In fact, all the post-production of the TV series "Latent" has been completed long ago, but the major TV stations have not been very interested in buying this drama, and the price has never been able to go up. Wei Jin made the final decision not to sell it for the time being.

Because Wei Jin knew that spy war dramas would soon rise. The reason was naturally the market gap caused by the decrease in criminal investigation dramas.

In 2005, Shangfeng issued a series of requirements for TV dramas on criminal investigation themes. In short, the Criminal Investigation Bureau in China was too popular in the past few years, and some criminals applied what they learned, which caused a bad impact. So starting from 2005, The number of criminal investigation dramas has been greatly reduced, and this phenomenon will not improve until Skynet gradually becomes more popular.

As the best alternative to criminal investigation dramas, spy war dramas have officially appeared on the stage. Because these two genres have a common feature, they both watch how the righteous side battles wits and courage with the evil side. Therefore, the spy war dramas have started a long-term It’s no surprise that it has been on the road to popularity for more than ten years.

It's hard to predict the ratings of "Latent", but what can be predicted is that Zeng Li should be a hit this year.

In addition, the Huayi earthquake that lasted for more than two months has officially come to an end. Most of the artist team, led by Wang Jinhua, left collectively and switched to Orange Sky. However, what is interesting is that Fan Bingbing and Li Bing, who Wang Jinhua single-handedly made famous, Bing, Ren Quan and others did not go with her, but chose to stay in Huayi.

But after all, Huayi is also a top company in the industry, and it still has many agents and artists. It is currently rushing to fill the gap after Wang Jinhua and his team left. For those artists who decide to leave, Huayi also quickly withdraws resources, announcements, endorsements or Film appointment.

In order to stabilize the few artists under its banner, Huayi also began to formally allocate original shares and bundle artists, paving the way for the subsequent listing of a large number of stars worth billions.

In terms of movies, "Myth" was released on September 9. Since there were no competitors in the same period, it dominated the National Day slot, but its performance was poor. For more than a month after its release, the mainland box office stopped at 23 million, and the Hong Kong box office was more than 9700 million. I don't know how much it will cost 1700 million Hong Kong dollars. Cost, how much the investor will lose.

The domestic turmoil did not affect Wei Jin. On October 10, after finishing the filming and post-production of "The Conjuring", Wei Jin had officially embarked on a flight back to China. At the moment, he was happily calculating his profits on the plane.

"Dead Silence" was officially released a week ago, with a box office of 7280 million in North America and a global box office of 1.08 million. Summit Entertainment is all a little regretful about this. If it were not for the random reports by the media, the box office should have increased by to million.

The box office split of "Latent" has arrived. After deducting the publicity and distribution expenses, the box office can be split to 6800 million. Wei Jin private accounted for 20%, which is 1360 million US dollars. This part has been remitted to the country, and the single film has earned more than 1 million. At this moment, Wei Jin wanted to ask on the plane, who else is there! !

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