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

Chapter 718 Another flame war? (23)

truth!

I first heard about the awards season PR campaign, and then I looked into Cynthia Schwartz's specific schedule...

It's packed with events!

A rough calculation shows it's at least tens of millions of US dollars…

The final tally came to—less than 600 million…

After that, you won't need to spend any extra money on many activities!
La La Land is a hit!
In its second week of release, the film expanded to 200 theaters, and the box office per theater was still $1.6 – bringing in over $662 million the following week!
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the film will be shown on an expanded run for the upcoming Christmas season…

In the original timeline, La La Land grossed $28 million in December.

It grossed over 1.2 million yuan in the following 60 days, and over 4.2 million US dollars worldwide…

Emma Stone's Oscar-winning film sets a new box office record!

The previous record was held by 1939's *Gone with the Wind*. Of course, if we include the inflated figures, *Gone with the Wind*'s domestic box office alone would have reached the current $17 billion...

So, a global box office of $4 million in 1939 would be an astronomical figure today...

But we're not just counting numbers!
Then there's Natalie Portman's "Black Swan"—which grossed $3.22 million worldwide.

Let's talk about the benefits of exploding...

Many media outlets and television programs will actively invite you...

American television programs mainly consist of a large number of talk shows.

The Conan Show, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Kimberley Show, The Ellen Show…

Basically, all the big-name talk shows extended invitations to the La La Land production team…

It feels like this year is still a weak year for the Oscars, but "La La Land" is dominating in terms of both popularity and critical acclaim!

The only real competitor is The Revenant…

The mastermind behind The Revenant is also very impressive—Arnon Milkan.

He's one of the few living legendary producers, having spearheaded the production of films like *Once Upon a Time in America*, *JFK*, *Natural Born Killers*, *Fight Club*, and *Mr. & Mrs. Smith*… and of course, the Oscar-winning films of the past two years, *12 Years a Slave* and *Birdman*…

His production company is Regency Productions, which has worked with renowned directors such as Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese, and Ridley Scott…

That's why "The Revenant" was able to persuade Leonardo DiCaprio to star in it!
In the original timeline, The Revenant began its limited release just before Christmas 2015.

This release date ensures that the film can catch the last train of Oscar nomination voting, and unlike "Spotlight", it will not show signs of fatigue in the second half of the awards season due to its slightly earlier release date.
"Spotlight" will be released on September 5th...

After two weeks of building buzz through positive word-of-mouth, "The Revenant" opened for nationwide release in the US, achieving a box office success of nearly $4000 million and sweeping three Golden Globe awards for Best Drama, Best Director, and Best Actor...

This directly competes with "La La Land"...

As for Gao Xiaosong… he started spouting nonsense again on his talk show, commenting on the PR of *La La Land*, saying that Shen Yan was “determined to win!” and “splurged heavily!”

Although Shen Yan wasn't particularly keen on talking to him, it was Oscar season, so he would bring up the situation regarding "La La Land"...

It's so annoying!
……

"If you think it's interesting, then invest; the cost isn't high anyway!"

In New York, Shen Yan chatted with David Fenkel, who had several scripts in his possession: *Lady Bird*, *Moonlight*, *The Lobster*, and *Call Me by Your Name*…

Both are rather 'weird' movies, especially *Moonlight* and *The Lobster*. The former is 'the story of a gay black boy whose mother is addicted to drugs,' while the latter tells the story of 'turning into an animal if you don't fall in love!'

It may be strange, but it has a complete script and storyline...

Shen Yan glanced at the documents: "What's the highest possible cost?" David Fenkel replied, "It won't exceed $800 million..."

“Then just do whatever you want…” Shen Yan nodded, then asked Daniel Katz, “Is ‘The Danish Girl’ profitable?”

"Hmm... I can probably earn around two million US dollars..."

Daniel Katz is the head of A24.

As an aside, David Fenkel is the head of Liaoyuan Studio, and of course, he is also a shareholder of A24!
"And what about Carol?"

“Pretty much,” Daniel continued, “Our total profit this year will exceed 3 million US dollars!”

"so much?"

"It wasn't originally going to be this high; 'Sheep Without a Shepherd' sold very well..."

More than just good, "Sheep Without a Shepherd" has grossed over $100 million in North America in just three weeks, with a final estimated box office of between $180 million and $200 million. Its overseas box office performance is also impressive…

This movie will most likely generate more than 100 million in profit!
By the way, the American version of "Sheep Without a Shepherd" is scheduled for release in China on January 9th, the same day as "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"!
Shen Yan estimates that the American version of "Sheep Without a Shepherd" will gross around 200 million RMB...

After all, we can't truly empathize with the racial discrimination in the United States...

However, Shen Yan was quite puzzled: "Sheep Without a Shepherd hasn't finished showing yet, how do you know the profits?"

"Nefertory said that once our film is off the screens, they'll buy out the television and new media rights for $8000 million..."

"Global?"

"Yes!"

Shen Yan estimated, "Isn't 80 million a bit low?"

The global television rights, home entertainment rights, and new media rights combined could bring in at least 100 million!

"But don't forget, television copyrights and home entertainment are basically controlled by the Big Six. If we sell to them, we have to pay them a 30% cut... In addition, overseas licensing also requires them to act as intermediaries..."

Shen Yan nodded: "I understand! I understand... But isn't Nefi afraid of being boycotted for doing this?"

David Fenkel waved his hand: "Amazon, Hulu, and Apple are all doing this! Why boycott them? This is the future trend!"

……

On December 18th, "Mojin: The Lost Legend" was released, grossing 1.61 million yuan on its opening day and 5.99 million yuan in its first three days!
It directly ended the box office reign of "Operation Mekong"...

As of December 24th, "Operation Mekong" had been in theaters for 22 days, accumulating a box office of 18.87 billion yuan…

This movie is definitely going to break 20 billion, and it should ultimately reach around 22 billion...

On the 24th, Deng Chao's self-directed and self-acted film "The Breakup Guru" was released, grossing 1.52 million yuan on its opening day and 5.08 million yuan in its first four days...

Then I got yelled at terribly!

I was really badly criticized...

Not only did the media and audiences hurl insults, but even many directors joined in, launching a "boycott bad movies" campaign...

Okay, the full name is Support "Mr. Six" and Boycott Bad Movies!

Among them was Gao Qunshu…

Yes, it's him again!
It's hard to understand this person's thought process—he recently posted an article 'In Memoriam of Big Dog,' which was actually an article commemorating Li Ming from Xiaoma Benteng…

Logically speaking, you can mourn if you want, but the article says that the 'Operation Mekong' was initially commissioned by Xiao Ma, and he did three months of preliminary preparations for it, and then the project was taken away!
They turned their attention to Shen Yan…

(End of this chapter)