I didn't want to be an actor

iQiyi first invested in movies, aiming at the online movie track!

Since 2014, iQiyi has been focusing on online movies and created a business model for sharing revenue with the platform. In the following two years, the output and revenue of online movies have grown by leaps and bounds.

According to iQiyi's statistics, in 2015, nearly 700 "online movies" were launched online, of which more than 90% were released on iQiyi;

There were 35 films with revenue sharing exceeding one million in 2015, and it is expected that there will be 200 in 2016 and 500 in 2017.

iQiyi thinks online movies have a future!

Then... the policy came out, and online movies must be formalized. Then, a large number of traditional film and television companies announced their entry into online movies.

In 2019, Tengxun Video also announced that it would cooperate with Stephen Chow's Star Shine Company to produce self-made movies. Less than a week later, Ning Hao also announced at the 10th anniversary press conference of Bad Monkey Pictures that he would cooperate with iQiyi to enter the online movie market.

Online movies are refined and cinematic, and then... they are not profitable!

For example, after Huawen Yingxiang started to make online movies, its first project "Mechanical Painted Skin" was known as "Science Fiction Liao Zhai", combining science fiction and horror elements. It found Guo Biting, who had just got married and was popular at the time, to star in it, as well as actors familiar to the public such as Duan Bowen and Liu Yiwei. The final box office share was nearly 10 million. Considering the estimated pay of the actors, it lost at least more than 10 million!

Then... iQiyi also started to invest in movies.

Like all wealthy companies, iQiyi cooperates with Hong Kong filmmakers!

Because traditional mainland film companies simply ignore him!

The film industry is very exclusive. In the years when the market was good, many people could not get in with money. At most, they could only follow the investment at a premium, or spend money to guarantee the release...

Hong Kong filmmakers are different. They take money if they are given...

By the way, when Pang Ho-cheung complained that the mainland coal boss interfered with the creation and wanted his girlfriend to be the leading actress, in fact, Pang Ho-cheung did not care about these. What he cared about was that the coal boss did not give money!

Coal bosses are not fools. A lot of things happened in the mainland film industry in those years. Most of them were filmmakers cheating people out of money. The most typical example was "Butterfly on Shoulder", which directly cheated investors to the point of jumping off a building...

There are also a lot of people who took the money but did nothing!

You don't want me to pay for the finished film? No way!

Ahem, let's talk about iQiyi.

They have basically made police and gangster films and anti-gang films in recent years...

The most successful one should be "Sweeping Gangs: Decisive Battle", which cost 30 million and had a box office of over 400 million.

"Raging Tide" is also good, with a cost of 30 million and a box office of over 200 million...

By the way, it saved Zhang Jiahui!

After Zhang Jiahui fell out with Louis Koo, he withdrew from the group. "The Raging Tide" made a small profit, and "Rebirth" made a small profit again... Duan Kun should continue to work with Zhang Jiahui in his next film...

Although the quality of "The Raging Tide" and "Rebirth" can only be considered acceptable, they are much better than Hong Kong films. Apart from other things, the styling is much better than that of Hong Kong films...

Shen Liang is very interested in police and gangster films, but the kind of police and gangster films he likes with logical plots and some jokes, like "Veteran" and "Crime City", iQiyi can't make them...

As for anti-gang films, you are not allowed to focus on pleading for the people, upholding justice, the sinister nature of human beings, moral alienation, and institutional injustice...

How to show justice?

Using tricks to turn anti-gang films into anti-Japanese dramas is like a bear trying to break a stick.

Quite difficult...

However, Yang Bei mentioned "Cup of Snow", which is "Heroes of Troubled Times", a work by Xiao Lin...

Shen Liang is quite interested in this.

"Cup of Snow" is Xiao Linyi's first work. The plot is that Luo Han, a young man from the desert, goes to the Central Plains once every three years just to send a medicine cup to his friend Yi Lian. During this year's cup-sending journey, in order to help Yi Lian out of trouble, Luo Han joined the game himself, which led to a huge theft of stolen silver, involving all the gangsters and dignitaries from the court, stirring up the world's current situation.

The background is the Song Dynasty, with in-depth discussions on history, family and country, and friendship. Poems and allusions are readily available, and joys and sorrows are all in the pen, representing the extremely high level of new martial arts.

Especially the fifth volume of "Cup of Snow", "Tingyun·Zongshi Shuangqi": During the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin army invaded the south, and heroes emerged in troubled times. Luo Han, a young man from the northern desert, stirred up the entire Jiangnan situation with a magical sword. He took away the stolen silver from the treacherous ministers, experienced countless life and death twists and turns, and finally sent the silver to the anti-Jin righteous army in Huaishang.

There are rivers and lakes, courts, and family and country righteousness!

If the traitor is changed to Qin Hui, and the anti-Jin heroes are changed to Yue Family Army...

It is not as interesting as "Man Jiang Hong"!

However, "Bei Xue" has too many plots, which is more suitable for TV series.

There is no rush for this...

Decide it first, the script must be greatly adapted.

It must be difficult. Youku did "Bei Xue" for more than a year, and then gave up!

Among the new martial arts in mainland China, the copyright adaptation is basically Cang Yue's "Mirror" series, and the copyright is basically in Penguin Pictures. With money and background, there is no problem in development...

Bu Feiyan's works are also selling well. "Wulin Inn" is on Netflix, not Netflix in the United States, but a domestic film and television company. The boss is the former Youku executive and Li Kun of Beijing Satellite TV. "Xura Road" was sold to Beijing Literature.

The most famous Feng Ge's "Kunlun" and "Canghai" were developed by Huanrui Film and Television. The screenwriter was Wen Haojie. Later, the project stagnated, and Huanrui sold the IP and the script as a whole...

So far, no company has been found to take over!

Tang Que's works are also slow to be adapted into films and TV series. Currently, there is only "Sky City" - this is a book that was written by Tang Que after the script was written.

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As of July 8, "New Journey" was released for 15 days, with a cumulative box office of 2.48 billion, and then "Detective Wars" was released...

The director of "Detective Wars" Wei Jiahui is known as: a genius screenwriter + a professional director.

His hands-on ability has never been praised, and the early "Peace Hotel" can be seen as a typical tiger head and dog body and snake tail. At the beginning, there is a black and white memory of Chow Yun-fat, and the entrance of Cecilia Yip efficiently explains the character of the characters. Coupled with the slightly great concept of peace in the Peace Hotel, the beginning is perfect.

Then it collapsed all the way, and the whole film was neither fish nor fowl. It was called the only bad film in Chow Yun-fat's peak period!

After Wei Jiahui left the Milky Way, he filmed "Ghost Rhapsody", "Himalayan Star", "Shopaholic" and "Rebirth", which were almost all dragged down by the director's ability.

Including "Detective Wars", you can say that some sections are wild and intense, with shocking scale, but what is the specific difference between this intensity and the works of other directors, such as Chen Musheng, Qiu Litao, Zheng Baorui, etc.?

The rhythm is broken!

Liu Qingyun acted very well, and he did act out that crazy state, but the crazier it is, the faster the rhythm, the more logical self-consistency is needed to convince the audience!

This movie is no threat to "New Journey".

The box office of 154 million in the first week, "New Journey" closed at 340 million in the third weekend, 17 days after the release, and the cumulative box office exceeded 2.8 billion...

However, there are many more posts discrediting "New Journey"...

Something like "New Journey" seems to be large-scale, but in fact it can't change anything", "Is "New Journey" considered to be stepping on its peers to get to the top? ' and "208 made a movie that satirizes 208? '