"Box office is king!"

After a period of long chat, Lin Yuan also realized the direction of his future development.

Although word-of-mouth is very important, in the entertainment industry, word-of-mouth is less than one-tenth of the box office.

The reason is simple. If you can make money for investors, investors will be willing to spend a lot of money to hire you.

On the other hand, if you can't make money for me, the so-called reputation is worthless in their eyes. No matter what kind of movie they film, they won't come after you even if they beat me to death.

Take Big Brother as an example. When Big Brother was in Hong Kong, he was once hailed as box office poison because of his superb strength, smooth fighting, and real Kung Fu. However, even after decades of hard training, no one dares to find him.

He was filming until he accidentally made the movie "Drunken Master", which suddenly became a hit and exploded at the box office. From then on, it started to get better and better.

Lin Yuan, who has become enlightened, also plans to calm down. In the future, when selecting scripts, he should not simply consider the quality of the script, but also consider the commercial value of the script.

With this thought, Lin Yuan also said goodbye to Sister Xia.

I returned home and started watching movies seriously. I opened UC and clicked on some of the highest-grossing movies in the past four years.

There are mainly three movies with high box office in 2010.

Major earthquake, 670 million.

Let the bullets fly, 660 million.

If You Are the One 248.1 billion.

The first movie is a main theme movie, and it is normal for it to have a high box office. The second and third movies are classics.

There were only two high-grossing movies in 2011.

"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" and "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate", one is more than 600 million, and the other is more than 500 million.

In 2012, "Journey to Thailand" opened a milestone of one billion box office.

Twelve zodiac animals, 880 million, 700 million painted skins.

In 2013, Xingye directed the movie Journey to the West to Conquer the Demons, with a box office of 1.2 billion, To Our Fading Youth, a box office of 700 million, and a private customized movie with a box office of 700 million.

In 2014, the movie starring Huang Bo and Xu Zheng still took the top spot, with a box office of 1.169 billion, and then "Outsmarting the Tigers" took 800 million at the box office.

Through comparison of this data, Lin Yuan found that movies with high box office have three characteristics.

The first feature is that it is comedy, relaxed and funny.

As long as this type of movie is not awkward, the basic box office is pretty good, especially Awkward and Happy. The hilarious themes throughout make the audience happy to pay.

The second feature is emotion and main theme.

Movies like Earthquake, Jinling Thirteen Hairpins, and Twelve Zodiacs are in line with the official theme.

The third feature is large production.

This big production is not about how strong the star cast is, but the crew is particularly willing to spend money on the docility and scenery.

Like the Flying Sword of Dragon Gate, outsmarting the mighty Tiger Mountain.

After analyzing these points, Lin Yuan, who was sitting at home, also began to think. He felt that the movie he would accept next must meet one of these three characteristics. If it did not meet the requirements, he would not accept it.

For example, a movie like Zuo Er, based on the theme of youth, is undoubtedly very successful.

But in terms of overall box office, it can only be considered above average.

According to the three major characteristics, the left ear does not meet these three characteristics.

It's not a comedy movie, it's not a theme movie, it's not a big-budget movie.

On the contrary, it is a big production like Xiu Chun Dao. After all, it is very meticulous in its obedience. If it weren’t for the publicity and development department’s censorship and insistence on showing off, this movie would never have hit the street.

While pondering this issue, Lin Yuan slowly couldn't help but fall asleep.

When he woke up the next day, he was woken up by a phone call.

I turned on my phone and saw that it was Zhang Yishan.

"Hey, what's wrong with Yishan?" Lin Yuan answered the phone and asked in a sleepy tone.

"Brother, are you busy?" Zhang Yishan realized that he had disturbed Lin Yuan's rest and asked a little embarrassedly.

"I'm not busy, you say." Lin Yuan had nothing to do during this period. The only thing he did was to participate in the extreme challenge.

"Brother, can you do me a favor?" Yishan thought for a while and finally made his request.

...

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Yuan and Zhang Yishan met in a very private teahouse.

Zhang Yishan called today for one reason.

That means he is about to make a comeback, right? This comeback debut must be the top priority.

To put it bluntly, this is a turnaround battle. If you win, you will be famous. If you lose, you may fall into the state of being invisible to everyone.

For this reason, he is now panicking about the script and has a feeling of worrying about gains and losses.

No matter what script it is, he feels satisfied when he gets it, but also feels very dissatisfied.

After struggling for a long time, he suddenly thought of Lin Yuan.

After inquiring through his own agent and looking through Lin Yuan's roles, Zhang Yishan surprisingly discovered that he recognized this brother. Not to mention whether he was good at acting or not, he was really good at picking scripts.

Not a single play was critically panned, and basically all the scripts were well received.

Even the youth drama "Left Ear" is extremely popular.

After thinking about this for a long time, Zhang Yishan finally made a call and asked Lin Yuan to help him choose the script.

What he didn't expect was that Lin Yuan agreed directly, and the two of them made an appointment at a coffee shop to chat about books.

Zhang Yishan had been waiting for Lin Yuan in the box early. When the staff brought him in, he quickly stood up and said extremely politely: "Brother Lin Yuan!

"

"Yi Shan, you are really good at choosing time. I will be busy in a few days." Lin Yuan looked at Yi Shan and answered with a smile.

Through the last contact, he found that Zhang Yishan is a nice person, he is a sweet-tempered person, he doesn't play tricks, and since they are of similar age, he can be regarded as a playmate.

"I can only say that Brother Lin Yuan, please give me face." Zhang Yishan pulled Lin Yuan and sat on the sofa. The table was densely packed with scripts given by major film and television companies.

Looking down at the script, Lin Yuan did not waste any time, focusing on the first script, and then said the ugly words first.

"Yishan, I'll try my best to pick out a good script for you, but I can't guarantee the final result. Don't blame me when the time comes."

"How is that possible? Brother Lin Yuan, don't worry. No matter good or bad, I will keep this feeling in my heart."

Hearing what Zhang Yishan said, Lin Yuan felt a little relieved.

It doesn't matter if you help others, but if you cause some trouble after helping others, isn't that just looking for trouble?

Sitting on the sofa, Lin Yuan opened the first script.

The name of the script is "That Youth".

This is a movie. The story tells the story of a couple who fell in love at school, and then separated due to various things. They got together again when they grew up, but finally chose to separate due to some personality differences.

In a word, bloody!

"This drama is asking me to be the male lead." Zhang Yishan reminded him as he watched Lin Yuan flip through the script at a glance.

Hearing his words, Lin Yuan felt relieved. When he first read the script, he was a little curious. It obviously felt like a bad movie. Why would Zhang Yishan take it? After working on it for a long time, he was the male lead.

"How should I put it? From my perspective, this drama has weak character creation, not much distinctiveness, the same dog-licking male protagonist, and various reversal stories are still the bloody plots of ten years ago. Personally,

It is recommended not to answer!”

Lin Yuan gave his answer after reading the script.

When the answer came out, Zhang Yishan nodded repeatedly and put the script aside without saying a word, obviously listening to Lin Yuan's words.

Without thinking much, Lin Yuan started to turn over the second script, which was still a youth movie.

Maybe it’s because of his image and age, plus the fact that his previous popular TV series was Urban, so the scripts on the table are basically youth movies.

Ever since, Lin Yuan's objections came from the box every once in a while.

"This book is no good. It's not suitable for you."

"This book doesn't work, it's too old-fashioned."

"This book, tsk tsk tsk, in a word, is obviously here to rub off on your popularity."

For more than two hours, Lin Yuan was stunned but could not find a good book.

It wasn't until he saw a martial arts movie that he nodded slightly.

"This film is okay." But as soon as he finished speaking, he took a careful look at Zhang Yishan's image and immediately shook his head again.

"The script is OK, but the role here is not suitable for you."

Zhang Yishan still nodded sincerely, without any dissatisfaction or dissatisfaction.

In his opinion, although he debuted early, given the current status of the entertainment industry, he is still far behind Lin Yuan.

Especially when he had dinner last time, he had seen the other party's acting skills with his own eyes, and had been recognized by many experienced and capable actors. For this reason, Zhang Yishan would not have any doubts about his professional ability.
To be continued...