Wu Dingguo, who cooperated with Zhang Hong's performance, raised his hand and wanted to touch his beard.
Unfortunately, I felt empty.
Helplessly rubbed his hands, he said, "Or, give up the idea of high screening rate and find a small publisher. This kind of asking price is not high and it is a fixed quotation. The minimum box office standard can be set. If the box office is not up to the limit, others will not accept it.
money.
But the disadvantage is that this kind of small publisher has poor connections and there is basically no chance to schedule high-level films.
The second is to compromise. Give everything you should give. As long as your box office is high enough, you will still make a profit. Anyway, I don’t recommend you to play bets."
In fact, most young directors want to bet with others but they don’t accept it.
Zhang Hong is a new director in the film industry, but he is well-known enough in the TV series and screenwriter industries, so maybe someone is willing to take a gamble.
However, if you lose the bet, Zhang Hong will definitely go to the rooftop.
Young people are brave, and Wu Dingguo must have opposed him doing this.
Zhang Hongzhei continued to make dumplings in disappointment, "Uncle Wu, isn't this the same as saying nothing."
"I haven't finished talking yet." Wu Dingguo picked up the porcelain jar and took a sip of tea, "What if I say you can go to theaters at the same time."
Zhang Hong was stunned and looked up and said, "Idol Legend is also on theaters? Wasn't that played on TV?"
Wu Dingguo smiled slightly, "You can ask you to go to the cinema to release it first and then release it in two months."
Zhang Hong thought something.
If this is the case, it seems to be much better.
Because if you average it, the average cost of the two movies is over 20 million.
"Idol Legend" costs 5 million yuan, and it is Lao Wu's investment, and there is no return, or the return is that the movie will be broadcast on CCTV Channel 6.
"Sword Rain Xiaoxiang" costs more than 40 million yuan, but it is actually considered a big investment in domestic movies.
"Lost in Thailand", which started with a billion-dollar box office in Zhang Hong's previous life, had an investment of 30 million yuan, plus a marketing expense of 30 million yuan, totaling 60 million yuan.
Zhang Hong's film has surpassed Lost in Thailand in terms of investment, after all, he spent all his money on the film itself.
Moreover, a large number of actors are friendly and amateurs, and even Li Xinran is trying to squeeze out songs.
I feel like... can do it.
Zhang Hong thought about it and thought that this could be done.
He raised his head and said, "Uncle Wu, I think it's OK, what do you think?"
"I think it's average." Wu Dingguo said helplessly, "You Angkor is the senior executive of the theater. The final screening was decided by him and the theater. You kid just told him directly, "Isn't it done?"
Zhang Hong's eyes lit up!
It's amazing!
Angkor is from the theater company! Then you can skip the publisher directly! And the video sharing can be discussed!
No, the bottom line is that you can get 40% of the box office, and you can ignore it if you don’t want to.
As for the so-called publicity of the issuer...
Zhang Hong decided to speak by quality!
This was not without precedent in his previous life!
If the quality is really good, there will be no less tap water! And the theater cannot help but promote it!
If the quality is poor...then it will be useless if you spend more money on promotion and distribution!
Did it!
Zhang Hong looked at Wu Di with a wry smile, "Angkor, look at this..."
Wu Di still rolled the dumpling skin calmly.
Hearing the movie, he smiled and said, "Xiaohong, it's not that I don't help you, but that we are also watching the interests. Unless your movie is really good, I can't be favored, and the theaters are not my one-man show."
Moreover, the theater he has to face cannot force any junk movies.
Maybe it's OK at the beginning, but later it finds that the quality is not good, the theater itself will reduce the shooting and even withdraw the schedule to give way to the popular movies.
This is not about favors.
No one can make people lose nine or even ten digits of money to help you face.
What?
Why did you lose so much money?
It's very simple. For others, if you don't make money that you should have made, this is a loss.
Wu Dingguo gave Zhang Hong a wink, "Did you bring the sample?"
Zhang Hong suddenly realized, "Take it! Angkor, why don't we watch the movie?"
Wu Di smiled and said, "Make dumplings first, and watch while eating."
After saying that, he said to his father, "Dad, it turns out that you call me and call me back for dinner just for Xiaohong."
He told Zhang Hong two things.
First, as long as your movie quality is not bad, I will help you with this.
Second, it was my dad who called him back. Xiaohong, you have to bear this love.
Zhang Hong nodded and said gratefully: "I have to thank Uncle Wu and Angkor. I really can't do this without you!"
He will definitely remember this favor.
Anyway, if he really becomes a great director in the future, he will definitely not say "Wu Dingguo? A director who has made a movie before" when others ask about it.
He is not the kind of person who wants to go to other people's houses for the New Year and wants others to help order takeout but turns his back on him when he becomes more developed.
The Wu family father and son were satisfied.
That's enough.
They don’t need Zhang Hongzhen any help, nor do they need it.
But no one wants to help a ungrateful wolf.
Not to mention whether it is uncomfortable or not, it will feel disgusting when you think about it anyway.
After eating a meal of dumplings, Zhang Hong took the initiative to help his aunt wash dishes.
When everything was ready, the aunt helped the three of them make tea and went back to the room. The three men sat side by side on the sofa, rubbing their stomachs while burping while watching the samples brought by Zhang Hong.
First of all, "Sword Rain Xiaoxiang".
The rhythm of the whole film is very compact, but it is very depressing in the early and mid-terms.
This kind of repression is not the kind of superficial repression, but the kind of repression from the heart.
This movie is different from the martial arts films in the past.
It is not a martial arts knight who resists the evil court, and the court is not controlled by any villain, and no one wants to become the leader of the martial arts alliance.
This is just a story about the Jinyiwei chasing a rumor case.
but......
From emperors to ministers, from ministers to officials, to heroes from martial arts, to major sects, to all martial arts people, to ordinary people, everyone seemed crazy.
Just because of a rumor, a rumor that is more and more exaggerated, and a rumor that is fueled by various accidents, the whole world is crazy.
Halfway through seeing it, the Wu family and his son had already sat upright, and even subconsciously leaned forward.
They are getting involved.
Zhang Hong understood this feeling.
This film can only be said that they made it very well in the later period.
Light, color, editing, soundtrack.
All of this perfectly expresses the extreme depression, the protagonist's despair, and the crazy atmosphere of the whole world.
Zhang Hong understood this feeling.
This is the same as what he felt when he saw "The Demon Man" in his previous life.
That is the same feeling of concentrating the despair that all the evil in the world brings to the audience.
Moreover, this story has a prototype in Zhang Hong's previous life.
That was a real event that happened during the "I am the Qing Dynasty".
But Zhang Hong did not just go "literary" to the end.
In the second half of the plot, it is the stage of the protagonist's awakening.
It can also be said that it is the "crazy" stage.
He wants to find out the real culprit behind the spread of the rumor.
The tourists from the world block and kill them!
The martial arts sect blocks it and kills it!
The colleagues of the Jinyiwei stopped him and killed him!
East Factory blocks and kills!
Officials unconsciously spread rumors and kill them!
He fought all the way to the end and found the person who spread the rumors.
In a big battle, he successfully defeated the other party, but he was also seriously injured.
At this time, the dying other party just smiled and said that this matter was not spread by people all over the world themselves?
And even if you kill him, is it useful?
Obviously, there is no more.
The whole world is completely crazy.
Because of a false rumor, bad people use it as a weapon, good people use it as a defense, ordinary people use it to deal with people they hate, and officials use it to attack political enemies.
The emperor ordered a strict investigation of "rumors", which even passively indulged the development of rumors.
The movie ends in the silent black and white scene where the boss dies, the protagonist holds a blood-dropping knife and lowers his head.
The Wu family father and son breathed a sigh of relief.
"How to say it?" Wu Di lit a cigarette, then looked at the direction of the bedroom, quickly raised his hand and took a deep breath, then pressed it out in the ashtray, then got up and opened the window to ventilate.
When he sat back, he said, "The early stage is stressed, the middle and late stages are fun, and the end is sublimated theme, good. Dad, what do you think?"
"The overall situation is OK, let's take a look at the next one first." Wu Dingguo replied.
He already knew the positioning of this movie.
Now see how the other one is.
So soon, the three of them adjusted their mentality and started watching "Idol Legend".
As a result, it was sunny at the beginning, and the Wu family and his son nodded secretly, thinking that this was probably an ordinary campus idol talent show song and dance film.
Maybe it will take the inspirational route.
They also knew that Zhang Hong had participated in an idol selection variety show before.
I guess this kid was inspired by that time.
Both of them guessed the plot.
First, I went to the audition, and it was likely that I would pass it. Then I encountered setbacks later. There was also a beautiful second-team competitor villain who was stumbling everywhere.
At this time, the male protagonist appears, and all kinds of misunderstandings and other messes. In the end, the female protagonist successfully debuted and defeated the second female protagonist, and then "hugged the beauty back."
Well, the male protagonist in this kind of film should be a "vase".
But the next moment, when the heroine was hit by a car as soon as she left the door, both of them were stunned...
What? Take the route of a miserable drama?
It's also quite reasonable. The heroine was unable to participate in the selection due to a car accident, and then gave up on herself, and ended up defeating herself with the help of the hero.
Although cliché, it still makes people move.
But the next moment, when the heroine turned into a zombie, the two of them were completely stunned.