Chapter 67 Friendly Suggestions (2/5)
Bren House is particularly awesome this year, with four movies: "Fifty Shades of Gray", "The Hunger Games", "Luxing 3", and "Conjuring", and the world's box office of $1.7 billion...
These are four big-selling projects.
There are also many box offices of around 10 million, such as "Lawless", "Strange", "Horror Bay" and so on...
Judging from the box office percentage alone, Bren House has definitely entered the top six!
Studio S, three movies, "Mechanical Girl" has the lowest box office, and it has not reached $1 million at present. Similar to "Explosive Drummer", they are all preparing to enter the awards season. "Unreachable" has exceeded $500 million worldwide and is still being released. Leonardo is likely to be the best actor in the Oscars. Of course, this thing depends on public relations and luck...
By the way, there is also a movie called "Departure Again" in New York, which should be released next year, a relatively pure commercial romance film.
Whether it is Brun House or S Studio, both are the assets of Shenmengxi.
This thing was already mentioned when Chen Mengxi was in Cannes!
So, after hearing what Huang Zhongjun said about integrating into Hollywood and borrowing a boat to go out to sea, he felt that he was awesome, but to outsiders, he thought it was quite ridiculous...
It’s like someone told you that the bell-bottom pants look so good, it’s very fashionable to perm your hair, and it’s high-end…
Brother, what era is this?
You're gone early in the morning. Can you open your eyes and see the world?
"I don't agree with inclusion in Hollywood, because inclusion in Hollywood means you accept its rules, and you will never be able to defeat it!"
"First of all, we need to clarify a concept, who will our movie be shot for?"
"It must be filmed for the audience. We must clearly distinguish the concept of the audience. I talked to the people from Haitui Company in Cannes. He said that Chinese people have no universal values and cannot tell human stories well, so Chinese movies cannot go out... I don't agree with this theory very much!"
"What is the so-called universal value? Universalism is the invasion of the West against the ideological invasion of non-Western society, and they themselves may not believe in that set of things!"
"I learned Lao Ma's thing, and I think value is essentially a relationship, a state of unity of subject and object based on the subject as the scale, and is the object's satisfaction and meaning of needs for the subject."
"There is a truth that is universal, but there is no value that is universal! For example, does the common values of all mankind exist? I think it does not exist? Because, anything? Someone opposes? Someone supports it, some support it? Someone opposes it, otherwise? Democracy is empty talk."
"This thing itself cannot stand? So Hollywood movies rarely play that kind of thing, they are all doing comic adaptations."
"Secondly, rules. At this stage, Hollywood monopolizes the right to speak in movies? Hollywood has established a complete industrial system and a replicable business model? From kodak film to arrri and red cameras, all Arrri lighting and film theories were established by the UK and the United States, as well as film critic system, award season awards mechanism, people's choice awards, movie promotion and distribution mechanism, etc., all developed by Hollywood."
"How do we challenge it? This question is difficult? But I know that it is not feasible to fully integrate! Borrowing a boat to go to sea is a nice thing? Isn't it just a transfer of funds!"
"Finally, I want to say something? I really don't make movies to make money!"
"I'm not polite. If I want to make money, can I do Meituan by myself? Or focus on Maoyan ticketing? Focus on Tudou Video! These three fields are made in market value of tens of billions of dollars or even hundreds of billions of dollars..."
"Why do I make movies? I have an interest and disdain for Hollywood blockbusters..."
"In 1995, I watched "Independence Day". I couldn't figure out where the logic of this movie was. How could one save the earth alone?"
"As a result, I was stunned for almost 900 million US dollars worldwide..."
What’s even more shocking is that this broken movie has a Douban score of 8.1!
...
At the end of the forum, Chen Mengxi and Wang Changtian went to the backstage together, preparing to take a break, and then leaving...
It was very embarrassing. He, Wang Changtian, Yu Dong and Huang Zhonglei were all here.
What does it mean?
Only people came, no project was announced, no crew was brought...
Not even a press conference!
Why?
I really don’t like the Long Film Festival!
There is little media attention, and even if Chen Mengxi comes, it is useless...
Let’s put it this way – there is not even a related hot search!
Without media attention and without pages, most crews will not regard the Long Film Festival as a promotional site, and naturally they will not come here.
Very deserted!
"Do you have any objections to Huang Zhongjun?"
"No…"
"No, are you still targeting him like this?"
"I'm not targeting him, I think he's stupid. Baba gave money to Hollywood, and even bragged about how good he was, and who he had gotten into... Is it meaningful?"
"He has many friends!"
"Relationships are not business at all, business is business. If you can't help others, it's useless to rely on relationships alone. Most of us are private enterprises nowadays. Can you help me and how much you can help me? Everyone has an objective consideration in their hearts!"
Lao Wang smiled: "This is his philosophy in dealing with things, and you can't say that this is wrong!"
Chen Mengxi still shook his head: "I know, but I don't like it."
After a pause, he asked Lao Wang: "What movie is going to be made in the Lunar New Year holiday?"
"This is the most troublesome thing!"
Last week, Light led the release of "Tsunami Shark Escape", a bad movie...
He actually sold 150 million...
Much better than "Tai Chi".
But so far, several companies have basically deployed the New Year holiday: Xingmei has "The King's Feast", Huayi "1942", Bona "Great Shanghai", and Universal Asia's main promotion "Blood Drop";
Mengxi's four movies: "One Mirror to the End", "Lost in Thailand", "Inner Beauty", and "Journey to the West to Suppress the Demons"...
Of course, the specific release date has not been decided yet.
It seems that the light has no reserved grain...
"Headache?"
"We took over the release of "Cold War", but they were released in November, December... So far, I have only watched "Blood Drops", and that movie is so bad..."
After a pause, Lao Wang added: "Light has cooperated too much with Hong Kong directors and companies before. Some projects are immature and some people are not responsible, so they produce films that have not had good reputations. This kind of negotiation in commercial matters is in an inequality position, and some contracts are very stupid."
"I don't really like working with them!"
Chen Mengxi agrees very much: "There are many things in this industry that I don't like. Scammers, gangsters, and people who talk big... Some people say that some are money, and investing in movies is not afraid of losing money. I think they are all bragging. Movies, you don't have enough money to compensate. If you pay, people will deny your intelligence. What people who do business are most afraid of being called fools is that they are called fools. Those people hum on the surface, and they have said more than once that we are stupid and have more than one person..."
"I heard that "No Man's Land" can be released?"
Chapter completed!