Chapter 719 Box Office Results
In the private room of Julu Hotel, Li Yang sat opposite Gong Nanbei, with more than a dozen dishes on the table in front of them.
Li Yang knew that Gong Nanbei would not drink alcohol, so he didn't order wine. Li Yang picked up a glass of orange juice and said, "Brother, I'll give you a drink now!"
Gong Nanbei smiled and picked up the orange juice and clinked glasses with Li Yang. After drinking it all, Li Yang couldn't wait to ask: "Brother, I said on the phone that the script has been settled?"
Gong Nanbei picked up a chopstick and smiled and said, "Well, this script is quite innovative!"
While eating fish, Gong Nanbei took out a script in the folder and handed it to Li Yang.
Li Yang took it over and looked at it impatiently. Gong Nanbei did not disturb him and ate the meal happily.
"The Demon City"
Li Yang whispered the name of the movie, which was the movie that Gong Nanbei changed from the previous movie "Train to Busan".
Li Yang opened the script and at the beginning, there were a set of storyboard shots on the script, which were storyboard shots of a zombie deer.
The originally lively and cute deer has half of her face covered with hair, while the other half is covered with dense bumps, which makes people shudder.
Li Yang also felt that he was surprised and became interested in it for no reason.
This is very strange for horror movies. Many people are obviously afraid of death, but they still want to watch them for no reason.
Li Yang started reading the script. The story mainly consists of stockbroker Gong Nanbei leading his daughter to the Demon City to see his ex-wife. During this period, an infected person was mixed into the train where the two were on. At that time, the infected person was in the mutation stage.
After getting on the train, she first infected the flight attendant and then began to infect people in other cars! More and more people were infected. In life and death, human nature is good at evil, and it is vividly interpreted on the train!
Everyone does their best to survive, but some are selfish and some are great.
Especially after seeing the group of people experiencing great hardships to come to the front carriage, they were even more heart-wrenching after being driven out by those people.
After Li Yang finished reading the script, he was speechless for a long time.
He was so upset that he was even thinking, if the danger really came, would everyone be exactly the same as the script was written?
Gong Nanbei did not have these worries, and he almost ate all the dishes in front of him alone.
He burped comfortably, took another big sip of orange juice and smiled, "How about Brother Li, this script is good?"
Li Yang nodded slowly and breathed a sigh of relief: "I just don't know if I can review it. There are too many dark sides in this movie!"
Gong Nanbei smiled and said, "There should be no problem. In the past two years, there were a lot of black coal mines and human traffickers. Compared with them, this movie is a tiny thing!"
When Li Yang thought about it, this is indeed the case. Besides, if this was a co-produced by North and South Media and Huaying Group, who would not give face? At worst, you can modify some plots at that time.
Thinking of this, Li Yang also had a smile on his face. He was about to pick up a chopstick dish when he saw the mess.
Gong Nanbei doesn’t look embarrassed either. It’s not that I don’t let you eat. Who else can you blame for reading the script yourself?
Li Yang smiled and put down his chopsticks and said, "Are you full with me?"
Gong Nanbei patted his stomach with satisfaction and said, "I'm full."
Upon hearing this, Li Yang smiled and called the waiter to come in and clean up, and then asked them to serve a pot of good tea and some snacks.
The two of them were drinking tea while chatting about movies.
"Brother Gong, how much is the expected investment for this movie?"
Gong Nanbei savored the tea carefully and said with a smile: "Two million is about the same, mainly special effects makeup and actor pay. If the actors use their own people, they can have a lot of money left. Special effects plus publicity, 200 million is enough."
"In this way, we have a wholly-owned investment in this movie! The actors and teams are available for you to choose, we don't care about anything, and we give it to us overseas channels. How about the box office we scored 55 points?"
Gong Nanbei smiled and said, "Just talk to my agent about these things. I don't understand them very much, but I know that my agent will not let me suffer."
Li Yang smiled and nodded, "That's fine, then we'll make a preliminary decision?"
"It's decided, but we have to say it's a brand new attempt. I can't guarantee the final box office and reputation."
Li Yang smiled and said, "Of course, there is no 100% profitable transaction in the world. Investment is risky. I understand this!"
After saying that, he took the initiative to pick up the teacup and said, "I want to toast you this cup!"
Gong Nanbei was not humble either. He smiled and picked up the teacup and slapped it all.
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A week later, the animation short film was completed, and Gong Nanbei took a look at it and it was pretty good.
The research method is also very simple. Find one hundred people at the age of twenty to thirty, one hundred people at the age of thirty to forty, and one hundred people at the age of forty to fifty! Let these people give evaluations after watching the movie.
Two days later, the research results came out.
The praise rate is as high as 80%, and more than 60% of people expressed their willingness to go to the cinema to watch movies. Such data is enough!
Wang Mong Kok also negotiated with Li Yang to the final contract, Li Yang was responsible for all expenses and foreign channels, while Gong Nanbei was responsible for the shooting team, and the interests were paid out!
The artist's pay and the makeup artist's special effects props and other fees are all included in the Huaying Group.
However, Huaying Group requires a title, which means to the outside world, this is a movie of Huaying Group, but the copyright is only from North and South Media.
After Fengtian learned about this news, he also took the initiative to participate, willing to let the artists reduce their pay and even bring funds to the group!
Tianyu is the same, and Gong Nanbei did not refuse this. Nanbei Media has just become the top three, so there is no need to be too stale with the other two companies. Only when everyone gets rich is really making a fortune!
So Gong Nanbei said about his requirements for actors, and asked Fengtian and Shanlan to find the right one in their company and wait until September 2nd to interview Nanbei Media!
Time passed leisurely, and August was spent peacefully.
On September 1st, the total box office of the movie came out!
"The First of Love" has a total box office of 300 million!
"Mo Qin" has a total box office of 2.9 billion!
"Detective Chinatown" has a total box office of 3.2 billion!
"The End" has a total box office of 3.8 billion!
The entire media in the north and south were filled with laughter. I won’t talk about “Where Are You in Love”, and my pants were all lost.
But "Mo Qin" and "Detective Chinatown" made a lot of money, especially "Detective Chinatown", which had a total investment of only 100 million yuan, but it brought such a huge profit!
If it weren't for "Martian Rescue", the highest box office in China would have been almost broken by it!
Of course, this is also because the North and South Studios have taken over Shanlan Cinemas. If there were so many theaters in "The God of Medicine" or "Martian Rescue" at the time, the results would definitely be better!
Gong Nanbei waved his hand and Yan Tao and Gong Nanbei gave a big red envelope of one million! Wang Haoxuan and Gong Nanbei gave a one million red envelope! Almost everyone in the crew gave a dividend of five hundred thousand.
Only North and South Media in the entire entertainment industry can have such large red envelopes.
And time has also come September 2, the day when Gong Nanbei interviewed.
Chapter completed!