In order to compete for this rare summer vacation slot, major Hollywood film companies have launched a hand-to-hand battle. In order to win over their own audiences, major movie theaters are using all kinds of tricks, such as "buying tickets with prizes", "watching movies with prizes", etc.
There are "star interactions", "close contact between the leading actors and the audience", etc. Almost all the tricks that can attract the audience are used.
No way, there are so many movie theaters in Los Angeles. You can see the new movies you want to watch anywhere, anytime. Even a US president once said, "If my campaign posters were posted in movie theaters all over Los Angeles,
In front of the goal, I believe my opponent will have to wait a hundred years to beat me!"
This shows how fierce the competition in the film industry is. Just to control theater chains, they go to great lengths.
Compared with ordinary summer movies, several blockbusters released by Hollywood this year are quite evenly matched. These include the war blockbuster "Saving Private Ryan", the science fiction blockbuster "The Last Day", and the monster blockbuster "Godzilla". In addition,
In addition, there are some excellent American movies produced at a medium to low cost, such as "The Truman Show", "Good Will Hunting", etc. These movies are mainly comedies and thrillers, and their main purpose is to attract American teenagers. However, compared with these blockbusters,
Now, their situation can only be described as "surviving in the cracks."
At the entrance of a certain cinema, Yi Feiyang carefully observed the flow of people coming and going in the cinema, analyzing the audience watching the movie and their opinions on each movie.
Looking at the posters posted around him, almost all of them were occupied by two American blockbusters. Many viewers also bought tickets for "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Last Day". Yi Feiyang vaguely heard them talking about the starring actors of these two dramas.
Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis were compared repeatedly, from appearance to personality, to private life, and even tidbits published in newspapers... and it was finally deduced that the movie would be a big success at the box office.
Others don't know, but Yi Feiyang knows it very well.
The runner-up in the North American box office rankings in 1998 was "Saving Private Ryan", a movie directed by the great director Steven Spielberg and starring the Hollywood star Tom Hanks, with nearly 480 million
It ranked second at the box office in US dollars. It is characterized by shocking scenes of war violence, and the connotation is "Is it worth sacrificing more people to save one person?"
The North American box office champion in 1998 was "The End of the World," a disaster film directed by science fiction director Michael Bay and starring Hollywood tough guy Bruce Willis. It ranked first with a global box office of nearly 560 million.
Top of the list. It is characterized by grand sci-fi scenes and a powerful rendering of human nature in times of disaster.
What's also interesting is that in terms of box office in North America, "The Last Day" lost to "Saving Private Ryan". It seems that the great director Steven Spielberg's appeal in the country is still super strong.
As for the monster movie "Godzilla", although it is still a science fiction film in terms of subject matter, its connotation surpasses most monster types and formed a new science fiction model.
It can be seen that compared to Hong Kong movies, which are declining, Hollywood movies are not only blooming, but are also constantly exploring and improving.
As a Chinese, there is no one who doesn’t like Hong Kong movies. Unfortunately, the development mechanism of Hong Kong movies is too backward. In the end, it will not be able to form an industrial model like Hollywood. There is a serious following of trends and a serious star system. In the end, all the money to make a movie will be lost.
Celebrities’ salaries have gone up…
Unlike Hollywood, there are various types of films and complete technologies. More importantly, Hollywood implements a director system, and the director is the big brother. You stars only have one tool. If you want to get a high salary, OK, you can go to the 20 million club.
Damn it, the director wouldn’t be stupid enough to spend all the production money on you...
After coming back to his senses, Yi Feiyang felt firsthand the fierce competition in the American Hollywood summer season. If nothing else, once these two or three blockbusters are released, other low-cost productions will most likely become cannon fodder.
In contrast, I don't know if my upcoming "Blair Witch" can defy the heavens and create new miracles like its previous life.
At this moment, someone who never believed in fate had to mutter: "God bless!"
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The entrance to the "Old Corn" cinema.
Yi Feiyang didn't understand why the black dad named this cinema "Old Corn".
Maybe he hopes his theater will be as strong and full of nutrients as old corn.
Five cinemas, including "Old Corn", will screen the thriller "The Blair Witch" carefully produced by Yi Feiyang tonight.
As the second pot of gold in robbing Hollywood, Yi Feiyang, a "second-rate movie dealer", has high hopes for this movie. He hopes that it will have a high box office and a good reputation, so he will not hesitate to spend the last of his financial resources to make it.
The cinema was newly decorated, and eye-catching banners to attract customers were hung at the entrance of the cinema, and hundreds of movie posters were printed and posted everywhere.
But do these work?
It's about an hour before the movie starts.
Fat Gao Jiabao, who is Yi Feiyang's best friend, is the important person tonight...the conductor!
In Fatty's own words, he was worried about someone else taking his movie ticket money, so it was better to manage it himself.
Of course, before that, Yi Feiyang had already taught him an important lesson about "looking forward to the box office".
"I have made a rough calculation. We now have 5 cinemas showing this movie. On average, the capacity of a cinema is 100 customers. A customer needs to spend 2 US dollars to buy a ticket. Just multiply the revenue of one movie
That’s US$1,000; based on five screenings per day, the total box office per day is US$5,000; and the total number of days we rent is 30 days a month, so by the end of the month, the total box office will be US$150,000!”
"Of course, 150,000 U.S. dollars is not enough to repay Mr. Tuo's loan, but don't worry, once the reputation of our film becomes public, are you afraid that those film companies will not come to you to ask for the film source? Then we will sharpen the knife.
Kill one by one, kill a pair by a pair! Put a lot of money into your pockets, and you are afraid that you will have no money?!"
Yi Feiyang's words made Fatty's blood boil, and he immediately shouted: "Believe you once, and I'll collect the money!"
In order to show his ability in collecting money, Fatty worked hard to practice collecting accounts, making change, and distinguishing counterfeit banknotes. His ability was unanimously praised by Yi Feiyang and others.
Now it's finally time to test Fatty's ability. Yi Feiyang looked at his watch and heard the sound of footsteps. Fatty, who was the number one conductor tonight, was here!
Yes, he is coming!
Yi Feiyang turned his head to look, but was shocked.
I saw a fat man with feathers on his head, a bone chain around his neck, bare chest and breasts, and a fat belly. He was dressed like a native Indian, except for playing with a javelin in his hand.
"What did you do? Why are you dressed like this?"
"This is called packaging, do you understand? I asked the black dad, and he said that in addition to blacks and whites, there are more Indians in this area, so I had an idea and dressed up like this... Believe me, I
This outfit is sure to create an unusual sense of intimacy!”
Yi Feiyang was completely defeated by Fatty's whimsical ideas!
"It's almost time, hurry up and get ready, there might be a lot of people in a while, so you have to be smart!" Yi Feiyang reminded.
"Don't worry, I'm the best at collecting money!" The fat man happily walked into the ticket office and started to prepare.
Time passed little by little.
A large banner in front of the cinema fluttered in the night wind, printed on it: The new horror film "Blair Witch" will be released tonight!
On a nearby wall, there is also a movie poster, which shamelessly deleted the original authors Dennis and Adelaide and replaced it with the words Yi Feiyang as the screenwriter and Yi Feiyang as the director.
In fact, what Yi Feiyang did after purchasing all the copyrights, including the authorship rights, was to post-edit the unedited drama, and then reshoot a few scenes where the plot didn't flow smoothly.
According to the content of this play that I watched in my previous life, I made some reasonable modifications, which can be said to be the finishing touch.
Faced with such banners and posters, people were not attracted. The entrance to the cinema was crowded, making this upcoming movie look unusually "depressed".
