Chapter 1403: 1403
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Time difference plus mileage, Simon arrived in Beijing at more than 7 a.m. on Tuesday, September 29.
Chen Qing came to pick up the plane as usual.
After getting on the bus and leaving the airport, I talked about Simon's trip to Moscow and talked about the excitement of the recent film circle in China.
It is mainly about Jing Ke stabbing king of Qin.
Just last Saturday, on the evening of September 27, when Simon was in Ukraine, director Chen's "King Jing Ke stabbing Qin" held a grand premiere in the great hall. It is planned to be released tomorrow, just in time for the National Day holiday.
Then there was a controversy.
This still needs to start from the beginning. Overseas, even if nothing was achieved at the previous Venice Film Festival, the media reputation of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin is not bad.
Then there is Japan.
The main investor of this film is Japan. In recent years, it is clear at a glance whether a film can win a prize in the west, and the possibility of surprise is very low. Therefore, when "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin" was completely made into a film, before the film participated in Venice, the Japanese investors who basically did not expect the award arranged the project to be released in Japan in early May before the summer file.
The results can be said to be very good.
The film won the third place in the box office list in the first week of its release. As of the next stage, "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin" has won a total box office of 1.4 billion yen in Japan, equivalent to 83 million yuan at the current exchange rate.
Because the market is mature, the box office share of the producers of Japanese cinemas is higher than that of China and South Korea, about 50%, which means that "King Jing Ke stabbing Qin" has recovered more than 40 million yuan only in the release stage of Japanese cinemas. It is expected that there will be another 40 million yuan in the follow-up video tapes and TV broadcasting channels.
Then there is the European and American market.
Although Venice lost its reputation in terms of impact on honor, with the fame accumulated by farewell my concubine and the success of hero, the copyright sales of the film in Europe and America also reached US $7 million.
Converted into RMB, Japan recovered 80 million, Europe and the United States 60 million, a total of 140 million. Even if Chen Dadiao added the project cost from 70 million to 100 million, it has achieved quite good profits.
Even Simon was surprised.
Because there is also investment in brocade books, Simon thought he was going to drift. Unexpectedly, he has made a lot of money before it was released in China.
Of course, it can't be compared with hero.
Even if the global distribution continues, the global box office of hero is expected to exceed US $200 million, which is equivalent to more than 10 times that of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin.
Then there is China.
At the beginning of the release of hero, Simon adopted a large-scale introduction of overseas public opinion to set the tone for the film in advance, which avoided the controversy in the past. To the best of the film, after the excellent marketing and the mobilization of the national mood after Titanic, the Chinese mainland box office reached 320 million.
Great success.
However, this time, "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin" has no luck of "hero".
The domestic distributor of the film is China film, which has a successful case of hero. Of course, China film will not ignore its experience. It also publicized the reputation of Jingke stabbing the king of Qin at the Venice Film Festival a few days ago. In addition, there are excellent ticket rooms in the Japanese market, with 1.4 billion yen, equivalent to 83 million. For Chinese films, This is definitely a very good achievement.
Unfortunately, the problem lies in the plot of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin itself.
Let's start with hero, which is basically a completely fictional story with the Qin Dynasty as the background. Since the story is largely fictional, there is not much to tangle with in terms of plot.
However, Jing Ke assassinated the king of Qin, the same assassin of Qin, which is what really happened in history.
Here comes the problem.
The Japanese do not understand China's history, so they take Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin, just like the Three Kingdoms. They can enjoy it without going deep into it. However, for the Chinese, who doesn't know that Jing Ke assassinated the Qin Dynasty? Who doesn't know that "the wind is rustling, the water is cold, and the strong man will never return once he goes"?
As a result, what you see is Chen Dadao's fancy magic reform of the history of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin.
This is really unacceptable.
Therefore, after the premiere of the bustling city hall, the media immediately quarreled. It was basically criticism. The wind was accusing the film of "making up things in disorder" and "being far fetched". Anyway, there were not many good words.
In a car from the capital airport to the city.
Chen Qing leaned on her boss and talked about it: "with the current trend of public opinion, if it is released tomorrow, the box office will break 100 million, 50 million will be hanging, maybe even lower. Moreover, although it has made money this time, we all understand that the consumption is actually the reputation accumulated in Farewell My Concubine last time, even hero." The popularity of Chinese language films has just been accumulated. The Japanese investors responsible for overseas distribution probably see this. The overseas markets are basically sold out. Recently, some European countries have been released, and the box office is completely incomparable with hero. The publishers want to return them. Director Chen's reputation has collapsed. "
Simon can't say anything about it.
In my memory, director Chen has been silent for some years after "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin", and can only shoot TV dramas and so on.
The boss didn't speak, but Chen Qing thought of another thing: "boss, danilis should get the distribution right of Jingke stabbing the king of Qin, isn't it also a buyout?"
Simon shook his head and said, "divide."
Ella doichman also specially discussed the project with Simon, because she was not confident after watching the film. The gaomen film team was only willing to offer $300000 to win the North American omni-channel copyright of the film. Naturally, the Japanese filmmakers responsible for the overseas operation of the project disagreed and finally signed a sharing agreement.
Probably want to fight.
The film is scheduled to be released on a small scale next month. The number of screens for painting is only about 50. If it can't splash, there will be no problem.
Simon doesn't want the film to enter the North American cinema at all.
As Chen Qinggang just said, it's easy to consume the popularity of Chinese films. But there's no way. Many things can't just consider commercial interests. When the impact is small, we must give consideration to human relations.
Chen Qing was relieved to hear that her boss said it was a division, and then said, "also, because of the media's accusations of 'making things up' in the past few days, China film has hesitated about the trilogy of Chu and Han. This project is also based on historical facts and has been adapted to a great extent?"
Simon didn't worry. He covered Chen Qing with a pair of big hands, touched his little hand and said, "no, the positioning of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin is a historical drama, and it is more serious and biased towards historical facts. At least the audience subconsciously thinks so. When the result is not as good as they expected, criticism is inevitable." Chu Han " The positioning of the trilogy is similar to that of hero. Since the war martial arts film involves "martial arts", the audience subconsciously recognizes the fictional elements. Moreover, the most important thing is that the film is made for the audience after all. I have seen the finished film of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin. Most of the audience should not like it very much, but Chu Han The trilogy is still the same as hero, or it will be higher than hero. As long as the standard commercial film is not much different from our original idea, the result will not be much different from hero. "
After listening carefully, Chen Qing nodded with a smile and said, "I'll tell them what the boss said later to see who's still talking."
Simon just smiled and said no more.
It was just after eight o'clock in the morning when I arrived at the big house in the hat alley in the city center.
Although it took nine hours to fly, the Boeing 767 was comfortable enough, and Simon didn't need much rest. He took a break and began the schedule here.
Three hours in the morning, I went to the construction site of Levison International Center to check the construction progress of the project. At the same time, I had a small meeting with the responsible team here. Chen Qing looked at it. Simon didn't worry about anything. He mainly looked at it on the spot and knew it well.
Then he went to ZhongGuanCun.
Here, I met with several new technology teams, mainly Xiangshan network, which is responsible for game business, and Huanyu online, which focuses on e-commerce.
The teams of both companies officially launched their own products this summer.
Although Xiangshan network, which is responsible for the operation of StarCraft, is not as popular as the anti terrorist elite ol obtained by Suzhou Jiangnan mutual entertainment, it is also a good start. It is Huanyu online. In July, Huanyu mall began operation. At present, it is still in a state of money burning exploration, and the market scope is limited to Beijing.
At present, Chinese domestic residents still attach great importance to the purchase of large household appliances. Online shopping, a relatively virtual channel, will inevitably worry. Therefore, Huanyu online has not started as well as expected, and there is still a long way to go.
Simon is not in a hurry.
Now that we have seen the future, China has built up a group of teams, direct and collateral, which can succeed in the end.
Moreover, because he basically monopolizes the current domestic traffic portal channels in China, Simon is not even worried about what Cheng Yaojin will kill on the way this time. There is no traffic, no customers, or even online payment channels such as yifubao. Simon recognizes... Well, of course not.
Just kill it.
Arrive at the human society headquarters on the North Bank of Houhai at noon.
Chen Qing selected a group of guests from all over China in advance, mainly the heads of key investment enterprises of Westeros system in China. They had dinner and chat together, and then drank tea and listened to music until 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Later in the afternoon, I went to see the decoration of the two apartment buildings in guanchengyuan community purchased last time with Chen Qing. In the evening, I returned to the hat alley for simple preparation. As before, I went to Huangchenggen to attend a customary reception dinner.
He didn't return until ten o'clock in the evening.
I was speechless all night.
The next day is Wednesday, September 30.
Tomorrow is the national day. In addition to today's large-scale painting "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin", Simon knew at breakfast that there was another small project of Jinshu released at the same time, called "stealing music without anything".
Yes, it's the "stealing music without anything" starring uncle Feng.
Simon originally wanted to play uncle Feng in love call transfer. Of course, he didn't succeed in the end. Unexpectedly, he still got on the line with brocade book.
The project was led by Mr. Zhang Guoshi. The script came from Mr. Zhang Guoshi's Royal screenwriter. A well-known domestic celebrity in the circle not only participated in Mr. Zhang's early films such as Ju Dou and Qiu Ju's lawsuit, but also led the production of assembly number and thirteen hairpins in Jinling.
The urban comedy "nothing steals music" is also the main writer of the other party. Depending on the type, it can be said that it is an absolute generalist.
Compared with the large investment in Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin, "nothing steals music" has only a budget of 6 million. As long as the cinema box office can break 10 million, and then close a little later, it can enter the profit cycle. Therefore, compared with Jing Ke assassinating the king of Qin, which is worried about gain and loss, Jin Shu has a very relaxed attitude towards nothing and stealing music.
Now that I'm talking about "having fun without anything", I've inevitably talked about the development of brocade books in China for more than half a year.
Simon really let go before. He ignored many things and didn't know.
As of September this year, Jinshu has been a bumper harvest year. The second season of Kangxi's private interview in micro clothes and super girl's voice are still at the phenomenal level. There are several key TV projects waiting to be released, such as big house gate. In terms of films, Party A and Party B and flash girl cooperated with China film are in the final production stage, The goal is to celebrate the new year next year.
Although the other film "to our lost youth" was planned at the same time as "shining girl", it was postponed for one year because it could not catch up with this year's summer vacation. Due to sufficient time, brocade books will strive for perfection. They plan to shoot by stages and gather scenes all year round, so as to make the story feel more like the passage of time.
After the first stage of shooting in the summer, we will wait for the winter vacation at the end of the year.
The schedule is next summer.
Then there is the trilogy of Chu and Han, which is also a multi-party cooperation project. Even if there are all kinds of ups and downs, Mr. Zhang has also formed a team and is carrying out the early stage of scenery and casting. Of course, Simon initially expected to launch the first song at the end of 1999. The development progress must be out of the question. To be safe, the first song may not go online until the end of 2000.
The two-year cycle undoubtedly means greater risks, not to mention trilogy continuous shooting, which is also the reason why China film has been worried about.
At the same time, I can't stop.
In case of success, it's still that sentence, political achievements.
Since he decided to give up, Simon simply didn't plan to go to the brocade book this time. After a day in the capital was formed, he was about to fly to Hangzhou in the evening. After all, tomorrow is the little guy's first birthday. When he made an appointment, he was unexpectedly approached by Ren Jingxi who heard the news.
It's said that the legend of fairy sword is basically completed. I want Simon to help me see it.
No time.
However, women persevere and say that they can't. They can follow the plane and watch a film on the road to discuss it.
Simon had no choice but to agree.
I didn't discuss it on the plane, but arranged to spend my birthday in Suzhou. I also had to go there.
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Time difference plus mileage, Simon arrived in Beijing at more than 7 a.m. on Tuesday, September 29.
Chen Qing came to pick up the plane as usual.
After getting on the bus and leaving the airport, I talked about Simon's trip to Moscow and talked about the excitement of the recent film circle in China.
It is mainly about Jing Ke stabbing king of Qin.
Just last Saturday, on the evening of September 27, when Simon was in Ukraine, director Chen's "King Jing Ke stabbing Qin" held a grand premiere in the great hall. It is planned to be released tomorrow, just in time for the National Day holiday.
Then there was a controversy.
This still needs to start from the beginning. Overseas, even if nothing was achieved at the previous Venice Film Festival, the media reputation of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin is not bad.
Then there is Japan.
The main investor of this film is Japan. In recent years, it is clear at a glance whether a film can win a prize in the west, and the possibility of surprise is very low. Therefore, when "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin" was completely made into a film, before the film participated in Venice, the Japanese investors who basically did not expect the award arranged the project to be released in Japan in early May before the summer file.
The results can be said to be very good.
The film won the third place in the box office list in the first week of its release. As of the next stage, "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin" has won a total box office of 1.4 billion yen in Japan, equivalent to 83 million yuan at the current exchange rate.
Because the market is mature, the box office share of the producers of Japanese cinemas is higher than that of China and South Korea, about 50%, which means that "King Jing Ke stabbing Qin" has recovered more than 40 million yuan only in the release stage of Japanese cinemas. It is expected that there will be another 40 million yuan in the follow-up video tapes and TV broadcasting channels.
Then there is the European and American market.
Although Venice lost its reputation in terms of impact on honor, with the fame accumulated by farewell my concubine and the success of hero, the copyright sales of the film in Europe and America also reached US $7 million.
Converted into RMB, Japan recovered 80 million, Europe and the United States 60 million, a total of 140 million. Even if Chen Dadiao added the project cost from 70 million to 100 million, it has achieved quite good profits.
Even Simon was surprised.
Because there is also investment in brocade books, Simon thought he was going to drift. Unexpectedly, he has made a lot of money before it was released in China.
Of course, it can't be compared with hero.
Even if the global distribution continues, the global box office of hero is expected to exceed US $200 million, which is equivalent to more than 10 times that of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin.
Then there is China.
At the beginning of the release of hero, Simon adopted a large-scale introduction of overseas public opinion to set the tone for the film in advance, which avoided the controversy in the past. To the best of the film, after the excellent marketing and the mobilization of the national mood after Titanic, the Chinese mainland box office reached 320 million.
Great success.
However, this time, "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin" has no luck of "hero".
The domestic distributor of the film is China film, which has a successful case of hero. Of course, China film will not ignore its experience. It also publicized the reputation of Jingke stabbing the king of Qin at the Venice Film Festival a few days ago. In addition, there are excellent ticket rooms in the Japanese market, with 1.4 billion yen, equivalent to 83 million. For Chinese films, This is definitely a very good achievement.
Unfortunately, the problem lies in the plot of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin itself.
Let's start with hero, which is basically a completely fictional story with the Qin Dynasty as the background. Since the story is largely fictional, there is not much to tangle with in terms of plot.
However, Jing Ke assassinated the king of Qin, the same assassin of Qin, which is what really happened in history.
Here comes the problem.
The Japanese do not understand China's history, so they take Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin, just like the Three Kingdoms. They can enjoy it without going deep into it. However, for the Chinese, who doesn't know that Jing Ke assassinated the Qin Dynasty? Who doesn't know that "the wind is rustling, the water is cold, and the strong man will never return once he goes"?
As a result, what you see is Chen Dadao's fancy magic reform of the history of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin.
This is really unacceptable.
Therefore, after the premiere of the bustling city hall, the media immediately quarreled. It was basically criticism. The wind was accusing the film of "making up things in disorder" and "being far fetched". Anyway, there were not many good words.
In a car from the capital airport to the city.
Chen Qing leaned on her boss and talked about it: "with the current trend of public opinion, if it is released tomorrow, the box office will break 100 million, 50 million will be hanging, maybe even lower. Moreover, although it has made money this time, we all understand that the consumption is actually the reputation accumulated in Farewell My Concubine last time, even hero." The popularity of Chinese language films has just been accumulated. The Japanese investors responsible for overseas distribution probably see this. The overseas markets are basically sold out. Recently, some European countries have been released, and the box office is completely incomparable with hero. The publishers want to return them. Director Chen's reputation has collapsed. "
Simon can't say anything about it.
In my memory, director Chen has been silent for some years after "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin", and can only shoot TV dramas and so on.
The boss didn't speak, but Chen Qing thought of another thing: "boss, danilis should get the distribution right of Jingke stabbing the king of Qin, isn't it also a buyout?"
Simon shook his head and said, "divide."
Ella doichman also specially discussed the project with Simon, because she was not confident after watching the film. The gaomen film team was only willing to offer $300000 to win the North American omni-channel copyright of the film. Naturally, the Japanese filmmakers responsible for the overseas operation of the project disagreed and finally signed a sharing agreement.
Probably want to fight.
The film is scheduled to be released on a small scale next month. The number of screens for painting is only about 50. If it can't splash, there will be no problem.
Simon doesn't want the film to enter the North American cinema at all.
As Chen Qinggang just said, it's easy to consume the popularity of Chinese films. But there's no way. Many things can't just consider commercial interests. When the impact is small, we must give consideration to human relations.
Chen Qing was relieved to hear that her boss said it was a division, and then said, "also, because of the media's accusations of 'making things up' in the past few days, China film has hesitated about the trilogy of Chu and Han. This project is also based on historical facts and has been adapted to a great extent?"
Simon didn't worry. He covered Chen Qing with a pair of big hands, touched his little hand and said, "no, the positioning of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin is a historical drama, and it is more serious and biased towards historical facts. At least the audience subconsciously thinks so. When the result is not as good as they expected, criticism is inevitable." Chu Han " The positioning of the trilogy is similar to that of hero. Since the war martial arts film involves "martial arts", the audience subconsciously recognizes the fictional elements. Moreover, the most important thing is that the film is made for the audience after all. I have seen the finished film of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin. Most of the audience should not like it very much, but Chu Han The trilogy is still the same as hero, or it will be higher than hero. As long as the standard commercial film is not much different from our original idea, the result will not be much different from hero. "
After listening carefully, Chen Qing nodded with a smile and said, "I'll tell them what the boss said later to see who's still talking."
Simon just smiled and said no more.
It was just after eight o'clock in the morning when I arrived at the big house in the hat alley in the city center.
Although it took nine hours to fly, the Boeing 767 was comfortable enough, and Simon didn't need much rest. He took a break and began the schedule here.
Three hours in the morning, I went to the construction site of Levison International Center to check the construction progress of the project. At the same time, I had a small meeting with the responsible team here. Chen Qing looked at it. Simon didn't worry about anything. He mainly looked at it on the spot and knew it well.
Then he went to ZhongGuanCun.
Here, I met with several new technology teams, mainly Xiangshan network, which is responsible for game business, and Huanyu online, which focuses on e-commerce.
The teams of both companies officially launched their own products this summer.
Although Xiangshan network, which is responsible for the operation of StarCraft, is not as popular as the anti terrorist elite ol obtained by Suzhou Jiangnan mutual entertainment, it is also a good start. It is Huanyu online. In July, Huanyu mall began operation. At present, it is still in a state of money burning exploration, and the market scope is limited to Beijing.
At present, Chinese domestic residents still attach great importance to the purchase of large household appliances. Online shopping, a relatively virtual channel, will inevitably worry. Therefore, Huanyu online has not started as well as expected, and there is still a long way to go.
Simon is not in a hurry.
Now that we have seen the future, China has built up a group of teams, direct and collateral, which can succeed in the end.
Moreover, because he basically monopolizes the current domestic traffic portal channels in China, Simon is not even worried about what Cheng Yaojin will kill on the way this time. There is no traffic, no customers, or even online payment channels such as yifubao. Simon recognizes... Well, of course not.
Just kill it.
Arrive at the human society headquarters on the North Bank of Houhai at noon.
Chen Qing selected a group of guests from all over China in advance, mainly the heads of key investment enterprises of Westeros system in China. They had dinner and chat together, and then drank tea and listened to music until 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Later in the afternoon, I went to see the decoration of the two apartment buildings in guanchengyuan community purchased last time with Chen Qing. In the evening, I returned to the hat alley for simple preparation. As before, I went to Huangchenggen to attend a customary reception dinner.
He didn't return until ten o'clock in the evening.
I was speechless all night.
The next day is Wednesday, September 30.
Tomorrow is the national day. In addition to today's large-scale painting "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin", Simon knew at breakfast that there was another small project of Jinshu released at the same time, called "stealing music without anything".
Yes, it's the "stealing music without anything" starring uncle Feng.
Simon originally wanted to play uncle Feng in love call transfer. Of course, he didn't succeed in the end. Unexpectedly, he still got on the line with brocade book.
The project was led by Mr. Zhang Guoshi. The script came from Mr. Zhang Guoshi's Royal screenwriter. A well-known domestic celebrity in the circle not only participated in Mr. Zhang's early films such as Ju Dou and Qiu Ju's lawsuit, but also led the production of assembly number and thirteen hairpins in Jinling.
The urban comedy "nothing steals music" is also the main writer of the other party. Depending on the type, it can be said that it is an absolute generalist.
Compared with the large investment in Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin, "nothing steals music" has only a budget of 6 million. As long as the cinema box office can break 10 million, and then close a little later, it can enter the profit cycle. Therefore, compared with Jing Ke assassinating the king of Qin, which is worried about gain and loss, Jin Shu has a very relaxed attitude towards nothing and stealing music.
Now that I'm talking about "having fun without anything", I've inevitably talked about the development of brocade books in China for more than half a year.
Simon really let go before. He ignored many things and didn't know.
As of September this year, Jinshu has been a bumper harvest year. The second season of Kangxi's private interview in micro clothes and super girl's voice are still at the phenomenal level. There are several key TV projects waiting to be released, such as big house gate. In terms of films, Party A and Party B and flash girl cooperated with China film are in the final production stage, The goal is to celebrate the new year next year.
Although the other film "to our lost youth" was planned at the same time as "shining girl", it was postponed for one year because it could not catch up with this year's summer vacation. Due to sufficient time, brocade books will strive for perfection. They plan to shoot by stages and gather scenes all year round, so as to make the story feel more like the passage of time.
After the first stage of shooting in the summer, we will wait for the winter vacation at the end of the year.
The schedule is next summer.
Then there is the trilogy of Chu and Han, which is also a multi-party cooperation project. Even if there are all kinds of ups and downs, Mr. Zhang has also formed a team and is carrying out the early stage of scenery and casting. Of course, Simon initially expected to launch the first song at the end of 1999. The development progress must be out of the question. To be safe, the first song may not go online until the end of 2000.
The two-year cycle undoubtedly means greater risks, not to mention trilogy continuous shooting, which is also the reason why China film has been worried about.
At the same time, I can't stop.
In case of success, it's still that sentence, political achievements.
Since he decided to give up, Simon simply didn't plan to go to the brocade book this time. After a day in the capital was formed, he was about to fly to Hangzhou in the evening. After all, tomorrow is the little guy's first birthday. When he made an appointment, he was unexpectedly approached by Ren Jingxi who heard the news.
It's said that the legend of fairy sword is basically completed. I want Simon to help me see it.
No time.
However, women persevere and say that they can't. They can follow the plane and watch a film on the road to discuss it.
Simon had no choice but to agree.
I didn't discuss it on the plane, but arranged to spend my birthday in Suzhou. I also had to go there.
Time difference plus mileage, Simon arrived in Beijing at more than 7 a.m. on Tuesday, September 29.Chen Qing came to pick up the plane as usual.After getting on the bus and leaving the airport, I talked about Simon's trip to Moscow and talked about the excitement of the recent film circle in China.It is mainly about Jing Ke stabbing king of Qin.Just last Saturday, on the evening of September 27, when Simon was in Ukraine, director Chen's "King Jing Ke stabbing Qin" held a grand premiere in the great hall. It is planned to be released tomorrow, just in time for the National Day holiday.Then there was a controversy.This still needs to start from the beginning. Overseas, even if nothing was achieved at the previous Venice Film Festival, the media reputation of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin is not bad.Then there is Japan.The main investor of this film is Japan. In recent years, it is clear at a glance whether a film can win a prize in the west, and the possibility of surprise is very low. Therefore, when "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin" was completely made into a film, before the film participated in Venice, the Japanese investors who basically did not expect the award arranged the project to be released in Japan in early May before the summer file.The results can be said to be very good.The film won the third place in the box office list in the first week of its release. As of the next stage, "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin" has won a total box office of 1.4 billion yen in Japan, equivalent to 83 million yuan at the current exchange rate.Because the market is mature, the box office share of the producers of Japanese cinemas is higher than that of China and South Korea, about 50%, which means that "King Jing Ke stabbing Qin" has recovered more than 40 million yuan only in the release stage of Japanese cinemas. It is expected that there will be another 40 million yuan in the follow-up video tapes and TV broadcasting channels.Then there is the European and American market.Although Venice lost its reputation in terms of impact on honor, with the fame accumulated by farewell my concubine and the success of hero, the copyright sales of the film in Europe and America also reached US $7 million.Converted into RMB, Japan recovered 80 million, Europe and the United States 60 million, a total of 140 million. Even if Chen Dadiao added the project cost from 70 million to 100 million, it has achieved quite good profits.Even Simon was surprised.Because there is also investment in brocade books, Simon thought he was going to drift. Unexpectedly, he has made a lot of money before it was released in China.Of course, it can't be compared with hero.Even if the global distribution continues, the global box office of hero is expected to exceed US $200 million, which is equivalent to more than 10 times that of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin.Then there is China.At the beginning of the release of hero, Simon adopted a large-scale introduction of overseas public opinion to set the tone for the film in advance, which avoided the controversy in the past. To the best of the film, after the excellent marketing and the mobilization of the national mood after Titanic, the Chinese mainland box office reached 320 million.Great success.However, this time, "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin" has no luck of "hero".The domestic distributor of the film is China film, which has a successful case of hero. Of course, China film will not ignore its experience. It also publicized the reputation of Jingke stabbing the king of Qin at the Venice Film Festival a few days ago. In addition, there are excellent ticket rooms in the Japanese market, with 1.4 billion yen, equivalent to 83 million. For Chinese films, This is definitely a very good achievement.Unfortunately, the problem lies in the plot of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin itself.Let's start with hero, which is basically a completely fictional story with the Qin Dynasty as the background. Since the story is largely fictional, there is not much to tangle with in terms of plot.However, Jing Ke assassinated the king of Qin, the same assassin of Qin, which is what really happened in history.Here comes the problem.The Japanese do not understand China's history, so they take Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin, just like the Three Kingdoms. They can enjoy it without going deep into it. However, for the Chinese, who doesn't know that Jing Ke assassinated the Qin Dynasty? Who doesn't know that "the wind is rustling, the water is cold, and the strong man will never return once he goes"?As a result, what you see is Chen Dadao's fancy magic reform of the history of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin.This is really unacceptable.Therefore, after the premiere of the bustling city hall, the media immediately quarreled. It was basically criticism. The wind was accusing the film of "making up things in disorder" and "being far fetched". Anyway, there were not many good words.In a car from the capital airport to the city.Chen Qing leaned on her boss and talked about it: "with the current trend of public opinion, if it is released tomorrow, the box office will break 100 million, 50 million will be hanging, maybe even lower. Moreover, although it has made money this time, we all understand that the consumption is actually the reputation accumulated in Farewell My Concubine last time, even hero." The popularity of Chinese language films has just been accumulated. The Japanese investors responsible for overseas distribution probably see this. The overseas markets are basically sold out. Recently, some European countries have been released, and the box office is completely incomparable with hero. The publishers want to return them. Director Chen's reputation has collapsed. "Simon can't say anything about it.In my memory, director Chen has been silent for some years after "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin", and can only shoot TV dramas and so on.The boss didn't speak, but Chen Qing thought of another thing: "boss, danilis should get the distribution right of Jingke stabbing the king of Qin, isn't it also a buyout?"Simon shook his head and said, "divide."Ella doichman also specially discussed the project with Simon, because she was not confident after watching the film. The gaomen film team was only willing to offer $300000 to win the North American omni-channel copyright of the film. Naturally, the Japanese filmmakers responsible for the overseas operation of the project disagreed and finally signed a sharing agreement.Probably want to fight.The film is scheduled to be released on a small scale next month. The number of screens for painting is only about 50. If it can't splash, there will be no problem.Simon doesn't want the film to enter the North American cinema at all.As Chen Qinggang just said, it's easy to consume the popularity of Chinese films. But there's no way. Many things can't just consider commercial interests. When the impact is small, we must give consideration to human relations.Chen Qing was relieved to hear that her boss said it was a division, and then said, "also, because of the media's accusations of 'making things up' in the past few days, China film has hesitated about the trilogy of Chu and Han. This project is also based on historical facts and has been adapted to a great extent?"Simon didn't worry. He covered Chen Qing with a pair of big hands, touched his little hand and said, "no, the positioning of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin is a historical drama, and it is more serious and biased towards historical facts. At least the audience subconsciously thinks so. When the result is not as good as they expected, criticism is inevitable." Chu Han " The positioning of the trilogy is similar to that of hero. Since the war martial arts film involves "martial arts", the audience subconsciously recognizes the fictional elements. Moreover, the most important thing is that the film is made for the audience after all. I have seen the finished film of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin. Most of the audience should not like it very much, but Chu Han The trilogy is still the same as hero, or it will be higher than hero. As long as the standard commercial film is not much different from our original idea, the result will not be much different from hero. "After listening carefully, Chen Qing nodded with a smile and said, "I'll tell them what the boss said later to see who's still talking."Simon just smiled and said no more.It was just after eight o'clock in the morning when I arrived at the big house in the hat alley in the city center.Although it took nine hours to fly, the Boeing 767 was comfortable enough, and Simon didn't need much rest. He took a break and began the schedule here.Three hours in the morning, I went to the construction site of Levison International Center to check the construction progress of the project. At the same time, I had a small meeting with the responsible team here. Chen Qing looked at it. Simon didn't worry about anything. He mainly looked at it on the spot and knew it well.Then he went to ZhongGuanCun.Here, I met with several new technology teams, mainly Xiangshan network, which is responsible for game business, and Huanyu online, which focuses on e-commerce.The teams of both companies officially launched their own products this summer.Although Xiangshan network, which is responsible for the operation of StarCraft, is not as popular as the anti terrorist elite ol obtained by Suzhou Jiangnan mutual entertainment, it is also a good start. It is Huanyu online. In July, Huanyu mall began operation. At present, it is still in a state of money burning exploration, and the market scope is limited to Beijing.At present, Chinese domestic residents still attach great importance to the purchase of large household appliances. Online shopping, a relatively virtual channel, will inevitably worry. Therefore, Huanyu online has not started as well as expected, and there is still a long way to go.Simon is not in a hurry.Now that we have seen the future, China has built up a group of teams, direct and collateral, which can succeed in the end.Moreover, because he basically monopolizes the current domestic traffic portal channels in China, Simon is not even worried about what Cheng Yaojin will kill on the way this time. There is no traffic, no customers, or even online payment channels such as yifubao. Simon recognizes... Well, of course not.Just kill it.Arrive at the human society headquarters on the North Bank of Houhai at noon.Chen Qing selected a group of guests from all over China in advance, mainly the heads of key investment enterprises of Westeros system in China. They had dinner and chat together, and then drank tea and listened to music until 3 o'clock in the afternoon.Later in the afternoon, I went to see the decoration of the two apartment buildings in guanchengyuan community purchased last time with Chen Qing. In the evening, I returned to the hat alley for simple preparation. As before, I went to Huangchenggen to attend a customary reception dinner.He didn't return until ten o'clock in the evening.I was speechless all night.The next day is Wednesday, September 30.Tomorrow is the national day. In addition to today's large-scale painting "Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin", Simon knew at breakfast that there was another small project of Jinshu released at the same time, called "stealing music without anything".Yes, it's the "stealing music without anything" starring uncle Feng.Simon originally wanted to play uncle Feng in love call transfer. Of course, he didn't succeed in the end. Unexpectedly, he still got on the line with brocade book.The project was led by Mr. Zhang Guoshi. The script came from Mr. Zhang Guoshi's Royal screenwriter. A well-known domestic celebrity in the circle not only participated in Mr. Zhang's early films such as Ju Dou and Qiu Ju's lawsuit, but also led the production of assembly number and thirteen hairpins in Jinling.The urban comedy "nothing steals music" is also the main writer of the other party. Depending on the type, it can be said that it is an absolute generalist.Compared with the large investment in Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin, "nothing steals music" has only a budget of 6 million. As long as the cinema box office can break 10 million, and then close a little later, it can enter the profit cycle. Therefore, compared with Jing Ke assassinating the king of Qin, which is worried about gain and loss, Jin Shu has a very relaxed attitude towards nothing and stealing music.Now that I'm talking about "having fun without anything", I've inevitably talked about the development of brocade books in China for more than half a year.Simon really let go before. He ignored many things and didn't know.As of September this year, Jinshu has been a bumper harvest year. The second season of Kangxi's private interview in micro clothes and super girl's voice are still at the phenomenal level. There are several key TV projects waiting to be released, such as big house gate. In terms of films, Party A and Party B and flash girl cooperated with China film are in the final production stage, The goal is to celebrate the new year next year.Although the other film "to our lost youth" was planned at the same time as "shining girl", it was postponed for one year because it could not catch up with this year's summer vacation. Due to sufficient time, brocade books will strive for perfection. They plan to shoot by stages and gather scenes all year round, so as to make the story feel more like the passage of time.After the first stage of shooting in the summer, we will wait for the winter vacation at the end of the year.The schedule is next summer.Then there is the trilogy of Chu and Han, which is also a multi-party cooperation project. Even if there are all kinds of ups and downs, Mr. Zhang has also formed a team and is carrying out the early stage of scenery and casting. Of course, Simon initially expected to launch the first song at the end of 1999. The development progress must be out of the question. To be safe, the first song may not go online until the end of 2000.The two-year cycle undoubtedly means greater risks, not to mention trilogy continuous shooting, which is also the reason why China film has been worried about.At the same time, I can't stop.In case of success, it's still that sentence, political achievements.Since he decided to give up, Simon simply didn't plan to go to the brocade book this time. After a day in the capital was formed, he was about to fly to Hangzhou in the evening. After all, tomorrow is the little guy's first birthday. When he made an appointment, he was unexpectedly approached by Ren Jingxi who heard the news.It's said that the legend of fairy sword is basically completed. I want Simon to help me see it.No time.However, women persevere and say that they can't. They can follow the plane and watch a film on the road to discuss it.Simon had no choice but to agree.I didn't discuss it on the plane, but arranged to spend my birthday in Suzhou. I also had to go there.
