I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 716: The opponent is online?

Chapter 716: The opponent is online? (33)

When iQiyi first started investing in movies, it was targeting the online movie market!

Starting in 14, iQiyi began to focus on online movies and created a business model for them by sharing revenue with the platform. In the following two years, the output and revenue of online movies have grown by leaps and bounds.

According to iQiyi’s statistics, in 2015, nearly 700 online movies were released online, of which more than 90% were released on iQiyi.

分账超过百万的影片,2015年有35部,预计2016年有200部,2017年会是500部。

iQiyi thinks online movies have potential!

Then... policies came out that online movies must be formalized, and then, a large number of traditional film and television companies announced their entry into online movies.

In 2019, Tencent Video announced that it would cooperate with Stephen Chow's Star Overseas to produce its own movies. Less than a week later, Ning Hao also announced at the Bad Monkey Pictures' th anniversary press conference that it would cooperate with iQiyi to enter the online movie industry.

Online movies become high-quality and available in theaters, and then... they stop making money!
For example, after Huawen Yingxiang entered the online movie industry, its first project, "Mechanical Painted Skin", was known as "Science Fiction Liao Zhai", combining science fiction and horror elements. It starred the then newly married and popular Guo Biting, as well as actors familiar to the public such as Duan Bowen and Liu Yiwei. The final box office share was nearly 10 million yuan. Considering the estimated pay for the actors' status, it lost at least more than 10 million yuan!
Then...iQiyi also started investing in movies.

Like all wealthy companies, iQiyi collaborates with Hong Kong filmmakers!
Because traditional mainland film companies simply ignore him!

The film industry is very exclusive. In the years when the market was good, many people couldn’t get in even with money. The most they could do was to invest at a premium, or spend money on guaranteed distribution…

Hong Kong filmmakers are different, they just take the money...

By the way, Pang Ho-cheung once complained about the coal bosses in the mainland interfering with creative work and wanting his girlfriend to be the leading actress. In fact, Pang Ho-cheung didn’t care about these things. What he cared about was that the coal bosses didn’t give him money!
The coal bosses were not fools. A lot of things happened in the mainland film industry in those years, most of which were about filmmakers cheating people out of money. The most typical example was "Butterfly on the Shoulder", which directly cheated investors to the point of jumping off a building...

There are also a lot of people who take the money but do nothing!

You don't want me to see the finished film, and you still want me to pay? No way!
Ahem, let’s talk about iQiyi.

The films they have made in recent years are basically police and gangster films, as well as anti-gang films...

The most successful one should be "Sweeping Black: The Decisive Battle", which cost 3000 million yuan and grossed over 4 million yuan.

"The Raging Tide" is also good, with a cost of 3000 million and a box office of over 2 million...

By the way, saved Zhang Jiahui!

After Zhang Jiahui and Louis Koo fell out, he withdrew from the group. "Raging Tide" made a small profit, and "Rebirth" also made a small profit... Duan Kun should continue to work with Zhang Jiahui in his next film...

Although the quality of "Raging Tide" and "Rebirth" can only be considered acceptable, they are much better than Hong Kong films. Apart from other things, the modeling is much better than that of Hong Kong films...

Shen Liang is very interested in police and gangster movies, but the kind of police and gangster movies he likes have logical plots and some jokes, similar to "Veteran" and "Crime City", which iQiyi can't make...

As for the anti-gang films, you are not allowed to focus on pleading for the people, upholding justice, the evil of human nature, moral alienation, and institutional injustice...

How to demonstrate justice?
The trick of turning the anti-gang film into an anti-Japanese drama is like a bear trying to break a stick.

It’s quite difficult…

However, Yang Bei mentioned "Bei Xue", which is "Heroes of Troubled Times", Xiao Linden's work...

Shen Liang was quite interested in this. "Cup of Snow" is Xiao Linden's first work. The plot is that Luo Han, a young man from the desert, goes to the Central Plains once every three years just to give a medicine cup to his friend Yi Lian. During this year's cup-sending journey, in order to help Yi Lian out of trouble, Luo Han intervenes in the case, which leads to a huge theft of stolen silver, involving all the gangsters and dignitaries in the court, stirring up the world's current situation.

The background is the Song Dynasty, and there is an in-depth discussion of history, family, country, and friendship. Poetry and allusions are readily available, and the joys and sorrows are all captured in his writing, representing the extremely high level of new martial arts.

Especially the fifth volume of "Bei Xue", "Ting Yun·Zongshi Shuangqi": During the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin army invaded the south, and heroes emerged in troubled times. Luo Han, a young man from Mobei, stirred up the entire situation in the south of the Yangtze River with his elusive sword. He took away the stolen silver from the treacherous officials, experienced countless life and death twists and turns, and finally sent the silver to the anti-Jin army in Huaishang.

It includes the Jianghu, the court, and the country!
If the traitor was replaced by Qin Hui, and the anti-Jin heroes were replaced by Yue Fei’s army…

Not more interesting than "Man Jiang Hong"!
However, there are too many plots in "Cup of Snow" and it is more suitable to be made into a TV series.

This is not urgent...

Let’s decide first, the script will definitely have to be significantly adapted.

It must be difficult. Youku once worked on "Cup of Snow" for more than a year, but later gave up!

The best-selling mainland new martial arts series is Cang Yue’s “Mirror” series. The copyrights are basically owned by Penguin Pictures. With money and backing, there is no problem with development…

Bu Feiyan's works also sold well. "Wulin Inn" was on Netflix, not the American Netflix, but a domestic film and television company owned by former Youku executives and Li Kun of Beijing Satellite TV. "Shura Road" was sold to Beijing Culture University.

The most famous Feng Ge's "Kunlun" and "Canghai" were developed by Huanrui Films, and the screenwriter was Wen Haojie. Later, the project was stalled, and Huanrui sold the IP and the script as a whole...

So far, no company has been found to take over!
The process of adapting Tang Que’s works into film and television is relatively slow. Currently, there is only one called “Sky Castle” - the script was first prepared and then Tang Que was asked to write the book.

……

As of July 7, "New Journey" was released for 8 days, with a cumulative box office of 15 billion, and then "Detective Wars" was released...

The director of "The Great Detective" Wai Ka-Fai is known as: a genius screenwriter + a skilled director.

His ability to do things has never been praised. This can be seen in his early film "Peace Hotel" - a typical film that starts strong but ends weakly. The film begins with a solemn black and white memory by Chow Yun-fat, and the entrance of Maggie Cheung efficiently explains the character's personality. Coupled with the Peace Hotel's slightly grand concept of peace, the beginning is perfect.

Then it all collapsed, the whole film was a mess, and it was called the only bad film during Chow Yun-fat's peak period!

After leaving Galaxy Film, Wai Ka-Fai made "Crazy Comedy", "Himalayan Star", "Shopaholic" and "Evolution", but almost all of them were hindered by the director's ability.

Including "The Detective", you can say that some sections are wild and intense, with shocking scale, but what is the specific difference between this intensity and the works of other directors, such as Benny Chan, Qiu Litao, and Soi Cheang?

The rhythm is broken!
Andy Lau performed very well, and he really portrayed that kind of crazy state, but the crazier it was, the faster the pace, the more logical consistency was needed to convince the audience!

This movie poses no threat to "New Journey".

With a box office of 1.54 million yuan in the first week, "New Journey" earned 3.4 million yuan in the third weekend. After 17 days of release, the cumulative box office exceeded 28 billion yuan...

However, there are many more posts smearing "New Travel Notes"...

Such as "The New Journey" seems to be large-scale, but in fact it can't change anything", "Is the New Journey considered to be stepping on its peers to rise to the top? " and "208 made a movie that satirized 208? "

(End of this chapter)

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