Chapter 355 My heart skipped a beat
Fan Binbin would be nervous, not that Mu Xiaoguang was worried about being caught next to him. He felt guilty inside.
But she was worried that Mu Xiaoguang would be jealous after seeing her, and then develop a rift and stop helping her.
I am mainly worried that my career will be affected, rather than caring about my relationship with Mu Xiaoguang.
Now that she is leaving Huayi to set up a studio, she needs to rely on Mu Xiaoguang's connections and does not want to cause changes due to some things.
Fan Binbin opened his mouth, wanting to stop it, but he didn't know how to stop it.
In the outside world, she and Mu Xiaoguang only have a cooperative relationship and have no other involvement.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, what Wang Shu saw was that Fan Binbin and Mu Xiaoguang were just an artist and an agent.
It’s just that Fan Binbin knows her own family affairs well. She and Mu Xiaoguang are not simply cooperative, but
Especially, it is precisely because of this relationship that Mu Xiaoguang is even more unhappy. He spared no effort to help her.
If Mu Xiaoguang were to encounter this scene, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Just when she was anxious about how to reject Wang Shu, Wang Shu took advantage of the moment Fan Binbin pulled away his hand and kissed her suddenly.
Fan Binbin was startled, and suddenly struggled in panic.
She was not struggling because there was someone next to her who couldn't let go, nor was she struggling because she felt guilty in front of Mu Xiaoguang.
She was just worried that being caught by Mu Xiaoguang would affect her career.
This is the reason for panic and struggle.
Wang Shu felt Fan Binbin's resistance, stopped kissing his hands, and asked with doubtful eyes: "Are you unwilling?"
Fan Binbin looked at Wang Shu in surprise and astonishment. , my heart skipped a beat.
She was worried that being bumped into by Mu Xiaoguang would affect her career, and she also didn’t want to fall out with Wang Shu and lose Wang Shu’s connections.
She wants both Mu Xiaoguang’s connections and career help, and Wang Shu’s connections and career help.
Only children make choices, she wants them all.
It’s just that she happened to be in the middle at this moment, making her in a dilemma.
"No, no." Fan Binbin glanced at Mu Xiaoguang next to him, and when he saw him sleeping soundly, he replied with a sigh of relief.
When Wang Shu heard this, a smile appeared on his face, and he kissed her again without saying a word.
Anyway, he is in a "drunk" state at the moment, and any behavior he performs can be explained.
Fan Binbin had no intention of kissing Wang Shu at this moment, so not only did he not respond, he was also trying to find a way to stop Wang Shu's behavior, and his body subconsciously showed some resistance.
If she were alone with Wang Shu, she would not act like this.
Right now, she is worried that Mu Xiaoguang will see her fall out with her, and lose Mu Xiaoguang's help.
In my heart, I was nervous and anxious.
Afraid of being discovered by Mu Xiaoguang.
Wang Shu saw that Fan Binbin was obviously resisting, and then he stopped and looked at her with a steady expression: "You"
Seeing this, Fan Binbin's heart skipped a beat again, and before Wang Shu could finish speaking, he was flustered and aggrieved. He quickly explained, "There is someone here, I'm afraid."
Wang Shu looked around after hearing this, pretending to be confused and said: "Isn't it just your manager here?"
“And he drank too much and fell asleep.”
“What’s there to be afraid of?”
This makes sense, and Fan Binbin is speechless.
She explained hesitantly: "But. But there may be other people coming in?"
"If other people come in and happen to see Brother Mu sleeping here, and The two of us were chatting with each other again. "
"If someone sees me, I won't be able to see anyone anymore."
Wang Shu is not drunk, he is just pretending to be drunk. Therefore, he didn't believe Fan Binbin's nonsense at all, and said with relief: "No, this is a private room, no one comes in."
"What should I do if Brother Kekemu wakes up?" Fan Binbin noticed Wang Shu's restless movements and resisted with a sad face.
She pretended to feel aggrieved to Bala, hoping to make Wang Shu pity her and stop feeling so sorry for her.
"How could he wake up when he is drunk? Not to mention that he is your manager and not an outsider." Wang Shu did not answer the words with pity, and the movements of his hands did not stop.
Seeing Wang Shu's reluctance, Fan Binbin also became angry at this moment. In addition, she also drank wine, her head was hot, and she immediately scolded with a dark face and dissatisfaction: "Why are you like this? Everyone said No, are you still pinching me?”
“Can you let go?”
When Wang Shu heard this, he paused with his hand, then let go of his hand pretending to be resentful, and then stood up pretending to be embarrassed and said: "It's getting late, I'll go back first."
< br>After saying this, Fan Binbin turned around and left the private room gracefully without waiting for the answer.
"Tree"
Fan Binbin didn't expect Wang Shu to stand up and leave without saying a word. Knowing that he just said the wrong thing, he stood up and shouted in a hurry.
However, Wang Shu was unmoved and had already left the private room.
Fan Binbin quickly stood up and chased after him. When he saw Wang Shu's unyielding figure, he opened his mouth, wanting to say something to persuade him to stay, but he didn't know how to speak.
Looking back at Mu Xiaoguang, who was already drunk and lying down in the private room, he couldn't just leave this dragster with him, so he could only watch Wang Shu leave in a depressed mood.
Today's dinner, I came with Mu Xiaoguang, originally intending to discuss the movie role with Wang Shu at the wine table.
Unexpectedly, stealing the chicken will end up losing the rice.
“Alas.”
Fan Binbin lamented, and the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became.
New Year's Day is here in a blink of an eye.
2007 passed and 2008 came.
There is a nationwide holiday on New Year's Day, and the number of people in the theater has also experienced a surge.
In fact, by mid-December 2007, it has already entered the New Year period.
In this period, the first film to hit theaters is "The Movie".
This movie is an action movie jointly produced by China Film, Media Asia and other film companies, directed by Chen Kexin, starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Jin Chengwu.
The production cost is 40 million US dollars, and the global box office is 4288 million US dollars.
According to the rough calculation that the box office is three times higher than the production cost, that is, a profit of 120 million US dollars is considered as breakeven, "The Letter of Investment" lost a lot.
Although the mainland box office of "The Proposal" was 180 million yuan, the box office was far lower than the production cost. Even if the overseas box office was included, the producer was still losing money.
In fact, the box office of Mainland theaters of 180 million yuan has already ranked among the top three in the box office list of Mainland theaters for Chinese-language films in 2007. In terms of this box office performance alone, it did not fail in the mainland market.
It can only be said that the mainland's film market has not yet been fully formed, and there are not many screens. Unless big-investment movies can find box office returns in overseas markets, they will suffer nothing but losses.
The mainland film market alone will not be able to recover the cost.
This is the case for "The Proposal". It has a luxurious cast, super high investment, and also achieved the top three box office results of Chinese-language films in mainland theaters in 2007. It is already considered a success. However, due to overseas The market was bleak and the producers were losing money.
This living example shows that in this era, it is impossible to blindly shoot a big-budget movie with huge investment and naively hope to recover the cost in the mainland market.
Yes, it is impossible to recover costs, let alone making money.
For example, if Wang Shu invests 500 million to make a movie, no matter how high the quality of the movie is, he will still be able to achieve a box office of 300 million in mainland theaters.
Investment of 500 million yuan, box office of 300 million yuan.
Of the 300 million yuan, Wang Shu, as the producer, can only occupy 41% of the share, and of this share, there is about 15% of the publisher, and finally in Wang Shu’s hands, it is only tens of millions. look.
In other words, if you invest 500 million, even if you get a box office of 300 million, regardless of the efforts of the people, you will still lose more than 400 million.
If you want to avoid losing money on these 400 million yuan, you have to get it back from overseas markets.
If the box office in overseas markets is dismal, then it will be like "The Movie", which will suffer a loss.
Don’t look at the investment in "The Investment Certificate" of 40 million US dollars and the global box office of 4288W US dollars. Adding and subtracting the two still results in an extra 288W US dollars.
In fact, not all of the global box office of US$4,288W belongs to the producer. After deducting all the twists and turns, the producer's share is only about 25%.
In short, with a global box office of US$4,288, the producers will probably get a box office share of US$1,100,000.
Invest 40 million US dollars, gain 11 million US dollars, and lose 29 million US dollars.
Although this data is not accurate, the truth is this.
At this stage, the ceiling of the mainland film market is obvious to all. This is a hard factor, not a question of the quality of the film.
In this era, if Wang Shu dares to invest in big-budget Chinese films such as "Interstellar" and "The Wandering Earth", he will definitely lose money.
Even if he makes these movies extravagantly high, he still makes a loss.
Because the reality is that no matter how good a movie is, it is impossible to achieve a high box office in the mainland where the number of screens is limited in 2007 and the economy has not yet begun to take off.
More than three hundred million is already a top box office result.
This is a box office ceiling determined by rigid conditions and cannot be broken by the quality of the movie.
Although "Titanic" achieved good box office results when it was released in mainland theaters, the mainland box office of "Titanic" accounted for one-fifth of the total box office of mainland movies that year.
Nowadays, unless certain departments make movie viewing compulsory, it is simply not possible to achieve this level.
As long as this level is not reached, the box office ceiling for mainland theater chains will be more than 300 million.
In the original time, in 2007, there was no movie in mainland theaters that exceeded 300 million in box office, whether it was a Chinese-language film or many popular Hollywood blockbusters.
Nowadays, even with Wang Shu’s "Horror Cruise", it is only because of the overwhelming publicity and all kinds of hype, as well as the cunning manipulation of China Film, that the box office of mainland theaters has exceeded 3 100 million.
As for the overseas box office results, it was only over 4,000 US dollars.
The total overseas box office of more than 40 million US dollars may not seem like much, but it is actually a very good figure.
Because, the total overseas box office of "The City of Gold" is only over 30 million US dollars. Adding in the mainland box office of 290 million yuan, the global total box office is over 70 million US dollars.
Chinese-language films, the reality is that except for kung fu films, which can achieve decent box office results overseas, other films cannot be sold at all.
Therefore, another hard factor is that it is difficult for Chinese-language films to achieve excellent box office results in overseas markets.
Although in this era there are Chinese-language films targeting overseas markets every year, in fact there are very few Chinese-language films that can achieve excellent box office results overseas.
It is precisely this period of history in mainland film history. As the mainland film market grows in the future, few producers will gradually set their sights overseas.
Basically, the focus is on China. If you can make money overseas, you can make money, and if you can't, you can make money.
Unlike this era, if you want to make a Chinese-language film with a high box office, the mainland market is not enough, so you can only look overseas.
It’s just that in this era, many filmmakers naively believe that Chinese-language films can go global and achieve excellent box office results overseas.
In fact, I was slapped in the face again and again.
It was not until many years later that I learned through bloody facts that Chinese-language films had a limited audience overseas and could not be sold at all.
Of course, the limited audience is one reason, and another reason is that the quality of the film is too poor, or it does not meet the taste of overseas audiences.
After all, since kung fu movies can come from scratch and have a certain market overseas, this shows that Chinese-language movies are not absolutely incompatible with the tastes of foreigners.
Rather
In short, in an era when the domestic economy has not yet taken off and the number of screens is not large, it is not impossible to make large-scale movies.
Rather, it’s 100% a waste of money to make a movie like this.
For example, Wang Shu made the Chinese version of "Interstellar" in 2008. It took a year or two to polish it. When it was released in 2010, the box office could not even sustain a profit, let alone make a profit. .
And if this movie is shot in Hollywood, relying on the European and American markets, as long as the audience buys it, it can make a lot of money.
The size of the market determines the upper limit of the box office.
At the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008, in the New Year period, in addition to the first appearance of "The Vocational Certificate", there were also "Bangzi Tiger Chicken" and "Big Movie 2.0: The Ridiculous Affair of Two Fools" , "Blueberry Nights" and "Assembly" are several Chinese-language films.
Among them, "Tiger Stick Chicken" is a comedy romance film starring Zeng Zhiwei, Xia Yu, Liang Yongqi, and Tang Yan.
Tang Yan plays "Tangtang" in it. This role is a typical "post-80s".
Her character treats love with the same greed as a child buying candy. She is a girl who wants a charming horse and a prince, and she has a serious tendency to worship material things.
With her own cleverness, she can navigate between two men with different styles and temperaments, Brother Hu and Qiao Bang, and her appearance will constantly change, with obvious Gemini characteristics.
In 2006, Tang Yan graduated from the Beijing Theater Academy and signed with Chengtian Entertainment in 2007.
The movie "Tiger, Stick, Chicken" is produced by Orange Sky and American and Asian Culture.
After Tang Yan signed with Chengtian, her resources have been good. She first participated in this movie produced by Chengtian, and then co-starred in "Modern Beauty" with Huo Jianhua and Yang Christine.
In 2009, he co-starred in the famous TV series "Legend of Sword and Fairy 3" with Hu Ge, Huo Jianhua, Yang Mi and Liu Shishi.
This girl, since she graduated from the Beijing Drama Academy, has had a smooth journey compared to other actors in the industry.
"Tangtang, this time Director Wang and China Film are preparing to make a new film, auditioning and casting"
"Mr. Wu of our company has a good relationship with Director Wang. If Mr. Wu comes forward, Director Wang will definitely invite our actors to audition."
"Do you have any ideas?"
Tang Yan's agent asked.
(End of this chapter)