I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 650 is pretty good, I give it 23 points! ()

Liang Ge is on leave again...

Oh, Yang Mi took Jing Tian to travel to Japan...

I also asked Brother Liang if he wanted to join us.

For the sake of my waist, I'll just forget it...

Mainly, Liang Ge does have a job.

I originally planned to go back to Shanghai to continue filming "Kim's Secretary" after the theater promotion meeting, but... I still have to accompany her to a few promotional events...

There is no way around it, this is written in the contract - there will be specific requirements for no less than a few promotional activities.

"Watergate" is definitely the first, "The Incredibles" has been withdrawn, so the only competitor of "Miracle" is "Seafaring"...

The basic box office for the Spring Festival period is 100 billion, with a fluctuation of 30 billion.

100 million + 30 billion!
然后我们看票价，2021年春节档的平均票价是43元左右，2019年是42元左右，2018年是38元左右。

In 2022, the ticket price is around 54 yuan, which is 11 to 16 yuan higher than the ticket price in previous years. This means that the money that could be used to watch three movies in previous years can now only be used to watch two and a half movies.

But movie tickets are not sold half-ticket, so four tickets are rounded down to five. The money used to pay for three movies can now be used to watch two movies. This means that the box office will be concentrated on these two movies, and other movies can only eat their leftovers.

Watergate Bridge is definitely number one...

It enters the Spring Festival period just like a land immortal destroying the celestial realm. "Watergate Bridge" is the behemoth of the Spring Festival period. Other films are cannon fodder. No matter how much they shout "this is love", in the end it is just "I love you MP Mahua Love"!
Then who is second is crucial!

To be honest, the appearance of "Four Seas" is really amazing, director Han Han!
Look at the cast: starring Shen Teng + Liu Haoran, supporting actors Yin Zheng, Qiao Shan, Huang Xiaoming, and even Feng Shaofeng and Chen Xiaochun came to make cameo appearances!
The theme is also about racing...

The previous blockbuster "Speeding Life" was also about the same theme!
The cinema chain gave a box office forecast of 20 billion.

Very understandable...

"Miracle", the box office forecast of theaters is 25 billion.

Based on the number of people who want to see it and the pre-sale box office, the conclusion is drawn - as of January 1, there are still ten days before the Spring Festival movie officially opens, "Miracle Stupid Kid" has 20 people who want to see it, and a pre-sale box office of 75.2 million...

Even surpassing the 3400 million pre-sales of Watergate...

Brother Liang knew that the original version of "Miracle" was a dud - the total box office did not reach 14 billion.

Any live-action movie that doesn’t reach 15 billion in box office revenue is considered a failure during the Spring Festival!

Scheduling fees and marketing fees, which one doesn’t cost money?
During normal movie seasons, the admission fee is around 4-5 million, but during the Spring Festival, it starts at 1.5 million...

Plus the cost...

Therefore, Wang Yibing said, "All or Nothing, Second-Hand Masterpiece, and Miracle Stupid Kid" present a situation of "one profit, one loss, and one break-even."

That’s right, in the original time and space, “Miracle Stupid Kid” could only be considered to break even!

The publicity and production costs of this movie must have cost at least 4 million yuan.

——You have to boost pre-sales. After all, other movies are doing pre-sales, so how can you boost pre-sales if you don’t follow suit?

If pre-sales don’t increase, the number of screenings won’t increase. Are we just going to wait for the audience to buy tickets on the spot on the Spring Festival?

In addition, the so-called entry fee is the money that the producer spends himself to ensure the film scheduling and publicity and promotion. It is up to you how much to invest. It is the same as investment. If you do not invest or invest little, you will most likely be cannon fodder. There is market potential in the schedule, and there will always be big capital betting.

Cinemas also accept Guofa’s release. The Wandering Earth did not pay for the screening fee, but the film has a 25% screening guarantee from China Film Group, plus its quality and reputation…

For ordinary movies, it may not be possible to wait for the so-called word-of-mouth counterattack...

Liang Ge doesn't care about this, he is just working!

He did not invest in the movie "Miracle" and did not even sign a profit-sharing contract, but still received a salary of 3000 million yuan.

Therefore, he is now fulfilling his obligations as an actor, which is his job. …

“The main audience of movies is always young people around 20 years old… At this stage, people born after 95 and 00 have become the mainstream audience, and they have stronger self-awareness than previous audiences.

In the past, audiences would go to see a movie when they heard that director Zhang Yimou or Feng Xiaogang had made one.

But now the audience is more aware, knows what they want to watch, and will make their own choices.

If your movie doesn’t meet his expectations, he won’t buy a ticket…”

Wang Yibing, Wen Muye and Shen Liang were interviewed by China Film Report, and Wang Yibing talked about the film market.

"It means to do a good job of categorizing the genre. The genre labels must be particularly clear. Audiences now watch movies with expectations. They know exactly what they want. They come in and see it, and have a pleasant viewing experience. They will give you a thumbs up when they leave. If the product is not what they said, they will curse when they leave! And they will post on WeChat Moments and Weibo, and use various means to express their unhappy emotions..."

"So what do you think is the highlight of "Miracle Stupid Kid"?"

“Although the story is fictional, it feels very close to reality…”

"I would like to ask Shen Liang, Director Wen Muye was known as "Wen Baobao" when filming "Dying to Survive". Did you feel the director's rigorous attention to details during this filming? Which scenes were improvised without planning?"

"For example, I yelled so many times during the night shoot that my voice was almost hoarse, but I was always trying to protect it. The director has very high requirements, including the photography, all the scheduling details and rhythm, which must be meticulous..."

"Are you used to that?"

Shen Liang thought for a moment and said, "I was not used to it at first... Anyone who fails 18 times will doubt himself..."

"What then?"

"Later...I figured it out..."

"What have you figured out?"

"I'm just an actor... This play is directed by Director Wen, and I've received my salary, so I should just follow the client's requirements and adjust myself..."

"It seems that Shen Liang is full of resentment towards Wen Baobao!"

"Yeah," Shen Liang nodded seriously, "...I was really resentful at first, but later, as I got to know him better, I gradually understood him...He was under a lot of pressure!"

"You mean Wen Muye?"

"Yes," Shen Liang patted Wen Muye on the shoulder: "His last movie was "Dying to Survive", which was praised by the audience... The theme of "Miracle Stupid Kid" is naturally not popular with the mass market..."

"Why do you say that?"

"The current environment is not good, the economy is in a downturn, and the public is unwilling to believe in a fantasy story about breaking through class barriers... It is difficult to make people believe in this story, so I have to work harder on Jinghao, the character I play..."

Wen Muye nodded: "We couldn't find a breakthrough point at the beginning. I have never started a business, I don't know much about it, and I don't understand it, so I have to feel it out. And there are limitations. There is no way to do something critical of realism. I can only try to make a story about a brother and sister..."

"The entry point has been changed to curing my sister's illness..."

"Why change it like this?"

Wen Muye: "To make an entrepreneurial film without any limitation, it may not be about success, but about the price you have to pay as a successful person. You can't just write about the bright side. You have to write about what this person has to pay, such as greed, desire, and conflict.

A startup movie would be missing a lot if we couldn’t talk about the cost.

But this is a "propositional essay", so the method we used was to extend it back to the small emotions between brothers and sisters."

“What is the biggest difficulty?”

"The time was too tight. There were only eight months from the time I received the assignment to the release. The script could only be written in two months at most. It was not like the script of "Dying to Survive", which I wrote for more than two years. For the film "Miracle", I only had three and a half months to prepare and then start shooting, and less than two months for post-production editing..."

Shen Liang interrupted: "I've seen the finished film, it's pretty good, even though there are some minor flaws, but there's no such thing as a perfect movie. I'll give it 80 points!"

(End of this chapter)