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Chapter 9 The embarrassment of not having a leading role(1/2)

A. This is the goal that Peng Hui has been striving for in his dream a long time ago.

Compared with the mediocre life of his previous life, lying on the golden mountain eating and waiting to die, the Peng Hui in the dream was more in line with Peng Hui's appetite.

But obviously, people are lazy.

When a person has eyes that can see through the future, will he still work hard for it?

Obviously not.

Wen Chao Gong is not just talking.

Besides...

How can you call yourself plagiarism if you copy yourself?

Isn't it normal for me to copy myself?

So I really can’t blame Peng Hui for being shameless. I can only say that Peng Hui in the dream is really awesome.

But now, after Peng Hui came to such a world without piracy, Peng Hui's mind inevitably became broader.

If we were to talk about the most profitable business in our previous life, it would naturally be movies.

This is the truth.

Haven’t you seen that all the industrial giants have entered the entertainment industry?

The total output value of movie box office is gradually increasing every year.

It has even increased to 60 billion in 2019!

And this number later increased to 100 billion!

What does one hundred billion red banknotes mean?

More than 14 billion U.S. dollars!

How big a market is this?

But in such a huge market, it is a very helpless fact.

That is, the domestic film industry chain is broken.

This is no joke.

Take "The Wandering Earth", which is known as the beginning of domestic science fiction industry blockbusters. In fact, the global box office is less than US$700 million.

In fact, the time and experience required to shoot such an industrial science fiction blockbuster is definitely not as easy as imagined!

In the dream, Peng Hui completed it by himself, but in reality, if it weren't for Guo Fan's help, Peng Hui would never have been able to complete it alone.

Strictly speaking, China does lack a qualified industrial and systematic production model for film and television dramas.

This is the truth.

The biggest problem here is, on the one hand, the cost gap between domestic and foreign countries.

Excluding the actors' remuneration, the highest domestic production cost is only 500 million red banknotes.

In foreign countries, it is US$500 million.

Based on the original exchange rate of 1:7, the production cost of Hollywood is equivalent to seven times that of China!

Not to mention some details.

Of course, national conditions are different, and comparison based on exchange rates is meaningless.

But the other most serious and critical issue is...

There is not a sufficient consumption environment and concept in China.

Give a very simple example.

Are there any pirated copies abroad?

some.

For example, the well-known game platform Steam has a service called purchasing recharge cards.

This service is to sell the same recharge cards from different countries to people in other countries.

Thereby earning the difference.

Overall, this is equivalent to piracy.

Is it genuine?

It's genuine.

Because this platform issues a series of recharge cards every year except for some countries that do not support this platform.

But when you buy cheap recharge cards from other countries and then sell them to countries with higher prices, this behavior is a type of piracy.

And if this kind of behavior is put into the Chinese film market.

The most obvious example is that a movie with hundreds of millions of investment and promotion will have a high-definition copy and remastered version the next day!

what does that mean?

You must know that you need to spend real money to watch movies.

But if the audience has already watched the high-definition pirated version online, will they still go to the cinema to support the movie?

There were too many situations in the past life.

Even if Peng Hui had not had a good relationship with Penguin and Wanda, the box office would have been stolen long ago.

Even so, due to rampant piracy, the added value of many movies cannot be reflected.

Of course, this situation has improved after 2020.

But even if it is improved, it cannot stop pirates from profiting from it.

But now...

Peng Hui fell into deep thought.

Initially, he didn't have much money in hand.

There are not many online dramas that can be shot with one million.

But the most famous among them are none other than Wan Hetianyi's "Unexpectedly" and "Report to the Boss".

Among them, the first season of "Unexpectedly" cost only 100,000 yuan.

So how much value has this IP created?

According to incomplete estimates, the commercial profits generated by this IP are as high as 300 million!

Of course, this 300 million profit must include games, movies and other types of situations.

Just looking at that web drama, it only made a few million dollars.

But this is already very amazing!

You know, in that era when online dramas were just starting out, they were already profitable dozens of times, but what about now?

But there is another problem.

actor.

The core actor of "Unexpectedly" is Wang Dachui played by Bai Ke.

However, Peng Hui searched the entire entertainment industry and could not find an actor similar to Baike.

It is really……

Peng Hui was a little helpless.

He can't play Wang Dachui.

This is the truth.

There was so much light in his eyes.

Not suitable for a typical hanging silk temperament.

Some people, like fireflies in the dark, cannot hide themselves at all.

Even though Peng Hui doesn't have much money now, his two lifetime experiences in dreams and reality make it impossible for him to be like an ordinary hanging silk man.

The temperament of holding a high position and controlling power is always revealed inadvertently.

Peng Hui also knows this.

But he can't change it.

Some habits are learned in nature.

And his habits were developed over two lifetimes.

If a habit can be changed at will, it is not called a habit.

So he can't play the role of Wang Dachui.
To be continued...
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