Chapter 170: The jealous flame movie

Chapter 170 The Jealous Flame Movie
Sharjah-As September gets closer and closer, this summer is about to pass away, students are beginning to return to school one after another, and Santa Monica's beaches have also deserted a lot. In this pleasant seaside city, with the headquarters of many film companies, one of the recent booming flame movies is one of them.
In the Flame Film headquarters building, employees in each office are busy with laughter and laughter. The whole company is filled with happiness, good and good treatment and the company's bright prospects, which makes them very satisfied with this job; and this year the company The income is in a blowout state, and the bonus at the end of the year must be a lot.
Anyway, no matter what Oscar nominations or awards can be received in the "Ninth District", for the flame film, it is now a huge success. Its production cost is 100 million, of course the real number is more than 9.78 million, and the global publicity cost plus miscellaneous expenses such as copy transportation is about 10,000. The total cost is 600 million. It is definitely not cheap, but the global box office is 600 million in the three weeks of the release. In front of it, it seemed that it was no big deal.
The most popular R-rated movie grabbing money chairman in history to reproduce "The Ninth District" how much money can be made for the flame movie? If the global box office is 700 million, the flame movie can be divided into at least 100 million; the predictable sales of dVd are very good. It has a good reputation and is well-received. One of the benefits of cult movies is that cu1t fans like to collect dVd; In addition, the original sound CD, TV copyright income, etc ... is another coveted vault.
But the beauty is that this is a treasury, not a gold mine. There is no one-time move, because everyone in Flame Movies knows that grabbing money, the chairman said that "The Ninth District" will not shoot a sequel, at least temporarily, maybe ten. Shooting the sequel after the year may be another one; this is not surprising to everyone. This is in line with the chairman ’s traditional style. Show in an uncontrolled direction.
"Magic Baby" became "Mr. Magic", and the slogan on the cover of Time magazine represented an attitude: "Magic Yang, welcome to officially join the big director club"
What is a big director? In terms of rights, it has absolute control over directing a movie, the selection of characters, the details of the script, the way of filming ... and more importantly, the final cut. What the theater version of a movie looks like in a theater is decided by the producers, who give the scissors to the producer, editor, or even the big-name actor in the movie.
The directors who cut with them often can only shout angrily, "Man, listen to me, the version I cut out is better." Then the producer said: "It's very good and it's put in dVd." The director Will the edited version be better? Not necessarily, some theater versions are scolded and the director's edited version is classic; there are also cases where the theater version is popular and the director's edited version is spitting.
In any case, the big director has the final cut, and the theater version and the director's cut version are determined by them. There are not many people in this rank, Stephen Spielberg, James Cameron, Cohen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton ... Every movie has the final cut The director of Hollywood, just ten fingers is enough.
Of course, Wang Yang's situation is special. He is both a full investor and a producer and director. Every film is an "independent film" regardless of the cost, so he can always enjoy the rights of a big director.
However, the title of "Big Director" still needs the approval of the masses of the media. It is very simple, an absolute classic film history. "Ghost Shadow Records" and "High School Musical" are naturally not qualified, and "When Happiness Comes to Knock" and "Junuo" are not unique, and there is no "big scene"; but "Ninth District" has cleared everything obstacle.
The praise of the critics, ImdB's score of 8.8 is ranked in the top ten of film history, the global box office is 600 million, and the recognized science fiction classics that have not been seen in many years ... There are also 100 million total box offices, with an average of 400 million each. In addition to being young, Wang Yang is now recognized as a big director by fans, but it is also the youngest, least persuasive, and the most likely to be kicked out.
Lack of a second classic? Lack of various director awards? Too young is likely to suddenly encounter Waterloo and become a belated "piece of director"? Playing like Robert Downey Jr., Lost in Life, and then wake up to New Year and rise again? These are the reasons. In the hearts of the media, he still has a long and long way to go to establish the title of "Mr. Magic".
The "High School Musical" that let him harvest the "Magic Baby" was taken over by Sarah Sugarman and ended. The first global box office was the third. 570 million, the trilogy totaled 889 million US dollars at the box office, and there are considerable In terms of peripheral income, it is exactly a stable gold mine for Flame Movies in the past few years.
But after the trilogy ended, the gold mine seemed to be hollowed out. A long-term profitable series of works is very important to a film company, and it is often an independent film company's "eating for a lifetime". It has relied on this series for ten years, like "High School Musical" until it It finally didn't work until it was completely destroyed.
Now for big companies, Warner Bros. is running the "Harry Potter" series; Sony just ruined "The Man in Black", but also has "Spider-Man"; o Century Fox has "Star Wars Prequel", and "x "Men's Police" ... Independent film companies also have their own magic weapons. The new lines have "The Lord of the Rings" and "Peak Hour"; Emperor Men has "Scream" and "Scream", and they are ready to catch Very Little Secret Agent "
But the Flame movie lacks such a long and powerful series. Of course, the cartoon "Ice Age" is not included in the list. However, "Hangover" is likely to become a new gold mine of flames. Although it will not be released until Christmas this year, the company has great confidence in it and the chairman who grabs money, and has even discussed the second part of the matter. The chairman will still not shoot the sequel.
Although there is no series, but with "Sweetheart", "Ice Age", "Ninth District", the performance of Flame Film this year has been very scary; another line of brand Fm also performed well, and launched several on the screen A small, profitable, and low-cost movie; and the rental and copyright markets it is currently focusing on are full of surprises. The biggest one is "The Illusion of Death" purchased at the Sundance Film Festival.
This thriller suspense film is like "The Fragment of Memory", which has received praise but no one cares, because its production cost is ten thousand. Fm Investment Director Peter Wilkes has boldly bought the film at a high price of 10,000 based on the company's "Don't be afraid of losses, be brave to try" concept. It was screened in a home theater on Halloween last month, but the results were very unsatisfactory. There were only 10,000 box offices around.
I originally thought it was going to be a loss this time. I didn't expect that after investing in the DVD rental and sales market, its sales gradually increased for a month. It turned out to be very hot in the summer vacation; this also attracted the attention of Fm Company and re-arranged it to It was released in foreign theaters, and now has received 10,000 box office. Counting all the projects, it has already created more than 10,000 profits for Fm, and it is still increasing.
"Actually, I didn't expect the box office to be so good."
In the office of the chairman of Jane ’s chair, Wang Yang in a T-shirt sat behind his desk, turned his pen, looked at Mark Slant in a black suit on the chair opposite, and said,
I think the world can receive 4 Billion is good, after all, it is very depressing.
Mark Srant sighed with pride in his face, and said:" My boss, if you are old, or if we put it in May, then It is 400 million. "Wang Yang nodded with a smile.
These two reasons are indeed very important. Otherwise, the "Ninth District" will be highly rated, but will not have the current box office results.
Excellent viral marketing and the popularity of the "Magic Yang" brand have led to the weekly box office of the "Spider-Man" commercial blockbuster. It is also because there is no opponent in August. If it comes together with movies such as "Spider-Man" and "Star Wars", etc. Many fans will inevitably be diverted away; then Gao Zhou's box office, high evaluation and year-end miracle have led to a herding effect of "seeking depression".
"Jiang, many companies are jealous of us now, which is not a good thing." Mark Srant's tone became serious, and he said seriously: "Before those guys can still suppress, but you know" Ice River Century and District Nine are too eye-catching. I ’m not saying that they can stop us from making movies, but in the promotion line, we need to maintain good relations with those big media groups, we need allies. "
He paused and looked at Wang Yang, seemingly very serious: "We want to share some benefits with them."
"Well, I understand ..." Wang Yang nodded with his mouth, so-called sub-interests, that is, the production of joint venture films; give them a right to exercise, domestic, international, dVd, etc., so that they can earn line fees; This is the case with business. When you make a big fortune, others will ignore it for a while, but when you make big fortunes and break their psychological endurance, you have to return to the rules of the game. It is impossible to keep all the benefits forever. Accounted for.
He turned his pen for a while and asked, "Is anyone interested in the movies of Anne Fletcher and Sarah Shuraman? How about a joint venture with them?"
The screen shots of the two female directors are all produced by Flame Films. The relationship between the three is naturally great, and the company is now ready to work with them again to shoot two new films. Although the producer, script, etc. are not finalized, Anne Fletcher will definitely make dance films, Sarah Sugarman will shoot youth theme, on or off campus, Jessica is likely to star.
"If you are a screenwriter or producer, they are of course interested; otherwise they are not very interested, what is the difference from their own investment?" Mark Srant shrugged helplessly, a glimmer of light flashed under his glasses. , The voice said ambiguously: "What they want is magical, they want you to be jealous of you too, bsp; it is difficult to prevent other film companies from being jealous, not counting the Fm company that is silently exhibiting, FF company has been established since its establishment. The scale of the "Singing and Dancing Youth" trilogy (999 ,,); the year "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", "Memory Fragment", "Junuo"; o Ninth District, all made a profit.
In Flame's own North American box office top ten film rankings, the first is the "Ninth District", the second is the final third, "Juno", the fourth and fifth billion "High School Musical" ...
And what about other companies? Let ’s take a look at Lion Gate Pictures, which is an independent film company with Flame. Its list of films is the 600 million "Ghost Record", and the latter are worthless than 10,000 movies; what about the Royal Gate Company? , The highest is the "Scream of Scream" in 1996, the "Scream of Scream" in 1997, the "Scream of Scream" in Nianwan, and then the "Scratching Ghost Festival" in 98 million ...
Of course in Paramount ’s 600 million Titanic, 100 million
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; o Century Fox ’s 400 million
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; Universal ’s 500 million
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; Sony / Colombia In front of big companies like billions of "Spider-Man", the flame movie seems to have nothing to be jealous of, everyone is about the same level.
The problem is that everyone else is a big company, making a movie requires joint ventures and branch rights, etc .; Flame is an independent film company, but every time it is a big package, it bears all the risks and makes all the money.
"Flame Movies is like a gambler who is crazy, they always have strong confidence, don't join others to invest, and they pay for themselves every time. What you need to know is that a movie with a budget of 10,000 yuan, There are usually more than three production companies. "-" The Wall Street Journal ".
This topic has been discussed many times in business newspapers such as "The Wall Street Journal", because the flame movie can make a big profit every time, many people are waiting to watch when it falls hard, but waited a few years It is getting better and better; many investors and institutions are waiting to buy the stock of Flame Movies, but it just refuses to go public.
At the beginning, media groups didn't care how a small company played. You want to promote your movie and give money according to the market price; but watching the flames continue to go up, they want to get more benefits. Too.
This is also the reason why independent film companies are struggling. They lack the support of media groups ’televisions, newspapers and magazines, and they need to spend more effort in publicity. No matter how their films are, their media opportunities will rank among those media groups. Behind the films produced by its mainstream film producers, unless everyone has investment in that film.
Fortunately, before the flame movie, I found some new publicity channels, such as the biggest weapon interconnection, and bathroom advertisements, etc., so that I can do what I want.
Of course, even if the flame continues its own style, it will not fall down, and there will be no "media group boycotting the flame movie". This is impossible; but their cold attitude is inevitable, you want to buy a class bowl The trailer is at the end; if you want to make a talk show, it is at the end ... If you have a long-term big media ally, and then compete well with other companies, it is naturally a better choice.
"Have you thought about doing it ourselves?" Wang Yang raised his eyebrows and looked at him with interest. Mark Srant was puzzled and wondered: "What do you mean?" Wang Yang pointed his pencil at the pen holder on the table and laughed: "Those media groups are powerful, not because they have TV networks and paper media. ?"
Mark Srant spread his hands in an "obvious" expression, and immediately reacted, saying with surprise: "Do you want to set up a media group? TV station, newspaper?"
"No, we can't play with Media Group now; I don't want to, it's too annoying." Wang Yang smiled and threw his pen, and the pencil popped into the barrel and popped out again. He rolled his eyes and picked up the pen. Said: "But we can launch a premium cable channel."
Mark Srant frowned dumbfounded by an independent film company launching a pay TV channel? This idea is much more exaggerated than the acquisition of Blue Sky Studio and the acquisition of image engine.
It ’s not how difficult it is to set up. Satellite channels work with satellite TV service providers such as etrk, and cable channels work with cable service providers like neter-cb1e; they are responsible for transmitting channel signals to televisions across the country; The flame film is responsible for providing the signal content, and the public and pay TV stations are the same.
But the question is, how many customers will order this new channel? How to attract them to order? How to achieve profitability? Before achieving profitability, does the Flame Movie have enough funds to support it?
"Our positioning is the TV movie channel. First, we will launch a few good episodes to attract and stabilize the number of users. We usually play some movies. Wait until it is almost time, maybe this time will take several years, more than ten years, twenty years, who knows, Then we will slowly add some reality shows, variety entertainment and the like; the ultimate goal is to become a comprehensive TV channel. "
Wang Yang talked about assumptions at will, of course it was easy to say, but it was naturally difficult to operate in practice. He smiled again and said, "We are not a company of our own. We can cooperate with companies such as Lion Gate, Dimen, MGM, and a large group of people."
"Money" Mark Srant shook his head and poured cold water: "How much can those companies get out of it? What about us? This is another extremely high-risk investment." Wang Yang said without objection, saying: "Yes, we have a little cash now. In five years, let's roll the snowball first and wait for everything to go on track. The cash is almost the same. How can we get $ 100 million when we go public to raise funds? "
"O million? Wow" Mark immediately laughed and analyzed: "Even if the listing has reached 500 million, this is already an amazing prediction; the remaining 500 million, we need a net profit of 500 million every year; and then such a big decision Shareholders are arguing again. "He shrugged again and said," In the end, $ 100 million is not enough, unless you are confident that you will be profitable before spending them. "
Wang Yang was annoyed by the sound and said, "Please, don't I say that a group of people do it? You can also do it with a certain media group. Anyway, they want to compete for a long time in the market for premium channels." Raised his hands and said: "Ok, these things are really annoying, I don't want to control them anymore"
He made his movies and lived his life; these things will be natural. If the conditions are met in the future, it will be done. There is no need to worry about the inexhaustible and unprofitable money. Thinking of what he thought of suddenly, he smiled suddenly: "Oh, yes, I think there will be pay TV in the future, and Yang Zhiyuan and I are good friends. We can cooperate with Yahoo to let those media groups die. "
Of course, Yang Zhiyuan and he are not good friends. At most, they are just "long-term friends".
"My boss, we still have to work with others anyway ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Mark Srant doesn't continue to talk about TV channels anymore, let's take a look at these five-year exhibitions, billions? Oh, he helped his glasses and said seriously: "I suggest that" TTeam "will cooperate with others. The actor is Chinese, not Kung Fu, the new screen image, if there is no big media support in publicity, it will be very difficult. . "
Wang Yang naturally knew this, he nodded, looked at Mark-Srante, and smiled: "Ok, if they are interested in investing in this kind of" loss-making trait "movie, then who do you choose to cooperate with?"
o Century Fox is not a good choice, they have already had some holidays because of Blue Sky Studio; Warner Brothers? Paramount? global? Sony / Colombia? Thinking of Old Man Wu and Grandpa Wu, Wang Yang added: "Don't want Sony." Mark Srant nodded, "Of course."
How can you not envy other film companies? When "The Ninth District" in the fourth week of August won the North American weekly box office chart for the fourth week in North American theaters. In the overseas market, its performance this week is 4.46 million US dollars. This "Ninth District" has a total box office of 680 million in the world, and it is just around the corner to enter the 700 million box office club.
And the second place this week is the third one of "Origin". The total box office in North America is 0.6 billion US dollars a week, and the hot summer holiday period is also announced to be over.