I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 837: Total box office exceeds 600 billion!
The Meg 2 is rated PG-13…

Alien is rated R.

American movies have strict ratings.

Movies rated PG-13 have minor violent scenes, while movies rated R are restricted and have more blood and gore.

Therefore, "The Meg 2" is inherently inferior to "Alien" in terms of scale!
Of course, Shen Liang certainly couldn't step on "The Meg 2", so he said: "Alien" is a horror film, and "The Meg 2" is a monster film..."

After the premiere, Shen Liang said hello to Wu Jing and prepared to leave...

Then Ying Xujun came over and congratulated Shen Liang on the huge success of Shushan...

"It looks like it will exceed 60 billion!"

"It won't pass..." Shen Liang waved his hand: "This summer, the quality of the movies is pretty good, it distracts attention..."

"That's great too. I heard the North American distribution rights have been sold?"

"Well, they gave it to Huashi to distribute..."

"Oh? Huashi's distribution power is not enough, right?"

"…It's okay. Foreigners can't understand Eastern fantasy anyway…"

This is true. Except for the distribution rights in the Asia-Pacific market, the distribution rights in other regions of the first part of "Shushan: Origin" were given to Huashi...

From the very beginning, Shen Liang and the production team never thought about releasing "Shushan" globally.

The flavor of oriental fantasy is too strong!

Foreigners can't understand...

Huashi is a film and television company that focuses on distributing Chinese-language films overseas.

The president is Jiang Yanming, who used to work at CCTV and was the producer of "The Mansion Gate".

Later, he worked for Huayi Brothers and produced "The Banquet" and "Assembly".

During those years, I was the best producer in the industry.

Later, Huashi was established...

The appeal of Chinese-language films is mainly limited to the Chinese community. Chinese films are basically limitedly screened in North America, concentrated in cities with relatively large Chinese populations, and the number of screenings rarely exceeds 100.

Movies that are popular in China can easily spark a viewing craze among the Chinese community in North America, but it is difficult for their overall box office to make a big breakthrough.

Huashi basically shows movies in places where Chinese people live…

It is estimated that the box office will be just over 10 million US dollars at most!

“…have you ever thought about releasing it on a large scale?”

“…Look at the market response to the first film.”

Ying Xujun then asked: "I see you are not very satisfied with The Meg 2?"

"I have a suggestion: next time you make a movie like this, just show the monsters honestly. There is no need to insert a lot of human scenes and tell them in a terrible way. Popcorn movies should not pursue so-called depth!"

“…Can you tell me more about this?”

"When you release this poster and the title 'The Meg' comes out, the audience will have a psychological expectation when buying tickets - I want to see a giant shark bite someone, so you should show the audience a giant shark biting someone..."

“…I thought you were going to say that Wu Jing had too few scenes!”

Shen Liang smiled but didn't say anything... After chatting for a while, he said goodbye and left...

……

There is a comment on "The Meg 2": There is no Wu Jing riding a big horse, bad review!
It really should be rated badly.

But it's not just this aspect. For movies about humans fighting monsters, the old-fashioned story is not a major flaw. Monsters always pop up from somewhere and kill and eat people. Humans are defeated at first, and then try to fight back. If the fightback fails, they will try again, and then they will win the decisive battle.

But the monster in The Meg 2 doesn’t even appear for 20 minutes…

All the scenes of human beings...

Wu Jing just fought a few small monsters, and left the big monsters to the Americans.

I want to see the fair-skinned, beautiful, and busty white European and American beauties in "The Meg 2" fall in love with the "Chinese Wolf Warrior" and throw themselves into his arms. It would be best if there were more of them to be jealous of Wu Jing. Ma Yun invested in the movie "Kung Fu", which allows a group of kung fu stars to play martial arts masters and be defeated by him on the screen.

China accounted for the majority of the investment in "The Meg 2", and the film was also controlled by China. Why couldn't China be shown to have the highest IQ and the strongest fighting ability in this film?
Others also say: We need Jason Statham to open up the overseas market...

There is no Wu Jing on the foreign posters at all!
As for riding a big horse...

No hurry, wait a little longer!
There's always a chance.

……

At the hotel, Shen Liang met up with several leading actors of "All or Nothing", including the director... as well as the publicity, distribution and production teams.

That is Wang Yibing, the president of Bad Monkey!

"All or Nothing", Bad Monkey is the main investor...

According to the plan, "All or Nothing" will be screened for two days on August 8th and 5th, and then wait for three days before having a large-scale preview for one day on August 6th, and will be released directly on August 8th!
Oh, let me explain, there is a difference between preview and large-scale preview.

Previews, generally no more than 5000 screenings, are shown in specific theaters...

For example, the previous "19 Miles from Chang'an" was like this - the preview time was 00:21-00:, which was relatively short, so there would not be many screenings.

The publicity team and the distributor are discussing the specific distribution plan: "At present, "The Meg 2", " Miles of Chang'an", "Hot" and "Shushan" are all in the hot screening period, which can be said to be surrounded by strong competitors..."

"Our opinion is to directly screen the film on a large scale, following the example of The Octagon..."

“How many screenings can we get?”

“6 games is still okay!”

"…What do you think, Liang-ge?"

I looked up at Shen Liang. Okay, Shen Liang was browsing his phone...

While brushing, he lowered his head and said something to Nazha with a smile on his face.

Didn't take the release seriously at all!
"Brother Liang?"

"…ah?"

"Issuance, what do you think?"

"My opinion is not to have a large-scale preview, but to have a small-scale preview for two days and then directly release it!"

"Small-scale preview? Not good, competition..."

Shen Liang interrupted him: "'Hot' is a niche movie, 'The Meg 2' is terrible, what rivals do we have? Tell me..."

Director Shen Ao interjected: “Is The Meg 2 bad?”

"It was so bad, I almost couldn't hold it in at the premiere!"

“…With Wu Jing, is it bad too?”

Shen Liang waved his hand: "Brother Jing was probably fooled. He played a scientist... He was responsible for making jokes and had no sense of existence."

Wang Yibing, who had been silent the whole time, couldn't help but interrupt: "That's impossible. Find Wu Jing and let him play a scientist? That's a waste!"

"Brother Jing told me that the script came first... and then he was invited!"

"For roles like those that require jokes, Shen Teng should be chosen, right?"

Shen Liang waved his hand: "...How would I know? I'm not an investor...Maybe they think Wu Jing has appeal!"

"You have appeal, so we should look for you... Your current box office data exceeds 600 billion RMB!"

“…He asked me, but I didn’t agree.”

"Looked for you?"

"Yeah," Shen Liang nodded. "They invited me last year and I asked a question: if I'm not satisfied with the script, can I make changes? They said they had to negotiate with the foreigners... I didn't agree."

Shen Ao: "But I heard from them that Wu Jing brought Yu Baimei into the crew to revise the script this time..."

"The big framework and the main storyline cannot be changed. All we can do is just make some changes..." Shen Liang waved his hand: "If I take on a Hollywood movie or a so-called Sino-US co-production, you must give me absolute rights!"

(End of this chapter)