Chapter 229 Winning Ma
The pressure that comes with being a director is really not something that ordinary people can handle.
In particular, Xu Kun still writes, directs and acts by himself. He needs to make the final decision on everything in the crew. Even with a senior assistant director at his side, he almost became depressed.
The main reason is that the mental pressure is too great!
When he got home, Xu Kun copied the unedited movie to his computer, then went back to the bedroom and fell asleep.
He slept from 10pm on December 13th until around 8pm the next day, when he woke up groggy.
She wrapped herself in pajamas and left the bedroom. The lights in the security room were dark, but there was some light coming from the study.
He originally thought that Bao Qiang was using the computer, but it turned out to be Jiang Yiyan sitting in front of the computer chatting on QQ.
"Are you awake?"
When Jiang Yiyan heard the noise, she stood up quickly and said, "Are you hungry? There is preserved egg and lean meat porridge warming in the rice cooker. I'll go get you a bowl."
Xu Kun asked curiously: "When did you learn to cook porridge?"
"I didn't cook it, Qin Lan came over to cook it at noon."
Xu Kun didn't ask where Qin Lan was. He must have felt awkward being in the same room as Jiang Yiyan, so he left after cooking the porridge.
At this point, Qin Lan still lacks some experience, and is far from the tacit understanding of Shuang Feiyan.
"Do you have any pickled mustard? Open a pack of pickled mustard and put some more sesame oil in it."
As Xu Kun said this, he sat down in the seat given by Jiang Yiyan and immediately wanted to open the information he had passed yesterday to take a look.
Jiang Yiyan had already gone out, but she came back and said, "Don't close that game download box. I've been downloading it for a long time!"
Xu Kun had already seen a download box. Just when he was about to ask what game he was downloading, Jiang Yiyan had already rushed to the kitchen.
Xu Kun stopped paying attention and opened the exclusive folder to view the unedited movie materials.
When I was filming before, I always felt that I was not up to par, but in fact, aside from the stubbornness at the time, Xu Kun felt that there was generally no problem with his performance.
Especially the tacit understanding between them and Bao Qiang always allows them to have some unexpected interactions outside of the script.
Of course, not all interactions are benign. Some are superfluous and must be cut out without mercy.
After watching for about ten minutes, Jiang Yiyan brought the meal over. In addition to preserved egg and lean meat porridge and pickled mustard, there were also microwaved steamed bun slices and freshly cut Jinhua ham.
As for why it can be seen that Jiang Yiyan cut it freshly, it is of course because of the jagged knife work on the ham slices.
Xu Kun was really hungry. He couldn't wait for the preserved egg and lean meat porridge to cool down, so he started with ham and steamed buns, and ate a dozen or so steamed buns.
Then he picked up the preserved egg and lean meat porridge and asked, "Where's Baoqiang?" while drinking it in a circle.
"Baoqiang was picked up by Li Yixiang and Brother Li in the afternoon. It seems that he was asked to star in a TV series - Brother Li originally wanted you to come with him, but he didn't call you because you were sleeping too hard."
There is actually a TV series that actively seeks Bao Qiang to star?
This guy is also promising!
Ding~
At this time, the download success notification sounded. Xu Kun looked at the screen and asked curiously: "Why did you suddenly think of playing a game?"
"I don't want to play."
Jiang Yiyan said helplessly: "It's all because of Sister Xiaolu, Jiang Xin, and Yang Mi. The three of them have recently become obsessed with a game. They clamored in the group that they were sisters and wanted to play games with them, which made everyone in the group You must download and register an account.”
"Which plate did you get?"
"What plate?"
"..."
Xu Kun was speechless for a while: "Don't touch my computer from now on, because my system disk is large enough."
He found the installation package on the C drive and chose to install it on the game's dedicated F drive, only then did he see the name of the game.
"Audition? Dancing? How do you dance on the computer?"
"Just use arrows to control it. I haven't played it before. I just saw Yang Mi posting pictures - I heard she said this game is very popular. Many young girls are playing it. Some middle school students even skip school and even steal from home just to play this game." Where’s the money?”
"Real or fake?" Xu Kun is not surprised at all that young people are addicted to games, but usually boys are addicted to games, and from Jiang Yiyan's description, the main players of this game are mainly young girls.
An online game that fascinates young girls...
Xu Kun subconsciously opened Baidu to search. Sure enough, this game has been very popular since it was released in China in May, second only to "World of Warcraft" in popularity.
Xu Kun even saw a lot of Audition videos uploaded by gamers on Tudou, PPL, and PPS. Some of them were screen recordings, and there were also many scenes of girls taking selfies and playing games.
Although the picture is very blurry - probably taken with a cheap camera - it can be seen that the little girls are enjoying themselves.
Hmm~
Jiang Yiyan saw Xu Kun staring thoughtfully at the killer girl, and couldn't help but laugh: "Brother Kun, don't you suddenly like this one?"
"Let's go! I was thinking, since they are all about young girls, can our movies and TV series interact with games?"
"Interaction? How to interact?"
"There are many ways, but... let's forget it."
Xu Kun finally gave up on this idea. He had already laid enough groundwork to attract these killers to the cinema. Although it would increase the box office, it would also easily lead to unintended consequences.
For example, people who don't want this movie to be a hit can take the opportunity to label the audience as being non-mainstream. If they do, the box office losses will be huge.
"Brother Kun."
Seeing Xu Kun turn off the video, Jiang Yiyan sat on his lap and asked curiously: "How much box office do you think our movie can have? Can it surpass those blockbusters?"
"It's hard to say."
Xu Kun hugged her waist and shook his head slightly.
Originally, Xu Kun was very confident. He felt that relying on the fan economy and the high quality of "Journey to the Road", he dare not say that it would not be a problem to crush all the blockbusters and destroy 70 to 80% of them.
But after recently learning some industry knowledge from the assistant director, his confidence is not as strong as before.
It turns out that the biggest gap between blockbusters and low-cost productions these days is not the appeal of superstars and high-cost productions, but the fact that the ticket price of blockbusters can be higher than that of low-cost productions.
When future generations check the information, most of them will have a question: Why did the low-cost masterpieces of the year, such as "Crazy Stone", actually have a total box office of less than 25 million?
And those blockbusters that were released in the same year as The Stone and were criticized as shit, still have a total box office of 50 to 60 million?
For example, "Ink Attack", which Huayi used to retain Fan Bingbing, was also released in 2006. The film's reputation was quite average, but it still had a total box office of 67 million yuan.
This is due to the film crew's fraud, and the second reason is the price difference.
For example, Director Chen wanted to get a premiere discount for the upcoming "The Promise" in Jinling and planned to sell tickets for 20 yuan. However, China Film Company stopped the film and said that the blockbuster must have the style of a blockbuster and must sell for at least 40 yuan. One block.
This is still cheap. According to statistics afterwards, aside from those sky-high VIP tickets with special significance, the price of ordinary tickets fluctuates between 30-70.
So how much will the ticket price be when "Crazy Stone" is released in half a year?
15 yuan!
You can also get 60 to 20% off by recharging your card.
This is still in big cities, but small cities are even more divided. Small-budget films that are not widely publicized can only sell for 5 to 10 yuan, while the ticket prices of popular blockbusters are the same as those in big cities, or even slightly higher.
As for the county seat...
The movie theaters in the county have long been converted into auditoriums, and they will not be revived until seven or eight years later. This is also an important reason why the Spring Festival stalls are not popular. Even if you want to watch movies during the Chinese New Year, you must first have a movie theater in your hometown. OK.
The result is:
Your low-budget masterpiece has 3.6 million moviegoers, with an average ticket price of 7 yuan and 50 cents; your blockbuster movie has 1.2 million moviegoers, with an average ticket price of 45 yuan a ticket.
According to the final statistics, the total box office of the low-cost masterpiece was 27 million, and the total box office of the blockbuster was 54 million.
Three times the number of moviegoers, but only half the total box office. This is the tragedy of low-cost movies.
Although Xu Kun invited a lot of big-name guest stars and Huayi's channel promotion, other theaters don't recognize you, they only recognize the total investment and the starring role.
Total investment 10 million?
Is the director a newbie?
Is the actor famous for filming TV series?
If this is not a small cost, then what is a small cost?
Thai actor?
I have heard of Thai shemales. What does the Thai actor do?
So Xu Kun has greatly lowered his expectations. He originally wanted to achieve a blockbuster hit of two to three billion, but now he feels that reaching 60 million is a victory, 80 million is a big win, and 100 million means Qin Shihuang touches the wire and wins. Got it!
(End of chapter)