Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 528 Losses?

Smartphones are still phones, but older people think that any phone is just for making calls!
Shen Yan installed WeChat for him, which allows video calls, as well as Weibo, the People's Daily app, and MoWeather...

Grandpa likes to watch the news and is very concerned about the weather every day.

As for Alipay…

That thing was too complicated for him.

Oh, and there's also 50,000 yuan—the fee for the cameo role.

The three films, "Goodbye Mr. Loser," "Duckweed," and "The Martian," propelled him to become a box office legend with 50 billion yuan in revenue.

Let's find a few more marketing accounts to hype it up...

Grandpa's nickname as the box office mascot spread far and wide!
By the way, Grandpa and Grandma don't work as full-time agents; Shen Li occasionally acts as their agent...

Shen Yan tried to bypass the two of them and specially arranged for two assistants...

Grandpa and Grandma didn't appreciate it!
They were just arranged to go there, and then they were kicked out—we're not incapable of moving, so why did they need to find someone to take care of us specifically?

Okay, this kind of mentality is hard to change...

They are not used to being waited on.

Why not ask your second aunt?
My aunt's art training center has become the most famous art class in all of Changsha...

Earn at least seven figures every year!

After all, Shen Yan was born there.

My second aunt doesn't need to teach anymore; she's already become the vice president of the Hunan Musicians Association…

When I have free time, I participate in various talent shows in Changsha, and sometimes I serve as a guest judge!

Changsha hosts a plethora of events every year. Initially, it was just music competitions for instruments like piano and violin. Later, as Shen Yan gained fame, she became a cultural figure, and even model competitions invited her to serve as a judge.

It's a model competition!
What does it have to do with her?
But since they paid her, she went.

In short, my second aunt has a lot of work to do every day…

There's simply no time to be an assistant or anything like that...

Actually, if Grandpa and Grandma were willing to stay at home... they could also become cultural celebrities thanks to Shen Yan's reputation!

I can do interviews now and then, or participate in some events...

But they couldn't stay idle...

Shen Yan was unaware that his grandparents cared deeply about him and had read almost every one of his interviews and transcripts…

They even pay close attention to his interview transcripts!

So, on the way back to Hengdian, Grandpa was scrolling through Weibo when he came across an interview with Guo Fan titled "We Have Our Own Chungmuro"...

Chungmuro...the mainstream circle of Korean films!
Guo Fan said this: "Chungmuro ​​is known as the Hollywood of Korea, but we also have our own Chungmuro, the Youth Road 4.0 Cultural Industry Park. Yan Ge, Lu Yang, Rao Xiaozhi, Han Yan, including Wu Bai and Sha Weiqi, our companies are all there..."

"As long as Yan is in Beijing, we often get together... Sometimes at his company, sometimes at his house. We talk about movies, life... and sometimes politics, since we're all guys, it's hard not to talk about politics when we get together!"

"The project 'Northeast Love Brother' was proposed by Brother Yan. He watched 'Lurking' that day and felt that Sun Honglei's image was too versatile... He could be a stray dog ​​getting rained on in the street, a savage wolf or tiger, a fox with oil under its paws, an innocent little white rabbit, and of course, a lonely and melancholy human... He wondered what such a man would do when he encountered love?"

"Then the character settings were assumed: the female protagonist is the debtor's daughter, who collects debts."

"After the script was finished, it was shown to us... and we were all quite disgusted: hooliganism, flirting, showing off, fighting, terminal illness, love-hate relationship, you can find almost all the melodramatic, clichéd, and ridiculous plot points in this movie... It's too cheesy!"

"I have no idea how he convinced Brother Hong Lei to take the role!" "I felt I wasn't smooth enough in handling emotional scenes, so I volunteered to direct..."

"Box office situation... When we make a movie, especially a commercial film of this genre, our initial goal is to recoup our costs. After watching the finished film and considering the release date, we'll have a basic assessment... I think it shouldn't be less than 300 million. Lu Yang and Rao Xiaozhi think it can reach 400 million, and Han Yan thinks it will be at least 500 million..."

"Brother Yan thinks the box office will be around 600 million... He believes that this kind of terminal illness movie has a great market, and he cited the example of 'The Fault in Our Stars' being a big hit in North America!"

"I now also think the box office will be around 600 million!"

Because "Northeast Lover" grossed 2.4 million yuan in its first four days and 1.5 million yuan in the following four working days, there is no reason why no one will watch "Northeast Lover" even though "Personal Tailor" is released today!

By the way, Guo Fan also talked about Yan Ge's views on big data and IP. His exact words were, "This mainly depends on the people. Marvel has Kevin Feige leading the whole thing, so the Marvel Cinematic Universe has no problems. The DC Extended Universe has Zack Snyder, and it's expanding... Paramount's Hasbro Cinematic Universe, on the other hand, is doing a terrible job!"

Actually, Shen Yan was saying that Warner Bros. had hired Zack Snyder, so the DC Extended Universe was doomed!
As an aside, many people say Warner Music is too interfering…

The problem is that Marvel is also interfering!

Warner Bros. asked to include more characters in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?

The same goes for Marvel. Before the release of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," Warner Bros. gave Snyder far more power than any modern director, even entrusting him with the selection of actors and the design of character images.

No Marvel director has any power close to his:
Marvel wanted to include so much information in Age of Ultron that Whedon refused to make a sequel, but the story still ended up being told in 2 hours and 21 minutes.
Captain America 3, which was jokingly called Avengers 2.5, also had many characters and a lot of foreshadowing, and the Russo brothers finished telling the story in 2 hours and 28 minutes.
Even without Guardians of the Galaxy, which doesn't feature five superhero characters in a solo movie and whose names are largely unknown to most viewers, Gunn could still manage to get the story done in 2 hours and 2 minutes!

How come it's Zack Snyder who thinks 2 hours and 31 minutes is too short and wants a "director's cut" for Batman v Superman?
Later, after leaving DC, he directed the Moon Rebels series, which completely exposed his level of skill—a complete mess, purely dry, empty, and lowbrow!

Of course, these things haven't happened yet...

Guo Fan revised it, now referring to the Hasbro Cinematic Universe.

"So-called big data and IP are always just auxiliary tools. The key to a film is whether it respects the audience, rather than using IP to make a quick buck."

"Brother Yan often says: When we make movies, we should never complain. If you are sincere, the audience can feel it!"

"After 'The Martian,' we'll also be working on 'The Wandering Earth,' 'Earth Mars,' and 'Full-Spectrum Jamming'... Yes, they've all been approved..."

Then I was asked why I dared to make a science fiction film…

Guo Fan scratched his head: "We all like science fiction movies!"

Aren't you afraid of incurring losses?

"To be honest, if we were just looking to make money, we wouldn't have chosen to make movies... And we've discussed it, if we lose money, we'll make a few campus youth films to make up for it, and then we'll keep making movies!"

Grandpa watched it all the way through…

He didn't remember anything else, only the phrase "loss!"

He used to work at Xiaoxiang Film Studio and knew that movies were basically all about losing money—Xiaoxiang Film Studio lost a huge amount of money when it collaborated with Zhao Wenzhuo on "Hero Zheng Chenggong"!

That film also prompted the Xiaoxiang Film Studio to initiate reforms, a two-year process that led to the formation of the Xiaoxiang Film Group, with the Xiaoxiang Film Studio as its core…

A single film can force a film studio to transform its business model.

He knew that Shen Yan spent 4.2 million yuan to make "The Martian"—according to various media reports.

I'm quite worried...

　I've been busy these past few days... so I haven't been able to update regularly. I'm sorry.

　　I'll definitely update promptly tomorrow!

　　Only two updates today...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)